Babysitter

In the style of a documentary this tragic comedy tells the story of a relationship crisis between two married couples and their longing to break out of their miserable daily lives. In this East German post-wall movie Andreas Dresen introduces the sad everyday life of two couples from Frankfurt an der Oder in a honest and tolerable manner.

Parisian everyman Antoine Doinel has married his sweetheart Christine Darbon, and the newlyweds have set up a cozy domestic life of selling flowers and giving violin lessons while Antoine fitfully works on his long-gestating novel. As Christine becomes pregnant with the couple's first child, Antoine finds himself enraptured with a young Japanese beauty. The complications change the course of their relationship forever.

Laura-Ann, a soon-to-be school teacher who is stuck in a Victorian-era time warp that makes her behave like a strict, fussy disciplinarian and dress like a scary grandmother from the 1850's, takes on the responsibility of babysitting over the summer, two 15-year-old juveniles named Amy and Louise. Laura-Ann sets out to tame and refine the two girls, and a sumptuously artistic escapade ensues, a battle of wits and wills, and only the strong survive.

In a dysfunctional family where the mother is a heroin addict and prostitute, beaten by her son, and the father is an ex-TV reporter, sleeping with his daughter and filming his son being beaten up, ‘Q’, a complete stranger enters the bizarre family, changing their lives for the better, finding a balance in their disturbing natures.

A man gives his friend a series of lessons on how to cheat on one's wife without being caught.