Sebastian Koch
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Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Sebastian Koch (born 31 May 1962) is a German actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sebastian Koch , licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Karlsruhe, Germany
Birthday: May 31, 1962
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Lives of Others
Overview: In 1983 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and his actress-lover Christa-Maria. Wiesler becomes unexpectedly sympathetic to the couple, and faces conflicting loyalties when his superior takes a liking to Christa-Maria.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2006-03-23
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The Flying Classroom
Overview: A boy who was once a perpetual outcast finds friends in a new boarding school. United with his new peers, he gets involved in a heated rivalry with a group of students from a neighboring school.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2003-01-16
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The Tunnel
Overview: Inspired by true events, Olympic swimmer Harry Melchior defects from East Germany in the 1960s and hatches a daring plot to help his sister and others flee East Berlin through a 145-yard underground tunnel.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-01-21
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Operation Valkyrie
Overview: In 1944, a group of high command officers plot an attempt against Hitler, and one of the leaders of the conspiracy, Stauffenberg, goes to a meeting with the Fuhrer in charge of exploding the place. However, Hitler survives and the officers are executed. This unsuccessful operation was called "Valkyrie Operation", and this realistic movie discloses this true event.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2004-02-24
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The Shell Seekers
Overview: Penelope Keeling, a sixty-four-year-old daughter of a famous artist, reflects on her life, and the fate and choices that defined it, when she arrives in the Mediterranean to stay with her headstrong daughter. Shifting through time, and falling into place like the pieces of a jigsaw, the truth of Penelope's rich, heartbreaking and surprising life unfolds.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-18
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Amen.
Overview: Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is horrified by what he sees in the death camps. he is then shocked to learn that the process he used to purify water for his troops by using Zyklon-B, is now used to kill people in gas chambers.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-02-27
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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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Effi Briest
Overview: Following her parents' wishes, spirited seventeen-year-old Effi Briest marries Baron von Innstetten – a former admirer of her mother – who is twenty years Effi's senior. This marriage of prudence heralds the beginning of a humdrum life, far from home, for Effi. Innstetten devotes himself entirely to his political career, and the sleepy small town of Kessin has very little to offer in terms of variety. But then, one day, Innstetten's old regimental comrade, Major Crampas – a charming womanizer – arrives on the scene.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-02-09
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Rudy: The Return of the Racing Pig
Overview: Up to now, Nickel (9) and his single dad Thomas have been managing very well together. Then Nickel goes on a school excursion and brings the little piglet Rudy back with him in his rucksack. Once he´s home, he makes a terrifying discovery: dad has a girlfriend! Worse yet, she´s moved in with him and brought her daughter Felicitas (12) along! Nickel makes a deal with Thomas: if those two stay, then so can Rudy. When life becomes unbearable for Nickel, he flees with Rudy to ‘Porkland’, followed by Feli and pursued by two dumb crooks. It’s the beginning of an adventure that ends in the swamps of the Oder Valley, where Rudi saves the lives of the two children and finds a new home.
Genres: Action Comedy Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2007-03-08
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A Good Day to Die Hard
Overview: Iconoclastic, take-no-prisoners cop John McClane, finds himself for the first time on foreign soil after traveling to Moscow to help his wayward son Jack - unaware that Jack is really a highly-trained CIA operative out to stop a nuclear weapons heist. With the Russian underworld in pursuit, and battling a countdown to war, the two McClanes discover that their opposing methods make them unstoppable heroes.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-02-06
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Unknown
Overview: A man awakens from a coma, only to discover that someone has taken on his identity and that no one, (not even his wife), believes him. With the help of a young woman, he sets out to prove who he is.
Genres: Action Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-02-16
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Transit
Overview: In 1941, those who had remained around too long to completely escape the Nazi blitzkrieg had one small, slim chance to escape persecution. They could travel to Marseilles and attempt to get the servile but still nominally independent government of Vichy France to grant them an exit visa. Then they could take passage to safer climes on one of the neutral vessels that stopped there. This drama, based on a novel by Anna Seghers, follows the fates of a small group of desperate people who are attempting to do just that.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-01-16
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In jeder Sekunde
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-12-11
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Albatross
Overview: Beth, a bookish teenager, befriends Emilia, an aspiring novelist who has just arrived in town. Emilia soon begins an affair with Beth's father that threatens to have devastating consequences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-10-14
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Manipulation
Overview: Set in Zurich in the 1950s, a special agent who is near retirement receives a major assignment: Bring down Harry Wind, a top PR manager who has been accused of spying.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-02-03
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God Loves Caviar
Overview: The true-life, stranger-than-fiction tale of eighteenth-century Greek pirate turned merchant Ioannis Varvakis, who rose from humble beginnings to become the head of one of the largest mercantile empires in Europe.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2012-08-04
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Sea Wolf
Overview: A young man is taken aboard a seal-hunting vessel helmed by the cruel captain Wolf Larsen.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-12-24
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Die Rückkehr des schwarzen Buddha
Overview: According to legend, the Black Buddha is a figure that brings death to those who steal it and wisdom to those who return it. Nick is an adventurer who has stolen the figure and is little concerned about the legends ... until this legend begins to come true.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-11-27
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The Weekend
Overview: Based on a novel by Bernard Schlink (The Reader), The Weekend follows Jens as he leaves prison 18 years after being arrested as an RAF terrorist in Germany. Back with his family, friends, and ex-comrades, including his former lover Inga, Jens’ unexpected arrival disrupts their lives, forcing them to re-examine the violent idealism of their youth, especially as he insists on learning who had betrayed him to the police years before in this intense, gripping drama
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-08-26
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In the Shadow
Overview: In the former Czechoslovakia, 1950s, police captain Hakl investigates a jewelery robbery. An opened safe deposit leads to a known burglar. What seems an easy case soon starts to tangle. When he is called off the case, he continues on his own. The investigation leads him onto thin ice. Can he beat a stronger enemy and save his family and his own life?
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2012-09-13
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Suspension of Disbelief
Overview: Martin is a screenwriter, who finds himself in one of his own plays: A young woman is found dead in the Thames and no one really knows, what has happened to her.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-11-01
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The Burning Snail
Overview: In this grim German drama, a troubled 14-year-old boy's pent-up rage and frustration leads him to involvement with a bad crowd and gets him caught up in an inescapable spiral of increasingly self-destructive and deadly violence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1996-05-28
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October November
Overview: Director Gotz Spielmann follows his acclaimed thriller Revanche with this visually captivating character study, in which a family reunion at a mountainside inn lays bare old wounds and reveals long-held secrets.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-03-25
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Bruce Willis: Why the Legend Never Dies
Overview: An in-depth look at the life and career of Bruce Willis, featuring never-before-seen photos and videos from the Willis family collection. Narrated by Bruce Willis.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2013-03-21
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The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden
Overview: Darwin meets Hitchcock in this documentary. Directors Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine have created a parable about the search for paradise, set in the brutal yet alluring landscape of the Galapagos Islands, which interweaves an unsolved 1930s murder mystery with stories of present day Galapagos pioneers. A gripping tale of idealistic dreams gone awry, featuring voice-over performances by Cate Blanchett, Diane Kruger, and Gustaf Skarsgard.
Genres: Documentary Mystery History Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-03
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Der Mann mit der Maske
Overview: A series of rapes causes a stir in a German university town. A special commission led by senior public prosecutor Schildt and detective Gawilek investigates. After months of surveillance, everything points to a chaplain as the masked perpetrator, known as "Zorro". But the investigators were wrong, because "Zorro" strikes again when the chaplain is in custody. This time, charges were also filed. But not against "unknown", but against the son of the senior public prosecutor...
Genres: Thriller Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1994-01-02
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Take Down
Overview: Sons and daughters of international billionaires are sent to an boot camp where they are taught basic survival skills in hopes it will teach them responsibility. When they are taken hostage and taken for ransom by kidnappers, they will need to utilize every skill they learned to survive.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-05-05
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Das Sahara-Projekt
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1993-10-24
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Der Tanz mit dem Teufel - Die Entführung des Richard Oetker
Overview: When wealthy college student Richard Oetker is kidnapped and held for a hefty ransom, state police officer Georg Kufbach becomes obsessed with bringing the kidnapper to justice. This film is based on a true story.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-11-11
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1821 at the Cinema
Overview: In 1821, in Cinema, he records the cinematic representations of the Revolution from the first decades of the 20th century. until the present day. Despite the fact that the Revolution of 1821 constitutes the founding act of the modern Greek state, as a subject matter it is underrepresented in national film production. This is one of the points on which the research looks, which simultaneously examines the periods of concentration of films on the subject of the Revolution or, respectively, the periods of its collective silence. The purpose of the documentary is to study the ideological discourse and the cinematic language of the films with the theme of 1821, in order to highlight the function of the cinema as a carrier of Public History and as a factor in shaping the collective historical consciousness.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2021-10-14
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Fähre in den Tod
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Woanders scheint nachts die Sonne
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1997-10-20
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Cosimas Lexikon
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1992-04-09
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Ein fast perfekter Seitensprung
Overview: It all starts when she runs away from the altar in a church in Hamburg. Easygoing Henny Schönberg has qualms about marrying in the very last second and runs off to leave her stunned would-be husband Martin von Platt. Still dressed in her wedding gown, she takes the next best flight, not caring about its destination.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Princesse Marie
Overview: The story of Napoleon Bonaparte's grandniece, the famous Princess Marie, her friendship and her work with Sigmund Freud.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-03-04
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Tödlicher Duft
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1997-02-24
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Schrecklicher Verdacht
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Das Tal der Schatten
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Genres: Mystery
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1999-08-09
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Die Rache der Carola Waas
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1999-06-14
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Der Tod kam als Freund
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Blutige Spur
Overview: The divorced wife of a respected surgeon is involved in a hit-and-run accident and dies. Her husband is suspected, but manages to escape on the way to the court. Together with a journalist, in order to prove his innocence, he tracks down a flourishing organ trade and an unscrupulous gang of smugglers.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1995-05-31
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Deadly Diversion
Overview: Adrian is a talented and ambitious young actor. On the way to an important casting in Munich - he is supposed to audition for a leading role - he is involved in an accident. But that is not all: a policeman wants to arrest him, a beautiful, mysterious woman puts him in chains and in a lonely mountain village he is suspected of murder. Adrian has the feeling that everyone around him is crazy.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2004-04-29
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Der Mörder meiner Mutter
Overview: At the age of six, Anne witnessed the murder of her parents. Twenty years later, the convicted perpetrator Marc Balthasar is released early for good conduct. Anne, now a popular children's book author, is greatly disturbed by this news.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1999-07-01
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Ende einer Leidenschaft
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1997-05-12
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Kollaps
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-10-02
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Auf dem Vulkan
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2007-10-03
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Der Mörder und die Hure
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1996-03-23
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Die Nacht hat 17 Stunden
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1996-09-30
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Tauerngold
Overview: Gold rush in the Salzburg mountains: After hearing rumours of new gold discoveries, the penniless Jakob Hirzbacher and his son Andris move to a village in the Hohe Tauern in the hope of finding work there. But there is no gold to be found in Gaisbach. The newcomers are met with great hostility by the village population and can only find refuge in a barracks camp in the forest, where like-minded migrant workers wash gold in the rivers. Jakob finds employment with the beautiful Katharina Radacher, whose family used to dominate the gold mining industry in the region. He falls in love with Katharina, who is fighting against ruin and is forced to sell her mining rights by the corrupt mining councillor Hubert von Feileis. When Feileis realises that Jakob is standing in the way of his negotiations with Katharina, he has him chased out of the village in a devious manner.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2003-04-13
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Eine Liebe für den Frieden – Bertha von Suttner und Alfred Nobel
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-12-10
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Der Rosenmörder
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1998-02-27
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The Danish Girl
Overview: When Gerda Wegener asks her husband Einar to fill in as a portrait model, Einar discovers the person she's meant to be and begins living her life as Lili Elbe. Having realized her true self and with Gerda's love and support, Lili embarks on a groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-11-27
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Hollister
Overview: The Berlin star architect Mark Hollister owns a thriving company, but at the moment everything is going wrong. Can Hollister change his luck?
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1997-01-06
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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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Bridge of Spies
Overview: During the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane. Sentenced to 10 years in prison, Powers' only hope is New York lawyer James Donovan, recruited by a CIA operative to negotiate his release. Donovan boards a plane to Berlin, hoping to win the young man's freedom through a prisoner exchange. If all goes well, the Russians would get Rudolf Abel, the convicted spy who Donovan defended in court.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-15
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Zwei vom gleichen Schlag
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1996-10-19
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Hart to Hart: Two Harts in 3/4 Time
Overview: This entry in the long-running romance of Jonathan and Jennifer Hart picks up following the death of their beloved friend Max when the Harts go to Montreal for the reading of his will. While there, they learn of a clock Max has left for them with his niece, Marie, which is stolen before they can receive it. Meanwhile, Marie’s partner in their antique shop, Vivienne, meets with Ronnie, her secret lover and the husband of the Harts’ friend Lady Camilla Ashley, and is subsequently killed. The clock seems to be at the center of a mystery which includes kidnapping and murder, and the Harts will have to unravel it if they want to get their gift from Max back.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-11-26
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In Her Name
Overview: In 1982, André Bamberski learns about the death of his 14 year-old daughter, Kalinka, while she was on vacation with her mother and stepfather in Germany. Convinced that Kalinka’s death was not an accident, Bamberski begins to investigate. A botched autopsy report raises his suspicions and leads him to accuse Kalinka’s stepfather, Dr Dieter Krombach, as the murderer. Unable to indict Krombach in Germany, Bamberski attempts to take the trial to France, where he will dedicate his life to Kalinka’s justice and the imprisonment of Krombach.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-03-16
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Fog in August
Overview: A Yenish boy is placed in a mental hospital and experiences the Nazi euthanasia program. Aware of what was happening and attached to friends, the lad attempts to sabotage the program. The film addresses the complexities of the program director, the lives of the child victims, and the struggles of the child protagonist. More than five thousand children died in the Nazi euthanasia program.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-09-29
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Schwarzes Blut
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1999-04-26
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Freundinnen
Overview: Sophia is going nuts about her relationship to Peter. One day when she is in the middle of committing suicide she meets Olga, who helps her through the night. Both women get to know each other better and both have certain difficulties with their lovers. Although they are both quite different, they are fascinated of each other. Sophia begins also to be fascinated of Olga's lover.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Never Look Away
Overview: German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR regime.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2018-10-03
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Der Liebe auf der Spur
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1988-07-16
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Two Days of Hope
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2003-05-14
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Im Himmel hört Dich niemand weinen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1993-07-01
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Ein unmöglicher Lehrer
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Bel Canto
Overview: A famous opera singer is held hostage in South America by a guerrilla rebel group after performing at a Japanese businessman's lavish birthday party. Unexpected bonds are forged in the standoff that ensues.
Genres: Drama Music Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-09-13
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Gloomy Sunday
Overview: Budapest in the thirties. The restaurant owner Laszlo hires the pianist András to play in his restaurant. Both men fall in love with the beautiful waitress Ilona who inspires András to his only composition. His song of Gloomy Sunday is, at first, loved and then feared, for its melancholic melody triggers off a chain of suicides. The fragile balance of the erotic ménage à trois is sent off kilter when the German Hans goes and falls in love with Ilona as well.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1999-10-21
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