75 Best German Thrillers and Crime

Wanted for a long time, serial killer Gabriel Engel gets arrested in a spectacular police raid. Small town cop Michael Martens travels to the big city to interrogate him and finds out more than he is looking for.

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

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

Hans Jacoby is found in his house, tied to a chair and shot to death, near Husum. Anton Faithberg from the local police takes over the first investigations

After his daughter died of cancer, former French foreign legionnaire "Straight Shooter" alias Volker Bretz threatens those who financed, built, favoured and now work the nuclear power plant Atar II to kill one of them each day until the plant is shut down. His former drill sergeant, Frank Hector, who now owns several night clubs and brothels, is the only one who might be able to stop the maniac killing specialist. Frank is flown in instantly, but soon has to find out that his former comrade's actions might be a result from an event long ago.

Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born with a superior olfactory sense, creates the world's finest perfume. His work, however, takes a dark turn as he searches for the ultimate scent.

A girl is kidnapped and a family falls apart. But the kidnappers don't just want money; they want to destroy an empire

After the partner of a policeman is killed he is drawn into a mysterious plot of conspiracy and terrorists.

Lona Vogt is a target investigator at the BKA and, together with her friend and colleague Simonkatzer, has been on the trail of the murderer Manuel for some time

Two police detectives, a grizzled veteran and one fresh-faced rookie, hunt a ritualistic serial killer murdering people with tattoos and skinning them.

Viktor, a methodical hit man, probably on his last job, has no plan for his retirement. He does not kill Nina, a woman sleeping beside his latest mark; then he follows her and rescues her from an attempted suicide. Nina is attracted to him, but also wants to know who he is.

Night shift thriller story.

A money transporter is ambushed near the small Eifel village of Eschbach. The young LKA chief inspector Lona Schanz then determined in the village and its surroundings.

A crime series based in Regensburg, Bavaria.

Under suspicion crime series.

Wilsberg: the thriller from Münster.

Big and small stories surrounding a police station in Berlin-Kreuzberg.

The worlds of a young Russo-German cop who investigates within the Berlin Russian mafia milieu and a young Russian woman who is forced into prostitution, intertwine when they meet and fall in love.

A look at Germany's terrorist group, The Red Army Faction (RAF), which organized bombings, robberies, kidnappings, and assassinations in the late 1960s and '70s.

Michael Mühlhausen, crafty manager of a big food company, dreams of being promoted. While he plans the contested takeover of a main competitor, he doesn't notice the estrangement from his wife Charlotte and his daughter Hannah. Meanwhile, dubious things happen behind Mühlhausen's back, which he doesn't see through until the company's leading chemist is murdered and he becomes the prime suspect...

After a botched money delivery, Lola has 20 minutes to come up with 100,000 Deutschmarks.

After a Chicago profiler training, young commissioner Hinnerk Feldmann accepts the deputy post in Theo Clüver's tiny, singular precinct covering German Frisian North Sea Island Sylt. A tourist lover couple accidentally drugs up in the dunes a 20 years old corpse, soon identified as equally long missing local then-teenager Maria, but her death could have been accidental. Shortly after, a local man is executed in cruel feudal-age fashion, tied onto a steering wheel in the dunes, but first drugged. The syringe is used again during the investigation, which closes in on has-been rock band Coast Pirates. Meanwhile Feldmann has a hard time dealing with the locals.

Police psychologist Flemming and his detective ex-wife live next door to each other and work together to solve crimes.

"The Last Witness" is a crime series that was aired by the ZDF. This crime drama is about medical examiner Dr. Robert Kolmaar (Ulrich Mühe), who is helping the Berlin PD with his extensive medical knowledge to solve murder cases.