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Three stories revolve around the love lives of an adulterous woman, a checkout girl and a single mother.

When Denis breaks into the Austrian winter cottage of rich business man Raimund he gets mistaken for the new nurse by Raimund's granddaughter Charlotte. In order not to get busted Denis decides to play along.

The last year in Franz Kafka's life and its surprising love story.

An examination of the lives, needs, troubles, and hopes of prostitutes in Thailand, Bangladesh, and Mexico.

At the dawn of WW2, a young soldier encounters a wounded fox cub and takes it with him to occupied France. The story of an unlikely friendship.

Six directors tackle the question "If buildings could talk, what would they say about us?" by capturing iconic buildings with narration from the perspective of the buildings.

A body, apparently bludgeoned to death, is found on the ice of a frozen pond in an Austrian village. The man who found the body is a retired police officer who, to the disdain of the two female detectives officially in charge of the case, decides to further investigate the matter.

Years ago in austrian countryside a hit and run is committed, now two local cops investigate the death of that man - the dead in the lake. Did he take his own life. Adding suspense, the killed girls father is a former colleague (played by Austrias best comedian Josef Hader).

"Die Vermessung der Welt" follows two brilliant and eccentric scientists, Alexander von Humboldt and Carl Friedrich Gauss, on their life paths in early-19th-century Germany.

Jasmin, Tamara, Valentin, Senad, and Roman live near the northern border of Austria in 1995. Their lives repeatedly intersect and drift apart. The characters involved are young migrants from the former Yugoslavia, Romania, Poland, and Austria itself. Strangers in a strange land, they feel a sense of loss in their new, temporary environment. The quintet meets and gets close to one another, hopelessly clinging to friendships and relationships with no future. They frequent cafés and train stations dreaming of a better tomorrow. Often, they just fall back on the prospect of short-term affection in yet another doomed romantic or sexual encounter. Trying hard to suppress the memories of war and alienation, they try to find moral strength and warmth through one another.

Goldmund is to study in the monastery Mariabronn. His father sent him there. There he meets a religious monk named Narziss. He has subjected himself to a strict life and lives completely ascetically.

They couldn't be more different, the members of the trio that unite in the fight against an Ancient Ice Ghost (AIG): Tom, an easily-scared boy; Hetty, a professional ghosthunter; and loveable but slimy Hugo--a ghost. Will the team manage to save their town from the next Ice Age?

Rise and fall of actor Ferdinand Marian, who takes the chance and stars in the anti-semitic movie Le juif Suss (1940).

In conurbations where hundreds of thousands live alongside one another, in the era of a highly technological society, in which communication has never played such a significant role, man has become lonely. Disappointed by his fellow human beings, he turns to animals. Dogs and other domestic animals serve him as companions, life partners, cuddly objects and bedfellows.

A cold day in January 2006. The police make a horrible discovery in the Swedish town of Hudiksvall: In one night, 18 people have been brutally murdered in the small town. The police suspect a madman is behind the bestial act. But when judge Birgitta Roslin hears the news, she instantly knows that her grandparents August and Britta Andrén are among the victims. And even more: Almost everybody killed somehow relates to her. She realizes that the police are following a wrong track and starts to investigate on her own. Her search leads Brigitta to China where she finds out about the cruel scheming of the leading elite.

At the end of his life, Wilhelm Reich - psychiatrist and experimental scientist searching for the fundamentals of life - finds himself on trial, charged with deception. His dream of liberating human individuality makes him a dangerous opponent of an American system that is striving after 1945 for global hegemony, using all available means. Was it madness to believe in man's liberty or was Reich simply in the wrong place at the wrong time, and, being a holistic global thinker, accurately observing far-reaching socio-political linkages? Ten years after his mysterious death, his writings, once burnt by the US FDA, become an important source of inspiration for a '68 generation in revolt.

"I want to give a view of the world that can only emerge by not pursuing any particular theme, by refraining from passing judgment, proceeding without aim. Drifting with no direction except one's own curiosity and intuition." (Michael Glawogger) More than two years after the sudden death of Michael Glawogger in April 2014, film editor Monika Willi realizes a film out of the film footage produced during 4 months and 19 days of shooting in the Balkans, Italy, Northwest and West Africa. A journey into the world to observe, listen and experience, the eye attentive, courageous and raw. Serendipity is the concept - in shooting as well as in editing the film.

Two yuppies play mean tricks on one another until one joke has fatal consequences.

The orphan girl Marthe lives with her aunt after the cruel death of her mother. She shamelessly uses his special abilities as a healer to earn money. In return for payment, she sends Marthe to the court of the burgrave, whose wife is in severe pain in labor. The visionary Marthe immediately recognizes that mother and child are doomed to die. Before the disaster occurs, she flees from the wrath of the lord of the castle. Arriving at her aunt's farm, she sees from hiding how the latter brutally kills her relatives. Alone and without provisions, Marthe wanders through the woods, where she finally falls into the hands of Franconian settlers. Under the leadership of the respected knight Christian, they move to the Mark Meissen to found a village there. After an attack by robbers, Marthe saves a pregnant woman and cares for a seriously wounded man. However, their gift to decide between life and death causes unrest in the entourage. But Christian stands in front of her, unimpressed. Word of her abilities spread quickly at the court of his patron Otto von Wettin, where Marthe was curing the armorer's back ailment. Margravine Hedwig calls the healer to treat her son Dietrich, who suffers from chronic fever. With her advice, Marthe, whose mother died a painful death because of witchcraft, incurs the wrath of the medicus and the margrave. This time too, Christian's protective hand prevents worse. But he soon has to lead a campaign against Henry the Lion. The fact that Otto's choice falls on him and not the ambitious Randolf does not want to accept without a fight. Now Christian has a vengeful adversary.

After suffering a severe head injury on the job, criminal investigator Tommy Wehrschitz, is being suspended - for his own good. In order to deal with the changes in his life he decides to go to southern Burgenland, to sell property he inherited from his estranged father. Barely arrived, Tommy is invited to see the circus, which is currently in the village, but the colorful spectacle is cut short when a flying knife misses its target and kills an audience member instead. But was it really just an accident? Tommy begins to dig and the deeper he gets, the darker the secrets he uncovers until he has to fear for his own life.

A documentary on the extremes to which workers will go to earn a living.

A poor New York girl learns that she is an Austrian heir.

An episodic comedy that follows the lives of four men living in Vienna.

Retired inspector Grete could actually enjoy her newfound free time. But then her godchild Johanna, who also works for the police, dies during her first drug raid. A tragic accident - they say.

A look at the people who live precariously, but with an unusual level of resourcefulness and imagination, in four gigantic urban agglomerations: Mumbai, New York City, Moscow and Mexico City.