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Once upon a time, during World War II, somewhere in German-occupied Romania, a night of comic misadventures ensues when a boy discovers a dead soldier.

It is the beginning of 1945 during World War II in former Austria. 500 Soviet prisoners of war who have refused to fight on the side of the Germans against their country were moved to the concentration camp in Mauthausen awaiting execution. They decide to break out. One winter night the Soviet prisoners make an escape. During the following shooting a great number of them are killed. Some, however, succeed in hiding in nearby villages. However the Germans convince the inhabitants of the villages to hunt the prisoners "like rabbits".

When Colonel Pretis of the U.N. falls in love with Mathilde, a local girl, during the Balkans war, he lets his passion overcome his sense of duty and responsibility in a country torn by civil war. But his emotions and the beautiful Croatian seaside blur the tragedies of war... until they all catch up with him in the most fatal manner.

Eileen Maloney, a hostess at a strip joint, has woken up to find her two children are missing. Lieutenant Bramm suspects that she killed them herself. He questions her for days about her lifestyle, her children, her ex-husband, men and women, and life in general. He forces her to re-enact her last moments in the children's room hoping to shock her into giving more information. The lieutenant's infatuation is not merely professional, however, and soon they are reversing roles.

A group of young boys, and one girl, find and steal a Jaguar convertible, and decide to drive to the sea. What starts out as a lark deteriorates into a rather grueling journey.

Let's save energy, whatever the cost. The European Commission in Brussels banned incandescent light bulbs and forced all EU citizens to buy compact fluorescent lamps containing mercury. The documentary BULB FICTION shows, why these measures marketed as "win, win, win"-situation by the industry, public policy officials and NGOs turned out to be expensive, a health hazard and questionable for citizens.

Emma falls in love with her new history teacher, Gabriel, who came from the big city to her small village together with his girlfriend. But he rather falls in love with her mother, Paula, who is also a teacher at that school. At first she does not respond to his love but when her husband, who is also a teacher at that school, is not too interested in her anymore she starts the adventure not knowing that Gabriel has already broken the heart of her best friend. The story cumulates when Gabriel and Paula lead the trip of Emma's class to the city of love: Paris.

This is a silent persiflage on the German medical movies of the 1950s. Nurse Marlene and her two colleagues work devotedly at the hospital, especially in the baby's section. However the professor doesn't acknowledge their devotion, makes cynic remarks and ignores their advice. When Marlene fails to get the new young doctor Frommelt's romantic attention and three kidney patients constantly annoy her, she provokes an emergency on one of them and afterwards appears as his lifesaver - this works so well, she just has to try it again...

A Frankfurt tramp with money, ambitions and plans for the future, gets into trouble when he loses his start-up capital. He suspects a Thai woman of theft, but then falls in love with her. When he witnesses a double murder in the vicinity of the train station and he recognizes the killer, begins his escape.

A young man's immigration from Poland to the USA turns into an unlucky odyssey of love and hope.