Heike Makatsch
Makatsch was born in Düsseldorf, Germany, the daughter of former German national ice hockey team goaltender Rainer Makatsch. She spent several months in New Mexico in 1988 in an effort to improve her English, and later studied politics and sociology at the University of Düsseldorf for four semesters, which was followed by an apprenticeship as a dressmaker until 1994. Her television career started in 1993, when she was hired by music channel VIVA, hosting shows such as Interaktiv and Heikes Hausbesuche; two years later, on August 13 1995, she became the host of the German chart show BRAVO TV, aired by RTL II, a position she kept until summer 1996. In 1997 she started hosting her own weekly, late night show titled Heike Makatsch Show. However, due to bad ratings, it was cancelled after only eight episodes. Makatsch first appeared in a movie in 1996, when she starred in Detlev Buck's Männerpension (English: "Jailbirds"); she received the Bavarian Film Award as most talented young actor for her performance. Since then, she has appeared in several German and English language productions.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.3174 |
| Birthday | 1971-08-13 |
| Place of Birth | Düsseldorf, Germany |
| Also Known As |
2003
Love Actually
7.096/7353
Eight very different couples deal with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in Londo...
Watch Now
Love Actually
2005
No Songs of Love
5.733/15
As Tobias, a young director, supposes that his girl-friend Ellen had an affair with his brother Markus, front man of "Hansen", one year ago, he decide...
Watch Now
No Songs of Love
2002
Resident Evil
6.651/6872
When a virus leaks from a top-secret facility, turning all resident researchers into ravenous zombies and their lab animals into mutated hounds from h...
Watch Now
Resident Evil
1999
Aimée & Jaguar
6.716/111
In 1943, while the Allies are bombing Berlin and the Gestapo is purging the capital of Jews, a dangerous love affair blossoms between two women – one...
Watch Now
Aimée & Jaguar
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...
Watch Now
Anatomy 2
2002
Naked
5.366/41
The story of three couples, one of which just broke up, one that seems to be about to, and one perfectly okay. They are all friends, and from time to...
Watch Now
Naked
2000
Gripsholm
5.75/14
Kurt and Lydia are planning a relaxed vacation at the Gripsholm castle in Sweden . What Lydia does not know is that for Kurt, a well-known publicist,...
Watch Now
Gripsholm
2019
Kroos
6.1/33
Documentary about German football player Toni Kroos. Features a review of his recent career including his time at FC Bayern Munich and Real Madrid as...
Watch Now
Kroos
2005
A Sound of Thunder
4.849/438
When a hunter sent back to the prehistoric era runs off the path he must not leave, he causes a chain reaction that alters history in disastrous ways.
Watch Now
A Sound of Thunder
2001
A Goddamn Job
4.667/3
After 1000 years of being God, Jonathan finally wants to get rid of the arduous job and not only has to answer to the tough goddess of the universe fo...
Watch Now
A Goddamn Job
2005
Tara Road
5.359/39
A grieving Connecticut mother temporarily switches houses with a woman in Dublin, Ireland.
Watch Now
Tara Road
2007
Schwesterherz
5/4
Watch Now
Schwesterherz
2009
Hilde
5.265/17
A biography of Hildegard Knef, one of Germany's biggest post-war stars.
Watch Now
Hilde
2006
Hui Buh: The Castle Ghost
5.846/230
After 500 years, castle ghost Hui Buh finally has some royal residents to haunt, but he soon loses his license to scare and must get recertified.
Watch Now
Hui Buh: The Castle Ghost
2003
Das Wunder von Lengede
5.929/7
The film is based on the events surrounding the Lengede mining accident in 1963.
Watch Now
Das Wunder von Lengede
1998
Love Your Female Neighbor!
7.25/4
Two young and attractive social workers/nuns bring fresh air into a city missionary station, but are also challenged by lust and money, offered by a m...
Watch Now
Love Your Female Neighbor!
2021
Zero
4.853/17
Berlin in the near future: A secret meeting takes place between a board member of the dominant internet company "Freemee" and members of the governmen...
Watch Now
Zero
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...
Watch Now
Margarete Steiff
1996
Männerpension
5.367/30
A support program brings the two convicts Gerd and Steinbock into the care of women. There they are supposed to prove that they are capable of integra...
Watch Now
Männerpension
2002
Nachts im Park
7.667/3
After the sudden death of his wife, heart surgeon Dr. Steffen Hennings becomes increasingly withdrawn. He works a lot, but he doesn't sleep. A horrifi...
Watch Now
Nachts im Park
2025
Akiko, the Flying Monkey
4.7/3
The monkey child Akiko lives in the zoo, but his family sends him on a big mission: he is supposed to go out into the world and get his relatives out...
Watch Now
Akiko, the Flying Monkey
2001
Late Night Shopping
6.333/51
Four friends Sean, Vincent, Lenny and Jody find themselves at something of a deadend. Trapped in a twilight world of permanent night shift work, they...
Watch Now
Late Night Shopping
2009
The Door
6.211/159
A successful artist loses control of his life after his young daughter's death. A chance for a new start appears, but all is not what it seems.
Watch Now
The Door
1999
Das Gelbe vom Ei
8.333/3
Where our story takes place, only the chickens know what stress means. Otherwise, life in the countryside is quiet, so it's no wonder that the annual...
Watch Now
Das Gelbe vom Ei
2009
Dr. Hope
7/2
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...
Watch Now
Dr. Hope
1999
Tails You Win, Heads You Lose
5.917/6
Two beautiful young women kill men in a villa in Tuscany: Maya and Cora have been friends since childhood. Maya has an alcoholic artist father who des...
Watch Now
Tails You Win, Heads You Lose
1997
Obsession
4.182/11
Two men become entangled in a torrid love affair with the same woman. Pierre is Miriam's longtime lover. John is desperately searching for clues about...
Watch Now
Obsession
2008
Schade um das schöne Geld
5/2
In a town by the North Sea, Mirabel dreams of a better life while toiling in the fish factory. When the village syndicate wins the lottery, the hittin...
Watch Now
Schade um das schöne Geld
2011
Tom Sawyer
6/54
Tom Sawyer has a head full of pranks and drives when he invents is not just a new adventure, preferably around with his best buddy Huck Finn - much to...
Watch Now
Tom Sawyer
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...
Watch Now
Homecoming
2012
Sechzehneichen
5.7/11
A young couple moves to a gated community (named Sechzehneichen), where soon the creative wife (a photographer) gets bored and the husband joins a sec...
Watch Now
Sechzehneichen
2013
The Book Thief
7.487/4508
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...
Watch Now
The Book Thief
2013
Back on Track
7.326/92
A former Olympic champion wants to compete in the Berlin Marathon one last time.
Watch Now
Back on Track
2000
Longitude
7.414/35
Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea; 20th century Gould is obsessed with restoring it.
Watch Now
Longitude
2012
The Adventures of Huck Finn
6/8
Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by...
Watch Now
The Adventures of Huck Finn
1999
Männer und andere Katastrophen
7.5/2
The somewhat awkward student Judith is pursued by bankruptcies, bad luck and mishaps. The failed baby sitting with her sister Rebecca ends with a ruin...
Watch Now
Männer und andere Katastrophen
2015
About a Girl
6.817/41
Charleen is 15, melodramatic, mega depressed, and Kurt Cobain’s biggest fan. Her best friend Isa is getting really boring, her dad is out of the pictu...
Watch Now
About a Girl
2014
Wir machen durch bis morgen früh
4.5/8
Ali misses the lavish party nights in Hamburg's Kiez: Ms. Melanie, Baby Bobby and the family's tile company have been his everyday life since he becam...
Watch Now
Wir machen durch bis morgen früh
2014
Everything is Love
5.6/31
Follows the lives of different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic few days before...
Watch Now
Everything is Love
2005
Almost Heaven - Ein Cowgirl auf Jamaika
6.4/5
The young wannabe country singer Helen is terminally ill. Her biggest dream is to sing at the legendary Bluebird Café in Nashville, but through a chai...
Watch Now
Almost Heaven - Ein Cowgirl auf Jamaika
2007
Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution
6.7/11
Based on a true story, Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution is the tale of a family from Bingley in Yorkshire, who defect to East Germany. Here they find a nig...
Watch Now
Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution
2016
Twice New Life
6.4/6
A husband has to cope with his wife being comatose after an accident.
Watch Now
Twice New Life
2004
Familie auf Bestellung
6.333/3
Alex can only accept his uncle's inheritance if he presents his wife and child.
Watch Now
Familie auf Bestellung
2000
The Announcement
7/1
A film about friendship and familiarity masking major secrets. When protagonists Beth and Ross gather all of their best friends together for an unruly...
Watch Now
The Announcement
2016
The Pasta Detectives 3
5.7/26
The friends and amateur detectives Rico and Oskar experiencing their last adventure together. Here everything is really only one well, because now the...
Watch Now
The Pasta Detectives 3
2025
Bibi Blocksberg - Das große Hexentreffen
7/3
Bibi, the young witch from Neustadt, is excited: the big international witches' convention is taking place on the Blocksberg and she and her friends S...
Watch Now
Bibi Blocksberg - Das große Hexentreffen
2019
Benjamin the Elephant
4.4/18
Benjamin and his best friend Otto have to deal with the shrewd Zora Zack and to reach deep into their bag of tricks to save the Newtown Zoo.
Watch Now
Benjamin the Elephant
2017
Strange Daughter
3.4/5
Seventeen-year-old Lena meets 19-year-old Farid, a young Muslim. She has a clear-cut attitude towards his culture and religion: utter rejection. Despi...
Watch Now
Strange Daughter
2017
Teenosaurus Rex
5.3/43
She was sweet, she was cute. But just before her 14th birthday, Daddy’s little princess mutates into a petulant pubescent nightmare. Journalist Hannes...
Watch Now
Teenosaurus Rex
2016
Speechless
7/4
A little boy walks alone through a toy store, past people who speak a strange and, for him, incomprehensible language. A young mother finds a way to c...
Watch Now
Speechless
1998
Am I Beautiful?
6.81/21
Between Munich and Seville, the destinies of sixteen characters intertwine and intersect, missing each other or colliding head-on. They are all, witho...
Watch Now
Am I Beautiful?
2018
The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
7.4/123
17-year-old Cyril is funny, smart and an all-round good guy. Just his somewhat overlarge nose spoils the picture. On a school trip to Berlin with Roxy...
Watch Now
The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
2019
I've Never Been to New York
5.9/35
In the life of TV presenter Lisa, everything revolves around her talk show, celebrities and the ratings. There is just as little room for love as ther...
Watch Now
I've Never Been to New York
2019
Manhunt: Bloody Tango
5.3/6
LKA-Zielfahnderin Hanna Landauer and her new colleague Röwer travel to Montevideo to find the couple Tezlaff. They once kidnapped an industrialist and...
Watch Now
Manhunt: Bloody Tango
2020
9 Days Awake
6/16
“9 Days Awake”, the film adaptation of the eponymous novel by Eric Stehfest. Jannik Schümann plays Eric, a junkie who lives to party. He is addicted t...
Watch Now
9 Days Awake
2020
God, You’re Such a Prick
6.3/53
16-year old Steffi just graduated from high school and is very much looking forward to her class trip to Paris where she has promised her boyfriend Fa...
Watch Now
God, You’re Such a Prick
2024
Slava der Hund
0/0
Watch Now