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Hidden somewhere inside St. Teresa's Convent in Czechoslovakia is a box containing a fortune in jewels. A lot of people are after it.

Courtroom drama about the murder of a four-month-old baby. Police almost immediately arrest the mother Ingrid, who is the mistress of the father, a rich business VIP married to someone else. His position and wealth keep him insulated from suspicion. A hot-shot lawyer must overcome the unaccountably-biased perceptions of the police, the judge, the prosecutor, and almost everyone else in the judicial system. The defense lawyer, driven to an extreme, knows he has to find the real killer or his client will be convicted.

Three old friends are going on a cycle holiday, like they did 20 years ago.

April 1945. Because he stole two boxes of chocolate, the soldier Rudi is sentenced to death by the court-martial judge Dr. Schramm. Rudi manages to escape from the firing squad at the last minute due to an air force attack, and since the end of the war has been making a meager living as a street peddler. Years later, Dr. Schramm is now a respected public prosecutor. By chance, he runs into Rudi one day on the street. Afraid that Rudi will blow the whistle on him, Dr. Schramm wants to scare him out of town. He has Rudi arrested and bullied by the police. Desperate, Rudi again steals two boxes of chocolate from a store, hoping his old case will be reopened and Dr. Schramm's past brought to light. But Dr. Schramm has Rudi's death sentence removed from his file. During the trial, Schramm defends Rudi as he was his lawyer and not the prosecutor and suspicion rises. Finally his tongue slips and, without fully realizing what he is saying, demands that Rudi be sentenced to death. The trial is stopped, Schramm now only tries to get away and Rudi tries to leave town but finally start a new life with the woman who owns the hotel and who supported him.

France remains occupied by Germans who are under constant French Resistance attack and some German officers plan to pass information from Berlin Headquarters to Allied troops in an attempt to prevent a useless sacrifice of their soldiers. Among them is General Quade, who does not want to see the divisions under his command being annihilated after the Allied landing in Normandy. Captain Furstenwerth receives General Quade's mission to be the involuntary messenger of this information. He falls in love with the young French girl Yvonne and gets in touch with the Resistance.

A maniac is loose in London, decapitating his victims and sending the heads to Scotland Yard.

Dr. Hermann Seidel is an authoritarian teacher at a small town high school.After the dislocation to a big town school, he sees himself and his concept of education, put to a severe test.

Sailor Eddie is ordered to take care of four South African beauties. However an international criminal organization kidnaps one of them: Juanita Perez, daughter of the inventor of a new, dramatically cheap, kind of fuel. Since the police doesn't believe him, Eddie has to chase the villains himself.

Doris Putzke is fond of dating men in her quest for finding the perfect one. In her brief relationships, she goes from one disillusionment to another, constantly deluding herself about the intentions of her lovers.

Drei Freunde wollen durch eine Bootstour auf dem Rhein ihren Frauenproblemen entfliehen.

After Clown Teddy lost his son, he lost his gift for laughter. He opened a joke shop and lives above the shop. His landlady has had a foster son since birth, and Teddy decides to raise the child, who always believed that Teddy was his father. When the mother suddenly appears five years later and wants her son, Teddy decides to run away with the child and goes back onstage with his son. Will the family catch up with them, or will the mother never get her son back?

Gustav Hartmann is in trouble. Because of the new taxis he doesn't get many passengers in his horse-drawn carriage. To prove what he and his horse are capable of, he starts a trip from Berlin to Paris.

The pediatrician Waldemar Weber is in despair: his adoptive son Egon from his first marriage has announced he will be visiting, of all things, on his first wedding anniversary, although Waldemar has always kept it a secret from his young wife Henny. Waldemar absolutely has to intercept Egon. When Egon is at the door after all, he also turns out to be a monkey trainer. He also brought his chimpanzees Kiki, Koko and Kaka. Waldemar has his hands full explaining Egon's existence and hiding the chimpanzees from his suspicious wife. But is the bedroom closet really the right hiding place?

Landlord Kohlhiesel has two daughters that couldn't be more different: Liesel, the older one, is a clumsy hoyden; Gretel (Gritli), the younger, is pretty and charming. Gretel wants to marry, but her father won't allow it until Liesel has a husband. Can Xaver be persuaded to simulate some interest in her?

Kati is wooed by the rich sawmill owner Prackner since years, but she doesn't love the much older man. Only when her father's horse breeding is deep in financial trouble and his bank urges him to declare bankruptcy, she gives in and marries him, although she loves Martin, one of Prackner's workers.

Die Geschichte spielt zur Kaiserzeit in einer rheinischen Stadt. Der Landesherr hat gerade gegen die Redefreiheit gewettert. Am Stammtisch, wo auch der Staatsanwalt sitzt, empören sich die Bürger bei reichlichem Weinkonsum. Am nächsten Morgen trägt das Denkmal des Fürsten einen Maulkorb. Der Staatsanwalt merkt nicht, dass er gegen sich selbst ermittelt - er weiß nicht mehr, was er in seinem Rausch getan hat. Gerettet wird er durch einen Freund seiner Tochter - einem ihm suspekten Künstler -, der einen Mann aus dem Volk dazu überredet, sich für die ausgesetzte hohe Belohnung selbst zu bezichtigen. Der Mann wird übrigens freigesprochen, weil er das Denkmal in seinem Rausch für eine Art Goethe gehalten hatte... Der Künstler heiratet die Tochter des Staatsanwalts, der Staatsanwalt wird zum Oberstaatsanwalt befördert, aber nach Ostpreußen versetzt (was für Rheinländer fast wie eine Verbannung nach Sibirien war).

When Rolf returns from America to Germany to see his dying father, he finds that for the ten years he has been away from home, he has been suspected of the murder of his brother, who was found shot dead at the time Rolf had left the country. Though nobody openly accuses him and the official case has long been closed and archived, Rolf feels the suspicion surrounding him and sets out to clear up the matter of his brother's murder.

Bank manager John Valera is a man of the world, a dazzling-looking gentleman from head to toe. Tired of his business, he one day leaves everything to have a rest, leaves his workplace in Berlin and travels incognito to Italy, where he wants to unwind and spend a holiday like never before. As his travel budget starts to shrink more and more, Valera is not reluctant to accept various jobs and earns his living as a jazz trumpeter, servant, chauffeur and assistant to a gang of thieves.