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- A cryptic message from James Bond's past sends him on a trail to uncover the existence of a sinister organisation named SPECTRE. With a new threat dawning, Bond learns the terrible truth about the author of all his pain in his most recent missions.
- 14th-century knights transport a suspected witch to a monastery, where monks deduce that her powers could be the source of the Black Plague.
- Asian Hawk (Jackie Chan) and his bumbling sidekick are sent on a quest through Europe to find a mysterious treasure held by a shadowy organization of monks.
- A secretary at a Berlin newspaper in 1936 gets to write about two Alpinists, as she knows them well. She later gets to report on and photograph her friends' and other Alpinists' climbs of the dangerous Swiss Eiger north face.
- Raised in an oppressive cult, a reclusive schizophrenic discovers that he's being framed by cult leaders for a series of ritualistic murders and must prove his innocence by saving their next victim and exposing the evil sect.
- Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph falls in love with young Elisabeth. It's love at first sight but Franz Joseph's mother Sophie doesn't approve of the relationship.
- In a boarding school, a student observes in passive disgust as his two friends manipulate, humiliate and torture a fellow student, justifying their every act.
- In this version of "Heidi," a young Swiss girl is sent off to boarding school at the beginning of World War I.
- Wheel of Time is Werner Herzog's photographed look at the largest Buddhist ritual in Bodh Gaya, India.
- The life story of 1980s Austrian superstar Falco, the man behind the monster hit "Rock Me, Amadeus." The story of Johann "Falco" Hölzel from his childhood, the road from a band to his solo career, to his tragic death.
- A satirical portrait of customs and morals, telling us the tragicomic story of the residents of Bad Fucking, a typical Austrian village. We learn about wants, desires, murders and misdeeds which can lead only to the Apocalypse.
- A new international terrorist group attack the castle of an Austrian prince during his party, but one of the guests, a CIA contractor, deals with them. CIA hires him to find the men behind the attack and take them out.
- Three young pals plan to earn money by shooting an hardcore-porno movie. But is it really so easy to shoot some gang-banging with home-video equipment?
- Former cop Brenner has to return to his home town where he gets involved in a tragic story between his old friends.
- An anthology film is a collection of short film projects by different directors for a common aim. Usually they are unified by a common theme - in this case, the European Union.
- A true story about Johann Georg Elser, a quiet carpenter who tried to assassinate Hitler with an explosive device in 1939.
- In her teens, Mme. Zachanassian had to flee her home town in disgrace. Now she's old and rich and the town is facing bankruptcy. But she returns with news that she wants to help - as long as the townsfolk kill someone for her.
- Neurotic, Parisian, gay, and thirty-something, three friends lost their way in Austrian mountains. From dizzying summits to huge abyss, now could be the right time to take stock of their lives, lovers, and friendships.
- What happens next determines what happened before. That is why the small town journalist, Jonathan D., recognizes connections where others see only random events. With the narrative about an unresolved bank robbery, he writes his most successful title story, which, how could it be different, nobody understands.
- The Schladming Night Race, the most important ski race of the year, is just around the corner. Fifty thousand people are expected, a state of emergency. Sandra Mohr and Sascha Bergmann of the LKA Graz are called in to investigate the mysterious disappearance of the coach of the Austrian ski team. Nobody heard anything, nobody saw anything.
- They never expected Kyra to turn up again. The two brothers and their sister, brought together when their father dies, are stunned by the appearance of their sister. Kyra suddenly vanished over twenty years ago during the breakup of the hippie commune where they were all born. She is like a stranger to them now... but when she discovers that her very existence has been kept secret, she starts to uncover old mysteries. And soon all the brothers and sisters find themselves unearthing the roots of their childhood memories they had suppressed in order to survive. In her debut feature film Marie Kreutzer embarks upon an intriguing and disturbing journey into the past, a gripping study of belonging and solitude, bonds and freedom.
- A wide-eyed sister missionary arrives in Austria to begin her 18-month-long mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Despite having to make a few cultural adjustments, Sister Taylor meets every challenge with optimism. Her enthusiasm to share the Gospel makes her indomitable, until she finds herself with an abrasive companion whom she doesn't understand and doesn't particularly like. This challenge, along with the ordinary vicissitudes of missionary life begin to wear on her, and thus in the process of sharing the Gospel, Sister Taylor finds herself gaining a better understanding of its key precepts: faith, repentance, forgiveness, and charity.
- Soviet, British, French and American allies patrol post-war Vienna.
- A sawmill owner is found strangled in the Mürztal. The mother of the dead wants to avoid a scandal, because the tracks lead directly into the local brothel.
- Michael leaves his job as a spy after failing a mission and takes with him Helena, the daughter of a Russian spy who dies under suspicious circumstances. They leave their past behind and move to Barcelona and open a small restaurant, but his former colleagues reappear with unfinished business.
- Henry Dunant, son of a Geneva francophone upper class bourgeoisie family, works for a Swiss exploitation company in French Algeria; when the colonists are thirsty, he returns determined to convince the firm and emperor Napoleon III to build a dam for them. After his Uncle, Dr. Hubert Dunant, diagnoses him not with Algerian typhus, just malaria, also his first meeting -dropping drawers in hospital for a shot- with nurse Cécile Thuillier, and meeting his careerist brother Daniel's fiancée, Léonie Bourg-Thibourg, daughter of the firm's boss, the board approves his plan. On his way to the emperor, who didn't even concede to receive him, Henry gets stuck in Castiglione, part of the Austrian province Lombardy which French troops came to 'liberate'; his Geneva friend Dr. Louis Appia saves his life by presenting him to suspicious Austrian troops as his medical assistant, and he soon gets passionate about senseless cruelties of war while helping out with what he learned from grandpa. Cécile, part of a godsend shipment of Swis staff and supplies, becomes his right hand and true love. After French troops take the village and reinstate senseless abuses, his letters home, published in Geneva by family friend journalist Samuel Lowenthal, whose newspaper gets attacked too, the unprecedented shocking first-hand truth about war cruelty, start enough public commotion to make his plans eventual turn true in the form of the now worldwide indispensable, strictly neutral humanitarian last resort for all in need, the International Red Cross, named after the symbol Dunant devised by painting in blood the Christian symbol French and Austrians had in common as Catholic nations to safely evacuate from Castiglione.
- A scientist discovers an ancient code in the Bible that predicts historic events but is hunted down. Now it's up to his daughter to protect the code from falling into the wrong hands.
- Horst receives the monthly pension from his grandmother. The only problem is, that she is dead. As a local politician wants to congratulate the grandmother to her birthday Horst "borrows" an old lady from a hospital nearby, not recognizing that he just kidnapped actress Elfriede Ott.
- Adolescents in the amphibious situation between child and adult try to cope with their emotions and their environment. Right there they would need limits, a foothold and hope and yet they signalize the opposite. Between loss, extinct love, parental problems and their own needs the parent generation tries to understand or at least to save something.
- A young boy who's father passed searches for the Lochness Monster while living with his single mother biologist and his grandfather.
- A teenage girl who has never met her father, lives with her mother in Africa where they work as safari guides. After her mother's tragic car accident, she discovers she has family in Austria and decides to find out more about them.
- Mieczyslaw Weinberg's powerful Holocaust drama Die Passagierin channels his and his family's ordeals of wartime and Soviet persecution, applying them musically to Zofia Posmysz's autobiographical novel.
- A gentle portrait by the famous German-Swiss-Austrian Hollywood actor Maximilian Schell about his no less famous sister Maria.
- Searching for the first time, the three friends Enea, Carlo and Alex are dfinding a whole lot more than they were looking for.
- Germany completely legalized prostitution over 10 years ago and now has one of the most liberal prostitution laws in the world. Over the course of ten years, Germany has become a destination for sex tourists from all over the world - including North America and Asia. By brothel owners and johns, Germany is considered to be Europe's biggest brothel. But who profits from this development and how does legalized prostitution change a society? The documentary 'Sex - Made in Germany' answers these questions through interviews with prostitutes, brothel owners, pimps, johns and government tax officials, who speak openly in front of a camera. 'Sex made in Germany' is a candid exposure of one of the most profitable legal sex markets in the world.
- During an informal visit in province Styria, where he represents the imperial Habsburg house, archduke Johann, brother of Austrian emperor Francis I, falls in love with Anna Plochl, the postmaster's equally common daughter. Johann and his arranged Wurtemberg royalty bride both decline a dynastic alliance advised by minister Metternich in favor of their private loves. The emperor refuses to allow a marriage, yet Johann lets Anna move in to live nearly as spouses, without sharing the bed. A near-tragedy rocks that boat seven years later.
- A story about an ordinary 16yo girl planning to revenge her father by sabotaging the company that fired him.
- As a seamstress' illegitimate daughter, young Catherine Simon's future isn't rosy. But in the single-minded woman slumber unsuspected talents. At 17 she makes her debut as an actress at the Berlin Lessing Theatre, with unexpected success. The world is at her feet and dreams start to jell as she meets prominent artist Max Kruse at a premiere party. The two become a pair, but the newly-divorced sculptor isn't yet ready to remarry, not even when Käthe is expecting his child. They spend two happy years together without a marriage certificate, but her illegitimate cohabitation does not correspond to the morals of the fine Berlin society. Then destiny knocks again when she starts making rag dolls for her daughters.
- After her wedding plans fall trough, Graz (Austria) luxury restaurant manager Ena finds old, unanswered letters from her Croatian grandmother Carmela, whom mother kept her apart from, and uses her three weeks 'honeymoon' to visit her native Istrian port Rovinj. There she finds grandma runs a hopelessly old-fashioned restaurant and accepts to stand in when Carmela breaks a leg, to th crone's daughter Tereza's fury. Meanwhile Ena slowly admits falling in love with handsome fisherman Matej, who helps keeping the near-bankrupt restaurant afloat while aspiring clam cultivation.
- As top lawyer Brigitte finds out that her daughter is about to marry Brigitte's long-gone love interest and rockstar Richie she only has one plan. To sabotage the wedding.
- A divorced man wants to tell his old mother about his divorce and present her his new girlfriend, but then backs down having both his ex-wife and her new family and his new girlfriend playing along.
- In order to find to each other again, Andy and Lena decide to spend a long weekend at a vacation cottage in the mountains of Styria. When Andi finds Lena misssing without a trace the next morning, the situation escalates
- Dr. Paula Dennstein and Dr. Therese Schwarz get a spectacular case that promises a lot of publicity for their young law firm - but it can also do harm. The up-and-coming politician Konrad Wagner would like to take legal action against a speculative newspaper story that pilloried him as a "groper" in the middle of the election campaign. Normally, the idealistic legal duo sees itself as a matter of principle on the side of the women. For Paula, however, the innocence of her longtime boyfriend, whose wife Sylvia stands behind him, is beyond question. She hands over the delicate mandate to her law firm partner Therese, but in her unconventional way helps to find out where the anonymous accusations come from. The two lawyers soon encountered a conflict with one of Wagner's former employees, which was apparently swept under the carpet. In order to break Sandra Dorner's persistent silence, Therese brings out the heavy legal artillery. But she doesn't feel very comfortable with it. Because: What if the allegations against Wagner are correct? Meanwhile, Paula is taking care of Therese's younger sister Marita Schwarz's drug offenses - again "pro bono" of course, because her son Ferdinand is not uninvolved. He took the 15-year-old to a party with joints - and she of all people was caught. Now Paula has to avert a punishment for Marita.
- Set in 1964, a man returns to his hometown looking for his childhood sweetheart but discovers a dark and corrupt world.
- Gasperlmaier gets called in to inspect a crime scene at the foot of the Loser. The circumstances under how the two bodies ended up there are puzzling however.
- Austria-Hungary 1813: Jacob and Veith return home from the Napoleonic war. Their road leads to the remote mountain village Pahlbach. The two newcomers encounter a frosty reception - and as the night has barely passed, they already understand why: In the woods around the village a strange evil is brewing mischief. Unknown creatures of extraordinary violence and cunning, lure the men into the woods and make a silent demand: In order to further propagate, the beasts claim women's bodies. While Jacob refuses immediately and calls out the fight, Veith is still uncertain: The enemy appears to overpowering. Maybe they should try to come to terms. Progressing events put the courage and humanity of the two men to the test and threaten to shatter their friendship. But Jacob Veith and are not the only ones to whom the demand was made. The battle lines are hardening - and in a single bloody night, the future of the whole place is at stake ...
- The 75-year history of the Hahnenkamm Race in Kitzbühel, Austria, one of the most famous and dangerous World Cup races in alpine skiing, is illustrated.
- An inattentive truck driver causes a fatal accident in a road tunnel killing 47 people. When the prosecutor begins to dissect the responsibility of politics, he suddenly encounters an impenetrable wall.