Heike Makatsch
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Makatsch was born in Düsseldorf, Germany, the daughter of former German national ice hockey team goaltender Rainer Makatsch. She spent several months in New Mexico in 1988 in an effort to improve her English, and later studied politics and sociology at the University of Düsseldorf for four semesters, which was followed by an apprenticeship as a dressmaker until 1994. Her television career started in 1993, when she was hired by music channel VIVA, hosting shows such as Interaktiv and Heikes Hausbesuche; two years later, on August 13 1995, she became the host of the German chart show BRAVO TV, aired by RTL II, a position she kept until summer 1996. In 1997 she started hosting her own weekly, late night show titled Heike Makatsch Show. However, due to bad ratings, it was cancelled after only eight episodes. Makatsch first appeared in a movie in 1996, when she starred in Detlev Buck's Männerpension (English: "Jailbirds"); she received the Bavarian Film Award as most talented young actor for her performance. Since then, she has appeared in several German and English language productions.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Düsseldorf, Germany
Birthday: August 13, 1971
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Gender: Female
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Love Actually
Overview: Eight London couples try to deal with their relationships in different ways. Their tryst with love makes them discover how complicated relationships can be.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-07
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Keine Lieder über Liebe
Overview: As Tobias, a young director, supposes that his girl-friend Ellen had an affair with his brother Markus, front man of "Hansen", one year ago, he decides to shoot a documentary about the band's next tour. When Ellen joins the project, everybody's emotions boil over, although they are observed all the time.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2005-10-26
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Resident Evil
Overview: When a virus leaks from a top-secret facility, turning all resident researchers into ravenous zombies and their lab animals into mutated hounds from hell, the government sends in an elite military task force to contain the outbreak.
Genres: Horror Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-03-15
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Aimée & Jaguar
Overview: In 1943, while the Allies are bombing Berlin and the Gestapo is purging the capital of Jews, a dangerous love affair blossoms between two women – one a Jewish member of the underground, the other an exemplar of Nazi motherhood.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1999-02-11
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Anatomy 2
Overview: The doctor and soccer player in the leisure time Jo Hauser decides to move to Berlin and be an intern in a famous clinic, expecting to increase his knowledge and expertize, and help his handicap brother Willi Hauser. He joins a secret fraternity of doctors, under the leadership of Prof. Muller-LaRousse, who is researching the use of bionic muscles in human beings without any ethics or respect to the laws. The team is also volunteer to the experiences, and is under investigation of Paula Henning. When Jo gets close to a Filipino nurse, and becomes addicted in the drugs used in experience, he realizes the truth hidden in the methods used by the secret society in the development of science.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2003-11-23
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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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Gripsholm
Overview: Kurt and Lydia are planning a relaxed vacation at the Gripsholm castle in Sweden . What Lydia does not know is that for Kurt, a well-known publicist, the journey is actually a flight from encroaching fascism and a direct threat from the Nazis.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-11-16
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Kroos
Overview: Documentary about German football player Toni Kroos. Features a review of his recent career including his time at FC Bayern Munich and Real Madrid as well as his participation at FIFA Wold Cups 2014 and 2018.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2019-07-04
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A Sound of Thunder
Overview: When a hunter sent back to the prehistoric era runs off the path he must not leave, he causes a chain reaction that alters history in disastrous ways.
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-05-15
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A Goddamn Job
Overview: After 1000 years of being God, Jonathan finally wants to get rid of the arduous job and not only has to answer to the tough goddess of the universe for his term in office, but also has to find a successor: the chaotic comic artist Niklas is supposed to be the lucky one. He just ran into pizza delivery driver Tess - and there was a spark between the two.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-04-19
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Tara Road
Overview: A grieving Connecticut mother temporarily switches houses with a woman in Dublin, Ireland.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-05-11
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Schwesterherz
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 2007-09-06
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Hilde
Overview: A biography of Hildegard Knef, one of Germany's biggest post-war stars.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-03-11
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Hui Buh: The Castle Ghost
Overview: After 500 years, castle ghost Hui Buh finally has some royal residents to haunt, but he soon loses his license to scare and must get recertified.
Genres: Animation Fantasy Adventure Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2006-07-20
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Das Wunder von Lengede
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2003-11-09
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Love Your Female Neighbor!
Overview: Two young and attractive social workers/nuns bring fresh air into a city missionary station, but are also challenged by lust and money, offered by a millionaire.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1998-12-24
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Zero
Overview: Berlin in the near future: A secret meeting takes place between a board member of the dominant internet company "Freemee" and members of the government. Camera drones film it unauthorized and document the events live on the Internet. The anonymous net activist group "Zero" is publicly committed to the media attack. Online journalist Cynthia Bonsant, widow and single mother, has been asked to do background research on "Zero" by the head of the online magazine "Daily". The group is classified as a terrorist organization, but according to their own statements they fight the excessive influence on the population through the so-called "Act App", which contoles the lives of users. When a friend of Cynthia's 17-year-old daughter Viola is shot dead in a hunt for a criminal, "Zero" contacts her and tries to recruit her for their own purposes. In the meantime, Cynthia has bad suspicions during her research, because soon a new version of the app will be released that will change everything.
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2021-10-23
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Margarete Steiff
Overview: Based on the life of German toymaker Margarete Steiff, the movie shows her long way from a 10-year-old girl, confined to a wheelchair, to one of the first and most successful creators of toy stuffed animals.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2005-12-23
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Männerpension
Overview: Ein Förderprogramm bringt die beiden Kanckis Gerd und Steinbock in die Obhut von Frauen. Dort sollen sie beweisen, dass sie in der Lage sind sich in die Gesellschaft zu integrieren. Nun bringt Gerd dummerweise einen Barbesitzer um. Damit hat der Ausflug in die Freiheit vorlaeufig ein Ende.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1996-01-31
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Nachts im Park
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Genres: Comedy Thriller Action
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-03-14
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Akiko, the Flying Monkey
Overview: The monkey child Akiko lives in the zoo, but his family sends him on a big mission: he is supposed to go out into the world and get his relatives out of the forest. Together they want to free the animals from the zoo
Genres: Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2024-08-15
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Late Night Shopping
Overview: Four friends Sean, Vincent, Lenny and Jody find themselves at something of a deadend. Trapped in a twilight world of permanent night shift work, they hang out together in the local cafe, drinking coffee and entertaining themselves by observing Vincent's unwavering success in pulling women. There seems to be little prospect of change...until Vincent accidently sleeps with Sean's girlfriend.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-22
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The Door
Overview: A successful artist loses control of his life after his young daughter's death. A chance for a new start appears, but all is not what it seems.
Genres: Fantasy Thriller Science Fiction Mystery
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-11-26
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Das Gelbe vom Ei
Overview: Dort, wo unsere Geschichte spielt, wissen nur die Hühner, was Stress bedeutet. Ansonsten geht es auf dem Lande ruhig zu, und so ist es kein Wunder, dass die jährliche “Hengst-Auktion” den Höhepunkt des kulturellen Lebens bildet – eine Veranstaltung, bei der die meistbietenden Damen ein Rendezvous mit den ansehnlichsten Jungbauern ersteigern können.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1999-01-25
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Dr. Hope
Overview: Historical Bio-Pic, based on the life of Hope Bridges Adams-Lehmann, being the first female physician and member of womens-lib movement in Germany at the end of 19th century.
Genres: History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-07-03
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Tails You Win, Heads You Lose
Overview: Two beautiful young women kill men in a villa in Tuscany: Maya and Cora have been friends since childhood. Maya has an alcoholic artist father who deserted the family, a mentally disturbed mother and a violent brother, Carlo. Cora is from a wealthy middle-class family. Cora helps Maya to poison Carlo's friend Detlef, who is threatening to blackmail her. They then kill Carlo when he tries to rape Cora. Cora's family takes Maya in, and a happy time begins for her, particularly when they spend the summer in Italy.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1999-07-29
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Obsession
Overview: Two men become entangled in a torrid love affair with the same woman. Pierre is Miriam's longtime lover. John is desperately searching for clues about his past when he and Miriam have a fateful encounter in a Berlin train station. The allure of forbidden love becomes irresistible, and an intense love triangle is ignited. Who will Miriam choose? Who will walk away? For two men who desperately adore the same woman and for the woman who loves them equally...there is no easy way out.
Genres: Drama Thriller Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-08-28
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Schade um das schöne Geld
Overview: In einem kleinen Dorf an der Küste, wo sich Robbe und Hering Gute Nacht sagen, geht alles seinen friesischen Gang: Der Himmel hängt tief, die Träume hoch, und das Leben schippert irgendwo dazwischen. Bis die örtliche Tippgemeinschaft den 50 Millionen-Jackpot im Lotto knackt. Genug Geld für alle, sollte man meinen. Doch weit gefehlt! Es beginnt das große Hauen und Stechen um die Beute: zwischen der alleinerziehenden und trickreichen Schichtarbeiterin Mirabel, dem Fischfabrikanten Klaas Jonkers, dem Bademeister und der Surflegende Menno, Mennos Freundin Gloria, dem Busfahrer Bruno, Mirabels Brüdern Jimmy und Piet, dem Bürgermeister Zotebier und dem Lottoladen-Chef Arie Tammen. Raffiniert weiß die kluge Mirabel ihre Gewinnteilhaber zu überlisten und sich ihr Stück vom Glück zu sichern. Doch auch ihre Brüder verschaffen sich, ebenso planlos wie effektiv, ihren Platz an der Sonne – in einem friesisch-herben Showdown.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-06-06
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Tom Sawyer
Overview: Tom Sawyer has a head full of pranks and drives when he invents is not just a new adventure, preferably around with his best buddy Huck Finn - much to the chagrin of his Aunt Polly with Tom and his half-brother Sid in the town of St. Petersburg on the Mississippi river.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-11-17
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Homecoming
Overview: August Staudenmeyer returns after thirty years absence as a wealthy man in his hometown Gerbersau. First, the successful businessman is received with open arms. But when he stands up for the outlawed widow Katharina Entriss, he gets sidelined. August realizes that the narrow-mindedness of the Gerbersauer has by no means changed. Richer for an experience and a love, he leaves home a second time.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-05-02
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Sechzehneichen
Overview: A young couple moves to a gated community (named Sechzehneichen), where soon the creative wife (a photographer) gets bored and the husband joins a secret mens' club. All the other wives seem strangely conservative and shallow. Basically a thinly veiled take on the Stepford Wives, just without any bit of humor or atmosphere, but instead filled with the sterile, unflinching and dry seriousness that makes watching a lot of our German films such a drag and a miserable experience.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-11-28
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The Book Thief
Overview: While subjected to the horrors of WWII Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. Under the stairs in her home, a Jewish refugee is being sheltered by her adoptive parents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-08
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Back on Track
Overview: A former Olympic champion wants to compete in the Berlin Marathon one last time.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2013-10-10
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Longitude
Overview: Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea; 20th century Gould is obsessed with restoring it.
Genres: TV Movie Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-02
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The Adventures of Huck Finn
Overview: Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi River. Accompanying him is Jim, a slave running away from being sold. Together the two strike a bond of friendship that takes them through harrowing events and thrilling adventures.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-12-20
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Männer und andere Katastrophen
Overview: The somewhat awkward student Judith is pursued by bankruptcies, bad luck and mishaps. The failed baby sitting with her sister Rebecca ends with a ruined apartment and the destroyed paintings of her father. In addition, she also loses her job and her friend Holger. In this chaos, she does not notice that the charming neighbor Leo is madly in love with her. But Leo proves to be a true guardian angel and brings a desperate Judith a fairytale surprise. - Heike Makatsch and Dominic Raacke play the leading roles in this enchanting and sensitive love comedy about a modern Cinderella.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1999-04-30
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About a Girl
Overview: Charleen is 15, melodramatic, mega depressed, and Kurt Cobain’s biggest fan. Her best friend Isa is getting really boring, her dad is out of the picture, and her mom has hooked up with her biology teacher. Even though she has an apprenticeship preparing bodies for funerals, which is pretty cool, her musical idols are all dead. It’s about time Charleen was, too.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-08-06
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Wir machen durch bis morgen früh
Overview: Ali misses the lavish party nights in Hamburg's Kiez: Ms. Melanie, Baby Bobby and the family's tile company have been his everyday life since he became a father. How can he make it clear to the young mother that there is still life next to the baby? Melanie can be persuaded to a wellness weekend with the friends, but only if Ali takes his father's role seriously.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-10-27
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Everything is Love
Overview: Follows the lives of different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic few days before Christmas in Frankfurt, Germany.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-12-04
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Almost Heaven - Ein Cowgirl auf Jamaika
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2005-08-25
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Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution
Overview: Based on a true story, Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution is the tale of a family from Bingley in Yorkshire, who defect to East Germany. Here they find a nightmare of rationing, censorship and the most spied upon people in history rather than the Marxist utopia they were expecting. But if they thought getting in was difficult wait until they try to get out.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-28
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Twice New Life
Overview: A husband has to cope with his wife being comatose after an accident.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-04-17
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Familie auf Bestellung
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Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2004-09-21
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The Announcement
Overview: A film about friendship and familiarity masking major secrets. When protagonists Beth and Ross gather all of their best friends together for an unruly drink and drug-fuelled party, the event is like many such evenings. That is, until Beth and Ross make an announcement. They tell those assembled that they have secretly married. The impact is not as simple as they had expected. We then track the events of the evening as the news affects each person in turn. Instead of the absolute approval Ross and Beth had hoped for, the news throws a harsh spotlight on everyone's relationship and notions of marriage. The film explores the confused attitudes of a generation whose model of love and romance is complex and demanding. The evening degenerates into a rash of revelations and discoveries about all of the friends, but most dramatically it unravels Ross and Beth's relationship in a way neither of them could have foreseen. This is no fairytale
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-15
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The Pasta Detectives 3
Overview: The friends and amateur detectives Rico and Oskar experiencing their last adventure together. Here everything is really only one well, because now they live next door to. Ricos mother Tanya and Buhl are together, Oskar is with his father Lars pulled to Rico into the house. But dies as the grumpy Fitzke, the trouble begins. The stone Breeder inherited Rico his beloved stone-collection over which the boy also very pleased - but then he and his buddy note that Rico's favorite stone calf stone was stolen. The task now is to make the thieves apprehended. And because there are on the way to the Baltic Sea, Rico and Oskar must as soon as possible afterwards. Glad Tanja is flown by Buhl in the "snogging holiday" ...
Genres: Family Comedy Crime Action
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-04-28
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Bibi Blocksberg
Overview: Bibi, the young witch from Neustadt, is excited: the big international witches' convention is taking place on the Blocksberg and she and her friends Schubia and Flauipaui are allowed to be there as volunteers. But just as the future of the young witches is at stake, events take a turn for the worst and complete chaos ensues! The old witches of Neustadt suddenly start behaving like unpredictable teenagers and the young witches have their hands full not only trying to bring order to the chaos they have caused...
Genres: Fantasy Family Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2025-12-25
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Benjamin the Elephant
Overview: Benjamin and his best friend Otto have to deal with the shrewd Zora Zack and to reach deep into their bag of tricks to save the Newtown Zoo.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2019-08-01
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Strange Daughter
Overview: Seventeen-year-old Lena meets 19-year-old Farid, a young Muslim. She has a clear-cut attitude towards his culture and religion: utter rejection. Despite their differences – or perhaps because of them – they fall in love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2017-06-28
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Teenosaurus Rex
Overview: She was sweet, she was cute. But just before her 14th birthday, Daddy’s little princess mutates into a petulant pubescent nightmare. Journalist Hannes Wenger decides to take a time-out from work to guide his daughter Carla through this difficult phase in her life and, above all, to keep her away from alcohol, boys and other temptations. This is easier said than done, however, and when his wife Sara goes back to work, Hannes proves himself entirely inept at raising a teenager. Whether it’s Carla’s birthday party, her mobile phone contract or her first time, Hannes makes one awkward blunder after another. The fact that other teens have embarrassing fathers provides only faint consolation; Hannes’ best friend is a war reporter named Holger who prefers to be shot at in war zones rather than stay at home and be driven crazy by his own teenage nightmare.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2017-07-06
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Speechless
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-10-22
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Am I Beautiful?
Overview: Between Munich and Seville, the destinies of sixteen characters intertwine and intersect, missing each other or colliding head-on. They are all, without knowing it, at a pivotal moment in their lives...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1998-09-17
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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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I've Never Been to New York
Overview: In the life of TV presenter Lisa, everything revolves around her talk show, celebrities and the ratings. There is just as little room for love as there is for her mother Maria. When the 66-year-old loses her memory after a fall in her apartment and wakes up in the hospital, she can only remember that she has never been to New York and sets off immediately. Lisa goes in search of Maria with her makeup artist Fred. She struck gold on a cruise ship that was just leaving for New York. As stowaways, the three have no choice but to earn the passage. While Fred is hired as an assistant by the Greek on-board magician Costa, Lisa and Maria have to work in room service. The crossing soon takes surprising turns for mother and daughter: Maria falls in love with the charming dancer Otto, who supposedly knows her from before, and Lisa takes a liking to the widowed statistician Axel Staudach, who is traveling with his son Florian.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2019-10-17
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Zielfahnder: Blutiger Tango
Overview: LKA-Zielfahnderin Hanna Landauer and her new colleague Röwer travel to Montevideo to provide the couple Tezlaff. It once kidnapped an industrialist and extorted 10 million ransom. The money has since disappeared.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2019-10-26
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9 Days Awake
Overview: “9 Days Awake”, the film adaptation of the eponymous novel by Eric Stehfest. Jannik Schümann plays Eric, a junkie who lives to party. He is addicted to the one drug that makes him feel invincible- "like Jesus and the terminator at the same time." When he is accepted to an acting school in Berlin, he tries to reconnect with his great love Anja (Peri Baumeister), change his life, and strive to be better. But numerous conflicts and issues follow him, leaving him to retreat back to his old ways as other situations escalate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2020-03-15
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God, You’re Such a Prick
Overview: 16-year old Steffi just graduated from high school and is very much looking forward to her class trip to Paris where she has promised her boyfriend Fabian the romantic night that she has kept him waiting for so long. Her lifelong plan to join the police forces is already set up, her adult life is right around the corner. At a routine health check-up, just before the trip to Paris, Steffi and her parents are faced with a shattering diagnosis ...
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2020-10-01
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Slava der Hund
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Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2024-02-25
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