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- Matti Geschonneck's drama focuses on Rolf and Lena, a severely ill couple, deciding to commit suicide by euthanasia in the Netherlands. Although being horrified, their adult children Annabelle and Achim as well as Achim's wife Rieke have to accept their decision. However, only Lena dies, while Rolf oddly survives. Not only Annabelle wonders what lies beneath...
- This heartbreaking TV movie focuses on the first generation of Turkish migrant workers coming to Germany in the 1960s. Melike and Mustafa grow up in a small village of Ürgüp, Nevsehir in the central part of Turkey. She dreams of marrying him until he and his friend Kadir decide to leave their home country to work in Germany. After two years, the young woman must marry the much-older Yasar although she does not love him. For financial reasons, Melike also emigrates to the "golden West" and starts working in a factory. She reunites with Mustafa, now working as a photograph artist, and revives their romance, but one day, Yasar is standing at her door.
- Yella is estranged from her possessive and violent husband; but he can't quite bring himself to give her up. When their fraught interaction finally comes to dramatic conclusion, Yella's life takes an odd shift.
- Philipp Gerber is a smart, self-satisfied car salesman. In an inattentive moment at the wheel of his car, he runs over a young boy riding a bike and drives away. As he has feelings of guilt, he tries to find out more about the accident's victim and learns that the boy lies seriously injured in a hospital. Philipp wants to tell his mother, Laura Reiser, the truth, but he doesn't. After a carefree holiday with his girlfriend Katja, he learns that the boy is dead. Meanwhile, Laura staggers between grief and the desire for revenge. One evening, she can't bear it anymore and jumps off a bridge, but Philipp saves her life.
- Based on an autobiographic novel by Anita Lenz, the movie focuses on a apparently happy couple whose marriage turns out to be a big lie. Maja, author of architectural books, lives in Berlin, while her husband Helmut works as a professor of literature in the small town of Tübingen. Despite their long distance relationship, she thinks their marital harmony is perfect, until Helmut tells her about an affair with another woman. Maja is hurt even more by the fact that her husband's mistress isn't a young woman, but 43 years old and mother of Helmut's child...
- 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.
- The life of a young couple.
- 29-year-old Simon works in a phone shop, but his thoughts circle around finding a new girlfriend after being left by his last one year ago. However, he finds the woman of his dreams in his most-hated coffee shop.
- This movie portrays three women living in today's Algeria between modern society and Islamic fundamentalism, self-determination and dependence. Goucem, a young woman who works for a photographer and mistress of a rich doctor, her mother Papicha, a former cabaret star, and her best friend Fifi, a prostitute, all live in a hotel in the city center of Algiers. Their difficult personal situation and the growing influence of Islam lead to dramatic consequences...
- Bavaria after World War II: the young countrywoman Maria falls in love with Jean-Pierre, a former French prisoner of war, while the rest of the family still believes in the return of her husband Hans from Russia. Nevertheless, everybody accepts the relationship, but suddenly Hans, now totally haggard and uncaring, comes back. The desperate situation drives Maria to an extreme...
- Lisa Plenske is the protagonist of this telenovela, set in the often cold and superficial fashion business. Living in a rural suburb of Berlin, the honest and polite young woman tries to get a job in the big city and surprisingly becomes personal assistant of David Seidel, CEO of the fashion company "Kerima". As Lisa doesn't look like a supermodel, she has to bear the prejudices and nasty remarks of her colleagues in the beginning and, superfluously, falls in love with the engaged David. Nevertheless, due to her warm character and her abilities, she more and more gets involved into the personal and professional relations in the company...
- Christoph Stark's family drama deals with a divorced couple, searching for their daughter, who had run away to Italy... Claudia wants to move to Berlin with her new partner, but her daughter Julia destroys her plans, when she steals her car and runs away to Italy with her boyfriend. Thus, Claudia and her ex-husband Dieter have to go there together, which opens up old sores...
- Angelina Maccarone's intense drama deals with the obsessive relationship between a confused teenager and an elder woman. Elsa Seifert successfully works as probation officer, but the relationship to her longtime companion is in trouble since their common daughter moved out. Then she gets to know Jan, a 16-years-old offender, who frankly offers to submit himself sexually to her. Although being shocked in the beginning, Elsa gets more and more attracted by the young man...
- Two-part movie focusing on one of Germany's most controversial murder trials after World War II. In spring 1960, Dr. Dietrich Schwarz and his housekeeper Elisabeth Huhn are killed cruelly in his mansion near Munich. Although the police considers suicide, his son brings a charge against his mistress, the self confident Vera Brühne because she inherits the victim's house in Spain. The prosecution runs an investigation and finally believes in the guilt of Brühne and her alleged aide Johann Ferbach. After a dubious trial, they are sentenced to life. Some years later, a young lawyer reviews the files and reveals many inconsistencies. Even very important politicians exerted influence on the case...
- This drama focuses on a father, desperately fighting for custody of his daughter against his ex-wife. After the divorce from his wife Petra, cabinet maker Alex has to pay maintenance for his daughter Lisann, who suffers from seeing her father only for the week-ends. When Petra announces that she will move to Hamburg with Lisann and her new longtime companion, Alex spontaneously takes the child on a trip to Mallorca -without telling his ex-wife about it. Believing Alex has kidnapped the child, Petra informs the police...
- Intending to be rich and successful at any price, a callous young woman abandons her family and is pursued by her mother for the reckoning.
- Aelrun Goette's critically acclaimed drama deals with a fatal mother-son relationship and the fear of a bitter truth. Jenny's life with her husband and their seven-year old son Tim seems to be perfect, until she finds a crying Tim in the cellar, when she returns from a party at her friend Sandra's house. The confused boy leads her to a place in a nearby forest, where they find the dead body of Sandra's daughter Luzi. Although realizing that Tim killed the girl, Jenny tries everything to keep secret the truth...
- Thirtysomething Paula lives like a crazy teenager. Nothing in her life lasts longer than some months: no job, no residence and no man. Although she is a caring and open-minded mother, her daughters Fidelia, 15, and Lisa, 12, can't stand the permant moves any more. After another disastrous relationship they settle down in Landshut and try to start a new life again. While Lisa find friends soon, Fidelia, who dresses like a grandmother to protest against her unconventional mother, is more reserved, but finally falls in love. The guy also likes her, but even more her provocative mother. Paula herself starts a relationship with Max, a kind hearted man who thinks about marriage, but the honest love of a man is too much for her...
- Kamel Raoui, a young police inspector in Tanger, investigates the murder of drug-dealer Hakim Tahiri. The victim's mistress Touria, just living for her fatally-ill younger brother Pipo, is considered the main suspect, so Kamel learns more and more about their hard life circumstances. During the observation, the sexually-confused Kamel falls in love with the young woman, but realizes the imminence for Touria and Pipo too late.
- Based on a novel by Lorenzo Silva, this movie deals with the unusual and tragic relationship between a frustrated businessman and a 14-year-old student. After crashing into the rear of the car in front of him, Pablo Lopez starts arguing with the other driver, Sonsoles, who finally files for an injury claim against him. Therefore, the angry manager starts harassing her and observes her younger sister Maria in her schoolyard. When he gets to know the intelligent girl, his perception of life is changed totally, but their friendship leads into a tragedy...
- A TV movie that follows an East Berlin family torn by political strife and the fast-changing events that led to the fall of Berlin Wall in 1989.
- In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.
- A woman's life is destroyed when she discovers that her husband has another family.
- Based on a true story, this family drama focuses on a 12-year-old boy, who has to take care of his two younger sisters alone. As he regularly is late for school, Tom is punished by his teachers and mocked by his fellow students, but nobody knows the bitter truth: while his father left the family many years ago, his mother Barbara doesn't care of him and his sisters any more. Even their neighbor Cora doesn't realize what is going on at first...
- Two-part historic drama about a difficult love affair between a German woman and an American soldier during the Berlin Airlift. After her husband Axel is declared dead, Luise Kielberg must survive as a single mother of a 12-year-old boy in post-war Berlin. At the beginning of the Soviet Blockade in 1948, she waitresses at the Tempelhof Airport and gets to know General William Turner, one of the most influential aides of General Clay to organize the American airlifts. Luise becomes his personal secretary and falls in love with him, but suddenly Axel returns.
- Hermine Huntgeburth's coming-of-age drama focuses on a girl growing up in a typical German working-class family during the 1950s. Although her parents believe that a woman doesn't need a good education, Hildegard, living in a plain and hypocritical world, gets the opportunity to attend a good high school and fights to decide on her own life.
- This "Dynasty" style drama series focuses on a Swiss family clan owning a nearly bankrupt watch manufacture. Constance Dussault is the iron matriarch who fights against the intriguing Jean-Claude, husband of daughter Nicole, to save her enterprise. Her other daughter Jacqueline suffers under her broken marriage with star conductor Bruno Steinberg who has an affair with the attractive Italian Alessandra Thesis. After Jacqueline dies mysteriously, Constance discovers another connection between Alessandra and her family. Furthermore, housekeeper Sophie and Jean-Claude's brother Marcel try to get a big piece of the Dussault cake and do everything to get it.
- Peter Frei, a successful businessman, is concerned about his youngest daughter Silvia who wants to break off her traineeship to become a nurse. Thus, he bets with her that he can work two months in her old people's home aside from his real job. If he succeeds, Silvia must complete the traineeship. However, Peter soon realizes that he has underestimated his task...
- A dramatization of the final days of Sophie Scholl, one of the most famous members of the German World War II anti-Nazi resistance movement, The White Rose.
- A tragicomic movie which focuses on two women and their daily struggle for survival during a summer in Berlin. Katrin, a jobless single mom, and Nike, a nurse, live in the same house and are best friends. Although always dating the wrong men and still pursuing for happiness, they don't lose their humor and spend many nights together on Nike's balcony, drinking and chatting. However, Nike gets to know the trucker Ronald one day...
- Kati a successful advertising manager, dreams of a family with Jonas, who has been her boyfriend for eight years. As he doesn't like the plan at all, they start an argument. Kati finally decides to go to her sister Luise for Christmas instead of travelling to Mauritius with Jonas. This turns out to be a bad idea because she isn't the only guest Luise's family has to bear...
- Based on a short story by Elke Heidenreich, this TV movie focuses on a couple's silver wedding party and the revelation of some bitter, long hidden secrets. Alma and Ben invite their best friends to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary, but what was meant to be a happy reunion leads to heated discussions and furious accusations...
- Nike, 19 years old, is a civil servant trainee at the immigration department in Hanover, but still lives with her father on his farm, where he tries to cultivate strawberries for the first time to overcome financial problems. However, while bringing in the crops, he suffers a heart attack. Suddenly, Nike has to take over business, but soon realizes that most of her father's employees are illegal immigrants...
- Based on a true story, this TV drama focuses on a complicated mother-daughter-relationship that is strained by secrets and lies. Middle-aged therapist Rena travels with her mother Edith to Norway, where she was born in a "Lebensborn" housing, established by the Nazis to breed humans to create a strong race of Aryans. As Rena struggles with her secret origin, her relationship with her husband and their children suffer, but Edith doesn't want to talk about the past. Back in Germany, a mysterious man also claims to be a "Lebensborn" child. Although he asks the old woman everything she knows, Edith refuses to help him.
- This family drama deals with a case of Munchhausen Syndrome by Proxy, a fabricated illness. Stephanie is an apparently happy single mother of two daughters, Therese and Agnes, although the latter suffers from chronic health problems. When Stephanie's sister Christiane visits them, Agnes collapses during a theater play at their school and later dies in a hospital. Due to Stephanie's odd behavior, Christiane tries to find out the truth about the death of her niece...
- Boston based Kernwell Industries is an American defense contractor. One of those contracts is to deploy 3,000 peacekeepers to the International Peacekeeping Coalition's work in the Balkans. Because of the near epidemic problem of sex trafficking of young Balkan women, Kernwell has decided to support the charity, Worldwide Federation Against Forced Migration. Kernwell's head of charities is Madeleine Harlsburg, the wife of the company's CEO, Tom Harlsburg. Although it does not have a pristine reputation as a good social corporate citizen, Kernwell hits a bigger public relations problem when it is learned that one of those 3,000 peacekeepers was caught trying to buy the services of a teen-aged prostitute in Sarajevo. Although not named to the media, that person is Sergeant Callum Tate, who swears he was trying to save that woman. In reality, Tate has evidence of a larger conspiracy of sex trafficking. Regardless of the truth or falsehood of accusations, some within Kernwell will do whatever they require to protect their organization's brand. Meanwhile, the Moldovan Visinescu sisters - Lena and Vara - believe they are moving to London with Vara's boyfriend Alexi to lead a better life to be able to send money back to support their mother and Lena's infant son. However, they soon learn that Alexi has instead sold them into a white slavery ring. Speak For Freedom, a London-based non-profit organization, works in many areas including monitoring sex trafficking in order to assist authorities in stopping it. Daniel Appleton, one of its employees, gets involved in trying to save the Visinescus.
- After visiting her parents, Karen Kohrt and her husband Ben start arguing on the way back home -as usual. Some moments later, he loses control over his car and drives against a pier. While Karen dies, her sister Anja survives seriously injured. Tim, who always cared more about his job than his family, has to look after his little son Jonathan who stopped speaking after the accident, but also fights against his parents-in-law who accuse him of manslaughter through culpable negligence. Besides, he learns that Karen had an affair with her best friend Corinna...
- Fortysomething Rose is an author of dime novels and a liberal single mother of three allegedly grown-up sons. In fact, she worries if Bernd, working in a copy shop and a pub, Axi, a bank trainee, and especially Stan, still in high school and addicted to pot, find their ways in life. When her ex-husband Jürgen, whom she had left 10 years ago, suddenly appears again, everything is turned upside suddenly...
- Züli Aladag's critically acclaimed, but controversial movie deals with the conflict of Can, son of Turkish immigrants, and the Laubs, a supposedly liberal middle class family. Simon Laub, professor of literature, and his wife Christa, real estate agent, live with their son Felix in a safe and quiet Berlin district. However, Felix gets in trouble with Can, son of a Turkish greengrocer, who starts to tyrannize the family. As he is annoyed by the boy's attacks, Simon -despite his political correct attitude- humiliates Can, which starts a vicious circle of anger and violence...
- Nils Willbrandt's drama focuses on a sexually motivated murderer, who terrifies his victim's family when he moves in their neighborhood after eight years in jail. As a teenager, Olaf raped and killed a girl and was sentenced to eight years in jail. Although fighting against feelings of desperation and guilt, he decides to move back in his old neighborhood, where the victim's parents still live. Being anxious about their younger daughter, Kai and Maria try to banish Olaf from their life...
- A recent high school grad still pines for an old classmate, and devises a stunt to get her attention.
- Based on the childhood memories of actor Michael Degen, the movie deals with the everyday struggle to survive as a Jewish boy in Nazi Germany. As his father had died in 1940 after being released from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, Michael and his mother fear to be deported themselves. They manage to live in Berlin with false names and faked papers, hidden by several, often broken, people...
- This drama is based on the childhood memories of Hans Jürgen Massaquoi, who was one of the few black native Germans in Nazi Germany. In 1935 at the age of nine, he lives with his German mother in a small flat in Hamburg's working class district Barmbek, while his father and grandfather had left the country. Although the boy is not persecuted by the Nazis and dreams of joining the Hitler Youth, his skin color makes him a target for racism.
- This thrilling drama focuses on two people fighting for the truth, their lives and their emotions. After being sentenced to life, Johanna Schneider succeeds in escaping from prison. As she considers the verdict unjust, she breaks in the apartment of Friedrich Thomasius, the blind judge, and wants to convince him of her innocence. Although Johanna puts a knife to his throat, Friedrich doesn't doubt his decision...
- Anna, 17 years old, is happy to throw her first big birthday party without her parents, but some of her guests are so stoned that they leave a big chaos and, even worse, destroy the favorite record of Anna's father. After the return of her shocked and angry parents, Anna runs away to Munich with her admirer Simon. They discover the nightlife jungle and get to know some typical urban guys. Meanwhile, Anna's parents get in touch with Simon's and try to find their children. On the way across Munich, they remember their own wild and restless youth...
- Wolferl, a 38-year-old bank employee, still lives together with his overprotecting mother Maria. While his father Josef, who secretly plans to end his hypocritical marriage, and his sister Nannerl think Wolferl should become independent, mummy's boy seems to enjoy this lifestyle. When he gets to know beautician Eva and falls in love with her, his jealous mother tries everything, including a faked suicide attempt, to keep her son...
- This drama focuses on a woman who wants to start a new life with a new man, but cannot flee from the shadows of her past. Joachim Tietze, a farmer in the Hamburg area, believes that Ana, a young woman from former Yugoslavia, is the woman of his life. When Nikolas, Ana's son from her first marriage, drowns shortly after their marriage, a stranger claims to be Ana's first husband, who apparently has died in a fire with the couple's daughter, and accuses her of killing the children. As Ana admits having lied about her first marriage, more and more people -even Joachim- don't trust her any more...
- Based on 'Susanne Fröhlich''s bestselling diet book, this comedy focuses on Carla Hahn, hosting a radio show as "Christin, the sexiest voice of Berlin". However, her listeners don't know that she is full-figured. When Tom, a charming admirer, persistently calls her on the show, she wants to meet him. As he thinks she looks a slim top model, Carla desperately tries to loose weight until their first date...
- Thirtysomething Gerrit, married to Claudia, without children, learns that his professional life has failed. After the end of their company, his business partner Markus dies, and his widow Sandra sues him. However, he falls in love with her and tells Claudia that he wants to start a new life...
- When she was a little child, 31-year-old Stella was adopted by a wealthy couple. Shortly before her wedding, she wants to know more about her descent and gets to know her biological mother Beate Gruber, an unconventional working-class woman who isn't really delighted about the surprising reunion...