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- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- Gabi Kubach's romantic comedy focuses on a tax consultant, who falls in love with his professional opponent, an ambitious tax official. The talented, but unreliable tax consultant Stefan Ahrens represents an old lady, who runs a hotel, against the fiscal office and unfortunately the woman he loves, Ulrike Stechlin. The tax official hopes to be promoted if she reveals the hotel's irregularities in book-keeping, but Stefan defends persistently his client's interests...
- Beate Thalberg's critically acclaimed documentary tells the story of two German families, whose ways first cross in the 1930s. Karl Amson Joel owned the fourth largest mail order company in Germany, but has to leave Germany with is family due to his Jewish roots in 1933. Meanwhile, the Neckermann family gains his business empire by profiteering from the Nazi expropriation laws. Almost seventy years later, their descendants, among them pop star Billy Joel, meet in Vienna to confront themselves and each other with their common history...
- 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...
- This melodrama about love in the third age focuses on the 65-year-old Mathilde living alone after the death of her husband. When she gets to know the attractive Carlo in the opera, she sleeps with him at the same evening. Mathilde tries to call him up some days later, but learns he gave her a wrong number. Despite this disappointing experience, she gets to know the sympathetic Hannes. They become a couple, but after a while, Mathilde meets Carlo, who apologizes and admits being married to a dead sick woman, again...
- 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...
- As her father Hinrich suffers a heart attack, Dr. Jenny Fehse replaces him as doctor of a small coastal village for a while. When one of his cancer patients dies of an overdose, she realizes that her father's assistant Elisabeth Spengler and Hinrich are involved in several cases of euthanasia. Jenny gets into a moral conflict...
- 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.
- Johannes Fabrick's movie deals with the heart-breaking, but never kitschy story of Rebecca, a young girl fighting against leukemia, and the different ways her parents handle the desperate situation. While her mother Ellen concentrates grimly on Rebecca's health condition, her father Ralph doesn't let the disease rule his life. When Ellen is told that her daughter won't survive, she wants to take desperate measures...
- Stefan, a gay bartender in a trendy club, doesn't care a lot about his professional and personal future. One night, the mysterious Martin stares at him, so he thinks that his guest searches a quick love affair. Stefan invites him to his apartment, where Martin is rather surprised at his intentions and explains that he doesn't want sex, but his attention for their common past. Martin searches his father, a foreign worker from Italy, who is also Stefan's originator, which he didn't know. Their mother kept Martin, while Stefan was adopted. After the first shock, Stefan decides to join his "new brother" on his trip to Italy. They only have some photos and letters of a holiday trip to Cattolica and their father's name: Giuseppe Iacoviello. This is the beginning of an odyssey across Italy and their way to themselves...
- 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...
- Detlef Bothe's tragic comedy focuses on a man, who suffers hell on earth after accidentally hitting his girlfriend. Richard, actor in a daily soap opera, wants to brighten up his crisis-prone girlfriend Katja and organizes a birthday party. After the guests had left, he wants to sleep with her, but she doesn't want to. When Katja playfully repulses his advances, Richard inadvertently knocks her unconscious. At the next morning, his life has turned upside down: he loses his job, Katja claims he raped her, and his friends believe her...
- 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...
- Klarissa, 26 years old, takes intensively care of her mother Waltraud who has a terminal illness. However, Waltraud isn't grateful, but amused because she doesn't want anyone's pity. As she doesn't like Klarissa's boring boyfriend Marius, she -together with her partner Enno- tries to convince her daughter to leave Marius and enjoy her life. Enno also wants to improve the women's relationship, which changes Klarissa's feelings towards him dramatically...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- This TV movie focuses on an average East German citizen, who accidentally becomes a Cold War victim. Shortly before his wedding day, East German Stephan Busemann goes to West Germany to attend his brother Hubert's fiftieth birthday. At the same time, his son Martin and his daughter-in-law Bettina flee their communist home country in a balloon, what Stephan didn't know. As the East Germans believe he helped them to escape, he isn't allowed to return, so Martin writes a letter to the country's leader Erich Honecker. However, now the West Germans think that Stephan is a spy...
- 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...
- Gregor Schnitzler's heartbreaking drama focuses on a traumatized woman, who has to deal with a clinging young girl. After one of her students has died tragically, Thea Winkler quit her job as a teacher, and her husband Michael wants to end their marriage. She avoids to much contact with other people, but the grumpy woman -unfortunately- gets to know Rosa, a 10 years old overweight girl, searching for a substitute mother...
- 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...
- Michael Wulfes's tragicomic documentary focuses on the dreams and disappointments of the young generation in the German town of Marburg during the Swinging Sixties. Ferdinand Kilian, a young barber working in the salon of his authoritarian father, dreams of discovering the world, but is kept in a cage called Marburg, a conservative university town. One fine day, the mysterious Mr. Öttinger enters the salon and changes Ferdi's life forever. He claims being a personal friend of John Lennon and promises to bring The Beatlesto Marburg for playing a concert. The peoples' enthusiasm is boundless...
- After moving to Munich with her parents Kristin and Bernd, 16-year-old Amelie has problems adjusting to her new school. Although the family seems to be happy, her parents are too busy themselves to notice how depressed she is--until she tries to commit suicide. Amelie survives, but her disease worsens.
- 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...
- Twelve years after their little son Jakob has been kidnapped, Lena and Wolfgang Breuer learn that he lives together with his kidnapper Carola Weber, who named him Tim. While Lena wants to call the police immediately to get her child back, Wolfgang is convinced that they cannot exclude Carola from Jakob's life...
- 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...
- Edeltraud Rabitzer's movie deals with a man, whose life is completely turned upside down due to a mysterious woman. Achim Weber, a happy husband and father, and his partner Sven get to know Denise, an attractive young woman, during a business trip. After talking to her about her failed marriage, he wakes up the next morning - confused and without his wedding ring...
- Critically acclaimed five-part miniseries based upon the family story of novelist Ralph Giordano. In 1897, Italian immigrant Giacomo Bertini and his Swedish wife Emma decide to stay in Hamburg, while Rudolph Lehmberg marries the young Jewish girl Recha Seelmann. Twenty years later, the Bertinis' son Alf, an upcoming pianist, gets to know Lea, the Lehmbergs' daughter. Although Lea is a talented musician herself, she decides to marry Alf and support his career. At the beginning of the 1930s, the couple realizes that Alf's dreams of becoming a music star were illusions. Lea tries to earn money to feed her three sons Roman, Cesar, and Ludwig. The Nazi takeover in 1933 changes everything because Lea and Alf's relationship is now considered to be "intermarriage". They have to fight against discrimination and hate in the new "Aryan" society. The family finally fears deportation to a concentration camp and hides in a cellar in inhuman conditions.
- Maren Eggert and Matthias Brandt star in this drama about a family, trying to start a new life, which fails because of the mother's mental disease. After a difficult time, Martina and Stefan Schneider move into their new house. Although the couple and their son Daniel seem to be happy, Martina suffers from a mental disease. When Evelin and Klaus Garbers become their new neighbors, they soon make friends with the Schneiders. However, Martina thinks that Evelin and Stefan have an affair, so she gets into a panic when Evelin announces her pregnancy. Martina believes that her husband is the baby's father...
- 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...
- 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...
- When frustrated literature professor Julia gets the opportunity to teach in Paris for one year, the dream of her life comes true. Living in a small, but charming hotel room, she soon is annoyed by her young neighbors because of their unmistakable sex life. However, she gets to know them personally.
- 'Clemence M. Schönborn''s first feature film is a typical Austrian black comedy, dealing with an easy-going forty-something, who likes playing games with others, which has serious consequences... Phyllis, in her early 40s, still lives together with her mother, whom she loves and hates at the same time. When she gets to know Henry, supporting actor of a soap opera, she pretends to love him, but sleeps with the show's lead actor Walter, whom she finally runs over with her car, which makes Henry the show's new star - and the new lover of the lead actress Doris. However, Phyllis isn't done with him...
- 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...
- Isabel Kleefeld's crime drama deals with a little boy whose life is in danger after he had watched a road accident. In a small village, the young police officer Marc Fischer celebrates promotion with his colleague Horst Bäumer. Shortly after, he drives under the influence and dies in an accident, whose only witness is seven-year-old Arnie. Bäumer's wife Hannah gets to know the child and tries to reveal the hidden truth. When Arnie suddenly disappears, she starts searching the boy together with the local mailman Enno, fearing someone wants to silence him...
- A Boy has to decide between being gay and being a professional swimmer. He takes the latter, marries and gets a son. 19 years later the whole thing explodes.
- After sleeping with Sharif, an engineer from Kashmir, the young and naive Lisa leaves his apartment without a comment. Six weeks later, they meet again and fall in love. Although Lisa feels totally happy, she doesn't tell Sharif about her pregnancy. On the other hand, he keeps secret that his brother Tajjab came to Munich and forced him to commit a terrorist attack. They both were soldiers of the Muslim liberation army in Kashmir, but Sharif left his home country to study in London. Little by little, Lisa discovers the truth about her boy-friend and tries to prevent the worst...
- This drama focuses on a young journalist, whose life is turned upside down when she investigates a dangerous story. Shortly before journalist Meike can talk to Lena, an informant, the young woman is run over by a car. As Meike doesn't believe in an accident, she tries to make inquiries, but even Lena's longtime companion and father refuse to support her. Piece by piece, she learns that there is a connection to her own past...
- Andrea Sawatzki plays a woman, who tries to start a new life after a personal tragedy, but moves into a mysterious apartment building. On her birthday's eve, Franziska Giano celebrates a costume party with her husband Manuel and their friends. Manuel leaves to call for their daughter Laura at the station, but on their way back a terrible accident happens, in which Manuel dies and Laura goes blind. One year later, the women move into a Frankfurt apartment building. Although their neighbors seem to be nice, the atmosphere there becomes more and more mysterious...
- Italy, 1940: Carmen de Blasco is married to a fascist, but falls in love with a friend of her father Ubaldo, the young partisan Armando Zani. At the end of the war, their daughter Giulia is born, but Carmen returns to her husband. Two decades later, Giulia falls in love with university student Ermes Corsini. Nevertheless, he decides to marry the egocentric, but rich heiress Marta Montini. After some years and a disastrous marriage, Giulia meets the love of her life again. Ermes is annoyed by Marta, so he starts an affair with Giulia, but one day she gets a horrible diagnosis...
- This popular family drama deals with the smaller and bigger problems of caretaker Martha Haslbeck living in an average quarter in the city center of Munich. Although life doesn't always treat her fair, she doesn't loose her good sense of humor. Martha has to take care of her unreasonable daughter Christa and her son-in-law Bertl, the often annoying occupants of her house and, last but not least, her lazy ex-husband Josef and his eccentric new wife Ilse. One fine day, she gets to know the Greek craftsman Costa Doganis and falls in love with him...
- This Groundhog Day (1993) style comedy focuses on a midwife, finding herself living the same day over and over again. Anna, a single mother of two, works as a midwife and hasn't been on holidays for years. Unfortunately, when she wants to go to Italy, her neighbor asks her to accompany him and his pregnant girlfriend to the hospital. She helps giving birth to the baby reluctantly, and then grabs her children to start their journey. However, Anna wakes up in her own bed the next morning again...
- Bianca Berger is a young woman with a dark secret: despite her innocence, she has been in prison for four years. After her release, she falls in love with Oliver Wellinghoff, son of a wealthy banker's family, but their relationship seems to have no future because Oliver's engaged to Judith Simon. As Bianca and her intriguing cousin Katy become employees of the Wellinghoff family, they are involved in many affairs, secrets and lies...
- This ironic comedy focuses on the often absurd occurrences in a Munich practice, ran by three very different psychiatrists. Although planning his retirement, psychotherapist Dr. Frederick Czerny hesitates to give up his practice, which should be taken over by his successor, the unconventional psychologist Eduard Fröhlich called Ted. When Dr. Helen Cordes, doctor in a psychiatric clinic, becomes a partner, Fred reconsiders his plans, which means a lot of a trouble for his devoted secretary Traudel.
- Nikola, formerly successful musician, returns to his family in Stuttgart. His parents Anica and Vlado have lived in Germany for 35 years, but want to realize their dream of an own hotel in their native country Croatia. As Vlado is a hard and ambitious father, his relationship to Nikola became very difficult, while his younger brother Joso plans to go back with his parents. The third son, Branko, committed suicide after participating in the Yugoslavian civil war. On the eve of the homecoming, Nikola confesses to his father that his career has failed and accuses him of destroying the whole family...
- 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...
- Nina Vandenberg is married to a coffee entrepreneur and a frustrated housewife. While the whole family celebrates her husband Gero's birthday in Switzerland, she sits lonley and drunken in their mansion in Hamburg and burns down the living-room. After she is released from hospital, Gero dies in a plane crash. His legacy reveals some very bad news for Nina: illegal money was found in the wreck, the company is nearly bankrupt and she is accused of tax fraud now. While Nina learns that her whole life has been a lie, the company's intriguing vice CEO Wolf Sevening tries to take control. Although some members of her own family also fight against her, Nina starts to search vanished money -40 million euros- which could save the enterprise and her life. Three men are her allies: Bent Peerson, her husband's former business partner, Jens Thiede, official in charge of the tax office, and Gero's older brother Arno who emigrated to Kenya many years ago. As the family owns a big plantation there, Nina thinks she could find the money, but reveals a bitter secret of her own past in Africa instead...
- Tim Trageser's TV drama focuses on a couple whose love passes through a crisis when they start a weekend relationship. Jan and Maria are a young and happy couple, living in the country with their little daughter. When Maria gets the tempting offer to work as chef in a refined Berlin restaurant, Jan confirms her intention to accept. However, they estrange more and more from each other after a short while...