Nine-year-old streetwalker Emily lives with her widowed mother in 19th century New York. Her life changes abruptly when she learns that she has been appointed sole heiress by an aging, wealthy Austrian countess. It is not only an heiress who causes turbulence, but also the countess's attempt to raise Emily as a member of the aristocracy.

Vera Kemp, heiress of an industrial enterprise, lives in an apparently perfect world. While she doesn't care for big business, her husband Manfred runs the company. However, she learns about his affair with a younger woman and tries to save her marriage. During a vacation in Italy, Manfred and their son Max die in a road accident. Vera nearly despairs of her grief and, even worse, recognizes that her whole life has been a lie. Andreas Wolgast, a former employee, is the only one who supports her fight for the company and against her caballing family...

Living and loving in a small village in the south of Germany. People and their conflicts with morality, manners, and society.

11-year-old Nina and her mother Birgit move to the countryside. But while Birgit seems to cope very well with the upheaval, the shy young girl only feels accepted when she joins a girl guide group. Nina's new teacher for Religious Education, the organizer of the group, and the parson belong to the fanatically pious "Legion Of The Holy Angels", a sect preparing its members for the final battle between demons and angels. As Birgi's behaviour doesn't conform to her daughter's ideas, Nina sacrifices a black kitten which allegedly has a bad influence on Birgit. But this only makes things worse, for Birgit eventually forbids her daughter to go to the scouts' sessions and thereby loses her trust. Nina's friend Miriam is having a hard time being accepted by the scouts and leaves them when she isn't allowed to participate in an important ceremony. Nina is faced with a difficult decision...

She certainly has enough trouble on her hands: potter Teresa Blümel's business is doing poorly and the father of her children Max and Lisa has run away. Architect Robert Kant is in a hurry to get to the office in his hire car when he crashes into Teresa's van full of ceramics and plunges into the lake. Teresa fishes him ashore, but Robert has lost his memory and all his papers. So Teresa gives him shelter. While the village police mistake him for the Chinese man Cheng, the little ones make friends with Robert. Teresa also likes his sense of humor. But Robert can't suppress his old life forever...

Two inseparable friends with very different characters come to Munich to study and soon desire the same woman. The more reliable and down-to-earth one marries her and starts a family with her, but the more "exciting" and charming one also arouses her feelings, so that over the years they all suffer from their desires and "deprivations".

It's his last chance to get back on his feet. And so Philipp Keyser knows no scruples as he approaches the young painter Alma, to find a lost painting, which is in the possession of a mysterious old man. Too late, Philip is clear that he expires more and more the young woman. In the main roles of Dominik Graf's film "In the evening of all days" Friedrich Mücke and the great theater actor and narrator Ernst Jacobi are to be experienced.

Mid-19th-century, Baltic Sea port city of Lubeck, Germany. Follows the fourth generation of the Buddenbrook mercantile family as Tony and Thomas reach the age of marriage. Fatefully impeded every step of the way, the Buddenbrooks struggle as economic hardship and personal defeats weigh down family relations.