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- Orphaned at the tender age of nine, prodigious introvert Beth Harmon discovers and masters the game of chess in 1960s USA. But child stardom comes at a price.
- Story of a young ultra-Orthodox Jewish woman who flees her arranged marriage and religious community to start a new life abroad.
- Young, pretty and innocent Fanny Hill has lost her parents and must find her way in life amidst the perils of turbulent 18th century London. She is fortunate enough to find rapidly a place as chambermaid of the effusive Mrs. Brown. Mrs. Brown lives in a large house teeming with female "relatives" in négligée and with very relaxed manners. She also insists that Fanny meets alone various gentlemen who show an ardent interest in Fanny.
- Cethegus, leader of the Roman nobility, travels to Bizantium and its leader Justinian, in an attempt to raise an army to march on the Goths under Narses. Cethegus would like to set the two sides to war against each other, that his own forces might take control at the outcome.
- Renegades trying to get the army to abandon their fort get the Indians addicted to whiskey, then convince them to attack and drive out the soldiers.
- In the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separated in the woods, and Leon, a local peasant who's now a farmer of some wealth, discovers the woman, Rosa, and hides her in his cellar. Leon's a middle-aged Catholic bachelor, tormented by his sexual drive. He doesn't tell Rosa he's seen signs her husband is alive, and he begs her to love him. Rosa offers herself to Leon if he'll help a local Jew in hiding who needs money. Leon pays, and love between Rosa and him does develop, but then Leon's peasant subservience and his limited empathy lead to tragedy. At the war's end, a ray of sunshine comes from an unexpected place.
- Cethegus starts the war between the Ostrogoths and their queen, Amalasuntha, and the Byzantine Empire, but when the Byzantine army invades Italy to reconquer Rome, romance prevails and threatens to ruin the plans for Cethegus.
- The memoirs of Swedish doctor Axel Munthe. Munthe was a fashionable physician in Paris who built one of the best-loved houses in the world - San Michele - on the Isle of Capri, on the site of the villa of the emperor Tiberius.
- In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that he left 40 years before. He wants to discover what happened then, the truth about an affair his mother had with a young Polish prisoner of war, how the authorities came to learn of it, the lovers' arrest, and the aftermath. While his son takes Polaroid photographs, he retraces the steps of his childhood and interviews those who should remember. The story is disclosed in flashbacks that focus on the lovers (Paulina and Stanislaus), on a jealous and conniving neighbor, and on Mayer, the local SS commander who wants to find a way out of inevitable consequences.
- West Germany in '50s is becoming an economic superpower. In such climate, Rosemarie is just one of many enterpreneurs who wants her piece of new fortune. She uses her charms to bring members of West German industrial elite to her bed. There she finds business secrets and later sells them to French competition. However, when scandal errupts, Rosemarie would find that she can't beat the system.
- While on a GPS treasure hunt in the Palatinate forest (Pfaelzerwald), four teenagers come across an abandoned US military radio tower station that once was part of a secret military program with horrible side effects.
- 1933 in Germany. The rise of Nazism fears war and some officers, concerned the fate that hostilities would reserve to their country, organize an anti-Nazi group. They send a reporter, Golder, to communicate the plan of the German offensive allies.
- The rise of a four-headed girl-pop group and their adventures with a one-track-mind Casanova, who works as their composer and manager.
- The crooked Sabri, manager for the female dancers of the Seven Blue Stars are booked at the Alhambra in Tangier. Cilly find out about Sabri's shady plans and is now found dead in the harbor. Sabri have the girls passports in his pocket.
- Violin virtuoso Fedor Varany meets on the train from Nice to Vienna Helene Samboni, the lover of the CoC President Alexander Grabner and still-wife of the artist Samboni know. Fedor falls in love with her without betraying his identity.
- A doctor goes to meet a beautiful girl at a park bench near a wooded area. When he arrives, he finds her battered body lying next to a stream. He then finds himself to be the prime suspect.
- An idealistic young doctor takes a job at a woman's clinic. He loses his confidence and questions whether the medical field is right when he is faced with acute abortion and genital diseases.
- A psychotherapist's love life is a disaster because of her own fears and neuroses. Involving herself in her patients love life add more complications.
- The young Marion is arrested by the police for pimping, prostitution and indecent exposure. Reporter Axel Rottmann sense a lucrative story for his newspaper. He makes a deal with Marion, to tell her story.
- It's Ursula's ambition to seduce renowned gynecologist Dr. Brückner, but when he resists her advances she accuses him of having raped her. Brückner is arrested and tried. Young lawyer Eva is determined to defend him and clear his name.
- An actress makes her actor husband aware, shortly before her death in a car accident, that he may not be the real father of her son.The actor, feeling guilty for her death, turns to drink and then tries to kill himself.
- John is arrested in Moscow and charged by the Soviet Court with espionage for the United Kingdom and sentenced to twelve years of forced labor.