Saskia Vester

Henni enthusiastically gets off the Munich-Bari intercity bus in sunny Apulia. Her new assignment takes the globetrotting nanny to a German expat family with two teenage children. Rosa Westphal, who runs a picturesque olive farm with her husband Benno, has high hopes for the governess with the impressive credentials. However, it seems strange to Henni that the self-confident straight-A student Luisa and the musically gifted but sensitive Julian need supervision at all - especially as the family's finances are clearly in a bad way. Henni also wonders about a secret visit to the doctor by her client, which she happens to observe.

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.

Henni can hardly believe it: Canada really is as beautiful as the Munich native dreamed it would be! Her ticket to the world is once again a fraudulent assignment as a premium nanny. German-born entrepreneur Christopher has hired her to look after his daughter Bristol so that he can prepare for his second wedding in peace. Soon after her arrival, Henni realizes that the 13-year-old not only has a hard time with her future stepmother Pia, but that she also attracts trouble.

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Elections are approaching and things don't look too good for the opposition. Their leader can't stand the pressure and disappears. To avoid a scandal, the upper echelons of the party concoct a risky plan: to replace him with his identical twin, a philosopher with BPD, whose eclectic ideas and direct approach unexpectedly make the party surge in the polls.

After living 45 years in Germany, the Turkish Hüseyin Yilmaz, seventy, announces to his family that he has bought a house in Turkey and they should return to make the necessary reforms. The idea is unwelcome and causes very heated discussions. In addition, Canan, a granddaughter of Hüseyin, announces she is pregnant and the father is her English boyfriend, and no one knew anything.

Commercial photographer Richard, very satisfied with himself and his life, considers himself the perfect spouse. But only until his wife Charlotte discovers her dream man on a dating portal.

The five unlikely friends Caroline, Eva, Estelle, Judith and Kiki have been meeting on the first Tuesday of every month for 15 years to gossip and gossip - and once a year they go on a short vacation together. This time, at Eva's suggestion, they want to spend a week of fasting in a remote castle hotel: seven days without everyday life, without stress, without men - and without food. Unfortunately, the meager therapeutic fasting mainly causes ravenous hunger among the women, and the problems at home cannot be shaken off so easily. Empty bellies and sleepless nights soon cause friction. Finally, the real reason for Eva's vacation suggestion turns out: she hopes to find her unknown father at the castle.

Working life was often no walk in the park for the resolute Henriette. Without any training and with many odd jobs, the now 58-year-old has struggled through life. And so Henni decides to take the bull by the horns once again and take her fate into her own hands. She reinvents herself as a "premium nanny" who only works for the best families in the world and dreams of carefree hours on the beach of a dream island. Of course, there is always a huge gap between her dreams and reality, and so her first job on the island of Mauritius becomes a real challenge.

After years abroad, the entrepreneur's daughter Isabella Meinhardt returns to Germany at the request of her widowed father Friedrich. But instead of accepting her onto the board of his automobile factory as expected, Friedrich presents his stunned daughter with his new fiancée, the public prosecutor Viola. Isabella does get a chance at the company, but not on the executive floor: she is initially expected to earn her spurs on the assembly line. Incognito, of course. She falls in love with the smart engineer Sebastian, who has no idea of her true identity.

The happily married judge Susanne has been carrying a secret with her for many years. As a 17-year-old, she released her baby for adoption. But a letter now confronts them with the past: Paolo, the Italian father of her girl, has died and has inherited his house in Tuscany to the unknown daughter. Despite better knowledge, Susanne sets out in search of her lost daughter - endangering the happiness of two families.

In the tranquil Styrian highlands, the waves rise when an Italian earthquake victim threatens to expose a dark family secret. Highly dramatic, enthralling and high-carat busy. Right down to the supporting roles, Austrian celebrities can be found in this modern Heimat film, which tells of the imponderables of love.

True love never dies, the loving heart never stops beating ... for Kerstin’s ex Thomas, who she still hopes will come back some day. Instead of Thomas, her mother Charlotte shows up at her door, mid-50s and freshly single again, too. Charlotte moves in with Kerstin and her flatmates, one of who shows her how to use a modern dating app to meet new men. As mom starts dating again, her daughter refuses to let digital reality intrude on her romantic daydreams.

On the way to his mother's, Bruno has a breakdown in his vintage car that will change his life. Sophie, the former love of his life, suddenly appears before him. After a stormy night of love, she disappeared without a trace, and even now she wants nothing to do with the young car mechanic, as she is now engaged to someone else.

Starnberg. An idyll with fangs. This is where police master trainee Ariane from Dortmund ends up. Inspector Lu takes her firmly under his wing. Her first cases are typical and strange: the Kini is found dead in the lake - again. And then Sisi is kidnapped.

After giving birth, Emilia becomes more estranged from her newborn and deal with postpartum depression.

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Worried about her missing daughter Fanny, Munich civil servant Lisbeth travels to Italy in a hurry. She is relieved to discover that the young student is safe and sound but, to her mother's horror, is about to marry the law student Luca, whom Fanny has only known for six weeks. The divorced Lisbeth is extremely skeptical, and Luca's wealthy mother Carla is also ringing alarm bells. Both women want to use their motherly power to prevent their children's flash wedding.

As a housewife, wife and manager of a family business, Anne Stadler has everything under control. So the wedding of her only daughter Lisette should be a fantastic event, as she herself was not allowed to experience it. With Elan Anne organizes in the contemplative Black Forest village a social event of the first order, with church blessing, many guests and a big stag party. But in the middle of the preparations, she caught her godfather Gerd in the family-owned sawmill at the fling. When finally Arno Freywald appears, father of the groom Daniel and impostor, the cards are shuffled.

Henriette's second assignment as a premium nanny also takes her to an exotic location. The young-at-heart woman in her mid-50s travels to South Africa to look after two bored children on a farm in the wilderness. Anton and Linus are staying with their grandfather Konrad Eckstein for four weeks. Eckstein doesn't really have much interest in his grandchildren, preferring to spend his time with his animals. Nanny Henriette comes at just the right time - even if he can't warm to the older lady either. But Henriette refuses to accept Eckstein's stoic nature. She investigates why the grandfather has no desire to spend time with his grandchildren and also wonders why Johanna Eckstein's daughter left the farm a long time ago. Who knows, maybe Henriette can reunite the family.

Attorney Caroline, the sensitive Judith, the housewife Eva and the affluent entrepreneur Estelle have been friends for 15 years. Once a year, the ladies go on a weekend break, but this time the trip is not a good star: After the death of her husband Arne wants the mourning Judith completed his pilgrimage started to Lourdes. As faithful friends, the three others join her. However, it does not take long for the strains of the tour to cause many a quarrel.

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The sleepy village of Gendering is basically just a tiny spot on the map, but a very beautiful one. The village is so attractively located between the Alps and Munich that the young innkeeper Paula receives an offer to sell the village to an investor for 18 million euros: Gendering is to become a luxury vacation park.

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Christmas Eve at the 14th precinct. While his colleagues go on duty, Dirk Matthies takes off. He has logged off from everyone to escape the Christmas hustle and bustle and enjoy a cozy solo evening on board his ship in peace and quiet. But then something bangs on the ship's planks which, on closer inspection, turns out to be what Dirk least wanted to see that evening: Santa Claus himself is there - and looks quite confused. After a moment's hesitation, Dirk agrees to drive the chaotic old man to his first job.

Fritz, Walter and Andi are caught red-handed in the event of a burglary. But are the three friends in Santa Claus costume really a wanted gang of criminals? Commissioner Bremer is supposed to find that out on Christmas Eve. While her family is already waiting at home, she has to listen to more unusual confessions than she would like. But the interrogation won't go, because your intrigued colleague is just waiting to take over the prestigious case.

The likeable, somewhat inconspicuous dental assistant Anna Maria has been secretly in love with her boss for a long time. However, the egocentric, always slightly stressed Dr. Leander Winter has no idea of his employee's feelings. Anna Maria is all the more surprised when one day he asks her to play his girlfriend for a short time: Winter's daughter is getting married and as his ex-wife will also be arriving with her new lover, he doesn't want to be alone at the ceremony. In any case, the jealous dad would prefer to prevent the wedding.

At a press conference, Bavarian Minister President Reitmayer makes an unclear and ill-considered statement about Bavaria's possible withdrawal from the Federal Republic of Germany, sparking a discussion of unimagined proportions in the press and media. The excitement surrounding his words quickly becomes too much for Reitmayer and so he withdraws from the public eye and flees to a remote area in the Bavarian countryside. In doing so, however, he offends his family, to whom he has not revealed his whereabouts: Without further ado, his children Kathi and Martl set off in search of him. In the process, they not only learn a lot about their family, but also about their native Bavaria and its various regions. Meanwhile, the Minister President who has gone into hiding has found happiness, but for better or worse he must return to the public eye in order to calm the still raging debate...

Ecki is a sweet, closeted gay man who works in his family’s bakery and plays goalie in his small town’s soccer team. When he both loses the big game, and is caught flirting with another player, his homophobic teammates throw him out. He vows to return one day with an all-gay team that will grind the heteros into the dust, so he sets off to find his “dream team.” With the help of his nurse sister, Ecki scours local gay bars and eventually assembles a hilariously motley but endearing crew of misfits that includes a leather-daddy threesome, a femme Turk with Beckham fantasies, a secret straight guy in love with the sister, and a seriously cute nurse eager for some private play-time with the goalie. Ecki now has two problems – turning this bunch into a team, and facing his own fears regarding his first romance.

10 year-old Paul is an average but timid boy, subject to the typical fears of most kids his age. His overprotective mother Mona, believing Paul to be disturbed, sends him off to a psychotherapist.

When Katharina got an unexpected letter from her son Hans announcing that he was getting married and that he and his fiancé Nicki were leaving Berlin to come visit her...

In this black comedy set in small-town Bavaria, 11-year-old Sebastian thinks you can never be too young to be a murderer. He's convinced that he killed his mother on the day he was born and is certain he's already been condemned to purgatory. Deciding he might be able to knock off a few years of his sentence by doing good deeds, Sebastian sets out to find a wife for his father Lorenz. When Lorenz and Sebastian's schoolteacher Veronika fall madly in love with each other, it seems the heavens must be smiling. There's just one hitch: Veronika is married.

At the reading of her late husband's will, Gila Maibach learns that there is a co-heiress to her beloved house! At first, Gila is convinced that the attractive Maja is her husband's mistress. However, the perky florist soon turns out to be Lothar's secret daughter. As Gila is unable to pay Maja her inheritance, the heavily pregnant young woman and her young son Max move in with the completely bewildered widow without further ado.

Thé beautiful bookseller Sophie wants to realize her lifelong dream and set up a reading café in the old shed next to the house inherited from her aunt. But the house still causes problems, a plumber must come here. And it seems like this Phillip White could also do other things than broken water pipes. For example, the chaos in Sophie's emotional balance. Jeanette Hain and Jochen Horst play the leading roles in this unusually atmospheric relationship comedy by up-and-coming director Kirsten Peters.

After work, only the canary is waiting for Rosi. Even her friend secretly giggles about the "old bag who's missed out."

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.

Conny could be happy all round. Her bike rental business with a small workshop is going well, she is happy with her boyfriend Frank and the fact that Conny is pregnant rounds off her happiness. But Conny is struggling with the past. Years ago, she gave up her son Jan for adoption. Her boyfriend Frank tracks down the name of the adoptive parents. Conny cannot suppress her curiosity and finds a way to take part in her son's life. He is now 16 years old and his name is Alexander. He loves cycling more than anything - and is gradually starting to fall in love with Conny...

When three teenage boys from Bavaria try to lose their innocence in the neighboring Czech Republic, they get themselves and a young pregnant Ukrainian immigrant into trouble with local pimps.

A funny story about bachelor party went wrong...

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After the death of his mother, 12-year-old Moritz begins to act in ways that distress the aunt he is living with, so she packs him off to Spain to be with his father. At the airport he meets "Don Quichote" - or is it? The lost boy and the deluded man have some adventures, all with a happy ending.

Theresa feels neglected. When her husband Richard once again cancels an appointment on her birthday, she travels to Usedom for a spontaneous solo vacation. She receives a tempting job offer at the "Möwe" guesthouse, which is all the more attractive because the charming boat builder Sebastian entertains the guests with piano music in the evenings. When Richard finally sets off for Usedom to bring his wife back home, he is up against some serious competition.

The crook Vincent loves Mona, the daughter of a policeman. When Mona's father finds out what Vincent does for a living, he puts him behind bars. After Vincent is released from prison after a year, he meets up with the pimp Siggi for a poker game and gambles away DM 60,000. Unfortunately, he has used his girlfriend Mona, whom he has posed as a prostitute, as collateral. Siggi now wants to get either 60,000 DM or Mona within three days. Vincent now tries on the one hand not to let Mona find out about her fate, and on the other to get the money as quickly as possible...

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After 20 years, carpenter Johannes Keinath returns to his hometown on Lake Constance. When he fights off two crooks during a robbery, he believes he has fatally injured one of them.

Helen doesn't want any more. She has "ironed herself sick, served herself to death and cooked herself stupid".

Wieland Busch is a misogynist as it is written in the book. And he even wrote this book himself: Since his bestseller "The Love Lie", Wieland has been a fashion philosopher who defines people as pure instincts. The eloquent thinker brands love and romance in his own television show as purely "hormonal disorders". However, none of this prevents the wealthy heiress Beatrix Hohenheubach from falling in love with the cynic.

A widower man wants to cancel the lease of a religious orphanage, but when one of the nuns turns into the babysitter of his children, changes opinion.

After the surprising death of his singing and life partner Charles, eccentric pop star Harry Hansen has lost all drive. Only his neighbor, the widowed surgeon Nicolaus Roeder, cares for him. To finally pull Harry out of his depression, he urges him to hire the unemployed cook Rosa as a housekeeper.

Young blonde translator Rebecca lives with her boyfriend ski instructor Marco in a mountain villa owned by her friend, nurse Laura. Rene, local cinema projectionist, steals Marco's car and gets into a car crash with local Theo, whose daughter, after being in coma for a time, dies. Rene suffers from partial short term memory loss and starts a relationship with Laura. Meanwhile Marco is looking for the man who stole his car and Theo - for the man who killed his daughter...

Berlin, Germany. A cruel murder took place in an appartment building. Somebody bit off quite a piece of the victim's penis, who then, of course, lost a lot of blood, before being struck down at the head. Leading investigator Bernhard Kominka, being in stress due to a mentally retarded son and a problematic wife, seems to be the only one to see a lady in a red coat. After a while, his theory of her being the murderer may prove to be true, but the Cop also kind of fell in love with this new, interesting person in both of his lives: professional and private as well. Borders dissolve. His decision may be disastrous in any way.

An attractive teacher is faced with a big problem: she can't decide which of her two “men of the heart” she should choose. She has to choose between her current boyfriend, who is a free-spirited womanizer, and a reserved university lecturer who has a six-year-old son.

Four stories set in the city of Regensburg.

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Peter Merz is used to getting what he wants: this time, too, business success is as good as certain: the Japanese investors with whose help he wants to build a factory in Dresden will eat out of his hand. The beautiful and no less tenacious competitor Teamarianne, who is always one step ahead of him in all his endeavors, gets in his way. When Peter's wife unsuspectingly involves the heir to the Takahashi group first in a traffic collision and then in a flirtation, a series of turbulent confusions and mix-ups takes its course.

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An unemployed lawyer from Munich, a fan of the 1860 soccer club, inherits a funeral home and hatches a plan to buy a striker for the club, which is threatened with relegation. But first, he has to get the inherited business back on track. What better way to do that than with an advertising campaign that promotes funerals as events?

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