Best German fantasy series

Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch fantasy shows from Germany, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!

  • Poster for The Amazing World of Gumball

    The Amazing World of Gumball 2011

    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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  • Poster for Cassandra

    Cassandra 2025

    A family moves into a vintage smart home and discovers that it's under the control of a virtual assistant — who will stop at nothing to keep them there.

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  • Poster for Biohackers

    Biohackers 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.

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  • Poster for Tribes of Europa

    Tribes of Europa 2021

    2074. In the wake of a mysterious global disaster, war rages between the Tribes that have emerged from the wreckage of Europe. Three siblings from the peaceful Origine tribe are separated and forced to forge their own paths in an action-packed fight for the future of this new Europa.

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  • Poster for The Signal

    The Signal 2024

    A missing astronaut sets her family on a frantic hunt for answers. But the more they uncover, the greater the threat becomes to them — and the world.

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  • Poster for The Swarm

    The Swarm 2023

    Across the globe, strange happenings, borne out of the oceans, are mystifying and imperiling the world’s population. A group of scientists undertakes a terrifying mission to the depths of the Arctic Ocean to confront a deadly intelligent life force bent on human extinction.

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  • Poster for The Gryphon

    The Gryphon 2023

    The Gryphon, a dark power from another world, is a threat to Mark and all he loves. Mark must accept his heavy family legacy and go into battle to save our world from the Gryphon’s clutches.

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  • Poster for World on a Wire

    World on a Wire 1973

    Cybernetics engineer Fred Stiller uncovers a massive corporate conspiracy involving a virtual reality computer project.

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  • Poster for The Odyssey

    The 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.

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  • Poster for Fallen

    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

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  • Poster for The Island

    The Island 2020

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

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  • Poster for 8 Days

    8 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?

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  • Poster for Heirs of the Night

    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.

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  • Poster for Spides

    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.

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  • Poster for Helgoland 513

    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.

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  • Poster for Ijon Tichy: Raumpilot

    Ijon Tichy: Raumpilot 2007

    Ijon Tichy: Raumpilot is a satiric German television series loosely based on the series of science fiction stories The Star Diaries by Stanisław Lem. The television series was created by Randa Chahoud, Dennis Jacobsen, and Oliver Jahn with Jahn playing the protagonist, space traveller Ijon Tichy. The major female role is played by Nora Tschirner.The first season was aired from 26 March 2007 on ZDF on Mondays at 23:55 hours. Each episode used to be published online as a streaming video one week before the airing on ZDFmediathek, an online repository operated by that channel. In November 2011, the second season was aired on ZDFneo. Both seasons are available on DVD.

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  • Poster for Simsala Grimm

    Simsala Grimm 1999

    SimsalaGrimm is a German television series, consisting of stories based on fairy tales by Grimm Brothers, Hans Christian Anderson and other notable authors.

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  • Poster for Space Patrol

    Space 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.

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  • Poster for Hausen

    Hausen 2020

    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

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  • Poster for Pauline

    Pauline 2024

    Pauline gets pregnant after a one-night stand with Lukas. Something is very wrong with the pregnancy. When Luke reveals that he is the son of the devil incarnate and heir to hell, nothing is ever the same again. Between the fronts of demons and angels, Pauline's pregnancy also gives her supernatural abilities. She becomes the decisive force in the epic battle between good and evil.

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  • Poster for School for Little Vampires

    School for Little Vampires 2007

    A vampire boy that hates the sight of blood in love with a human named Sunshine – the odds don’t look to be in Oskar’s favor, but with the help of his friends and fellow vampires Stoker, Gothetta, Klot, and Ashley, he is sure to get through it!

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  • Poster for Jim Button

    Jim Button 1999

    Jim Button and his friends Luuk and Princess Li Si travel the world in their locomotive.

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  • Poster for Ring of the Nibelungs

    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.

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  • Sinnlos im Weltraum 1994

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  • Poster for Der Mann im Mond

    Der Mann im Mond 2022

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  • Poster for 13 Hours: Race Against Time

    13 Hours: Race Against Time 2010

    A bunch of terrorists take over a school to get to an instructor who has access to an advanced scientific device. A core group of youngsters fight back to try and stop the bad guys.

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  • Poster for Silas

    Silas 1981

    Silas was a 1981 ZDF Adventure TV mini-series based on the Danish children's book „Silas og den sorte hoppe“ by Cecil Bødker who kept on writing instalments until 2001.The series was Patrick Bach's debut and because the series did so well he also starred the very next year in another adventure series about a young orphan: Jack HolbornSilas was a German production and filmed solely in German. Still it received attention beyond German-speaking countries and consequently the successor Jack Holborn involved international producers and was filmed in English.

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  • Poster for Love Sucks

    Love Sucks 2024

    An impossible love? Descendants of vampires and vampire hunters fall in love.

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  • Poster for Parallel Me

    Parallel Me 2025

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  • Poster for Binny and the Ghost

    Binny and the Ghost 2013

    When Binny moves to a new house with her parents in Berlin, the spirit of a fourteen-year-old becomes her roommate. Binny needs to help the ghost in uncovering mysteries about his past and identity.

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  • Poster for StarStarSpace

    StarStarSpace 2016

    StarStarSpace is an animated series by German YouTuber Coldmirror. The series parodies different Sci-Fi shows and movies like Star Trek, Star Wars or Alien.

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  • Poster for The Flying Cestmir

    The Flying Cestmir 1984

    Young boy Cestmir finds a magic rock which allows him to bring the seeds of the flowers which allow flying from Blue Planet...

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  • Poster for Robbi, Tobbi und das Fliewatüüt

    Robbi, Tobbi und das Fliewatüüt 1972

    Robbi, Tobbi und das Fliewatüüt is a German television series for children. It showed the adventures of a pupil called Tobias Findteisen who accompanied the robot ROB 344–66/IIIa to help with the latter's exam at robot school. The team travels in an all-in-one vehicle, designed by Tobbi and built by Robbi, to find answers to the exam's riddles all over the world.

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  • Poster for The Legend of Tim Tyler: The Boy Who Lost His Laugh

    The Legend of Tim Tyler: The Boy Who Lost His Laugh 1979

    Timm Thaler is a 1979 children's television miniseries based on the 1962 children's novel by German writer James Krüss. The series originally aired in Germany as the first Christmas series on German national broadcaster ZDF. In 1988, the series was acquired for transmission in the United Kingdom by the BBC. The English version was produced by Angela Beeching, with script by Nel Romano, and retitled The Legend of Tim Tyler. It aired during Children's BBC in the weekday afternoons. The screenplay was written by Justus Pfaue and Peter M. Thouet and differs somewhat from the original novel. Directed by Sigi Rothemund, the series became a hit in Germany and made then 14-year-old Tommi Ohrner, in the lead role of Timm Thaler, a popular teen idol of the era. The role of the Baron was played by Horst Frank.

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  • Poster for Frankenstein

    Frankenstein 2004

    Adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel about a scientist who brings life to a creature fashioned from corpses and various body parts.

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  • Poster for Category 7: The End of the World

    Category 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.

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  • Poster for Smilla's Sense of Snow

    Smilla's Sense of Snow 2025

    When Smilla's young neighbour tragically dies after falling from the roof, the police quickly dismiss the death as an accident. Determined to uncover the truth, Smilla embarks on her own investigation.

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  • Poster for Ghosts from Outside

    Ghosts from Outside 1987

    An adventures of a Berlin family spending summer in haunted house.

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  • Poster for The Curse of the Hawk

    The Curse of the Hawk 2011

    The curse of the Hawk tells the story of six students who are on their way home from a school trip when their bus breaks down somewhere in the no man's land with a puncture and the bus driver disappears without a trace. Soon, the friends realize that they can no longer leave the forest and that it is inhabited by strange people. To get back home, they must first solve their mystery

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  • Poster for Anomalie

    Anomalie 2024

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  • Poster for The Lost World

    The 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.

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  • Poster for Novelmore

    Novelmore 2020

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  • Poster for Star Maidens

    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.

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  • Poster for Tender Hearts

    Tender Hearts 2023

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  • Poster for KontaktLos

    KontaktLos 2020

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  • Poster for Angemessen Angry

    Angemessen Angry 2024

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  • Poster for Phungus & Mowld

    Phungus & 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.

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  • Poster for Das Blaue Palais

    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.

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  • Poster for On the Road to Atlantis

    On the Road to Atlantis 1982

    Unterwegs nach Atlantis is an Austrian-German-Swiss-Czechoslovakian science fiction television series from 1981.

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  • Poster for Pan Tau

    Pan Tau 2020

    Pan Tau is a kind gentleman who wears an elegant suit and is always there when families need him. Although it radiates from a completely different time and not a word is spoken, but everything is there and responds to problems in its own way. There can be magic appearing seemingly randomly among families across all social strata in any way possible by tapping the bowler hat on his head for magical perspective shifts. By doing this, it seems to be ignoring all the laws of physics.

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  • Poster for DreaMars

    DreaMars 2023

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  • Poster for Alpha Alpha

    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.

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  • Poster for Telerop 2009 – Es ist noch was zu retten

    Telerop 2009 – Es ist noch was zu retten 1974

    Telerop 2009 – Es ist noch was zu retten is a German television series.

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  • Poster for Der Andro-Jäger

    Der Andro-Jäger 1982

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  • Poster for The Minikins

    The Minikins 1982

    The Minikins was a Canadian children's television show that ran from 1981-82.

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  • 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 ..

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  • Poster for Die Wächter

    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.

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  • Poster for The Octopuses from the Second Floor

    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.

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  • Poster for Scorpion Hour

    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.

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  • Poster for Jan from the Other Star

    Jan from the Other Star 1980

    Adventures of a boy from another planet on Earth.

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  • Geschichten aus der Zukunft 1978

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  • Poster for Mission Backup Earth

    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.

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  • Poster for Grimmsberg

    Grimmsberg 2011

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  • Poster for Mission Terra

    Mission Terra 1985

    Mission Terra is a German television series.

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  • Fairytales Pearls 2005

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  • Mission: Eureka 1989

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