Best German action series
Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch action shows from Germany, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!
Barbarians 2020
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.
72Biohackers 2020
A medical student enters a top German university on a secret mission to uncover a conspiracy linking a family tragedy to a visionary biology professor.
69Kleo 2022
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, a former East German spy resolves to find out who betrayed her and why — and use her lethal skills to exact revenge.
74Crooks 2024
A priceless coin puts rival gangs across Europe at odds, forcing a retired safecracker to team up with a two-bit gangster for one last heist.
70The Odyssey 1997
In this adaptation of Homer's timeless epic, Armand Assante stars as Odysseus, the warrior King of the mythical island of Ithaca, who must endure a decade long quest to reach home after the Trojan war, overcoming savage monsters, powerful forces of nature, and seductive nymphs, and he must outsmart them all, with all the guile and intellect he can muster.
69Alarm for Cobra 11 1996
A long-running German television series about a two-man team of highway police, originally set in Berlin and later in North Rhine-Westphalia.
718 Days 2019
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?
60Arn: The Knight Templar 2010
Arn has to endure so much before he can get the love of his life Cecilie, who has been put away in a monastery.
71Space Patrol 1966
Raumpatrouille – Die phantastischen Abenteuer des Raumschiffes Orion, also known as Raumpatrouille Orion, and Space Patrol Orion in English, was the first German science fiction television series. Its seven episodes were broadcast by ARD beginning September 17, 1966 six years before Star Trek first aired in West Germany. Being a huge success with several reruns audience ratings went up to 56%. Over the years, the series acquired a distinct cult status in Germany.
72V.I.P. 1998
While attending a Hollywood premiere with a famous action star, a crazed fan pulls a gun—but her movie hunk turns into a coward, and it's Vallery who becomes the hero. Suddenly, she's thrown into a world of action and danger as owner of a Hollywood protection agency, Vallery Irons Protection (V.I.P.), taking risks to protect others at a price few are willing to pay.
50Auf Achse 1980
The adventures of a group of German truckers on jobs all over the world.
66Wild Republic 2021
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.
57The Three Detectives 2023
Kim, Franzi, and Marie have what other girls can only dream of: their very own detective club!
70Treasure Island 2007
A terrible storm is raging the night it all begins - with a knock on the door. 17-year-old Jim Hawkins helps his widowed mother run their little tavern on the coast of 19th century England. When the door is opened they are startled by a sight that makes their blood run cold...
53TESTO 2024
5 prisoners, a bank robbery, 6 hostages, adrenaline, chaos, unfinished business. Fast, unpredictable, merciless.
61The Peppercorns 1999
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.
62Der Clown 1998
Der Clown was a German television series that ran between 21 April 1998 and 11 October 2001. It ran for 46 episodes, and starred Sven Martinek, Diana Frank, Thomas Anzenhofer and Volkmar Kleinert.Der Clown was also a 2005 film.
57Jim Button 1999
Jim Button and his friends Luuk and Princess Li Si travel the world in their locomotive.
62GSG 9 - Ihr Einsatz ist ihr Leben 2007
GSG 9 is a German TV-series about the special unit GSG 9 der Bundespolizei of the German Federal Police. It premièred in the Spring of 2007.Its original title, GSG 9 - Ihr Einsatz ist ihr Leben, is a pun on the word Einsatz. Einsatz can be translated as "mission, stake, bet, dedication", depending on the context. Thus, it can be translated as, GSG 9 - Their Mission Is Their Life or GSG 9 - They Put Their Lives at Stake.
64Der Mann im Mond 2022
73Der letzte Song aus der Bohne 2022
83Jack Holborn 1982
Jack Holborn was a 1982 ZDF Adventure TV mini-series. The story is based on the book by Leon Garfield. It was shown in the United Kingdom by ITV.
61The Way Out Germany 2025
Germany's first comedy escape room show. Comedians versus creators. In each episode, one duo from each team must prove themselves in identically designed escape rooms. The team with the best overall time wins the season.
78Ghosts under the Ferris Wheel 1979
Two kids suddenly call three very enchanted persons to reality while spending summer in their grandma's village.
63Robin Hood: Mischief In Sherwood 2015
Richard the Lionheart has gone to war, leaving power in the hands of Prince John. Sherwood is in danger, but Robin Hood and his gang are on hand to save the day! Meet Maid Marian with her castle insider knowledge, charming Little John, grumpy Tuck and Robin's funny cousin Scarlett. Follow the gang who with comedy, magic and friendship will save the day.
66Arctic Warrior 2023
62Licht aus 2024
56Drift: Partners in Crime 2023
Two brothers and police officers, Ali and Leo, have not spoken to each other for decades after a big family row. But when they suddenly become involved in an international conspiracy, they have to work together again.
49Chasing Monsters 2015
Cyril Chauquet seeks out dangerous creatures in the most remote corners of the planet.
62Alarm für Cobra 11 - Einsatz für Team 2 2003
60The Sea Wolf 1971
Writer Humphrey van Weyden is thrown overboard in a shipwreck in the Bay of San Francisco, and is rescued by the seal-hunting schooner 'Ghost' under the command of the brutal Captain Wolf Larsen.
54Category 7: The End of the World 2005
It's tornadoes, hurricanes, electrical storms, and mass destruction as the effects of global warming brew into a super storm that threatens to rend the earth with an unprecedented power. Beautiful scientist Faith Clavell, storm chaser Tommy Tornado, and Judith Carr, the head of FEMA, can stop the inevitable from happening-if they have the courage to venture into the roiling blackness of the storm itself.
59Die Sturmflut 2006
Susanne, a meteorologist in Hamburg, has detected signs of an incipient sea storm that could devastate the city. Although given the alarm, local authorities do not listen to their warnings. To ensure the magnitude of the tsunami, Susanne decided to move to an oil platform located offshore, which verifies that their dire predictions are to become reality, as the storm will soon reach the coast, threatening the lives of thousands of people.
57Desert Warrior 2024
67Crystal Wall 2025
MMA fighter Louna Loris saves the life of Nicolas, an heir to billions, and becomes his new bodyguard. Though the social barriers between them seem insurmountable, they can’t shake their growing feelings for one another.
58Julien Bam - Der Mann im Mond 2022
70Die Jungs-WG 2009
58Die Schatzinsel 1966
49Coast Guard 1997
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.
51Bibi & Tina 2020
43Zorro: Generation Z 2006
50Die Gentlemen bitten zur Kasse 1966
45Die Draufgänger 2012
46Orzowei, il figlio della savana 1977
44The Lost World 2001
Professor Challenger, on an expedition to South America, shoots an animal that he claims is a pre-historic pterosaur. On his return to England, his fellow Professor, Summerlee, and most of the scientific establishment dismiss it as a hoax. However, an ambitious hunter and womaniser John Roxton and journalist Edward Malone are prepared to undertake the mission to find the truth.
47Novelmore 2020
50HeliCops - Einsatz über Berlin 1998
HeliCops – Einsatz über Berlin is a German television series.
40Spuk am Tor der Zeit 2002
Spuk am Tor der Zeit is the conclusion of the trilogy, the mummy of Roggelin. The children's series from the "Spooky" series by Günter Meyer is thus the continuation of Ghost in the realm of shadows.
45Das Traumhotel 2004
41Blood of the Templars 2004
18-year old David grew up assuming that his mother and his father have died when he was a baby. He was raised by a monk and is close to completing High School. He gets into a fight during a party and discovers he is stronger than he thought he was- also, the blooding of an injury stops immediately and the wound heals within an hour. All of a sudden, the Priory of Sion and the Knights Templar show interest in the boy and the quest for the Holy Grail begins once again, with David being the one who can lead them to it.
38Das Jesus Video 2002
45Floris von Rosemund 1975
40Die Gustloff 2008
Joseph Vilsmaier Two-part TV movie focuses on the tragic events surrounding the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff, a German passenger ship, at the end of World War II. On 30 January 1945, Captain Hellmuth Kehding was in charge of the ship, evacuating wounded soldiers and civilians trapped by the Red Army. Soon after leaving the harbor of Danzig, it was hit by three torpedoes from the Soviet submarine and sank in less than an hour.
40Sherazade: The Untold Stories 2017
The true story of the classic Arabian Nights tales. We follow Sherazade, the real hero of the famous stories, on her quest to find the Tree of Life and save the Prince of the Golden City, who has been turned into a blue-haired monster.
40Deadline - Every Second Counts 2007
Deadline is about the cases of a special department of the Berlin police, a department for crime prevention. In other words: For psychological warfare. The special department for crime prevention (SV) is used when the police don't know what to do. Their job is to protect potential victims and seek direct confrontation with the perpetrator. This can be through interpreting the signs he leaves at the crime scene or through direct contact.
37Die 25. Stunde 2008
40Gummy Bear & Friends 2016
The silly adventures of everyone's favorite gummy bear character and his friends Kala the cat and Harry the chameleon.
40Tiger Girl 2019
Serial cut version of the German feature film "Tiger Girl": Margarethe "Maggie" Fischer wants to become a policewoman. But she flies through the exam and instead starts training at a private security service. Maggie always wants to do everything right. Until the wild tigers show up in their lives ...
40The Lady Musketeer 2004
When the bride-to-be of King Louis XIV is kidnapped, the sons of the original three musketeers rally to rescue her. Much to their surprise, a fourth musketeer joins the fray. And this brilliant swordsman—the most gifted of the lot—turns out to be D'Artagnan's daughter.
32Against the Wind 1995
35Cosmic Quantum Ray 2010
"Cosmic Quantum Ray" is a zany comedy-action-adventure series that brings the strange corners of the universe to the world of Earth teenager Robbie Shipton. Robbie represents Earth as a member of Team Quantum - an elite, eccentric team of heroes that saves the Universe almost every day, and hopefully in time for Robbie to get to his third-period Science class!
35Die Motorrad-Cops: Hart am Limit 2000
35Das Mädchen mit dem indischen Smaragd 2013
Annie Krüger just wants to spend a quiet Christmas with her boyfriend. But a phone call from India changes everything.
35Phungus & Mowld 2020
Hired gun and loudmouth Mowld repeatedly drags Phungus, an anxious little alien, from his cushy life as bartender into countless outlandish adventures. Accompanied by ALIS, their hacked robot, they travel in a decrepit spaceship with an experimental Framistan Drive.
33Arpad, le tzigane 1973
Arpad, the Gypsy is a Hungarian-French-German television film series which aired on ORTF in France and ZDF in Germany between 1973 and 1974. It starred Robert Etcheverry as Arpad.
32The Bull and The Country Egg 2010
Big city bull Killmer has proven himself professionally in a covert operation, but privately put angry. That is why he is transported away: to the country, to the Eifel, far away from his usual hunting ground. In the very clear town of Monreal, local police officer Kati Biver has just applied to the big city because there is too little going on. Kati is by no means happy that she suddenly has a boss in front of her nose and finds Killmer's casual city behavior extremely provocative on the one hand.
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