Udo Samel
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Biography: Udo Samel (born 25 June 1953) is a German actor. He has appeared in more than 80 films and television shows since 1977. He starred in the 1994 film Back to Square One, which was entered into the 44th Berlin International Film Festival. Source: Article "Udo Samel" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Trier-Eitelsbach, Germany
Birthday: June 25, 1953
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Gender: Male
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Go for Zucker
Overview: Germany director Dani Levy filmed this comedy about Jewish life in today’s Germany along side the familiar east-west conflict. With it great success this film is a joyful comedy of humor and knowledge.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2004-12-31
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The Killer Condom
Overview: In New York City, detective Luigi Mackeroni investigates a string of mysterious penile mutilations at the Hotel Quickie. After Mackeroni attempts to have a tryst with a gigolo he meets in the lobby, a carniverous condom bites off his right testicle and flees, which sets the detective off on a quest to stop the predatory prophylactic once and for all.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1996-08-29
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The Film Narrator
Overview: Germany in the Thirties. A movie teller realizes that his profession is not longer needed. Silent movies are not produced any longer. Telling stories is the only thing the man was ever good in, so he does not know what to do now. As political circumstances are changing dramatically these days in Germany, he gets new hope that things will again be going better for him...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1993-11-25
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The Piano Teacher
Overview: Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-09-05
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Kaspar Hauser
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1993-09-11
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Knife in the Head
Overview: One night when seeking his estranged wife, Hoffmann goes to the youth center where she works. The police are there rounding up radicals who frequent the center - Hoffmann runs into the building and ends up being shot in the head. He awakens with brain trauma, partially paralyzed and unable to speak. The police accuse him of stabbing an officer; the radicals herald him as an innocent victim of police brutality. During his slow recovery at the hospital, Hoffmann must piece together his life and struggle to remember the events of that night.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-11-17
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Kottan ermittelt: Rien ne va plus
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Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-10-03
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Domain
Overview: Nadia is in her late 30s and begins a serious relationship with a teen named Pierre.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-09-10
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Bubis - Das letzte Gespräch
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2017-01-22
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The Call of the Toad
Overview: A Polish woman and a German man fall in love against the odds and decide to set up a cemetery for exiles. But can their daring venture survive the call of the toad? Adapted from Gunter Grass’ novel.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2005-09-22
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Rückfälle
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-12-13
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Variation
Overview: The emotional story of an adulterous relationship between a journalist and a teacher.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-09-21
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Angst hat eine kalte Hand
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Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1996-04-03
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Deutschlandspiel
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-09-29
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The Case of Mr. Spalt
Overview: The filmmaker René Perraudin made five comedic short films with Otto Sander in the leading role and knits them into a feature film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1988-03-25
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Friends Forever
Overview: Set in the midst of World War II and interspersed with beautiful choir music, the horrors of the war unfold when the Germans realized one of the boys in the choir is a Jew and they must find him immediately.
Genres: Drama Music War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-05-08
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Daniel Käfer - Die Villen der Frau Hürsch
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2005-05-31
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Daniel Käfer - Die Schattenuhr
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2006-05-31
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Boundaries of Time - Caspar David Friedrich
Overview: A study of German 19th Century Romantic art through the writings and paintings of Carl David Friedrich and his fellow artist, Carl Gustav Carus.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1986-10-22
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The Death of the White Stallion
Overview: This somewhat superficial historical drama is about the 1525 Peasants' War in Germany when the lower classes rebelled against oppressive conditions imposed by the clergy and nobility and then committed many acts (including atrocities) that did not morally set them far apart from the people they were fighting. It was a time of upheaval: Martin Luther (1483-1556) had broken away from the Catholic Church, calling for reform, and Anabaptists in Germany, like Thomas Munzer fought on the side of the peasants (opposed by Luther). This complex age and its political and religious turmoil are summed up in a story about an attack on a small monastery whose monks used a forged document to confiscate some land from the peasants. When their wrong-doing is revealed by the monk who forged the document in the first place, the peasants attack.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1985-10-02
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Winckelmanns Reisen
Overview: Before Ernst Winckelmann, a sales representative for hair products, calls on hairdressing salons and chemist's shops, he rehearses what he intends to say, shakes the dandruff from his hair and slips into an innocuous pair of shoes. None of this helps. Winkelmann is no sales talent and his product is a failure. Meanwhile, in a small corner pub in the Barmbek district of Hamburg, Winkelmann's young girlfriend Aline uses some firm but gentle persuasion to make the last customer leave. Not much doing tonight. During the day, Rüdiger the barman, pulls most of the beers for the landlord, Aline's father, who survives on memories of good times at Miami Beach...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1990-11-29
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Serviam – I Will Serve
Overview: An all-girl Catholic boarding school near Vienna for the wealthy Austrian elite and their children. The school is thriving, but faith is declining and the upper floors are deserted. The head of the institution, a young energetic nun, fights with ardor against this decline. Martha, 12, one of the nun’s favorite pupils, is a devoted girl who wishes to expiate the sins of the world. Encouraged by the nun, she is given a penance belt and taken to the abandoned upper floor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2022-08-09
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The Last U-Boat
Overview: Near the end of WWII a lone U-Boat is sent from Germany to Japan carrying plutonium needed for a Japanese A-Bomb. During the long journey, news arrives on the radio that Hitler killed himself and Germany has surrendered. This causes a rift in the crew, the Nazi Party members wanting to continue to Japan since they are still at war, while the others just want to surrender or return home.
Genres: TV Movie Drama War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1993-01-02
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Carlos
Overview: The story of Venezuelan revolutionary, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization and raided the OPEC headquarters in 1975 before being caught by the French police.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-07-07
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Der Showmaster
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Die Nachrichten
Overview: Jan Landers made it: Grown up in East Berlin, he quickly made his career after the turnaround: from the weatherman of a local station to the newsreader in Hamburg.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2005-10-03
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Auf Teufel komm raus
Overview: Leo Strobl, called "Turbo-Leo", is the fastest photographer around. When a tragedy takes place, he is the first one on his way to cover it. Then a young photographer shows up and a deadly race between the two commences.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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My Best Enemy
Overview: Poland 1943: An unlikely pair - a concentration camp prisoner and a captain in Hitler's notorious SS - free themselves from the wreckage of a crashed SS airplane. The two appear to be strangely familiar with each other and the extent of their extraordinary relationship is thrillingly revealed.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-02-16
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Silentium
Overview: A man who accused a catholic bishop of abusing him when he was a child dies in the Austrian city Salzburg. Everyone except his widow and the eccentrical detective Simon Brenner keeps silent and believes that the man killed himself.
Genres: Thriller Crime Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2004-09-24
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The Volcano
Overview: A singer flees from Nazi Germany, travels to Paris and befriends a young writer, his lover and a professor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1999-10-21
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Palermo Shooting
Overview: After the wild lifestyle of a famous young German photographer almost gets him killed, he goes to Palermo, Sicily to take a break. Can the beautiful city and a beautiful local woman calm him down?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-11-20
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Die Braut
Overview: The relationship between Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the great German writer, and Christiane Vulpius, a village girl, is one of the instantaneous and fiery passion. They lived together for 28 years, 18 of these living in sin, 10 a married couple. Christiane's rival, Charlotte von Stein, a former favorite of Goethe, begins plotting and scheming against her. Christiane puts up with countless insults and humiliations like having to 'disappear' with their son into the servants' quarters and to stay at home on official occasions. Goethe marries her when she saves his life during an attack by plundering Napoleonic soldiers. Her new social position as Goethe's wife is resented and envied by all. When she is openly attacked by the snooty, jealous people, Goethe is only half-hearted in coming to her defence. But she stays with him for he is her great love, even when she turns to the charms of many youthful admirers...
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1999-05-27
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Treibjagd
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2003-06-06
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Das Zeugenhaus
Overview: Witnesses about to testify at the Nuremberg War Trials needed a safe place to wait. All under one roof, each with their own secrets. And the countess assigned to take care of them. What was her secret?
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-11-24
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Alles Schwindel
Overview: The catastrophe is perfect: Gustav Klimt's world-famous "kiss" was stolen from the museum. What is a problem for some is a salvation for others. For the impoverished Count Leopold, the loss of the picture is an advantage, because now he can earn the sum insured for the family-owned work of art. For the fashion designer Isabella, theft is definitely a problem too much. Not only is her father Albert, who was supposed to guard the picture on the night of the crime, now with a heart attack in the hospital, he admits to her that the stolen Klimt made a self-made ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2013-02-27
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A Night at the Grand Hotel
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Genres: TV Movie Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-10-29
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Die Elefantenbraut
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Ich bin unschuldig - Ärztin im Zwielicht
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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In the Name of Innocence
Overview: The mother of a murdered hitchhiker meets the offender.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1997-10-11
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Die Drei von der Müllabfuhr - Arbeit am Limit
Overview: Water pipe burst and bomb alarm - Berlin in a state of emergency: Dorn and Gerald don't know where their heads are. The routes for the garbage collectors have to be reworked due to numerous road closures, chaos rages.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2023-10-27
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Der einsame Weg
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Blumen für Polt
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-09-27
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Letzte Ausfahrt Gera: Acht Stunden mit Beate Zschäpe
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Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-01-26
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Back to Square One
Overview: Movie-making cliches are parodied in this German comedy which features to warring actresses, meddling producers, indulgent directors, and an ignored writer. Not only must they contend with each other, they must also deal with the bankers who have the power to shut them down at any moment. The story begins at the premier of director Viktor Rote's newest film "The Tin Cat," which stars his popular wife Riki Rote. The film's writer and Viktor's brother Richard is miffed when he is not allowed into the screening. Viktor's ambitious mistress and aspiring star the Nina is also not invited in. The film is a hit so Rote is allowed to begin his new film by producer George Kuballa. George is also head of the studio. His rich and frequently rejected wife is Lore, a major financial studio backer who prefers spending her time consorting with her handsome young chauffeur.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1994-05-26
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Class Enemy
Overview: Berlin-Kreuzberg in the early 1980s. The film is essentially a one-set piece, taking place in a beat-up, graffiti-decorated schoolroom where six teen-age delinquents argue and fight as they await the latest in what has been a series of terrified teachers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-03-11
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71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance
Overview: 71 scenes revolving around multiple Viennese residents who are by chance involved with a senseless gun slaughter on Christmas Eve.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1995-03-10
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Der Auftrag
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2004-05-12
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Das Haus der toten Augen
Overview: Is a home for the blind hiding a murderer's nest? Shortly before his myste-rious death, millionaire Stuart changed his will and disinherited the local home for the blind. Inspector Higgins suspects that something is not right there.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-04-27
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The End of the Rainbow
Overview: Uwe Friessner’s first feature, At the End of the Rainbow, follows the exploits of a West Berlin teenager named Jimmi who ekes out a living through petty theft and part-time hustling, hangs out in punk clubs, and who, for reasons which this film subtly details, is thoroughly unemployable. Drawing on his own experience in trying to help a young runaway who eventually committed suicide, Friessner wrote into Jimmi’s story several older students who attempt to find work for him, and who give him shelter for a time in their commune.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-09-20
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Der Hauptmann von Köpenick
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Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1997-09-26
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Inspector Dupin: Brittany's Tide
Overview: Myths of the sunken city of Ys leads to the murder of a young couple.
Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2017-03-09
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Inspector Dupin: Brittany's Pride
Overview: An eccentric former actress finds a body which disappears into thin air.
Genres: TV Movie Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2017-03-02
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Angst
Overview: Randolph Tiefenthaler and his wife Rebecca have bought a beautiful 1920s house and move in with their children. The only condition for the sale was that the former owner's brother would be allowed to continue living in the basement.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2017-12-01
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Goodbye Berlin
Overview: Maik, a fourteen-year-old teenager, sets out on a road trip during summertime with Tschick, a new classmate, in a stolen car. The two share life changing experiences during the eventful journey.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-09-15
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Strauss II: Die Fledermaus
Overview: Glyndebourne's pulsating new production of the Waltz King's much-loved comic operetta. Its story centers on a magnificent masked ball, given by a Russian prince, that brings together all the main characters in various disguises. The three-act journey from boudoir to ballroom to jail provides ample opportunities for farce and humor, but also for genuine human emotion and a surprisingly realistic view of urban life.
Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2003-07-23
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Hundert Jahre Brecht
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1998-02-26
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Liebe Lügen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Der Mord mit der Schere
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1984-07-25
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The Awakening of Motti Wolkenbruch
Overview: The young Orthodox Jew, Motti Wolkenbruch, finds himself at a turning point. His beloved mother wants him to get married and presents one marriage candidate after the other. Unfortunately none of the woman pleases him, because they all look just like her. The situation gets even more complicated, when Motti secretly falls in love with the non-Jewish girl Laura, a so-called Shiksa.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2018-07-05
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Faraway, So Close!
Overview: Damiel is now married to Marion, runs the pizzeria “Da Angelo” and the two have a child. The solitarily remaining angel Cassiel is more and more dissatisfied with his destiny as a mere observer of human life and finally decides to take the great leap. As Karl Engel he soon gets into a dubious milieu and finds himself as the assistant of the German American Baker, who makes his money with shady arms deals and sends films east in exchange for weapons. Cassiel’s adventure turns into a “thriller” when he decides to put a stop to Baker’s game.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1993-09-01
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Liebe, Tod und Heringshäppchen
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-08-26
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Die Kinder aus Nr. 67
Overview: The "Our Gang" type adventures of German working class kids from a Berlin apartment building (number 67) during the early 1930s. With Nazism's rise, however, their tight-knit group unravels. One leader, Paul, becomes a Nazi.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-04-11
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Schuld und Sühne
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1992-09-02
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Life Guidance
Overview: The film is set in the near future, in a world of perfect capitalism. Society is sustained by a class of top achievers; meanwhile, so-called minimum recipients live under sedation in Fortresses of Sleep. The great majority of top achievers view themselves as happy. An outsourced agency has been established for the rest: Life Guidance is charged with turning these individuals into optimal people as well. Alexander has internalized the system but one wrong word to his child triggers Life Guidance. He starts to rebel and encounters the horror of the system in all its brightness and affability.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2018-01-12
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Vorwärts
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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The Seventh Continent
Overview: Chronicles three years of a middle class family seemingly caught up in their daily routines, only troubled by minor incidents. Behind their apparent calm and repetitive existence however, they are actually planning something sinister.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-10-20
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Der Mond scheint auf Kylenamoe
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Der Mitwisser
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Woyzeck
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Allmen and the Mystery of the Dahlias
Overview: Ironically, the art detective Johann Friedrich von Allmen is staying in a high-end Zurich hotel when a million-dollar dahlia painting disappears from the private suite of the owner. What would be more obvious to the eccentric Dahlia Gutbauer than to entrust "Allmen International Inquiries" with the discreet replacement?
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2019-07-13
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Rival
Overview: Young Roman and his mother Oksana leave Ukraine and go to Germany, where she works illegally while they both live with Gert, an old widower who tries to befriend Roman, who struggles for his mother's attention and sees Gert as a rival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2021-09-24
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The Story of My Wife
Overview: A sea captain makes a bet in a cafe with a friend that he will marry the first woman who walks in.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2021-08-12
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Lyrische Suite. Das untergehende Vaterland
Overview: First part of Hölderlin-trilogy with Udo Samel, Otto Sander and Jean-Marie Straub.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1992-07-13
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How I Taught Myself to Be a Child
Overview: Paul Silberstein, youngest son of an urbane but deeply strange old Austrian dynasty of confectionery millionaires, discovers the power of love and humor - and also his own extraordinary ability to shape his realities. Based on the motives of the short story with the same name by André Heller.
Genres: Adventure Family Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2019-03-01
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