Franka Potente

Franka Potente

Franka Potente is a German film actress and singer. She was born on July 22, 1974 in Münster North Rhine-Westphalia and raised in nearby Dülmen. She first appeared in the comedy After Five in the Forest Primeval (1995) and gained critical recognition in the action thriller Lola rennt (released in English as Run Lola Run) (1998). Potente received Germany's highest film and television awards for her performances in Run Lola Run and Opernball. After half a decade of critically acclaimed roles in German films, Potente gained Hollywood's attention by playing the role of Barbara Buckley in Blow (2001) and the female lead with Matt Damon in The Bourne Identity (2002). In 2006, she starred with Eric Bana in the Australian film Romulus, My Father, for which she was nominated for an Australian Film Industry Award for Best Lead Actress. Also in 2006, she wrote and directed Der die Tollkirsche ausgräbt, a silent comedy. She has also appeared in several American television series including, The Shield in 2007, House M.D. in 2009 and Psych in 2010. As of 2011, she played Hilda in a BBC drama The Sinking of the Laconia. When not working on location, Potente lives in Berlin.

  • Title: Franka Potente
  • Popularity: 15.181
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1974-07-22
  • Place of Birth: Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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  • Also Known As: Франка Потенте, Franke Potente, フランカ・ポテンテ
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Franka Potente Movies

  • 2006
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    The Elementary Particles

    The Elementary Particles

    6.158 2006 HD

    Based on Michel Houellebecq's controversial novel, Atomised (aka The Elementary Particles) focuses on Michael and Bruno, two very different...

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  • 1998
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    Run Lola Run

    Run Lola Run

    7.292 1998 HD

    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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  • 2000
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    Anatomy

    Anatomy

    6.161 2000 HD

    Medical student Paula wins a place at an exclusive Heidelberg medical school. When the body of a young man she met on the train turns up on her...

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  • 2003
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    Anatomy 2

    Anatomy 2

    5.7 2003 HD

    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...

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  • 2004
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    The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea

    The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea

    5.3 2004 HD

    The Tulse Luper Suitcases reconstructs the life of Tulse Luper, a professional writer and project-maker, caught up in a life of prisons. He was born...

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  • 2002
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    The Bourne Identity

    The Bourne Identity

    7.467 2002 HD

    Wounded to the brink of death and suffering from amnesia, Jason Bourne is rescued at sea by a fisherman. With nothing to go on but a Swiss bank...

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  • 2004
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    The Bourne Supremacy

    The Bourne Supremacy

    7.3 2004 HD

    A CIA operation to purchase classified Russian documents is blown by a rival agent, who then shows up in the sleepy seaside village where Bourne and...

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  • 2001
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    Blow

    Blow

    7.365 2001 HD

    A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her husband as he is trying to make a living for the...

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  • 1995
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    It's a Jungle Out There

    It's a Jungle Out There

    6.8 1995 HD

    Anna, 17 years old, is happy to throw her first big birthday party without her parents, but some of her guests are so stoned that they leave a big...

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  • 2003
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    Blueprint

    Blueprint

    4.324 2003 HD

    The story of the first cloned human being - told in her own words: At the age of thirty the world-famous composer Iris Sellin learns that she has an...

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  • 2001
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    Storytelling

    Storytelling

    6.5 2001 HD

    College and high school serve as the backdrop for two stories about dysfunction and personal turmoil.

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  • 2004
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    Creep

    Creep

    5.9 2004 HD

    Trapped in a London subway station, a woman who's being pursued by a potential attacker heads into the unknown labyrinth of tunnels beneath the...

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  • 1998
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    Am I Beautiful?

    Am I Beautiful?

    6.7 1998 HD

    Between Munich and Seville, the destinies of sixteen characters intertwine and intersect, missing each other or colliding head-on. They are all,...

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  • 1999
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    Paradise Mall

    Paradise Mall

    6.1 1999 HD

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  • 2008
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    Che: Part Two

    Che: Part Two

    6.7 2008 HD

    After the Cuban Revolution, Che is at the height of his fame and power. Then he disappears, re-emerging incognito in Bolivia, where he organizes a...

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  • 2003
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    I Love Your Work

    I Love Your Work

    4.7 2003 HD

    A fictional movie star, Gray Evans, goes through the disintegration of his marriage, his gradual mental breakdown, and his increasing obsession with...

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  • 2008
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    The Bridge

    The Bridge

    4.5 2008 HD

    A group of German boys is ordered to protect a small bridge in their home village during the waning months of the second world war. Truckloads of...

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  • 2000
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    The Princess and the Warrior

    The Princess and the Warrior

    6.9 2000 HD

    Young nurse Sissi lives a secluded life entirely devoted to her patients at Birkenhof asylum. Her first encounter with ex-soldier and drifter Bodo...

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  • 1997
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    Die drei Mädels von der Tankstelle

    Die drei Mädels von der Tankstelle

    4.3 1997 HD

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  • 2007
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    Romulus, My Father

    Romulus, My Father

    5.8 2007 HD

    The story of Romulus, his beautiful wife, Christina, and their struggle in the face of great adversity to bring up their son, Raimond. It is a story...

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  • 2007
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    Eichmann

    Eichmann

    6 2007 HD

    Based upon the final confession of Adolf Eichmann, made before his execution in Israel, of his role in Hitler's plan for the final solution.

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  • 2002
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    Try Seventeen

    Try Seventeen

    6.227 2002 HD

    Teenager Jones has opted not to go to college and is instead renting a room in a boarding house to work on his writing skills. Soon, Jones finds...

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  • 2010
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    Shanghai

    Shanghai

    6.1 2010 HD

    An American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed. While he...

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  • 2002
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    La mer

    La mer

    6.1 2002 HD

    A man is swimming in the ocean. Suddenly he is hit by something. Unconsciously he drops to the bottom. When he wakes up on the beach again everything...

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  • 1997
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    Blood Sisters

    Blood Sisters

    1 1997 HD

    Melanie can't stand her life anymore, a source of too much suffering. One day she decides to end it all and sets off in a stolen car on a suicidal...

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  • 2011
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    Beate Uhse - das Recht auf Liebe

    Beate Uhse - das Recht auf Liebe

    6.3 2011 HD

    Beate Uhse was a German pilot and entrepreneur. The only female stunt pilot in Germany in the 1930s, after World War II she started the first sex...

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  • 1999
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    Downhill City

    Downhill City

    1 1999 HD

    A handful of disparate people in Berlin are drawn to the same residential hotel in the drama Downhill City. Finnish musician Artsi heads to Berlin...

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  • 2008
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    Manhunt

    Manhunt

    7 2008 HD

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  • 2010
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    Small Lights

    Small Lights

    3 2010 HD

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  • 1998
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    Opera ball

    Opera ball

    7.4 1998 HD

    The Vienna State Opera on Thursday before the Carnival. As every year the large ball rather is attended by celebrities from politics and the media....

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  • 1999
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    Südsee, eigene Insel

    Südsee, eigene Insel

    4.5 1999 HD

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  • 2003
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    The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story

    The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story

    5.3 2003 HD

    The Tulse Luper Suitcases reconstructs the life of Tulse Luper, a professional writer and project-maker, caught up in a life of prisons. He was born...

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  • 2016
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    The Conjuring 2

    The Conjuring 2

    7.294 2016 HD

    Lorraine and Ed Warren travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits.

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  • 2007
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    The Bourne Ultimatum

    The Bourne Ultimatum

    7.429 2007 HD

    Bourne is brought out of hiding once again by reporter Simon Ross who is trying to unveil Operation Blackbriar, an upgrade to Project Treadstone, in...

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  • 2017
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    Muse

    Muse

    5.865 2017 HD

    Samuel Salomon, a literature professor, has been off work for almost a year after the tragic death of his girlfriend. Samuel has been suffering from...

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  • 2016
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    Der Island-Krimi: Der Tote im Westfjord

    Der Island-Krimi: Der Tote im Westfjord

    6.5 2016 HD

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  • 2018
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    25 km/h

    25 km/h

    6.832 2018 HD

    A road movie about two very different brothers who have not seen each other for 20 years: city manager Christian and cabinetmaker Georg, who never...

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  • 2018
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    Between Worlds

    Between Worlds

    5.1 2018 HD

    Joe—a down-on-his-luck truck driver haunted by the memory of his deceased wife and child—meets Julie, a spiritually gifted woman who...

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  • 2019
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    Princess Emmy

    Princess Emmy

    7.2 2019 HD

    Princess Emmy has a secret gift – she is the only one in the kingdom of Kandis who can speak to horses. She has a wonderful time with her best...

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  • 1997
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    Coming In

    Coming In

    4.7 1997 HD

    Copywriter Lorenz is gay and has a relationship with his boss Adrian. The two are happy together until Lorenz meets secretary Nina one day. Nina has...

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  • 2019
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    The Haunted Swordsman

    The Haunted Swordsman

    9.3 2019 HD

    The latest in acclaimed puppeteer Kevin McTurk’s SPIRIT CABINET series follows a ronin samurai on a supernatural quest for vengeance with only...

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  • 2016
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    Der Island-Krimi: Tod der Elfenfrau

    Der Island-Krimi: Tod der Elfenfrau

    6.4 2016 HD

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  • 2005
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    A Life in Suitcases

    A Life in Suitcases

    5.5 2005 HD

    Follows Tulse Luper as he is swept into the ill-fortuned tides of the 20th century and forced to spend his life in a succession of imprisonments.

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  • 2006
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    Der die Tollkirsche ausgräbt

    Der die Tollkirsche ausgräbt

    5.4 2006 HD

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  • 2021
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    Home

    Home

    6.8 2021 HD

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  • 2021
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    Home

    Home

    6.8 2021 HD

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  • 2002
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    The Shield

    The Shield

    8.1 2002 HD

    The story of an inner-city Los Angeles police precinct where some of the cops aren't above breaking the rules or working against their associates to...

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  • 2012
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    Copper

    Copper

    6.2 2012 HD

    Kevin Corcoran is a rugged young Irish immigrant policeman trying to keep the peace in the historical Five Points neighborhood in 1860s New York City...

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  • 2011
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    The Sinking of the Laconia

    The Sinking of the Laconia

    6.323 2011 HD

    The true story of the Allied ship Laconia, sunk in WWII by a German U-Boat, which then surfaced against orders to rescue the civilian crew

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  • 2011
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    American Horror Story

    American Horror Story

    8.126 2011 HD

    An anthology horror drama series centering on different characters and locations, including a house with a murderous past, an asylum, a witch coven,...

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  • 2013
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    The Bridge

    The Bridge

    6.7 2013 HD

    A murdered body on a bridge between El Paso and Juarez bring together El Paso detective Sonya Cross and Chihuahua State Police detective Marco Ruiz.

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  • 2013
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    The Bridge

    The Bridge

    6.7 2013 HD

    A murdered body on a bridge between El Paso and Juarez bring together El Paso detective Sonya Cross and Chihuahua State Police detective Marco Ruiz.

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  • 1994
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    Zwei Brüder

    Zwei Brüder

    6 1994 HD

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  • 2006
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    Psych

    Psych

    7.9 2006 HD

    Thanks to his police officer father's efforts, Shawn Spencer spent his childhood developing a keen eye for detail (and a lasting dislike of his dad)....

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  • 1995
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    Die Harald Schmidt Show

    Die Harald Schmidt Show

    7 1995 HD

    The Harald Schmidt Show is a German late night talk show hosted on Sky Deutschland by comedian Harald Schmidt. The show first aired from 5 December...

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  • 2002
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    Through the Night with...

    Through the Night with...

    8 2002 HD

    Durch die Nacht mit … is a German documentary film television series produced by ZDF for Franco-German television channel ARTE. Locations are...

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  • 2017
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    Taboo

    Taboo

    7.896 2017 HD

    Adventurer James Keziah Delaney returns to London from Africa in 1814 along with fourteen stolen diamonds to seek vengeance after the death of his...

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  • 2023
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    Castlevania: Nocturne

    Castlevania: Nocturne

    7.8 2023 HD

    In the thick of the French Revolution, members of the so-called lower classes are rising up to fight inequality. Meanwhile, Richter Belmont senses a...

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  • 1997
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    Leute heute

    Leute heute

    3 1997 HD

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  • 1951
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    Deutscher Filmpreis

    Deutscher Filmpreis

    6 1951 HD

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  • 1989
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    Blauer Panther

    Blauer Panther

    1 1989 HD

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  • 1966
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    Goldene Kamera Verleihung

    Goldene Kamera Verleihung

    3.5 1966 HD

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  • 1948
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    Bambi Awards

    Bambi Awards

    9 1948 HD

    The Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in...

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  • 1979
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    Bayerischer Filmpreis

    Bayerischer Filmpreis

    1 1979 HD

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  • 1998
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    Opernball

    Opernball

    1 1998 HD

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  • 2018
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    Titans

    Titans

    7.918 2018 HD

    A team of young superheroes led by Nightwing (formerly Batman's first Robin) form to combat evil and other perils.

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  • 1996
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    Zimmer frei!

    Zimmer frei!

    6.9 1996 HD

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  • 2004
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    House

    House

    8.6 2004 HD

    Dr. Gregory House, a drug-addicted, unconventional, misanthropic medical genius, leads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional...

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  • 2003
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    Menschen bei Maischberger

    Menschen bei Maischberger

    4.5 2003 HD

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  • 1998
    imgS11 E65

    Die Johannes B. Kerner Show

    Die Johannes B. Kerner Show

    4 1998 HD

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  • 2022
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    Echo 3

    Echo 3

    6.8 2022 HD

    When brilliant scientist Amber Chesborough vanishes along the Colombia-Venezuela border, her brother and her husband—both elite U.S. Army...

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  • 1999
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    Beckmann

    Beckmann

    3 1999 HD

    Reinhold Beckmann hosts a weekly talk show.

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  • 2001
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    Aeschbacher

    Aeschbacher

    1 2001 HD

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  • 1997
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    Nachtstudio

    Nachtstudio

    1 1997 HD

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  • 1994
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    NeXt

    NeXt

    1 1994 HD

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  • 1997
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    Taff

    Taff

    3.2 1997 HD

    Taff is a tabloid news magazine airing on the German television network, ProSieben.

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  • 1994
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    Exclusiv - Das Star-Magazin

    Exclusiv - Das Star-Magazin

    3.3 1994 HD

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  • 2003
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    ZIBB

    ZIBB

    1 2003 HD

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