Ben Becker
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1964-12-19
Locus Natus: Bremen, Germany
Et ut:
Brother of Sleep
In the beginning of the 19th century, Johannes Elias Alder is born in a small village in the Austrian mountains. While growing up he is considered...
release : 1995.09.08popularis : 4.083
Gloomy Sunday
Budapest in the thirties. The restaurant owner Laszlo hires the pianist András to play in his restaurant. Both men fall in love with the...
release : 1999.10.21popularis : 9.809
Alles nur Tarnung
After trying to smuggle a package into prison for his father Willi, Harry and his girlfriend Marlies also end up in jail. While Harry is billeted...
release : 1996.11.14popularis : 1.893
A Love in Germany
In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that he left 40 years before. He wants to discover...
release : 1983.10.26popularis : 2.665
Red Zora
In this sun soaked adventure for the entire family, a group of five orphaned children form their own makeshift family while attempting to operate...
release : 2008.01.23popularis : 4.53
Rex Gildo: The Last Dance
Rex Gildo’s songs and musicals made him very popular. His best-known song was “Fiesta Mexicana” from 1972. Rosa von Praunheim tells...
release : 2022.06.30popularis : 1.883
The Harmonists
Comedian Harmonists tells the story of a famous, German male sextet, five vocals and piano, the "Comedian Harmonists", from the day they meet first...
release : 1997.12.25popularis : 5.685
The Painter
Being one of the most significant, contemporary painters, Albert Oehlen’s approach is complete refusal of the common art circus. In its own way...
release : 2021.11.12popularis : 2.902
As White as in Snow
Inspired by real-life Elsa Andersson, this mostly fictional movie tells the story of her upbringing as a farmer's daughter, in the early 1900s, who...
release : 2001.02.15popularis : 7.099
A Very Ordinary Jew
What does being a Jew mean nowadays? Emanuel Goldfarb, a Jewish journalist, is asked by the Director of a Jewish community in Germany, to respond to...
release : 2006.01.19popularis : 2.061
Habermann
A story set in a small village in Sudetenland between 1937 and 1945. "Habermann" is based on true events.
release : 2010.10.07popularis : 4.629
Max and Moritz Reloaded
Max and Moritz are two young brothers living an adventurous life of petty crime in Hamburg, Germany. After the two boys steal a car and get into an...
release : 2005.04.27popularis : 3.981
Chaostage - We Are Punks!
CHAOSTAGE is the first real german Punk movie. part fictional, part documentary it tells the story of some young punks...
release : 2009.04.09popularis : 3.72
Trenck - Zwei Herzen gegen die Krone
Prussian general's son Friedrich, Freiherr (German baron) von der Trenck, is an unruly student whose countless affairs make him enemies, but he wins...
release : 2003.02.09popularis : 3.303
The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld
The life story of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, a German Jew, who as a physician established the field of sexology, and fought militantly against German...
release : 2000.03.16popularis : 2.519
Little Angel
Ramona lives her lonely life in Berlin working in a lipstick factory. One day she accidentally runs into Andrzei, a Polish mechanic illegally selling...
release : 1997.09.04popularis : 0.72
The Child
Simon Sachs, a terminally ill ten year old boy, claims to have been a serial killer in his previous life and apparently he can prove it. He leads a...
release : 2012.09.18popularis : 11.231
Marlene
Marlene is a 2000 German biopic film directed by Joseph Vilsmaier and starring Katja Flint, Hans Werner Meyer and Herbert Knaup. It follows the life...
release : 2000.03.09popularis : 3.431
Otto - The Disaster Movie
A man from Ostfriesland travels to Hamburg and sets course for America on a steamship to conquer this New World as well. What he leaves behind is a...
release : 2000.03.22popularis : 4.34
The Serbian Girl
The naive 18 year old Dobrila leaves her little Serbian village to travel to Hamburg, Germany, where her boyfriend lives. The trip is not easy....
release : 1991.01.31popularis : 1.655
Eine geschlossene Gesellschaft
Follows the lives of students and their teachers based on the director's childhood memories. The events of the film take places in the actual...
release : 1987.01.01popularis : 1.044
B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989
The wild West Berlin of the 1980s became the creative melting pot of pop subcultures: music, art and chaos. Before the Iron Curtain fell, anything...
release : 2015.02.05popularis : 6.561
Rough Road Ahead
Germany, 1967. Ruby & Martin, a young couple, are rehearsing their uprising. The price is high: expulsion from school, parental violence, and...
release : 2015.03.12popularis : 2.017
Herzsprung
In the little town of Herzsprung - whose name harks back to an ancient legend of broken hearts - almost nothing has changed since German unification,...
release : 1992.11.19popularis : 0.972
Kurt Gerrons Karussell
This documentary tells the story of an unusual victim of the Nazi holocaust -- Kurt Gerron, a German film actor and cabaret star. During World War...
release : 1999.05.13popularis : 0.988
Frau2 Seeks HappyEnd
A radio presenter and a telephone operator, both mourning the loss of their unhappy love affair, meet anonymously in an Internet chat room after a...
release : 2001.01.11popularis : 0.902
Die kleine Meerjungfrau
Undine rescues a prince from drowning, and leaves him unconscious on shore, where he can be found, but she has already fallen in love with him. ...
release : 2013.12.26popularis : 1.003
Whopper Punch 777
The young son of a sports journalist helps his out-of-town father out of a jam by getting into the hotel room of a famous boxer and conducting a...
release : 1986.01.01popularis : 1.103
Cinema Perverso
Before there were home video formats and the internet, the “Bahnhofskinos” (“Train station cinemas”) in West Germany...
release : 2015.10.14popularis : 2.171
Rising to the Bait
Protected from the intrigues of con-men by the overwhelming blanket of the former regime in East Germany, at first it seems that Ada Fenske, the...
release : 1992.04.23popularis : 0.859
Freundinnen - Alle für eine
They once played together in a band called Chix and were inseparable. Today, each of them has their own problems.
release : 2016.05.05popularis : 1.826
Samson and Delilah
Biblical strongman Samson falls prey to the voluptuous Philistine temptress Delilah.
release : 1996.12.08popularis : 13.658
Allmen and the Dragonflies
Generosity, weakness for expensive pleasures and ruin is a combination that does not bode well. Johann Friedrich von Allmen was a man with a taste...
release : 2016.06.25popularis : 1.123
Otto - The Disaster Movie
A man from Ostfriesland travels to Hamburg and sets course for America on a steamship to conquer this New World as well. What he leaves behind is a...
release : 2000.03.22popularis : 4.34
Never Look Away
German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR...
release : 2018.10.03popularis : 11.226