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- An anthology series that follows the work of homicide detectives in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
- A beautiful girl, bored and hungry for life, takes advantage of her new-found freedom away from her parents to explore what lies beneath the surface of Berlin.
- Another 26-chapter anthology that showcases death in all its vicious wonder and brutal beauty.
- A spy navigates the precarious terrain of love and survival during an undercover mission in Syria.
- SOKO Wismar is a German crime series.
- Fate has taken its toll on the aging cabaret singer Ruth and the young but terminally ill Jonas. Yet despite their great age difference and their entirely opposite experiences in life, they form an intense bond and give each other a reason and purpose to live.
- Berlin, Capital of Germany. The integration of East and West, multicultural society, departure, movement, creativity, active life, but also loneliness, solitude, and anonymity. Everyone yearns for togetherness, and each love is possible. 'At Second Glance' is a film about Kay and Falk, Benjamin and Elena, Till and Pan - three visually impaired couples in the big city juggernaut Berlin - who meet, discover, and feel attracted to each other.
- Six wildly different people have no clue what's install for them on 'pioneering' burnout therapist Hannah's forest hike to a desolate hotel in Märkischen Schweiz, with some tricks to force them out of their comfort zones in completely different circumstances then those which gave them regular stress. Workaholic restructuring management consultant Johann Meininger was tricked to take the course as his PA convinced his boss to dump him due to expensive seniority, but finds a new challenge when sparks flow between him and equally cocky teacher Silvia Rautenberg, a disorganized single mother of two who has tinnitus. Editing lecturer Alfred is desperate after 500 failed job applications and hamburger jobs. Yuppie designer Rosa is stuck in short-term apprenticeships. Fresh pensioner Herbert wants adventure after 40 years of patient care, but his wife Gudrun fears any risk. Therapist Hannah looses control.
- 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.
- Harry Wegener (Günther Maria Halmer) has made his dream come true. The successful animal photographer roams jungles and savannas - until a mild heart attack forces him to return to Germany. The world traveler now needs someone to take loving care of him. His younger daughter Fritzi (Claudia Eisinger), a single mother, cannot care for him in her small apartment. There would be enough space in the stately family home, and mother-in-law Sophie (Christine Schorn) would be happy about the return of the life artist, whose cheerful clumsiness would bring some color into the gray everyday life. However, his wife Katharina (Angela Roy) and his daughter Julia (Susanna Simon) have not forgiven the egomaniac for simply running away. For better or for worse, they accommodate the notorious chaotic in the attic in the hope that he doesn't disrupt their everyday life, which is perfectly coordinated with healthy eating and order. Of course, Harry doesn't miss an opportunity to shake up the women's shared apartment: the little tummy that he compliments Julia on is not, as Harry thinks, due to her pregnancy. No fuse box or expensive vase is safe from the clumsy. When the fire brigade has to come because he almost burns down the house at a small party, the limit is reached. Harry is annoying. But in all the chaos, Katharina rediscovers her old feelings. Julia also finally comes out of her shell thanks to her father. But then the unexpected happens.
- 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.
- SOKO: The process.
- 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.
- Story of the nun who stood out for her strong personality as a trusted servant of Pope Pius XII.
- Seit einer halben Ewigkeit haben sich Familienmensch Susanne und ihre freiheitsliebende jüngere Schwester Mia nicht mehr gesehen. Vor fast 15 Jahren erlebten die beiden zusammen einen aufregenden Auslandsaufenthalt in Australien, bei dem auch Susannes Tochter Jenny geboren wurde. Mia entschied sich, im Ausland zu bleiben und Karriere zu machen, Susanne ging mit ihrem Neugeborenen zurück in die ostdeutsche Provinz, heiratete den Kindsvater Georg und stieg in die Uhrenmanufaktur ihrer Familien ein. Als nun Mutter und Familienoberhaupt Hilde stirbt, taucht Mia plötzlich wieder auf - für längere Zeit, so wie es scheint. Nicht nur, dass Mia sich massiv in die Geschäfte der Manufaktur einmischt und Vater Herbert um den Finger wickelt, auch stört sie Susannes Familienleben ganz empfindlich, in dem sie sich hinter Susannes Rücken mit der pubertierenden Jenny verbündet. Susannes Befürchtungen werden schon bald bedrohliche Gewissheit und zwischen den beiden Schwestern entbrennt ein Kampf um das Glück, auf das jede ein Anrecht zu haben glaubt.
- Middle-aged, unmarried Hans Mittelstädt's life is a hell since Linda, the mother of their adorable son Moritz, left him and took the boy, only dumping him at her convenience, without any regard for either male's needs and wishes. Run over by hunky student Martin Albrecht's skateboard, the pair and two other men in hospital, businessman Walter Morgenstern and hopeless bumbler Leo Koschnick, exchange experiences of life being ruined by feminist bitches and form a league. Plans to help Hans prevent Moritz being taken away to Denmark with his 'step-dad' Jonas end frustratingly, but the boy himself proves the ultimate factor.
- After a car accident, an ageing mayor should actually come to his senses. But his accident has generated a lot of sympathy, which he wants to use to get re-elected.
- Journalist Jan Schulte scents a big story around health minister Elisabeth Stade who might have leveraged a heart transplantation for her brother. Schulte approaches Stade's assistant Pfüger to get more information.
- A seemingly simple case about parental abuse of their daughter, investigated by a police veteran, turned out to be much more complicated.
- A comedy about relationships. A just-divorced couple, the wife's lover; a convicted criminal, his pregnant wife and his best friend; the economy minister and his secret lover; all parties are under stress in a hostage situation and surrounded by uncoordinated police troops.
- The story of a man who finally wants to reclaim his business, but then has to learn that he is no longer owner of the site. While the two families wrangle, another mischief pulls on.
- Ibiza police chief Santander bring perfect record hamburg police detective Toni Costa back to lead the police in his corruption-infested native Balearic island, rather then promote Rafael 'bishop' Gonzales. Toni accepts, eager to move back in with his well)connected local ex Karen Delgado. His first case is the murder of German patient Ingrid Scholl, who would have died from either a fractured skull or medical OD in plastic surgeon Udo Schönbach's prestigious luxury clinic resort. Usual suspect is Toni's uncle, local mob godfather 'El Cubano', whose goons follow Toni everywhere. Specific suspects are Isabella's best friend and Benedict Grone, lover the lover she stole from School, but she becomes the next victim. Toni also digs in the clinic staff's past and romantic secrets.
- The predominantly female readership loves the romantic love novels that the Berlin author Max Mangold writes under the female pseudonym Jana van Hausten. For the anniversary edition of "Stürmische Zeiten" he gets into a real creative, life and marriage crisis despite the best sales figures. His publisher is pushing for the next bestseller to be completed and his wife Susanne, a respected law professor, decides to accept a call from Rostock University for a year. Alone because her marriage needs a break, explains Susanne. Max suspects that she is alone because her old childhood sweetheart, the fisherman Jörn, lives in Rostock. For the time being, Susanne is staying at her mother Greta's rural inn, who thinks as much of her son-in-law as he thinks of her: very little. But that doesn't stop Max from following his wife and camping in front of the inn because Greta refuses to give him a room. Max persistently courts Susanne and initially only impresses his mother-in-law, who turns out to be an ally. While torpedoing Jörn's advances to Susanne and at the same time struggling with his next novel, Max meets the attractive hairdresser Nancy. She has read all 25 of Jana van Hausten's novels and is using unusual means to help him overcome his writer's block.
- The successful doctor Karin (Mariele Millowitsch) is about to retire when she is diagnosed with cancer. The news hits her hard. She decides to use the time she has left repairing the frigid relationship to her only daughter Steffi (Mina Tander). Without further ado she moves into Steffi's apartment building, even though the two have barely talked let alone seen each other in the past year. Quickly, know-it-all Karin realizes that her daughter's life needs a complete makeover: her thirteen year old son Timo (Erik Linnerud) is too chubby and spends all his time playing computer games, Steffi can't assert herself in her job as a teacher and lashes out at her husband Basti (Simon Schwarz) as a result of her frustration. With Karin's presence the small family is shaken to its core and long repressed issues biol up. But the biggest test of stamina is yet to come...
- The Leipzig star lawyer Florian Faber represents wealthy real estate companies who rubbish little people with questionable financing models. The arrogant bachelor, spoiled for success, has no scruples and he lives on a large scale, including a designer apartment and sailing yacht. How hollow and monotonous his life is only becomes clear to the once sympathetic and imaginative lawyer when he is innocently involved in a serious traffic accident and barely escapes death. Florian visits the widow Elke Linde, whose husband Thomas was fatally injured by the driver who fled the accident. He learns that the mother of two is in danger of losing her house through a foreclosure sale. This is due to the real estate company "Argens Wohnfinanz", which Florian is supposed to represent. He cheerfully changes sides and takes over Elke's mandate. His law firm partners Rigas and Braun are furious. Together with the attractive journalist Sarah Pohl, Florian tracks down the shady machinations of the real estate mafia. Sarah is impressed by his change of heart and falls madly in love with him. But when Florian surprisingly comes under suspicion of corruption, she begins to doubt the noble motifs of the "white knight".
- 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.