Laura Tonke
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1974-04-14
Locus Natus: West Berlin, West Germany
Et ut: Laura Maori Tonke
Wintersleepers
Young blonde translator Rebecca lives with her boyfriend ski instructor Marco in a mountain villa owned by her friend, nurse Laura. Rene, local...
release : 1997.10.30popularis : 7.983
Kein einfacher Mord
Nina and Paul's marriage is over, they are just waiting for an opportunity to teach it their son Tim. During a chance encounter, Nina flirts with...
release : 2020.09.26popularis : 0.719
Eastern Cross
OSTKREUZ tells the episodic story of 15-year-old Elfie, who literally and metaphorically inhabits a no-man’s-land between the two Germanies...
release : 1991.07.23popularis : 4.551
Baader
Andreas Baader starts out as a small-time criminal. In Berlin, he is recruited by a revolutionary cell. They plan to overthrow the state.
release : 2002.11.10popularis : 6.026
Caveman
Robert Müller has wanted to be a comedian since he was a kid, but he's only made it as a car salesman so far. This is about to change when he...
release : 2023.01.26popularis : 11.406
Mein Lotta-Leben - Alles Tschaka mit Alpaka
Lotta Petermann is looking forward to her first class trip. Finally without parents and with her best friends Amrum unsicher machen - that promises...
release : 2022.08.18popularis : 1.766
When Will It Be Again Like It Never Was Before
Growing up on the grounds of one of Germany's largest psychiatric hospitals is somehow - different. For Joachim, the director's youngest son, the...
release : 2023.02.23popularis : 7.582
I Am Guilty
Armin Steeb is adrift: just finished with school, living with his middle-class parents, clueless about finding work. He tries connecting with a girl,...
release : 2005.07.23popularis : 2.288
June Moon
JUNIMOND tells the tragic-romantic story of Paul and Nele, two loners who rediscover a lost faith in the power of love. The two of them have nothing...
release : 2002.10.24popularis : 3.974
Day of Disaster
In 1978, a serene Spanish beach campground bursts into chaos when a devastating accident shatters a summer getaway for German tourists. As paradise...
release : 2007.09.09popularis : 2.734
The Diaries of Adam and Eve
Eve and Adam meet in Eden. It soon becomes apparent that they don’t find each other particularly attractive. But do they have a choice? Writing...
release : 2023.06.25popularis : 1.735
A E I O U – A Quick Alphabet of Love
Anna is 60 and her acting heyday is now behind her. She lives on her own but has a friend and confidant in her downstairs neighbour Michel, who is...
release : 2022.05.05popularis : 4.484
Everything's Fifty Fifty
Marion and Andi thought they were happily divorced until their old love unexpectedly reignites during a family vacation with their son Milan.
release : 2024.08.29popularis : 6.418
Gnadenlos - Zur Prostitution gezwungen
A Czech woman is kidnapped in Berlin and forced into prostitution. The man behind the kidnapping is a respected businessman. He is on the wanted...
release : 1996.11.10popularis : 2.133
Jupiter
A teenage girl's family falls for a cosmic cult promising salvation in a higher existence on Jupiter. As flashbacks leading deeper into the past...
release : 2023.10.01popularis : 2.047
Maret
After losing part of her memory, Maret, 44, sets out to find out who she used to be. She learns about the many different life paths she followed, in...
release : 2023.03.03popularis : 4.216
Farland
Axel and Karla are an ill-matched couple in a borderline situation. The two meet in the hospital. Axel is keeping watch at his son′s bedside...
release : 2004.08.26popularis : 3.096
Jupiter
Travelling to a remote cabin in the Alps, a shy teenage girl has to decide whether to pursue her own path on Earth, or to follow her parents-members...
release : 2019.03.22popularis : 0.746
Zwischen uns der Fluss
After a climate protest, Alice has to do social service and therefore cares for Cam, an older turkish woman, who is the victim of an racist...
release : 2024.04.11popularis : 1.323
Der Mörder meiner Mutter
At the age of six, Anne witnessed the murder of her parents. Twenty years later, the convicted perpetrator Marc Balthasar is released early for good...
release : 1999.07.01popularis : 1.25
Hedi Schneider Is Stuck
A model family's happy life unexpectedly goes off the rails when the carefree Hedi, played by Laura Tonke, suddenly starts having panic attacks....
release : 2015.04.23popularis : 1.936
Am Strand
Laura and Clemens spend their holidays at the sea in Northern Germany. Laura is bored and invents a game: She pretends to be blind. Over the course...
release : 2015.01.01popularis : 0.712
Too Hard to Handle
It's no surprise when Karo is fired. She is loud, over-emotional and egocentric, more so than the average Berliner wise-ass, says her best friend...
release : 2016.05.12popularis : 2.709
Take What You Can Carry
A character study as well as a meditation on communication, creativity, and physical space, Take What You Can Carry is a picture of a young woman...
release : 2015.02.07popularis : 3.098
Amrum
Island Amrum, early 1945: Hunting seals, fishing at night, nothing is too dangerous for 10-year old Nanning. He helps his mother to feed their family...
release : 1970.01.01popularis : 3.41
The People vs. Fritz Bauer
It is the late 1950s. Flourishing under the economic miracle, Germany grows increasingly apathetic about confronting the horrors of its recent past....
release : 2015.09.13popularis : 9.53
Geisterstunde - Fahrstuhl ins Jenseits
While they are stuck in the elevator, three employees of a TV station tell each other stories about supernatural phenomena. They tell of the...
release : 1997.04.20popularis : 0.683
Pigs Will Fly
A man struggles with memories of his violent childhood.
release : 2003.01.09popularis : 3.078
Hamlet_X
A great mosaic, a labyrinth of scenes, dialogue splinters, interviews, portraits of people surrounding Hamlet and wanting to be part of his story.
release : 2003.06.21popularis : 2.665
Leichtmatrosen II
Two sailors meet again years later in Berlin.
release : 2012.01.01popularis : 1.033
The Drifters
Berlin. Greta, 40, architect, mother of a 12-year-old son, recently unemployed. She does everything in her power to keep hanging on in there, torn...
release : 2011.01.06popularis : 1.992
Sunday Girls
'Sunday Girls' is a portrait of four young German actresses: Laura Tonke, Nicolette Krebitz, Katharina Schuettler and Inga Birkenfeld. They are...
release : 2006.01.26popularis : 0.69
After Effect
Berlin in the 3rd millenium. Rather by chance Kai Starel gets into the newly founded CC Institute "Carl Celler Culture", where hip creative minds...
release : 2007.09.12popularis : 1.151
Feste & Freunde
Over the last three years, Ellen, Annette, Rolf, Sebastian and Mareike have celebrated numerous parties together, suffered defeats and experienced...
release : 2025.01.02popularis : 3.891
Angel Express
Angel Express is a film about people restlessly seeking for the ultimate experience. Set in late nineties Berlin, it shows images of radical change:...
release : 1998.07.01popularis : 1.394
Axolotl Overkill
Mifti is a teenager as beautiful as she is reckless. Mentally unstable, fed up with her dysfunctional family, oblivious to the youthful world, and...
release : 2017.06.29popularis : 2.995
Mission: Love
Hans calls his girlfriend Heinz, which tells you everything you need to know about their relationship. They're a typical couple who're stuck in a rut...
release : 2018.05.31popularis : 4.526
The Garden
In the summer of 1976, a shared family yard becomes the setting, as the adults bicker over selling the garden and the kids are free to explore the...
release : 2017.10.26popularis : 2.103
Bedways
A huge, run-down apartment in Berlin Mitte. Two women and a man, rehearsals for a movie about love and sex, that will never be shot. Acting and...
release : 2010.10.07popularis : 5.745
Zwei Goldfische
A man who has problems meeting women visits his psychiatrist.
release : 2007.02.02popularis : 0.739
99€ Films
Anyone can hold a mini-DV camera. Anyone can get 99 euros in credit. And everyone has already written a five-minute story in school. So everyone is...
release : 2001.09.08popularis : 0.855
Worst Case Scenario
An upstarting film production is abruptly cancelled by the financiers. But the director tries anyway to realize his movie.
release : 2014.06.30popularis : 0.58
Just Married
Friedrich, a successful Berlin cinema tycoon, marries Frangipani, the daughter of a retired Berlin cinema chain owner, to become the king of the...
release : 1998.09.24popularis : 1.168
So viel Zeit
Five old friends have to prove themselves one last time. 30 years after the hopeful young band Bochums Steine have separated after a disastrous live...
release : 2018.12.01popularis : 3.004
Bist du glücklich?
After 13 years, Sonja and Marc have separated. The love was lost to them like other people a stick or hat. To sell their weekend home, the two embark...
release : 2018.10.01popularis : 1.647
Turn Down the Music
In Essen, four ordinary teenage Death Metal fanatics are looking for the best way to kill time. There are girls, cigarettes, drive-ins and petty...
release : 1994.01.01popularis : 0.572
Bitter Innocence
Andreas Brandt is the head of the research department in a pharmaceutical company. He earns enough to build a future with his wife Monica and his...
release : 1999.07.09popularis : 0.779
2 ½ Minuten
November 1990. Weekend. Three young turk men accompanied by two German women were taking the subway. They were in an exuberant mood and wanted to...
release : 1996.01.01popularis : 0.643
TKKG
When Willi's father is abducted and is only released for a valuable statue from his art collection, Tim is the only one who believes Willi that the...
release : 2019.06.06popularis : 3.5
My Life as Lotta - Bingo Flamingo
Lotta, 11 years old, and best friend Cheyenne don't get along with the arrogant Berenike, so they don't want to let it bother them when they're the...
release : 2019.08.29popularis : 1.397
Silvester Countdown
A young Berlin couple travel to a friend's place for the celebration of Silvester and New Year's Eve. During that period, we witness today's juvenile...
release : 1997.12.16popularis : 2.079