Kirsten Block
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Kirsten Block was born on November 30, 1959 in Karl-Marx-Stadt, German Democratic Republic. She is an actress and writer, known for La ladrona de libros (2013), El lector(2008) and Phoenix (2014).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Chemnitz, Germany
Birthday: November 30, 1959
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Heroes Like Us
Overview: A young man from an early age falls in love with a girl whose family is not in good standing with the ruling Communist party. His father however is a member of the "Stasi", the secret state police. The father not only hinders his son's relationship with the girl, but he arranges for his son, after finishing school, to become a Stasi spy himself.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1999-11-08
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According to Plan
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2007-06-26
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Mamanam
Overview: West Germany, Christmas Eve, 1971. 7-year-old Kimîa captures her family’s celebration through the lens of her Super 8 camera. But the mood changes when her mother, Hanna, discovers her husband’s plans.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2020-01-22
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My Words, My Lies - My Love
Overview: David, a waiter, finds an unpublished manuscript in a dresser drawer. To impress a girl, he claims to be the author. When the novel becomes a best-seller, the real author introduces himself and begins to take over David's life.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-12-17
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Friendship!
Overview: A young man from East Germany travels to San Francisco to search for his father, who fled 12 years ago. Together with his best friend, he starts the journey from New York with no money and the only word they ever learned in english-lessons: "friendship".
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-01-13
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Rosamunde Pilcher: Wenn ich dich wiederfinde
Overview: Boat builder Helen Brody and insurance agent Liam Shaw couldn't be more different - at least at first glance. Nevertheless, fate brings them together. When Helen's husband Jonah is left at sea after a storm, Liam is supposed to pay out her life insurance a year later. But first Jonah has to be officially declared dead. However, there are growing doubts as to whether he is really dead. In order to find out the truth about Jonah's disappearance, Helen and Liam have to team up and follow Jonah's trail. In doing so, they not only get closer to the truth. They discover more and more things in common and fall in love. But just at the moment when Helen could finally let go of Jonah, he turns up again. Helen is faced with a dilemma that takes her to her emotional limits.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2023-04-02
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A Long Way Home
Overview: Ben Winter returns from his tour in Afghanistan with the German ISAF. Having survived a suicide bombing, which claimed the life of his best friend, he is trying to find his way back to his old life, with his girlfriend, family and friends. But his memories are catching up with him. Increasingly, he is losing contact with reality and his trauma gets the upper hand. A near-accident makes him and his family finally aware of the deep-rooted trauma and feelings of guilt he brought back from Afghanistan and he checks into a veterans' hospital for treatment.
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-06-21
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Ein mörderisches Geschäft
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-09-11
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Dreileben: Beats Being Dead
Overview: Johannes is a loner who wants a better job. And then he meets Ana. Ana is attractive and even though her job is even less prestigious than Johannes's, he falls for her. And then she quits her job to be with him (and be dependent on him) and suddenly things become much more serious. She has fallen for him. But does he still love her? Did he ever? Enter Sarah. Sarah is the daughter of Johannes's boss. He and she have a past. Will Sarah and what she represents be his future, and Ana just a memory, something he'd like to erase?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-04-13
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Freunde sind mehr - Viergefühl
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2022-04-10
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Tod einer Schülerin
Overview: Der beliebte Pädagoge Alex Berger (Brandt) steht entgeistert vor seinen Bücherbergen: Eine Schülerin, mit der er Sex hatte,wurde erschlagen am See der brandenburgischen Kleinstadt aufgefunden, nun plant das Kripoteam (Lavinia Wilson, Peter Lerchbaumer) einen Massen-Gentest. Berger beichtet seiner Frau (Corinna Harfouch) den angeblich einmaligen Seitensprung, mit dem Mord habe er aber nichts zu tun. Bergers Familie droht an der Belastung zu zerbrechen… Die Auflösung steht im Hintergrund, der Film konzentriert sich auf das Drama im Hause Berger. Fabelhaft: die dynamische Kamera und das auch in kleinen Rollen nuanciert agierende Ensemble.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-10-04
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Experiment Bootcamp
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 2004-02-18
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In der Welt habt ihr Angst
Overview: Music student Eva has fallen head over heels in love with musician Jo. They have a burning passion for one another and discover that they are able to communicate without auxiliary means, even across great distances. Their love is so great that Eva even follows her boyfriend into heroin addiction. But now this has to come to an end: Eva is pregnant and the two of them plan to go cold turkey in the solitude of New Zealand.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-03-03
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Miss Sixty
Overview: Now that we’re all living longer and “40 is the new 30,” why can’t 60 be the new 40? That’s what Louise and Frans think when they embark on bold new life adventures. Louise is a molecular biologist who decides to make a withdrawal from the sperm bank and have a baby. Meanwhile, gallery owner Frans decides to re-boot his career by finding the hottest new talent on the art scene. While attempting to recapture their lost youth and avoid total ridicule, Louise and Frans accidentally cross paths.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-04-24
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Schuld und Rache
Overview: Under the influence of alcohol a couple run over a young cyclist
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2007-02-12
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Ein brauchbarer Mann
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-10-18
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The Book Thief
Overview: While subjected to the horrors of WWII Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. Under the stairs in her home, a Jewish refugee is being sheltered by her adoptive parents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-08
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Es ist nicht vorbei
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-11-09
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Mein Mann, der Trinker
Overview: German television movie about an alcoholic university professor (Robert Atzorn).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-09-03
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Kai from the Box
Overview: Kai, a young boy, living in 1923 Berlin tries to convince an American businessman that he can market his chewing gum better than anyone else in town.
Genres: Comedy Family Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1988-09-01
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Selbstgespräche
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-07-30
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The Manny
Overview: Young industrialist Clemens Klina doesn't have time for his children and accidentally hires a man who actually came to him, seeking revenge, as a nanny for them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-03-26
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Folge der Feder
Overview: Helin, on her father's death, travels from Tunceli, Turkey to Berlin to meet her mother and sister.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2004-11-21
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Die Liebe kommt selten allein
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Genres: Comedy Family TV Movie Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2006-08-31
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Die Entfernung zwischen Dir und mir und ihr
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1988-05-12
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Das gestohlene Leben
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-01-17
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Der Mörder meines Vaters
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2005-11-14
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Valley of the Innocent
Overview: Police officer Eva Meyer re-visits the orphanage where she grew up with the intent of unraveling her confused identity. Stasi archives reveal that her birth was the result of a one-night stand between her mother and one of her husband’s students, a Kenyan. Her family’s plot to hide her birth, metaphorically mirrors Germany’s suppressed history in this noire thriller.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2003-09-09
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Inklusion - gemeinsam anders
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-12-01
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Meine Tochter, mein Leben
Overview: Ruth is an attractive, independent woman in her early 50s who has always lived for her daughter. But Lea, now in her mid-20s, is starting to break away from her dominant mother. In this difficult and conflicting time between mother and daughter, Lea suddenly falls ill with multiple sclerosis. In Ruth, a terrible suspicion begins to germinate: Lea may have been poisoned by intensive contact with solvents in the printing house where she has a student job. When Ruth voices her fear, the company turns on the works attorney Robert. He turns out to be Ruth's old childhood sweetheart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2006-09-22
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Unterm Radar
Overview: German judge Elke Seeberg's orderly world turns upside-down when a terrorist bomb explodes in a Berlin bus and the federal police come bursting through her door: Allegedly her teenage daughter played a part in the attack and is now on the run. What follows is a Kafkaesque nightmare of illegal round-the-clock surveillance by the Secret Service, public denunciation, and the collapse of her career. But when Federal Agent Buch helps her put together some pieces of the puzzle on her own, the fear of terrorists quickly gives way to the paranoia against an all-powerful state encroaching on all her rights.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-10-14
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Ein Bernhardiner namens Möpschen
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Mörderherz
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Wunschkind
Overview: They are actually a mother-daughter team that could hardly be more harmonious: the respected Hamburg pediatrician Claudia Kayser and her almost 17-year-old daughter Carolin. Since the tragic death of her beloved father, the two have become even closer - at that time the girl helped her grieving mother to overcome a difficult emotional depression.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-10-12
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Einfach Rosa - Verliebt, verlobt, verboten
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Genres: Romance TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-02-12
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In a Sweatbox
Overview: The "Schwitzkasten" is a sleazy sauna located in a undistinguished neighborhood in Berlin, Germany where several persons are used to meet day by day, discussing their personal problems and feelings.
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 2005-10-25
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Liebe ist Verhandlungssache
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-04-15
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The Reader
Overview: The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-10
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Phoenix
Overview: German-Jewish cabaret singer Nelly survived Auschwitz but had to undergo reconstructive surgery as her face was disfigured. Without recognizing Nelly, her former husband Johnny asks her to help him claim his wife’s inheritance. To see if he betrayed her, she agrees, becoming her own doppelganger.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-09-25
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Ein Mord danach
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1993-06-14
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Pigs Will Fly
Overview: A man struggles with memories of his violent childhood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-09
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Doppelpass
Overview: Joanna, a committed football coach of a multicultural girls' team, has to find 2000 Euros for the football field. She comes across a foundation that gives money to migrants who convey German culture to other migrants.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-01
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Krücke
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1993-01-22
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Wie Licht schmeckt
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2006-07-06
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Mute
Overview: A mute man with a violent past is forced to take on the teeming underworld of a near-future Berlin as he searches for his missing girlfriend.
Genres: Science Fiction Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-02-23
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Reife Leistung!
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2007-01-31
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Otto - The Disaster Movie
Overview: A man from Ostfriesland travels to Hamburg and sets course for America on a steamship to conquer this New World as well. What he leaves behind is a swath of devastation, a breach of confusion, a Milky Way full of music, a dead end full of mad jokes and perhaps a touch too much wordplay at the expense of others. But what is worst of all: he has also made a film about it!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-03-22
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Why Don't We Do It in the Road?
Overview: In the middle of the road on Potsdamer Platz, Berlin's heaviest tourist attraction and as close to Times Square as Germany will ever get. How they manage to "do it" there is Zarah's idea, a postmodern creative artist, who likes doing it with Anton in the most quaint and daring of public places - right where and when the traffic is the heaviest. This time, to heighten the fun, Zarah hits upon a special object of desire . . .
Genres: Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-06-04
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Berlin, hier bin ich
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-10-04
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Faktor 8 – Der Tag ist gekommen
Overview: A presumed virus outbreak during a flight from south Asia to Munich. Most of all, the scientific premise is utterly wrong. Retroviruses is shown as multiplying in erythrocytes, which lack a) DNA (necessary for retrovirus replication) and b) the enzymatic apparatus for multiplying any viral nucleic acids.
Genres: TV Movie Action Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-12-10
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Liebe auf Bewährung
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Die Auflehnung
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-04-28
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The Baader Meinhof Complex
Overview: 'Der Baader Meinhof Komplex' depicts the political turmoil in the period from 1967 to the bloody "Deutschen Herbst" in 1977. The movie approaches the events based on Stefan Aust's standard work on the Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF). The story centers on the leadership of the self named anti-fascist resistance to state violence: Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof and Gudrun Ensslin.
Genres: Action Crime Drama History Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-09-25
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Nachbarinnen
Overview: The single package-delivery woman Dora lives a somewhat reclusive life in a high-rise in Leipzig and gets through everyday life with her dry sense of humor. But her quiet, well-ordered life spins out of control when she has to hide her mysteriously fascinating Polish neighbor Jola – who believes to have accidentally killed someone. Dora is hesitant at first to take her in, but she cannot seem to shake her fascination with Jola. Dora's trust in the direct, impulsive woman grows – Jola seems to ask exactly those questions no one else dares to ask. When Dora finds out that the accusations against Jola have been lifted, she lies about the status of the police investigation in order to keep her Polish neighbor for herself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2005-04-28
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Mittlere Reife
Overview: Having trouble coping with school and their teachers, five students are sent to after school detention by principal Seifert. To avoid expulsion they must take extra hours in ethics. It is their last chance. Stressed out with her own exams, the new trainee teacher Mechthild Bremer is not enthusiastic about being assigned to teach this class. Accordingly, the first couple of hours do not run smoothly. The five give her a hard time.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-09-18
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Stunde der Füchse
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Barbara
Overview: In 1980s East Germany, Barbara is a Berlin doctor banished to a country medical clinic for applying for an exit visa. Deeply unhappy with her reassignment and fearful of her co-workers as possible Stasi informants, Barbara stays aloof, especially from the good natured clinic head, Andre.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-03-08
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Move On Up
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Doppeltes Dreieck
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1999-10-11
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Schönes Schlamassel
Overview: Anne falls in love with the Jewish doctor Daniel. Since he is not Jewish, he allows himself to be coached accordingly in order to keep up appearances. Every attempt by Daniel to clear up the misunderstanding achieves the opposite. Eventually he capitulates because he doesn't want to lose Anne. Tobias has to help him.
Genres: Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2020-09-02
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Rosamunde Pilcher: Von Tee und Liebe
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 2020-01-12
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Für immer Freibad
Overview: High school graduate Simon has a crush on lifeguard Mira. The outdoor pool in Niederwülst at the end of the 90s becomes a place of longing for the 19-year-old, far away from the pressure of family expectations.
Genres: TV Movie Romance Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2024-09-29
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Shut Up And Suffer
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2024-10-24
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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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