After two years, after a tip from Shukshin, Blochin finally got the chance to lure the child murderer Kyrill to Berlin. In addition, the self-proclaimed avenging angel takes his lover Pheline hostage, who is found shot shortly afterwards.
A sperm donor becomes impotent - and so he searches for the woman, who got his sperm, to become a father after all...
Murder of 18-year-old brings two investigators together for the first time. A piece of evidence leads to a missing person case four years ago. Investigations were led by Irene Gaup, with old and new questions arising.
Conny Stein from the ordnance disposal service in Dresden has to defuse a bomb on his last day of work before retirement, on a construction site in a power plant. In the process, he discovers a girl who had previously come to the city in a minibus full of refugees and does not speak a word.
A story about a notorious liar and case worker.
After a 12-year marriage, Markus and Miriam have split up and share custody for their twins Elias and Emma. To be closer to his children, Markus moves in next door - with his new girlfriend Galina.
On vacation at a remote house by the sea a family is faced with a disturbing reality, when lost memories urge to the surface and slowly fades out, what seemed safe once - as well as the past can't be washed away.
Police pastor Lena Fauch cares for the victims after a supermarket robbery. A police officer was shot dead. His colleague Susi Massmann did not put the perpetrator out of action. Why? Police colleagues accuse the distraught policewoman Susi Massmann of having a shooting inhibition. Is she not tough enough for the police service and has therefore failed? While the young woman is being bullied, Lena gets caught between all fronts at the police station.
Simon is a notoriously suspicious control freak, Lea is more the unconventional type. He has turned his obsession into a profession and works in the security department of a Stuttgart-based food company; ever since he had the employees' access cards fitted with tracking chips, his colleagues have seen him as nothing more than the "Stasi bridge man". Lea dropped out of her degree in food chemistry, is currently working in the company canteen and dreams of driving around in a food truck. She is currently using the old Mercedes bus, a former fire engine that now bears the lettering "Brand Herd", as her accommodation. Two such opposites would never cross paths in real life. In the movie, they can become true love, provided Simon lets himself be kissed awake.
Cowboy has a vision. He wants to save the planet with his movement of Free Swingers. That's why he applies for a grant at The Central Agency, who then sends a representative named Fey of Sweden to approve Cowboy's proposal. She demands results and he decides to stage a charity bicycle rally featuring a roster of two-wheeled Berlin misfits. Meanwhile Cowboy's neighbor kills his mother's budgie and sets the Devil of Hermannplatz on him to sabotage his plans. Pretty bad timing considering that he also has to rescue his stubborn mother from a shady retirement home. Torn between Cowboy's budding crush on Fey of Sweden, his hot neighbor Angel and his innate drive towards chaos, the rally soon turns into a race against time. Soon his mother will be taken away from him and the rally racers are doing anything other than what they should: cycling.
Just before the fall of the Berlin Wall, the birthday celebrations of an East German family turn into a tragicomical moment of political and personal breakdown.
Karsten apparently has it settled. However, in this provincial German town, a moment of weakness turns to disaster, disappointment soon fuels anger, justice hides behind hypocrisy, and evil gradually unfolds.
In 1990 Kazakhstan, Alexander’s family receives an acceptance letter to Germany, but his son Georg marries Russian Lena, who becomes pregnant. They move to Germany, facing harsh conditions in a reception camp. Their honeymoon is spent in a gymnasium with other late repatriates. Georg struggles, while Lena, a former Komsomol member, faces fatal consequences in the market economy.
December in Hamburg: The city shines in the lights, the people meet at the Christmas markets. Jule has her law exam at last in her pocket and a plan for her life. It should be a job in a non-governmental organization, then someday the man and also children. On the nightly journey home from her birthday and graduation party organized by her friend Lexa, she meets Santa Claus at the Elbe. It will take four years of ups and downs before they both understand, accept and feel it at the same time: that life will never feel right without each other.
Jana Friedrich is a young, dedicated doctor from the provinces who is completing her specialist training as a forensic pathologist when she is offered an internship at a renowned Hamburg institute of forensic medicine. A dream comes true for her. An internship with her great role model Kurt Bremer, a luminary in his field. Jana has read all his books. She knows that working in this field is not an ongoing murder mystery. But she is shocked when she is confronted with various cases of abused children instead of exciting criminal cases. Jana soon experiences first-hand how difficult it is to bring those responsible to justice and to remove the children from their tormentors. When she and her mentor even fail in court, despite the death of an infant, she decides to take a more active role and get involved.
These young women are an odd couple. Julie is quick-witted and stubborn. She celebrates idleness and even voluntarily checks into a psychiatric clinic. Nurse Agnes, on the other hand, is always eager to do the right thing and to meet everyone's expectations of her, which is not always easy. When the two of them accidentally meet one day, odds are they won't get along. But they quickly feel attracted to one another, despite their enormous differences.
Young and pretty Emma is sentenced to anger management therapy after having thrown a toaster at her ex boyfriend and broken his nose. During the course of one day, her fate and her temper will be challenged several times. Will she be able to control her anger or will she lose everything?
Before Dawn charts the years of exile in the life of famous Jewish Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, his inner struggle for the "right attitude" towards the events in war torn Europe and his search for a new home.
The Bachmanns found each other again after their divorce. As neighbors!