This critically-acclaimed TV movie focuses on a Bavarian countrywoman and her desire to die with dignity. Maria Stadler knows that she will die soon from cancer, but the stubborn old lady doesn't want to spend her last days in a hospital. Her doctor cannot keep her from returning home, so he sends his best nurse, Andrea. Maria gets angry when Andrea tries to rule her life, but the conflict between her sons also weighs heavily upon her mind.

At 41, Erwin Kobarek still lives with his mother, with whom he runs a petrol station in the countryside. A relationship has not yet materialized for Erwin. When his mother senses that her son needs a wife, she sends Erwin to a marriage agency in Romania. And indeed, Erwin returns with a young Romanian woman, Irina Bobescu. She sets something irreversible in motion in him: the detachment from his mother and the moulting from boy to belated man.

1992 film by Uwe Schrader

Nerdy Jewish Nelly Sue Edelmeister, daughter of a New York mother and Berlin musician in Berlin gets straight A's, except for gym. When she hears her dream prince, actual royal Edouard, a fellow astronomy buff who studies in Luxemburg, patronizes the basketball tournament hosted there by a European school she wants to join her school's girls team.

A West German man, mistaken by the police for a left wing terrorist, hides in Vienna with a prostitute and her incestuous teen daughter. They become both a threesome and a happy surrogate family, but nothing lasts forever.

German television series

Bavaria, Germany, 1950s. The sudden return of the young Kathrin to the small village where she was born stirs up the feelings of guilt and personal ghosts of its inhabitants, haunted by dark memories related to a multiple murder that happened two years earlier at the Tannöd farm, a hideous crime that remains unsolved.

Nach jahrelanger Funkstille kreuzen sich die Wege der einst engen Freundinnen Lore Winter und Anneliese Müller unter abstrusen Umständen: Lores Ehemann hat sie gegen ein jüngeres Exemplar eingetauscht, und Anneliese ist frisch gebackene Witwe. Und so beschließen sie, in ihren alten Jahren eine Frauen-WG zu gründen und endlich all die Erfahrungen zu sammeln, die ihnen ihre brave Jugend und ihre jahrelangen Ehen verwehrt hatten.

deutscher Spielfilm

After arriving in 1940 New York, Freddy struggles to find work. His world of refugee acquaintances includes the depressed daughter of a poet/delicatessen owner, an aging surgeon who cannot find work, and a lovable charlatan photographer.

电视电影系列片《曼氏家族》跨越了20世纪最混乱的几十年，从1918年到60年代，本剧被誉为“德国电视电影艺术精品”和“20世纪伟大的历史风景画”。
托马斯·曼被誉为他那个时代杰出的作家。最有名的作品有《布登勃洛克一家》、《魔山》和《魂断威尼斯》，1929年他获得了诺贝尔文学奖。但是托马斯不是家族里唯一有成就的，他的哥哥亨利希·曼也是一位优秀的作家，他的大儿子克劳斯·曼和大女儿艾瑞卡·曼双双继承了父辈的衣钵，展现了写作和戏剧才华。
曼家族曾经烦恼缠身，在那个时代运用他们的天赋和激情演出戏剧和悲剧。他们欣赏魏玛共和国时期吉普赛人的放荡不羁，又要逃避纳粹的追捕，在二战时期被迫离开欧洲，移民美国，在那里重获自由和新生。