Christian Berkel
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Biography: Christian Berkel (born October 28, 1957) is a German actor. Berkel was born in Berlin, Germany. His father was a military doctor. From the age of 14 he lived in Paris where he took drama lessons with Jean-Louis Barrault and Pierre Berlin. He then trained at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin and appeared on stage in Augsburg, Düsseldorf, Munich, Vienna and at the Schiller Theatre, Berlin. He has appeared in many German television productions and secured a major role in the Academy Award-nominated film Downfall as Doctor Ernst-Günther Schenck. He has followed this with significant roles in the Paul Verhoeven directed Dutch movie Black Book and the big budget United States movies Flightplan, Valkyrie (in which he portrayed Colonel Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim) and the Academy Award-nominated Inglourious Basterds. He lives in Berlin with the actress Andrea Sawatzki, with whom he has two sons. He is also fluent in French and English. Description above from the Wikipedia article Christian Berkel, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Berlin, West Germany [now Germany]
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Birthday: October 28, 1957
Age: 67 years old
Gender: Male
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The Experiment
Overview: 20 volunteers agree to take part in a seemingly well-paid experiment advertised by the university. It is supposed to be about aggressive behavior in an artificial prison situation. A journalist senses a story behind the ad and smuggles himself in among the test subjects. They are randomly divided into prisoners and guards. What seems like a game at the beginning soon turns into bloody seriousness.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-03-08
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Downfall
Overview: In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still achieve victory and orders his generals and advisers to fight to the last man. When the end finally does come, and Hitler lies dead by his own hand, what is left of his military must find a way to end the killing that is the Battle of Berlin, and lay down their arms in surrender.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2004-09-16
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Valkyrie
Overview: Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events unfold so that he becomes a central player, he finds himself tasked with both leading the coup and personally killing the Führer.
Genres: Drama Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-25
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Leningrad
Overview: When in 1941 Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, their troops quickly besieged Leningrad. Foreign journalists are evacuated but one of them, Kate Davies, is presumed dead and misses the plane. Alone in the city she is helped by Nina Tsvetnova a young and idealist police officer and together they will fight for their own survival and the survival of the people in the besieged Leningrad.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Soundless
Overview: Viktor, a methodical hit man, probably on his last job, has no plan for his retirement. He does not kill Nina, a woman sleeping beside his latest mark; then he follows her and rescues her from an attempted suicide. Nina is attracted to him, but also wants to know who he is. Her pursuit of his identity crosses the investigation of Lang, a brilliant police investigator who tries to inhabit the minds of the victims and the killer. Viktor's employer also wants to kill Viktor and his contact, an aging arms dealer and family friend. Does Viktor have a future?
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2004-04-22
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Guys & Balls
Overview: Ecki is a sweet, closeted gay man who works in his family’s bakery and plays goalie in his small town’s soccer team. When he both loses the big game, and is caught flirting with another player, his homophobic teammates throw him out. He vows to return one day with an all-gay team that will grind the heteros into the dust, so he sets off to find his “dream team.” With the help of his nurse sister, Ecki scours local gay bars and eventually assembles a hilariously motley but endearing crew of misfits that includes a leather-daddy threesome, a femme Turk with Beckham fantasies, a secret straight guy in love with the sister, and a seriously cute nurse eager for some private play-time with the goalie. Ecki now has two problems – turning this bunch into a team, and facing his own fears regarding his first romance.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2004-10-07
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Mogadischu
Overview: The incredible true story of Lufthansa Flight 181, which was hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in October of 1977, and the noble efforts of stewardess Gabriele Dillmann (Nadja Uhl) to ensure the safety of the terrified passengers throughout the harrowing ordeal. When terrorists sympathetic to the cause of the German Red Army Faction seize control of the flight, German chancellor Helmut Schmidt refuses to negotiate. Meanwhile, terrorist leader "Captain Martyr Mahmud" grows increasingly agitated, and the Yemeni government refuses to let the plane land on their soil. After Captain Schumann (Thomas Kretschmann) makes an emergency landing in the sand, he is brutally executed in front of the passengers by "Captain Martyr Mahmud" (Said Taghmaoui), who then forces the co-pilot to fly the plane to Somolia. Once there, counter terrorism measures quickly get underway as the passengers brace themselves for the worst.
Genres: Thriller History TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-11-30
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Flame & Citron
Overview: Gunman Flame and his partner Citron assassinate Nazi collaborators for the Danish resistance. Assigned targets by their Allies-connected leader, Aksel Winther, they relish the opportunity to begin targeting the Nazis themselves. When they begin to doubt the validity of their assignments, their morally complicated task becomes even more labyrinthine.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2008-03-25
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Hitlers letzte Tage - Der Film "Der Untergang"
Overview: Documentary about the 2004 movie 'Der Untergang' aka. 'Downfall'
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2005-09-16
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Unser Verein: "Eisern Union!"
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 2022-10-25
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Inglourious Basterds
Overview: In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.
Genres: Drama Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-08-02
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The Serpent's Egg
Overview: Berlin, 1923. Following the suicide of his brother, American circus acrobat Abel Rosenberg attempts to survive while facing unemployment, depression, alcoholism and the social decay of Germany during the Weimar Republic.
Genres: Mystery Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-10-28
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Safe Conduct
Overview: During the Nazi occupation of France as two filmmakers attempt to navigate their careers without compromising their ideals. Facing pressure from the Vichy government, assistant director Jean Devaivre uses his position at the German-controlled studio Continental Films as a cover for his resistance activities, while screenwriter Jean Aurenche uses his wits to keep from being involved in the creation of any collaborationist propaganda.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-01-09
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Trügerische Sicherheit
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Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2022-04-04
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The Last Employee
Overview: The lawyer David (Christian Berkel) has taken a job after a long period of unemployment, he can not agree with his conscience. He will liquidate a company and dismissed all employees. Despite his qualms, he does it - for his wife Irina (Jule Ronstedt) and his son Simon. But David's objections seem to be justified: threatened a young woman (Bibiane Beglau), which was denounced by him, and followed him. When he angrily to her home goes to admonish her, he finds her dead body. But that's the nightmare does not end. From then on, David is convinced haunted by her spirit to be.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-10-27
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Black Box
Overview: The exits of a Berlin courtyard are blocked by the police due to an ambiguous event outside and a state of emergency occurs. Among the residents of the building, insecurities start to pump fear. Suspicion takes over panic, prejudices bring polarization and another question appears: Is the real danger coming from inside or outside?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2023-08-10
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A Retribution
Overview: In the late 1960s, when the young Jewish businessman’s son Victor Dessauer fails to secure just punishment for the Nazi concentration camp commandant who tortured his parents, he resolves to take the law into his own hands.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2022-07-30
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Your Best Years
Overview: Vera Kemp, heiress of an industrial enterprise, lives in an apparently perfect world. While she doesn't care for big business, her husband Manfred runs the company. However, she learns about his affair with a younger woman and tries to save her marriage. During a vacation in Italy, Manfred and their son Max die in a road accident. Vera nearly despairs of her grief and, even worse, recognizes that her whole life has been a lie. Andreas Wolgast, a former employee, is the only one who supports her fight for the company and against her caballing family...
Genres: TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1999-09-03
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Simones Entscheidung
Overview: A drama directed by Ulrich Stark
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-03-03
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Sweet Little Sixteen
Overview: 16-year-old Sophie Reiner is living a happy life, but then her friend Karen is murdered after a visit to a disco. Sophie's perfect world is shattered. She falls in love with the charming detective Mike Kleist and begins a secret affair with him. When another of Sophie's classmates is murdered, the situation comes to a head. Finally, Sophie's father becomes the target of the investigation. But the murderer has already chosen his next victims: It's Sophie and her mother...
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1999-03-26
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Querschuss
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2024-08-24
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Hexenküsse
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Feuer in der Nacht
Overview: A live broadcast TV-thriller by Kai Wessel.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2004-10-26
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Buddy
Overview: Inexperienced guardian angel, Buddy (Michael Herbig) arrives to assist Eddie (Alexander Fehling) with getting his life back on track, but instead only causes more chaos.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2013-12-25
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Rossini
Overview: Zigeuner is on the hunt for the woman of his dreams, a woman who should also play the main role in the film. Meanwhile, ruthless producer Oskar Reiter wants to buy the film rights at all costs - and he is struggling for the love of the beautiful Valerie.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1997-01-23
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Elly Beinhorn: Solo Flight
Overview: The story of Elly Beinhorn, the first German aviator ever to fly around the world which made her a national hero in the 1930s.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-03-30
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Black Book
Overview: In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance.
Genres: Drama Thriller War
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2006-09-14
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Eine Jugendliebe
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Genres: Romance TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-09-26
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Drei Frauen und (k)ein Mann
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Der Vater meiner Schwester
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2005-08-23
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Der Unbestechliche
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-09-24
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Tod auf Amrum
Overview: Inspector Rolf Spiekermann is committed and successful, but has many enemies in Hamburg's underworld and little time for his family. That's why his wife Elke and the children are looking forward to vacationing together in Amrum. Arriving on the idyllic island, Rolf falls victim to a treacherous attack. With the help of the young hitchhiker Olaf, he gets off lightly. Rolf feels at the mercy of an invisible opponent. Because the local police only investigates half-heartedly, he tries to find the perpetrators himself. But inspector Spiekermann has found that all his professional skills cannot help him.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1998-12-28
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Der Mädchenkrieg
Overview: The three daughters of the Dessau merchant Sellmann move with their father to Prague in 1936, where he accepted a position as director of the Böhmische Landesbank. For the three different women begins a new life, which accompanies the film over a period of ten years.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-06-06
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Das Schicksal der Lilian H.
Overview: A wealthy businesswoman who tried to disinherit her unfaithful husband is murdered. The man's lover is convicted on the basis of circumstantial evidence in a negligent business case. But the now in love lawyer sets out to convict the real culprits ...
Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1993-09-23
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Der andere Junge
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2007-08-25
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Lautlose Schritte
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1996-11-18
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Frau Jenny Treibel
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-12-14
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Blondine sucht Millionär fürs Leben
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-05-10
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Erste Liebe
Overview: 16-year-old Oliver falls in love with young Sina, who is also his father's secret lover
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1999-11-22
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Helen, Fred und Ted
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2006-09-13
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Miracle at St. Anna
Overview: Miracle at St. Anna chronicles the story of four American soldiers who are members of the all-black 92nd "Buffalo Soldier" Division stationed in Tuscany, Italy during World War II.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-15
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Das dunkle Nest
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-11-28
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Eine Frage des Gewissens
Overview: When interrogating a suspected child kidnapper, a police officer uses illicit interrogation techniques, gaining information that leads to the sick girl's rescue
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2006-03-29
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Single sucht Nachwuchs
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1998-03-18
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Entführen für Anfänger
Overview: The accountant Adam can hardly believe it: Shortly before his 40th anniversary at the Moser family beauty business, his boss Rob sends him off to retirement early. The job will soon be taken over by AI! To get back at the beauty guru, Adam kidnaps his wife and famous brand face Evelyn. Unfortunately, it doesn't occur to Rob to pay a ransom for her. On the contrary: the vain star surgeon wants to rejuvenate his relationship with 29-year-old beauty model Lene anyway and is even grateful to the kidnapper! When Evelyn makes it clear to Adam that without her help he will neither get the money he craves nor get out of the affair in one piece, the two of them join forces. They come up with a brazen plan to empty Rob's offshore accounts.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2024-09-28
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Vickys Alptraum
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1998-01-07
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Halt mich fest!
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Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-03-31
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Once Upon a Time in Algeria
Overview: The childhood of the movie director Antoine Lisner, who left Algeria in 1962. In order to present his new movie, he comes back to Algiers with his son.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-11-15
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Mutter, ich will nicht sterben!
Overview: Shortly before her wedding, Ella learns that she has leukemia. A bone marrow transplant from a blood relative is the only way to save her life. But her mother confesses to her that she was adopted as a baby. Ella sets off in search of her biological mother and begs her: “Mother, I don't want to die!
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Ich, der Boss
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Ein Herz für Laura
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Haber
Overview: At the brink of World War I, Fritz Shimon Haber was Germany's greatest chemist. Haber's Nobel prize-winning synthetic fertilizers saved world's population from mass starvation. But as World War I broke out killing millions of German soldiers, the desperate German forces asks Shimon Haber to provide the army with new kind of weapon. Haber has already sacrificed his and his family's Jewish identity in order to become a respectable German citizen. With his decision to invent such a weapon, Haber was the first scientist in human history to unleash a weapon of mass destruction. Later he paid the ultimate price for his ambition as his wife Clara committed suicide and his invention was used for murdering millions of Jewish people during World War II.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-05
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New Year's Eve
Overview: A short film made by Sirk at the end of his life with one of his students. An adaptation of Schnitzler, with Hanna Schygulla: a night of New Year’s Eve, when the family meal is finished, Hanna is in a window while a young man entertains her and talks of the one he loves but can’t join at that time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-12-31
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Elle
Overview: When Michèle, the CEO of a gaming software company, is attacked in her home by an unknown assailant, she refuses to let it alter her precisely ordered life. She manages crises involving family, all the while becoming engaged in a game of cat and mouse with her stalker.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-05-25
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The Devil Kissed from Behind
Overview: The astonishing life-story of “Lili Marleen“ composer Norbert Schultze.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Totenengel - Van Leeuwens zweiter Fall
Overview: Teacher Gerrit Suicker's body is found murdered in Amsterdam's Red Light District. A prostitute lies to the police but says she saw the murder on the radio during a call-in program.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2013-11-04
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Das schöne irre Judenmädchen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1984-02-08
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Lea Katz - Die Kriminalpsychologin: Einer von uns
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Wallenstein
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Genres: History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Overview: At the height of the Cold War, a mysterious criminal organization plans to use nuclear weapons and technology to upset the fragile balance of power between the United States and Soviet Union. CIA agent Napoleon Solo and KGB agent Illya Kuryakin are forced to put aside their hostilities and work together to stop the evildoers in their tracks. The duo's only lead is the daughter of a missing German scientist, whom they must find soon to prevent a global catastrophe.
Genres: Comedy Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-13
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Paradise Is a Trap
Overview: After his company went bankrupt, hobby musician Erik toured furniture stores on behalf of a furniture company to advertise their products. A task that would be easy to accomplish if it weren't for the criminal brother who steals some furniture and promptly ends up in jail again. In order to quickly raise the necessary money for the deposit, the half-hearted free-walker Goldi persuades Erik to organize a charity tour for his brother. The “tour to paradise” can begin.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1999-10-01
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Anti-Social
Overview: Central London, today; Dee is an anarchic street-artist confronting the system, Marcus is an armed robber on a jewellery store crime-wave. For the two brothers, being Anti-Social is a way of life.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-05-01
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Wind von Südost
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Münchhausens letzte Liebe
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Genres: Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Dreamgirls
Overview: Parallel love stories of three young women in Berlin: Hannah - an unhappy attorney who sexually demeans herself in order to get at least some love and romance, Leni who runs a coffee shop and has just been ditched by her long term boyfriend, and Vivienne who ends up falling in love with a puppy-eyed pasta designer with 21 dogs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-02-19
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Trumbo
Overview: The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklisted.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-27
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Verzweiflung
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-10-12
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Ein gefährliches Angebot
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-04-01
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Gute Referenzen
Overview: Short film about a job interview.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-06-30
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Gates of Fire
Overview: Ex-Secret Service agent Harry Kowa now works as a bodyguard. Protecting his boss from an assassination attempt, he kills one of the attackers, who turns out to be a government agent. Now it's open season on Kowa.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1996-11-10
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What Doesn't Kill Us
Overview: As a divorced father of two teenage daughters, with a head-strong ex-wife for a best friend, too many peculiar patients to keep up with and a new dog, psychotherapist Max certainly doesn't need another challenge. But when Sophie, a compulsive gambler with a boyfriend problem, regularly shows up late for her appointments, she rocks his world in ways he's not ready for.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2018-09-01
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Spur eines Zweifels
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Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1995-09-09
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Scheidung für Anfänger
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2018-09-01
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Business as Usual - Der Prophet fliegt mit
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-01-01
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The Magic Kids: Three Unlikely Heroes
Overview: Vlad has just moved and joined one of the most famous magical schools in the world, where he meets fairies, witches, trolls and dwarfs. Him and his father are the first vampires in town, but he soon meets other special kids.
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2020-01-23
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Enfant Terrible
Overview: When 22-year-old Rainer Werner Fassbinder storms the stage of a small, progressive theatre in Munich 1967, and seizes the production without further ado, nobody suspects this brazen young rebel to become one of the most important post-war German filmmakers. Despite early setbacks, many of his films breakout at the most renowned films festivals and polarise audience, critics and filmmakers alike. His radical views and self-exploitation, as well as his longing for love, have made him one of the most fascinating film directors of this time.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2020-10-01
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Flightplan
Overview: Flying at 40,000 feet in a state-of-the art aircraft that she helped design, Kyle Pratt's 6-year-old daughter Julia vanishes without a trace. Or did she? No one on the plane believes Julia was ever onboard. And now Kyle, desperate and alone, can only count on her own wits to unravel the mystery and save her daughter.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-22
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Sportabzeichen für Anfänger
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2021-01-08
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Die Akte Oppenheimer - Und ewig grüßt der Antisemit
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2022-10-12
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