The best Tatort episodes of all time
The top 3 according to 3 votes from people: Born in Pain · Borowski and the Silent Guest · Who Am I?. (Updated Jan 30, 2024.)
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.
Automatically translated (original in Deutsch). See the original
Top 14
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Born in Pain
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.
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Borowski and the Silent Guest
NDR, 2012. Kiel, Axel Milberg as Klaus Borowski and Lars Eidinger as an eerie serial killer; 7.8 on IMDb.
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Who Am I?
HR, 2015. Ulrich Tukur plays himself during the shooting of a Tatort; a radical meta-experiment.
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Reifezeugnis
NDR, 1977. Directed by Wolfgang Petersen, with a young Nastassja Kinski; it reached a 67% audience share.
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Taxi to Leipzig
NDR, 1970. The very first episode, with Walter Richter as Inspector Trimmel, across the inner German border.
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Duisburg-Ruhrort
WDR, 1981. Götz George's first case as Horst Schimanski, the swearing Ruhr detective.
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Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street
WDR, 1973. Directed by American filmmaker Samuel Fuller; an unusual, wild Tatort.
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Franziska
WDR, 2014. Cologne, Ballauf and Schenk; aired late at night because of its brutality.
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House of Cards
WDR. Cologne, Ballauf and Schenk, and a modern Bonnie-and-Clyde story with tragic characters.
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The House at the End of the Street
HR. Frankfurt; a psychological duel between two great actors with enormous tension.
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Never Free Again
BR. Munich, Batic and Leitmayr; an outstanding Lisa Wagner in a case about the law and ethics of criminal defence.
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Powerless
With Edgar Selge; a kidnapping case told in reverse.
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Nothing but the Truth
rbb, 2023. Berlin, with Corinna Harfouch; an ambitious two-parter about right-wing extremism.
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Murot and the Groundhog
HR. Murot is stuck in a time loop, loosely inspired by Groundhog Day; 7.9 on IMDb.
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Comments (7)
Murot ist der beste Kommissar, schade, dass es so wenige Folgen gibt.
Habe «Im Schmerz geboren» noch einmal gesehen, immer noch der beste Tatort.
«Im Schmerz geboren» auf eins ist die richtige Wahl, Ulrich Tukur ist genial.
«Reifezeugnis» mit Nastassja Kinski, ein echter Klassiker.
Schimanski in «Duisburg-Ruhrort», der erste Fall, Kult!
Sonntags um 20:15 Tatort ist einfach heilig 🙏
«Murot und das Murmeltier» – ein Tatort als Zeitschleife, sowas gibt's nur beim HR.