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Two young men, Martin and Rudi, both suffering from terminal cancer, get to know each other in a hospital room. They drown their desperation in tequila and decide to take one last trip to the sea. Drunk and still in pajamas they steal the first fancy car they find, a 60's Mercedes convertible. The car happens to belong to a bunch of gangsters, which immediately start to chase it, since it contains more than the pistol Martin finds in the glove box.

11-year-old Rocca, a clever, creative and brave girl who lives all by herself in defiance of her teachers and the authorities has to fight to keep her independence and prove to everyone that a child also has the power to change the world.

The last three weeks of school life have begun: After the Abitur, Germany's leaving certificate, the friends and schoolmates of Gymnasium Kerkheim (Kerkheim High) will not see each other again so soon. It is a hard time for Markus and his girl Sandra from a lower grade, as he wants to hang out with his old friends, whereas she wants him to be there for her. It's an even harder time for Dirk, who is to be expelled from school if he fails the math exam that is coming up around midday, and it is the hardest time for Michael, who is a perfect pupil, but has no fun in life at all - and doesn't even know it yet. When Steven calls out a party to celebrate his letter of exemption from the army, they all get together for one of the last real cool events ever.

Bank robber Kalle Grabowski escapes from prison while his unemployed smalltime crook buddy is sitting around doing nothing after he just lost all their money. A fast paced comedy from German director Peter Thorwarth.

The film is a comedy centering on the lives of eight Germans who long for sexual excitement.

The firefighter Erik wants to make a proposal to his girlfriend Sofie, but at the crucial moment sparkles the attractive Melissa in between. When Sofie learns that Erik had a fleeting affair with Melissa on Carnival, a world collapses for her. But the two gather again, as Erik promises high and holy that such a thing will never happen again. To underline the seriousness of his intentions, he makes her an unconventional offer: he "gives" her an infidelity. He should not have done that, because suddenly he threatens to lose Sofie to his best friend.

Director Rufus Lindner is shooting his first film: " Die Vatikankiller". With audience favorite Kai Rabe in the leading role, success is guaranteed. But suddenly chaos descends on the film team: A starlet is murdered, the bitchy leading man goes increasingly crazy, a drunken policeman causes a lot of trouble, and the sex-obsessed producer Egon Lütter doesn't make things any easier.

Little Theresa is the sole heir to a hotel on Usedom after her mother's death. Mother's friend continues to run it. When greedy relatives demand custody, Gabriela searches for Theresa's father. Chef Thomas gets in touch...

Bobby Kustermann is a young man with Down syndrome who lives in a loving family until his mother dies unexpectedly, leaving a hefty heritage. There is a dispute between Bobby's two siblings, Nanni and Johannes, as to whom could give Bobby a better home. Nanni and her husband Klaus would offer a “normal” family environment, but Klaus is only after the money. Johannes really wants to take care of Bobby and give him a home for the future. The problem is he is gay and lives with his partner Marc. The responsible offices don't like that at all. Only when the matter goes to court, do the parties to the dispute realize that this is mainly about Bobby's will and that he can actually best decide who he would like to live with in the future.

Anna, a lonely mother who runs a party service, lives primarily for Tobi, her little son, whose father had abandoned them years ago. Thomas, a village police officer, befriends them, but various complications arise for various reasons.

The state in which we find ourselves, tests each citizen at the age of twelve years, just as Léon.

The serial killer "Nachtschlitzer" keeps the city holding its breath. With the police always one step behind the murderer, only the radio DJ Doc Rock can lure him out of his hiding place.

Naive, talkative Hoffi and mouthy Lehmi are as different as can be. But this doesn't dampen their friendship. When they wake up one morning in the middle of Dortmund Zoo instead of in their beds among the water buffaloes, it doesn't upset them, because the orderly lives of their fellow human beings aren't their thing anyway. What's much worse is that Hoffi has got it into his head to get a birthday present for his sister on this beautiful summer's day of all days, when you could actually be relaxing in the park with a crate of beer. The two lovable slobs embark on an odyssey through the city, at the end of which they lose sight of the present but have found their dream girls.

Shortly before the end of the war in 1945, the Allies can already be heard in Nesselbühl in Swabia when three freight cars are uncoupled at the station. The screams of the starving concentration camp prisoners inside can be heard throughout the village, but nobody dares to help them. Only the innkeeper's daughter Anna takes heart...

A boarding game comes alive and drags a family into its world

The peat farmer Hannes Gerhards wants his girlfriend Helen Dahms from the city to pull him to the countryside. As in peat cutting work the skull of a bog body is found. Police commissioner Lorenz Keller, who is about to retire, has already completed his career. But with the bone find Keller finally sees his chance to bring an old case to an end.

Luisa Wagner is a successful event manager. At the same time she also manages to look after her two children, Krista and Jakob, the housework, her husband Michael and her father. When Luisa's twin sister Jenny also turns up and hardly lifts a finger to help, Luisa sees red. On an impulse, she takes over her sister's role and goes on tour with her theatre troupe in Italy. Meanwhile, Jenny assumes Luisa's chores in the home and her job, thereby experiencing not only the hurdles a mother is confronted with, but also falls madly in love with her sister's boss, Felix. Everyone is relieved when Luisa returns home after hearing of her father's breakdown. Especially Michael, who has learned to appreciate his wife anew.

The two sales clerks Tanja and Nicole hardly know each other, but they share something: their married lover, who is careful not to let them know anything about his marriage or the other. When they do find out the truth, they travel head over heels to Mallorca to vent their frustrations. Tanja finds out that she is pregnant and wants revenge on Nicole and her lover.

After her fiancee cancels the wedding, Merlin's life changes drastically when she moves in with one of her brother's best friends.

29-year-old Liza can't believe her eyes when she catches her boyfriend in flagrante delicto with a stranger on the couch at home. Completely beside herself, she packs her bags and moves in with her friend Janni. Here she buries herself in her pain and doesn't want to see anyone or anything, and above all she swears off love forever. Janni, who is a little more relaxed than Liza when it comes to love, organizes a potential suitor, which is how Liza meets the shy student Pietro. But even before the first date, another suitor announces his interest: Kid is a policeman, brash, direct and charmingly macho - the complete opposite of Pietro. Suddenly blessed with two prospective lovers, Liza has to make a difficult decision...

After a painful separation from her husband, Barbara, an attractive woman in her mid-forties, wants to change her mind and really relax. With her best friend Silke, she travels to a chic ski resort to enjoy her new-found freedom to the full. As soon as she arrives at the posh ski resort, Silke thinks she recognizes Hermann, the love of her life, in a hotel guest who seems to have died two years ago in unexplained circumstances. Has she been taken in by a marriage fraud? Silke persuades her friend Barbara to play the wealthy decoy.

Alex Gaul is convinced that he will soon make it big as an actor. Until then, he'll just have to continue playing the porn stud. His seriously ill grandmother's last wish to see him on television forces him to do something quickly. his resemblance to Zacharias Zucker, whom his grandmother adores, gives Alex a daring idea: he could swap places with the home movie star? but the bitchy Zucker can only be convinced by a skillful knockout blow. The problems for Alex are only just beginning. He has to protect his cover with increasingly absurd and daring actions and at the same time prevent the charming hotel employee Yve from mistaking him, Alex, for Zucker, making her unattainable for Alex. But soon even Alex no longer knows whether he is him or Zucker.

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