Advanced search
- TITLES
- NAMES
- COLLABORATIONS
Search filters
Enter full date
to
or just enter yyyy, or yyyy-mm below
to
to
to
Exclude
Only includes titles with the selected topics
to
In minutes
to
1-50 of 89
- After a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend in 1st-century Jerusalem, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.
- A kidnapped boy strikes up a friendship with his captor, an escaped convict on the run from the law, while the search for him continues.
- Trying to find how a millionaire wound up with a phony diamond brings Hercule Poirot to an exclusive island resort frequented by the rich and famous. When a murder is committed, everyone has an alibi.
- The sisters Bimbo and Molle live on a farm. One day, her cousin Peggy and her cousins drag Danny and Ben to the farm because their parents had a fatal accident.
- Konrad von Seidlitz is a young yuppie lawyer currently celebrating his engagement with Cornelia, daughter of minister of justice Volkerts.
- Karl Ravinski, CEO of a flourishing design kitchens firm, celebrates his birthday with family, mist of which lives on his grand country estate. Then Karl travels to Mallorca, to negotiate a Spanish takeover with slick Freiberg, who keeps him distracted with his luxury villa, yacht and foxy executive assistant Cora Talheim. She however betrays her boss by revealing she not an MBA but a call-girl, and the deal is rotten. Back in Germany, Karl stubbornly overrules Cora's protestations she wants neither a reward nor a relationship. They end up married, greeted by the family with mixed feelings, which culminate after Karl dies during love-making, having put Cora in his will.
- While divorced Magnus Kamphoven tried to collect his daughter Christine 'Tine' from her ma Friederike, he accidentally kills her Italian lover, violinist Michele Tassi, and is locked away in jail. His pa, Jon Kamphoven, raises Tine on his German stud-farm, Breedekamp. When Tine learns she has a half-sister, she gets Mara from Italy and arranges fro her violin talent to be cultivated. Life gets complicated when Tine insists to pursue her horse riding passion on a stallion descended from her ma's and several eligible males show interest in the sisters and Tine's brat-confident Winnie. Even ma's former home estate Dorotheenhof complicates matters.
- Bavarian industrialist Otto Kilian's socialite wife Helen plans a fairy-tale wedding on (hence the title) their country estate. It's for their daughter Martina and Arndt, the Graf (count) of Solm-Weltingen, her better in show-jumping. When his horse has a fatal accident, Arndt calls off their plan to raise horses together and considers a job in Singapore, but Otto offers him a job in his firm. To out-stage Otto's jet set sister Johanna, Helen engages butler William, ignoring their common past. William enlists as his gopher Erik, the only other horse fanatic Martina ever sort of loved.
- The brothers Franz and Klaus Seebacher's comfy farm life is shaken by the arrival of penniless Eva 'Eve', who claims to be Franz's estranged gambler-son Georg's second ex-wife, arriving with recently deceased first wife Eva Maria's sissy pre-teen son Robbie. Unhappilt married country doctor Dr. Freese gave Eva a lift from the rail station, and already has a crush on her. Franz decides to file for grandfatherly custody and make Robbie his heir, Klaus turns flirtatious. Devoted housekeeper Alma soon smells a rat about 'poor' Eve and takes measures against the apparent gold-digger, but the plot is yet incomplete.
- Paul Buchner's romantic novels sell well, his head on the cover stands for love, romance and passion. His private life however is a depressing mess. Paul's marriage ended in divorce. He has a lover, his publisher's daughter, yet their whining daughter forces him to return to his ex, who remarried Konrad 'Conni' Killinger, a better catch who provokes Paul.
- After six years of international business peregrinations, Florian Riemann finally visits his Bavarian mountain home town, considering to settle down now the firm's Munich HQ may want him. Staying with his best friend, veterinarian Rudi Loescher, Florian decides to visit his first love, local Annabel Wilbert. Her marriage to Harry is shaky as she reproaches him lack of interest for the lake family hotel and even a car accident caused by a stranger which wounded their pre-teen son René. Florian falls in love with Harry's sister, painter Ilona. But Annabel kept a crucial secret. René's regular babysitter Dorette and her equally penniless lover Marek bring another tragic twist.
- For the birthday of his father Carl Ludwig, the successful foreign journalist Jakob Goltz returns to his home on Lake Constance for the first time in many years. Jakob is accompanied by his pretty wife Madlon, whom he married not out of love but out of a sense of responsibility. He never learned to love and be loved. In Jacob's eyes, his mother Jonah is to blame for this. Meeting her reopens old wounds: to this day he cannot forgive his mother for always being dismissive and only sporadically taking part in family life. The cool, unapproachable woman has always lived her own "second" life on an inherited farm on the other side of the lake. It is here of all places that Madlon Jonas meets the charming administrator Rudolf, for whom she soon feels more than for her husband. Against his will, Jakob also falls in love into his equally enchanting and courageous childhood friend Clarissa. Out of fear of his feelings, however, he reacts with the same emotional coldness that Jonah always exemplified for him. It seems like his mother's hard-heartedness only makes everyone unhappy. But Jacob has no idea that Jonah has a dark secret that weighs like a shadow over the family.
- At the death of her once close Italian uncle Gianni, Lilly Kerner is in line to inherit a substantial sum. While her whole family is in Venice with her to settle the estate, she meets Conte Francesco di Selari, the charming aristocratic hotel owner who was Gianni's best friend. They soon fall in love, but she refuses a proposal because he's already engaged to employee Giovanna. Francesco also tells her that Gianni had an illegal child. Actually, uncle Gianne left his palazzo jointly to Lilly and Francesco.
- Julius von Tallien invites Barbara to spend the summer and attend his daughter Marianne's grand wedding at the family castle. She's the orphaned daughter of his sister Barja, who was discredited on account of an 'undesirable affair. The girl's lack of finesse disturbs the women, especially Julius's wife. Her natural charm soon delights the men, especially hunky neighbor Christian Thormann, an architect who adored Barja as a boy. She dumps him when his estranged wife, actress Liliane Thormann, turns up. Then Marianne's fiancée dumps her to seduce Barbara.
- Sensible Bavarian veterinarian Nina Sander fits dresses for her registrar's wedding with even more pragmatic Munich businessman Paul. Suddenly she's called away: aunt Charlotte Berger, who raised her when orphaned, has a mild heart attack. Charlotte implores her to reconsider the marriage and moves back home dangerously soon so Nina stays to mind her. Charlotte keeps pushing her to her summer lodger, widower painter-sculptor Daniel Roth, who has trouble keeping his and angelic son Miki's home on Fraueninsel in lake Chiemsee. Charlotte also hides a secret for both of them.
- Munich publishing firm researcher Vera Benthaus feels neglected by her boss and partner when he forgets her birthday and assigns a younger, more 'attractive' colleague to seek a scoop interview with recluse author Miles Spoon, rumored to be in France while she believes he's in Germany. Vera joins her mother for a few weeks in the Oberlausitz. Both have a romantic affair with a romantic man, but there may be more to Vera's nature-loving mystery admirer.
- Shortly after giving up her job to nurse her terminal father, Hanna Stetten literally bumps into much older opera star Roman Rusnak. After their romantic wedding, she soon feels abandoned on his wonderful Bavaraian country estate by a lake. Having overcome her aversion from dogs, bringing canine new mountain walk friend Max to the hunky gentleman vet Christian Zimmer makes her an even better friend. Meanwhile Roman's assistant still has a romantic eye on him, and more occasions to spend time together.
- A mysterious new boy has been seen around the Suderhof. At the same time, Ben's pet lamb, Rosi, has gone missing. Without telling anyone, he runs away to find her. Meanwhile, Ben and Peggy attend their new school for the first time.
- Bimbo is at the bottom of her class in English. Her teacher, Dolly Malzahn, may hold her back a year. She seeks Peggy's help in improving her English grades, quickly.
- The mayor is hosting a horse race. Bimbo is eager to enter her pony, Klärchen. But her father tells her that her pony is too expensive and he will sell it. Now Bimbo has to win the horse race and the grand prize of 5000 marks.
- Molle Brendel's father gives her a new pet: a baby lamb. Bimbo Brendel meets a mysterious boy living in a tent. Günther Brendel's brother and sister-in-law are killed, and he adopts their orphaned children, Dany, Peggy, and Benny.
- Philipp Wiegand arrives at a Bavarian mountain town to supervise the Everes book chain's local branch that's in financial trouble. He's amused that the divorced elder sister of the regular manager, Sarah Berger, his new neighbor Juliane Stettner, mistakes him for Schorschi, the salesgirl Moni's young new boyfriend. Both are swept off their feet, Juliane enough to turn down a public proposal from MD Lukas März, her steady admirer. Their cardiac father Rudolf Berger and mother Lotte are not amused, worrying how to contain a jealous drama which keeps complicating.
- Atttorney Benedict Bordin returns to his Starnberger See hoe after years to prepare taking over the law practice of his father Martin, a recluse since his best friend Robert's fatal sailing accident, as gloomy as the widow Lilo Wieser. Her daughter Franziska Wieser, now runs business-wise her late father's watchmaker shop, the only in the area, with doting gentleman watchmaker Henry. The rented premises are about to be torn down to build luxury apartments, so she seeks legal help from Benedict, who gets priceless paternal advise while the young pair falls in love. Both loving but listless senior parents are reluctant to celebrate the engagement, Lilo fearing loneliness but convinced to cede by buddy Julia, Martin tormented by a sense of guilt for Robert's death, but another secret weighs no less.
- After two years, Floriane 'Flo' Weber's lover Holger confesses he's married, and won't help her renovate her Bavarian country boardinghouse and salon. They arrive, at the same time, because of coincidental car trouble, with her mother, who moved to Toronto 15 years ago after a divorce, and the Munich businessman Sebastian Mores. Perhaps he's a better catch?
- Katharina and Elena are best friends since youth. Trained in Canada, Elena finally returns to native Bavaria, to her parents' surprise with a fiancé, Canadian food engineer Tom Ferguson, whom she wants to live with overseas. Elena's conservative, domineering father Markus expected her to wed suitable brewery successor Markus, who meanwhile fell in 'forbidden' love with Katharina, displeasing her own parents. Katharina and Tom fall in love, complicating further the complex conflict of loyalties.