# The best Tatort episodes of all time

The Tatort crime dramas with the best IMDb ratings and the highest places in fan and critic rankings, from the first episode in 1970 to the experimental Murot cases from Wiesbaden.

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- Jan 30, 2024 · frankfurtserienjunkie
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## Top 14

1. **Born in Pain** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — HR, 2014. Ulrich Tukur as detective Felix Murot against an old friend; staged like an opera and, at 8.2, the best-rated episode on IMDb.
2. **Borowski and the Silent Guest** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — NDR, 2012. Kiel, Axel Milberg as Klaus Borowski and Lars Eidinger as an eerie serial killer; 7.8 on IMDb.
3. **Who Am I?** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — HR, 2015. Ulrich Tukur plays himself during the shooting of a Tatort; a radical meta-experiment.
4. **Reifezeugnis** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — NDR, 1977. Directed by Wolfgang Petersen, with a young Nastassja Kinski; it reached a 67% audience share.
5. **Taxi to Leipzig** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — NDR, 1970. The very first episode, with Walter Richter as Inspector Trimmel, across the inner German border.
6. **Duisburg-Ruhrort** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — WDR, 1981. Götz George's first case as Horst Schimanski, the swearing Ruhr detective.
7. **Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — WDR, 1973. Directed by American filmmaker Samuel Fuller; an unusual, wild Tatort.
8. **Franziska** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — WDR, 2014. Cologne, Ballauf and Schenk; aired late at night because of its brutality.
9. **House of Cards** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — WDR. Cologne, Ballauf and Schenk, and a modern Bonnie-and-Clyde story with tragic characters.
10. **The House at the End of the Street** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — HR. Frankfurt; a psychological duel between two great actors with enormous tension.
11. **Never Free Again** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — BR. Munich, Batic and Leitmayr; an outstanding Lisa Wagner in a case about the law and ethics of criminal defence.
12. **Powerless** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — With Edgar Selge; a kidnapping case told in reverse.
13. **Nothing but the Truth** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — rbb, 2023. Berlin, with Corinna Harfouch; an ambitious two-parter about right-wing extremism.
14. **Murot and the Groundhog** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — HR. Murot is stuck in a time loop, loosely inspired by Groundhog Day; 7.9 on IMDb.

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