The single parent Sandra Lindt lives in the Hamburg harbor district, where she defends herself as the spokesman for a small tenant community against the demolition of their residential street. In order to finally get the residents to give up, the sympathetic lawyer Siegfried Hübner is set on Sandra and her fellow combatants. In fact, Sandra has a very personal reason not to vacate her apartment: The young woman is a messie. As a delicate love between her and Siegfried approaches, Sandra gets into an ever greater conflict
Jens Lehnert sends his grumpy consultancy partner and key employee Carla Schneider to audit the old-fashioned mint farming of a collective in Saxony. In an attempt to coax a probably negative report, unwitting the assessor is female, she's lodged with its director Simon Vorberg and his charming family, but it alas starts on a frightening tone. Gradually, she's charmed by the village and especially the Vorbergs, alas unlike the enterprise, yet is inspired by the inventive villagers' fair stalls.
Ellen Branford, a high-powered attorney, finds love, purpose, and the promise of a simpler life when she sets off on a journey to fulfill her grandmother’s dying wish – to find the hometown boy she once loved and give him her last letter. Based on a book by Mary Simses.
Whitefish is a thriller set in a closed Dutch fisherman's village community. Hans, a religious fisherman and his rebellious brother Stijn try to save their necessitous fishing boat. Their difficult relationship seems to put success in the way, until one day they catch a huge amount of drugs in their nets. Stijn badly wants to get rid of it, but Hans hesitates. Maybe their prayers are heard and this is the chance to get out of trouble? Or is Stijn's fear well grounded and is the real misery now only to begin..?
In this prelude to the television series 'The Raccoons', Bert, Melissa, and Ralph Raccoon have their home accidentally stolen when it is cut down to become a Christmas tree.
Sarah is headed back to her hometown for Hanukkah with news of her engagement. Upon returning she finds out that her father had a heart attack and things have gotten out of hand.
Following the death of CEO Robert Loring at precisely 10:44 pm, the FBI sends in Jordan Price, one of their best and brightest to solve the case. As other key executives are murdered at exactly the same time, Jordan finds herself investigating the past in order to solve the case. She quickly discovers the ultimate cover up and is under the gun to solve the mystery before the next victim is killed.
Un homme seul. Une femme seule. Lui, à l'aide de son ordinateur, voudrait désormais pouvoir gérer ses relations amoureuses; elle, de son côté, désire continuer à mener une vie autonome. Philippe et Hélène vivent donc dans une bulle, en solitaires, soignant les blessures d'une relation précédente, jusqu'au jour où ils se rencontrent. C'est le coup de foudre! Mais ils ont si peu en commun, sinon la peur de se faire mal, de décevoir et d'être déçus, de se tromper à nouveau... A single man. A single woman. Him, only wanting to interact with romantic relationships through his computer screen. Her, wanting to have an autonomous life. Phillipe and Hélène live their lives in a solitary bubble, healing their wounds from a previous relationship, until they meet. It's love at first sight! but they have so little in common, except the fear of being hurt, of dissapointing or be dissapointed, of bei
Teacher Jake Downey has relocated to a small town in Wyoming hoping to escape the urban problems of his last assignment. His myth of rural bliss is shattered when a former police officer comes unglued, builds a bomb and takes Jake's class hostage. The heroism of his true story unfolds as the hostage drama takes many surprising turns towards the phenomenal conclusion.
Love & Sex under Nazi Occupation questions the burning mystery of intimate heterosexual and homosexual relations in times of war... and shows how being close to death reinforces the yearning for passion, for pleasure, for transgression, for desire as a last burst of freedom, as an ultimate call to life. Nearly two hundred thousands children are thought to be born of the union of French women with German soldiers. Women weren't the Germans' only conquests; indeed, occupied Paris swarms with all kinds of homosexuals—from Genet to Cocteau—who treated with the occupier. The fate of those women who were shaved at the end of the war for fraternizing with Germans is the punishment of a France that lied down and slept with the enemy.
The first in a series of Japanese TV movies about a police detective who has adopted the dress and mannerisms of famous American TV detective Columbo, based on a series of novels by popular mystery author Yasuo Uchida.
One day, Detective Takemura Iwao, also known as Shinano's Columbo, becomes the first person to discover a dismembered murder case. At first glance, the case appears to be a simple murder caused by a financial dispute between an uncle and nephew, but Takemura, who is suspicious of this view, pursues the culprit with a dogged investigation in order to unravel the criminal's meticulous plan!
Using the 'real life' documentary style, this drama observes two years in the life of the Byrne family as they become involved in the complicated legal path that leads to a fully defended custody hearing in the Family Court. The Byrne family are played by actors, with real-life lawyers and members of the judiciary in the legal roles.