Ben Becker
Biography: Ben Becker is a German actor, dubbing and radio play speaker and singer. He had his breakthrough in 1995 in Joseph Vilsmaier's film adaptation of the novel "Schlafes Bruder". He has acted in many film and television productions and has appeared in numerous theater productions. Ben Becker comes from a family of artists. Becker's autobiography "Na und, ich tanze." was published in fall 2011. Becker has a daughter (*2000) with his wife, whom he married in 2012 after 14 years of dating, and lives in Berlin.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: December 19, 1964
Deathday: N/A
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Known For
Brother of Sleep
1995-09-08
Brother of Sleep
Overview: In the beginning of the 19th century, Johannes Elias Alder is born in a small village in the Austrian mountains. While growing up he is considered strange by the other villagers and discovers his love of music, especially rebuilding and playing the organ at the village church. After experiencing an "acoustic wonder", his eye color changes and he can hear even the most subtle sounds.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1995-09-08
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Gloomy Sunday
1999-10-21
Gloomy Sunday
Overview: Budapest in the thirties. The restaurant owner Laszlo hires the pianist András to play in his restaurant. Both men fall in love with the beautiful waitress Ilona who inspires András to his only composition. His song of Gloomy Sunday is, at first, loved and then feared, for its melancholic melody triggers off a chain of suicides. The fragile balance of the erotic ménage à trois is sent off kilter when the German Hans goes and falls in love with Ilona as well.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1999-10-21
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Alles nur Tarnung
1996-11-14
Alles nur Tarnung
Overview: After trying to smuggle a package into prison for his father Willi, Harry and his girlfriend Marlies also end up in jail. While Harry is billeted with Daddy, Marlies is housed just one floor up in the cell of the ageing prostitute Jutta. With Christmas just around the corner, the four of them join forces and plan to break through to their cells to celebrate a lavish party with a can of homemade schnapps.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1996-11-14
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A Love in Germany
1983-10-26
A Love in Germany
Overview: In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that he left 40 years before. He wants to discover what happened then, the truth about an affair his mother had with a young Polish prisoner of war, how the authorities came to learn of it, the lovers' arrest, and the aftermath. While his son takes Polaroid photographs, he retraces the steps of his childhood and interviews those who should remember. The story is disclosed in flashbacks that focus on the lovers (Paulina and Stanislaus), on a jealous and conniving neighbor, and on Mayer, the local SS commander who wants to find a way out of inevitable consequences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-10-26
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Red Zora
2008-01-23
Red Zora
Overview: In this sun soaked adventure for the entire family, a group of five orphaned children form their own makeshift family while attempting to operate outside the rules of society. Though they must sometimes steal to survive, their loyalty to one another means that they will always have a brother or sister to count on.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-01-23
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Sass
2001-09-27
Sass
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-09-27
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Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
2022-06-30
Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
Overview: Rex Gildo’s songs and musicals made him very popular. His best-known song was “Fiesta Mexicana” from 1972. Rosa von Praunheim tells the story of his life in the context of the gay pride movement, the normative pressures of the Schlager music industry, and the profound changes currently underway.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2022-06-30
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The Harmonists
1997-12-25
The Harmonists
Overview: Comedian Harmonists tells the story of a famous, German male sextet, five vocals and piano, the "Comedian Harmonists", from the day they meet first in 1927 to the day in 1934, when they become banned by the upcoming Nazis, because three of them are Jewish.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1997-12-25
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The Painter
2021-11-12
The Painter
Overview: Being one of the most significant, contemporary painters, Albert Oehlen’s approach is complete refusal of the common art circus. In its own way the Film reflects this very stance. Likewise, it questions the purpose of obsolete thinking patterns created by white straight male artists of a certain age that have dominated the art world for centuries.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2021-11-12
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As White as in Snow
2001-02-15
As White as in Snow
Overview: Inspired by real-life Elsa Andersson, this mostly fictional movie tells the story of her upbringing as a farmer's daughter, in the early 1900s, who dreams of getting away from the farm and becoming an aviatrix.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2001-02-15
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A Very Ordinary Jew
2006-01-19
A Very Ordinary Jew
Overview: What does being a Jew mean nowadays? Emanuel Goldfarb, a Jewish journalist, is asked by the Director of a Jewish community in Germany, to respond to an invitation by a professor to tell his pupils about his life as a Jew living in Germany. This conversation, performed by Goldfarb and the Director of the community, is the only scene of Oliver Hirschbiegel's film « Ein ganz gewohnlicher Jude » presented at the Film and Television Festival of Genève, which was shot outdoors and it's the only moment where something apparently happens.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2006-01-19
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Habermann
2010-10-07
Habermann
Overview: A story set in a small village in Sudetenland between 1937 and 1945. "Habermann" is based on true events.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2010-10-07
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Nero - de caida y subida
2020-11-25
Nero - de caida y subida
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Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2020-11-25
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Max and Moritz Reloaded
2005-04-27
Max and Moritz Reloaded
Overview: Max and Moritz are two young brothers living an adventurous life of petty crime in Hamburg, Germany. After the two boys steal a car and get into an accident, with the adolescent daughter of a Hamburg Senator sitting in the passenger seat, the two scoundrels are packed up and sent to a boot camp. This military-style camp is run by Axel and Henry, two former East German soldiers who still strongly believe in Communism but are secretly gay lovers. Max and Moritz steal another car...a red Ferrari owned by small-town pimp Murder-Hanne. The nationalistic sadist teaches the boys a painful lesson, but Max and Moritz wouldn’t be Max and Moritz if they let this weekend-fascist get them down... and when they acquire the key to their military school’s ordinance depot, things start to change.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2005-04-27
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Udo Lindenberg & Das Panikorchester - 50 Jahre Rock'n'Roll in der bunten Republik
2023-09-15
Udo Lindenberg & Das Panikorchester - 50 Jahre Rock'n'Roll in der bunten Republik
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Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2023-09-15
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The Child
2012-09-18
The Child
Overview: Simon Sachs, a terminally ill ten year old boy, claims to have been a serial killer in his previous life and apparently he can prove it. He leads a lawyer, Robert Stern, to the locations of the bodies, who were killed long before Simon was born. Stern takes on the most compelling and mysterious case of his life.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-09-18
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Little Angel
1997-09-04
Little Angel
Overview: Ramona lives her lonely life in Berlin working in a lipstick factory. One day she accidentally runs into Andrzei, a Polish mechanic illegally selling cigarettes in Germany during the weekend. One thing leads to another, and soon she finds herself pregnant. Then her life starts falling apart, when Andrzei tells her he already has a wife back in Poland and her baby dies shortly after its premature birth.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1997-09-04
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The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld
2000-03-16
The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld
Overview: The life story of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, a German Jew, who as a physician established the field of sexology, and fought militantly against German anti-sodomy laws in the late 19th century. The script reveals main characters in Hirschfeld's life including impossible love interest Baron von Teschenberg, and Hirschfeld's aids- young Karl Giese and guardian angel, the transvestite Dorchen, as they establish the First Institute of Sexual Sciences in Berlin in 1920, and follows their struggles to keep it open, up to the rise of the Third Reich in the mid 1930s.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-03-16
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Trenck - Zwei Herzen gegen die Krone
2003-02-09
Trenck - Zwei Herzen gegen die Krone
Overview: Prussian general's son Friedrich, Freiherr (German baron) von der Trenck, is an unruly student whose countless affairs make him enemies, but he wins every duel. Frederic II the Great recruits him for his personal bodyguard. During his cadet training under the cruel stickler Graf (count) von Jaschinsky Friedrich falls in love with the king's headstrong oldest sister Amalia. She, however, refuses to be married off the the Swedish king's heir. When Prussia makes war on Austria over Silesia, Trenck's loyalty is dubious on account of an Austrian family branch. Janischky eagerly convinces the king there is more.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2003-02-09
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Chaostage - We Are Punks!
2009-04-09
Chaostage - We Are Punks!
Overview: CHAOSTAGE is the first real german Punk movie. part fictional, part documentary it tells the story of some young punks...
Genres: Action Documentary Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-04-09
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Marlene
2000-03-09
Marlene
Overview: Marlene is a 2000 German biopic film directed by Joseph Vilsmaier and starring Katja Flint, Hans Werner Meyer and Herbert Knaup. It follows the life of the German actress Marlene Dietrich and her success in Hollywood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-03-09
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Otto - The Disaster Movie
2000-03-22
Otto - The Disaster Movie
Overview: A man from Ostfriesland travels to Hamburg and sets course for America on a steamship to conquer this New World as well. What he leaves behind is a swath of devastation, a breach of confusion, a Milky Way full of music, a dead end full of mad jokes and perhaps a touch too much wordplay at the expense of others. But what is worst of all: he has also made a film about it!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-03-22
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Quarantäne
1989-10-24
Quarantäne
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-10-24
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Münchhausen - Die Geschichte einer Lüge
2013-01-19
Münchhausen - Die Geschichte einer Lüge
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2013-01-19
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The Serbian Girl
1991-01-31
The Serbian Girl
Overview: The naive 18 year old Dobrila leaves her little Serbian village to travel to Hamburg, Germany, where her boyfriend lives. The trip is not easy. Finally in Hamburg she has to realize her boyfriend is not very interested in a relationship. She doesn't tell him she's pregnant and starts on her way home to Serbia, which turns out to be even more exhausting.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1991-01-31
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Eine geschlossene Gesellschaft
1987-01-01
Eine geschlossene Gesellschaft
Overview: Follows the lives of students and their teachers based on the director's childhood memories. The events of the film take places in the actual boarding school called "Gymnasium Canisianum", founded in 1946 by a German catholic priest.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Gegen den Strom
1998-06-16
Gegen den Strom
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1998-06-16
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Julian H. entführt – Qualen einer Mutter
1993-01-01
Julian H. entführt – Qualen einer Mutter
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Rheingold – Gesichter eines Flusses
2014-08-21
Rheingold – Gesichter eines Flusses
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-08-21
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Die zukünftigen Glückseligkeiten
1990-09-10
Die zukünftigen Glückseligkeiten
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1990-09-10
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B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989
2015-02-05
B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989
Overview: The wild West Berlin of the 1980s became the creative melting pot of pop subcultures: music, art and chaos. Before the Iron Curtain fell, anything and everything seemed possible.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-02-05
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Planet Alex
2001-01-18
Planet Alex
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-01-18
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Die sieben Feuer des Todes
1997-10-03
Die sieben Feuer des Todes
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Genres: Action
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1997-10-03
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Rough Road Ahead
2015-03-12
Rough Road Ahead
Overview: Germany, 1967. Ruby & Martin, a young couple, are rehearsing their uprising. The price is high: expulsion from school, parental violence, and ultimately institutionalization. But they are ready to take on the cause of love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-03-12
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Herzsprung
1992-11-19
Herzsprung
Overview: In the little town of Herzsprung - whose name harks back to an ancient legend of broken hearts - almost nothing has changed since German unification, except a rise in unemployment. Johanna, a young mother and widow, becomes one of the unemployed and lives on welfare. To make matters worse, she falls in love with a dark-skinned, roving adventurer and the whole village starts talking about it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1992-11-19
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Südsee, eigene Insel
1999-07-08
Südsee, eigene Insel
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1999-07-08
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E-m@il an Gott
1999-12-03
E-m@il an Gott
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1999-12-03
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Kurt Gerrons Karussell
1999-05-13
Kurt Gerrons Karussell
Overview: This documentary tells the story of an unusual victim of the Nazi holocaust -- Kurt Gerron, a German film actor and cabaret star. During World War II, Gerron went from being a leading light of the German entertainment community (he made over 70 films and sang "Mack the Knife" in the first performance of The Three-Penny Opera) to a prisoner directing a propaganda film for the Nazis about a makeshift club at Theresienstadt, which was described as a "concentration camp for celebrities." Gerron was eventually executed at Auschwitz. Director Ilona Ziok combines archival footage of Gerron with interviews of peers and survivors who describe how Gerron tragically believed his gifts as an entertainer would save his life -- and how he enthusiastically kept performing right up to his death.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-05-13
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Frau2 Seeks HappyEnd
2001-01-11
Frau2 Seeks HappyEnd
Overview: A radio presenter and a telephone operator, both mourning the loss of their unhappy love affair, meet anonymously in an Internet chat room after a fated car accident, where emails bring them closer to each other.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-01-11
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Die kleine Meerjungfrau
2013-12-26
Die kleine Meerjungfrau
Overview: Undine rescues a prince from drowning, and leaves him unconscious on shore, where he can be found, but she has already fallen in love with him. Unable to enjoy life below the waves, the mermaid makes a deal with the Sea Witch to become human. The mermaid must also give her voice as payment. And her humanity is only conditional: if she can make the prince fall in love with her and marry her, she can gain a share in his soul and be truly human, but if he marries another, she will die at the next sunrise. It turns out that the witch only made her believe she would die if the prince married another as a Secret Test of Character: by refusing to kill the prince even to save her own life, she proves that she already has a soul. So she remains human, gets her voice back, and sets out to explore the world.
Genres: Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2013-12-26
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Karigula - Monster der Liebe
2024-10-12
Karigula - Monster der Liebe
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Genres: Drama Comedy Romance Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2024-10-12
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Whopper Punch 777
1986-01-01
Whopper Punch 777
Overview: The young son of a sports journalist helps his out-of-town father out of a jam by getting into the hotel room of a famous boxer and conducting a sensational star interview with him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Cinema Perverso
2015-10-14
Cinema Perverso
Overview: Before there were home video formats and the internet, the “Bahnhofskinos” (“Train station cinemas”) in West Germany regularly showed trash and erotica movies. Various filmmakers and especially contemporary witnesses recount in the documentary “Cinema Perverso – the wonderful and broken world of Bahnhofskino” their experiences and impressions.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-10-14
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Landschaft mit Dornen
1992-01-01
Landschaft mit Dornen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Rising to the Bait
1992-04-23
Rising to the Bait
Overview: Protected from the intrigues of con-men by the overwhelming blanket of the former regime in East Germany, at first it seems that Ada Fenske, the elderly widow living on a farm near a soon-to-be abandoned Russian island military base is fair game. The (West) German military intelligence services want to acquire her farm. At first, their agent attempts to buy the property openly, but her refusal to sell motivates him to try far shadier techniques. He comes up with a relative she never knew about who is entitled to a share in the property and tries to blackmail the township's mayor to get his cooperation. However, the hard-working and honest old lady has an ally in the person of her more sophisticated border, a woman who works in the mayor's office and has been to the West. She takes great delight in foiling the underhanded agent.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1992-04-23
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Verliebte Feinde
1995-05-27
Verliebte Feinde
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1995-05-27
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Freundinnen - Alle für eine
2016-05-05
Freundinnen - Alle für eine
Overview: They once played together in a band called Chix and were inseparable. Today, each of them has their own problems.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-05-05
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Emma nach Mitternacht - Der Wolf und die sieben Geiseln
2016-05-18
Emma nach Mitternacht - Der Wolf und die sieben Geiseln
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-05-18
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Mère Ubu
1998-12-07
Mère Ubu
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Genres: Animation
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1998-12-07
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Samson and Delilah
1996-12-08
Samson and Delilah
Overview: Biblical strongman Samson falls prey to the voluptuous Philistine temptress Delilah.
Genres: Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-08
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Allmen and the Dragonflies
2016-06-25
Allmen and the Dragonflies
Overview: Generosity, weakness for expensive pleasures and ruin is a combination that does not bode well. Johann Friedrich von Allmen was a man with a taste for women and the expensive pleasures of life. Unfortunately, his luck has run out, but now a new opportunity presents itself.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-06-25
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Esperanza
2008-05-29
Esperanza
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-05-29
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Otto - The Disaster Movie
2000-03-22
Otto - The Disaster Movie
Overview: A man from Ostfriesland travels to Hamburg and sets course for America on a steamship to conquer this New World as well. What he leaves behind is a swath of devastation, a breach of confusion, a Milky Way full of music, a dead end full of mad jokes and perhaps a touch too much wordplay at the expense of others. But what is worst of all: he has also made a film about it!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-03-22
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Ich, Judas
2017-10-31
Ich, Judas
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2017-10-31
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Jedermann
2010-08-10
Jedermann
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-08-10
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Spiel um dein Leben
1997-12-10
Spiel um dein Leben
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1997-12-10
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Der Tiger oder Was Frauen lieben!
2009-04-22
Der Tiger oder Was Frauen lieben!
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-04-22
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Vertrauen gegen Vertrauen
1986-10-13
Vertrauen gegen Vertrauen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1986-10-13
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Never Look Away
2018-10-03
Never Look Away
Overview: German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR regime.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2018-10-03
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