There are two brothers who couldn't be more different. One, Anno Wilhelm, loves life and seeks to savor it in every way; the other, Julian, would like nothing better than to die. He has already made several suicide attempts, been hospitalized and suffered breakdowns. The men, in their late 20s, both grew up without a mother and have a difficult relationship with their father.
DIE WOLKE (The Cloud) is about a breakdown of a nuclear power station in Germany and the story of two teenager-lovers Hannah and Elmar who take refuge. 38.000 people die and Hannah unfortunately becomes contaminated.
Based on a true story, Miguel Alexandre's two-part drama focuses on an East German woman and the fight for her children. Spring 1982: Sara Bender, living with her daughters Silvia and Sabine in the East German town of Erfurt, wants to marry her colleague Peter, but shortly before the wedding, her father is killed in a road accident. As the funeral takes place in West Germany, she isn't allowed to got there, so she starts planning to leave her communist home country forever. Trying to flee via Romania, she is caught by the secret service. After years in jail, Sara is ransomed by the West German government, but without her daughters. To draw the world's attention on her desperate situation, she starts demonstrating at the Berlin border crossing Checkpoint Charlie
Berlin, 1989. Sascha is a young East German border guard and Franzi is a lively young West German woman who's just moved into a flat next to Sascha's watchtower at the Berlin Wall. It takes only a slight mishap and a selfless act of chivalry and the two fall in love. But soon the Stasi believes they are witnessing the start of a revolt. This is the time of mass protests and East Germans taking refuge in the West German embassy in Prague after all. Franzi and Sascha have to find their ways to stand up for their love and strive for the impossible; to bring down the wall.
Ben Winter returns from his tour in Afghanistan with the German ISAF. Having survived a suicide bombing, which claimed the life of his best friend, he is trying to find his way back to his old life, with his girlfriend, family and friends. But his memories are catching up with him. Increasingly, he is losing contact with reality and his trauma gets the upper hand. A near-accident makes him and his family finally aware of the deep-rooted trauma and feelings of guilt he brought back from Afghanistan and he checks into a veterans' hospital for treatment.
WWII, 1945. After barely surviving a battle with a mysterious, ghostly-white German Tiger tank, Red Army Sergeant Ivan Naydenov becomes obsessed with its destruction.
A princess falls in love with a paparazzo who is using her to become famous.
It's clear to the children: single dad Peter and his colleague Anja belong together. But the widower is too scatterbrained, and when he wins a sports car in a competition, he finds himself in bad company: with the car, he attracts the attention of the glamorous but ice-cold PR snipe Xenia...
Maria Theiss is a good policewoman, but she is unpopular. For a long time she was the "holy virgin", but since she reported her corrupt partner, she has been called "Judas with tits". Now another conflict-laden job awaits her: she is to spy on her new colleague, police legend Edgar Feindt. His partner of many years has mysteriously died. Maria has to shed light on the matter. Does he have something to do with his partner's death? Is Feindt perhaps also corrupt? Or is he taking the law too radically into his own hands? At the same time, the two must also hunt down a serial killer and child molester who is holding girls captive and letting them die of thirst. To make matters worse, Feindt was Maria's trainer and lover...
The wealthy industrialist Ernst Schmitt has to take a step back for health reasons. But first he wants to arrange his succession, as he doesn't trust the manager of his chocolate factory. Without further ado, he pretends that his chauffeur is his millionaire boss and that he is his own driver. This allows him to uncover the factory manager's machinations unobserved...
Lawyer Lea Jung has won a much-noticed process. Her client Nick Storm, accused of rape, was acquitted because Lena was able to prove the alleged victim Yvonne Schubert was not credible. After the trial, Nick begins courting Lea. She has reservations but is interested at the same time. Nick is a very attractive man. But Yvonne Schubert is also looking to be close to the lawyer. She desperately insists that she was right, accuses Lena of having ruined her life and urgently warns her not to make the same mistake she made: falling for Nick.
Germany, 1945: The 25-year-old Ellen is active in the resistance movement against the Nazis. When she meets Robert, a charismatic English secret agent, the two begin to have an affair. Ellen is ordered to spy on the German naval officer Hans. He is scheduled to serve as Chief Officer aboard the submarine U 864, which has been given a secret mission. Against her will, Ellen falls for Hans. Although he is engaged to another woman, Hans is strongly attracted to her as well. Eventually, Ellen succeeds in delivering critical information the submarines precise route to Japan. The English had suspected that Hitler planned to deliver his ominous wonder weapon to the weakened Japanese. The U 864 leaves its port. Because the war has been going badly for the Germans, the mood onboard is grim.
On his birthday, Tobias goes shopping to the city with his mother. While waiting in the car for her to remove money from an ATM, he disappears without a trace. His mother, distraught, desperately seeks him. When she returns home, a phone call confirms her fears: Tobias has been kidnapped. Meanwhile the guests begin to arrive to the party.
At the beginning of 2000, the young commissioner Yvonne Weber moved from Frankfurt am Main to Eisenach. Together with the local colleague Frank Wolf, she is to review an unresolved murder case from the GDR era. The investigation team encounters inconsistencies in the file and it becomes clear that there is no interest in truth-clarifying the Eisenach department and the prosecutor's office in Gotha.
A single mother who welcomes at her guesthouse and into her life a worn-out traveller not eager to leave.
A young man from an early age falls in love with a girl whose family is not in good standing with the ruling Communist party. His father however is a member of the "Stasi", the secret state police. The father not only hinders his son's relationship with the girl, but he arranges for his son, after finishing school, to become a Stasi spy himself.
A money transporter is ambushed near the small Eifel village of Eschbach. The young LKA chief inspector Lona Schanz then determined in the village and its surroundings.
The last three vampires in the world - Edwin Wolkenstein, his father Vladimor and his brother Günni - are driven out of Transylvania by the vampire hunter Ignaz van Hellbring. Edwin, of all people, knows where they can find shelter: with Edwin's pen pal Fella. Once there, Edwin realizes that Fella has lied to him. She is not the blonde musical beauty, but a nerd girl. But Edwin doesn't go down particularly well with his new classmates either...
Dentist Sue and the philosophy professor Anton have been leading a seemingly intact life, juggling careers and a family with four children. Until one day, however, when their 18 year-old son Thomas has a breakdown. Thomas' situation threatens the stability of the family.
In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still achieve victory and orders his generals and advisers to fight to the last man. When the end finally does come, and Hitler lies dead by his own hand, what is left of his military must find a way to end the killing that is the Battle of Berlin, and lay down their arms in surrender.
Bruno, a bus driver in his mid-50s who was a surgeon in the GDR, has lost his job.
Everything seems to be going according to plan for graduate engineer Oliver Berger. He has only just landed a lucrative contract for his employer when he is already entrusted with the next major project. He willingly puts up with constant trips abroad and working through weekends. Meanwhile, his wife Lena and his ten-year-old son Moritz wait for him at his apartment in Erfurt or at the weekend house. Berger has never worried that his marriage might suffer as a result of his job. So he is all the more stunned when Lena leaves him at the drop of a hat. Suddenly, Berger is a single father.
Eric is a successful entrepreneur - in an unusual line of work: he provides people who want to cheat with watertight alibis. When Eric sees his ex-girlfriend from his student days, the vivacious interior designer Andrea, again, sparks fly between the two. But Andrea is horrified by Eric's job, as fidelity is the most important thing for her - she wants nothing more to do with Eric. But he comes up with a trick.
Moritz Kaiser, good-looking single from passion, enjoys the carefree life in the fast lane. The successful chief designer of a furniture company lives in a luxury apartment and drives a thick sports car. The tide turns when he is fired after an affair with his boss's wife and finds no job. After unsuccessful lavatory cleaning, he lands at the small furniture manufacturer Toby Breuer, who wants to hire only a seasoned family man according to his alternative corporate philosophy.
Brothers Friedrich and Richard inherit their father’s seaside hotel after reunification. Ambitious Western businessman Friedrich plots a massive development behind Richard’s back, who wants to preserve the family inn. Tensions rise as old grudges and clashing values tear them apart, even as Richard renovates the hotel for a celebratory reopening that falters when Friedrich and others refuse to attend.
The mechanic Jack tries to get rid of his criminal background.
The movie tells a true story in the life of well-known German actor Manfred Krug. Living in the German Democratic Republic he is forced to leave the country after protesting against the expatriation of singer/songwriter Wolf Biermann in 1976.
June 17, 1953 - the day on which workers in the former Soviet Union took a stand against their government for the first time to protest against excessive labor standards. The protests escalated into a political uprising, which was only ended by the Soviet army using tanks. 50 years later, the docudrama "The Uprising" captivatingly depicts the historical events of those days that threatened to unhinge the SED system.
The story of a Leipzig family from 1987 to the Monday demonstrations in 1989. After the death of her father, a high-ranking officer in the People's Police, the daughter joins the resistance movement around St. Nicholas Church. Phenomena such as obedience, followership, spying and resistance are illustrated in this haunting film based on individual people. A film that provides food for thought for the discussion about the fall of the Berlin Wall and recapitulates contemporary history.
18-year old Georg and 13-year old Barbara have been playing together as children. Play becomes love later, which leads to a catastrophe , as their parents are hostile leading to file a report to the court, as Barbara is still under age.
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.
"The Publisher" is about the success story of a visionary man who begins after 1945 with a rickety car and a stack of novels. With his charismatic personality, he convinced the Allies to give him a newspaper license. A radio magazine soon follows, which quickly reaches millions of copies. His greatest publishing invention is a daily newspaper with which he wants to give the common man on the street a voice. But the publisher is not only successful in business, he also knows how to please women.
A long-separated German mother and her half-Turkish daughter are reconciled in a splendidly serene dramatic comedy.
The Mahlström family has been traveling to Södenhagen on the Baltic Sea for 15 years. But this year everything is getting out of hand: Kurt is about to become unemployed and can no longer afford to go on vacation. His marriage to Marga is in crisis and Kurt doesn't dare tell his wife about his difficulties. Pubescent Kati is also in a bad mood because she would rather have gone to France with her friends, and she falls in love with the chaperone Dominik.
For Ursula Gothe, the wife of the up-and-coming engineer Dr. Richard Gothe, life in the post-war period is finally back on track. That changes when she rediscovers her daughter Martina, who she thought was dead, in a wanted ad. Ursula is stunned with joy, but also very scared: the girl is from a man she met during the war, before her time with Richard. Now Richard is about to be promoted to factory manager and does not want to be discredited because of an illegitimate child.
Two fathers are fighting for a child: Franz Bergen, head of a church choir, wants to fight the right of access to the young son of the pub René Dörfler. At first, Judge Lena Kalbach does not allow the lawsuit - until it turns out that Bergen, as a sperm donor, is the biological father of the child. A delicate case for which Lena has to find a solution with great tact. But she is also personally affected by the issue of fatherhood: Her adult daughter Nike finally wants to know who her father is. In the third part of the popular TV series, Michaela May again plays the smart judge Lena Kalbach.
Ex-judge Lena Kalbach has to represent a Catholic priest, of all people, in her first appearance as a lawyer. The priest Lukas Schloss has embezzled a large sum of money and is facing a prison sentence and expulsion from the church. However, Lena discovers that the young priest had good reasons for his illegal actions. The lawyer wants to help him, but it's a difficult task: her husband Friedrich, of all people, is representing the church in this sensitive matter. In this episode of the family series, Michaela May, alias Lena Kalbach, once again amazes viewers with a legitimate form of legal malpractice.
The security guard at a pawn shop in a small port town, the seasick scion of a family of sailors, falls in love with the mistress of one of his best customers, a man who is constantly in debt. Under pressure from the mafia, the customer persuades his girlfriend to meet with the security guard and distract him while he commits a robbery.
Mozart, a cute little dog, has inherited a fortune. You'd think a heavenly dog's life was certain. But trouble threatens the little treasure, because the wicked Titus, disinherited by his deceased mother, has hatched a diabolical plan to get his hands on his mother's inheritance after all. Fortunately, Mozart has good friends in the four children Alexander, Robby, Hedwig and Lilly, who do everything they can to protect their four-legged friend from Titus' malice.
In a small Saxon town after the Second World War, the former chimney sweep Toni tries to survive on the black market and meets the pusher Ginfizz. Together they initially trade in flour before embarking on a riskier plan: they are to rescue machines from Soviet expropriation for the mill owner Hartmann by transporting them in hidden trucks. In the process, they become entangled in various adventures, from rescuing orphans to transporting pigs, while being constantly pursued by the young policewoman Gisela, who wavers between her professional duty and her attraction to Toni. After Ginfizz is caught and the others remain temporarily free, they help to get the mill up and running again to avert a food shortage.
A comedy about a crazy summer of young provincial guy in Berlin.
On an impulse, 60 year old Charlotte leaves her husband stranded at a gas station in the middle of nowhere. A deep and driven instinct has her setting off, away from her old mundane life as a grandmother, a mother, a wife, and towards a new and different life. Little does she know that her granddaughter, Jo, a wonderfully whimsical child, is hiding in the back of the car. Charlotte’s spontaneous escape triggers off a journey, not only for her and her granddaughter, but also for her husband Paul and daughter Alex. As Paul and Alex pursue Charlotte and Jo across the countryside, they stumble into their own mishaps, self discoveries and emotional confrontations.
A teenage car thief is incarcerated in a home for the hard-to-educate. He gets a second chance when he's offered a job at a car dealership that cares for juvenile delinquents. There, he is confronted with his past and becomes the target of a youth gang that wants to recruit him for a major heist.
Marthe is a girl with a special gift: she can cure illnesses. But the time she lives in is marked by superstition and godliness. When Marthe can not help the burgrave's wife from her village, the girl has to flee. Your path crosses that of Ritter Christian, who moves eastward into the Mark Meissen with a group of Frankish settlers. In the Middle Ages an unimaginably long and arduous way. Christian has a hard time avoiding the fascination of Marthe, but their diverse backgrounds make a relationship impossible and the settlers are afraid of the weird girl.
Artist agent Franzi is faced with a problem: her top client, washed-up rock star Alexander Gromberg, urgently needs a comeback! Instead of working on new songs, however, he has one crash after another. Rumors about his excessive lifestyle have already spread to record boss Fricke, who wants to take a look at Gromberg first.
What seems like routine for Billy Kuckuck ends dramatically for her quick-tempered client Karl Löwe: he ends up in hospital with a heart attack. The owner of a traditional pastry shop is alleged to have bought an e-scooter online and not paid for it. He stubbornly insists that he neither ordered nor received the scooter. Billy sees things differently, and this time she wants to follow the rules to the letter.
The documentary fiction is about courageous, unknown heroes who risked their lives offering resistance against the Nazis. This 90 minutes documentary drama wants to honor these unknown heroes with fictional acting scenes, interviews with family members and eyewitnesses and with statements of experts.