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A medic lives with his small, strange family in the mountains, and in every episode he comes across a situation with not only his patients but also his family and friends.

Drama series centering around how the mountain rescue service team responds to emergencies in the Austrian Alps.

Criminal lawyer Sophie and her husband Thomas, a police inspector, are a happy family with their son Arthur. After a fateful day turns her life upside down, Sophie decides to join the police force.

Finn Kiesewetter had left the police force to convert to an organic farm. But after a fire destroyed it, Finn found himself ruined and forced to return to law enforcement.

The series is based on the aristocratic Guldenburg family and deals with their various relationships and problems. They live outside Hamburg at Castle Guldenburg, which is set on a large farm that's also the site of the family's brewery, their chief income source. A Hamburg family, the Balbecks, are the rival beer-brewers and seek to buy out the Guldenburgs; then Thomas von Guldenburg falls in love with Catherine (Kitty) Balbeck. The Guldenburgs themselves are not a unified family. Herta, the dowager Countess, never really approved of Christine, the present Countess. Christine's husband (Herta's son) has died, leaving her with two children, Susanne (Nana) and Alexander (Sacha). There are also two children from the Count's first marriage: Thomas and Evelyn. Evelyn is married to Achim Lauritzen, who works for the Balbecks and attempts to undermine the Guldenburgs. Christine is the principal heroine as she struggles to keep the family from bankruptcy--and from the Balbecks buying them out. Then yet another challenge emerges with the appearance of her dead husband's mistress Carini di Angeli and her child.

Dramatic and emotional stories about Bergdoktor Martin Gruber in idyllic Ellmau at the Wilder Kaiser.

Three short films about lovers' ultimatums are set in New York, Berlin and Tokyo.

Light-hearted comedy about nuns who are constantly dodging attempts by the mayor to take over their cloister in order to create business opportunities for his party supporters. It is in German only.

A forest officer who works in one of the Bavarian forestry stations. Besides his routine duties, he is also responsible for forest conservation and for the local community.

After losing her job at a cuckoo-clock factory, Klara Degen starts working as a maternity-leave fill-in secretary at the local criminal-investigation department. She soon oversteps boundaries of her area of competence and interferes in investigations.

"Die Spreewaldklinik" is a series on SAT.1 (DE, AT, CH).

Two out of work musicians put on drag to get work in an all girl band. Inevitable comical romantic complications ensue.

After five years in Canada, Jonas returns back to Europe and takes up a job as a park ranger in a stunningly beautiful sandstone national park full of rocky canyons and lush forests. Jonas' duties are manifold: taking care of visitors and nature alike but also those of law enforcement, firefighting and mountain rescue. It's never too long until he has to prove his many practical talents, empathy and dedication - either within his professional life or in his interactions with family, friends and colleagues. Only his love life is lacking direction. That is something he shares with his colleague, the beautiful biologist Emilia, who values her freedom as much as Jonas does. It might just be their shared interest in the protecting nature will bring them closer together.

Anneliese is living together with her son Florian in a run-down farm. But her exaggerated demands drive him mad. Man and daughter work in the city. The 14-year-old son is supposed to fulfill the mother's dreams and become a chemist. Still, the boy fits his wishes, but he secretly dreams of becoming a farmer. Then, the situation escalates.

A poor 22 y.o. Hungarian man who's recently arrived in Paris meets a seemingly wealthy 17 y.o. Parisian girl. They fall in love, but tragedy ensues when the truth behind the girl is revealed.

Children reviving an old heathen ritual by standing in the frigid waters of the Baltic Sea; the one standing in the longest shall be referred to as the king of Kummerow.

The three doctors Dr. Rogge, Dr. Junginger and Dr. Holbein take over a practice and become friends.

Based on true events, the story is set in the 1970's/1980's at the boarding school "Odenwald Schule", when a newly hired young teacher (Julia Jentsch) notices pupils are being sexually abused by the staff, including the director.

Dowd, who's IRA, escapes an Irish prison in a bloody jailbreak, making his way to New York City where he lives alone, avoids Irish hangouts, and works as a dishwasher. When a good deed gets him stabbed, one of the restaurant employees takes him in and finds him medical care. As Dowd recovers in the flat of Tulio and Tulio's sister Monica, he realizes that these Guatemalan exiles share his rebellious principles. When he learns they are planning a political assassination, he offers to help. His attraction to Monica contributes to his willingness to volunteer. However, the cops are closing in on him: can he make the hit, protect his new friends, and escape with Monica?

London, 1730. Daniel Defoe, author of Robinson Crusoe, lives in poverty. When his son Tom steals the original text of Robinsons's forbidden book, the youth of London, led by Maud (Romy Schneider), revolt.

"Dangerous Liaisons" is reviewed by Nicolas Weber.