Beauty and the Beast 2012 ( 5.2)

German/Austrian TV adaptation of the famous fairy tale “Beauty and the Beast“. There is only one way to break the spell which has turned the prince into a horrible beast: a beautiful girl has to fall in love with the creature. As time is running out, the beast abducts the girl Elsa and takes her prisoner. He puts all his efforts into charming the girl. Elsa does not accept her fate, and the beast is not at all a gentleman with fine manners. The transformative power of love, which frees Elsa of her feelings of guilt towards her parents and which returns the beast to his former humanity, is at the heart of the film. Aimed at a family audience, the film's eerie scenes are balanced with humor and poetry.

Small Change 1999 ( 6.7)

Herr Hoffman parks his late-model car in a lot across from his corner office on the top floor. Each day, he puts a coin in the cup of a beggar who stands in front of the building. One day, Hoffman looks out his window and notices the beggar washing his car - no one else's in the lot, just Hoffmann's. That evening, when he gives the beggar a coin, Hoffmann tells him not the wash it. But the next day, it happens again. On the third morning, Hoffman drives his car back and forth in a mud puddle; the beggar washes it carefully. That evening, Hoffman has no change and no small bills, only 100 DM. He tries to evade the beggar, who gives chase, cane and all. More than wills collide.

Krüger aus Almanya 2015 ( 6.1)

Berlin widower Paul Krüger, a retired ex-GDR stone mason (66), hates foreigner immigrants, especially Muslims. When his beloved, doting granddaughter Annie plans to marry Deniz, an ambitious student and waiter in Ankara who needs a visa for Germany, backward Paul and his buddy, publican Karin, go on Turkish 'holiday' so he can talk her out of it. But Deniz proves her only choice and probably a right one, even if countrymen and family win Paul's heart, as well as a resourceful preteen-thief, who proves an orphaned Syrian refugee. Paul even promises to plead with his counterpart, Deniz's family patriarch, who opposes him marrying a Christian infidel at pain of expulsion from the close clan.

My See-Through Heart 2018 ( 5.8)

Does one ever know who they’re living with? Lancelot’s life is thrown upside-down when he learns of the death of his wife. As he’s trying to cope with grief, he will have to confront the revelations made about his wife’s past.

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The People Above The Clouds 2018 ( 8)

In the mountains of Central China lives an ethnic minority, the Qiang. They have maintained their rural way of life and live close to nature. In 2008 they were hit by a deadly earthquake and their population dropped to 300,000. This documentary explores a spring, a summer and an autumn with four of these people.

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Mozart: Great Piano Concertos: Vol. II 2005

Virtuosos André Previn, Zoltán Kocsis and Heidrun Holtmann pay homage to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, performing piano concertos from different periods of the composer's life ("No.1, K.37"; "No.4, K.41"; "No.23, K.488"; and "No.24, K.491"). The pianists play in gorgeous baroque venues frequented by Mozart: Mantua's Teatro Scientifico del Bibiena, Prague's Rittersaal of Palais Waldstein and Vienna's Grosse Galerie of Schloss Schönbrunn.

Mozart: Great Piano Concertos Vol. IV 2005

Malcolm Frager piano | Christian Zacharias plan | Dezsó Ránki plan | Aleksandar Madzar softly Orchestra of the Radiotelevision of Italian Switzerland; Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart; English Chamber Orchestra; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Marc Andreae, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Jeffrey Tate, André Previn