Julian is a 12-year-old boy whose family is just scraping by in the Ruhr industrial region of Germany in the early 1960s . When his mother and younger sister go away for a while, he is left mostly alone in the apartment while his father works in the coal mine. He has to confront the confusing world of adults and older boys and the older girl next door on his own. Finally events build up and threaten to tear the family apart.
The world's most loved fairy tale is back in a whole new fantastic imagining in Pinocchio. When a piece of pine-wood falls into the hands of the poor old toy maker, Geppetto, he carves it into a puppet which he names Pinocchio. To Geppetto's delight, Pinocchio comes to life - and like most little boys, he's full of reckless whims and wild ideas! His crazy escapades lead him into a series of madcap adventures from joining the circus to visiting the inside of whale! Along his journey, and throughout all the fun, Pinocchio learns to be considerate and courageous and learns what it takes to become a real boy.
The accident during an air show in Ramstein in the summer of 1988 is one of the greatest tragedies in German post-war history. Against the backdrop of the momentous collision of two aerobatic planes on "Open Day" at the American air base, this film tells the story of four families in fictionalized form - they are visitors to the air show who lost their loved ones in the horrific inferno, and an emergency doctor who cannot forget the sight of the dead and injured. They all suffer from post-traumatic stress syndrome. Years after the disaster, they finally have the opportunity to share their experiences and come to terms with the trauma in a specially founded aftercare group. Meanwhile, a duo of investigators commissioned by the German Federal Ministry investigates the background to the air accident and uncovers massive failures in safety precautions and rescue measures. Beyond political responsibility on both the German and American sides, both come up against a wall of silence.
Due to his developmental disorder, the autistic inspector Leander Lost has a photographic memory and a feeling for whether his counterpart is lying. For this, he has trouble understanding irony and understanding social and emotional connections. As part of a European exchange program, Lost is transferred to the small fishing town of Fuseta, where he is supposed to help solve the murder of a private detective.
16-year-old Sophie Reiner is living a happy life, but then her friend Karen is murdered after a visit to a disco. Sophie's perfect world is shattered. She falls in love with the charming detective Mike Kleist and begins a secret affair with him. When another of Sophie's classmates is murdered, the situation comes to a head. Finally, Sophie's father becomes the target of the investigation. But the murderer has already chosen his next victims: It's Sophie and her mother...
Flora loves her son more than anything. But Luke, a bright teen with mild form of ADHD, repeatedly poses problems for his mother by causing trouble at school.
Colonel Mortimer's son Gregory, his pride and joy, returns to the ancestral Cornish estate by the sea for the summer after loosing that year's only Horse Guards officer promotion to his neighbor-buddy Eric. By ancestral tradition, that means another delay too for his long-planned marriage with neighbor's daughter Rebecca, who already doubts if the are actually in love. Mortimer's new housekeeper Elisabeth proves irresistible for father (platonically) and son, but is held back by a family secret concerning her late mother Catherine. Eric also has a confession to make.
The ambitious business consultant and single father Edgar Strack is desperately trying to reconcile family and work needs. Alone: He does not succeed. His three adolescent children are frustrated, his new girlfriend Barbara complains, in the company he is betrayed by a competitor. In his distress, Edgar hired the spirited interpreter Ana, whom he had just fired as a colleague, as a new nanny. And lo and behold: Suddenly everything runs like clockwork again.
Holly Shaw wants to prove her writing talent in a reading of her romance novel. But she achieves the exact opposite with the cynical reporter Aaron Kingsley. On the way to her car, Holly is attacked. Her papers, her books, her coat and her shoes are found by the police on the riverbank.
At the beginning of 2000, the young commissioner Yvonne Weber moved from Frankfurt am Main to Eisenach. Together with the local colleague Frank Wolf, she is to review an unresolved murder case from the GDR era. The investigation team encounters inconsistencies in the file and it becomes clear that there is no interest in truth-clarifying the Eisenach department and the prosecutor's office in Gotha.
Medical student Hanna works in the pathology department during her studies. On her very first day at work, she is confronted with the body of her ex-boyfriend Michael, who allegedly died as the result of an accident. However, when she discovers discrepancies in the patient file and a fresh surgical scar on the dead man, she begins to investigate - and discovers something monstrous...
They failed as a couple, but as parents Julia and Tom share custody of their daughter Anni after their divorce. Driven by her hurt feelings, Julia begins to systematically alienate the girl from her father.
Philipp Gabert and his best friend, Dr. Nicolas Amberg, are hiking in the mountains. Suddenly, Philipp suffers a strange attack of weakness and loses consciousness. Nicolas is only just able to prevent his fall. But the friendship between the two men is burdened by a problem: Nicolas is secretly in love with Philipp's wife Julia - and feels like a traitor. When the men set off on another mountain tour, only one of them returns. Was it an accident or murder?
Anne Harding looks after her small fruit and vegetable farm, her teenage daughter Jamie and her mother Molly, who suffers from arthritis. Then one day John Smith, her Aunt Sally's butler, turns up on her doorstep. The widow wants to lend John to her sister Molly for six weeks. With his discreet manner, John gets to the bottom of the family's little secrets and tries to help them inconspicuously.
Boat builder Helen Brody and insurance agent Liam Shaw couldn't be more different - at least at first glance. Nevertheless, fate brings them together. When Helen's husband Jonah is left at sea after a storm, Liam is supposed to pay out her life insurance a year later. But first Jonah has to be officially declared dead. However, there are growing doubts as to whether he is really dead. In order to find out the truth about Jonah's disappearance, Helen and Liam have to team up and follow Jonah's trail. In doing so, they not only get closer to the truth. They discover more and more things in common and fall in love. But just at the moment when Helen could finally let go of Jonah, he turns up again. Helen is faced with a dilemma that takes her to her emotional limits.
Victoria Bradshaw was still very young when she fell in love with the playwright Oliver Dobbs. He left her one day for another woman and disappeared from her life. But the memory of him always stayed alive. Many years later, Oliver suddenly appears again, together with his little son ...
