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Charité takes place in late 19th century Germany at a research hospital, where the nurses and doctors deal with issues of class, women's roles, and public health issues of the era.

The Franconian brewer Curt Prank (Mišel Maticevic) stole five host plots at the Oktoberfest in Munich in 1900 with bribery and blackmail in order to erect a gigantic giant tent for six thousand guests. That leads to war with the small traditional Munich breweries, which fear for their existence.

A German mini-series about two opposite families in East Berlin around 1980.

Tackling often social issues, the series is well known and most of the time can win the Sunday night in the ratings. The concept of the Tatort has various teams investigating in different cities.

The show is following the adventures of Sophie Haas, a detective from the city that takes a job in the fictional country village of Hengasch. Much of the humour of the series derives from the clich

The sinister discovery of numerous murder victims shocks the Oderbruch region. The serial murder case brings Detective Roland Voit to his hometown to work with Polish police officer Stanislaw Zajak. Voit's former colleague and childhood sweetheart, Maggie Kring, is also called in to join the police investigation when her family comes under immediate suspicion. In their investigation, Maggie and Voit delve deep into their own past to finally uncover the true circumstances of the death of Maggie's brother and the sinister truth of this case, which lies beyond human imagination.

The crew of U-boat U-96 has been ordered to leave port and set sail to sea to sink British merchant ships. After some tense moments with an enemy, which is well-equipped, they've been ordered to dock at a base in South Europe, however this seems to be impossible as they have to cross the strait of Gibraltar...

The mother and daughter team, Karin Lossow, former district attorney and Detective Chief Superintendent Julia Thiel investigate criminal cases on the contemplative Baltic Sea island of Usedom. But their personal relationship is put to a permanent hard test, as in the heat of the moment several years ago, Karin killed Julia's father...

The city of Schwerin is sweltering under a heat wave never seen before. Detectives Lona Mendt and Frank Elling are on the trail of a serial murderer, who seems to choose his victims at random. But nothing is what it seems.

A mysterious murder of a girl brings Maik Briegand (Mišel Matičević), who, like his father and brother, became a police officer in GDR times, back to the place of his childhood: Lauchhammer. Together with the LKA investigator Annalena Gottknecht (Odine Johne), Briegand begins to remove the secrets of the past, layer by layer, which confront him with the trauma of his youth.

Within a few weeks, two murdered lovers were found in the Göhrde state forest in Lower Saxony in the summer of 1989. The popular local recreation area was quickly given the name "Totenwald" in public. When another woman later disappears, in contrast to the previous murders, the police quickly have a suspect on hand: the husband of the disappeared. His brother-in-law, a high-ranking criminal investigator, does not believe in his guilt. The investigation is said to drag on for decades and only after his retirement does he come across revealing inconsistencies in the investigation in the early 1990s. Could this reveal the entire secret of the "forest of the dead"?

Viola Delbrück flees from her husband, her parents and her old life in Hamburg. She wants to start all over in Görlitz, Germany's easternmost city. Burkhard Schulz, who is only called "Butsch" by everyone, is a solitary warrior and flees from any kind of change. He has already had a long life full of disappointing love and shattered hopes. The investigative duo could hardly be more different

All You Need is a dramedy series about four gay men in Berlin, searching for love and security in the age of Grindr.

Katja hasn't reported in for months and, against orders, German undercover cop Alex follows her to Amsterdam to find out what's going on. Complicated by the fact she is more than just the colleague he has been training as a covert operative; he's in love with her. A dangerous new designer drug has hit the street and, having spent three years infiltrating the hierarchy of the Amsterdam drug mafia, Katja could finally be in the position to bring it down. But she's dangerously close and emotionally involved and, to make matters worse, suspected of having killed a Dutch police officer - to prove her loyalty to the cartel. Alex is exposed when he confronts her and busted by the Dutch police. Can they collaborate to achieve their common goal? While Katja wins the confidence of the drug lord and makes her way up the ranks - with so much at stake, who can you trust?

Cathrin Blake once came to Ireland from Germany to study there. She fell in love with the detective inspector Liam, had a son and worked as a police psychologist. When Liam suddenly disappeared without a trace, Cathrin lost the ground under her feet. It took a lot of strength to find her way out of this crisis. She still works as a psychologist today, albeit no longer with the police, and lives with her son Paul. She left the past behind, but then the bones of buried children and those of a grown man are found in a monastery: Liam! Suddenly the past is there again with all its unresolved, agonizing questions.

Bonn recounts the rise of Germany's Federal Republic after the terror of World War II. It focuses on a young woman who struggles to find her own place in a male-dominated society in the 1950s and the political tug-of-war between German's two rival intelligence services.

After a bribery scandal with dramatic consequences, the lawyer Thomas Borchert returns from Frankfurt to his old home in Zurich, where he immediately gets caught up in another dramatic case.

Former city policeman Hauke Jacobs wants to start over as a veterinarian in the sleepy Baltic Sea town of Schwanitz. Unfortunately, mysterious crimes thwart his plans again and again - much to the delight of gripping policewoman Lona Vogt and the veterinary assistant with investigative ambitions Jule Christiansen, who are only too happy to get out of the daily grind in the province.

At the beginning of the series, the Zweifler family faces an important decision: Symcha Zweifler (Mike Burstyn) wants to sell the delicatessen empire, but this means that the businessman's beginnings in Frankfurt's red light district immediately after the Second World War come to the surface again. Other repressed conflicts also come to the fore again.

Murder, Venice, relationships...it's a delicious concoction in the hands of crime novelist Donna Leon. Venice provides the backdrop for the lush film versions of the bestselling novels, which features the indelible Commissario Guido Brunetti, canal boat rides instead of car chases, fine cuisine and crime investigations in one of Europe's most beautiful locations.

In 1992, the ZERV - the largest SoKo in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany - began investigating crimes from the GDR and the period of reunification. The documentary series goes on a search for clues with the "real" investigators from back then.

After incurring the wrath of a Berlin clan boss, an ex-police officer and her previously convicted adopted daughter end up in the witness protection program in the Bavarian baroque city of Passau. Here they dare a new beginning - also together, and under new names: Frederike and Mia Bader. Nobody in Passau knows about her past - that of Frederike as a former BKA specialist and that of Mia as a previously convicted drug dealer. The camouflage of the two works - until Frederike meets the dubious private detective Ferdinand Zankl. She is now worried about being exposed by him. The melancholy Austrian seems quite harmless, but is he really that or does he pose a threat? Mia misses her old home and secretly makes contact. With fatal consequences ...

This is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), and after the dissolution of Fernsehen der DDR the series was picked up by ARD. It was originally created as a counterpart to the West German series Tatort, and quickly became a public favorite.

"Testo" is a short format series on Das Erste. 5 Prisoners, a bank robbery, 6 hostages, adrenaline, chaos, unfinished business. Fast, unpredictable, merciless.

Xavi Bonet is an investigator in Barcelona - idiosyncratic, solitary, mysterious and well connected in the city. Together with his new partner, the self-confident single parent Fina Valet, he has to solve in his first case the connection between a man with amnesia and a dead illegal immigrant, both of whom were found on the beach.