Spring 1945: the Allies are outside Hamburg. In front of a movie theater, Lena Brücker meets Hermann Bremer, a marine assigned to the 'final battle on the home front'. After a night of love, Lena offers to hide the young man in her apartment during the last days of the war. This marks the beginning of a life-threatening love adventure for both of them, which they must keep secret from the rest of the world. While Lena blossoms over the next few weeks, Hermann suffers from his confinement and the constant fear of being discovered. Nevertheless, Lena will not tell her lover that the war is over so that she can spend as many days as possible with him on their shared 'mattress island' while everything changes outside.

A well documented re-enaction of the July 20th, 1944 assassination attempt against Hitler, aka Operation Valkyrie.

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England, 19th century: Seth Pilaster runs one of the most influential banking houses in the kingdom. When Hugh Pilaster, the capable and talented youngest member of the family, realizes that he has no chance against his less talented cousin on the career ladder due to family circumstances, he tries to drown his frustration in the dive bars of London's working-class districts. There he falls in love with poor Maisie. However, as he sees no prospects for either his professional future or his love for Maisie, he first goes to America, only to return six years later as a successful banker. To make matters worse, Maisie is now married to Hugh's best friend and the balance of power has also changed fundamentally.

A young woman finds herself ensnared by a mad scientist, thrust into the depths of a hidden laboratory where the boundary between science and perversion blurs. Subjected to harrowing experiments and “modifications,” she’s forced into a diabolical ordeal that melds terror with an unnerving twist on bodily manipulation. As the story unfolds, it descends into a whirlpool of blood, sex, and violence, capturing the essence of a nightmare that relentlessly tests the limits of the human spirit and body.

Judith, an investigative journalist, begins to unravel a murder mystery that implicates one of her current lovers. When she checks out a peep-show business on the seedy side of Hamburg as part of the investigation, she runs into a former boyfriend who used to be a psychiatrist but is now an arms dealer. Judith is lured back into his fold, cheating on her current lovers, one of whom is also a shrink. Despite her profession, or perhaps because of it, Judith tends to blend fantasy and reality, so small wonder she is attracted to psychoanalysts. But, two shrinks and a murder prove more than Judith can handle. 　　"Valie Export's third feature is an anti-romance in which the heroine, oscillating between two relationships, 　　gradually discovers that both are impossible, not because the subjective processes of "love" are defective, 　　but because the objective, social matrix in which both her male lovers operate is corrupt, immoral, murderous: 　　in this film, the male world and its power structures cancel the possibility of love beyond the matter of sexuality, 　　that is the objectification of love. Export makes use of techniques drawn from her earlier experimental cinema, 　　video and conceptual photography to expand the possibilities of narrative feature filmmaking and to disintegrate 　　some of its overdetermined conventions." 　　Video control in subway stations and in street traffic, tapes and cameras are very important 　　for the structure of the film. Mediocrity, hypocrisy and violence are the film's main themes. 　　Valie Export deals with them on private, social and media levels, adhering to the techniques 　　of video avant-garde.

Judith, an investigative journalist, begins to unravel a murder mystery that implicates one of her current lovers. When she checks out a peep-show business on the seedy side of Hamburg as part of the investigation, she runs into a former boyfriend who used to be a psychiatrist but is now an arms dealer. Judith is lured back into his fold, cheating on her current lovers, one of whom is also a shrink. Despite her profession, or perhaps because of it, Judith tends to blend fantasy and reality, so small wonder she is attracted to psychoanalysts. But, two shrinks and a murder prove more than Judith can handle. 　　"Valie Export's third feature is an anti-romance in which the heroine, oscillating between two relationships, 　　gradually discovers that both are impossible, not because the subjective processes of "love" are defective, 　　but because the objective, social matrix in which both her male lovers operate is corrupt, immoral, murderous: 　　in this film, the male world and its power structures cancel the possibility of love beyond the matter of sexuality, 　　that is the objectification of love. Export makes use of techniques drawn from her earlier experimental cinema, 　　video and conceptual photography to expand the possibilities of narrative feature filmmaking and to disintegrate 　　some of its overdetermined conventions." 　　Video control in subway stations and in street traffic, tapes and cameras are very important 　　for the structure of the film. Mediocrity, hypocrisy and violence are the film's main themes. 　　Valie Export deals with them on private, social and media levels, adhering to the techniques 　　of video avant-garde.

A young woman finds herself ensnared by a mad scientist, thrust into the depths of a hidden laboratory where the boundary between science and perversion blurs. Subjected to harrowing experiments and “modifications,” she’s forced into a diabolical ordeal that melds terror with an unnerving twist on bodily manipulation. As the story unfolds, it descends into a whirlpool of blood, sex, and violence, capturing the essence of a nightmare that relentlessly tests the limits of the human spirit and body.

"Die Kinder der Flucht" is a three-part German docudrama that portrays the harrowing experiences of children and young people during the final months of World War II and its aftermath in Eastern Europe. The series weaves together dramatized reenactments, archival footage, and poignant interviews with real-life survivors to tell three distinct yet interconnected stories of displacement, survival, and resilience.

A kidnapping case starts a dangerous game of cat and mouse for Berlin detective Martin Brühl in the world of illegal car racing. 19-year-old Tim Jatzkowski doesn't come home. At first this is nothing to worry about. But then his father, luxury car dealer Heiner Jatzkowski, receives a ransom demand. Martin Brühl and his team encounter a shocked mother and a rather shirt-sleeved father who thinks the police should do their job and find Tim. The detective tries to convince Jatzkowski to pay the ransom. Among Jatzkowski's regular customers, whom he supplies with tuned luxury sports cars, there are plenty with contacts to the Berlin clans. He decides against paying the ransom.