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- A police department led by an older, experienced detective solves crimes together.
- A close friendship between two crew teammates is tested when one slowly discovers he's gay and attracted to the other.
- The reign of the tormented Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from 1864 to 1886.
- A suggestible working-class innocent wins the lottery but lets himself be taken advantage of by his bourgeois new boyfriend and his circle of materialistic friends.
- Crime comedy set in a village somewhere in Bavaria, centering around a village policeman's attempt to solve a murder case, his chaotic private life and the dysfunctional relationship with his wacky father.
- A successful engineer recognizes a lawyer at a business meeting as the prostitute he spent the previous night with (despite being engaged). Based on a novel by Peter Märthesheimer, who also wrote scripts for Rainer Maria Fassbinder.
- Because of her father's death, Rike Wildenstein returns to her parents' horse ranch after 13 years and tries to save the heavily-indebted farm.
- Thomas hitchhikes from Hamburg to Munich where he runs into his ex-girlfriend Peggy. As Thomas doesn't have a bed, he lets Peggy take him home, not knowing that she and her four roommates have all made a strange pact.
- An evil witch tries to take possession of a crystal ball from the hands of a young and benevolent witch.
- Thomas, the son of a prison warden, falls for and seduces inmate Martin. When Martin is released from jail, they try to build a relationship and a life together but no one will let them alone.
- Crime comedy centering around a German village policeman who has to hunt down an escaped killer in his hometown in the backwoods of Bavaria while also chasing after his girl friend who has run off to Italy with another man.
- Little witch Bibi Blocksberg has a problem. Her vacation is shattered because she has poor school results. But the head of the school, Dr. Quirin, has a secret, and Bibi is determined to work with Elea, a girl she befriended, to unravel this secret so she can save her vacation.
- Rose Bernd, a pretty farm girl, attracts the men around her against her will. Not only her boss, Christoph Flamm, a rich landowner married to an invalid woman but also Arthur Streckmann, a virile excavator driver. Both manage to make love with her, which results in her falling pregnant. Rose's father decides to lodge a complaint but while in the street on her way to the law court Rose gives birth to her baby.
- This ironic mini series deals with Baby Schimmerlos, gossip reporter of Munich tabloid "MATZ", and the city's legendary high society circles. As everyone who believes to be important wants to be in his column, Baby's job isn't an easy one. Beside the small and big scandals of more or less glamorous people he has to take care of his neglected girlfriend Mona who finally starts a singing career...
- Jewish Kurt Landauer considers leaving Germany on the eve of WW II, but when he sees his big love, the football club Bayern Munich, lying in ruins, he decides to take the risc, stay and rebuild the club.
- Pünktchen and Anton are closest of friends. Being the daughter of a wealthy surgeon, young Pünktchen lives in a great house. Her mother, who always travels through the world more for public relation reasons than for the social tasks she pretends to fulfill, is never available to her as a mother. Anton, son of a single and sick mother in financial trouble, does his best to help her out of it by working late. Pünktchen decides to help her only friend (as nobody else would anyway) and starts singing in public places. Trouble arises when Anton can't resist stealing a golden lighter and Pünktchen's secret life is discovered by her parents. Two troubled families finally can see the need for actions to be taken.
- Comic author Tobias and his boat-building friend Christopher are both convinced singles. Together they inhabit an old villa and have an easy life with many girlfriends. But when Tobias' ex-wife dies in a plane-crash in Brazil, his two teenage children Alicia and Henrik and the young adopted Brazilian Carlos move in with them. At first they're less than thrilled, but they manage to arrange themselves to an unusual, but comfortable living community. Focus of the series are typical generational conflicts, single parenting and teenager problems like love-sickness, search for a job, drugs etc.
- A mysterious, supernaturally beautiful girl from another planet confuses and flusters the men on earth, where she has landed. The men follow her wherever she goes.
- Can a small group of people start a proletarian revolution, asks the "Black Monk" in a leather jacket. The medieval shepherd, Hans Boehm, claims to have been called by the Virgin Mary to create a revolt against the church and the landowners. The "Black Monk" suggests that he would have more success if he dressed up Johanna and had her appear as the Virgin Mary.
- Hella is around 30 and works in a pharmacy. She is waiting for the right man to step into her life, but as she has a certain affinity for losers, she is kind of disillusionized. When she gets to know Levin, a dentist student who likes cars most, her dreams seem to come true. Levin has a very rich grandfather who likes her at first glance. The old man thinks of changing his last will to the condition that Levin has to marry Hella in order to inherit his fortunes. Like in a fairy-tale the door to a new life opens for Hella, but can she take it?
- Luisa and Jenny are twins, but they are fundamentally different. Jenny is the dreamer, while Luisa is able to easily combine work and household. Luisa's life changes when Jenny comes to visit her for a few days.
- Maggie (21) and Klaus (45) are touring in Germany in a camper and they seem to be lovers despite their age difference. However, at a camping site Maggie shows some affection for another man. The unavoidable conflict escalates fatally.
- Two-part movie focusing on one of Germany's most controversial murder trials after World War II. In spring 1960, Dr. Dietrich Schwarz and his housekeeper Elisabeth Huhn are killed cruelly in his mansion near Munich. Although the police considers suicide, his son brings a charge against his mistress, the self confident Vera Brühne because she inherits the victim's house in Spain. The prosecution runs an investigation and finally believes in the guilt of Brühne and her alleged aide Johann Ferbach. After a dubious trial, they are sentenced to life. Some years later, a young lawyer reviews the files and reveals many inconsistencies. Even very important politicians exerted influence on the case...
- A renowned and sensitive poet and writer is fed up with the crudeness of his native Bavaria and, in a well-publicized move, says he refuses even to die there.
- After being unfaithful to her one time too much, Fred's wife has him shot dead by a killer. However, Fred manages to persuade Death to make a deal: He'll receive back his life if he frees from their misery three women whose hearts he had broken at lifetime. This task is not easy, but he receives help from wallflower Rita and from his mother who has been dead for five years...
- The rediscovery of life and work of the legendary diving pioneer and filmmaker Hans Hass, one of the greatest adventurers of the last century.
- Karin Twerdy used to be an opera singer but now, in order to pay for her daughter Daniela's education in a religious school, she performs in a shady nightclub. Industrialist Dietrich Gontard, the father of Karin's school friend Christa, falls for her. But when he learns the truth about her he is outraged and rejects her. At a loss and not to stand in the way of Daniela's future, Karin chooses to disappear...
- Frank Schuster is workaholic and is neglecting his family life.One night coming home by car he has a serious accident.Waking up in the hospital he is still thinking about his work but his spouse Veronika says him "Less is more".
- Hitman Stefán uncovers a twisty story about the mysterious death of super-gangster Teitelbaum to the officials, but is he really telling the truth?
- An unmarried actress in Munich becomes pregnant but decides against marrying the child's father, and eventually moves in with a more agreeable man she meets on a winter sports holiday.
- A birdcall-imitation-seminar, an animal-telepathy-hotline, a beauty contest for pedigree dogs. Wherever the film goes: animals are sorted, studied, and processed; and yet they remain enigmatic and absent. What's inside the animals? The closer they are examined, the less certainty remains. And as the animals increasingly disappoint, a melancholic perplexity sets in. The idea was to find an answer within the animal, but instead people lost a sense of themselves. Encounters in faux fur costumes offer a last hope for warmth and dissolution. A film that acts like a shimmering mirror, in which we painfully recognise ourselves.
- A German-born director of an American television station travels through Bavaria with a folk music impresario to do research for a show to be broadcast directly to United States.
- Sometimes, not doing anything is the best thing to do - "The Incident - Playing the Hero" tells the story of John McKenny and Pete Malkovich, both hard working police officers in their forties and the woman of John's dreams, Cindy Deveroux, a thirty-something psychologist. Cindy is intelligent, beautiful, successful and to John's frustration, fiercely independent. John barely survives an incident, that puts him in hospital on a long path to recovery. Fortunately, Cindy and Pete assist him in all the ways they can, but their friendship soon becomes a thorn in John's eye. Hampered by amnesia, feelings of guilt and physical impairment, John's fragile little world slowly fall apart. After his release from hospital, John starts to recall and puzzle together key events from the past year, bringing truths to light, that John was not prepared to see.
- The story of composer Richard Wagner and his relationship with Cosima von Bulow, the daughter of Franz Liszt.
- Sailor Fritz corresponds with several women so he won't have to look for girls when on shore leave. All are keen to marry him, and he is busy fending them off while determining that it is Lotte whom he truly loves.
- Maria wants to separate from her husband, but he suddenly collapses and falls into a coma. Maria wants to stay with him until he wakes up so she can break up with him consciously.
- This satirical story of a minister president is reportedly based on the conservative Bavarian minister Franz Josef Strauss.