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- Four Vietnam vets, framed for a crime they didn't commit, help the innocent while on the run from the military.
- A man diagnosed with Alzheimer's decides to punish criminals.
- An anthology series that follows the work of homicide detectives in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
- England 1959. In a small East Anglian town, Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop.
- A show about two police officers from Wolfsrathausen who sometimes work a bit differently.
- As a train weaves its way up to the arctic circle, two strangers share a journey that will change their perspective on life.
- Anja Grimm returns to the remote forest area where her father disappeared without a trace when she was eight years old. Her sudden appearance triggers a brutal murder. Disturbances in the forest floor and pointer plants force her on the trail of deeper layers of guilt and crime and trigger a catastrophe.
- An ex-felon returns home from prison and must confront the demons of his past.
- A successful artist loses control of his life after his young daughter's death. A chance for a new start appears, but all is not what it seems.
- Anna and Hans belong together; all their friends simply call them the Hannas: a well-balanced long-term couple in their sleepy 30s, united by a cooking obsession. One day they meet ADHD sister Kim and Nicola. Secretly, the Hannas each begin sizzling hot love affairs with the sisters but wind up put through the emotional wringer; Kim and Nicola are connected by something the Hannas hadn't suspected. THE HANNAS: A story about 30-ish bodies, food, and love.
- Faced with staff shortages, the chief of a Cologne police department convinces two retired homicide detectives to come back into the force. As their immediate superior is a young woman, a generational cultural clash is inevitable.
- To escape from his lonely existence, Nurlan embarks on the most adventurous journey of his life: to find the owner of this perky piece of blue underwear. He rents a small room in Baku and begins his quest.
- The true story of Olli Mäki, the famous Finnish boxer who had a shot at the 1962 World Featherweight title.
- Summer 1968. 14 year old Wolfgang is deported from his family in the secluded Church Welfare Institution sanctuary. One thing is clear for Wolfgang: His yearning for freedom, he will not soon buried in the bog.
- Emotionally broken and in the middle of a profound spiritual crisis, an orderly and composed housewife will embark on a platonic relationship with a psychologist seeking help. However, he too is a mere mortal.
- In a small town in Texas, an annual endurance contest (Hands On) to win a pickup truck promises thrilling entertainment to spectators and the chance of a lifetime to participants, but ends in real tragedy.
- Two female cable car operators fall in love as pass each other in their gondolas.
- The daily lives of police officers in the St. Pauli district of Hamburg.
- After an Iraqi missile strike, the oil metropolis of Abadan descends into chaos. Fourteen-year-old Omid, who works as a food delivery boy, is searching for his missing brother - and for an escape route out of the besieged city.
- 17-year-old Paul likes strange things: stealth trails and abandoned buildings, whispered conversations and left-behind bags. Besides that, he seems to be a young man without qualities. His mysterious nature catches the eyes of his classmate Dala and his art-loving teacher Mr. Bulwer, both seemingly driven by hidden desires. Then a boy's dead body is discovered in the forest.
- A widowed farmer begins a new life on her own terms by fighting against corruption and injustice in her community.
- Summer 1944, Schwäbisch Hall. Against the war propaganda and the ordered heroism, the five 16 year old boys of the swimming pool group dream about swing music, sex and freedom. And they also dream about Lore, the helper from Fliegerhorst, who gets looks from all the boys in her red swimming suit. At the same time they realize there is no chance they can escape the horror at the front. Lore tells them "Remain alive", but Zungenkuss dies first and more won't make it through the war alive.
- The children's series reintroduces on the screen Mister Tau the charmer, along with his double, Uncle Alfons. It is impossible to tell them apart, and the cases of their mistaken identity in many comical situations guarantee to entertain all viewers, small and grown.
- A teenager wakes up in a subway car with no memory of how he got there or who he is.
- Eve and Adam meet in Eden. Obviously none of them finds the other one particularly attractive. But is there any choice? Writing helps. They both start a diary about this first encounter between two humans - as one can imagine offering very different perspectives. And while saying and writing terrible things about each other they discover an unexpected new feeling: Love. "It just comes. None knows whence. And cannot explain itself. And doesn't need to", as Eve puts it in her diary.
- Four friends come together, each of them with their own problems, to celebrate their long time friendship they used to have when they were younger. Excessive partying puts each of them out if their comfort zone...
- Jan Ullrich was considered the talent of the century in cycling. Twenty-five years ago, he was the first German to win the Tour de France. But then he sank into a swamp of doping and drugs and fell into ruin. How could this happen?
- Lucie, the horror of the street is a six-part Czech-German television children's series.
- A man returns to visit his native Sicily after living in New York for a long time. He learns about the Sicilian way of life from stylized conversations with an orange picker, his fellow train passengers, his mother, and a knife-sharpener.
- The dream of two young men to become sailors collides with the harsh realities of life in East Germany.
- This dystopian vision of the near future is about police officer Volt who kills the refugee Hesham during an operation. The deed goes unpunished, but Volt's feeling of guilt drives him into his victim's world. During the day a police officer, at night on the other side, he witnesses how the riots caused by his deed escalate. The pressure is rising, both from inside and out, and Volt realizes that his deed is unforgivable.
- Lars, a male nurse from Saarbrücken, moves with his lover Roland to Berlin. They renovate an apartment with the intention of finally living together. Their happiness seems almost complete. What Roland doesn't know: while secretly checking out Berlin's night life, Lars is experimenting with a deadly poison.
- A weekly show aimed at the education of children. Short movies explain different things of everyday life, (e.g. how cars work, how movies are made etc.), they are followed by a short sequence of animated clips.
- Victor owns a civil engineering company. Due to problems on a building site in North Africa he has to go there, where he is confronted with memories of his youth, slowly plunging into a labyrinthine world where present and past intertwine.
- Two solicitors open shop--literally!--in a low-income quarter of Hamburg. Assisted by a secretary with migration background and a cleaning-woman-turned-private-investigator, they take care of people who need help in court but can't afford it. Quite often, their cases can be resolved out of court thanks to the wit and common sense of this team.
- In the night of April 15, 2019, Notre-Dame de Paris was burning at her very heart. 'Saving Notre-Dame' captures unique human stories facing extreme situations and bears witness to the progress and challenges of this once in a life mission.
- Pre-teen foundling Emil and slightly older middle class orphan Inga seek to comfort each-other in the pitiful conditions at Mrs. Landfried's orphanage. She sells the shoes the produce in a Dickensian poorhouse workshop but keeps most profits, only ambitious eldest turned foreman Franz gets a bonus. For Christmas, the kids must sell I town the sets of matchsticks she bargained as bonus with the shoes, the winner gets a goose helping, sub)standard sale means a caning. After chasing the duo from the lucrative market, Frans wins and even gets to cane Emil, but lets him off with loud pretense. Inga ran away, dreaming in the rundown family home of her late parents welcoming her home whenever she strikes a match. Emil informs the homonymous friendly cop they met on the market, who sees the tyrant is replaced by a proper administrator.
- A comedic show about a typical family from the Saarland.
- Senator Isaak Kohler shoots and kills Professor Winter in a crowded restaurant, while Winter is dining with the struggling idealistic young lawyer, Felix Spat. Kohler puts up no defense and is sentenced to twenty years. Kohler then gets his daughter Helene to pay the reluctant Spat to reinvestigate the case, on the assumption that Kohler is innocent. The newspapers pick up on this and begin to question whether Kohler was wrongly convicted.
- Described as an answer to Fassbinder's The Marriage of Maria Braun, Fraulein tells the story of a former German Trümmerfrau now trying to enjoy the economic miracle and to find the balance between own needs and her marital obligations.
- A German news show on the public broadcaster ARD.
- Doha, Jakob, Erik, Laura and Yannick. Five young people with German passports. They live in very different regions and are at home in very different environments. But they have one thing in common: They are all 18 or just slightly older. The movie "18+ Germany" accompanies the everyday lives of these protagonists over a period of one year, watching them as they take their first steps towards adulthood. What are the expectations of these young people of Generation Z? What moves them, what are their dreams, what are their concerns? And what is their opinion about the country they are living in?
- Two brothers kidnap a schoolmate to contribute to the family's income.
- Augustin is a 30-year-old university professor. He does not believe in religion. His only belief is in maths, to which he devotes all his time. Then suddenly a series of pressing existential questions start looming in his mind.
- A beautiful young housewife, Nora, is trying to convince her tight-laced, bourgeois husband, Torvald, to give her some extra money for the holidays, even if he has to borrow it. Fassbinder's interpretation of "A dolls house".
- Nelly is with her parents on vacation in Romania. The 13-year-old girl will find new friends and experience the adventure of her life.
- Struck by personal tragedy, a disheartened Dutch woman sets out on a road trip through Chile, bonding with a young native boy along the way.
- A very stylized TV version of the Fassbinder play. The set consists of a few pieces of furniture in front of a large screen on which coastal scenery is back projected. Geesche is a nineteenth century woman who wants to have a mind of her own. She defies convention and will do anything to achieve her freedom from oppression by her family and friends.