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- When a group of friends fail to lower the ladder of their boat, they find themselves stranded in the surrounding waters and struggle to survive.
- An anthology series that follows the work of homicide detectives in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
- In 11th-century Persia, a surgeon's apprentice disguises himself as a Jew to study at a school that does not admit Christians.
- The true story of Graeme Obree, the Champion cyclist who built his bicycle from old bits of washing machines who won his championship only to have his title stripped from him and his mental health problems which he has suffered since.
- A secretary at a Berlin newspaper in 1936 gets to write about two Alpinists, as she knows them well. She later gets to report on and photograph her friends' and other Alpinists' climbs of the dangerous Swiss Eiger north face.
- After his wife is brutally murdered, club enforcer Ben Archer wages war against the Chinese triads.
- A talented professor is forced to come to terms with her clinical depression.
- 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.
- The story of three generations of a Turkish immigrant family.
- In the aftermath of World War II, a former circus entertainer who was spared from the gas chamber becomes the ringleader at an asylum for Holocaust survivors.
- In the Seventeenth Century, while Hungary is fighting the Turks, the population of a small village in the Carpathian Mountains faces the evil Countess Elizabeth Bathory, accused of drinking and bathing in blood of virgin women. Count Thurzo imprisons the Countess in the tower of a monastery and brings her daughter to live with him. In the present days, Keith is writing a book about Countess Elizabeth Bathory and traveling through Hungary with his friends J.J. and Kim researching her life. While trying to find the monastery, he meets the gorgeous and seductive Elizabeth, who guides the trio to the place. Keith and Elizabeth fall in love for each other, and after a car accident, they have a supernatural journey with revelations and fatalities.
- A wide-ranging, energetic period piece tracing the rise of the Protestant Henry of Navarre as he goes from battlefield warrior to France's beloved King Henri IV. Director Jo Baier's epic is a classically-entertaining adventure, albeit one with much bloodshed and frequent bawdy sexual interludes. In late-16th-century France, Catholics and Protestant Huguenots are at war. Seemingly seeking peace, French dowager Queen Catherine de Medici summons Henry to her court to marry him to her daughter, which would unite the two warring factions. However, the Catholics slaughter the Protestant wedding guests in what became known as the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre and Henry--now married--must use all his guile to stay alive and maneuver for the throne.
- Lance and his team are bodyguards for NSA's head, who is sent by the President to a secret meeting in an empty hotel outside Bucharest. During the meeting, the hotel is attacked. By whom? And why?
- This modern version of Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale is charming. Ratso is a streetwise chancer of a rat whose theatre show is struggling. Then he finds an egg that hatches a mutant swan. Ratso soon sees the potential of showing Ugly as a freak. But things go awry when rodent heavies appear...
- Upon discovering that their town is up for sale, crafty Irish villagers scheme to raise the money to prevent the buy-out. They hold a poetry contest with a tempting grand prize -- the deed to their local pub. But what could happen when a duplicitous American rapper emerges as the best poet around?
- A biography of Hildegard Knef, one of Germany's biggest post-war stars.
- A guy tries to help his best friend win the attention of the girl of his dreams.
- After aspiring poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe fails his law exams, he's sent to a sleepy provincial court to reform. Instead, he falls for Lotte, a young woman who is promised to another man.
- The 18th century literary genius Friedrich Schiller falls in love with the sisters Charlotte and Caroline von Lengefeld. After a passionate summer together in a menage a trois, jealousy and rivalry endanger their union.
- When a young drifter is forced to stay the winter in a small seaside town, he inadvertently becomes the catalyst for deceit, double crossings and murder amongst the locals.
- A young French woman comes to NYC to be an actress. Meanwhile, she lives on the street and does odd jobs. She becomes the involuntary muse of a blocked writer. Love?
- The crew of a bankrupt Scottish trawler turn to smuggling illegal immigrants over the stormy waters of the North Sea.
- German comedy about the difficulty of finding your own way in the face of infinite possibilities
- A drama about the relationship between a young black man and a rich German girl.
- Something terrible is about to happen in a small town in Germany. Nobody knows the reason why, except one person: Rico Bartsch.
- A detective tries to hunt down a serial killer who broadcasts his murders live on the internet.
- The Templar Knights are an ancient chivalry order sworn to protect the world's greatest secret - The Holy Grail. When a young man sets on a mission to return the Grail back to mankind, the knights fight to the death to save their secret.
- 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 nameless man receives phone calls intended for someone else and ends up pretending to be that person, while a female character rebels against her author.
- In the enchanted kingdom of Pinkovia the fairy Princess Lillifee rules with a magic hand, creating beauty and spreading goodwill wherever she goes. Together with her best friend, Pupsi the pig, she flies throughout her realm, leaving behind a magical trail: clouds of pink butterflies and sparkling stars! She soon discovers that not all Pinkovians are happy. They complain about the recklessness and destructive rivalry between the fairies Snowflake, Flicker and Mistral, and, yes, even about low-flying Pupsi's knack for crashing into market stalls or chicken coops. If things don't change, the Farmer Pixies, the Fisher Elves and the Mermaids will leave the enchanted kingdom! Naturally, this makes Lillifee very sad. But with the help of her friends Pupsi, Basil the hedgehog and Carlos the frog, Lillifee finds a way to restore peace among the fairies and harmony in her magical realm!
- Three friends find a treasure map from the mysterious 'White Falcons', a juvenile gang whose leader disappeared ten years before.
- The poet and bon vivant Clemens Brentano no longer wants to be an artist. In hopes of becoming a better person, he turned to the Catholic religion.
- 29-year-old Simon works in a phone shop, but his thoughts circle around finding a new girlfriend after being left by his last one year ago. However, he finds the woman of his dreams in his most-hated coffee shop.
- 1974. The world is divided into two rigid power blocs. A highly guarded and deadly armed border cuts across Germany. ALEXANDER KAROW, 19, son of a chemistry professor, chooses to serve in the border patrols of the GDR. It is an escape from his protective father who wants to arrange an effortless and less dangerous post for his son. He expects Alexander to follow his footsteps, study chemistry and fight for the utopia of a just socialism. The reality could hardly be more disillusioning. The border troops are dominated by brutal rituals among the soldiers, tolerated by the officers. As a professor's son Alex is exposed to special bullying, but his platoon keeps together and one of the elder privates, GAPPA, befriends and protects him. Alex learns quickly that the ideals of equality, democracy and human dignity are just propaganda. And he understands that rather than protecting the GDR from the western capitalist enemy, the border is there to prevent the own population from fleeing the country. The question what happens if someone emerges in the sight of the kalashnikow engages the soldiers day and night. In all this desperation Alex meets a girl, CHRISTINE: tractor-driver, self-confident and inaccessible at first. The two get close. It is Alex' first love. Christine encourages him not to follow his father's expectations but to fulfill his dream of becoming a photographer. But then Christine'*s brother KNUT uses one of Alexander's photographs of the border installations for an oppositional campaign and things get out of control. Christine asks Alex to let her brother cross the border because Knut is persecuted by the state security. Reluctantly Alex agrees. But when Knut arrives at the specified border point, he is not alone - next to him is Christine. Alex is faced with the toughest decision in his life...
- Johanna, a beautiful brunette, comes back to her father's house after accomplishing a training course in a car factory in Turin. At home, she reads a note her father had ensconced in the welcome bouquet of flowers: «You're back at last.» Then, she meets her best friend, Jasmin, and they go together to see their group of friends # all have grown up together by the lake. It comes up they have all received a message similar to her own. Next evening, these young persons are having a good time, dancing, flirting, drinking a lot, as a retarded person watches them, and evokes a memory of a similar evening years ago... Then, people start dying around, and in the peaceful lake that hides mysteries they share.
- Between the icy South Pole and a colourful sea-port, plays the adventure of the penguin brothers Jasper and Junior, who, with the help of 9 year old Emma, retrieve the eggs of a threatened parrot species from the evil Dr. Block.
- The story of an 11-year-old girl from a poor rural community who dreams of becoming a racing driver.
- In this sequel to Revenge of the Rats (2001), Frank and Katrin return to Frankfurt to take on a pack of genetically mutated vermin. When the the rodents attack, it's up to Frank and Katrin to stop the scientist responsible for the mutant critters.
- Isabel Kleefeld's crime drama deals with a little boy whose life is in danger after he had watched a road accident. In a small village, the young police officer Marc Fischer celebrates promotion with his colleague Horst Bäumer. Shortly after, he drives under the influence and dies in an accident, whose only witness is seven-year-old Arnie. Bäumer's wife Hannah gets to know the child and tries to reveal the hidden truth. When Arnie suddenly disappears, she starts searching the boy together with the local mailman Enno, fearing someone wants to silence him...
- The young assistant doctor Marc and his girlfriend Anne work for the mountain rescue service in the Tyrolean ski resort of Vent and are very happy together until the relationship breaks up after Anne's brother dies in an accident.
- A pregnant 22-year-old with a dreary job, a difficult home life and an absent boyfriend learns to love her life and share this love with the child in her womb.
- "Germany from Above" invites the audience to fly over German cities, its countryside and waters, offering an unusual perspective: from above. A series in 4 seasons with each 3 episodes, plus an accompanying movie and a winter special.
- In the Austrian Alps, a meteorite crashes into a glacier and revives the ice-frozen Neandertal boy Bataa.
- Medical student and petty dealer Paul tastes his own stuff one night and ends up in the hospital. His father locks him up in a dog kennel at home for withdrawal. Meanwhile, the brutal drug dealer Ingo is looking for Paul.
- An East Indian chef falls in love with the fiancee of his new boss.
- Lenny comes across some old photos taken during the Prague Spring of 1968. But who is the woman on them? Soon the photos are stolen and his father murdered. He travels to Prague and comes dangerously close to the truth.
- The successful, self-confident surgeon Professor Harry Seide fights against the increasing commercialization of hospital operations