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- Two terminally ill patients escape from a hospital, steal a car and rush towards the sea.
- 13-year-old Sinikka vanishes on a hot summer night. Her bicycle is found in the exact place where a girl was killed 23 years ago. The dramatic present forces those involved in the original case to face their past.
- A maid witnesses a murder at an upscale hotel and a policeman is assigned to the case, but it soon becomes clear that important people don't want the case solved.
- Thomas Müller is spotted by a marketing agency for his exceptional normality.
- A show about students at a boarding school in Erfurt.
- The spin-off to the original series 'In aller Freundschaft' focuses on the young doctors in a fictional clinic in Erfurt.
- A 10-year old German-Finnish boy tries to fix his family's life.
- German tale about a man who sells his heart to a forest-dwelling warlock for money and power.
- A blind pianist living in 18th-century Vienna forms an extraordinary relationship with the physician who is trying to restore her sight.
- The old man Petterson is trying to sleep but his cat Findus is keeping him awake, so they both agree that Findus shall have his own house. Based on the beloved books by Sven Nordqvist.
- The adventures of a grumpy old farmer and his cat.
- Nelly is with her parents on vacation in Romania. The 13-year-old girl will find new friends and experience the adventure of her life.
- Stewardess Melanie must survive a night of terror after a Stalker is following her to her home.
- A young couple struggles with an unplanned pregnancy, turning to crystal meth to cope with their troubled lives until a midwife intervenes, offering guidance and support to help them face their challenges and find a path forward.
- At the center of this family story is 13-year-old protagonist Madison, for whom cycle racing means just everything! She gives her all to emulate her cool and successful cycle-pro father. But when the talented and ambitious young racer has to unwillingly swap saddles for a mountain bike things go haywire.
- THE ORANGE GIRL is about two young men's different paths to finding love. Jan Olav is struck as if by lightning the first time he sees the Orange Girl, and is sure he has found the love of his life. His infatuation is like nothing else: the sky turns round and round, the earth disappears beneath his feet. Nothing else matters. Georg has love served on a silver platter under a magic Easter sky in the Norwegian mountains, but he has difficulties understanding his own feelings, grasping what is happening to him. There are 20 years between these two love stories. Georg hears the story of his father Jan Olav's quest for the Orange Girl through a letter he receives on his 16th birthday. The letter helps him realize that he cannot let love slip through his fingers. Jan Olav's and Georg's stories are woven together through the letter. Both stories tell tales of chance encounters that change their lives. THE ORANGE GIRL is a love story that raises important questions about our human existence. How do you explain to your son that love is the most important thing in life - indeed, the only thing that gives life meaning? How do you explain that although life can be short and painful, love still makes it worth living? How do you explain that the moment is the only eternity there is?
- In 1989 Berlin, 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. Afer all, this is the time of mass protests and East Germans taking refuge in the West German embassy in Prague. Franzi and Sascha must find ways to stand up for their love and strive for the impossible: to bring down the wall.
- Fatherless schoolboy Tobias is neglected by his mother and her abusive boyfriend and bullied at school. To become popular, he borrows an iguana to stage the lie that his father is an adventurer in South America.
- Hanne and Barbara have been best friends since they were young. Their lives have developed very differently: While the wealthy mail order owner Hanne lives in a large villa in Erfurt, Barbara lives quite modestly on her small widow's pension. The two spontaneously decide to revive their youth in Bad Elster, a tranquil health resort: at the tender age of 17, the friends had their first adventures with the opposite sex there, and now they want to know again. The spa management is not at all enthusiastic about the lust for life of the two ladies, especially the strict head nurse Inge. On the other hand, the love-hungry friends find much more understanding with the successful entrepreneur Edzard and the charming globetrotter Georg. In order to land optimally with the gentlemen, Hanne and Barbara simply swap roles: The shy widow mimes the rich lady life so as not to give the wealthy Edzard the impression that she is only interested in him because of his money. The fun-loving Hanne, on the other hand, slips into the role of the poor widow, because the bon vivant Georg has had bad experiences with rich women. But when Hannes' pampered son Simon, whose financial demands are not met by her as desired, out of disappointment informs the gentlemen in love about the true identities of Hanne and Barbara, this seems to be the end of the romantic adventure for Hanne and Barbara.
- The retired Chief superintendent Jakob Franck who often had to inform relatives as a "death messenger", now hopes to lead a life beyond the dead.
- A tragic love affair ensues between German poet Friedrich Hölderlin and banker's wife Susette Gontard.
- British pop duo Pet Shop Boys recorded live at various venus on their 1999/2000 world tour. Concert footage is presented simultaneously over layers of backdrop projections and computer-generated graphics, giving more than just the usual live recording. Featuring 22 Pet Shop Boys hits, including 'West End girls', 'It's a sin', and 'Go West', spanning their whole career.
- Based on Elke Heidenreich's short story, this drama focuses on the difficult relationship between a lesbian journalist and her mother. Shortly after forty-something Nina has fallen in love with the photographer Flora, her mother Eva, who doesn't know anything about her daughter's sexual orientation, suggests going with her on a business trip to Budapest, which becomes a look back to their common past...
- Little Fritz Fuchs and his friend Roman Zenkert are about to recover Hannibal's legendary Alpenschatz. However, as an avalanche in the cave goes down, the jammed Fritz is ignored by his "buddy" ignominiously. Decades later, Fuchs is overtaken by his past. Because the nasty Zenkert still wants to get by all means in the possession of the treasure. After many entanglements and entanglements, the second treasure hunt in the mountains leads to a heated finale.
- Documentary about the rock group BAP from Cologne in Germany.
- This is the funny German version of the social comedy Ocean`s Eleven. Eleven accomplices from the eastern part of Germany ("Ossi" is slang for an East German citizen) get together to plan a new and huge criminal act, although the head of them, Oswald Richter (Tim Wilde), just got out of prison. But they have a problem. The casinos they desired to break in to already went bankcruptcy, thus a new plan has to be made. Their next idea is to steal money from an iron foundry, who still owns bills of the former currency, German Marks. Later, this should be exchanged into EURO at a federal bank. But the theory sounds far easier than reality is in the end. The crew, which consists of a former top-notch world class canoeist, Bruno, a fast food store owner, Axel, and a kid that thinks he is Elvis, Timmy, is lucky to find out that one of them has a grandfather who knows about the old tunnel system under the iron foundry. The problematic journey begins and holds unexpected obstacles.
- A family film which tells the unlikely and timeless story about almost ten year old Tony, whose father rises from being a crane driver to Secretary of State. As a result his parents get divorced and Tony does everything he can to bring them back together. He even calls in the help of the queen.
- Widower, dad and reporter Klaus keeps bumping into single lawyer Judith, literally. Klaus's daughter, Anna, is at first against the two dating. All three like sailboats. But Judith is ill.
- Modern version of The Frog King. Out of an impulse, 15-year-old Anna kisses a frog which then turns into a prince. But the curse is not solved that easily.
- The Surgeon Steffen is innocently accused of the murders of women that have taken place in the city in recent months. Attempts to clear his identity are hampered by the fact that he has recently been sitting and watching his colleague Katharina from a distance in her home. To put everything right, he takes the police's talkative psychologist hostage and sets out in search of the killer.
- The criminal psychologist Annett Schuster and the case analyst Jan Kawig have to solve their first case together when a male body is found near the Wartburg. Huddled in a fridge like the victim is praying. The man was known as the "Judge Merciless" at the Higher Regional Court of Erfurt - revenge as a motive is therefore obvious. Annett Schuster finds religious symbols that refer to the Bible quote "An eye for an eye". When a second body is discovered near an abandoned church, one thing is clear: the investigators are dealing with a serial killer. The search for clues develops into a macabre game between perpetrators and investigators... The unconventional Jan Kawig is a trained carpenter and Thuringian through and through, while the astute criminal psychologist Annett Schuster returns home from the USA after a few years at Boston University. The new team of operational case analysis is headed by Marion Dörner, who prefers flat hierarchies and has to struggle privately with the excesses of her pubescent sons. The team is complemented by coroner Vanessa Sun and detective inspector Sabine Limmer.
- Four couples from different nations meet in present Belgrade and experience the small impossibilities of big love.
- Schoolboy Martin, bright but small for his age, has to move and change school because of his mother's new jobs, while only his father really tries to understand him. Even before he reaches class he bumps into cocky, athletic rascal Oliver. It seems like Oliver's best friend Silke (a girl) taking to Martin will aggravate their tension, but she actually gets them to spend time together and grow closer. Martin even takes the blame, which neither parent understands, for Oliver smoking in class, a third strike meaning expulsion. Oliver's knavish mischief actually stems from his dad's drinking problem and its root, his ma's infidelity. When he runs away, Martin takes him in.
- Christina, a young German reporter, is sent to Masuria to prepare a press article about it. She is accompanied by her lively Masurian-born grandmother Elsa and a handsome Polish photographer named Marek.
- Georg, a former Cop, is convinced that family father Andreas Fink is a child murderer. He kidnapps him and tries to bring the truth to light.
- One evening in the mid-sixties, Rolf Anschütz, a chef who runs a small restaurant in a town called Suhl in the middle of the East German province of Thuringen offers his guests a unique and exotic meal - Japanese Sukiyaki. It was intent to be a surprise for some of his best customers and it became a great success. Even the local paper wrote about it - and this should change the life of Rolf Anschütz forever. A couple of days after the "event" a real Japanese turned up at the restaurant and demanded the same meal again. From this moment there was no way back. The Japanese loved Rolf Anschütz cooking and his restaurant "Der Waffenschmied" (Gunsmith) soon was honored as the place which offered the best and most authentic Japanese cuisine outside Japan. In the shortest time the Japanese have accepted Rolf Anschütz as one theirs. They celebrate the Authenzität of his kitchen and the "original" Japanese washing rituals before the meals would be served. First diplomats, later Japanese economic bosses and sports delegations were sitting in the pool of the now famous restaurant "Waffenschmied - Japanese department" - naked and side by side with government officials and the brigades of the East German working class. And because the omnipresent communist party cannot close the popular place any more, the state security better known as Stasi took also their seat in the pool. The party soon discovered Rolfs restaurant as a foreign currency bringer and allowed the import of Japanese food and exotic ingredients from a delicatessen importer from West Germany. And while Rolfs Anschütz, in the meantime, wearing kimonos and East German geisha's on his side, philosophies about the peaceful coexistence of the people in the World his restaurant turns into the only really existing "theme park" in East Germany. Who wanted to go for a meal, must order two years in advance - at the end it will be 2 million guests!
- During the Cold War, Ulrich and Heike Molitor's attempt to escape from the GDR with their children hidden in the car ends in a prison conviction and both kids going to adoption unless they accept to leave daughter Rebecca behind to that fate and choose 'exulsion' with son Klaus. When the kids near adulthood, Klaus is frustrated that his parents only wine about his lost sister. Meanwhile, the time is ripening for the Berlin wall to come down. Rebecca's adoptive pa resists his wife's bitching to leave the Stasi.
- Lena, 17, is restless and desperate. In a few weeks she will finish school, but she doesn't have any definite plans for her future. She wants to make music, that's the only thing she knows. Will she be able to resist the pressure that comes from the people around her - parents, teachers, and society? Will she make her way?
- Nico and Milos are brothers and Roma from former Yugoslavia - they've been tragically separated in childhood. Years later they meet at a police station - Nico as respected citizen, married to a German and policeman. Milos' life went a different path, he's accused of having robbed and brutally beaten up a woman. When the brothers sit in the same room for the police questioning, Nico has to make a decision - loyalty towards his job or his brother.
- Before the Berlin Wall fell, Erich Mielke was the most feared man in East Germany. He created the East German "Stasi" and, for over four decades, ruled this most perfidious and effective secret service: 300.000 men, women and children, to control a population of 17 million. Fear was key to the efficiency of the Stasi, and Mielke was the master of fear.
- With the help of a magic stone, Marietta transforms her little brother Tobias into a little dog - but the situation threatens to get out of control.
- Comedians immerse themselves in different living and working environments that are not actually associated with comedy. At the end there is a stand-up performance about the people, the job and the past few days.
- Two different mothers in two different worlds. The first one from comes from the western world, lives in France and after a tragic lost of her child is trying to continue living and find purpose of it. The other is coming from completely different world, very traditional, patriarchal society, where things change very slowly and where the women are married as exchange for money. The first one wants to die, the other wants to live. Their parallel paths converge when the one from the western society comes in the world of the other in the east. This intrusion turns, unintentionally and unconsciously into a very violent one.
- A new inspector recently transferred to a police station that used to be in ex eastern Germany, digs up evidence that an old case had been rushed purposely, and an innocent man had been imprisoned.
- When Martin Luther nailed his 95 'points for discussion' to Wittenberg's Castle church, his quiet life exploded into an international confrontation, an argument with the Pope, and ultimately, the Protestant Reformation. A simple monk pitted against the might, power, and money of Rome. But while the religious, social and political consequences have been much discussed, we reveal a fundamentally human story of honesty, faith, and fortitude. Narrated by David Suchet.
- On her 40th birthday, the attractive Karin receives letters from her friends from the contact ad that they secretly posted for her.