Sebastian Ströbel

The life of the Cologne architect Mads is as empty as his apartment. Since the death of his beloved wife, the 44-year-old has only been able to function in a reduced daily routine. A chance reunion with his best friend from his youth changes everything. The cheerful single woman René moves in with him with her children - nine-year-old Lola and six-year-old Oscar. Finally, life is coming back into his life! Although René is not even considering the good-looking, successful guy as a new partner, Mads is growing into the unfamiliar role of the perfect patchwork dad. Friends without benefits, but with children - it works amazingly perfectly! When Mads becomes interested in the fascinating Eva, who is just as cautious as he is, an unwanted complication comes into the lightness of being: René receives a medical diagnosis that requires far-reaching decisions. Although he has other plans, Mads knows what he has to do.

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Scientists try to simulate the Big Bang and the experiment gets out of control. While satellites come down and chaos arises, the stories of several people trying to survive is told.

Augustine is a two-part, Italian-made mini-series about the influential theologian and church father St. Augustine of Hippo. The piece tells the story of his life from a teenager to his death at the age of 69. Much of the content for the scenes of him as a young and middle-aged man come from his Confessions, which is probably the earliest extant autobiography.

In the middle of century XII much of the European territory is ruled by the Holy Roman Empire and violence and cruelty are the order of the day. Several German regions are terrorized by a dangerous murderer who is dedicated to kill young girls. Therefore, Isanhart and Laurin, his faithful companion in arms, will travel from end to end of the old continent to hunt the ruthless criminal.

Young Amelia learns from her mother Magda that she was adopted as a baby. Her biological parents are from Ireland. When Magda dies of a heart attack shortly afterwards, Amelia feels that nothing is keeping her in Germany anymore. She leaves the bookshop she inherited and her bewildered fiancé and sets off headlong to find her real family on the Emerald Isle. Upon arriving in Ireland, something magical happens to the young woman. Amelia follows the mysterious clues. This leads her to meet the attractive private detective Bobby.

The attractive policewoman Carla Paul still has the remains of her carnival make-up and glitter on her face. But now the motto is: "Make-up off and off to work!" Because the attractive head of a small police station in the heart of Cologne is facing the biggest challenge of her life: the annual madness of the Rose Monday parade. Not only did she break up with Rick, her colleague who is still madly in love with her, just a few days ago, but today of all days, the auditor Kersten, another of Carla's exes, arrives. She and her colleagues have their hands full trying to get the drunken rabbits, chickens and Mainzelmännchen into the already overcrowded sobering-up cell at the police station.

Self-confessed body fetishist Nick hates fat people. He puts his heart and soul into his job as the manager of a fitness temple. The lavishly endowed Eva, on the other hand, is a pastry chef in a hotel on the roof of which Nick's studio is located. A body-swap comedy for which Diana Amft and Sebastian Ströbel don fatsuits.

Macho Alex is smart and good-looking. He is known among women as an unscrupulous hunter. He wraps the women in rows around his fingers and then disappears into his sports car. For him, love is something for men who pee while sitting. The womanizer Alex then pushes it a little too far, because three love affairs at the same time are too many even for the greatest professional.

Jean receives in payment for seven years of work with a master craftsman a gold nugget. He then exchanges this nugget for a horse, then the horse for a cow, the cow for a pig, the pig for a goose, the goose for a sharpening stone. Finally, he loses the stone by dropping it in a well. After losing the sharpening stone, he is relieved because it weighed heavy, and continues his happy journey to his mother's house. On his way home, he keeps running into Knudsen the Merchant and his beautiful daughter Elisabeth.

Lissy is looking forward to her big day. Her wedding with Robert is actually perfectly organized - the icing on the cake would be the presence of her father, Valentin. For such romantic fits her big sister Bernadette has no understanding. Her producer left early and never looked after his daughters again. Instead, he was thundering through the world as a musician. If it were up to Bernadette, then her father could stay where the pepper grows. As the charming Chaot emerges surprisingly, he brings the wedding and some present quite confused.

After Helma is lured into an abandoned villa by the voice of her boyfriend Philipp and brutally murdered there, his friends and family hold him responsible for Helma's death—and for further deaths. But the truth is quite different, because: The "Gonger" is back!

When Tina discovers her current boyfriend, Frank, has been cheating on her, she rewrites his text to a competition in a male magazine as a story about his small penis. When the story wins, Tina dresses as a man to collect the prize as Frank Schmidt. She is instead offered a job at the magazine and has to deal with pretending to be a man as well as her developing feelings for the chief editor, Moritz.

Crying children, changing diapers, baby food - everything around Jan seems to revolve around having children. Not only is his best friend Theo a new father, but his sister-in-law Marion's children also keep the successful engineer on his toes. So it's all the better that Jan's marriage to Hanna is a child-free zone. Until now - because Hanna's family plans are becoming more and more concrete... When she brings up her desire to have children one evening, a heated argument develops that ends in a compromise: To test whether the couple is even ready to take responsibility for a child, they first want to look after a dog for a few weeks. If that goes well, they can start thinking about having a baby. A short time later, bulldog Lucky moves in with them and causes a huge stir in the couple's lives...

Franziska is shocked: her husband Rainer has suddenly left her. Depressed, she decides to travel alone to her cousin Amelia's wedding in Ireland. Shortly before her departure, she notices a magical book that seems to be trying to tell her something with its regularly changing covers. Once in Ireland, Franziska believes she must help Adam, the best man who is also newly separated, win back his ex-girlfriend Sally if she wants to find happiness again herself. Only gradually does she realize the true intention of the book.

A Comedy that follows a pair exchanging into each others body while trying the wedding ring and know each other from a very different side.

Pauline Schwebe is a police officer and single. She is touched when she discovers Leo Golombeck's handwritten wish list at a traffic light. In it, the seven-year-old invites a lonely soul to a Christmas party with his family. In return, he wouldn't mind if the lonely soul brought a few presents. Pauline visits Leo, who lives in modest circumstances with his sister Lotte and his dad Daniel. As Pauline's parents are constantly nagging her that she is still single, she quickly invites Daniel and his children to the family Christmas party and introduces him as her new boyfriend.

The tragic death of the six-year-old Tine joins the fates for three families: The eight-year-old David meets as suspected offender in the psychiatry on the energetic physician Nora, who tries to displace her own problems with his treatment. However, David's mother is increasing overwhelmed with the situation and escapes to her new friend, while the parents of the dead girl desperately try the fate to process.

The story of Karin and Mike. They work at Perla, a washing machine manufacturer. She is a career woman, he is on the assembly line and plays for the factory soccer team. The company is owned by an American corporation. Until now it has been business as usual, but all of a sudden comes the news that 400 redundancies are needed if Perla is to survive. Suddenly, there is everything to play for.

Inken and Lucy are facing hard times when their parents' money is radically cut off. Together with Lena, who is fed up with her boyfriend, they desperately search for money, an apartment and love. But because each individual point is difficult to realize on its own, the girls decide to kill all three birds with one stone for the sake of simplicity. The solution: they need rich, nice boys with suitable living space - and they need them now! But until then, horrendous rents, false identities and sleazy neighbors put their friendship to the test.

Mia is dreaming of one day being the youngest driver in the Dakar Rally. She's pretty and loves the challenge. One day she gets to know the driving instructor Sherin, an exotic beauty of mid-twenties. She takes Mia to a secret car race out of town.

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Nine

A man decides to sell his grandparents' house when he finds out that the death of his parents seems to be connected to a legend about a murdered child.

He's handsome and poor, she's rich and plump: can that work in the long run? Miriam meets Kai, a student, in a car accident. The chubby daughter from a good family and the handsome have-not fall in love. Her friends are horrified. Will the two make it anyway?

Martin wants to catch up on his exams. In order to be admitted as a hardship case, he "borrows" his neighbor's child. His buddy Lars, a successful lawyer, wistfully remembers his old student days and wants to let it rip again before he gets married.

Polly, a 20-year-old released from juvenile detention, wants to lead an honest life away from her petty criminal family. She takes a job at a fast food restaurant and falls in love with Stefan, a police officer. Meanwhile, Ronny, Polly's sister's new boyfriend, persuades her parents to rob a liquor store to get the start-up capital they need to get into the aluminium prefabricated house business. Polly is also expected to help with this, and on top of that, she has to fend off Ronny's advances.

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Two German UN soldiers are confronted by a sniper in Kosovo.

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Based on a WW II legend: A German soldier awaiting his doom in the pocket of Stalingrad spots an undamaged piano in the no-man's land between the lines. The urge to play one more time becomes irresistible. -Appassionata- is inspired by an army postal service letter send by a German soldier from Stalingrad to his wife. The movie tells of the short moments in which soldiers try to escape the demons of war - of those rare instants in which longings and emotions out dare the maelstrom of daily cruelty and humanity wins over the frenzy of war.

Marisa and Frank honeymoon in South Africa. A particularly favourable offer lures them to a lonely and run-down hotel. There, they are attacked by men. Frank is beaten and kidnapped, while Marisa barely escapes. She receives help from the young South African Biko, who helps her to escape the men. Marisa and Biko find out that people are abducted to be cannibalized for the trade in organs. Finally, the two try to find frank and save him.

Tiffany is in her early twenties. She is a cosmetics salesperson and pleasingly plump. She's good at her job, fun-loving and self-confident. That she hasn't has her big breakthrough yet, she attributes to her figure, which doesn't conform to the prevalent ideal.When she meets a guy, falls in love, but he shies away whenever she wants to get intimate, and when her boss fires her and hires a thinner replacement, she makes a decision: no matter how, the fat has got to go...

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It takes time for Lukas to understand who the little boy in his room is. When Lukas listens to him one day, a journey into his inner world of memories begins. A man whom Lukas had long tried to forget is waiting in a deep cellar... Sometimes you have to face your dark memories. Otherwise they become so powerful that they destroy everything you are. Not least what you love.

Ticket seller Katrina is unexpectedly declared co-heiress of a shipping company. Thrown out of her simple life, she now has to deal with Hamburg's high society.

Marc Steinhauer meets Stella again after 20 years. Back then, she broke his heart, but now Stella asks the volcano researcher for help: her daughter has disappeared in Tenerife and Marc is supposed to help her find Mia. But Marc doesn't want to get involved at first – after all, Stella simply left him back then. But Stella has an ace up her sleeve, and the two set off on a search together.

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