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Faking Hitler – Season 1

The six-part series tells the absurd story of the forged Hitler diaries. How did a reporter and an art forger trigger the biggest media scandal of the post-war period?

Freud – Season 1

Eager to make his name in 19th-century Vienna, a hungry young Sigmund Freud joins a psychic and an inspector to solve a string of bloody mysteries.

After his mother’s death, 16-year-old Juri and his father Jaschek move into a run-down prefabricated building on the outskirts of the city. While Jaschek tries to build a new existence for himself and his son as the caretaker of the building, Juri gradually discovers that the house has a malicious life of its own and feeds on the suffering of its residents.

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Berlin, 1956. Caterina Schöllack, owner of a dance school, has three daughters, of whom two are fulfilling the expectations of the society: Helga is going to marry attorney Wolfgang Von Boost and the nurse Eva has planned every detail of her future, including her plan to marry her boss, Professor Fassbender. Only Monika fights against the conventions of her time. Her great inspiration to do so is the rock ’n’ roll.

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At the Berlin dance school “Galant,” worlds collide and the struggle between prudishness and emancipation is carried out. The proprietor of the dance school, Caterina Schöllack, has three daughters whom she orders to integrate into this hierarchically structured society. Two of her daughters seem to abide by their mother’s wish. Only Monika, the middle daughter, rejects the given path and discovers rock ‘n’ roll for herself.

Maximilian – Das Spiel von Macht und Liebe

After the death of Mary of Burgundy’s father, she is the only heir to rule Burgundy. But as she is backed into a corner by her enemies, she must find a powerful husband and supporter. At the same time Maximilian of Austria clashes with his father, the Holy Roman Emperor. The young Maximilian is a fighter and out to make his own fortune.

Mordkommission Istanbul – Season 1

Istanbul police commissioner Mehmet Özakin is in charge of serious crime, mainly murder investigations, mostly in the Turkish metropolis. A very modern Turk, he uses up to date Western methods, without prejudice, assisted by bachelor Mustafa Tombul. Even his private life is progressive, his wife Sevim being on the former imperial capital’s university staff.

Mordkommission Istanbul – Season 2

Mordkommission Istanbul – Season 3

Pagan Peak – Season 1

German Officer Stocker and cynical and uncommitted Austrian Inspector Winter work together to catch a serial killer, who leaves messages and stylizes himself as Krampus, a folkloric demonic creature that must punish society for its sins.

Parfum – Season 1

While in boarding school, a group of six become friends through their intense passion for scent. When one is brutally murdered years later, disturbing secrets about the group are revealed when the police investigates each as a suspect.

Shades of Guilt – Season 1

In the final analysis, it all comes down to guilt, different shades of guilt that one assumes in a single moment of thoughtlessness or in months of premeditated planning. Defence Attorney Friedrich Knonberg knows he must tip legal scales of justice in favour of his client for crimes that are never black and white and what they may seem.

Shades of Guilt – Season 2

Sissi (2009)

The Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph falls in love with the young Elisabeth. It’s love at first sight but Franz Joseph’s mother Sophie doesn’t approve this love.

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.

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!

Spuren des Bösen – Season 1

Police psychologist Richard Brock fights crime and his own demons in this dark mystery series set in Vienna.

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 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.