Sabine Timoteo
Sabine Timoteo, born Sabine Hagenbüchle on 25 March 1975 in Bern, is a Swiss actress and former dancer. She fluently speaks German, French, English, Italian and Spanish.
She studied dance and won the Prix de Lausanne for "best young dancer".
Her film debut was in Philip Gröning's L'Amour, l'Argent, l'Amour, which was shot in 1996 but released in 2000. For this role, she won the Swiss Film Award for Best Actress. Between 1997 and 2000, before fully embarking on her acting career, she trained as a professional cook in Bern. After marrying a man, she took the name Sabine Timoteo, under which she built the majority of her film career.
She continued to gain acclaim with major roles in films such as Ghosts (2005), The Free Will (2006), Color of the Ocean (2012), Cyanide (2013), Futuro Beach (2014), The Wonders (2014) and Center of My World (2016).
In more recent years she has worked in several notable projects, including Meanwhile on Earth (2024), Chaos & Silence (2025) and Transamazonia (2025).
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.2869 |
| Birthday | 1975-03-25 |
| Place of Birth | Bern, Switzerland |
| Also Known As | Sabine Hagenbüchle, |
2005
Ghosts
6/34
Nina, a mentally ill teenage orphan, starts a new job as a garden cleaner when she meets Toni. They fall in love but soon Toni starts betraying Nina....
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Ghosts
2006
A Friend of Mine
6.6/76
An introverted insurance executive at a car rental service is annoyed by his hyperactive, garrulous coworker, but the two end up becoming friends.
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A Friend of Mine
2007
Nebenwirkungen
5/1
Dr. Claudia Keller works in the research department of the global chemical company Beyler. The company has pinned all its hopes on the development of...
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Nebenwirkungen
2000
Love, Money, Love
3.6/9
David, a recently fired scrapyard worker and Marie, a prostitute, both about 20 years old, meet on New Year's Eve in Berlin and decide to run away tog...
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Love, Money, Love
2006
The Free Will
6.9/55
After nine years in psychiatric detention Theo, who has brutally assaulted and raped three women, is released. Living in a supervised community, he co...
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The Free Will
2001
The Days Between
5.9/18
Lynn is a cheerful 22-year-old who works at a cafe and lives with her brother. Though she has no real direction in life, she is happy. Conversely, her...
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The Days Between
2024
Electric Fields
0/0
People go through life with forgotten dreams. They bravely contend another day when something goes off the rails. A man disappears into the woods. A s...
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Electric Fields
2010
Brownian Movement
5.68/114
A psychiatrist's adulterous past continues to haunt her and her husband after they move to India.
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Brownian Movement
2002
Friends of Friends
5.5/14
Dominik Graf relocates the story of the same name by Henry James from the 19th century to the year 2001.
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Friends of Friends
2023
Last Dance
5.9/13
Germain, an introspective retiree, abruptly becomes a widower at 75. He barely has the time to realize what has happened to him before his family forc...
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Last Dance
2023
Breakaway
5.706/17
After running away to try to find her father, Manon manages to free herself from this family bond and to rebuild herself in an unexpected way in order...
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Breakaway
2023
Anxiety
5/10
A story about two sisters - Małgorzata, who is single by choice, and her younger sister, Łucja, a mother of two and an assistant in Małgorzata's law f...
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Anxiety
2012
Color of the Ocean
5.4/5
After years working as a border patrolman, José has developed a salty crust of cynicism about his work, which places him in a position to decide the f...
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Color of the Ocean
2012
Formentera
4.2/9
Nina and Ben go on a vacation without their daughter to the Mediterranean. Their vacation is going well until Ben goes swimming with a young woman dur...
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Formentera
2013
Cyanide
5.5/17
Achille, 13, awaits, full of hope, the release from prison of his father, unknown and fantasized. His dream of living as a threesome, like a real fami...
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Cyanide
2025
Transamazonia
6.2/6
Rebecca, the daughter of missionary Lawrence Byrne, was declared a “miracle” after she survived a plane crash as a child, deep in the Amazon Forest. Y...
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Transamazonia
2014
Futuro Beach
6.5/86
Donato fails in his attempt to save a drowning man, and meets one of the man's friends. He decides to start his life over, but pieces of his past keep...
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Futuro Beach
2009
Pepperminta
5.8/8
Pepperminta is an anarchist of the imagination. She lives in a futuristic rainbow villa and according to her own rules. Colors are the young woman's b...
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Pepperminta
2014
The Wonders
6.813/214
In the Tuscan countryside, a family of traditional honey farmers struggles to make ends meet. The household consists of only daughters—four of them—le...
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The Wonders
2004
Sugar Orange
5.3/10
Lukas is Sugar, Clemens is Orange. Together, they are two ten-year-old boys who are inseparable. More than just playmates, they share a unique bond wh...
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Sugar Orange
2022
Thunder
5.2/27
Summer 1900, Switzerland.
Elisabeth, 17, is about to take her vows when the sudden death of her older sister forces her to leave the convent and retu...
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Thunder
2018
Those Who Work
6.2/88
Frank, a man of action who worked his way up all by himself, dedicates his life to work. No matter the place or the circumstances, be it day or night,...
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Those Who Work
2002
Mutants
6/1
Thirteen-year-old Paula lives with her mother on a well-kept estate in a small town surrounded by nice neighbours. But Paula's view of normality has b...
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Mutants
2003
Irgendwas ist immer
0/0
On her 23rd birthday, Julia is dumped by her boyfriend Patrick, her hoped-for career as a pop journalist vanishes into thin air and she finds out that...
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Irgendwas ist immer
2023
A Forgotten Man
6/3
Spring 1945, Heinrich Zwygart, Swiss ambassador to Germany flees bombed-out Berlin after eight years of service in the capital of the Reich. This is t...
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A Forgotten Man
2024
Meanwhile on Earth
6.2/60
Siblings Elsa and Franck used to be close, but everything changed when Franck’s space mission went awry. Three years have passed since his mysterious...
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Meanwhile on Earth
2005
St. Francis Birds Tour
0/0
A daft road movie about two aging thesps in search of Klopfenstein himself.
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St. Francis Birds Tour
2015
The Drift
5/3
Robert, a former driver in illegal races, returns to his hometown Dietikon after a long period of absence. He is determined to put his past behind him...
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The Drift
2007
After Effect
0/0
Berlin in the 3rd millenium. Rather by chance Kai Starel gets into the newly founded CC Institute "Carl Celler Culture", where hip creative minds buzz...
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After Effect
2025
Chaos and Silence
4.5/4
As young musicians Jean and Helena brace for parenthood amidst job insecurities, their lives collide with landlord Klara's enigmatic breakdown. Accept...
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Chaos and Silence
2006
Flanke ins All
0/0
Dani's heart beats for soccer. And sometimes for Claudia. Unfortunately, it's usually in that order, which is why Claudia has given him the boot. With...
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Flanke ins All
2016
Center of My World
7.13/270
A strange family: 17-year-old Phil lives with his mother and twin sister in an old mansion on the outskirts of town. When he returns from summer camp,...
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Center of My World
2024
Karigula - Monster der Liebe
0/0
Charly was a clown before he lost his talent for making people laugh. When Charly loses his last engagement, he decides to take his own life. He jumps...
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Karigula - Monster der Liebe
2010
180°
6.3/7
Early evening - a big city. Two teenagers shyly flirt with each other, a housewife sits down to watch her daily soap, nurses in a hospital gossip befo...
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180°
2009
Flug in die Nacht - Das Unglück von Überlingen
4.4/5
Air traffic controller Johann Lenders has just taken over the night shift in the tower at Zurich Airport when he notices an irregularity on the radar...
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Flug in die Nacht - Das Unglück von Überlingen
2016
Zen for Nothing
6.5/4
Hidden in the wooded mountains on the west coast of Japan lies the small Zen monastery Antaiji. A young woman sets off to immerse herself through autu...
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Zen for Nothing
2024
The Investigation
6.7/6
Peter Weiss’ monumental 1965 stage play, among the greatest artworks on the Holocaust, condenses the testimonies of witnesses and the accused during t...
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The Investigation
2016
The Chronicles of Melanie
5.8/9
The 14th of June 1941, Soviet-occupied Latvia. Without warning, the authorities break into the house of Melanie and her husband Alexander, and force t...
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The Chronicles of Melanie
2016
7 Minutes
7/164
Women in a failing silk factory, fight to find a way to keep their jobs.
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7 Minutes
2009
Kill Daddy Good Night
5.5/13
The story and fate of three families: A Jewish family destroyed by the massacres of the Nazis in Lithuania; the family of the culprit, who flew to Ame...
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Kill Daddy Good Night
2016
Analysis Paralysis
6.3/3
A man’s head is bursting with thoughts and decisions. A gardener is about to explode – somebody has trampled on her flowerbeds. The man is looking for...
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Analysis Paralysis
2017
Sarah Plays a Werewolf
6.5/19
17-year old Sarah, filled with adolescent angst, is an extreme person who in her rehearsals with a theatre group is transformed until she is almost in...
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Sarah Plays a Werewolf
2016
Deadly Leaks
4.8/9
Journalist Rommy Kirchhoff wants to interview a whistle-blower. Paul Holthaus, lobbyist on behalf of the agricultural company Norgreen Life Inc., is r...
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Deadly Leaks
2017
Sicilian Ghost Story
6.5/151
In a little Sicilian village at the edge of a forest, Giuseppe, a boy of 13, vanishes. Luna, his classmate who loves him, refuses to accept his myster...
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Sicilian Ghost Story
2018
The New End
5.5/2
In a post-apocalyptic world, only the men seem to have survived. The law of the jungle rules. Among them is a doctor who has retired to an abandoned s...
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The New End
2017
Wildcats
7.3/5
Orphan, Oskar lives with Elvis and Fanny Egger, his guardians. Oskar is waiting for one thing, the majority, to finally be able to go to Zimbabwe and...
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Wildcats
2011
Homevideo
6.6/44
Shy, sensitive high school outsider Jakob Moormann is miserably lacking immaterial support at home, where his strict father, uniformed cop Claas, and...
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Homevideo
2018
Cloud Whispers
3.9/8
On an impulse, 60 year old Charlotte leaves her husband stranded at a gas station in the middle of nowhere. A deep and driven instinct has her setting...
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Cloud Whispers
2007
Small Fish
6/1
Three respectable citizens of a Swiss winter sports resort find themselves in financial trouble due to a lack of snow. When Paul, René, and Werner fin...
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Small Fish
2018
Matti and Sami and the Three Biggest Mistakes in the Universe
4.8/11
Matti is 11 years old and dreams of a family vacation in his father’s native country, Finland. He manages to get what he wants by telling a whopping l...
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Matti and Sami and the Three Biggest Mistakes in the Universe
2018
Das Ächzen der Asche
0/0
An experimental conclusion to Klopfensteins trilogy of walk-and-talk philosophical films, presented mostly in negative black-and-white pictures
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Das Ächzen der Asche
2018
Bis ans Ende der Träume
0/0
Both aspire to remain true to themselves and to build their lives freely. This bold vision in the 1950s is that of Katharina von Arx and Freddy Drilho...
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Bis ans Ende der Träume
2019
Cronofobia
6/11
A mysterious lonely man and a young rebel woman, confront each other in a psychological drama about suspended identity.
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Cronofobia
2014
The Black Brothers
6.6/33
Up until the middle of the 19Th century, poverty stricken mountain farmers from the Ticino area of Switzerland frequently sold their children to Milan...
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The Black Brothers
2019
How I Taught Myself to Be a Child
6.6/14
Paul Silberstein, youngest son of an urbane but deeply strange old Austrian dynasty of confectionery millionaires, discovers the power of love and hum...
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How I Taught Myself to Be a Child
2019
The Tears Thing
5.2/12
Florence is an actress. The preparations for her next film will put her through an unexpected ordeal: an initiation with real bullets.
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The Tears Thing
2010
Little Paradise
0/0
Annegret, is a mentally handicapped woman in her mid-thirties who falls in love with Res, an oldish slightly peculiar rocker. Annegret's family howeve...
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Little Paradise
2019
Roll the Drum!
6.8/6
In the spring of 1970 a small village in Valais experienced unusual turbulence. Is it because of the federal vote on women's suffrage? Or in the upcom...
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Roll the Drum!
2019
Sunburned
5.6/10
Feeling neglected by her mother and sister on their holiday in Spain, 13-year-old Claire tries to help a young Senegalese beach vendor to escape his m...
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Sunburned
2015
Exit Oerlikon
8/1
When Hans looks back, he must say: That was a good life! He saw the world, loved his wife Martha and yes, two, three things went wrong. But that doesn...
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Exit Oerlikon
2022
Human Factors
4.8/13
To escape mounting tensions at the advertising agency they co-own, French-German couple Nina and Jan whisk their kids, Max and Emma, away to their sea...
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Human Factors
2019
The Collini Case
7.387/430
A young lawyer stumbles upon a vast conspiracy while investigating a brutal murder case.
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The Collini Case
2021
The Girl and the Spider
6.023/43
Lisa is moving. Upheaval all around: Her mother flirts with a handyman. An eccentric woman seems to be preparing for a glamorous event, a family next...
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The Girl and the Spider
2009
Robber Girls
3/3
Emily is sent to work and live in the Sovereign's castle. She manages to escape into the woods, where she meets some lively hookers. Together they bec...
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Robber Girls
2022
Zahorí
6.2/5
The Patagonian steppe is battered by a grey wind... Mora is 13 years old and intends to become a "gaucho". She questions the school and asserts her in...
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Zahorí
2024
Violet
7.3/3
After an argument with his mother, 12-year-old Dan, who suffers from scoliosis, seeks love and intimacy from 17-year-old Anna, who is supposed to look...
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Violet
2025
The Courageous
7.2/4
In a small town on the edge of wild country, an eccentric and delinquent mother has had enough of the rules. Crushed by her mistakes and by a society...
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The Courageous
2025
Dinosaures
0/0
For years, Antonio, a bricklayer, has fudged the books and paid his employee Victor under the table, but Covid causes his system to collapse. While at...
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Dinosaures
2023
Ailleurs
0/0
Isabelle is a young woman suffering from cystic fibrosis, a genetic and degenerative disease that drastically reduces her life expectancy. At the age...
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