Alexandra Maria Lara
Also Known As: Александра Мария Лара, アレクサンドラ・マリア・ララ, アレクサンドラ・プラタレアヌ, Александра Марія Лара, Alexandra Plătăreanu
Biography: Alexandra Maria Lara (born 12 November 1978) is a Romanian-German actress who has appeared in Downfall (2004), Control (2007), Youth Without Youth (2007), The Reader (2008), Rush (2013), and Geostorm (2017).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bucharest, Romania
Adult: No
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About the Looking for and the Finding of Love
Overview: Director helmut Dietls and Patric Susskinds illustrate a legendary story of two lovers who cant keep themselves away from death.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2005-01-27
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Downfall
Overview: In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still achieve victory and orders his generals and advisers to fight to the last man. When the end finally does come, and Hitler lies dead by his own hand, what is left of his military must find a way to end the killing that is the Battle of Berlin, and lay down their arms in surrender.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2004-09-16
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Naked
Overview: Nackt is the story of three couples, one of which just broke up, one that seems to be about to and one perfectly okay. They are all friends and from time to time they gather to talk about everything.One time they gather for dinner at the second couple's "mansion" - the husband became rich with his business. We see each couple as they prepare themselves for the party and learn a lot about their relationships.At the dinner they get to talking about recognizing each other's peer with closed eyes and decide to try it (thus the title "Nackt"=naked in German).
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-09-02
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The Tunnel
Overview: Inspired by true events, Olympic swimmer Harry Melchior defects from East Germany in the 1960s and hatches a daring plot to help his sister and others flee East Berlin through a 145-yard underground tunnel.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-01-21
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The Fisherman and His Wife
Overview: A shared love of fish leads to a variety of romantic predicaments in this offbeat comedy from writer and director Doris Dörrie. Otto (Christian Ulmen) and Leo (Simon Verhoeven) are two men from Germany who have launched a successful business in which they import koi, the beautiful Japanese fish, for collectors in their native land. While on a business trip to Japan, Otto and Leo meet Ida (Alexandra Maria Lara), a German tourist who is studying fashion design. Ida begins traveling with the two men, and surprisingly develops an infatuation with the rumpled Otto instead of the handsome Leo. When Ida discovers she's pregnant with Otto's child, the two marry, and upon their return to Germany, Ida attempts to join in the business by creating a line of scarves decorated with koi patterns. However, the honeymoon proves short-lived, and Ida's presence creates a rift between Otto and Leo, as the latter sets up his own concern, raising koi with his new bride, Yoko (Young-Shin Kim).
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2005-10-26
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Control
Overview: The story of Joy Division’s lead singer Ian Curtis, from his schoolboy days in 1973 to his suicide on the eve of the band's first American tour in 1980.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-12
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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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Hinter Kaifeck
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Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-02-06
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Youth Without Youth
Overview: Professor of language and philosophy Dominic Matei is struck by lightning and ages backwards from 70 to 40 in a week, attracting the world and the Nazis. While on the run, the professor meets a young woman who has her own experience with a lightning storm. Not only does Dominic find love again, but her new abilities hold the key to his research.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-26
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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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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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If It Don't Fit, Use a Bigger Hammer
Overview: Frustrated with their lazy new intern, a trio of offbeat builders decide to teach him a lesson with a series of escalating pranks.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-03-07
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Farewell
Overview: An intricate thriller about an ordinary man thrust into the biggest theft of Soviet information of the Cold War. Right after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. A French businessman based in Moscow, Pierre Froment, makes an unlikely connection with Grigoriev, a senior KGB officer disenchanted with what the Communist ideal has become under Brezhnev. Grigoriev begins passing Froment highly sensitive information about the Soviet spy network in the US.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-09-23
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Hitlers letzte Tage - Der Film "Der Untergang"
Overview: Documentary about the 2004 movie 'Der Untergang' aka. 'Downfall'
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2005-09-16
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The City of Your Final Destination
Overview: 28-year-old Kansas University doctoral student Omar Razaghi wins a grant to write a biography of Latin American writer Jules Gund. Omar must get through to three people who were close to Gund – his brother, widow, and younger mistress – so he can get authorization to write the biography.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-03-21
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Honolulu
Overview: Produced and directed by seven Munich Film School students, Honolulu takes place not in Hawaii, but inside of a rural town just outside of Munich, Germany. Several vignettes, lasting approximately 10 to 15 minutes each, are connected by one of the town’s public bus routes, outside of which two men booze the night away while waiting for the bus to make its rounds.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-07-19
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City of Life
Overview: A privileged young male Arab at odds with his cultural identity and his less fortunate street smart friend; a disillusioned Indian taxi driver who bears an uncanny resemblance to a famous Bollywood star; and a former Romanian ballet dancer now working as a flight attendant and searching for love and companionship ... these individuals all live in Dubai and their lives are about to collide for better or for worse in a city where ambition, growth and opportunity are encouraged and dreams can still manifest. "City of Life" is an urban drama that tracks the various intersections of a multi-ethnic cast, examining how random interactions and their consequences can irrevocably impact another's life.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-12-11
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A Distant Neighborhood
Overview: Thomas, a father in his fifties, returns by chance to the town where he grew up. He collapses and wakes up forty years earlier in the body of his teenage self. Thrown back into his past, Thomas will not only have to re-live his first love, but also try to understand the reasons for his father’s mysterious departure. Can you change the past by living it again?
Genres: Drama Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-05-20
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I Really Hate My Job
Overview: While anticipating the arrival of a famous Hollywood star, five employees at a mediocre restaurant in London's Soho must deal with rats, arguments and kitchen-based power struggles.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-21
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Robby and Toby's Fantastic Voyager
Overview: One day, robot Robby enters into a life of the most creative little boy, Toby. Robby had been separated from his robot parents when his spaceship crashed. Toby decides to offer his help and the two of them become friends.
Genres: Adventure Family Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-12-01
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Woman in Love
Overview: An actor's career takes a "Tootsie"-like turn when he lets himself be cast as a woman in a movie.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-12-15
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Trenck - Zwei Herzen gegen die Krone
Overview: Prussian general's son Friedrich, Freiherr (German baron) von der Trenck, is an unruly student whose countless affairs make him enemies, but he wins every duel. Frederic II the Great recruits him for his personal bodyguard. During his cadet training under the cruel stickler Graf (count) von Jaschinsky Friedrich falls in love with the king's headstrong oldest sister Amalia. She, however, refuses to be married off the the Swedish king's heir. When Prussia makes war on Austria over Silesia, Trenck's loyalty is dubious on account of an Austrian family branch. Janischky eagerly convinces the king there is more.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2003-02-09
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Coda: Thirty Years Later
Overview: A behind-the-scenes look at the trials and tribulations of filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola directing his first film in ten years, Youth Without Youth (2007).
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-09
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Rush
Overview: In the 1970s, a rivalry propels race car drivers Niki Lauda and James Hunt to fame and glory — until a horrible accident threatens to end it all.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-02
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Small World
Overview: Conrad Lang, a handyman in a rich family - he has been raised like a brother with Thomas, who has the same age -, accidentally puts fire to the big holiday house he keeps. He returns to the town he grew up in, to the family home, where Philippe, Thomas's son, and Simone are getting married. Conrad's frequent memory loss and behavioural problems rapidly reveal a neurological disease (Alzheimer's is suggested by doctor Cohen when he examens Elvira) which leads Elvira, Thomas's stepmother, to install Conrad in a guesthouse on the property, with the help of a nurse. When Conrad looses more and more his landmarks in present and past, memories of his youth come back to surface. They intrigue Simone, since these memories do not entirely fit together with the official family history...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-12-16
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Imagine
Overview: A blind teacher breaks the rules to help a female student rediscover the pleasures of life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-04-12
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Alfons Jitterbit – Class Trip Chaos!
Overview: After oversleeping yet again, Alfons manages to catch the bus to his class trip to the Baltic Sea at the last minute. In his luggage: lots of adventure, funny pranks and - wait a minute - his mother's clothes?
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2022-07-07
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La Syndicaliste
Overview: The true story of Maureen Kearney, the head union representative of a French multinational nuclear powerhouse. She became a whistleblower, denouncing top-secret deals that shook the French nuclear sector. Alone against the world, she fought government ministers and industry leaders, tooth and nail to bring the scandal to light and to defend more than 50,000 jobs.. Her life was turned upside down when she was violently assaulted in her own home... The investigation is carried out under pressure: the subject is sensitive. Suddenly, new elements create doubt in the minds of the investigators. At first a victim, Maureen becomes a suspect.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-03-01
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Lullaby Ride
Overview: Life could be wonderful for Livia and Marco: good-looking, young, and Tim's parents. Tim is nine months old. His screaming every night drives his parents around the bend, although he was supposed to cement their relationship. But instead of slumber and sex, it's the same every night: jump out of bed and into the wobbly old Golf whose engine sound is the only thing that calms Tim down. One night, the unbelievable happens…
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-08-23
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Love Thing
Overview: Red carpet, spotlights, screaming fans, photo- graphers chasing for the best photo, camera teams waiting for interviews - a premiere is about to take place and everyone’s eagerly awaiting to see Germany‘s biggest film star, Marvin Bosch. But Marvin’s nowhere to be seen after his interview with the bitchy tabloid journalist Bettina Bamberger ended in disaster. On the run from the media, the star lands in a small, independent feminist LGBT+ theater called “3000” of all places, which is on the verge of going out of business.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2022-07-07
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Offset
Overview: The plot focuses on the lives of the soon to be married Stefan, a German working in Romania for a wealthy and eccentric printing company owner, Nicu Iorga and his soon-to-be bride Brîndușa, who is Nicu's secretary.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 2006-07-20
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Cowgirl
Overview: Dreamy Paula and her husband Edgar, an insurance salesman, lead a dull, middle-class life in Struvensiel, a fictitious suburb of Hamburg. Paula runs into her childhood sweetheart Max at their 10-year class reunion. In order to save him from Hamburg's underworld, she turns - to her own surprise - from a plain country bumpkin into a tough lady.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2004-12-08
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Move On
Overview: Move On is a road movie like no other, because it is inspired by film fans from all over Europe! This breath-taking movie directed by Asger Leth features Mads Mikkelsen on a secret mission in 8 episodes, each taking place in a different European country.
Genres: Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-11-05
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Crazy
Overview: Benjamin, a 16-year-old with lousy grades, switches to a boarding school in order to eventually reach grammar school. Adjusting to his new environment is difficult as he has to struggle with being a teen... specially when he falls in love to the school's dream girl, Malen.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-06-08
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Leo & Claire
Overview: In 1933 Nuremberg, successful Jewish businessman Leo Katzenberger owns an apartment building and runs a shoe store. A devoted family man, he has a good relationship with his loving wife Claire. As the climate in Germany grows increasingly dangerous, bombshell Irene moves to the neighborhood. After forming an unlikely friendship, his relationship with Irene is immediately regarded with suspicion.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-04-18
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Girl's Trap – Death Comes Online
Overview: 17-year-old schoolgirl Silke Hartmann meets a nice young man online. In reality, however, her virtual counterpart, who calls himself Jan, is a serial killer who has chosen her as his next victim. The two police officers Magnus Sieber and Dagmar Matius are already on his trail.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1998-02-18
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Das Vorsprechen
Overview: German short film from 1998.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Schleudertrauma
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-07-12
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Miracle at St. Anna
Overview: Miracle at St. Anna chronicles the story of four American soldiers who are members of the all-black 92nd "Buffalo Soldier" Division stationed in Tuscany, Italy during World War II.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-15
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Die Bubi Scholz Story
Overview: Die Bubi-Scholz-Story (1998) traces the dramatic life of Gustav "Bubi" Scholz, who rose from post-war obscurity and a background in black market dealings to become a celebrated European boxing champion in the late 1940s. Charismatic and widely admired, he quickly became a national icon. But as the spotlight fades and his victories grow distant, Scholz’s personal life begins to unravel, leading him into a downward spiral of addiction and emotional turmoil.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1998-05-24
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Ich begehre dich
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1995-04-17
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Liebe und Verrat
Overview: Benno Deukert, a talented young boxer, gets to know Marie. The two fall in love and dream of a future together.
Genres: Crime Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-02-25
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Geostorm
Overview: After an unprecedented series of natural disasters threatened the planet, the world's leaders came together to create an intricate network of satellites to control the global climate and keep everyone safe. But now, something has gone wrong: the system built to protect Earth is attacking it, and it becomes a race against the clock to uncover the real threat before a worldwide geostorm wipes out everything and everyone along with it.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-12
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Südsee, eigene Insel
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1999-07-08
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Luftpiraten - 113 Passagiere in Todesangst
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Genres: Action
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-12-03
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The Most Beautiful Day
Overview: The overambitious pianist Andi and the more laid back Benno have one thing in common: They will both die soon. So the two of them decide to have the most awesome day before its too late.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-02-25
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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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Leise Krieger
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2004-02-12
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Only God Can Judge Me
Overview: Ricky spent years behind bars after taking the rap for his brother Rafael and his buddy Latif after a failed robbery. Now, Latif wants to express gratitude by letting Ricky in on a coup that will bring lots of money. After some hesitation, Ricky agrees, and gets his brother Rafael on board. Everything runs smoothly, until police officer Diana turns up on the scene. A nerve-wracking cat and mouse game is set in motion. Director Özgür Yildirim’s most recent film offers insight into Frankfurt’s gangster world. As before in CHIKO – which also starred Moritz Bleibtreu – he portrays the daily life of the criminal underground scene in a large German city.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2018-01-25
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Vertrauen ist alles
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Genres: Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-02-14
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99€ Films
Overview: Anyone can hold a mini-DV camera. Anyone can get 99 euros in credit. And everyone has already written a five-minute story in school. So everyone is actually prepared to make a 99euro-film. but "99euro-films" is more. It is the proof that German films can also be wild, new, modern, funny, political and entertaining. And all that in 80 minutes. 12 young German filmmakers come together, inspire exciting young actors and go: have an idea and simply film it. Just do it and be independent.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-09-08
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25 km/h
Overview: A road movie about two very different brothers who have not seen each other for 20 years: city manager Christian and cabinetmaker Georg, who never left their hometown and took care of their father until his passing. After their fathers funeral, the brothers decide on a whim, and with some help from the alcohol, to fulfil their old dream: travel trough Germany together on their mopeds.
Genres: Comedy Drama Adventure Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2018-10-31
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Happy New Year, Colin Burstead
Overview: Colin has rented a stately country home for his extended family’s New Year celebrations. He’s the centre of attention until his estranged brother David unexpectedly arrives, throwing the family dynamic far off orbit.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-10-11
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Suite Française
Overview: France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law as they both await news of her husband: a prisoner of war. Parisian refugees start to pour into their small town, soon followed by a regiment of German soldiers who take up residence in the villagers' own homes. Lucile initially tries to ignore Bruno von Falk, the handsome and refined German officer staying with them. But soon, a powerful love draws them together and leads them into the tragedy of war.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-12
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Sealed Lips
Overview: A German communist wrongly accused and sent to a labour camp has to keep her past life hidden for the sake of her and her family’s freedom.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2018-11-28
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Alfons Zitterbacke
Overview: Clumsy peculiar pupil Alfons Zitterbacke dreams of being an astronaut and wreaks havoc anywhere he goes but against all odds wants to proof everyone who is teasing him wrong especially his father who wants him to be more of a 'normal' kid.
Genres: Family Adventure Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2019-04-11
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The Collini Case
Overview: A young lawyer stumbles upon a vast conspiracy while investigating a brutal murder case.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2019-04-18
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The King's Man
Overview: As a collection of history's worst tyrants and criminal masterminds gather to plot a war to wipe out millions, one man must race against time to stop them.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-12-22
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Asphalt Burning
Overview: The third and final instalment in the Burnout trilogy. This time, the road leads through Norway, to Sweden, Denmark and finally Germany to race on the famous racing track, Nürburgring.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2020-10-14
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Daughters
Overview: Martha and Betty have known each other for twenty years and they have decided to breakthrough. But while Martha realizes that her father has only faked his death wish in order to see the great love of his life again on Lake Maggiore, Betty mourns her stepfather Ernesto, who supposedly died years ago.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2021-10-07
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Just Messing About
Overview: A painter learns that leaving the creative life behind is much more complicated than he expected.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-01-06
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The Perfect Secret
Overview: Seven friends - three women and four men - meet for dinner. Everyone should put their cell phone on the table. No matter what message comes in - anyone can read it and listen to the phone calls. However, this leads to a lot of chaos.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2019-10-31
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