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Darum (2008)
Character: Jan Haigerer
Think of a really nice person, a friend of yours, someone who could never hurt a fly. Imagine finding out that he is supposed to have killed someone. You're told that he has shot a person in a bar, for no obvious reason. He has already confessed. He says the murder was planned. He expects a life sentence. He even longs for it. He wants to pay for his crime. The psychiatrist cannot see any mental illness. People around him don't think him to be evil. They like him. They want to help him and protect him from himself. And they all ask the same question: Why....?
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Antonia - Zwischen Liebe und Macht (2001)
Character: Leonardt Ahrendorff
Stunningly attractive law student Antonia Scherer and her girlfriend Judy are earning vacation money as Paparazze for a slimy gossip columnist named WALZ. Part of the job involves trying to snap photos of famous people on the Cote d'Azur. The two girls promptly catch a snap of the eldest son of a mega rich banking family, in a suggestive situation. Realizing that she has been spotted by him, Antonia runs off with the film but is then involved in an accident and loses consciousness. She wakes up to find herself on Leonhardt's private yacht.
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Mit geradem Rücken (2012)
Character: Jakob Braunstein
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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Still Movin' (1997)
Character: Felix
It's Felix birthday and his parents are at the door. Felix escapes through the backdoor and celebrates his special day like he wants: as a techno DJ in a dance club. One of his installed special effects is scaring the visitors that much, that they panic, leaving the club in a rush. The owner of the club gives Felix one more chance to pay back for the damage. Felix shall be the tour manager for Leon Rippy, a formerly well-known country musician. This might not be an easy task in times where country music seems to be kind of an antique thing. However Felix accepts the deal and an adventurous on-the-road experience throughout Germany begins.
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Hunger - Sehnsucht nach Liebe (1997)
Character: Simon
Laura loves Simon and Simon loves Laura. But Laura does not love herself enough to let Simon closer to her. The reason being something nobody is allowed to know: she tries to suffocate any kind of feelings by giving in to eating attacks. When Simon finds out, their relationship threatens to break apart.
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Am Ende der Hochzeitsnacht (2002)
Character: Martin
Sophie's life has changed. His illness has disappeared and has found love. But when her husband takes her wedding night at the attic that he bought, Sophie has a strange feeling. Since then, his life will be hell.
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Fallen Angels (2002)
Character: Tom Craven
Abandoned and filled with a mysterious past, Holy Angel School for Girls is about to reveal its secrets of betrayal, jealousy, and vengeance. Rumours of haunting, paired with the desire to forget the painful tragedy that took place years before, have kept the truth buried with the innocent victims.
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Honey Baby (2004)
Character: Ulrich
An American, with a past as a successful musician, makes a living by playing at weddings and the likes in Germany. Then he gets an offer to tour in East Europe. During his travels he gets insight and finds true love.
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Terror in the Mall (1998)
Character: Chris Maratos
A group of people are trapped in a deserted mall during a flood along with an escaped prisoner.
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Cappuccino zu dritt (2003)
Character: Jan Steiner
La dolce vita! Except life is anything but sweet for Jan (Kai Wiesinger), whose attempts to modernize an old luxury hotel in Italy are thwarted by the local competition’s mafia-like methods. Fortunately, help is at hand in the shapely form of Maria (Liane Forestieri), a German-Italian who originally came to fetch her young son. Together, they get the job done and, this being a romantic comedy, fall in love just as marketing director Susanne, who also happens to be Jans’ girlfriend, arrives to inspect the work. Her suspicions are soon aroused.
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Liebling, weck die Hühner auf (2009)
Character: Lorenz Thiel
Author Steffen Teuffel moved from Berlin to sleepy, 'dying' Brandenburg (ex-GDR) small-town Krummenwalde with his wife Beate, who runs the local beverage firm, and their kids: smart son Kai opted out of college and happily works in the only pub; his shallow sister Lisa lets a classmate obsess over losing her virginity to farm boys; kid sister Sophie attracts kids' attention by waving a gold coin she found diving into the town lake, until Lutheran vicar Juchem, who needs to pay for a new church roof, snaps it up and enlists Steffen's research skills plus knowledge of French to help him and bossy mayor Gerd Jänicke, who wants to revitalize the town, research the local archives concerning a legend about a Napoleonic regimental treasure being lost in that very lake the golden Napoléon came from and split it three ways.
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Willkommen daheim (2005)
Character: Dr. Wolfgang Schlegel
The Berlin physiotherapist Felicitas Büchner wants to work with her married colleague and lover dr. Wolfgang Schlegel open his own practice in Berlin. But she needs money for that. With the unexpected inheritance of a farm in Bavaria moves for Felicitas the realization of their dream within reach. Wolfgang urges her to sell the estate as quickly as possible and to return from the cow village to Berlin - but Felicitas is impressed by her old home and gradually realizes that she has inherited a responsibility with the court of her favorite uncle.
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Die Konfirmation (2017)
Character: Simon
What do parents think first when the room of a 15-year-old is empty on Sunday morning? The fact that he secretly goes to church, brings his otherwise open-minded patchwork family together: what's going on in the child's head? While Ulrike C. Tscharre wants to be the indignant mother of the pastor, Ben Braun proposes in the role of the casual stepfather before a self-experience trip in the distance.
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Der bewegte Mann (1994)
Character: Gunnar
The heterosexual man Axel is thrown out of his girlfriends home for cheating and ends up moving in with a gay man. Axel learns the advantages of living with gay men even though they are attracted to him and when his girlfriend wants him back he must make a tough decision.
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Lucky Loser (2017)
Character: Thomas
With Mike it's anything but round: flat away, job a one-way street, and to make matters worse, his little loser heart still beats for ex-wife Claudia.
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Stadtgespräch (1995)
Character: René Krauss
Comedy about a woman who hosts a radio talk-show who turns thirty and worries about not having a husband. With the help of her gay brother, she places an personal advert in the local paper and meets a charming dentist. Unfortunately, she finds out he is married, and her brother also falls for him.
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Der Rücktritt (2014)
Character: Christian Wulff
In 2012 German Bundespraesident Christian Wulff declares his resignation in the great hall of Bellevue Palace. At the side of his wife, he had to face the pressure of the media for 68 days while struggling for office of head of state of the Federal Republic of Germany.
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Takeover - Voll Vertauscht (2020)
Character: Hubertus
Two teenagers, who look exactly the same, but never met before, are changing places during holidays in a theme park.
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Wunderkinder (2011)
Character: Max Reich
Three musically talented children look to the future, but their hopes crumble when Germany and Russia enter into war.
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change (2000)
Character: Jurgen
Following World War I, Indy - now fluent in several languages - works as a translator at the controversial Paris Peace Conference, where he once more meets Lawrence of Arabia, and encounters the Arab Prince Faisal and a young Ho Chi Minh. Disillusioned by the hard and cynical realpolitik of international deal-making, he returns home to Princeton, New Jersey after a three-year absence, where he finds his father as cold and distant as ever, and discovers a detrimental change in his boyhood friend, Paul Robeson, caused by bigotry.
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Poppitz (2002)
Character: Ben
Car salesman Gerry Schartl is on his way to dream holidays in an all-inclusive club at Cosamera. He´s a smart guy, great in his job, and his life is perfect - well, nearly perfect...
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Die Jagd nach der heiligen Lanze (2010)
Character: Eik Meiers
When a museum professor disappears, his colleagues must solve riddles and avoid traps to find the mythical Spear of Destiny and rescue the professor.
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Die Gustloff (2008)
Character: Hellmut Kehding
Joseph Vilsmaier Two-part TV movie focuses on the tragic events surrounding the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff, a German passenger ship, at the end of World War II. On 30 January 1945, Captain Hellmuth Kehding was in charge of the ship, evacuating wounded soldiers and civilians trapped by the Red Army. Soon after leaving the harbor of Danzig, it was hit by three torpedoes from the Soviet submarine and sank in less than an hour.
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Dr. Hoffmann - Die russische Spende (2022)
Character: Dr. Felix Hoffmann
Urgent call from the clinic: Not for the first time, Dr. Felix Hoffmann the comfortable TV evening for use in the emergency room. He spontaneously takes over the night shift for a colleague. The ward doctor has no idea what consequences the next few hours will have for him and his girlfriend Celine. When a patient dies in the emergency room, Dr. Hoffmann does not believe in a natural death. The Ukrainian Misha Chenkov was part of a cleaning crew at the hospital and was therefore no stranger to him. In addition, he was recently released from the clinic in good health - but his patient file has disappeared. Dr. Hoffman tells his girlfriend Celine about the case. She immediately has a suspicion and wants to investigate the matter. So the two stumble into a criminal case and become more and more involved in the mafia-like machinations of the clinic management
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Die Jagd nach dem Bernsteinzimmer (2012)
Character: Eik Meiers
It's the greatest myth of the German post-war era: The Amber Room. Since its disappearance in 1945 from Koenigsberg Castle, legions of treasure hunters have tried and failed to find the room. It is said that Physics genius, Albert Einstein hid the legendary Amber Room from the Nazis in the turmoil of the last days of the war. It bears a secret within its amber - in wrong hands, it could destroy mankind! Our adventurers, Eik, Katharina and Justus, come across an incredible trace and with the help of Einstein's great-granddaughter Mila, together they fight off a ruthless pharmaceutical magnate who spares no effort to get ahold of the Amber Room. From Europe's biggest monument in Leipzig, through the halls of Munich's German Museum, across the dunes of St. Peter-Ording, to the Nazi caves of the Berchtesgaden Alps. The adventurous hunt begins. Written by Dreamtool Entertainment
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Nichts als die Wahrheit (1999)
Character: Peter Rohm
The famous Nazi-Doctor Dr. Josef Mengele - the "death angel of Auschwitz", who killed more than 300.000 people - comes back from his hide out in Argentina to Germany as a 87 year old man. He must stand up in front of a court for his crimes. The young solicitor Peter Rohm has to defend him. But Peter Rohm - himself an expert on Josef Mengele and his crimes - feels unable to do this. When he decides to take on the case he endangers not only the relationship to his wife but also their lifes. A fictional story around the non-fictional person of Josef Mengele who died in 1979.
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14 Tage lebenslänglich (1997)
Character: Konrad von Seidlitz
Konrad von Seidlitz is a young yuppie lawyer currently celebrating his engagement with Cornelia, daughter of minister of justice Volkerts. As a public relations gag, he hasn't paid his parking fines for two years and now insists on being sentenced to jail for two weeks as punishment. Using his knowledge as a lawyer he makes the best out of his visit in jail still working, still in a splendid mood and not adapting to any rule. Probably a good way to get the desired public attention, but also a good way to make enemies inside the jail-house. One day before Konrad is to be released his booth is searched and two hundred grams of cocaine are found. That's a serious problem even for a brilliant lawyer like Konrad and even if you're innocent
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Der gestiefelte Kater (2009)
Character: König Otto
Once upon a time there was a miller who had three sons. When the miller died, the three sons shared the inheritance. The oldest, Hermann, got the mill, the second, Hubert, the donkey, the third, Hans, the tomcat Minkus.
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Gut zu Vögeln (2016)
Character: Tillmann
After her fiancee cancels the wedding, Merlin's life changes drastically when she moves in with one of her brother's best friends.
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Murder on the Orient Express (2001)
Character: Philip von Strauss
Agatha Christie's classic whodunit speeds into the twenty-first century. World-famous sleuth Hercule Poirot has just finished a case in Istanbul and is returning home to London onboard the luxurious Orient Express. But, the train comes to a sudden halt when a rock slide blocks the tracks ahead. And all the thrills of riding the famous train come to a halt when a man discovered dead in his compartment, stabbed nine times. The train is stranded. No one has gotten on or gotten off. That can only mean one thing: the killer is onboard, and it is up to Hercule Poirot to find him.
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Nahschuss (2021)
Character: Wagner
The ambitious scientist Franz Walter doesn't hesitate when he is promised a professorship at the university. He immediately accepts, pledges absolute loyalty to the system and agrees to work for the GDR's foreign intelligence service until he can take up his new position. Together with his colleague Dirk, he is sent on foreign assignments to West Germany. Franz soon has to use blackmail to get innocent people to talk. But his superiors go even further: GDR refugees and their relatives are targeted to be psychologically destroyed, forged letters, medical diagnoses, surveillance and wiretapping are on the agenda. However, this is more than Franz can bear: he feels powerless and increasingly isolates himself. When he then decides to steal secret documents for a later defection to the West, this results in an unfortunate chain reaction leading to his arrest and ultimately to his execution...
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Bis nichts mehr bleibt (2010)
Character: Dr. Gerd Ruppert
"Until Nothing Remains” is based on countless reports from Scientology dropouts and shows the sect’s unscrupulous actions.
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Comedian Harmonists (1997)
Character: Erwin Bootz
Comedian Harmonists tells the story of a famous, German male sextet, five vocals and piano, the "Comedian Harmonists", from the day they meet first in 1927 to the day in 1934, when they become banned by the upcoming Nazis, because three of them are Jewish.
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Liebe nach Rezept (2007)
Character: Michael Fürstenberg
With magical love herbs Corinna wants to bring back momentum in their marriage, but the thing gets out of hand. Ironically, on her wedding day, Corinna realizes that her marriage is in a dead end: her once-romantic husband now prefers to look after other women and otherwise only thinks about business. How is she supposed to make Michael feel a little bit more emotional again? Corinna's Romanian cleaning lady Rosha knows her advice: she gives Corinna a magical love herb that is supposed to turn the stressed-out workaholic into a freshly in love romantic.
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Kleine Haie (1992)
Character: Johannes
When dishwasher Ingo, whose girl-friend has just left him, returns a borrowed bar stool to the Folkwang Acting School in Essen, he stumbles into the audition for next year's new students. He lets Johannes, the broke and unsuccessful applicant, stay with him. Ingo decides to go to Munich with Johannes, where he wants to try his luck once again. Hitchhiking, they get rides with very different drivers on the autobahn. They meet up with the smooth-talking Ali in the wayside dinner "Raststätte Spessart". Arriving in Munich, the trio tries to find cheap sleeping accommodation. They enter Ingo into the audition at Munich acting school. Moreover, Johannes falls in love with street artist Herta from Berlin. Written by emkarpf
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Leo und Claire (2002)
Character: Gestapo-Mann
In 1933 Nuremberg, successful Jewish businessman Leo Katzenberger owns an apartment building and runs a shoe store. A devoted family man, he has a good relationship with his loving wife Claire. As the climate in Germany grows increasingly dangerous, bombshell Irene moves to the neighborhood. After forming an unlikely friendship, his relationship with Irene is immediately regarded with suspicion.
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Backbeat (1994)
Character: Klaus Voormann
Chronicles the early days of The Beatles in Hamburg, Germany. The film focuses primarily on the relationship between Stuart Sutcliffe, John Lennon, and Sutcliffe's girlfriend Astrid Kirchherr.
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Pakten (1995)
Character: Fritz Becker
Ernest, Ted and August fulfill their friend Carl's dying wish and take him to Heidelberg, where they all first met 45 years ago, to see his old girlfriend one last time. However, the locals won't talk about her, due to a WW2 secret.
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Der zehnte Sommer (2003)
Character: Karl Spielplatz
The tenth summer of Kalli is certainly one of these magical experiences. Along with his friends, he initially planned great things, including opening a zoo - however, one that not only offers the ordinary creeping or fluttering items in a preserving jar, but a true sensation...
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Emil und die Detektive (2001)
Character: Knut Tischbein
The twelve-year-old Emil and his father are haunted by bad luck. To take a break from a series of family disasters, Emil is allowed to spend a few days with a friend of the family, the female priest Hummel in Berlin. In the train he runs across the slick Max Grundeis who anaesthetizes Emil and steals his savings of 1500 DM. When he finally arrives in Berlin, Emil and a gang of street kids, led by the cheeky girl Pony Hütchen, try to find the gangster, who haunts the posh Hotel Adlon as a hotel thief. Meanwhile, to prevent anyone from finding out about Emil's mishap, Gypsi, a member of the gang of kids, passes himself off as Emil, thus wreaking havoc on the home of the priest.
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Restrisiko (2011)
Character: Werksleiter Wessel
Nuclear security expert Katja Wernecke (Ulrike Folkerts) helps cover up a fire in the German nuclear reactor she works in, before the government takes a decision on extending the usage license for it. But the press uncovers it. PR man Steffen Stratmann (Matthias Koerbelin) is brought in to improve the companies image - but before he can implement his plan a nuclear meltdown occurs. 2m people have to be evacuated. Wernecke re-enters the hot zone to investigate the cause...
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