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Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.
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.
The city of Schwerin is melting – it is the hottest summer in years. Detectives Lona Mendt and Frank Elling are on the trail of a serial murderer, who seems to choose his victims randomly. But nothing is as it seems. The detectives have apparently made some powerful enemies that will do everything in their power to keep the truth from coming to light. The further along with their investigation Frank Elling, a devoted husband and father, and the aloof Lona Mendt get, the bigger the obstacles become.
Alexandra Winkler lives in a working-class district of Vienna, is employed in a bread factory and is saving for her dream: her own bakery! When the 23-year-old orphan learns that she is the illegitimate daughter of a deceased landlord and that he inherits the Hochstetten Trakehner Stud from him, it all seems like a dream - from which she will soon wake up roughly. Your half-siblings Maximilian, Silvia and Leander can hardly believe that they were passed over when it came to the filet of the family inheritance ...
The end of the 14th century. Parents send the eldest son Jan to study in Hamburg, and the youngest - Klaus - to the monastery. No sooner had the children moved away from their homes, as on Klaus'es eyes the robbers kill their parents and burn the house. Only thanks to the loyal monk Wigbold Klaus managed to survive the shock. A few years later Klaus Störtebeker finds his brother Jan and his long-time friend Elizabeth Pren in Hamburg. From her, he learns that she is expected to marry Simon von Wallenrod, whose father Klaus suspects of killing his parents. But the Pranks and the Wallenrods are rich and respected people, and Klaus is a poor man. And now he becomes a pirate...
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A two-part television film by UFA Fernsehproduktion about Jutta Gallus, who peaceful protested against the SED dictatorship in the GDR.
Gillian Ward believes that the secret of her secret love affair with John Burton, an ex-police officer, is in good hands with her friend Tara. When she decides for the family and ends the relationship, her husband is murdered. The traces at the crime scene point to a serial killer. Her neighbor Samson Segal, who secretly observed and meticulously documented Gillian's life, is targeted. Fearing for herself and her daughter, Gillian seeks refuge with Tara while the police search in vain for the fugitive Samson.
For the young prosecutor Daniela Mauriac, everything seems to be going according to plan. Chief Prosecutor Julius Stern offers her the chance to succeed him. Full of enthusiasm, she throws herself into her first case: a serial killer who calls himself Cupid pierces his victims’ hearts with arrows and arranges their bodies as if they were crucified.
Former public prosecutor Karin Lossow is released from prison after several years in prison. She had once shot her husband with her daughter Julia's service weapon because he had slept with another woman. To the surprise of her probation officer and her daughter, she does not move into a new apartment in Rostock as planned, but returns to her home in Usedom in the "Mörderhus". Not only to the displeasure of her daughter, who has not yet been able to forgive her mother for what she did. Karin has to put up with derogatory looks and comments from the islanders. She herself sees Usedom as a second chance for her life and soon has a good connection to her environmentally conscious granddaughter Sophie, who supports her with legal tips during a protest. Karin also finds work in a bison enclosure, takes care of the animals and controls entry. Julia has to clear up the death of Thomas Krenzlin. The young paraplegic man is found drowned in the water.
For 25 years, restorer Willibald Adrian Metzger has heard nothing from his former schoolmates. Then he suddenly stumbles - quite literally - over the corpse of a former classmate who had bullied him in a cruel way in his school days. When Metzger arrives at the scene with the police, he can't believe his eyes: the body is gone. Against his nature and spurred on by Danjela's curiosity, the former eccentric organizes a class reunion to uncover the cover-up of the bloody deed. His former classmates are astounded by the eloquence of the actually shy outsider, who uses his sharp mind and great powers of deduction to twist their words around in their mouths...
During a business trip to Berlin, family man Martin flirts with the smart Corinna and, despite initial pangs of conscience, ends up in bed with her. The next morning, it turns out that Corinna has AIDS...
A homeless is injured in a fire on a yacht docked, Julia discovers that earlier the ship was involved in an accident where a couple was murdered but their son survived, then she wonders if he's returned to the island to avenge his parents.
After police officer Jan Wiegand is critically injured in action, public prosecutor Judith Schrader throws herself into the fight against organized crime in Berlin. But she would actually have to give up the case, as she has a secret relationship with the married victim.
Single mother Ulla is constantly worried about the well-being and safety of her teenage daughter Julia. Her father is much more carefree and has even bought her tickets to a concert in Italy. Ulla doesn't want her daughter to go alone with her best friend, but Julia ignores her mother's wishes and drives south without her permission. When they find out that the concert was only excuse to meet a boy she met on the internet, they set their differences aside and travel to Italy to find their daughter.
A woman who is setting up a glass factory in Mallorca while caring for her asthmatic son finds herself at the mercy of her sister's hatred, who had an affair with her husband. When the father of the two women dies in distant Germany and leaves his grandson a substantial inheritance, events come to a head.