Wochenendgeschichten

Das Schwein - Eine deutsche Karriere

March 1995 •German

Schöne Witwen küssen besser

December 2004 •German

Con artist Corinna seizes the opportunity and slips into the role of a baron's widow. She manages to gain access to the chambers of a billionaire in Nice. Once on the Cote D'Azur, she promptly encounters a rival. The swindlers vie for the billionaire, or whoever they think he is. Then the real widow turns up.

Helen, Fred und Ted

September 2006 •German

Psychotherapist Fred Czerny is finding it difficult to retire. So he shares his busy practice in Munich with Ted Fröhlich, an advocate of modern, holistic therapy methods. They are soon joined by Helen Cordes, who no longer wants to wear herself out in a psychiatric clinic. The three shrinks soon find themselves under psychological stress with patients and their own private lives.

Mein Onkel Theodor oder Wie man viel Geld im Schlaf verdient

December 1975 •German

The somewhat indolent father Traugott Wurster looks after his six sons while his wife works in a butcher's shop. One day, when Traugott falls into a mysterious prolonged sleep, mother Wurster is forced to give the children to relatives. Markus is sent to the stuffy Uncle Theodor, who turns into a childhood friend under his influence. Mother Wurster also "rents" the sleeping Traugott to a furniture store, which uses him to advertise mattresses in the shop window.

Agaton Sax and the Bykoebing Village Festival

November 1976 •Swedish

Two villains escape from jail in London. They are planning an attack on Agaton Sax. Inspector Lispington and Sax are chasing the two bad guys, but the hunt is hampered by the villains have lookalikes.

Claras Schatz

October 2003 •German

Baron Münchhausen

December 2012 •German

In a small inn, the impoverished Baron von Münchhausen tries to keep his head above water with the help of his stories.

The House of Ulloa

December 1985 •Spanish

Set in a crumbling Spanish mansion, this gloriously comic and gothic story follows the fortunes of an innocent young priest as he enters a world of moral decadence, sexual intrigue and corruption of an aristocratic family in nineteenth-century Galicia.

Boatman Gull

November 2014 •Russian

CoinCoin and the Extra-Humans

October 2018 •French

A sequel to “Li’l Quinquin”. When a strange magma is found near Coincoin’s home town, the inhabitants suddenly start to behave strangely. Goofy detective Captain Van Der Weyden and his loyal assistant Carpentier set about investigating these alien attacks, discovering that an extra-terrestrial invasion has begun.

The Boy with Two Heads

January 1974 •English

Chris & Jill discover a South American shrunken head with magical powers.

Bruh.mp4

December 2020 •English

A death in his group of friends leads a young man to question his sanity.

Cinemagic

March 2017 •Russian

Aspiring directors Lev Zaretski (a sadist) and Ruslan Romanov (an anime MC) will show you how to properly write a screenplay; cast actors; do a film shoot; and answer questions from annoying film festival attendees.

The '60s

February 1999 •English

The Herlihys are a working class family from Chicago whose three children take wildly divergent paths: Brian joins the Marines right out of High School and goes to Vietnam, Michael becomes involved in the civil rights movement and after campaigning for Bobby Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy becomes involved in radical politics, and Katie gets pregnant, moves to San Francisco and joins a hippie commune. Meanwhile, the Taylors are an African-American family living in the deep South. When Willie Taylor, a minister and civil rights organizer, is shot to death, his son Emmet moves to the city and eventually joins the Black Panthers, serving as a bodyguard for Fred Hampton.

The Poseidon Adventure

November 2005 •English

A cruise ship succumbs to a terrorist act and capsizes on New Year's eve. A rag-tag group of survivors, spearheaded by a priest and a homeland security agent, must journey through the upside down vessel and attempt an escape.

The School of Power

January 2009 •French

A retelling in two parts, from 1977 to 1986, of the education and the rise to power of a group of young graduates of the prestigious ENA school.

The Bastard

May 1978 •English

Phillipe Charboneau is the illegitimate son of an English duke. When he travels from France to England to claim his inheritance, he incurs the wrath of his father's family and is forced to flee to America, where he becomes involved in the events leading to the American Revolution. (Episodes 1 and 2 of the Kent Chronicles miniseries.)

Bevisbördan

January 1978 •Swedish

The taxi driver Martin Bendix is questioned when the police is investigating the murder of 17-year-old Anni Larsson.

The Lenz Papers

October 1986 •German

Four-part german limited serial about the baden revolution in 1848 and 1849.

Der Verleger

October 2001 •German

"The Publisher" is about the success story of a visionary man who begins after 1945 with a rickety car and a stack of novels. With his charismatic personality, he convinced the Allies to give him a newspaper license. A radio magazine soon follows, which quickly reaches millions of copies. His greatest publishing invention is a daily newspaper with which he wants to give the common man on the street a voice. But the publisher is not only successful in business, he also knows how to please women.