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- DirectorMichael HerbigStarsFriedrich MückeKaroline SchuchDavid KrossEast Germany, 1979. After initially failing to flee from the East to the West in a self-built hot-air balloon, two families struggle to make a second attempt, while the East German State Police are chasing them.
- DirectorDennis GanselStarsJürgen VogelFrederick LauMax RiemeltA high school teacher's experiment to demonstrate to his students what life is like under a dictatorship spins horribly out of control when he forms a social unit with a life of its own.
- DirectorFlorian Henckel von DonnersmarckStarsUlrich MüheMartina GedeckSebastian KochIn 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.
- DirectorOliver HirschbiegelStarsBruno GanzAlexandra Maria LaraUlrich MatthesTraudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII.
- DirectorWolfgang PetersenStarsJürgen ProchnowHerbert GrönemeyerKlaus WennemannA German U-boat stalks the frigid waters of the North Atlantic as its young crew experience the sheer terror and claustrophobic life of a submariner in World War II.
- CreatorSabine Thor-WiedemannJakob HeinChristine OttoStarsAlicia von RittbergMala EmdeNina GummichThe series describes the accomplishments of several famous German physicians and scientists at the prestigious Charité hospital in Berlin during its history.
- CreatorHenk HandloegtenTom TykwerAchim von BorriesStarsVolker BruchLiv Lisa FriesLars EidingerColognian commissioner Gereon Rath moves to Berlin, the epicenter of political and social changes in the Golden Twenties.
- StarsLuise BefortSvenja JungAnja KlingSet in the Friedrichstadt-Palast music hall in the late 1980s, follows twin sisters as they search for their roots.
- StarsVolker BruchTom SchillingKatharina SchüttlerFive friends go out to war and promise each other to be back for Christmas.
- StarsChristian FriedelHanno KofflerHannah HerzsprungThe life and struggle of the Dassler brothers. Founders of the brands of Adidas and Puma.
- DirectorBora DagtekinStarsElyas M'BarekKaroline HerfurthKatja RiemannA comedy that follows an ex-convict who lands a position at a school that sits over the spot where money from one of his earlier robberies was stashed.
- CreatorBaran bo OdarJantje FrieseStarsLouis HofmannKaroline EichhornLisa VicariA family saga with a supernatural twist, set in a German town where the disappearance of two young children exposes the relationships among four families.
- CreatorFriedemann FrommMette SøStarsJan Josef LiefersKatharina SchüttlerLene Maria ChristensenA German and a Danish family, whose previous idyllic life together goes upside down with the disappearance of one of the children.
- DirectorCaroline LinkStarsRiva KrymalowskiMarinus HohmannCarla JuriA Jewish family in Berlin family must flee the Nazis. First, they go to Zürich. From there they go to Paris, and finally to London.
- DirectorPeter ThorwarthStarsMoritz BleibtreuAxel SteinJasmin GeratBank teller Till Reiners' life is torn out of a rut by a series of offbeat coincidences that ultimately lead him to find himself and realize his life isn't so bad after all.
- DirectorGiulio RicciarelliStarsAndré SzymanskiAlexander FehlingFriederike BechtA story that exposes the conspiracy of prominent German institutions and government branches to cover up the crimes of Nazis during World War II.
- DirectorFatih AkinStarsTristan GöbelAniya WendelJustina HumpfTwo young teenage boys steal a car and embark on a road trip that will probably change their lives.
- DirectorSebastian GroblerStarsDaniel BrühlBurghart KlaußnerThomas ThiemeAn English teacher brings soccer from England to Germany in the late 19th Century by teaching it to his class.
- DirectorAlain GsponerStarsJannis NiewöhnerFahri YardimEmilia SchüleGerman students compete to enter one of the country's elite schools.
- DirectorRalf WesthoffStarsGisela SchneebergerHeiner LauterbachMichael WittenbornThree old friends from college move back in together in an apartment in Munich for financial reasons.
- DirectorMarc RothemundStarsElyas M'BarekPhilip SchwarzNadine WrietzAn irresponsible man is forced by his father to take care of one of his ailing patients.
- DirectorMarkus GollerStarsLars EidingerBjarne MädelSandra HüllerTwo very different brothers reunite and start on a very special journey: a road trip on their motorbikes which they imagined in their childhood.
- DirectorMarco KreuzpaintnerStarsElyas M'BarekAlexandra Maria LaraHeiner LauterbachA young lawyer stumbles upon a vast conspiracy while investigating a brutal murder case.
- DirectorBaran bo OdarStarsTom SchillingElyas M'BarekWotan Wilke MöhringBenjamin, a young German computer whiz, is invited to join a subversive hacker group that wants to be noticed on the world's stage.
- DirectorLars KraumeStarsLeonard ScheicherTom GramenzLena KlenkeA group of twelfth-grade pupils in East Germany decide to show their solidarity with the victims of the 1956 Hungarian uprising by staging two minutes of silence during lessons.