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- When a man awakens from a coma only to discover that someone has taken on his identity, he teams up with a young woman to prove who he is.
- An anthology series that follows the work of homicide detectives in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
- A woman takes the law into her own hands after police ignore her pleas to arrest the man responsible for her husband's death, and finds herself not only under arrest for murder but falling in love with an officer.
- Biopic of Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren, the author of numerous children's books and creator of Pippi Longstocking.
- Luxury hotel. Luxury clientele. Irritable staff. A couple who might fall in love, or they might leave their relationship in its raw state - like the titular steaks.
- The Film "Kinshasa Symphony" shows how people living in one of the most chaotic cities in the world have managed to forge one of the most complex systems of human cooperation ever invented: a symphony orchestra. It is a film about the Congo, about the people of Kinshasa and about music.
- Fine suffers from not being seen but she also does her best at not being noticed, even though she is an acting student. At night, when her mentally handicapped sister Jule cannot get to sleep and stereotypically bangs her head against the wall, Fine turns the recorder on and gives a firework of singing, acting and dancing. However in the acting school she lacks self confidence to uninhibitedly storm the stage. After the well known director Kasper Friedemann invites Fine for an audition, she convinces him with her acting. But he also sees in Fine an injured being (vulnerable personality) that matches his vision of Camille, the main character in his next play. Fine gets her first big part that she in no way wants to lose. She slips into another identity. As Camille, she awakens to her femininity, but through Camille, Fine also loses her own strengths that she shows every day in dealing with her sister Jule. Because Camille is not only self-conscious and sexually active but at the same time mentally fragile and self-destructive. Fine puts herself in the hands of her director who lets her go through hell without psychologically rescuing her. A dangerous game in which she becomes her own enemy.
- A poor man taking part in paid drug experiments gets increasingly lost in drug-induced delusions with dreadful consequences.
- 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.
- Between 1949 and 1975 more than 800 000 German orphans have lived their post-war years in Church Institutions. They have endured terrible abuses. Everyone knew but no one spoke. In 2012 the Church admitted her wrongdoings. The movie tells the story of a German woman (Senta Berger) living in New York coming back to Germany to bear witness in front of a board of enquiry. During her stay she remembers her traumatic experience.
- This animated short follows the life of a poor, German coal miner, Peter Munk. Coal mining leaves Peter far from the riches he desires, yet when given the opportunity to have three wishes granted, things do not go as well as he had hoped.
- 13 people on a road-trip from Jerusalem to Tripoli looking for peace.
- Klara Müller , a young nurse,has come with her boyfriend Jörg to Paris; she hoped that Jörg would ask her to marry,but instead of that he tells her that he has got a promotion.So Klara decided to separate,she will stay for a time in Paris.Klara finds a job as caretaker of Mrs Jeanne Clement, whose son Philippe Clement is manager of a factory of luxury watches.Little by little Klara and Philippe feel well together, but Philippe has a girlfriend Zoe who is quite jealous.
- Married vet mother falls in love with caring pediatrician
- A young man journeys to Berlin for an internship. While he thinks he is going there for one reason, the reality is there is another.
- The former bank robber Wanja is released from a long prison sentence. As her feelings of loneliness escalate, Wanja sets out to find work and hereby a new identity.
- When her husband Jan admits his advertising agency is bankrupt, product designer Katrin is faced with two choices: either they move out of their comfortable home or she must take an unrewarding job designing new sanitary facilities for a luxury hotel. The burden of her job, kids and household quickly becomes too much - until Katrin discovers a website offering free testing of high-tech household androids, complete with a user-customized appearance and speech capabilities. Katrin secretly orders one, and is stunned to find the android is her exact mirror image! At first, the android "Kate" functions perfectly, with her family truly believing it is Katrin. Suddenly, the android begins misbehaving. Although her irritation grows, Katrin's kids are delighted: they have never seen their mom act so cool! Although "Kate" does wreak havoc in Katrin's world, the android's misadventures also cause Katrin to realize how much her own perfectionism affects her family. Once she recognizes "Kate's" advantages, she reconciles with the android, but now "Kate" wants to be deactivated - too much input.
- A Chinese family moves in next door to a German family and a war ensues.
- Susanne schreibt ein Plädoyer über die Liebe, steckt diese in eine Flasche und wirft sie ins Wasser.
- Sarah Pohl is journalist in a great newspaper of Leipzig and she is now writing an article about an employer (the FCS company) who contracts illegally women and these women work in terrible conditions.His companion Florian Faber, represents Mrs Wörner, a woman who has been hit by the car driven by René Tornow, a candidate who looks for his reelection in the town hall of Leipzig, Mr. Tornow was driving his car under the influence of alcohol.This morning Florian has a meeting with Mrs. Wörner and is quite sure that he can win the trial, because Tornow was drunken and there are several witnesses who can testify it.But Florian speaks with Mrs. Wörner about her work as cleaning lady for the FCS company, but she is not convinced to denounce her work conditions.Sarah Pohl nearly shocks with Dirk Kosinsky,the manager of the FCS company, and asks him for an interview.Later she follows a van which is picking immigrant women for working.Besides Sarah is happy to meet again her former boyfriend Thomas Gärtner who has come to Leipzig.Florian just makes an ironical comment about the arrival of Thomas.
- 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.
- Prisoner Edmund Frank is offered a large amount of money by the editor of a magazine, to tell the real story of his crime and the hiding place of the one million Mark he stole from the bank he worked for.
- After receiving a dubious Phone call at work, Eva Konalsky, a typist working at a Steel Factory disappears without a trace. The Saarbrücken Police sends the two cops Liersdahl and Schäfermann to investigate. Both of them have a very different view of how police work should be done and they are not very fond of each other at first. When another person of the Steel Factory's personnel is murdered they both have to do their best to solve the case.
- The East German authorities are calling the West German Police for assistance on a case. The body of a boy was found at a Truck Stop near Leipzig. The boy wears shoes made in West Germany. Some time later the assistance call is withdrawn. Phoning his colleague in East Berlin, a man he worked together with in the past, investigator Paul Trimmel in Hamburg is told: "There is no work for you here." But Trimmel investigates on his own. He finds out that the wealthy Erich Landsberger is the illegitimate father of the dead kid. Landsberger and his other son have moved to Frankfurt. Trimmel pays him a visit there. The man is of no great help for him, but Trimmel gets an unexpected clue from Landsberger's little son. He has to go to Leipzig himself to find out more. So he leaves the Transit Route near the city, pretending his car broke down, takes a Taxi and goes looking for Eva Billsing, the dead boy's mother. She is not home when Trimmel arrives. The next day Trimmel encounters Eva's boyfriend Peter Klaus, who works for the East German Police, and talks him into letting him have a word with Eva. At least Klaus gives in to Trimmel and the things Eva tells him help solve the case.
- A dead woman found in the Donau, is the wife of a very important guest of the Austrian Government. Oberinspektor Marek is asked to investigate the case very gently.
- Brigitta Beerenberg calls the police to inform them she has killed her husband in self-defense. Trimmel wants her to be examined by a psychiatrist.
- Max Bergusson hijacks flight AE612 from Milaan to Beirut. His wife's murderer is on board and he demands the captain to fly to Hamburg instead. Before he boards the plane, he informs Hauptkommissar Trimmel through a curious message.
- After a few days away from home with his girlfriend constructor Breuke from Sieverstedt hurries home to convince his wife he is not having an affair. On the road home he hits a bicyclist, but drives on instead of calling an ambulance. Arriving at his house he deliberately hits the post of the driveway gate to disguise the damage of the accident. All the while he is unaware that his wife is watching him. Hauptkommissar Finke arrives in the village after the local police has taken Peter Reichert as a suspect. His assistant wants to investigate further. Meanwhile Breuke is being blackmailed by an unknown person. Then an actual murder takes place.
- In Frankfurt con man Johannes Stein is making easy money with his latest trick: He is selling "Gold" to unsuspecting people. He too talks the Wimper family into buying some, later to be stored in a Swiss bank. After seeing proof, Grandpa Wimper is eager to buy. Little does he know about that "Gold". When Stein tries to sell some more to a business tycoon, he gets busted and has to flee. It's now up to investigator Konrad to track down the swindler and to arrest him.
- Kressin is back in Cologne, where he works for the customs office. Soon he is ordered to a new case. A gang of bootleggers keep outwitting the customs authorities. Kressin's colleagues can't find any evidence of a crime. Everytime the suspicious trucks are checked at the border, their load is always correct, as declared. Kressin now has to find the liquor and the bootleggers' HQ.
- Customs officer Kressin is on holiday in Hamburg and sees the tour guide acting suspiciously. He ignores it, but the day after the guide is found dead in the water.
- An American private eye is shot dead in Germany by an international extortion gang, and his partner arrives to seek revenge.