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- A self-diagnosed nymphomaniac recounts her erotic experiences to the man who saved her after a beating.
- The merciless 1970s rivalry between Formula One rivals James Hunt and Niki Lauda.
- A grieving couple retreat to their cabin in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage, but nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.
- A look at how the intense relationship between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud gives birth to psychoanalysis.
- An anthology series that follows the work of homicide detectives in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
- 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.
- A tribute to the late German choreographer Pina Bausch, as her dancers perform her most famous creations.
- In 1915 a man survives the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire, but loses his family, speech and faith. One night he learns that his twin daughters may be alive, and goes on a quest to find them.
- Young runaway Sherry meets the radical street collective Spark. Together they experience the group's giddy thrills as well as its punishing manipulations, as Sherry's journey to paradise begins to sour.
- Stefan and Kai have good going business, self-grown cannabis screened as pizza delivering service. For now they only have to deal with aphids.
- Two young soul mates find each other while working at an all-male performance club/brothel. Eventually, one contracts AIDS.
- Two police detectives, a grizzled veteran and one fresh-faced rookie, hunt a ritualistic serial killer murdering people with tattoos and skinning them.
- The family of a German linguist lives with an indigenous tribe in Papua New Guinea.
- Nine-year-old Nikolas has been missing for days. Criminal psychologist Claudia notices contradictions in her conversation with the parents of the missing child, in particular Nikolas' mother, who appears to be hiding something.
- Investment bank manager FRANK BERNDSSEN (c. 40), based in Berlin, believes life to be just a matter of careful advance planning. Currently, he works for a Swiss investor group keen on taking over the French nation-wide meat production chain of Charcuteries Albert. If everything turns out well, Frank's bank will earn billions, and he'll be promoted to a director's post. He just needs the French side to agree to his plan, which is why he's on his way to Paris. While still at Airport Berlin-Tegel waiting to check in, Frank's progress is slowed to a standstill by chaotic author PATRIZIA MUNZ (beginning 30s), who wishes to board the plane under all circumstances, although the flight is overbooked in the economy class. Patrizia, an upcoming novelist, has forgotten her credit cards, when she received a phone call just an hour ago from a Paris clinic. Her lover, Parisian architect JEAN-JACQUES SECRETIN lies in a coma, heavily injured in a car crash. Frank, queuing nervously behind her, loans to Patrizia the cash she needs for the upgrade of her economy-class ticket. On the flight in business class, they make hesitant but ineffective efforts to do smalltalk and then leave each other alone.
- On a remote farm an entire family is murdered.
- By pure coincidence, a photograph found on the internet by chance of a renowned American opera singer, Caterina Fabiani, throws the lives of Paul Kromberger and his daughter Sophie into complete chaos. Paul, well advanced in his years, appears to recognize the image as that of his deceased wife Evelyn, Sophie's mother. Unable to convince her controlling-and-stubborn-to-a-fault father otherwise, Sophie sets off for New York to seek out this mysterious stranger...
- Agent Ranjid (Kaya Yanar) saves the world.
- Ari and Oona. Two 15-year-old girls, two dysfunctional families. Absolute opposites, yet somehow similar. No one listens, no one hears. Ari feels misunderstood and compensates for this by having sex with unknown men; Oona expresses the pain over her beloved father's suicide through self-mutilation and morbid drawings. Opposites attract. Ari is a blonde who paints herself up like a canary; Oona loves things as black as night. Their unlikely friendship helps them survive their families' hypocrisy. Ari finally gains some kind of self-respect, and Oona learns to give vent to her pain. Then something happens that threatens their friendship at its very roots.... The scope of the debuting director's creative interests is evident both in the mix of cinematic devices that enrich the narration (animated passages, amateur film recordings, music videos), as well as in the artistic stylization, which directly references her grounding in comics.
- Three teenage friends must deal with multiple problems regarding their boyfriends, other love interests, and their friendship.
- Tiffany is convinced that a disaster must follow every lucky incident.
- Since the death of her parents ten years ago, Nell (Pia Micaela Barucki) has always been there for her siblings and has taken over the family locksmith's shop. Now she wants to do something good for herself and catch up on some things. On Lake Garda, she trains to become a paragliding instructor, where she meets flight instructor Lukas (Joshua Grothe), who has his eye on her. Nell is not sure if Lukas is the right one, after all there is the restaurateur Simone (Stefano Bernardin) who is also interested in her.
- Through a complex and rewarding game of connect-the-dots, the film explores that gray area where investigative journalism meets the murky world of political lobbyists who are seeking the dominance of big business over government policy.
- A series of strange accidents plaguing a city located near the mine. Two people were pulled through the funnel, which formed after the collapse of tunnels under the lake. Geologist Nina Thiemann discovers that the mine tunnels are insecure and unstable. A woman with an expert in the field of explosions and a father, a former miner, descend into the ground, hoping that they will prevent catastrophe.
- 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.
- After separating from her husband Christian, who left her for a younger boy, the pharmacist Eva fell into a deep hole. A year later, the attractive 42-year-old sees a streak of light on the horizon: her eldest son is studying, she gets along wonderfully with her younger boy. Thanks to her profound knowledge of natural medicinal products, a dream job beckons in a pharmaceutical company, but Eva would rather take over the pharmacy in the picturesque small town. Its owner, her still-mother-in-law Annie, longs for Eva to get back together with her son, but love has cured it for now - she thinks. That the charming, 13 years younger doctor Hendrik bursts into her life and takes her heart by storm, is incredible for Eva. The unequal couple promptly becomes the local call, Annie is also angry and threatens to sell the pharmacy to someone else. While Eva wrestles with feelings that she never wanted again, her jealous husband tries to win back his wife - although he makes no move to give up his beloved. An unplanned pregnancy finally puts Eva and Hendrick's relationship to the test.
- The work is hard but fulfilling: since the death of her parents, the dairy farmer Klara has single-handedly tried to keep the family farm afloat in the Eifel province. But the milk prices are in the basement, business is bad, and Klara cannot get a new loan. The idealistic young woman has no choice: she will have to sell her beloved farm. In this situation, after a long time, she made contact with her sister Mika, who lives as a successful gallery owner in fashionable Dsseldorf. The two women could hardly be more unequal. However, they are completely in agreement on one point: namely that the other has no idea what "real" life really is. But now the career woman Mika finally sees the chance to steer her sister's life in new directions. Without further ado, she invites Klara over - which she soon regrets, because with Klara the full country life finds its way into the stylish designer apartment. While Mika's husband Philipp finds the breath of fresh air invigorating, her spoiled children Lola and Moritz are initially irritated by Klara's blunt manner. A personality coach should prepare the country for urban life and show her professional prospects - with moderate success. In return, Klara meets a man in the organic delicatessen shop Hauke who is completely on her wavelength. When someone interested in buying the farm finally reports, the sisters want to spruce up the dilapidated property a little before visiting. For the two of them, the trip to the Eifel is also a trip back in time, and it doesn't take long before old rivalries and repressed conflicts break out again. Back in Dsseldorf, the situation escalates when Mika feels publicly exposed by her sister. The ultimate break seems inevitable.
- All of a sudden, 16-year-old Martha vanishes. Her father Lothar, who for years has had no contact with her or his ex-wife, sets off unwilling to find her. He soon realises other young people are also vanishing from the city inexplicably. Lothar follows their trail across the country. He meets the occasional young person but the trail goes cold. In the next city he encounters militia groups and a reinforced police presence. Children are forbidden to be on the streets unless accompanied by adults. The world has changed...
- The head of the agency, Reinhard Waltz, is able to sell his advertising company to a corporation at a profit and imagines himself living the perfect life. But then suddenly a young advertising man is thrown in front of him
- Power woman Carla Bergmann is a committed pastor with heart and mind. Thanks to her media-effective appearances, Carla has made a difference in the Third World and, after eventful years abroad, is now looking forward to her pastorate in Cologne. Here she finally wants to take care of her daughter Sarah, who is in a marital crisis. But nothing goes as planned: Sarah resists her domineering mother, and Carla's promised position is already occupied by someone else. The pastor is forced to take over a small church in Sauerland, where she has to start from scratch. At her inaugural service, the church remains yawning, and on top of that, Carla has the thankless task of mediating between the residents and African asylum seekers, who are supposed to move into the former country school despite resistance from the population. Carla only gets support from her brother Lorenz and the art historian Konrad Bechtholsheim, who finds the new pastor more than just likeable. Daughter Sarah, who fled to the country after her marriage to her mother, also supports Carla in this difficult situation - much to the delight of the charming brewery owner Rolf Kottenburg, who falls head over heels in love with Sarah. Carla slowly gained the community's trust with her hands-on manner, but then events came rushing: The recently renovated country school home, where the asylum seekers were to be housed, caught fire.
- Entering the autumn of his life, Horst Lichter reflects back and wonders what's the meaning of it all? Spending precious time with his terminally ill mother gives him some answers and new hope to face each new day with a smile.
- Actually, Caro hasn't been able to for a long time. As a nurse in a dementia ward, she has hardly taken any vacation in the last two years and accumulated countless hours of overtime. But it wasn't until her favorite resident, Ms. Rumi, died that the camel's back was overflowing: instead of going to work the next morning, Caro went to a locker at Frankfurt Central Station, took out a packed, brand-new backpack and just set off - without a goal, without a plan , without a mobile phone and without any outdoor experience. Caro doesn't tell anyone, not even her husband Markus, with whom she has been together for over two decades.
- For the young nun Charlotte, the strict convent life is not a limitation, but a liberation from her former life in the fast lane. When the cocky advertising professional Conrad gets stranded in her monastery on a business trip, she feels confirmed in her decision. The abbess Katharina as well as the storm-tested sister Hedi, however, see the uninvited guest as a gift from heaven. His marketing skills could help lead the monastery out of the red and thus avert an impending sale. Charlotte would rather look for a lost 18th-century bull which, according to legend, guarantees the existence of Sankt Lioba forever. Out of necessity, however, she agrees to work with the campaign maker. While Conrad is secretly pursuing other plans on behalf of his boss, he gets to know Charlotte better. When Conrad learns what the nun is looking for and has found in the convent, he begins to question his life.
- The deputy zoo director Sonja lives on the zoo grounds with her nine-year-old daughter Hanna. But if the city councilor's plans go through, the zoo should be closed
- Prisoner Edmund Frank is offered a large amount of money by the editor of a magazine, to tell the real story of his crime and the hiding place of the one million Mark he stole from the bank he worked for.
- After receiving a dubious Phone call at work, Eva Konalsky, a typist working at a Steel Factory disappears without a trace. The Saarbrücken Police sends the two cops Liersdahl and Schäfermann to investigate. Both of them have a very different view of how police work should be done and they are not very fond of each other at first. When another person of the Steel Factory's personnel is murdered they both have to do their best to solve the case.
- The East German authorities are calling the West German Police for assistance on a case. The body of a boy was found at a Truck Stop near Leipzig. The boy wears shoes made in West Germany. Some time later the assistance call is withdrawn. Phoning his colleague in East Berlin, a man he worked together with in the past, investigator Paul Trimmel in Hamburg is told: "There is no work for you here." But Trimmel investigates on his own. He finds out that the wealthy Erich Landsberger is the illegitimate father of the dead kid. Landsberger and his other son have moved to Frankfurt. Trimmel pays him a visit there. The man is of no great help for him, but Trimmel gets an unexpected clue from Landsberger's little son. He has to go to Leipzig himself to find out more. So he leaves the Transit Route near the city, pretending his car broke down, takes a Taxi and goes looking for Eva Billsing, the dead boy's mother. She is not home when Trimmel arrives. The next day Trimmel encounters Eva's boyfriend Peter Klaus, who works for the East German Police, and talks him into letting him have a word with Eva. At least Klaus gives in to Trimmel and the things Eva tells him help solve the case.
- A dead woman found in the Donau, is the wife of a very important guest of the Austrian Government. Oberinspektor Marek is asked to investigate the case very gently.
- Brigitta Beerenberg calls the police to inform them she has killed her husband in self-defense. Trimmel wants her to be examined by a psychiatrist.
- Max Bergusson hijacks flight AE612 from Milaan to Beirut. His wife's murderer is on board and he demands the captain to fly to Hamburg instead. Before he boards the plane, he informs Hauptkommissar Trimmel through a curious message.
- After a few days away from home with his girlfriend constructor Breuke from Sieverstedt hurries home to convince his wife he is not having an affair. On the road home he hits a bicyclist, but drives on instead of calling an ambulance. Arriving at his house he deliberately hits the post of the driveway gate to disguise the damage of the accident. All the while he is unaware that his wife is watching him. Hauptkommissar Finke arrives in the village after the local police has taken Peter Reichert as a suspect. His assistant wants to investigate further. Meanwhile Breuke is being blackmailed by an unknown person. Then an actual murder takes place.
- In Frankfurt con man Johannes Stein is making easy money with his latest trick: He is selling "Gold" to unsuspecting people. He too talks the Wimper family into buying some, later to be stored in a Swiss bank. After seeing proof, Grandpa Wimper is eager to buy. Little does he know about that "Gold". When Stein tries to sell some more to a business tycoon, he gets busted and has to flee. It's now up to investigator Konrad to track down the swindler and to arrest him.
- Kressin is back in Cologne, where he works for the customs office. Soon he is ordered to a new case. A gang of bootleggers keep outwitting the customs authorities. Kressin's colleagues can't find any evidence of a crime. Everytime the suspicious trucks are checked at the border, their load is always correct, as declared. Kressin now has to find the liquor and the bootleggers' HQ.
- Customs officer Kressin is on holiday in Hamburg and sees the tour guide acting suspiciously. He ignores it, but the day after the guide is found dead in the water.