Die Wächter 1986

Dark (2017 - 2020)

8.7 /10

A missing child causes four families to help each other for answers. What they could not imagine is that this mystery would be connected to innumerable other secrets of the small town.

Average Episode Run Time: 56` . Year(s): 2017 - 2020

Director: Rickie-Lee Roberts , Jan Birka , Jantje Friese

Producer: Lars Gmehling , Jantje Friese , Benedikt Bothe

Stars: Louis Hofmann , Karoline Eichhorn , Lisa-Marie Janke , Tatja Seibt , Luna Arwen Krüger , Tara Fischer

Inspector Rex (1994 - 2004)

7.1 /10

After his handler is killed, police dog Rex teams up with recently-divorced inspector Richard Moser to investigate crimes and solve mysteries on the streets of Vienna. And they sometimes get help from their two-legged friend, Inspector Stockinger.

Average Episode Run Time: 45` . Year(s): 1994 - 2004

Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel , Olaf Kreinsen , Andreas Prochaska

Producer: Georg Prokop

Stars: Alexander Pschill , Elke Winkens , Martin Weinek , Gerhard Zemann , Katrin Reisinger , Michael Lesch

Coast Guard (1997 - 2016)

4.7 /10

Küstenwache is a German television series that tells the fictionalized adventures of a unit of Federal Coast Guard officers off the German coast of the Baltic Sea.

Average Episode Run Time: 45` . Year(s): 1997 - 2016

Director: Zbynek Cerven , Marcus Ulbricht , Florian Froschmayer

Stars: Rüdiger Joswig , Michael Kind , Elmar Gehlen , Andreas Arnstedt , Sabine Petzl , Rainer Basedow

HeliCops - Einsatz über Berlin (1998 - 2001)

5 /10

HeliCops – Einsatz über Berlin is a German television series.

Average Episode Run Time: 47` . Year(s): 1998 - 2001

Director: Peter Ristau , Beatrice Kramm

Stars: Peter Simonischek , Matthias Matz , Christoph M. Ohrt , Iris Junik , Doreen Jacobi , Dietrich Hollinderbäumer

8 Days (2019)

6.7 /10

With a huge asteroid rushing towards Europe, there are only eight days left till impact. In the face of the apocalypse everything changes; laws and rules are abandoned. Who can save themself, what is really important now?

Average Episode Run Time: 44` . Year(s): 2019

Director: David Brückner , Benjamin Seiler , Peter Kocyla

Stars: Christiane Paul , Mark Waschke , Lena Klenke , Luisa-Céline Gaffron , Fabian Hinrichs , Nora Waldstätten

Barbarians (2020 - 2022)

0 /10

Three people's fates are interwoven in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest in 9 A.D., during which Germanic warriors halt the spread of the Roman Empire.

Average Episode Run Time: 48` . Year(s): 2020 - 2022

Director: Józef Grzymała , Jan Martin Scharf , Andreas Heckmann

Stars: Laurence Rupp , Jeanne Goursaud , David Schütter , Gaetano Aronica , Bernhard Schütz , Eva Verena Müller

The Last Cop (2010 - 2014)

7.3 /10

Der letzte Bulle is a German television series that was first aired in 2010. The series is about a cop from the 1980s put into a modern police department in Essen.

Average Episode Run Time: 42` . Year(s): 2010 - 2014

Director: Robert Dannenberg , Stefan Scheich

Stars: Henning Baum , Maximilian Grill , Helmfried von Lüttichau , Robert Lohr , Tatjana Clasing , Luise Risch

The Gryphon (2023)

0 /10

The Gryphon, a dark power from another world, is a threat to Mark and all he loves. Mark must accept his heavy family legacy and go into battle to save our world from the Gryphon’s clutches.

Average Episode Run Time: 59` . Year(s): 2023

Director: Sebastian Marka , Max Zähle , Erol Yesilkaya

Stars: Jeremias Meyer , Zoran Pingel , Lea Drinda , Sabine Timoteo , Flora Thiemann , Yuri Völsch

Hamburg Transit (1970 - 1974)

8.2 /10

Hamburg Transit was a German crime television series that first aired in 1970. It ran for 52 episodes over four series until 1974. It depicts the officers of the Hamburg CID. It was a successor to the show Polizeifunk ruft which ran between 1966 and 1970.

Average Episode Run Time: 25` . Year(s): 1970 - 1974

Director: Gyula Trebitsch

Stars: Karl-Heinz Hess , Eckart Dux , Gert Haucke , Fritz Hollenbeck , Sigurd Fitzek , Uwe Dallmeier

The Peppercorns (1999 - 2023)

0 /10

Die Pfefferkörner is a German television series produced by Der Kinderkanal. The peppercorns are five friends from Hamburg: Jana Holstein Coutre, Natasha "Tascha" Jaonzäns, Philip "Fiete" Overbeck, Cem Gülec and Vivien "Vivi" Overbeck, Fiete's eight year old sister. After school, the young detectives meet at a high level of a spice warehouse of the company Overbeck & Associates, which belongs to Fiete and Vivi's parents in the first part, but is later given to Fiete and Vivi to look after. Here, in the historic warehouse district, the five friends have their headquarters. With smarts, combined delivery and support of the Internet, they find their cases here. The detectives convict polluters, animal dealers and drug smugglers. They also help each other with personal problems they encounter. Cem has lost his parents in a car accident and sometimes feels sad and lonely. Jana lives with her divorcee mother, a lawyer who is rarely at home. Natasha comes from Latvia. Her parents initially have very strict rules in terms of her education, that make Natasha unhappy. Fiete has problems showing his feelings and hides them behind grumpiness and hostility towards girls, until he falls in love with Natasha. Vivi is suffering from her role of the youngest member of the group. She believes that she must constantly struggle for recognition.

Average Episode Run Time: 28` . Year(s): 1999 - 2023

Director: Stephan Rick , Florian Schnell , Andrea Katzenberger

Producer: Douglas Welbat

Stars: Charlotte Farhadi , Jan Friedrichsen , Melody Rose , Mads Albatros , Sophia Grande , Sheldon Nguyen

Kleo (2022)

0 /10

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, a former spy killer is set free and embarks on a revenge spree against the people who conspired to betray her.

Average Episode Run Time: 51` . Year(s): 2022

Director: Hanno Hackfort , Bob Konrad , Richard Kropf

Stars: Jella Haase , Dimitrij Schaad , Julius Feldmeier , Vladimir Burlakov , Vincent Redetzki , Marta Sroka

The Legend of Tim Tyler: The Boy Who Lost His Laugh (1979 - 1980)

6.1 /10

Timm Thaler is a 1979 children's television miniseries based on the 1962 children's novel by German writer James Krüss. The series originally aired in Germany as the first Christmas series on German national broadcaster ZDF. In 1988, the series was acquired for transmission in the United Kingdom by the BBC. The English version was produced by Angela Beeching, with script by Nel Romano, and retitled The Legend of Tim Tyler. It aired during Children's BBC in the weekday afternoons. The screenplay was written by Justus Pfaue and Peter M. Thouet and differs somewhat from the original novel. Directed by Sigi Rothemund, the series became a hit in Germany and made then 14-year-old Tommi Ohrner, in the lead role of Timm Thaler, a popular teen idol of the era. The role of the Baron was played by Horst Frank.

Average Episode Run Time: 25` . Year(s): 1979 - 1980

Director: Sigi Rothemund , James Krüss

Stars: Thomas Ohrner , Horst Frank , Richard Lauffen , Stefan Behrens , Bruni Löbel , Edgar Bessen