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The world's most loved fairy tale is back in a whole new fantastic imagining in Pinocchio. When a piece of pine-wood falls into the hands of the poor old toy maker, Geppetto, he carves it into a puppet which he names Pinocchio. To Geppetto's delight, Pinocchio comes to life - and like most little boys, he's full of reckless whims and wild ideas! His crazy escapades lead him into a series of madcap adventures from joining the circus to visiting the inside of whale! Along his journey, and throughout all the fun, Pinocchio learns to be considerate and courageous and learns what it takes to become a real boy.
Dec 2013
Due to his developmental disorder, the autistic inspector Leander Lost has a photographic memory and a feeling for whether his counterpart is lying. For this, he has trouble understanding irony and understanding social and emotional connections. As part of a European exchange program, Lost is transferred to the small fishing town of Fuseta, where he is supposed to help solve the murder of a private detective.
Sep 2022
Colonel Mortimer's son Gregory, his pride and joy, returns to the ancestral Cornish estate by the sea for the summer after loosing that year's only Horse Guards officer promotion to his neighbor-buddy Eric. By ancestral tradition, that means another delay too for his long-planned marriage with neighbor's daughter Rebecca, who already doubts if the are actually in love. Mortimer's new housekeeper Elisabeth proves irresistible for father (platonically) and son, but is held back by a family secret concerning her late mother Catherine. Eric also has a confession to make.
Apr 2007
The accident during an air show in Ramstein in the summer of 1988 is one of the greatest tragedies in German post-war history. Against the backdrop of the momentous collision of two aerobatic planes on "Open Day" at the American air base, this film tells the story of four families in fictionalized form - they are visitors to the air show who lost their loved ones in the horrific inferno, and an emergency doctor who cannot forget the sight of the dead and injured. They all suffer from post-traumatic stress syndrome. Years after the disaster, they finally have the opportunity to share their experiences and come to terms with the trauma in a specially founded aftercare group. Meanwhile, a duo of investigators commissioned by the German Federal Ministry investigates the background to the air accident and uncovers massive failures in safety precautions and rescue measures. Beyond political responsibility on both the German and American sides, both come up against a wall of silence.
Jun 2022
Flora loves her son more than anything. But Luke, a bright teen with mild form of ADHD, repeatedly poses problems for his mother by causing trouble at school.
Jan 2021
Working life was often no walk in the park for the resolute Henriette. Without any training and with many odd jobs, the now 58-year-old has struggled through life. And so Henni decides to take the bull by the horns once again and take her fate into her own hands. She reinvents herself as a "premium nanny" who only works for the best families in the world and dreams of carefree hours on the beach of a dream island. Of course, there is always a huge gap between her dreams and reality, and so her first job on the island of Mauritius becomes a real challenge.
Oct 2017
Tessa Grant, the feisty owner of a bed and breakfast in Cornwall, and David Johnson, an upper-class charmer, face an unexpected turn in their lives. After David's mother Carol loses her fortune to a swindler, they are left with their inherited bed and breakfast. With the aim of selling the accommodation quickly, they move in with Tessa. The Johnsons' chaotic lifestyle clashes with Tessa's regular life. However, when they try to win over Tessa's best friend Bruce, unexpected feelings develop between Tessa and David.
Jan 2024
Julian is a 12-year-old boy whose family is just scraping by in the Ruhr industrial region of Germany in the early 1960s . When his mother and younger sister go away for a while, he is left mostly alone in the apartment while his father works in the coal mine. He has to confront the confusing world of adults and older boys and the older girl next door on his own. Finally events build up and threaten to tear the family apart.
May 2016
They failed as a couple, but as parents Julia and Tom share custody of their daughter Anni after their divorce. Driven by her hurt feelings, Julia begins to systematically alienate the girl from her father.
Jul 2019
Holly Shaw wants to prove her writing talent in a reading of her romance novel. But she achieves the exact opposite with the cynical reporter Aaron Kingsley. On the way to her car, Holly is attacked. Her papers, her books, her coat and her shoes are found by the police on the riverbank.
Oct 2019
Annabelle Rosewood has turned her hobby into a profession: she auctions off stranded suitcases at airports and then has them opened on her own TV show and tells the stories behind them. Unexpectedly, an unusual piece of luggage ends up on Annabelle's show. When it is opened, valuable designer clothes and precious pieces of jewelry are revealed. Things that are not normally found in lost suitcases. But the owner doesn't get in touch, so Annabelle sets off on her own initiative to find the owner. She is assisted by Elsa, a self-proclaimed fashion expert. A clue that the suitcase could belong to the deceased writer Elizabeth Marlowe leads the two women to Thomas, a shy writer. He is Elizabeth Marlowe's great-grandson and lives in seclusion on the Cornish coast. Annabelle is immediately fascinated by him. But when she learns that Thomas is in a committed relationship, Annabelle recalls her resolution to remain single.
Sep 2019
Anne Harding looks after her small fruit and vegetable farm, her teenage daughter Jamie and her mother Molly, who suffers from arthritis. Then one day John Smith, her Aunt Sally's butler, turns up on her doorstep. The widow wants to lend John to her sister Molly for six weeks. With his discreet manner, John gets to the bottom of the family's little secrets and tries to help them inconspicuously.
Sep 2024
Tired of never having enough money to spend, Rita and Susanne throw all bourgeois moral concerns straight out of the window and simply become contract killers. With their little heads and guns, they bring a few unpleasant contemporaries around the corner and collect a tidy sum for their own use. The whole thing is so covert that even her husbands Herbert and Ralph don't suspect a thing. But then the cunning private detective Mazulla gets onto their trail and seems to see through their murderous scam...
Oct 1991
Medical student Hanna works in the pathology department during her studies. On her very first day at work, she is confronted with the body of her ex-boyfriend Michael, who allegedly died as the result of an accident. However, when she discovers discrepancies in the patient file and a fresh surgical scar on the dead man, she begins to investigate - and discovers something monstrous...
Jul 2005
Virus alert in Cologne: a deadly influenza pathogen has been released. Shortly afterwards, Sonja Kessler finds her husband Reinhard, a virus researcher, dead in their apartment. Everything points to suicide, but an unusual trail leads her and her stepson Jan to an apartment rented by Reinhard. Reinhard was apparently secretly researching a deadly virus there.
Oct 1999
Lydia and Vincent Lufft adopted the now 10-year-old Marie, so Vincent has better career prospects at the very child-friendly Henderson Games. But Marie forges with her friend Nick a plan: they want to fake a kidnapping to get away from the adoptive parents. To find the alleged abducted Marie Max Hoch, expert of a security company, consulted. Max himself does not want to have children unlike his girlfriend. He soon finds out that the abduction can only be faked. However, when Heinz Michelin, a friend of the family who wants to pay Marie's debt back with the reward, urges to help with the kidnapping, he brings with him two real hijackers. Max brings Marie to his unsuspecting girlfriend Karo to protect her. In the meantime, Max is himself suspected by the police to have kidnapped Marie. Only with a trap can he prove his innocence.
May 2003
There is no one-size-fits-all recipe for the right way to die. Cancer-stricken pensioner Hermann is having a hard time dealing with the inevitable: He doesn't want to wait for death and instead wants to give it a helping hand - but discreetly.
Jan 2023
An advertising copywriter who has been left by his lover is struggling to come to terms with his “single” existence, falls into self-pity, lets himself go both personally and professionally and tries to win his lover back.
Feb 1989
Single parent Mona Doermer travels to the Baltic Sea with her two children Tom and Marlen. The mentally unstable mother and the children, which are alarmingly mature for their age, form a strange team that many in the coastal town notice - including the young Commissioner Greta. When little Marlen mysteriously disappears, there is great excitement. Greta, who feels strangely connected to Mona, does everything she can to find the missing girl and to discover the dark secret of the mysterious stranger.
Jun 2017
Henriette's second assignment as a premium nanny also takes her to an exotic location. The young-at-heart woman in her mid-50s travels to South Africa to look after two bored children on a farm in the wilderness. Anton and Linus are staying with their grandfather Konrad Eckstein for four weeks. Eckstein doesn't really have much interest in his grandchildren, preferring to spend his time with his animals. Nanny Henriette comes at just the right time - even if he can't warm to the older lady either. But Henriette refuses to accept Eckstein's stoic nature. She investigates why the grandfather has no desire to spend time with his grandchildren and also wonders why Johanna Eckstein's daughter left the farm a long time ago. Who knows, maybe Henriette can reunite the family.
Dec 2018