Prince Rat

The lawyer Dr. Wagner is a real disgust - neither for his employees nor for the residents of his apartment building does he have a friendly word. But when a violent pipe break in Wagner's penthouse flooded the apartments underneath on Christmas, the neighbors who had become "homeless" made a radical decision: Since Wagner refused to help his tenants, they settled under the leadership of the resolute Rita and her adult daughter Sophia without further ado with the stubborn loner - for a few happy, if not exactly quiet, Christmas holidays.

Lukas Maler is a butcher. Albeit more out of necessity than out of passion: As the “Karajan with the scalpel”, his vocation was always forensic medicine. When he accidently destroyed all evidence against the “24-hour-killer”, his career as a coroner was done for. And not far from it was his marriage with his great love Diana, whom he could not offer anything anymore as a broken man. But Lukas gets a second chance when once again a serial killer terrifies the city because the murders resemble those of the “24-hour-killer”. Diana – who has ascended to head of the forensic institute in the meantime – knows that only the best one can solve the case. But he is not available. And so, she gets the second-best one: the most over-qualified butcher in town…

Psychotherapist Ulf has finally managed to marry his Sarah and become Heinrich's son-in-law, but that's only where the problems begin. Just now, Sarah's parents have planned to visit Ulf's parents for a weekend.

The best friend of bright flower seller Peggy comes under suspicion of having murdered her husband. Although detectives Schiller and Mauser want to close the supposedly watertight case, Peggy is convinced of Anja's innocence. She goes into the lion's den herself to unearth the evidence and receives unexpected help.

Michael Scholly is released 28 years after being sentenced to life imprisonment for murder. He had three years to prepare for this moment. But the world outside the prison walls has fundamentally changed in his absence and Scholly's ideas and expectations have little in common with reality. Questions arise: Can Scholly meet the demands placed on him? Is Scholly ready for freedom? His first year after discharge was supposed to provide answers - but the answer came sooner than expected.

Tayfun, an undertaker for the Belgian-Turkish community, must help families decide where their loved ones should be buried.

Katja Flint, Hannelore Elsner and Heiner Lauterbach star in this German film about a woman who climbs the social ladder by sleeping with those she encounters on her way to the top. When she's discovered dead in her apartment in 1957, the police try to piece together the clues to find out who murdered her … but to no avail.

An anonymous suicide threat shared on social media causes turmoil at a school. For the students, their parents and the teachers, a race against time begins: who sent the threat? While everyone is on the trail of this question, it turns out that another secret could be involved.

Judith moved to Berlin three weeks ago and is just starting her career. A new city, a new apartment, her first job - that was her life plan with her boyfriend Christian. But he has changed his mind and won't be joining her. So Judith unexpectedly finds herself on her own. As a psychotherapist for children and adolescents, she is highly motivated to help her young patients, but at the same time has to deal with her new work colleagues, the unfamiliar city and her loneliness. Then she meets marine biologist Martin, who is searching for a humpback whale that has lost its way in the Baltic Sea.

For the young prosecutor Daniela Mauriac, everything seems to be going according to plan. Chief Prosecutor Julius Stern offers her the chance to succeed him. Full of enthusiasm, she throws herself into her first case: a serial killer who calls himself Cupid pierces his victims’ hearts with arrows and arranges their bodies as if they were crucified.