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Cassandra, Netflix's newest sci-fi thriller, received a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score and ranked number 9 on Netflix's Top 10 U.S. Chart. The German limited series was written and directed by Benjamin Gutsche. The series follows a family who moves into a smart home that's been uninhabited for the last 50 years. Their presence in the house awakens a domestic robot named Cassandra, which was developed in the 1970s. The titular robot is determined to keep the family in the home and does everything possible to prevent them from leaving. Gutsche pulled elements from sci-fi, horror, and psychological thrillers to create this eerie series that explores the power and danger of AI through a dramatized lens.

The hit series stars Lavinia Wilson, Mina Tander, Michael Klammer, Franz Hartwig, Joshua Kantara,...

When a family moves into a decades-old smart home and reactivates its dormant robot housekeeper, Cassandra, they become fresh targets for her sinister motives. Will this mid-century AI system succeed in making its new inhabitants into a picture-perfect family — no matter the cost? Created by Benjamin Gutsche (All You Need), the psychological thriller series Cassandra stars Lavinia Wilson, Mina Tander, and Michael Klammer.

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Germany’s first smart home, which has stood empty since the ’70s, is finally inhabited once again. Samira (Tander) has just moved in with her husband, David (Klammer), and their two children, Fynn (Kantara) and Juno (Tölle) after tragedy hit too close to their former home. Luckily, as they rebuild their lives, they have some help adjusting to their new house: an AI home system named Cassandra that helps with cooking, cleaning, and...

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Buoyed by a busy start to the month with 38 new movies and series dropping, this week turned out to be very active for new releases. A total of 70 brand-new movies, games, and series debuted over the past week, with even more scheduled to arrive over the weekend. Below, we’ll highlight three titles that should be on your watch list, provide the full list of new additions, and check in on what’s been topping the TV and movie charts over the past week.

At least five new releases are also scheduled to drop over the weekend. The two significant movies on the way are Uncle Drew (2018) and Spencer (2021), the latter of which we just featured on our Best Movies of February 2025 list. You can find the complete list of everything coming up on Netflix throughout the rest of February 2025 here.

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As Netflix is expanding its library of German projects, one of the most exciting upcoming titles is ‘Cassandra.’ This sci-fi series tells the story of a family moving into a high-tech smart home with a dark past—its previous residents died under strange circumstances. Surely the house’s lonely robot isn’t involved… or is it?

Announced in September 2023, the series is written and directed by Benjamin Gutsche and produced by Eva Stadler and Christian Becker with Rat Pack Film. Amara Palacios is the executive producer, with J. Moritz Kaethner handling the cinematography.

Netflix recently announced that the show will be released on February 6, 2025, with a new teaser for the show:

The official synopsis for the show states the following:

The oldest smart home in Germany has been empty since the owners died under mysterious circumstances over 50 years ago. When Samira moves in with her family today, the electronic household...

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It’s time for another slate preview, and today we’ll look through all the upcoming German-language movies and series we know are in development at Netflix for release in 2024 and beyond.

2023 was a big year for new German-language Netflix Originals, with a dozen releases in total. Dear Child was perhaps the biggest, spending six weeks in the global top 10s in total. As a reminder, all the new German titles included:

1899 (Multilingual) Big Mäck: Gangsters and Gold Blood & Gold Cyberbunker: The Criminal Underworld Dear Child Eldorado: Everything the Nazis Hate Hard Feelings Making All Quiet on the Western Front Paradise Sleeping Dog Till Murder Do Us Part: Soering vs. Haysom Too Hot to Handle: Germany Woman of the Dead

This list is everything currently announced and Netflix De (or Netflix Europe) has yet to put out an...

TBS is set to remake German comedy Arthur’s Law – the first original comedy from Turner’s German network TNT Comedy.

The U.S. cable network has secured the rights to the project, which is known locally as Arthurs Gesetz, from its parent company. It has picked up the format rights to the series as well as the rights to run the German version with subtitles.

The comedy follows unemployed Arthur Ahnepol, played by Jan Josef Liefers, who ekes out a bleak existence. Drawn from the strains of his unhappy marriage and bored to death, he makes a morbid plan: he wants his obnoxious wife to die. With the money from the life insurance there’s no obstacle for a restart with his beloved mistress. But an unwritten law dominates the life of the unlucky fellow: every problem solved by Arthur has a far worse effect. And so, he sets...