Best German fantasy series
A curated collection of popular fantasy series from Germany.
Heirs of the Night (2019)
Heirs of the Night (2019)
1889: the five remaining vampire clans in Europe are training to survive. In their midst is 14-year-old Alisa who has the power to choose between eternal life as a vampire or for all vampires to live as humans.
Fallen (2024)
Fallen (2024)
A young woman is sent to a cult-like rehab facility called Sword & Cross to serve time for a crime she can't remember committing. Among the other residents, she encounters the enigmatic Daniel and exasperating but irresistible Cam, all of whom are under the watchful eye of the sinister chief doctor Howson, and devout twin sisters Miriam and Sophia. Luce must untangle the mystery of who she is and why she has a connection to Daniel that goes far back beyond their time in the institution
Spides (2020)
Spides (2020)
Young Nora from Berlin wakes up from a coma after taking a new party drug and can no longer remember anything. When investigators Nique Navar and David Leonhart find out that numerous teenagers have disappeared as part of the spread of the party drug "Bliss", Nora begins to investigate. She uncovers an uncanny conspiracy: Aliens use the drug to use the bodies of their victims as hosts.
Helgoland 513 (2024)
Helgoland 513 (2024)
Helgoland. Here, on Germany's only offshore island, a small community of survivors of an apocalypse that has overrun the rest of the world and plunged it into chaos is holed up. But the price of their survival is high. The resources on the rocky island are scarce, so that an inhumane "social ranking" system determines the lives of the 513 inhabitants: each islander is evaluated according to his usefulness. The only doctor is high on the list, others are far behind, and they have to fight for their place on the list and their survival. Meanwhile, people from the mainland are trying to get to Helgoland and the Helgolanders have to defend their island.
Ring of the Nibelungs (2004)
Ring of the Nibelungs (2004)
The young blacksmith Siegfried, who, not knowing that he is heir to a conquered kingdom, becomes popular with the Burgunds by slaying their bane, the dragon Fafnir. When the reward seems to be a huge treasure, Siegfried ignores the curse that lies on the hoard - which now seems to endanger his love to beautiful Norse warrior queen Brunhild.
Frankenstein (2004)
Star Maidens (1976)
Star Maidens (1976)
Star Maidens is a British-German science-fiction television series made by Portman Productions for the ITV network. Produced in 1975, and first broadcast in 1976, it was filmed at Bray Studios and on location in Windsor and Bracknell, Berkshire, and Black Park, Buckinghamshire. The series was partly financed by a German company, Werbung im Rundfunk.
Angemessen Angry (2024)
Angemessen Angry (2024)
Nick & Perry (2000)
Nick & Perry (2000)
Nick and Perry are alien dogs from the distant planet Dogma, accidentally stranded on Earth. Shocked at what they find, they become visitors with a vision: one day these tail-sniffing, tick-infested Earth dogs will rise up and walk again on two legs, free of the trappings of human domination. In the meantime, these two free-thinking, superior beings masquerade as ordinary dogs.
Das Blaue Palais (1974)
Das Blaue Palais (1974)
Das Blaue Palais is a series of five TV feature films written and directed by German author and filmmaker Rainer Erler. All five stories about the research and findings of an interdisciplinary scientific project have also been published as novels by Goldmann in 1978, 1979 and 1980. The series had an international cast. It was shot in Bavaria, Scotland, USA and Asia.
Alpha Alpha (1972)
Alpha Alpha (1972)
Alpha Alpha was a 1972 German science fiction fantasy television series which aired on ZDF. It starred Karl Michael Vogler, Lilith Ungerer, Arthur Brauss and Horst Sachtleben. Each episode was only 25 minutes long, the series lasted only one season. Karl Michael Vogler played agent alpha of an unnamed secret organization, investigating mysteries, technical and psychic phenomena and even alien encounters. Alpha Alpha's tenor is comparable to the later X-Files drama television series.
Der Andro-Jäger (1982)
Der Andro-Jäger (1982)
Telerop 2009 – Es ist noch was zu retten (1974)
Telerop 2009 – Es ist noch was zu retten (1974)
Telerop 2009 – Es ist noch was zu retten is a German television series.
The Octopuses from the Second Floor (1986)
The Octopuses from the Second Floor (1986)
While on vacation with their bickering parents in Portugal, Eva and her little brother Johnny find two strange clots of clay on a polluted beach, who can speak and move on their own. They create two octopuses out of the blue and green material and take them home to Prague, soon discovering that their new pets attract electricity and other disasters.
Scorpion Hour (1968)
Scorpion Hour (1968)
In the 21st century, a global socialist security organization is concerned over a new energy source, of possible alien origin, falling into the hands of one of the last remaining capitalist countries and turned into a super-weapon.
Die Wächter (1986)
Die Wächter (1986)
Die Wächter is a German television series.The dystopian novel The Guardians is a piece of work by the English author John Christopher. He portrays the fate of Rob Randalls, a boy living in a two-class society.The novel, which was published in 1970, was awarded the German youth literature prize in 1976.In 1985, "Die Wächter" was made into a television series of six episodes with a runtime of 45 minutes per episode. The producing company was the Bavaria Atelier GmbH. The character Rob Randalls was played by Martin Tempest. The television series aired on the German television channel "ARD" from February until March 1986.
Grimmsberg (2011)
Grimmsberg (2011)
Mission Backup Earth (2013)
Mission Backup Earth (2013)
In the near future, a cosmic catastrophe hits us without warning. Unforeseen by any scientist, the Sun transits rapidly into a red giant. Having no choice, Mankind desperately tries to escape the solar system. The survivors become space nomads, seeking a viable replacement for Earth.
Geschichten aus der Zukunft (1978)
Geschichten aus der Zukunft (1978)
Mission: Eureka (1989)
Mission: Eureka (1989)
Mission Terra (1985)
Mission Terra (1985)
Mission Terra is a German television series.
Märchenperlen (2005)
Märchenperlen (2005)
Trillennium - The Future Has Begun (2000)
Trillennium - The Future Has Begun (2000)
Ten years ago... encoded messages emitted from a mysterious mass in outer space called "aeon" are intercepted on Earth. The USA and Russia set up the top-secret project Omega to investigate. The team sent up to explore the phenomenon dies when their capsule explodes seconds after take-off. The Omega project is officially abandoned.
ييييي (2017)
ييييي (2017)
العالم عاد إلي الحياة البدائية وإنتهت مظاهر الحضارة في العالم بسبب خلاف بين رجل وزوجته وظل الخلاف يتفاقم حتي وصل الأمر إلي إنقسام العالم إلي طرف مع النساء وطرف مع الرجال، تسبب في حرب عالمية قضت علي الحياة والحضارة، لم يتبقي في العالم سوي مصر هي التي نجت من هذه الحروب والقنابل النووية، وبسبب هذا تجمع من تبقي علي قيد الحياة في مصر وأصبح العالم عبارة عن مُعسكر للرجال ومُعسكر للسيدات ..