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Freud
Freud sees Sigmund Freud in Vienna in 1886, just as his revolutionary theories are being met with strong opposition from colleagues and wider Austrian society. It's at this time he meets the war veteran and policeman Alfred Kiss and notorious medium Fleur Salomé and unwittingly becomes part of the hunt for a serial killer.
Totenfrau
Blum, the owner of a funeral home in a renowned ski resort and a loving mother of two young children who is shaken to her core after the accidental death of her husband. She soon realizes that he was murdered because he was about to uncover terrible secrets. She sets out on a vendetta, but in the process turns herself from the hunter to the hunted.
Kommissar Rex
Kommissar Rex, also known as Inspector Rex, is about a highly intelligent German Shepherd Police Dog who is employed by the murder squad of the Austrian Police Force in Vienna.
Vorstadtweiber
The bored upper-class housewife and mother Maria (Gerti Drassl) invites her friends to a party: a native of impoverished nobility Waltraud (Maria Köstlinger), the very young bank manager wife Caroline (Martina Ebm) and the Nobel Boutique owner Nicoletta (Nina Proll). Surprising is also Sabine (Adina Vetter) just around the corner, an old friend, which was set by her husband penniless before the door. The wealthy ladies dawns that it would go to them as well. Under the seemingly healed surface of the Vienna suburb located abysses.
Maximilian: Das Spiel von Macht und Liebe
In 1477 Charles the Bolds dies, his only child is a girl which cannot rule w/o a husband. Meanwhile in Austria, Emperor Frederick III and his antagonist Louis XI France battle over said marriage prospects, battles ensue, tragedy falls.
Braunschlag
Braunschlag, a small town at the Austrian-Czech border, is bankrupt. It would take no less than a miracle to survive between Russian loan sharks and demands from the state governors office. And exactly that is what mayor Tschach (Robert Palfrader) and his best friend, the struggling disco entrepreneur Pfeisinger (Nicholas Ofczarek) have in mind. In the hope of finally putting Braunschlag on the map and luring masses of tourists into town they stage an apparition of the Holy Virgin Mary. While initial results are encouraging, things don't quite work out as planned once the good people of Braunschlag get into the act. BRAUNSCHLAG is a story about greed, corruption, misanthropy, Catholicism and alcohol quintessential Austria. This black-humored TV series explores the darker corners of the Austrian heart.
Blind ermittelt
Vienna prosecutor Kara Hoffmann dies in a car bomb attack while her boyfriend, then chief inspector at the time Alexander Haller goes blind. Haller blames himself for Karas death. When he wants to take his own life in Vienna at night, the daring Berlin taxi driver Nikolai Falk saves him. Well-heeled Haller then hires him as chauffeur and assistant when Haller's arch-rival breaks out of prison and tells him that the attack was not for him but his girlfriend. Together, the two become private detectives and begin to re-examine Kara's last case. Haller's particularly well-developed hearing and sense of smell are of great help - for this and other cases.
M - A City Hunts a Murderer
Winter in Vienna. Children disappear. For now without a trace, then their bodies are found. A gift for the tabloid press. For the police a series of defeats. Politically a problem. And at the same time the long-awaited opportunity for the ambitious interior minister. The organized crime is in trouble. The child murderer must be found so that all other dirty jobs can go on.
Die Fälle der Gerti B
Gerti Bruckner doesn't have it easy. Her marriage to her husband Bertl is getting bogged down in the same old routines and her colleague Heidi, who is half her age, has been given the upcoming promotion instead of her. All in all, not the best time to be investigating a murder case in her immediate neighbourhood together with her young superior, which not only brings old stories back to light - the investigation also leads her closer to her surroundings than she would like.
Weber & Breitfuß
The years have gone by and not without leaving their mark on Michael Weber and Ing. Engelbert Breitfuß, the two legendary officials of the no less legendary Office for Christmas Decoration. So they are "sent" by the currently responsible minister into early retirement. Almost reason for joy, because the two are finally rid of each other and swear never to run into each other again. But of course it comes as it must...
Walking on Sunshine
Austrian drama about the ups and downs of life - in human as well as meteorological terms, because the series revolves around the sunny and dark sides of everyday life in the weather department of the largest broadcaster in the country. Robert Palfrader embodies Otto Cerny-Hohenburg, a well-deserved former news anchor, who is due to return to broadcasting after a long period of sick leave due to being too close to hard liquor. Unfortunately, there is no place for him there - except for the weather, which Otto has of course no idea about.
Old Money
The billionaire patriarch Rolf Rauchensteiner (Udo Kier) urgently needs a liver. His wife Liane (Sunnyi Melles) then drums along the überworfene family who provides the Old liver, gets the whole property - the beginning of a family war without moral limits.
After the success of BROWN BEAT OLD MONEY is the new series string of David Schalko. An opulent television show around a family that knows no love. A saga about incest, corruption and gloves made of human skin.
Bizarre. Funny. Evil.
A DALLAS for the insane!
Universe
A wide verity of documentary subjects such as nature, geology, archeology, history, climate and more.
Alles finster
Everything is dark. From the cell phone to the refrigerator, from the lamp to the toilet flush - nothing works anymore. Not even in the small village of Kekenberg on the Della, where people quickly have to rethink their lives. Because it quickly becomes clear: When it comes to surviving without electricity, we're all pretty much naked bums by now.
Tage, die es nicht gab
The cohesion of Miriam, Doris, Inés and Christiane - four school friends who are still very close despite their differences - is put to the test. A suicide turns out to be a murder, brings old secrets to light and pushes the four friends to their limits.
Lena Lorenz
Midwife Lena is fed up with the hectic life in Berlin, so she spontaneously packs her bags and drives to her parents' farm in Bavaria. But there is not only pure alpine idyll waiting there: her mother is not pleased about her return at first and her best friend Julia is not exactly welcoming her with open arms either.
LandKrimi
Join the ORF on a thrilling journey through Austria's nine federal states as they uncover the most intriguing and captivating crime scenes.
From the breathtaking mountains to the bustling cities, LandKrimi takes you on an unforgettable adventure filled with suspense and mystery. Don't miss a single episode!
SOKO Linz
Johanna "Joe" Haizinger faces every case with her many years of experience and her resolute nature - she also likes to offend the team. Your colleague Ben Halberg succeeds in advancing the investigation with psychological skills. The single father occasionally brings his daughter Emilia with him to the police station.
Kaisermühlen Blues
The television series "Kaisermühlen Blues" is an entertaining study of the atmosphere surrounding life in a subsidized housing development in the Austrian capital Vienna. Partly biting, partly thought provoking, the episodes by author Ernst Hinterberger recreate the mood of a typical Viennese neighborhood.
Stadtkomödie
The comedy series StadtKomödie is shot alternately in different cities and federal states of Austria with different actors and different directors.
Maria Theresa
When Charles VI dies, an edict paves the way to the throne for his daughter, Maria Theresa. The new Habsburg ruler is only 23 years old - and expecting her fourth child. Maria Theresa eagerly responds to her realm's need for reform and handles the state of affairs while her husband spends much of his time with their children. But Austria seems to be on the verge of collapse and European rulers soon attack the Habsburg Empire. It takes a diplomatic masterpiece for Maria Theresa to win allies and, eventually, revitalize an empire that influenced the rest of Europe for almost 150 years.
Schnell Ermittelt
Chief Inspector Angelika Schnell (Born Zuhlehner) is head of the Homicide Division in Vienna. She is divorced and has two children, Kathrin and Jan. Schnell is very empathic. In daydreaming, she often sees murder victim in their actions in various places that have to do with the victim or the deed. In the course of the seasons the daydreams extend themselves on personal feelings and sometimes Angelika projected on the body of the victim. The break between daydream and reality is often only apparent at the end of the scene. Directly, she works with district inspector Harald Franitschek.
Vier Frauen und ein Todesfall
Vier Frauen und ein Todesfall is an Austrian crime television series.
The four so-called "funeral friends" live in a small Austrian village and visit every funeral there. They always have their own theories about how people died and start investigations themselves because of the incompetence of the village police. With that, they often make enemies among the village's other inhabitants.
SOKO Donau
SOKO Donau (in Germany SOKO Wien) is an Austrian television series, SOKO is an abbreviation of the term "Sonderkommission" (Special [Police] Commission - meaning special investigation team) in German. The series revolves around the Vienna maritime police. If the SOKO Kitzbühel only deals with alpine cases, the Vienna SOKO is responsible for investigating crimes on the Danube and its tributaries. Not only - as the german title might suggest - in the Austrian capital, but also in Lower and Upper Austria, as well as in the neighboring countries abroad. For example, the Donaucops were already operating in Bratislava and caught one or the other Hungarian or Russian crook. In contrast to the other SOKO series, it is presented in a much more modern way, and in this case, forensics also has a slightly higher status.
SOKO Kitzbuhel
SOKO Kitzbuhel is a German police procedural television programme, a spin-off of the earlier German police programme SOKO 5113.
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