Herbert Knaup
Herbert Knaup is a German film and television actor. He is perhaps best-known to international audiences for his supporting roles in Run Lola Run and The Lives of Others. Longtime companion of actress Natalia Wörner until 2001. Supports the SOS Children's Villages.
Started a career as musician with his two nephews in their band "Neffen und Knaup" (Nephews and Knaup) (2007). Founding member of the German Screen Actors Guild. After graduating from the Otto Falckenberg School, the Academy of Performing Arts in Munich, he made his stage debut in 1978.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.52 |
| Birthday | 1956-03-23 |
| Place of Birth | Sonthofen, Germany |
| Also Known As |
2006
The Elementary Particles
6.126/147
Based on Michel Houellebecq's controversial novel, Atomised (aka The Elementary Particles) focuses on Michael and Bruno, two very different half-broth...
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1998
Run Lola Run
7.298/2541
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2003
Distant Lights
7.422/32
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Distant Lights
2006
The Lives of Others
8.038/4092
In 1984 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and his actress-lover Christa-Maria. Wiesler becomes un...
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The Lives of Others
1998
Fever
6.5/2
The married couple Carl and Vera Sylvester live far beyond their means. She is a regular customer at the Dorotheum art auctions, he puts up with Lilli...
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Fever
2003
Anatomy 2
5.648/118
The doctor and soccer player in the leisure time Jo Hauser decides to move to Berlin and be an intern in a famous clinic, expecting to increase his kn...
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2004
Agnes and His Brothers
5.929/35
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Irren ist männlich
4.4/5
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Irren ist männlich
2000
Marlene
5.684/19
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1994
The Invincibles
5.875/20
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The Invincibles
2007
You're Not Alone
5.3/7
Master painter Hans Moll and his wife, the television announcer Ms. Wellinek and her husband, and the German-Russian Jew Yevgenia have many things to...
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You're Not Alone
1997
Die Musterknaben
6.95/20
Docker and Dretzke are two police officers from Cologne. But the cases here in the precinct don't win them a flower pot at the CID. And so they find t...
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Die Musterknaben
1995
Brother of Sleep
6.7/35
In the beginning of the 19th century, Johannes Elias Alder is born in a small village in the Austrian mountains. While growing up he is considered str...
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Brother of Sleep
2007
Späte Aussicht
7/1
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2007
Fürchte dich nicht
7.5/2
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2006
Der Untergang der Pamir
7.6/5
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6.2/28
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2007
Special Escort
5.2/16
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2010
Eichmanns Ende
5.1/9
Adolf Eichmann, one of the Third Reich's worst war criminals escapes to Argentina. With his wife and three sons he lives undiscovered in a German comm...
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2011
Marco W. - 247 Tage im türkischen Gefängnis
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Framed
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2010
Bon Appétit
5.536/28
A romantic comedy centered on two young cooks and a female sommelier working in a famous Zurich luxury restaurant.
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Bon Appétit
2009
Der Bär ist los! Die Geschichte von Bruno
5/3
A brown bear in the wild causes a sensation as a border crosser between Tyrol and Bavaria. Because Master Petz snatches many a lamb, repeatedly plunde...
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Der Bär ist los! Die Geschichte von Bruno
2011
Hotel Desire
6.174/144
Antonia is a single mother who works as a hotel maid in Berlin. A normal hot summer day takes a dramatic turn when she crosses paths with a particular...
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Hotel Desire
2011
Arschkalt
5.1/15
Rainer Berg is a frozen food delivery man who has been let down by life. He has withdrawn from the world in order to avoid emotional trauma. His outlo...
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Arschkalt
2009
Erntedank - Ein Allgäu-Krimi
5.4/5
Chief detective Kluftinger from the Allgäu can't believe his eyes. A dead crow lies carefully draped on the murder victim. In the course of the invest...
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Erntedank - Ein Allgäu-Krimi
2008
Augenzeugin
6/1
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Augenzeugin
2012
Milchgeld. Ein Kluftingerkrimi
5.6/8
A violent crime shakes Inspector Kluftinger's idyllic hometown of Altusried. The murdered man worked as the manager of a nearby dairy and was hated be...
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Milchgeld. Ein Kluftingerkrimi
2012
Homecoming
5.3/6
August Staudenmeyer returns after thirty years absence as a wealthy man in his hometown Gerbersau. First, the successful businessman is received with...
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2002
Harte Brötchen
10/1
Christa and Theo Zerrback have been running a small kiosk in the Ruhr area for many years - with moderate success. Although Theo often argues with Chr...
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Harte Brötchen
2003
Mein erster Freund, Mutter und ich
6/12
"Men cheat on women, it's a law of nature." Sonja has had some bad experiences and now wants to save her sixteen-year-old daughter Nicole from the wor...
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Mein erster Freund, Mutter und ich
2001
Entscheidung im Eis - Eine Frau jagt den Mörder
6/2
In an idyllic town, one bloody crime joins the next: six women fall victim to a ruthless murderer. The alleged perpetrator was arrested at the scene r...
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2012
Clarissas Geheimnis
4.1/4
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Clarissas Geheimnis
1997
Sanfte Morde
9/1
Bernd Schadewald's thriller based on a screenplay by Burkhard Driest.
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1995
Magic Girl
10/1
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Magic Girl
2012
Mittlere Reife
1/1
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Mittlere Reife
2013
The Little Ghost
5.6/71
The Little Ghost lives in the castle over looking a small town and awakens for precisely one hour after the clock strikes midnight. Follow him on this...
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The Little Ghost
2013
Seegrund. Ein Kluftingerkrimi
4.9/8
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Seegrund. Ein Kluftingerkrimi
2005
Mein Vater, seine Neue und ich
4.75/4
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1999
Die Braut
2.8/5
The relationship between Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the great German writer, and Christiane Vulpius, a village girl, is one of the instantaneous and...
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Die Braut
2010
Jerry Cotton
5.9/44
Jerry Cotton is the best agent of the FBI and suspected of murder. So he has to find the real killers from gangster boss Serrano.
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Jerry Cotton
2003
Angst
5.083/12
Oskar Roehler's drama Der Alte Affe Angst (Angst) is about the dissolution of a couple. Robert (Andre Hennicke) and Marie (Marie Baumer) have little i...
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2003
Annas Heimkehr
7.667/3
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Annas Heimkehr
2012
Die Aufnahmeprüfung
5/4
Five years have passed since Anaesthesiologist Susanne Meissner divorced her self-centered husband, the successful surgeon Ferdinand. Although the two...
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Die Aufnahmeprüfung
2004
Rock Crystal
6.818/11
The towns of Gschaid and Millsdorf are in a constant state of feuding with each other. Nevertheless Gschaid's Sebastian and Millsdorf's Susanne are ma...
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Rock Crystal
2009
Beyond the Wall
6.8/4
In September 1974, at the Bösebrücke border crossing between East and West Germany, Heike and Ulrich Molitor, along with their two little children, ar...
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Beyond the Wall
2001
Klassentreffen – Mordfall unter Freunden
4/3
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2012
Komm, schöner Tod
0/0
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1997
Die Friendensmission – 10 Stunden Angst
9/1
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Die Friendensmission – 10 Stunden Angst
2008
Die Geschichte vom Brandner Kaspar
6.6/33
70-year old Brandner Kaspar lives with his granddaughter Nannerl in the mountains at the Schliersee. As he is visited by the Death and wants to take h...
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Die Geschichte vom Brandner Kaspar
2014
Male Mistakes
6/38
Daniel and Thomas are two friends who are trying to catch girls in various therapy groups.
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Male Mistakes
2005
Margarete Steiff
7.091/11
Based on the life of German toymaker Margarete Steiff, the movie shows her long way from a 10-year-old girl, confined to a wheelchair, to one of the f...
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Margarete Steiff
2011
Flesh and Blood
0/0
Franziska had to release her newborn son for adoption on pressure from her parents as she was a teenager. Now 25 years later she has a successful care...
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Flesh and Blood
2013
Hafen der Düfte
4.2/6
Hong Kong, 2012: The former British crown colony has been part of the People's Republic again for 15 years. To mark the anniversary, the Haiman Collec...
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Hafen der Düfte
2008
Mogadischu
6.5/30
The incredible true story of Lufthansa Flight 181, which was hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in October of 1977, and the...
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Mogadischu
2011
Pilgerfahrt nach Padua
4.5/2
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...
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Pilgerfahrt nach Padua
2012
The Guardians
6.1/119
15-year-old Nina witnesses a terrible crime that puts her life in danger. Being an orphan, she has nobody she can trust. When corrupt businessman Thom...
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The Guardians
1989
Waller's Last Trip
6.25/4
For many years the old Waller worked as a railwayman. After Waller is informed that "his" track will be closed down and that he will be retired, he wa...
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Roccos Reise
0/0
A surfeit of misfortune and a traumatic childhood lead Rocco, in times of isolation and ignorance, to rid himself of his possessions and tidy up the v...
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Roccos Reise
2011
Molly & Mops - Ein Mops kommt selten allein
0/0
With the money she earned from the pastry competition, Molly opens a small café with her very own specialties, which quickly spreads through the city.
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Molly & Mops - Ein Mops kommt selten allein
2002
August der Glückliche
10/1
When the heart-sick bus driver August is forced into involuntary retirement, he decides to gamble away his severance pay at the casino. But he wins: a...
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August der Glückliche
2002
Ich bring Dich hinter Gitter
7/1
Forensic scientist Jakob Schaller leads a happy life with his family. Until the day a brutal killer of girls turns up. The desperate Jakob hunts down...
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Ich bring Dich hinter Gitter
2006
In the Name of Love
6.7/3
A funny story about bachelor party went wrong...
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In the Name of Love
1994
Unschuldsengel
7/1
Christoph Hansen, 16 year old son of a well-to-do Hamburg family is shocked when is father is arrested as a suspect in the murder of a male teen prost...
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Unschuldsengel
2005
Der Mörder meines Vaters
9/1
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Der Mörder meines Vaters
2009
Liebe und andere Gefahren
0/0
Franziska does not understand where Tom is. During their trip together, he disappears without a trace.
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Liebe und andere Gefahren
2014
Landauer
5.9/8
The story of former Bayern Munich president Kurt Landauer, a Bavarian jew ousted by the National Socialists and brought to the concentration camp of D...
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Landauer
1995
Mit verbundenen Augen
3.667/3
Kathrin Bischoff has a great chance of becoming world champion in figure skating. But not everyone is happy for her. After a vicious attack on Kathrin...
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Mit verbundenen Augen
2022
Dear Kurt
5.7/16
Kurt (Til Schweiger) and Lena (Franziska Machens) move together into an old house outside the city that is in need of renovation in order to be closer...
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Dear Kurt
1998
Blind Date - Flirt mit Folgen
7.5/2
Louisa has to struggle through life as a single mother with her children David and Julia. Her colleague and best friend Christa is also fed up with be...
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Blind Date - Flirt mit Folgen
2014
Lucky Child
5.6/11
A man who has lost his wife and daughter finds a baby in a garbage. He decides to save her.
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Lucky Child
1998
Zur Zeit zu zweit
4.667/3
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Zur Zeit zu zweit
2011
Schandmal – Der Tote im Berg
0/0
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Schandmal – Der Tote im Berg
2000
Die Nacht der Engel
7/2
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Die Nacht der Engel
2014
Die Zeit mit Euch
3.2/4
Three couples, six friends and the threat of retirement age: when TV journalist Paul quits his job at the age of 65, neither he nor his wife Christian...
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Die Zeit mit Euch
1997
Vergewaltigt - Die Wahrheit und andere Lügen
3.333/3
A doctor is raped by two of her colleagues. In the trial, the tide initially turns against her when the video recording of the crime disappears and he...
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Vergewaltigt - Die Wahrheit und andere Lügen
2010
Molly & Mops – Das Leben ist kein Gugelhupf
0/0
Molly, a passionate confectioner, is in debt. To get rid of her debts, she enters a major confectionery competition in Vienna. What she doesn't know i...
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Molly & Mops – Das Leben ist kein Gugelhupf
1997
Silver and Gold
10/1
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Silver and Gold
2012
Move
6.4/54
Eleven moving dates, eight friends: Philipp, Wiebke, Jessica, Maria, Swantje, Michael, Thomas, Dina – all in their twenties and mutually lonesome. And...
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Move
2022
Einfach mal was Schönes
6.4/44
Radio presenter Karla's biological clock is ticking, and it's now very loud and clear. But no matter what she does, she simply cannot find a suitable...
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Einfach mal was Schönes
2015
Meister des Todes
5.1/13
Based on explosive investigations, the thriller "Meister des Todes" ("Master of Death") tells of a German arms manufacturer and their questionable wea...
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Meister des Todes
1999
Südsee, eigene Insel
4.286/7
A family spends their vacation in the basement so that their neighbors don't notice that they can't afford to go on vacation.
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Südsee, eigene Insel
1995
Kinder der Nacht
9/1
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Kinder der Nacht
2009
This Is Love
5/7
Set in Vietnam and Germany, This Is Love centers on Chris and the nine-year-old Jenjira on the run from the mafia. Together with his friend Holger, Ch...
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This Is Love
1996
Kriegsbilder
7.5/2
A war photographer in different theatres of conflict, Belfast, Beirut, Mogadishu begins to suspect that his uncanny knack for being in the right place...
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Kriegsbilder
2015
600 PS für zwei
5/1
Five years ago, the highly paid marketing chief Hartmut Sprenger was fired from his job by the new personnel manager Lorenz Hoffmann - without a word...
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600 PS für zwei
2000
Gefährliche Träume - Das Geheimnis einer Frau
9.5/2
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Gefährliche Träume - Das Geheimnis einer Frau
2002
Therapie und Praxis
6.5/2
The talk therapist Roland Arnsberg falls from the clouds when his longtime girlfriend Chris gives him the passport. An affair with Regine, as it were...
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Therapie und Praxis
2004
Der letzte Flug
7/2
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Der letzte Flug
2004
Der Auftrag
0/0
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Der Auftrag
2016
Das beste Stück vom Braten
4.8/5
"Cooking is war" - that is the motto of the ingenious, but self-centered celebrity chef and women's hero Michi Griesebach, who has been in trouble for...
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Das beste Stück vom Braten
2003
Der Aufstand
9/1
June 17, 1953 - the day on which workers in the former Soviet Union took a stand against their government for the first time to protest against excess...
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Der Aufstand
2003
Hamlet_X
4.8/5
A great mosaic, a labyrinth of scenes, dialogue splinters, interviews, portraits of people surrounding Hamlet and wanting to be part of his story.
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Hamlet_X
2003
Ganz und gar
3.25/4
The go-getter and heartthrob Torge recklessly lives out his youthful recklessness until he loses a leg in an accident, which not only causes him but a...
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Ganz und gar
2003
Der Herr der Wüste
7/1
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Der Herr der Wüste
1999
A Good Opportunity
6.667/3
Gosbert Klee and Thilo "Abo" Abogast are anything but down on their luck. Nothing in their pockets, nothing on their minds and nothing but trouble to...
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A Good Opportunity
2016
Herzblut. Ein Kluftingerkrimi
5.9/9
A mysterious phone call puts Kluftinger and his colleagues Maier and Hefele on the trail of a brutal series of murders. A serial killer who cuts out t...
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Herzblut. Ein Kluftingerkrimi
2016
Schutzpatron. Ein Kluftingerkrimi
6.05/10
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Schutzpatron. Ein Kluftingerkrimi
2017
Zwei Tänzer für Isolde
3.3/3
Uwe Ochsenknecht and Herbert Knaup play the leading roles in the buddy comedy "2 Sturköpfe im Dreivierteltakt". From the old rivals Joachim Schiller a...
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Zwei Tänzer für Isolde
2016
Der Bankraub
6.9/4
Helmut Draeger, director of a German bank, gives the talented bank employee Martin Kreye the opportunity to speculate in New York in real estate. Mart...
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Der Bankraub
2017
Toter Winkel
5.9/7
Master hairdresser Karl Holzer has his own hairdressing salon, has been happily married to his wife Elsa for many years and his beloved granddaughter...
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Toter Winkel
2008
Der große Tom
9/1
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Der große Tom
2000
Ordinary Decent Criminal
6.157/245
Michael Lynch is a notorious criminal with two wives and a flair for showmanship. He's also a huge embarrassment to the local police, who are determin...
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Ordinary Decent Criminal
2016
The Last Pig
5.7/14
Plum out of luck, Swabian farmer Huber’s farm goes under. Then his girlfriend Birgit takes over her father’s newly-acquired firm – in former East Germ...
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The Last Pig
2001
Die Tochter des Kommissars
7/2
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Die Tochter des Kommissars
2014
Wildwechsel
2/1
Thomas is trapped in a loveless relationship, even though he has already fallen in love again, Anton can't manage to introduce his boyfriend to his pa...
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Wildwechsel
1999
Jimmy the Kid
5.5/2
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Jimmy the Kid
2006
Die Ohrfeige
2/2
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Die Ohrfeige
2017
Ein Sommer im Allgäu
6.4/8
After an accident while climbing in Patagonia, extreme sportswoman Barbara is forced to return to her home country, which she left more than ten years...
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Ein Sommer im Allgäu
2018
Crossroads
6.6/7
A woman goes through a weekend full of ups and downs after a shocking diagnose, according to which she has less than a year left to live.
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Crossroads
2009
Der Tiger oder Was Frauen lieben!
0/0
Franz, editor-in-chief of a large publishing house and no stranger to sadness himself, learns shortly before his wife Simone's death that she has been...
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Der Tiger oder Was Frauen lieben!
2018
Eine Hochzeit platzt selten allein
4.7/3
When the rich brewer Dillinger wants to withdraw 100,000 euros in cash, Gerhard Schwegler, head of the Volkskassen, refuses to pay out the money: Dill...
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Eine Hochzeit platzt selten allein
2018
Die Auferstehung
5.8/6
Dad is dead. For years he wanted nothing more to do with his children because they didn't agree with his lifestyle. Now daughter Linda alerts the thre...
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Die Auferstehung
2003
Ins Leben zurück
9/1
Eight years after her daughter's disappearance, Clara hasn't given up hope. And when she recognizes her in a magazine photo, she sets out to find her,...
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Ins Leben zurück
1996
The Writing on the Wall
3.583/6
When a bomb explodes in a British RAF base in Germany, MI5 terrorist specialist Bull (Bill Paterson) is called in to investigate. However, the further...
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The Writing on the Wall
2018
Hubert und Staller – Eine schöne Bescherung
7.4/7
During the Christmas holidays, Hubert and Staller investigate the demise of an elderly pensioner who died suspiciously but unnoticed a year earlier.
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Hubert und Staller – Eine schöne Bescherung
2001
Anna's Summer
5.286/7
A widow reminisces on her life after returning to her family home in Greece.
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Anna's Summer
2019
Stenzels Bescherung
6/2
Volkmar Stenzel is the quintessential branch manager: correct, responsible and always there for his customers. However, people like the 57-year-old ar...
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Stenzels Bescherung
2007
15 Minuten Wahrheit
0/0
Hell hath no fury like an employee scorned.
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15 Minuten Wahrheit
2011
In Darkness
6.918/202
A dramatization of one man's rescue of Jewish refugees in the Nazi-occupied city of Lviv. In Darkness tells the true story of Leopold Soha who risks h...
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Der Geier - Die Tote mit dem falschen Leben
6.5/1
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Anna und ihr Untermieter - Plötzlich Schwiegermutter
0/0
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Berlin, 10:46
0/0
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Berlin, 10:46
2024
Herbert (un)verbesserlich
0/0
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2026
Anna und ihr Untermieter - Volles Haus
6/1
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Anna und ihr Untermieter - Volles Haus
2006
Crusade in Jeans
5.864/66
Dolf a 15 year old boy is sent back in time by a timemachine. Accidentally he is sent back to the Middle Ages. He is rescued by children who are part...
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Untitled Netflix Project
0/0
Revolves around the organisation Jugend rettet.
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