
Jan Niklas
Actor · b. 1947 · Pottenstein, Bavaria, Germany
Movies24
Movie6.9RomanceDramaA rancher, his clairvoyant wife and their family face turbulent years in South America.
The House of the Spirits
1993 · 751 votes
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Movie6.9DramaHistorySet during the fading glory of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the film tells of the rise and fall of Alfred Redl, an ambitious young officer who proceeds up the ladder to become head of the Secret Police only to become ensnared in political deception.
Movie6.1AdventureDramaTwo men want to escape from East Germany (under Communist rule) but they will only go if they can take their families with them. Based on a true story.
Night Crossing
1982 · 42 votes
Movie5.5ThrillerMysteryWhile investigating the death of a friend and fellow cop, Los Angeles police officer Barney Caine stumbles across evidence that Nazis created a synthetic alternative to gasoline during World War II. This revelation has the potential to end the established global oil industry, making the formula a very valuable and dangerous piece of information. Eventually, Caine must contend with oil tycoon Adam Steiffel, who clearly has his own agenda regarding the formula.
The Formula
1980 · 51 votes
Movie4.7CrimeMysteryIn the not-too-distant future Berlin is shocked by a series of spectacular suicides; a policeman's investigations lead him to a beautiful, enigmatic woman and the revelation of a sinister plot to manipulate the population through mass hypnosis.
Dr. M
1990 · 13 votes
Movie6.3DramaThrillerA dramatization of the incident in 1972 when Arab terrorists broke into the Olympic compound in Munich and murdered 11 Israeli athletes.
21 Hours at Munich
1976 · 23 votes
Movie6.0DramaIn 1959, a young Soviet musician risks everything to pursue his newfound love of American rock 'n' roll.
Red Hot
1993 · 3 votes
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The divorced wife of a respected surgeon is involved in a hit-and-run accident and dies. Her husband is suspected, but manages to escape on the way to the court. Together with a journalist, in order to prove his innocence, he tracks down a flourishing organ trade and an unscrupulous gang of smugglers.
Blutige Spur
1995 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaDer Katzensteg
1975 · 1 votes
Movie7.2RomanceTV MovieWhen Elfrida Philips abandons London for a country village, she settles in quickly. She is very poor, but has a tiny cottage, her four-legged friend Horace, and friendships of good neighbors. Tragedy upsets her newfound tranquillity, and she takes refuge in a rambling house with a new gentleman friend in Corrydale. But the group proves to be greater than the sum of its ill-fitting parts, and as the solstice passes, and as Christmas approaches, the healing power of love, begins to work its magic. (Filmed at Dunrobin Castle, Golspie, Sutherland)
Winter Solstice
2003 · 10 votes
- Movie10.0HistoryDrama
Der Thronfolger
1980 · 1 votes
Movie6.4FantasyFamilyPrince Victor looks in vain for a swan which was wounded by one of his servants. Instead he discovers a beautiful girl with golden hair who has an arrow in her shoulder. She is dumb and can't explain her origin. He falls immediately for her. The girl quickly recovers, but disappears mysteriously.
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Teerosen
1978 · 1 votes
- Movie10.0Drama
Kinder
1981 · 1 votes
Movie6.0MysteryTV MovieWhile they are stuck in the elevator, three employees of a TV station tell each other stories about supernatural phenomena. They tell of the “dream girlfriend” of a 16-year-old girl who fell victim to a crime 33 years ago; of a bully who turns out to be an alien; and of a comic artist who falls victim to his mirror doppelganger.
Geisterstunde - Fahrstuhl ins Jenseits
1997 · 2 votes
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Der Richter
1981 · 1 votes
Movie6.7DramaIn Germany, an old man attacks another old man and is arrested. The attacker refuses to speak. A female lawyer is appointed to him. She discovers that the attacker has numbers tattooed on his arm and the attacked man was a German officer.
The Rose Garden
1989 · 11 votes
Movie5.1ComedyRobert Lamoureux plays a General in the Resistance. With an unlikely team of French patriots, he easily outwits the buffoonish Germans and steals the master copy of their plans to invade England. By doing so, he prevents the invasion and makes it more likely that the Allies will win the war.
Movie6.1DramaThrillerTracy Garret's a cop and after an incident that left one person dead, she's invited by her father to spend sometime with him in Berlin. While they were out having dinner, her father's shot. She is then informed by the German inspector assigned to her father's case that her father's a CIA operative. She then decides to investigate the case...
Assignment Berlin
1998 · 4 votes
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Weltuntergang
1984
Movie7.3ThrillerComedyTrixi Jancik leads a risky double life. At home, she is an obedient housewife. But when she puts on a disguise and goes to the racetrack to indulge in her secret passion, she catches a glimpse of a better life. Although she blows her grocery money, she has tasted the kind of luxury she can normally only dream about. A minor squabble at home brings the situation to a head and marks a turning point in her life: Trixi fixes her husband a lethal cocktail of pills.
Movie3.8RomanceComedyA woman enlists a man who claims he is gay to accompany her on a long drive to a feminist conference in Munich.
Loose Connections
1984 · 4 votes
Movie6.1DramaBased on the best-selling novel by Nobel-laureate Heinrich Böll, this drama is a passionate indictment of Catholicism. Hans Schnier (Helmut Griem) has earned his living as a clown, though he is in fact a very covert sort of social critic. After enduring a difficult childhood in Bonn during the Second World War, including his mother's fanatic Nazism, he is appalled to discover many of the people he knows and loves swept deeply into involvement in the Catholic Church.
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.
TV6.0DramaCrimeDerrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein, who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings.
Derrick
1974 · 52 votes
TV5.6DramaRealityA long-running German-language entertainment television show based on the format of the British show You Bet! and the American show Wanna Bet?.
Wetten, dass..?
1981 · 24 votes
TV5.3Stars in der Manege
1959 · 3 votes
TV5.0DramaCrimeDer letzte Zeuge
1998 · 7 votes
TV7.9War & PoliticsDramaPeter the Great is a 1986 NBC television mini-series starring Maximilian Schell as Russian emperor Peter the Great, and based on the biography by Robert K. Massie. It won three Primetime Emmy Awards, including the award for Outstanding Miniseries.
Peter the Great
1986 · 9 votes
TV7.5DramaThe life of Anne Frank and her family from 1939 to 1945: pre-war fears, invasion of Netherlands by German troops, hiding in Amsterdam, deportation to the camps, return of Anne's father.
Anne Frank: The Whole Story
2001 · 43 votes
TV6.7DramaMysteryAnastasia: The Mystery of Anna is a 1986 TV movie, starring Amy Irving, Rex Harrison, Olivia de Havilland, Omar Sharif, and Jan Niklas. The film was loosely based on the story of Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia and the book The Riddle of Anna Anderson by Peter Kurth. It was Christian Bale's first film and Rex Harrison's last film. It was originally broadcast in two parts.
Anastasia - The Mystery of Anna
1986 · 6 votes
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Klinikum Berlin Mitte – Leben in Bereitschaft is a German television series.
TV7.3DramaGiuseppe Verdi was born in 1813 and lived until 1901, his life spanning nearly a century of political turmoil and considerable personal turmoil. This 1982 biographical television miniseries, as seen on PBS's Great Performances, dramatizes the life of this classic Italian composer known for operas including La Traviata, Rigoletto, and Aida and his Requiem.
Verdi
1982 · 2 votes
- TV7.0Drama
Anthology of stories about love, many adapted from short stories or novels.
All for Love
1982 · 1 votes
TV5.0DramaSoapWinter Solstice
2003 · 1 votes
TV8.0CrimeTom Dawson is fatally struck in the head by a golf ball hit by Peter Newton. His son, Harry Dawson, a Scotland Yard inspector on leave, does not believe it was an accident. He arranges to meet Peter Newton, but finds him murdered in his car outside his apartment. Chief Inspector Yardley and Inspector Nat Fletcher now suspect Harry Dawson.
Die Kette
1977 · 2 votes
TVDramaSoapIt's true that a hotel can hardly look more impressive and be more beautifully situated than Rhives Castle, but all beginnings are difficult. The young manager Carrie, who wants to lead the house to new splendor, has to realize this as well. That's why she worries a lot when she realizes that she is pregnant. What will her financier and life partner Sam say about this? As a newspaper publisher, he has his hands full trying to dissuade bestselling author Alexia White from suing for defamation: one of his employees accused her of plagiarism. The writer has it in her hands to financially destroy him and Carrie. Carrie's jealousy and the pressure from his bank don't make Sam's negotiations with the woman whose honor has been violated any easier.
- TV8.0DramaWar & Politics
The series describes the time of the First World War in 8 episodes based on the novel by Bernard von Brentano from the perspective of the family of a Hessian Reichstag member, an independent man of the Catholic-conservative Centre Party.