The German tourist Kiki and the Swiss tour guide Marlies are kidnapped by Contra rebels from Nicaragua while on vacation in Costa Rica. While Kiki's friend Markus fights for her release together with her mother, Kiki begins an affair with one of the kidnappers. When the two women were released after 72 days on payment of ransom, the police suspected that they had colluded with the kidnappers.
Criminal psychologist David Bornett is investigating a series of murders in which a police pen is stuck in the victim's ear. The team includes his godson Michael, who is new to the police force, and his colleague Max. Bornett suspects the murderer is among his own ranks and informs Michael. While David's trail leads to Max, Michael's leads lead directly to his uncle David.
The year is 2048, and global warming has flooded much of Earth's land areas. A father and his two sons try to salvage treasures from sunken buildings when they are given an important assignment by the New Vatican.
After separating from her husband Werner, who now has a new wife, Paula lives alone with her young son Philipp. After the little boy runs away from home, the ex and his new wife try everything to take advantage of the situation. It doesn't all seem to be right either, because shortly afterwards there is a fire in Paula and Philipp's apartment - and it looks as if someone set the fire on purpose.
Made in the form of a faux documentary, these are four possibilities - set within the circumstances of a single day replayed over four separate times - that civilization could be brought to an abrupt end...
Lilian has had enough of men and says goodbye to the world of men for the time being. But due to a technical error, she keeps getting calls from a stranger called Marc. He wants to conquer her and pretends to be the Italian Michele.
Four female cons who have formed a band in prison get a chance to play at a police ball outside the walls. They take the chance to escape. Being on the run from the law they even make it to sell their music and become famous outlaws.
A fire breaks out in the Berlin Fernsehturm (Radio Tower) trapping several people in the restaurant and observation deck at the top. A team of firefighters, including a disgraced former member, rush to the rescue as chaos erupts among the trapped.
Tracy Garret's a cop and after an incident that left one person dead, she's invited by her father to spend sometime with him in Berlin. While they were out having dinner, her father's shot. She is then informed by the German inspector assigned to her father's case that her father's a CIA operative. She then decides to investigate the case...
On her 23rd birthday, Julia is dumped by her boyfriend Patrick, her hoped-for career as a pop journalist vanishes into thin air and she finds out that she is pregnant by Patrick, who is already seeing someone else. Although she is also being courted by a new acquaintance, she decides to win Patrick back without telling him about her pregnancy. She accidentally finds out who his new girlfriend is and begins a hidden vendetta. But then there's always Frank, her new acquaintance, around whom Julia feels that strange tingling in her stomach.
A doctor is raped by two of her colleagues. In the trial, the tide initially turns against her when the video recording of the crime disappears and her turbulent love life is revealed.
When the driver manages to crash the car on the road in the middle of nowhere, three guys and a girl seem to have no other choice than to walk through the dark woods to find the nearest hostel...
An aspiring young lawyer is about to make her biggest career leap and is to become a partner in a prestigious law firm. She is accused of a serious mistake and dismissed without notice. At first she is devastated, but then she infiltrates the firm's cleaning team and uses her working hours to search for evidence of her innocence. Conventional (TV) comedy with familiar ingredients.
A German woman travels to America with her baby to take up an au pair position with a rich couple. She has no idea that the childless couple are only interested in her child and want to kill her. In Mexico, she escapes the hired killers and survives further dangers together with a local.
Tom Kostner is a macho man. He cheats on his two girlfriends, drives a flashy Cobra and works as an editor for a car magazine. He lives in a chic penthouse with his roommate, the bartender Ecki . But it is more appearances than reality: he is soon fired from the magazine. His girlfriend Manu catches him with his other girlfriend and leaves him too. He applies to some other magazines, but has no success there. When his Cobra is towed because he is behind on the installments, he grasps at his last straw: he applies to a women's magazine. However, since they prefer to hire women and homosexual men, he plays the gay man. At first he makes a few mistakes, but ultimately manages to convince the other employees.
Secret service ace Ben risks his life every day. But the job pays badly. Ben can't even pay the lawyer who has to fight for custody of his daughter. Then the agent receives a lucrative offer: for one million marks, he is to crack the security system of armaments magnate Otto Hardenberg...
Claire suffers from memory loss, but is constantly tormented by fragmentary memories. The search for the truth leads the psychiatric patient to the Baltic Sea island of Tradum. Claire firmly believes that she will discover her lost identity there. The inhabitants of the island receive her suspiciously. With the help of diver Björn, Claire uncovers the island's secret...
Paul and Paula are partners in their profession as comic artists and best friends in their private lives. They also have the same problem: being overweight! When Paul's school sweetheart Mariah suddenly turns up and is about to move to the city, Paul decides to lose weight. But he breaks his leg during his first attempt at fitness. And how do you burn a lot of calories despite breaking your leg? By popping! The results are impressive and gradually everyone around him falls for the sex diet. Eventually even Paula, who persuades her good old friend Paul to have sex with her. After all, they know each other inside out and don't want anything else from each other, or do they?
When a World War II bomb with two days to detonation is found in Berlin, Alex and his wife must work quickly to solve a 40-year-old puzzle.
Hip hoppers Yogi and Kemel dream of a big break in the music business. But just before an important competition, another band steals the song from them, and loan shark Harry confiscates their system.
