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Beste Feinde (2016)
Character: Hesse
The quiet, level-headed, slightly pedantic delicatessen owner Johannes Lemann and the eternally vagabond, quick-tempered Bert Michilinski couldn't be more different. But they have more in common than they admit: They both dislike themselves and their lives. One has built a wall around himself, the other is constantly running away from himself.
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Es geht nicht immer nur um Sex (2000)
Character: Cab Driver
29-year-old Liza can't believe her eyes when she catches her boyfriend in flagrante delicto with a stranger on the couch at home. Completely beside herself, she packs her bags and moves in with her friend Janni. Here she buries herself in her pain and doesn't want to see anyone or anything, and above all she swears off love forever. Janni, who is a little more relaxed than Liza when it comes to love, organizes a potential suitor, which is how Liza meets the shy student Pietro. But even before the first date, another suitor announces his interest: Kid is a policeman, brash, direct and charmingly macho - the complete opposite of Pietro. Suddenly blessed with two prospective lovers, Liza has to make a difficult decision...
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In aller Stille (2010)
Character: Christian Anik
In a sleepy Bavarian village, a 3-year-old boy vanishes overnight. Detective Nina Kunzendorf investigates parents with prior abuse allegations. With the mother away and the strict, unemployed father at the center, she uncovers the chilling truth behind his disappearance.
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Weniger ist mehr (2013)
Character: Michael
Frank Schuster has built a life of prosperity for his family, but his workaholism made to pass some time with her. Only after a car accident will be able to reconsider
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Die kalte Wahrheit (2015)
Character: Simon Kerber
On a freezing November night, a young doctor accidentally runs over and kills an 18-year old boy. The criminal investigation is quickly dropped, but the mysterious circumstances of the accident leave behind many unanswered questions.
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Zutaten für Träume (2001)
Character: Neo-Geo
Jutta and Eric were once lovers and aspiring chefs in the Spree Forest region of East Germany. Too prone too brilliant but risky improvisation, Jutta fell into obscurity; Eric defected to the West and became famous. Now he has returned to enlist her aid of crucial cooking contest - does this portend rekindled romance or cynical exploitation?
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Strong Shit (1997)
Character: Regiestudent
A cunning young man who has just lost his job improvises a bank robbery, taking a young woman who is also unemployed and a fugitive conscientious objector hostage. Pursued by the police and military police, a 15-hour odyssey through Berlin and Brandenburg begins, fundamentally changing the lives of those involved.
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Abseits (2015)
Character: Ralf Ruhe
Neighbor Ingrid warns mother Sonja about the refugees in the neighboring home for asylum seekers. There should have been trouble again. In contrast to Sonja, her husband Peter takes a more relaxed view of everything. When his son Nils suddenly appears on the doorstep with an injured refugee child, he has to bring the neighbor and Sonja back to reality.
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Himmlische Helden (2001)
Character: Knut
Bugsy, a small-time crook, seeks to bring his son home by needing a wife, money, and a career. An angel named Noname is sent to help him, but Noname is as chaotic as Bugsy. Noname’s mission is to ensure Bugsy’s happiness to avoid banishment from heaven. Bugsy meets Jasmin, but they don’t get along, and Noname falls for Bugsy’s landlady, Molle, weakening his heavenly connection.
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Tango zu dritt (2007)
Character: Micky
An attractive farmer's wife attends a tango course in Munich with a friend while her two grumpy husbands stay on the farm. In the city, she attracts the attention of a passionate Argentinean man who woos her and makes her dream of a different future.
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Mord in Ludwigslust (2012)
Character: Udo Schuster
In the castle park of Ludwigslust lies a dead woman. Investigators encounter a wall of silence. Everyone knew the dead "Lulu", many have a motive, everyone is afraid. But from what? Sophia Eichstätt, analyst at the LKA Kiel, investigates in the case, which assumes ever larger dimensions. Who is the perpetrator, who is the victim? Sophia gets caught between the fronts and has to decide which side she's on. It is dangerous on both sides.
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Mathilde liebt (2005)
Character: Hannes Schwabs Sohn
This melodrama about love in the third age focuses on the 65-year-old Mathilde living alone after the death of her husband. When she gets to know the attractive Carlo in the opera, she sleeps with him at the same evening. Mathilde tries to call him up some days later, but learns he gave her a wrong number. Despite this disappointing experience, she gets to know the sympathetic Hannes. They become a couple, but after a while, Mathilde meets Carlo, who apologizes and admits being married to a dead sick woman, again...
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Die Seelen im Feuer (2014)
Character: Kircher
A story about of one of the darkest periods in German history, an era in which the belief in occult forces was widespread. In Bamberg, witch hunts were fostered by a greedy and delusional Bishop Prince and reached their peak around 1630. This Bamberg ruler used the witch trials to purge his political enemies and enrich himself with their goods. Almost 1000 innocent men, women and children became his victims. BURNING SOULS deals with the era seen through the eyes of Johanna Wolff, a pharmacist's daughter, and the young physician Cornelius Weinmann. To save the innocent, he and a few courageous men revolt against the Bishop Prince.
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Das Wunder von Merching (2012)
Character: Willi Schubert
The people of Merchingen used to live from tourism, which has been at a standstill for years. With the incorporation, the idyllic provincial village is now threatened with the loss of its independence. In its hour of greatest need, a rumor spreads that the statue of the Virgin Mary in the local field chapel is shedding tears. This prompted skeptics, but an ecclesiastical investigation confirmed the authenticity of the supernatural apparition. The people of Merchingen rejoice, but the hardworking farmer's wife Kathi feels increasingly uncomfortable in her own skin, as she knows better than anyone else about the earthly origin of the divine sign.
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Papa und die Braut aus Kuba (2016)
Character: Polizeihauptmeister
A greying company boss from a Bavarian town falls in love with a tropical beauty. For his seventieth birthday, his two children want to give their father something special and surprise company boss Clemens Filzhofer with a vacation to Cuba. "Nobody needs a trip like that," grumbles the fussy senior from the small Bavarian town. Far from it: when the widowed patriarch returns from the tropics, he introduces his new, much younger girlfriend Esperanza to the baffled clan. And they are to be married in a month's time.
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Kommissar Pascha (2016)
Character: Pius Leipold
A Turkish man‘s body is found floating in the Isar. A case for the Migra Division headed by Zeki Demirbilek, AKA “Inspector Pascha”. On their first big case, the team quickly manages to get on the wrong side of Munich’s Doner King, Güzeloğlu, who’s about to marry off his daughter. Her future husband and father-in-law just arrived at their house in Munich for Kiz Isteme, a Turkish tradition, to establish the groom’s suitability, when Zeki and his team barge in.
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Der Garmisch Krimi - Wolfsmord (2026)
Character: Claus Korntheuer
A murder case in Garmisch: the victim is the chairman of the nature conservation association, at a time when wolves are on the loose and the population is divided into wolf opponents and supporters. Investigators Ira Zach and Daphne Meindl pick up the trail.
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Schwarzach 23 - Und die Hand des Todes (2015)
Character: Sepp Sailer
As a junk dealer Anton is found dead, a case develops in which each of the Germingers is involved: the law-abiding Commissioner Franz Junior, his rebellious sister Anna, ex-policeman Franz Germinger senior and his wife Erika. Who could have wanted Anton? Commissioner Franz Germinger Junior first taps in the dark. His sister Anna is sometimes ahead of him in some situations, which may be because she likes to exceed her competencies. Even more annoying the junior but his father Franz Germinger senior, who can not refrain from finding.
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Die Frau aus dem Moor (2014)
Character: N/A
Matthias and Nelly live in a village in the Bavarian Alpine foothills. The couple could not be more different. When Matthias discovers a bog body in the lake, everything changes.
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Polizei (2025)
Character: Otto
Berlin, post-Corona. Anton is getting his life off the ground: apprenticeship, his own place with his girlfriend, no drugs, nothing dodgy. But then Anton gets a “yellow letter” in which he’s accused of a serious breach of the peace and resisting arrest. It all happened two years ago and the images come flooding back: the 1st May demo, his arrest. Anton has to get reinvolved in the life he was hoping to put behind him. The naive, good-natured boy feels burning hatred when he realizes he’s not the culprit, but the victim.
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Die Tochter des Mörders (2010)
Character: Dorfpolizist Sommer
"Was ist, wenn man strampelt und strampelt, um an die Spitze zu kommen, und dann merkt, dass man nur davongelaufen ist?" Diese Frage quält Hanna Meiwald (Sophie von Kessel). Just als die gewiefte Münchner Geschäftsfrau einen Riesendeal über die Bühne bringen will, wird sie von der Vergangenheit eingeholt. Ihr dementer Vater wurde von einem Zug überfahren, nun muss sie in ihr Dorf zurückkehren. Sie war fünf, als ihr Vater für den Mord an ihrer Mutter verurteilt wurde. Jahrzehntelang hat "Mörderbalg" Hanna das Heimatkaff gemieden. Dort, wo nach wie vor Engstirnigkeit und Tratsch regieren, stößt Hanna aber auf eine Spur, die Zweifel an der Schuld ihres Vaters weckt. Mit Kommissar Arnsberger (Brandt) rollt sie den Fall neu auf…
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Bierleichen. Ein Paschakrimi (2017)
Character: Pius Leipold
The body of a Turkish film student is found in the Wittelsbach fountain in Munich. Apparently Ömer Özkan drowned, but not in the fountain water, but in the beer. His lungs are filled with beer from "Minga Bräu", a traditional Munich brewery that is allegedly being sold to Istanbul. A Turkish student drowned in Bavarian beer. A puzzling case for Inspector Pasha and his Migra. While Pius Leipold enters the beer milieu with great vigor, Zeki's investigative zeal is very subdued.
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Winterreise (2006)
Character: LKW-Fahrer
Despite advancing age, rural businessman Franz has remained fit and energetic, but serious mental illness and financial problems mean that this hitherto ordinary man one day finds himself on a journey to Nairobi to get his money back, and perhaps his human dignity as well.
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Das Wetter in geschlossenen Räumen (2015)
Character: Journalist
A luxury hotel in a conflict zone. Development aid worker Dorothea begins an affair with a young drifter, Alec, but what starts as sweet distraction brings her dangerously close to losing control.
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Mein Blind Date mit dem Leben (2017)
Character: Küchenchef Krohn
An ambitious young man struggles to achieve his dream of becoming an employee in a Munich luxury hotel despite being strongly visually impaired.
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Joyeux Noël (2005)
Character: German Soldier - Michael
France, 1914, during World War I. On Christmas Eve, an extraordinary event takes place in the bloody no man's land that the French and the Scots dispute with the Germans…
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Tanze Tango mit mir (2021)
Character: Frank
After surviving a heart attack, Frank is discharged from hospital with the doctor's advice to avoid excessive physical exertion in future. In the theater where Frank is employed as a doorman, a tango dance group is rehearsing. In the seclusion of the porter's lodge, Frank takes his first tango steps and develops an unprecedented fascination for this dance art. Smiled at by his friends, he hides his new passion from his wife Kathrin and daughter Paula and takes lessons with tango teacher Maresa, who gets him more and more enthusiastic about tango despite his corpulence. When Kathrin finds out that Frank, despite his failing health, is "spending himself" dancing the tango, he puts his family duties on the back burner and ultimately risks his life.
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Guglhupfgeschwader (2022)
Character: Mike Kuglmayer
Bavaria's most relaxed village policeman has to face an organized crime syndicate coming after his grandmother's cakes.
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Die Tote aus der Schlucht (2015)
Character: Mike Pochler
Inspector Susanne Landauer is called to a mission in the country. A schizophrenic woman admitted anonymously years ago has disappeared from Dr. Mangold's clinic. Susanne can only recover the woman dead from the nearby river. A DNA comparison reveals that the dead woman is her biological mother. Luckily, Susanne's partner Isabell is there for her.
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Max und die wilde 7 - Die Geister-Oma (2024)
Character: Klaus Sonnenfeld
Max can hardly believe his luck: In a retirement home, he has finally found a gang that will let him join! Admittedly, it's the oldest and most wrinkly gang in the world - but that doesn't matter. He's found the best friends a 10-year-old could wish for in the elderly Vera, Horst and Kilian. Especially when, like Max, you're bullied in your new class and need help. But the gang's attempt to improve his school situation backfires. Horst, a former Bundesliga soccer coach, challenges Max's over-ambitious gym teacher Stöhle to a soccer duel: the school team including Laura and Ole against a selection of old geezers plus Max! And then the castle is haunted and a new case begins...
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3096 Tage (2013)
Character: Policeman
A young Austrian girl is kidnapped and held in captivity for eight years. Based on the real-life case of Natascha Kampusch.
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Servus, Schwiegersohn! (2019)
Character: N/A
Now that too. As soon as the model Bavarian Toni Freitag has properly integrated his son-in-law Osman, daughter Franzi drags an uninvited boarder from Berlin - in the person of her mother-in-law Farah. Unfortunately, good Toni gets along with the quick-witted businesswoman like cats and dogs. Servus. The fact that Farah has left her stubborn "Pascha" Mesut and her wedding dress shop and wants to stay indefinitely also shakes the ideal world of the reigning shooter king. His wife Anne soon showed a rapidly decreasing willingness to keep his back in the family and in the company as before.
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Ach, diese Lücke, diese entsetzliche Lücke (2026)
Character: Director
Twenty-year-old Joachim is unexpectedly accepted at drama school in Munich and moves into his grandparents' upper-class villa. From then on, he tries to find his identity as a young man between the world of theater and the everyday life of his eccentric grandparents.
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Schwere Jungs (2006)
Character: Franzl
In 1952, four passionate bobsledders - Gamser, Franzl, Gustl and Leusl Peter prepare for the Winter Olympics in Oslo. There, the veteran Bavarian Gamser wants to finally put his archrival Dorfler in his place and show him his class. While the two men constantly get into your hair, the women Rosi and Anna try to calm things down. In Oslo, there is finally a big showdown, which will take place not only on a bobsled.
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TKKG - Das Geheimnis um die rätselhafte Mind-Machine (2006)
Character: Wachmann 1
At first, friendgroup TKKG have no idea that something is amiss when “Jugend forscht” winner Kevin behaves strangely during the presentation of his “Mind Machine” - they blame his nervousness and his unexpected termination of the speech on relationship stress with his girlfriend Nadine. But when Nadine disappears without a trace shortly afterwards, like three other children before her, the amateur detectives know that they have to help the police with their investigation.
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Wer gräbt den Bestatter ein? (2022)
Character: Lukas Lauch
The villages of Greisendorf and Neubrunn are competing for the grave of the former silent film star Gaby Gruber. But even at 114 years old, Gemany's oldest woman still has a lot of life left in her. When Greisendorf's undertaker suddenly passes away, the gardener and the garbage woman are quickly assigned to replace him.
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Familie für Fortgeschrittene (2011)
Character: Installateur Hubert
Oliver, a single father from Berlin, and Johanna, also a single parent but from Bavaria, meet and fall in love while on vacation. The widowed teacher and the divorced mother of two soon no longer want to settle for a long-distance relationship. Without further ado, Oliver packs his things and moves with his daughter Holly to the Bavarian province, where Johanna runs a nursery. However, everyday life in a large family thrown together presents everyone involved with unexpected difficulties. Holly is still grieving for her mother and is estranged from Johanna. Her daughter Lisa, who is the same age, is suffering from school problems that are bigger than her mother suspects. And on top of all the family chaos, the heating in the nursery breaks down, jeopardizing Johanna's livelihood.
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Der Gutachter: Ein Mord zu viel (2017)
Character: Friedhelm Knecht
Dr. Robert Siedler is an experienced forensic psychologist who is asked to prepare an expert opinion for the mentally disturbed ex-alcoholic Friedhelm Knecht, who has been in custody for a long time. According to his expert assessment, he is in favor of releasing the offender, whereupon Knecht is released from prison. Shortly afterwards, however, there is a murder in which the evidence points to Knecht as the perpetrator. The suspect goes on the run and when the case causes a stir in the press, Robert is quickly found to be the scapegoat and blamed for the murder. Robert himself is shocked: has he misjudged a case for the first time? Or was his expert opinion justified and is Knecht innocent?
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Servus, Schwiegermutter! (2021)
Character: Leo Seidel
No sooner has model Bavarian Toni Freitag properly integrated his new son-in-law Osman than daughter Franzi brings in an uninvited guest from Berlin - in the person of her mother-in-law Farah. Unfortunately, Toni gets on like cats and dogs with the quick-witted businesswoman. Hello there!
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Crashpoint - 90 Minuten bis zum Absturz (2009)
Character: Hubert 'Hub' Roob (as Michael Grimm)
After a mid-air collision, an uncontrollable passenger plane with 90 souls on board speeds through the skies over Germany. The impact point for the inevitable plane crash is easily calculated: the center of Berlin. Now the race is on to prevent the catastrophe. Will the plane have to be shot down by fighter pilots?
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Die Sache mit der Wahrheit (2014)
Character: Dr. Faltermeier
Perfect lover Bruno has no idea that 'air hostess' Michelle postpones moving in because she's a Munich waitress leading bigamy-like multiple lives while lacking a proper self-image. Bumping into study roommate, stick-tied-up boring hairdresser Doro(thea), Michelle poses as manager of her son Jacob's favorite pop band and accepts an invitation to the Wolfratshausen home. Doro's cop husband Matthias isn't amused to be spied upon by the eagle-eye he never could stand, as if he senses that the gay porn which Doro finds in the garage isn't about to 'compromise their son's future' as she rages but the result of her failure to provide marital satisfaction, unlike Mattias's hot newbie colleague Winnie. Truth time becomes inevitable for most of them, lots of courage is required to deal with it all
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Das Wunder von Wörgl (2018)
Character: Bürgermeister von Tölz
Tyrol, 1932: The world economic crisis is at its peak, radical political movements emerge. In a small Austrian community, the engine driver Michael Unterguggenberger accepts the mayor's office against better knowledge. But how is he supposed to save Wörgl? The power of despair and the support of his wife Rosa form the breeding ground for a daring experiment: Unterguggenberger wants to print his own money without further ado - so-called work confirmation notes. For this he not only has to convince the community of his city, but above all to rebel against the mighty banking.
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Kundschafter des Friedens (2017)
Character: von Gütersloh
Four very retired, ex-GDR spies, or "Kundschafter des Friedens" as they were officially named, led by the once legendary Jochen Falk, are called on by the German government. Their mission is to rescue the interim president of the divided Republic of Katschekistan, who has been kidnapped by separatists, along with Berlin's official man on the ground, Franz Kern. To keep Jochen and his maybe no longer so crack team under control, all of whom are determined to prove they were treated unfairly by history, they are put under the command of the young and enthusiastic BND agent Paula Kern.
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Die Tote ohne Alibi (2012)
Character: Staatsanwalt Rüvermann
A noble prostitute is found dead in the toilet of a trendy club. Actually a normal case for Chief Inspector Lukas Laim - he would not know this woman intimately. In addition, the case gets an unexpected twist: Laim and his assistant Tim Berners encounter in the customer file of the victim on the top managers of a pharmaceutical company. Suddenly the sexual offense becomes a serious case of white-collar crime.
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Nichts zu verlieren (2018)
Character: Rolf
The two small-time crooks Tom and Richy want to escape from Europe to a tropical paradise with one last coup. Unfortunately things go wrong. On the run, they hijack a tour bus. As participants on a journey of mourning, the inmates are busy dealing with a great loss. There is a lot of crying on board. However, for very different reasons.
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Operation Zucker - Jagdgesellschaft (2016)
Character: Frank Wilhelm
Karin Wegemann has been transferred. Instead of being on active duty at the LKA, she has been teaching prospective colleagues at the police academy for several months. But a life at a standstill is not made for a woman who feels most comfortable in a headwind. The career change brings her neither external stability nor inner peace. Her superiors see this too. One evening, Wegemann meets investigative journalist Maik Fellner. Child trafficking in Germany has been Fellner's topic for years, but his articles ultimately have no effect whatsoever, and his harrowing research is at best denigrated as slander. Fellner needs Wegemann, but he needs her as an active police officer. He puts Wegemann under pressure and tells her about a 14-year-old witness who has put him on the trail of a child trafficking ring in Potsdam. Her investigation puts her in dire straits, because the perpetrators also know that there is a witness.
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Herren (2019)
Character: Herr Moser
Ezequiel is a martial arts master in capoeira and loves teaching. But when his boss's son becomes the new head of the school, he resigns in frustration. Without a job, he now faces a real problem, because as a dark-skinned immigrant with no education, it will be very difficult to get a job again. Out of necessity, he ends up working for small business owner Reynaldo and his colleague Jason, cleaning antique public urinals at night. Ezequiel is so ashamed of his new job that he doesn't want to tell his wife Marta or his son Stevie. Ezequiel actually wants his son to have a proper, academic education, which will open all doors for him later on. But then he reveals to his father that he would rather become a hairdresser than study.
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Auf einmal (2016)
Character: Hausmeister
Karsten apparently has it settled. However, in this provincial German town, a moment of weakness turns to disaster, disappointment soon fuels anger, justice hides behind hypocrisy, and evil gradually unfolds.
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Dr. Hope - Eine Frau gibt nicht auf (2009)
Character: Dr. Hengge
Historical Bio-Pic, based on the life of Hope Bridges Adams-Lehmann, being the first female physician and member of womens-lib movement in Germany at the end of 19th century.
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Zweigstelle (2025)
Character: Bob
When Resi and her clique get into a fatal accident on their trip to the Alps, they find themselves in a Bavarian afterlife authority that will decide their fate. Elysium, purgatory, rebirth - anything seems possible. When it becomes clear that the group lacks all conviction, the question arises: what the hell happens to someone who didn't believe in anything when they were alive?
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Hawaiian Gardens (2001)
Character: Edwin
A romantic drama/detective story about big-time copyright fraud and a bigger-time crush. A complicated love triangle plays out to a dramatic climax, taking us from a strip mall somewhere in the glaring dust of Los Angeles County to a dark forest in Germany.
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Flunkyball (2023)
Character: Herr von Seidlein
Father and mother are thrilled: So now their teenager son has a girlfriend. And what a fabulous young woman she is! In contrast to his older sister Milli, 17-year-old Franz was previously an introverted, quiet, shy loner. His parents are all the more impressed when he brings home the pretty, self-confident Zoe one night. Zoe quickly finds her way into the heart of Franz’s family. Or is this young woman just telling people what they want to hear because she sees their hidden desires? After an ecstatic night in the clubs of the city of Munich with a little too much drugs, Zoe has disappeared and Franz's heart is broken. He absolutely has to see her again and goes looking for his first great love.
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Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank (2016)
Character: Willem van Maaren
The story of Anne Frank, the Jewish girl who went into hiding with her family in Amsterdam and became a victim of the Holocaust.
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Ostwind - Aris Ankunft (2019)
Character: N/A
Grandmother Maria, Sam and the riding instructor Kaan are trying together to keep Gut Kaltenbach running, which is in financial difficulties. The ambitious Isabell supports her, although she secretly pursues her own goals. The impulsive Ari comes to riding training in Kaltenbach, where she develops a special relationship with Windstorm, the eponymous horse of the film series, and she also makes friends with Mika. Mika and Ari try to save the estate and protect Windstorm from reckless horse trainer Thordur Thorvaldson.
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Aufbruch ins Ungewisse (2018)
Character: Dirk Kaufmann
In the near future: Europe is in chaos. Right-wing extremists have taken power in many countries. The democratic state that once was Germany has become a totalitarian system that persecutes dissenters, Muslims and homosexuals. Jan Schneider has stood as a lawyer on the side of dispossessed victims. When he learns that the regime wants to jail him again, he decides to flee with his family. His goal is the South African Union, which enjoys political and economic stability after an economic boom. A freighter is to bring him, his wife Sarah and the two children Nora and Nick together with other refugees to Cape Town, but the tugs abandon their passengers in much too small boats off the coast of Namibia. On rough seas, it comes to disaster, the little Nick is lost, and no one knows if he could reach the shore...
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