
Dieter Laser
Actor · 1942 – 2020 · Kiel, Germany
Dieter Laser (February 17, 1942 – February 29, 2020) was a German actor. He is known to English speaking audiences for his roles in Lexx and The Human Centipede (First Sequence), for which he won "Best Actor" at the Austin Fantastic Fest. In 1975 he was awarded the German Film Award in the category of Best Actor for the title role in John Glückstadt. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dieter Laser, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movies24
Movie5.2HorrorDuring a stopover in Germany in the middle of a carefree road trip through Europe, two American girls find themselves alone at night when their car breaks down in the woods. Searching for help at a nearby villa, they are wooed into the clutches of a deranged retired surgeon, who has a very disturbed vision.
The Human Centipede (First Sequence)
2009 · 2.5K votes
Movie3.7HorrorComedyTaking inspiration from The Human Centipede films, the warden of a notorious and troubled prison looks to create a 500-person human centipede as a solution to his problems.
The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence)
2015 · 885 votes
Movie7.0DramaAfter a chance encounter with a wanted man, a woman is harassed by the police and press until she takes violent action.
Movie5.3DramaThrillerSuccessful architect Robert has a one-night stand with a mysterious lady in red. The next day they meet again, but Carolin is now a corporate lawyer working on a major contract for Robert ...
Movie7.1DramaFantasyIn a poor Estonian village, a group of peasants use magic and folk remedies to survive the winter, and a young woman tries to get a young man to love her.
November
2017 · 192 votes
- Movie8.0Drama
German two-part miniseries about the westerns staying at a popular hotel in Shanghai as the Japanese invasion of China also known as the Second Sino-Japanese War begins in 1937 as a precursor to WWII.
Hotel Shanghai
1997 · 1 votes
Movie6.4DramaWarFrenchman 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 soldier when World War II begins, but is captured soon and taken to the heart of Nazi Germany.
- Movie7.0Comedy
Schmetterlingsgefühle
1996 · 1 votes
Movie6.2DramaIn May 1828, a feral boy aged around 16 was found in Nuremberg. Kaspar Hauser, as he is called, can only speak a few indistinct words and knows nothing about his origins or family. The film depicts the - presumed - circumstances under which Hauser was held captive in complete isolation in a hiding place from infancy onwards. From this emerges the picture of an intrigue involving high circles of aristocratic society. Five years after his liberation, in December 1833, Kaspar Hauser died as a result of a stab wound inflicted by an unknown perpetrator.
Kaspar Hauser
1993 · 16 votes
Movie5.1DramaMysteryA journalist from Berlin, Germany, and a Swedish lawyer discover the truth behind the sinking of the "MS Estonia" in 1994, where more than 850 people drowned.
Baltic Storm
2003 · 17 votes
Movie6.4DocumentaryDramaNine fictitious documentaries and films reflect the mood of late 1970s Germany, particularly the two-month period in 1977 when a businessman was kidnapped by the RAF (Red Army Faction). The kidnap had been made to orchestrate the release of the original leaders of the RAF, aka the Baader-Meinhof.
Movie6.3DramaIngo Hasselbach, whose parents were Communist Party members in East Germany during his childhood, has lived at both ends of the political seesaw. The question of how people reach a change of heart is a profound one; Hasselbach describes the external forces that led to his founding Germany's first neo-Nazi political party and the internal ones that led him away from it five years later.
Führer Ex
2002 · 36 votes
Movie10.0ComedyAn American historian (Mr Webster) comes to Berlin to visit an old man who claims to be the real Adolf Hitler and to be 103 years old. The Hitler who died in 1945, the old man says, was just one of his six doubles - one for each weekday - while Hitler himself retired into a bunker below the S-Bahn tracks and married a second time.
Movie5.8ComedyDramaCelebrated Swedish opera star Karin Anderson is slated to appear in an internationally-telecast production of Tannhauser. Ms. Anderson balks at the notion of working with obscure Hungarian conductor Zoltan Szanto. The much-anticipated production may never get off the ground, thanks to labor-management difficulties, intramural jealousies, and clashing egos. Amidst all this chaos, the mismatched Anderson and Szanto fall in love.
Meeting Venus
1991 · 22 votes
Movie9.0DramaFollows the life of the famous German politician, writer, and communist activist, Gustav Regler, from his birth in 1898, in the Saar, through the two World Wars and his many travels, until his death in 1963 in India.
Movie6.0DramaKati and Steffi have been best friends forever. Now that their love lives are heating up, they're hitting the books less and going out to nightclubs more. But when Steffi sees her father out with another woman, her life begins to spiral out of control.
- Movie8.0Comedy
Der Rückfall
1969 · 1 votes
- Movie6.0Drama
A drama directed by Martin Buchhorn based on the novel by Günter Grass. At the center of the film is artist Marcus Frank, who is informed by a talking rat about the imminent end of the world. Unfortunately, he does not take the signs of time seriously and rats conquer the earth, which cannot be stopped even by atomic bombs..
Die Rättin
1997 · 2 votes
- Movie10.0Drama
Die Mutter
1971 · 1 votes
- Movie8.0ComedyDrama
Romantic comedy about an elderly intellectual and a young casual worker
Erhöhte Waldbrandgefahr
1997 · 1 votes
Movie6.5CrimeA German high school graduate travels to Australia against her mother’s wishes to meet her uncle there. On the way, she joins two young Australians who have been caught by the drug investigation network, and thus calls her mother into action.
- Movie10.0ThrillerTV Movie
A private detective is hired in the USA to locate the heiress to a fortune worth millions. When he discovers that she has died of a heroin overdose, he passes off an accomplice as the person he is looking for. But suddenly others also come forward to claim the inheritance.
Mörderisches Erbe - Tausch mit einer Toten
1998 · 1 votes
Movie9.0DramaMonk Medardus, administrator of the relic chamber of a Capuchin monastery, drinks from the elixirs of the devil and is confronted with the dark sides of his soul.
Die Elixiere des Teufels
1976 · 2 votes
Movie6.9DramaCrimeA man is wrongfully imprisoned for five years. Once out, he hears about his wife's supposed adventures outside of their marriage and becomes increasingly jealous.
Series15
TV6.2DramaCrimeTatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.
TV4.7Talk ShowNewsEvery evening at 6:45 p.m. sharp, a prominent guest takes a seat on the red sofa—and DAS! provides daily updates on what's hot in the north.
DAS!
1991 · 6 votes
TV6.3CrimePolizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic Republic, and after the dissolution of Fernsehen der DDR the series was picked up by ARD. It was originally created as a counterpart to the West German series Tatort, and quickly became a public favorite.
Polizeiruf 110
1971 · 26 votes
TV3.7CrimeWolffs Revier is a German television series.
Wolffs Revier
1992 · 7 votes
TV7.0ComedyDramaA Time Prophet predicted that Kai would be the one to destroy the divine order in the league of the 20,000 planets, someday that will happen, but not today. Today a cowardly security guard, an undead assassin, a female with a body designed for sex and a robot head madly in love with her all make up the crew of the spaceship Lexx, the most powerful weapon in the two universes.
Lexx
1997 · 146 votes
TV5.5CrimeSK Kölsch is a German television series.
SK Kölsch
1999 · 2 votes
TV4.8CrimeRosa Roth is a German television series.
Rosa Roth
1994 · 5 votes
TV7.4CrimeDramaDie 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 Bundeskriminalamt, dealing with serial offenders. The main characters are the profiler Dr. Dominik Born and a policewoman of the BKA, who co-ordinates the necessary steps to be taken by the local police authorities.
Die Cleveren
1998 · 5 votes
TV8.0Action & AdventureA.S. Gefahr ist sein Geschäft
1995 · 1 votes
- TV
Pantoffelkino
2013
TV7.0DramaDocumentaryFollows two wealthy families in Germany during the first half of the 20th century. One of them is German, the other one Jewish.
TV10.0DramaKonsul Möllers Erben
1983 · 1 votes
TV3.0DramaAn employee of a real estate company falls for an impostor.
Gier
2010 · 4 votes
TV4.0Sci-Fi & FantasyDas Blaue Palais is a series of five TV feature films written and directed by German author and filmmaker Rainer Erler. All five stories about the research and findings of an interdisciplinary scientific project have also been published as novels by Goldmann in 1978, 1979 and 1980. The series had an international cast. It was shot in Bavaria, Scotland, USA and Asia.
Das Blaue Palais
1974 · 1 votes
TV7.0CrimeDie Tote von Amelung follows the mysterious case of a woman found dead under strange circumstances in the small village of Amelung. A local journalist, determined to uncover the truth, investigates the woman's death, uncovering hidden secrets and dark histories within the community. As the journalist digs deeper, he finds himself tangled in a web of lies, deception, and betrayal, where nothing is as it seems, and everyone has something to hide. With mounting tension and a chilling atmosphere, The Dead Woman of Amelung is a gripping exploration of mystery, suspense, and the darkest corners of human nature.