Best German TV shows
This page is updated regularly. Subscribe, so you don't miss new recommendations. The list of "Best German TV shows" contains films with the following parameters. Style: captivating, tense, realistic, suspenseful, serious and humorous. Plot: investigation, female nudity, male nudity, police investigation, family relations, murder, murder mystery, law enforcement, satire and dishonesty. Genre: Drama, Crime and Thriller. Country: Germany, USA and UK.
Best German TV shows
TOP TV Shows: Babylon Berlin (2017), St. Maik (2018), 4 Blocks (2017), Luna & Sophie (2018), Dark (2017), The Worst Witch (2017), Pastewka (2005), Generation War (2013), Skam Germany (2018), Wallander (2008), Dogs of Berlin (2018), Charité at War (2017), Pagan Peak (2018), The Last Cop (2010), Sleeping Dog (2023), The Bridge (2011), Freud (2020), Das Boot (2018), Dr. Nice (2023), Stromberg (2004).
List of Best TV Shows
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Colognian commissioner Gereon Rath moves to Berlin, the epicenter of political and social changes in the Golden Twenties.
Style:
atmospheric, neo noir, costume drama, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
espionage, german history, social problems, political intrigue, interwar period, unsolved crime, police detective, conspiracy, national socialism, european history, police investigation, world war two ...
Time:
1920s, pre world war two, year 1929, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
berlin germany, germany
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527
Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany
TV show
Story:
Con artist Maik Schäfer switches his fake conductor's suit for a real soutane while trying to escape custody and ends up in the catholic parish of Läuterberg. Standing in for Vicar Sanman, Maik participates in the parish members' fates ...
Style:
satirical, feel good, funny, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience:
family friendly, adult
Plot:
con artists, fraud, religion, satire, lie, priest, church, impostor, silly humor, money problems, debt, bandit ...
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11K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Based in Neukölln, Berlin Toni manages the daily business of dealing with the Arabic gangs and ends up wanting to leave his old life behind for his family, but as expected, its never that simple.
Style:
suspenseful, atmospheric, tense, suspense
Plot:
clan, islam, mafia, drug, drug smuggling, gang, brothers, dishonesty, betrayal, family relations, drug lord, drug dealer ...
Place:
germany
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Genre: Crime
Country: Germany
TV show
Story:
Luna Kunath (Caroline Erikson) and Tamara Meurer (Anjua Pahl) work together in the Potsdam murder commission. Luna is single, strong, assertive, funny, empathic, sporty and fast in the head. It is an excellent policewoman whose carefree always ...
Style:
tense, detective, captivating, disturbing, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
uncover truth, murder investigation, female protagonist, crime investigation, sleuth, police procedural, investigation, teamwork, police investigation, fighting crime, forensics, crime solving ...
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531K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
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.
Style:
mysterious, mind bending, atmospheric, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
time travel, time loop, investigation, mysterious past, time machine, cave, missing child, time portal, deja vu, small town, disappearance, alternate dimension ...
Time:
year 1986, year 2019, 50s, 80s, year 1953 ...
Place:
germany, chernobyl, europe
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Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Join Mildred Hubble in CBBC's adaptation of The Worst Witch books, written by Jill Murphy.
Style:
entertaining, humorous, feel good, light, captivating ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, teen fantasy
Plot:
witch, friendship, teenager, magical power, magic, boarding school, witchcraft, teenage witch, girl, teenage girl, bully, friendship between girls ...
Time:
2020s, 2010s
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story:
Pastewka is a German television sitcom that began airing on German TV channel Sat.1 in 2005. The series, currently in its sixth season, is set in Cologne, with German actor Bastian Pastewka starring as a fictionalized version of himself. It has been ...
Style:
humorous, sitcom, witty, cynical, not serious ...
Plot:
comedian, family relations, everyday life, private vs public, actor's life, nothing goes right, actor, showbiz, workplace, workplace situations, antisocial behavior, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story:
Berlin, 1941. Five friends eager to become heroes in an adventure that will change the face of Europe - and that will forever change them as well.
Style:
tense, captivating, thought provoking, serious, anime ...
Plot:
world war two, nazism, holocaust, soldier, military, nazi germany, guilt, danger, eastern front, atrocity, wehrmacht, friends ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
germany, berlin germany, east germany, hawaii, soviet union ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
Skam Germany
Style:
captivating, psychological
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
gay relationship, teen romance, lgbt, gay, unrequited love, teenage protagonist, teenage life, teenage boy, teenage girl, relationship problems, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage love ...
Place:
berlin germany
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17K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Sweden, Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story:
This drama follows Inspector Kurt Wallander – a middle-aged everyman – as he struggles against a rising tide of violence in the apparently sleepy backwaters in and around Ystad in Skane, southern Sweden. Based on the international best-selling ...
Style:
bleak, crime drama, psychological, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
police detective, murder investigation, police investigation, police, loneliness, whodunit, life is a bitch, drinking problem, depression, small town, british police, nordic ...
Time:
2000s, future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
scandinavia
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 542 min.
TV show
Story:
A politically sensitive murder forces two disparate detectives into a battle with the Berlin underworld and a confrontation with their own corruption.
Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, bleak, serious ...
Plot:
police protagonist, football player, homicide detective, murder, male male relationship, racism, police partner, neo nazi, sleuth, crime investigation, detective inspector, cheating ...
Place:
germany
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Genre: Drama, History, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Berlin, 1888. After penniless Ida’s life is saved at the Charité Hospital she must work off the treatment costs. While she becomes acquainted with the most brilliant physicians of this era at the world-famous hospital, the self-determined young ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, stylized, medical drama, intellectual ...
Plot:
hospital, medicine, scientist, doctor, medical, german history, nurse, medical research, medical school, science, discovery, surgery ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1940s, 60s, 1880s
Place:
berlin germany, germany
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
When a gruesomely staged body is found, propped up on a mountain pass in the Alps close to the German-Austrian border, two detectives are sent to investigate. For German detective Ellie, this is the first real challenge of her career; her Austrian ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, detective, tense, slasher ...
Plot:
murder, danger, violence, police investigation, death, society, abduction, folk horror, murderer, brutality, life philosophy, blood ...
Place:
germany, alps, austria, central europe, europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
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.
Style:
suspenseful, humorous, semi serious, realistic, detective ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
law enforcement, police investigation, life turned upside down, workplace situations, machismo, rock, traditional versus modern, society, workplace, police station, police detective, homicide detective ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany, europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story:
A former detective now living on the streets searches for the truth after a new death raises unnerving doubts about a supposedly settled murder case.
Style:
dramatic, suspenseful, captivating, serious
Plot:
cheating wife, terrorist, conspiracy, police, criminal, police investigation, law enforcement, prosecutor, terrorist attack, terrorism, police detective, police officer ...
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Norway
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
When a body is found on the bridge between Denmark and Sweden, right on the border, Danish inspector Martin Rohde and Swedish Saga Norén have to share jurisdiction and work together to find the killer.
Style:
atmospheric, captivating, tense, suspenseful, gloomy ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
serial killer, police investigation, multiple suspects, murder, murder investigation, cop, police detective, twists and turns, partners against crime, mind game, riddles and clues, heroine ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
denmark, scandinavia, copenhagen, europe, eastern europe
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14K
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story:
Eager to make his name in 19th-century Vienna, a hungry young Sigmund Freud joins a psychic and an inspector to solve a string of bloody mysteries.
Style:
gothic, psychological, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
psychology, murder mystery, psychiatrist, male nudity, psychologist, murder investigation, treatment, doctors and patients, serial killer, historical figure, threat, introspection ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 1880s
Place:
austria, central europe, vienna
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12K
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany, Czech Republic
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
An inexperienced U-boat crew has to survive a secret mission and a young German woman is torn between loyalty for her home country and the French resistance in the WWII drama.
Style:
tense, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
submarine, world war two, french resistance, navy, wehrmacht, rape, military, world war, nazi germany, insubordination, nazi occupation, leadership ...
Time:
1940s, year 1942, 20th century
Place:
europe, france
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
TV show
Story:
Dr. Nice is a heartthrob and star surgeon, until an accident stiffens his right hand. An inheritance leads him to the Flensburg Fjord and to daughter Lea, of whom he knew nothing.
Style:
captivating, satirical, thrilling, psychological, medical drama ...
Plot:
surgeon, doctor, illness, problem, relationships, male doctor, physician, family relations, satire, medicine, father daughter relationship, medical ...
Place:
germany
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11K
Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
Stromberg is a German television series which is produced by Brainpool and broadcast on the commercial television channel ProSieben. The series was proclaimed as a copy of the BBC series The Office, although initially the producers claimed it was ...
Style:
humorous, mockumentary, realistic, semi serious, not serious ...
Plot:
office, social satire, boss, workplace, boss and employee, insurance, coworker, workplace situations, rivals, workplace problem, rivalry, incompetence ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
germany, europe
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148
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
Heldt is a German television series, which is broadcast since 2013 on German ZDF.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious, crime drama ...
Plot:
law enforcement, cons and scams, police investigation, kidnapping, dishonesty, forgery, television, investigation, police procedural, commissioner, whodunit, justice ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany, northern germany
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
A mysterious classmate leads four idealistic teens in a revolt against a rising tide of nationalistic fervor, but their movement takes a dark turn.
Style:
captivating, psychological, political thriller, intellectual, tension ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
teenager, adaptation, youth, activism, society, showdown, rebel, social problems, outcast, fighting the system, social relations, social misfits ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, Luxembourg
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story:
Ambitious Jana is confronted with the unscrupulous machinations of the world of finance. Her working life is determined by egotism, the pressure to succeed and machismo. She soon has to decide how far she is prepared to go for her career.
Style:
disturbing, exciting, captivating, serious, rough
Plot:
job, bank manager, finance, corruption, sex, banker, blackmail, fired from the job, bank clerk, manipulative person, workplace, bank ...
Place:
frankfurt germany, germany
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49K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, Germany
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Based on Robert Saviano's bestselling book, this gritty Italian crime drama paints a portrait of the brutal Neapolitan crime organisation the Camorra, as seen through the eyes of Ciro Di Marzo, the obedient and self- confident right-hand man of ...
Style:
disturbing, tense, captivating, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
mafia, mob boss, drug lord, camorra, gang, social decay, society, gang war, life is a bitch, italian mafia, gangster, strong violent content ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
italy, naples italy, europe, napoli italy, new mexico
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story:
Down-and-out musician Bastian battles the blues as he returns home for Christmas and encounters a series of not-so-cheery surprises.
Style:
psychological, entertaining, captivating, humorous, sincere ...
Plot:
christmas, musician, singer, brother brother relationship, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, family relations, relationship problems, father son relationship, family secret, ex girlfriend, satire, family life ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
To impress his ex-girlfriend, a nerdy teen starts selling drugs online out of his bedroom -- and becomes one of Europe's biggest dealers.
Style:
light, semi serious, humorous, colorful, entertaining ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
internet, business, teenager, love and romance, relationships, friendship, drug, disability, coming of age, cryptocurrency, illegal drugs, pain ...
Place:
germany
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 270 min.
TV show
Story:
In a politically, morally and economically destroyed country, three sisters of an industrialist family in post-war Germany reinvent themselves and set the course for their future.
Style:
period piece, disturbing, captivating
Plot:
post war germany, post war, world war two, family life, tragic romance, unrequited love, cold war, war, social class, panic attack, family relations, factory owner ...
Time:
post world war two, 1940s, 1950s, 20th century, 50s
Place:
berlin germany, west germany, germany
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 17 min.
TV show
Story:
A group of young supermarket employees face the everyday challenges of the branch. Under the direction of branch manager Thorsten, the employees try to cope with all catastrophes and dramas, such as stealing employees, a mouse plague or dissatisfied ...
Style:
entertaining, satirical, captivating, feel good, semi serious ...
Plot:
supermarket, satire, workplace, coworker, store, workplace situations, job, rivalry, store manager, competitor, stress, shoplifting ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story:
A gripping coming-of-age story set against the real culture wars and political events of Germany in the 1980s. The drama follows Martin Rauch as the 24 year-old East Germany native is pulled from the world as he knows it and sent to the West as an ...
Style:
realistic, tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
cold war, espionage, stasi, spy, secret police, german soldier, double agent, working undercover, state affairs, rivalry, undercover, military ...
Time:
year 1983, 20th century, 80s
Place:
germany, east germany, west berlin west germany, german democratic republic, west germany ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany
TV show
Story:
Unemployed Arthur Ahnepol wants his obnoxious wife to die to claim the life insurance and start a new life with his mistress, which sets off a series of disastrous events.
Style:
tragicomedy, cynical, humorous, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
older man younger woman relationship, misogyny, lifestyle change, unlikely criminals, morality, family problems, family life, peril, unlikely partners, criminal, life turned upside down, family relations ...
Place:
germany
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