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- An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.
- Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII.
- Follow the adventures of a young girl born into a band of robbers in a medieval Scandinavian fortress. As Ronja grows up, she learns that the surrounding forest can be a magical and sometimes dangerous place filled with strange creatures.
- Colognian commissioner Gereon Rath moves to Berlin, the epicenter of political and social changes in the Golden Twenties.
- Unscrupulous and arrogant murder detective Evert Bäckström finds himself with the hardest case he ever had when a skull pierced with bullet holes is found on an uninhabited island in the archipelago.
- A boy stands on a station platform as a train is about to leave. Should he go with his mother or stay with his father? Infinite possibilities arise from this decision. As long as he doesn't choose, anything is possible.
- Unable to unsee the dark crimes he's tasked to investigate, Wallander's job comes at a cost to his family and relationships.
- A depressed musician reunites with his lover. However, their romance, which has already endured several centuries, is disrupted by the arrival of her uncontrollable younger sister.
- An anthology series that follows the work of homicide detectives in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
- An African-American Mafia hit man who models himself after the samurai of old finds himself targeted for death by the mob.
- Georges and Anne are an octogenarian couple. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, also a musician, lives in Britain with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.
- An accomplished headhunter risks everything to obtain a valuable painting owned by a former mercenary.
- Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. Who is responsible?
- A young Austrian girl is kidnapped and held in captivity for eight years. Based on the factual case of Natascha Kampusch.
- German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR-regime.
- In 11th-century Persia, a surgeon's apprentice disguises himself as a Jew to study at a school that does not admit Christians.
- A Swedish cop in a small town by the Baltic coast.
- A story of slavery, set in the southern U.S. in the 1930s.
- Set in the World War I, a young nurse at Davos is recruited by a female master in a high-stakes power play deciding war or peace.
- Young Queen Margot finds herself trapped in an arranged marriage amidst a religious war between Catholics and Protestants. She hopes to escape with a new lover, but finds herself imprisoned by her powerful and ruthless family.
- A young writer becomes intrigued with a mysterious dark-haired woman who claims to be his long-lost sister, starting an unusual relationship with her and prompting a downward spiral involving his domineering mother and lovely fiancée.
- Explores the life of a Jewish family in contemporary Germany.
- A look at Germany's terrorist group, The Red Army Faction (RAF), which organized bombings, robberies, kidnappings, and assassinations in the late 1960s and '70s.
- One midsummer evening in 1973 two tourists are found murdered in a tent. The unsolved crime casts shadows on the lives of several people.
- Four stories about short or long relationships between men and women in Italy and France.
- Twenty-year-old Julius Caeser flees Rome for his life during the reign of Sulla, but through skill and ambition rises four decades later to become Rome's supreme dictator.
- The love story of a young English woman and a German PoW, who together overcome prejudice, public hostility and personal tragedy.
- High-flying lawyer Rebecka Martinsson leaves Stockholm for her hometown when a childhood friend dies.
- During the early sixteenth century, idealistic German monk Martin Luther, disgusted by the materialism in the Catholic Church, begins the dialogue that will lead to the Protestant Reformation.
- An aging, out-of-work actress accepts one last job, though the consequences of her decision affect her in ways she didn't consider.
- An author forms a strange bond with her eccentric maid that will have a lasting effect on both women.
- An ambitious female attorney wallows in excess and meaningless sex with both male and female partners, while dealing with her personal life problems including helping her kleptomaniac sister.
- To withstand the psychological torture of the Gestapo, a lawyer imprisoned by the Nazis finds refuge in the world of chess.
- A movie about the life, work and death of Jesus as we know it from the Bible.
- A mysterious murder brings police officer Maik Briegand back to the place of his childhood: Lauchhammer. Together with the LKA investigator Annalena Gottknecht, Briegand begins to remove the secrets of the past layer by layer.
- Summer 1944, Schwäbisch Hall. Against the war propaganda and the ordered heroism, the five 16 year old boys of the swimming pool group dream about swing music, sex and freedom. And they also dream about Lore, the helper from Fliegerhorst, who gets looks from all the boys in her red swimming suit. At the same time they realize there is no chance they can escape the horror at the front. Lore tells them "Remain alive", but Zungenkuss dies first and more won't make it through the war alive.
- Waris Dirie, born 1965 in Somalia, flees at thirteen when sold to be a mans fourth wife. She works as a maid at the Somalian embassy in London, then in a McDonald's where she's discovered and becomes an international top model. Then, in 1997 she speaks up against female genital mutilation.
- A discovery of numerous murder victims in the eponymous region in Germany takes ex-cop Maggie Kring and detective Roland Voit together after more than 20 years of separation to examine the case, which becomes a personal one for Maggie.
- A secretary at a Berlin newspaper in 1936 gets to write about two Alpinists, as she knows them well. She later gets to report on and photograph her friends' and other Alpinists' climbs of the dangerous Swiss Eiger north face.
- Teresa, a fifty-year-old Austrian mother, travels to the paradise of the beaches of Kenya, seeking out love from African boys. But she must confront the hard truth that on the beaches of Kenya, love is a business.
- David is an unemployed communist that comes to Spain in 1937 during the civil war to enroll the republicans and defend the democracy against the fascists. He makes friends between the soldiers.
- "Nora Kaminski - without a doctorate." This is how Tanja Wedhorn introduces herself to the residents of Rügen as a doctor in "Practice with a sea view". The former ship's doctor did not land on the Baltic Sea island entirely voluntarily. The quick-witted, cheerful nature from the Ruhr area first has to assert itself under the idiosyncratic northern lights. But the 42-year-old doctor is in financial difficulties. Her reserves are just enough for a room in an "old captain's house full of character", where hot water is not guaranteed and the cranky landlord Matthias Samland (Hans-Uwe Bauer) gives her the cold shoulder. For now, she can only rely on her doctor colleague and former college friend, Dr. Richard Freese (Stephan Kampwirth), who is looking for a partner with unusual ideas, but is secretly still attached to his childhood sweetheart Nora. The practice team is completed by medical assistant Mandy (Morgane Ferru).
- In November 1939, Georg Elser's attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler fails, and he is arrested. During his confinement, he recalls the events leading up to his plot and his reasons for deciding to take such drastic action.
- Ein Schwerverletzter verlangt mit letzter Kraft nach Sonderermittler Alexander Haller. Es ist sein Freund und Ex-Kollege Scherf, der bis vor Kurzem wegen des Mordes an seiner Frau im Gefängnis saß. Als Haller in der Klinik eintrifft, kann ihm der Sterbende nur noch zwei rätselhafte Bitten mitgeben. Für Alexander beginnt ein neuer Fall, der alte Zweifel hervorruft: War es ein fataler Fehler, dass er damals aus Befangenheit die Ermittlungen abgegeben hat? Schon bald konzentrieren sich die Ermittlungen auf ein Wiener Kaffeehaus-Imperium, in dem es um weit mehr als Melange und Espresso geht. Dabei bringt Alex nicht nur sich selbst in Gefahr, sondern setzt auch die Freundschaft mit seinem Partner Niko aufs Spiel.
- Two young teenage boys steal a car and embark on a road trip that will probably change their lives.
- The history of the Wolf family in post-war Germany in the 1940s and 1950s.
- Momo, a young soccer player who ends up innocently behind bars. In Berlin jail he now has to assert himself and is put under pressure by his uncle, the clan leader Amar.
- An act of revenge takes an unexpected turn in this psychological drama from French Writer and Director Lola Doillon. Anna (Dame Kristin Scott Thomas) flees a house on the outskirts of Paris and returns home, careful to tell no one where she's been or what she's been doing. The next day, after an ordinary day of work as an OB-GYN, Anna stops at a Police station and reports that she had been kidnapped. Several years before, she performed a cesarean section on a woman who did not survive, and the patient's husband, Yann (Pio Marmaï), driven mad by grief, abducted Anna and intended to punish her for the death of his wife and child. However, after spending several days together in Yann's basement, he and Anna discovered their contempt for one another was giving way to more complex emotions, which complicate both of their senses of justice. This movie was an official selection at the 2010 BFI London Film Festival.
- On the South Pacific island of Bora Bora, a young couple's love is threatened when the tribal chief declares the girl a sacred virgin.
- A portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt, whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.