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- 40 year- old wife and mother Claire Carenberg is unhappy - with herself, her age and with everything in general. Her two teenage kids are distancing themselves from "Mommy" and she has reason to believe that husband Frank, teacher at local High School, might be having an affair with a student. But through a "magic spell" Claire's life changes from one moment to the next: she is suddenly 16 again and is given the opportunity to return to school as a younger version of herself. This way, she invisibly gains access to her children as well as her husband. But the weeklong absences of her "old self" put an immense strain on her family: Claire is forced to watch as things fall more and more out of balance.
- Based in Neukölln, Berlin, Toni manages the daily business of dealing with the Arab gangs and ends up wanting to leave his old life behind for his family, but as expected, it's never that simple.
- When successful Manager Lorenz picks up unemployed hitchhiker Hartmut in his Maserati, a turbulent and exciting trip through Germany begins: the two men have more in common than they'd like to believe. The ambitious Human Resources Manager of Berlin-based company Telpeak, Lorenz Hoffmann, takes 60-year old Hartmut Sprenger along to southern Germany, where he is headed for a business meeting. Lorenz has no idea who he has taken along for the ride: Hartmut, who used to be the highly esteemed head of marketing, was fired 5 years ago when his company was taken over by Telpeak. He was fired without notice and anonymously - as it turns out, by the hand of none other than Lorenz. Today - Hartmut has turned bitter and has a few odd jobs while Lorenz is in a midlife crisis despite is success at work - fate has brought the two men together again and sends them from Berlin to Munich and further on into the alps. Lorenz manages to hide his true identity for a while, but when Hartmut's teenage daughter Olivia joins them for the ride and Lorenz falls in love with Hartmut's ex-wife during a short stop over, the events summersault and the car ride turns onto an adventurous wavering course.
- Benny, an Israeli living in Berlin is called back home following his grandfather death. He arrives to Israel with his girlfriend Sara and his family can't wait to meet her.
- ADD A FRIEND portrays the lives of six people that are connected by webcams. They communicate through computers and social networks: they talk and fight, they love and lie, they search and they find, they win and they lose, they live and work online. The next surprising twist is always just a mouse click away.
- Summer is here. To get out of a two-week vacation in the Bavarian Forest with girlfriend Hanna and her parents, Daniel promises to renovate a bungalow on a resort island for his father's company. With this alibi, Daniel and his best friend Mark have a ball. But their party mood sours when Hanna pays them a surprise visit and Daniel's lie blows up in his face. To get his girlfriend back, Daniel will try any trick in the book.
- Having left the 40-year mark behind her, Catrin ventures back to college, in order to finish her once discontinued studies of medicine, far away from Berlin in Marburg. At first, her husband Frank can't understand his wife's decision and refuses to believe that Catrin's wish is not a rejection of him. The relationship is heading towards a crisis but Catrin is determined to fulfill her dream. Better late than never.
- Steffi (Mirjam Weichselbraun) has everything she could wish for: a modeling career, a successful man, and a chic home. Only her desire to have children has not been fulfilled. Steffi decides to choose an anonymous donor to contribute the best genes to her child. When she discovers that her husband is cheating on her, she desperately turns to the donor and tries to find out who he is and meet him. His name is Tommi (Oliver Wnuk), and he is a loser in comic-character shirts and baggy jeans. will not come true. To start the good fortune off, Steffi chooses an anonymous donor, which should offer the child the best genes. When she finds out that her husband is cheating on her, Steffi turned desperately to the begetter of the baby. His name is Tommi (Oliver Wnuk) and it comes to light that he is a loser in comic-shirt and baggy jeans.
- A sleepy little town. A bank robbery. Arved Minks is the first policeman at the crime scene. The bank is quickly surrounded by his colleagues, all escape ways are blocked for the hostage-takers. But Arved finds out that he is not dealing with an unknown perpetrator: it's his own son JACOB. When Arved realizes that Jacob is not acting on his behalf but is used as an instrument in a thoroughly arranged crime, a murderous roller coaster ride begins that confronts him with his repressed past. That night Arved is moved only by one question: How far has he got to go to protect what is most precious to him?
- ANNA is a dancer with heart and soul. She practices every day together with her best friend MILENA to fulfill her life's dream: to become a member of the Corps de Ballet. But on the day of her big audition, her dream becomes a nightmare. After the opera's stage manager has a deadly accident right before the audition, it's a shock to everyone when it is not Anna who gets the job offer from the former prima ballerina and reserved Ballet manager HRDLICKA, but Milena. Regardless of her defeat, Anna puts on a brave smile for her best friend and is comforted by the attractive TOM, who has only shortly been working as a light technician at the opera. But then, another terrible accident: Milena falls down the stairs and is hurt badly; her career at an end. Anna takes Milena's place in the Corps de Ballet and is henceforth confronted with Hrdlicka's blatant resentment that shows no constraint in humiliating Anna. Could the price of success possibly be too high...?
- A family saga with a supernatural twist, set in a German town where the disappearance of two young children exposes the relationships among four families.
- A fire breaks out in the Berlin Television Tower, trapping several people in the revolving restaurant and observation deck at the top. A team of firefighters, including a disgraced former member, rush to the rescue as chaos erupts among the trapped.
- After 20 years, Thea (40) and Rainer's (45) marriage has been pared down to the bone; the relationship to their children leaves much to be desired. But when Heinrich Bittner (67), apparently an old friend of Thea's deceased father, moves in with the Cronpichels, Thea enjoys his presence and begins to see her life in a new light. But is charming and secretive Heinrich really who he claims to be?
- A secretary gets seemingly per accident shot during a bank robbery.
- 20161h 35m7.3 (339)TV Episode1990 Jena, Germany. DDR is history. Now we all belong to western capitalism and prosperity. Unemployment, exclusion and xenophobia rules. The youth feel disoriented, unloved, displaced and offended.
- A woman of a sausage company is kidnapped. The detectives are struggling to find the possible murderer in a small village in Germany.
- The crime scene of Miroslav Nemec's and Udo Wachtveitl's 70th case is the Oktoberfest: Munich in a state of chaos. But not everyone who falls off a beer bench at this crime scene is drunk. A case, in which Batic and Leitmayr have to deal with the complete and utter confusion and complexity of trying to work at the world's biggest fair. Once again they find support from the head of operative case analysis, Christine Lerch (Lisa Wagner). Directed by Marvin Kren ("Rammbock", Tatort: "Kaltstart") and written by Stefan Holtz and Florian Iwersen ("Milchgeld. Ein Kluftingerkrimi"). Ferdinand Hofer is part of the team as assistant Kalli, as well as Gerhard Liebermann as Radtke and Robert Joseph Bartl as coroner Dr. Steinbrecher. Co-starring Gisela Schneeberger as beer tent proprietor Moosrieder, Andreas Giebl as her late husband, Mavie Höbinger as an Oktoberfest waitress and Leo Reisinger as the kitchen chef. The broadcast is planned for the Oktoberfest 2015 in ARD. "Die letzte Wiesn" is the first Tatort commissioned by the Bayerischer Rundfunk for Wiedemann and Berg Television.
- Rosa Winter and Mark are looking for a new apartment in Berlin as they are being evicted from their current one. The judge Johannes Brun who confirmed the eviction order asks Rosa as a wedding planner to help him propose to his beloved. She accepts on the condition that she can arrange the wedding after his beloved Anja says yes. However, it seems that Anja has a dark past. Also the landlord, Mr. Schmidbauer who had refused their application for an ideal apartment, comes to Rosa some time later and asks her to find him a partner and if she succeeds the apartment will be hers. Now her fiancé Mark steps in and tries to couple Schmidbauer with Rosa's mother Ruth, which leads to complications indeed.
- A synthetic drug called "heaven" is all the rage in Berlin's party scene, but when its manufacturer Christoph Gerhard (Stefan Kreißig) is found dead, detectives Ritter (Dominic Raacke) and Stark (Boris Aljinovic) investigate. They get support from experienced narcotics officer Mainhard (Ina Weisse). Gerhard's computer has disappeared and the recipe with it: but then who is it still selling "heaven" on the streets of Berlin?
- Prosecutor CHARLOTTE REINKE investigates a case of abuse: 9 year-old LAURA GIESECKE claims to have been sexually abused by her father ROMAN GIESECKE. But Laura revokes her statement during the main trial and the fathers' attorney proves that Laura's first statement was made under the strong influence of the mother, BRIGITTE GIESECKE. Caught completely by surprise, Charlotte can only just manage to prevent an immediate acquittal of Giesecke. Could the charming and eloquent Roman Giesecke really have abused his daughter? Or is Brigitte trying to exploit Laura in her divorce battle, about which Brigitte obviously wasn't completely honest with Charlotte.
- A flight coming from Thailand to Germany is infected by a mysterious virus.
- Five women, five lifestyles that could not be any different: her career at an agency takes top priority for business woman Fe, even over her relationship. Charlie, a single Mom raising a three year-old daughter remains the "permanent" intern and hairdresser Mandy is a chocoholic longing to be skinny and dreaming of a man to settle down with, whereas single lady Frieda meets men daily but stomps out any emotions before they even arise due to her fear of commitment. And then there is Karo, the mother hen, who discovers that her husband is seeing another woman. Or is he? The five stories of these women all tell a tale of life in Berlin. Strange at times, desperate too, and even tragic - yet in the end, they all find a new perspective on life.
- A young man from East Germany travels to San Francisco to search for his father, who fled 12 years ago.
- Four characters inhabit a film noir landscape of decaying buildings and surreal speech patterns. Motivations are oblique, postures are severe, and chain-smoking is mandatory. The Occupant investigates a Stoma. Executioner Bremer torments a Paralytic. Commander Horst plots our collective doom.
- Just when Paolo, an Italian in Paris, is ready to propose to his girlfriend Greta, he sees beautiful young Cecile on her bicycle.
- Ina Hofmann works in a toy factory. To welcome her egocentric new boss, she gift him a live fish, unaware that a mysterious man had cursed it. Her boss becomes small as a toy.
- Felix enjoys his single life to the fullest, but a ferret bites him, sterilizing him in the process. He tries everything in his power to find the soon-to-be mother of his only child, the result of his first and last sperm donation.
- The romantic story of a young woman who falls in love with a rich, musician from a wealthy family stands in the center of this timely and enthrallingly told series. While he uncovers her musical talent and she lives a fairytale dream of a career in the music industry with his help, he completely gives himself over to another person for the first time in his life. But nothing good lasts forever and the pair is faced with nasty surprises and evil schemes.
- A story of one village in Germany at the end of WW2.
- The former mostwanted gangster Liviu Caramitru succeeds in breaking out of a prison in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Within a few hours, experienced LKA special investigators Hanna Landauer and Sven Schröder begin a large-scale manhunt across the country. The first attempt to apprehend him fails on the banks of river Oder on the border with Poland and Caramitru manages to narrowly escape yet again. His path leads the two police detectives via Bucharest to a remote village at the foot of the Carpathian Mountains. There, far away in Caramitru's Romanian homeland, Landauer and Schröder hunt down the fugitive - from the traditional wedding of his sister to the inevitable Western showdown high-up in the mountains.
- The story follows six very different men and their struggles with women, family and work. Yet, they are somehow connected to each other.
- The heroes from "Männerherzen - Men in the city" return and are searching for their "one and only true great love" more vigorously than ever, which also happens to be the name of Schlager singer Bruce Bergers new song. Günther, Niklas and Philip now work for Bruce's label and while their boss bites off "a bit" more than he can chew, Jerome is taking a sabbatical in the country at his parents' house. Niklas is playing the dating game while Philip becomes a father and Günther has very particular issues in his relationship. A truly great comedy for men and women with heart and mind.
- Basti, doesn't want to go to the Bundeswehr and writes a denial. But as his mate who fancies Basti's girlfriend "forgets" to send the denial Basti is taken in by the Bundeswehr- What seemed to be a nightmare soon becomes a funny adventure.
- Six wildly different people have no clue what's install for them on 'pioneering' burnout therapist Hannah's forest hike to a desolate hotel in Märkischen Schweiz, with some tricks to force them out of their comfort zones in completely different circumstances then those which gave them regular stress. Workaholic restructuring management consultant Johann Meininger was tricked to take the course as his PA convinced his boss to dump him due to expensive seniority, but finds a new challenge when sparks flow between him and equally cocky teacher Silvia Rautenberg, a disorganized single mother of two who has tinnitus. Editing lecturer Alfred is desperate after 500 failed job applications and hamburger jobs. Yuppie designer Rosa is stuck in short-term apprenticeships. Fresh pensioner Herbert wants adventure after 40 years of patient care, but his wife Gudrun fears any risk. Therapist Hannah looses control.
- After 15 years of friendship and peacefull life together Volfgang finally decides to marry Jana but suddenly old friend of Jana arrives - alive doll named Bella who isn't good girl and who doesn't want to give Jana away to Volfgang without fight.
- A rollicking party: For Thomas it's the crucial evening--he must finally get up the courage to confess his love to Denise. When she catches her boyfriend Dirk in-flagrante with a buxom Playmate, it's Thomas who comforts her. In the mist from the garden sprinkler, they have their first kiss. But just as he has reached the goal of his dreams, Thomas is faced with the greatest challenge of all: In an accident, Denise loses all recollection of the evening, and he is forced to try his luck again.
- German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR-regime.
- Martin Manz always thought of himself as a good guy. He is well known and very popular in his small hometown. He coaches the handball youth as a volunteer. He washes his senile father's feet and makes him supper. And he deeply loves his pregnant wife. Martin knows he's irreplaceable for the community. Therefore, he keeps a secret: He severely injured his best friend's daughter in a car accident. But what good would a confession do? The terrible accident has happened and cannot be undone, even if Martin deeply regrets it. The girl is in a coma but the doctors are optimistic. Martin firmly believes in her recovery. He wants to make up for his awful deed without burdening the people close to him with the brutal truth. But in order to keep his secret, Martin has to push his limits. The victim's hot-headed father insists on finding the perpetrator himself. A piece of evidence threatens to incriminate Martin. And finally, he is blackmailed by a witness in his own house. Good thing that Martin knows how to make evidence disappear. How to manipulate people. And how to eliminate recalcitrant witnesses. That is because Martin Manz is the policeman in town. "One Man's Happiness" is the story of a man who did everything in order to lose nothing.
- The morning after a questionable wellness session, ambitious fashion designer Melanie, 32, wakes up to discover that she has aged decades in the span of just one night. She is faced with the biggest challenges of her life: can she still get the promotion and beat her tenacious competitor as a grandma? Will she be able to save her unstable relationship although she now looks like she could be his mother?
- Playing in Germany in the 1960ies the movie narretes the conflict between former German politician Franz-Josef Strauß and Rudolf Augstein, German journalist and founder of 'Der Spiegel' magazine. 1962 the Spiegel Affair was a major political scandal in German escalating when Der Spiegel published an article about the sorry state of Germany's armed forces. Maximus.
- The life and struggle of the Dassler brothers. Founders of the brands of Adidas and Puma.
- 1892. Dachau, Bavaria. A family of thieves end up in prison. One of the sons dream of emigrating to America.
- A mystifying serial murder in vibrant Berlin brings experienced and persistent inspector Carolin Schwarz to her criminalist and emotional edge. To help clear up the case, she is unwillingly paired with her predecessor superintendent Paul Schmidt, an odd man who was, and still is, adored by their colleagues. Paul doesn't concern himself with the rules that were or social conventions. After some suspicion and distrust, Carolin slowly begins to take his often politically incorrect and unconventional investigation methods to heart and even begins to admire them. Two sympathetic individualist oddballs with the same goal but very different approaches become a team that can solve even a case as complex as this one, with a bit of humor and good instincts.
- Divorce lawyer Maja lives alone with her son Niklas and has sworn off men after one too many disappointments. Now her first case at a new firm holds quite a surprise: The other party's lawyer is Hanno - an old flame of Maja's. But as she wakes up after a car accident, she realizes she can suddenly hear the thoughts of all men around her. This offers new opportunities for her private life as well as her job.
- Silesia 1844. After the death of her husband during a demonstration, the young Mila goes to the United States of America, alone, for the land of hope they had dreamed about. Upon arrival, the cynical count Arnim Von Hobenberg, leader of the expedition to Texas, confiscated her land, saying that only men can own one. To survive, Mila is at the service of the countesz Cecile, with whom she ran away after wounding the count who wanted to rape her.
- In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.
- They are the Tricksters. They help people in need. They beat the bad boys with their own weapons, mostly without the hoodlums even noticing it. No violence, only tricks and bluffs. It's a matter of honor. Always for justice and always with a happy end.
- In 1944, Atze Schröder pretends to be the legendary Lieutenant Commander Roenberg when the Germans send their last available submarine, the U-900, on a secret mission from Toulon to Warnemuende.
- After the suicide of a convicted murderer, another man confesses to the crime, leaving von Meuffels to wrestle with questions of guilt and blame.
- A Comedy that follows a pair exchanging into each others body while trying the wedding ring and know each other from a very different side.