Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Brigitte Mira (20 April 1910 – 8 March 2005) was a German actress. She worked in both theater and film, often with Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Brigitte Mira's mother was German and her father was Jewish Russian. During the Nazi dictatorship, Mira took part in the propaganda series Liese und Miese. She played Miese (germ. bad one)--the bad role model according to Nazi ideology that listened to enemy radio stations and stockpiled rationed food. But her acting skills turned the "bad" character she portrayed into a likeable one. The series was soon cancelled for being counter productive. The propaganda directors did not know that Mira was half-Jewish. Even though she insisted on her naivete as a young woman and the fact she had to hide her identity, she was criticized later by some for taking part in these ads at all. Even if Mira was born in Hamburg she early on moved to Berlin and through her TV work came to embody the typical Berlin sense of humor. Notable performances include Emmi Kurowski in Fear Eats the Soul (1974), a role for which she won a German Film Award. In the 1980s Mira achieved another big success with the television series Drei Damen vom Grill. Description above from the Wikipedia article Brigitte Mira, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: April 20, 1910
Deathday: March 08, 2005
Popularity:
1974-03-05
Overview: Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown children offer little companionship. One night she goes to a bar frequented by Arab immigrants and strikes up a friendship with middle-aged mechanic Ali. Their relationship soon develops into something more, and Emmi's family and neighbors criticize their spontaneous marriage. Soon Emmi and Ali are forced to confront their own insecurities about their future.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-03-05
Popularity:
2018-04-20
Overview:
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2018-04-20
Popularity:
1970-04-09
Overview: West German crime film directed by Rolf Olsen and starring Curd Jürgens, Andrea Rau and Corny Collins. It is set in the red-light district of St. Pauli in Hamburg.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-04-09
Popularity:
1974-11-01
Overview: The film follows Kaspar Hauser (Bruno S.), who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny cellar with only a toy horse to occupy his time, devoid of all human contact except for a man who wears a black overcoat and top hat who feeds him.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-11-01
Popularity:
1959-01-29
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-01-29
Popularity:
1977-02-23
Overview: A husband and wife lie to each other about their weekend travel plans, only to both show up at the family's country house with their lovers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-02-23
Popularity:
1975-07-01
Overview: After a worker kills a superior and commits suicide, each of his family members attempts to forge a path forward in life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-07-01
Popularity:
1975-07-08
Overview: After having her second child, a German housewife suffers from post-partum depression before inexplicably falling into a continually misdiagnosed mental state, befuddling her relatives.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-07-08
Popularity:
1996-11-27
Overview: The British parliament has decided to get rid of the royal family. All of them have to leave the county and so they move to Germany, where they want to live by their distant relatives, the Bettenberg family. But these are not amused about their snobbish visitors, which all want to reside in their little house without doing any work to earn their living.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1996-11-27
Popularity:
1958-10-01
Overview:
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-10-01
Popularity:
1988-01-31
Overview: Though originally slated for a 1960 release, the full original film was only released in 1988. A heavily altered version with a different directors was released under the title Die Nacht am See in 1963.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1988-01-31
Popularity:
1968-11-29
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-11-29
Popularity:
1980-04-25
Overview: The story of Jacob Fabian, a somewhat liberal Berlin advertising copywriter who witnesses the collapse of the prewar German society during the 1930s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-04-25
Popularity:
1981-09-23
Overview: The Political drama shows the denunciation and persecution of the 19-year-old Sanne in the Nazi state. After she falls in love with her cousin, Sanne is betrayed by her jealous aunt to the Gestapo.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-09-23
Popularity:
1988-12-30
Overview: A comedy directed by Franz Josef Gottlieb.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1988-12-30
Popularity:
1970-10-15
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-10-15
Popularity:
1971-02-25
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-02-25
Popularity:
1975-06-29
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-06-29
Popularity:
1958-12-18
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-12-18
Popularity:
1976-09-08
Overview: Anita Drögemöller has transformed herself from a small-time street prostitute into a luxury call girl. But one day she finds her former pimp dead in her apartment with a broken neck. Chief Inspector Langensiepen takes up the investigation and discovers an impenetrable web of sex, lies, raison d'état and murder.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-09-08
Popularity:
1948-12-31
Overview: Long before he played the corpulent Goldfinger, German actor Gert Froebe was a scarecrow-skinny comedian. In Berliner Ballade, Froebe makes his screen debut as Otto, a feckless Everyman who tries to adjust to the postwar travails of his defeated nation. Stymied by black-market profiteers and government bureaucrats, Otto begins fantasizing about a happier life at the end of that ever-elusive rainbow. Director R. A. Stemmle doesn't have to strive for pathos: he merely places his gangly star amidst the ruins of a bombed-out Berlin, and the point is made for him. Filmed in 1948, Berliner Ballade was later released in the U.S. as The Berliner.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1948-12-31
Popularity:
1983-09-23
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-09-23
Popularity:
1982-02-20
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-02-20
Popularity:
1976-01-21
Overview: When they start losing family members and neighbors due to WWII and the Nazi government's policies, a quiet married couple becomes disillusioned and begins spreading leaflets against the government - a crime punishable by death.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-01-21
Popularity:
1959-10-15
Overview:
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-10-15
Popularity:
1982-07-16
Overview: In a totalitarian society of the future, in which the government controls all facets of the media, a homicide detective investigates a string of bombings, and finds out more than he bargained for.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-07-16
Popularity:
1985-01-18
Overview: An East Berlin woman falls in love with a Swiss cook.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1985-01-18
Popularity:
1962-01-12
Overview: Cautionary drama, with vigorous attack on Germany's laws governing abortion.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-01-12
Popularity:
1991-12-15
Overview: A thriller about a maniac murderer who to the outside world is a celebrity TV presenter. His beautiful assistant, a woman who has fallen off the career ladder, is terrorized by him. A job-hunting animation artist gets caught in the world of glitter and glamour of the TV industry. Drugs and promiscuity are omnipresent. The animation artist falls in love with the assistant and his love is returned; together they uncover the true identity of the killer. Murderous Decisions is a special experiment: an interactive zap-movie, leaving it up to the viewer whether they follow the story from the male or female perspective. The movie is one of a kind, actually being two movies aired simutaneously on separate TV channels and allowing the viewer to switch back and forth at will.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller Mystery
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1991-12-15
Popularity:
1990-02-01
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1990-02-01
Popularity:
1976-10-07
Overview: A famous poet who hasn't written a word in two years unconsciously plagiarizes the work of Stefan George, while dealing with several mistresses, his dim-witted brother, and a murder investigation.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-10-07
Popularity:
1989-10-08
Overview: A crime comedy directed by Franz Josef Gottlieb.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-10-08
Popularity:
1958-10-02
Overview:
Genres: Music Comedy Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-10-02
Popularity:
1958-02-22
Overview: The chorus girl Caterina Duval gets the chance of her life when hired as stand-in of a famous star. On the opening night Catarina is singing, dancing and stepping into the hearts of the audience.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-02-22
Popularity:
1971-04-25
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-04-25
Popularity:
1973-07-12
Overview: A German serial killer preys on boys and young men during the so-called years of crisis between the wars. Based on the true story of Fritz Haarmann, aka the Butcher of Hanover and the Vampire of Hanover.
Genres: Horror Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-07-12
Popularity:
1984-10-18
Overview: A comedy directed by Wolf Gremm.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1984-10-18
Popularity:
1986-10-09
Overview:
Genres: TV Movie Crime Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1986-10-09
Popularity:
1991-01-01
Overview:
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1991-01-01
Popularity:
1993-01-01
Overview:
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1993-01-01
Popularity:
2000-04-28
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-04-28
Popularity:
1982-01-01
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-01-01
Popularity:
1972-01-01
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-01-01
Popularity:
1983-01-01
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-01-01
Popularity:
1983-06-27
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-06-27
Popularity:
1977-03-15
Overview: When Hitler watches Marlene Dietrich in a movie, he falls in love with her. He persuades her to come back to Germany to be with him, but upon her arrival she constantly insults and provokes him until he eventually, on her command, bites the carpet to bits.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-03-15
Popularity:
1980-02-25
Overview:
Genres: Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-02-25
Popularity:
1959-12-31
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-12-31
Popularity:
1970-03-14
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-03-14
Popularity:
1978-04-09
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-04-09
Popularity:
1982-01-01
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-01-01
Popularity:
1993-01-01
Overview:
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1993-01-01
Popularity:
1960-09-01
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-09-01
Popularity:
1960-03-08
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-03-08
Popularity:
1978-07-01
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-07-01
Popularity:
1978-11-24
Overview: A middle-aged man's doubts about himself transform themselves into paranoia about his younger wife's behavior in this psychological thriller. The husband plants listening devices around their apartment and eventually drives the heretofore innocent woman into the arms of one of his co-workers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-11-24
Popularity:
1966-03-05
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-03-05
Popularity:
1967-11-18
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-11-18
Popularity:
1982-02-13
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-02-13
Popularity:
2002-10-24
Overview: Shot with striking immediacy by a subjective camera, “Angst isst Seele auf” assumes the point of view of a black actor in Germany dealing with racist abuse as he prepares to appear in a play based on Fassbinder’s film, about the taboo relationship between an older German woman and an Arab man. Sharing the same lead actress (Brigitte Mira), cinematographer (Jürgen Jürges), and editor (Thea Eymèsz) as in Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1974 Film “Angst essen Seele auf”, these twin works offer a searing indictment of prejudice within German society.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-10-24
Popularity:
1993-01-01
Overview: Edgar Allen Poe fanatic and literature professor Dudley (Heinz Hoenig) is an extraordinary chamber scholar, in whose life the mysterious Annabel (Stephanie Philipp) suddenly enters, similar to the title of a poem by his beloved writer. Annabel gives theatre performances in the auditorium of a Dutch university and Dudley is completely in love with her. They have a fantastic weekend together, but then she disappears as mysteriously as she had come. Dudley embarks on an endless quest that is stiff with Poe symbolism. It takes him to the red light district of Amsterdam, but also to the jet-set of Berlin and the beaches of the Baltic Sea.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1993-01-01
Popularity:
2001-06-15
Overview: The Berlin Observatory is facing the financial end. Against the will of the renowned physicist Robert von Reichenbach, the astrologer Lena Moosbach is set, which quickly establishes itself as a crowd puller and fills the empty cash registers of the planetarium. Worried about the scientific reputation of the observatory, Robert spat first poison and bile against the new colleague. But although the sober astronomer rejects horoscopes with the deepest conviction, he falls in love with the charming astrologer. However, when it turns out that she just feigned her Ph.D., Robert feels betrayed
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-06-15
Popularity:
1971-01-27
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-01-27
Popularity:
1980-01-06
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-01-06
Popularity:
1973-12-29
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-12-29
Popularity:
1987-03-16
Overview: A movie directed by Franz Josef Gottlieb.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1987-03-16
Popularity:
1992-03-23
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1992-03-23
Popularity:
1974-05-31
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-05-31
Popularity:
1963-06-29
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-06-29
Popularity:
1974-11-13
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-11-13
Popularity:
1985-01-01
Overview:
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1985-01-01
Popularity:
1965-10-13
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-10-13
Popularity:
1962-08-09
Overview:
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-08-09
Popularity:
1975-06-06
Overview: Fox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and things that he has always wanted. While he wants to climb up the social ladder, it isn't without turmoil, and being torn between his old working class roots, and the shiny new facade of middle class consciousness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-06-06
Popularity:
1981-01-14
Overview: The story of a German singer named Willie who while working in Switzerland falls in love with a Jewish composer named Robert whose family is helping people to flee from the Nazis. Robert’s family is skeptical of Willie, thinking she could be a Nazi as she becomes famous for singing the song “Lili Marleen”.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-01-14
Popularity:
1985-03-12
Overview:
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1985-03-12
Popularity:
1979-10-06
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-10-06
Popularity:
1982-01-02
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-01-02
Popularity:
1977-01-01
Overview: The gentle inhabitants of a quaint Berlin apartment house, damaged by the Second World War but possessing an elegance of its own, love the place where they live, with its motto Liebe das Leben-Lebe das Lieben (Love Living, Live Loving) emblazoned above the door. Their love for it only increases when they learn that it is threatened by a bank redevelopment project. Among the apartment-dwellers are an elderly couple (Brigitte Mira and Erhardt Dhein) who have toured the world together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-01-01
Popularity:
1966-07-03
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-07-03
Popularity:
1978-01-01
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-01-01
Popularity:
2000-11-10
Overview: An essay film in which filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim interviews "the willing victims of Rainer Werner Fassbinder."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-11-10
Popularity:
1963-12-25
Overview: Saleswoman Jenny is crazy about the painter Jack. But Jack does not want to marry, even though he loves Jenny passionately. So Jenny looks elsewhere to find the right man. She marries twice, but always ends up back with Jack and gives herself to him with no attachments. Will Jack and Jenny find true love? Of course!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-12-25
Popularity:
2006-06-12
Overview: "Did you ever fall in love with me?" - that was how the popular comedian Max Hansen ironically yet endearingly attacked Adolf Hitler as a homosexual. In the late 1920s Hansen was forced to leave Germany. The multi-talented entertainer lost his audience and was never again to be seen on a German stage. His children and many others who were part of his life tell their side of the story about the tragicomic life of the popular artist.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2006-06-12
Popularity:
2007-02-01
Overview: Mixing scenes of Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows and Fassbinder's Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, François Ozon creates a new film about cinephilic contamination.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-02-01
Popularity:
1972-09-13
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-09-13
Popularity:
1966-12-25
Overview:
Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-12-25
Popularity:
1988-01-11
Overview:
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1988-01-11
Popularity:
1965-04-03
Overview:
Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-04-03
Popularity:
1964-12-25
Overview:
Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-12-25
Popularity:
1961-04-30
Overview: 1838: Fritz Jüterbog and Ottilie von Henkeshofen love each other, but the difference in status is too great for Ottilie's parents to give their consent to a marriage. And so, Fritz sets off for America and returns from there 20 years later as a made man to ask for Ottilie's hand in marriage again. In the meantime, however, Ottilie - believing that Fritz had long since forgotten her - is married in a manner befitting her status, but very unhappily. Fritz, who is highly successful as an entrepreneur, is elevated to hereditary nobility because of his great services to the fatherland. It is too late for a union with Ottilie, but despite the years that pass, the two cannot forget their love. 75 years later, Fritz and Ottilie have died in the meantime, their grandchildren Fred and Tilla meet and fall in love.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-04-30
Popularity:
1959-01-03
Overview:
Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-01-03
Popularity:
1953-04-17
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1953-04-17
Popularity:
1963-03-31
Overview:
Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-03-31
Popularity:
1963-10-01
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-10-01
Popularity:
1962-03-06
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-03-06
Popularity:
1968-07-05
Overview:
Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-07-05
Popularity:
1961-12-19
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-12-19
Popularity:
1982-12-24
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-12-24
Popularity:
1997-08-27
Overview: Once upon a time very much alike the twenties in Germany, a little town is frightened to death by an uncaught child murderer. Since somebody has to be blamed the townspeople turn against an inconspicious policeman, a family-man who becomes suspected of the crime and therefore loses his job. Strangely enough, the only work he can find is to distribute candy on children, dressed up as clown. When a bunch of kiddies, including his own son who doesn't recognize the father due to the masquerade, plays a nasty trick to him, things turn really ugly...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1997-08-27
Popularity:
1975-05-05
Overview: A pseudo variety show about the Aufbau-Era, the time of the German 'economic miracle'. Brigitte Mira recounts her four husbands through song and joke, on an series of artificial sets.
Genres: Music TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-05-05
Popularity:
1981-08-30
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-08-30
Popularity:
1974-01-01
Overview: An African-American GI retires from the US Army in West Berlin to live with his (white) girlfriend, who already has a baby with another black man. After an argument with her family, she deserts him as well. Despite finding a job and a new place to live, he keeps running into racism, which also manifests itself in sexual intimidation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-01-01
Popularity:
1997-10-01
Overview: "It must schwing!" was the motto of Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff, two German Jewish immigrants who in 1939 set up Blue Note Records, the jazz label that was home to such greats as Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, Thelonious Monk, Art Blakey, Dexter Gordon and Sonny Rollins. Blue Note, the most successful movie ever made about jazz, is a testimony to the passion and vision of these two men and certainly swings like the propulsive sounds that made their label so famous.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-01
Popularity: