Alina Levshin

François is a literary scholar and drinker. His relationships with women are limited to one year, his life is sufficiently happy. Until the day when charismatic Muslim politician Mohamed Ben Abbes becomes president in France, introduces patriarchy and polygamy and loses his job. In his growing loneliness, Rector Rediger's offer to resume his teaching at the Sorbonne reaches him on one condition: he must convert to Islam.

5.7/10

Coma patient Maya has her mind uploaded to a camera through neurotransmitters. This way she is still capable to communicate with the world from behind the glass. Her husband Leon puts up a lot of effort to keep her alive and make her virtual existence more or less tolerable, but Maya does not want to be a virtual wife and demands Leon to shut the system down and let her go. Tension between the couple rises. Will Leon dare to end the life of his loved one he has struggled to keep with him for so long?

An unconventional priest is told imminent crimes during the confession. However, the priest is bound by his vows not to divulge the confessional secrets and it is only through the power of his words that he is able to prevent the worst.

6.6/10

The life and struggle of the Dassler brothers. Founders of the brands of Adidas and Puma.

7.2/10

While four nuns of a women's monastery in the Eifel begin their day, Bishop Rentschler decides to sell their monastery. The Prioress agrees, Novice Ruth is outraged. Bittner, who runs the village shop, is appalled by the news and worries about former Prioress Philippa, who is suffering from dementia. The bishop receives a protest letter, which is why a mediator is sent to the nuns. It is the psychologist Ulrike Purscheck. Her motivation seminar, however, with the appeal to let go of the old, but with the nuns on closed ears - except for sister Brionie.

5.9/10

Based on explosive investigations, the thriller "Meister des Todes" ("Master of Death") tells of a German arms manufacturer and their questionable weapon exports to Mexiko.

6.5/10

It is not a common assignment for the Berlin lawyer, womanizer and life artist Joachim Vernau: He should look for a man in Havana, who disappeared without a trace 30 years ago. Katherina Gebhardt is the sister of the disappeared. Her brother Martin allegedly "emigrated" to the GDR in 1980, but never arrived there. Instead, every year they reach clues that Martin is still alive, sometimes in Cuba, sometimes in the USA. Now she has to sell the house, their common heritage, and asks Vernau to contact the man in Havana.

6.3/10

Six intertwined people struggle with their own sincerity, and, in so doing, unravel their secrets and the lies they live.

5/10

Alaska Johansson is the perfect woman and she is the best in her profession as a headhunter. One day she is fired by her boss, a married man who she has an affair with. He also tells her that their relationship has no future. She decides that her best option is to commit suicide with a poison cocktail. She is saved when a child in a Halloween costume enters her apartment demanding sweets. Something is not right about the child. Later her neighbor is going to tell here that there never was a child. Alaska’s world is turning upside down, her perceptions seem to be merely illusions. When her car starts to act on its own and causes a crash, she becomes convinced that someone is conspiring against her. Or is there another, darker secret in Alaska’s life?

5.7/10

BREAK UP MAN is an odd couple road movie and tells the story of Henri, who works for a break up agency in Berlin and on behalf of those who want to separate themselves from their future “ex”-partners. To complete his most important mission he is confronted with an unwanted partner, Toto, who spoils more or less everything and makes Henri’s life a nightmare.

5.6/10

Marisa, a 20-year-old German girl, hates foreigners, Jews, cops, and everyone she finds guilty for the decline of her country. She provokes, drinks, fights and her next tattoo will be a portrait of Adolf Hitler. The only place she feels home is the Neo-Nazi gang she belongs to, where hate, violence, and heavy parties are the daily rules. When 14-year-old Svenja joins the group, Marisa appears like a role model to her: she fits the purest idea of a combat girl fighting for the group's ideology. But Marisa's convictions will slowly evolve when she accidentally meets a young Afghan refugee. Confronted to him, she will learn that the black and white principles of her gang are not the only way. Will Marisa ever be able to get out of this group?

6.8/10

Swastikas were scratched into the windows of the University of Stuttgart and have caused considerable property damage. Far-right vandalism? The case is quickly closed, but the young Commissioner Bernau wants to enlighten the mysterious attack. He returns at night back to the crime scene and has an appearance that make his blood freeze! When he turns to the medium Morgana, he lifts the veil on a cruel mystery.

5.3/10

After un accident that has caused the death of a young man, a man have to struggle with his guilty and some strange threatning messages push him and his wife to the unknow.

6.6/10

Im Angesicht des Verbrechens is a German television series about the Russian mafia in Berlin. It received high critical acclaim, but the viewer figures were disappointing. It was broadcast by ARTE and Das Erste.

8.1/10