Anke Engelke
Also Known As: Анке Энгельке
Biography: Anke Engelke, born in Montreal/Canada in 1965, grew up trilingual. As a child, she gained early dubbing experience and hosted TV and radio shows. Engelke was part of the weekly show ensemble, her series Ladykracher is considered the most successful German sketch format with eight seasons. Since 2000, Anke Engelke has appeared regularly in feature films, soon in leading roles in Mein Sohn, Der Onkel and Mutter. Currently, Anke Engelke can be seen in the leading role in the Netflix series Das letzte Wort and on Amazon Prime Video in the first season of the acclaimed comedy format LOL - Last One Laughing. As a voice actress, she lends her voice to various characters: Marge on The Simpsons, Dory in Finding Nemo and in Finding Dory, Captain Ericka in Hotel Transylvania 3 and Silver in Angry Birds 2. In the pre-school television series Die Sendung mit dem Elefanten, Anke Engelke has been the inhabitant of Anke's World since its launch in 2007. Together with Kristian Thees, Anke Engelke can be heard on the SWR3 podcast Wie war der Tag, Liebling: Every Tuesday and Thursday, SWR3 presenter Kristian Thees calls his best friend Anke Engelke and the two tell each other their little stories of the day. Anke Engelke is on the road with various reading programmes: currently with KOMISCH - Iris Berben meets Anke Engelke and Letters of Note - Anke Engelke, Devid Striesow & Jörg Thadeusz, among others. Between 2003 and 2019, she presented the opening and the Bear Awards Gala of the Berlinale 13 times as host. In 2011, she co-hosted the German preliminary round of the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) with Stefan Raab and Judith Rakers. From 2012 - 2017, Anke Engelke taught television dramaturgy and creative television production at the KHM in Cologne as a substitute professor. Alongside Dirk von Lowtzow, Prof. Diedrich Diederichsen and Prof. Dr. Christoph Jacke, Anke Engelke is a member of the advisory board of the Pop Institute of the Folkwang University of the Arts. Anke Engelke has been an ambassador for the medical aid organisation action medeor since 2003.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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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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Vollidiot
Overview: Based on Tommy Jaud's bestselling novel, this comedy focuses on a dispassionate clerk and his set-backs in life. 29-year-old Simon works in a phone shop, but his thoughts just circle around finding a new girl-friend after being left by his last one year ago. While his Croatian cleaner tries to procure him, his efforts to chat up women in clubs also fail. However, he finds the woman of his dreams (and mother of their future children) in his most hated coffee shop, although not having a clue how to win her heart...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2007-04-11
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Germanikus
Overview: The work-shy, lazy Germanicus is taken to Rome by slave traders and sold straight to the nouveau riche Roman Tusnelda. He manages to escape, but only to end up in the next misery as a taster at the imperial court. When the emperor dies, he is arrested as an emperor's assassin and is to be thrown to the tigers in the arena.With the help of the black slave Saba, he manages to win the deadly fight and is proclaimed - against his will - the new emperor of the Roman Empire.His pragmatic ideas as a statesman explain why the Roman Empire ended so abruptly. At the side of Saba, who is elevated to empress, he returns to his home village of Sumpfing, where he now promises himself completely new perspectives ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2004-03-26
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Freche Mädchen
Overview: Teenage best friends Mila, Hanna and Kati play matchmaker to their teachers while helping each other through their own budding romances.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-07-17
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Bahnhof für Bio - Alfred Biolek wird 70
Overview: To celebrate the 70th birthday of Alfred Biolek this documentary enters the stage of "Bios Bahnhof" again.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2004-07-10
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The Trixxer
Overview: A mysterious serial killer is shocking the underworld. Scotland Yard is investigating the case. Clues lead the detectives to Blackwhite Castle.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2004-05-20
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Impy's Island
Overview: On a magical tropical island, a fun-loving group of misfit animals and people discover a baby dinosaur frozen since prehistoric times. When a king from a faraway country vows to capture the loveable baby dino for his private collection, all the inhabitants must join together to save their new friend.
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2006-08-02
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The Little Polar Bear 2: The Mysterious Island
Overview: New adventures from Lars, the cheeky little polar bear who loves nothing more than to explore the big wide world. This time Lars and his friend Robby start out for a rescue mission for their friend Caruso leading them all the way to the Galapagos Islands.
Genres: Family Animation Adventure Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2005-09-29
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The Trip to Panama
Overview: The two friends Little Tiger and Little Bear live happily together in a little house by the lake. But when they find a strange wooden crate from Panama, they both fantasise about a beautiful place where everything is bigger, better and more beautiful.
Genres: Adventure Family Animation
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2006-09-20
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Locked in Society
Overview: On a Friday afternoon, there was an unexpected knock on the door of the staff room of a city high school. An ambitious father is willing to go to extremes to get his son admitted to high school. The six teachers who are still at school so shortly before the start of the weekend now have to find out the hard way. After some unexpected twists and embarrassing revelations, true abysses open up for everyone involved...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2022-04-14
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Fröhliche Weihnachten
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2007-12-19
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Freche Mädchen 2
Overview: After Kati, Hanna and Mila first experiences with guys, it is now necessary to cultivate those relations. The jealous Mila thinks that her friend Markus, would cheat on her with Vanessa. Kati, who is actually together with Tobi, finds that Robert, whom she met during a shooting, more than just cool. Only with Hanna everything seems to work perfectly. Branko is a real gentleman and does everything for her musical career - but not entirely unselfishly, as soon turns out. Problems therefore pre-programmed with the girlfriends and their new conquests!
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-08-03
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Lippels Traum
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Genres: Science Fiction Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-10-07
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Impy's Wonderland
Overview: A winged baby dinosaur inhabits an island in the middle of the ocean with a group of loveable animal friends. Everything changes when a dimwitted dinosaur hunter turns up and lures the creature back to captivity with rather sinister plans for his discovery.
Genres: Animation Adventure Family Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-05-01
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The Hawk
Overview: The long-lost bon vivant Mike Bittini learns that his brother has fallen into a coma. He returns to his family, sneaks in like a hawk in the chicken coop and mixes things up properly. The uncle comes to help, brings chaos and finds love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2022-05-06
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Best of Harald Schmidt - Respektlos und Rezeptfrei
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-05-29
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Frank Elstner - Noch eine Frage
Overview: On his 80th birthday, show legend Frank Elstner ventures into unfamiliar territory. It is not he who is asking the questions this time, but: Anke Engelke, Jan Böhmermann, Barbara Schöneberger, Michelle Hunziker, Thomas Gottschalk, Günther Jauch and Jean-Claude Juncker.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2022-04-15
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Sowas wie Glück. Eine Reise mit Anke Engelke
Overview: She puts on a white coat. Her name tag reads: Anke Engelke, intern. On the children's cancer ward she wants to find out what happiness means. Maybe it's more revealing to go where you don't suspect happiness. Anke Engelke has reservations about how she should face the children. Normal? Can she ask children who are struggling with death about happiness? Is she allowed to make jokes?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2013-11-18
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Pastewkas Weihnachtsgeschichte
Overview: It is Christmas eve but Bastian has not bought a Christmas tree yet. Furthermore he has to prepare a Christmas gala with Anke Engelke and he soon gets in trouble trying to do everything at the last second.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2013-12-20
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Fröhliche Weihnachten 2
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-12-12
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Mother
Overview: Bewildering, amusing, insightful: Anke Engelke acts out eight authentic interviews, assembling them into a gigantic mosaic about motherhood.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2022-09-29
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Fast perfekt. Anke Engelke und die Selbstoptimierer
Overview: What does it mean for our society if we measure ourselves ever more perfectly - and also make our data accessible to third parties? Anke Engelke talks to futurologist Harald Welzer about the consequences of self-optimisation and efficiency thinking. She meets people with Down's syndrome and their parents who have to live with the effects of the drive for perfection and the struggle to achieve.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-01-11
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Shock
Overview: Bruno has lost his medical license and is now practicing illegally, no questions asked. His interest is aroused when a lawyer offers to have him treat a leukemia-stricken mafioso. This not only gets him caught between rival gangs, but also puts his old life further and further out of reach.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2023-10-20
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The Pasta Detectives
Overview: The child-duo Rico and Oskar, one of them is quite more sluggish, but precisely because of fantasy and own world view; the other one is a smart whiz, but scared for life.
Genres: Family Adventure Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-07-10
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Die Helene Fischer Show 2011
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Genres: Family Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-12-25
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Unsere Väter – Die größten Showmaster Deutschlands
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Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2020-12-25
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Fröhlicher Frühling
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-05-13
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Der zweite Kurzschluss
Overview: Bettina and Martin meet again, one year later on New Year's Eve. This time, they are trapped in the backroom of Moosbach's sports hall since Martin risks being beat up once he comes out.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2023-12-30
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Danke, Anke! Weihnachten 1998
Overview: Together with many star guests, Anke Engelke celebrates Christmas and, as we are used to from her, spreads good cheer everywhere!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-22
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Danke, Anke! Weihnachten 2001
Overview: This time Anke has invited her guests into the cosy atmosphere of her home. But don't worry: Anke Engelke's home is of course not really cosy and quiet!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-12-23
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Danke, Anke! Weihnachten 2000
Overview: Two hours of pre-Christmas glamour and cult comedy - that's what was in store again in 2000 when comedy star Anke Engelke led us through her big Christmas gala.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-12-23
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Danke, Anke! Weihnachten 1999
Overview: After last year's bombastic success, Anke again invited comedians and other star guests to celebrate the festival of love with her in 1999!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1999-12-23
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Danke, Anke! Weihnachten 2002
Overview: It had become a nice tradition - shortly before Christmas Anke Engelke gathers the most popular comedians and musicians around her to enjoy a contemplative and hilarious Christmas party with them just in time for the festival of love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-12-23
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Danke, Anke! Weihnachten 2003
Overview: The Sat.1 Christmas show with Anke Engelke in her "best role" will also take place in 2003: as a charming, witty and entertaining hostess.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2003-12-23
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LiebesLuder
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-11-02
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Frau Müller muss weg!
Overview: Because of their children's bad grades, some parents want the teacher Mrs. Müller gone. They meet with Mrs. Müller and try to convince her to leave the class.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-01-15
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The A-Z of Eurovision
Overview: Rylan Clark-Neal narrates a guide to all things Eurovision and takes a sideways look at the greatest singing contest on the planet. The A-Z of Eurovision features all the disasters, the costume changes and memorable musical moments from 65 years of Eurovision.
Genres: Documentary Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-05-16
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Kurzschluss
Overview: Bettina and Martin get stuck in a bank during New Year's Eve and attempt to get help.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2022-12-30
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Ghosthunters: On Icy Trails
Overview: They couldn't be more different, the members of the trio that allies in the fight against an Ancient Ice Ghost (AIG): Tom, an easily scared boy, Hetty, a professional ghosthunter and the loveable, but pretty slimy Hugo - a ghost. Will the team manage to save their town from the next ice age?
Genres: Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-04-02
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Pinocchio
Overview: The world's most loved fairy tale is back in a whole new fantastic imagining in Pinocchio. When a piece of pine-wood falls into the hands of the poor old toy maker, Geppetto, he carves it into a puppet which he names Pinocchio. To Geppetto's delight, Pinocchio comes to life - and like most little boys, he's full of reckless whims and wild ideas! His crazy escapades lead him into a series of madcap adventures from joining the circus to visiting the inside of whale! Along his journey, and throughout all the fun, Pinocchio learns to be considerate and courageous and learns what it takes to become a real boy.
Genres: Animation Drama Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2013-12-24
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Mind Your Body
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Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: de
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Überlast
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-09-25
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Just Get Married!
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2003-10-22
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Einmal Hallig und zurück
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Genres: TV Movie Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-10-08
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Herman the German
Overview: After an accident Herman learns that the suffers from a very rare illness which causes him that the emotion "fear" falls out whereby he is forced to try out all phobias to become normal again.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-01-20
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Doctor Proctor: Bubble in the Bathtub
Overview: The lovesick Doctor Proctor has traveled back in time in a desperate attempt to alter history. He wants to stop the wedding between his beloved Juliette and the terrible Claude Cliché, but is trapped in time. Lise and Bulle have to help him back.
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2015-10-16
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Lena, Stefan & Co. - Peter Urbans 25 legendäre ESC-Jahre
Overview: Peter Urban has commentated Eurovision for German audiences for 25 years and as he is stepping down he takes a look back at his memories and the evolution of the contest during that time.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2024-05-05
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Happy Burnout
Overview: An unemployed with diagnosed burn-out is getting a therapy in a clinic.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2017-04-11
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Wellness für Paare
Overview: A wellness hotel in a small German castle specializes in well-off couples, offering a wide range of services, including one some partners feel trapped into : relational therapy. It's truth time, for some liberating, forcing others to face their secrets of dysfunctional relationship.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-11-23
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Operation Dance Sensation
Overview: After escaping from the terror of Vietnam, Jackson works as a headhunter. His old enemies from Vietnam open up a disco near the American-Iraqi border. They try to sell dangerous weapons to the Iragi government. Jackson is the only one who can stop them. Besides, he must care about his daughter, age 5. On the birthday party of his daughter, the situation escalates... and there is still a dance competition to be hold.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Nur ein Tag
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Genres: Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2017-06-29
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Brett vor’m Kopp
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-06-20
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Tödliche Geheimnisse – Jagd in Kapstadt
Overview: Where is Paul Holthaus? The investigative journalist Rommy Kirchhoff, together with his son Max, is looking for the disappeared lobbyist Paul Holthaus, who has negotiated several times in Cape Town on behalf of Lilian Norgren for their agricultural corporation Norgreen Life. Norgren makes it clear to Rommy that the search for the whistleblower is unwanted and puts her and the boy in danger.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2017-08-26
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Deadly Leaks
Overview: Journalist Rommy Kirchhoff wants to interview a whistle-blower. Paul Holthaus, lobbyist on behalf of the agricultural company Norgreen Life Inc., is ready to report on the background negotiations on TTIP. But as soon as the explosive interview begins, Rommy is overwhelmed. When she regains consciousness, there is no trace of the informant. Rommy realizes she has entered a story of unprecedented proportions.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-11-05
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Südstadt
Overview: One house, three apartments and three friendly couples, who have to put their relationships and life concepts to the test. After 20 years of marriage, Anne and Martin are close to separation. Eva and Thomas are freshly in love and want to do everything right. The relationship between Saskia and Kai gets into a crisis when she returns to work and takes care of the daughter.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2017-10-03
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The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
Overview: 17-year-old Cyril is funny, smart and an all-round good guy. Just his somewhat overlarge nose spoils the picture. On a school trip to Berlin with Roxy, a stunning new classmate, Cyril is not the only one taken with her. Benno, the class Casanova has his eye on the girl too and makes a nasty wager. Roxy is more interested in the introverted Rick, who is not only shy but also slow. Cyril hastens with his spoken word skills to Rick's aid, and falls head over heels in love with Roxy himself. So whose brave heart will win the fair lady?
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2018-09-06
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Rate Your Date
Overview: Teresa und Patricia are best friends. Despite the big differences between date-experienced Teresa and romantically predisposed single-mother Patricia, they have one thing in common: they have enough of bad dates and are sick of stupid dudes, bad surprises and broken hearts. When Teresa meets the neurotic programmer Anton, who is completely inexperienced in the field of romance, they come up with a genius business idea: together with the womanizer and start-up founder Paul, they develop an app with which potential dates can be categorized. In this manner, users can paint a picture of what they're getting themselves into. However, quite quickly they find out that people can't be easily fit into boxes and that matters of the heart shouldn't be left to an algorithm...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2019-03-07
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The Little Polar Bear
Overview: This charming animated adventure follows a young polar bear, Lars, as he befriends Robbie, a seal. Together, these two form a friendship that proves different breeds of animals can get along perfectly well.
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-10-04
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Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder
Overview: By helping Doctor Proctor getting recognition for his amazing invention in a world quite different from ours, two lonely children gets help to stand on their own two feet.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2014-03-14
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Tödliche Geheimnisse - Das Versprechen
Overview: On a Berlin construction site, the former editor-in-chief Karin and her journalist Rommy happens to witness a fatal accident. From Taras, the accident victim's brother, they learn that this is not an isolated coincidence: The Eastern European workers who toil on the construction site for cheap wages have to do their day's work under the most precarious conditions and beyond give a large part of their wages to shady "intermediaries".
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2020-02-22
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My Son
Overview: Love and loss are closely linked in MY SON, an emotional drama about a teenager and his mother who go on a journey together after nearly having lost one another.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2021-11-18
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Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal
Overview: To mark the 60th birthday of the multi-talented comedian, singer and author Hape Kerkeling, the two documentary filmmakers André Schäfer and Eric Friedler have created a quiet, thoughtful and entertaining portrait of this often anarchic humorist. The film tells of his rapid rise as a teenager, his time and the blows of fate during the AIDS epidemic, the controversial forced outing, his confident exit from the show business and his new beginning. The film is a sensitive insight into the family history and a fast-paced journey through the career stages of a formative figure in German TV entertainment.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2024-12-06
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Iris Berben - Ein persönliches Porträt
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2024-11-17
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Kurzschluss hoch drei
Overview: This New Year's Eve, Bettina meets Martin in Berlin and yet again, they get into a difficult situation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2024-12-30
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Rita und Hans
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
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