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

A show about students at a boarding school in Erfurt.

A team of German maritime police solve crimes on and around Lake Constance.

The spin-off to the original series 'In aller Freundschaft' focuses on the young doctors in a fictional clinic in Erfurt.

This show is focused on a fictional clinic in Leipzig called 'Sachsenklinik' and its staff and patients.

Kaiserslautern 1994: Christian grows up in poverty, with a violent, drinking, hard-working father. When Christian's mother dies, his aunt Juli takes him and his siblings to live with her, against his father's wishes. Juli gets Christian to go to high school, but even there he has to fight prejudices. Football - especially 1. FC Kaiserslautern - and the music of Freddy Mercury are his passion. Christian gets caught between Juli, who only wants the best for him, and his father, who he can't break away from. The film tells what it means to grow up in poverty and what it feels like to be excluded just because you come from precarious circumstances. The film tells the story of people in social difficulties and what is wrong in society, unsparingly, but also with a lot of warmth and hope. An intense and hard, but at the same time warm-hearted and hopeful, milieu study.

The king decides that since his daughter Snow White, whose mother died in childbirth, is old enough to marry an already-chosen prince, it's time now for him to remarry, but his evil bride stops at nothing to eliminate her stepdaughter as a 'beauty rival' and cut every other tie with the late queen. She mounts he throne after the softy king dies at the news that Snow White was devoured by a wild beast. In fact, she ordered the royal huntsman to bring her heart as proof of death, but instead he shot a deer and left the princess in the forest, where she found the messy home of the seven miner dwarfs and became their housekeeper. Informed by her magic mirror that princess lives beyond the mountain, she incarcerates the huntsman and repeatedly passes through in disguise to offer magical death sentences, which are accepted naively, but each time she's saved by the dwarfs, the last time mostly the prince who came looking for his bride, having been incognito at court as the huntsman's inconspicuous assistant.

Zoo Doctor: My Mom the Vet is a German television series by ARD, based on the 2002 television film of the same name. The series is produced jointly by Saxonia Media and Bavaria Film. The Leipzig Zoo serves as the background setting, and the series is filmed in Leipzig and the surrounding area.

Four children travel through Christian's grandfather Ronson's tower and with blue light that develops at a thunderstorm over 1,000 years to the past. They discover the supposed-sunken city Magna Aura and meet there Drago who looks similar like Christian's grandfather, his brother Morton who rules Magna Aura, and three children who become their friends. In the present, Ronson, his son-in-law Alexander, Elena, the mother of one time-travel kid, and two other children try to get back the kids.

This is a funny and woeful story, resembling an old Jewish anecdote, aiming to wrap a comical framework around the dark side of life. At the time, the poorest neighborhood of Plovdiv (an ancient town in Bulgaria) represented a unique European recess, a realm of perfect ethnic harmony among Bulgarians, Armenians, Turks, Jews, Gypsies and Greeks. A priest, a rabbi and a hodjah and an Antichrist nicknamed the Boozer are smitten with the same full-bosomed Turkish woman. Along with their rivalry, squabbles and good fellowship a Jewish boy and an Armenian girl fall in love for the first time. The political winds of the era will blow away the idyll separating the 12-year-old lovers. After many years, the Jew and the Armenian woman meet again in a different world.

In all friendship - The nurses.

After a peasant joins the royal army, never to return from war, his wife raises their daughters Schneeweißchen and Rosenrot as if he may return ant day and keeps telling stories how wonderful he is, having chased all dwarfs. The realm being impoverished and threatened with famine, prince Jacob convinces his father to let him sell the treasury to buy sowing-seed, but is surprised by an evil dwarf who transforms him into a bear. A gang of wandering dwarfs is tired of lacking cave or treasure, so their chief tricks one into winning some for them. He ends up at the sisters' humble homestead, but keeps getting caught with his beard -where his magic power resides- or countered by the protective spell of the rose garden. The king is meanwhile tricked by a fraudster into confiding his last gold for speculation on the stock market to the crook. The courtiers are horrified to be ordered to form a bear hunt party.

Follows a famous inspector whose success has gone to his head.

Zoé spends three days in Croatia with her beloved brother Theo and little Artur. While daydreaming about a conspiring "gang", Theo falls in love with Sanja

Life is tough, but Peggy Rosinski is tougher: three kids, two jobs and a mountain of debt. She lives with her unemployed husband Torben and children from different partners on the outskirts of Frankfurt an der Oder.

Macius was 9 when he became king of a small country. The young Macius quickly realizes that running a kingdom is not child's play, especially when the general of the armies tries to take advantage of his naivety.

Attorney Bernhard Martin would love to sell his law firm and make his dream come true: mountain hiking in the Himalayas. But his wife Sonja wants to conquer a completely different summit: Sonja is a professor of neurosurgery at a large Leipzig hospital. Her colleagues appreciate her for her professional competence, but Sonja has bigger plans: She wants to become the clinic director. She pursues this career goal with all her vigor. Apparently she lost sight of some essential things in her private life. Sonja involuntarily becomes aware of this when she has to quarter her grandchildren Clarissa, Paula and little Benedikt for a few days in her apartment, which is by no means suitable for children. Accordingly, the children feel uncomfortable with the workaholic grandmother, who needs a rest after work to prepare important lectures. In this "home-made" chaos, Bernhard proves to be solid as a rock. He patiently and sensitively deals with the needs and worries of the lively children and literally blossoms in the process. Sonja suddenly begins to see her husband with different eyes. The situation comes to a head when Sonja is surprisingly supposed to take over the management of a renowned Berlin clinic. She would like to scream hurray. But for Bernhard, who has so far always withdrawn out of love, the prospect of a weekend marriage has finally overstretched the arch. Sonja faces a difficult decision.

Two German-Jewish children flee Nazi Germany in the early 1940s and try to escape to Palestine via Bulgaria. When their uncle dies during the journey, they are taken in by a troupe of travelling performers.

A landscape architect who has to stay in a castle hotel in need of renovation because her car breaks down is confronted with her past when the adopted daughter of the lord of the castle turns out to be her own child.

The famous composer Broch receives the assignment to compose a cantata on the occasion of the fiftieth birthday of Adolf Hitler. However, the SS officer Gottlieb knows that Broch is not a Nazi sympathizer and sends someone to keep an eye on him, namely his mistress Ursula, who has everything to become a famous composer. Broch gets it after a while to have doubts for Ursula about National Socialism, her great hero Hitler, and even her Aryan origin.

Biographical TV-Movie about the live of the popular East-German novelist Brigitte Reimann. Follows her private life and her fight for and against her country and herself.

The "Blog House clique", teenagers between the age of 15 and 18, have their own blog online. Their actual meeting place is a bathhouse directly by the lake, the "blog house". Here they maintain the blog, make music, spend their time and have to master the balancing act between the real and virtual world.

Having neglected her husband Robert Holzer so as to cause a fight divorce and his second wedding, to adult son Jonas's horror even refusing to attend their double wedding together, aging Munich publishing house proofreader in his firm Gitti Kronlechner follows her horoscope's advice to join a survival camp, utterly unprepared. Robert and Jonas consult mediator Dr. Bechtelle, in vain. Gittis single buddies since years Pia und Ulrike, fall in love, asthmatic Gitti feels her avoiding risk brought no passion, love or romance, just boredom. She takes romantically-occupied canceling friend Ulrike's place in a "Wildnis Survival Extrem Camp". It's a hellish test physically, and a terrible nuisance to the other participants, except one who bonds with her, while the experience has stimulating effects.