Geno Lechner
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Biography: Geno Lechner was born in 1965 in Germany. She is an actress, known for Gesches Gift (1997), La lista de Schindler (1993) and Amada inmortal (1994)
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Marburg, Hesse, Germany
Adult: No
Birthday: June 11, 1965
Age: 59 years old
Gender: Female
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Man's Best Friend
Overview: This is a light comedy about Amir, a young Pakistani who has been working for Jo for six years. Jo has a ready-to-wear clothes shop in the Sentier area and his business is prospering. He promised Amir that he would help him get his legal papers, but he has never kept his promise. Now he is sending Amir to his colleague Ralph in exchange for an unpaid debt from a card game. He thinks that this is a good opportunity to get rid of the illegal worker. Ralph is a fifty-year-old baby who keeps forgetting his appointments, his bank balance, and everything else that he should remember to run his life smoothly. His business is a complete disaster. A year later, Ralph's business has picked up, but Joe's is going down the drain. Thanks to whom? It is easy to answer this question if one follows Amir during his daily chores in the shop. But neither Jo nor Ralph's bother to take the time off to notice the hard work of this poor employee.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-04-28
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Phantomanie
Overview: Larry is a misfit stranded in Berlin, the pilgrim capital of the lost and haunted. Whatever he does goes wrong. Yet he still can't help acting like a smartass in order to make him feel self-important about his desolate life. But Larry's life is on downward spiral… Pressurised by his girlfriend Lilly, who drives him crazy with her obsession about having a baby, threatened by Kokser, a man to whom he owns money, and trying to dodge an ominous preacher called Klaus, who takes the words of Bible as literal truth, Larry seeks help from Bruno, a homeless drifter, crossing the border between dreams and reality...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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Love
Overview: In New York, an absurd coincidence links the lives of a Yugoslavian hitman, his ex-wife and her new partner, a policeman whose father was a criminal. His code name is "Uncle Vanya". He grew up in Bosnia, an orphan of both parents and, having never met them, he does not know whether he is a Serb, a Croat or a Muslim. A victim of his fate and his past in war-torn Bosnia, he has become a hitman. He would like to stop killing but he can't.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-04-21
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Kill Me
Overview: A teenage girl helps an escaped fugitive flee Germany into France, after extracting a promise that he will help her commit suicide.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-04-25
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Circles
Overview: Circles (Serbian: Krugovi) is a Serbian movie based on the true story of a Serbian soldier who risked his life to protect a Muslim civilian during the war in Bosnia. During the war in Bosnia in 1993, a Serbian soldier pays for his life after protecting a Muslim civilian from being attacked by three other soldiers. 12 years later, the consequences of this act of heroism are still having their repercussions.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2013-02-24
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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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Trent 2 Rent
Overview: Trent splits up with his girlfriend Helen. With nowhere to go he moves in with his friend Joey. It does not take long however before Trent figures out how Joey is managing to make a living - this is especially important to Trent as he is not only loveless and homeless but jobless as well. Growing more and more disillusioned at being broke Trent is forced to make a choice, and so he is drawn into the mysterious world of the male sex trade.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-04-05
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The Party: Nature Morte
Overview: The eponymous party is hosted by Queenie and Burrs, long-term lovers who are rapidly growing apart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1991-09-06
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Love at First Sight
Overview: After the German reunification: A widowed, unemployed archaeologist with two children and a single futurologist with a little daughter in Berlin fall in love at first sight and persistently and unwaveringly develop a life together. An equally unspectacular and rigorous examination of love as a crucial basis for private and political action.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1991-05-28
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Going Under
Overview: Peter, a married psychotherapist, and Suzanne, a professional dominatrix, have been engaged in an affair of sensual dominance and submission in an S&M dungeon where they must abide by the rules. Now, those rules are about to be broken when they agree to see each other on the outside. As Peter becomes increasingly obsessed with the troubled Suzanne, they embark on a sordid psychosexual journey into their tortured pasts through their most carnal desires.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-21
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Orchestra of Exiles
Overview: The suspenseful chronicle of how the prodigious Polish violinist Bronislaw Huberman helped save Europe’s premiere Jewish musicians from obliteration by the Nazis during World War II. In three years, he transformed from a world renowned violinist to a humanitarian racing against time.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-26
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Die Heilerin
Overview: For a long time, Halfried Seelig forced herself not to make use of her special gift for healing. When she does help a sick man one day, the news spreads quickly. Meanwhile, there is a crisis in the marriage of Halfried's daughter Marion. On her wedding day, Marion leaves her husband, fetches her daughter Laura from boarding school and moves with her to her parents in Tyrol. There she wants to take over her father's surgery after his retirement and finally work as a doctor again. At first she is not accepted by the population, Laura also does not find her way in the new environment, Marion in turn resolutely rejects her mother's methods. It also worries Marion that her daughter appears to have inherited Halfried's abilities......
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2004-11-10
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Die Heilerin 2
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-12-17
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Deux femmes à Paris
Overview: In Paris in 1935, a young Jewish woman married to an anti-fascist activist befriends her neighbor who is dating a far-right supporter.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-11-27
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Too Tired to Die
Overview: Kenji is a Japanese twenty-something who is followed by Death in various disguises. When he finally faces her, Death tells him that he has only 12 hours to live and he needs to make the most of it.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-20
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Frida
Overview: An encounter between a young nurse and her patient of the same age, Frida, on the border of professional distance and the desire for closeness.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2021-07-06
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Adrenalin
Overview: Stephan Renner from the SEK shoots the terrorist Harloff during an operation. He had previously killed his wife Barbara with his partner Tatjana. For this, Renner is sentenced to several years in prison and also loses custody of his daughter. When he is released, he is threatened by anonymous calls.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1996-11-29
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Zwei Weihnachtshunde
Overview: A year ago, Katrin and Max got to know and love each other with the support of the phlegmatic bass dog Kurt. Should they now match their friends and marry? At first it doesn't look promising: Katrin is fighting for a job in London and Max is constantly gone, he seems to meet other women. The help of a second Christmas dog is needed to steer fate in the right direction.
Genres: Family Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2005-12-19
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Gesche's Poison
Overview: Gesche's Poison is a psychological portrait loosely based on the true story of Gesche Gottfried who became notorious in 19th century Bremen for killing fifteen people with arsenic. Known by her neighbors and friends as a merciful Christian, loving mother and devoted wife, she poisoned within fifteen years her parents, her brother, two husbands, three children and numerous friends. When caught, she never denied her deeds, but could not give any reason.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Flirt
Overview: The same situation is played out in different cities (New York, Berlin and Tokyo). A lover has to choose whether to commit to a partner who is returning home. In each case there are other people involved, an ex-partner and someone else in a "permanent" relationship, what do they choose to do?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-14
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Papa und Mama
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2006-01-02
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Charlotte
Overview: A woman travels by train. She is trapped between her memories of a love affair she had ended and her search for freedom. Her destiny depends on the imagination of a scrip writer who is writing a story for a film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2004-02-09
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Queen of the Night
Overview: Inge and Ludwig are full-time farmers in the Black Forest, with dairy cows and a dairy. Everything organic, all the highest quality. Despite the hard work, it is a fulfilling life. Would not it be the financial situation. As much as the two work, the debts devour them, the farm is endangered. Inge decides to look for a part-time job. When the opportunity arises to start with an escort service, she gets involved. And the plan works. But the relationship is put to the test when one of Inge's clients falls in love with her and the situation escalates.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-06-15
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It's Not About Love
Overview: Raoul Peck directed this French-German-Haitian drama set in Manhattan where medical examiner Chase Dellal (Geno Lechner) isn't happy with the diminishing aspects of her life: Not only does she face political pressures to soft-pedal her testimony, her marriage to a judge (Bob Meyer) is collapsing. Suddenly, new options appear after deposed Haitian politician Dimitri (Jean-Michel Martial) re-enters her life. Playwright Israel Horowitz has a role in this film as morgue cop Timothy.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-09-19
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Avetik
Overview: Hovering between the realms of poetry and history, this stunningly photographed, elegiac work – shot mostly in long takes – mixes cryptic metaphor and fantastic symbolism to tell the story of Avetik, an Armenian filmmaker exiled in Berlin. In sensuous, lyric styling, Askarian employs dreamlike images to reflect the history of his homeland, tranquil childhood memories, images inspired by erotic medieval poetry, and autobiographical shades of his own exile in Germany.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hy
Release Date: 1992-04-04
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Schindler's List
Overview: The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-15
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En Garde
Overview: Alice is 16 years old and an introverted girl with a special ability: she hears extraordinarily well. When her mother sends her to a Catholic foster home, she remains an outsider in a group of self-confident teenage girls. Only Berivan, a Kurdish refugee who seeks for asylum in Germany, tries to learn more about Alice. They finally become close friends, but Berivan's relationship to an Albanian guy destroys the girls' friendship
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2004-12-04
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Molly's Way
Overview: Though she only knows his first name and that he ‘works in coal’, Molly, a young Irish woman, travels to a small Polish town to find the man with whom she had a memorable one-night stand several months before. Armed with nothing more than a postcard and her own tenacity, she sets about finding her past lover, despite her landlord’s admonishments that all the coal mines closed years ago.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2005-11-20
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Vergessensfuge
Overview: Vergessensfuge is a meditation on the psychology of obedience and submission, in this instance springing from a handful of photographs taken in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp immediately after its liberation in 1945. The images are of young women, aged 20 - 30, who were guards at the camp - to say, compliant, obedient Germans doing as they were told to do.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2004-06-05
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Au petit Marguery
Overview: Hippolyte, the chef at the small Paris restaurant of the title, is losing his sense of smell - and without that, you can’t cook. Not in France. The restaurant has to close. Guests and customers of the ailing master chef gather for one last fabulous meal. Between courses, personal conflicts are explored and flashbacks flesh out incidents from the lives of the restaurant owners.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-11-08
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Immortal Beloved
Overview: A chronicle of the life of infamous classical composer Ludwig van Beethoven and his painful struggle with hearing loss. Following Beethoven's death in 1827, his assistant, Schindler, searches for an elusive woman referred to in the composer's love letters as "immortal beloved." As Schindler solves the mystery, a series of flashbacks reveal Beethoven's transformation from passionate young man to troubled musical genius.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-16
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