
Alexander May
Actor · 1927 – 2008 · Görlitz, Germany
Movies23
Movie5.5HorrorDramaA group of vampires terrorizes a small village on the German North Sea Coast. The young Jonathan joins a group of fellow students and locals, who plan an uprising against the vampires.
Jonathan
1970 · 17 votes
- Movie2.0TV MovieThriller
At the funeral of her murdered friend, a young woman meets a charming man. They quickly become a couple, but then the man comes under suspicion of murder and rape. Charges cannot be brought due to lack of evidence, but the woman, growing suspicious, turns away from him and begins investigating her lover’s past—an endeavor that puts her in grave danger.
Eiskalte Liebe
1997 · 1 votes
Movie8.0East Berlin, 1973. Eighteen-year-old Hans Bronstein and his girlfriend arrive at his parents’ summer house to find a former Nazi camp Kapo chained there—employed when Hans’s father Arno and his friends were prisoners. Hans demands legal justice; Arno insists on his own retribution. Sister Elle, traumatized into institutionalization, cannot mediate. When Arno forces a confession, Hans frees the prisoner, confronting their irreconcilable pasts.
Movie7.0DramaBenjamin Levi (Bruno Cathomas) is a Bavarian cattle dealer traveling to pre-World War II Germany on his annual trip to a remote farming village. Levi hopes to do some business and, more importantly, win the hand of the lovely Lisbeth (Caroline Ebner). But Nazi propaganda has gripped the small community and poisoned it forever. Now, Levi and Lisbeth are targets of hate in this provocative and shocking drama.
- Movie4.3DramaRomance
Sommerliebe
1993 · 3 votes
- Movie8.0Drama
The Torbergs' life follows an orderly course, defined by bourgeois convention. Per-Olof, the son, opposes his father's authoritarianism, and their daughter Monika, the sculptor, has moved out of the family home. However, this has not prompted Mr. Torberg to question the familiar order. One day, Billy, a young outsider, visits the couple. He doesn't say much. His presence alone causes the Torbergs to suddenly talk to each other honestly.
Betreten verboten
1972 · 1 votes
Movie9.0Science FictionDramaOn his wanderings, Tom meets young Lizzi and accompanies her to the vacation resort "Im Sonnengrund". The residents there are threatened by a huge garbage dump that will bury them all.
Die Halde
1975 · 1 votes
Movie7.6ComedyHeinrich Lohse, a strict and highly efficient purchasing manager at a company bulk-orders 40 tons of mustard and enough typewriting paper for 40 years just to get discount. Heinrich's boss decides it’s time for him to retire early. Heinrich suddenly finds himself with nothing to do—except micromanage his household, much to the dismay of his wife Renate and their son Dieter
Pappa ante Portas
1991 · 150 votes
- MovieDrama
Bischof Ketteler
1969
- Movie9.0Drama
Verliebte Feinde
1995 · 1 votes
- MovieDrama
La felicità...
1969
Movie5.0ComedyThe British parliament has decided to get rid of the royal family. All of them have to leave the county and so they move to Germany, where they want to live by their distant relatives, the Bettenberg family. But these are not amused about their snobbish visitors, which all want to reside in their little house without doing any work to earn their living.
Willi und die Windzors
1996 · 7 votes
- Movie7.0Comedy
Sie werden sterben, Sire
1964 · 1 votes
- Movie8.5Drama
Die Rückkehr des Vaters
2004 · 2 votes
Movie9.0ComedyThis bizarre comedy demonstrates - as a convincing example - how TV-commercials may be produced, sacrificing extensive amounts of money, bottomless creativity and even human life without any respect right to the finish.
Der Spot oder Fast eine Karriere
1981 · 1 votes
- Movie8.0Crime
Schwarzes Blut
1999 · 1 votes
Movie10.0DramaTV MovieAdaptation of Robert Walser's novel about a young man who enters an oppressive servant school.
Jakob von Gunten
1971 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaWhen a German businessman causes a car accident with deadly consequences, the papers start digging into his past to find scandals. What they find causes him to reevaluate his own past during WW2 when he was in Greece.
Movie6.2ComedyWilli Kritz earns his living as a night watchman and corpse washer at the East German Pathological Institute at the Berlin Clinic. In the process, he found another source of income: he steals pathological exhibits and smuggles them to West Berlin disguised as a Berlin bear. His customer is Frundsberg, and the delivery always takes place in his Yankee sleigh.
Bei mir liegen Sie richtig
1990 · 8 votes
Movie3.8DramaIn a dying French mining town near the German border, the last miners are preparing to strike. Marek and Mimmo, two young miners and friends, have different views on the impending strike.
Movie7.0FamilyRomanceUrged by her mother, Anke left her baby for adoption ten years ago. For years afterward, she did not speak to her again. Now the soon-to-be attorney from Hamburg travels back to her home village to make up with her dying mother. She learns that her daughter Christina lives with Alex, a past love of Anke's and Christina's real father. Old wounds break up again and long forgotten feelings of hate as well as love flare up again. Anke leaves her fiancé to face up to her past. She decides in favour of her child and of a life with Alex.
Liebesschuld
2001 · 2 votes
- MovieComedyTV Movie
- Movie10.0Drama
Series23
- TV4.4News
Volle Kanne
1999 · 7 votes
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.
TV6.3CrimePolizeiruf 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
TV5.7DramaCrimeEin Fall für zwei is a German television series, which premiered on September 11, 1981 on ZDF. The series, located in Frankfurt am Main, features two main characters who solve crimes: a defense attorney and a private investigator. Josef Matula, a former German police officer, has gone into private business. His method of investigation is very effective and direct, and he sometimes even resorts to dirty tricks. Claus Theo Gärtner has portrayed the role since the start of the series.
TV6.6DramaComedyA long-running German television series about a two-man team of highway police, originally set in Berlin and later in North Rhine-Westphalia.
TV6.0DramaCrimeFollow the everyday work of a fictional police station on the Kiez of Hamburg.
Großstadtrevier
1986 · 14 votes
TV2.5DramaSoapFür alle Fälle Stefanie is an German medical drama television series created by Werner Krämer that aired on Sat.1 from May 15, 2005 to August 29, 2005. It was produced by Novafilm Fernsehproduktion. Für alle Fälle Stefanie follows the professional and personal life of nurse Stefanie Engel, then Stephanie Wilde and for a short time Fanny 'Stephanie' Stephan. The show was a giant success for the network and had around seven, in later years, five million viewers on a weekly basis. It won the Goldene Kamera award in 1997 and the Bavarian TV Award in 1996.
Für alle Fälle Stefanie
1995 · 4 votes
- TV7.2CrimeDrama
Im Namen des Gesetzes
1994 · 4 votes
TVFamilyWeißblaue Geschichten
1984 · 1 votes
TV6.2Drama
TV6.6FamilyDramaThe Black Forest Clinic is a German language medical drama television series that was produced by and filmed in West Germany. The series was produced between 1984 and 1988 with the original airing being from October 2, 1985 to March 25, 1989 on West Germany's ZDF television channel. The series' storyline follows the inner workings of a small fictional hospital in the Black Forest region of Germany as well as the lives of the Brinkmann family of doctors who work at the hospital. Shortly after broadcasting had begun in 1985, The Black Forest Clinic became a highly popular television event, reaching audiences of over 20 million viewers. 25 years since its debut, it is still highly regarded in Germany. The series had been re-broadcast several times since 1985 and has spawned two television films released 20 years after its initial airing.
Die Schwarzwaldklinik
1985 · 21 votes
TV6.3ComedyDramaFreunde fürs Leben
1992 · 3 votes
TV8.3CrimeDramaEin Bayer auf Rügen is a German comedy/crime television series, broadcast in 81 episodes between 1993 and 1997.
Ein Bayer auf Rügen
1993 · 3 votes
TV5.5DramaHeimatgeschichten
1992 · 2 votes
TV7.3CrimeDramaMurder, Venice, relationships...it's a delicious concoction in the hands of crime novelist Donna Leon. Venice provides the backdrop for the lush film versions of the bestselling novels, which features the indelible Commissario Guido Brunetti, canal boat rides instead of car chases, fine cuisine and crime investigations in one of Europe’s most beautiful locations.
Donna Leon
2000 · 11 votes
TV4.8CrimeRosa Roth is a German television series.
Rosa Roth
1994 · 5 votes
TV6.8CrimePeter Strohm is a private detective with radical methods. His work begins where police work ends; he takes on sensitive cases that require a certain scale, or explosive situations that can lead to international crises.
Peter Strohm
1989 · 4 votes
TV2.0CrimeDie Verbrechen des Professor Capellari is a German television series.
Die Verbrechen des Professor Capellari
1998 · 2 votes
TV6.9CrimeMysteryGraf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre [French title: Le comte Yoster a bien l'honneur] is a TV series which followed the adventures of the title’s amateur gentleman detective. It was a success in particular in Germany and in France. Originally the show was a German production in black-and-white but it evolved into a European co-production in colour.
Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre
1967 · 9 votes
TV8.0CrimeDie unsterblichen Methoden des Franz Josef Wanninger
1978 · 3 votes
- TV10.0Talk Show
Gut gefragt ist halb gewonnen
1964 · 1 votes
TV8.0Action & AdventureA.S. Gefahr ist sein Geschäft
1995 · 1 votes
TV8.0DramaFamilyThe story of the Behringer family and their typical everyday problems.
Die glückliche Familie
1987 · 1 votes