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- A Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg, where he gets caught in the international war on terror.
- The Nazis set up a secret base on the dark side of the moon in 1945 where they hide out and plan to return to power in 2018.
- A young Spanish woman who has recently moved to Berlin finds her flirtation with a local guy turn potentially deadly as their night out with his friends reveals a dangerous secret.
- In order to obtain research funds for her studies, a scientist accepts an offer to participate in an extraordinary experiment: for three weeks, she is to live with a humanoid robot, created to make her happy.
- A soon-to-be-father policeman falls for a gay fellow officer and his life starts falling apart.
- A follow-up to the film Iron Sky (2012) in which Nazis plan to take over the world after lying dormant in a secret military base on the moon.
- Swiss Professor Raimund Gregorius abandons his lectures and buttoned-down life to embark on a thrilling adventure that will take him on a journey to the very heart of himself.
- Two intertwined cases linking the past with the present require the aid of Department Q to catch an elusive serial killer while time is running out.
- A successful artist loses control of his life after his young daughter's death. A chance for a new start appears, but all is not what it seems.
- A married, Orthodox, Jerusalem butcher and Jewish father of four falls in love with his handsome, 22-year-old male apprentice, triggering the suspicions of his wife and the disapproval of his Orthodox community.
- In 1915 a man survives the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire, but loses his family, speech and faith. One night he learns that his twin daughters may be alive, and goes on a quest to find them.
- A young student seeks quiet and solitude to focus on an important work but ends up as the teacher of a peculiar boy who is home-schooled by his parents in an isolated bunker mansion. THE BUNKER is a dark, twisted, and funny tale about childhood, growing up and education.
- A loving father and husband is exorted by an unknown guy and he is about to lose his life, his money and his family.
- An English teacher brings soccer from England to Germany in the late 19th Century by teaching it to his class.
- A story of young love and early life choices.
- Western frontiers of the USSR, 1942. The region is under German occupation. A man is wrongly accused of collaboration. Desperate to save his dignity, he faces impossible moral choice.
- An actor's career takes a "Tootsie"-like turn when he lets himself be cast as a woman in a movie.
- At work, Astrid is admired by her fans as a famous cabaret artist and privately a second child is on road to complete her family happiness.
- The unexpected, uncertain love story of Sreykeo, a 21-year-old bar girl in Phnom Penh, and Ben, a young German student traveling to Cambodia on a post-graduation summer trip.
- End of the 1970s in East Germany: Fred and Jonas are close friends. The 10-year-olds live near at the German-German frontier. After the mother from Jonas has made an exit application, the boys have to recognize that they are soon separated from each other. But they want to dig a tunnel to Australia to meet there themselves again. When Jonas should leave the country with his mother this night changes everything.
- East Fresia 1401: era of feared sea pirates Klaus Störtebeker and Gödeke Michels is coming to an end.
- The story of a boy who, driven by the search for his lost brother in the turmoil of WWII end, joins a group of children in order to survive the chaos of post-war anarchy in the haunted forests of Lithuania.
- Marko is in his mid-thirties, has just published his first book, and has been living in Berlin since his university days - far enough away from his parents Gitte and Günter whose bourgeois lifestyle he could never quite get used to. He visits them once or twice a year, mainly to give them a chance to spend a few days with their grandson. His hopes of spending a quiet weekend with the family fall short when Gitte, who has been mentally unstable since Marko was a child, feels so healthy after a homeopathic treatment that she stops taking her medication. Her announcement triggers reserved reactions in the family, and a series of revelations tip his family's structure out of balance.
- All of a sudden, 16-year-old Martha vanishes. Her father Lothar, who for years has had no contact with her or his ex-wife, sets off unwilling to find her. He soon realises other young people are also vanishing from the city inexplicably. Lothar follows their trail across the country. He meets the occasional young person but the trail goes cold. In the next city he encounters militia groups and a reinforced police presence. Children are forbidden to be on the streets unless accompanied by adults. The world has changed...
- A hitman of the Russian mafia has just been diagnosed with terminal cancer; he is sent to Berlin to pick up the watch Yuri Gagarin wore on his first flight into space. But many people have to be eliminated to get the watch.
- Linda has been suffering from a congenital heart defect ever since her birth. She managed to reach 30 contrary to medical predictions. But, with another operation looming, she feels a need to spend what might be the last weekend with her two sisters, so they start a short journey from Hamburg to Paris.
- 20-year-old Jack hunts the nightmare of his past and crosses paths with mysterious Eve, who is either his Guardian Angel or his Final Doom. Time runs out as Jack tries to escape the demons of the waste lands in order to find redemption.
- Who killed Zaharias? Awesome Officer Leonidas will find out, even if he has to question all the island.
- Hatice is the older of two daughters of Turkish parents living in Germany. And while their father is open minded and has adapted to the Western lifestyle in most regards, he still stands firm on some Turkish traditions. One of them is that a younger daughter cannot get married before her older sisters. With her younger sister already pregnant, Hatice is under pressure to find a husband in a hurry. But she isn't going to marry just anybody. Her husband must be German. And he must have the fire of a Turkish man. The search of a suitable man is on.
- Petty ruling prince Gundolf decides to abdicate and promises his crown to the son among his three who can bring him the land's finest carpet, following the wind blowing for each a feather from a stuffed hunting trophy. The ambitious eldest, Gerhard, and the lazy second-born glutton Gebhard, who struck a deal to help him and be allowed to continue his parasitical lifestyle, cheat and bring home mediocre carpets, trusting the generally-mocked Gustav, a kind and helpful animal lover, won't find anything as his feather drifts into the forest. But a magic wood cave dweller, which he once saved as a frog, gives him a champion carpet. The trusted court marshal Julius, who considers naive, simple Gustav childishly unfit, convinces the monarch to disqualify the results and set a new quest, but the pattern is repeated.
- Felix Weingarten's parents separate amicably - like they don't forget to emphasize - and for the reason of fairness they decide to share just also their common only son: One week at the mother, one week at the father. For his parents it's a judgment of Solomon, for Felix it means the total disorientation. While his family halves, his material existence doubles. He lives in a very confuse-organized everyday life with two toy rooms, two beds, two tooth-brushes - but Felix lives nevertheless in hope, that the quarrel of all, which releases between his parents "week for week" in the everyday life, the family can reunite.
- 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.
- Middle-age film projectionist still lives with his mother in Belgrade. he is also film aficionado and quite content to be in his mother company. NATO's 1999 bombing of Serbia starts and two of them become refugees. After quite surreal journey they end up in New York, of all places. That is were he realizes that he cannot do his old job any more, one he loved so much. While he and his mother were trying to survive, the new age of Cinema Digital Projection started. Some discarded projectors gave him an idea. His new mission in life will be to travel around and show people the magic of the real cinema, created by film strips, mechanical projectors, big screen and flickering light.
- Susanne Jacob is a successful judge who is happily married. However, she has to face her hidden past when she receives a letter from an Italian solicitor. Apparently, it is related to a daughter she gave birth to when she was seventeen.
- Attorney Sarah Stein accepts a seemingly simple case: dealing with an inheritance involving a wine estate. The family members, however, quarrel among themselves and Sarah, in addition to resolving the transaction, has to face new feelings.
- After his father dies in South Africa, preteen David Stapleton is dragged to his mother's native Wales, where they inherited a rundown cottage she plans to sell to buy a London antiques shop. Meanwhile they move in there, facing the renovation requirements she can't afford, and flirtation on more starts with notable neighbors, mainly Michael Lloyd Glynn, MP, who champions the regional nature reserve; and its greatest threat, opportunistic gold miner Sam Morgan, who just returned from South America. David is presented to helpful neighbor James Belbroughton's silver-spoon son Henry, but they are far from ideal playmates. Nothing goes right--how can everything work out right?
- They are actually a mother-daughter team that could hardly be more harmonious: the respected Hamburg pediatrician Claudia Kayser and her almost 17-year-old daughter Carolin. Since the tragic death of her beloved father, the two have become even closer - at that time the girl helped her grieving mother to overcome a difficult emotional depression. In the meantime, Claudia has her life under control again and has found a new life partner in the sympathetic family lawyer Thomas. Meanwhile, Carolin is toying with the idea of following in her mum's professional footsteps, so she does an internship at her mum's hospital. The shock is all the greater when the teenager finds out on her 17th birthday that she was adopted as a baby. Disappointed and deeply hurt, she blames her mother for never telling her the truth over the years. She now wants to find out on her own who her birth parents are. With the help of the youth welfare office, she finds what she is looking for: her mother's name is Chantal, she is in her mid-30s, chronically broke, but always in a good mood. She leads an easy-going life without family obligations and keeps her head above water as a beautician in a small hairdressing salon in Hamburg's Kiez. Carolin is fascinated and impressed by Chantal's carefree manner, as she is so completely different from Claudia, who is buttoned up in a Hanseatic way and always keeps her feelings under wraps. The attempt to get to know each other better at a mother-daughter dinner ends in a scandal due to Claudia's jealous taunts. Nevertheless - or precisely because of this - the relationship between Carolin and her biological mother is becoming ever more intimate. Finally, after a heated argument, the girl leaves her parents' house and moves in with Chantal in her tiny neighborhood apartment. However, it doesn't take long for Chantal to admit that she's still not up to the responsibilities of being a mother. Hurt and once again deeply disappointed, Carolin feels abandoned by her two mothers and runs away.
- In his new theater production "Taming of the Shrew" director Georgi applies rather unconventional rehearsal methods. By using esoteric techniques with his unsuspecting actors he hopes to represent authentic modern life on stage. But during the preparation Georgi has to watch how his method turns against him and takes its own course. He got in big trouble with the actors, especially with Kyle Andrew "Marcel MIller". While Georgi is totally engaged in his play his wife Alma is troubled by serious depressions. She tries to put her life to an end and only the mysterious criminal Lucky prevents her suicide. He saves Alma and uses the opportunity to get closer to the nerve-racked diva.
- Istanbul police commissioner Mehmet Özakin's former university mate Yunus, now a restaurant chain owner, asks him discretely to look for German tourist Anja Sonntag, who is later found murdered in the city's ancient cisterns. Flanked by Mustafa and Anja's best friend, unshakable German newspaper correspondent Monika Adler, Özakin investigates the case, which proves to tie in with country bakery daughter Kadriye's mysterious turning up at his home to ask help and sudden disappearance. Next to Anja's regular bathing resort hotel in Marmaris, to deputy Mustafa's delight, where animators bitterly disagree how to handle frisky female tourists. More murders follow and even an attempt on Mehmet's own life.
- Istanbul businessman Hüseyin Akdamar, who checked into a luxury hotel for sex with Ukrainian 'maid' Ludmilla Dubrynska, is fatally stabbed by a person in a burkah. Later Faruk Soydan suffers the same fate, while Ludmilla survives an attack. Commissioner Mehmet Özakin, whose wife Sevim bugs him about 'neglect', and his assistant Mustafa, whose mother bugs him with her health, investigate the victims' families, the survivor, ultra-Islamic circles the Akdamars belong to and a feminist anti-adultery-activist Fatma Colak.
- A 13 year old girl is found murdered body dumped. Bukow has just been transferred and put in charge of König and her team to investigate. Bukow is in charge but König has also been assigned to investigate him, but it's unclear exactly why. A complex case soon unfolds.
- Commissioner Mehmet Özakin is almost relieved that a purse-snatcher frees him from shopping all over Istanbul with his wife. It also puts him near the spot of a car explosion which kills the driver, newspaper reporter Ismet Baydar, who was digging into real estate corruption, yet the press prefers the more spectacular, albeit unfounded terror theory. While private and professional motives are investigated and informers are disproved, one is stabbed to death on her way to the precinct: Laila Kaleci, an employee of Dr. Fatih Arman's Antalya private clinic, who met Ismet just before and nearby the bombing. There Mehmet stumbles onto an elaborate cover-up, which somehow involves Baydar's widow and editor, rich German tourist Wagner and penniless shepherds like Sedar Gül.
- König keeps passing an abandoned car on the way to work, so she has it towed to the scrapyard where a corpse is found in the trunk. The deceased may have been a blackmailer. Bukow presses König as to when her investigation of him will be over.
- The isolated pensioner Karl Rosenberg was found dead in his apartment. He was probably the victim of gentrification, because he was the last inhabitant of a run-down tenement house and the house administration wanted to get rid of him.
- When Dagmar Schnee finds out that the woman from their old friend Ullmann will die as soon, she helps him with a problem. She descries a woman unofficially. But this woman disappeared and her trail leads in a hotel where a suitor was murdered and robbed.