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An intellectually nonconformist friar investigates a series of mysterious deaths in an isolated abbey.

An anthology series that follows the work of homicide detectives in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

A show about the fictional everyday adventures of real-life comedian Bastian Pastewka. He experiences funny, strange, and embarrassing moments that he often causes by his lies.

Alexander Bukow and Katrin König, together they make a great team for fighting crime - when they're not fighting each other.

The daily lives of police officers in the St. Pauli district of Hamburg.

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.

German crime series centering around a succession of lawyers and a private investigator and former police officer, who typically team up to clear a client of the lawyer, who is usually an innocent suspect in a murder case.

A police officer reawakens from a 20-year coma and finds out how the world has changed.

In the 1840s, Lübeck is a dominating commercial town on the Baltic coast, and the Buddenbrooks are among the town's first families. Consul Jean Buddenbrook has two sons, Thomas and Christian, and a daughter, Antonia, called Tony. He dearly loves them but also expects them to sacrifice personal happiness for the sake of the company if necessary. The first to learn this is Tony, who is married off to Hamburgian businessman Bendix Grünlich. Meanwhile, her brothers have learned the trade in Amsterdam and London respectively. Crushed by Tony's marriage disaster and several unlucky transactions, Jean Buddenbrook turns the business over to his eldest, Thomas, who marries Dutch heiress Gerda, a passionate violinist, but never forgets his first love, a flower girl. After spending time in Valparaiso, Christian also returns to Lübeck. Thomas soon learns that his brother is much more interested in the theatre and actress Aline than in the company, which causes a rift between the brothers. Seeing that she can't heal it, their mother admonishes them to at least conceal it from the public.

SOKO Köln is a German crime series that is broadcast on ZDF.

It is carnival time in Munich and participants are overindulging in alcohol and sensual pleasures. "Follow us into madness" beckons Lys who is drunk on life, but the sensitive Henry does not follow him. Lys has betrayed his fiance, as Henry once betrayed his lost love Anna. In memory of Anna and his cruel Dickensian childhood, Henry challenges Lys to a duel to try to appease his guilt.

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.

In the days leading up to the 1936 Olympics, the fate of high jumper Gretel Bergmann hangs in the balance as it is decided whether or not a Jewish athlete can be a part of the German Olympic team.

Faced with staff shortages, the chief of a Cologne police department convinces two retired homicide detectives to come back into the force. As their immediate superior is a young woman, a generational cultural clash is inevitable.

Der Fahnder was an evening crime series of the ARD.

An amnesiac must unravel a strange mystery after waking up in a town filled with secrets.

The guard in Cologne police work from the regular patrolman to the criminal police.

The story of a mainstream 1970s working-class family in the Austrian capital, Vienna. Edmund Sackbauer (Karl Merkatz) and his wife Antonia (Ingrid Burkhart) live with their family in the 10th District Favoriten in Vienna. The main plot points vary in every episode as they discuss current issues of society.

Dramatized educational tales of Viking Women from the Sagas.

The Story of the German Sail-School Ship Pamir that sunk in a hurricane.

Bernd drives with his family to his grandmother's summer house, who has recently died. But the anticipated countryside holiday happiness is spoiled from the beginning.

The poet and bon vivant Clemens Brentano no longer wants to be an artist. In hopes of becoming a better person, he turned to the Catholic religion.