Ariane Krampe

Die schönste Bescherung

Nobody in the Rigi family is really looking forward to the Christmas Child this year. 13-year-old Sima and her little brother Elyas know: Mom Leonie and dad Kian are going to split up! Even Kian's parents Britta and Navid, who want to spread Christmas cheer, can't turn the tide. Only after a false alarm about Elyas, who has suddenly disappeared, do the tensions ease. The newlyweds make a discovery on their doorstep: a baby just a few weeks old. After a confession from him, the search begins for the mother - and the reason why the foundling should be with parents who are separating.

Mit Herz und Hilde

Hilde's restaurant is booming! Hilde and her colleagues can look forward to plenty of customers with their unusual meatball creations. But the cash register is not doing well at all: too many free burgers for the needy call the tax office into action. Hilde goes into a tailspin when Angie and Lore throw in the towel.

Mein Vater, der Esel und ich

For single mother Tinka, a village policewoman, a sense of responsibility is paramount - but not for her father Hartmut “Bonanza” Zeller. When the once-successful rock musician drops in on her after years of radio silence, she wants to get rid of him right away.

A Summer in Crete

Isabel Burger would normally consider herself lucky. An unexpected inheritance takes Isabel, a trained chef, to Crete, where her German father left her a country house complete with its own olive grove. If only her failed startup in Munich and the resulting financial woes hadn’t led to the recent opening of insolvency proceedings against her. Isabel’s insolvency administrator gives her four weeks to sell her house on Crete as best she can and use the proceeds to pay off her creditors.

Ein Sommer in der Bretagne

Veterinarian Britta has recently separated from her boyfriend and is open to a new beginning, preferably in Brittany, where she spends the summer vacation with a befriend couple. After a rain shower, she unexpectedly stumbles upon her idyllic dream house, only to run over the fisherman Yves with her bike in her blissfulness. Unfortunately, Yves also wants to buy the house that is up for sale in an anonymous bidding process. He and his father can no longer make a living from fishing, and he wants to build up a second source of income in the form of holiday apartments. The empty neighboring house would be ideal for this. At first, Yves finds Britta more annoying than nice. But she gains ground with her fearless and positive nature. When Yves finds out who his opponent in the bidding process is, he tries to badmouth his beautiful home area in presence of the German doctor. Everything would be so much easier if it weren't for those darn feelings. House or love, that is the question now.

Trauung mit Hindernissen

Everything could be so nice between Katrin and Philip, if it were not the love (patchwork) family! Philipp surprises Katrin with a marriage proposal. But the disappointment of her last marriage has not yet been overcome. And promptly, the events turn over. Julia, her ex-husband's new wife, moves in with her unasked and with children. Not only her pointed-tongued ex-mother-in-law Diana, but also Katrin's own mother Renate, come to help. When Philipp takes her by surprise with a spontaneous surprise wedding, Katrin bursts the collar. A marriage now seems a long way off.

Harrys Insel

60-year-old Harry Stockowski imagined his fresh start in the Canadian wilderness differently. Instead of finding the peace he longed for on a deserted island, someone who is anything but friendly awaits him there. The rough-necked Susan claims to be the owner of the island and tries to drive away the unwanted newcomer with a shotgun. A fight for the log cabin begins, in which the German dropout takes a huge hit. However, Harry doesn't give up that easily.

Familie mit Hindernissen

Katrin can only dream of a happy family. Because the patchwork constellation with several involuntarily connected families puts their nerves to the test. To kitten the fragile relationship with her 14-year-old daughter Saskia, she has invited all family members to their confirmation. But Saskia has recently moved to her father and his new family, while the son of Katrins new partner Philipp has moved in with them and since then devastated Saskia's room and Katrins life. It is impossible to think of a harmonious everyday life, let alone a peaceful family celebration.

Ein Sommer in Südfrankreich

After the death of uncle Olivier, his estate, a small chateau in Provence and the small town's only undertaker firm in its cellar, befall equally and jointly to his local stepson André Vidal, who runs the business since Olivier semi-retired ill, and German cousin, business consultant Charlotte. She arrives from Frankfort to sell the estate at the skyrocketing prices for such idyllic hospitality industry sites. André is shocked, determined to preserve the town's social fabric by preserving Olivier's heritage, and disappointed she doesn't even recognize him as childhood best playmate. It turns out the backward taxes are a ticking bomb, which she sneakily intends to ignite, only André's charms and the lavender-scented bucolic way of life appeal ever more even to businesslike Charlotte.

Hunters in the Night

Back on duty after alcohol withdrawal, Commissioner Bonì is investigating the case of a missing student. Eddie, a teenager, found a badly abused young woman in a barn. Now he's dead ...

Invisible Years

After the death of her mother, Bea Kanter leaves her home in Hesse in order to start her studies in Frankfurt. She leaves her father Norbert and her younger sister Conny behind. Thanks to her fellow student Andrea, the shy student quickly finds a connection. She moves into a WG and is confronted with the left scene, the rebels of the 1970s. This fits in with her inner life, because she has to distract herself mentally from her father - a conservative entrepreneur, for Bea the epitome of the capitalist. So she becomes a radical rebel.

Zen and the Art of Murder

One morning, a Japanese monk shows up in a village: He does not speak a word, has a head injury and is evidently on the run. Chief Inspector Louise Bonì immediately senses that the young man is in grave danger. However, her supervisor Bermann does not believe her word - because since a deadly use Bonì is psychologically struck and is mainly due to an alcohol problem. Nevertheless, she continues to investigate on her own. The trail leads to a mysterious Zen monastery and a private children's aid organization, which mediates Asian adopted children. Soon Louise awakens a terrible suspicion.

Julia und der Offizier

In 1964, young Julia Welling is sent to Bavaria to create and manage a home for children. For the past of her father (a member of the Nazi party) Julia now defends the values of democracy and wants children to be treated like whole persons. Her first days in Bavaria are difficult because the people are very conservative: when she notices some parents beating their children, she steps in and they don't understand her intervention. She meets a young American officer who is organizing the end of US occupation forces in Germany; he helps her get a former military installator for her new children's home. She manages to install the home and begin her activities, but one night a violent farmer tries to burn down the building because she has protected his son.

Elly Beinhorn: Solo Flight

The story of Elly Beinhorn, the first German aviator ever to fly around the world which made her a national hero in the 1930s.

Grenzgang

Once again, the "border crossing" is celebrated, as every seven years in the Upper Hessian town of Bergen. It is really turbulent at this folk festival, when the municipal boundaries are confirmed from old tradition and everything is upside down. For this occasion leaves Thomas Weidmann his girlfriend and flees because of his botched university career from the city of Berlin back to his native village. At the party, he meets Kerstin Werner, whose life has just come out of joint - her marriage is broken and her husband Jürgen on the jump to another, younger woman.

24 Milchkühe und kein Mann

The farmer's wife Elli is determined after the unexpected death of her husband, despite high debt and against the advice of their adult children to manage their farm on. At the same time she dreams after 25 years of marriage, which consisted mainly of work, finally the great love. A partner agency, she met the friendly and down to earth from Zimbabwe Raymond know. Both are sparks at first, but above all the men in the village of Africans met with suspicion and prejudice. Against the odds, Elli is willing to fight for their happiness.

Herztöne

As a little girl, Lissie Lensen had only one dream: to become a princess. Consequently, she has now ended up with the trendy women's magazine "Gossip". But unfortunately only as a small assistant, because her boss Carmen doesn't trust her to go on a celebrity hunt with the right bite. Only when Lissie has a hot one-night stand with the handsome Paul does her life change abruptly: Paul is the fiancé of the Danish princess and heir to the throne, Silvia.

Baron Münchhausen

In a small inn, the impoverished Baron von Münchhausen tries to keep his head above water with the help of his stories.

Rommel

The story of the final seven months in the life of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.

Shores of Hope

In this vivid historical drama set in 1980s East Germany, two dockworkers and best friends who dream of escaping the repressive regime are forced to choose their loyalties when the state police promise them safe passage out of the country — if they inform on their co-workers and union leader.

Im falschen Leben

Marie thinks to return to her job one year after the birth of her daughter Nora. Her husband Holger is already looking forward to two-month parental leave in which he wants to be totally there for her daughter. Her daughter? They rush into an emotional hell without warning. The youth welfare office informs them that their child has been swapped in the clinic. Sandra, the other mother with the exchanged and actually biological child of theirs, is a single-parent student. While Sandra outwardly comparatively seems to handle it with ease, Marie is completely overwhelmed. Sandra's life situation leads to a dispute with Holger, because Marie can not accept that "her" daughter should grow up with a poor single parent. When the press also gets wind of the matter, there is no turning back: The children must be exchanged.

Ein Sommer in Paris

Clara and her boyfriend break up their relationship in Paris. She stays a few days in the city, where he meets a man who offers her work. But, unexpectedly, love again knocking on her door.

Hanni & Nanni

Hanni and Nanni are not only sisters, but also best friends. The twins are inseparable and always up to something. When they cause a wild chase through a department store, their wealthy parents have had it: They send the girls to the posh boarding school Lindenhof in order to teach them some manners. While sweet-tempered Nanni quickly makes new friends, the impulsive Hanni has a hard time accustoming herself.

Ein Sommer in Marrakesch

Rudi Schlosser and his ex Anna travel to Marrakech (Morocco) for their daughter Tina's wedding. Only there they learn the groom isn't a German engineer on the durable building site she knew but the local project leader Karim Mernissi. As an orphan, he was raised by uncle Rafiq Mernissi, a mundane literature professor, who still insists on a traditional Berber wedding, to console the family his bride is a European infidel. Anna abandons her opposition to tradition as she falls in love with Rafiq while making up with Rudi, but also stumbles unto a Mernissi family secret that shocks even Karim.

Ein Sommer in Long Island

Business executive Nick Porter starts an affair with landscape architect Holly while jogging on his way to see his half-brother Benjamin 'Ben' Goldman, a reclusive author who inherited an estate from his father, also an author. Recommended by Nick, Holly comes to renovate the garden for Ben, whose aloof attitude bugs her, but actually she's his first love. Nick learns this and that Ben has terminal cancer but refuses treatment, feeling his life has no meaning, so Nick pushes Holly to pretend to be in love with Ben, who learns the truth in the worst possible way at the worst possible time.

Dornröschen erwacht

After three years in a coma, Juliane Maybach suddenly wakes up, but doesn't remember the last months before the accident that caused her critical condition. The estrangement from her husband Stefan and their daughter Antonia weighs heavily upon her mind and makes her mistrusting everyone. Little by little, Juliane tries to reveal the secrets in her past.

Der Tanz mit dem Teufel - Die Entführung des Richard Oetker

When wealthy college student Richard Oetker is kidnapped and held for a hefty ransom, state police officer Georg Kufbach becomes obsessed with bringing the kidnapper to justice. This film is based on a true story.

The Tunnel

Inspired by true events, Olympic swimmer Harry Melchior defects from East Germany in the 1960s and hatches a daring plot to help his sister and others flee East Berlin through a 145-yard underground tunnel.

Kissing My Sister

Teen brother and sister who rarely get to see each other fall in love with one another one summer.