Tom Beck

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SOKO 5113 is a long-running German police procedural television series. It was first aired in 1978 on 2 January. SOKO is an abbreviation of the term "Sonderkommission" in German.

The SOKO Köln investigates the cathedral city with humor and often with hard work. Their cases take them into a variety of environments, from the Cologne clique to the terraced housing estates on the outskirts of the city.

Polizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic Republic, and after the dissolution of Fernsehen der DDR the series was picked up by ARD. It was originally created as a counterpart to the West German series Tatort, and quickly became a public favorite.

A long-running German television series about a two-man team of highway police, originally set in Berlin and later in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Series written by Christiane Sadlo about writer and journalist under the pseudonym "Inga Lindström" and her family. Characterized by impressive landscapes, all of which are shot on location in Sweden. Series has no continuous storyline, and each episode is filled with new characters.

Küstenwache is a German television series that tells the fictionalized adventures of a unit of Federal Coast Guard officers off the German coast of the Baltic Sea.

The exciting stories about the cheeky chimpanzee Charly, who finds a new home with a Berlin vet family.

Current studio guests, exciting backgrounds, moving stories, spectacular studio events and captivating reports - presenters pull all this and much more live from the grab bag of German television every week.

Georg Wilsberg is an antiquarian in Münster. He used to be a lawyer but lost his license. Since then he has been working as a private detective. The always clammy Wilsberg urgently needs this income. In addition, he depends on the support of his friends, especially because of the car.

When an unsuspecting student inserts a blood drenched alientampon and mutates into a murdering monster, a group of students unite their forces in order to confront her with weapons and courage.

Inken and Lucy are facing hard times when their parents' money is radically cut off. Together with Lena, who is fed up with her boyfriend, they desperately search for money, an apartment and love. But because each individual point is difficult to realize on its own, the girls decide to kill all three birds with one stone for the sake of simplicity. The solution: they need rich, nice boys with suitable living space - and they need them now! But until then, horrendous rents, false identities and sleazy neighbors put their friendship to the test.

Sports writer Mark is baffled when he receives romantic text messages on his cell phone. What he does not know: His new number once belonged to the deceased boyfriend of Clara, who continues to send text messages in order to cope with the loss. When Mark's girlfriend discovers the texts, she is understandably upset. Along with his best friend David, Mark sets out to find the mysterious writer.

The ladies' man Edgar dates stewardesses and frequent flyers. The system behind it: While one is away, there is plenty of time for flings with the others. Edgar doesn't want to commit to one woman until he meets his childhood sweetheart Hannah again. But frequent flyer Hannah has also perfected the system for herself in matters of love and meets up with several admirers.

It's Men's Day, Men's Day, Father's Day, Ascension Day - many terms, one date, but always a reason to celebrate. Having just finished school, five Bavarian friends start a common tradition: Every year they want to get together on Men's Day and douse their friendship properly. But every good resolution eventually dies, and so after 20 years most of them lost contact.

An eleven year old girl can talk to animals. When a thief causes trouble in the local zoo, she comes to the rescue.

By chance Paul Kromberger discovers on the internet a photograph of the US opera diva Caterina Fabiani who is the spitting image of Evelyn, his dead wife. His unease and growing sense of alarm are transferred to his daughter, Sophie. Filled with curiosity, she leaves Germany and journeys across the Atlantic to make contact with this stranger.

Housewife Marie is surprised by the tragic death of her husband. Suddenly she has to look after her family alone. Fortunately, her husband was an entrepreneur, so she takes over his business. To her astonishment, however, she discovers that the business is a pornographic film production company. She overcomes her aversion to the industry and leads “MarieX” to its former success. In the process, she also falls in love with the attractive porn actor Roy.

Since rock star John Winter has completely turned his life around and is happy, he has stopped writing hits - much to the chagrin of his manager Grobsch, who is in a real pickle as a result. He therefore instructs his assistant Lou to get John back on track. Lou comes up with all sorts of ideas and seems to be successful. But then John wants to give up music for good.

Life on the food chain keeps sinking lower after a vicious, inept gang of psychopaths and misfits seriously bungles a high-stakes heist. Now the hapless ex-con who's left holding the bag finds himself the target of not only crooked cops, but also his fellow thieves, an efficient hit man and the scariest redneck clan this side of "Deliverance"!

Highly intelligent professor helps solving crimes.

BREAK UP MAN is an odd couple road movie and tells the story of Henri, who works for a break up agency in Berlin and on behalf of those who want to separate themselves from their future “ex”-partners. To complete his most important mission he is confronted with an unwanted partner, Toto, who spoils more or less everything and makes Henri’s life a nightmare.

Lukas Maler is a butcher. Albeit more out of necessity than out of passion: As the “Karajan with the scalpel”, his vocation was always forensic medicine. When he accidently destroyed all evidence against the “24-hour-killer”, his career as a coroner was done for. And not far from it was his marriage with his great love Diana, whom he could not offer anything anymore as a broken man. But Lukas gets a second chance when once again a serial killer terrifies the city because the murders resemble those of the “24-hour-killer”. Diana – who has ascended to head of the forensic institute in the meantime – knows that only the best one can solve the case. But he is not available. And so, she gets the second-best one: the most over-qualified butcher in town…

Daniel and Thomas are two friends who are trying to catch girls in various therapy groups.

“Eine Almhütte für Zwei” tells an unusual love story: two adults who have remained mentally at the level of children are expecting children. While the happy couple - played by Tom Beck and Anna Drexler - are looking forward to their happy family, the environment makes it extremely difficult for them. Their relatives and advisors are not only concerned with the question of whether they will be able to bear their responsibility, but also with their personal interests.

Friends Piet, Jochen, Lisa, Maria and Christian graduated from high school together 20 years ago and then lost track of each other. Now they meet up again in the classroom because their A-levels were revoked due to a formal error. From now on, it's not just about cramming, but also about reminiscing - and making important decisions for the rest of their lives.

A parcel carrier who has nothing to do with Christmas accidentally crosses paths with a petty thief and a mysterious little boy who doesn't speak. Nelly is stunned when Filou Sonny steals two bottles of whiskey and a vintage car from the petrol station where she has a second job. Nick, who suddenly appears between the shelves and doesn't say a word, distracts Nelly during the theft. Since she has to assume that Nick is Sonny's accomplice, she grabs the boy and takes him with her on the chase, receiving support from the elderly cab driver Gesine, who had just filled up her car at the gas station. When Nelly discovers the stolen vintage car by chance outside a villa, she sends Gesine back and asks her to look after the filling station while she is away.

Bella is not a sad child. She lives out her promiscuity openly, smokes, drinks and is not averse to the occasional drug binge. But the really special thing about Bella is her appearance: she is a doll, barely more than half a meter tall, with red pigtails and a mischievous smile. Bella has also been best friends with stuffy Jana since childhood, but the two lost touch years ago. On the day of Jana's engagement, the formerly famous Bella - broke and homeless - unexpectedly bursts back into her life.

A sperm donor becomes impotent - and so he searches for the woman, who got his sperm, to become a father after all...