Fleeing from the Nazis, two children, a journalist father, and a dog must make their way through the hazardous Pyrenees mountain range.
High school graduate Max Höfel arrives at the Fuchs & Kilali detective agency distraught: his girlfriend Leonie has been run over by a car and the police believe it was a hit-and-run accident. Max, on the other hand, believes it was murder and hires the two detectives to find the culprit. Leonie used to work in Max's uncle Lukas Bender's amusement arcade. Anne and Youssef find out that dirty mafia money is laundered there. When a large sum of money is found in Leonie's estate, Inspector Eisner is also convinced that a violent crime has been committed. Did Leonie want to expose her employer - is that why she had to die? Max's mother Marina protects her brother Lukas. He would never be capable of murder! A deep rift runs through the Höfel family, behind whose façade Anne and Youssef have to look in order to finally solve the case.
Veterinarian Britta has recently separated from her boyfriend and is open to a new beginning, preferably in Brittany, where she spends the summer vacation with a befriend couple. After a rain shower, she unexpectedly stumbles upon her idyllic dream house, only to run over the fisherman Yves with her bike in her blissfulness. Unfortunately, Yves also wants to buy the house that is up for sale in an anonymous bidding process. He and his father can no longer make a living from fishing, and he wants to build up a second source of income in the form of holiday apartments. The empty neighboring house would be ideal for this. At first, Yves finds Britta more annoying than nice. But she gains ground with her fearless and positive nature. When Yves finds out who his opponent in the bidding process is, he tries to badmouth his beautiful home area in presence of the German doctor. Everything would be so much easier if it weren't for those darn feelings. House or love, that is the question now.
For years, the dairy farmer Klara has tried to keep the court of her deceased parents. But the business is running badly, a sale of the farm seems inevitable. If necessary, Klara asks her sister Mika for help. She lives as a successful gallery owner in the posh Düsseldorf and hopes to finally move her sister to a new beginning in the city. Very quickly, however, shows that the down-to-earth Klara and her sister Mika have very opposite ideas of a fulfilled life. With heart and humor, Olaf Kreinsen's clever comedy tells of the conflicts of an unequal sibling duo.
After returning from a police mission in Afghanistan, Chief Inspector Harder is set to investigate a bog body found in a village called Friedland. The confrontation with Friedland's brutal history brings a grave guilt from Harder's own past to the surface and forces her to face the echo.
A few people decide to found their own little state n the middle of Germany, near Berlin...
Ursel Piepenkötter Mayor of Lautringen is about to be re-elected. But the town's Turkish community wants to finally build its new mosque and she wants to prevent this. Does the construction of the mosque inevitably threaten the Islamization of the West? Quite a few citizens seem to think so. It's high time to counter the current events surrounding politics, tolerance and faith with a lively, politically incorrect comedy that gives the extremists on both sides a very entertaining dressing down.
Lotte has two children, an ex who doesn't pay and a job that is shaky. Meanwhile, investment banker Matthias sits alone in his luxury mansion. It takes a while for the mismatched couple to find each other. And then Matthias jeopardizes his happiness by concealing the fact that his bank is in the process of destroying Lotte's company.
Summer in Berlin. Jonas is planning a trip through the little known area of the Uckermark in preparation for a photography project. He invites his best friend, Phillip, to come along. When they pick up a hitchhiker named Boris, the friendship of the two starts to fray. Maybe three’s a crowd after all? By the end of the summer, things between Jonas and Phillip won’t ever be the same again.
On a sunny afternoon at the pool, 12 year-old Manolo has to face his fears: Will he stand up to his big cousin Mike, the notorious splashdive-hotshot?
Lenz is a daydreamer. Charming, visionary and – as it is good manners for a thirty-year-old in Berlin – radically incapable of decision making. After an intense party night, Lenz wakes up next to Ira, completely deranged. Lenz is in love. As well as Ira. The summer of love begins: fooling through the nights of Berlin, beers at the canal, talks about sex and childhood. Everything is beautiful. Up until the moment when Ira asks this one question that changes everything: „Do you want to have kids?“ Now is the time for Lenz to do what he knows best, when things get tricky. He runs off. Anchorless, he stumbles through the summer and has to take up with the heroes of his daydreams, who keep examining him about his feelings. Meanwhile, his friend Kenn covers Lenz with affectionate incomprehension. When autumn arrives, Ira eventually confronts Lenz and he has to face the big “whatsoever”.
"Artists" tells the fateful stories of eight young people behind bars who hope for nothing more than freedom and the simple desire to be normal again.