Gottfried John

Gottfried John

Gottfried John (German: [ˈjoːn];[1] 29 August 1942 – 1 September 2014) was a German stage, screen, and voice actor. A long-time collaborator of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, John appeared in many of the filmmaker's projects between 1975 and his death in 1982, including Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven, Despair, The Marriage of Maria Braun , and Berlin Alexanderplatz. His distinctive, gaunt appearance saw him he frequently cast as villains, and he is best known to audiences for his role as the corrupt General Arkady Orumov in the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye, and for his comedic turn as Julius Caesar in Asterix & Obelix Take On Caesar, the latter for which he won the Bavarian Film Award for Best Supporting Actor.

  • Title: Gottfried John
  • Popularity: 8.288
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1942-08-29
  • Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany
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Gottfried John Movies

  • 1981
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    Lili Marleen

    Lili Marleen

    6.3 1981 HD

    The story of a German singer named Willie who while working in Switzerland falls in love with a Jewish composer named Robert whose family is helping...

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  • 1979
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    The Marriage of Maria Braun

    The Marriage of Maria Braun

    7.3 1979 HD

    Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. She must rely on her beauty and ambition to...

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  • 1995
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    GoldenEye

    GoldenEye

    6.891 1995 HD

    When a powerful satellite system falls into the hands of Alec Trevelyan, AKA Agent 006, a former ally-turned-enemy, only James Bond can save the...

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  • 1993
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    Abraham

    Abraham

    6.9 1993 HD

    Rather than choosing a great leader or king, God chooses Abraham, an elderly shepherd from Mesopotamia, as the way to establish his Covenant with...

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  • 1988
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    Schön war die Zeit

    Schön war die Zeit

    1 1988 HD

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  • 2009
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    John Rabe

    John Rabe

    7.1 2009 HD

    A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38.

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  • 1998
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    Glatteis

    Glatteis

    1 1998 HD

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  • 1999
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    Asterix & Obelix Take on Caesar

    Asterix & Obelix Take on Caesar

    6 1999 HD

    Set in 50 B.C., Asterix and Obelix are living in a small but well-protected village in Gaul, where a magic potion concocted by Druids turns the...

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  • 1995
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    Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life

    Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life

    7.7 1995 HD

    Jakob arrives at the Institute Benjamenta (run by brother and sister Johannes and Lisa Benjamenta) to learn to become a servant. With seven other...

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  • 1978
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    In a Year with 13 Moons

    In a Year with 13 Moons

    6.596 1978 HD

    Elvira Weishaupt, once a burly working-class butcher, has made an enormous sacrifice for love. She has undergone a sex change for a romantic interest...

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  • 2005
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    The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes

    The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes

    6.1 2005 HD

    Dark fairytale about a demonic doctor who abducts a beautiful opera singer with designs on transforming her into a mechanical nightingale.

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  • 1996
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    The Ogre

    The Ogre

    6.4 1996 HD

    Frenchman Abel Tiffauges is a naive man who lives a simple life working as a mechanic. Falsely accused of being a child abuser, he is recruited as a...

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  • 1985
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    Mata Hari

    Mata Hari

    4 1985 HD

    Based loosely on the real-life story of the World War I spy. The exotic dancer uses her contacts in European high society, along with her seductive...

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  • 2010
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    Life Is Too Long

    Life Is Too Long

    5 2010 HD

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  • 1978
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    Fedora

    Fedora

    6.7 1978 HD

    An ambitious Hollywood hustler becomes involved with a reclusive female star, whom he tries to lure out of retirement.

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  • 2000
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    Mary Magdalene

    Mary Magdalene

    5.6 2000 HD

    Employed as a spy and given the task of investigating the threat posed by John the Baptist, Mary Magdalene is overwhelmed by John's powerful message...

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  • 1990
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    Night of the Fox

    Night of the Fox

    6 1990 HD

    This classic war mini-series stars George Peppard and Michael York in a gripping tale of danger, intrigue, and a deadly secret that could determine...

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  • 2006
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    A Pirate's Heart

    A Pirate's Heart

    5.3 2006 HD

    The end of the 14th century. Parents send the eldest son Jan to study in Hamburg, and the youngest - Klaus - to the monastery. No sooner had the...

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  • 2013
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    Ruby Red

    Ruby Red

    7 2013 HD

    On her 16th birthday, Gwendolyn Shepherd finds out that instead of her cousin, she has inherited a rare gene that allows her to travel through time.

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  • 1977
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    The Stationmaster’s Wife

    The Stationmaster’s Wife

    5.1 1977 HD

    The lackluster and plodding Bolweiser has the (mis)fortune to be married to the town’s siren; his trusting nature leads him into serious...

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  • 1971
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    Carlos

    Carlos

    1 1971 HD

    In the Southwest of 1915 Carlos backs an intended uprising of the common countymen against his father Phillip, a despotic landowner who exploits the...

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  • 1978
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    Despair

    Despair

    6.5 1978 HD

    Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufacturer, married to the capricious Lydia, loses his...

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  • 2013
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    A World Beyond

    A World Beyond

    5 2013 HD

    Hans and Fridel are a marriage that come to Java fleeing of the pursuit Nazi just before the Second World war comes untied. In this paradise Hans...

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  • 1995
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    Brüder auf Leben und Tod

    Brüder auf Leben und Tod

    1 1995 HD

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  • 1985
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    Otto - The Movie

    Otto - The Movie

    6.488 1985 HD

    East Friesian Otto moves to the big city Hamburg. There he gets into trouble with a loan shark and needs to find a way to impress his love interest...

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  • 2008
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    The Papal Council

    The Papal Council

    3 2008 HD

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  • 1998
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    Mein zweites Leben

    Mein zweites Leben

    1 1998 HD

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  • 1993
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    Das Sahara-Projekt

    Das Sahara-Projekt

    1 1993 HD

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  • 2003
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    Sams in Gefahr

    Sams in Gefahr

    5.5 2003 HD

    Sams in danger, it is said, when Mr. Taschenbier's son Martin brings the Sams back into the household, which, however, is kidnapped shortly...

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  • 1971
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    Jaider, the Lonely Hunter

    Jaider, the Lonely Hunter

    1 1971 HD

    When Jaider has to illegally poach in order to feed the citizens of a poor Alpine town, he gets into a blood-soaked conflict with the German...

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  • 1978
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    1982: Gutenbach

    1982: Gutenbach

    1 1978 HD

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  • 1990
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    Wings of Fame

    Wings of Fame

    6.7 1990 HD

    A famous movie actor claims that he has written a book. As result, a real author, not a very well known writer, vengefully kills him but then dies as...

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  • 2004
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    Die schöne Braut in Schwarz

    Die schöne Braut in Schwarz

    5 2004 HD

    Sylvia Rosch is a woman with dangerous obsessions. Camouflaged by perfectly rehearsed masquerades, she wages a merciless campaign of revenge. Anyone...

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  • 2009
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    Black Flowers

    Black Flowers

    4.4 2009 HD

    Following the failure of his last mission, RFG spy Michael Roddick decides to disappear, taking along Elena, the daughter of a Russian spy who died...

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  • 2012
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    Die Löwin

    Die Löwin

    1 2012 HD

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  • 2003
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    Entrusted

    Entrusted

    6.7 2003 HD

    Hoping to entrap Maria von Gall, who runs a courageous underground railroad for Jews in France, the Nazis kidnap her son Thomas, a brilliant...

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  • 1991
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    Elfenbein

    Elfenbein

    1 1991 HD

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  • 1975
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    Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven

    Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven

    7.8 1975 HD

    After a worker kills a superior and commits suicide, each of his family members attempts to forge a path forward in life.

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  • 1979
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    Theodor Chindler - Die Geschichte einer deutschen Familie

    Theodor Chindler - Die Geschichte einer deutschen Familie

    1 1979 HD

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  • 2010
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    Aghet

    Aghet

    8.2 2010 HD

    2010 documentary film on the Armenian Genocide by the Young Turk government of the Ottoman Empire during World War I. It is based on eyewitness...

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  • 1994
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    Deadly Web

    Deadly Web

    1 1994 HD

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  • 1979
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    Wo die Liebe hinfällt

    Wo die Liebe hinfällt

    6.5 1979 HD

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  • 2016
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    Emerald Green

    Emerald Green

    6.973 2016 HD

    Emerald Green is the stunning conclusion to Kerstin Gier's Ruby Red Trilogy, picking up where Sapphire Blue left off, reaching new heights of...

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  • 1987
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    Pattberg's Legacy

    Pattberg's Legacy

    1 1987 HD

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  • 1983
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    Die Matrosen von Kronstadt

    Die Matrosen von Kronstadt

    1 1983 HD

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  • 1985
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    Die Mitläufer

    Die Mitläufer

    1 1985 HD

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  • 1991
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    Ich schenk’ Dir die Sterne

    Ich schenk’ Dir die Sterne

    1 1991 HD

    An eccentric pop singer from a dreary social background in a Munich suburb turns men's heads by the dozen and makes an unexpected career when a...

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  • 1992
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    The Mistake

    The Mistake

    4.5 1992 HD

    It is 1988. Jacob (Gottfried John), from Hamburg in West Germany, falls in love with Elisabeth (Angelica Domröse) in East Germany. When they...

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  • 1998
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    Die Fremde in meiner Brust

    Die Fremde in meiner Brust

    3.5 1998 HD

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  • 2007
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    Flood

    Flood

    5.3 2007 HD

    Timely yet terrifying, The Flood predicts the unthinkable. When a raging storm coincides with high seas it unleashes a colossal tidal surge, which...

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  • 2007
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    Das zweite Leben

    Das zweite Leben

    7 2007 HD

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  • 1994
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    Die Zeit danach

    Die Zeit danach

    1 1994 HD

    An economics expert from the West is contracted by a large firm to assist in the reorganization of a debt-ridden steel plant in the former Eastern...

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  • 1987
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    Der Fall Franza

    Der Fall Franza

    1 1987 HD

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  • 1979
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    Die Ratten

    Die Ratten

    1 1979 HD

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  • 1984
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    Chinese Boxes

    Chinese Boxes

    6 1984 HD

    An American in West Berlin finds himself caught up in murder and intrigue after his associate is killed and a diplomat's daughter is found dead in...

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  • 2002
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    Best Ever Bond

    Best Ever Bond

    5 2002 HD

    Roger Moore presents the ten best sequences ever to have appeared in the James Bond series, and cast members recall their favourite moments.

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  • 1996
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    Beckmann und Markowski: Im Zwiespalt der Gefühle

    Beckmann und Markowski: Im Zwiespalt der Gefühle

    1 1996 HD

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  • 1993
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    Novalis - Die blaue Blume

    Novalis - Die blaue Blume

    1 1993 HD

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  • 2009
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    Rumpelstilzchen

    Rumpelstilzchen

    7 2009 HD

    The king locks the miller’s daughter, Lisa, in a room full of straw to turn into gold in just one night. If she doesn’t succeed she would...

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  • 1978
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    Marija

    Marija

    1 1978 HD

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  • 2000
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    Proof of Life

    Proof of Life

    6.2 2000 HD

    Alice hires a professional negotiator to obtain the release of her engineer husband, who has been kidnapped by anti-government guerrillas in South...

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  • 1985
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    Verworrene Bilanzen

    Verworrene Bilanzen

    1 1985 HD

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  • 2002
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    The Gathering Storm

    The Gathering Storm

    6.6 2002 HD

    A love story offering an intimate look inside the marriage of Winston and Clementine Churchill during a particularly troubled, though little-known,...

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  • 1998
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    Life, Love & Celluloid

    Life, Love & Celluloid

    5.8 1998 HD

    Documentary musing upon the work of German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

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  • 1962
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    Café Oriental

    Café Oriental

    4.5 1962 HD

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  • 1999
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    Balzac: A Life of Passion

    Balzac: A Life of Passion

    5.3 1999 HD

    This is the sprawling saga of Honoré de Balzac, a man who created a great literary oeuvre from the dramas and adventures of his own life - a...

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  • 2003
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    Augustus: The First Emperor

    Augustus: The First Emperor

    5.9 2003 HD

    Caesar Augustus tells of how he became the emperor to his reluctant daughter, Julia following the death of her husband Agrippa.

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  • 2007
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    Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz: A Mega Movie and Its Story

    Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz: A Mega Movie and Its Story

    1 2007 HD

    A documentary about the making of the television mini-series by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, including interviewees with the principal actors.

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  • 1986
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    Of Pure Blood

    Of Pure Blood

    1 1986 HD

    A mother investigating her son's mysterious death finds much more than she bargained for. Casting director Alicia Browning (Remick) takes leave of...

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  • 1999
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    Beckmann und Markowski: Gehetzt

    Beckmann und Markowski: Gehetzt

    1 1999 HD

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  • 2004
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    Cowgirl

    Cowgirl

    3.5 2004 HD

    Dreamy Paula and her husband Edgar, an insurance salesman, lead a dull, middle-class life in Struvensiel, a fictitious suburb of Hamburg. Paula runs...

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  • 2002
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    Der Solist - In eigener Sache

    Der Solist - In eigener Sache

    6 2002 HD

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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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  • 1994
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    Ein letzter Wille

    Ein letzter Wille

    1 1994 HD

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  • 1984
    imgMovies

    Super

    Super

    6.2 1984 HD

    The Earth shortly before its end. The houses in the cities are deserted, the streets smashed. The sky shimmers dark gray.

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  • 1990
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    Death Has A Bad Reputation

    Death Has A Bad Reputation

    4 1990 HD

    A British agent is chasing after famous terrorist Carlos when he resurfaces in Europe.

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  • 1977
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    The Stationmaster’s Wife

    The Stationmaster’s Wife

    5.1 1977 HD

    The lackluster and plodding Bolweiser has the (mis)fortune to be married to the town’s siren; his trusting nature leads him into serious...

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  • 2004
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    Renzo e Lucia

    Renzo e Lucia

    1 2004 HD

    Loose adaptation of Italy's national epic, Alessandro Manzoni's “The Betrothed”. In war-torn 17th century Italy, shady feudal lord Don...

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  • 2005
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    Julie, chevalier de Maupin

    Julie, chevalier de Maupin

    4 2005 HD

    Agnès Dormes, a famous opera singer, saves Julie, a baby girl who was about to be sacrificed during a black mass. Twenty years later, the baby...

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  • 1985
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    Bartolome oder Die Rückkehr der weißen Götter

    Bartolome oder Die Rückkehr der weißen Götter

    5 1985 HD

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  • 1996
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    La casa dove abitava Corinne

    La casa dove abitava Corinne

    1 1996 HD

    The story of Doriana, a young lawyer, who moves to Rome, because a criminal she convicted has escaped prison and threatens to kill her. But the flat...

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  • 2003
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    Augusto - Il primo imperatore

    Augusto - Il primo imperatore

    6.2 2003 HD

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  • 1996
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    Millennium

    Millennium

    7.644 1996 HD

    A retired FBI serial-profiler joins the mysterious Millennium Group, a team of underground ex-law enforcement experts dedicated to fighting against...

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  • 1993
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    Space Rangers

    Space Rangers

    4.8 1993 HD

    Space Rangers is an American futuristic science fiction drama. The short lived series aired on CBS in 1993. The show was created by Pen Densham and...

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  • 1988
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    Game, Set, and Match

    Game, Set, and Match

    7.5 1988 HD

    Focuses on Bernard Samson (Ian Holm), beginning with his search for the "mole" that threatens the Brahms Network in East Germany. Samson is sent to...

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  • 1980
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    Berlin Alexanderplatz

    Berlin Alexanderplatz

    7.6 1980 HD

    In late 1920s Berlin, Franz Biberkopf is released from prison and vows to go straight. However, he soon finds himself embroiled in the city’s...

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  • 1969
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    Der Kommissar

    Der Kommissar

    7.5 1969 HD

    Der Kommissar is a German television series about a group of detectives of the Munich homicide squad. All 97 episodes, which were shot in...

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  • 1972
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    Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day

    Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day

    7.6 1972 HD

    Commissioned to make a working-class family drama for public television, up-and-coming director Rainer Werner Fassbinder took the assignment and ran,...

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  • 1970
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    Scene of the Crime

    Scene of the Crime

    6.134 1970 HD

    Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the...

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  • 1979
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    The Great Runaway

    The Great Runaway

    7 1979 HD

    A miniseries about a pair of teenagers living in a slum at the fringes of Berlin. Alcoholism, prostitution, and violence are just a few of the themes...

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  • 1998
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    Die Cleveren

    Die Cleveren

    6.8 1998 HD

    Die Cleveren is a German television series that was produced from 1998 to 2003 on RTL. It is about a nation wide special unit of the German...

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  • 1974
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    Derrick

    Derrick

    6 1974 HD

    Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about...

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  • 1981
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    A Case For Two

    A Case For Two

    5.2 1981 HD

    Ein Fall für zwei is a German television series, which premiered on September 11, 1981 on ZDF. The series, located in Frankfurt am Main,...

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  • 1981
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    A Case For Two

    A Case For Two

    5.2 1981 HD

    Ein Fall für zwei is a German television series, which premiered on September 11, 1981 on ZDF. The series, located in Frankfurt am Main,...

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  • 1992
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    Wolffs Revier

    Wolffs Revier

    3.4 1992 HD

    Wolffs Revier is a German television series.

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  • 1971
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    Polizeiruf 110

    Polizeiruf 110

    6.386 1971 HD

    Polizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic...

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  • 1988
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    Game, Set, and Match

    Game, Set, and Match

    7.5 1988 HD

    Focuses on Bernard Samson (Ian Holm), beginning with his search for the "mole" that threatens the Brahms Network in East Germany. Samson is sent to...

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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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  • 1989
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    Blaues Blut

    Blaues Blut

    1 1989 HD

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  • 2000
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    Donna Leon

    Donna Leon

    7.25 2000 HD

    Murder, Venice, relationships...it's a delicious concoction in the hands of crime novelist Donna Leon. Venice provides the backdrop for the lush film...

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  • 1990
    imgS1 E3

    Drehort Pfarrhaus

    Drehort Pfarrhaus

    1 1990 HD

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  • 1966
    imgS3 E13

    Jörg Preda berichtet

    Jörg Preda berichtet

    1 1966 HD

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  • 1999
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    Balzac

    Balzac

    10 1999 HD

    As Balzac prepares to die, his entire past flashes before his eyes. As a young writer, he was driven by the desire to achieve something great. With...

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  • 1982
    imgS1 E1

    Die Priwalowschen Millionen

    Die Priwalowschen Millionen

    1 1982 HD

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  • 1979
    imgS1 E40

    Bayerischer Filmpreis

    Bayerischer Filmpreis

    1 1979 HD

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  • 1987
    imgS38 E23

    Nachtcafé

    Nachtcafé

    6.5 1987 HD

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  • 2004
    imgS1 E2

    Julie, chevalier de Maupin

    Julie, chevalier de Maupin

    1 2004 HD

    Agnès Dormes, a famous opera singer, saves Julie, a baby girl who was about to be sacrificed during a black mass. Twenty years later, the baby...

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  • 1993
    imgS1 E2

    Colpo di coda

    Colpo di coda

    1 1993 HD

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  • 1979
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    NDR Talk Show

    NDR Talk Show

    6.5 1979 HD

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  • 1974
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    3 nach 9

    3 nach 9

    6.5 1974 HD

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  • 1973
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    World on a Wire

    World on a Wire

    7.1 1973 HD

    Cybernetics engineer Fred Stiller uncovers a massive corporate conspiracy involving a virtual reality computer project.

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