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- A young German soldier's terrifying experiences and distress on the western front during World War I.
- An anthology series that follows the work of homicide detectives in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
- A soon-to-be-father policeman falls for a gay fellow officer and his life starts falling apart.
- The students of the school of magical animals want to perform a musical for the school's anniversary. Will the rehearsals end in chaos or will the class pull together? And what's up with the strange holes on the school grounds?
- Ida must transfer to a new school, where she soon realizes the students are unkind to each other. However, that all changes when a new teacher, Miss Cornfield, begins to educate them on the value of friendship and magic.
- Markus, a good-looking, likable and respected architect, is a paedophile. Bodies of little boys excite him. He suffers tremendously because of this inclination. He tortures himself for it and is disgusted by himself. Nevertheless, the arousal is there. And there is nothing he can do about it. He struggles the most when he is about to become sexual with a boy for the first time. That is when he senses that he will not be able to keep his desire under control for much longer. He is getting more and more isolated. Markus struggles to resist the ever-rising calls in his head to finally 'do more' with a boy.
- As the Bride and the Groom prepare for the wedding in the pale desert, a tale of unappeased desires, forbidden yearnings, and conflicted choices unfolds. Now, three lovers stand powerless before the true nature of man. Is fate unavoidable?
- When the crew of a bankrupt cargo ship gets stuck on board for months, isolation breeds pressures that sink the men into a sea of madness and terror.
- Two boys, different worlds. Just at the beginning of the summer vacation, 10-year-old Jona has to move from Berlin to the German-Czech border with his mother and new stepfather. Lonely and angry, he explores the new surroundings. But then he met 13-year-old Ukrainian Miro across the border. Jona is fascinated by the taciturn and self-confident boy. Jona only slowly realizes what kind of fate is hidden behind Miro's adult facade.
- 50 years after the Munich Massacre, Munich is hosting a soccer game between an Israeli and a German football club. When things start to fall apart, it seems history might be repeating all over again.
- Police commissioner Thomas Stark, released from jail after three years after the trial for the murder of his former partner was quashed, is picked up and housed not by his wife, who disowned him and hesitates whether to reestablish contact with their bratty teen daughter, but by his discredited attorney Rainer Kessler. Stark insists instantly to rejoin his Füssen precinct in Königswinkel, where doubt remain concerning his innocence. Captain Mehrin assigns him not above loyal believer Peter Breitkreuz but under openly hostile Julia Bachleitner, to keep an eye on him for chief and her husband, state attorney Magnus Bachleitner. Their first case is the murder of local newspaper reporter Schäfer; who sought his first great scoop investigating the Italian mafia connections in Allgäu. Despite sabotage from Julia, Thomas does a good job, using his rapport with former classmate and restaurant owner Francesco Danesi only to be mistrusted by both sides. The missing evidence apparently gathered by Schäfer seems the link with the next murder of his wife Claudia. Only Stark realizes the grim danger at brother in law Peter Breitkreuz's derelict farm, where he must raise his two young kids alone while Julia dumbly walks straight into danger.
- Aynur, a German woman of Kurdish-Turkish descent, struggles for a free, self-determined life in the face of her family's opposition. Her brothers insult and threaten her until she finally reports her oldest brother to the police.
- In 1950s Germany, a farmer's children face an excruciating dilemma when the son resists expectations to take over the family farm.
- The author Max Zorn, now in his early 60s, is on a promotional book tour in New York when he meets up again with the woman he could never forget. They spend a weekend together. 17 years have passed. Can there be a future for their past?
- In a small town in Texas, an annual endurance contest (Hands On) to win a pickup truck promises thrilling entertainment to spectators and the chance of a lifetime to participants, but ends in real tragedy.
- Based on the true story of Sam Meffire's rise and fall in East Germany, this miniseries follows Sam's desperate search for a place he can call home, as he fights for recognition and justice in the wild years following German reunification.
- The story of a young female student at the famous Bauhaus Design Academy in the early 1920's, inspired by the real life of designer Alma Siedhoff-Buscher.
- Middle-aged zoo worker Natasha still lives with her mother in a small coastal town. She is stuck and it seems that life has no surprises for her until one day - she grows a tail and turns her life around.
- It has been two years since a zombie virus epidemic infected all but two German cities. Vivi and Eva flee the struggling community in Weimar for the one other safe-haven: Jena.
- Commissioner Sarah Kohr is investigating to arrest criminals, with camouflage skills if necessary.
- After a chance phone call leads to daily conversations, a widowed restaurant owner and a lonely film actor plan to finally meet in person.
- Rainer toils by the sweat of his brow on a building site. His first job as site manager is his much-needed big break.
- The movie deals with the real life story of East German singer and writer Gerhard Gundermann and his struggles with music, life as a coal miner and his dealings with the secret police (STASI) of the GDR.
- A mysterious home invasion triggers off a shake in the core of a cosmopolitan middle-class family and unveils the fragility of truth and the power of individual perspective.
- The young student Ed (Jonathan Berlin) wants to get out, leave everything behind. He finds refuge on the Baltic Island of Hiddensee, at a time when the GDR is in its last legs. Many have landed there, including Kruso (Albrecht Schuch). Quickly the two men become more than just friends. Remarkable adaptation of Lutz Rope's award-winning novel.
- Robert Heffler and Mavi Neumann solve criminal cases across the Spree with their unconventional way. And in Berlin-Köpenick a lot of work awaits the two.
- Hans calls his girlfriend Heinz, which tells you everything you need to know about their relationship. They're a typical couple who're stuck in a rut after eight years. Hans works at a copy shop and Heinz is an actress relegated to voicing a cartoon stoplight. On their anniversary, they go to the movies. It's a romance. But the spark on screen just doesn't strike them. When Hans gives Heinz's ex, Max her phone number instead of putting up a fight over her, her alarm bells go off. Max awakens her old feelings, but this does not even spark a trace of jealousy with Hans. The thing is clear: the two have to do something. How can this be love? They decide to make a list of everything that makes up a real love: Romance, desire, passion, jealousy, drama - deep feelings, in other words. Hans and Heinz methodically start checking off their list and realize: Real life is nothing like the movies.
- 1979. A village in Pakistan. A widow sees her 17 years old son being attracted to Islamist militants. It brings her past back.
- When three young martial artists embark on a relentless treasure hunt in order to free their friend from the grasp of a ruthless gangster, they get entangled in a complex conspiracy staged to dethrone Berlin's underworld kingpin.
- struggling writer max is a law-abiding citizen. little does max realize he's predicted to commit a crime so heinous it's hardly imaginable. however, other people seem to know already and want to stop him before it's too late. he leaves his adoptive daughter jola home alone to look into a strange phone call he gets.
- Freddy and his wife Juliana leave the Konstanz comfort zone and move to Berlin. With Grandpa Fritz in tow, the Kleemanns come to live with Grandma Regina. In contrast to his sister Zoe, little Niko is happy about living with his grandparents. While Freddy and his trusted colleague Lara finally want to implement their own concept as a daycare manager, Juliana sees an unexpected stop sign in her career as a doctor: She is unplanned pregnant. Now a difficult life decision is imminent: A third child does not fit into the current family and couple concept of two full-time workers. The self-absorbed parents initially pay little attention to the problem that Zoe is anything but happy after the new beginning. Only when the teenage girl runs away do Freddy and Juliana react. Now they have to find each other again as a couple in order to stay together as a family. Again the question arises: Who is backing up and how?
- Martin Bruhl is an investigator who is able to solve the most complex crimes, but who also cannot eat or sleep until he's done so. When a young child is kidnapped, Martin, despite the sleeplessness, is still possibly the only one who can help.
- A bus stop deep in Brandenburg. Two men are waiting for a bus and talking about their lives. Frankly, honestly. The topics are diverse, the dialogue directly from the Brandenburg soul.
- A 75-year-old man goes on a road trip with a 16-year-old runaway kid; their families search for them.
- The 26-year-old Anja Niedringhaus is sitting in a UN Transall plane on the way to Sarajevo. The war has just started in Yugoslavia. Niedringhaus had stubbornly worked on her boss beforehand to report from the war zone in the middle of Europe as a photographer for the European Pressphoto Agency. It is bitterly cold on site, there is no electricity, hardly any food, and everyone is in constant danger.
- There seems to be little room in society for imaginative people. Paul's father was personally affected by this. When he told the people of his village how old records indicated there was a legendary cave inside the Ursulenberg mountain, they thought he was a crank. But more than a year ago, he left on an expedition and never returned. Did he find the cave and have an accident there? Paul has a hard time coping with his father's disappearance. He keeps thinking about what his father had told him: "We have to dream as much as we can. How can all the wonderful things that could change the world become real if no one dares to imagine them?" On the last day of school, Paul picks up his father's notes and decides to go in search of the cave with his best friend. Thus begins the summer of their lives.
- Glocke had a simple plan to set the pimp Hermann's SUV on fire, become an internet star and impress Lena. Instead, he drops into a mobile toilette and becomes a web-fail. He decides to follow the web call to hike and search for the drop-out Friedrich. Together with Judith, Steffi, Elias and Paule he heads of into the Harz. As access to internet and smartphones are not allowed the plan to start all over again works and the adventure brings the five together. But each teenager has a secret of their own and soon the hike leads the teens to face their past.
- A stranger in his own life, 25-year-old Danny reluctantly returns to his childhood home after his father's sudden passing. To his surprise, he slowly rediscovers his hometown in the middle of nowhere as a summery paradise and falls back in love with his former sweetheart Susu. But in order to find his purpose in life, Danny has to finally face the part of his past that made him leave home so many years ago.
- Lea, a 23 year old university student, meets Ryan, a mysterious and charming man. Although Lea has a boyfriend, she lets Ryan seduce her. The next morning is a rude awakening, as what initially appears to be an attempt at blackmail turns into an exciting odyssey into the depths of the human soul, where Lea and Ryan have to take responsibility for their actions.
- Prinzessin Polly hat es nicht leicht. Das Königreich befindet sich in einem Ausnahmezustand: Seit Pollys Bruder vor Jahren verschwand, herrscht Trauer. Der König erträgt kein Lachen. Doch ausgerechnet Prinzessin Polly fällt das besonders schwer, sie liebt es, Witze zu machen und andere Menschen aufzumuntern. Als Polly bei der Trauerfeier zum Gedenken an den Prinzen ihren Nebenmann zum Lachen bringt, breitet sich dieses Lachen wie eine Lawine unter den Umstehenden aus. Es kommt zum Streit - Polly geht. Zeitgleich überquert der Abenteurer Leif die Landesgrenze. Möglichst schnell will er durch dieses trauernde Land reiten, muss dann allerdings den Widerstandskämpfer Hagen retten, der vor seinen Augen abgeführt werden soll. Den Wachen des Königs können die beiden nur mithilfe einer magischen Alten entkommen. "Jeder muss seine Last auf den Rücken nehmen!" ist die Maxime dieser geheimnisvollen Frau, bei der auch Polly bereits Unterschlupf finden konnte. Sie fordert die jungen Menschen um sich heraus und öffnet ihnen neue Horizonte. Schaffen sie es gemeinsam, die Zukunft des Landes umzugestalten und es von der Last der Trauer zu befreien?
- Meeri Ehrlich, 13 years old has three problems. First: She is in love - with the wrong person - and has butterflies in her tummy. Second: Her mother passed away and she misses her a lot. Third: her father - owner of a funeral home - is looking for a new partner. But Meeri has something that is only hers, something very special - she can fly.
- Lena (17) meets 19-year-old Farid, a young Muslim. She has a clear-cut attitude towards his culture and religion: utter rejection. Despite their differences - or perhaps because of them - they fall in love. When Lena unexpectedly gets pregnant the two of them must make a pledge to each other and their child. Hannah, Lena's mother, sees red, realizing this means her daughter will be expected to marry a Muslim man - unfathomable both to her and to Farid's family. A couple destined to be together stuck between worlds, traditions, religion, contradictions and prejudices.
- Major German wine merchant checks up, with his romantic side agenda, on his oenologist Sandra in Sicily where she must find him an extraordinary claret, preferably from a local grape varietal. She refuses to 'settle for' the "nero d'avola" presented by local wine tycoon Vincent, but after running from his 'excessive flirting' after dinner accidentally finds in a grocery shop the right stuff, In Vino, alas without clues to the supplier. Stumbling upon a beached-up man, whom she brings to hospital as "Robinson" Sandra gets a crush on the amnesiac mystery compatriot and meets local commissioner Velani, who suspects an illegal refugee or crook but wants to help defeat crooked Vincenzo, thus provides tips where to look for the winemaker. He turns out to be Vincenzo's old neighbor and hereditary feud rival Ludovico Veritas, whom he sabotages by bribing the waterworks. She hesitates to tell Robinson he's identified as family father Bruno Haller until her brother Jens Brinkmann, whim she invited for a holiday with high-pregnant wife Alma, kicks her a conscience. All may still work out 'the Italian way'.
- A car crash thrusts Francis, the dreamy film projectionist, into the world of the ruthless gangster Mascarpone.
- A great famine threatens the country. Before people die of hunger, they turn into birds - as does little Ida. Therefore, her big sister Jola runs desperately into the deep forest to find some food for the family.
- Young Syrian Karim travels from Germany to Syria to save his brother. A surprising perspective and a very personal take on one of the largest conflicts of our time.