German Drama Archives - Page 4 of 5

Sissi Trilogy (1955-1957)

Sissi is a trilogy of 1950 films starring Romy Schneider and Karlheinz Böhm and is part of the classic German-Austrian film history and some of the most successful German language films in box-office history.

Smaragdgrün

Adaptation of the final part of famous time-travel trilogy. Gwendolyn’s heart is broken, will she trust Gideon again? There’s no time to wallow in tears. Something unbelievable happens, and Gwendolyn finds herself in the race against time.

Sophie – Braut wider Willen

Reluctant Bride is a German melodramatic Telenovela set in the 19th century. Yvonne Catterfeld stars as the central character of Countess Sophie. A tale of a forbidden love and intrigue in a Germany of past times.

Sophie – Schlauer als die Polizei erlaubt

Miss Sophie Meyerhofer loves investigating crime almost as much as she loves sausage, sauerkraut and driving around Regensburg in her British car! Open-hearted and curious, she and her childhood friend, Father Anselm, contribute to the local investigations whether the chief inspector – her brother – likes it or not!

Surviving With Wolves

Eight-year old Misha travels across Nazi Europe looking for her deported parents. She knows they’re in the east. Using just a compass, she leaves her native Belgium on foot and heads for Ukraine. In the middle of winter, she’s adopted by family of wolves….

Tannbach – Season 1

After the fall of the Third Reich, the small town of Tannbach is cruelly divided between East and West regimes and the town’s inhabitants suffer the consequences. A gripping historical drama exploring the devastating effects decades of conflict had on communities from the end of the Second War War to the fall of the Berlin Wall.

The Counterfeiters

The film begins shortly after the end of the World War II, with a man arriving in Monte Carlo. After checking into an expensive hotel and paying with cash, he takes in the high life of Monte Carlo, successfully gambling in a casino and attracting the attention of a beautiful French woman. Later, she discovers Identification in Nazi camps on his arm, revealing him as a survivor of the Nazi concentration camps.

The Lives of Others

In 1984 East Germany, five years before the fall of the Berlin wall, an agent with the secret police, begins conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover and finds that he is becoming increasingly absorbed and obsessed with their lives.

The Same Sky – Season 1

Cold War, the seventies. Lars is a Romeo agent from East Germany: he must go to the West side and seduce and spy on Western women who work in government or defense institutions.

The Team – Season 1

The series follows a number of national police agencies, working through the framework of EUROPOL, to attempt to solve a series of cross-border murders.

The Weissensee Saga – Season 1

A sweeping, gripping family saga of conflicting loyalties, love and betrayal, set behind the Iron Curtain in 1980s East Berlin. Uwe Kockisch (Donna Leon’s Brunetti) stars as Hans Kupfer, a Stasi officer whose youngest son, Martin, falls in love with Julia, the daughter of a dissident singer. Their courtship threatens the safety of both families, and sets into motion tumultuous events which play out over the course of the subsequent decade.

The Weissensee Saga – Season 2

The Weissensee Saga – Season 3

The Weissensee Saga – Season 4

The Witnesses – Season 1

When 10 year old girl is kidnapped from the natural history museum, the police questions eight key witnesses to uncover the truth and find the child before it’s too late.

Turkish for Beginners (2012)

During an emergency landing on a deserted island suddenly traumatized by antiauthoritarian education Lena Schneider together with the Turkish Super Macho Cem Öztürk must fight for survival. After initially Cem macho repulsive acts on Lena, a jellyfish in the water and sand in a bikini, she recognizes the time the romantic core behind his cool facade. Meanwhile, meet also their parents, who obdurate psychologist Doris and Metin Öztürk to work together to find their missing children. So both generations take an involuntary Turkish Basic Course for beginners.

Turkish for Beginners – Season 1

Teenage Lena is horrified when her anti-disciplinarian mother moves their family in with her Turkish boyfriend and his two kids. Cultures clash and hormones rage in this hilarious and critically-acclaimed German comedy!

Turkish for Beginners – Season 2

Set in the German capital Berlin, the series centers around a German woman and single mother of a teenage daughter, who starts a relationship and decides to live together with a widowed Turkish father and his two teenage children.

Turkish for Beginners – Season 3

Undine

Undine is a historian and tour guide at the Berlin City Museum specializing in urban development, while Christoph is an industrial diver. Linked by a love of the water, the two form an intense bond, which can only do so much to help Undine overcome the considerable baggage of her former affair.