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- An anthology series that follows the work of homicide detectives in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
- The 1920s: The German Fuhrmann family spend their holidays in Italy again. The country is full of mysteries in that time. The Fuhrmanns have realized the upcoming and growing fascism in the country, and their children are fascinated by a magician visiting the town. Soon nothing is as usual. The times are changing ...
- Ulrich Mühe plays a German businessman who was born completely without scruples. This makes him an eminently suitable candidate for success in the chaotic years after World War I. The shameless man's story is contrasted with that of his polar opposite, a Jewish anarchist.
- The story of Beauty and the beast.
- A drama loosely based on Jean Bernard's Nazi-era prison diary.
- A teenager joins the resistance in Nazi-occupied France during World War II.
- Based on the true story of boys from Brazilian jails taken to the state border, stripped naked and abandoned to get jail numbers down. A huge scandal in Brazil in the 1970s.
- The relationship between Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the great German writer, and Christiane Vulpius, a village girl, is one of the instantaneous and fiery passion. They lived together for 28 years, 18 of these living in sin, 10 a married couple. Christiane's rival, Charlotte von Stein, a former favorite of Goethe, begins plotting and scheming against her. Christiane puts up with countless insults and humiliations like having to 'disappear' with their son into the servants' quarters and to stay at home on official occasions. Goethe marries her when she saves his life during an attack by plundering Napoleonic soldiers. Her new social position as Goethe's wife is resented and envied by all. When she is openly attacked by the snooty, jealous people, Goethe is only half-hearted in coming to her defence. But she stays with him for he is her great love, even when she turns to the charms of many youthful admirers...
- Daniel brings his girlfriend Clara to his birthplace in Italy for what is ostensibly a vacation, but in reality is an investigation into the friend of his late father, one Coppola, otherwise known as "The Sandman".
- Germany, 1920. First World War is lost. The peace treaty of Versailles obliges Germany to reduce its army, the "Reichswehr" to 100,000 soldiers. Influencal groups of economists and military leaders connect in the "Nationalen Vereinigung" a national convention to plan the coup d'etat. Among them the chief of landscaping and member of the board of directors of the German Bank, Wolfgang Kapp and the highest ranked commanding General Walther, Freiherr von Lüttwitz. General Ludendorf, who used to be the chief of the Supreme Army Command during the World War, pulls the strings in he background by his middlemen Pabst and Colonel Bauer. When the government wanted to dissolve the "Brigade Ehrhardt", the most powerful Freikorps, General Lüttwitz disobeys this order and orders the troupes to march against the government in Berlin. The Government has to flee, first to Dresden, then to Stuttgart. Large parts of the army follow the putschists, who however, are not united themselves. First victim is Secretary of Finances Erzberger.
- Orphan crown prince Sigismund is domineered by queen-regent Freya, but manages to climb the highest tower to put something in the Falcon dynasty's eponymous falcon's nest, thanks to the sorceress Eleonor, who was prodded finally to reuse her powers by adopted daughter Rapunzel, who became friends as kids with 'Sigi' and his buddy Pip, who becomes the court jester. Eleonor, who abandoned magic after failing to save the king in battle and withdrew into the forest, refuses to return s the queen's sorceress, so is thrown into he dungeon with the girl, but Sigi helps them escape. He and Pip find the castle ruin tower Eleonor retreated into even further, only accessible by Rapunzel's magical long hair. A final confrontation is inevitable when the queen has the boys followed.
- Michael, the young king of a small German realm, promised on his father's deathbed to marry, but instead of choosing any of the daughters of reigning princes his minister makes him visit, Michael looses his heart to Marie, the blond daughter of a simple miller. Worse, the chief minister, who learned her father's secret, hides Marie locked-up in a castle tower, pretending to the king she was killed by wolves in the forest, and threatens her family so she spins gold from straw; so Marie must accept the terms of the magical dwarf Rumpelstilzchen (Rumpelstiltskin in English), who appears when Marie pricks her finger to spin gold thrice for her, but each time demands a prized counterpart- first her beloved Peter's gift, a ring, then her late mother's necklace, finally her firstborn when she will be Michael's queen...
- Pawel Heller returns to his hometown after many years, to try to unravel the mystery of disappearance of his schoolmate.
- The brothers Gai and Teo, trickster robbers, hope to strike big when king Theoderich receives suitors for his firstborn tomcat daughter Griseldis. Gai masquerades as the heroic prince of a fictitious kingdom and doe sell in the tests against real princes Arne and Tassilo. However Gai falls for junior princess Matilda, who suspects their scam, and Teo chances the plan into robbing the enchanted golden ball Theorderich treasures above anything, being the sole souvenir of his beloved second wife, Matilda's mother. Matilda catches them, resulting in condemnation to banishment to the enchanted forest of shadows, created by a mighty sorcerer as punishment for his granddaughter, clumsy fairy Fee. her attempts to help the brothers transforms Gai into a frog, .whom a stork drops into the castle pond, so he can fulfill unsuspecting Matilda's promise and be admitted to her bedroom, needing a true lover's kiss to be returned to human form. Firstvthe full truth must become known.
- A servant girl falls in love with the god of the valley. The Baroness wants nothing but the gold of the god. A fight to win the lands he protects and his love.
- A nearly illiterate woman becomes one of the founders of Poland's Solidarity union.
- A journey back to the buried emotional world of childhood, and long-suppressed, painful feelings.
- This drama explores the grim lives of Turkish "guest workers" living in Germany.
- Set in 1904, this is an uneven tale of war and intrigue between native South Africans, German colonialists, and British colonialists, a war no one really wins.
- The retired Chief superintendent Jakob Franck who often had to inform relatives as a "death messenger", now hopes to lead a life beyond the dead.
- Film about the German poet Friedrich Hoelderlin (1770-1843), concentrating on his ardent affair with Susette Gondard.