Gertrud Roll

While four nuns of a women's monastery in the Eifel begin their day, Bishop Rentschler decides to sell their monastery. The Prioress agrees, Novice Ruth is outraged. Bittner, who runs the village shop, is appalled by the news and worries about former Prioress Philippa, who is suffering from dementia. The bishop receives a protest letter, which is why a mediator is sent to the nuns. It is the psychologist Ulrike Purscheck. Her motivation seminar, however, with the appeal to let go of the old, but with the nuns on closed ears - except for sister Brionie.

An unspoken connection between two elderly neighbors, who share a daily ritual but who have never actually met, deepens when they face the inevitable... together.

Honesty is the best? The original comedy tells of a farmer's clever family, which comes to this insight after some confusion. Director and author Thomas Kronthaler packages a fine morality about money, family ties and charity with a black sense of humor and a sense of subtle punchlines. In addition to Saskia Vester and Heinz-Josef Braun, who is mainly known through the films of Marcus H. Rosenmüller, shines not least the multi-award winning Gertrud Roll as a clever senior.

Once again, the "border crossing" is celebrated, as every seven years in the Upper Hessian town of Bergen. It is really turbulent at this folk festival, when the municipal boundaries are confirmed from old tradition and everything is upside down. For this occasion leaves Thomas Weidmann his girlfriend and flees because of his botched university career from the city of Berlin back to his native village. At the party, he meets Kerstin Werner, whose life has just come out of joint - her marriage is broken and her husband Jürgen on the jump to another, younger woman.

Leo Vandenbroek, un preadolescente de Hamburgo, no se sorprende cuando su madre, Pia, lo arrastra hasta un pueblo de mala muerte para pasar unas largas vacaciones. De hecho, le alquila una casa al doctor del pueblo, quien está casado con María, porque recientemente descubrió en el testamento de su padre que la mujer es su hermanastra.

Alemania, costa del mar Báltico, mayo de 1945, unos días antes del final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Una pequeña patrulla soviética llega a una casa aislada donde una anciana baronesa da refugio a un grupo de niñas huérfanas y a un niño que está decidido a continuar con la lucha.

Berlín. Época actual. Hanna y Simon son una pareja que viven juntos desde hace años. El amor, el trabajo, el sexo y la vida cotidiana se entremezclan en una combativa armonía. Son atractivos, modernos, maduros, sin niños, cultivados y con los pies en la tierra. Pero Hanna conoce a Adam. Y Adam conoce a Simon. E inesperadamente los tres se enamoran.

Seis semanas después de la muerte accidental de su marido, Vicky Wessendorf decide viajar a Bangkok para investigar los antecedentes del lugar de la tragedia. Su marido George había comprado un piso de lujo en la ciudad, que Vicky quiere vender lo más rápido posible.

Ten years have passed since Benedikt Stirner left his home in Bavaria after the fatal accident of his brother. Now he returns - the father is dying. But the strict family patriarch reacts dismissively, as does Benedict's brother, Anton. He is now betrothed to Benedict's great love Johanna and fears that his brother could take Johanna away from him. In fact, the two fall in love again. As a result, Benedict draws to Anton's open hatred. He does not suspect that Anton is the only one who knows the whole truth about the accidental death of his youngest brother.

Small war among pensioners: The charming chaotic Walter Hofer and the pedant Eberhard Gatzweiler have had a love-hate relationship for decades. Not even their grandson Martin can change that. During the lovable tug-of-war for the favor of Martin's attractive teacher Hanna, the waves get even higher, but Hanna has completely different worries.

Anna Siebert, Sekretärin der Unternehmensberatung "Christian Hoffmann Consulting", ist in ihren Chef verknallt. Aber Christian möchte sich weder an Anna noch an eine andere Dame binden. Alle wissen das, nur Anna will es nicht wahrhaben. Während einer Betriebsfeier kommen sich die beiden im angetrunkenen Zustand doch näher und verbringen eine Nacht zusammen. Annas Glück währt nicht lange, denn ihr Angebeteter kann sich an nichts erinnern ...

When Michael Rosenzweig, a working-class German Jew, is charged with the murder of a neo-Nazi leader, he and his family find themselves fighting for justice in the face of a brick wall of prejudice.

Película basada en una novela de Ingeborg Bachmann, con guión de la Premio Nobel de Literatura Elfriede Jelinek. Cuenta la historia de Malina (Isabelle Huppert), una mujer que encierra una doble personalidad.

Portrait of a great lady based on the real life of Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, an Austrian architect, who joined the resistance movement against Hitler.

Critical crime movie about a young, idealistic television reporter who is a loser in a world of cynicism and economic pressure.

El film describe la atormentada vida del pintor austríaco Egon Schiele -uno de los fundadores del expresionismo-, su adicción al sexo y al alcohol y la sucesión de tragedias sentimentales y humillaciones públicas cuando es acusado y detenido por pornografía. Después de la Primera Guerra Mundial, sus pinturas serán testimonio de su furia, pero la vida le tiene reservadas aún más desventuras... Los últimos años de la corta vida de Egon Schiele, el pintor expresionista austríaco, están descritos en el contexto de los últimos años del gobierno de los Habsburgo. La historia comienza en torno a 1912 cuando Schiele (Mathieu Carriere) y su amante y musa artística Wally (Jane Birkin) se hicieron amigos de una adolescente obsesionada (Nina Fallenstein) que se ha escapado de su hogar para encontrarse con Schiele. Posteriormente Schiele es encarcelado por considerarse que se había comportado de una manera sexual inapropiada con mujeres menores.

I Want to Live (German: Ich will leben) is a 1976 Austrian drama film directed by Jörg A. Eggers. The film was selected as the Austrian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 50th Academy Awards, but was not nominated.