
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 |
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Most Rating | 0.094 |
Birthday | 1956-03-23 |
Place of Birth | Sonthofen, Germany |
Also Known As | Ге́рберт Кна́уп, |

2006

The Elementary Particles
6.1/138
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
7.292/2308
Lola receives a phone call from her boyfriend Manni. He lost 100,000 DM in a subway train that belongs to a very bad guy. She has 20 minutes to raise...
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2003

Distant Lights
7.4/31
Lichter is an episodic tale from Hans-Christian Schmid about the life on the border between Germany and Poland. The film sheds light on the everyday s...
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Distant Lights

2006

The Lives of Others
8.036/3745
In 1983 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
4/1
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
5.7/110
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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Anatomy 2

2004

Agnes and His Brothers
6/31
Focuses on three very different siblings, all searching for happiness. Hans-Jörg is a sex addicted librarian, who is interested in young students. Wer...
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Agnes and His Brothers

1996

Irren ist männlich
3.7/3
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2000

Marlene
5.7/16
Marlene is a 2000 German biopic film directed by Joseph Vilsmaier and starring Katja Flint, Hans Werner Meyer and Herbert Knaup. It follows the life o...
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Marlene

1994

The Invincibles
6.1/17
Simon, the leader of a police special unit, becomes caught up in a complex scheme involving bribery and money-laundering, as well as an affair with th...
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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
6.9/18
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Die Musterknaben

1995

Brother of Sleep
6.7/32
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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Späte Aussicht

2007

Fürchte dich nicht
7.5/2
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2006

Der Untergang der Pamir
7/4
The story of the German sail-training ship Pamir that sunk in a hurricane.
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2021

The Salvation Of The World As We Know It
6.2/22
At first glance, Paul is just a normal eighteen-year-old. What no one knows is that Paul is bipolar. He is helplessly at the mercy of the radical mood...
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2007

Special Escort
5.2/13
The subject of male prostitution gets a distinctly zany and offbeat twist in Stellungswechsel (AKA Special Escort), Maggie Peren's tale of five male u...
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2010

Eichmanns Ende
5.6/8
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
5.667/3
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1999

Framed
0/0
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2010

Bon Appétit
5.44/25
A romantic comedy centered on two young cooks and a female sommelier working in a famous Zurich luxury restaurant.
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2009

Der Bär ist los! Die Geschichte von Bruno
4.5/2
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2011

Hotel Desire
6/118
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
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2007

Day of Disaster
6.1/7
In 1978, a serene Spanish beach campground bursts into chaos when a devastating accident shatters a summer getaway for German tourists. As paradise ig...
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2009

Erntedank
5.8/4
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2008

Augenzeugin
6/1
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2012

Milchgeld. Ein Kluftingerkrimi
5.9/7
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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
0/0
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Harte Brötchen

2003

Mein erster Freund, Mutter und ich
6.2/10
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2001

Entscheidung im Eis - Eine Frau jagt den Mörder
5/1
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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Entscheidung im Eis - Eine Frau jagt den Mörder

2012

Clarissas Geheimnis
4.1/4
18-year-old Stella lives with her mother Clarissa on a picturesque lodge in the South African bush. When Clarissa one day died in a tragic car acciden...
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Clarissas Geheimnis

1997

Sanfte Morde
0/0
Bernd Schadewald's thriller based on a screenplay by Burkhard Driest.
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1995

Magic Girl
0/0
Horst, a good-natured manager of a nightclub, falls in love with a guest, the beautiful Jenny. She is high class and spoiled and requires a lot of att...
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Magic Girl

2012

Mittlere Reife
1/1
Having trouble coping with school and their teachers, five students are sent to after school detention by principal Seifert. To avoid expulsion they m...
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Mittlere Reife

2013

The Little Ghost
5.6/66
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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2013

Seegrund. Ein Kluftingerkrimi
4.9/8
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2005

Mein Vater, seine Neue und ich
4/2
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Mein Vater, seine Neue und ich

1999

Die Braut
2/2
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
5.9/39
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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2003

Angst
5.9/8
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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Angst

2003

Annas Heimkehr
7/2
In WWII Munich, Anna works for a Nazi family as a nanny but secretly steals food and cigarettes and bring those to a Jewish family, who hides from the...
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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
6.8/8
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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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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2001

Klassentreffen – Mordfall unter Freunden
1/1
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2012

Komm, schöner Tod
0/0
Berlin sometime in the near future: Due to the demographic change, more and more old people are walking confused through the city. In order to avoid a...
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Komm, schöner Tod

1997

Die Friendensmission – 10 Stunden Angst
0/0
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2008

Die Geschichte vom Brandner Kaspar
6.7/30
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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2014

Male Mistakes
6.1/36
Daniel and Thomas are two friends who are trying to catch girls in various therapy groups.
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2005

Margarete Steiff
7.3/7
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
4.8/4
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2008

Mogadischu
6.6/29
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
6/112
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
5/2
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
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Molly & Mops - Ein Mops kommt selten allein

2002

August der Glückliche
0/0
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
0/0
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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
0/0
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
0/0
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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
6.5/7
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
1/1
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Mit verbundenen Augen

2022

Dear Kurt
5.6/13
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
5/1
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
2/1
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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
4/1
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Die Nacht der Engel

2014

Die Zeit mit Euch
4/3
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1997

Vergewaltigt - Die Wahrheit und andere Lügen
1/1
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
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Molly & Mops – Das Leben ist kein Gugelhupf

1997

Silver and Gold
0/0
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2012

Move
6.5/50
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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2022

Just Something Nice
6.5/36
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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Just Something Nice

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
4.5/4
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Südsee, eigene Insel

1995

Kinder der Nacht
0/0
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Kinder der Nacht

2009

This Is Love
5.5/6
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
7/1
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
10/1
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Gefährliche Träume - Das Geheimnis einer Frau

2002

Therapie und Praxis
5/1
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
6/1
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2004

Der Auftrag
0/0
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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
0/0
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Der Aufstand

2003

Hamlet_X
5/3
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
1.5/2
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Ganz und gar

2003

Der Herr der Wüste
0/0
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Der Herr der Wüste

1999

Ne günstige Gelegenheit
5.5/2
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Ne günstige Gelegenheit

2016

Herzblut. Ein Kluftingerkrimi
5.9/8
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
6.4/8
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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
5.8/6
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Toter Winkel

2008

Der große Tom
9/1
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Der große Tom

2000

Ordinary Decent Criminal
6.1/232
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
6/13
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
6/1
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Die Tochter des Kommissars

2014

Wildwechsel
2/1
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Wildwechsel

1999

Jimmy the Kid
3/1
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Jimmy the Kid

2006

Die Ohrfeige
2/1
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Die Ohrfeige

2017

Ein Sommer im Allgäu
6.4/8
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Ein Sommer im Allgäu

2018

Crossroads
6.643/7
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
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Der Tiger oder Was Frauen lieben!

2018

Eine Hochzeit platzt selten allein
4/2
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Eine Hochzeit platzt selten allein

2018

Die Auferstehung
6.5/2
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Die Auferstehung

2003

Ins Leben zurück
0/0
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Ins Leben zurück

1996

The Writing on the Wall
2.8/3
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
5/5
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
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2007

15 Minuten Wahrheit
0/0
Hell hath no fury like an employee scorned.
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15 Minuten Wahrheit

2011

In Darkness
7/190
A dramatization of one man's rescue of Jewish refugees in the Nazi-occupied Polish city of Lvov. In Darkness tells the true story of Leopold Soha who...
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In Darkness

2024

Der Geier - Die Tote mit dem falschen Leben
7/1
Former detective Lukas Geier has retired to Bad Gastein in the Austrian Alps. While he is busy to reinvent himself, his former life as an investigator...
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2025

Anna und ihr Untermieter - Plötzlich Schwiegermutter
0/0
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