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- In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.
- An anthology series that follows the work of homicide detectives in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
- In 1945, General Patton sends Germany's confiscated gold reserves to Frankfurt, but the Army train is robbed by plotters who also hire a Swiss hitman to kill the General.
- An account of the events before and after a murder committed by a disturbed businessman in a strained marriage, and what led him to perform such a shocking act.
- What started as a simple blackmail, quickly devolves into a downward spiral of psychological and physical violence.
- Der Fahnder was an evening crime series of the ARD.
- The leader of a right-wing German political party discovers that an illiterate woodcarver is actually the son of Adolf Hitler. He kidnaps the young man from a mental institution and prepares him to start the Fourth Reich.
- When terrorists rob a bank all hell is let loose.
- Daytaler Leni has the strong will to one day belong to the people "up there" on the Sternstein Manor. Thus she abandons her fiancé Muckerl and instead enmeshes Toni, the son of the landholder. She even manages to wangle a written marriage vow out of him.
- Tommy and Mike, again without a job and without money, are looking for a public toilet at a motor show.
- Two young male friends travel to a resort in Velden. The two men do not arrive in the hotel at the expected time so they disguise as eccentric ladies. This way, they manage to turn the hotel and resort upside down in no time at all.
- Annemarie's mother, the well-known noble prostitute Rosemarie Nitribitt, was found murdered nearly twenty years ago.
- A huge mistake with fatal consequences is made: two civilians command the army - and plunge it into total chaos.
- Rudi and his friend Andy hitchhike in the direction of Wörthersee, where Andy should start as a chef at Hotel Eschenhof.
- Der Industriellensohn Kristian Wernher hat für seinen Vater uranhaltige Gesteinsproben aus Brasilien geholt. Hinter diesen ist jedoch auch ein Konkurrenzunternehmen her. Das tolpatschige Gaunerpärchen Big Ben und Cindy versucht, Kristian die Steine abzujagen. Auf seiner Flucht quartiert er sich inkognito in dem Städtchen Waldsee ein - unter dem Namen Dr. Gustav Kellermann, den er bei einer Autopanne kennenlernte. Kristian ahnt nicht, daß er nun für den neuen Schuldirektor gehalten wird. Der amtsmüde bisherige Direktor Lauritz Bercelius hat heimlich eine Schülerbande namens "Schwarze Hand" aufgebaut, deren kecke Streiche seinen Wunsch nach baldiger Pensionierung unterstreichen sollen. Kristian wird aber durch einen Zufall zunächst verschont, weil die Lausbuben sein Hotelzimmer verwechseln. Dafür trifft es Walter, den pedantischen Verlobten von Bercelius' Nichte Felicitas. Auch Kristian ist von ihrem Charme fasziniert. Als ihn jedoch die "Schwarze Hand" zu einem fingierten Treffen mit Felicitas lockt, gerät das Rendezvous unversehens zum handgreiflichen Mißverständnis. Kristian glaubt jetzt, daß Felicitas nur die Gesteinsproben stehlen wollte. Mittlerweile sind auch Big Ben und Cindy in Waldsee eingetroffen. Es entwickelt sich eine turbulente Verfolgungsjagd, die mitten in die Feierlichkeit um Dr. Kellermanns Amtsantritt führt. Dieser steuert indes geradewegs auf einen explosiven Höhepunkt zu.
- Bert Leitner and his wife Conny are a happy couple. They have two well-to-do children, Nicole and Sascha, and all could be all right if Bert did not take his job so seriously.
- Saga of a miner and his family in the Ruhr area of Western Germany in the time from the the late1800s until World War I.
- This was the first TV film I directed and also the first and only film with an openly homosexual Subject ... adapted from a Stefan Zweig novel. It is the story of a middle age professor who falls deeply in love with a young student in his class on English literature. The student is a boarder in the teacher's house. The teacher is married and his wife knows he is mostly attracted to young men. She loves him nevertheless. The whole story revolves around a book the professor will write, dictating it to his young pupil... he will only declare his love at the end of the writing ....and it is too late... Etienne Périer.
- Marek and Celia Dawidowicz are Jewish Poles, who live with their son, Kuba, and nine-year-old daughter, Janian, in Kalisch. As war approaches, the family moves to Warsaw, and Marek and Kuba go off to fight. Marek tries to get his wife to flee to the Russian zone, but she refuses, so Marek returns, and the family members, including her grandparents, are eventually packed off to the Ghetto. Just before the Ghetto uprising in 1943, Marek has Janian smuggled out. First, she lives with Frau Grabowska and her husband. (Frau Grabowska, though an Aryan, had once been Marek's girlfriend.) Next, using false papers, Janian is boarded in a monastery school. And when the Gestapo start sniffing around, she is transferred to another one. Having made it to the end of the war, however, bad news awaits her. Only one other family member has survived.
- The yacht of millionaire Hellmann explodes in the Mediterranean Sea, with him and 8 men crew on board. Insurance agent Lucas investigates at the Cote D'Azur, because there's the suspicion that it could have been suicide. He finds out that Hellmann's villa was monitored, the tapes also contain information about the explosion. He uses them for blackmail.
- This film is set in the winter paradise of Kitzbühel. The students of a catering school turn their educational premises into a hotel for the rich and famous. They provide various entertainments and spectacular floorshows. When a millionaire, on the run from the pressures and possible heart attacks of city life arrives with his retinue, all sorts of amusing mix ups begin.
- A goldsmith is so obsessed with his own craft that he murders his customers.
- A millionaire wins a competition and spends a vacation in a ski resort. He poses as a man without means and is treated arrogantly be the staff who have been advised of his arrival but confuse him with another competition winner.
- The man who did not like cars: Willi Buschmann can not stand cars. As a car damage officer, he knows the risks of driving a car.