The film is based on a true story, concerning a series of robberies on the highways of Germany. At the time of the actual events, there was a controversy over whether or not highway patrolmen should be given permission to use firearms against perpetrators.

1966 film by August Everding

Mr. Rossi and Mr. Capelli, co-owners of a successful traveling circus, have a rivalry over the affections of the lovely Dolores. That's all settled after Rossi is mauled to death by a lion. Years later a series of accidents, attacks and mysterious deaths plague the circus.

Winter 1942: Like thousands of other German soldiers, Asch and Vierbein have ended up at the Eastern front. Although Vierbein finds a new friend in Kowalski, the squadron commander captain Witterer, a true army veteran, gives them a really hard time. Witterer’s pointless orders reflect the bad habits of many former superiors. And again, Vierbein has to bear the brunt.

1954 film by Paul May

Ein deutsches TV-Drama

Der Film beruht auf dem gleichnamigen Roman von John Knittel aus dem Jahre 1934. Die Familientragödie spielt in den Bündner Alpen in der Via Mala in der Schweiz Ende der 1920er Jahre. Die Familie leidet unter dem tyrannischen und trinksüchtigen Vater Jonas Lauretz, der die Kinder schlägt, seine Frau misshandelt und sich an der ältesten Tochter vergreift. Seinen Sohn Niklaus hat er zum Krüppel geschlagen. Die Kinder beschließen, sich am Vater zu rächen. Gedreht wurde im Sommer und Herbst 1984 im Gasterntal im Berner Oberland. Das Wohnhaus und die Mühle wurden im unteren Teil des Tales in unmittelbarer Nähe zum Balmhornbach-Wasserfall aufgebaut, die Szenen in der „Via Mala“ wurden bei der Brücke in der engen Klus zwischen Tal und der Gemeinde Kandersteg gedreht.

Set during the fading glory of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the film tells of the rise and fall of Alfred Redl, an ambitious young officer who proceeds up the ladder to become head of the Secret Police only to become ensnared in political deception.

One night when seeking his estranged wife, Hoffmann goes to the youth center where she works. The police are there rounding up radicals who frequent the center - Hoffmann runs into the building and ends up being shot in the head. He awakens with brain trauma, partially paralyzed and unable to speak. The police accuse him of stabbing an officer; the radicals herald him as an innocent victim of police brutality. During his slow recovery at the hospital, Hoffmann must piece together his life and struggle to remember the events of that night.

The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"