Marianne Sägebrecht
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Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Marianne Sägebrecht (born 27 August 1945, Starnberg, Bavaria) is a German actress, most famous for her appearance in the movies Sugarbaby, Bagdad Café, and The War of the Roses. This Rubenesque character player with a heart-shaped face and child-like features began her career as a leading producer and performer of Germany's alternative theater/cabaret scene. The eclectic background of Marianne Sägebrecht included stints as a medical lab assistant and magazine assistant editor before she found her calling in show business. Claiming to be inspired by Bavaria's mad King Ludwig II, she became known as the "mother of Munich's sub-culture" as producer and performer of avant-garde theater and cabaret revues, particularly with her troupe Opera Curiosa. Spotted by director Percy Adlon in a 1977 production of Adele Spitzeder in which she essayed the role of a delicate prostitute, Sägebrecht was cast as Madame Sanchez/Mrs. Sancho Panza in Adlon's TV special Herr Kischott (1979), a spin on Don Quixote. The director put her in his 1983 feature The Swing in a small role and then created the leading role of Marianne, an overweight mortician in love with a subway conductor, in Sugarbaby (1985) especially for her. American films beckoned as well and Sägebrecht was often cast in roles tailored to her unique abilities. Paul Mazursky reworked the part of a teutonic masseuse for her in Moon over Parador (1988) while Danny DeVito tailored the part of the German housekeeper for a divorcing couple in The War of the Roses (1989). Returning to Germany, she shone as the timid maid in the 1930s who marries her Jewish employer for convenience then falls in love in Martha and I (1990; released in the USA in 1995). Sägebrecht headlined the black comedy as an unhappy wife whose straying husband plots her death in Mona Must Die (1994) and had small supporting parts in The Ogre (1996) and Left Luggage (1998). Description above from the Wikipedia article Marianne Sägebrecht, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Starnberg, Bavaria, Germany
Birthday: August 27, 1945
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Gender: Female
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The War of the Roses
Overview: The Roses, Barbara and Oliver, live happily as a married couple. Then she starts to wonder what life would be like without Oliver, and likes what she sees. Both want to stay in the house, and so they begin a campaign to force each other to leave. In the middle of the fighting is D'Amato, the divorce lawyer. He gets to see how far both will go to get rid of the other, and boy do they go far.
Genres: Comedy Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-08
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Without Family
Overview: Young Remi, a foundling, lives on the farm run by his impoverished foster parents. When their money runs out, unbeknown to his foster-mother, Rémi is sold by his hard-hearted foster father to an old street performer named Vitalis. Vitalis was once a famous opera singer, but became destitute after a tragic love affair.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-12-12
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Bagdad Cafe
Overview: A German woman named Jasmin stumbles upon a dilapidated motel/diner in the middle of nowhere. Her unusual appearance and demeanor are at first suspicious to Brenda, the exasperated owner who has difficulty making ends meet. But when an unlikely magic sparks between the two women, this lonely desert outpost is transformed into a thriving and popular oasis.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1987-11-12
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Im Himmel ist die Hölle los
Overview: Teenage girl idolises television game show host, and gets a chance to be his assistant
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1984-10-31
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Dust Devil
Overview: A woman on the run from her abusive husband encounters a mysterious hitch-hiker.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-07-11
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Soleil
Overview: During a happy evening, the famous professor Levy, one of the masters of cardiac surgery, collapses, struck by a heart attack. His whole life comes back to him, and in particular his childhood, enlightened by a loving and beloved mother.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-06-11
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Asterix & Obelix Take on Caesar
Overview: Set in 50 B.C., Asterix and Obelix are living in a small but well-protected village in Gaul, where a magic potion concocted by Druids turns the townsfolk into mighty soldiers. When Roman troops carve a path through Gaul to reach the English Channel, Caesar and his aide de camp Detritus discover the secret elixir and capture the Druid leader who knows its formula, and Asterix and Obelix are sent off to rescue them.
Genres: Family Adventure Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-02-03
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Sugarbaby
Overview: A plump Munich mortuary worker tracks down and seduces a married subway conductor.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1985-06-28
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Der Werdenfelser Lumpazivagabundus
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-10-12
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Moon Over Parador
Overview: Little known actor, Jack Noah, is working on location in the dictatorship of Parador at the time the dictator dies. The dictator's right hand man, Roberto, makes Jack an offer he cannot refuse.. to play the dictator. Jack's acting skills fool the masses but not close friends and employees of the dictator.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-09
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Left Luggage
Overview: While escaping from Nazis during the WWII, a Jewish man dug suitcases full of things dear to his heart in the ground two. The war deprived him of his family, and afterwards he endlessly turns over the soil of Antwerp to find the suitcases, which makes him look obsessed. He keeps checking old maps and keeps digging, trying to find, in fact, those he lost. His daughter Chaya is a beautiful modern girl looking for a part-time job. She finds a place as a nanny in the strictly observant Chassidic family with many children, although her secular manners clearly fly in the face of many commandments. One of the reasons she is accepted is that mother of the family is absolutely overburdened by the household, so she stays despite the resistance of the father, normally - an indisputable authority in the family. She develops a special bond with the youngest of the boys, four-year old Simcha, so far incapable of speaking.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-30
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Rosalie Goes Shopping
Overview: Rosalie loves to shop too much to let a little thing like no money stop her. When the local shopkeepers no longer take her bad checks or bad credit cards, she's finds herself out of ways to please her consumerist tendencies… until she discovers The Internet! Master shopper becomes master hacker, and Rosalie is back on top.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-09
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Erotique
Overview: The sexual fantasies of women are explored by three female directors.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-14
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Mr. Bluesman
Overview: Spike is a musician who, has additional income, smuggling stolen cars. He is also called Mr. Bluesman because he loves the blues more than anything. One day he is supposed to smuggle a Mercedes-Benz into Genoa . However, he gets the wrong car that belongs to the mafia around boss Hormann.
Genres: Music Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-04-01
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Spanish Fly
Overview: A woman journalist, Zoe, knows better than to go into a story with her mind already made up. But that's exactly what she does when she heads off to Spain to write about its men and their macho take (as she sees it) on relationships. As she tries to prove her thesis, she soon realizes that she doesn't know as much about the male sex as she thought. She also finds herself involved in relationships with the wrong men.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-10
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Omamamia
Overview: Where shall we put grandma? Her permanently anxious and stressed daughter, Marie, knows exactly where: the neighbourhood’s idyllically situated retirement homem where she can find friends of “her own age”. But Granny has other ideas: She wants to see the Pope in Rome, and no one can stop her plan. She wants to finally confess a troubling sin to the highest possible power. She resolves to make the journey alone, and ends up one day on the doorstep of her granddaughter, Martina. What she doesn’t know is that Martina has a secret too, and that a private audience with the Pope is virtually impossible for mere mortals. Together with sly bon vivant, Lorenzo, the three set off on an adventure – but their attempt to receive a Papal blessing almost ends in disaster.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-11-01
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Am Ende siegt die Liebe
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Genres: TV Movie Drama Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-04-14
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Bezaubernde Marie
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Genres: TV Movie Family Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2007-03-23
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Ganz unten, ganz oben
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1999-12-17
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So ein Schlamassel
Overview: Jil has found great love in the landscape architect Marc. There is only a tiny problem: Marc is not a Jew, and Jil's devout Jewish family would never accept marrying a "goi," a non-Jew. There is only one thing that helps: Marc, son of a German bourgeois family, must pretend that he is also a Jew. After a quick course in terms of traditions and customs, this also seems to work quite well. Jil's family is thrilled with the new friend. But then the dizziness flies up just during a big bar mitzvah celebration - and Jil has to decide.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-01-29
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The Ogre
Overview: Frenchman Abel Tiffauges is a naive man who lives a simple life working as a mechanic. Falsely accused of being a child abuser, he is recruited as a soldier when World War II begins, but is captured soon and taken to the heart of Nazi Germany.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1996-09-12
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Die Verführerin Adele Spitzeder
Overview: Adele Spitzeder, an actress of medium talent, finds the role of her life as a dazzling financial genius, but in truth the operator of a gigantic pyramid scheme. With a brilliant appearance and empty promises, she serves the hopes and greed of her fellow human beings with virtuosity. With the help of a never-ending stream of money, she buys her way out of situations that would have landed others in prison long ago. Her enemies are just waiting for the pyramid to collapse and bury Adele - and countless small investors with her.
Genres: TV Movie History Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-01-11
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Mona Must Die
Overview: Disillusioned, Eddie is a long-suffering husband who finds passion and happiness with his neighbor, Rachel, a struggling estate agent. Only one thing stands in their way - Mona, Eddie's tyrannical wife who helped Eddie when he was still a recent immigrant, then trapped him in a loveless marriage. As the relationship deepens, the two lovers devise a plan where Rachel is brought into the house as Mona's live-in attendant for Mona must die.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1994-05-12
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All Men Are Mortal
Overview: Melodrama about a man cursed with immortality, who tries to declare his undying love for a depressed actress.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-11-17
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Herz mit Löffel
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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The Circle
Overview: A young teacher in Zurich in the 1950s falls in love with a transvestite star but is torn between his bourgeois existence and his commitment to homosexuality. He joins a gay organization that is eventually seen as the pioneer of gay emancipation in Europe.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-09-18
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Marga Engel schlägt zurück
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-03-14
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Marga Engel kocht vor Wut
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Luise knackt den Jackpot
Overview: Luise modestly but happily runs a small travel agency with her husband Matthias. Matthias goes on a travel tour to distant Kazakhstan. Luise becomes a millionaire overnight; she cracks the lottery jackpot. Luise and her daughter buy a villa with a butler from a wealthy Englishman. The butler takes on the almost impossible task of training them to be posh ladies.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Pettson and Findus: A Little Nuisance, a Great Friendship
Overview: Old farmer Pettson gets a kitten from his neighbour Mrs Kosonen and calls the cat Viiru. When Viiru starts to talk, the two become inseparable friends.
Genres: Family Comedy Animation
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-03-13
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The Muckles - The Quest for a New Home
Overview: Once upon a time, the Mucklas could be found everywhere. But in an increasingly tidy world, the cheerful goblins have a hard time, since they love disorder more than anything. Soon the last tribe will have to leave their home. For generations, the little creatures have made themselves at home unnoticed in Hansson's old, chaotic grocer's store. In the wonderful mess, they find everything they need to live, tinker and make mischief. But Hansson's successor, Karl the exterminator, turns the paradise into a tiled and sterile nightmare. So Svunja, Tjorben and Smartö set off on a dangerous search for the promised land. The great adventure begins
Genres: Animation Adventure Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2022-10-20
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Ein irres Feeling
Overview: Tina, Julie and Alfa simply turn the tables on love: they don't wait for the guys to come on, they throw themselves into the action when they meet the bowling clique around Tim, Freddy and Rolf. Although their goal is actually only the bowling competition in St. Tropez, they let the party go on. And then it turns out that Tina's father has a plane that might take the boys to St. Tropez...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1984-11-23
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Ich wünsch Dir Liebe
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Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1999-05-28
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Martha and I
Overview: Emil (Vaclav Chalupa as a teen, Ondrej Vetchy as an adult) has been naughty, and his family is at a loss about what to do with him. He's been dallying with the family maid. They decide to ship him off to spend time with his uncle Ernst Michel Piccoli), who married his family maid. The boy has a good relationship with his uncle, and a touching picture of Czech family life just at the advent of World War II emerges. Since Emil and Ernst are both Jewish, they are eventually carted away by the Nazis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-09-01
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Charlotte und ihre Männer
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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C.O.D.
Overview: Albert Zack is a struggling, bumbling, advertising salesman hired to save the Beaver Bra Company from impending doom. He is charged with signing five specific, world-famous, busty woman as endorsers for the bra line. Silly antics and situations occur as he tries, mostly in various costumes, to get close enough to these women to make his pitch for their signature. Working against him are two board members who stand to gain if the company fails. As he circles the globe in search of these signatures, he is faced with a variety of challenges, one of which is a relationship with his own secretary.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-07-03
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Scheidung auf amerikanisch
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-02-28
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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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Großglocknerliebe
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2004-06-04
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Marga Engel gibt nicht auf
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2004-12-28
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Thanksgivin’, die nachtblaue Stadt
Overview: Again and again the lonely Mikki wanders through the night to recognize himself for a few moments. He finds light and courage again through the encounter with the toilet attendant Veronika.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Immer Wirbel um Marie
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-10-17
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Das Geheimnis meiner Schwester
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2007-04-20
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A Whole Life
Overview: When Andreas arrives in the remote valley in the Austrian Alps, he is only about four years old - nobody knows for sure. He grows up to become a skilled farmhand and, as a young man, joins a work crew that builds one of the first mountain railroads, bringing light and noise to the valley along with electricity. He also finds the love of his life in Marie, but their happiness is short-lived. Only many years later, when Andreas embarks on his final journey, she is with him once again. And in amazement Andreas looks back at all the years that lie behind him.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2023-11-09
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Crazy Boys
Overview: A decadent Cabaret in Hamburg (Germany) is near closing down. The owner decides to make a last effort to save the place: produce a male striptease show. Many candidates answer to his newspaper ad. No matter how weird were the rehearsals, the owner would have no regrets.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-05-25
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The Swing
Overview: Garden parties, music and dancing characterize the lives of a family of German aristocrats in the days leading to World War I.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-10-14
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Frau Holle
Overview: A widow has two daughters. Louise, lazy she spoils and Marie who dutifully and eagerly helps her mother around the house. One day Marie falls into the well and wakes up on a flowery meadow in a land of dreams, where even bread and apple tree can talk.
Genres: Family TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-12-25
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Nichts als die Wahrheit - 30 Jahre Die Toten Hosen
Overview: Germany's most popular punk rock band "Die Toten Hosen" ("The dead pants") celebrated their 30th anniversary in 2012. In his film "Nichts als die Wahrheit - 30 Jahre Die Toten Hosen" ("Nothing but the truth - 30 years Die Toten Hosen"), established documentary filmmaker Eric Friedler succeeds at presenting an interior view of a band that evolved from an enfant terrible to a pop culture icon and whose work mirrors German history. Friedler takes the audience on a two-hour long roller coaster ride about success and failures.
Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-12-07
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Katrin und Wladimir
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1996-04-05
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Santa's Secretary
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1999-12-22
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The Little Lord
Overview: 11-year-old Christian lives with his Italian mother Gioia in poverty on the island of Ischia. His German father died in a rescue mission before Christian was born. The kind boy had an unremarkable and calm life until, one day, his grandfather Carl Schneibel finds him. Schneibel is a wealthy businessman who had never seen Christian before. Since the old lonely man has no heir, he decides to take Christian in and offer him a good education. Schneibel has never been on good terms with his son and never liked his son’s choice of wife, so he decides that Gioia must not come along. Despite, Gioia does not wish to obstruct her son’s future and allows him to go. Thanks to his good nature and his kind ways, Christian wins the heart of his grandfather and changes his life for the better.
Genres: TV Movie Family
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1996-12-18
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Il ritorno del piccolo Lord
Overview: As every year, German brewery tycoon Karl Schneibel spends the summer holiday on an Italian island with his beloved grandson Christian, near the children's home run by his ma, Dr. Gioia. This year however, Christian's heart isn't in his summer fling but his lover at home, Anna, daughter of Karl's general manager Dr. Werner. Christian has a bad eye in Veronica, the woman who became Karl's much younger lover 'by travel fate', the first thing soon proved untrue. But by then, the Schneibel firm and estate have been taken over according to an elaborate conspiracy, which Christian takes on with some help from his friends.
Genres: Drama Family Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2000-01-02
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The Milky Life
Overview: Retired billionaire, Rooney, feels his family loves only his money and not him. He plans to live as an adult baby with his wet nurse, Sagebrecht. When thieves break into his mansion and hit him on the head, he starts to grow younger.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1993-02-23
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Die Toten Hosen - 3 Akkorde für ein Halleluja
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Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-12-31
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Silence
Overview: Inspired by a few youngsters in a coffee bar talking about aging, a busy man sinks into the idyllic surrounding of a lake. At this place the man seems to have turned into an old Gentleman who lingers and enjoys life at that unique spot. His thoughts and encounters at the lake seem to be magically linked with the man in the coffee bar and its visitors.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2020-10-28
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Pettson and Findus: The Best Christmas Ever
Overview: Pettson and Findus find themselves snowed in their house. The little cat is scared that Christmas is ruined, but Pettson promises that they will celebrate "the best Christmas ever".
Genres: Family Animation Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-11-03
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And Suddenly Everything Was Different
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1997-12-30
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Eine Mutter kämpft um ihren Sohn
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1994-12-16
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Erik & Erika
Overview: Erik(a) Schinegger – the ski star who became a media sensation. Erika was hailed as a champion skier, until a sex test determined that she was a he – and Erik was rejected and accused of fraud. A story based on real life, a tale about nature and the taboo subjects of 1970s society.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2018-02-03
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Lorenz im Land der Lügner
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Genres: Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1997-04-10
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Pettson and Findus: Findus Moves House
Overview: The old man Petterson is trying to sleep but his cat Findus is keeping him awake, so they both agree that Findus shall have his own house.
Genres: Family Animation
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2018-10-05
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Schmucklos
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2019-11-21
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Beauville
Overview: Tragicomedy about a man who hears he has got one more week to live and who brings his two water turtles to the sea to set them free.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Eine Frau nach Maß
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1998-03-05
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One Day
Overview: A woman, whose origin and destination are unknown, walks from morning until evening through the streets, going past the crazy things of life (from the modernization of the data processing of dogs to the rationalization of the length of spaghetti), and she needs a macabre sense of humor to stand everything she sees. The daily passage of one absurdity after the other.
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1988-01-22
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