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- 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...
- This weekly soap opera focuses on the lives of normal people living in an average quarter of Munich. Besides the typical storyline like love, marriage, and death, the show has treated many controversial issues through the years, like homosexuality, drug abuse, domestic violence, rape, xenophobia, prostitution, and AIDS.
- The series shows, in a highly exaggerated way, the coexistence of a West German family in a North Rhine-Westphalian row house settlement at the beginning of the 1970s.
- Drama series focusing on the Bavarian Grandauer family and the historic events between 1897 and 1954. At the end of the 19th century, police officer Ludwig Grandauer marries the mother of his illegitimate son, Agnes. After some years, they move to Munich with their three children Karl, Luise, and Adolf, where Ludwig works at the police headquarters called "Löwengrube". During the next decade, the children have to learn to care for themselves because Agnes and Ludwig both die. When Karl returns from World War I, everything has changed. Luise is married to Max Kreitmeier who owns a bakery, while Adolf joins a new nationalist party called NSDAP. Karl himself is more moderate and works for the police like his father. In the 1920s, he gets to know Traudl Soleder, daughter of a bourgeois family whose brother Kurt fights against the up and coming Nazi movement. After their wedding, Traudl's bugging mother also moves in. When Hitler comes into power in 1933, Karl remains a police officer, but doesn't join the party, while Adolf makes a career in the law. Meanwhile, Kurt's situation worsens because he is married to Sara, a Jewess from Berlin. During World II, the Grandauers' sons Rudi and Max become soldiers and their parents lose their flat during an air raid. They barely survive, while Adolf loses his wife and children except one son. In the post-war era, Kurt and Sara, as victims of the Nazi system, have many benefits, but also have to live with the same people who harassed them before. They drift apart more and more, but after Kurt is nearly killed in a car accident, they move to Berlin together. Karl and Traudl mourn for their allegedly killed son Rudi who suddenly returns and wants to catch up on his youth. Meanwhile, his brother marries the daughter of a former Nazi. The story ends on New Year's Eve 1954: the whole family is reunited, but something seems to be wrong with Traudl's old mother.
- 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 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...
- 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.
- 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.
- This ironic mini series deals with Baby Schimmerlos, gossip reporter of Munich tabloid "MATZ", and the city's legendary high society circles. As everyone who believes to be important wants to be in his column, Baby's job isn't an easy one. Beside the small and big scandals of more or less glamorous people he has to take care of his neglected girlfriend Mona who finally starts a singing career...
- 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...
- 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...
- '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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- A woman's life is destroyed when she discovers that her husband has another family.
- 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...
- Jo Baier's drama focuses on a lively photographer, who wants to show his suicidal brother the beautiful sides of life and love. While Anno works as a successful photographer in Munich, his brother Julian thinks about committing suicide by jumping from a railway bridge in Wuppertal. As Anno wants to keep him from realizing his plan, he tries to prove Julian that life can be beautiful. On their way to Munich, Anno shows his brother the passport of a young woman named Laura, whom he took along due to a car break down. As Julian likes the photo, Anno later asks Laura not to give his brother love, but sympathy and strength...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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...
- This movie focuses on the sad story of two Greek brothers living in the poorest neighborhood of Munich. As they were part of the small Turkish minority in Greece, the family of Maikis, 17, and Christos, 13, emigrated to Germany to start a new and better life. The boys soon realize that their dreams will not come true. As they live in a small apartment together with their mother under poor conditions, they start stealing, dealing with drugs and even going on the game at the central station. The only cheering prospects in their disappointing situation are social worker Xaver and the new teacher Hanna, but even they cannot prevent a tragedy...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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.
- Based on Jack-Alain Léger's novel, this drama focuses on Paul and Daniel, two different brothers of North African origin, and their efforts to succeed in life. Paul has an university degree, but doesn't find a job worthy its name. While he is madly in love with Myriam, his beloved brother Daniel struggles with his identity as a, secretly gay, Muslim born in France and wants to be a famous bodybuilder, but finally becomes the "star" of a Hamburg sex club. When Daniel falls critically ill, Paul realizes what he is waiting for in life...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- After Victor, 19 years old, is accused of raping a 17-year-old girl, his teachers -under the direction of principal Cornelia Cordes- have to decide whether he should be suspended or not. The discussion of these nine persons shows the contrasts in human character and reveals some bitter feelings...
- A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Bosnian War.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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...
- Finishing his trilogy about desperate young women in New York, Amos Kollek focuses on an alcoholic, who tries to regain custody of her son. Being addicted to alcohol, single mother Anna had to give her son to foster parents, but they would "sell" him back if she offers enough money. When she gets to know Pete, the mentally handicapped son of a wealthy author, his father asks her to marry his son for one million dollar...
- 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...
- 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...