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In 1990, to protect his fragile mother from a fatal shock after a long coma, a young man must keep her from learning that her beloved nation of East Germany as she knew it has disappeared.

Three activists cobble together a kidnapping plot after they encounter a businessman in his home.

Züli Aladag's critically acclaimed, but controversial movie deals with the conflict of Can, son of Turkish immigrants, and the Laubs, a supposedly liberal middle class family. Simon Laub, professor of literature, and his wife Christa, real estate agent, live with their son Felix in a safe and quiet Berlin district. However, Felix gets in trouble with Can, son of a Turkish greengrocer, who starts to tyrannize the family. As he is annoyed by the boy's attacks, Simon -despite his political correct attitude- humiliates Can, which starts a vicious circle of anger and violence...

With the intention to break free from the strict familial restrictions, a suicidal young woman sets up a marriage of convenience with a forty-year-old addict, an act that will lead to an outburst of envious love.

Barkeeper Frank, semi-formally called "Herr Lehmann", is part of a lethargic West Berlin-microcosm. His lifestyle is disturbed when his parents show up for a visit, things go awry with his girlfriend and his best friend acts strange.

In Hamburg, German-Greek chef Zinos unknowingly disturbs the peace in his locals-only restaurant by hiring a more talented chef.

An angel tires of his purely ethereal life of merely overseeing the human activity of Berlin's residents, and longs for the tangible joys of physical existence when he falls in love with a mortal.

Gossip reporter Ludo hires friend Anna, who has feelings for him. He goes to Berlin, returns as seductive woman Marie. Anna becomes jealous as Marie toys with her attraction to Ludo.

The couples Düring and Kukowski are stuck in routine. Chris and Ellen, both lonely, grow closer, but their affair ends abruptly. Suddenly, everything changes, daily life is shaken up, and small miracles become possible.

Summer in Berlin: Nike and Katrin, neighbors in Prenzlauer Berg, discuss their desires on the balcony. Katrin seeks a father for her son; Nike wants a reliable man. Trucker Ronald arrives, but tensions soon arise between the friends.

The Pope is in town and the night of his visit is anything but heavenly for some of Berlin's inhabitants. The down-and-out, the rich and the poor, the polizei, the street kids and taxi drivers, in search of a little bit of happiness, all end up going for a harrowing odyssey through the labyrinth of the big city.

When Martin, a former GDR citizen, is released from jail, he lately becomes confronted with the consequences of the German re-unification.

A Turkish man travels to Istanbul to find the daughter of his father's former girlfriend.

A pseudo documentary study of an archetypal German who tries to model his world according to his ideas of law and (sexual) order.

Loyalty between two friends is stretched to its limit by one's deception.

News from where the Digital and the Carbon Worlds collide.

Frank is diagnosed with an incurable brain tumor and given only a few months to live. He and his wife don't know how and when to tell their children about it. Meanwhile, Frank's health is getting worse with each day.

The groundbreaking story of a 67-year-old married woman who rediscovers her passion and sexuality when she falls in love with a 76-year-old man.

Otis and Eddy are best friends who make rap music together. Their friendship is tested after a record label offers them a lucrative deal.

A renowned actor named Otto is the epitome of the problematic but beloved ladies man. Even when drunk he still knows more about filmmaking than does the amateur who is directing him in his latest movie. But what should the unreliable star do when a local actor joins the crew as his understudy? Comic situations arise not only because of the well-known environment, but also from an inclination to authentically capture the various relationships.

A young man named Kaspar Hauser suddenly appears in Nuremberg in 1828, barely able to talk or walk, and bearing a strange note.

Umay is a young woman of Turkish descent, fighting for an independent and self-determined life in Germany against her family's resistance. Her struggle initiates a dynamic that results in a life-threatening situation.

In Hamburg, Ibrahim "Ibo" Secmez, of Turkish descent, wants to direct the first German kung-fu movie. For now he makes commercials for his uncle's kebab restaurant. When Titzie, Ibo's aspiring-actress girlfriend, finds out that she's pregnant, Ibo's uncertainty about fatherhood is compounded by his own father's disowning him for getting a German girl pregnant--so Titzie sends him packing. He makes attempts at getting it right, but as the birth approaches, he's still not ready. In the background are three thugs in search of good tripe soup and a Capulet-Montague feud between the kebab joint and the Greek taverna across the street. Can Ibo be the glove upon that hand?

Three friends from Hamburg spend one last night on the town before one of them leaves the city forever.

After a botched money delivery, Lola has 20 minutes to come up with 100,000 Deutschmarks.