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- An anthology series that follows the work of homicide detectives in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
- A soon-to-be-father policeman falls for a gay fellow officer and his life starts falling apart.
- A swooning study of "Mack the Knife" singer Bobby Darin and specifically his relationship with wife Sandra Dee.
- 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.
- He's a widower in Paris who speaks no French. She's a dance instructor less than half his age. Can they become a family, or will his estranged adult children halt the friendship?
- Ida must transfer to a new school, where she soon realizes the students are unkind to each other. However, that all changes when a new teacher, Miss Cornfield, begins to educate them on the value of friendship and magic.
- A biography of the 18-century Viennese physician Franz Anton Mesmer, who used unorthodox healing practices based on his theory of "animal magnetism."
- Umay is a young woman of Turkish descent, fighting for an independent and self-determined life in Germany against her family's resistance. Her struggle initiates a dynamic that results in a life-threatening situation.
- It's almost 20 years since our illustrious Trio set off to solve some of Berlin's more bizarre murder mysteries. The success of the show's longevity hinges around the humor of former DDR Volkspolizei detective Otto (Florian Martens), who never seems to adapt to the Western way of policing, and his eccentric friend "Sputnik" (Jaecki Schwarz). This latest episode introduces yet another change in the lineup as a new male colleague joins the illustrious Trio on a dark-humor caper after an undertaker's murder that exposes the cut-throat business of funeral planning, where only the most successful survives in the business--literally. the murder of an undertaker. ZDF are still managing to come up with some compelling stories, making these 88 minutes worth watching.
- After he loses his job, his father, and his girlfriend, Jan's life is a shambles. Then suddenly he meets freakish street musician Vera, and a bittersweet romance unfolds...
- The story of Beauty and the beast.
- 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.
- Model pupil Ben Winkler deserves only proud support, yet understanding stepfather Felix, a devoted youth worker, can barely keep bossy mother Johanna Winkler from having a go at Ben when he announces, out of the family's atheist blue, he discretely joined the Lutheran church's catechism class to do his confirmation like most classmates. Though she rages at the 'invasive' pastor Tabea, Felix talks her over to join the parents' group. Regretting to have opted out of every great celebration herself, Johanna decides to show off Ben's confirmation, but can't afford it due to her casino addiction and refuses to let his happily married father Simon help out. Gentle, sensible Ben quietly deals, helped little, with Felix 'cheating' on his ingrate mother with Tabea, suspected-queer classmate Konstantin's appropriate attention, the gambling problem, a party getting out of hand and his own failed attempt to win a US scholarship, having confided only into grumpy grandpa Alex and next Felix, who suggests visiting Nepal together first.
- Jesper is a soldier in the German army. Although his brother was killed whilst serving in Afghanistan, he nevertheless reports for a new tour of duty in this war zone. He and his unit are to protect a remote village from the Taliban. One of the people accompanying Jesper is a young interpreter, Tarik, whose job includes mediating between soldiers and villagers. Both sides have a hard time trying to overcome the differences in their respective ways of life. Jesper must gain the trust of both villagers and the allied Arbaki militia and his nerves are soon on edge. He finds himself increasingly morally conflicted as a result of his superiors' orders. His association with the Germans means Tarik's life is constantly under threat, but when Tarik begins to fear for his sister's safety, Jesper has to make a decision. Feo Aladag uses this portrait of an ISAF soldier in Afghanistan to explore questions of affinity and otherness, trust and failure. How humane can your actions be if you are bound by the workings of a strict military bureaucracy? What remains of the ideals of human dignity when you are caught up in a daily struggle for survival?
- Endres wants to be more than just a farmer's son. He wants to be able to read and write, wear clothes without holes and sleep in a proper bed. He goes to the court of the King, who is said to be the cleverest man in the land. Endres becomes his personal servant and every day after dinner brings him a mysterious golden bowl. No-one knows what the bowl contains, not even Princess Leonora. When the queen's ring goes missing, suspicion falls on Endres.
- A servant girl falls in love with the god of the valley. The Baroness wants nothing but the gold of the god. A fight to win the lands he protects and his love.
- Jenny: Really fair.
- In a Nordic hamlet, Kay and Gerda are best friends, bonding over things like growing roses in a greenhouse. But the evil Snow Queen gets a hold on Kay, first from far, then kissing him to lure him to her ice palace, where her third kiss after fulfilling the tasks she sets him can turn him into an ice pillar. While roses keep rekindling Kay's memory, Gerda encounters weird creatures, from a flower fairy and a couple of engaged royals to a band of robbers, refusing to be distracted by any temptation from the search for her beloved Kay.
- German corporate lawyer Max takes on a job in an Amsterdam real estate firm rather than joining his father's construction company. He's relatively happy, yet doesn't quite fit in with his narrow-minded way of thinking -however hard he tries to relax- in the libertine city. Then he falls in love with Dutch snack-bar owner Sophie, who claims to not be interested in him. Unexpectedly Max's parents invite themselves to come 'celebrate' his birthday with a stuffy dinner in a near-by German restaurant and invade his small apartment. After his father's car crashes into to Sophie's father's bike, conflicting loyalties clash, but deep-rooted commitments win out breeding surprising alliances.
- Adaptation of the Grimm Brothers' fairy tale.
- King Alexander is happy with his commoner-born queen Marie, but their three children are puppies (actually switched at the queen mother Eliza's orders by chamberlain Corbinian, who put each in a basket in the river), then she dies mysteriously. 12 years later, the king still mourns, refusing to remarry any princess picked by his mother. Then on a hunting trip, he meets Theo, Fritz, and Lotte, three foundlings--who greatly resemble his late wife--raised by farmer Hank and his wife. Eliza decides to dispose of the princes by tricking them into attempting to seek infallible answers from the bird of truth, which requires two equally magical gifts, each likely to be transformed at failure into rocks.
- A 75-year-old man goes on a road trip with a 16-year-old runaway kid; their families search for them.
- 13 people on a road-trip from Jerusalem to Tripoli looking for peace.
- Young editorial assistant Lissie wants a promotion and a good guy. At a party she meets the perfect guy, but the next day at the office meeting she learns more about him.
- Tine is a journalist, but without a permanent position, often poorly paid. On the day her boyfriend Frank is moving to another continent, for a new job, she discoveres that he had cheated on her. As a revenge, she writes an essey titled "My little dick" under his (Frank's) name and sends it to a trendy men's magazine. The publishing director Dagmar is so excited that she wants to hire Frank. Since Tine does not want to burst her biggest dream, plus, she really needs money, she disguises herself as a man and takes on the job. But things gets more serious when editorial director, Moritz (Tom Wlaschiha) offers her more permament job. Unfortunately, she falls in love with him.
- A great famine threatens the country. Before people die of hunger, they turn into birds - as does little Ida. Therefore, her big sister Jola runs desperately into the deep forest to find some food for the family.
- Tom, a wide-eyed, innocent sixteen year-old, finds himself an unwitting accomplice in a deadly game of vengeance and death when he befriends Artur - a Chechen man, hell bent on revenging the torture and murder of his family - on the streets of Tallinn.
- Frankfurt On The Oder, 1991: Johann Rummel dreams of a career as a tabloid journalist. So far, the tricky would-be reporter has only approached the stars in his job as a waiter. Without a high-school diploma and professional experience, the chances of getting a coveted trainee-ship are slim. With his friend Maik he tries to recommend himself with gossip stories: As soon as a celebrity shows up, he gives the reporter and Maik the paparazzi. However, nothing more than nice memories emerges. His strong will nevertheless makes an impression on star journalist Marbach, who recommended him for her newspaper. The big chance comes from Erich Honecker, of all people, who is supposed to answer for the wall dead. All the media want an interview with him, but the former GDR head of state lets them down. Whoever makes him speak has the lead story of the year. In order to win Honecker's trust, Rummel befriends old SED comrades and appears to found the League of Young Communists in reunified Germany. Posted photos are just the beginning. This goes too far for his companion Maik, and his girlfriend Jenny, whose brother was killed in the "escape from the republic", turns away from her future husband. He's now obsessed with the idea of having the last interview with Honecker. At any cost.
- The Berlin Philharmonic and National Socialism
- A 76-year old engineer is on a mission: to connect the United States and Russia with a 100-kilometer long train tunnel beneath the Bering Strait. THE STRAIT GUYS follows Czech-born mining engineer, George, and his fast-talking protege, Scott, along the proposed route of the InterContinental Railway through Alaska, to the Bering Strait and onward to Russia. The "Strait Guys" endeavor to convince international governments, corporations, and indigenous tribes to green-light their $100 billion railway project, which would provide ground-based infrastructure across the continents, relieve overcrowded Pacific ports, improve global supply chains, and ease tensions between the superpowers. The US and Russia have been successfully collaborating in space for decades. Now the Strait Guys are out to prove it is also possible down here on earth.
- When all is long forgotten, how do we forgive ourselves?
- The Berlin writer Agnes Berg receives a literary prize for her new novel, in which she writes sensitively about dying. But then the unbelievable happens: Her only daughter Johanna, who has settled in Mallorca, her adopted home with her Spanish husband and two children, is killed in a car accident. Agnes is shaken because the painful argument that had divided mother and daughter for 15 years can no longer be resolved. Agnes travels to Spain with her best friend Katharina, where a frosty reception awaits them. The grandchildren Natascha and Enrico have never seen their German grandmother and are dismissive. The housekeeper Inez, the gardener Pablo and Maria, the Spanish mother of her son-in-law, let Agnes know that she is not welcome. Only Katharina and Richard Gutmann, lawyer and long-time friend of the family, encourage her. Step by step, Agnes wins the trust of the two grandchildren, who soon take their grandmother into their hearts. But suddenly Agnes 'publisher appears with supposedly good news: An American media company wants to market her books and is inviting the German author on a month-long reading tour. Agnes faces a difficult decision.
- A Chinese family moves in next door to a German family and a war ensues.
- Lea Walter stubbornly refuses to save the family's ailing Mallorca 'bodega' (wine estate) by selling some paintings of her late, eccentric father to finance the modernization her son Ebrico supervises. So he flew in family friend Sean Everrad, a New York gallery holder and psychologist. The heated family discussions and Enrico's son Daniel playing with the heirloom doll-house lead to uncovering dark secrets.
- 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
- A youth theatre group in Berlin prepares to play "Brundibar", an opera the Nazis premiered with the children of Theresienstadt concentration camp.
- There are two kids per episode who change their hobbies each other.
- Before she takes off for her new job in New Zealand, Anna Maillinger just has to make it through her father Karl's wedding to his Moldavian housekeeper at his mountain cabin in the Bavarian Alps. But then the family company, run by her elder brother, turns out to be on the verge of bankruptcy and Karl decides he doesn't want to get married again after all and wants Anna to be the one to tell his fiancée. And if that weren't enough, Archie, an old family friend, has a heart attack while hunting. When Archie's annoying son Ben, who always had a crush on Anna, turns up, she is determined to leave. But that's a no-go. It seems Archie had an affair with Anna's mother. Could Anna and Ben be sister and brother?