Ernst Stötzner

Der letzte Zeuge

character: Jobst Melker

original_name: Der letzte Zeuge

original_language: de

Wolffs Revier

overview: Wolffs Revier is a German television series.

character: Sellneck

original_name: Wolffs Revier

Bella Block

overview: Bella Block is a long-running German detective television series starring Hannelore Hoger, first broadcast in 1994 on ZDF. In 2010 the 30th series was produced.

character: Max Von Holt

original_name: Bella Block

Scene of the Crime

overview: Tatort 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.

character: Fruhmann

original_name: Tatort

origin_country: AT CH DE

Bauhaus: A New Era

overview: 1919. World War I has just ended. Dörte Helm, a young art student in Weimar, follows Walter Gropius’ call and joins the newly-founded Bauhaus school. A love story grows between Gropius and Dörte, adding fuel to the fire of the ensuing scandal threatening the very existence of the Bauhaus; the school of art that would go on to shape the 20th century like no other…

character: Lyonel Feininger

original_name: Die Neue Zeit

Helen Dorn

overview: Helen Dorn is an expert Police Commissioner, who’s years of experience have given her killer instinct when it comes to crime. On the department head’s orders, Helen Dorn become involuntary partners with Detective Chief Superintendent Gregor Georgi, with Helen in the role of Georgi’s superior. After initially ruffling some feathers, as Gregor thought he was about to take over a case as head investigator and not confronted with a new superior, the two prove to be a solid pairing: Helen’s famed intuition is matched by Gregor’s rational analysis and precision. But will he be able to unearth her mysterious past?

character: Richard Dorn

original_name: Helen Dorn

A.S. Gefahr ist sein Geschäft

character: Roland Schenk

original_name: A.S. Gefahr ist sein Geschäft

Ein Mord für Quandt

character: Paul Arnheim

original_name: Ein Mord für Quandt

Charité

overview: Berlin, 1888. After penniless Ida’s life is saved at the Charité Hospital she must work off the treatment costs. While she becomes acquainted with the most brilliant physicians of this era at the world-famous hospital, the self-determined young woman discovers her passion for medicine.

character: Rudolf Virchow

original_name: Charité

Stahlnetz

overview: Stahlnetz is a German television series.

character: Simon Mühl

original_name: Stahlnetz

Letzte Spur Berlin

character: Georg Rickert

original_name: Letzte Spur Berlin

Scene of the Crime

character: Professor Winter

Die Himmelsleiter

character: Adam Roth

original_name: Die Himmelsleiter

Scene of the Crime

character: Klaus Gerlitz

Der Elefant: Mord verjährt nie

character: Prof. Peter Venkmann

original_name: Der Elefant: Mord verjährt nie

Scene of the Crime

character: Christian Rebenow

Solo für Schwarz

character: Ludger Zens

original_name: Solo für Schwarz

Nord Nord Mord

character: Hans Börschig

original_name: Nord Nord Mord

Scene of the Crime

character: Prof. Eisler

Die Gang

character: Anatol Ludluff

original_name: Die Gang

Das Boot

overview: An inexperienced U-boat crew has to survive a secret mission and a young German woman is torn between loyalty for her home country and the French resistance in the WWII drama.

character: Wilhelm Hoffmann

original_name: Das Boot

German Film Award

character: Self

original_name: Deutscher Filmpreis

Brecht

overview: East Berlin, 1956. Bertolt Brecht, revolutionary of the theater and poet of the state, looks back: his exploits as a teenager during the World War I; his romantic adventures during the twenties; the escape of the Nazi regime; the return from exile. The life of a timeless classic, a class fighter, an indefatigable free spirit, a committed artist.

character: Caspar Neher

original_name: Brecht

origin_country: DE CZ

Die Pilgerin

overview: In the 14th century, a young merchant's daughter from southern Germany sets off on the adventurous Way of St. James to faraway Santiago de Compostela to fulfill her father's last wishes and bring his heart there. Disguised as a man, the pilgrim is hunted by pursuers set on her by her conniving brother.

character: Vater Thomas

original_name: Die Pilgerin

Babylon Berlin

overview: Beneath the decadence of 1929 Berlin, lies an underworld city of sin. Police investigator Gereon Rath has been transferred from Cologne to the epicenter of political and social changes in the Golden Twenties.

character: General Major Seegers

original_name: Babylon Berlin

Ostfriesenkrimis

overview: Headstrong but successful Chief Inspector Ann Kathrin Klaasen and her team use unorthodox methods to investigate cases against the backdrop of the beautiful and tranquil landscape of the North Sea coast.

character: Ann Kathrins Vater

original_name: Ostfriesenkrimis

character: Anns Vater

Nächste Ausfahrt Glück

character: Dr. Willi Hoffmann

original_name: Nächste Ausfahrt Glück

Babylon Berlin

character: Major General Seegers

ZIBB

original_name: ZIBB

Pagan Peak

overview: When a gruesomely staged body is found at the German-Austrian border, two detectives investigate. As the ritual-like murders continue, they enter the killer’s sinister world, set in the Alpine wilderness.

character: Wolfgang Stocker

original_name: Der Pass

origin_country: AT DE

Once Upon a Time There Was a Country

overview: Black marketeers Marko and Blacky manufacture and sell weapons to the Communist resistance in WWII Belgrade, living the good life along the way. Marko's surreal duplicity propels him up the ranks of the Communist Party, and he eventually abandons Blacky and steals his girlfriend. After a lengthy stay in a below-ground shelter, the couple reemerges during the Yugoslavian Civil War of the 1990s as Marko sees the opportunity to exploit the situation. An extended television version of Emir Kusturica's Palme d'Or winning Underground.

Dengler

overview:
Georg Dengler is a private investigator after his unpleasant departure from the BKA. His missions, which are often very politically explosive, take him to all areas of Germany and also to other European countries. His experience and connections from his time at the BKA benefit him, and he now mostly works with the people he previously had to hunt down.

The series is a film adaptation of the Dengler novels by Wolfgang Schorlau and has been broadcast on ZDF since 2015. A characteristic feature of Schorlau's works is the criticism of social and political conditions; the films in the series are often based on true events, but the specific plot is fictitious.

Deutsch

Ernst Stötzner

biography: Ernst Stötzner wurde im Jahr 1952 in Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland geboren. Er ist Schauspieler, bekannt für Was bleibt (2012), Charité (2017) und Underground (1995). Er ist mit Dörte Lyssewski verheiratet. Sie haben ein Kind.

title: Klimt

overview: A portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late 19th and early 20th century.

title: Christmas on the Runway

overview: Christmas Eve. Airport Santa Thorsten has his hands full: An accident and bad weather lock everyone in as they are trying to make it home last minute! Small dramas play out under the eyes of Thorsten’s tyrannical boss, the airport manager: Secret lovers Martin and Eva are in a tight spot, when Martin’s family shows up. A retired couple can’t spend Christmas with their loved ones. Waitress Anja’s boyfriend suddenly falls for her old school mate. Helicopter mom Jette keeps fighting with her husband, when her son runs away. In the middle of it all is Thorsten, and it’s his job to keep them all happy. But that’s what Santa's are made for!

title: The Coming Days

overview: Welcome to 2020: The European Union has collapsed following the fourth Gulf War and massive barricades keep illegal immigrants out of cities that are barely functioning. In the middle of this highly volatile environment is the family of Walter Kuper, an energy conglomerate executive. Walter’s daughter, Cecilia, has joined the Black Storm terrorist group. Her sister Laura must choose between motherhood and the man she loves; their brother Philip has been called up to fight for Germany in a hopeless war to secure the last remaining oil fields. Starring leading actors Daniel Brühl, Johanna Wokalek and Jürgen Vogel, "The Days to Come" asks provocative questions about the current state of things as it depicts personal and political realities in a scarily believable near–future.

title: This Is Love

overview: Set in Vietnam and Germany, This Is Love centers on Chris and the nine-year-old Jenjira on the run from the mafia. Together with his friend Holger, Chris bought the young Vietnamese girl's freedom from human traffickers – without actually being able to pay. Meanwhile, the female detective Maggie learns after 16 years why her husband up and left her without a word. These two worlds come together when Chris is accused of murder and Maggie is charged with interrogating him.....

title: Hannah Mangold & Lucy Palm

overview: Inspector Hannah Mangold returns to her old office after a long stay in a psychiatric ward. She is still suffering from anxiety attacks after an escaped inmate shot her daughter Laura's friend in front of her eyes. The perpetrator actually wanted to kill Hannah. However, her former position as head of department has now been taken over by her colleague Ulf Habermann. Lucy Palm is the youngest investigator in the department and doesn't take any advice from her colleagues. At first she is suspicious of the ex-head of department Mangold, who is secretly referred to by her colleagues as "the madwoman". But the longer she works with Hannah, the more she comes to appreciate her.

title: Home for the Weekend

overview: On the request of his mother Gitte, Marko, who has been living in Berlin for years, drives off to the countryside to visit his parents. His hopes of spending a quiet and relaxing time with his family fall short when Gitte surprises everyone by revealing that she has recovered after a long mental illness. Marko is the only one who respects her wish from now on to be treated as a full member of this family and, as a result, ends up tipping more than just the delicate balance of his parent’s seemingly harmonious relationship.

title: Summer Window

overview: Juliane's happiness seems perfect. She is head over heals in love and has just begun a new life with August. One morning, however, she wakes up to find that she has been unexplainable thrown back into her past - to the time before she met her new love. Is what seems at first glance a cruel setback in reality actually a second chance?

title: Never Sleep Again

overview: After attending a wedding on a steamboat traveling down the river Spree, three friends from Hamburg become stranded in a newly reunified Berlin. They begin a restless odyssey through the wastelands of a metropolis wavering between an unpredictable future and a lingering past.

title: Anna und ihr Untermieter - Dicke Luft

overview: Fun-loving Anna and her brittle lodger Mr. Kurtz are already living under the same roof as an old married couple. The balance of opposites threatens to tip when Anna's helper syndrome kicks in twice. Her friend Gundi, who has injured her knee, needs help with her everyday life and a barrier-free home, but she can hardly afford a new apartment on her meagre pension. Anna's ex Willi needs a place to stay even more urgently. Soon there is the danger of a senior citizens' flat share.

title: Mittlere Reife

overview: Having trouble coping with school and their teachers, five students are sent to after school detention by principal Seifert. To avoid expulsion they must take extra hours in ethics. It is their last chance. Stressed out with her own exams, the new trainee teacher Mechthild Bremer is not enthusiastic about being assigned to teach this class. Accordingly, the first couple of hours do not run smoothly. The five give her a hard time.

title: Zwei Bauern und kein Land

title: Ich will mein Glück zurück

overview: Retired teacher Ulla is celebrating her golden wedding anniversary with her husband Paul. Unfortunately, Ulla's romantic idea of renewing their vows backfires, as her husband has fallen in love with Ulla's best friend.

title: Silent Summer

overview: The movie focuses on Kristine, an art historian. Kristine's personal life take a dramatic twist when the whole family is gathering together and the secrets of the past are being revealed at her gracious mansion in the French countryside.

title: Keine Hand wäscht die Andere

overview: On the run from her criminal Italian husband, a young French woman meets a German lover in West Berlin who offers her shelter but who also gets entangled in her threatened life ever deeper.

title: Bones and Names

overview: Boris and Jonathan have been a couple for many years. But their relationship has reached a point where they might as well spend their evenings together separately: One lies in bed reading, the other works at a desk in the next room. While actor Boris digs deeper into rehearsals for a new film with an ambitious director and begins to mix real and fictional characters, Jonathan tries to redefine his voice as a writer. Ghosting through these days of wrestling with distance, closeness, trust, desire and fear of loss is Jonathans' young niece Josie, who is trying to deal with the approaching end of her childhood in her own idiosyncratic way. BONES AND NAMES, the feature debut of Fabian Stumm, portrays people searching for their place in life in different ways. A sensitive and humorous reflection on the dissonances in relationships that both connect and distance us from each other.

title: Check Out

overview: Caro hasn't actually been able to do anything for a long time. As a nurse on a dementia ward, she has hardly taken any vacation in the last two years and has accumulated countless hours of overtime. But it is only when her dearest resident, Mrs. Rumi, dies that the barrel overflows: Instead of going to work the next morning, Caro goes to a locker at Frankfurt Central Station, takes out a packed, brand-new rucksack and simply sets off - without a destination, without a plan, without a cell phone and without any outdoor experience.

title: Spider's Web

overview: Ulrich Mühe plays a German businessman who was born completely without scruples. This makes him an eminently suitable candidate for success in the chaotic years after World War I. The shameless man's story is contrasted with that of his polar opposite, a Jewish anarchist.

title: Tiefe Wunden

title: Ultima Thule

overview: Although photographer Horn has been back from Scotland for a while, he still has to think about his irritating and fleeting encounter with a stranger on his journey. Due to a mix-up, some of the stranger's valuables are sent to him.

title: Inspector Dupin: Brittany Calling

overview: A real and a fake Gauguin take Dupin back to the 19th century.

original_title: Kommissar Dupin - Bretonische Verhältnisse

title: Underground

overview: Black marketeers Marko and Blacky manufacture and sell weapons to the Communist resistance in WWII Belgrade, living the good life along the way. Marko's surreal duplicity propels him up the ranks of the Communist Party, and he eventually abandons Blacky and steals his girlfriend. After a lengthy stay in a below-ground shelter, the couple reemerges during the Yugoslav Civil War of the 1990s as Marko sees the opportunity to exploit the situation.

title: Die Mutter des Mörders

overview: Single mother Maria falls from the clouds when the police come: She does not believe for a second that her son, Matis could have killed the pretty Lea from next door. He is in his early 20s, but still thinks and feels like a child - right? After his arrest, Simon finds a sex booklet belongs to him that the bus driver Bacher sold him. Matis actually makes a confession, to which, however, the psychologist Benjamin doubts. In the meantime, mother Maria is investigating on her own. The thriller gradually increases its level and excitement.

title: Class Enemy

overview: Berlin-Kreuzberg in the early 1980s. The film is essentially a one-set piece, taking place in a beat-up, graffiti-decorated schoolroom where six teen-age delinquents argue and fight as they await the latest in what has been a series of terrified teachers.

title: Frantz

overview: In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious French man who visits the fiance’s grave to lay flowers.

title: Anna und ihr Untermieter - Wenn du träumst von der Liebe

overview: Anna and her lodger, Mr. Kurtz, have come to terms with each other in their shared flat. But both Mr. Kurtz's planned conversion of the cosy four walls into a smart home and Anna's feelings for a new acquaintance shake up their life together.

title: Zwischen Nacht und Tag

overview: A calm, balanced subway driver witnesses a woman throwing herself in front of his train. The memory of the event haunts him. The film depicts the effects of the trauma on the man, his psyche, his family and friends, and his own life. An intense drama about confronting death and questioning the meaning of life.

title: Mutter reicht's jetzt

overview: On their 35th anniversary, Barbara dreams of Provence’s lavender fields, but her husband won’t budge. Secretly, she joins a French class with free‐spirited teacher Alexander and classmates Mehmet, Richard, Simon, and Miriam, learning life as much as language. As Barbara blossoms in newfound friendships, her family notices her spark reignited, and she resolves to seize her own happiness.

title: Desired Children

overview: The life of Marie and Peter seems perfect, but their greatest wish remains unfulfilled: a family of their own. After several painfully failed attempts to have a child by natural means, Marie and Peter decide to try adoption in Russia. Carried by their longing and after many months of preparation and waiting, they set off to get to know their future daughter Nina in a children's home thousands of kilometers away from Germany. They still have no idea that they are only at the beginning of a tour de force against the Russian authorities – and they are facing the biggest challenge for their relationship, because while Marie and Peter are fighting for their future child, the question is: are we still pursuing the same goal? Each for himself – and especially as a couple?

title: Alone in Berlin

overview: Berlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime’s victory over France, a kitchen-cum-living room in Prenzlauer Berg is filled with grief. Anna and Otto Quangel’s son has been killed at the front. This working class couple had long believed in the ‘Führer’ and followed him willingly, but now they realise that his promises are nothing but lies and deceit. They begin writing postcards as a form of resistance and in a bid to raise awareness: Stop the war machine! Kill Hitler! Putting their lives at risk, they distribute these cards in the entrances of tenement buildings and in stairwells. But the SS and the Gestapo are soon onto them, and even their neighbours pose a threat.

title: Becks letzter Sommer

overview: Robert Beck failed as a musician and works frustrated as a teacher - until he learns about his gifted student Rauli. A musical genius: He sings and plays guitar like a young god. Beck is motivated to help Rauli to become a successful and published musician to fulfill his own long-held dreams of a music career.

title: Alles Verbrecher - Leiche im Keller

overview: Shock on the night of love: Instead of the tender hand of his neighbor Maren Wenning, the married suburban Casanova Rudi Sterzenbach suddenly feels the bloody hand of a murder victim on his face in the dark cellar. The man lying there with his skull smashed in is the speculative shark Armin Teller. Ironically, also wrapped in the banner of a citizens' initiative against the gentrification of the quarter. An initiative in which they are both active.

title: Alles Verbrecher: Eiskalte Liebe

overview: You: an experienced vixen with the fashion sense of a random generator. He: an Italian pretty boy who swallowed all American action films with his mother's milk. Together are Herta Frohwitter, played by Ulrike Krumbiegel, and her assistant Marco Petrassi, played by Daniel Rodic Frankfurt's new investigator duo. They successfully fight "Verbräschä" and also the quirks of each other. The first common case leads them to a wedding fair. Rosi Döpfner, a hotel manager who is no longer completely fresh, reports her fiancé Rüdiger Vogelsang as missing.

title: Das Schwalbennest

title: Oma ist verknallt

overview: Matthias is hopelessly overwhelmed when suddenly his mother Gisela is at the door. After a thigh fracture she sits in a wheelchair and needs help. When Matthias learns that Gisela has discharged herself from the rehab clinic, he realizes that she needs new life courage and is desperately looking for a solution. It comes quite unexpectedly from Tom, Gisela's ten-year-old grandson: Grandma needs a worshiper! The unusual plan works. The anonymous love letters, written by Matthias himself, enchant his mother. But when she wants to meet the unknown, all the dizziness threatens to fly up.

title: Die Zeit mit Euch

overview: Three couples, six friends and the threat of retirement age: when TV journalist Paul quits his job at the age of 65, neither he nor his wife Christiane (59) had any idea that their relationship would be put to the test. Neither did personnel manager Marlene (62) suspect that her husband Klaus (64) had been having an affair with a younger woman for years, who is now expecting his child. And everything changes between high school teacher Heiko (63) and his wife Vera (62) when he is diagnosed with a brain tumor. Three couples, six people and the 60-plus agenda: what remains is their friendship.

title: 1918 Aufstand der Matrosen

title: Unser Kind

overview: Katharina became a mother after an artificial insemination when she died in a traffic accident. Although her wife Ellen is the guardian of little Franz, she has custody - unlike in heterosexual marriages - without adoption but not. And not only the biological father of the child, also the parents of the deceased Katharina make claims.

title: Jack

overview: Delving deep into the soul of one of Austria’s most infamous real-life convicts, Jack is a fascinating, unprejudiced look at the path to redemption and the obstacles that bar the way.

title: My Mother's Girlfriend

overview: Family is complicated, no question. But Jan finds it particularly hard: his lesbian mother Victoria asks him to become a sperm donor for the common desire child with partner Rosalie. Jan would be father and stepbrother in one. An absurd idea? Not if Jan is shot in that same Rosalie ...

title: Der König von Köln

overview: A rather regular state official, who works at the building authority, becomes a puppet of a few super rich. They want to make quite a lot of profit from a planned large-scale building project. Quicker than anticipated, the father-to-be gets surprised by a couple of amenities and notices that life isn’t too bad in the sphere of these semi-legal affairs. Soon, however, he has a prosecuting attorney on his tails and has to decide himself for a side.

title: Isi & Ossi

overview: Isi and Ossi couldn't be any more different: She's a billionaire's daughter from Heidelberg, he's a struggling boxer from the nearby town of Mannheim. But when Isi meets Ossi, the two quickly realize that they can take advantage of one another: She dates the broke boxer to provoke her parents and get them to fund a long-desired chef training in New York. He tries to rip off the rich daughter to finance his first professional boxing match. Their plans soon develop into emotional chaos that challenges everything the two believe to know about money, career and love.

title: My Sisters

overview: How should you spend your time if your days are numbered? This is the question facing Linda, a young woman suffering from a congenital heart defect. Contrary to her doctors’ expectations she has managed to survive to celebrate her thirtieth birthday, but with an operation looming, Linda nonetheless feels a deep need to spend what might be her last weekend with her two sisters: Katharina who is older, and Clara who is younger than her. Linda must use their journey, which begins at their family’s weekend house and ends in Paris, to examine the ways in which her family has been fundamentally affected by her illness; she must also consider how much she can expect from herself and her sisters – faced as they are with the possibility of her death.

title: Contra

overview: With his uncouth manner, Professor Pohl doesn’t enjoy the best reputation at the university where he works. To make matters worse, he makes a racist remark when student Naima arrives late for his lecture. Unfortunately for him, a video of his verbal outburst spreads like wildfire on the Internet, and the university’s president, Lambrecht, is called to deal with the incident. But Pohl is not dismissed. Instead, he is put to the task of helping Naima prepare for an important debating competition. The lecturer and the student could not be more different, yet they are thrown together to work as a team.

title: Anna und ihr Untermieter - Aller Anfang ist schwer

title: A Feast for Life

overview: A fast-paced ensemble comedy about a wedding planner and his thrown-together crew whose meticulously planned celebration gets way out of hand.

title: Anna und ihr Untermieter - Plötzlich Schwiegermutter

title: Drei Schwestern

title: Anna und ihr Untermieter - Volles Haus

title: Fette Welt

overview: They kiss and they fight, they love and they kill each other: Hagen Trinker and the others, bums and junkies, men and women. They live in Munich, under the bridge, in the shell of a building. Sometimes an armchair is their home, sometimes a newspaper is their mattress. But mostly they are on the move anyway, on the street, in shopping arcades, at the train station - without a destination and without illusions. Then Julia joins them, 15 years old, who has run away from home - a princess, as one of the clique says. Hagen falls in love with her. A fairy tale begins, and the next moment it is already over. But now Hagen is ready to fight once more: he simply has to find Judith again...

title: Klimt

title: Christmas on the Runway

title: The Coming Days

title: This Is Love

title: Hannah Mangold & Lucy Palm

title: Home for the Weekend

title: Summer Window

title: Never Sleep Again

title: Anna und ihr Untermieter - Dicke Luft

title: Mittlere Reife

title: Zwei Bauern und kein Land

title: Ich will mein Glück zurück

title: Silent Summer

title: Keine Hand wäscht die Andere

title: Bones and Names

title: Check Out

title: Spider's Web

title: Tiefe Wunden

title: Ultima Thule

title: Inspector Dupin: Brittany Calling

title: Underground

title: Die Mutter des Mörders

title: Class Enemy

title: Frantz

title: Zwischen Nacht und Tag

title: Mutter reicht's jetzt

title: Desired Children

title: Alone in Berlin

title: Becks letzter Sommer

title: Alles Verbrecher - Leiche im Keller

title: Alles Verbrecher: Eiskalte Liebe

title: Das Schwalbennest

title: Oma ist verknallt

title: Die Zeit mit Euch

title: 1918 Aufstand der Matrosen

title: Unser Kind

title: Jack

title: My Mother's Girlfriend

title: Der König von Köln

title: Isi & Ossi

title: My Sisters

title: Contra

title: A Feast for Life

title: Drei Schwestern

title: Anna und ihr Untermieter - Volles Haus

title: Fette Welt


Allison Adams

English

iso_639_1: en

iso_3166_1: US

english_name: English

title: Deadly Species

overview: Wealthy big game hunter, Wilson Frields, funds an expedition going deep into the Florida Everglades to search for the Calusa: a lost tribe of Native Americans. When the team discover the gruesome remains of another expedition, Friels admits he is searching for the Calusa's Fountain of Youth and its guardian, a mythical and deadly beast. As they delve deeper into the Everglades, the bloodthirsty beast begins to stalk and kill members of the group and, in one struggle, their leader Brinson Thomas is injured and begins to metamorphose into a creature himself. His only hope: to drink from the waters of the Fountain. The terrible truth behind the Calusa must be discovered if any of them are going to get out of there alive!

character: Marta Thomas

original_title: Deadly Species

original_language: en

title: Miss Apprehension and Squirt

overview: Film directed by Daniel Nemet-Nejat

character: Annoying Brat

original_title: Miss Apprehension and Squirt

title: Deadly Species

media_type: movie

title: Miss Apprehension and Squirt

known_for_department: Acting


Dean Haglund

Home Improvement

overview: The daily trials and tribulations of handyman Tim Taylor, a TV show host raising three boys with help from his loyal co-host, domineering wife, and unseen neighbor.

character: Guy

original_name: Home Improvement

Bones

overview: Dr. Temperance Brennan and her colleagues at the Jeffersonian's Medico-Legal Lab assist Special Agent Seeley Booth with murder investigations when the remains are so badly decomposed, burned or destroyed that the standard identification methods are useless.

character: Blaine Miller

original_name: Bones

RoboCop: Alpha Commando

overview: RoboCop: Alpha Commando was a short-lived animated series based on the Orion Pictures film RoboCop and the series/films that followed in the 1980s-1990s. It was the second animated version of the character, following on from RoboCop: The Animated Series.

original_name: RoboCop: Alpha Commando

origin_country: CA US

The Commish

overview: Tony Scali is a former Brooklyn cop now the Police Commissioner of a small upstate city. But for Scali, this is no desk job. He's a tough yet compassionate boss, a loving husband and father, and a hands-on law enforcer with an unorthodox style of bending the rules. From parenthood to politics, from sex crimes to murder cases, one man takes it day-to-day with offbeat humor and street- smart skill.

original_name: The Commish

The X-Files

overview: The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.

character: Richard 'Ringo' Langly

original_name: The X-Files

The Lone Gunmen

overview: After years of playing second fiddle to Agents Mulder and Scully on  The X-Files, the trio of computer-hacking conspiracy geeks popularly known as The Lone Gunmen are finally heading out on their own. Never ones to stray far from the center of corporate and government intrigue, the threesome play like a misguided Mission Impossible team, embarking on a series of comic adventures that simultaneously highlight their genius and ineptitude.

character: Richard Langly

original_name: The Lone Gunmen

The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot

overview: "Big Guy" is an elite fighting robot, protecting New Tronic City from danger, whether from earth or from outer space. When the Big Guy is decommissioned, however, a smaller, childlike robot named Rusty is brought on to take its place. But it is clear that Rusty needs Big Guy's help, and it is up to the two of them to help keep the world a safer place.

original_name: The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot

Sliders

overview: In his basement in San Francisco, boy-genius Quinn Mallory unlocks the doorway to an infinite number of Earths. During a test run, Quinn invites co-worker Wade Welles and his teacher Professor Maximillian Arturo to see his new invention. But an increase in power and an early departure leave all three, plus a washed-up soul singer named Rembrandt "Crying Man" Brown, lost in a parallel world. Now they must "slide" from world to world, not only adapting to their changing surroundings, but also trying to get back to their world. Will they ever make it home?

character: Stock Boy

original_name: Sliders

Femme Fatales

overview: This provocative hit series tells the stories of dangerous women who find extraordinary ways of coping with their problems, channeling their survival instincts and bringing out their inner guile.

character: Kip

original_name: Femme Fatales

V.I.P.

overview: While attending a Hollywood premiere with a famous action star, a crazed fan pulls a gun—but her movie hunk turns into a coward, and it's Vallery who becomes the hero. Suddenly, she's thrown into a world of action and danger as owner of a Hollywood protection agency, Vallery Irons Protection (V.I.P.), taking risks to protect others at a price few are willing to pay.

origin_country: US DE

普通话

iso_639_1: zh

iso_3166_1: CN

english_name: Mandarin

iso_3166_1: HK

title: Dead and Deader

overview: Lt. Bobby Quinn is a Special Forces commando killed during a recon mission in the Cambodian jungle. But when Quinn interrupts his own stateside autopsy, he discovers that the rest of his dead squad has been resurrected with a ravenous apetite for human flesh. Now with the help of a wisecracking cook and a sexy film geek, the part-zombie Quinn must stop the plague before it can infect the entire nation. Who holds the shocking secret behind this blood-crazed carnage? And what happens when Quinn stops gnawing on raw steak and starts chomping on the hot chick?

character: Funeral Home Director

original_title: Dead and Deader

title: Spectres

overview: KELLY is a beautiful young 16-year old who, like many teenagers, feels her life has become unbearably dark and depressed. Unable to make a meaningful connection with anyone around her, least of all her workaholic mom LAURA LEE, Kelly decides she'd rather be with her dad, who died several years before. The suicide attempt fails, but Laura Lee gets an urgent wake-up call and is determined to give Kelly some desperately needed attention. Hoping a change of scenery will help, mom and daughter rent a house for a long summer vacation. THE BIG HOUSE ON THE HILL offers peace, quiet, and ... mystery.

character: Dr. Halsey

original_title: Spectres

title: Atlantis Down

overview: 2025 - The Shuttle Program has been privatized and the shuttle Atlantis relegated to glorified taxi between space stations. Its crew is on a routine mission, conducting experiments - little do they know - they are the experiment. Written by Max Bartoli

character: Jack Spano

original_title: Atlantis Down

original_language: fr

title: 9/11 Truth: Hollywood Speaks Up

overview: A documentary concerning the views of those in the movie industry, pertaining to the subject of 9/11.

original_title: 9/11 Truth: Hollywood Speaks Up

title: Inside The X-Files

overview: Inside the X-Files for a behind-the-scenes look at the show. Also included are interviews with the cast and creator Chris Carter, never before seen segments from the show, outtakes and a sneak preview of the upcoming feature film.

original_title: Inside The X-Files

title: The X-Files

overview: Mulder and Scully, now taken off the FBI's X Files cases, must find a way to fight the shadowy elements of the government to find out the truth about a conspiracy that might mean the alien colonization of Earth.

character: Langly

original_title: The X-Files

title: The Truth Is Out There

overview: For the past fifty years, conspiracy theories have become a prevalent topic of discussion and cause for great alarm, growing into a truly global phenomenon. Dean Haglund (The X-Files) reveals the Comedy, Consciousness and Conspiracy of a world gone mad.

character: Himself

original_title: The Truth Is Out There

title: Ear Buds: The Podcasting Documentary

overview: Exploration of the podcasting medium via interviews with several big names in the field and their fans.

original_title: Ear Buds: The Podcasting Documentary

title: Rice Girl

overview: To land a role in the movie Hooker X, Asian American actress Windy (Cheryl Ling) researches what life is like as a prostitute. After being mistaken for a real call girl by undercover cops, Windy runs into trouble with a group of thugs and a huge wrestler. Poking fun at the entertainment industry as well as Asian stereotypes, this independent comedy co-stars Pat Morita, Martin Kove and Dean Haglund.

character: Director Martini

original_title: Rice Girl

title: Geek USA

overview: "Geek USA" is a quirky romantic comedy filled with 90s nostalgia about a high school senior in a rock band who suddenly goes from zero social life to having three very competitive dates for prom.

character: Sloan

original_title: Geek USA

title: Radio Free Steve

overview: A post-apocalyptic 1980s vision of the future.

character: Dean Haglund

original_title: Radio Free Steve

title: Defenders of Justice: The Story of The Lone Gunmen

overview: Behind the scenes with the cast and crew of The Lone Gunmen.

title: The Lady Killers

overview: Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.

character: Paul Lewis

original_title: The Lady Killers

title: Tom Sawyer

overview: Get ready for a magical, fun-filled journey of adventure, fantasy and friendship! Tom Sawyer and his best buddy Huck Finn love going fishing, daydreaming about pirates and stolen gold, and thinking about Becky Thatcher - the pretty new girl at school. But when these pals set out on a quest for buried treasure, they end up face to face with the town's most "grizzly" bear, Injurin' Joe. Giving Joe the slip, they find themselves in the middle of a fantastic adventure that takes them from the mighty Mississippi to the mysterious caverns of a secret hideout where they discover fun, excitement... and a fortune beyond their wildest dreams! Featuring the voices of Don Knotts, Betty White, and country music superstars Rhett Akins, Mark Wills, Lee Ann Womack, Hank Williams Jr. and more, Tom Sawyer is an enchanting, music-filled family adventure.

character: Sid (voice)

original_title: Tom Sawyer

title: Secrets of the X-Files

overview: This documentary sheds light on the story behind the X-Files. Follow the conspiracy and take a look at some of Mulder and Scully's most extraordinary cases Plus profiles of the agents and the shadowy characters working to help and hinder them.

original_title: Secrets of the X-Files

title: More Secrets of the X-Files

overview: The first three seasons of the hit television show The X-Files (1993) are briefly re-capped in this TV special.

original_title: More Secrets of the X-Files

title: Dead and Deader

title: Spectres

title: Atlantis Down

title: 9/11 Truth: Hollywood Speaks Up

title: Inside The X-Files

title: The X-Files

title: The Truth Is Out There

title: Ear Buds: The Podcasting Documentary

title: Rice Girl

title: Geek USA

title: Radio Free Steve

title: The Lady Killers

title: Tom Sawyer

title: Secrets of the X-Files

title: More Secrets of the X-Files


Brendan Penny

biography: Brendan James Penny (born November 9, 1978) is a Canadian film and television actor who first became well known to TV audiences as A.J. Varland in the first season of Whistler that aired in Canada from 2006–2008. He is perhaps best known as Detective Brian Lucas in Motive, a Canadian crime drama centred on a team of Vancouver homicide detectives, also starring Kristin Lehman, Louis Ferreira and Lauren Holly, which aired from 2013–2016. Brendan currently stars as Kevin O'Brien in the Hallmark Channel family drama series Chesapeake Shores, which premiered on August 14, 2016. He has also been the hero of a number of Hallmark originals.

Chesapeake Shores

overview: A divorced mom deals with an old romance and complicated family issues when she returns to her hometown with her twin daughters.

character: Kevin O'Brien

original_name: Chesapeake Shores

Motive

overview: A team of Vancouver investigators, led by homicide detective Angie Flynn, sets out to uncover the motive of each puzzling murder by discovering the killer's connection to the victim. Viewers get a glimpse of the killer before and after the crime is committed.

character: Detective Brian Lucas

original_name: Motive

Supernatural

overview: When they were boys, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. Subsequently, their father raised them to be soldiers. He taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America ... and he taught them how to kill it. Now, the Winchester brothers crisscross the country in their '67 Chevy Impala, battling every kind of supernatural threat they encounter along the way.

character: Steve

original_name: Supernatural

Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures

overview: Follows the lives of three young doctors fresh from medical school, and embarking on their new careers.

character: Claude

original_name: Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures

Supernatural

character: Demon

The Assistants

overview: The Assistants is a Canadian sitcom that aired from 10 July 2009 to 11 September 2009. The series is the second original comedy to air on the Nickelodeon channel, The N after the series About a Girl.

character: Danny Newell

original_name: The Assistants

Stargate Atlantis

overview: With the Ancients' city of Atlantis discovered in the Pegasus Galaxy by Stargate Command, Dr. Elizabeth Weir and Major Sheppard lead a scientific expedition to the ancient abandoned city. Once there, the team not only find themselves unable to contact Earth, but their explorations unexpectedly reawaken the Ancients' deadly enemies, The Wraith, who hunger for this new prey. Now with the help of newfound local allies like Teyla Emmagan, the Atlantis Team sets about to uncover their new home's secrets even as their war of survival against the Wraith begins.

character: Male Wraith

original_name: Stargate Atlantis

Smallville

overview: The origins of the world’s greatest hero–from Krypton refugee Kal-el’s arrival on Earth through his tumultuous teen years to Clark Kent’s final steps toward embracing his destiny as the Man of Steel.

character: Wagner

original_name: Smallville

Stargate Atlantis

character: Todd the Wraith

Ring of Fire

overview: When an oil rig causes an eruption in a small town, it's just the first in a series that could affect the dangerous Ring of Fire that contains most of the world's volcanoes. If these cataclysmic eruptions cannot be stopped, the Earth could be headed for an extinction level event.

character: Eric Vascer

original_name: Ring of Fire

Jake 2.0

overview:
Jake 2.0 is an American science fiction television series originally broadcast on UPN in 2003. The series was canceled on January 14, 2004 due to low ratings, leaving four episodes unaired in the United States. In the United Kingdom, all the episodes aired on Sky1. The series later aired in syndication on HDNet and the Sci Fi Channel.

The series revolves around a computer expert, Jake Foley, who works for the U.S. government's National Security Agency and was accidentally infected by nanobots which give him superhuman powers. He is able to control technology with his brain, making him "the ultimate human upgrade" according to the show's introduction.

character: Rollerblader

original_name: Jake 2.0

Christmas at Sea

overview: Hallmark superfans celebrate the holidays aboard a Christmas cruise to the tropics, filled with festive fun and celebrity surprises.

character: Self

original_name: Christmas at Sea

twitter_id: BrendanJPenny

Deutsch

iso_639_1: de

iso_3166_1: DE

english_name: German

Italiano

iso_639_1: it

iso_3166_1: IT

english_name: Italian

title: Time for Them to Come Home for Christmas

overview: During the holidays, a woman with amnesia catches a ride with her handsome nurse to investigate the only clue to her identity: a newspaper clipping for a Christmas Festival with a cryptic invitation.

character: Paul

title: The Wedding Cottage

overview: A wedding guide creator must convince an uninspired artist and owner of a special wedding cottage to renovate the rundown cottage to host a contest-winning couple for their dream wedding.

character: Evan Stanford

original_title: The Wedding Cottage

title: Held Hostage

overview: Michelle a single mother is kidnapped by three masked men and held hostage until she is forced to rob a bank which is the only option she has to saving her only child's life while they are both wired to explode.

character: Chris Clark

original_title: Held Hostage

title: Hard Ride to Hell

overview: A group of family and friends on a camping trip through the Texas badlands are taken on a on-way ride to Hell after they inadvertently witness a ritual sacrifice at a deserted campsite. Pursued by the devil worshiping biker gang responsible, they hole up in an abandoned church near the border, only to discover that they are pawns in a decades-old battle between good and evil.

character: Danny

original_title: Hard Ride to Hell

title: I Love You, Beth Cooper

overview: A valedictorian's declaration of love for a high-school cheerleader launches a night of revelry, reflection and romance for a group of graduating seniors.

character: Sean

original_title: I Love You, Beth Cooper

title: Christmas Crash

overview: A husband, wife and their two daughters take a Christmas break at a lodge in the woods. There's evident tension between the couple. He's pulled by attention to his corporation and negotiations about a merger. Even on their vacation he's on the phone. She's feeling abandoned. He takes her on a light plane flight to a cabin across the lake, but their plane suddenly loses altitude. They crash into the lake before they can notify anyone. The husband is more seriously hurt but with his wife's assistance they navigate cross-country towards a distant highway.. While they struggle to cross a ridge, the husband's business partner moves behind the scenes to sell the company to raiders, apparently assuming Frank is dead. Attacked by rogue wolves, the husband and wife are rescued in the nick of time. The FAA begins an investigation of the plane crash while the family begins to heal the emotional and physical wounds.

character: Matt

original_title: Christmas Crash

title: A Season for Family

overview: While Maddie’s adopted son wants to meet his brother Cody, who was adopted into another family, Cody’s father, isn’t ready.

original_title: A Season for Family

title: The Virginian

overview: Trace Adkins (The Lincoln Lawyer), Ron Perlman (TV's "Sons of Anarchy") and Brendan Penny (Ring Of Fire) star in this gritty and riveting re-imagining of the classic Western saga. Raised by powerful cattle baron Judge Henry (Perlman), South, aka "The Virginian" (Adkins), lives his life as a ranch enforcer with bravery and steely determination. When a big-city writer (Penny) raises questions about the fierce treatment of rustlers, South is quick to defend the brutal realities of the "Code of the West." But as he looks deeper into the latest string of rustling and finds his convictions questioned by a pretty new schoolteacher (Victoria Pratt, Mutant X), South begins to wonder if the Judge had ulterior motives in raising him to a life of bloodshed and violence in this explosive, action-loaded epic on the open range.

character: Owen Walton

original_title: The Virginian

title: Along Came a Nanny

overview: Hoping to catch a burglar, a cop (Cameron Mathison) goes under cover as a nanny in an upscale community. As he looks for leads, he becomes involved with a high-maintenance family and a pretty caregiver (Sarah Lancaster) nearby.

character: Dean Bartons

original_title: Along Came a Nanny

title: In Merry Measure

overview: When pop star Darcy returns home to spend Christmas with her sister and niece, she unexpectedly finds herself coaching the high school choir with her onetime rival, Adam.

character: Adam

original_title: In Merry Measure

title: Fifty Shades Freed

overview: Believing they have left behind shadowy figures from their past, newlyweds Christian and Ana fully embrace an inextricable connection and shared life of luxury. But just as she steps into her role as Mrs. Grey and he relaxes into an unfamiliar stability, new threats could jeopardize their happy ending before it even begins.

character: Co-Pilot Beighley (Grey Jet)

original_title: Fifty Shades Freed

title: Heavenly Match

overview: Reverend Casey Hart is falling for her friend and fellow seminarian David Swenson. When she becomes senior minister, will her fear of failing become stronger than her faith in herself?

character: David Swenson

original_title: Heavenly Match

title: Family Practice Mysteries: Coming Home

overview: A former Army surgeon moves back to her hometown and joins a practice of family doctors, but when she's drawn into solving the mysterious death of a patient, her quiet life becomes upended.

character: Detective Jack Quinn

original_title: Family Practice Mysteries: Coming Home

title: 'Tis the Season for Love

overview: An out-of-work New York City actress returns home to the quaint small town she escaped 10 years before and finds a place far different than the hamlet she left. She suddenly finds performing possibilities and even romance that kind of blow her away.

character: Dean Hubert

original_title: 'Tis the Season for Love

title: Tooth Fairy

overview: When minor-league hockey player Derek Thompson -- who has a penchant for knocking out his opponents' teeth every time he plays -- disillusions a fan, he is sentenced to a stint for one week as a bona fide, tutu-clad, real-life tooth fairy. Soon, Derek is inspired to rekindle his youthful dreams.

character: Josh

original_title: Tooth Fairy

title: The A-Team

overview: A man who loves when a plan comes together, Col. Hannibal Smith leads a close-knit team of elite operatives and Iraq War veterans. Framed for a crime they didn't commit, Smith and his men, Capt. H.M. ‘Howling Mad’ Murdock , Sgt. Bosco ‘B.A.’ Baracus, and Lt. Templeton ‘Faceman’ Peck, break out and go rogue, using their special talents to clear their names and find the perpetrator. Hot on their trail is Capt. Charissa Sosa, who was once involved with a member of Smith's team and has sworn to capture them, no matter what it takes.

character: C130J Pilot #1

original_title: The A-Team

title: Autumn in the Vineyard

overview: When Frankie Baldwin and Nate Deluca both have a claim to ownership of Sorrento Farm, they are forced to divide the vineyard right down the middle and work the fields alongside each other to bring in the harvest leading up to the Best Wine competition at the annual Autumn Harvest Festival -- only this rivalry won't be settled in the fields, because in spite of their contentious bickering, the simplest way to settle this particular legal dispute is with a romance.

character: Nate DeLuca

original_title: Autumn in the Vineyard

title: Love on the Danube: Kissing Stars

overview: Publicist Savannah Bailey offers Tripp Marks, her actor client of newfound fame, the ability to connect with fans and find his type at a rom com cruise event Kiss con after reinventing himself but he must learn who he is without celebrity.

character: Tripp

title: A Dash of Love

overview: A young woman who dreams of opening her own restaurant lands a job at a prominent restaurant whose head chef becomes her unlikely ally when the restaurant's unscrupulous owner, a Master Chef herself, plots to return the place to its former glory by presenting her new assistant's recipes as her own.

title: Summer in the Vineyard

overview: Frankie and Nate are now a couple and are gearing up for Summer Fest, the town's largest event. They can't wait to reveal their new wine and put the vineyard on the map. But when an issue with the wine puts things in jeopardy, both the relationship and the partnership will be put to the test.

title: Gourmet Detective: A Healthy Place to Die

overview: When Henry is invited as a guest speaker at a luxury resort spa, he quickly finds himself at the center of another murder. With Maggie at his side, our favorite duo must not only find the killer but be careful they don't become his latest victim.

title: Magical Christmas Ornaments

overview: When Marie begins receiving ornaments from her mother, a new coincidental blessing comes with each one, causing Marie to feel more excited for the holidays than she has in years. Marie’s once-lost Christmas spirit gets another boost when she meets her handsome neighbor Nate and feels a spark with him while celebrating the season.

title: Pride, Prejudice and Mistletoe

overview: Darcy has always worked hard to prove herself and be successful on her own terms, even choosing to start her own company, rather than work with her father. Returning to her hometown for Christmas, Darcy reconnects with an old rival, restaurant owner Luke, and they are forced to plan a charity event together. As Darcy spends time with her family and Luke, she starts to realize what matters most in life and sets out to mend her relationship with her father, and possibly fall in love.

title: The Wedding Chapel

overview: Uninspired and newly single painter Sara is down on her luck and wants nothing more than to get away from her problems. When she decides to take a trip to visit her mom, she becomes involved in the efforts to save a local church which is in danger of closing down.

title: Valentine in the Vineyard

overview: As partners in life and professional winemaking, Frankie Baldwin and Nate DeLuca have different personality types and styles. They’ve just gotten engaged when Frankie’s cousin Lexi and Nate’s brother Marco spring the news that they are getting married – and on Valentine’s Day. Agreeing to keep their plans a secret, Frankie and Nate offer to host Lexi and Marco’s big day.

title: Easter Under Wraps

overview: Erin Cavendish goes undercover at her family's chocolate plant to see why sales are down when she meets head chocolatier, Bryan, who has new ideas on how to update the Easter product line.

title: Christmas Cottage

overview: Inspired by the picturesque paintings of Thomas Kinkade, The Christmas Cottage tells the semi-autobiographical tale of how a young boy is propelled to launch a career as an artist after he learns that his mother is in danger of losing the family home.

title: The Secret Ingredient

overview: Small-town baker, Kelly, gets a big surprise when she is invited to compete on a Valentine's Day baking show in New York City - and an even bigger surprise when she runs into her ex-fiance.

title: John Tucker Must Die

overview: After discovering they are all dating the same same guy, three popular students from different cliques band together for revenge, so they enlist the help of a new gal in town and conspire to break the jerk's heart, while destroying his reputation.

title: A Little Christmas Charm

overview: Holly, a jewelry designer finds a lost charm bracelet and teams up with investigative reporter Greg in hopes of finding the owner and returning it by Christmas Eve.

title: Beverly Hills Wedding

overview: A woman wins her sister a Beverly Hills wedding and gets a surprise of her own.

title: A Novel Noel

overview: A successful New York book editor is chosen to run a bookstore in the small town of Saint Ives for the month of December.

title: The More the Merrier

overview: An overwhelmed doctor is left to look after and care for three very pregnant women by herself during a storm on Christmas Eve, until she is joined by an intriguing colleague.

title: Merry Christmas, Ted Cooper!

overview: A Christmas-loving weatherman has had a tough year; upon returning to his hometown, he bumps into a former teacher who always cheered him on, and his former crush — and things start to look up.

title: Texas Two-Step

overview: Olivia returns to Texas to help her aunt with her country music bar that's fallen on hard times and reconnects with Luke, her childhood sweetheart turned cowboy, and her passion for dancing.

title: Poison Ivy: The Secret Society

overview: A mysterious death of a young college student occurs late one night at a prestigious New England college...

title: When Jesse Was Born

overview: Tragedy strikes a comedic blue collar family as they welcome their third son into the world.

title: The Wedding Cottage

title: Held Hostage

title: Hard Ride to Hell

title: I Love You, Beth Cooper

title: Christmas Crash

title: A Season for Family

title: The Virginian

title: Along Came a Nanny

title: In Merry Measure

title: Fifty Shades Freed

title: Heavenly Match

title: Family Practice Mysteries: Coming Home

title: 'Tis the Season for Love

title: Tooth Fairy

title: The A-Team

title: Autumn in the Vineyard

title: Love on the Danube: Kissing Stars

title: A Dash of Love

title: Summer in the Vineyard

title: Magical Christmas Ornaments

title: Pride, Prejudice and Mistletoe

title: The Wedding Chapel

title: Valentine in the Vineyard

title: Easter Under Wraps

title: Christmas Cottage

title: The Secret Ingredient

title: John Tucker Must Die

title: A Little Christmas Charm

title: Beverly Hills Wedding

title: A Novel Noel

title: The More the Merrier

title: Merry Christmas, Ted Cooper!

title: Texas Two-Step

title: Poison Ivy: The Secret Society

title: When Jesse Was Born


Masahiko Tanimura

日本語

iso_639_1: ja

iso_3166_1: JP

english_name: Japanese

Český

iso_639_1: cs

iso_3166_1: CZ

english_name: Czech

Deutsch

Masahiko Tanimura

biography: Masahiko Tanimura war ein japanischer Schauspieler.

Український

iso_639_1: uk

iso_3166_1: UA

english_name: Ukrainian

title: It's a festival! It's a ghost festival! Everybody Gather!!

original_title: 祭りだお化けだ全員集合！！

original_language: ja

title: The Files of Young Kindaichi: Snow Yaksha Legend Murder Case

overview: Hajime Kindaichi is working a part time job as an assistant to a TV station for the filming of a shock show. They have invited celebrities in Segori Village and are planning to scare them by playing pranks on them such as fake deaths. However, a threatening letter arrives and soon, a real murder occurs broadcasted in front of everyone.

original_title: 金田一少年の事件簿 雪夜叉伝説殺人事件

title: Toshigoro

overview: Teenage film

original_title: としごろ

title: Sazae-san, the Wayward Wife

overview: Masuo and Sazae are enjoying their newlywed life in their new house, even though they are in company housing. Masuo's colleague is invited to thank him for the newlyweds, but Masuo has been told by Managing Director Hanamura to go on a business trip to Kansai. Before long, Masuo contacted Sazae to come to Osaka.

original_title: サザエさんの脱線奥様

title: Sazae-san's Newlywed Family

overview: Sazae's wish came true and she got married to Masuo. The two ended up living together at Sazae's parents' home, the Isono family. However, the newlywed life that started at the Isono family was a disaster. At the Isono family, where bonito and Wakame pranks and neighbors visit, it is difficult even to be alone.

original_title: サザエさんの新婚家庭

title: None But the Brave

overview: American and Japanese soldiers, stranded on a tiny Pacific island during World War II, must make a temporary truce and cooperate to survive various tribulations. Told through the eyes of the American and Japanese unit commanders, who must deal with an atmosphere of growing distrust and tension between their men.

character: Lead Pvt. Ando

original_title: None But the Brave

title: Romance Express

overview: Comedy of manners set on the "Kodama" train between Tokyo and Osaka, before the opening of the Shinkansen. In the leading role, Frankie Sakai plays a straightforward but indecisive hero. The passengers also include the bubbly Dan Reiko, and Ozawa Eitaro as a dour company president. Based on the novel "Seven and a half hours", by Shishi Bunroku.

original_title: 特急にっぽん

title: Seinen no isu

overview: 1962 Japanese movie

original_title: 青年の椅子

title: 前科・仮釈放

original_title: 前科・仮釈放

title: The Blossom and the Sword

overview: Tai Kato’s early 20th century set yakuza epic about an ordinary merchant girl (Hiroko Maki) who crosses paths with an assassin (Tetsuya Watari). The encounter sends her to jail as a suspected accomplice. Years later she marries a yakuza boss, whose gang is affiliated with working class people.

original_title: 日本侠花伝

title: Kigeki Toruko-buro Osho-sen

overview: A young man who aspires to become a big-shot businessman, finds himself in a twist of fate. Despite trying his hand at various jobs, success eludes him, and he unexpectedly ends up in Osaka's Shinimamiya district. With empty pockets, he stumbles upon an invitation to the 'Gokuraku Toruko' establishment, becoming a patron. Led by the enchanting Ibohachi, he becomes entangled with the charismatic hostesses, including the captivating Tama. This leads him to infiltrate Tama's apartment complex, Sakura-so. Within its walls reside a colorful cast of characters, from hostesses Chie, Akemi, Yukari, and Kayoko to the quirky parasites like Masao, Tetsuo, Arima, and more. Seeking a fresh start, He embarks on a journey as a 'parasite,' but things take unexpected turns...

original_title: 喜劇 トルコ風呂王将戦

title: Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather

overview: Onimasa is the egocentric boss of a small yakuza clan on Shikoku Island, whose criminal duties conflict with his self-image as a chivalrous samurai. His struggles with his boss, the Shikoku Godfather, and the tumultuous life of his adopted daughter, Matsue, form the backdrop of this epic tale of justice, obedience, and bloody vengeance.

original_title: 鬼龍院花子の生涯

title: Ryuji's Journey: The Crest of Man

overview: The new head of a powerful family faces danger from an evil rival out for blood.

original_title: 男の紋章　喧嘩街道

title: The Rule for a Vagabond

overview: A brave warrior fights to restore peace to a town riddled by crime, one sword at a time, in this historical action saga.

original_title: 男の紋章 流転の掟

title: The Kanto Region Is Also Expanding

overview: A man who was released from prison wanders around the Kanto region and gets involved with the local yakuza.

original_title: 関東も広うござんす

title: Sararīman yajikita dōchū

overview: 1961 Japanese movie

original_title: サラリーマン弥次喜多道中

title: Zoku sararīman yajikita dōchū

original_title: 続サラリーマン 弥次喜多道中

title: Umineko ga tonde

original_title: 海猫が飛んで

title: It's a Psychic, Everybody Gather!!

original_title: 超能力だよ全員集合！！

title: Duel in the Storm

overview: It is the Taisho era in Japan. A man has quit the Yakuza after five years and returned to Shikoku in order to begin his life anew as a ferryman. His boss, however, became ill and the boat is taken due to unpaid debts to the local thugs. His new life has not begun well and he is determined to rebuild the shattered business. The Yakuza, however, have added the ferry business to the rest of their portfolio of local concerns.

character: Hokke-Masa

original_title: 嵐の果し状

title: Battle Anthem

overview: The story of Japan's victory in the battle of Tsushima Strait.

original_title: 日本海大海戦 海ゆかば

title: The Viper Brothers Rage Again

overview: Part 2 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, amoral, but not evil chinpira (Bunta Sugawara and Tamio Kawachi) thinking too big of themselves.

original_title: まむしの兄弟　お礼参り

title: Dodes'ka-den

overview: On a Tokyo dump’s shantytown edge, interwoven vignettes follow residents scraping by: a boy who “drives” an imaginary trolley, a homeless father and son designing a dream house, a young woman brutalized at home, drunks, schemers, and saints of small kindnesses. Kurosawa crafts a ragged mosaic of hardship, fantasy, and flickers of grace that keep people moving forward.

character: Mr. Sô

original_title: どですかでん

title: Truck Rascals: No One Can Stop Me

overview: The first of many movies featuring the lighthearted adventures of two truck drivers. Momojiro and his best friend Kinzo take to the road on their cargo trucks impressing each other with their skills in driving fast and evading the police while transporting commodities throughout the country. Chance encounters with people along the way help them to come to terms with events clouding their past and offer them a shot at redemption.

character: Flower Shop Owner

original_title: トラック野郎　御意見無用

title: Spartan Education

overview: In a match where professional baseball referee Yuzo Tagami was observing a young referee, Hara, a player who got angry at the indecisive judge, knocked the referee down. Tagami lived with his wife and five children, but when he returned home, Hara, who had been suspended for a month, wanted to receive Tagami's Subaruta training.

original_title: スパルタ教育　くたばれ親父

title: Ōwarai Jiro chō ikka: Sanshita nitei kenjū

overview: Comedy movie

original_title: 大笑い次郎長一家　三ン下二挺拳銃

title: When Winter Comes

overview: An old man cashes in all his possessions and sets off on a journey to the Tohoku region in late autumn. Along the way, he visits a friend on his deathbed and develops a faint affection for an elegant old woman, but the purpose of his journey is actually to find a place to die. He gives a large sum of money to a young couple, who are poor but have a dream for the future, and tries to throw himself into the sea. The movie depicts the loneliness of an old man who has lost his wife.

original_title: 冬構え

title: Outlaw Cop

overview: A bad cop is engaged in a violent chase to catch a yakuza boss. In his absence his wife runs away with another man, who turns out to be the very same man that her husband is hunting. Once he discovers this, he loses his nerve and turns in his badge. But the chase turns into a personal vendetta where the ex-cop plans to wipe out the entire gang.

original_title: やさぐれ刑事

title: カックン超特急

overview: Japanese comedy film.

original_title: カックン超特急

title: 弥次喜多珍道中　中仙道の巻

original_title: 弥次喜多珍道中　中仙道の巻

title: Dai nippon kosodoro den

original_title: 大日本コソ泥伝

title: 凸凹珍道中

original_title: 凸凹珍道中

title: 金語楼の成金王

character: Umakichi

original_title: 金語楼の成金王

title: 若社長と爆発娘

original_title: 若社長と爆発娘

title: Kingorō no kaigun taishô

original_title: 金語楼の海軍大将

title: Velvet Hustler

overview: A young yakuza hitman named Goro does a job and needs to hideout away from Tokyo for a while. He hangs out with loose women and hard men and always manages to stay one step ahead of the law. In his exile, he comes under suspicion for a murder and meets the girlfriend of the murdered man. They develop a strange bond while unbeknown to Goro, another hitman is after him for the job he did in Tokyo.

original_title: 紅の流れ星

title: Go As Messy As Messy Can Be

overview: Comedy about a young man who causes pandemonium by raiding a bar patronized by his father, winning the favors of a hostess and ends up feeling the breasts and hips of all the girls in his father's office.

character: Principal

original_title: 谷岡ヤスジのメッタメタ　ガキ道講座

title: The Black Gambler: Left Hand of the Devil

overview: The fictional land "Pandora" sends three (numbered) graduates of the "National Gambling University" to Japan. You should defeat the master player Kôji, control the international casino empire and use the profits to achieve world domination. But Japan's most famous left hand knows what to do.

title: Born Under Crossed Stars

overview: A young man with a strong sense of justice is torn between two girls: the flighty Taneko and the serious Suzuko. With wisdom, courage and honor in a Japanese spirit of manliness he wins the day.

original_title: 悪太郎伝　悪い星の下でも

title: Hangyaku no Tabi

overview: Hiroshi Kakurai is an assassin who was thinking of retiring. He travels to an island in the Seto Inland Sea and begins to live peacefully with Shinobu, a woman he has fallen in love with, but the intensity of his love for her begins to drive him towards destruction...

title: Flames of Blood

overview: The story follows the chance meeting between Senkichi, a wandering gambler on the run, and Orin, a blind musician who offers him kindness and shelter. As their lives become intertwined, they attempt to find a sense of peace and domesticity while caught in the crossfire of the violent Bakumatsu revolution.

title: Sword and Flower

overview: Masuda Toshio film starring Watari Tetsuya and Mori Masayuki, about a lone-wolf type (Watari) seeking love and defending the honor of an elderly widower (Mori).

title: Outlaw: Goro the Assassin

overview: On a cold winter day, Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) and Masahiko murder the mob boss of Meishin-Kai. The deed costs them time in prison, but Goro had no shred of regret. When Goro is released 2 years later, Masahiko is dying in prison hospital and entrusts his last wish; "find my sister and take care of her." Goro leaves as a free man with a mission, but soon finds that he might have been better off in jail.

title: The Viper Brothers

overview: After spending several years in prison, yakuza punk Masa (Bunta Sugawara) and his underling, Katsuji (Tamio Kawachi) are back out in the mean streets of Kobe to make a name for themselves amongst the local yakuza organization.

title: Miyamoto Musashi

overview: In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving nothing because fighting on the losing side, & then beginning his long period of wandering & training, with the goal always in mind of his duel with Kojiro. Part II builds toward that great duel on Ganryu Island, with considerable focus on Musashi's planning & forethought as to how to gain an advantage.

title: Flower and Dragon

overview: Kingoro Tamai moves with his wife and son to the port city of Wakamatsu. He organizes the Tamai-gumi, a stevedore group, to vie for work with two other powerful groups. Gingo is Tamai's chief rival who falls in love with the latter's wife and tries to kill Tamai.

original_title: 花と龍・青雲篇、愛憎篇、怒濤篇

title: The Extravagant Cops

original_title: こちら葛飾区亀有公園前派出所

title: The Sucker's Blunt Dagger

overview: A man aspires to be a big boss but falls in love with a beautiful woman boss.

original_title: すいばれ一家　男になりたい

title: The Dragon and the Tiger

overview: A young gambler returns from prison to find his gang scattered, and many gone over to his old rival. But their rivalry is not only a matter of gambling. For when he is about to marry the daughter of a police official, the rival again interferes and this time it is a fight to the finish -- the end of his enemy.

title: L・O・V・I・N・G

original_title: エル・オー・ヴィ・愛・N・G

title: The Rough One

overview: A tale of wannabe yakuza youths. When not cooking up scams with his buddies, Zenkichi develops a crush on Taro's disgusted sister, Miki. But soon the young hoods run afoul of their underworld idols when they rob the wrong gang, led by brutal boss Konno. When Zenkichi's pals start to bite the dust, he hooks up with a more traditional yakuza, Tetsugoro, to retaliate.

title: The Unmarked Path

overview: To solve the mystery of her deceased husband, his wife departs to Shinshu.

title: Cross-Currents

overview: A ryokan maid is on trial for pushing a familiar guest off a cliff to his death. An eager attorney offers to take the case to gain notoriety.

title: Professional Killers

overview: Two assassins are hired to carry out a hit on the second wife of a candle merchant, but someone is watching...

title: Duel at Fort Ezo

overview: 1864. Samurai Shinbei is sent in a secret mission to Ezo, in the North of Japan, to stop riots of villagers commanded by Jirozaemon. A Russian count's daughter, the village leader's daughter and a secret treasure add up to the adventure.

title: The Dragon of Macao

overview: Ryu (Akira Kobayashi) sets foot on the Yokohama port with a suitcase filled with 300 thousand dollars. He was sent by a jewelry company in Hong Kong to retrieve a certain diamond that was stolen from them. The "Himalayan Star" is worth couple hundred million yen and unbeknown to Ryu, it now lays in the hands of Aizu (Jo Shishido), the infamous ”Pirate of the Tokyo Bay."

title: The School Cap

overview: A Tokyo student transfers to a rural school and finds it difficult to adjust himself to its customs and traditions. One of the customs is the wearing of an old school cap by a senior. It is a symbol of courage and bravery and is handed down to a new senior each year.

title: Leave My Girl Alone

overview: Hitomi, a former orphan who is trying to leave behind her delinquent ways, one day agrees to tutor a wealthy young boy who has just become an orphan himself…

title: Maruhi: Benten gokaichō

title: We Sell It Because It Sells

overview: Young bartender operates secret sex club as a profitable side business.

title: Travels of Gonkuro

overview: Sugimoto Gonkuro is travelling along from Tosa to Edo. On his journey he will meet both good and bad people.

title: Madadayo

overview: In postwar Tokyo, beloved writer-professor Hyakken Uchida retires and is buoyed through hardship by the fierce devotion of his former students, who honor him each year with a raucous “Not yet!” birthday toast. Told in warm, gently comic vignettes, Kurosawa’s farewell celebrates aging, friendship, and the sustaining ritual of teacher and pupils refusing to say goodbye.

title: Prophecies of Nostradamus

overview: Professor Nishiyama, after studying and interpreting the prophecies of Nostradamus, realizes that the end of the world is at hand. Unfortunately, nobody listens to him until it is too late. As the effects of mankind's tampering of the earth - radioactive smog clouds, hideously mutated animals, destruction of the ozone layer - rage out of control, the world leaders hurtle blindly toward the final confrontation. The film sparked controversy in Japan and was subsequently pulled out of circulation, with no official video release of the uncut film.

title: Tora-san's Pure Love

overview: When Tora-san's infatuation with his nephew's school teacher causes family turmoil, he leaves on his travels again. When he returns, he falls in love with the teacher's mother.

original_title: 男はつらいよ 寅次郎純情詩集

title: Tora-san's Runaway

overview: After an encounter with a dying yakuza's son and at his sister Sakura's urging, Torajiro attempts to change his vagrant lifestyle and become an honest worker with a steady job.

title: Tora-san's Love Call

overview: Taking a message from Hiroshi's father to heart, Torajiro attempts to give up his wandering ways.

original_title: 男はつらいよ 寅次郎恋歌

title: The Viper Brothers: Prison Gang 13

overview: Part 3 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, amoral, but not evil chinpira (Bunta Sugawara and Tamio Kawachi) thinking too big of themselves.

original_title: まむしの兄弟　懲役十三回

title: Young Master Yakuza: Edoite Goblin

original_title: 若様やくざ　江戸っ子天狗

title: Drive for the Future

title: Yukyo-retsuden

overview: A street vendor who eloped with his girlfriend and injured her brother loses her to illness, and now has to confront the brother and some dirty local yakuza.

title: Price of Life

title: Beyond the Rainbow

overview: One day an innocent-looking girl in white clothes appears on board of a ramshackle boat  The owner of the boat, Okin, decides to let Mari stay with him without asking her any questions. Turmoil ensues with the reaction of the crew when the runaway girl starts working alongside with them.

title: Young Lord Yakuza

overview: Young Lord Taihei goes to Edo to find the lost family treasure, a plover incense burner, under the disguise of a ronin.

title: 寝台特急出羽号　赤い爪痕の女

overview: On the night train home from a memorial service, a detective meets a woman who has killed her sick father and is being pursued by the police.

original_title: 寝台特急出羽号　赤い爪痕の女

title: Inochi Shirazu no Rokudenashi

overview: Bastard tablets that hunt down the crooks behind the gambling world of horse racing, bicycle racing, and car racing.

title: 恋と出世に強くなれ！

title: Challenge at Dawn

overview: Set in Kawasaki in 1925, Challenge at Dawn is based on the Tsurumi Riot Incident, which actually ocurred in Yokohama that year and was sparked by corruption and yakuza involvement in the construction industry.

title: Kanto Street Peddlers: Shallow Clan Honor

overview: The fifth and final chapter of the Kanto Street Peddlers series! Will the battle in Asakusa be enough for a complete victory?

original_title: 関東テキヤ一家 浅草の代紋

title: Holiday in Japan -Chapter 2-

original_title: 新日本珍道中(東日本の巻)

title: The Black Gambler: The Gambling Syndicate

overview: Place your bets! Koji Himuro (Akira Kobayashi) is a makeout artist with unparalleled gambling skills. Shortly after his return to Tokyo, he is invited to attend a reception being held at the Suvenian Embassy of Tokyo. This “reception” was an undercover gambling operation that was run by an international gambling syndicate. Up against a cardsharp by the name of Inumaru and his mistress Reiko, Koji plays a flawless game of Seven Bridge. Outraged by his loss, Inumaru orders Reiko to stalk Koji like a shadow.

title: Yakuza Wanderer: Villainous Livelihood

overview: A humorous yakuza action melodrama with gangsters, drugs and that old comedy-standby, white slavery.

title: Ghost Reunion

overview: Inspector Uno and college student Yuko Maruyama are haunted by a murderous apparition at a school reunion!

original_title: 幽霊同窓会 少女誘拐! 真犯人は同級生?

title: Stardust Wharf

overview: Hamada, Izumi, and Aki Jo, a rising singer from Toshiba Records, form a fresh trio who risk their youthful energy to bravely confront violence in this bright and cheerful coming-of-age action film.

title: Invasion of Kanto Government

overview: A passionate man, driven by his boss's will, who fell to an assassin's blade, dedicates himself to rebuilding the gang. This thrilling, entertaining masterpiece by Eiki weaves together love and longing into its intense portrayal.

title: Season of Tears

overview: Kyoichi Kageyama, a TV station reporter, is always getting into trouble. But when he gets his hands on a TV that shows the “news of the next day,” his reporting becomes a string of scoops, his love life blossoms, and everything starts going his way, until the news from tomorrow reports his aunt getting robbed and murdered!

title: 陽のあたる坂道

title: The Rotten Wheelbarrow

overview: This title was completed in 1984 and opened in 2014.

original_title: 祭りだお化けだ全員集合！！

original_title: 金田一少年の事件簿 雪夜叉伝説殺人事件

title: Toshigoro

title: Sazae-san, the Wayward Wife

title: Sazae-san's Newlywed Family

title: None But the Brave

title: Romance Express

title: Seinen no isu

title: 前科・仮釈放

title: The Blossom and the Sword

title: Kigeki Toruko-buro Osho-sen

title: Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather

title: The Rule for a Vagabond

title: Ryuji's Journey: The Crest of Man

title: The Kanto Region Is Also Expanding

title: Sararīman yajikita dōchū

original_title: サラリーマン弥次喜多道中

title: Zoku sararīman yajikita dōchū

original_title: 続サラリーマン 弥次喜多道中

title: Umineko ga tonde

title: It's a Psychic, Everybody Gather!!

title: Duel in the Storm

title: Battle Anthem

title: The Viper Brothers Rage Again

title: Dodes'ka-den

title: Truck Rascals: No One Can Stop Me

original_title: トラック野郎　御意見無用

title: Spartan Education

original_title: スパルタ教育　くたばれ親父

original_title: 大笑い次郎長一家　三ン下二挺拳銃

title: When Winter Comes

title: Outlaw Cop

title: カックン超特急

title: Dai nippon kosodoro den

title: 弥次喜多珍道中　中仙道の巻

original_title: 弥次喜多珍道中　中仙道の巻

title: 凸凹珍道中

title: 金語楼の成金王

title: 若社長と爆発娘

title: Kingorō no kaigun taishô

title: Velvet Hustler

title: Go As Messy As Messy Can Be

original_title: 谷岡ヤスジのメッタメタ　ガキ道講座

title: Born Under Crossed Stars

original_title: 悪太郎伝　悪い星の下でも

title: Hangyaku no Tabi

title: Flames of Blood

title: Sword and Flower

title: Outlaw: Goro the Assassin

title: The Viper Brothers

title: Miyamoto Musashi

title: Flower and Dragon

original_title: 花と龍・青雲篇、愛憎篇、怒濤篇

title: The Extravagant Cops

original_title: こちら葛飾区亀有公園前派出所

title: The Sucker's Blunt Dagger

original_title: すいばれ一家　男になりたい

title: The Dragon and the Tiger

title: L・O・V・I・N・G

original_title: エル・オー・ヴィ・愛・N・G

title: The Rough One

title: The Unmarked Path

title: Cross-Currents

title: Professional Killers

title: Duel at Fort Ezo

title: The Dragon of Macao

title: The School Cap

title: Leave My Girl Alone

title: Maruhi: Benten gokaichō

title: We Sell It Because It Sells

title: Travels of Gonkuro

title: Madadayo

title: Prophecies of Nostradamus

title: Tora-san's Pure Love

original_title: 男はつらいよ 寅次郎純情詩集

title: Tora-san's Runaway

title: Tora-san's Love Call

original_title: 男はつらいよ 寅次郎恋歌

title: The Viper Brothers: Prison Gang 13

original_title: まむしの兄弟　懲役十三回

title: Young Master Yakuza: Edoite Goblin

original_title: 若様やくざ　江戸っ子天狗

title: Drive for the Future

title: Yukyo-retsuden

title: Price of Life

title: Beyond the Rainbow

title: Young Lord Yakuza

title: 寝台特急出羽号　赤い爪痕の女

original_title: 寝台特急出羽号　赤い爪痕の女

title: Inochi Shirazu no Rokudenashi

title: 恋と出世に強くなれ！

title: Challenge at Dawn

original_title: 関東テキヤ一家 浅草の代紋

title: Holiday in Japan -Chapter 2-

original_title: 新日本珍道中(東日本の巻)

title: Yakuza Wanderer: Villainous Livelihood

title: Ghost Reunion

original_title: 幽霊同窓会 少女誘拐! 真犯人は同級生?

title: Stardust Wharf

title: Invasion of Kanto Government

title: Season of Tears

title: 陽のあたる坂道

title: The Rotten Wheelbarrow