Manfred Zapatka
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bremen, Germany
Birthday: October 02, 1942
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Mord am Meer
Overview: Hans Wolgast is executed with a shot in the head in the idyllic town of Husum to Mozart's Magic Flute. His half-brother, Inspector Anton Glauberg, immediately suspects that the shadows of the family past have caught up with him because Hans was a member of the RAF. Without initially disclosing that he not only knew the dead man but was even related to him, Glauberg begins to investigate, supported by the young, attractive but inexperienced BKA officer Paula Reinhardt. The traces lead to Berlin to the scattered remnants of the RAF and its still functioning cable groups. Wolgast lived there in a shared apartment before he, like so many former terrorists, fled to the GDR in the 1980s. A former roommate of Hans Veith Seewald points out the parallel to Glauberg to a murder case from 1978.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2004-09-24
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The Free Will
Overview: After nine years in psychiatric detention Theo, who has brutally assaulted and raped three women, is released. Living in a supervised community, he connects well with his social worker Sascha, finds a job at a print shop and even a girlfriend, Nettie, his principal's brittle and estranged daughter. But even though superficially everything seems to work out Theo's seething rage remains ready to erupt.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2006-08-23
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I Am Guilty
Overview: Armin Steeb is adrift: just finished with school, living with his middle-class parents, clueless about finding work. He tries connecting with a girl, he engages in risky sex with strangers in public toilets, he goes to job interviews. He also sends an anonymous letter to a local Munich newspaper, claiming responsibility for a fatal road accident. He fitfully pursues notoriety as he goes through life nearly without affect. What will it take to get Armin to smile?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2005-07-23
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Das Himmler Projekt
Overview: Romuald Karmakar directs the actor Manfred Zapatka in performing the three-and-a-half hour speech originally declaimed before ninety-two SS generals by Heinrich Himmler on the 4th of October, 1943 in the Golden Hall of the Posen Palace.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-02-19
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Nightsongs
Overview: A young couple in Berlin's 'Mitte' district. He, a writer, is lying on the sofa, reading. She can't stand it anymore. In the afternoon the parents come to see the baby. She goes out in the evening. The young man waits. She comes back - but not alone.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2004-02-11
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Tod einer Freundin
Overview: When Tina arrives at home, another young woman has just been murdered in the village - the third victim of a serial killer
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2006-11-27
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Der Tote im Eis
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Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2013-05-19
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Das Schneckenhaus
Overview: Katharina Giano tries to start a new life after a personal tragedy, but moves into a mysterious apartment building with her daughter Laura.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2006-07-18
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The Last U-Boat
Overview: Near the end of WWII a lone U-Boat is sent from Germany to Japan carrying plutonium needed for a Japanese A-Bomb. During the long journey, news arrives on the radio that Hitler killed himself and Germany has surrendered. This causes a rift in the crew, the Nazi Party members wanting to continue to Japan since they are still at war, while the others just want to surrender or return home.
Genres: TV Movie Drama War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1993-01-02
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The Forgotten
Overview: Swastikas were scratched into the windows of the University of Stuttgart and have caused considerable property damage. Far-right vandalism? The case is quickly closed, but the young Commissioner Bernau wants to enlighten the mysterious attack. He returns at night back to the crime scene and has an appearance that make his blood freeze! When he turns to the medium Morgana, he lifts the veil on a cruel mystery.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-10-27
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In den besten Jahren
Overview: 40 years after her husband is shot and killed by a terrorist while on duty as a police officer during a routine traffic check, Erika Welves (Senta Berger), aided by a journalist (Felix Eitner) finds evidence leading to the murderer. For the killer has vanished. Is living in freedom. Because the state is protecting him, keeping him safe. He in turn has supplied information concerning other terrorists. Erika Welves considers this blatant injustice. But now, finally, there is a chance at revenge...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-12-14
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Judas: Close to Jesus
Overview: Pilate and the Roman legate Veturius look on worriedly as Jesus is celebrated as the new messiah in Jerusalem, fearing an uprising. Veturius decides to have Jesus arrested as soon as a suitable opportunity presents itself. Judas is delighted by the reception Jesus is receiving, and quickly wants to win over the influential merchants to the cause which would make him the king and the liberator of the Jews.
Genres: Drama Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2001-04-11
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Ebbies Bluff
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Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1993-06-10
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Erkan & Stefan
Overview: Editor Eckernförde has come into the possession of an audiocassette that contains a recording of the last minutes of deceased politician Uwe Barschel. The circumstances of his untimely death have never been completely resolved - until now. Unfortunately, the editor's daughter Nina accidentally takes the tape with her to Munich, where she is about to visit her paralyzed Mom in a sanatorium. When this information reaches the CIA and the BND, both organizations compete to get hold of the tape. Meanwhile Erkan & Stefan, two loveable wannabe supercheckers from Munich, are assigned as bodyguards for Nina - of course, they are expected to mess up their job, so that the tape can be retrieved. But the two friends prove to be a bit more streetwise than CIA or BND ever expected.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-04-20
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Die Lüge
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Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-09-15
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Utopia
Overview: A treatise on love and desire tainted by harsh reality of capitalism, in which submission to the laws of lust-as-commerce is played out by five prostitutes and their pimp, who pits them against one another so that they are incapable of standing up to him collectively.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-05-20
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Offset
Overview: The plot focuses on the lives of the soon to be married Stefan, a German working in Romania for a wealthy and eccentric printing company owner, Nicu Iorga and his soon-to-be bride Brîndușa, who is Nicu's secretary.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 2006-07-20
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Preußische Nacht
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-09-14
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Spiele der Macht – 11011 Berlin
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 2005-01-05
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Sparks in Neu-Grönland
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-02-21
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The Friends of Jesus: Thomas
Overview: When Jesus is taken off the cross at Golgotha, Thomas arrives. Like most other disciples, he worriedly took refuge with friends in Jerusalem after Jesus's arrest. After Jesus's burial, the disciples decide to leave Jerusalem quickly, but Thomas refuses to leave Jesus' body behind, as he fears that the tomb may be desecrated.
Genres: Drama Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2001-04-16
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Die Weisheit der Wolken
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-07-11
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Success
Overview: For fans of history, this glimpse of Munich society in the 1920s will be a much-treasured event. The story revolves around an art-gallery manager who puts on a show featuring the scandalous works of a woman artist who committed suicide. He is unjustly accused of having committed adultery with her, and for some reason the authorities decide to make an example of him. He is imprisoned at about the same time that Hitler and the nascent Nazi party attempt the infamous Beer Hall Putsch, and the gallery manager's girlfriend and a Swiss writer valiantly (and unsuccessfully) attempt to get better justice for him. Nobody in authority, it seems, has the courage to take up the challenge of righting this particular injustice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1991-02-28
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Egmont
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-10-30
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Drunter und drüber
Overview: A comedy directed by Franz Josef Gottlieb.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1990-02-11
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Das Schicksal der Lilian H.
Overview: A wealthy businesswoman who tried to disinherit her unfaithful husband is murdered. The man's lover is convicted on the basis of circumstantial evidence in a negligent business case. But the now in love lawyer sets out to convict the real culprits ...
Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1993-09-23
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Das Lamm
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-11-26
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Zoff
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-01-21
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Ex und hopp – Ein böses Spiel um Liebe, Geld und Bier
Overview: The brewery manager Heinrich Hartholz does not shy away from driving independent beer publishers into ruin in order to take over their property. Markus Keller, head of a push column , supports Hartholz in his criminal machinations.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1991-02-25
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Elephant Heart
Overview: Marko Stemper, 19 years old, comes from a disadvantaged background and works as a window cleaner. His father, an alcoholic, tyrannizes the whole family, so Marko's only joy in life is boxing. As he is the most promising talent in his club, Gerd Hermsbach, a local demimonde boss, offers him the opportunity to become a professional. Marko accepts, but has to pay a high price...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-01-25
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Frankfurt Millennium
Overview: While the masses enthusiastically meet to celebrate the new Millennium, one does not sense much commotion at the kiosk and corner bar "Das Frankfurter Kreuz ". Strangers as well as regulars come to the Kiosk owned by Walter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1998-02-17
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Roses for Africa
Overview: A psychodrama about how injustice is turned into oblivion about an opportunity worker and a woman from the civil house of a marriage for 30 years . Soon the relationship fails due to the aggressive, also destructive tendencies of the man who enters a deep personal crisis. When the marriage coined/shaped of force and Psychoterror goes finally into the breaks, the man looks for comfort in the alcohol and becomes criminal.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1992-06-07
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Der Schandfleck
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1999-10-31
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Annas Fluch-Tödliche Gedanken
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1998-09-15
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Besondere Schwere der Schuld
Overview: Joseph Komalschek was sentenced to 30 years in prison for cruelly murdering a young mother and her newborn baby. He never confessed his crimes and the bodies could not be found. After being released from prison, he returns to his hometown. People there treat him with distrust and disdain.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-11-01
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Nervenkrieg
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Die Zeit der Kraniche
Overview: In the loneliness of the Lower Havel lowlands, one of the last bird paradise in Germany, twelve-year-old Lea lives alone with her father Lutz, a passionate environmentalist. She is on the cusp of adulthood, confronted with the challenges of the present and the pains of the past. She often feels lonely in the childhood-remote world in which she lives, in which schools are closed and people leave. Even the father, who has withdrawn from the world, is increasingly becoming a problem for Lea, who longs for fellowship.
Genres: TV Movie Family Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-09-15
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Trilltrall und seine Brüder
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Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-12-25
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The Puppet Grave Digger
Overview: In a small German town roams Ben, a boy with mental disorders. When several youths are murdered Ben becomes suspect.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2003-09-24
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Die Lichtenbergs - zwei Brüder, drei Frauen und jede Menge Zoff
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-12-08
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Tiefe Wunden
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-02-02
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Den Tagen mehr Leben!
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-06-04
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Rosamunde Pilcher: Bis ans Ende der Welt
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Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-12-08
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Krieg und Frieden
Overview: The third episodical film, after Deutschland im Herbst and Der Kandidat, in which notable German film makers reflect on the state of their country.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-09-30
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Eden
Overview: Fat German star restaurant chef Gregor shows romantic interest in waitress Eden Drebb. She's happily married to hunky Xaver Drebb, but feels romantically neglected. Gregor's deserts seduce her, first trough her brat daughter Leonie, to spend time with him and his fabulous dishes. That soon becomes a rather platonic affair, and domestic troubles. Xaver decides to exact revenge on Gregor, with tragic results.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2006-11-02
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Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless
Overview: Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless by Mahmoud Behraznia is a documentary with a different perspective on Sohrab Shahid Saless, a leading Iranian filmmaker. Someone whose viewpoint at cinema and the special type of aesthetics he used in his films has been a path-breaker for many Iranian filmmakers. The film provides the viewer with new information about the life and work of Sohrab Shahid Saless in Germany.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2021-02-12
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Twice New Life
Overview: A husband has to cope with his wife being comatose after an accident.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-04-17
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Germany in Autumn
Overview: Germany in Autumn does not have a plot per se; it mixes documentary footage, along with standard movie scenes, to give the audience the mood of Germany during the late 1970s. The movie covers the two month time period during 1977 when a businessman was kidnapped, and later murdered, by the left-wing terrorists known as the RAF-Rote Armee Fraktion (Red Army Fraction). The businessman had been kidnapped in an effort to secure the release of the orginal leaders of the RAF, also known as the Baader-Meinhof gang. When the kidnapping effort and a plane hijacking effort failed, the three most prominent leaders of the RAF, Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, and Jan-Carl Raspe, all committed suicide in prison. It has become an article of faith within the left-wing community that these three were actually murdered by the state.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-03-03
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Your Children
Overview: Anja and Frank are enjoying their family vacation sailing on the Baltic Sea. Anja leaves their two young children alone on the boat for just a moment and when she returns, they are nowhere to be found.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2017-10-05
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Gabriellas Rache
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Die Spur der anderen
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1985-03-12
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Autopiloten
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2007-11-10
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Consistency Is Key
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-10-22
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Addressee Unknown
Overview: A woman leaves her husband and starts living with a Turkish man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-02-19
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Dead Man Working
Overview: The senior investment banker Jochen Walther is at the peak of his career at the Deutche Bank. He just finished the deal of his life along with his personal assistant Tom Slezak, when during the celebrations he suddendly jumps from the roof of the bank's headquarters in Frankfurt. Was it suicide or even a murder?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-07-24
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Manila
Overview: Due to a delayed flight a group of German flight passengers have to wait in the hall of the airport of Manila. The crowd is quite mixed, ranging from an cultivated east German teacher couple up to sleazy sex tourists. As the waiting prolongs, more and more aggressions and long repressed behaviors shed their way to the surface.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-06-29
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Hamburger Lektionen
Overview: The German actor Manfred Zapatka broadcasts in full, in an unusual reading form, the two sermons of the imam of the Hamburg mosque Mohammed Fazazi delivered in January 2000.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2006-02-11
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Double Pack
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-08-17
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Der Rausschmeisser
Overview: The story of the 18 year old prostitute Fanny who falls back into her old life after being released from a reform school run by nuns. The feeble-minded Frieder tries to liberate her, fails, and pays for it with his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-07-31
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Das Ende der Beherrschung
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Südstadt
Overview: One house, three apartments and three friendly couples, who have to put their relationships and life concepts to the test. After 20 years of marriage, Anne and Martin are close to separation. Eva and Thomas are freshly in love and want to do everything right. The relationship between Saskia and Kai gets into a crisis when she returns to work and takes care of the daughter.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2017-10-03
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Torquato Tasso
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1985-11-04
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König Lear
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Tränen eines Siegers
Overview: A young, talented but penniless tennis player attracts the attention of an ex-champion who offers to train him. He works hard to achieve his meteoric rise, but loses sight of his familiar surroundings and falls in with the wrong friends.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1995-07-05
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All My Loving
Overview: Three siblings have all reached a point of their life, at which they realize the need to quickly change some things before they step into the second half of their lifetime. In the midst of chaos, insufficiency and loss they are searching for the path that just might lead them to happiness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2019-05-23
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Wigald
Overview: Short film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2006-01-24
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The Collini Case
Overview: A young lawyer stumbles upon a vast conspiracy while investigating a brutal murder case.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2019-04-18
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Fast perfekt verliebt
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2019-05-05
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Wir wären andere Menschen
Overview: Film by Jan Bonny, also known as "Endlich Leben".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2019-06-29
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Todesengel
Overview: In “Death Angel”, Jakob Ziemnicki's film adaptation of the novel “Walküre” by Craig Russel, Peter Lohmeyer alias Jan Fabel does everything possible to eradicate his most bitter flesh as an investigator: the Hamburg chief commissioner once again chases one of the press as the “angel of St. Pauli "described the serial killer who" punished "sex offenders ten years ago, remained undetected and is now apparently active again. However, the chief investigator, along with his crime logs played by Ina Paule Klink and Proschat Madani, comes across puzzling deviations from the previous victim scheme.
Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2019-12-13
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Who We Were
Overview: A look at the current state of the world, from the hand of six intellectuals and scientists who reflect on the present and postulate about the future.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2021-07-08
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In my Parents' House
Overview: A therapist whose interests lie in alternative ways to help the sick and infirm is forced to balance the demands of her professional life with those of her ageing parents and older brother, in Tim Ellrich’s sensitive but uncompromising drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2025-02-03
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Briefe aus dem Jenseits
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Genres: TV Movie Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2023-11-02
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