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The Polish woman Wanda, 35, looks after Joseph, 70, in his family villa by the lake. She is there for him around the clock and also helps his wife Elsa, 75. The youngest son Gregi, 28, likes her very much. The work is poorly paid, but Wanda needs the money for her own family in Poland. Since everyone lives under one roof, Wanda gets an intimate view of their family life. So intimate that Wanda unexpectedly becomes pregnant.

It's Lara's 60th birthday, and she has every reason to celebrate: this evening, her son Viktor will be giving the most important piano concert of his career. Lara was, after all, the one who'd mapped out and driven his musical career. Yet Viktor has been unreachable for weeks and nothing indicates that Lara will be welcome at his debut performance. Without further ado, she buys up all the remaining tickets and hands them out to everyone she meets. The more Lara strives to make the evening successful, however, the more events get out of control.

Sophie and Georg once loved each other, but now they have split up. Almost the entire film takes place in front of the same doorway in Berlin. In an elliptical way, the individual scenes portray a family for whom the word patchwork is the new normal — and take a laconic look at the everyday irrationalities of love.

Mifti is a teenager as beautiful as she is reckless. Mentally unstable, fed up with her dysfunctional family, oblivious to the youthful world, and aware of the sexual magnetism she gives off with her peculiar appearance, she wanders through the dark path of several bohemian adults with questionable lifestyles.

사랑하는 연인 바실리와 아들 알렉시를 키우며 행복한 나날을 보내던 넬리는 바실리가 모스크바에서 교통사고로 사망하면서 커다란 혼란을 겪게 된다. 3년 후, 넬리는 알렉시와 동독 국경을 넘어 서독으로 향한다. 정식 이주를 위해 수용소에서 심사를 받지만, 하나같이 이어지는 바실리에 대한 질문에 넬리는 점점 지쳐간다. 결국, 넬리는 자신에게 호감을 보이는 미국 심사관 존과 정사를 나누고 그를 닦달해 까맣게 몰랐던 사실을 알게 된다. 비밀경찰 정보원으로 활동하던 바실리가 마음을 바꾸고, 서독 비밀 정보국과 공모해서 교통사고와 사망을 위장한 채 어딘가에서 살고 있을 수도 있다는 것이다…

44세의 프랑크는 독일의 행복하고 일반적인 가정의 가정으로 아내 시몬과 두 딸과 함께 살고 있다. 어느 날 갑자기 병원에서 뇌종양이 진행 중이고 얼마남지 않았다는 통보를 받으면서 모든 생활은 바뀌게 된다. 가족의 지원을 받아서 아이패드를 이용하여 남은 생활 을 기록하려는 그에게 방사선 치료와 화학치료는 자신과의 싸움이 시작된다. 일상 속에서 자신의 병과 싸우려는 한 남자의 의지와 가족의 사랑이 돋보이는 영화. 2011년 칸영화제 주목할만한 시선부문 수상작. (EBS)

A wide-ranging, energetic period piece tracing the rise of the Protestant Henry of Navarre as he goes from battlefield warrior to France's beloved King Henri IV. Director Jo Baier's epic is a classically entertaining adventure, albeit one with more than a little bloodshed and frequent bawdy sexual interludes. In late 16th-century France, Catholics and Protestant Huguenots were at war. Seemingly seeking peace, the French dowager queen, Catherine de Medici summons Henry to her court to have him marry her daughter, uniting the two warring factions. However, the Catholics slaughter the Protestant wedding guests in what became known as the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre and Henry-now married-must use all his guile to both stay alive and maneuver for the throne. [Written by Palm Springs International Film Festival]

A romantic drama about a woman who enters into an affair after 30 years of marriage.

Master painter Hans Moll and his wife, the television announcer Ms. Wellinek and her husband, and the German-Russian Jew Yevgenia have many things to live on: food, drink, an apartment. What they do not have is work. They all discover the yearning for a chance to start all over again and bring themselves back to life.

Episodes about different stages of relationships: from flirtation to falling out of love.

Second-hand car sales man Willenbrock has everything that he could ever wish for. He is married, has two lovers, a cottage in the German city Grünen, and a BMW. Yet one day while at his cottage he gets mugged and his life is drastically changed. Little by little the world he once felt safe in falls apart around him.