PickFlick
Babylon Berlin

Babylon Berlin

Welcome to the city of sins.

TV-MA2017•7.7/10
DramaCrimeMystery

Ratings

🎬TMDb
7.7/10(385)

Beneath the decadence of 1929 Berlin, lies an underworld city of sin. Police investigator Gereon Rath has been transferred from Cologne to the epicenter of political and social changes in the Golden Twenties.

Open in PickFlick

Production

Beta Film, X Filme Creative Pool, ARD, WDR, ARD Degeto

Language

DE

Status

Returning Series

First Aired

October 13, 2017

Last Aired

November 12, 2022

Networks

Sky One

Created By

Tom Tykwer, Achim von Borries, Hendrik Handloegten

Trailers & Videos

Where to Watch
Region US · Lang EN
US
No providers available for this region.
Seasons & Episodes
Select a season to view episodes. Reddit links may contain spoilers.
Season
Episode 1
E1
Episode 1
Air date: 2017-10-13
In 1929, a freight train traveling from the Soviet Union is hijacked. Meanwhile, Chief Inspector Gereon Rath from Cologne pursues a mission in Berlin.
Episode 2
E2
Episode 2
Air date: 2017-10-13
While interrogating König, Rath loses control of the situation. Charlotte moonlights to make ends meet. An alter ego commits a betrayal.
Episode 3
E3
Episode 3
Air date: 2017-10-20
The freight train arrives in Berlin. Tempers explode in Charlotte's household. Aspiring inspector Jänicke makes use of a surprising skill.
Episode 4
E4
Episode 4
Air date: 2017-10-20
At the May Day protest, police action spirals out of control. A body is found in a canal. An unsuspecting Svetlana returns to her apartment.
Episode 5
E5
Episode 5
Air date: 2017-10-27
Kardakow realizes his first instinct was correct. A photo enlargement yields two leads. Rath and Charlotte get key intel from a colorful character.
Episode 6
E6
Episode 6
Air date: 2017-10-27
Rath confesses to a priest -- and later to Wolter. Charlotte charms medical student Rudi into performing a secret autopsy, which uncovers a vital clue.
Episode 7
E7
Episode 7
Air date: 2017-11-03
Rath's pharmacist gets shady instructions. Rath learns who's behind the train smuggling operation and why, and recalls the last time he saw his brother.
Episode 8
E8
Episode 8
Air date: 2017-11-03
Greta goes on a romantic outing with Fritz. Krajewski finally reveals where the film is hidden. A new patient is brought to Dr. Schmidt for treatment.

Cast

Volker Bruch

Volker Bruch

Gereon Rath

Liv Lisa Fries

Liv Lisa Fries

Charlotte Ritter

Lars Eidinger

Lars Eidinger

Alfred Nyssen

Benno Fürmann

Benno Fürmann

Günter Wendt

Ronald Zehrfeld

Ronald Zehrfeld

Walter Weintraub

Meret Becker

Meret Becker

Esther Kasabian

Fritzi Haberlandt

Fritzi Haberlandt

Elisabeth Behnke

Jördis Triebel

Jördis Triebel

Dr. Völcker

Karl Markovics

Karl Markovics

Samuel Katelbach

Christian Friedel

Christian Friedel

Reinhold Gräf

Trystan Pütter

Trystan Pütter

Hans Litten

Saskia Rosendahl

Saskia Rosendahl

Marie-Luise 'Malu' Seegers

Udo Samel

Udo Samel

Ernst Gennat

Rüdiger Klink

Rüdiger Klink

Czerwinski

Thorsten Merten

Thorsten Merten

Henning

Godehard Giese

Godehard Giese

Wilhelm Böhm

Jens Harzer

Jens Harzer

Dr. Schmidt

Hannah Herzsprung

Hannah Herzsprung

Helga Rath

Ivo Pietzcker

Ivo Pietzcker

Moritz Rath

Martin Wuttke

Martin Wuttke

Gustav Heymann

Recommended

Deutschland

Deutschland

7.4
2015
TV Show

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.

Deutschland

2015
7.4
Aleph

Aleph

7.4
2020
TV Show

When close-to-retirement homicide detective Settar Öztürk is assigned a final case with his case partner Kemal McAllister, they discover a series of ruthless and operose murders. They soon discover they are dealing with a serial killer whose motives are connected with Islamic heresy and sufism. As the case disentangles, the detectives find out solving the case is not their only role in this picture.

Aleph

2020
7.4
13 Commandments

13 Commandments

6.7
2018
TV Show

A serial killer reverts to the 10 commandments in order to kick society a conscience with his crimes.

13 Commandments

2018
6.7
South Pacific

South Pacific

7.9
2009
TV Show

South Pacific is a British nature documentary series from the BBC Natural History Unit, which began airing on BBC Two on 10 May 2009. The six-part series surveys the natural history of the islands of the South Pacific region, including many of the coral atolls and New Zealand. It was filmed entirely in high-definition. South Pacific was co-produced by the Discovery Channel and the series producer was Huw Cordey. It is narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch. Filming took place over 18 months in a variety of remote locations around the Pacific including: Anuta, Banks Islands, French Frigate Shoals, Papua New Guinea, Palmyra, Kingman Reef, Tuvalu, Palau, Caroline Islands, Tuamotus and Tanna Island in Vanuatu. On 6 May 2009, BBC Worldwide released a short clip of big wave surfer Dylan Longbottom surfing in slow motion, high-definition footage as a preview of the series, attracting extremely positive reactions on the video sharing website YouTube. The series was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on 15 June 2009. At the end of each fifty-minute episode, a ten-minute featurette takes a behind-the-scenes look at the challenges of filming the series. The series was released by Discovery International in the USA under the title Wild Pacific, with narration provided by Mike Rowe.

South Pacific

2009
7.9
Spellbinder

Spellbinder

7.6
1995
TV Show

A group of teenagers go on a school camp in the Blue Mountains in Australia. While at the camp, Paul Reynolds accidentally goes into a parallel universe. This other world is inhabited by a more hierarchic and technologically different society, ruled by a group of people known as Spellbinders.

Spellbinder

1995
7.6
Walking on Sunshine

Walking on Sunshine

6.8
2019
TV Show

No overview available.

Walking on Sunshine

2019
6.8
Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day

Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day

7.6
1972
TV Show

Eight Hours Don't Make a Day (German: Acht Stunden sind kein Tag) is a West German television drama miniseries written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Commissioned by Westdeutscher Rundfunk, it broadcast in five episodes between 1972 and 1973. In Cologne, West Germany, young toolmaker Jochen's world is explored, including those around him: the woman he loves, his eccentric family, and his fellow workers, with whom he bands together to improve conditions on the factory floor.

Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day

1972
7.6
Großstadtrevier

Großstadtrevier

5.8
1986
TV Show

Follow the everyday work of a fictional police station on the Kiez of Hamburg.

Großstadtrevier

1986
5.8
I'm Standing on a Million Lives

I'm Standing on a Million Lives

6.5
2020
TV Show

Ninth grader Yotsuya Yuusuke is practical, friendless, and not active in any clubs. Then one day, he and two female classmates are suddenly sent to another world where they must work together to battle for their lives. Yotsuya is a lone wolf and has always lived his life according to his wants, but how will that work out now that he’s supposed to be a hero?!

I'm Standing on a Million Lives

2020
6.5
Line of Separation

Line of Separation

7.5
2015
TV Show

After the fall of the Third Reich, the small town of Tannbach is cruelly divided between East and West regimes and the town’s inhabitants suffer the consequences. A gripping historical drama exploring the devastating effects decades of conflict had on communities from the end of the Second War War to the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Line of Separation

2015
7.5
Die Wundersame Geschichte von Pankow

Die Wundersame Geschichte von Pankow

8.0
TV Show

No overview available.

Die Wundersame Geschichte von Pankow

8.0
Die Frau im Meer

Die Frau im Meer

6.1
2023
TV Show

After a missed call and a disturbing voicemail from his former colleague Hella Christensen, investigator Simon Kessler sets off for Nordholm. The commissioner is aware that something bad must have happened. When Hella's sailing boat is recovered at sea, traces of her blood and her cell phone are found on it, but there is no trace of the former commissioner herself. A SOKO, headed by the new police commissioner Lena Jansen, takes over the investigation. The investigative team not only has to solve Hella's disappearance, but also the death of 15-year-old Viviane, who was found in the woods by her friend Charlotte Broder and probably died of a drug overdose. Kessler realizes how little he knew about the life of his former colleague. After years, Hella's sister Rieke Lehwald suddenly appears with her husband Paul. Do the two have something to do with Hella's disappearance? Is it about an inheritance or a relationship act?

Die Frau im Meer

2023
6.1

Similar TV Shows

Aoi Bungaku Series

Aoi Bungaku Series

6.8
2009
TV Show

An animated adaptation of six classical Japanese literature pieces, including No Longer Human (Ningen Shikkaku) and Run, Melos (Hashire, Melos) by Osamu Dazai, Kokoro by Natsume Souseki, Hell Screen (Jigoku Hen) and The Spider's Thread (Kumo no Ito) by Ryunosuke Akutagawa and In the Forest, Under Cherries in Full Bloom (Sakura no Mori no Mankai no Shita) by Ango Sakaguchi.

Aoi Bungaku Series

2009
6.8
The Little Murders of Agatha Christie

The Little Murders of Agatha Christie

7.4
2009
TV Show

French adaptations of the stories by Agatha Christie.

The Little Murders of Agatha Christie

2009
7.4
ANZAC Girls

ANZAC Girls

7.3
2014
TV Show

The unique, and rarely told true stories of Australian and New Zealand nurses serving at Gallipoli and the Western Front during the First World War.

ANZAC Girls

2014
7.3
Grantchester

Grantchester

7.3
2014
TV Show

In 1953 at the hamlet of Grantchester, Sidney Chambers—a charismatic, charming clergyman—turns investigative vicar when one of his parishioners dies in suspicious circumstances.

Grantchester

2014
7.3
Yona of the Dawn

Yona of the Dawn

8.4
2014
TV Show

The legend of the Four Dragons and the origin of the land has been passed down for generations in the land of Kouka. Currently, Hiryuu Palace has no one else next in line for the throne other than the fifteen year old princess, Yona, who had been raised with care. Finally, the night of her sixteenth birthday arrives. She expects it to be a wonderful day spent with her peace-loving father, Il, her servant and friend Hak, and her cousin Soo-won, who she had feelings for... However... That night, Yona goes to visit her father to tell him how she really feels, because he opposes to her getting married to Soo-won. However, when she gets to her room, she encounters a shocking truth. The destinies of Yona and the Four Dragons entwine in this period drama fantasy romance!

Yona of the Dawn

2014
8.4
Shadow Detective

Shadow Detective

8.0
2025
TV Show

In 1930s Shanghai, detective Guan Cen and university student Lu Yizhen, meet during an investigation into a mysterious death at a women’s dormitory. Two years later, Lu Yizhen becomes one of Shanghai’s first female police officers, working directly under Guan Cen. Together, they reopen an unresolved child kidnapping case, uncovering hidden truths and confronting the shadows of the past.

Shadow Detective

2025
8.0
Carnivàle

Carnivàle

7.9
2003
TV Show

Carnivàle is an American television series set in the United States during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl. In tracing the lives of two disparate groups of people, its overarching story depicts the battle between good and evil and the struggle between free will and destiny; the storyline mixes Christian theology with gnosticism and Masonic lore, particularly that of the Knights Templar.

Carnivàle

2003
7.9
Our Zoo

Our Zoo

8.0
2014
TV Show

The story of George, who being frustrated by memories of fighting in the great war and living with his extended family, wants to bring more beauty into the world. When he comes across a camel and monkey that are about to be abandoned, he embarks on a plan to set up a zoo.

Our Zoo

2014
8.0
Liao Zhai

Liao Zhai

TV Show

A mysterious beauty’s severed head appears in the bustling marketplace. A fox spirit, trapped in the treacherous depths of human desire, struggles to escape her fate. When the Judge of the Underworld descends to swap heads and hearts, chaos erupts. A paper doll awakens to life with the final stroke of a brush, a wooden puppet grows a beating heart, and a withered tree stirs with forbidden longing. In this world where the boundaries between flesh and fantasy blur, ancient magic and human folly collide—revealing that even the most lifeless things may hunger for a soul.

Liao Zhai

In the Moonlight

In the Moonlight

TV Show

Exiled to a distant land through a forced political marriage, a fallen princess is saved by a reclusive king devoted to the gods. Under the desert moon, a single glance sparks a destined love. As war and chaos threaten their world, they fight side by side, proving that even in the darkest times, love can light the way.

In the Moonlight

Return to the Nineteen Ninety Three

Return to the Nineteen Ninety Three

2022
TV Show

No overview available.

Return to the Nineteen Ninety Three

2022
Royal Couple

Royal Couple

2024
TV Show

No overview available.

Royal Couple

2024