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- A mad scientist kidnaps and mutilates a trio of tourists in order to reassemble them into a human centipede, created by stitching their mouths to each others' rectums.
- Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.
- In 1990, to protect his fragile mother from a fatal shock after a long coma, a young man must keep her from learning that her beloved nation of East Germany as she knew it has disappeared.
- An anthology series that follows the work of homicide detectives in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
- Adolf Hitler wakes up in the 21st century. He quickly gains media attention, but while Germany finds him hilarious and charming, Hitler makes some serious observations about society.
- Set during the time of the first outbreak of bubonic plague in England, a young monk is given the task of learning the truth about reports of people being brought back to life in a small village.
- Gwen has just discovered that she's the final member of the secret time-traveling Circle of Twelve. Now she must juggle with constant trips to the past, her relationships with Gideon, and figuring out dark secrets surrounding the Circle.
- The series is about Christian Ulmen and Fahri Yardim, who are very close friends. Both try to cope with their everyday problems with ease, which does not always work out.
- Charting the rise and fall of three corrupt real estate agents who accumulate absurd wealth in no time but fall into a vortex of fraud, greed and drugs.
- A karate expert recounts his early life, his turbulent childhood, rife with sexual abuse and a career as a pimp. Andreas "Karate Andy" Marquardt's subsequent rehabilitation treatment, enables him to start life again with the one girl who suffered his worst abuse. He runs a karate school today for children to prove that its possible to turn over a new leaf.
- In a criminal trial at the Berlin district court, in which the accusation of rape is being heard, it is one statement against the other - a seemingly insoluble dilemma, both legally and humanly, that has enormous explosive power. Because beyond the professional and private future of two people, it is about nothing less than the values and prejudices that define us as a society. It is a case of high public attention: the well-known TV presenter Katharina Schlüter and the industrialist Christian Thiede have had a secret affair that has lasted for years, and now they are sitting opposite each other in the courtroom as hostile parties. On the witness stand, Schlüter describes how what was initially consensual sex in Thiede's apartment turned into rape. But are circumstantial evidence sufficient? Experts and witnesses are questioned, and an unexpected turn of events doesn't make it any easier for the court to decide on credibility and truth.
- Two police detectives, a grizzled veteran and one fresh-faced rookie, hunt a ritualistic serial killer murdering people with tattoos and skinning them.
- Jack is a young boy who lives in a troubled family with little money.
- Paul, an employee at a professional separation agency that helps couples break up amicably, tries to tackle the problems that come with Toto, the boyfriend of a customer, while he has his own thinking to do about love and relationships.
- A rather unpopular, cowardly guy gets a sex doll for his birthday when he finds she's a little more action-packed than once assumed...
- Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral and witnessing a murder.
- After his mother's death, 17-year-old Sven moves in with his dad Achim, a taxi driver who had divorced his mother several years earlier. It is not easy for Achim to get used to an adolescent around the house, especially since Sven hardly speaks to him. But Sven does well in school, and Achim hopes that time will bring them closer together. It is Achim's girlfriend Julia who first senses that something is wrong with Sven. Why, she wonders, does he always hang around with younger boys? Why does he not have any friends his own age? She suspects that he is gay. The truth, however, is more nuanced--and chilling: Sven has pedophile tendencies. Proof is soon found on videos that shocks and sickens Achim. Sven himself is shattered and regrets his actions. Julia suggests therapy, but Achim is convinced that he and Sven can handle this together. But he is wrong. Though Sven practically begs his father to lock him up in his room, Achim has confidence in his son--a confidence that soon turns out to be ill placed.
- Henry,his daughter Magda,his girlfriend Katharina and their newborn son live together happily,but everything starts to change when Katherina decides to live separately for a while.
- Two amateur circus kids from a poor Ukrainian village, 10-year-old Barbu and his older sister Mimma, are sold to a circus artist called Caruso who promises them a career in the West. Caruso smuggles them to Berlin and separates them from each other; he sells Mimma into prostitution, while Marcel, an older Albanian boy, teaches Barbu how to snatch purses. When Barbu discovers what happened to Mimma, he decides to free her from the brothel.
- Frank is diagnosed with an incurable brain tumor and given only a few months to live. He and his wife don't know how and when to tell their children about it. Meanwhile, Frank's health is getting worse with each day.
- The dream of two young men to become sailors collides with the harsh realities of life in East Germany.
- 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.
- In "Vaterfreuden" erlebt Oliver Wnuk alias Freddy Kleemann, dass die Kapazitäten des liebevollen Familienvaters, fürsorglichen Sohns und engagierten Kita-Betreibers an Belastungsgrenzen stoßen. Obwohl ein beziehungstechnischer Systemabsturz droht, fällt es dem sympathischen Protagonisten schwer, seinen aufreibenden Multitasking-Modus zu entschleunigen. Im dritten Film der Komödien-Reihe "Das Leben ist kein Kindergarten" steht auch das Älterwerden der Großeltern - eindrucksvoll gespielt von Siemen Rühaak und Hedi Kriegeskotte - auf realitätsnahe Weise im Fokus: Während er sich seiner fortschreitenden Demenzerkrankung stellen muss, möchte sie wertvolle Lebenszeit nicht einfach verstreichen lassen: Vom Berliner Hauptstadt-Feeling bekommt der unfreiwillig zugezogene Konstanzer Freddy Kleemann wenig mit. Während sich seine hochschwangere Ehefrau Juliana von ihm alleingelassen fühlt, wünscht sich seine Geschäftspartnerin Lara mehr Einsatz bei ihrer Kita. Nicht nur die Kinder müssen das innovative Konzept mit Ruheräumen besser annehmen, auch bei den Eltern erhitzen sich zu Freddys Leidwesen die Gemüter. Große Sorgen macht ihm sein an Demenz erkrankter Vater Fritz. Freddy spürt, dass die gemeinsame Suche nach der richtigen Einrichtung ein letztes bewusstes Papa-und-Sohn-Projekt sein könnte. Entsprechend will er sich Zeit lassen und intensive Momente auskosten. Für Entlastung bei den Kleemanns soll Freddys Schwiegermutter Regina sorgen. Sie ist gerne für andere da, möchte aber selbst wieder einmal umgarnt werden. Vielleicht würde ihr eine Bekanntschaft guttun? Das denken ihre Enkel Zoë und Niko, die ihre Oma heimlich auf einer Dating-Plattform anmelden .
- A young man kidnaps an 87-year-old woman to escape his looming fatherhood and instead finds what's important about life.
- Die Wildhüterin Sara Jahnke lebt lieber in der Einsamkeit der Wälder Kanadas als unter Menschen. In ihrer brandenburgischen Heimat, bei ihrem Vater Robert Jahnke und ihrer erwachsenen Tochter Julia, hält sie es nur für begrenzte Zeit aus. Kurz vor ihrer Rückkehr nach Kanada bekommt Sara den Auftrag, eine auffällig gewordene Wölfin aufzuspüren und zu entnehmen. Als sie dabei die Leiche einer rumänischen Saisonarbeiterin findet, kommt ein ungeheuerlicher Verdacht auf. Ist Silvana das erste Opfer eines tödlichen Wolfangriffs seit mehreren hundert Jahren? Kommissar Laue, Stadtmensch und fremd in der Gegend, bittet Sara um Hilfe. Als sich deren Theorie bestätigt, dass die Wölfe Silvana nicht getötet haben, macht sich das ungleiche Ermittlerduo auf die Suche nach dem menschlichen Täter - und stößt auf erschütternde Machenschaften um die örtliche Fleischfabrik.
- An adventurous story about the "real" happenings of November 9, 1989 in Germany, the day the wall came down! For ten-year-old Frederike (10) October 1989 gets off to a disastrous start: her beloved Uncle Mike (27) is expelled from the GDR and has to leave the country within 48 hours. Inspired by her big idol Captain Kirk, Frederike and her friends Jonathan (10) and Fabian (10) construct a teleporting machine to "beam" herself to West Berlin to visit her uncle Mike. But the experiment dramatically fails. Instead of successfully beaming the three kids across, the entire village population disappears! For a moment it seems that Frederike and her friends are the last remaining kids on earth. But TV proves what Frederike had immediately suspected: they have managed to beam everybody but themselves to West Berlin. They witness on TV how their families and friends desperately try to climb back over the Wall to their home country. Only quick thinking and action can undo the experiment and prevent the worst from happening before the border guards open fire. A race against time and the nasty local policeman Mauder begins.
- Twists and turns as a clever policeman investigates the death of an abusive businessman who has recently divorced his wife and taken custody of their only child, by revealing her past as a porn star. LAURA LOHNER is his prime suspect in a web of S&M games filled with prostitutes and high class hookers. There's one problem: Laura has the perfect motive...but she also has the perfect alibi. When FRANK LOHNER is found shot dead execution style, with six bullets to his body and an unconscious (and drugged) beautiful prostitute at his side, DETECTIVE ADAMS suspects Laura Lohner and sets out to question STAR, the young prostitute about her connections to Laura. As he delves deeper into the suspicious connections between the two women, the detective sets a trap to catch Laura in the act of pulling strings. He convinces Star she too is a victim, even though Laura has been the only one to protect her from her vicious ex-boyfriend SID...who coincidentally acted with Laura back in the day. As Detective Adams closes in on Laura, he is convinced he can get her to confess, and save Star from her obsession with the manipulative Laura. But who is playing whom? And who is the real victim?
- Linda has been suffering from a congenital heart defect ever since her birth. She managed to reach 30 contrary to medical predictions. But, with another operation looming, she feels a need to spend what might be the last weekend with her two sisters, so they start a short journey from Hamburg to Paris.
- Richard lives apart from his wife. He is unemployed. His life is really not running smoothly right now. Rather by chance, he gets into conversation with the director of his daughter's school, who is desperately looking for teachers - which gives Richard an idea. He is a mathematician. And after all, everyone can become a teacher!
- Berlin, 1932. The Weimar Republic is torn apart in the struggle between right- and left-wing extremists and Berlin is a powder keg. Nightclub singer Henny Dalgow get to know the Social Democratic congressman and Jewish doctor Albert Goldman, and the two become a slightly odd couple. Albert is a sworn pacifist after his experiences in the First World War. Contrary to his beliefs he agrees to act as courier for his brother Edwin, who belongs to a radical communist cell.
- When Malu meets her dream man Hannes, she feels like she's on cloud nine. However, the closer she gets to know him, the more sinister he seems to her.
- (Bearskin Prince) Aging king Wenzel's only son and heir, prince Marius, was his father's pride and joy, but showed no interest in state matters, absorbed by fashionable flirt and idle pleasures, taking no suitable suitor serious. On a pleasure ride trough the forest, Marius is caught in the net trap of a devil. They agree that Marius will be released but can only return home is he finds true love within a limited time. Alas for him, the additional challenge is to do so while covered in live bear fur, making him appear a dangerous monstrosity. Wandering hungry, 'bear Marius' gets shot-wounded by mean widow Hedwig and her lazy son Kilian, but is hidden, fed and nursed by their constantly abused maid Elise, who falls in love with the 'bear man'.
- Klara Müller , a young nurse,has come with her boyfriend Jörg to Paris; she hoped that Jörg would ask her to marry,but instead of that he tells her that he has got a promotion.So Klara decided to separate,she will stay for a time in Paris.Klara finds a job as caretaker of Mrs Jeanne Clement, whose son Philippe Clement is manager of a factory of luxury watches.Little by little Klara and Philippe feel well together, but Philippe has a girlfriend Zoe who is quite jealous.
- Eva Schatz is a lawyer with body and soul. She is successful in the job, privately a happy single. She enjoys her varied everyday life until she meets Hanno Bertram. She still has no idea that he will completely turn her life upside down.
- Grumpy widower Oliver Maibach runs a successful bakery with his mother, equally lonely widow Elisabeth. She hears their senior immigrant supplier Kemal Yildirim fears eviction back to Turkey and decides first to take him in to hide in Oliver's bedroom, given his reversed day-night rhythm, later insists on a fake marriage, but Kemal is not amused to discover her desperate dating past. Oliver's daughter Lisa and especially her cop fiancee Chris Dollinger are shocked even more to discover the illegal 'guest' and ensuing green card fraud plan, but end up playing along during their wedding to save her ancestors, or so everyone thinks. Oliver has an impractical affair with a customer, mouthy cellist Greta.
- Albert, retired dance teacher, has lost his will to live. Unknowingly falls in the plot of her daughter, and starts therapy with a psychiatrist, with him not realizing. Along the way he finds abusive people, but also his way back to life.
- Thomas (Lars Eidinger) returns from the university back to the Hessian Heimatkaff. There is just the "Grenzgang" celebrated a festival on which he met Kerstin (Claudia Michelsen). Years later, they meet again - two disillusioned souls
- Diesmal geht es zum neuen Schuljahr auf Klassenfahrt. Höchste Zeit - Abendschullehrer Ralph Friesner (Axel Prahl) fiel schon die Decke auf den Kopf. Karin (Katharina Thalbach) findet, Ralph "lässt sich gehen". Sie kritisiert munter und unentwegt allerlei an ihm. Ralph ist tatsächlich in einem desolaten Zustand, denn während der Coronazeit hat Ralphs Freundin (und Chefin) einen neuen Job in München angenommen. Ralph leckt sich noch die emotionalen Wunden, ist aber natürlich gespannt auf seine neue Chefin. Frau Bergmann (Susanna Simon) erweist sich als extrem schwierig und hält obendrein für Ralph noch eine Überraschung bereit: Sie hat ihn als Lehrkraft für ein Pilotprojekt eingeteilt: ein einwöchiges Seminar, in dem die Problemfälle des neuen Jahrgangs "lernen sollen, wie man lernt". Und das in einer Jugendherberge in Brandenburg. Während alle in Ralphs Klasse ihre Probleme haben und Abenteuer erleben, muss Ralph Krisenmanagement betreiben. Er kümmert sich, löst manche Probleme und verschlimmert unfreiwillig andere.
- A Chinese family moves in next door to a German family and a war ensues.
- Each year in June, Bavarian housewife Elke Richter visits family in Halle, in the GDR. There she meets family friend Gregor Pohl, a married carpenter, and they begin having an affair. After her family stops the annual visits due to the husband's promotion in the communist regime, the adulterous couple arranges to meet on other holidays. After Gorbachev's Glasnost leads to the fall of the Iron Curtain, everything changes, and Gregor chooses to emigrate to Canada.
- In early-1980s East Germamy, Paul tricked Georg into handing over his girlfriend Anna to him, but they made a pact that stipulated that Georg could have her back at any time. Years later, Paul and Anna are successful and happily-married with two children. Then Georg reappears, and he has not forgotten the pact.
- Christine. Perfect was yesterday. was a German comedy television series.
- Dana is working as guard in the Egyptian Museum.One afternoon she notices a young man speaking mysteriously with another man.She thinks that he is thief preparing a robbery.Suddenly they shocked and fall in a sarcophagus.She feels that the young man has a hidden weapon and try to ask why,but the young man disappears quickly.The next day she sees the same young sitting on a bench outside the museum,she joins him, the man becomes nervous because a man his coming towards the bench.Then he says Dana that he is working in an undercover operation.Dana kisses the policeman as she could be his fiancee.The man who comes is interested in buying a piece of the museum,Dana presents herself as the fiancee of the policeman.The buyer invites them to dinner and Dana convinces the policeman to accept the invitation.
- In his own Hotel Ritz, Sophie mistakes Johannes for the expected temporary waiter and is quickly trained in the supposed task. Johannes gets involved and gets to know the hotel business and the employees from a new perspective.
- Annabelle Martinelli, sex criminal lawyer, is said to represent two potential rapists in court.
- For Ursula Gothe, the wife of the aspiring engineer Dr. Richard Gothe, life in the post-war period is finally back on track. That changes when she rediscovers her daughter Martina, who she thought was dead, in a wanted ad.