Alice and Peter are celebrating their retirement and are looking forward to a new phase in their lives. Then Alice finds out that her best friend Magalie, who dies completely unexpectedly, had been having an affair in France for 15 years. The confrontation with the finiteness of life plunges Peter into an existential crisis: to the great chagrin of Alice, who is a bon vivant, he becomes a total health fanatic. When Peter invites Heinz, Magalie's widowed husband, to join him on a cruise, which Alice hopes will breathe new life into a marriage, their harmonious retirement is over.
La joven y valiente comadrona Christine hace un pacto con el diablo para salvar a su pueblo del brutal terror de los Caballeros Teutónicos. Castigada por una plaga de arañas, Christine pasa de salvadora a cazada.
Un joven profesor de Zurich en la década de 1950 se enamora de una estrella travesti pero se debate entre su existencia burguesa y su compromiso con la homosexualidad. Se une a una organización gay que finalmente se considera pionera de la emancipación gay en Europa.
An unusually hot summer. Fourteen year-old Wanda moves with her family from Berlin to Switzerland. Everything will be better here. The move is meant to heal the open wounds of the family. Anna, the mother, has lost her self-confidence due to an affair her husband Joachim had in Berlin. The big house with the overgrown garden and the pretty small town all seems like one big promise. But the new beginning is difficult for everyone. Joachim, 40, throws himself into family activism while Anna, also 40, tries to strengthen the family with new rituals.
El nombre de la película se refiere a una leyenda de los Alpes suizos. La historia cuenta que los hombres que se sienten muy solos en la montaña pueden hacer una muñeca rellena de paja que cobra vida para satisfacer sus deseos sexuales; sin embargo, después de complacerlos, aseguran, matará a todos aquellos que se hayan aprovechado de ella.
Two beautiful young women kill men in a villa in Tuscany: Maya and Cora have been friends since childhood. Maya has an alcoholic artist father who deserted the family, a mentally disturbed mother and a violent brother, Carlo. Cora is from a wealthy middle-class family. Cora helps Maya to poison Carlo's friend Detlef, who is threatening to blackmail her. They then kill Carlo when he tries to rape Cora. Cora's family takes Maya in, and a happy time begins for her, particularly when they spend the summer in Italy.
