Jan Niklas
Also Known As: Niklas Kupferroth, Yan Nicklas
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: October 15, 1947
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The House of the Spirits
Overview: A rancher, his clairvoyant wife and their family face turbulent years in South America.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-21
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Wambo
Overview: A feature film about the life and death of the famous Bavarian actor Walter Sedlmayr, who was murdered in 1990 and who tried all his life to hide his homosexual tendencies from the public. The life story is told from the perspective of his professional environment and - sometimes in a documentary style - his fellow actors report on him. His sexual preferences in the BDSM area are also discussed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-05-13
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The Formula
Overview: While investigating the death of a friend and fellow cop, Los Angeles police officer Barney Caine stumbles across evidence that Nazis created a synthetic alternative to gasoline during World War II. This revelation has the potential to end the established global oil industry, making the formula a very valuable and dangerous piece of information. Eventually, Caine must contend with oil tycoon Adam Steiffel, who clearly has his own agenda regarding the formula.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-19
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Die Zeit, die man Leben nennt
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-01-04
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Dr. M
Overview: In the not-too-distant future Berlin is shocked by a series of spectacular suicides; a policeman's investigations lead him to a beautiful, enigmatic woman and the revelation of a sinister plot to manipulate the population through mass hypnosis.
Genres: Crime Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-24
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Colonel Redl
Overview: Set during the fading glory of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the film tells of the rise and fall of Alfred Redl, an ambitious young officer who proceeds up the ladder to become head of the Secret Police only to become ensnared in political deception.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1985-03-29
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To the Camp and Back
Overview: Christine, grieving for her fiancé who was shot down by the German Luftwaffe during the war, is persuaded by her cousin to meet a German prisoner-of-war—a Luftwaffe pilot.
Genres: Drama History War TV Movie Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-02
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Plain Truth
Overview: An unmarried 18 year-old Amish girl is charged with the murder of her infant child.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-04
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Winter Solstice
Overview: When Elfrida Philips abandons London for a country village, she settles in quickly. She is very poor, but has a tiny cottage, her four-legged friend Horace, and friendships of good neighbors. Tragedy upsets her newfound tranquillity, and she takes refuge in a rambling house with a new gentleman friend in Corrydale. But the group proves to be greater than the sum of its ill-fitting parts, and as the solstice passes, and as Christmas approaches, the healing power of love, begins to work its magic. (Filmed at Dunrobin Castle, Golspie, Sutherland)
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-25
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Kabale und Liebe
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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The Praying Mantis
Overview: Trixi Jancik leads a risky double life. At home, she is an obedient housewife. But when she puts on a disguise and goes to the racetrack to indulge in her secret passion, she catches a glimpse of a better life. Although she blows her grocery money, she has tasted the kind of luxury she can normally only dream about. A minor squabble at home brings the situation to a head and marks a turning point in her life: Trixi fixes her husband a lethal cocktail of pills.
Genres: Thriller Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-03-08
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The Rose Garden
Overview: In Germany, an old man attacks another old man and is arrested. The attacker refuses to speak. A female lawyer is appointed to him. She discovers that the attacker has numbers tattooed on his arm and the attacked man was a German officer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-22
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Assignment Berlin
Overview: Tracy Garret's a cop and after an incident that left one person dead, she's invited by her father to spend sometime with him in Berlin. While they were out having dinner, her father's shot. She is then informed by the German inspector assigned to her father's case that her father's a CIA operative. She then decides to investigate the case...
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-30
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The Clown
Overview: Based on the best-selling novel by Nobel-laureate Heinrich Böll, this drama is a passionate indictment of Catholicism. Hans Schnier (Helmut Griem) has earned his living as a clown, though he is in fact a very covert sort of social critic. After enduring a difficult childhood in Bonn during the Second World War, including his mother's fanatic Nazism, he is appalled to discover many of the people he knows and loves swept deeply into involvement in the Catholic Church.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-01-14
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Theodor Chindler - Die Geschichte einer deutschen Familie
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-05-13
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Gestern gibt es nicht
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2003-11-16
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Blutige Spur
Overview: The divorced wife of a respected surgeon is involved in a hit-and-run accident and dies. Her husband is suspected, but manages to escape on the way to the court. Together with a journalist, in order to prove his innocence, he tracks down a flourishing organ trade and an unscrupulous gang of smugglers.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1995-05-31
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Geisterstunde - Fahrstuhl ins Jenseits
Overview: While they are stuck in the elevator, three employees of a TV station tell each other stories about supernatural phenomena. They tell of the “dream girlfriend” of a 16-year-old girl who fell victim to a crime 33 years ago; of a bully who turns out to be an alien; and of a comic artist who falls victim to his mirror doppelganger.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1997-04-20
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Queen of the Lake
Overview: Prince Victor looks in vain for a swan which was wounded by one of his servants. Instead he discovers a beautiful girl with golden hair who has an arrow in her shoulder. She is dumb and can't explain her origin. He falls immediately for her. The girl quickly recovers, but disappears mysteriously.
Genres: Fantasy Family
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1998-02-26
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Kerbels Flucht
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1984-05-29
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Kinder
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Das ohnmächtige Pferd
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-03-02
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Der Richter
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Der Thronfolger
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-08-10
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Ein tödliches Vergehen
Overview: Psychotherapist Katharina welcomes a new patient, Alex Neumann. Soon she also learns to know him on a more private basis. But when two of her colleagues, who had love affairs with their patients, are killed, she fears that Alex might by the murderer. She's torn between love and fear.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Teerosen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-07-08
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Ein besserer Herr
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-12-25
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Weltuntergang
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Genres: History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1984-07-01
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21 Hours at Munich
Overview: A dramatization of the incident in 1972 when Arab terrorists broke into the Olympic compound in Munich and murdered 11 Israeli athletes.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-25
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Summer Solstice
Overview: Summer Solstice is a collection of love stories about, and for, people of all different ages and generations. Each character's tale connects, weaving in and out of the others, mirroring and countering them so that, as the long hot summer draws to its close, each is forced to examine their lives and decide to whom their loyalties lie or else risk loosing everything they hold so dear.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-12-25
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Verdi
Overview: This 1982 biographical television miniseries, as seen on PBS's Great Performances, dramatizes the life of this classic Italian composer known for operas including La Traviata, Rigoletto, and Aida and his Requiem.
Genres: Drama History Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Tafelspitz
Overview: The master of the house developed his culinary skills to such an extent that he poached 'the' chef and hired him for his household in New York. Lilli flies to New York with her private secretary William, where she cooks for her unknown boss using every trick in the book. During a walk she meets a young man with whom she ultimately falls in love.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1994-03-21
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Loose Connections
Overview: A woman enlists a man who claims he is gay to accompany her on a long drive to a feminist conference in Munich.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-04-13
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Tödliche Diamanten
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Der Katzensteg
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-08-07
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Der Fall Winslow
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-03-13
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Red Hot
Overview: In 1959, a young Soviet musician risks everything to pursue his newfound love of American rock 'n' roll.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-06-23
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Das Männerquartett
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-01-16
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Night Crossing
Overview: Two men want to escape from East Germany (under Communist rule) but they will only go if they can take their families with them. Based on a true story.
Genres: Adventure Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-05
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