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Heinrich Lohse, a strict and highly efficient purchasing manager at a company bulk-orders 40 tons of mustard and enough typewriting paper for 40 years just to get discount. Heinrich's boss decides it’s time for him to retire early. Heinrich suddenly finds himself with nothing to do—except micromanage his household, much to the dismay of his wife Renate and their son Dieter

Anadolunun bir köyünde yoksulluk içinde yaşayan Şirin, Almanyada çalışan Mahmutu sevmektedir. Köyün muhtarıyla evlendirmek istediklerinde aniden karar verip Almanyaya kaçar. Kölnde bir fabrikada iş bulan Şirin, her boş dakikasında Mahmutu arar. İşten çıkarılınca önce temizlikçi olarak çalışır, sonunda bir kadın pazarlayıcısı kendisine iş teklif eder... Göç tarihinin ilk filmlerinden olan Şirinin Düğünü, 1975 yılında televizyonda ilk yayınlandığında, WDR televizyonu önünde gösteriler yapılmasına, Türkiye'de ise parlamentoda hararetli tartışmalara yol açmıştı.

Psychological thriller that focuses on the intense conflict between a university professor and a blackmailer.

Film, romanda anlatılanlara ve karakterlere sıkı sıkıya bağlı kalarak ana karakter K.'nın karlı bir kış günü küçük bir kasabaya gelişi ile başlar. K.' nın belki de kısa bir süre için geldiği (ki bunu hiçbir zaman bilemeyeceğiz) bu yerdeki insanlar, Kafka' ya özgü tuhaf tesadüfler sonucu O'nu kadastro memuru olarak kabullenirler. Ancak K.' nın tek derdi yatacak bir yer olmaktan çıkar ve kasabaya hakim olan Şato'nun muğlak iktidarının sırları O'nun için uzunca sürecek -ve bitemeyecek- bir bulmacanın başlangıcı olur.

Teenage girl idolises television game show host, and gets a chance to be his assistant.

This modern variation on Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale "The Girl with the Matchsticks" begins Christmas in a home for the disabled. The four wheelchair users Aga, Ringo, the White Giant and Spasski are fed up with the same old boredom and decide to celebrate their own "party". They requisition the collected donations and set off to explore Munich at night. There, all doors are initially closed to the wheelchair gang, but then the friends meet an angel in the form of a lighter saleswoman who grants them three wishes. None of the runaways take them seriously until the first wish is actually fulfilled unexpectedly.

After the death of her abusive father, lonely librarian Martha finds herself caught up in a strange, sadomasochistic relationship with a monstrous husband whom she begins to suspect may be trying to murder her.

Geierwally, who earned her name through a bitter fight with a bird of prey, refuses to marry Vinzenz, the heir apparent assigned to her by her father, and lives a secluded life in a mountain hut. Her love for Bärenjosef seems hopeless, especially since he knows nothing of Wally's love. She becomes increasingly isolated, becomes the laughing stock of the village, and misunderstandings arise because Bärenjosef's sister Afra is mistakenly regarded as his “girlfriend.” Wally then decides that she would rather have Josef dead than not at all...

An African-American GI retires from the US Army in West Berlin to live with his white girlfriend, who already has a baby with another black man. After an argument with her family, she deserts him as well. Despite finding a job and a new place to live, he keeps running into racism, which also manifests itself in sexual intimidation.

When a young family, father, mother and their daughter, is on a trip in the mountains, they lose orientation and have to stay there for the night. The daughter finds a dead young girl who does exactly look like herself. When they check for mountain rescue service they suddenly find themselves deeply involved in an local myth about a prophecy which seems to be fulfilling now. The mountains are bearing an old curse.

A baby is delivered to the Hamilton family, triggering a turbulent search for those responsible among six potential fathers.

A docu-drama about tetrachloro-dibenzo dioxin, later known as 'Sevesogift', sprayed on thousands of tons of vapor in Vietnam 'Agent Orange', and the involvement of the later Federal President, Richard Karl Weizsäcker, who was hiring manager when production was moved to another plant because of massive health problems of the workers, but claims to be unable to remember anything, in these crimes.

On Christmas Eve, of all times, unemployed waiter Karl finds himself on the street.

One evening, Lee Warren visits Richard Fenton, the lawyer with whom his wife is cheating on him. Warren tells Fenton that he intends to kill him, but gives him a chance: he agrees to let him live if he discovers even the slightest flaw in Warren's perfect murder plan ...

Based on the French play Copain, Clopant. The plot revolves around the gangster Mallard, who wants to blackmail the rising singing star Tony. Tony and his friends, including Christine and her brother Zaza, join forces to hunt down the gangster.

Jimmy Orpheus is about a young day labourer at the docks. After a crawl through the late-night bars in the St. Pauli red-light district, he meets a prostitute, for whom he risks life and limb while walking around night-time Hamburg … A love story that is as poetic as it is realistic, with Roland Klick trying out various extravagant editing and camera techniques, such as jump cuts and time-lapse shots, as well as his idea of action movies.

Der Fahnder is a German television krimi series which was aired between 1984 and 2005. In the Netherlands the series was broadcast by the VARA from 3 October 1985.

Bella Block is a long-running German detective television series starring Hannelore Hoger, first broadcast in 1994 on ZDF. In 2010 the 30th series was produced.

It all starts with a minor rear-end collision. Gloria meets Maximillian Glanz in the process. Together with their mutual friend Lino, the two experience adventures that are as turbulent as they are insane...

Karl Maiwald, a Dortmund auto mechanic, struggles amid neighbor disputes and family tension. Discovering his company’s clandestine bugging, he exposes management, expecting union backing. Yet the union’s hidden ownership of the firm stuns him, as he realizes the very workers leading protests are its members.