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In order to obtain research funds for her studies, a scientist accepts an offer to participate in an extraordinary experiment: for three weeks, she is to live with a humanoid robot, created to make her happy.

Ambitious Jana is confronted with the unscrupulous machinations of the world of finance. Her working life is determined by egotism, the pressure to succeed and machismo. She soon has to decide how far she is prepared to go for her career.

Set in the World War I, a young nurse at Davos is recruited by a female master in a high-stakes power play deciding war or peace.

A love story about a couple reunited years after tragedy drove them apart. Their brief and intense meeting brings simmering pain and resentment to the surface but is a reminder too of cherished intimacies and the love they once shared.

A detective's personal and professional life start to unravel when she is involved in a fatal car accident and begins to lose her memory.

Rosa Bernhard, a young journalist, investigates the death of an American tourist named Zofia, who died following a night out at a nightclub called Reaktor.

Stella Goldschlag grows up in Berlin during the Nazi regime. She dreams of a career as a jazz singer, but is forced to go into hiding with her parents in 1944, and her life turns into an hopeless tragedy.

The stories of police officers and doctors working near the Port of Hamburg.

The daily lives of police officers in the St. Pauli district of Hamburg.

The shorter the better. That's what Andrea thinks when she gives her mother Helga a trip to Verona for her 75th birthday. A champagne reception, a visit to the opera and a nightcap - all precisely timed in 24 hours. Andrea fears that things won't go well between mother and daughter any longer. Unfortunately, the super-compact short vacation is under an unfavorable star: First, Andrea's brother Martin cancels at the last second, then all return flights are canceled due to a cloud of ash and, appropriately, the bus and train drivers across the country go on strike. Now what Andrea really wanted to avoid happens: she has to spend time all alone with her mother. However, not in a relaxed holiday environment, but on an adventurous return journey to Germany. Because something went wrong at work and Andrea is urgently expected in Hamburg to save a major order. On the way, the old mechanisms in the difficult relationship take hold: no matter what Helga does to help her daughter, Andrea dislikes it. While the elderly woman, who quickly "borrows" a car, is getting cooler and cooler, Andrea's nerves are on edge. With the Carabinieri on their heels, we head towards the Brenner Pass.

Switzerland, 1942: Hoping to make a career as a singer in Germany, poor vagabond Ernst Schrämli sells Swiss military information to a Nazi spy. But then his offense is discovered.

Lolle's love life in Berlin is as complicated as ever. After the story with Sven, her second cousin, was over, she got together with her best friend Hart and the two are about to get married. That is, if Sven doesn't ruin things.

Two solicitors open shop--literally!--in a low-income quarter of Hamburg. Assisted by a secretary with migration background and a cleaning-woman-turned-private-investigator, they take care of people who need help in court but can't afford it. Quite often, their cases can be resolved out of court thanks to the wit and common sense of this team.

An unbeatable team of five teenage friends, the Peppercorns, unites to find out who is behind the kidnapping of a missing oceanographer who has discovered a means of getting rid of plastic waste in the ocean.

The life story of music icon Udo Lindenberg who revolutionized the German music industry.

After resigning from office, the chancellor moved to a small town in the Uckermark with her husband and dog. But initially it is not easy for her to leave the hectic city life and politics behind. But then there is a death. The ex-Chancellor finally has a job again.

Im beschaulichen Klein-Freudenstadt geschieht ein weiterer Mord. Und wieder ist Angela Merkel (Katharina Thalbach) mittendrin. Der Friedhofsgärtner steckt kopfüber in der Erde, nur die Beine ragen aus einem Grab heraus... Nach dem Fund der Leiche weiß Angela, dass sie sich nicht auf die örtliche Polizei verlassen kann und stürzt sich zusammen mit ihrem Personenschützer Mike (Tim Kalkhof), ihrem Ehemann Achim (Thorsten Merten) und natürlich dem Merkelschen Mops "Helmut" in die Ermittlungen. Schnell stellt sich heraus, dass die Mordverdächtigen zu zwei verfeindeten Bestatter-Familien gehören, die ein dunkles Geheimnis schützen möchten. Insbesondere der charmante Kurt Kunkel (Sven Martinek) fasziniert Angela, sieht er doch wie ein Filmstar aus. Ehemann Achim wird zunehmend nervös und Angela hat nicht nur ein mörderisches Rätsel zu lösen, sondern auch privat ein kniffliges Problem.

Frank Stolpe, der seit Jahren ein Doppelleben als Vater zweier Familien geführt hat, wird nach einem missglückten Banküberfall des versuchten schweren Raubes angeklagt. Er beteuert, nur aus Not und Verwirrung gehandelt zu haben, und gelobt vor Gericht Besserung. Als er mit Contis Hilfe tatsächlich auf Bewährung freikommt, kann die ehrgeizige Staatsanwältin Henry Mahn das Urteil kaum fassen. Sie beginnt zu recherchieren und stößt auf einen ungelösten Fall - einen bewaffneten Raubüberfall auf ein Wettbüro -, der Parallelen zu Stolpes Vorgehen beim Banküberfall aufweist. Und als die Tatwaffe in Stolpes Wohnung gefunden wird, fragt sich auch Conti, ob sie ihrem Mandanten noch trauen kann, und stellt ihn zur Rede. Doch Frank Stolpe behauptet steif und fest, nichts mit dem Überfall zu tun zu haben, und gibt Conti einen Hinweis, der sie zu seinem Bruder führt, einem drogenabhängigen Künstler. Stimmt Stolpes Behauptung? Welchem der beiden Brüder kann Conti glauben? Conti muss Stolpes Leben entwirren, doch statt auf Lösungen stößt sie auf weitere Rätsel. Wer ist Stolpe wirklich? Und welche Rolle spielt seine Frau in dem Ganzen? Conti will nicht moralisieren, sondern verstehen. Und Henry Mahn sinnt auf Gerechtigkeit.

Ben and Barnabas are inseparable since they are small. The two of them, however, are no ordinary pair of brothers, for Barnabas, with his twenty-two years, remained mentally at the age of three.

Four women from Munich's upscale Herzogpark district, for whom keeping secrets has become a life's work, a side effect of social survival.

Karen is willing to give her life to free her beloved husband, Georg, from his financial worries. Only with the million he hopes to receive from the insurance company could he pay off his heavy debts to brutal debt collectors. Georg, who knows nothing of Karen's selfless intentions, has also come up with this idea - but under different circumstances: He has secretly hired a hitman. Karen unsuspectingly runs into the killer when she aborts her nighttime suicide attempt by the lake. Instead of doing his job, Bruno brings the drenched woman to safety. He soon begins to skillfully play her and his client off against each other. Karen learns the hard way who she had trusted so blindly: a pathetic liar who could hardly wait to replace her with a much younger lover. Now Karen's fighting spirit awakens, and she has a professional at her side for her plan: the ice-cold Bruno. The murderous game begins again.

A German and a Danish family, whose previous idyllic life together goes upside down with the disappearance of one of the children.

An African-German author loses his memory and is used by a modern National Socialist Party as promotion-figure for more political power over Germany.

Mia and Benny are two enterprising kids from Hamburg with a passion for investigations. On a trip to the Gruber family farmhouse in southern Tyrol, they discover that the farm has been hit by the Black King's curse.

Clara Horn returns to her old job as a nurse after her paternal leave. Soon did she realize that there is a striking number of deaths on her ward. With her colleague Rico she has identified a possible suspect.