Fahri Yardım
Also Known As: Fahri Yardim, Fahri Ogün Yardim
Biography: Fahri Yardim was born in Hamburg, Germany, the son of an academic family of Turkish extraction. Performing on stage in school productions he developed his love of acting. He trained at the Hamburger Bühnenstudio der darstellenden Künste (Hamburg Stage Studio of the Performing Arts) and appeared in theatre productions in Berlin and Hamburg. Fahri represents a generation that focuses on character rather than nationality. He is a naturalist who avoids ethnic stereotype, and his versatility is mirrored in his choice of roles: He portrayed an Anatolian in Almanya - Willkommen in Deutschland (2011), a Greek in Kebab Connection (2004), a German Sinte in Chiko(2008), a German in Mogadischu (2008), and a woman in Unter Frauen (2012). His most memorable roles include the Brunswick-set film 66/67 - Fairplay war gestern(2009). 2012 proved to be a peak year allowing him to demonstrate the range of his talent and his powerful, committed, discursive and nuanced personality. He played a priest in Marcus H. Rosenmüller's Wer's glaubt, wird selig (2012), an artist in Marc Rothemund's Mann tut was Mann kann (2012), a paramedic in Lars Becker's ZDF thrillerDie Geisterfahrer (2012), a doctor in the ProSieben crime drama Kreutzer kommt ... ins Krankenhaus (2012) and a detective in the Sat.1 thriller drama Hannah Mangold & Lucy Palm (2011). In 2013 he will appear with Ben Kingsley in the international movie version of Der Medicus (2013). In Austria he is a regular in the ORF police drama CopStories. And in March of 2013 he was Til Schweiger's partner in the first of several projected Tatort (1970) episodes.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hamburg, Germany
Birthday: January 01, 1980
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Gender: Male
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Kebab Connection
Overview: In Hamburg, Ibrahim "Ibo" Secmez, of Turkish descent, wants to direct the first German kung-fu movie. For now, he makes commercials for his uncle's kebab restaurant. Titzie, an aspiring actress and Ibo's German girlfriend, finds she's pregnant. Ibo is uncertain about fatherhood - compounded by his father's disowning him for getting a German girl pregnant - so Titzie sends him packing. He makes attempts at getting it right, but as the birth approaches, he's still not ready. In the background are three thugs in search of good tripe soup and a Capulet-Montegue feud between the kebab joint and a Greek taverna across the street. Can Ibo be the glove upon that hand?
Genres: Comedy Action Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2004-04-21
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Rabbit Without Ears
Overview: Rainbow press reporter Ludo is sentenced to 8 months, but is released on probation. But he has to work 300 hours for a local daycare center and meets Anna who has unfinished business with him.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2007-12-01
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Morgen, ihr Luschen! Der Ausbilder-Schmidt-Film
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-04-23
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Chiko
Overview: This is the story of Isa, who grows up in a Hamburg suburb. It might be one of the world's richest cities but every beast has its belly and here, in the very underbelly, Chiko lives in a world where violence, staking and keeping a claim, and drug taking are the norm. Where down is not an option, Chiko is determined to rise to the top, whatever and whomever it costs.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-02-09
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66/67 - Fairplay war gestern
Overview: For six young men, who could hardly be more different from one another, the fan club of the Eintracht Braunschweig football club is the center of their life and their friendship. 66/67 is the name of their club as well as the year in which Eintracht Braunschweig won the German Championship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Visus - Expedition Arche Noah
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-05-28
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Kokowääh
Overview: Henry is a playboy who has no idea that he is the father of a beautiful, cute girl out of a One-night-Stand. Her mother left the daughter in front of Henry door after her husband realized after 8 years of marriage that he is not the father so their relationship now is breaking up... By the way: Kokowääh, is how a German (in this case an 8 Year old child) that has never heard the dish before - would pronounce "Coq Au Vin" (chicken in a wine sauce).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-02-03
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Sea of Death
Overview: In the German North Sea a new cellular life form endangers mankind.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller Drama TV Movie Action
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-09-02
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Unter Frauen
Overview: Macho Alex is smart and good-looking. He is known among women as an unscrupulous hunter. He wraps the women in rows around his fingers and then disappears into his sports car. For him, love is something for men who pee while sitting. The womanizer Alex then pushes it a little too far, because three love affairs at the same time are too many even for the greatest professional.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-09-20
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Geisterfahrer
Overview: Freddy Kowalski and Emile Ramzy are paramedics in Hamburg and race night after night through the city, regardless of congested intersections, red lights and oncoming traffic. They are real life savers. One day they witness a murder and decide to go to the bottom of the thing itself. They come across an explosive corruption scandal that brings them in danger. Without knowing it, they hold the most important keys to investigate the crime itself in their hands.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-11-09
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Wer's glaubt wird selig
Overview: The snow is staying away from the Bavarian ski village of Haunzenberg, and so are the skiers. Business is failing and so is Georg's relationship with Emilie. During his attempt to reignite the fires of passion, the wooden cross in the next room falls down, crushing Emilie's very Catholic mother Daisy. Wracked with guilt, Georg and his drinking buddies hatch a plan to have Daisy canonized by the Church, hoping to save both the village and his relationship. Everything goes according to plan until the Vatican sends a Priest to examine the miracles of Saint Daisy... Written by Anthony Parkhurst
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-08-16
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Male Mistakes
Overview: Daniel and Thomas are two friends who are trying to catch girls in various therapy groups.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-04-24
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Shock
Overview: Bruno has lost his medical license and is now practicing illegally, no questions asked. His interest is aroused when a lawyer offers to have him treat a leukemia-stricken mafioso. This not only gets him caught between rival gangs, but also puts his old life further and further out of reach.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2023-10-20
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8:28 AM
Overview: A married woman runs a successful gallery and falls for a man she met accidentally.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-09-17
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Almanya: Welcome to Germany
Overview: After living 45 years in Germany, the Turkish Hüseyin Yilmaz, seventy, announces to his family that he has bought a house in Turkey and they should return to make the necessary reforms. The idea is unwelcome and causes very heated discussions. In addition, Canan, a granddaughter of Hüseyin, announces she is pregnant and the father is her English boyfriend, and no one knew anything.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-05-13
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Men Do what Men Can
Overview: Confirmed bachelor Paul falls for Iris, who’s unfortunately as good as married. Although his friends have women problems of their own, and all end up moving into Paul’s apartment, they concoct a daring plan to help Paul save Iris from marrying the wrong man.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-10-10
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Und weg bist Du
Overview: It could be as simple as this: He is Death and a young woman is on his list. With polite words, he tries to convey the ominous message gently to Jela Becker. But the vivacious young lady never dreamed of surrendering to death without protest. how could she She's only 31! Her husband and nine-year-old daughter Lucy need her. Death hesitates for just a moment - enough time for Jela to flee...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-09-04
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Engel sucht Liebe
Overview: Before Christmas, the angels have the mission to make happier 70% of the people. The story is based on angel Uriel and two new angels helping him.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-09-28
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Wir machen durch bis morgen früh
Overview: Ali misses the lavish party nights in Hamburg's Kiez: Ms. Melanie, Baby Bobby and the family's tile company have been his everyday life since he became a father. How can he make it clear to the young mother that there is still life next to the baby? Melanie can be persuaded to a wellness weekend with the friends, but only if Ali takes his father's role seriously.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-10-27
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Head Full of Honey
Overview: Before eleven years old Tilda's parents can put her beloved grandfather in an old people's home due to his progressing Alzheimer disease, she takes him on one last adventure that subliminally threatens to tear her family apart.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-12-25
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Men Have to Go through This
Overview: Paul is done with love - until he meets Lena. Now he has to convince her family on Mallorca of himself being the right one for their daughter. Lena's mother though would prefer Patrick by her side, a hedge funds manager and Lena's ex-boyfriend. Paul is challenged by Patrick to a duel among men and is glad that his three best friends are there to support him...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-01-29
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Kill Your Darling
Overview: Young people disappear in Berlin's subway shafts, near the "Kill Your Darling" disco.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-10-26
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Fegefeuer
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 2019-01-03
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Half Brothers
Overview: Julian, Yasin and Addi learn from the executor of their deceased mother's will that the three men, who had previously been complete strangers, are brothers. The news hits like a bomb. A German family man with a penchant for tricks, a spoiled, ambitious Turk and a rapping African – the three siblings immediately hate each other and it would all be nice if their paths were to separate again soon.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-04-09
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Marry Me!
Overview: Kishori, unmarried and mother to a daughter, and her sister Sonal live in a house in Berlin. The house and a cafe on the ground floor are led by Kishori. All of a sudden, her strict and traditional grandmother comes for a visit from India. She wants to sell the house unless Kishori agrees to marry the father of her daughter, Robert. As Kishori feels obliged to all the befriended inhabitants of the house, including Robert, to keep the house, Kishori und Robert prepare to have a traditional Indian wedding.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-07-02
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Nick: Off Duty
Overview: Day in, day out, Niklas ‘Nick’ Tschiller and his partner Yalcin Gümer investigate crimes that are happening in Hamburg. But at some point even the policeman needs a break to spend time with his daughter Lenny. Then it says: Tschiller a.D. - out of service - goodbye to Hamburg. However, simply relaxing is easier said than done, because crime never sleeps and a new, very personal case throws a spanner in the works for Nick's plans for a well-deserved break. Even on vacation, the criminal investigator is not sure about his job and so a wild journey soon takes him across Europe, including to Istanbul and Moscow.
Genres: Thriller Action Comedy Mystery
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-02-04
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8 Seconds
Overview: Esra leads two parallel lives. In her daily life the vivacious and spirited Esra adores her family but feels caged in her relationships. In her dream life, she yearns to discover the identity of the man who visits her dreams. While in waking life she struggles in vain, in her dream life she evolves in secret. But what if waking and dreaming were never separate and the real secret is shored by all?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-02-27
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The Physician
Overview: England, 1021. Rob Cole, a boy born in a miserable mining town, swears to become a physician and vanquish disease and death. His harsh path of many years, a quest for knowledge besieged by countless challenges and sacrifices, leads him to the remote Isfahan, in Persia, where he meets Ibn Sina, the greatest healer of his time.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-12-25
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Unter Feinden
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2013-07-02
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Das Leben ist keine Autobahn
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-11-25
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Kreutzer kommt ... ins Krankenhaus
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Genres: Drama Comedy Crime TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-10-19
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Gravity
Overview: The story of a seemingly settled bank employee who breaks the shackles of his everyday life and becomes a wanderer between worlds. Frederik is an up-and-coming young bank employee who lives an ordinary life. When a bank customer, whom Frederik has denied a loan in the face of the bank crisis, shoots himself in front of Frederik, he snaps. Together with ex-con Vince,he begins to live out a new, dark side of himself. He robs his rich bank customers' homes and gives the money to the needy. The initial rush of crossing social boundaries soon develops into an addiction to ever greater thrills.
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-03-24
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Mogadischu
Overview: The incredible true story of Lufthansa Flight 181, which was hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in October of 1977, and the noble efforts of stewardess Gabriele Dillmann (Nadja Uhl) to ensure the safety of the terrified passengers throughout the harrowing ordeal. When terrorists sympathetic to the cause of the German Red Army Faction seize control of the flight, German chancellor Helmut Schmidt refuses to negotiate. Meanwhile, terrorist leader "Captain Martyr Mahmud" grows increasingly agitated, and the Yemeni government refuses to let the plane land on their soil. After Captain Schumann (Thomas Kretschmann) makes an emergency landing in the sand, he is brutally executed in front of the passengers by "Captain Martyr Mahmud" (Said Taghmaoui), who then forces the co-pilot to fly the plane to Somolia. Once there, counter terrorism measures quickly get underway as the passengers brace themselves for the worst.
Genres: Thriller History TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-11-30
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Everything is Love
Overview: Follows the lives of different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic few days before Christmas in Frankfurt, Germany.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-12-04
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Fast Track: No Limits
Overview: An action movie centered around a group of street racers.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-02-21
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Men in the City 2
Overview: The sequel of the "Men in the city" movie which reunites all the characters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-09-06
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The Pasta Detectives 3
Overview: The friends and amateur detectives Rico and Oskar experiencing their last adventure together. Here everything is really only one well, because now they live next door to. Ricos mother Tanya and Buhl are together, Oskar is with his father Lars pulled to Rico into the house. But dies as the grumpy Fitzke, the trouble begins. The stone Breeder inherited Rico his beloved stone-collection over which the boy also very pleased - but then he and his buddy note that Rico's favorite stone calf stone was stolen. The task now is to make the thieves apprehended. And because there are on the way to the Baltic Sea, Rico and Oskar must as soon as possible afterwards. Glad Tanja is flown by Buhl in the "snogging holiday" ...
Genres: Family Comedy Crime Action
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-04-28
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1½ Ritter - Auf der Suche nach der hinreißenden Herzelinde
Overview: The story of Lanze who is in love with the princess. One day the princess is kidnapped by the Dark Knight and Lanze starts his journey to rescue her. But he is not alone because Erdal, a turk, joins him on his journey.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-12-17
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Godless Youth
Overview: German students compete to enter one of the country's elite schools.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2017-08-31
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Whatever Happens
Overview: Hannah and Julian have separated and meet for a last time to empty out their shared apartment. But nothing goes as planned, and their last night together becomes a turbulent roller-coaster ride.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2017-11-30
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Four Against the Bank
Overview: After losing their respective nest eggs thanks to a bumbling bank employee, three men use him to plot a bold and batty heist to get their money back.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-12-25
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Winnetou - The Secret of Silver Lake
Overview: In the second part of the German remake of the Winnetou films, Winnetou's sister Nscho Tschi is kidnapped by a brutal crook who wants to find a mythical Apache treasure. Old Shatterhead and Winnetou get forced to search for the precious in the silver sea by their evil opponent El Mas Loco.
Genres: Adventure Western TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-12-27
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Cut Off
Overview: A coroner finds a capsule in the head of a heavily mutilated corpse, containing a phone number and single word: the name of his daughter.
Genres: Thriller Crime Horror Mystery
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2018-10-11
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Schutzlos
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-04-26
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Rabbit Without Ears and Two-Eared Chick
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Genres: Animation
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2013-09-26
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Where Is Fred?
Overview: In order to catch a basketball from the favorite team of his girlfriend's spoiled son, Fred poses as a numb, wheelchair-bound fan. But when he catches the ball, he also catches the attention of young, attractive filmmaker Denise, who wants to feature an invalid fan in an image film for the team. Fred has to keep playing his role, while real invalid and really furious fan Ronny might call his bluff at any moment. Worse, still, love sets in...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2006-11-15
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Don't. Get. Out!
Overview: Taking his kids to school with the car, Berlin real estate developer Karl gets a call from a blackmailer: If he doesn’t pay up, the car will blow up. A deadly race against time begins.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2018-04-12
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The Guardians
Overview: 15-year-old Nina witnesses a terrible crime that puts her life in danger. Being an orphan, she has nobody she can trust. When corrupt businessman Thomas Backer sends five killers after Nina, witness protection officer, Max, a former special-forces soldier, is responsible for her safety. They soon overcome their initial distance to find common ground. While on the run from the ruthless Backer, Rudi, one of Max’s former comrades, comes to their rescue – and continues to help the two out of some precarious situations. Even Max’s ex-girlfriend Sara is not just there to help him as a federal prosecutor. Nevertheless, Nina and Max face ever-increasing danger, and soon the teenager is not the only one in need of a guardian angel – Max could use one too.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-09-18
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Rocca Changes the World
Overview: 11-year-old Rocca, a clever, creative and brave girl who lives all by herself in defiance of her teachers and the authorities has to fight to keep her independence and prove to everyone that a child also has the power to change the world.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2019-03-21
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Men in the City
Overview: Follows six very different men and their struggles with women, family and work. Yet, they are somehow connected to each other.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-09-09
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Tot im Wald
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2019-11-18
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Brothers
Overview: Cengiz and Savaş are two unlike brothers. Cengiz is an associate in a respected law firm and Savaş is serving a prison sentence because of several violent offences. After their father’s death Cengiz gets his brother out for one day. Savaş doesn’t know that his brother is heavily in debt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-01-19
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Extrawurst
Overview: At a tennis club in rural Germany, preparations for the summer party are led by Heribert. When a separate grill is suggested for Erol, the club's only Muslim member, tensions flare. What begins as a simple discussion quickly turns into a debate about societal and personal conflicts, threatening to tear the club apart.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2026-01-15
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Delicious
Overview: A wealthy German family hires a young woman as a maid during their summer holiday in Provence. Gradually, the life of the entire family changes – with dramatic consequences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-02-18
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