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Browse 36 movies from Wiedemann & Berg Television
Lilli is suspicious of her sister's new fiance, but when an attractive stranger enters her life, she's suddenly distracted by the thralls of desire.
Aug 2025
When a mysterious brick wall encloses their apartment building overnight, Tim and Olivia must unite with their wary neighbors to get out alive.
Jul 2025
Desperate to keep custody of his daughter, a mixed martial arts fighter abandons a big match and races across Berlin to attend her birthday party.
Jan 2024
Elle is a young entrepreneur who wants to lead her grandmother Margot's fashion house into a new era. She is in a relationship with Thilo, the son of an influential Hamburg family. After Elle's grandmother receives anonymous threats, Ben, who has been in prison, is assigned as her bodyguard. Elle is torn between Thilo and Ben. As Elle delves deeper into Ben's world, she learns secrets about Thilo that could jeopardize her grandmother's life's work.
Sep 2024
Pia and Jan have just fallen in love and arranged to meet Pia's friends for a game night. Jan meets Pia's friends for the first time and is under pressure to make the perfect first impression. When Pia's ex-boyfriend shows up and even Jan's buddy's tips can't save anything, everything is at stake: the relationship, the friendship, and the definition of truth.
Jul 2024
Jennerwein has barely started his job in Garmisch-Partenkirchen when a Danish ski jumper falls to his death, the president of the Winter Games Committee narrowly escapes an assassination attempt, and anonymous letters announce further crimes. Amidst suspicious villagers and vain local politics, Jennerwein must unmask a perpetrator who craves attention and is playing a deadly serious game.
Nov 2026
Silesia, 1844. After her husband dies in a brutally suppressed weavers’ uprising, Mila emigrates to America. En route to Texas, she rescues Countess Cecilie Hohenberg from her violent husband. Captured by Comanche warrior Buffalo Hump, the women must navigate captivity, while Mila forges unexpected bonds amid the struggle for freedom.
Nov 2013
Berlin in the 1920s is a vibrant metropolis. After the horrors of the First World War, people seek their fortune at parties, in glittering variety theaters and dance halls. So-called "ring clubs" dominate the world of crime. When Inspector Paul Lang finds his friend, public prosecutor Barnekow, dead in the crocodile pool of the Tiergarten, the mastermind seems clear, at least to him: the murder clearly bears the signature of Immanuel Tauss, the former head of the gangster ring "The Crocodiles". But Lang's biggest adversary, Tauss, is in prison. Together with his assistant Conrad Ruppert and his secretary, Lang sets about solving the case and encounters the unscrupulous up-and-comer Viktor Parkov and the fascinating vaudeville owner Irma Berger in Berlin's night world. Another corpse opens up a surprising twist, but Lang is already deeply entangled in his personal duel with Tauss - and himself.
Dec 2015
Landauer and Röwer track Maria Weinert, the ringleader of a global prostitution ring, to Malta following her escape from justice.
Apr 2026
Where is Paul Holthaus? The investigative journalist Rommy Kirchhoff, together with his son Max, is looking for the disappeared lobbyist Paul Holthaus, who has negotiated several times in Cape Town on behalf of Lilian Norgren for their agricultural corporation Norgreen Life. Norgren makes it clear to Rommy that the search for the whistleblower is unwanted and puts her and the boy in danger.
Aug 2017
Martin Manz has run over the daughter of his best friend, Frank, who plays handball with him and regularly repairs Frank’s father’s old television. Martin wants to do the right thing and help the family, but he also wants to cover up his drunk-driving episode.
Sep 2018
Three couples arrange a dinner between friends. But no one is really in the mood for a reunion, as there are still some unspoken conflicts in the room.
A group of young, ambitious candidates for a special police unit in Baden-Württemberg are driven to perform at their best. One of them is 23-year-old Rebecca Henselmann, who will soon be deployed in undercover operations. She works hard and is ambitious, just like her colleague Christoph Laurin, whom Rebecca is getting to know. The young policewoman is highly motivated in her operations against drug and arms trafficking. In the process, she encounters abuses of power and encounters right-wing extremist attitudes in the police force too.
Jun 2025
"Are they corrupt?" After arriving in Cape Town, Johann and Inge are amazed by the swanky estate of their son Mark's future mother-in-law. His wedding to Nandi is to be organized by Rosa, a childhood friend of the groom who has flown in from Berlin. Of course, no one could have imagined that after thirty years, Rosa and Mark's fire would flare up again...
Nov 2015
Rosa can only dream of romantic togetherness with her husband Mark. Temporarily homeless, her mother Ruth has taken up residence in the middle of the living room. Things get tricky for Rosa when the landlord also sues for personal use. She loses in court, but Rosa wins a new job: the shy judge needs professional help with a marriage proposal. Of course, Rosa and Meral manage to arrange a suitable setting to convince Anja, the woman they love. But this is only the beginning of the real problems, because Anja's past hides a dark secret.
Feb 2016
Four former classmates, Philipp, Leonie, Timo and Yasmin arrange reunion over the weekend in one of Philipp's properties. Philipp's wife and daughter are also present. The weekend ends in bloodbath however, with three people dead and the suspect in coma. Two years later Leonie's mother asks the former classmate of the alleged murderer, Doro Kagel, to reopen the case. She would never trust her daughter to do such an act, and even Doro starts having doubts that are only reinforced by the silence of the survivors.
Nov 2017
On a Berlin construction site, the former editor-in-chief Karin and her journalist Rommy happens to witness a fatal accident. From Taras, the accident victim's brother, they learn that this is not an isolated coincidence: The Eastern European workers who toil on the construction site for cheap wages have to do their day's work under the most precarious conditions and beyond give a large part of their wages to shady "intermediaries".
Feb 2020
LKA-Zielfahnderin Hanna Landauer and her new colleague Röwer travel to Montevideo to find the couple Tezlaff. They once kidnapped an industrialist and extorted a 10 million ransom. The money has since disappeared, alongside a third unknown hostage taker.
Oct 2019
Prosecutor Charlotte Reinke investigates in a sensitive case: The eight-year-old Laura accuses her father novel of sexual abuse. This indignantly rejects the suspicion. The child had made the accusation under the influence of the mother, who only wanted to take revenge for having left her for another. Does Roman say the truth? Rather accidentally, the prosecutor makes a decisive discovery.
Mar 2013
Bella is not a sad child. She lives out her promiscuity openly, smokes, drinks and is not averse to the occasional drug binge. But the really special thing about Bella is her appearance: she is a doll, barely more than half a meter tall, with red pigtails and a mischievous smile. Bella has also been best friends with stuffy Jana since childhood, but the two lost touch years ago. On the day of Jana's engagement, the formerly famous Bella - broke and homeless - unexpectedly bursts back into her life.
Mar 2015