Secret Love: The Schoolboy and the Mailwoman (aka Heimliche Liebe – Der Schüler und die Postbotin)
2005A 17 year old boy falls in love with a 37 year old woman. As if this wouldn’t be enough they are of different social classes and she is married.
Archives: Movies
Affäre zu dritt (aka Threesome Affair)
2003A married couple… both are police officers and they’re not very happy with their current setup. The wife meets a mysterious woman at work and she’s very attracted to her. Katrin, a police doctor, and Max a criminal inspector seem to lead a happy marriage and both work for the Munich Criminal Police. Of course, in the course of the marriage, a certain amount of routine creeps in, both privately and professionally. In the medical […]
From the Land of the Moon (aka Mal de pierres)
2016An adaptation of Milena Agus’ eponymous novel set after WWII, “Mal de Pierres” (“Mal di Pietre”) spans 20 years, following the destiny of a passionate, free-spirited woman who is in a loveless marriage and falls for another man.
Neu in unserer Familie (2016) aka New In Our Family
2016A husband and a wife agree to have their respective lovers move in with them and their kids.
Effi Briest
2009Following her parents’ wishes, spirited seventeen-year-old Effi Briest marries Baron von Innstetten – a former admirer of her mother – who is twenty years Effi’s senior. This marriage of prudence heralds the beginning of a humdrum life, far from home, for Effi. Innstetten devotes himself entirely to his political career, and the sleepy small town of Kessin has very little to offer in terms of variety. But then, one day, Innstetten’s old regimental comrade, Major […]
Short Term Memory Loss (aka Tod auf Raten)
2016A wife and her attorney bang inside the car and they are caught by her husband.
Happy, Happy (aka Sykt lykkelig)
2010Family is the most important thing in the world to Kaja. She is an eternal optimist in spite of living with a man who would rather go hunting with the boys, and who refuses to have sex with her because she “isn’t particularly attractive” anymore. Whatever. That’s life. But when “the perfect couple” moves in next door, Kaja struggles to keep her emotions in check. Not only do these successful, beautiful, exciting people sing in […]
The Tide is On Time (aka Die Flut ist pünktlich)
2014A corpse is washed on the North Sea. The dead man is Alexander (August Zirner), the husband of the beautiful, mysterious Bettina (Ina Weisse). Although the marriage was unhappy and her relationship had long been on ice, she had always kept him during his severe kidney disease. The couple had a summer house on the island, in which she retired for several months. In the end, she also lived with her lover Tom (Jürgen Vogel). […]
Damage
1992A member of Parliament falls passionately in love with his son’s fiancée. They pursue their affair with obsessive abandon despite the dangers of discovery and what it would do to his complacent life and his son. Completely obsessed, he wants to give up his current lifestyle to be with her. She has no intention of allowing him to do this, preferring to have her marriage to the son as a cover. They are eventually discovered […]
The Decameron
1971An adaptation of nine stories from Bocaccio’s “Decameron”: A young Sicilian is swindled twice, but ends up rich; a man poses as a deaf-mute in a convent of curious nuns; a woman must hide her lover when her husband comes home early; a scoundrel fools a priest on his deathbed; three brothers take revenge on their sister’s lover; a young girl sleeps on the roof to meet her boyfriend at night; a group of painters […]