Klaus Eckel: Zuerst die gute Nachricht (2018)

Encyclopaedia Niavaranica

Michael Niavarani is constantly late, he says, and constantly pressed for time. Someone else should organize his books—like Thomas Mraz, who appears with him on stage in "Encyclopaedia Niavaranica." They organize Niavarani alphabetically.

Nadja Maleh - "Best-of Kabarett"

Best-of Program

The Actor

In a frantic race against time, struggling actress Anne must juggle chaos- and a high-maintenance dog named Macy- as a series of mishaps threaten her chance at a career-changing audition.

Killing Mary Sue

A corrupt senator arranges for the murder of his biggest liability, his erratic burnout stepdaughter, only for her to unwittingly discover her natural talent as an untouchable killer.

Lovebug

Set in 1988 Los Angeles, Douglass, a young man, winds up convinced by his new and older girlfriend, Gracie, to become a pornstar under her management.

Anunnakiler

Kasım, an elderly man with a missing ear, is accused of killing his son-in-law. The police team is in for a long and rather interesting interrogation. For Kasım claims that his son-in-law was taken away by someone from the planet Anunnaki. As these claims are supported by certain developments, the interrogation becomes increasingly complex. Has Kasım truly eliminated his son-in-law, whom he disliked, or has everything unfolded as he described?

Wing It!

Blender Studio’s 15th Open Movie: An uptight engineer gets an unwelcome visit from a enthusiastic wannabe-pilot, causing both of them to be launched into the air inside an out-of-control space shuttle.

Tumse Na Ho Payega

When the world starts regarding Gaurav as a loser, he sets off on a journey to prove everyone (and their mothers) wrong.

Ambili

Revolves around the life of Ambili, a simple, innocent person, and how his adorable persona wins over the love of the people around him.

Oh Belinda

A young actor's perfect life takes a madcap turn when she agrees to star in a commercial — and suddenly gets transported to her character's world.

Santaron Bantaron

What was the impact of the emergence of oil on Kuwait in particular and on the Gulf society in general? How did people behave? What were their customs and traditions?! What was the impact of oil on them, bringing about many changes? The play deals with one of the Kuwaiti villages overlooking the sea, in the late forties, when World War II was ending, and the State of Kuwait, and the Gulf states in general, were preparing to move from the sea - to depend on their livelihood - to the land and desert, where oil began to flow, and with it flowed new customs, different behavior, and ideas that Kuwaiti society was not familiar with.

Dinoshark

A baby dinoshark evolves into a ferocious predatory adult, terrorising tourists and locals offshore from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.

The Forbidden Legend: Sex & Chopsticks

Simon is a scion of a wealthy family who struggles to have a stable relationship because of his womanizing ways. When he finds a wife, Moon, he spots another woman and conspires to marry her.

Slayers: The Motion Picture

Plagued by a recurring dream,​ master thief and sorceress Lina Inverse discovers ancient evil and lovers cruelly parted.​ Dragged into a vortex of time,​ she must fight to restore history to its proper course.​ But what will she do when the fearsome power of the Dragon Slave spell fails her as she tries to change the past and save the future!

The Duel

The sword saint requests a duel with god of sword at the apex of the forbidden city to determine the worlds best. As the date of the duel nears troubles befall the imperial town until everything is revealed at the climactic fight.

Diamonds

Mystery about an ex-prizefighter who embarks on a journey to find 13 missing diamonds

Splendor

Veronica is a white-bread beauty searching for a good man in Los Angeles. While slam dancing at a Halloween rave, she meets Abel, a sensitive poet. Then she meets Zed, a supersexy tattooed drummer with incredible biceps. Who will she choose? Does she go for true love or cheap sex? She can't decide so she chooses both. But after managing to nurture a picture-perfect threesome, along comes Ernest, a rich movie director with deep baby blues that sweep Veronica off her feet. What's a girl to do now?

Taxi zum Klo

Frank, a gay school teacher, has a very active sex life and an interest in making films. One evening, he meets Bernd and they become lovers. But while Bernd is attentive and caring, Frank gets bored and continues his polymorphously perverse ways.

Hold Anything

Bosko is a construction worker who impresses Honey by making music from everything in sight, including a decapitated mouse, a typewriter and a goat filled with hot air.

Little Big Soldier

The story of a farmer forced into conscription, who has been looking to get out of the army ever since. His great chance arrives when he stumbles upon a wounded general from an enemy state, and he kidnaps him, intending to claim credit for the capture, which includes five acres of land, and most importantly, honorable discharge from the army.

Close The Last Door

After being best man at his best friend's (Saitou Toshihisa) wedding, Nagai Atsushi realizes that he might have fallen for him. Nagai, drowning in his sorrows and hatred for the new bride then meets Honda Kenzou, another guest at the wedding. Honda takes care of Nagai when he was dead drunk and now Nagai can't stop thinking of both Honda and Saitou.

The Running Actress

A collection of three short films directed by Moon So-ri. During recent years, Moon tried writing and directing. She previously wrote and directed three short films “The Actress” (2014), “The Running Actress” (2015), and “The Best Director” (2015), and these three short films are assembled here together in her first feature film “The Running Actress”.

After the Wedding

Newlywed Diego Diaz heads down to Miami Beach for a few weeks to finish his latest novel, but when he becomes emotionally intimate with a sexy bartender, he and his wife are left to examine the true state of their young marriage.

Adventures in Public School

A socially-awkward, home-schooled kid forces his way into public school against his suffocating, but loving, mother's wishes.

Pappa pia

Papi, a penniless retiree living in a rundown riverside boathouse, owes everyone and has nothing, until Wizy, a flashy super-club owner, threatens to evict him to build yet another party palace. With no other options, Papi enlists his equally hapless but charming grandson Tomi, who rallies his friends for a classic underdog showdown: can crafty David really defeat Goliath?

Perfect Imperfection

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Koritsia gia tsibima

The students of the 3rd grade of a Lyceum, for a week now, have a vacancy in Greek because their philologist is ill. During these hours they spend the pool with Sotiris, who is very hot with Teresa. One day at the pool, Teresa meets Nikos and their acquaintance evolves into a strong feeling ...

Christmas on Candy Cane Lane

Ivy Donaldson struggles with her mom's shadow, Muriel, the Christmas darling of Icicle Falls. She is now separated from her husband Rob and tries her best with her daughter, but after a series of strange but comical events everybody gets together in unexpected but festive ways.

Heikos Welt

A son tries to save his mother's eyesight by drinking beer and playing darts.

Trippin’ with the Kandasamys

To rekindle their marriages, best friends-turned-in-laws Shanthi and Jennifer plan a couples' getaway. But it comes with all kinds of surprises.

Crise de nerfs

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Jhalle

The family wants Jhalle to find a husband. They think this will be difficult because she's so crazy, but really the crazy ones are them.

En famille : Vacances en Bretagne

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Special Actors

Kazuto has a lifelong dream of becoming an actor, but has been suffering from a special medical condition where he faints and collapses when he gets nervous. One day, he encounters his brother, Hiroki, who who he hasn’t seen for years. He invites Kazuto to a talent agency called 'Special Actors'.

Vic the Viking: The Magic Sword

Vic dreams of going to sea as a member of the crew captained by Halvar, his father, who unfortunately thinks that the child is too weak to embark with him and his brave warriors in search of dangerous adventures; but fate will offer Vic the opportunity to prove to Halvar that he is a true Viking.

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

Creatively unfulfilled and facing financial ruin, Nick Cage must accept a $1 million offer to attend the birthday of a dangerous superfan. Things take a wildly unexpected turn when Cage is recruited by a CIA operative and forced to live up to his own legend, channeling his most iconic and beloved on-screen characters in order to save himself and his loved ones.

Follow the Star

On that side of the track is Ah Sing (Roy Chiao), uncouth, unkempt, a garage repairman, a bravado with plenty of tricks up his overall sleeve. And on the other side of the track is rich, young recording artist Gayle (Rowena Cortes), idol of the young with her songs and dances, but an orphan. Harry is her manager. They should not meet, least to say forming some kind of partnership, but they do. Gayle goes to Ah Sing's garage for repairs. When Harry and she drive off, the car's undercarriage Ah Sing and drags him along. Fate steps in the form of five toughles who stop the car and kidnap Gayle to a farmhouse. It so happens that Gayle's father and the five were robbers but the father took off with all the money while the five were caught. They want the money back now they have served the time...

Sister Game

Sister Game is a brother-sister romantic comedy that follows the daily life of Gorō Hōzuki, a high school boy with an older sister named Haru who is unrelated by blood. Gorō is mortified when the self-centered and lustful Haru plays pranks on him.

From Riches to Rags

Ricky and Fatso are friends in need. They are in dire need of money since they are only paid slave wages at the bottling factory. However, they become millionaires overnight after buying a winning lottery ticket. During one of their swingin' nights on the town, Ricky is suddenly attacked by an upset stomach; and in no time, a quack doctor diagnoses the seizure as terminal cancer. Ricky seriously considers suicide. But he is appalled by the drawbacks inherent in the available methods of doing himself in--primarily the pain! It is on a rooftop from which he is supposed to make a plunge that he saves a poor man from suicide by giving the latter all the money he has. In gratitude, the newly rich man promises to hire a killer to finish off his suffering benefactor...

Plain Jane to the Rescue

Jane, with plain looks but a heart of gold, is always in between jobs. Once she gets a job, her knack for creating awkward situations immediately loses it for her. Ricky is her suitor, but he gets nowhere as the girl has no time for love. So Ricky goes along with her in job hunting. Somehow, Jane lands on a job as governess. Not to a child, but to an uncouth very old, very rich man who still wants to lead the life of his poor, uncivilized youth. His son is now running the old man's millions. He wants to bring up the father the civilized way. And he wants to take over the whole city through take-over deals. He is ruthless and has thrown thousands into the streets.

Bang Bang!

A young bank receptionist gets mixed up with Rajveer Nanda, a man who has a mysterious background.

The Legend of Barney Thomson

Barney Thomson, awkward, diffident, Glasgow barber, lives a life of desperate mediocrity and his uninteresting life is about to go from 0 to 60 in five seconds, as he enters the grotesque and comically absurd world of the serial killer.

Gigolo and Whore

The popular Pygmalion formula, popularized in the Hollywood musical "My Fair Lady," gets a decidedly Hong Kong cinema twist in this bawdy comedy. Sam, a successful gigolo whose skill with the ladies is only exceeded by his impeccable taste, teaches Chinese mainlander Chung Siu-Hung how to be a call girl.

Wise Girls

Early MGM talkie about a retired businessman, his headstrong daughter, and the comical complications that result when she marries in haste.

The Pussycat Syndrome

Donna and Maria are two fashion models enjoying sun, fun, each other, and anything on two legs that will hold still long enough them to hump it while on vacation in Greece. They hook up with a playboy voyeur named Mr. Nico and his kinky artist wife among another things.

Heartbreak Hotel

Elisabeth and Gudrun are two Swedish divorcées, both over 40, who meet when Elisabeth parks her car on a loading zone and is ticketed by Gudrun. Despite this shaky start, a friendship grows between the two. Elizabeth, a gynecologist, is sexy and confident. She leads the shy Gudrun through the dangerous waters of single life. But as they cavort through the dance floors and bars of Stockholm's nightlife they are led to a deeper examination of the relationships with men.

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!

After a wave of reports of mysterious attacks involving people and pets being eaten by the traditionally docile fruit, a special government task force is set up to investigate the violent fruit and put a stop to their murderous spree.

Memoirs of an Invisible Man

After a freak accident, an invisible yuppie runs for his life from a treacherous CIA official while trying to cope with his new life.

Irma la Douce

When a naive policeman falls in love with a prostitute, he doesn’t want her seeing other men and creates an alter ego who’s to be her only customer.

Evan Almighty

God contacts Junior Congressman Evan Baxter and tells him to build an ark in preparation for a great flood.

Postal

The story begins with a regular Joe who tries desperately to seek employment, but embarks on a violent rampage when he teams up with cult leader Uncle Dave. Their first act is to heist an amusement park, only to learn that the Taliban are planning the same heist as well. Chaos ensues, and now the Postal Dude must not only take on terrorists but also political figures.

Pleasantville

Geeky teenager David and his popular twin sister, Jennifer, get sucked into the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV sitcom called "Pleasantville," and find a world where everything is peachy keen all the time. But when Jennifer's modern attitude disrupts Pleasantville's peaceful but boring routine, she literally brings color into its life.

Batman

The Dynamic Duo faces four super-villains who plan to hold the world for ransom with the help of a secret invention that instantly dehydrates people.

Airplane II: The Sequel

A faulty computer causes a passenger space shuttle to head straight for the sun, and man-with-a-past Ted Striker must save the day and get the shuttle back on track – again – all the while trying to patch up his relationship with Elaine.

The Lucky Man

A lonely, simple-minded barman's fleeting encounter in a rural Irish pub, with a difficult customer highlights his need for intimacy.

Good Luck Sakhi

Sakhi is known in her village as ‘bad luck Sakhi’ due to the misfortune she seemingly brings to whomsoever comes in her path. What happens when two men play catalysts to changing her destiny?

8-Bit Christmas

In suburban Chicago during the late 1980s, ten-year-old Jake Doyle embarks on a herculean quest to get the latest and greatest video game system for Christmas.

Apple of my Eyes

When five kids are abducted on their way to school, the parents turn to the police, but their grandmothers decide to their matters into their own hands.

Family Obligations

One man learns to die. Another man learns to live.

Dad Brought Banana

The story of the play about a banana merchant has four sons, Twafih Menia to breed, including differences and multiple conflicts.