Maria Schrader
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Biography: Maria Schrader (born 27 September 1965) is a German actress, screenwriter, and director. Description above from the Wikipedia article Maria Schrader, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hannover, Germany
Adult: No
Birthday: September 27, 1965
Age: 59 years old
Gender: Female
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Aimée & Jaguar
Overview: In 1943, while the Allies are bombing Berlin and the Gestapo is purging the capital of Jews, a dangerous love affair blossoms between two women – one a Jewish member of the underground, the other an exemplar of Nazi motherhood.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1999-02-11
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The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea
Overview: The second of three parts, we follow Tulse Luper as he works in a cinema, which gives him ample opportunity to cross paths with virtually every artistic device and dramatic character known to man. The Tulse Luper Suitcases reconstructs the life of Tulse Luper, a professional writer and project-maker, caught up in a life of prisons. He was born in 1911 in Newport, South Wales and presumably last heard of in 1989. His life is reconstructed from the evidence of 92 suitcases found around the world—92 being the atomic number of the element Uranium. The project by Peter Greenaway includes three feature films, a TV series, 92 DVDs, CD-ROMs, and books.
Genres: War Drama History Adventure Comedy Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-09
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Snowland
Overview: Based on the novel Hohaj by Elisabeth Rynell, it depicts the devastation felt by Elizabeth, a woman who had lost her husband in a car accident and wants to leave her three young children to join him in death by wandering out into the snowy deserts of Lapland. As she wanders through the snow, Elizabeth discovers the story of Aron and Ina, a couple who overcame dark secrets and over-controlling family members to be with each other.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2005-01-20
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Advertising Rules!
Overview: Edward Kaminsky, an aging ad man, wants a golden parachute from his agency; he must first land the Opel auto contract. Rosa, a youth with wealthy parents, wants to establish herself as an artist. The clumsy and enthusiastic Viktor, not quite honest, wants work. When he wanders into Kaminsky's meeting with Opel and says something about irony, the Opel director wants him in on the campaign. Then he steals an idea from Rosa that the Opel director loves. Before Rosa discovers he's expropriated her idea, Rosa and Viktor become lovers. Father-son feelings materialize between Kaminsky and Viktor. Can the impulsive Viktor hold it together before Rosa learns the truth and flies away?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-03-03
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Rosenstrasse
Overview: When Ruth's husband dies in New York, in 2000, she imposes strict Jewish mourning, which puzzles her children. A stranger comes to the house - Ruth's cousin - with a picture of Ruth, age 8, in Berlin, with a woman the cousin says helped Ruth escape. Hannah, Ruth's daughter engaged to a gentile, goes to Berlin to find the woman, Lena Fisher, now 90. Posing as a journalist investigating intermarriage, Hannah interviews Lena who tells the story of a week in 1943 when the Jewish husbands of Aryan women were detained in a building on Rosenstrasse. The women gather daily for word of their husbands. The film goes back and forth to tell Ruth and Lena's story. How will it affect Hannah?
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2003-09-18
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Am I Beautiful?
Overview: Between Munich and Seville, the destinies of sixteen characters intertwine and intersect, missing each other or colliding head-on. They are all, without knowing it, at a pivotal moment in their lives...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1998-09-17
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Nobody Loves Me
Overview: On the brink of her 30th birthday, Fanny feels the door to marital happiness closing on her. She is obsessed with death and even visits evening classes on dying, so it seems fitting that she encounters a skeleton in the malfunctioning elevator of her apartment building. The skeleton is her neighbour Orfeo, a Black, gay, self-declared psychic, who convinces her that she is about to meet "him". But is it really Lothar, the new yuppie apartment manager ...?
Genres: Drama Comedy Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1994-11-07
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The Crocodiles
Overview: Ten-year-old Hannes, growing up with his young, poor and single mother wants to join the coolest gang in the area, the Vorstadtkrokodile. When the ‘entry test’ goes wrong, Hannes’s life is saved by Kai, who is desperate to join too but is wheelchair bound and unable to even run away when things get hot. Hannes would accept Kai but the other gang members don’t seem happy to accept a handicapped member...
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-03-26
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The Crocodiles Strike Back
Overview: New summer adventure of the Crocodiles, who set up their detective skills to find out who is behind the accidents of the factory where Ollie and Mary's parents work , which could mean the closure of the plant, the move of the family and the dissolution of the gang.
Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-01-21
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Silent Night
Overview: Sensing their relationship is crumbling, Christian avoids celebrating Christmas with his girlfriend Julia and heads for Paris.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1995-09-13
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The Giraffe
Overview: Lena Katz, who is German, and David Fish, who is American, are Jews who live in New York. When Lena's mother, who arrives from Germany, meets her at a hotel, she finds an almost-dead woman lying on the hotel floor. She accompanies the injured woman to the hospital and meets David, who is the woman's son. After David's mother dies from the injuries, a question remains: was she murdered? The trail leads to Germany. Apparently, Lena's mother has some kind of relationship with David's mother that reaches back into the dark German history of the 1940s
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-14
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The Crocodiles: All for One
Overview: “The Crocodiles” are back and they are in for quite an adventure! Frank is seriously hurt and needs a liver donation. In order to save him, the gang needs to get Frank’s brother out of prison. Their plan is risky and the stakes are high.
Genres: Action Family Adventure Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-01-20
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In Darkness
Overview: A dramatization of one man's rescue of Jewish refugees in the Nazi-occupied Polish city of Lvov. In Darkness tells the true story of Leopold Soha who risks his own life to save a dozen people from certain death. Initially only interested in his own good, the thief and burglar hides Jewish refugees for 14 months in the sewers of the Nazi-occupied town of Lvov (formerly Poland).
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-09-15
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My Name is Victor
Overview: No one knows, or is ever likely to know how many disabled or handicapped relatives have been hidden from the outside world in attics and basements over the years. In this wry comedy, Basile is an eleven-year old boy living in a rural French town (along with his mother) with his grandparents. He has the usual boyish adventures in town, punctuated with odd goings-on brought about by events which take place in his grandfather's crocodile farm. However, there is a deep rivalry between his grandmother and her wheelchair-bound half-sister, Cecile, who has kept hidden from the world (and her family), and has lived in the attic for decades. Basile eventually feels the wrongness of her situation and feels that he may be the reincarnation of Victor, Cecile's long-lost lover. Eventually things come to a head in a confrontation which provides the town gossips with material for years to come.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-03-16
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I'm The Father
Overview: Marco and Melanie, a young married couple, are living a life of passion, chaos, and all the little frustrations of everyday existence. Their love for each other seems like a beacon on heavy seas. But career pressure, burned toast, and dirty laundry are eroding all tenderness, and they never seem to find enough time for their six-year-old son, Benny, either. Their world is about to fall apart when Melanie moves out, taking Benny with her. She files for divorce, and Marco makes a decision that is not only going to change his own life. He suddenly discovers his own unique way of being a father … I’m the Father is a modern portrait of a generation which appears to fail its own ambitions: After all, how do you combine a job, children, love and all the other challenges of everyday life – without giving yourself up in the process? And then what happens when positions become entrenched and a divorce seems inevitable?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-09-26
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The Unfish
Overview: Sophie "inherits" her uncle's preserved whale and finds out that whoever sleeps in the whale's belly with her will be granted one wish, causing chaos and hatred in the village.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1997-09-20
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I Was on Mars
Overview: Silva fulfills herself a dream: from Poland she flies to USA. With only a few hundred dollars she arrives in New York, incapable of the language. Not long until the charming swindler Avi steals all her money - but she doesn't give up: She hunts him down, follows him around, demanding her money back.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-01
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Diese Sendung ist kein Spiel – Die unheimliche Welt des Eduard Zimmermann
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2023-08-10
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Burning Life
Overview: Anna and Lisa, two young women, meet by chance in the vestibule of a bank, and decide after that to go on together leaving a successful trail of bank-robberies through Germany.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1994-11-17
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Without Me
Overview: An aspiring documentary filmmaker named Simon Rosenthal tries to get some attention for his film about skinheads versus Turkish immigrants. However, as a Jewish man in today's Germany, his fears for the future prompt him to move to the moon.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1993-08-10
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Magic Müller
Overview: Mueller is a young and unsuccessful actor who has one big problem. He does not have time. He does not have time for his little daughter Elina and he does not have time for Petra who actually just wanted to make an interview with his room-mate Willy. Mueller is busy, always busy in every kind of situation. All his problems seemed to be solved when he realizes that Willy has invented a time-machine. Everything could be fine now, if just Mueller had listened better to Willy's warnings about the rules of time travelling.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1993-11-03
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Lose My Self
Overview: The film tells the story of longtime married couple Lena and Tore, who need to deal with Lena's sudden lost of biographical memory due to amnesia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-01-24
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Half the World
Overview: The sun blazes down from the sky with destructive power; exposing oneself to its light means death. People have transposed everyday existence to the night. In the metropolis of HALF WORLD a culture based on various languages and lifeforms has grown rampant. Everyone is looking for a way to survive.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1993-11-03
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Emil and the Detectives
Overview: The twelve-year-old Emil and his father are haunted by bad luck. To take a break from a series of family disasters, Emil is allowed to spend a few days with a friend of the family, the female priest Hummel in Berlin. In the train he runs across the slick Max Grundeis who anaesthetizes Emil and steals his savings of 1500 DM. When he finally arrives in Berlin, Emil and a gang of street kids, led by the cheeky girl Pony Hütchen, try to find the gangster, who haunts the posh Hotel Adlon as a hotel thief. Meanwhile, to prevent anyone from finding out about Emil's mishap, Gypsi, a member of the gang of kids, passes himself off as Emil, thus wreaking havoc on the home of the priest.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-02-22
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Schwestern
Overview: The happening of a ceremonial robing of the youngest daughter as a novice in a Swabian convent screws up the values of a modern family. As if life wasn't complicated enough anyway. And how are you supposed to be happy without new clothes?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2013-06-13
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Risiko Null – Der Tod steht auf dem Speiseplan
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1995-11-05
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Patchwork
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-05-21
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Alleingang
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-01-24
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Operation Rubikon
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-05-22
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Der Kindermord
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1997-04-15
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Auf dem Vulkan
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2007-10-03
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Munich (Filmfest) Stories - 25 years of Munich Filmfest
Overview: A cheerful, amusing and melancholic look back at the Munich film festival from the perspective of the people who make up the film festival.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2007-06-24
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Die Seele eines Mörders
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-11-16
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The Wedding Cow
Overview: Comedy - Flora (Isabella Parkinson) the librarian is hitchhiking to a job in a faraway town. Simplehearted plumber Tim (Oliver Reinhard) is headed to the Black Forest, a cow for his nuptials in tow. But when their paths intersect, the cow isn't the only one who loses its bearings. In this quixotic road movie, Flora is an endearing handful -- misplacing the cow, then adding a runaway to Tim's cargo load -- and soon Tim's wedding plans are fading from view. - Isabella Parkinson, Oliver Reinhard, Hannah
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1999-11-21
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Franz
Overview: The life of Franz Kafka in a series of independent chapters: from his birth in 19th-century Prague to his final years in Berlin and death in 1924, and his imagined future.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2025-10-23
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The Nibelungs
Overview: A filmed stage play of The Nibelungs.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-08-17
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One of My Oldest Friends
Overview: Two inseparable friends with very different characters come to Munich to study and soon desire the same woman. The more reliable and down-to-earth one marries her and starts a family with her, but the more "exciting" and charming one also arouses her feelings, so that over the years they all suffer from their desires and "deprivations".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1995-06-14
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Flirt
Overview: The same situation is played out in different cities (New York, Berlin and Tokyo). A lover has to choose whether to commit to a partner who is returning home. In each case there are other people involved, an ex-partner and someone else in a "permanent" relationship, what do they choose to do?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-14
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RobbyKallePaul
Overview: After a quarrel Henry leaves the apartment. New fellow-lodger of Robby and Kalle becomes Paul. The three guys couldn't be more different, but nevertheless all of them have the same problem: women. When the mysterious Malu appears, each of them wonders if she may be their dream-woman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-03-23
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A Life in Suitcases
Overview: Follows Tulse Luper as he is swept into the ill-fortuned tides of the 20th century and forced to spend his life in a succession of imprisonments.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-20
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Hanni & Nanni 4
Overview: After plotting a way to get kicked out of boarding school, the twins diverge for the first time in their lives when Nanni starts enjoying her stay.
Genres: Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2017-05-25
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Golden Boy
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1988-07-17
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Josephine
Overview: Misadventures of a hapless young man from rural Bohemia who, in 1991, is finally free to cross newly open borders.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Kulenkampffs Schuhe
Overview: Essay film about German family life in the postwar decades, refracted through TV quiz shows and their hosts' biographies.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2018-08-08
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Sukowa - Playful Like A Child
Overview: “Acting is something anyone can do,” says Barbara Sukowa. “It’s completely intuitive and instinctual, much like a child dressing up.” Those who have worked with her say that what she does is true artistry. Barbara Sukowa, a star of Fassbinder’s films, an icon, and a role model. Who says there are hardly any interesting roles for women beyond forty? New challenges continually come her way. A few years past normal retirement age, she is launching into a remarkable new chapter. Sukowa – Spielen wie ein Kind (Barbara Sukowa – playful like a child) chronicles the path of an internationally successful actress to this day.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2024-10-23
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