The former waiter Ernst Held believes himself to be called higher and seeks self-realization as a poet. When he recites poems to his wife's...

An old donkey resolves to break away from the unbearable hardships of working for a fat miller. By and by, he recruits three more unsatisfied animals...

120 schoolgirls live in a Catholic boarding school for girls together with nuns, who teach them, but secular teachers are also employed here. Behind...

A farm boy betrothed to a socialite falls in love with his maid - an impoverished girl from the marsh.

A young man of property is engaged to two women at once.

The great Dr. Pfeiffer plays the little Primaner Pfeiffer. As the successful playwright Dr. Hans Pfeiffer, he is planning a play about school. In...

In the small town of New Frisco in Alberta, Canada, a stranger named Norton arrives, checks into the most expensive hotel room, and begins courting a...

Fun-loving Peer Gynt lives carefree on his parents' farm. Only his mother is a fixed point of reference; he doesn't think much of regular work and an...

Hungary, 1925. A young lieutenant of the Hungarian army Fröhlich falls in love with his captain's sister, Vilma Horn. While his superior agrees...

A singer tired of the stage retreats to a hotel in the country. There, she finds love and a way back into show business.

Ever since a little girl received a red cap from her grandmother—which she loves to wear—everyone has called her “Little Red Riding...

A Brothers Grimm fairy tale involving siblings finding a gingerbread house in the middle of the forest owned by an evil witch who captures them and...

Nacht der Verwandlung (A Night of Change) stars Gustav Froelich as a globe-circling aviator, a character clearly based on America's Wiley Post. While...

The story of the stormy relationship between King Friedrich Wilhelm and his son, who later became known as King Frederick the Great of Prussia.

Bettina Sanden, a solo dancer at the opera, falls ill with polio. The chances of a cure look rather slim.

In this exotic adventure, unscrupulous gun runners threaten a captain, and a ship is in danger of sinking.

After the death of the owner of the house Lina Braake is living in, the house is accrued to the bank. During the complete refurbishment of the...

A taxi driver, (Piel), finds an odd contraption on the back seat that renders him invisible, but his friend steals the device to rob a bank. An...

When Sir John Falstaff decides that he wants to have a little fun he writes two letters to a pair of Window wives: Mistress Ford and Mistress Page....

Lisa's marriage is all in all quite happy; unfortunately, her husband never listens to her when it comes to buying new things. To change this...

A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together.

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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...

Ein Fall für zwei is a German television series, which premiered on September 11, 1981 on ZDF. The series, located in Frankfurt am Main,...

Der Bastian is a German television series written by Barbara Noack, broadcast in 13 episodes between 1972 and 1973 on ZDF.

Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the...

Das Kriminalmuseum was a German television series. It ran from 1963 to 1970 on ZDF and was one of its first programs. Each episode began with a...

Das Kriminalmuseum was a German television series. It ran from 1963 to 1970 on ZDF and was one of its first programs. Each episode began with a...

Der Kommissar is a German television series about a group of detectives of the Munich homicide squad. All 97 episodes, which were shot in...

Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about...