German TV series about female detectives

List of the best German TV series about female detectives according to viewers: The Bridge, Elementary, Clarice, Babylon Berlin, Deadwind, The Billion Dollar Code, Bullets, 54 Hours: The Gladbeck Hostage Crisis, Nord Nord Mord, Il Cacciatore.

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Country
Markimdb: 8.6
Genrethriller, crime, detective
CountrySweden, Denmark, Germany
Duration00:57

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.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genredrama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration00:43

A modern-day drama about a crime-solving duo that cracks the NYPD's most impossible cases. Following his fall from grace in London and a stint in rehab, eccentric Sherlock escapes to Manhattan where his wealthy father forces him to live with his worst nightmare - a sober companion, Dr. Watson.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA

In 1993, six months after the events of The Silence of the Lambs, FBI Agent Clarice Starling returns to the field to pursue serial murderers and sexual predators while navigating the high stakes political world of Washington, D.C.

Markimdb: 8.4
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryGermany
Duration01:11

Colognian commissioner Gereon Rath moves to Berlin, the epicenter of political and social changes in the Golden Twenties.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryFinland, Germany, France
Duration01:29

When Sofia Karppi, a detective in her 30's who is trying to get over her husband's death, discovers the body of a young woman on a construction site, she triggers a chain of events that threatens to destroy her life again.

Markimdb: 8
Genrethriller, drama, crime, biography
CountryGermany
Duration01:05

In 1990s Berlin, an artist and a hacker invented a new way to see the world. Years later, they reunite to sue Google for patent infringement on it.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryFinland, Belgium, Germany

An ex-terrorist, Madina Taburova, who was presumed dead, turns up in Helsinki seeking political asylum. Using a fake identity, the Intelligence Agency officer Mari Saari has to befriend this ex-terrorist to find out why she’s here. In order to uncover the mystery, Mari Saari has to form an unlikely partnership with an older streetwise narcotics cop. But everything is not as it seems.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryGermany

Acclaimed series based on the true story of an unprecedented hostage crisis which shocked Germany in the summer of 1988.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrecrime
CountryGermany

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Markimdb: 7.8
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, history
CountryItaly, Germany

The story of Saverio Barone, a young prosecutor who in the early nineties became the protagonist of the “caccia alla Mafia” (Mafia-hunt) immediately following the Capaci and Via D'Amelio bombings. Inspired by the true story of the anti-Mafia magistrate Alfonso Sabella.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genreaction, thriller, drama
CountrySweden, Germany, Lithuania

Carl Hamilton has just returned to Sweden after many years of secret education in the US when Stockholm is shaken by a series of terrorist attacks. Hamilton is assigned to assist the Swedish intelligence service in their pursuit of the guilty, but at the same time works as a double agent.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrethriller, drama, military, history
CountryWest Germany, Germany, Czech Republic
Duration01:00

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.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryGermany

Jasper Teerlinck, an eccentric professor, is an adviser to the police.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genrecomedy, crime
CountryGermany

Sophie Haas and her team are forced to state everything they know about the committed crime in the nearby village.

Markimdb: 8
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryGermany, Austria
Duration00:42

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 counterpart Gedeon though seems to have lost any ambitions in his job. Very soon, they discover more crime scenes with symbolically posed victims, reminiscent of pagan rituals. It all seems to be part of a bigger, sinister plan. Ellie finds herself under increasing pressure to understand the deranged killer's motives so she can stop him. The hunt leads them ever deeper in the dark valleys and archaic Alpine customs - and the paranoid world of the killer.

Markimdb: 9
Genredrama, adventure, documentary, biography
CountryNew Zealand, United Kingdom, USA, Spain, Germany, Greece, Canada
Duration01:00

David Attenborough travels to the end of the earth, taking viewers on an extraordinary journey across the polar regions of our planet.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrehorror, thriller, crime, detective
CountryFrance, Belgium, Germany

Old-school police detective Pierre Niemans and his former student Camille Delaunay tackle complex, brutal murder cases.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrecomedy, crime
CountryGermany

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Markimdb: 8
Genredocumentary
CountryGermany
Duration00:43

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Markimdb: 6.8
Genrefantasy, family, detective
CountryAustralia, Germany

When ordinary teenager Kyra touches a mysterious book, she is transformed into a Tri-ling-–part-human, part-fairy and part-elf. In addition to acquiring amazing magical powers, Kyra discovers a secret world of magic all around her.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
CountryGermany, Denmark, Poland

A deadly virus hits a small community living on an island in the North Sea.

Markimdb: 6
Genrehorror, drama, detective
CountryGermany

After the death of his mother, 16-year-old Juri and his father Jaschek move into a rundown housing complex on the city outskirts. While Jaschek tries to establish a new life for himself and his son, as caretaker of the building, Juri gradually discovers that the house has a vicious life of its own and feeds on the suffering of its inhabitants

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrefantastic, drama
CountryGermany
Duration00:43

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?

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountrySweden, Germany, Belgium

A series of violent murders paralyze Stockholm. Private investigator Fredrika Bergman and her colleagues seek out to solve these crimes, but soon their existence is put under threat.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genreaction, drama, crime
CountryCanada, France, USA, Germany
Duration00:30

Inspired by the professional experiences of crisis negotiator Laurent Combalbert who with his partner, Marwan Mery, are among the top negotiators in the world. Together, they travel around the globe to help multinational corporations and governmental agencies with complex negotiations and conflict resolution.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genreaction, drama, history
CountryGermany

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.

Markimdb: 8.5
Genrecomedy, crime
CountryGermany

Heiko Schotte (Schotty) works for a cleaning company, cleaning all kind of crime scenes. There he sometimes meets weird people and tries to solve difficult situations.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genredrama
CountryGermany, Austria

The legendary hotel, still the epitome of the Viennese way of life, becomes the setting for a multifaceted social drama in the historical multi-part series "Das Sacher. In the best company". In closely interwoven strands that create a modern genre mix of melodrama and custom paintings, crime and thriller elements, a chronicle of the splendor and decline of old Austria is told along the moving lines of life of the protagonists. While the butcher's daughter Anna Sacher made the hotel the most important meeting point of the kuk elite around 1900, a complicated ménage à quatre unfolds between her guests, a couple of publishers from Berlin and an Austro-Hungarian noble family. At the same time, a dark secret emerges in the catacombs of the nearby opera, and with the upheavals of the new century, the harbingers of a war appear that will change Europe forever.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genreaction, thriller, drama
CountryGermany
Duration00:51

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 undercover spy for the Stasi foreign service. Hiding in plain sight in the West German army, he must gather the secrets of NATO military strategy. Everything is new, nothing is quite what it seems and everyone he encounters is harboring secrets, both political and personal.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrefantasy, adventure, family, cartoon
CountryGermany, Canada, Italy

Plunged into a fantastic fairy tale turned real, Mia must find the strength within herself to save a race of unicorns - and an entire world.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrethriller, drama, crime, biography, history
CountryFrance, Germany
Duration05:34

Carlos is a French-German television and cinema biographical film from 2010, about the life of the 1970s international terrorist Carlos the Jackal, from his first series of attacks in 1973 until his arrest in 1994. It premiered as a three-part TV mini-series on French pay channel Canal+, with the three parts airing on 19 May, May 26 and June 2, 2010. On the same day it premiered on Canal+, the full 5½ hour version was also shown out of competition at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. Produced by Daniel Leconte of French production company Film En Stock and Jens Meuer of German production company Egoli Tossell Film, in association with Canal+ and French Arte, it was directed by Olivier Assayas from a screenplay by Leconte, Assayas and Dan Franck, and stars Édgar Ramírez as Carlos. The film exists both as a three-part mini-series and a feature film of various lengths between 338 and 319 minutes, but also in several abridged versions, from 187 minutes down to 166 minutes. Classified as a theatrical film as well as a TV film/TV mini-series, Carlos has been awarded both theatrical awards and TV awards; among them the 2010 Golden Globe award for the 'Best Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television', the 2010 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Director, the National Society of Film Critics 2010 award for Best Director, the New York Film Critics Circle 2010 award for Best Foreign Language Film, the 2010 European Film Award for Best Editor, the 2010 Critics Award for Best Film at the São Paulo International Film Festival, and Édgar Ramírez won the 2010 César Award for Most Promising Actor.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrefantasy, drama, military, history
CountryDenmark, Norway, Sweden, Germany

When Germany and Prussia declare war on Denmark, two brothers are called to serve in the bloodiest battle in Denmark's history.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genredetective
CountryGermany

Mira is 17 and a loner. When she is invited by an unknown number to download the app "Wishlist", at first she believes that it is just spam. But Wishlist offers her to satisfy every wish - for a trade-off...

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrecomedy, drama, crime, detective
CountryCanada, Germany, South Africa

A Toronto police officer gets involved in a homicide investigation while visiting his father in Mumbai.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genredrama
CountryGermany, Czech Republic, Italy

The series follows six teenagers who fight for their dream of happiness and freedom, leaving behind all the problems with parents, teachers and others. Christiane, Stella, Babsi, Benno, Axel and Michi throw themselves into the heady nights of Berlin, without limits or rules, and celebrate life, love and temptation - until they have to realize that this rush will not only destroy their friendship, but can drive them into the abyss.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genredrama
CountryGermany

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Markimdb: 7
Genredrama, crime
CountryGermany

When 10 year old girl is kidnapped from the natural history museum, the police questions eight key witnesses to uncover the truth and find the child before it's too late.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryGermany

Between forests and hills, the river Ahr meanders through a mystical, foggy autumn landscape. Amidst this idyll a man awakens in the middle of a vineyard. He does not know who he is, where he is or how he came to be here. Next to him is a dead young woman lying among the vines. As a foreigner in the secluded town in the Ahr valley he enters an archaic village community, which seems to keep a secret from him.

Markimdb: 8
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, military, history
CountryCanada, Germany, United Kingdom, Hungary
Duration01:00

    A sweeping epic of good and evil, treachery and intrigue, violence and beauty, a sensuous, spirited story set against a backdrop of war, religious strife and power struggles in 12th Century England.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrefantasy, family
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany

    Mayhem and mishaps follow young witch Mildred Hubble wherever she goes. She just can't help it! But with her friends' help, Mildred always manages to avoid disaster just in time.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrecrime
    CountryGermany
    Duration00:45

    In the final analysis, it all comes down to guilt, different shades of guilt that one assumes in a single moment of thoughtlessness or in months of premeditated planning. Defence Attorney Friedrich Knonberg knows he must tip legal scales of justice in favour of his client for crimes that are never black and white and what they may seem. In German with subtitles.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryGermany, France, USA

    Twisted true stories of people who have gone missing, leaving behind secrets and frantic loved ones; these missing persons investigations lead to unexpected outcomes.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrethriller, crime
    CountryAustria, Germany
    Duration00:46

    Winter in Vienna. Children disappear. For now without a trace, then their bodies are found. A gift for the tabloid press. For the police a series of defeats. Politically a problem. And at the same time the long-awaited opportunity for the ambitious interior minister. The organized crime is in trouble. The child murderer must be found so that all other dirty jobs can go on.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genremelodrama, drama, history
    CountryGermany

    1919. World War I has just ended. Dörte Helm, a young art student in Weimar, follows Walter Gropius’ call and joins the newly-founded Bauhaus school. A love story grows between Gropius and Dörte, adding fuel to the fire of the ensuing scandal threatening the very existence of the Bauhaus; the school of art that would go on to shape the 20th century like no other…

    Markimdb: 8.2
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryGermany

    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.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryGermany

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    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genredrama
    CountryItaly, Germany
    Duration01:00

    As a major criminal investigation tries to stem the flow of corruption, Italy is poised on the brink of collapse.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain

    Amongst the vibrant international community of the eponymous Spanish island, a British and a German detective with very different approaches to policing have a clash of personalities. Despite - or perhaps because of - their very different approaches, the sleuths form a perfect complementary partnership as they seek to solve a new crime on the island each week.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genredrama, adventure
    CountryGermany

    In the midst of the impassable landscape at the foot of the Alps, a young group of serious offenders is undergoing an experiential educational program intended to rehabilitate them. All of a sudden, a member of the program dies a violent death. Nobody knows exactly what happened, and the youths face a difficult decision. Should they wait for the authorities to recover the body and investigate the crime? Or, escape and take their fate into their own hands? The group doesn't have much in common with each other, though one thing unites them; all of them have had really bad experiences with the authorities and don‘t expect to be treated fairly. Since they don't know who the perpetrator is, they only have one option: to run. Up the mountains, up the highest peaks of the Alps. It seems hopeless until they stumble onto a complex cave system where they can find shelter from wind, weather, and their pursuers.

    Markimdb: 8.3
    Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon, short
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, USA, Germany, Japan, France

    The life of Gumball Watterson, a 12-year old cat who attends middle school in Elmore. Accompanied by his pet, adoptive brother, and best friend Darwin Watterson, he frequently finds himself involved in various shenanigans around the city, during which he interacts with various family members: Anais, Richard, and Nicole Watterson, and other various citizens.




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