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Der Uranberg (2010)
Character: Altmann
1947: the Russians have uranium extracted from the newly founded SAG Wismut mine in the Ore Mountains. Among the miners is Kurt, who has become an enthusiastic communist while a prisoner of war in Russia and therefore hates his father, a convinced Nazi. Kurt falls in love with Lydia. The daughter of Soviet Major Burski was actually supposed to spy on him, but soon returns his love. However, this is not under a good star. A mining accident is in the offing.
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Tod auf Raten (2016)
Character: Ronald
The former boxer Ronald has lost his short-term memory after an accident. Now nothing is the same. Roland's world has no future, and the past only exists in his mind up until his accident.
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Schneeland (2005)
Character: Salomon
Based on the novel Hohaj by Elisabeth Rynell, it depicts the devastation felt by Elizabeth, a woman who had lost her husband in a car accident and wants to leave her three young children to join him in death by wandering out into the snowy deserts of Lapland. As she wanders through the snow, Elizabeth discovers the story of Aron and Ina, a couple who overcame dark secrets and over-controlling family members to be with each other.
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Lieb mich! (2000)
Character: Peter Wedel
Katrin and Peter have a son Nicki who is in elementary school. Although Katrin takes care of her son and her husband, she is bored. When she meets Nicki's new teacher, Elena, she is immediately attracted and intrigued by this sensual and mysterious woman. Discovering that Elena is a lesbian, she realizes that her desire is mutual. Quickly a passionate bond is born between the two young women.
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Vollmond (2017)
Character: Martin Wildner
Lara was severely traumatised as a child and every day this trauma catches up with her. During a photo session, she falls in love with Conrad, a writer who has just been released from prison. What Conrad doesn't know is that everyone around her knows the burden Lara lives with. Her uncle Markus resorts to drastic means to save Lara and risks losing her forever.
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Ein Yeti zum Verlieben (2001)
Character: Tim Bergmann
The completely overwhelmed single father Tim sees his purpose in life in the search for the Yeti. When he actually finds him, the benevolent snowman helps him to find happiness in his private life too.
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Mann, oh Mann, oh Mann! (2002)
Character: Andreas Reiner
Married vet Josef not only has a passion for dolphins, but also for other women. When his wife Barbara divorces him, Josef plunges into a life crisis and moves in with his lawyer friend Roman, whose household he thoroughly overhauls with feng shui and esotericism. In the meantime, Andreas, the third member of the family, has a child with Josef's ex-wife Barbara - but is overwhelmed as a father. Josef and Andreas join forces to form a fatherhood community. The owner of the apartment, Roman, is a nuisance and flees to Barbara.
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40+ sucht neue Liebe (2009)
Character: Martin Herdecker
Sarah Simon, a successful editor at the renowned Cologne publishing house Rotberg Verlag, has managed to make a career for herself while raising a wonderful son, Tobi. Although her marriage to Tobi's father Oliver didn't last, they have been best friends since their separation. Sarah reckons she has a good chance of becoming editor-in-chief at Rotberg and accepts many an unloved task that Karl Rotberg, the head of the publishing house, throws at her. Including this one, the fulfillment of which Karl makes a precondition for the longed-for promotion: Sarah is to seek out Martin Herdecker, author of the bestseller "How to Find the Right Woman for Life". The promised manuscript of his new book, which is due to be published in time for the upcoming Frankfurt Book Fair, is a long time coming. Sarah's mission: find Herdecker and return with the manuscript. Sarah is outraged when she meets Martin Herdecker, who is as unkempt as he is prickly...
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Tiger, Löwe, Panther (1989)
Character: N/A
The three friends Pat, Nicoletta and Sissy are in their 30s and actually lead very decent lives. But that alone does not satisfy them: Like cats of prey, they are on the hunt for happiness, which they seek in relationships with the opposite sex.
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Ein Mann wie eine Waffe (1999)
Character: N/A
Criminal psychologist David Bornett is investigating a series of murders in which a police pen is stuck in the victim's ear. The team includes his godson Michael, who is new to the police force, and his colleague Max. Bornett suspects the murderer is among his own ranks and informs Michael. While David's trail leads to Max, Michael's leads lead directly to his uncle David.
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Doppelgänger (2025)
Character: Albert’s father
The Munich student Albert is haunted in his daily life by the disturbing claim that his doppelgänger is walking around the city. The political topic of surveillance, a subject that has often been discussed in the shared student apartment, also becomes intertwined with Albert’s perceived threat. Under the rebellious slogan “Make Yourself Unrecognizable!”, the roommates have been developing little sabotage actions. For Albert, whose fear of control and loss of identity is already growing, the personal and political levels merge. His fear of loss of control and identity develops into a journey between mistrust, identity, and the question of whether reality and paranoia can still be distinguished from each other.
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Auf der Walz (2009)
Character: N/A
Nina, Kerstin, Simon, Stefano and Flurin are journeymen doing their time on the road after completing their apprenticeships. They all take different paths and do it in their own way. They follow the unwritten rules of the tradition of their craft, but also their own inner compass.
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Schattenboxer (1992)
Character: Dealer
Eddi is just back in town after his imprisonment. He plans to free his African jail comrade Timpe, because the latter will get no asylum in Germany and probably be killed when sent to his country. When freeing Timpe at the airport, Eddi and his comrades find out that the police officers are smuggling drugs when escorting those who get no asylum back to their countries. Eddi decides to take advantage of the situation.
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Der Skorpion (1997)
Character: N/A
Josef Bertholt is head of operations of the Munich Police's drug squad. When his wife Lily is the victim of a hit by drug dealers, he becomes even more obsessed with his work.
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Liebe Amelie (2005)
Character: Bernd
After moving to Munich with her parents Kristin and Bernd, the 16-year-old Amelie has problems adjusting to her new school. Although the family seems to be happy, her parents are too busy themselves to notice how depressed she is - until she tries to commit suicide. Amelie survives, but her disease worsens...
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Die Heimkehr (2012)
Character: Hermann Mohrle
August Staudenmeyer returns after thirty years absence as a wealthy man in his hometown Gerbersau. First, the successful businessman is received with open arms. But when he stands up for the outlawed widow Katharina Entriss, he gets sidelined. August realizes that the narrow-mindedness of the Gerbersauer has by no means changed. Richer for an experience and a love, he leaves home a second time.
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Das Geheimnis in Siebenbürgen (2012)
Character: Lukas Schauttner
Lukas Schauttner is a management consultant. However, as a partner in his Berlin consulting company, he sees difficult times ahead. So he has to accept an assignment that takes him to Transylvania, where he is to inspect a factory. He doesn't actually want to go there, because since leaving the country in 1987, he has suppressed everything to do with his Romanian homeland. He wants to keep his trip short. But as soon as he arrives in the country, his past catches up with him. He meets his childhood sweetheart Mara and discovers a long and old family secret. When he is visited by his wife Doris and their daughter Nina, his stay becomes a heavy emotional and personal burden for Lukas. Suddenly he has to face up to his homeland, his past and his family.
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Friedliche Zeiten (2008)
Character: Dieter Striesow
After fleeing to the West in 1961, peaceful times were supposed to begin for the Striesows. But Irene longs for the familiar GDR, fears her husband Dieter's supposed "second wives" and expects the Third World War every day. When the war finally breaks out in the living room, her children Ute, Wasa and Flori decide to help their mother's happiness along, with unexpected consequences.
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Für immer ein Mörder - Der Fall Ritter (2014)
Character: Lutz Müller
At the beginning of 2000, the young commissioner Yvonne Weber moved from Frankfurt am Main to Eisenach. Together with the local colleague Frank Wolf, she is to review an unresolved murder case from the GDR era. The investigation team encounters inconsistencies in the file and it becomes clear that there is no interest in truth-clarifying the Eisenach department and the prosecutor's office in Gotha.
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Auf Sand gebaut (2023)
Character: N/A
In a surreal building that represents to its inhabitants their entire universe, the young woman Lin goes in search of answers and makes an unexpected discovery in the basement of the building.
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Millennium Love (1999)
Character: Frank
They are young and full of zest for life when they meet by chance in Hamburg in the fall of 1990: Tom signs on to a container ship the next morning, Katja has to return to her class. They only have this one night, but in it they experience all the happiness and sorrow of love. They promise each other to meet again on New Year's Eve 1999, the last day of the old millennium.
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Willkommen in Babylon (1995)
Character: Norbert Prechtel
Angelika Romberg is a driving-instructor recently left by her husband. Currently she has two more problems. She does not know how to use her driving school's computer and she has an absolutely untalented client, Norbert Prechtel. It can be truly said that Norbert is a computer pro. Both dislike each other, but what they yet don't know is that they both are frequently chatting on the computer dialogue system Babylon as Roxanne and Alexander...
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Die Abrechnung (2006)
Character: Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Haeßler
A reporter has only one purpose after the death of his daughter: find the fugitive driver responsible for the accident.
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Königskinder (2003)
Character: Merles Vater
In order not to end up as a lock keeper in the country like his father, 18-year-old Abel wants to go to the USA to become a stuntman. Girlfriend Merle is supposed to come along, but then finds out that she is pregnant.
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Überleben an der Wickelfront (2012)
Character: Fränkie
The journalist Dieter Lindemann and the lawyer Esther have finally become parents - twins. But who stays at home now? Esther has just taken over the management of her law firm. So Dieter stays at home and is looking forward to the time out: sleeping late in the morning, having a leisurely breakfast and playing with the twins in the afternoon. Puppy cake! Balancing career and fatherhood turns into a balancing act between career women and cake batter.
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Familie XXL (2002)
Character: Stefan Kramer
Simone, head of a catering company and mother of Timo and Nelly, separates from her unfaithful husband Stefan.
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Auf der Walz – Drei Jahre und ein Tag (2025)
Character: Volker Abeler
Carpenter Maria Abeler is supposed to take over her father's carpentry business and start a family with her longtime boyfriend Steffen, at least if Volker and Steffen have their way. When journeyman Cem turns up at the carpentry workshop, Maria decides to join Cem on a three-year journey against the wishes of her father and her boyfriend
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Mich hat keiner gefragt (2021)
Character: Albert
42-year-old Anna is happily single and doesn't want to be tied down for life. Her best friend Daisy, who wants nothing more than a marriage proposal, and Anna's daughter Clara, who is planning her lavish dream wedding, are completely different. All the hustle and bustle unexpectedly throws Anna into an identity crisis.
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Das Experiment (2001)
Character: Günther Schütte, Prisoner Nr. 82
20 volunteers agree to take part in a seemingly well-paid experiment advertised by the university. It is supposed to be about aggressive behavior in an artificial prison situation. A journalist senses a story behind the ad and smuggles himself in among the test subjects. They are randomly divided into prisoners and guards. What seems like a game at the beginning soon turns into bloody seriousness.
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Hildes Reise (2004)
Character: Stephan Bertsch, Martin's former boyfriend
Upon learning that his deceased ex-lover has willed him a substantial sum of money after succumbing to AIDS, a young Swiss man finds his life endlessly complicated by the deceased man's homophobic mother and headstrong recent boyfriend in director Christof Vorster's heart-rending drama. Steff and his ex-lover Martin Hilder had some great times together before parting ways, and when Steff learns that Martin has named him as the sole beneficiary to his substantial fortune, Steff finally begins to consider fulfilling his lifelong dream of starting his own business. It's not going to be as easy as it sounds, though, because in order to get the money, Steff is going to have to go through Martin's controlling, vehemently anti-gay mother. Add to that the fact that Martin's most recent ex-boyfriend, Rex, is determined to fulfill the deceased's wishes of having his ashes scattered in the Atlantic and Steff soon finds himself forced to reexamine his life and reassess his priorities.
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Lehman. Gier frisst Herz (2018)
Character: Torsten Büttner
On September 15, 2008, the financial world faces its worst crisis since the end of the Second World War. Lehman Brothers, one of the world's largest investment banks, goes bankrupt. Savings banks and their customers in Germany are particularly hard hit. Landlords Claudia and Torsten Büttner also lose all their savings as a result of the crash and are unscrupulously cheated by their bank advisors. They include savings bank employee Arno Breuer, who reluctantly sells Lehman certificates, and young online banker Nele Fromm, who is driven by ambition and potential bonuses.
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The Book Thief (2013)
Character: Alex Steiner
While subjected to the horrors of WWII Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. Under the stairs in her home, a Jewish refugee is being sheltered by her adoptive parents.
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Südpol (2019)
Character: Robert
After many successful years, Hans loses his job overnight - and with it the stability and meaning in his life. Undecided what he wants to do with himself and his future, he drives through Vienna and ends up in the "Südpol", a pub on the other side of the city.
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St. Pauli Nacht (1999)
Character: Der Friese
Sometimes your fate lies in the hands of those you meet. Filled with promising ambitions, shattered dreams, love and revenge and in the end hope, the story reveals how tangibly interconnected our induividual fates really are. Cabby Robby drives in and around St.Pauli, Hamburg, from sunset to sunrise. He is surrounded by stories of the night. Drowning in human incidents.
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Ein Kommissar kehrt zurück (2016)
Character: Friedel Weiland
Newly retired Chief Inspector Kovak returns to a small village near Greifswald, where a gruesome crime took place 20 years ago. He was unable to solve the case back then because the evidence against the renowned physics professor Adam was not enough. Now he sticks to Adam again and tries to trick him into making a mistake. But the highly intelligent Adam is far superior to Kovak. How far will Kovak go to convict Adam? Is Adam even the culprit or is Kovak just deluded?
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Das letzte Schweigen (2010)
Character: Matthias Grimmer
13-year-old Sinikka vanishes on a hot summer night. Her bicycle is found in the exact place where a girl was killed 23 years ago. The dramatic present forces those involved in the original case to face their past.
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Max Manus (2008)
Character: Oberscharführer Karl Höhler
Max Manus is a Norwegian 2008 biographic war film based on the real events of the life of resistance fighter Max Manus (1914–96), after his contribution in the Winter War against the Soviet Union. The story follows Manus through the outbreak of World War II in Norway until peacetime in 1945.
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Durch diese Nacht (2009)
Character: Jan Kelm
Jan wants to come clean, break up with his friend and business partner Tom and confess to his partner Karla that he's having an affair. But then he suffers a brain hemorrhage.
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U-571 (2000)
Character: German E-Chief
In the midst of World War II, the battle under the sea rages and the Nazis have the upper hand as the Allies are unable to crack their war codes. However, after a wrecked U-boat sends out an SOS signal, the Allies realise this is their chance to seize the 'enigma coding machine'.
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Japaner sind die besseren Liebhaber (1995)
Character: N/A
Peter Merz is used to getting what he wants: this time, too, business success is as good as certain: the Japanese investors with whose help he wants to build a factory in Dresden will eat out of his hand. The beautiful and no less tenacious competitor Teamarianne, who is always one step ahead of him in all his endeavors, gets in his way. When Peter's wife unsuspectingly involves the heir to the Takahashi group first in a traffic collision and then in a flirtation, a series of turbulent confusions and mix-ups takes its course.
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Alles Verbrecher - Leiche im Keller (2015)
Character: Raffael Sobcinski
Shock on the night of love: Instead of the tender hand of his neighbor Maren Wenning, the married suburban Casanova Rudi Sterzenbach suddenly feels the bloody hand of a murder victim on his face in the dark cellar. The man lying there with his skull smashed in is the speculative shark Armin Teller. Ironically, also wrapped in the banner of a citizens' initiative against the gentrification of the quarter. An initiative in which they are both active.
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Bella und der Feigenbaum (2013)
Character: Dr. Jonas Berger / Felipe
Bella Sommer lives in Mallorca and works in the dental practice of Dr. med. Jonas Berger, her great love. The problem is, your boss does not know that his loyal receptionist secretly idolizes him. Rather, he punishes her with demonstrative disregard when it comes to the private.
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Die Wilden Hühner und die Liebe (2007)
Character: Thorben Mossmann
Five teenage girls navigate the twists and turns of their complicated emotional lives, and learn the secrets of the heart through their friendship.
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Landgang für Ringo (1996)
Character: Eggers
Marine Ringo deserts in Hamburg when he finds his girlfriend with rival Eggers. Squatting with friend Yusuf, he uncovers Eggers’s shady land deals.
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Der kleine Nazi (2010)
Character: Hannes
Christmas Eve at a senile grandmother's place takes a turn for the worse when the daughter of the family brings her jewish boyfriend to find that the tree is dressed in ornaments from the 1930s
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Horst Lichter - Keine Zeit für Arschlöcher (2022)
Character: Horst Lichter
Based on the bestselling biography: Entertainer Horst Lichter has barely had time to relax on his holiday when his mother calls him. In her own dry way, she tells him that she has been diagnosed with cancer and that things are not going well for her. Immediately Horst returns to his hometown with his wife Nada. Returning home brings back childhood memories - of a loving father and a mother who held the reins firmly in difficult situations. Horst tries his best to support his mother Margret - he organises doctor's appointments and tries to provide a little variety into her daily life, even though the relationship between mother and son has been strained for a long time: he counters his mother's edgy, frosty manner as he had learned to do when he was young. He emphasises the positive side of any situation and is always ready to respond with a snappy retort. When Margret learns how serious her illness really is, Horst begins to rethink his own life as well.
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Kühn hat zu tun (2019)
Character: N/A
Martin Kühn has work to do - and a lot of it. As an inspector, dealing with murders and kidnappings is his bread and butter, but when these crimes happen almost on his doorstep, even the experienced police officer is not left cold.
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Echte Kerle (1996)
Character: Mike
Christoph, cop and self-confident macho, has trouble with his fiance. After a long night he wakes up in the arms of Edgar, a good-looking, gay auto-mechanic. His live gets more and more troublesome after his girl friend throws him out of their apartment and as last resort he moves to Edgars place. Working together with a new, good-looking, very self-confident, female collegue, but living with a good-looking gay guy makes him pretty uncertain about his sexuality and his role as a cop. Written by Konstantin Articus
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Sex & Crime (2016)
Character: Ha-Gü
Valentin (Wotan Wilke Möhring) thought it an excellent idea to let his best friend Theo (Fabian Busch) its new, large house for one night, so that the therein undisturbed with the attractive waitress Mörli (Claudia Eisinger) can enjoy. As the best-selling author and passionate chess player Theo currently has trouble
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