Jan Niklas

Summer Solstice is a collection of love stories about, and for, people of all different ages and generations. Each character's tale connects, weaving in and out of the others, mirroring and countering them so that, as the long hot summer draws to its close, each is forced to examine their lives and decide to whom their loyalties lie or else risk loosing everything they hold so dear.

It's true that a hotel can hardly look more impressive and be more beautifully situated than Rhives Castle, but all beginnings are difficult. The young manager Carrie, who wants to lead the house to new splendor, has to realize this as well. That's why she worries a lot when she realizes that she is pregnant. What will her financier and life partner Sam say about this? As a newspaper publisher, he has his hands full trying to dissuade bestselling author Alexia White from suing for defamation: one of his employees accused her of plagiarism. The writer has it in her hands to financially destroy him and Carrie. Carrie's jealousy and the pressure from his bank don't make Sam's negotiations with the woman whose honor has been violated any easier.

Acompañada de su madre, una adolescente 'amish' ingresa en urgencias aquejada de una fuerte hemorragia. Cuando los médicos descubren que es consecuencia de un parto reciente, la joven y su madre niegan enérgicamente la evidencia. Ante su persistencia, los médicos sospechan de que pudiera tratarse de un aborto provocado, por lo que la joven deberá procurarse un abogado que se ocupe de su defensa.

When Elfrida Philips abandons London for a country village, she settles in quickly. She is very poor, but has a tiny cottage, her four-legged friend Horace, and friendships of good neighbors. Tragedy upsets her newfound tranquillity, and she takes refuge in a rambling house with a new gentleman friend in Corrydale. But the group proves to be greater than the sum of its ill-fitting parts, and as the solstice passes, and as Christmas approaches, the healing power of love, begins to work its magic. (Filmed at Dunrobin Castle, Golspie, Sutherland)

A feature film about the life and death of the famous Bavarian actor Walter Sedlmayr, who was murdered in 1990 and who tried all his life to hide his homosexual tendencies from the public. The life story is told from the perspective of his professional environment and - sometimes in a documentary style - his fellow actors report on him. His sexual preferences in the BDSM area are also discussed.

Trixi Jancik leads a risky double life. At home, she is an obedient housewife. But when she puts on a disguise and goes to the racetrack to indulge in her secret passion, she catches a glimpse of a better life. Although she blows her grocery money, she has tasted the kind of luxury she can normally only dream about. A minor squabble at home brings the situation to a head and marks a turning point in her life: Trixi fixes her husband a lethal cocktail of pills.

Tracy Garret es una policía que tras un incidente en el que murió una persona, es invitada por su padre a pasar algún tiempo con él en Berlín. Mientras están cenando, su padre recibe un disparo. Ella es informada por un inspector alemán al que se le ha asignado el caso de su padre del operativo de la CIA. Entonces decide investigar el caso...

Prince Victor looks in vain for a swan which was wounded by one of his servants. Instead he discovers a beautiful girl with golden hair who has an arrow in her shoulder. She is dumb and can't explain her origin. He falls immediately for her. The girl quickly recovers, but disappears mysteriously.

Psychotherapist Katharina welcomes a new patient, Alex Neumann. Soon she also learns to know him on a more private basis. But when two of her colleagues, who had love affairs with their patients, are killed, she fears that Alex might by the murderer. She's torn between love and fear.

Historia de los Trueba, una turbulenta famila chilena de clase alta que, durante tres generaciones, vive los cambiantes acontecimientos de su país. Con su violento patriarca y sus mujeres clarividentes, la historia familiar se extiende desde finales del siglo XIX hasta el golpe de estado que derrocó al gobierno de Salvador Allende en 1973.

En la década de 1950, el rock and roll se vuelve muy popular en todo el mundo. Pero en Rusia, ese tipo de música está prohibido. Solo, Alexi, un adolescente con gran talento musical, recibe de su tío viajero discos de rock y su amigo decide hacer copias para venderlas en el mercado negro. Alexi se enamora de la hija de un importante ministro del gobierno ruso. Los registros pronto se convierten en una amenaza nacional y la KGB no los aprecia.

Los habitantes de una ciudad con grandes niveles de estrés están conmocionados por una serie de suicidios espectaculares. Un agente de policía investiga la bella y enigmática Sonia, que revelará un complot para manipular a la población a través de la hipnosis de masas.

In Germany, an old man attacks another old man and is arrested. The attacker refuses to speak. A female lawyer is appointed to him. She discovers that the attacker has numbers tattooed on his arm and the attacked man was a German officer.

Hasta su muerte en 1984, Anna Anderson no dejó de proclamar que era la gran duquesa Anastasia, hija de Nicolás II y única superviviente de la matanza de la familia imperial rusa a manos de los bolcheviques.

Tragedia inspirada en una obra de teatro de John Osborne que, a su vez, se basa en hechos reales. Segunda película de una trilogía sobre el imperio Austro-Húngaro: la primera es ’Mephisto’, y la tercera, ’Hanussen’. Mientras se produce la desmembración del imperio Austro-Húngaro, el joven Alfred Redl ingresa en el ejército y asciende de forma meteórica. Redl llega a alcanzar el grado de coronel y realiza un impecable trabajo dentro de los servicios de contraespionaje. Su homosexualidad, que trata de mantener oculta, será el detonante de su estrepitosa caída en desgracia.

1983 play. A British woman falls for a German prisoner of war, despite the fact that her fiancée was killed by Germans during the Second World War.

A woman enlists a man who claims he is gay to accompany her on a long drive to a feminist conference in Munich.

En 1945, un general alemán consigue esconder en Suiza importantes documentos secretos. En 1980, una serie de asesinatos y pistas conducen al descubrimiento de un plan para recuperar esos documentos que contienen una fórmula que permite transformar el carbón en petróleo.

Juegos Olímpicos de Múnich de 1972. En la madrugada del 5 de septiembre, once atletas olímpicos israelíes son secuestrados por un comando terrorista palestino denominado 'Septiembre Negro'. Amenazan con matarlos a todos si no se produce la liberación de presos palestinos por parte de Israel. Durante 21 horas el mundo entero estuvo pendiente del trágico suceso. (FILMAFFINITY)

Based on the best-selling novel by Nobel-laureate Heinrich Böll, this drama is a passionate indictment of Catholicism. Hans Schnier (Helmut Griem) has earned his living as a clown, though he is in fact a very covert sort of social critic. After enduring a difficult childhood in Bonn during the Second World War, including his mother's fanatic Nazism, he is appalled to discover many of the people he knows and loves swept deeply into involvement in the Catholic Church.