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A handsome sailor is drawn into a vortex of sibling rivalry, murder, and explosive sexuality.

Maria marries Hermann Braun in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. Alone, Maria puts to use her beauty and ambition in order to find prosperity during Germany's "economic miracle" of the 1950s.

1911 Trieste, 17-year-old Ernesto explores his sexuality with a boy and a prostitute before pursuing music and finding himself torn between an intense friendship with young Emilio and desire for Emilio's twin sister Rachele.

Both parents of a young teen who walks with crutches secretly meet their lovers, who both surprise each other at the family's country home. The daughter arrives and initiates a guessing game of "Chinese roulette."

An orchestra assembles for a rehearsal in an ancient chapel under the inquisitive eyes of a TV documentary crew, but an uprising breaks out.

A secretly filmed account of sessions at Osho Rajneesh's ashram in Pune, India.

A famous poet who hasn't written a word in two years unconsciously plagiarizes the work of Stefan George, while dealing with several mistresses, his dim-witted brother, and a murder investigation.

A tremendous congestion hit the Roma highway ring. The biggest traffic jam ever seen endures for more than 36 hours. People blocked in their cars react at the beginning normally. But the more the time advance the more we are witness of personal dramas, hysteric reactions and more. All the episodes are linked like one only plot. Cars and their hosts are a microcosm of stories part of a major universe: the congestion.

Karin, a gas station manager, is in a bad mood: her business is going badly as the price of gasoline continues to rise, and her meager profits are regularly swallowed up by her friend Wolfgang's passion for motor racing.

Beautiful, detached, laconic, consumptive Lily Brest is a streetwalker with few clients. She loves her idle boyfriend Raoul who gambles away what little she earns. The town's power broker, called the rich Jew, discovers she is a good listener, so she's soon busy. Raoul imagines grotesque sex scenes between Lily and the Jew; he leaves her for a man. Her parents, a bitter Fascist who is a cabaret singer in drag and her wheelchair-bound mother, offer no refuge. Even though all have a philosophical bent, the other whores reject Lily because she tolerates everyone, including men. She tires of her lonely life and looks for a way out. Even that act serves the local corrupt powers.

Vanina and Giacinto are a young married couple whose relationship is unequal; the girl is submissive to her husband's will, and he sees in his bride only the personal object of his sexual satisfaction.

After the US Civil War ended, a handful of defeated Southern soldiers return home, to find that their village is almost depopulated. Some find their wives have changed, that their children grew up and no longer recognize them; others find they are now widows; others try to find new relationships, by flirting or by force. At first, there is a reception, with dance and merriment. Then trouble starts - and the men find that the women are now ready to defend themselves, with the law of the court, or the law of the gun.

Wolfgang has to transfer a horse to Munich to use as a bar attraction.

When Hitler sees Marlene Dietrich in a movie, he falls in love with her. He persuades her to come back to Germany to be with him, but upon her arrival she constantly insults and provokes him until he eventually, on her command, bites the carpet to bits.

Like the world champions.

Some German emigrants arrive in a town in the American West where they are not exactly well received by the locals.

About the German schlager singer Drafi Deutscher. After his 1965 hit "Marmor, Stein und Eisen bricht", his career in Germany was in full swing, when it was shaken by a 1967 conviction for public indecency.

Charly and Sonny are little fish, "egg thieves". They hang around in Frankfurt bars and try their hand at things that are several sizes too big for them. First they are recruited as heroin couriers and take on a professional drug organization, then they fail miserably as art thieves. What remains is the realization that they are losers.

Tells of a man around the turn of the century who ingeniously seduces a young woman, only to leave her afterwards. A seduction is portrayed in minute but lengthy fashion, whereby the film remains indistinct in its historical framework.