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

When a singer is found murdered, with her scent glands excised from her body, detectives probe a group of friends who attended boarding school with her.

The end of summer, a sleepy fishing port on the Baltic Sea and the beginning of a great feeling that shouldn't be: Shortly before the start of the new school year, 18-year-old Christian falls in love with his new English teacher, Stella Petersen. In a moment of unexpected lightness and freedom, in the dune and seascape far away from the small town, Stella and Christian discover a shared longing and an attraction for each other, the intensity of which both overwhelms. But soon after classes have started again, the secret relationship between the young teacher and her student threatens to turn into a scandal: Christian's parents, his classmates and the teaching staff express suspicion, concern and indignation. While Stella repeatedly eludes Christian, he is already making plans for a future together. When Stella had an accident in a sailing accident, a world collapsed for Christian.

In the small German town of Ottern, a pediatrician diagnoses "chronic sexual abuse", while examining a young girl, setting events in motion that lead to a judicial scandal of devastating proportions.

Follows the construction and history of the famous Adlon hotel in Berlin, as seen through the eyes of Sonja Schadt, the youngest member of the wealthy fictional Schadt family who are friends with the Adlons.

In the final analysis, it all comes down to guilt, different shades of guilt that one assumes in a single moment of thoughtlessness or in months of premeditated planning. Defence Attorney Friedrich Knonberg knows he must tip legal scales of justice in favour of his client for crimes that are never black and white and what they may seem.

The young policeman Karl-Heinz Krause works undercover to insinuate himself into a group of Autobahn racers. While he gets to like the illegal races, besides he has to chase some people dealing stolen cars.

Happily married to Thomas, her daughter just off to college, Katja teaches math and music at the local elementary school. Her life seems perfect. Until a chance encounter turns her world upside down. The very weekend her family is away, she meets Daniel, an attractive, inquisitive fellow, backpacking through Germany. A travel journalist, just passing through, he camps out on her lawn. They connect. She finds his independent, freewheeling lifestyle fascinating. He tells her of his journeys. He makes her feel alive, reawakens her youthful hopes and dreams. Now old regrets come rushing back. After three exciting days, she is faced with the decision: does she go with him, or does she stay in her own, safe little world?

Can it be justified to shoot down a civilian plane, converted by terrorists into a deadly suicide missile? Can "human arithmetic" be a legal calculus?

A soap-operatic mini-series about the history of Hotel Sacher in Vienna. It starts with the takeover by Anna Sacher after her husband Eduard dies at age 59. Most of the time, someone high or low in society seems to be kissing (or more) in one of the chambres séparées.

A long-serving police secretary defies protocol to launch an unconventional investigation to find her missing daughter in this German thriller set in Berlin.

A young man and his wife struggling to create a good life for themselves in a new country. Based on Louise Erdrich's novel 'The Master Butchers Singing Club'.

Six cinematic perspectives. Six artistic visions. Six dramatic stories - an anthological high-end series, based on short stories by Ferdinand von Schirach, as an innovative showcase of six of the most significant and exciting directors.

Due to the fall of the Berlin Wall, a double agent is targeted by the American foreign intelligence service CIA.

The story of Alfried Krupp and his family and of the Krupp company, which has been preeminent in German industry. The family company was a key supplier of weapons and material to the Nazi regime during WWII.

This is a family story that covers 30 years in the life of the Freytag family, narrated by grandson Robert. When his grandfather returns from Russia in 1949, he becomes part of the German "economic miracle" by producing garden gnomes. Robert's father Klaus wants to become a writer. He marries Gisela, who almost immediately gets pregnant with Robert, but the marriage doesn't work. Both parents abandon the boy, who is raised by both sets of grandparents. While his father belongs to the 1960s generation that rebels against their fathers, he falls in love with the neighbor's's daughter Laura.

Der 78-j?hrige ehemalige Architekt Richard G?rtner m?chte seinem Leben ein Ende setzen. Dies soll jedoch nicht im Ausland, sondern ganz legal mit der Hilfe seiner Haus?rztin geschehen. Für Dr. Brandt kommt es aus pers?nlicher ?berzeugung nicht infrage, ihrem zwar betagten, aber gesunden Patienten ein todbringendes Pr?parat zu besorgen. Richard G?rtners Fall wird exemplarisch vor dem Deutschen Ethikrat diskutiert. Strittig ist dabei nicht die Frage, welche Formen von Sterbehilfe für ?rzte straffrei sind, sondern ob Mediziner dem Patientenwunsch eines Lebensmüden gerecht werden müssen - egal ob jung, alt, gesund oder krank. Ethikrat-Mitglied Dr. Keller befragt die Sachverst?ndigen und l?sst so die unterschiedlichen Experten zu Wort kommen. Die Verfassungsrechtlerin Prof. Litten und der Anwalt von Richard G?rtner stehen Bischof Thiel und ?rztekammerchef Sperling dabei mit unterschiedlichen Meinungen gegenüber. Am Ende richtet sich die Ethikrat-Vorsitzende direkt an das Publikum: Soll Richard G?rtner das t?dliche Pr?parat bekommen, um sich selbstbestimmt das Leben zu nehmen?

The most peculiar and crazy stories and cases defense attorney Friedrich Leonhard has to offer. (Some of the cases seam to have actually happened)

Ziv Koren's photographs have become instantly recognizable icons that have helped shape our perception of the conflict in the Middle East. In "More Than 1000 Words" director Solo Avital followed Ziv over a two-year period, shooting in the heart of riots, terror attack scenes, secret meetings with wanted militants, all the way to Israel's pullout from Gaza. This movie, however, is not solely about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict; it is merely set in it. It is a movie about a man's struggle with a history in which he is involved, and the place he finds for himself in it. Like Ziv, it seeks the universal through the most personal; it asks how and why this man gets up in the morning to leave his wife and daughter for a war zone. The movie does not only seek history through the photographer's lens but also the photographer through the lens of history.

Traumatized policeman Ben investigates a cold case obscured by a web of guilt, lies and deception. In the process, Marion, a doctor, helps him come to terms with himself and his past.

A family of German Communists caught on the wrong side of history.

Romance and murder are intertwined in this 19th-century tale. At the turn of the century, fearless midwife Gesa finds her investigation into mysterious murders leading her deeper into darkness. Meanwhile, her affair with the prestigious Dr. Heuser grows more controversial among high society.

Sylvia Rosch is a woman with dangerous obsessions. Camouflaged by perfectly rehearsed masquerades, she wages a merciless campaign of revenge. Anyone who gets too close will succumb to an insidious murder.

Love years.