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- A stand-up comedian and his opera singer wife have a two-year-old daughter with a surprising gift.
- Capturing the life of German hip-hop rapper, entrepreneur, and ex-convict Giwar Hajabi.
- Two straight men mistakenly end up on a "gays only" cruise.
- A writer goes on a road trip across West Germany with a group of eclectic people he meets along the way.
- The relationship between writers Ingeborg Bachmann and Max Frisch.
- 17-year-old Jana has a congenital heart defect. To defy fate, Jana seeks every challenge, plunges into every wild and dangerous adventure. Her parents do not like that and are even more fearful for their daughter.
- Young friends, families navigate life's ups and downs in Cologne and Düsseldorf. Storylines explore societal classes, from wealthy aristocrats to ordinary folk, and taboo romances like LGBTQ+ and infidelity.
- Hedonistic bachelor Nick falls for an escaped mental patient.
- After his parents separate and he loses his place on the soccer team, Moritz must put together a new team against incredible odds.
- As the Berlin Wall crumbles, Katrine, the daughter of a Norwegian woman and a German occupation soldier, finds her idyllic life disrupted as she refuses to testify a trial against the Norwegian state on behalf of her fellow "war children."
- Margot, who lives in a comfortable middle-class apartment, fears that she is losing her mind after having her second child. Her husband Kurt, who is busy studying for an exam, does not understand her situation. Her mother-in-law and sister-in-law Lore are openly hostile to her. She resorts to Valium and drink and looks for sympathy, but to no avail.
- A biography of Hildegard Knef, one of Germany's biggest post-war stars.
- This drama focuses on three very different siblings, all searching for happiness. Hans-Jörg is a sex addicted librarian, who is interested in young students. Werner is a successful politician with a dysfunctional family. Agnes, a trans woman, works as a table dancer in a nightclub. The three siblings just have one thing in common: their longing for a happy life.
- A reassessment of the role Albert Speer played in the Third Reich. Speer, who was ultimately convicted at the Nuremburg trials and served a 20-year prison sentence, was known for designing many of the Third Reich's buildings and for being Hitler's minister for war production.
- A medical student returning to France finds himself mixed up in a dark affair of espionage between the Eastern and Western blocs, involving agents of the DGSE (French foreign intelligence service).
- She Can See Her Future, But Can't Escape Her Past.
- An outward-looking pastor and his four sons of age 10 to 22 try to live their life in accordance with their Christian faith and in so doing face challenges for their faith.
- 'Ringers: Lord of the Fans' is a feature-length documentary that explores how "The Lord of the Rings" has influenced Western popular culture over the past 50 years.
- In 1977, skyjackers abduct Lufthansa Flight 181, subsequently involving Germany's special operations unit GSG 9 to free all the hostages.
- 31-year-old Tristan remembers the time when he was 15 and had just hit puberty. But he is not alone in this; he is with a large group of friends: Specki, a fat kid who is always stuffing himself; Streusel, a cheeky boy covered with spots; Tümai, a pretty Turkish girl; Kerstin, best friend of Tümai and very sporty; Elrond, with a heavy stutter, but regardless extremely popular and good looking; Lars and Simone, so far the only couple in the class, who spend most of their time smooching; and Long Jana, a girl who is at least 6 foot tall and extremely skinny. Tristan has just developed a huge crush on Kerstin, but is too shy to do anything about it. As if that weren't enough, his parents, both psychoanalysts, separate, which puts an abrupt end to childhood naivete. Tristan is supposed to move town at the end of the school year. But time is too short to grow grey hair. The friends experience awkwardness at dance school, masturbation, and first fantasies of the opposite sex, amateur school theatre, the first real party with lots of alcohol, strip poker etc. The biggest interest is, of course, to get ahead with the girls, which often ends up in very funny situations. Their mutual enemy is Simone's father, who beats her until Tristan finally works up the courage to stop him. On Tristan's last day, when all his friends come to say goodbye, Kerstin is missing. To his surprise, she is waiting on the swing in front of Tristan's new home. This is the beginning of a long, deep love, which leaves Tristan with the knowledge that he experienced something extraordinary, which most people never will.
- Jochen Falk and two further former Stasi agents embark on a dangerous mission to rescue the kidnapped president of Katschekistan. But soon it becomes clear that Falk pursues his own objectives.
- Revolves around the encounters of three protagonists who become entangled in a kind of love triangle.
- Lucie, the horror of the street is a six-part Czech-German television children's series.
- A Martial Artist, afflicted with a disease that makes beautiful women want to kill him, goes on a suicide mission to find true love anyway.
- A tangled drama of cruelty and manipulation, attraction and love.
- The last days of Willy Brandt as chancellor in Germany.
- Annemarie's mother, the well-known noble prostitute Rosemarie Nitribitt, was found murdered nearly twenty years ago.
- Docudrama in two parts, based on the abduction of the president of the employer's association of Germany, Hanns Martin Schleyer, by the Baader-Meinhof gang in the Autumn of '77.
- The ghosts of thieves help a beautiful young countess save her inherited castle from modern developers in this comic horror/musical.
- Julian, Yassin, and Addi have the same mother but different fathers. When they learn about one another's existences, they go on a road trip together in search of their common roots.
- Denise Crosby takes another look at the huge fans of "Star Trek" and how the series from around the world has affected and shaped their lives.
- Every day they clean the dirty windows of their cars from the filthy film that has formed overnight. Measuring stations call a low smog warning. But one day a soccer player collapses on the pitch with breathlessness.
- The radiologist Agnes must take care of a flat. Without her family knowing about it, she visits this flat regularly and begins a parallel life. One day she falls asleep there. When she wakes, a man lies beside her in the bed.
- Two morose village representatives from Upper Bavaria appear at the Bonn Ministry of Family Affairs and other government agencies to investigate alleged building plans for a nuclear reactor.
- In 1980 Franz Josef Strauss competed against Helmut Schmidt for the Office of the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany.
- A dramatization of the thalidomide drug scandal of the early 1960s.
- Hans Schnier has earned his living as a clown, though he is in fact a very covert sort of social critic. After enduring a difficult childhood in Bonn during the Second World War, including his mother's fanatic Nazism.
- A female doctor trusts her son to a friend because of an emergency. When she wants to pick up her son, her child and the acquaintance disappeared.
- Udo is invisible - no one ever seems to notice him. He makes the most of it, working as a department store detective and living off other people's lives as they never notice him tagging along. Until he meets the one woman who sees him.
- The clownish security chief of a West German business is obsessed with protecting his factory from fancied and real breaches, especially from groups such as The Red Army Faction. Ferdinand's paranoia and methods can't be contained by his company. The sympathetically-drawn Ferdinand's ludicrous actions recall those of the cynical, disastrous axis between fascism and big business in 1930's Europe: satire of the rise of private security.
- In 2021, Israel's baseball team competed in the Olympics for the first time. With no media allowed in Tokyo's Olympic Village, the players record their own experiences. Mostly newly minted Israelis, they log unexpected battles against anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism. Victory for Israel comes on the playing field, even if not on the podium. Israel Swings for Gold follows the 2018 hit Heading Home: The Tale of Team Israel, about Israel's Cinderella run at the 2017 World Baseball Classic.
- Max Hansen is one of the greatest entertainment stars of the Weimarer Republic. With his role as waiter Leopold in the musical "Im weißen Roessl" (The White Horse Inn - Berlin 1930) he achieved public acclaim. Cabaret "rags" and his jewish decent restricted his career under Hitler's regime. During his time of emigration in Vienna, he discovered Zarah Leander, then moves on to Scandinavia and began a new life. After creating himself a new identity, he was able to acquire the "arien- certificate". However, his anxiety remained unvanquished, Hansen never returned to Germany. A personal portrait of a forgotten superstar and an impressing retrospection of the Weimar Republic.
- A 14 year old boy is sent to a group home for troubled youth. What he believed he knew what friendship was on the outside, he discovered what friendship truly was while within.
- A series of strange accidents plaguing a city located near the mine. Two people were pulled through the funnel, which formed after the collapse of tunnels under the lake. Geologist Nina Thiemann discovers that the mine tunnels are insecure and unstable. A woman with an expert in the field of explosions and a father, a former miner, descend into the ground, hoping that they will prevent catastrophe.
- Three sisters, two of whom haven't spoken to each other for many years, meet at the 100th birthday of the eldest of them. Together they relive a century of fateful events, scandals and missed opportunities.
- A docudrama about the Gay Trials of Frankfurt 1950-51. When a teenage hustler was arrested by the police he revealed the names of his clients to save his own neck. His betrayal destroyed the lives of more than 200 gay men within 10 months.
- Vinz is in the middle of his Abitur and thus at the beginning of a new phase of life. He has what it takes to be a professional basketball player and his brother Georg can't imagine anything better for Vinz' life.
- The affair Semmeling is a six-part German television game by Dieter Wedel.