Bagdad Café er historien om et klassisk kultursammenstød mellem en række ærke-amerikanere og en midaldrende tysk kvinde, som de pludselig står ansigt til ansigt med. Det, der gør Bagdad Café til noget særligt, er filmens held til at beskrive den lille ørkenflække og dens skæve eksistenser. Ud over Marianne Sägebrecht i hovedrollen, kan man også nyde den mere end 70-årige Jack Palance, som mange måske vil genkende fra utallige westerns.
A plump Munich mortuary worker tracks down and seduces a married subway conductor.
A young orphaned woman named Kotzebue is trying to find out who her parents are in the icy landscapes of Alaska. Kotzebue is helped by an East German librarian, whose husband was killed while fleeing from the GDR. Although both women could not be more different from each other, a fragile relationship forms.
Garden parties, music and dancing characterize the lives of a family of German aristocrats in the days leading to World War I.
In 1914, with men gone to war, Marcel Proust hired Céleste Albaret as his attendant. More than eight years later, she was at his side when he died. During this entire time, she only entered his room when he rang for her, sleeping from 9 AM to 3 PM to wait during the night while he wrote. Marcel uses her as more than a servant: she is his muse, telling stories of her childhood to stir his remembrance of things past; she's in cahoots with him as he manipulates those he wants to draw on for his writing; she listens appalled to his descriptions of the underside of Paris. Hers is a life of love and sweet devotion as he races time to finish his work before death.
Materialismen, som den kommer til udtryk, når en bayersk husmor, bosat i Stuttgart, Arkansas, anvender de bayerske dyder og måder på overflods- og forbrugersamfundet USA.
At Gestapo head quarters a young woman establishes a relationship with another inmate. This young woman is Sophie Scholl who tells the story of her life and of her resistance movement′s courageous fight against Hitler′s Nazi regime.
About the life of writer Robert Walser.
Adlon recounts the making of the sculpture, "Kugelkaryatide" the sphere that stood in the center of Tobin Plaza between the two towers of the World Trade Center. The film follows the sculpture from its creation as the largest bronze sculpture of recent times to the aftermath, where it now stands, heavily scarred, in Battery Park.