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- An anthology series that follows the work of homicide detectives in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
- In spring 1912 recently widowed Alma Mahler, Grande Dame of Viennas Society gets involved with the "Enfant Terrible" of Viennas Art scene, Oskar Kokoschka. After some time their Affair, the lust and desire for one another starts threatening both of their existence to the extent of no return.
- Young Jewish man bucks orthodox traditions (and mother's meddling) by shaving, shopping outside the faithful, and considering a shiksa for a wife.
- Crime comedy series about an ex-cop who founds an improvised detective school and gives his students real cases to solve.
- Ruth (65), is an eccentric, determined woman who wants control over everything. Even death. So, she goes to Zurich for a tidy, orderly exit. But her chaotic granddaughter Lori (22) gatecrashes, and will not go back home without her.
- The musically gifted maid Elsie, who longs for a career as a musician, is forced into marriage with Jacob, a stable boy who dreams of owning a horse. Both have to learn that they can only escape their lack of opportunities if they team up.
- Small town guy «Goalie» lands in prison for not ratting out his childhood friend Ueli to the police. After a year spent in jail, he heads back to his hometown Schummertal. He sets for a fresh start, but the old ghosts come back again. He finds no love lost around, except for the waitress Regula who seeks shelter at his place after leaving her violent partner. Goalie takes her to a short trip to Spain, but messes up with her when he finds out the truth behind his year spent in prison.
- Mike Duerst gets dumped by his girlfriend, because she is pregnant by her former boyfriend. In his despair Mike gets in contact with Gregor Frank, a psychologist, who, in his radio show, claims to know all about women.Gregor promises Mike to find the perfect woman, if he agrees to be the subject for his upcoming psychological advisory book. Mike accepts. So Gregor explains Mike the typical patterns of women's behavior. Mike falls in love with the attractive pilot Christina Berger, without realizing that she is Gregor's girlfriend. Unknowingly Gregor coaches Mike how to convince his new lover to leave her boyfriend. Eventually Christina falls in love with Mike and leaves Gregor. Gregor wants to commit suicide by jumping from the roof of his house...
- A professor saves the life of an injured hit man who, in return, promises to find and kill an enemy of his. Although the professor says not to have any enemy the killer goes for his mission and turns the professor's square life into chaos.
- Frank Born believes himself to be a secret agent so his psychiatrist prescribes some time away at a relaxing village in the Swiss Alps. The delusional Born gets enmeshed in a secret international summit and is soon pursuing a coveted microfilm.
- Maier is working as the CFO of a Swiss car parts maker. When a new CEO takes over, Maier accepts him, but soon gets suspicious of him. A bitter struggle breaks out between the two men, leading to a failed IPO with Maier as the fall guy.
- Meeri Ehrlich, 13 years old has three problems. First: She is in love - with the wrong person - and has butterflies in her tummy. Second: Her mother passed away and she misses her a lot. Third: her father - owner of a funeral home - is looking for a new partner. But Meeri has something that is only hers, something very special - she can fly.
- Let's Get Divorced, Darling! Franziska Klaus (42) wants to divorce her husband Oliver (47). He is convinced that she has another guy. As a successful business woman Franziska would have plenty of opportunities. Whereas he, Oliver, looks after the house and their children, Anna (15) and Tim (17). But Franziska is only flirting with Maik, the junior consultant in the company. While Oliver sacrificed his dreams of being a painter in favor of his wife's career. While Franziska is in London with Maik, on business, Oliver meets his French teenage love, Sophie. As an art dealer she encourages him to start painting again. By and by Oliver begins to emancipate from Franziska, and finds his old self again, the daredevil he used to be. At the same time, in London, Franziska reconsiders - Oliver is Mister Right after all! But when she returns home she finds her husband ready for the divorce. She cannot believe it! He must have a lover, she is convinced. It is Sophie, who opens Oliver's eyes for she realizes that he still loves his wife and she could never take Franziska's place. So Oliver sets out to reconquer his wife!
- Rolf, a hemiplegic, spends his days dozing on a sofa bed in his dusty apartment. On TV, he learns of a deadly pandemic sweeping around the globe. When his nurse fails to visit him, Rolf realizes that his survival is anything but certain.
- Switzerland, late 70s: The young social pedagogue Christa joins after graduation at the University of Zurich, her first position as head of the social services in a rural psychiatric hospital clinic. Her boyfriend Marc has been working there for a long time as an assistant doctor. Wear with enthusiasm, the two of them presented their new and advanced therapy ideas into the aging walls, which are surrounded by the clinic director Professor Sennhauser, still in the old spirit. Christa wants so many patients outside the clinic walls as much as possible. They are to be accommodated in shared flats on an outpatient basis. Sennhauser, who was a representative of old structures is cleverly trying in the background to complete his project of sabotage. He succeeds in finding Marc and Christa to play off against each other. In addition, he lets Christa knowingly working her project with a patient at risk.
- 19711h 15m8.0 (7)TV MovieWalter Roderer embodies the quirky do-gooder Professor Sound with great fun in this musical comedy by Karl Suter.
- The short film collection Collection Lockdown by Swiss Filmmakers was created when COVID 19 drastically changed the lives of all of us. Many industries were blocked, nobody knew what to do next. The project began as a competition and called on all Swiss filmmakers to submit their idea for a short film. Despite the short submission deadline of less than a week, more than 80 film ideas were received from German-speaking Switzerland, French-speaking Switzerland, Ticino and Grisons. 33 filmmakers were selected and created 33 short films in the next 16 days on schedule with their existing resources.
- A Swiss alpine wrestler gets a crack at the national championship.
- A film documenting conductor David Zinman and the preparation of his orchestra, the Tonahalle Orchestra Zurich, for a performance and recording of Symphony no. 6 by Gustav Mahler.
- 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.