Alice in Earnestland

East Friesian Otto moves to the big city Hamburg. There he gets into trouble with a loan shark and needs to find a way to impress his love interest Silvia.

A wealthy and sheltered young woman elopes with a charming playboy and soon learns of his bad traits, including his extreme dishonesty and lust for money. Gradually, she begins to suspect that he intends to kill her to collect her life insurance.

A day in the life of a barbershop on the south side of Chicago. Calvin, who inherited the struggling business from his deceased father, views the shop as nothing but a burden and waste of his time. After selling the shop to a local loan shark, Calvin slowly begins to see his father's vision and legacy and struggles with the notion that he just sold it out.

Fresh out of university, a Turkish young man with literary aspirations returns to his home village, and to his father, a debt-ridden man with a gambling problem.

Tonny is released from prison - again. This time he has his mind set on changing his broken down life, but that is easier said than done.

Forced by her poor father to live with a well-off man, a young girl must find a way to escape her new abusive home.

Süperseks

Bad luck forces two men to resort to Plan B.

Venice, 1596. Bassanio begs his friend Antonio, a prosperous merchant, to lend him a large sum of money so that he can woo Portia, a very wealthy heiress; but Antonio has invested his fortune abroad, so they turn to Shylock, a Jewish moneylender, and ask him for a loan.

Russ Richards is a TV weatherman and local celebrity on the verge of losing his shirt. Desperate to escape financial ruin, he schemes with Crystal the TV station's lotto ball girl to rig the state lottery drawing. The numbers come up right, but everything else goes wrong as the plan starts to unravel and the game turns rough.

After losing his job, his car and his money, Phuchit, races against time to complete 13 tasks ordered by an anonymous caller who promised 100 million Baht upon completion.

After the owner of a failing drive-in restaurant sells his establishment, two waitresses and a French chef try to turn it around.

In 2011 Portugal began the so-called "year of the Troika" (EU, IMF and ECB budget cuts and economic restructuring), with the level of debt among the Portuguese people reaching staggering amounts and a growing number of families and companies unable to repay their installment loans. Jorge is an unemployed boxer on the verge of losing his son and his wife, who has decided to return to Brazil. As a means of paying off his debt and persuading his wife to remain in Portugal, Jorge accepts a job with a debt-collection agency, which will drag him into a world of violence and crime.

Elena. An indigenous woman, pregnant and alone, must leave her home to look for better opportunities in the city, always keeping in mind where she comes from.

Der Eiserne Gustav

Eva a beautiful Russian woman in her late 20's. She watched her mother die as a result of the policies of a pharmaceutical mogul refusing to ship his medicine to Russia based on the bottom line. Eva devises a plan to exact revenge on Stan McFadden of McFadden Industries. Stan is in bad health and completely dependent on the medicine that he stopped exporting to Eva's mother. He is a prisoner in his own mansion, living as an agoraphobic hoarder. Eva set her plans in motion, immediately upon arriving as Stan's Russian mail order bride. Their relationship is volatile and intense, with the last words Stan will ever hear coming from Eva as he is dyeing..'You took pills from my mother...I take pills from you.'

Küss mich, wenn es Liebe ist

Chili Palmer is a Miami mobster who gets sent by his boss, the psychopathic "Bones" Barboni, to collect a bad debt from Harry Zimm, a Hollywood producer who specializes in cheesy horror films. When Chili meets Harry's leading lady, the romantic sparks fly. After pitching his own life story as a movie idea, Chili learns that being a mobster and being a Hollywood producer really aren't all that different.

Two thirtysomethings, unemployed former alcoholic Joe and community health worker Sarah, start a romantic relationship in the one of the toughest Glasgow neighbourhoods.

17-year-old Guido suffers since his early childhood from neurodermatitis. After being taken to the hospital due to a heavy attack, he starts to question his personal and familiar environment and discovers that his parents’ relationship – which he assumed to be happy and sound – is built on lies. Unable to deal with this disappointment, he flees from it and moves in with his older brother and his roommates...