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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.

A European joint investigation team investigates organized crime across borders in Europe.

It's almost 20 years since our illustrious Trio set off to solve some of Berlin's more bizarre murder mysteries. The success of the show's longevity hinges around the humor of former DDR Volkspolizei detective Otto (Florian Martens), who never seems to adapt to the Western way of policing, and his eccentric friend "Sputnik" (Jaecki Schwarz). This latest episode introduces yet another change in the lineup as a new male colleague joins the illustrious Trio on a dark-humor caper after an undertaker's murder that exposes the cut-throat business of funeral planning, where only the most successful survives in the business--literally. the murder of an undertaker. ZDF are still managing to come up with some compelling stories, making these 88 minutes worth watching.

An ex-Federal police officer turned private eye investigates a renowned scientist suspected of rape, but things are not always as they seem.

David Glover is a young, American man who is working as a courier at his uncle's company, "Berling Express". David is attracted to a female co-worker by the name of Jenny, who also happens to have feelings for him. During one of his courier jobs, the attractive Lara, who claims to be a policewoman, jumps into his car and David finds himself in an exchange of fire. David is willing to help Lara, but soon finds himself framed as the professional assassin LORCA. Now David must run from the police and catch the real LORCA, who is hell-bent on murdering the last surviving witness to a brutal murder.

Angela Merkel's decision in autumn 2015 to open the borders for refugees split the country: some praised the moral stance, others criticized the surrender of sovereignty. Yet what would appear to be well-planned activity is in reality a policy of muddling along, chance, and trial and error. The Driven Ones is a chronicle of the refugee crisis which shows that the political actors are being driven along, crushed between self-imposed constraints and events that have spun out of control.

Kosovo 1999: Two KFOR soldiers save a Serbian woman from the vendetta of an Albanian child and lose their political and emotional distance.

Berlin widower Paul Krüger, a retired ex-GDR stone mason (66), hates foreigner immigrants, especially Muslims. When his beloved, doting granddaughter Annie plans to marry Deniz, an ambitious student and waiter in Ankara who needs a visa for Germany, backward Paul and his buddy, publican Karin, go on Turkish 'holiday' so he can talk her out of it. But Deniz proves her only choice and probably a right one, even if countrymen and family win Paul's heart, as well as a resourceful preteen-thief, who proves an orphaned Syrian refugee. Paul even promises to plead with his counterpart, Deniz's family patriarch, who opposes him marrying a Christian infidel at pain of expulsion from the close clan.

In Vino Veritas - der vierte Fall führt Maximilian Brückner und Gregor Weber in die Weinberge an der deutsch-luxemburgischen Grenze. Der Weinkontrolleur des saarländischen Instituts für Lebensmittelchemie Gerhard Nieser wird am Stadtrand von Saarbrücken ermordet aufgefunden: Winzer zitterten vor ihm, Weinhandlungen fürchteten seinen Besuch. Die letzte Weinprüfung fand an Niesers Todestag bei Winzern im saarländischen Bernheim, einer kleinen Gemeinde nahe der französisch-luxemburgischen Grenze, statt. Für die Kommissare Kappl und Deininger liegt der Verdacht nahe, dass der Mord damit in Verbindung steht. Schnell rücken die Weinbauern Richard Altpeter (Thomas Sarbacher) und Alwin Eckes (Timo Dierkes) ins Visier der Ermittler. Doch auch das Ehepaar Jean-Paul und Isabel Weickert (Marco Lorenzini und Katharina Müller-Elmau), das in der Landeshauptstadt eine Weinhandlung betreibt, weckt das Interesse der Kommissare. Auf dem Bernheimer Weinfest, bei dem die Weinkönigin (Lisa Marie Potthoff) den Hauptkommissaren den Kopf verdreht, machen sie interessante Entdeckungen. Währenddessen kommen sich in Saarbrücken Ludwig Kappl (Konstantin Wecker) und Gerda Braun (Alice Hoffmann) näher.

During a robbery at a hardware store on the outskirts of Halle, the branch manager Manfred Weller is critically injured. The perpetrator takes two hostages and can escape with the theft. When Chief Inspectors Schmücke and Schneider arrive at the scene of the crime, their new colleague Nora Lindner has already started her investigations.

After teenager Nadine Iwanowski's corpse is accidentally found in a bats cave pool, Schmücke's team investigates her antecedents. She was last seen i the tennis club where she had a student job, to help out her nearly ruined parents. She also formed a nearly inseparable musketeers trio with classmates Daniel Reimers, a gentle dreamer, and his swimming school-teammate, flamboyant Patrick Funke, but was pregnant. Security camera recordings and cellphone records should help unveil the suspects' lies, but more complications are found, concerning families and club staff, and another violent attack occurs.