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Das Meer der Frauen (2010)
Character: Kristin Gustavsson
Down-to-earth Kristin is used to holding all the strings in her hand. This applies to her business as well as to the rebellious approaches of her pubescent daughter Ida. With the appearance of her younger sister Marit, this well-ordered world is in danger. Kristin never told Ida that Marit is Ida's birth mother. Almost a child at birth, she had left her daughter with Kristin - and then disappeared. With Marit's return, the old competition between the sisters breaks out again.
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So glücklich war ich noch nie (2009)
Character: Marie Knöpfel
Success is a question of confidence, particularly in times of crisis. Life would be unbearable if there weren’t beautiful things to brighten it up a little, including pretty faces. Frank Knöpfel constantly flirts with life with his beguiling bright blue eyes. He buys a complete stranger an expensive coat in a designer boutique just because he feels like it. He disguises himself as a businessman from Oslo, a Mafia boss, a stock exchange specialist and an estate agent, whatever it takes to bring in the cash. He is the type of person who enjoys looking in the mirror, and delights in what he sees there. A flirtation with a customer in a boutique leads to Frank’s undoing.
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Schöne Frauen (2005)
Character: Barbara Schüttle
Five "older" actresses vying for the same role decide to walk out on their audition. They end up on a road trip full of adventures and revelations.
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Mit geradem Rücken (2012)
Character: Vera Langner
State guests, international nobility, stars - Hella Wiegand loves her work as a housekeeper in the elegant grand hotel in Hamburg. Appreciated by her colleagues and superiors and popular with the maids under her supervision, she has a promising career ahead of her. Then Hella accidentally witnesses a sexual assault by her boss Jakob Braunstein on the chambermaid Shirin. She wants to support Shirin and convinces her to defend herself. But Braunstein manages to turn the tables. Hella suddenly finds herself in the pillory and Braunstein shamelessly exploits his position of power...
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Günstige Prognose (2007)
Character: Alexandra
The pedophile offender Mr. K. is prevented from jail through the professional statement of the psychologist Alexandra Pausch. Believing she has made the right decision, she closes her eyes towards the potential danger of her dangerous and charismatic patient. But as the horror steps into her own life, she realizes the careless appraisal of her diagnosis.
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Reine Formsache (2006)
Character: Effi
Marriage or not, that is the basic question! For Felix is marriage more like a game of roulette, but his wife Pola don't agree with him and wants a divorce. But getting the divorce isn't that easy.
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Kinder des Satans (1995)
Character: N/A
When the corpse of student Heike is found, the police book it as a case of suicide. But Heike's girlfriend Wiebke thinks otherwise. She believes that the Satan disciples are involved in the case.
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Winnetous Weiber (2014)
Character: Gabriele Hochmann
It should be a relaxed holiday with her daughter Nora - at least that's how the single mother Maren Bogner imagined it: a journey in the footsteps of Winnetou, a ride to the breathtaking locations of the legendary Karl May films, a holiday of discovery in Croatia. Although Nora doesn't share her mother's enthusiasm, a little variety never hurts. They are accompanied by Nora's best friend, the successful but stressed businesswoman Gabriele Hochmann with a GDR past. Arriving at the starting point of their guided "Winne Tour", the three women make the acquaintance of Elisabeth zu Hallbach-Süren, who, together with her young assistant Simone Lehmann, has also set out for the scenes of German cinema nostalgia.
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Frischer Wind (2009)
Character: Karin Kracht
Teresa Weißbach makes this film about a widower, who finds new life courage with the help of a young woman, to a remarkable romantic drama. In memory of his deceased wife, the Hamburg glove manufacturer Tobaben spends some days in her favorite hotel in Travemünde. There he meets Luzy. The lively young woman is a barmaid in the evening and a housekeeper during the day. She immediately locks him in the heart. He, on the other hand, thanks to her carefreeness finds new life courage, engages her from the spot as a shareholder and takes it easy to accept that the distinguished Hanseatic society promptly tears the mouths.
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Krüger aus Almanya (2015)
Character: Susanne
Berlin widower Paul Krüger, a retired ex-GDR stone mason (66), hates foreigner immigrants, especially Muslims. When his beloved, doting granddaughter Annie plans to marry Deniz, an ambitious student and waiter in Ankara who needs a visa for Germany, backward Paul and his buddy, publican Karin, go on Turkish 'holiday' so he can talk her out of it. But Deniz proves her only choice and probably a right one, even if countrymen and family win Paul's heart, as well as a resourceful preteen-thief, who proves an orphaned Syrian refugee. Paul even promises to plead with his counterpart, Deniz's family patriarch, who opposes him marrying a Christian infidel at pain of expulsion from the close clan.
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Krügers Odyssee (2018)
Character: Susanne
Berlin pensioner Paul Krüger looks forward to lead his fatherless-raised pregnant granddaughter Annie to the altar, but Turkish groom Denis's sugar uncle insists due to Anatolian family honor tradition on the presence of her biological father Harald, whom her mother Susanne never even told about their child having broken up. Knowing only Harald moved to Greece, Krüger takes his pétanque (bowling) pub buddies Ecki and Bernd along to Hellas, a country they know nor trust. Equipped only with an old photograph, they find themselves on the wrong island, upsetting the wrong shopkeeper's family. Having crossed to the right one, they wander into a tempting German free sex commune, before even learning Harald is now an orthodox monk in a monastery, which observes lent silence, albeit without fasting. The clergyman won't consider returning until Paul calls in unenthusiastic help, and even then the monk isn't on their plane back.
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Der kleine Unterschied (1997)
Character: Verena
A 60-year-old journalist falls in love with a young woman, abandons his wife and children and ends up falling into loneliness.
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Am Ende das Licht (2023)
Character: Tochter mit fünfzig Jahren
A woman despairs about the coming collapse of the world. How will it change? What kind of planet will she leave to her daughter? She imagines different scenarios, each more terrible than the last, and decides to do something. No matter how pointless it may seem to her.
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Weiber! Schwestern teilen. Alles. (2017)
Character: Senta
Ama, Senta and Klara are sisters in their thirties and couldn't be more different. Ama studies medicine, Senta is a dedicated prostitute and Klara is more of a house maker, who desperately wants a child, even if it is from her abusive, lorry driver husband. Their parents, Rosa and Erich (who suffers from dementia) are tucked away in and old peoples home, which affords the girls some peace and quiet.
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Die Braut von der Tankstelle (2005)
Character: Weda
Felix from Hamburg comes into possession of a run-down gas station in the middle of the north German provinces through a dubious barter. But that's not all: right across the street, the young Weda also runs a petrol pump business and is of course not very enthusiastic about the annoying competition. Only when an oil company stretches out its greedy fingers for the two gas stations do the quarreling operators also get closer personally...
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Titus und der Fluch der Diamanten (1998)
Character: Gina Sturhahn
After Grandpa Reginald has won a large sum, he invites his family to go on vacation to South Africa. Here he plans to show his family stages from his eventful past, while they have completely different plans ...
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Die Zeit der Kraniche (2010)
Character: Ines Schütt
In the loneliness of the Lower Havel lowlands, one of the last bird paradise in Germany, twelve-year-old Lea lives alone with her father Lutz, a passionate environmentalist. She is on the cusp of adulthood, confronted with the challenges of the present and the pains of the past. She often feels lonely in the childhood-remote world in which she lives, in which schools are closed and people leave. Even the father, who has withdrawn from the world, is increasingly becoming a problem for Lea, who longs for fellowship.
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Liebe im Halteverbot (2008)
Character: Renate Brenner
A harmless speeding ticket from Italy can sometimes have huge consequences - this experience must make construction manager Otto Schlegel, as he returns after a romantic weekend with his secret lover Renate from the south. There is an election campaign in the city, as no one may allow a misstep. As if that were not enough trouble, Schlegel has a new employee who wants to prove himself as a cover-up: Renate's husband Michael. But the press has already received weather. But the witty Schlegel does not let it get that easy. He struggles to keep his post and his great love Renate ...
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Winterschläfer (1997)
Character: Rebecca
Young blonde translator Rebecca lives with her boyfriend ski instructor Marco in a mountain villa owned by her friend, nurse Laura. Rene, local cinema projectionist, steals Marco's car and gets into a car crash with local Theo, whose daughter, after being in coma for a time, dies. Rene suffers from partial short term memory loss and starts a relationship with Laura. Meanwhile Marco is looking for the man who stole his car and Theo - for the man who killed his daughter...
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Kirschblüten - Hanami (2008)
Character: Emma
After finding out that her husband, Rudi, has a fatal illness, Trudi Angermeier arranges a trip to Berlin so they can see their children. Of course, the kids don't know the real reason they're visiting -- and the catch is, neither does Rudi...
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Küss die Hand, Krüger (2018)
Character: Susanne
Paul Krüger and his drinking mates can't accept their beer pub "Flachbau", reaching its 25th jubilee, is about to be closed because the publican Karin fell in love Internet-dating mundane gastronome "Hansi" Falkenheyn Waldstätten and wants to start a new life in his native Austria. Krüger and his buddy Bernd, who has a never-declared crush on her himself, leave Ecki 'guard the fort'in Berlin and travel to Salzburg to stop her wedding preparations. Krüger and Bernd's theory the groom may merely be after the Flachbau sale proceeds is unexpectedly confirmed by their local gentleman inn keeper Poldi, a charming ladies men who volunteers to sabotage scam artist Hansi, to whom he lost a meanwhile ruined lover, leaving only Karin to be forced to learn the truth about her groom before he gets her to the alter, a matter of hours.
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Männer ticken, Frauen anders (2011)
Character: Elfie Tobler
Alice Tanner, chief analyst of a rating agency, almost made it to the top in the main metropolis of Frankfurt. Then Michael von Marck is served to her as a competitor. Because one of the company chairpersons expressed doubts about Alice's judgment when it became known that she had a one-night stand with a married customer. Alice gets support from her friend from the bowling club and her half-sister: a secretly hidden bug in the men's washroom in the office complex of the rating agency is supposed to reveal the strategies of the male competitors to the female eavesdropper
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Ich leih’ dir meinen Mann (2003)
Character: Isa Freytag
Christine Keller, successful at work, but still single, has a burning desire for a child. However, the search for the right father gave her up in frustration. She would like to have a child without a husband - but where does she get a grower from? Isa, her best friend from youth days, would love to help and has a tricky idea: Fabian, Isa's partner, should be "loaned" to the girlfriend - and may not notice. But the not quite everyday friendship service has unimaginable consequences.
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Ein Reihenhaus steht selten allein (2014)
Character: Heike Ludwig
After some back and forth are graphic designers Jan Börner can finally bring himself and his wife Anne and their children Lisa and Luke a terraced house in a modern housing estate to relate. But a short time later reveal the dark side of this decision. In the midst of gossiping settlement residents privacy is nil. To make matters worse, the busy neighbors feel even called to overwhelm Jan and Anne with supposedly helpful advice for running the household and raising children. The tense atmosphere in the family finally reached a new climax when one day Jan's ex-girlfriend Maren moves into the house next door ...
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Adam (2018)
Character: Mother
Adam tells the story of a techno musician, who after years of hospitalizations for alcoholism makes her son swear that he will never let her spend the rest of her life in an institution. When her doctors diagnose her with permanent brain damage, 20-year-old Adam, who is deaf and completely on his own, must decide whether to break his promise to his mother or help her die...
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Kirschblüten & Dämonen (2019)
Character: Emma
When everything in his life seems to be going wrong, downtrodden and alcohol-dependent Karl has a fateful encounter in Munich with Yu, a mysterious Japanese dancer from his father’s past. Unexpectedly, Yu begins to help Karl confront his demons (both literal and figurative) and begin to heal.
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