Monica Bleibtreu
Also Known As: Monika Bleibtreu
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Wien, Austria
Birthday: May 04, 1944
Deathday: May 14, 2009
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Run Lola Run
Overview: Lola receives a phone call from her boyfriend Manni. He lost 100,000 DM in a subway train that belongs to a very bad guy. She has 20 minutes to raise this amount and meet Manni. Otherwise, he will rob a store to get the money. Three different alternatives may happen depending on some minor event along Lola's run.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1998-08-20
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Four Minutes
Overview: Jenny is young. Her life is over. She killed someone. And she would do it again. When an 80-year-old piano teacher discovers the girl’s secret, her brutality and her dreams, she decides to transform her pupil into the musical wunderkind she once was.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2006-06-23
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Das Siegel
Overview: A number of horrific murders of women take place in a big city. The police follows a lead to a young man named Jesse. The evicence is overwhelming and Jesse desperately tries to prove his innocence. Suddenly his girlfriend is in mortal danger.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1998-03-27
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The Heart Is a Dark Forest
Overview: A woman's life is destroyed when she discovers that her husband has another family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2007-12-27
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Der Tote am Strand
Overview: After 15 years in the USA, a woman in her mid-30s returns to Germany to reconcile with her father, who had broken off contact with her. Before the discussion can take place, the father is murdered. In the course of the investigation, long suppressed secrets come to light.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2006-12-01
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Der Hurenstreik - Eine Liebe auf St. Pauli
Overview: Romeo and Juliet on the Kiez with Cupid in the form of the attractive sex worker Elisa: the young artist Nikolaus falls in love with the well-behaved law student Sandy. He ends up in prison for an extraordinary declaration of love.
Genres: Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1999-02-10
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It Happened in Broad Daylight
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1997-01-04
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Hilde
Overview: A biography of Hildegard Knef, one of Germany's biggest post-war stars.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-03-11
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Soul Kitchen
Overview: In Hamburg, German-Greek chef Zinos unknowingly disturbs the peace in his locals-only restaurant by hiring a more talented chef.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-09-09
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Wedding Shower
Overview: The film is based on the figure of the police inspector Simon Polt of the Austrian author Alfred Komarek.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2003-12-14
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The Murder Farm
Overview: Bavaria, Germany, 1950s. The sudden return of the young Kathrin to the small village where she was born stirs up the feelings of guilt and personal ghosts of its inhabitants, haunted by dark memories related to a multiple murder that happened two years earlier at the Tannöd farm, a hideous crime that remains unsolved.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-11-19
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Amen.
Overview: Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is horrified by what he sees in the death camps. he is then shocked to learn that the process he used to purify water for his troops by using Zyklon-B, is now used to kill people in gas chambers.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-02-27
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Bibi Blocksberg
Overview: Elation in Neustadt: by the means of a little witching, Bibi Blocksberg saved two kids from burning to death. While her mother Barbara, a witch of flesh and blood herself, is very proud of her daughter, father Bernhard, overworked and stressed, disapproves greatly of her supernatural antics. Then Bibi gets a message from Walpurgia, the senior witch: she is going to receive her crystel ball, that will make a "real" witch of her, early. Proudly, Bibi jumps up her broom to fly to the Blocksberg, the witches' headquarters. But Rabia, one of the few evil witches, aging in misery and with a secret, begrudges her all the glory...and her youth. And so Rabia sets off events that will soon make Bibi's life fall into pieces.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-09-25
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My Mother, My Bride And I
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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The Farewell
Overview: A portrait of a single day in the late summer of 1956, toward the end of Bertolt Brecht's life, as he prepares to leave his lakeside home, surrounded by the women who form his extended family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-05-14
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Lethal Obsession
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Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1987-10-15
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Muttis Liebling
Overview: Wolferl, a 38-year-old bank employee, still lives together with his overprotecting mother Maria. While his father Josef, who secretly plans to end his hypocritical marriage, and his sister Nannerl think Wolferl should become independent, mummy's boy seems to enjoy this lifestyle. When he gets to know beautician Eva and falls in love with her, his jealous mother tries everything, including a faked suicide attempt, to keep her son...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2007-05-02
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Variation
Overview: The emotional story of an adulterous relationship between a journalist and a teacher.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-09-21
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Maria an Callas
Overview: After the death of his sick wife, a man discovers that she had an e-mail friend he did not know.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2006-05-04
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Santa Fe
Overview: After arriving in 1940 New York, Freddy struggles to find work. His world of refugee acquaintances includes the depressed daughter of a poet/delicatessen owner, an aging surgeon who cannot find work, and a lovable charlatan photographer.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Polt muss weinen
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-04-02
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Angst hat eine kalte Hand
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Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1996-04-03
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Verlorenes Land
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-04-03
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Ein starker Abgang
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-07-25
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Bibi Blocksberg and the Secret of Blue Owls
Overview: Poor Bibi - due to her bad marks in maths she has to spend the whole summer in the boarding school of Altenberg to scrape through a series of exams - otherwise she'd stay down in school, being forced to repeat the year. No camping, no white-water rafting, no vacation at all. So it doesn't surprise anyone that the young witch is quite disgruntled when arriving at Altenberg Castle. Her roommate is a touchy unpleassant fashion victim and headmaster Quirin Bartels is so muddle-headed that he can't even remember the names of his students properly. But then Bibi makes friends with Elea, a girl wheelchair-bound since a terrible accident where she also lost her beloved parents. Now Bibi is determined to help the sensitive Elea, searching a way to heal her from her palsy legs.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2004-09-29
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Marias's Last Journey
Overview: This critically-acclaimed TV movie focuses on a Bavarian countrywoman and her desire to die with dignity. Maria Stadler knows that she will die soon from cancer, but the stubborn old lady doesn't want to spend her last days in a hospital. Her doctor cannot keep her from returning home, so he sends his best nurse, Andrea. Maria gets angry when Andrea tries to rule her life, but the conflict between her sons also weighs heavily upon her mind.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2005-03-23
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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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Was wenn der Tod uns scheidet
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-08-27
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No Sex
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1999-10-18
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Liebesschuld
Overview: Urged by her mother, Anke left her baby for adoption ten years ago. For years afterward, she did not speak to her again. Now the soon-to-be attorney from Hamburg travels back to her home village to make up with her dying mother. She learns that her daughter Christina lives with Alex, a past love of Anke's and Christina's real father. Old wounds break up again and long forgotten feelings of hate as well as love flare up again. Anke leaves her fiancé to face up to her past. She decides in favour of her child and of a life with Alex.
Genres: Family Romance TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-09-26
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Gefährliche Gefühle
Overview: A midwife is called to her lover's wife of all places.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2003-11-10
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Die Dame vom Maxim
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-01-15
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Amerika oder der Verschollene
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-10-14
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Liebe leidet mit Lust
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-06-09
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Der Unbekannte
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Ein Mord, den jeder begeht
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-08-04
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Obscene: The Case of Peter Herzl
Overview: A West German man, mistaken by the police for a left wing terrorist, hides in Vienna with a prostitute and her incestuous teen daughter. They become both a threesome and a happy surrogate family, but nothing lasts forever.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-10-29
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Love Is the Beginning of All Terror
Overview: Story concerns two friends, Freya and Irmtraut and their relationships with the same man, Traugott, who finds it impossible to choose between the two women.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1984-03-07
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Midnight Cop
Overview: Police Commissioner Alex Glass has been twisted into a sarcastic cynic by the hard luck story that is his life and by his daily contact with the criminals of Berlin's underground. His new assistant, Shirly Mai, is an attractive and conscientious woman who embodies a quality of virtue that her boss gave up a long time ago. They have both been assigned to solve a series of gruesome murders that have been taking place in Berlin's drug and prostitution ganglands. The prime suspect is George Miskowski, a pusher who supplies Berlin's brothels and hookers with cocaine and heroin.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-03
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Kinder des Satans
Overview: When the corpse of student Heike is found, the police book it as a case of suicide. But Heike's girlfriend Wiebke thinks otherwise. She believes that the Satan disciples are involved in the case.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1995-05-26
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Blumen für Polt
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-09-27
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Himmel, Polt und Hölle
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-11-30
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Liebe ist die beste Medizin
Overview: On the news of his father's death, the successful city doctor Dr. Peter Haller to the funeral in his hometown. What he does not suspect: His father, also a respected doctor, has only faked his demise! With this trick he wants to persuade Peter, who had turned away from him many years ago, to take over the father's practice. But Peter is determined to leave as soon as possible. His attitude changes only when he falls in love with Stella, who is as beautiful as she is sensitive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2004-07-16
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Waves
Overview: Adapted from Eduard von Keyserling’s 1911 novel of the same title, Waves depicts both the lives and loves of an aristocratic German family during a summer holiday on the Baltic coast of what is now Lithuania, as well as the twilight of a social order and its mores in a world soon to be plunged into the cataclysm of world war.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2005-01-21
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Eine Liebe in Saigon
Overview: Dramatic TV two-parter about a married doctor, who falls in love with a mine deterrent in Vietnam.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2005-04-11
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Max Minsky and Me
Overview: Nerdy Jewish Nelly Sue Edelmeister, daughter of a New York mother and Berlin musician in Berlin gets straight A's, except for gym. When she hears her dream prince, actual royal Edouard, a fellow astronomy buff who studies in Luxemburg, patronizes the basketball tournament hosted there by a European school she wants to join her school's girls team.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2007-09-06
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Ladylike – Jetzt erst recht!
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-11-29
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Single sucht Nachwuchs
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1998-03-18
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Eine Liebe in Afrika
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2003-01-13
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Heimkehr nach Deutschland
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-04-19
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Tattoo
Overview: Marc Schrader, a rookie cop caught red-handed with drugs in a police raid of an illegal rave, joins a homicide investigation conducted by Chief Inspector Minks. The victim is a naked young woman with the skin stripped off her back, killed as she staggered into traffic. As Schrader and Minks investigate the murder, the case is complicated by a finger found in the stomach of the victim. Forensic examination proves the finger belongs to Nobert Günzel, who was previously convicted of rape and assault. The police raid Günzel’s residence, and discover a blood-stained table with restraints and bits of human flesh in his basement. They also find video equipment and preserved, tattooed skin from the victim’s back. Soon, they found dead bodies buried in the garden. Günzel then goes missing.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-04-04
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Mau Mau
Overview: A couple of stories revolve around the last days of a stripclub called 'Mau Mau'.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1992-05-28
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Frauen lügen nicht
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1998-04-30
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Happy Hour oder Glück und Glas
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2005-03-01
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Schwiegermutter
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-02-18
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Love Your Female Neighbor!
Overview: Two young and attractive social workers/nuns bring fresh air into a city missionary station, but are also challenged by lust and money, offered by a millionaire.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1998-12-24
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Für die Liebe ist es nie zu spät
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-10-11
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Dr. Robert Schumann, Teufelsromantiker
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1999-06-16
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Mittags auf dem Roten Platz
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Genres: History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-03-05
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Der Geist der Mirabelle
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-12-24
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Das gestohlene Leben
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-01-17
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Die Sekretärinnen
Overview: Nine secretaries dream of life and love musically while typing around.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Menschenfresser
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Totalschaden
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1998-07-15
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Rosenzweig's Freedom
Overview: When Michael Rosenzweig, a working-class German Jew, is charged with the murder of a neo-Nazi leader, he and his family find themselves fighting for justice in the face of a brick wall of prejudice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Babykram ist Männersache
Overview: Arne and his younger brother Malte run the scrapyard they inherited from their parents on the outskirts of Hamburg and live a rather disoriented existence. One day, Malte finds an abandoned baby. He immediately takes the little one to his heart and wants to look after the child until he finds the birth mother. His brother Arne doesn't like the idea at all, but Malte wants to go through with the plan and even threatens to sell his brother the scrapyard. Disgruntled, Arne finally agrees and, as Malte is fully occupied with caring for the baby, sets off on a laborious search for the raven mother.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-01-17
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Die Mutter
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-02-08
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Die Nichte und der Tod
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1999-12-19
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Im bayerischen Stil
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-10-27
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Ein einzelner Mord
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1999-05-05
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Die einzige Chance
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1998-04-27
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Ludwig – Requiem for a Virgin King
Overview: Reflected in an artificial and bombastically staged illusory world with Wagnerian compositions, glossy and satirical time references, 19th century German figures and traditions are stripped of their mythology and interpreted by the Germany of 1972.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-06-22
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Tödliche Schatten
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1999-10-20
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Ich werde warten
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-03-24
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Adele Spitzeder
Overview: The true story of Adele Spitzeder, who started her own private bank in 1870s Bavaria by promising everyone that gave her money high interest rates. Initially dubbed the "Angel of the poor", she was arrested for fraud after the whole scheme collapsed.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-09-18
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Alzire or the New Continent
Overview: A theatrical group prepare Voltaire’s play “Alzire”. From this the ideas of Voltaire are examined as they relate to the present day political situation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-05-17
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Icarus
Overview: Lena is homeless. She couldn't get a foothold in the big city, she hasn't been at home in the country for a long time and she only knows the big, wide world, which she allegedly traveled as a waitress on a cruise ship, from hearsay. Her grandfather's funeral is now both an occasion and an excuse for her to return to the village in the hope of finding her place in life here after all.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-04-05
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Germanija
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Epitaph für einen König
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-03-16
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Die Ballade von Peckham Rye
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-03-07
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Der Nebelmörder - Schatten über der Stadt
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-02-09
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Fallstudien
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-11-19
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Der Zappler
Overview: Stefan is 12 years old, spastically paralyzed and has moved to a new town with his mother. His illness is met with hostility and rejection by the children in the neighborhood. Stefan dreams of an operation to make him well, but when he learns after thorough examinations that the operation is hopeless, he grabs an electric wheelchair to escape from the hospital.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-03-28
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Gesichter des Schattens
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1984-07-10
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The Runaway
Overview: Ausreißer [The Runaway] is a 2004 German short film directed by Ulrike Grote, with Peter Jordan and Maximilian Werner. It follows Walter, an unemployed architect, who is getting ready to go for an interview. But just as he is about to leave his flat, an eight-year-old boy, Yuri, approaches him at the door, claiming to be his son. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2004-12-02
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Maria
Overview: María has fled her home of Germany in the wake of the aftermath of the second world war and comes to Iceland to work on a farm.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 1997-09-18
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