Ulrich Pleitgen Movies

In this intermittently very grim melodrama, Anna Leschek is very much down on her luck. Her no-good husband died drunk in a car crash, she lost her miserable, low-paying job at a clothing sweatshop, and can't get any kind of public assistance, much less a loan of any kind. She even tried taking off her clothes for a living at a strip bar, but her evident awkwardness earned her a humiliating round of boos which drove her away before she could complete her first appearance. When she and one of her three kids take a couple of toy guns and attempt to rob a bank, it seems like a logical response to her situation. At first, the efforts of her lawyer to get involved with her case seem like a good thing for both of them. He has lost wives and lovers to his passion for alcohol and is on the verge of losing his career. However, he tries to sober up long enough to help her, and he does succeed in getting her a good deal from the courts. However, neither one of them should have become romantically entangled -- particularly with one another. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

In this medical science fiction thriller, Vera Pukall (Katherna Thalbach) is a reporter. She is going to a meeting requested by someone who wouldn't identify themselves, but who indicated that it was urgent. When she gets there, she finds a dead, very famous scientist. The police rule it a suicide, but she has doubts. When she looks into it, she discovers a sinister human cloning plot; even the dead man's wife is bearing a fetus made from her own father's cells. Vera is getting a bit too close to the truth for comfort, and the bad guys attempt to do her in. However, she's a resourceful type, and manages an amazing escape. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

In this run-of-the-mill thriller, a would-be bank robber steals a Mercedes that just happens to have a body in the trunk -- and so he traces the car to its wealthy corporate owner, planning to move into the man's villa as a blackmailer. His well-laid plans, however, did not include all the future possibilities for problems. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi