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Former Hamburg cop Hauke Jacobs helps Schwanitz police officer Lona Vogt with their cases while he works as the new veterinarian in town with their assistant's support Jule Christiansen.

Kicks Carter, a streetwise Las Vegs cop, is out to shut down an upscale hotel that is actually a front for a host of illegal activities. A gang headed by the scuzzy Ziggy is running everything from gun-running and loan-sharking to prostitution and drug-dealing, and a beautiful but nosy reporter keeps getting in Kicks' way.

In the final movie about Swedish special force policeman Johan Falk, he tries to solve the problem with the Eastern European mafia, who is threatening his family. Meanwhile, his co-workers get hold of some papers that is critical in the chase of a big, multinational criminal network.

The Grump goes to search for a second-hand car in Germany to replace his broken one but ends up settling accounts with his past.

GSI (Group of Special Investigations) investigates a weapon deal made by the mafia. GSI sends in an undercover agent to investigate what the mafia is up to. At the same time Johan Falk confronts a mysterious woman who threatens his family.

Spreewaldkrimi is a German television crime series by ZDF.

The movie "Lockdown" is a part of the Johan Falk series that takes place under a lockdown of the police station. A snitch is compromised. Drastic and unexpected events take place. Both inside and outside the police station.

When Johan and his colleagues are watching Seth and his gang member Jack, they stumble on a larger case than they expected. Seth is selling arms to terrorists, but without Jack's knowledge, in a car where Johan's old colleague Pernilla mysterious appears. While Johan begin researching what Pernilla and SÄPO is doing, Jack suspects that everything is not right with Seth and that he's working with the police.

Johan Falk is with the wife of a dead mob boss down to Latvia to try to solve a mystery that has eluded him for three years. What Johan finds downstairs in a cottage outside Riga shocks not only himself but also the Gothenburg police special unit GSI 's new chief Sophie Nordh and the former chief Patrik Agrell. At the same time a Latvian mafia group is picking up hidden and forgotten Soviet military containers from the water-filled pits nearby. Containers filled with weapons. And everything is heading to Sweden! At the same time most of the original members of the Rydellgang are being released from a long prison sentence.

24-year-old Freud is a free spirit known for his unorthodox methods. He knows how to make war criminals talk. So he comes across a crime that has hardly been known before, the murder of 20 children in Hamburg in the last days of the war.

Julia Heininger (Uschi Glas) is being transferred by her bank employer from Munich to Hamburg with her son Maximilian and her housekeeper Fanni. Talk about clashes between Bavarians and Prussians. To Julias dismay a colleague of hers, Dr. Sagerer, is moving to Hamburg to keep a watchful eye on her as she is granting loans to customers. It is a light hearted series.

Evelyn Hamann's stories from life.

Set in 1815, a young Englishman touring Europe encounters more than he bargained for. His pursuit of the beautiful Countess St. Alyre brings him into contact with the Marquis D'Armanville and other odd characters. A series of bizarre murders occur, bringing our hero to the borderland of nightmare.

This drama is based on the childhood memories of Hans Jürgen Massaquoi, who was one of the few black native Germans in Nazi Germany. In 1935 at the age of nine, he lives with his German mother in a small flat in Hamburg's working class district Barmbek, while his father and grandfather had left the country. Although the boy is not persecuted by the Nazis and dreams of joining the Hitler Youth, his skin color makes him a target for racism.

What hurts more: losing the wife to her younger lover after 21 years of marriage or having to share a lottery win with her after the breakup? The parcel carrier Henry doesn't want to give up half of his unexpected wealth because of the divorce. While his wife Ellen wants to make a clean break with the new beginning, he tries to save the long-hopeful marriage, but only on paper. The disappointment hurts too much to share the cash fairly. Neither his own daughter, who needs money for a journalism school, nor his best friend Mehmet know about the new fortune. His "favorite colleague" Mona either doesn't like the fact that Henry doesn't tell her the truth. She doesn't really recognize Henry anymore, with whom she has fallen in love. Ellen is also surprised that Henry, who is chronically exhausted, can afford an expensive racing horse. But there's a reason for the secrecy, because Henry wants to make his dream come true to win the Grand Prix of Germany. His maxim: Believe in losers too.

The Zurich engagement - screenplay for love.

A documentary exploring the legends of vampires, using books, paintings and early films on the subject.

The German lightship (permanently anchored floating 'lighthouse') Borkum Riff is about to be decommissioned. For his last tour of duty, Captain Johann Freytag brings along his near-adult, estranged son Fred. The ship picks up three men stranded in a broken-down boat--who are armed. The captain tries to avoid trouble, but the crew, his son, and the trio of violent robbers on the run keep rejecting his nonviolent advice, which leads to repeated bloodshed.

Ellen is active in the resistance movement against the Nazis. She is ordered to spy on the German naval officer to deliver critical information about the submarines route to Japan, but falls for him although he is engaged to another woman.

In his family's picturesque patrician estate near Hamburg, successful business attorney André von Nauenstedt lives happily with his staff-spoiled, lazy, barely maternal wife Stefanie 'Nina' von Nauenstedt and their doted pre-teen son Philip. Yet Andre, whom she finds somewhat boring and 'too perfect', was Nina's breadwinner second choice over his hedonistic, unreliable brother David, who left the for a life of adventure in Caribbean. After seven years, David returns without fortune and Nina realizes after André lets him move into the guesthouse she still desires him as the better lover, practicing winning her back as his customary womanizing sport. Andre soon realizes neither is loyal, naive attempts to keep Nina shattering, and considers his marriage a lost cause, .ignoring Nina expects heir second baby.

Nina loves her small family and is passionate about her job as an architect. When she returns to work after parental leave, she is able to save the office from bankruptcy with a brilliant idea. The only catch: She has to pretend to be a single person who is married to his job. Because the client, Lene, is a dragon and doesn't think much of working mothers at all. Nina doesn't get any help from her husband Torsten because he sees her dream job as a threat to the family. The police officer is currently completing his high school diploma. The fact that his wife is surpassing him in career matters and will soon be bringing home more money than him scares him. In times of need, Nina passes him off as her brother and secretly hires the rental grandma Irmgard (70). Between lies and success, Nina's life gains so much momentum that she soon can no longer find the emergency brake.

Between 1949 and 1975 more than 800 000 German orphans have lived their post-war years in Church Institutions. They have endured terrible abuses. Everyone knew but no one spoke. In 2012 the Church admitted her wrongdoings. The movie tells the story of a German woman (Senta Berger) living in New York coming back to Germany to bear witness in front of a board of enquiry. During her stay she remembers her traumatic experience.

At the age of eleven, Arne Hellmer is the only one to have survived the suicide of his family and now is a foster child from the family of Harald, a close friend of his father. Arne hopes to be getting along well with him, his wife Elsa, their kids Hans, Wiebke and Lars to find stability. But it is difficult for him to adapt and his trust in the community is shaken by the huge tragedy he suffered. To Wiebke, however, he feels attracted, although she distances herself more and more from him.