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- In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a plan to assassinate Nazi leaders by a group of Jewish U.S. soldiers coincides with a theatre owner's vengeful plans for the same.
- Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.
- A young German boy in the Hitler Youth whose hero and imaginary friend is the country's dictator is shocked to discover that his mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their home.
- An anthology series that follows the work of homicide detectives in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
- Finn Kiesewetter had left the police force to convert to an organic farm. But after a fire destroyed it, Finn found himself ruined and forced to return to law enforcement.
- Nora from Berlin struggles with growing up and her own identity. Her sister and her best friend are only interested in fashion and social media. Nora tries to do the same, but it does not make her happy. Then she meets Romy.
- A dramatization of Christiane F.'s memoirs and her hard beginnings in Berlin.
- A couple facing fertility issues finds their marriage tested on a vacation to a Sardinian resort - and the family next door only adds to the tension.
- Set in the Friedrichstadt-Palast music hall in the late 1980s, follows twin sisters as they search for their roots.
- A young man learns that his dying father was once deeply in love with a man.
- It follows a group of police officers who are sent to Berlin to form a special investigations unit: ZERV. As they dig deeper into the crimes in the East, they uncover that many of them originated in the West.
- With an anxiety disorder in his luggage, Chief Inspector Sörensen is transferred from Hamburg to the Frisian town of Katenbüll. He hopes that the small town will provide him with a quiet, tranquil working life.
- Kreuzeder was once a successful commissioner, but now he rarely solves a case. After more than 20 years in the service, he just wants to retire as quickly as possible and leave everyday life in the homicide squad in Lower Bavaria behind. Kreuzeder is of the opinion that humanity is coming to an end anyway, so he prefers to get drunk in the tavern and flirt with the waitress Gerda Bichler there instead of going about his work.
- 'Die, you pig!'. The words are emblazoned on the wall of school principal Höpfl's home for all the villagers to see. Soon after, this very man is found lying dead as a doornail on the train tracks. Franz Eberhofer, the local policeman in the sleepy Lower Bavarian province of Niederkaltenkirchen, suspects murder. And the prospect is one that does not entirely displease him, as this backwoods offers very little excitement other than the fantastic meals with his cooking-obsessed Grandma or the constant stress with his Beatles-loving Dad. He is supported by Rudi Birkenberger, now a department-store detective but previously with Franz in the Munich detective squad until both were suspended. The Höpfl case gets even more tangled when a second corpse is found, that of a drug-addict hustler with whom Höpfl had been in contact. Franz must also cope with the fact that his Susi is having an affair and he thinks the lover is the Thai offspring of his estranged brother, who is supposed to be their babysitter.
- The Salzburg police duo Heilmayr and Merana is looking for the murderer of a noble call girl.
- First several barns burn down, then an old house goes up in flames: For months, one arson attack follows the next. When a body charred beyond recognition is found in the rubble of the burned down house, the state police gets involved.
- Der 78-jährige ehemalige Architekt Richard Gärtner möchte seinem Leben ein Ende setzen. Dies soll jedoch nicht im Ausland, sondern ganz legal mit der Hilfe seiner Hausärztin geschehen. Für Dr. Brandt kommt es aus persönlicher Überzeugung nicht infrage, ihrem zwar betagten, aber gesunden Patienten ein todbringendes Präparat zu besorgen. Richard Gärtners Fall wird exemplarisch vor dem Deutschen Ethikrat diskutiert. Strittig ist dabei nicht die Frage, welche Formen von Sterbehilfe für Ärzte straffrei sind, sondern ob Mediziner dem Patientenwunsch eines Lebensmüden gerecht werden müssen - egal ob jung, alt, gesund oder krank. Ethikrat-Mitglied Dr. Keller befragt die Sachverständigen und lässt so die unterschiedlichen Experten zu Wort kommen. Die Verfassungsrechtlerin Prof. Litten und der Anwalt von Richard Gärtner stehen Bischof Thiel und Ärztekammerchef Sperling dabei mit unterschiedlichen Meinungen gegenüber. Am Ende richtet sich die Ethikrat-Vorsitzende direkt an das Publikum: Soll Richard Gärtner das tödliche Präparat bekommen, um sich selbstbestimmt das Leben zu nehmen?
- 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.
- When the daughter of a local dignitary is found dead in a closed mine in the Austrian mountains, a local detective tries to solve the case before the detectives from the big city can do so.
- Liv wakes up in a locked room next to her injured boyfriend. The man who arrests her claims there was a bio weapons attack and he saved her. But the stranger knows too well about the young couple, and Liv becomes suspicious. The couple is not sure if they can believe his story.
- 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.
- Thorsten and Maja divorced two years ago, but they still go on the annual Mediterranean summer holiday with their young sons and stay in a villa on Elba. But this year Thorsten is preoccupied with a business deal and eager to return to Germany early without consulting the others. Maja resents his desertion, but the teens are absorbed by their smartphones; young Erik has given up bird-watching and Anton is into girls. Nobody embraces Maja's ideas for joint activities and visiting the town bores them. Maja abandons housekeeping and accepts an invitation from local Lorenzo; he and his adult daughter Bianca run a Glamping-site. This appeals to Maja as does the suave Italian model host. Thorsten is furious to be left alone with the kids without notice and worried about Maja and his crucial deal. The boys are more open to some adventure and family reconciliation.
- Mati, a small-town Austrian tomboy wrestles with gender identity while her parents confront their own buried truths.
- Urs is a single doctor who looks after his alcoholic brother Falk. Trying to prevent his daughter Jette from getting stuck in their little province, he persuades her to volunteer in South America.
- Charlotte Kler returns to Germany with her husband, a famous conductor, after many years on the world stage. She is just setting up her new home when the doorbell rings and an unknown man with a bucket is standing at her door. He wants to collect some soil from the garden in memory of his late wife, because a long time ago his wife lived in Charlotte's house, and the garden in back of the house was her favorite place.
- Goofy farm boy Max Klopstock seems good for nothing, although the mean goat makes him look worse then he actually does. Feeling an utter disappointment to his dad, he decides to follow his two brothers' example, wandering out of the village to learn a profession. Emil and Jockel become carpenter and miller, learning those trades regularly. Max first adopts a vagrant rascal dog and trough his own honesty gets apprenticed by a tailor. He makes slow progress, but by inventing the overall saves his master from bankruptcy. each brother gets a magical gift before returning home. The miller's donkey, under whose tail gold is produced, and the carpenter's table which magically produces any desired meal, get stolen by an inn-keeping couple. Max uses his gift, a self-propelled cudgel, to make them return the rest black and blue.
- 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.
- Teacher Laura Hoffmann wakes up the morning after a romantic date with single father Hendrik Voss with memory lapses. While she believes she was raped, Voss denies forcing his son's teacher to have sex.
- Heddi is a confident and battle-hardened coastal fisherman - she has to be, because fishing has never been easy and in times of overfishing she struggles to make ends meet. But Heddi doesn't let himself be beaten. She only has one weak point: her daughter Eva. Eva is an environmental activist and just as combative as her mother. But despite their resemblance, Eva doesn't want to have anything more to do with Heddi, there has been radio silence between the two for years. But now Eva unexpectedly shows up in the small Baltic Sea village with her ten-year-old son Jannis, ostensibly for a birthday visit to Grandma Lore, with whom Eva spent most of her childhood. In truth, however, Eva is in great trouble: because of resistance to state authority - and this as a repeat offender. - she has to serve a prison sentence. But who should take care of their little Jannis during their absence? For Eva it is clear: Grandma Lore has to do that. But she no longer trusts herself to take care of the lively boy. Nothing would actually be more obvious than to ask Heddi, but Eva's anger at her mother is too great. Can she overcome herself and give her mother another chance?
- Good soldier Jakob expect the promised pay on top of glory after a victorious war, but king Karl gives only his standard speech and worthless medals. Returning home wounded and penniless, Jacob passes out, trying to boil his wrecked shoes in the forest. He's spotted by the witch, who seduces him as a foxy woman and, as he smells a rat and seeks to run, tricks him as last favor to fetch from her well an ever-shining blue lamp. Not gullible enough to hand it over first, he's dropped down, but finds lightening the lamp awakes a stylish European equivalent of a jinn, Lampman, who can give him anything. Seeking revenge, he demands Karl's most prized possession. Initially displeased with the crown princess Augustine, promised in marriage to seal a warlike dynastic alliance, Jacob and she soon fall in love. Their plans to liberate her get Jacob on the gallows at her arranged wedding day with warrior prince Philipp, the only hope being the lamp, which only thieving beggar knave Johann, which he spared arrest, knows enough about.
- Gibt es im Leben eine zweite große Liebe? Diese Frage stellt sich eine junge Witwe, Mutter zweier Kinder, die sich völlig unerwartet in einen etwas unsteten Fahrradstadtführer verliebt - für ihre Schwiegereltern, die ihr nach dem Tod ihres Mannes beigestanden haben, eine Unmöglichkeit. Nach dem lebensnahen Drehbuch von Dominique Lorenz inszenierte Regisseurin Michaela Kezele diesen einfühlsamen und humorvollen Liebesfilm mit Lucie Heinze und Golo Euler in den Hauptrollen und mit Miroslaw Nemec und Lilly Forgàch als liebevoll-nervigen Schwiegereltern: Physiotherapeutin Julika ist jung, attraktiv, Mutter zweier süßer Kinder - und Witwe. Vor zwei Jahren ist ihr Mann Michi tödlich verunglückt. Julika vermisst ihn noch immer schmerzlich, spricht ihm sogar regelmäßig auf seine Mailbox. Dennoch lässt sie sich Hals über Kopf auf eine Affäre mit dem leichtlebigen Fahrradstadtführer Konstantin ein. Plötzlich ist das Leben wieder voller Leichtigkeit, voller Zauber und Abenteuer. Aber ist das wirklich Liebe? Kann es nach ihrer großen Liebe Michi eine neue große Liebe für Julika geben? Für ihre liebevollen, aber manchmal auch etwas übergriffigen Schwiegereltern Georg und Christa ist der Fall klar: Die Affäre mit Konstantin kann nur eine "animalische" Verirrung sein. Georg und Christa haben nach Michis Tod Julika und den Kindern sehr beigestanden, die Familie hängt sehr aneinander, wohnt sogar gemeinsam auf einem Grundstück. Doch mit Konstantin kommt dieses ganze eingespielte Familiengefüge in Unordnung. Und wie sicher kann sich Julika Konstantins sein, der sich bis jetzt in seinem Leben noch nie wirklich festlegen wollte?
- The story of a seemingly settled bank employee who breaks the shackles of his everyday life and becomes a wanderer between worlds. Frederik is an up-and-coming young bank employee who lives an ordinary life. When a bank customer, whom Frederik has denied a loan in the face of the bank crisis, shoots himself in front of Frederik, he snaps. Together with ex-con Vince,he begins to live out a new, dark side of himself. He robs his rich bank customers' homes and gives the money to the needy. The initial rush of crossing social boundaries soon develops into an addiction to ever greater thrills.
- Freddy and his wife Juliana leave the Konstanz comfort zone and move to Berlin. With Grandpa Fritz in tow, the Kleemanns come to live with Grandma Regina. In contrast to his sister Zoe, little Niko is happy about living with his grandparents. While Freddy and his trusted colleague Lara finally want to implement their own concept as a daycare manager, Juliana sees an unexpected stop sign in her career as a doctor: She is unplanned pregnant. Now a difficult life decision is imminent: A third child does not fit into the current family and couple concept of two full-time workers. The self-absorbed parents initially pay little attention to the problem that Zoe is anything but happy after the new beginning. Only when the teenage girl runs away do Freddy and Juliana react. Now they have to find each other again as a couple in order to stay together as a family. Again the question arises: Who is backing up and how?
- In the heathen "Rauhnächten" there is an unbridled exuberance in the former Viking town of Ribe. Chaos reigns even at the police station, where the conscientious patrol officer Ida Sörensen helps out on the night shift. At this moment, nobody thinks of the sadistic serial killer who kidnaps people and starves them to death in the forest. So Ida doesn't recognize Smillla Vestergaad either, who has been missing for days, was able to free herself from her shackles, now appears among all the disguised and drunk in the police station, but hardly gets a word out. When the young woman disappeared a little later, the policewoman found herself exposed to serious accusations from her older colleague Magnus Vinter. Ambitious Commissioner Olsen is certain that there is little time left to find the abductee alive. Regardless of responsibilities, Ida does everything to make up for her fatal mistake. In the case of an unexplained death 20 years ago, she suspects the starting point for the motif of the serial perpetrator, whose murders do not seem to fit into any profile. The fact that Ida dives into the past despite the greatest time pressure sounds completely absurd at first. The desperate policewoman, however, is not deterred and uncovered a tragic secret that was years ago and is now supposed to be atoned for.
- "Snow White Must Die". Part 1 of 4 Nele Nauhaus Mysteries. A young man returns to his village after serving time for a murder he may or may not have committed. Will old truths be dangerous even now? Pia and Oliver investigate.
- The notorious "Angel of St. Pauli" is back. For Chief Inspector Jan Fabel there is no doubt who is behind the gruesome murder of a 48-year-old journalist. The act is like an unexplained series of crimes that occurred ten years ago and Fabel has no rest: Somebody cut the throats of nine men, all of them sex offenders, pimps and beating husbands, and castrated them alive - as if they were for their violence should atone for women. The current victim, who has been charged with attempted rape, fits into the scheme. In order to understand the motive for revenge, Fabel does not ask the police psychologist Susanne, but his ex-girlfriend, who wrote a book about the "angel", for help. The commissioner soon realizes, however, that the case is more complex than expected: a murderess who killed in the same way before the "angel" has broken out of the closed psychiatric ward. Then, as now, she is ruled out as a perpetrator. When a second victim is found in the red-light district, Fabel's intuition sounds the alarm: Like the journalist, the murdered man had a connection to a recycling company that Simon Blohm runs with the support of his father-in-law. Is someone using the "angel" handwriting to distract from something else? Fabel has little time to find out what is really going on here.
- The former mostwanted gangster Liviu Caramitru succeeds in breaking out of a prison in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Within a few hours, experienced LKA special investigators Hanna Landauer and Sven Schröder begin a large-scale manhunt across the country. The first attempt to apprehend him fails on the banks of river Oder on the border with Poland and Caramitru manages to narrowly escape yet again. His path leads the two police detectives via Bucharest to a remote village at the foot of the Carpathian Mountains. There, far away in Caramitru's Romanian homeland, Landauer and Schröder hunt down the fugitive - from the traditional wedding of his sister to the inevitable Western showdown high-up in the mountains.
- The year 2034: The consequences of the climate catastrophe are dramatic. Drought and floods destroy the livelihoods of millions of people. After the third storm tide in a row, the headquarters of the International Court of Justice in The Hague was evacuated. In a provisional interim building in Berlin, the climate catastrophe becomes the subject of legal proceedings. Two lawyers represent 31 countries of the global South, which are doomed to destruction without the support of the international community. They raise the question of responsibility, demand compensation and a right of nature to integrity in order to ensure their own survival. High-ranking representatives from politics and industry are invited as witnesses. The court must decide whether German policymakers are to be held accountable for their failure to protect the climate and thus set a precedent for climate justice.
- Adaptation of the Grimm Brothers' fairy tale.
- Since the little Kingdom of Lichterwalde is not well-ordered, the Queen (Margarita Broich) tries to convince her son Augustin (Emilio Sakraya) that he must marry a wealthy lady. The handsome prince, who only wants to enjoy his free life, decides that he will marry none other than the Emperor's daughter. Without further ado, he leaves the kingdom to win the heart of beautiful Victoria (Jeanne Goursaud). After she refuses him, he takes on a position as swineherd at the imperial court and tries to change her mind with all sorts of funny ideas and lots of charm. While the two get closer, the Emperor is trying to arrange a marriage between his daughter and Prince Ferdinand (Max Schimmelpfennig) .
- The murder of her sister turns the life of the young, freedom-loving Silvi upside down. Suddenly she has to take care of children who are foreign to her.
- Angela Merkel's decision in autumn 2015 to open the borders for refugees split the country: some praised the moral stance, others criticized the surrender of sovereignty. Yet what would appear to be well-planned activity is in reality a policy of muddling along, chance, and trial and error. The Driven Ones is a chronicle of the refugee crisis which shows that the political actors are being driven along, crushed between self-imposed constraints and events that have spun out of control.
- A 75-year-old man goes on a road trip with a 16-year-old runaway kid; their families search for them.
- Major German wine merchant checks up, with his romantic side agenda, on his oenologist Sandra in Sicily where she must find him an extraordinary claret, preferably from a local grape varietal. She refuses to 'settle for' the "nero d'avola" presented by local wine tycoon Vincent, but after running from his 'excessive flirting' after dinner accidentally finds in a grocery shop the right stuff, In Vino, alas without clues to the supplier. Stumbling upon a beached-up man, whom she brings to hospital as "Robinson" Sandra gets a crush on the amnesiac mystery compatriot and meets local commissioner Velani, who suspects an illegal refugee or crook but wants to help defeat crooked Vincenzo, thus provides tips where to look for the winemaker. He turns out to be Vincenzo's old neighbor and hereditary feud rival Ludovico Veritas, whom he sabotages by bribing the waterworks. She hesitates to tell Robinson he's identified as family father Bruno Haller until her brother Jens Brinkmann, whim she invited for a holiday with high-pregnant wife Alma, kicks her a conscience. All may still work out 'the Italian way'.
- Changes are pending for the three siblings Meta, Horst and Rudi.
- LKA-Zielfahnderin Hanna Landauer and her new colleague Röwer travel to Montevideo to provide the couple Tezlaff. It once kidnapped an industrialist and extorted 10 million ransom. The money has since disappeared.