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In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.

As France is nearing the end of the first Indochina War, an open-minded teenage boy finds himself torn between a rebellious urge to discover love, and the ever-present, almost dominating affection of his beloved mother.

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.

After a delirious night of drinking, two herdsmen and a boy who are all alone in the alps with their cattle, create a primitive female doll. When their creation comes to life as a beautiful succubus, they have to fear for their lives.

Hans Castorp, fresh from university and about to become a civil engineer, comes to the Sanatorium Berghof in the Swiss Alps to visit his cousin Joachim, an army officer, who is recovering there from tuberculosis. Intending to remain at the Berghof for three weeks, Hans is gradually contaminated by the morbid atmosphere pervading the place. Wishing very much to be considered a patient like the others, he achieves his ends and stays in the sanatorium for ...seven years. During this time, he has enough time to take part in the furious philosophical debates pitting against each other Settembrini, a secular humanist, and Naphta, a totalitarian Jesuit. And to fall in love with the beautiful but enigmatic Clawdia Chauchat. When he is finally discharged in 1914 - along with all the other patients - it is only to plunge into the horrors of World War I.

Based on Ivan Turgeyev's novella, Erste Liebe is about two young lovers in czarist Russia. One is a 21-year-old woman, the other a young man of sixteen. Things take a tragic turn as the girl (Dominique Sanda as Sanaida) falls in love with the boy's father (Maximilian Schell). This film was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film in 1970's Academy Awards.

Four people (three women and a man) set off on a boat trip through the fjords of Yugoslavia. Two of the women are lesbian lovers. Influenced by LSD, the female passengers freely engage in nudity.

The life and music of Johann Sebastian Bach as presented by his wife, Anna.

Collectable stamps trader Kurt Nietnagel's son Pepe recently transferred from a private boarding school to Mommsen gymnasium (classical high school), but is also already its king of pranksters. Latin teacher Dr. Knörz swears to get rid of Pepe, but a staged suicide means his own exit. Dr. Knörz's replacement, Dr. Kersten, proves a teacher to the rascals' liking. However headmaster Dr. Gottlieb Taft dislikes him for dating his daughter Helena. Now the boys actually come to a teacher's rescue, again trough daring pranks.

A group of boys from a boarding school in Bamberg face a multitude of challenges - fights against local school boys, conflicts with their prefect and overcoming their own fears.

A musician beds down a prostitute he knows is diseased in order to gain inspiration, an act he later believes to have been a tacit pact with Satan.

A satire on the romantic adventures of a youth who follows in the footsteps of his Don Juan like father.The student is sent away from Cologne where his family lives to a smaller town for falling in love with an actress,and is later expelled from school and lands up in the army just as they are preparing for a dangerous war.

Lieutenant Beckerath is invited by Captain Kunz von Arnstatt to tea with his family. There, Count Sibling Siegmund and Sieglinde provoke him, but that does not stop him from holding Sieglinde's hand.

Seven completely different women accept an invitation from Doctor Alphonse to his villa located on a mountain top.

In 1944, German paratroopers must defend the Monte Cassino area of Italy from Allied attacks while artifacts from the nearby historical abbey are evacuated to the Vatican by army trucks.

In Vienna, in 1930, a young woman falls in love with a gambler and leaves her fiancé, a common butcher. They become a couple and have a baby, but he gets bored and leaves them. Without means to support herself, her downfall begins.

When a German businessman causes a car accident with deadly consequences, the papers start digging into his past to find scandals. What they find causes him to reevaluate his own past during WW2 when he was in Greece.

Giessen's gymnasium director Gottlieb Taft hopes a ploy will make the school's centennial a prank-free success: he enrolls his nerdy nephew Ewalt Kunst as spy in Pepe's dreaded class. Some of Pepe's tricks are thus undone, others till succeed. The hated history teacher Knörz's new car and romantic war past as well as the upcoming Olympiad in Germany and the director's own soft spot for archeology provide fine occasions. Pepe's sister helps him, so he helps her make their dad Kurt accept her fiancé Heinz Thomas. Finally the ministry is tricked into sending not a bully teacher but a softy, Dr. Glücklich, who truly bonds with the rascals.

Pepe Nietnagel's bunch's pranks make their school a logical choice for being assigned an elite teacher by the Ministry of Education. The choice falls on overqualified Dr. Peter Bach, who seems wasted on, but is happy in, a tiny Alpine village. When it burns down, he accepts moving with his orphaned cousin Jan, who feels his foxy new temp teacher Julia Schumann could provide the female touch their 'bachelor household' lacks. Pepe's class takes to unconventional Peter, but the brass considers him a collaborator. A merciless battle of wit and deceit ensues.

Pepe Nietnagel's father, a stamp dealer, is stealing a valuable collection from a car in Amsterdam.

In a flashback, headmaster Dr. Gottlieb Taft remembers his school days.

At the end of the 19th century a Catholic pastor and religious teacher confiscated the book Lausbubengeschichten from Ludwig Thoma in his class from one of his students.

In a Bavarian village during the imperial era at the turn of the century the story follows the erotic entanglements among mountain farmers and local politicians.

Munich in the 1920's. An art-gallery manager puts on a show featuring the scandalous works of a woman artist who committed suicide. He is unjustly accused of having committed adultery with her, and the authorities decide to intervene.

When Clementine Kemper, the mother of three children, is once again prevented from playing the piano and singing by her husband Harry, she packs her things and leaves.