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- An anthology series that follows the work of homicide detectives in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
- The story of a psychiatrist who, years after her disappearance, must learn to deal with the loss of his daughter.
- In Berlin 1942, Hilde is a member of an anti-Nazi group. She falls in love with another member, Hans. The two spend a summer together until they get caught by the Gestapo and Hilde is imprisoned, eight months pregnant.
- Fed up with her hectic life in Berlin, midwife Lena spontaneously packs her bags and drives to her parents' farm in Bavaria. But no pure Alpine idyll awaits her there: her mother isn't at all happy that she has returned; Grandfather Leo nags, as always; and her best friend Julia doesn't welcome her with open arms.
- The author Max Zorn, now in his early 60s, is on a promotional book tour in New York when he meets up again with the woman he could never forget. They spend a weekend together. 17 years have passed. Can there be a future for their past?
- Tina and Carl are a married couple with a daughter. Carl is having an affair with the woman next door. The death of their child brought a drastic change to their relationship. Everyone is unmasked.
- The cover model of an East German fashion magazine is tempted by a photographer she falls in love with, to flee to to the West.
- It's been five years Martin's family vanished without a trace from a cruise ship. Ever since, the police psychologist is tortured by the thought of his wife having committed a murder-suicide, taking their son with her. He is the only one not willing to believe this. Suddenly, a new lead takes him back aboard the very same luxury cruiser, where once again, a mother and her child have vanished. But this time, the girl reappears - holding a teddy bear that used to belong to Martin's son. Martin soon learns that things are handled differently on the open sea. Not to disturb his passengers' enjoyment of the lavish luxuries of their cruise, the rich owner of the cruiser wants to keep the child out of sight and hides her deep under deck in the quarantine bay. Here, Martin tries to get the traumatized girl to talk to him. But even deeper in the dark underbelly of the ship there is something lurking. And all signs point to a serial killer, just waiting to strike again.
- Berlin, in the war year of 1943. The upper-class widow Martha Liebermann could never have imagined having to leave her beloved homeland at the age of 85. As a Jew, however, her only choice is to go abroad or wait to be deported to a concentration camp. The high reputation and valuable pictures of her world-famous husband Max Liebermann still give her protection. But for how much longer? Martha's friends pressure her into an illegal sale to finance her escape with Hanna Solf's resistance group. Gestapo commissioner Teubner and his henchman now see his perfidious opportunity to set a trap for the courageous opponents of the regime. The art expert Solbach, who works for the Nazis and wants to bring his lover Benjamin to safety, is opaque. Can you trust him? When the situation escalates dramatically and she even has to fear for her faithful housekeeper Luise, Martha Liebermann shows her true wisdom and greatness.
- Men have a hard time with Rebecca, couples anyway. In a bar she meets soul mate Bruno, who seems to have long since finished making love. Rebecca and Bruno become friends. In the sure belief that they are not each other's type, they philosophize about love and the unreasonable sacrifices that a couple relationship demands. But can men and women really just be friends? Before they can finally clarify the question, the past interferes: Bruno's ex re-enters his life and Rebecca meets her "best friend" Johann. But something is wrong. Disillusioned, she leaves for New York without further ado, determined, not But then it is the distance that lets them see what makes them happy.
- Maria, the mother of television presenter Lisa Wartberg, has an accident with memory loss. All she can remember is that she has never been to New York. Without further ado, the elderly woman smuggles herself aboard a cruise ship.
- An attractive young woman is accosted in the corridor by a young man with something rather sinister on his mind. A contest of give-and-take follows.
- Als sich Christiane F. zu David Bowies Song "Heroes" einen weiteren Schuss Heroin setzt, schauen ihr 1981 allein in Deutschland fünf Millionen Menschen zu. Nie zuvor wurde Drogensucht und ihre Folgen filmisch so radikal umgesetzt. Wie konnte die Geschichte von einem minderjährigen Mädchen, das sein Leben an Drogen und Sex verliert, ein Meilenstein in Literatur und Kino werden? Als der Spielfilm "Christiane F. - Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo" 1981 seine Premiere in den deutschen Kinos feiert, kommen viele Menschen erschüttert aus der Vorführung. Nie zuvor wurden Drogensucht, Entzug und Prostitution so radikal dargestellt. Vor allem die Darstellerin Natja Brunckhorst und der Darsteller Thomas Haustein beeindrucken das Publikum nachhaltig. Es sind die 80er Jahre in West-Berlin; eine faszinierende Jugendkultur entwickelt sich in der Stadt, in der es weder eine Sperrstunde noch Grenzen zu geben scheint - obwohl sie eine meterhohe Mauer umgibt. Am Bahnhof Zoo - dem Zentrum West-Berlins - herrscht das Elend vor. Hier verbringen Drogensüchtige ihren Alltag, viele davon noch Kinder. Christiane F. ist eines davon. Sie erzählt zwei Journalisten ihre Geschichte. Schonungslos und ungeschönt. Das Buch wird ein Bestseller und kurz darauf wird daraus der erfolgreichste Film der 80er Jahre entstehen. Dem Spielfilm gelingt mit seiner radikalen Bildsprache und modernen Dramaturgie eine Rezeption bis ins Heute. Die Dokumentation geht der Frage nach, wie die Geschichte von einem Mädchen, das sein Leben an Drogen und Sex verliert, ein Meilenstein in Literatur und Kino werden konnte, und zeichnet den damaligen Zeitgeist nach. Nie zuvor veröffentliche Casting-Aufnahmen und Stimmen von einem Großteil der damaligen Crew wie dem Regisseur Uli Edel, dem Drehbuchautor Herman Weigel, dem Produzenten Hans Weth und dem Darsteller Thomas Haustein erzählen von den schwierigen Bedingungen bei den Dreharbeiten, von der Mitwirkung David Bowies und dem Umgang mit dem Erfolg.
- Schnell findet Kommissar Lewandowski mit Theresa Wolffs Hilfe heraus, dass es sich um den Zuhälter Ulrich Rochow, genannt "Alpha", handelt, der seine Frauen mit Liebesversprechungen gefügig gemacht und dann an solvente Kunden verschachert hatte. Sein brutaler Tod führt Lewandowski und Theresa in die Jenaer Rotlichtszene. Hat die osteuropäische Konkurrenz rund um die neue Bordellbetreiberin Boriana Maydell "Alpha" aus dem Weg geräumt? Die polizeiliche Untersuchung in "Alphas" Escortunternehmen bringt die Ermittler auf die Spur eines verstorbenen Mädchens. Carmen war einige Wochen zuvor in die Rechtsmedizin gebracht und von Theresas Kollegen Zeidler untersucht worden, der einen Autounfall als Todesursache bestätigte. Nun stellt sich nach der von Theresa angeordneten Exhumierung heraus, dass der Autounfall als Verdeckung eines Tötungsdeliktes inszeniert war. Zeidler macht sich schwere Vorwürfe wegen seiner Fehldiagnose. Carmens Mutter Heidi Müller ist schockiert. Sie hatte keine Ahnung, dass ihre Tochter als Prostituierte arbeitete. Alle Hinweise, die in die Jenaer Zuhälterszene oder den Kundenkreis von "Alpha" führen, entpuppen sich als Fehlspuren. Offenbar steckt hinter "Alphas" Tod ein sehr viel persönlicheres Motiv.
- Angst is the story of a sensitive stage director, Robert, and his beautiful girlfriend Marie, a doctor in a children's clinic. Their different attitudes toward life lead the two to constant fights and conflicts. When Robert finds out that his father is terminally ill, he feels guilty for not having taken more care of him. Marie tries to help, but when his father dies, Robert falls into a downward spiral of despair. He looks for solace in his work and in one-night stands with prostitutes. When Marie finds out that Robert has betrayed her, she leaves him. However, her love for Robert and her realization that to love someone also means one must be able to forgive, offer hope for a new beginning between the two.
- TV Series"Der Heimweg" is series on Prime Video.
- The 26-year-old Anja Niedringhaus is sitting in a UN Transall plane on the way to Sarajevo. The war has just started in Yugoslavia. Niedringhaus had stubbornly worked on her boss beforehand to report from the war zone in the middle of Europe as a photographer for the European Pressphoto Agency. It is bitterly cold on site, there is no electricity, hardly any food, and everyone is in constant danger.
- Latife Malek is a professor of mathematics, an avowed Kemalist and women's rights activist, as well as a wife and mother. Living all of this at the same time is difficult even for a strong woman like her. Her life story and strokes of fate made her hard. This initially emerges in an argument with her eldest daughter Lale, who has just botched the visit of her future parents-in-law. The story begins in 1962: Latife happily celebrates her passing the entrance examination to study mathematics in Istanbul. She and her husband Burhan are particularly proud that she is one of the first women in this male domain. However, nothing comes of their agreement that after the birth of the three children it is their career turn. After the unexpected death of his father, Burhan has to take over his dental practice in distant Germany. There Latife is expected by her mother-in-law Seyran, who thinks nothing of her academic ambitions. The arrival in Moers on the Lower Rhine is a culture shock: Latife ends up in the ultra-conservative society of the economic miracle and becomes a housewife against her will. She only likes the Leberkäse, a culinary chance discovery. While Latife settles in with little enthusiasm, the daughters become more and more at home over the years. So the girls are happy to be heading back to Germany after a short stopover in Istanbul. Because Burhan is starting a lucrative dentist position in Cologne. When Latife realizes that the longed-for return will not happen, she takes the chance to finally think about herself: Lale, Nihal and Peyda have grown into independent young women, now Latife can resume her academic career. Studies, doctorate and now professorship - she has a lot to catch up on. Not only her scientific ambition, but also the advances of the smart Professor Martin put her marriage increasingly in danger. But Latife and Burhan have already endured a lot together. When everything seems to be going well, another stroke of fate ensues.
- When Cecile Dorm realizes that her baby has been kidnapped, she immediately wants to call the police - but her husband overpowers her and locks her up. The recording of the emergency call is the only clue the investigators have in hand.
- Forensic phonetician Matthias Hegel is a luminary in his field. Even the smallest deviation in the sound of a voice is enough for him to distinguish truth from lies and thus convict criminals. When Hegel confesses to a cruel murder, true-crime podcaster Jula Ansorge believes it is a mistake and does everything she can to uncover the truth. But with her research she puts herself in mortal danger.
- The Seventies: A decade of profound change. 22-year-old police typist Siggi is among the first women to apply for a career in the Criminal Police. She has to recognize, however, that traditions are not easily overcome.
- Jena wird durch eine Mordserie aufgeschreckt. Die zwei Mordopfer, beide ehemalige Manager, wurden vom Täter an öffentlichen Orten zur Schau gestellt. Theresa Wolff findet heraus, dass die Opfer erst durch den Wald gehetzt und dann durch einen aufgesetzten Schuss getötet wurden, einen Fangschuss, wie der Jäger ihn dem waidwunden Wild versetzt. Die polizeilichen Ermittlungen leiten Hauptkommissar Bruno Lewandowski (Aurel Manthei) und sein Kollege Ceyhan Topal (Sahin Eryilmaz). Sie müssen damit rechnen, dass es weitere Opfer geben wird. Was Theresa Wolff den Ermittlern zunächst verschweigt: Der Fall weckt in ihr dunkle Erinnerungen an die eigene Kindheit und an die ereignisreiche Nachwendezeit der 90er Jahre. Theresa beschließt, auf eigene Faust zu ermitteln, und ist sich sicher, Antworten im verlassenen Forsthaus ihres Vaters zu finden.
- A worried mother suspects her teenage son of being a rapist/killer.
- They never had that magical summer after graduating high school. But now they have the chance to make up for it, because their favorite band from back then is going on tour again. The three men set off on their long-awaited adventure.
- Single, retired ship captain Kurt has been doing "his thing" all his life - despite having a family. His son Jens therefore has a rather distant relationship with his father. When the curmudgeon is temporarily unable to move after a sailing accident and has already worn out three nursing staff with his notoriously bad mood, the family is at a loss. No one has the time, let alone the desire, to take care of the old man. Nursing manager Hühnichen calls Roza from Poland on the plan - she is the very last hope. It is immediately clear to Jens that it is only now that things are really going to happen: His father, who himself comes from Masuria, is not on good terms with Poland. And indeed: from the first minute, Kurt makes it really difficult for Roza. But she doesn't let the curmudgeon get her down, on the contrary: the battle-hardened Roza accepts the challenge and is in top form. After all, she has the big wedding of her heavily pregnant daughter in mind and the end of the annoying job always in view. However, when the promised relief does not show up and all family members are on their way, the conscientious nurse is forced to jump over her shadow: she takes her patient home with her without further ado. Roza begins to figure out what's been on Kurt's mind for a long time. In his old homeland, it's time for a new beginning, in which Roza of all people will play a surprising role.
- An imaginary biography of Jean Genet, poet and high priest of evil. "Revolt is something I allow myself", said Jean Genet in 1975. Born in Paris in 1910, raised and humiliated in an approved school, a pederast and thief who has been to prison 14 times and expelled from five European countries. His novels are ballads of poisonous beauty, his plays are murky rituals of oppression where each person acts out the role imposed upon him by the others.
- A young assistant doctor is confronted with bad cases of abused children. She is shocked at how complicated it is to hold responsible parents accountable.
- Ein Ehepaar muss feststellen, dass ihr Hauskauf zur Bewährungsprobe für die Beziehung wird.
- A rich young lady marries a man without means only because her father tells her it is a way to save millions in income tax each year - by Germany's tax splitting rules for married couples.
- 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.