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An anthology series that follows the work of homicide detectives in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

After marrying a poor woman, rich Rahul is disowned by his father and moves to London to build a new life. Years later, his now-grown younger brother Rohan embarks on a mission to bring Rahul back home and reunite the family.

A woman puts an ad in a magazine looking for a man to fulfill her fantasy of a stringless, anonymous pornographic affair.

A group of toys take matters into their own hands when their Christmas delivery is in jeopardy.

Sandrine, a woman in her thirties gets tired of life in Paris and decides to leave her work in computers and become a farmer. She takes the required practice for two years, and after that she buys an isolated farm from Adrien, an old farmer who decides it's time to retire. However, Adrien wants to stay a few more months before moving away from the farm, and the rough winter finds them together...

Louise and Nathalie's childhood friendship gets tangled in jealousy, unrest, relationships and tragedy after college. After seeing each other after 10 years the obsession and attraction between them becomes stronger.

Cologne-Ehrenfeld, November 1944. They're young, wild and rebellious, like young people anywhere and in any time, but working-class boys Karl and his younger brother Peter are Edelweiss Pirates. They oppose the Nazis, and are pursued by the Gestapo. With the escaped concentration camp prisoner Hans Steinbrück, they plan acts of sabotage, until the Gestapo take them on with their full might. When they're arrested, Karl is torn between his will to survive, his feelings of responsibility, his love for his brother, and his loyalty to the Edelweiss Pirates.

Sensing that their relationship is crumbling, Christian avoids celebrating Christmas with his girlfriend Julia and heads for Paris. Alone in their Berlin flat, Julia decides that this is the time to drop her lover Frank, so she invites him to dinner. Deciding between the two men grows harder as Frank keeps impressing Julia with his wit and sex appeal, while Christian annoys her with a series of desperate calls from his refuge.

A young couple in search of true love and a real life flee the big city frenzy to Spain and get caught up in an excessive party with drugs, sex, sacred goldfish and a washed-up crook.

A look at the people who live precariously, but with an unusual level of resourcefulness and imagination, in four gigantic urban agglomerations: Mumbai, New York City, Moscow and Mexico City.

Gilles' wife, Elise, who smiles when she thinks of him, cooks and scrubs and cheerfully makes love to him, suspects during her third pregnancy that he is having an affair with her coquettish younger sister, Victorine. Elise suffers, usually in silence. She listens to her husband rave; she asks her priest; she breaks picture frames; she weeps. She decides on a strategy to keep him. Will she succeed?

Jasmin, Tamara, Valentin, Senad, and Roman live near the northern border of Austria in 1995. Their lives repeatedly intersect and drift apart. The characters involved are young migrants from the former Yugoslavia, Romania, Poland, and Austria itself. Strangers in a strange land, they feel a sense of loss in their new, temporary environment. The quintet meets and gets close to one another, hopelessly clinging to friendships and relationships with no future. They frequent cafés and train stations dreaming of a better tomorrow. Often, they just fall back on the prospect of short-term affection in yet another doomed romantic or sexual encounter. Trying hard to suppress the memories of war and alienation, they try to find moral strength and warmth through one another.

A young Austrian survives the crash of a commercial airliner. Six years later, she's a clerk, a mother, and happy. Then she dies in a car accident. Over the next year, her daughter goes through various medical blood tests, her husband is having an affair with her best friend, her sister trades sex for shelter, her brother is tiptoeing around a friendship with an emotionally-locked clerk whose mother is lonely, and an unpopular high-school student has bad skin. The daughter has her eye on a certain boy--the very one who was driving the car in the fatal crash. In happenstance are there patterns? In life is there meaning?

Five women, all near the wrong side of forty, face life's ups and downs together with laughter, tears, and sometimes irony. Their only imperative: live, love and live some more.

Teenagers Lucinda and Benji are would-be rock stars. When the villain, Maestro- a outlandish cross between Fred Astaire and Nosferatu's vampire - steals Benji's shadow, the boy can no longer play a note. Worse, he begins, physically, to fade away.The heroic parrot, Globi -loved by European kids for generations - tracks Maestro to a subterranean Gothic opera house. There he discovers Maestro's megalomaniacal agenda : to steal the shadows of all the world's musicians and so force the world to dance only to his tune. Globi and his friends must reunite the shadows with their musicians in order to save the world's music and the world itself!

The Surgeon Steffen is innocently accused of the murders of women that have taken place in the city in recent months. Attempts to clear his identity are hampered by the fact that he has recently been sitting and watching his colleague Katharina from a distance in her home. To put everything right, he takes the police's talkative psychologist hostage and sets out in search of the killer.

Marcus is a survivor of Theresienstadt and Auschwitz. His survival strategy after the war was total oblivion. But now the past catches up with him and he wants to be buried as a Jew among his own. To his surprise, however, he must first prove that he is a Jew at all. He needs documents or testimony.

"How nice it would be to have a sister", Anna often thinks... At 9 years old, little Anna with an overflowing imagination spends her afternoons off in an imaginary world that allows her to overcome the difficulties she meeting in her family and at school. One day, everything changes. While she is hiding in the school photocopier, the machine turns on and creates a replica of herself: a second Anna! Now one can go to school while the other has fun - and no one notices, so begins an exciting game of misunderstandings and confusion!

Lisa's life changes dramatically when she discovers she is seropositive.

After 30 years of service, an honourable family man retires and falls in love with another woman. A deep instinct for life pushes them towards a passion like those of their youth.

Young migrants from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Serbia and Venezuela attend a Swiss integration class where they learn a new language and prepare for employment.

A spanish worker obtains the Swiss nationality after twenty years living in Switzerland. He works in his own company and helps the inmigrants with problems. But after a laboral accident he comes back to Spain and changes radically his attitude.