In "Beside the Trail" (ZDF), a patient of psychiatrist Joe Jessen is suspected of murder. A 14-year-old is looking for the murderer of her father in "True Grit" (Arte). At kabel eins there is a reunion with the "Matrix".
8:15 p.m., ZDF, Beside the trail: Redeem me, thriller
The psychiatrist Dr. Joe Jessen (Ulrich Noethen) doesn't just have to deal with the fact that he recently shot someone. His Parkinson's disease continues to make life difficult for him. When his practice is devastated by a burglar, Joe's painstakingly maintained facade finally seems to crumble. But then he discovers that a patient file was stolen during the break-in – that of Milena Lorenz (Anna Bederke), a young woman whose husband disappeared without a trace half a year ago.
8:15 p.m., Arte, True Grit, Western
14-year-old Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld) travels to Fort Smith to retaliate for her father's murder. However, the perpetrator Tom Chaney (Josh Brolin) fled days before their arrival. Mattie hires the infamous U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn (Jeff Bridges) as a bounty hunter. When Texas ranger LaBoeuf (Matt Damon) wants to join the pair, Mattie is outraged because the arrogant law enforcer is also targeting Chaney's head.
8:15 p.m., The First, In the Volga Empire, Documentary
The second part of the elaborate nature documentation leads from the forest border of Central Russia through the southern Russian steppes to the Caspian semi-deserts. The huge Volga dominates the dry Russian lowlands as a large blue band. It grazes the edge of the Asian continent along the Kazakh border. Along the middle course of the Volga, steppe marmots colonize the dry slopes and great bustards display on the fields. Steppe foxes, cranes and saiga antelopes are messengers of the Central Asian steppes.
8:15 p.m., kabel eins, matrix, sci-fi action
The hacker Neo (Keanu Reeves) finds out that the world is just an illusion that people believe in a huge computer program, the matrix. With the help of a small group of rebels around Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne), he breaks out of the illusory world and begins to fight against machine beings that have enslaved humanity. Morpheus soon inaugurates his secret that Neo could have a larger role in this war than he might want to fill.
10:15 p.m., ZDF, Fifty Shades of Gray, erotic drama
Ana (Dakota Johnson) is single and sexually very inexperienced. So far, she has lacked the right partner to explore love and her physical side. For a student magazine from her university, she is supposed to interview the mysterious, very retired entrepreneur and billionaire Christian Gray (Jamie Dornan). Christian unexpectedly shows interest in the young woman. He is looking for a woman who is ready to engage in a sexual relationship with him that would be subject to special rules. His rules.