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Liesl Karlstadt und Karl Valentin (2008)
Character: Gisela Royes / Fey
The first time they meet, she finds him horrible. The second time, she falls in love with the strange, misanthropic, hypochondriacal lateral thinker who is plagued by all kinds of fears. Together they become Karl Valentin and Liesl Karlstadt. Their stories on stage are funny enough to make you cry and sad enough to make you laugh, just like their lives. Liesl becomes famous with her Valentin and pays a high price for it. The story of the comedian couple tells of jealousy, tears, successes and nervous breakdowns and of a love that lasts beyond death.
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Mit einem Schlag (2008)
Character: Maria Neumann
Just as Maria is about to leave her husband after 33 years of marriage, entrepreneur Jakob collapses with a stroke. The result: amnesia, where he forgets everything in his sleep. Maria stubbornly tries to awaken his memory - to make it easier for them to separate. But his old life with its affairs remains alien to Jakob...
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Der Hahn ist tot (2000)
Character: Rosemarie Louise Thyra Hirte
After work, only the canary is waiting for Rosi. Even her friend secretly giggles about the "old bag who's missed out."
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Starke Zeiten (1988)
Character: Saleslady
The film consists of several small episodes that take place in and around Munich.
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Leo (2006)
Character: Gisela Sobotta
A murderous community of heirs is looking forward to big money too soon. After a long time, the Dargatz family meets again for the grandmother's funeral on her farm. Leo, the local priest, is entrusted with the regulation of family affairs and the opening of the will. What begins as a harmonious family gathering is slowly becoming a drama about hidden passion, greed and lust for murder. And the devout Leo must learn that not everything that is meant well ends well.
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Drei in fremden Kissen (1995)
Character: Genevieve Büglmeier
Once again, the hotel run by brothers Ludwig and Otto König is not fully booked. This changes when Genevieve Büglmeier, a rich sausage and meat manufacturer, turns up at the hotel and wants to book the four-poster room and the entire floor for herself. But the four-poster room has been booked for Otto and Ludwig's sister, Nane. What Nane doesn't realize is that Genevieve has arrived accompanied by Herbert Faltemeier, from whom Nane has just been divorced...
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Sieben Erzählungen aus der Vorgeschichte der Menschheit (1975)
Character: N/A
1. A modern Bavarian brewer, Emanuel Holzbauer, faces a sales crisis and targets his competitors to save his brewery. 2. In 1567, Protestant merchant Johann Christof Paumgartner—outlawed by church and state—compassionately aids the poorest in his town.
3. A fairy-tale rivalry: peasant boy Franz Niederholzer learns a harsh lesson about greed when he mistakes ordinary metal for gold.
4. A Moritat set during hyperinflation, as shopkeeper Max Geiger is forced to desperate measures to survive.
5. April 9, 1865: In her diary entry on the Confederacy’s surrender, Missis Marilyn Haley-Care confronts the illusion of freedom that costs the enslaved Ben his life.
6. A musical conversation piece finds Laura Wohlbrück passionately campaigning to humanize industrial labor, earning unexpected acclaim.
7. At displaced Walter Gladek’s wedding, a friend’s song about a hunter’s horn rekindles memories of building an industrial enterprise in their homeland.
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Glückstag (2023)
Character: N/A
Munich in summer. Pensioner Gerd roams the streets collecting empty returnable bottles. He meets the working, partying and bathing city dwellers as an open and friendly man who always has a funny saying at the ready. But not everyone seems to be well-disposed towards Gerd. Bernhard Wohlfahrter's sensitive short fiction film unobtrusively criticizes society and questions privileges.
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Morgen musst du sterben (2010)
Character: Ella von Mittwitz
Johannes Ganten, in his late 50s, known as John to his friends, leads a comfortable life as an emeritus professor. Everything has always come to him, which John takes for granted. He has never thought about anything until this morning - the Christmas holidays are just over - when he finds a note in his letterbox with the words: "Tomorrow you must die! Ganten doesn't really take the warning seriously. His old friend Peter takes a completely different view and can't understand John's attitude at all. Only the second warning and some very strange encounters gnaw away at Ganten's unshakeable self-confidence. The hours he then experiences change his life.
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Papa und Mama (2006)
Character: Ruth Hupach
Divorce lawyer Peter Ullrich’s seemingly perfect life shatters when his wife Katja suddenly leaves with their children. To shield his reputation, he hides the split and asks his clerk Thomas - himself reeling from family turmoil - to care for the kids. Amid comedic and touching moments, Thomas bonds with Peter’s children while both men grapple with love, loss, and unexpected emotional upheaval.
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Adel Dich (2011)
Character: Gräfin Walli von Felsen-Hepp
Wendel's suspicions are confirmed. For as long as he can remember he has believed that he was switched at birth. In the shock of retirement, he decides to finally get to the bottom of the matter. A lock of hair from his deceased mother allows only one conclusion in the DNA test. Wendel is not Wendel. But then who is he? In search of his presumably aristocratic origins, he meets a countess who is as resolute as she is fascinating.
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So wie du bist (2012)
Character: Helene Offer
Helene was tough as nails in her job. Not only defendants but also some of her colleagues are relieved that the unapproachable judge is finally retiring. One glass too many at the farewell party, a car accident and suddenly Helene's life is turned upside down. On the advice of her lawyer, she takes care of the young woman whose father was injured in the accident. With her spontaneous warmth, Michalina, who has Down's syndrome, appeals to a side of Helene that she herself no longer knows.
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Liebe bis in den Mord: Ein Alpenthriller (2016)
Character: Katharina Gruber
Sonja and her fiancé Thomas are about to get married. Their young happiness is shaken when Sonja is sexually assaulted by her childhood sweetheart Adrian after a birthday party.
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Bergfried (2016)
Character: Frieda
In the 1980s, the Italian Salvatore ends up in a small village in the Alps. Salvatore tells the villagers that he is going on vacation for two weeks. During this time, he befriends the widow Frieda, who is still mourning her husband, who never returned from the war. Salvatore also comforts 40-year-old Romy, as her husband is addicted to alcohol and is in a wheelchair. He even enters into a relationship with Erna. The nurse is forced to live with her father Stockinger, who takes good care of her son but has become embittered himself. What Erna doesn't realize is that Salvatore has a dark secret: he knows that the murderer of his entire family has settled in the small village and is seeking revenge...
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Zwei übern Berg (2012)
Character: Hannah Zorn
Alfons, the easy-going and extremely charming boss of "Betten Keilinger", can always rely on the loyalty of his secretary, the single Hannah Zorn: Tireless, creative, selfless, she has been at his side for many years. When he falls in love with the young designer Jette, he asks Hannah to be his right-hand woman and look after his neglected wife. Hannah, herself no stranger to Alfons' charm, gets caught up in a grueling relationship vortex - and not just her. But because Hannah has always been a very determined person, in the end Alfons has to fear losing everything: especially Hannah!
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Für dich dreh ich die Zeit zurück (2017)
Character: Erika
Hartmut has been with Erika for over 40 years, but his wife has Alzheimer's and their memories together are fading. When they both visit their granddaughter's dance club, they hear songs from the seventies. Suddenly Erika is moving to the beat of the music as if she had never forgotten a dance step. And although she then falls back into her own world, Hartmut finds new hope. If he could manage to turn back time, he could bring back Erika, the love of his life.
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Familie Lotzmann auf den Barrikaden (2016)
Character: Annemarie Lotzmann
In a single afternoon, the early retiree Hubert Lotzmann manages to dupe his sisters-in-law, to betray his autonomous daughter Bille to the police and to forget his wife Annemarie’s birthday. And when she finds out that he has sucked her beloved budgie into the vacuum cleaner and in the process ruined her longstanding Fuzzbuster 500 vacuum cleaner, Annemarie’s patience runs out and she kicks him out: she gives him exactly two hours till dinner – if he doesn’t return with the repaired appliance, he doesn’t need to bother returning at all!
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Kalt ist der Abendhauch (2000)
Character: Regine
Love story spanning 60 years of the lives of Charlotte and Hugo. As a teenager before the war she is in love with him, but he marries her sister. They share some brief happy moments during the difficult post-war period, then they are separated for the longest time. They meet again as 80-year olds.
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Eine unerhörte Frau (2016)
Character: Erni Schwaiger
What if nobody wants to believe you? Hanni, a farmer's wife and mother of three, is worried about her daughter Magdalena. The girl is smaller than the others, more sensitive, vomits more often and has increasingly poor eyesight. The doctors, the teacher and the family all say it must be her psyche. Glasses with normal lenses will certainly help. But as a mother, Hanni senses that a new pair of glasses won't change anything and that there is more at stake. Even plagued by an unheard-of memory from her youth, she begins to fight unwaveringly and unstoppably for her daughter's suffering, not only putting her family's happiness and her livelihood at risk, but also not shying away from the Bavarian justice system in the end.
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Helen, Fred und Ted (2006)
Character: Traudel Nitsche
Psychotherapist Fred Czerny is finding it difficult to retire. So he shares his busy practice in Munich with Ted Fröhlich, an advocate of modern, holistic therapy methods. They are soon joined by Helen Cordes, who no longer wants to wear herself out in a psychiatric clinic. The three shrinks soon find themselves under psychological stress with patients and their own private lives.
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Dinner for Two (2004)
Character: Sophie Kurtz
Nothing can help. Leopold's cholesterol levels have finally broken through the sound barrier and it is his Steffi, of all people, whose cooking is to blame for everything, who has to put him on a strict diet. When Steffi's best friend Sophie is left without a husband and money overnight, the two of them draw the consequences. As "Dinner for Two", they want to conjure up exclusive gourmet menus in posh households for a lot of money - and get into some serious turmoil in the process.
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Das Zeugenhaus (2014)
Character: Gisela Limberger
Witnesses about to testify at the Nuremberg War Trials needed a safe place to wait. All under one roof, each with their own secrets. And the countess assigned to take care of them. What was her secret?
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Germanikus (2004)
Character: Tusnelda
The work-shy, lazy Germanicus is taken to Rome by slave traders and sold straight to the nouveau riche Roman Tusnelda. He manages to escape, but only to end up in the next misery as a taster at the imperial court. When the emperor dies, he is arrested as an emperor's assassin and is to be thrown to the tigers in the arena.With the help of the black slave Saba, he manages to win the deadly fight and is proclaimed - against his will - the new emperor of the Roman Empire.His pragmatic ideas as a statesman explain why the Roman Empire ended so abruptly. At the side of Saba, who is elevated to empress, he returns to his home village of Sumpfing, where he now promises himself completely new perspectives ...
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Bin ich schön? (1998)
Character: Tamara
Between Munich and Seville, the destinies of sixteen characters intertwine and intersect, missing each other or colliding head-on. They are all, without knowing it, at a pivotal moment in their lives...
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Vino Santo – Es lebe die Liebe, es lebe der Wein (2001)
Character: Helene
Half-Italian Gioia loves Max, but leaves her son's son to cheat her as a fiancé. When Mama invites the family to the Italian winery for Grandpa's 80th birthday, the feelings are on the table alongside pasta, pesto and vino, because Gioia happens to meet Max again ...
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Langer Samstag (1992)
Character: Susi Herzog
A retail store owner in a mall fights to cope with her family and customers at the same time that she is threatened with the loss of her lease.
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Pumuckl und das große Missverständnis (2025)
Character: N/A
This summer, Pumuckl and Eder have a lot going on: a turtle, a trip to the countryside and then neighbor Burke's birthday! Perhaps too much - because with so many events going on, the two of them are barely able to maintain their friendship. And when a big misunderstanding arises, everything changes between Eder and Pumuckl...
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Eine ganz heiße Nummer (2011)
Character: Waltraud Wackernagel
When their little supermarket is threatened by bankruptcy, three shop assistants in rural Bavaria start their own phone sex line.
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Obendrüber, da schneit es (2012)
Character: Waltraut Henning
Christmas! Every year, expectations are high again. And that's why a little dissatisfaction quickly becomes the deepest despair. "Over there, it's snowing" tells of the joy and sorrow of December 23rd and 24th, as experienced by the residents of a Munich townhouse. The focus is on the freshly separated Miriam, her daughter Julchen and the awkward pastor Gregor.
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Und Äktschn! (2014)
Character: Grete
The big opportunity has come for amateur filmmaker Pospiech: The local bank director has announced a film competition. Pospiech wants to win with a portrait of Hitler the private man - and show it to his rival. Nagy, director of an amateur film club and failed real estate agent, claims to be the greatest film connoisseur in town, just like Pospiech. The battle for the crown can begin.
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Frau Rettich, die Czerni und ich (1998)
Character: Pipa
When Marie embarks on a road trip to a small seaside town, she’s joined by her quirky best friend Czerni and the eccentric, free-spirited schoolteacher Frau Rettich. What starts as a peaceful getaway quickly turns into an unpredictable journey of self-discovery, awkward romantic encounters, and hilarious escapades. As the trio’s personalities clash and their bond deepens, the trip becomes more than just a vacation—it’s a wild ride of love, friendship, and life’s unexpected twists. Frau Rettich, die Czerni und ich is a charming, offbeat comedy about finding yourself and embracing the chaos along the way.
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Steirerkreuz (2019)
Character: Pauline Fürst
This time, the Graz detective Sandra Mohr and her supervisor Sascha Bergmann have to go to the remote Mürztal to solve a bizarre death with the jovial local police officer Ferdinand Franz: The entrepreneur Walter Fürst is dead in his own bed – with strangulation marks on his neck.
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Laim und die Zeichen des Todes (2017)
Character: Marlene Laim
Inspector Lukas Laim has the rope from which a corpse is hanging from the bridge on Prater Island cut. There are strange red marks on its stomach. The dead man is a notary from Grünwald who is well known in the city as a patron of Jewish art. And the marks on his stomach are in Hebrew and mean "retribution". Retribution for what? And why the Hebrew writing? Shortly afterwards, Laim learns of a blackmail letter to his mother, signed with the Hebrew word "Shilem". The blackmailers demand 80,000 euros so that the public does not find out that Laim's grandfather made his fortune in the course of Aryanization.
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Silberhochzeit (2006)
Character: Anita
Based on a short story by Elke Heidenreich, this TV movie focuses on a couple's silver wedding party and the revelation of some bitter, long hidden secrets. Alma and Ben invite their best friends to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary, but what was meant to be a happy reunion leads to heated discussions and furious accusations...
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Weihnachten mit Willy Wuff (1994)
Character: Hildchen
The shaggy poodle-bobtail mix Willy Wuff rescues two small puppies and ends up with them involuntarily in a mountain hut. Thomas also wants to spend Christmas there with his wife Hilde, his future wife Geli and his seven-year-old son Michael. The constant quarrels between the adults make things difficult for Michael until he discovers Willy and the puppies. The boy lovingly begins to look after the dogs.
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Die Tote ohne Alibi (2012)
Character: Laims Mutter
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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Lang lebe die Königin (2020)
Character: Rose Just
The young sales presenter Nina Just is not respected in the slightest by her mother Rose, who lives in a farmhouse with her partner Werner. The young woman's life comes apart at the seams when her mother falls ill and needs a donor kidney to survive. She finally agrees to a transplant.
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100 Pro (2001)
Character: Marcels Mutter
Two young lads in Munich, Germany manage to score dates with drop-dead gorgeous underwear models. Now they must find a way to get past the formidable bouncers of Munich's poshest night club, 'Spy.'
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Zimmer mit Frühstück (2000)
Character: Marion
In her mid-fifties , Elisabeth Hallstein found her marriage in tatters overnight : her husband Klaus left her with the family fortune. Elisabeth, spoiled by luxury , has money problems for the first time . After a moment of shock, she comes up with an idea: she simply rents out a few rooms in hersold apartment. Interested parties are quickly found and a new love in the form of a young musician is on the horizon . But the project has its pitfalls.
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Der Heiratsschwindler und seine Frau (2012)
Character: Marta Krugschenk
Marriage swindler Herbert Krugschenk is a master of his trade. His success is based on meticulous planning, and his wife "Schnuck" is responsible for this. Herbert's life is promptly turned upside down when she dumps him one day. At least the way is now clear for the big coup that his wife has always warned him about: Herbert and his son travel to Switzerland to make a pass at rich widows and fail all along the line.
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Die Udo Honig Story (2015)
Character: Marion Honig
An insight view on the life of Udo Honig, successful football manager with a gambling addiction (similarities to a successful football manager in real life being purely coincidental).
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Pilgerfahrt nach Padua (2011)
Character: Gundula Glöckner
Gundula Glöckner is very worried about the salvation of her daughter Lena. Again and again, the young woman gets to the wrong men. To help her child's happiness, the resolute widow shortly sets out on a pilgrimage: in Padua she wants to pray for Lena at the tomb of St. Anthony. However, the illustrious Pilgrims on their way to Italy are struggling with a whole series of mishaps and complications. Especially the brash bus driver Benno brings the God-fearing Gundula again and again to the white heat - until she realizes that hides behind its rough shell a vulnerable core.
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Beckenrand Sheriff (2021)
Character: Bürgermeisterin
A lifeguard tries by all means to keep his home, an open-air swimming pool, from being closed.
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Wir sind die Neuen (2014)
Character: Anne
Three old friends from college move back in together in an apartment in Munich for financial reasons.
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Schief gewickelt (2012)
Character: Inga Brennfleck
Mona is fed up: while she keeps herself and her baby Bobby afloat with mini-jobs, Bobby's father celebrates his new girlfriend at every party in town. When Eddy announces his wedding, Mona sends him a smelly diaper - anonymously. Eddy catches on and sets off in search of the sender.
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Kehraus (1983)
Character: Annerose Waguscheit
Ferdinand Weitel, a forklift driver, is desperate: Insurance agent Arno von Mehling, a true sales talent, has had contracts signed in record amounts. Now Weitel is wandering through the corridors of the insurance company trying to save what can still be saved - on Shrove Tuesday of all days. The department for customer service and complaints is in a colorful mood and has no ear for Weitel's worries. Finally, secretary Annerose Waguscheit takes heart and tells him about the evening carnival ball "Traum-Police", where he can safely find Mr. Mehling.
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Man spricht deutsh (1988)
Character: Irmgard Löffler
A very middle-class Bavarian family spend the last day of their Mediterranean vacation on the beach, day-dreaming and muttering racist remarks about Italian people.
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