Berlin, Germany. A cruel murder took place in an appartment building. Somebody bit off quite a piece of the victim's penis, who then, of course, lost a lot of blood, before being struck down at the head. Leading investigator Bernhard Kominka, being in stress due to a mentally retarded son and a problematic wife, seems to be the only one to see a lady in a red coat. After a while, his theory of her being the murderer may prove to be true, but the Cop also kind of fell in love with this new, interesting person in both of his lives: professional and private as well. Borders dissolve. His decision may be disastrous in any way.
To call or not to call? For young Cora it's not a question. In fact, after the first date you may never call the guy, even if it was the best sex of your life! It's him who must beg for a meeting - and not later than 72 hours after. Otherwise - delete it from memory.
Christoph, cop and self-confident macho, has trouble with his fiance. After a long night he wakes up in the arms of Edgar, a good-looking, gay auto-mechanic. His live gets more and more troublesome after his girl friend throws him out of their apartment and as last resort he moves to Edgars place. Working together with a new, good-looking, very self-confident, female collegue, but living with a good-looking gay guy makes him pretty uncertain about his sexuality and his role as a cop. Written by Konstantin Articus
While Sasha's mother is dreaming of her son's great career as a pianist, Sasha is left speechless for other reasons: his beloved piano teacher Mr. Weber tells him, he is leaving town forever. Sasha is heartbroken, and the only person in whom he can confide his feelings, is his best friend, Jiao. As a son of an Ex-Yugoslav family even in Germany one rarely lives outside the closet, and Sasha is grateful that his homophobic father believes Jiao is his girlfriend. But what begins as a useful lie becomes a large and complicated one, when Sasha's younger brother, begins an affair with Jiao. All lies get exposed and what appears to be a catastrophe is in fact the revelation of new possibilities in the lives of Sasha's family.
When a World War II bomb with two days to detonation is found in Berlin, Alex and his wife must work quickly to solve a 40-year-old puzzle.
Eleven years ago, an 8-year-old girl disappeared from a small German town on the German-Czech border. Although her body was never found, nor were there any traces of blood or DNA evidence, a mentally-disabled man was coerced to confess to the crime. Even though he withdrew his admission of guilt two days later, the forced confession was enough to convince the ruling judge. The responsible investigator Altendorf was discharged so that the investigation could be sped along by another colleague.
"Was ist, wenn man strampelt und strampelt, um an die Spitze zu kommen, und dann merkt, dass man nur davongelaufen ist?" Diese Frage quält Hanna Meiwald (Sophie von Kessel). Just als die gewiefte Münchner Geschäftsfrau einen Riesendeal über die Bühne bringen will, wird sie von der Vergangenheit eingeholt. Ihr dementer Vater wurde von einem Zug überfahren, nun muss sie in ihr Dorf zurückkehren. Sie war fünf, als ihr Vater für den Mord an ihrer Mutter verurteilt wurde. Jahrzehntelang hat "Mörderbalg" Hanna das Heimatkaff gemieden. Dort, wo nach wie vor Engstirnigkeit und Tratsch regieren, stößt Hanna aber auf eine Spur, die Zweifel an der Schuld ihres Vaters weckt. Mit Kommissar Arnsberger (Brandt) rollt sie den Fall neu auf…
The tragic death of the six-year-old Tine joins the fates for three families: The eight-year-old David meets as suspected offender in the psychiatry on the energetic physician Nora, who tries to displace her own problems with his treatment. However, David's mother is increasing overwhelmed with the situation and escapes to her new friend, while the parents of the dead girl desperately try the fate to process.
A collage of memories, fictional stories, biographies, dreams and missed opportunities, which in their entirety represent the idea of Munich.
The story of the final seven months in the life of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.
For more than 20 years, the entrepreneur Bernhard and the eco-conscious gardener Claire have been divorced people - in every respect: the former couple are consistently avoiding each other. But now they have to call each other for good or ill because their daughter Sophie wants to marry. But before Sophie is confronted with a challenge of a completely different kind: surprisingly emerges after many years, her once great love Hans and twisted her head.
Alice Tanner, chief analyst of a rating agency, almost made it to the top in the main metropolis of Frankfurt. Then Michael von Marck is served to her as a competitor. Because one of the company chairpersons expressed doubts about Alice's judgment when it became known that she had a one-night stand with a married customer. Alice gets support from her friend from the bowling club and her half-sister: a secretly hidden bug in the men's washroom in the office complex of the rating agency is supposed to reveal the strategies of the male competitors to the female eavesdropper
Vera Kemp, heiress of an industrial enterprise, lives in an apparently perfect world. While she doesn't care for big business, her husband Manfred runs the company. However, she learns about his affair with a younger woman and tries to save her marriage. During a vacation in Italy, Manfred and their son Max die in a road accident. Vera nearly despairs of her grief and, even worse, recognizes that her whole life has been a lie. Andreas Wolgast, a former employee, is the only one who supports her fight for the company and against her caballing family...
"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.
Paula, a primary school teacher from Berlin, was left by her then boyfriend Jan eight years ago. Now she unexpectedly gets an invitation to his wedding. Paula agrees because she doesn't want to show any weakness. She is accompanied by her neighbor Ben, whom she claims is her fiancé...
The anesthetist Dr. Katrin Klein is new at the Dresden Transplant Center, which enjoys an excellent reputation. The star surgeon Prof. Gerhard Harrer works here. Katrin has known and admired the professor since her assistantship. But then her heroic image of Professor Harrer begins to falter. The young doctor seems to be the only one to notice that the luminary apparently has an alcohol problem. But nobody believes you. When Harrer finally collapses in the middle of an operation, he is suspended from duty. Katrin stands by him, but more problems are waiting in the clinic.
Little Marie Kerstner has disappeared after a daycare outing in the woods. Chief Inspector Oliver von Bodenstein and his colleague Pia Kirchhoff investigate and unexpectedly come across two bodies. First, senior public prosecutor Hardenbach is found dead, apparently shot with a load of buckshot from his own hunting rifle. Shortly afterwards, a dead young woman is discovered at the foot of a lookout tower. It turns out that the dead woman is Isabel Kerstner, the mother of the missing girl. Isabel had made many enemies in her short life and the suspects for her murder are queuing up. But what did the dead prosecutor have to do with Isabel and where is her daughter? Only gradually do von Bodenstein and Kirchhoff realize the true dimension of the case.
Bernhard and Claire have always lived to work. Now that's over: the workaholic and entrepreneur turns his back on his airplane company, Claire sells her time-consuming nursery. But life in their new dream home, which does justice to their contrasting characters with feng shui and high-tech, takes some getting used to. While the two of them pretend to enjoy a deeply relaxed togetherness, the telephone wires have long been burning up again in the background.
A few weeks after the hot holiday flirtation with Spanish confectioner Juan, pretty marketing expert Billie decides she's pregnant, she chooses the kid and a life in Spain. But can Billies and Juan's love also survive in everyday life? Finally, there's Billie's former roommate Kurt, now the proud owner of a small chocolate factory in Barcelona. Billie has no idea that the faithful friend has fallen head over heels in love with her again.
For the career of her husband, Irina has renounced her journalistic career and has become a housewife. After countless job-related processions, the two return to their hometown of Munich to finally start a family. When Reinhard has to leave for New York in the short term and leaves his wife with empty accounts and a debt mountain, Irina is forced to take the initiative for the first time. She founds a housekeeping agency. Her old school friend Frank stands by her side.
During the pagan Rauhnächte, unbridled revelry reigns in the former Viking town of Ribe. Even at the police station, where conscientious patrol officer Ida Sörensen is helping out on the night shift, chaos reigns. At this moment, no one is thinking about the sadistic serial killer who kidnaps people and leaves them to starve in the forest.
Patrol officers Ida Sörensen and Magnus Vinter are called to the scene where a body has been found. Horik, the son of Kort Holm, a Copenhagen underworld figure, has been killed with two Viking arrows.
The 13 days from April 20th to May 2nd, 1945, are unique in the history of Germany: They are the final act in the history of the Third Reich, which was supposed to last for a thousand years and succumbed after twelve in an orgy of violence and fire. In the catacombs of his bunker under the Reich Chancellery in the capital city of Berlin, which Adolf Hitler wanted to make the centre of the world, the dictator operates with ghost divisions during the final days of the war. Only in the final moment, he takes his own life. Meanwhile, On the streets, in the ruins, and the basements of the destroyed city, the final battle wages on: Adolescents are sacrificed without purpose, women get raped, loyal party comrades commit suicide in the thousands, Jews who were in hiding for years hope for the liberation.
A mother is good. Several mothers at once are hell! Conny is 37 years old and has so far let her life being arranged by others - especially by her husband Lawrence. Lorenz has made the previous gray mouse, a trophy wife and offers her a carefree life. And so Conny falls from the clouds, when her husband announced her at dinner that he wants a divorce. Of necessity Conny pulls together the two children in the ancient house of Lorenz deceased mother and realized with horror that from now on everything will be different. Since it holds its own for non-viable, she clings to a clique of high-society mothers...
They are young, naive, know it all, and have just fallen in love: a simple, down to earth office girl, Sarah and up and coming, high-flying, web designer Stephan. Happiness reigns supreme...
Glaciologist Carlo and the mayor's daughter Lisa have barely been married when their marriage is put to the test. Lisa and her father are planning a ski lift on the nearby glacier, although there are growing signs that a catastrophe of apocalyptic proportions is looming deep inside. But an admonisher like Carlo only disrupts business. And so the tactically shrewd businessman and mayor instrumentalizes his own daughter against his hated son-in-law. Carlo's arch-rival Markus, of all people, offers to dive down into the glacier with Carlo via the meltwater channels in order to prove his suspicions and initiate rescue measures - a life-threatening operation that requires blind trust...
A young woman is torn between the love of her life and her second passion, fashion. In the first part, we get to know Isabelle, who grows up in the Trakenbergs' house, a highly respected fashion entrepreneur. She has known Jon, the love of her life, since childhood...
Leon has banished everything from his life that could remind him of his childhood. As an orphan, he grew up with his uncle Walter, the owner of a china factory, where he is currently working as a designer, trying to bring a breath of fresh air to the company. But Walter is a traditionalist. Since Leon’s girlfriend Marina is also dedicated to the company, children have no part in Leon’s life. Until he meets Esther who is raising 13 at once. Leon is trying to convince Esther on Walter’s behalf to forfeit her run-down house, so that Walter can use the estate for his investment plans. But then, Leon falls in love with Esther, and all his plans begin to crumble…
A man and a woman both took a "baby year". When their paths cross, the offspring and the respective partner lose importance.
The body of a homeless man is found in Cologne not in the Dark Ages, but in the year 2000, where an autopsy reveals that he died of the plague. Doctor Martin Brügger sets out to find the cause and discovers masses of dead rats in the sewers. The population of the Rhine metropolis is in danger - but the authorities do not want to cause panic and keep the case a secret.
Vera and Erich Dorfmeister benefited from National Socialism . Times may have changed , but their spirit has stayed the same. Daughter Isolde in particular suffered from this , which is why her marriage to jazz musician Paul Richter broke up . Now their daughter Anna is returning Accompanied by her Jewish boyfriend Sidney after a year abroad .
Ben detests the visits to his in-laws. His wife Karen suffers as a result. On the drive home, their car skids during an argument and crashes into a bridge pillar. Karen dies, son Jonathan has been silent ever since. The seriously injured Anja, who was in the car with him, has no sympathy for her brother-in-law. In her opinion, the thuggish egotist negligently caused the pile-up. Everything is about to come to light in the dispute over custody of Jonathan. Ben, whose life is in tatters, hopes that Karen's best friend Corinna will testify.
Thuringia, around the turn of the century: Eva Hermsdorf takes up a position as governess at the court of Count Rudolph von Plessen. A deep affection quickly develops between the two, but a secret makes their love impossible: Rudolph is said to have killed a friend of his former lover Liliane. But Eva suspects an intrigue behind this accusation and secretly travels to Leipzig as Liliane's servant to shed light on the matter. When she finds out the truth about Rudolph's alleged murder, she finds herself in mortal danger. Only Rudolph can save her from the hands of Liliane and her cruel husband Henri.
Under the influence of alcohol a couple run over a young cyclist
Things are going wrong in the life of unsuccessful 30-year-old penny dreadful novelist Juliane. Her fiancé Jürgen has split up with her. She is rescued by her uncle Hans, who hires her as a temp for his dental practice in Berlin. Here she meets Büffel and Jean, a Swiss man with whom she immediately falls in love. Büffel falls in love with Juliane and the entanglements begin...
Corinna Vogt squeezes into her business suit to save her ex-boss's company from a hostile takeover.
Luise was there for her husband and their two children her whole life. In the meantime, however, daughter Charlotte and son Daniel have long since grown up and are able to stand on their own two feet. And since the death of her beloved husband, Luise has been living alone with her faithful housekeeper Rita in the elegant Hamburg villa. In the meantime, not the slightest thing has changed in Luise's strict solicitude.
For the music historian Jakob collapses his well-ordered, quiet world, when he realizes that he can earn no more money with his original work. When he hears that a Türkpop label is looking for a summer hit, he sees his chance. Although this genre of music is completely alien to him, he decides to expand his knowledge in this area in order to find "the" summer hit and be able to pay his rent again. Out of necessity, the lover of Bach cantatas and dark concert halls exchanges his old Berlin apartment for an extended weekend for an apartment in Istanbul
Henning Stehmann is an investment advisor and has cheated several people in his immediate vicinity, including his entire neighborhood, out of their money. Probation officer Klara Sonntag is to take over the court assistance and write an expert opinion on the man for the public prosecutor's office.
Karen Bender is a plastic surgery expert who will soon be promoted to Senior Physician. Her family life with her husband Christoph and little daughter Kim could hardly be more harmonious. However, when a routine check-up reveals that the seven-year-old is a lethal tumor, Karen is unexpectedly caught up in her past: Professor Victor Novak, an internationally renowned neurosurgeon, is the only one who can save Kim's life. But years ago Karen had an affair with Viktor during a joint engagement in the Balkan war.
Jan wants to come clean, break up with his friend and business partner Tom and confess to his partner Karla that he's having an affair. But then he suffers a brain hemorrhage.
Bookseller Vivien Barner is close to her goal: an anonymous organ donor has agreed to donate her life-saving kidney. Just a few minutes before the operation, Vivien learns that he has backed out. Devastated, but with an irrepressible will to live, she sets off in search of the anonymous donor. Vivien tracks down the successful author Thomas Shield. Thanks to a misunderstanding, she is able to scrutinize him in disguise. And before she knows it, she is well on the way to falling in love with the charismatic writer. Then Thomas discovers the real reason for Vivien's appearance.
Lydia and Vincent Lufft adopted the now 10-year-old Marie, so Vincent has better career prospects at the very child-friendly Henderson Games. But Marie forges with her friend Nick a plan: they want to fake a kidnapping to get away from the adoptive parents. To find the alleged abducted Marie Max Hoch, expert of a security company, consulted. Max himself does not want to have children unlike his girlfriend. He soon finds out that the abduction can only be faked. However, when Heinz Michelin, a friend of the family who wants to pay Marie's debt back with the reward, urges to help with the kidnapping, he brings with him two real hijackers. Max brings Marie to his unsuspecting girlfriend Karo to protect her. In the meantime, Max is himself suspected by the police to have kidnapped Marie. Only with a trap can he prove his innocence.
Young songwriter Julika Stetten feels burned out. Listless and unmotivated, she nevertheless feels compelled to meet the deadlines for the project she is currently working on. In search of a place that offers her the peace and quiet she so desperately needs to complete her work, she remembers her father's country house. He had bought the house near Lake Chiemsee at auction over 20 years ago. It had been uninhabited ever since. Fascinated, she listens to the stories of the caretaker Georg as she takes possession of the house. She is determined to stay in this very place and continue her work.
Can people from two different cultures be happy? "Yes! Yes! Yes!", believe Didem and Jakob and shortly afterwards they are no longer a couple: the lively fashion designer is unexpectedly pregnant, the somewhat stiff musician is broke with his record label. From Jakob's point of view, starting a family is out of the question for the time being. And so they have a falling out before they have even exchanged their news. Didem, whose fashion has just reached the final round of the Fashion Awards, urgently needs fabrics for her new collection. She jets off to her parents in Turkey. Here Baba Ekrem immediately pulls all the strings so that his "lemon blossom" forgets the "godless potato" from Berlin...
Oliver von Bodenstein and Pia Kirchhoff determine in the environment of a wind turbine company and their opponents - each of which has its own motive. A storm of revenge, greed and betrayal brews together.
April 1945. In a dramatic operation the SS transports 139 special prisoners, and kin of the prisoners, into the Alps. The plan: to use the prisoners as bargaining chips in possible negotiations with the Allies. During the journey a number of prisoners plan their escape and experience six days between liberty and death, their fates in the hands of ruthless and increasingly nervous criminals. But the hostages band together and turn the tables with a clever ploy: they call in the Wehrmacht to aid them…
After the death of her mother, Bea Kanter leaves her home in Hesse in order to start her studies in Frankfurt. She leaves her father Norbert and her younger sister Conny behind. Thanks to her fellow student Andrea, the shy student quickly finds a connection. She moves into a WG and is confronted with the left scene, the rebels of the 1970s. This fits in with her inner life, because she has to distract herself mentally from her father - a conservative entrepreneur, for Bea the epitome of the capitalist. So she becomes a radical rebel.
Rosa can only dream of romantic togetherness with her husband Mark. Temporarily homeless, her mother Ruth has taken up residence in the middle of the living room. Things get tricky for Rosa when the landlord also sues for personal use. She loses in court, but Rosa wins a new job: the shy judge needs professional help with a marriage proposal. Of course, Rosa and Meral manage to arrange a suitable setting to convince Anja, the woman they love. But this is only the beginning of the real problems, because Anja's past hides a dark secret.
After breaking up with her unfaithful boyfriend, Katharina Reiff urgently needs a change of scenery. Together with her 16-year-old daughter Nele, she travels to her mother Marianne, who lives on a small island in the North Sea. On the way there, Katharina observes a man being followed by two dubious figures. Good-natured as she is, she takes Sebastian, the stranger's name, with her to the island. When Sebastian's shady pursuers turn up a little later, the shrewd islanders join forces to shed light on the matter.
Ten-year-old Rebecca is diagnosed with leukemia. Her illness also puts a strain on her parents' marriage. Ralph has already fallen out with Ellen so hopelessly that he takes refuge in an affair. When Rebecca suffers a serious setback, the desperate mother comes up with a plan: she wants a baby whose umbilical cord will provide stem cells to save her daughter...
Martha and Helene Weiß - one a devout nun in a Swabian convent, the other a convinced atheist and mother. Two unequal sisters who almost only argue with each other. Martha's faith in particular is always a red rag for the younger and wilder Helene. But then Helene is involved in a car accident with her daughter and husband. However, when she wakes up in hospital and learns that her husband and child are dead, she feels no grief. She suffers from retrograde amnesia. In other words, she can still remember Pippi Longstocking, for example, but not her own family. Now it is Martha, of all people, who brings her to the convent and gives her support. But can she really trust this stranger?
The debt-ridden bon vivant Marlow is mistakenly transferred a million marks. The money was actually intended for a killer. He wants to get it back by force. Marlow and his daughter find themselves in mortal danger.
After her son moves out, single mother Katrin Busche finally wants a partner again - and unsuspectingly plunges another woman into a marital crisis.
A cynical and ruthless womanizer dies, but is given the chance to return to life if he manages to save three women within three days, whom he has deprived of their faith in love.
Berlin piano maker Jan Epstein knows exactly what to do when it comes to restoring highly sensitive instruments. However, he is at least as unsuccessful as a small businessman as he is in his role as a family man. Jan secretly mourns his failed marriage to Serafina and he has a lot to make up to his daughter Mia. An unexpected opportunity arises when Mia unexpectedly wants to accompany him on the delivery of a piano to Italy.
A murderer always kills across Europe according to the same pattern: he kills single women and provides the victims with his personal signature. A friend of Abel's is suspected. Abel wants to help him and investigates himself.
A woman dies in a Berlin nightclub after being overdosed with a drug. Abel's children, who have fun in Berlin's nightlife, are also caught by the murderer.
Shortly before Christmas, the major baker Johann König had a fatal accident. He is the father of three daughters, who came from three different mothers and are in constant quarrel with one another.
Bezet gebied ('Occupied Territory') is the first feature-length Dutch fiction film to deal with World War II, and was made in a documentary style. Dutch diva Ellen Vogel is stunning in her feature debut, in spite of the mediocre image quality. We're showingt a digitalisation of a version that underwent analogue conservation in 1983. It's not a restoration, so the image quality is average.
The incredible, untold true story of how a group of prisoners attempt a seemingly impossible escape from the first Nazi death camp in order to provide the first eyewitness account of the Holocaust.