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- An unlikely World War II platoon is tasked to rescue art masterpieces from German thieves and return them to their owners.
- A Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg, where he gets caught in the international war on terror.
- An anthology series that follows the work of homicide detectives in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
- The murder of young twins initially implicates a group of upper class students as the killers, though the case takes a turn or two from its starting point.
- 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.
- Before Tilda's parents can put her beloved grandfather in an old people's home due to his progressing Alzheimer disease, she takes him on one last adventure that subliminally threatens to tear her family apart.
- 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.
- An English teacher brings soccer from England to Germany in the late 19th Century by teaching it to his class.
- Meis is fifteen, lives in the back of beyond and aspires to a grand and stirring life, but all that happens is the passing of the time, waiting for the next car to run into the front of the house.
- After signing an agreement with a company that offers to end their lives when they least expect it, a dejected millionaire and a disheartened young woman fall in love and must find a way to get out of their binding contracts.
- A superhero called Antboy fights against evil in his hometown.
- Rather than let cancer run her life, a young woman starts wearing different wigs to express herself and live her life to the fullest.
- Thomas Müller is spotted by a marketing agency for his exceptional normality.
- 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?
- A group of Russian soldiers are sent into Northern Germany at the tail-end of WWII, where they occupy a children's home in close proximity to a larger German unit. Against these odds, a friendship forms between a German orphan and a childless Soviet captain.
- After the death of their grandmother, a family in Northern Germany meets again at the inherited real estate. The family saga sheds light on their past; beautiful and harsh memories. Adaptation of the 2008 book of the same name.
- The sudden transformation of a lower middle class woman who falls in love with a bank robber and soon becomes one herself.
- Inexperienced guardian angel, Buddy arrives to assist Eddie with getting his life back on track, but instead only causes more chaos
- "The Mamba" is a top international terrorist. A deadly fighter, sniper, bomber, and master of deception. Hossein Sarivi is a good husband and works at a biscuit factory. Their mutual resemblance is uncanny, but have never met, until now.
- A struggling German couple starts finding each other again after keeping as a secret about being responsible for a horrific accident.
- Hatice is the older of two daughters of Turkish parents living in Germany. And while their father is open minded and has adapted to the Western lifestyle in most regards, he still stands firm on some Turkish traditions. One of them is that a younger daughter cannot get married before her older sisters. With her younger sister already pregnant, Hatice is under pressure to find a husband in a hurry. But she isn't going to marry just anybody. Her husband must be German. And he must have the fire of a Turkish man. The search of a suitable man is on.
- How Murat Kurnaz ended up in Guantanamo Bay is a mysterious story. 5 YEARS investigates the psychological aspect of this endless and unjustified "imprisonment" where Kurnaz had to endure never ending physical and psychological torture.
- A single man must suddenly look after his nephew.
- The life of the unsuspecting jeweler Niklas changes dramatically when he finds out that his wife was part of a burglar duo. But instead of delivering her and her ex-boyfriend, Niklas decides to commit insurance fraud with their help. However, it takes many twists in order to achieve this target.
- The murderer always follows the same pattern: According to an ancient punishment ritual of the Vikings, the "blood eagle", he literally executes his victims. So far, two women have fallen victim to the serial killer, a lawyer and a prostitute. Apart from their gruesome end, there doesn't seem to be any connection between the two. Chief Inspector Jan Fabel and his teammates Maria Klee, Henk Herrmann, the police psychologist Dr. Susanne Eckhardt and the new employee Anna Wolff are under great pressure to succeed. In addition to his superior, Fabel is also backed by an LKA officer who is showing unusual interest in the case. At the same time, the murderer engages the chief inspector in a macabre game by sending him emails with encrypted messages. Fabel feverishly pursues every lead. Nevertheless, the wanted person is always one step ahead of his pursuers. Soon the landlord of the murdered prostitute, Hans Klugmann, is targeted by the investigators. He used to be with the police himself, now he's on the payroll of the Turkish mafia. Henk and Anna begin to observe the man's surroundings. They witness a bloody shootout between rival groups of the Turkish and Ukrainian mafia. At first, Fabel does not believe in any connection to his case. Only gradually are the indications that the investigators are not only dealing with the insane follower of a bizarre cult of Odin. Rather, Fabel and his colleagues are on the trail of a large-scale coup by the Ukrainian mafia. Its leader apparently has allies in the police. And he will stop at nothing to get unwelcome witnesses out of the way.
- In the 1980s a young man fights against the pharma industry when he and his brothers become infected with HIV from contaminated blood products.
- A criminal investigator who is afraid of crime scenes is as ludicrous as an Olympic swimmer who is afraid of water. But sometimes fate plays the craziest pranks, and so the LKA officer Robert from Hanover actually suffers from a phobia that makes it impossible for him to pursue fugitive crooks or even to enter a crime scene. This handicap is a thorn in the side of his superior, the sarcastic macho Horst Hoff. At every opportunity he makes fun of Robert and advises him to quit. Of course, that is out of the question. In his old age, those in their mid-fifties would prefer to be trained as a "profiler", only he needs the consent of Hoff in order to fulfill this lifelong dream. The hairdresser Rita also has a dream: she feels called to write, but unfortunately her stories are not met with much enthusiasm by friends and publishers. When the two romantically inclined dreamers meet, it is love at first sight in the truest sense of the word. Shy and slightly unsettled about their own happiness, they get closer, but unfortunately their attempts to arrange a romantic dinner are thwarted time and again - an escaped violent criminal keeps the men from the LKA in suspense. As if that weren't enough, Rita's daughter Jule is also involved in a criminal case: her roommate is mysteriously killed. While Hoff assumes suicide or an accident, Robert guesses murder with a sure instinct. Both the honest neighbor and Jules' easygoing friend Tim appear to be involved in the case. In their search for the truth, Robert and Rita surpass themselves in astonishing ways, but as the saying goes: love gives you wings.
- When her husband Jan admits his advertising agency is bankrupt, product designer Katrin is faced with two choices: either they move out of their comfortable home or she must take an unrewarding job designing new sanitary facilities for a luxury hotel. The burden of her job, kids and household quickly becomes too much - until Katrin discovers a website offering free testing of high-tech household androids, complete with a user-customized appearance and speech capabilities. Katrin secretly orders one, and is stunned to find the android is her exact mirror image! At first, the android "Kate" functions perfectly, with her family truly believing it is Katrin. Suddenly, the android begins misbehaving. Although her irritation grows, Katrin's kids are delighted: they have never seen their mom act so cool! Although "Kate" does wreak havoc in Katrin's world, the android's misadventures also cause Katrin to realize how much her own perfectionism affects her family. Once she recognizes "Kate's" advantages, she reconciles with the android, but now "Kate" wants to be deactivated - too much input.
- Alfred Brehm - The Feelings of Animals.
- Farmers Breakfast - The Movie.
- 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.
- An American private eye is shot dead in Germany by an international extortion gang, and his partner arrives to seek revenge.