Bavaria Fiction

A young race car mechanic fakes an engagement with racing's most scandalous star - officially for his reputation, secretly for her own shot behind the wheel. But soon the lie threatens to destroy everything - including what's already become so much more than just a deal.

A wealthy teen and his friends attending an elite private school uncover a dark conspiracy while looking into a series of strange supernatural events.

Christin, a successful district judge, had long since given up on love, until a hot-air-balloon pilot named Max enters her life. What begins as a fleeting encounter develops into a tender, surprising connection: Christin has chosen to live alone, in the reliable company of her chatbot Hermann, but now Max is turning her structured world upside down. Although the single father is the same age as Christin’s daughter Miriam, he doesn’t fall in love with her—he falls in love with Christin.

A murder case in Garmisch: the victim is the chairman of the nature conservation association, at a time when wolves are on the loose and the population is divided into wolf opponents and supporters. Investigators Ira Zach and Daphne Meindl pick up the trail.

The murder of her sister turns the life of a young, freedom-loving woman completely upside down.

Paul Hagedorn’s beloved daughter, Annette, wants to get married. But from the very first moment, Hagedorn and his future son-in-law, Joe, can’t stand each other. Their first meeting ends in a physical altercation that leads to legal consequences. What begins as a personal conflict quickly escalates into a bitter power struggle between the two men, leaving Annette caught in the middle…

A couple, wants to realize their dream of having a child with a Ukrainian surrogate mother - and then the war comes.

Timo is in his late 20s, a former Bundesliga soccer player and has fallen from grace. He has been known as the "disgrace of Altona" ever since he botched a penalty kick in a cup match. After countless escapades, his professional career is over. He now earns his living as a bouncer in a bar. But his family situation is much worse than his professional downfall: his ex-wife Nicki is now living with Robert, his ex-manager. He only sees their three children Tom, Luis and baby Lilly three days a week.

After fighting in the Trojan War, Odysseus spends years trying to return home to Ithaca. [Theatrical version of the 1968 mini-series.]

Documentary about Brecht and the Berliner Ensemble.

Over 40 years ago, Josefa left her home village in a dispute. A lot has happened in the meantime. Now she returns as a mature woman to where she is still known as a man.

Police officer Sophie Maibach continues to serve with the Guardia Civil in Tenerife as part of the German-Spanish exchange program. Her routine task of assisting her colleague Álvaro Krupp Casado with police matters involving German-speaking tourists and island residents gives the woman in her mid-twenties the opportunity to secretly pursue her own mission: solving the mystery surrounding her father’s accidental death five years ago.

Linda Rosenau cares only about her job. As editor-in-chief of a successful women's magazine, she must always stay at the top edge. There is hardly time for her adult daughter Leonie and her three little grandchildren; the stressed-out Leonie has to go to hospital after a fainting spell and Linda has no choice but to take care of the babies - which, as it turned out, are the result of a one-night stand. Father of the children is untraceable, but Linda senses the grandfather of the cute triplet in the widowed teacher Dr. Jakob Buchmann...

A trained theologian with a truck driver's license joins Werner Träsch's team. Former pastor Matthias is surprisingly good at tackling difficult tasks. But he can't hide the fact that he is in trouble for long: His ex-girlfriend Anna makes it impossible for him to see their five-year-old daughter Lotte, despite having joint custody.

Once again, 16-year-old Jonas starts at a new school and, as always, he has no intention of being anybody’s darling. Jonas has muscular dystrophy, is confined to a wheelchair and knows that he will die sooner rather than later from this incurable and progressive disease. His mother Alma, who raises Jonas alone and would rather take a second job than forego therapy for him, is determined to delay his deterioration. She has placed Jonas with Dr. Wildenhahn, an authority on Duchenne disease. The doctor manages to be taken seriously by Jonas, that is until he gets to know Emily, Marianne Wildenhahn's daughter, who goes to his class. Emily has a massively low academic grade, which she hides from her mother because of the doctor’s high standards. Emily falls in love with Jonas, and her sincere affection gives him the courage to love her back. Emily and Jonas become a couple, overcoming all obstacles.

Based on the bestselling biography: Entertainer Horst Lichter has barely had time to relax on his holiday when his mother calls him. In her own dry way, she tells him that she has been diagnosed with cancer and that things are not going well for her. Immediately Horst returns to his hometown with his wife Nada. Returning home brings back childhood memories - of a loving father and a mother who held the reins firmly in difficult situations. Horst tries his best to support his mother Margret - he organises doctor's appointments and tries to provide a little variety into her daily life, even though the relationship between mother and son has been strained for a long time: he counters his mother's edgy, frosty manner as he had learned to do when he was young. He emphasises the positive side of any situation and is always ready to respond with a snappy retort. When Margret learns how serious her illness really is, Horst begins to rethink his own life as well.

In 2006, millionaire Charlotte Böhringer (†59) was found beaten to death in her penthouse flat above the Isar car park in Munich. Her nephew Benedikt Toth was convicted of murder for greed and sentenced to life imprisonment for a particularly serious offence. The verdict was controversial from the outset as it was based solely on circumstantial evidence. The instrument of the offence could not be identified.

A parcel carrier who has nothing to do with Christmas accidentally crosses paths with a petty thief and a mysterious little boy who doesn't speak. Nelly is stunned when Filou Sonny steals two bottles of whiskey and a vintage car from the petrol station where she has a second job. Nick, who suddenly appears between the shelves and doesn't say a word, distracts Nelly during the theft. Since she has to assume that Nick is Sonny's accomplice, she grabs the boy and takes him with her on the chase, receiving support from the elderly cab driver Gesine, who had just filled up her car at the gas station. When Nelly discovers the stolen vintage car by chance outside a villa, she sends Gesine back and asks her to look after the filling station while she is away.