Rachel Dratch

biography:
Rachel Susan Dratch is an American comedian, actress, voice actress, and writer, best known as a cast member of the television show "Saturday Night Live" from 1999 to 2006.

She has since occasionally returned to SNL as a guest portraying Senator Amy Klobuchar. Other television credits include The King of Queens, Monk, and 30 Rock. She has also played the recurring role of Wanda Jo Oliver on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.

She appeared in films including Down With Love (2003), Click (2006), I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (2007), My Life in Ruins (2009), Just Go with It (2011), That's My Boy (2012), Sisters (2015), and starred in Wine Country (2019) and A Clusterfünke Christmas (2021).

In 2022, Dratch made her Broadway stage debut in POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive for which she earned a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play nomination. In 2012 she published her autobiographical book Girl Walks Into a Bar...: Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle.

Third Watch

overview: The exploits of a group of men and women who serve the City of New York as police officers, firemen, and paramedics, all working the same fictional 55th precinct during the 3pm to 11pm shift - the 'Third Watch'.

character: Darla

original_name: Third Watch

original_language: en

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

overview: The Ellen DeGeneres Show, often shortened to just Ellen, is an American television talk show hosted by comedian/actress Ellen DeGeneres.

original_name: The Ellen DeGeneres Show

The Tony Danza Show

overview: The Tony Danza Show was a daytime variety talk show that premiered on September 13, 2004 in syndication and was distributed by Buena Vista Television.

original_name: The Tony Danza Show

Saturday Night Live

overview: A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest, who usually delivers an opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast, and features performances by a musical guest.

character: Self - Various Characters

Monk

overview: Adrian Monk was once a rising star with the San Francisco Police Department, legendary for using unconventional means to solve the department's most baffling cases. But after the tragic (and still unsolved) murder of his wife Trudy, he developed an extreme case of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Now working as a private consultant, Monk continues to investigate cases in the most unconventional ways.

character: Julie Parlo

original_name: Monk

Kim Possible

overview: If there's danger or trouble, Kim Possible is there on the double to save the world from villains... and still make it home in time for cheerleading practice! Luckily, Kim has her sidekick Ron Stoppable and his pet naked mole-rat Rufus by her side.

character: Adrena Lynn (voice)

original_name: Kim Possible

Frasier

overview: After many years spent at the “Cheers” bar, Frasier moves back home to Seattle to work as a radio psychiatrist after his policeman father gets shot in the hip on duty.

character: Horny Date

original_name: Frasier

Wizards of Waverly Place

overview: Alex, Justin and Max Russo are not your ordinary kids - they're wizards in training! While their parents run the Waverly Sub Station, the siblings struggle to balance their ordinary lives while learning to master their extraordinary powers.

character: H.J. Darling

original_name: Wizards of Waverly Place

The King of Queens

overview: Life’s good for deliveryman Doug Heffernan, until his newly widowed father-in-law, Arthur, moves in with him and his wife Carrie. Doug is no longer the king of his domain, and instead of having a big screen television in his recently renovated basement, he now has a crazy old man.

character: Denise

original_name: The King of Queens

30 Rock

overview: Liz Lemon, the head writer for a late-night TV variety show in New York, tries to juggle all the egos around her while chasing her own dream.

character: Jadwiga

original_name: 30 Rock

Ugly Betty

overview: Wannabe writer Betty Suarez is a plain girl from Queens, who is smart, hardworking and savvy but lacks a fashionable sense of style. When publishing mogul Bradford Meade puts his son Daniel in charge of Mode magazine, he hires Betty to be Daniel's new assistant -- mostly because he knows that she may be the only woman in Manhattan with whom the younger man won't sleep.

character: Penny Meadows / Mindy Meadows

original_name: Ugly Betty

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

overview: Stepping into the late-late slot vacated by David Letterman, Conan O'Brien stars in a show that far outdoes its competition in sheer strangeness. Along with the celebrity interviews and musical numbers typical of late-night talk shows, this program make frequent use of odd walk-on characters and frequent "visits" from celebrity guests.

character: Self - Guest

original_name: Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Mr. Mayor

overview: A retired businessman runs for mayor of Los Angeles to prove he's "still got it." Once he wins, he has to figure out what he stands for, gain the respect of his biggest critic and connect with his teenage daughter, all while trying to get anything right for America's second weirdest city.

character: Ms. Adams

original_name: Mr. Mayor

O'Grady

overview: O'Grady is an animated television show created by Tom Snyder and Carl Adams and developed for TV by co-star Holly Schlesinger. It was the first original animated series for Noggin's teen block, The N. The show stars Melissa Bardin Galsky and H. Jon Benjamin, among other Soup2nuts Productions alumni, as high school students Abby and Kevin, and chronicles their lives along with those of other residents of O'Grady, a fictional town which is periodically plagued by "The Weirdness." The Weirdness affects its residents in strange ways such as projecting their private thoughts in bubbles over their heads, or producing clones of themselves every time they get angry. The random changes in the show's logo explains the plot.

original_name: O'Grady

The Marriage Ref

overview: The Marriage Ref is a TV reality show and panel game hosted by comedian Tom Papa and produced by Jerry Seinfeld, in which a rotating group of celebrities decides the winners of real-life marital disputes. The show premiered on NBC on Sunday, February 28, 2010 on the final night of the Olympics before moving to Thursdays. The show's second season debuted on June 26, 2011. On May 13, 2012, NBC cancelled the series.

character: Self - Panelist

original_name: The Marriage Ref

The Middle

overview: The daily mishaps of a married woman and her semi-dysfunctional family and their attempts to survive life in general in the city of Orson, Indiana.

character: Principal Barker

original_name: The Middle

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

overview: A half-hour satirical look at the week in news, politics and current events.

character: Wanda Jo Oliver

original_name: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

Bravo A-List Awards

original_name: Bravo A-List Awards

Man Seeking Woman

overview: Josh Greenberg is a naive romantic on a desperate quest for love. When his longtime girlfriend dumps him, Josh enters the dating scene, a nightmarish hellscape of untold horror. Despite the agony, Josh continues his search in the hopes of finding someone who will make all the misery worth it.

character: Methelda

original_name: Man Seeking Woman

Animal Control

overview: A group of local animal control workers' lives are complicated by the fact that animals are simple, but humans are not. Leading the crew is Frank, an opinionated, eccentric animal control officer who may not have gone to college but is still the most well-read person in the room. In his past life as a cop, Frank tried to expose corruption in his department, but his efforts got him fired, leaving him cynical and curmudgeonly. Despite his rough exterior, he is blessed with an almost superhuman ability to understand animals.

character: Principal Smith-Wood

original_name: Animal Control

Mulligan

overview: In this satirical comedy, when most of Earth is destroyed by aliens, can a few survivors rebuild what’s left of America and form a more perfect union?

character: (voice)

original_name: Mulligan

American Dad!

overview: The series focuses on an eccentric motley crew that is the Smith family and their three housemates: Father, husband, and breadwinner Stan Smith; his better half housewife, Francine Smith; their college-aged daughter, Hayley Smith; and their high-school-aged son, Steve Smith. Outside of the Smith family, there are three additional main characters, including Hayley's boyfriend turned husband, Jeff Fischer; the family's man-in-a-goldfish-body pet, Klaus; and most notably the family's zany alien, Roger, who is "full of masquerades, brazenness, and shocking antics."

character: Homeless Woman (voice)

original_name: American Dad!

Late Night with Seth Meyers

overview: Seth Meyers, who is "Saturday Night Live's" longest serving anchor on the show's wildly popular "Weekend Update," takes over as host of NBC's "Late Night" — home to A-list celebrity guests, memorable comedy and the best in musical talent. As the Emmy Award-winning head writer for "SNL," Meyers has established a reputation for sharp wit and perfectly timed comedy, and has gained fame for his spot-on jokes and satire. Meyers takes his departure from "SNL" to his new post at "Late Night," as Jimmy Fallon moves to "The Tonight Show".

original_name: Late Night with Seth Meyers

Unforgettable

overview: Former Syracuse, New York, police detective Carrie Wells has hyperthymesia, a rare medical condition that gives her the ability to visually remember everything. She reluctantly joins the New York City Police Department's Queens homicide unit after her former boyfriend and partner asks for help with solving a case. The move allows her to try to find out the one thing she has been unable to remember, which is what happened the day her sister was murdered.

character: Rosie Webb

original_name: Unforgettable

Teen Titans Go!

overview: Robin, Starfire, Raven, Beast Boy and Cyborg return in all-new, comedic adventures. They may be super heroes who save the world every day ... but somebody still has to do the laundry!

character: Negative Girl (voice)

original_name: Teen Titans Go!

Broad City

overview: Broad City follows two women throughout their daily lives in New York City, making the smallest and mundane events hysterical and disturbing to watch all at the same time.

character: Linda Lodi

original_name: Broad City

iCarly

overview: Watch Carly, Sam, and Freddie, as they try to balance their everyday 8th grade lives with their newfound fame managing and starring in the most awesome show on the web.

character: Rachel Dratch

original_name: iCarly

Great News

overview: A New Jersey mom puts her relationship with her daughter to the test when she lands an internship at the same TV station where her daughter works.

character: Mary-Kelly

original_name: Great News

Harley Quinn

overview: Harley Quinn has finally broken things off once and for all with the Joker. Now, she's trying to make it on her own as the criminal Queenpin of Gotham City, with help from Poison Ivy and a ragtag crew of DC castoffs.

character: Nora Freeze / Evil Woman (voice)

original_name: Harley Quinn

And Just Like That…

overview: This new chapter of “Sex and the City” follows Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte as they navigate the journey from the complicated reality of life and friendship in their 30s to the even more complicated reality of life and friendship in their 50s.

character: Kerry Moore

original_name: And Just Like That…

30 Rock

character: Elizabeth Taylor

character: Martha Blanch

character: Greta Johansen

character: Vlem

Game Over

overview:
Game Over is an American computer-animated television series created by David Sacks, produced by Carsey-Werner Productions, and broadcast on UPN in 2004. It was canceled due to low ratings.

Game Over focused on what happens to video game characters after the game ends. The show is based around the Smashenburns, a far-from-ordinary suburban family that lives in an alternate video game universe.

Imaginary Mary

overview: A workaholic adult woman's imaginary friend from childhood comes back to her, but ends up being more of a troublemaker than a great companion.

Aqua Teen Hunger Force

overview: The surreal adventures of three anthropomorphic fast food items: Master Shake, Frylock and Meatwad, and their human nextdoor neighbor, Carl Brutananadilewski.

Fish Hooks

overview: This inventive animated comedy series, set inside a giant fish tank in Bud's Pet Shop, presents high school life as seen through the eyes of three BFFs (best fish friends), Bea, Milo and Oscar. Together they experience the typical life challenges and triumphs, including friendship, dating and sports, along with more atypical situations such as giant lobster attacks and, with the use of special land suits, school field trips to the hamster cages. The series was created by children's book illustrator Noah Z. Jones and features a notable voice cast. It's produced using an innovative mixture of digital animation and photo collage

Star Trek: Lower Decks

overview: The lives of the support crew serving on one of Starfleet's least important ships, the U.S.S. Cerritos, in 2380. Ensigns Mariner, Boimler, Rutherford and Tendi have to keep up with their duties and their social lives, often while the ship is being rocked by a multitude of sci-fi anomalies.

Bob's Burgers

overview: Bob's Burgers follows a third-generation restaurateur, Bob, as he runs Bob's Burgers with the help of his wife and their three kids. Bob and his quirky family have big ideas about burgers, but fall short on service and sophistication. Despite the greasy counters, lousy location and a dearth of customers, Bob and his family are determined to make Bob's Burgers "grand re-re-re-opening" a success.

Grimsburg

overview: Marvin Flute may be the greatest detective ever to catch a cannibal clown or correctly identify a mid-century modern armoire. But there’s one mystery he still can’t crack — his family. Now that he's back in Grimsburg, a town where everyone has a secret or three, Flute will follow every lead he’s got to redeem himself with the ex-wife he never stopped loving, even if it means hanging out with the son he never bothered to get to know.

Duncanville

overview: Like most 15-year-olds, Duncan can see adulthood on the horizon: money, freedom, cars and girls; but the reality is more like: always being broke, driving with one's mom sitting shotgun and babysitting one's sister. He's not exceptional, but he has a wild imagination in which he's never anything less than amazing.

The $100,000 Pyramid

overview: In $100,000 Pyramid, contestants are in teams of two. The goal of the game is to help your partner guess an answer, by listing items that would be included in said answer, or synonymous. For instance, if the answer is “Things That Bounce”, clues would be “Po-Go Sticks”, “Kangaroos”, “Basketballs”, etc. To add to the challenge, the contestant who is giving the clues has their hands strapped to their chair, so they’re unable to gesture in order to help the guessing process.

Celebrity Jeopardy!

overview: Celebrity contestants compete for a chance to win money for a charity of their choice.

Ballmastrz: 9009

overview: Thousands of years in the future, teams of Ballmastrz face off against each other using their own hyper-creative and artificially intelligent combat weapons to attack, defend and score.

The Kelly Clarkson Show

overview: Kelly Clarkson presents the biggest newsmakers and names in film, television and music; as well as emerging new talent and everyday people who are beacons of hope in their communities.

Parks and Recreation

overview: In an attempt to beautify her town — and advance her career — Leslie Knope, a mid-level bureaucrat in the Parks and Recreation Department of Pawnee, Indiana, takes on bureaucrats, cranky neighbors, and single-issue fanatics whose weapons are lawsuits, the jumble of city codes, and the democratic process she loves so much.

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

overview: A morning talk show with A-list celebrity guests, top-notch performances and one-of-a-kind segments that are unrivaled on daytime television, plus spontaneous, hilarious and unpredictable talk.

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

overview: Bravo network executive Andy Cohen discusses pop culture topics with celebrities and reality show personalities.

Up All Night

overview: An irreverent look at parenthood through the point of view of an acerbic working mother, along with her stay-at-home husband and opinionated parents.

Summer Camp Island

overview: Oscar and Hedgehog are dropped off at a strange summer camp, full of fantastical things ranging from magical camp counselors to sticky notes that are portals to other dimensions.

Sherri

overview: Sherri Shepherd, actress, comic, and Emmy Award-winning longtime co-host of "The View", appears before a live audience with a daily dose of pop culture, comedy, conversations, and daytime talk staples, including celebrity and human interest interviews.

Angie Tribeca

overview: Lone-wolf detective Angie Tribeca and a squad of committed LAPD detectives investigate the most serious cases, from the murder of a ventriloquist to a rash of baker suicides.

Royal Crackers

overview: Royal Crackers was once the king of snacks, but the empire is crumbling. When the family patriarch, tyrannical company founder Theodore Hornsby Sr. ends up in a “super coma,” the rest of the Hornsbys will take their lack of talent and business acumen and try to make Royal Crackers the success it once was.

To Tell the Truth

overview: A modern reimagination of the classic game show. In each round, a celebrity panel will be presented with three people who all claim to be the same person with the same incredible talent, job or achievement. One is sworn to tell the truth while the others are not.

That's My Jam

overview: This star-studded, music-comedy game show from Executive Producer Jimmy Fallon is infused with his one-of-a-kind comedic style and feel-good energy, featuring a carousel of his classic and brand new music-based games, like "Wheel of Musical Impressions," "Musical Genre Challenge" and "History of Rap." Each week, a new group of celebrities go head-to-head and mic-to-mic in a variety of music- and dance-inspired games, sketches and challenges that promise unforgettable -- and hilarious -- performances.

Billy on the Street

overview: Comedian Billy Eichner, unfiltered and unapologetic, hits the streets of New York City to test unsuspecting strangers on their knowledge of music and pop culture. With microphone in hand and money in tow, Eichner gives contestants the chance to win cash by answering a series of hilarious and spontaneous questions. The catch? The final round is subjective - Don't agree with Billy? You lose.

Stars in the House

overview: In the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic and theatres across the world closing their curtains indefinitely, SiriusXM host Seth Rudetsky and his husband, producer James Wesley have created Stars in the House, a daily live streamed series to support The Actors Fund and its services.

The Simpsons

overview: Set in Springfield, the average American town, the show focuses on the antics and everyday adventures of the Simpson family; Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie, as well as a virtual cast of thousands. Since the beginning, the series has been a pop culture icon, attracting hundreds of celebrities to guest star. The show has also made name for itself in its fearless satirical take on politics, media and American life in general.

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

overview: When a woman is rescued from a doomsday cult and lands in New York City, she must navigate a world she didn't think even existed anymore.

Shameless

overview: Chicagoan Frank Gallagher is the proud single dad of six smart, industrious, independent kids, who without him would be... perhaps better off. When Frank's not at the bar spending what little money they have, he's passed out on the floor. But the kids have found ways to grow up in spite of him. They may not be like any family you know, but they make no apologies for being exactly who they are.

Dishmantled

overview: Take two blindfolded chef contestants. Blast a fish into their face. Then make them recreate it for celebrity judges to win a cash price. Did we mention it's hosted by Tituss Burgess?

The Good Fight

overview: Picking up one year after the events of the final broadcast episode of "The Good Wife", an enormous financial scam has destroyed the reputation of a young lawyer, Maia Rindell, while simultaneously wiping out her mentor and godmother Diane Lockhart's savings. Forced out of her law firm, now called "Lockhart, Deckler, Gussman, Lee, Lyman, Gilbert, Lurie, Kagan, Tannebaum & Associates", they join Lucca Quinn at one of Chicago's preeminent law firms.

Fantasmas

overview: Julio Torres spins a fantastical tale of when he lost a gold oyster earring. In his search to find the precious object, Julio reflects on the offbeat characters he encounters in introspective, often eerie, and always comedic vignettes set in a dreamy, alternate version of New York City.

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

overview:
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon is an American late-night talk show airing weeknights at 12:35 am Eastern/11:35 pm Central on NBC in the United States. The hour-long show premiered on March 2, 2009, and is hosted by actor, comedian and performer Jimmy Fallon, an alumnus of Saturday Night Live. Hip hop/neo soul band The Roots serve as the show's house band, and Steve Higgins is the show's announcer.

The third incarnation of the Late Night franchise originated by David Letterman, the program originates from NBC Studio 6B in the GE Building at 30 Rockefeller Center in New York City. The show typically opens with a brief monologue from Fallon, followed by a comedy "desk piece," as well as prerecorded segments and audience competitions. The next segment is devoted to a celebrity interview, with guests ranging from actors and musicians to media personalities and political figures. The show then closes with either a musical or comedy performance. The show frequently employs digital media into its comedy, which has become crucial to its success. Fallon has been appointed to become the next host of The Tonight Show, where he will succeed the current host Jay Leno at the conclusion of the 2014 Winter Olympics, with fellow SNL alum Seth Meyers slated to replace Fallon.

Bubble Guppies

overview: The adventures of seven fish-tailed kids- Molly, Gil, Oona, Deema, Nonny, Goby, and Zooli!

Doctor Odyssey

overview: Max is the new on-board doctor for a luxury cruise ship where the small but mighty medical team navigate unique medical crises and each other, miles from shore.

Suburgatory

overview: Single father George Altman is doing his best to raise his sixteen-year-old daughter Tessa in the big city. When he discovers a box of condoms in her bedroom, though, he decides the time has come to move her to a more wholesome and nurturing environment: the suburbs. But behind the beautiful homes and perfect lawns lurk the Franken-moms, spray tans, nose jobs, and Red Bull-guzzling teens who have nothing in common with Tessa. It’s a whole new world, one that makes George wonder if they haven’t jumped out of the frying pan and into the fire.

Close Enough

overview: A surreal take on transitioning from 20-something to 30-something centering on a married couple juggling such everyday challenges as parenthood, friendship, ham theft, stripper clowns and choosing the right day care.

Difficult People

overview: Life is really tough for Julie Kessler and Billy Epstein, two thirty-something aspiring comics living and working in New York City. While their friends and acquaintances move on to find success and love, they continue to struggle with careers and relationships, getting more bitter by the day.

Avatar: The Last Airbender

overview: In a war-torn world of elemental magic, a young boy reawakens to undertake a dangerous mystic quest to fulfill his destiny as the Avatar, and bring peace to the world.

RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars

overview: The most celebrated competitors from RuPaul's Drag Race vie for a second chance to enter Drag Race herstory. This drag queen showdown is filled with plenty of heated competition, lip-syncing for the legacy, and, of course, the All-Stars Snatch Game.

SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night

overview: This docuseries explores the iconic Saturday Night Live, showcasing the audition process, writing, infamous sketches, and the pivotal 11th season that cemented the show's DNA under Lorne Michaels' leadership.

At Home with Amy Sedaris

overview: Comedian Amy Sedaris cordially invites you into her home, where she will show off diverse but necessary homemaking skills, from death-bed etiquette, to gutting a fish, to crocheting miniature sweaters for a mice infestation, to entertaining your husband's business associates. As always, Amy will give it her best shot to entertain guests, increase her know-how and her can-do, and attempt to work out personal issues.

Kevin Can F**K Himself

overview: Explore the secret life of a woman we all grew up watching: the sitcom wife. The series looks to break television convention and ask what the world looks like through her eyes. Alternating between single-camera realism and multi-camera zaniness, the formats will inform one another as we imagine what happens when the sitcom wife escapes her confines, and takes the lead in her own life.

Yo Gabba Gabba!

overview: Yo Gabba Gabba! is an American children's television show that airs on the Nick Jr. cable network in the United States and the Nick Jr. networks in the United Kingdom & Ireland, Italy, France and Australia as well as Treehouse TV network in Canada and RTE2 on RTÉjr in Ireland.  The show stars five costumed toys-come-to-life and their friend DJ Lance Rock, who explore a single topic in each episode through songs and short storylines in the half-hour program while teaching children life and social skills.  It also encourages viewers to move along with and dance with the characters in the program. The show is noted for its indie-culture guest stars and bands, and for drawing visual inspiration from 8-bit video games and H. R. Pufnstuff.

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

overview: Stephen Colbert brings his signature satire and comedy to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the #1 show in late night, where he talks with an eclectic mix of guests about what is new and relevant in the worlds of politics, entertainment, business, music, technology, and more. Featuring bandleader Jon Batiste with his band Stay Human, the Emmy Award-nominated show is broadcast from the historic Ed Sullivan Theater.

Français

biography: Rachel Dratch est une écrivaine américaine, comédienne, actrice de scène et de cinéma, surtout connue pour ses rôles en tant que membre de l'équipe de l'émission de télévision "Saturday Night Live" de 1999 à 2006.

title: I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry

overview: Firefighters Chuck Ford and Larry Valentine are guy's guys, loyal to the core—which is why when widower Larry asks Chuck to pose as his lover so that he can get domestic partner benefits for his kids, his buddy agrees. However, things get dicey when a bureaucrat comes calling, and the boys are forced to present a picture of domestic bliss.

title: I Love My Dad

overview: A hopelessly estranged father catfishes his son in an attempt to reconnect.

title: Down with Love

overview: In 1962 New York City, love blossoms between a playboy journalist and a feminist advice author.

title: My Life in Ruins

overview: A Greek tour guide named Georgia attempts to recapture her kefi (Greek for mojo) by guiding a ragtag group of tourists around Greece and showing them the beauty of her native land. Along the way, she manages to open their eyes to the wonders of an exotic foreign land while beginning to see the world through a new set of eyes in the process.

title: The Pleasure Drivers

overview: "The Pleasure Drivers" lays out three separate interconnected stories involving an adulterous therapist, a young sociopath call girl, a vicious lesbian hit woman, a white trash kidnapper, and a brain-damaged ex-cult guru. It's described as funny, sexy, edgy and dangerous. The Pleasure Drivers energetically explores the shadow side of Los Angeles and how it gleefully relates to the gasoline of libido.

title: A Clüsterfünke Christmas

overview: A celebratory parody of the traditional TV holiday romance that follows Holly, a go-getter real estate exec from New York City who heads to a small town to buy the quaint Clüsterfünke Inn and transform it into a mega-resort.

title: Hurricane Bianca: The Roots of All Evil

overview: Richard Martinez is lured back into a decades-old feud with his mother, who owns a homophobic fast-food chain restaurant, and he decides to go under-cover as Bianca Del Rio to put her out of business.

title: Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star

overview: TV child star of the '70s, Dickie Roberts is now 35 and parking cars. Craving to regain the spotlight, he auditions for a role of a normal guy, but the director quickly sees he is anything but normal. Desperate to win the part, Dickie hires a family to help him replay his childhood and assume the identity of an average, everyday loser.

title: Freshman Orientation

overview: A bored college student sees a prime opportunity to score with a hot coed who has made the assumption that he is gay, and he decides to play along when she follows her sorority leader's assignment to seduce then cut loose a series of misfits and losers.

title: Her Minor Thing

overview: Jeana does IT for the Sacramento Fire Department. She and Tom, a self-confident local TV news reporter, are about to go on a cruise to Rio when he lets slip on TV that she is a virgin. It's a slow news week, so this becomes a story: the media pursue Jeana, she breaks up with Tom and wants the tickets or her cruise money back, and Tom can't believe she's serious. Her path crosses that of Paul, a photographer recently arrived from Texas who's also Tom's cameraman; he's had six serious relationships that have ended with his heart broken. A triangle of sorts develops. Will Jeana end up with either man? Will she end up on the cruise? And what about that minor thing?

title: Spring Breakdown

overview: Three women in their thirties head to a popular Spring Break destination and try to relive the Spring Break they never had.

title: Just Go with It

overview: While romancing Palmer, a much younger schoolteacher, plastic surgeon Danny Maccabee enlists his loyal assistant Katherine to pretend to be his soon to be ex-wife, in order to cover up a careless lie. When more lies backfire, Katherine's kids become involved, and everyone heads off for a weekend in Hawaii that will change all their lives.

title: Syrup

overview: A slacker hatches a million-dollar idea. But, in order to see it through, he has to learn to trust his attractive corporate counterpart. Based on Max Barry's novel.

title: Sholem Aleichem: Laughing In The Darkness

overview: A riveting portrait of the great writer whose stories became the basis of the Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof. Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness tells the tale of the rebellious genius who created an entirely new literature. Plumbing the depths of a Jewish world locked in crisis and on the cusp of profound change, he captured that world with brilliant humor. Sholem Aleichem was not just a witness to the creation of a new modern Jewish identity, but one of the very men who forged it.

original_title: Sholem Aleichem: Laughing In The Darkness

title: Cheyenne Cinnamon and the Fantabulous Unicorn of Sugar Town Candy Fudge

overview: A adult themed show in which a pop princess that lives in a candy wonderland helps a pregnant teen from Detroit learn there are more important things than taking care of your baby.

original_title: Cheyenne Cinnamon and the Fantabulous Unicorn of Sugar Town Candy Fudge

title: Teacher Of The Year

overview: A day in the life of Ethan Collins, a severely depressed, foul-mouthed elementary school teacher whose wife's recent infidelity and departure have left him questioning everything in his life.

title: One Night Stand

overview: One Night Stand is a funny, intimate, behind-the-scenes journey as top Broadway and Hollywood artists take the challenge to produce four original short musicals in 24 hours.  The film provides a personal glimpse of some of America's favorite actors as they step out of their comfort zones--from Cheyenne Jackson's "fear, sweat, adrenaline and Red Bull" to Rachel Dratch's mounting dread at the prospect of singing alongside Broadway's finest voices. Richard Kind sums it up: "It's like a roller-coaster. You're terrified, but it's fun!" Watching this insane theatrical challenge keeps you on the edge of your seat and laughing.

title: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

overview: After reuniting with Gwen Stacy, Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is catapulted across the Multiverse, where he encounters the Spider Society, a team of Spider-People charged with protecting the Multiverse's very existence. But when the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles finds himself pitted against the other Spiders and must set out on his own to save those he loves most.

title: The Secret Policeman's Ball

overview: A live stand-up comedy and music gig to celebrate Amnesty International's 50th Anniversary.

title: NBC 75th Anniversary Special

overview: A celebration of NBC's 75 year history, featuring clips of special moments.

title: Sisters

overview: Two disconnected sisters are summoned to clean out their childhood bedrooms before their parents sell their family home.

title: Saturday Night Live: The Best of Will Ferrell

overview: The best skits from Will Ferrell's days on Saturday Night Live 1995-2002

character: Self / Various Characters (archive footage)

original_title: Saturday Night Live: The Best of Will Ferrell

title: A Little Game

overview: Ostracized at her posh new uptown school and shaken by the death of her beloved grandmother, a 10-year-old downtown girl finds an unlikely mentor in an irascible chess master, who uses the game to teach Max lessons in resilience, perseverance, and how to embrace inevitable change.

title: The Grief of Others

overview: The Ryries have suffered a loss: the death of a baby just fifty-seven hours after his birth. Without words to express their grief, the parents, John and Ricky, try to return to their previous lives. The couple's children, ten-year-old Biscuit and thirteen-year-old Paul, responding to the unnamed tensions around them, begin to act out in exquisitely idiosyncratic ways. But as the family members scatter into private, isolating grief, an unexpected visitor arrives, and they find themselves growing more alert to the hurt, humor, warmth, and burdens of others—to the grief that is part of every human life but that also carries within it the power to draw us together.

title: Saturday Night Live: The Best of Amy Poehler

overview: Amy Poehler's best Saturday Night Live sketches and performances.

original_title: Saturday Night Live: The Best of Amy Poehler

title: Live from New York!

overview: Saturday Night Live has been reflecting and influencing life in the United States for forty years. LIVE FROM NEW YORK! goes deep inside this television phenomenon exploring the laughter that pulses through American politics, tragedy, and pop culture.

title: The Cookie Thief: A Sesame Street Special

overview: This nail-biting, cookie-munching thriller celebrates the arts and delights Cookie Monster fans of all ages. A cookie art museum has just opened on Sesame Street. Surrounded by beautiful cookie paintings, such as "Girl with the Cookie Earring" and the "Muncha Lisa," Cookie Monster and his friends feel as though they're in a whole new world. But when art suddenly starts to disappear, Cookie Monster quickly becomes a suspect. Can he clear his name? Will they find the missing art in time or will Cookie Monster be banished from the museum forever?

original_title: The Cookie Thief: A Sesame Street Special

title: Salem Rogers

overview: A troubled former supermodel seeks to make her way in the world after getting kicked out of rehab.

title: The 4:30 Movie

overview: In the summer of 1986, three sixteen year old friends spend their Saturdays sneaking into movies at the local multiplex. But when one of the guys also invites the girl of his dreams to see the latest comedy, each of the teens learn more about life and love.

title: Hurricane Bianca

overview: A teacher from New York moves to a small town in Texas, gets fired for being gay, and returns disguised in drag to get revenge on the people who were nasty to him.

title: Tracktown

overview: A bright, talented and lonely long-distance runner twists her ankle as she prepares for the Olympic Trials and must do something she's never done before: take a day off.

title: Harold

overview: A teenager with an early onset of male-pattern baldness befriends his high school's janitor.

title: Winter Passing

overview: Actress Reese Holden has been offered a small fortune by a book editor if she can secure for publication the love letters that her father, a reclusive novelist, wrote to her mother, who has since passed away. Returning to Michigan, Reese finds that an ex-grad student and a would-be musician have moved in with her father, who cares more about his new friends than he does about his own health and well-being.

title: I Hate Valentine's Day

overview: A love story set in Manhattan, where a florist who abides by a strict five-date-limit with any man finds herself wanting more with the new restaurateur in town.

title: Looking for Kitty

overview: A high school baseball coach and a down-on-his-luck private investigator form a bond as they scour New York City for the coach's wife, who's run away with a second-rate rock star.

title: Barely Legal

overview: Teenager Deacon works at a video shop, and his buddies, Fred and Matt, sell the bootleg porno films he acquires. Deacon gets fired, but the pals have the bright idea of filming their own Internet porn flick in order to make money and become more popular at school. Hijinks ensue as they cast and create their movie, but porn industry player Vic Ramalot grows jealous of their burgeoning success and tries to put a stop to the project.

title: That's My Boy

overview: While in his teens, Donny fathered a son, Todd, and raised him as a single parent up until Todd's 18th birthday. Now, after not seeing each other for years, Todd's world comes crashing down when Donny resurfaces just before Todd's wedding.

title: Click

overview: A married workaholic, Michael Newman doesn't have time for his wife and children, not if he's to impress his ungrateful boss and earn a well-deserved promotion. So when he meets Morty, a loopy sales clerk, he gets the answer to his prayers: a magical remote that allows him to bypass life's little distractions with increasingly hysterical results.

title: The Hebrew Hammer

overview: When a psychotic Santa tries to destroy Chanukah by hypnotizing Jewish children with bootlegged copies of the Christmas classic "It's a Wonderful Life," it's up to the Hebrew Hammer to save the day. Together with Mohammed, head of the Kwanzaa Liberation Front, the Hammer takes no prisoners in his quest to hunt down the renegade Santa and make the holiday season safe for all.

title: The Week Of

overview: The parents of a soon-to-be married couple make the final preparations for the wedding ceremony.

title: Hurricane Bianca: From Russia with Hate

overview: After winning over the staff and students of Milford High School, chemistry teacher Richard Martinez aka Bianca Del Rio sent her nemesis Vice Principal Deborah “Debbie” Ward to jail in a flawlessly executed plan. When Debbie is released from jail, she conjures up a scheme to do away with Bianca Del Rio once and for all, by luring her on a dangerous journey to Russia to accept a teaching award and cash prize.

title: Wine Country

overview: A group of friends head to the land of oaky Chardonnays and big, bold Cabernet Sauvignons for one member of the squad’s 50th birthday party.

title: Bianca Del Rio Birthday Roast

overview: The tables got turned on insult comedian Bianca del Rio as a panel of legendary New York nightlife roasters grilled the Queen of Mean in honor of her 40th birthday! All proceeds go to benefit the post-production of the feature film HURRICANE BIANCA!  Drag Race favorites Courtney Act, Darienne Lake, Shangela, Jinkx Monsoon, with Bob the Drag Queen, Logan Hardcore, the hilarious Michael Musto, and Mimi Imfurst . Hosted by Roastmaster Lady Bunny. (And you know Bianca won't be able to resist roasting them back!)  The night was a fundraiser for our independent film "Hurricane Bianca," which we just got back from an 18-day shoot down in Dallas! We were joined by SNL favorite Rachel Dratch, and Drag Race Superstars Willam, Shangela, Alyssa Edwards and Joslyn Fox! Sales from the video downloads of the roast will go towards post-production of the film: editing, music, special effects, digital beard removal, etc.

title: Love n' Dancing

overview: When a bored-with-life English teacher meets a West Coast Swing champion dancer, they have an instant connection. Both feel that the other can fulfill what was missing in their lives. Jake and Jessica must try to elude all obstacles, romantic or otherwise, to stay focused on the goal – winning the World Title and winning each other. Will they give in to the pressure or come out like champs?

title: Little

overview: Jordan Sanders, a take-no-prisoners tech mogul, wakes up one morning in the body of her 13-year-old self right before a do-or-die presentation. Her beleaguered assistant April is the only one in on the secret that her daily tormentor is now trapped in an awkward tween body, just as everything is on the line.

title: The Women of SNL

overview: A look back at some of the funniest female characters and sketches in SNL's 39-year history.

title: Marcy Learns Something New

title: Don't Let the Pigeon Do Storytime

overview: A collection of live readings and sketch comedy inspired by Mo Willems' series of Pigeon books.

title: Island Queen

overview: Young Dylan, with hockey gear in tow, is recruited by his father to work on a popular ferryboat, even though it jeopardizes an important audition.

title: Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special

overview: A TV special celebrating the 25th anniversary of Saturday Night Live. Before a celebrity audience, many of the former cast members and guest hosts return to perform their signature monologues and present a look back at some of the best comedy skits and musical numbers of the past two and a half decades.

original_title: Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special

title: Workhorse Queen

overview: After an unlikely casting onto a reality television show, 47-year old suburban telemarketer Ed Popil leaves his job to pursue a full-time entertainment industry career as his drag queen alter ego, 1960’s era housewife Mrs. Kasha Davis.

title: Plan B

overview: After a regrettable first sexual encounter, a straight-laced high school student and her slacker best friend have 24 hours to hunt down a Plan B pill in America's heartland.

title: The Great American Baking Show: Celebrity Halloween

overview: Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith welcome four celebrities to the iconic Baking Show tent for a spook-tacular Halloween special. Stand-up comedian Patton Oswalt, SNL legend Rachel Dratch, comedian Leslie Jones, and actor-comedian Adam Pally whisk, bake, and decorate their way through three hair-raising Halloween baking challenges. From creepy confections to ghoulishly creative desserts, these stars will put their baking skills to the test. Only one will scare up a win and claim the Star Baker title.

original_title: The Great American Baking Show: Celebrity Halloween

title: Saturday Night Live in the 2000s: Time and Again

overview: Documentary looking back at the history of Saturday Night Live, focusing on the years 2000-2009.

original_title: Saturday Night Live in the 2000s: Time and Again

title: Second to None

overview: Take a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of a revue at Chicago's legendary Second City, the most influential sketch comedy troupe in America and the launching pad for the careers of some of comedy"s biggest stars. Future Saturday Night Live stars Tina Fey and Rachel Dratch are among the cast members seen preparing this particular revue, Paradigm Lost. The improvisations and collaborative nature of the Second City style are show n in detail. Second City alumnus Jim Belushi hosts. "A documentary about The Second City ought to be, foremost, funny, and this one meets the test"

title: Martin & Orloff

overview: This is the story of a marketing man and his shrink. A suicide attempt and a softball game; A PHD-toting stripper and a deranged Desert Storm vet; A giant sparerib costume and the world's largest peenis; John Woo-style violence and Steel Magnolia-esque pathos. This is the story of Martin & Orloff.

title: Laser Cats!

overview: In the future, there was a nuclear war. And because of all the radiation, cats developed the ability to shoot lasers out of their mouths. Some will use the cats for good, others for evil. Who will win in a world of...LASER CATS!

title: Loves Company

overview: Washed-up TV guest star Blake de Troy is rescued after a car crash by his devoted fan, Antoinette Funk, who lives in the Florida Everglades. Believing he's been kidnapped, Blake initially tries to escape, but after the death of his life partner and manager, Jimmy, he realizes he has nowhere else to go and begins exploiting the situation as a potential publicity stunt. Their increasingly dysfunctional arrangement spirals into a dark comedy about celebrity, loneliness, obsession, and fandom.

title: Spring Breakdown

title: A Clüsterfünke Christmas

title: A Clüsterfünke Christmas

title: Spring Breakdown

title: I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry

title: I Love My Dad

title: Down with Love

title: My Life in Ruins

title: The Pleasure Drivers

title: A Clüsterfünke Christmas

title: Hurricane Bianca: The Roots of All Evil

title: Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star

title: Freshman Orientation

title: Her Minor Thing

title: Spring Breakdown

title: Just Go with It

title: Syrup

title: Teacher Of The Year

title: One Night Stand

title: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

title: The Secret Policeman's Ball

title: NBC 75th Anniversary Special

title: Sisters

title: A Little Game

title: The Grief of Others

title: Live from New York!

title: Salem Rogers

title: The 4:30 Movie

title: Hurricane Bianca

title: Tracktown

title: Harold

title: Winter Passing

title: I Hate Valentine's Day

title: Looking for Kitty

title: Barely Legal

title: That's My Boy

title: Click

title: The Hebrew Hammer

title: The Week Of

title: Hurricane Bianca: From Russia with Hate

title: Wine Country

title: Bianca Del Rio Birthday Roast

title: Love n' Dancing

title: Little

title: The Women of SNL

title: Marcy Learns Something New

title: Don't Let the Pigeon Do Storytime

title: Island Queen

title: Workhorse Queen

title: Plan B

title: Second to None

title: Martin & Orloff

title: Laser Cats!

title: Loves Company

title: Spring Breakdown

title: A Clüsterfünke Christmas

title: A Clüsterfünke Christmas

title: Spring Breakdown


Dominik Graf

biography: Nationally and internationally, Dominik Graf is by far Germany’s best-known and most recognized television director.

name: Sophie – Schlauer als die Polizei erlaubt

character: Dr. Martens

original_name: Sophie – Schlauer als die Polizei erlaubt

original_language: de

German Television Award

character: Self

original_name: Deutscher Fernsehpreis

German Film Award

original_name: Deutscher Filmpreis

Blauer Panther

original_name: Blauer Panther

Romy Award

original_name: Romy

Grimme Award

overview: Annual awarding of the Grimme Awards.

original_name: Grimme-Preis

Telestar

original_name: Telestar

Bavarian Film Awards

original_name: Bayerischer Filmpreis

Alpha Forum

original_name: Alpha Forum

Morgenmagazin

original_name: Morgenmagazin

Polizeiruf 110

job: Director

overview: Polizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic Republic, and after the dissolution of Fernsehen der DDR the series was picked up by ARD. It was originally created as a counterpart to the West German series Tatort, and quickly became a public favorite.

department: Directing

original_name: Polizeiruf 110

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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.

original_name: Tatort

origin_country: AT CH DE

In the Face of Crime

overview: Im Angesicht des Verbrechens is a German television series about the Russian mafia in Berlin. It received high critical acclaim, but the viewer figures were disappointing. It was broadcast by ARTE and Das Erste.

original_name: Im Angesicht des Verbrechens

Sperling

original_name: Sperling

Scene of the Crime

job: Writer

department: Writing

Köberle kommt

original_name: Köberle kommt

Morlock

original_name: Morlock

Der Fahnder

overview:
Der Fahnder is a German television krimi series which was aired between 1984 and 2005.

In the Netherlands the series was broadcast by the VARA from 3 October 1985.

original_name: Der Fahnder

Auf Achse

overview: The adventures of a group of German truckers on jobs all over the world.

original_name: Auf Achse

Fabian oder der Gang vor die Hunde

original_name: Fabian oder der Gang vor die Hunde

Der Fahnder

job: Creator

department: Creator

Deutsch

Dominik Graf

biography: Dominik Graf ist ein deutscher Film- und Fernsehregisseur und Sohn des Schauspielerehepaares Robert Graf und Selma Urfer.

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english_name: German

English

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iso_3166_1: US

english_name: English

Deutsch

iso_3166_1: CH

日本語

iso_639_1: ja

iso_3166_1: JP

english_name: Japanese

Latviešu

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iso_3166_1: LV

english_name: Latvian

title: Irren ist männlich

overview: Lawyer Thomas Neumann is extremely successful in his career and happily married to his wife Bettina. Nevertheless, he has a mistress on the side, who one day reveals to him that she wants him to have a child. Thomas agrees, but a sperm test reveals that he is infertile. Now he asks himself the question: who is the real father of his children? His brother Johannes, a priest, helps him to find out the truth. Thomas suspects two former friends with whom he and Bettina used to go on vacation. He invites them to his home so that he can carry out comparative studies in peace, as genetic testing didn't exist back then. One friend has gone mad, the other is blind. The two of them cause Thomas' household a great deal of confusion, especially as he has to entertain an important business partner from overseas at his home.

character: Lorenz

original_title: Irren ist männlich

title: Auge in Auge - Eine deutsche Filmgeschichte

overview: This is not merely another film about cinema history; it is a film about the love of cinema, a journey of discovery through over a century of German film history. Ten people working in film today remember their favourite films of yesteryear.

original_title: Auge in Auge - Eine deutsche Filmgeschichte

title: Mythos Metropolis

overview: Documentary by Eckhart Schmidt.

original_title: Mythos Metropolis

title: Munich: Secrets of a City

overview: A collage of memories, fictional stories, biographies, dreams and missed opportunities, which in their entirety represent the idea of Munich.

title: 1+1=3

overview: An unmarried actress in Munich becomes pregnant but decides against marrying the child's father, and eventually moves in with a more agreeable man she meets on a winter sports holiday.

title: The Universal Theory

overview: Johannes, a doctor of physics, travels with his doctoral supervisor to a scientific congress in the Alps. A series of mysterious incidents occur on site. He meets Karin, a mysterious jazz pianist who seems to know more about him than she can know. Suddenly, mysterious deaths begin to pile up and Johannes tries to uncover the secret under the mountain.

title: Maiden's War

overview: The three daughters of the Dessau merchant Sellmann move with their father to Prague in 1936, where he accepted a position as director of the Böhmische Landesbank. For the three different women begins a new life, which accompanies the film over a period of ten years.

title: Tango im Bauch

title: Show What You Love

overview: In the 1970s, the Munich Group set about revolutionizing German film with low budgets and an excess of creativity. The Bungalow bar next to the Türkendolch theater was their meeting place, who were inspired by the French New Wave and New Hollywood. Munich Group star Iris Berben takes us on a journey back through time, a wild trip full of film clips and interviews with major figures of an unforgettable era.

title: Fremder Bruder

title: Germany ’09 – 13 Short Films About the State of the Nation

overview: Thirteen German directors present short films exploring the state of their country.

character: (segment "Der Weg - den wir nicht zusammen gehen") (voice)

original_title: Deutschland 09 - 13 kurze Filme zur Lage der Nation

title: Return to Beethoven Street: Sam Fuller in Germany

overview: A documentary on the 1973 Sam Fuller film Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street.

original_title: Return to Beethoven Street: Sam Fuller in Germany

title: Kieselsteine

overview:
Vienna in the eighties. An accidental meeting in a restaurant. She, Hannah, is Jewish and has a live-in lover, a young and successful architect. He, Friedrich, is a German and lives permanently in Vienna.
 Two worlds collide with another, begin to become entangled in each other. Friedrich too, has his problems. He is a "German", which fascinates and repels Hannah at the same time. She tries to get over her confusion by being ironic and flirtatious. Simultaneously, what she has tried to suppress breaks through in flashbacks...

title: Friends of Friends

overview: Dominik Graf relocates the story of the same name by Henry James from the 19th century to the year 2001.

title: Open Wounds – A Journey through German Genre Films

overview: A documentary about German cinema from 1960 to 1990. It follows "Verfluchte Liebe deutscher Film."

title: Drei gegen drei

overview: The plan is simple: the three generals Weingarten, Ludovico and Klotz from San Chaco set a hitman on their doubles Stephan, Kralle and Peter, who live in Germany, in order to fake their deaths and also lighten the state coffers by 300 million dollars. But as is the case with simple plans in movies, they usually don't work. This 1980s curiosity was a commercial flop and ultimately led to the break-up of the band Trio.

title: The Invincibles

overview: Simon, the leader of a police special unit, becomes caught up in a complex scheme involving bribery and money-laundering, as well as an affair with the beautiful wife of a government official investigating organized crime and political corruption. After the official is kidnapped, the chase leads to a dramatic conclusion high in the Bavarian Alps.

title: The Invincibles

title: The Red Cockatoo

overview: A coming-of-age story set in Germany in the 1960s. Siggi becomes involved in a love triangle when he falls for Luise, but the tightening political climate forces him to make a fateful decision.

title: Hotte in Paradise

overview: Hotte, a Berlin-based pimp with only modest turnovers, suddenly becomes a big player in the prostitution business. He has three girls on the streets: Rosa is in love with Hotte and is working hard for him. Jenny, the new girl, is an unconventional prostitute but nevertheless much sought-after by her clients. And the third girl, Yvonne, also brings in a large turn-out. So, Hotte’s proceeds are more than sufficient to buy expensive accessoires and to boost his reputation with the other pimps. But when Yvonne quits her job and Jenny starts to work for another pimp, Hotte’s rise comes to a sudden end

title: Dreileben: Don’t Follow Me Around

overview: The police psychologist Jo is supposed to help catch the sex offender Molesch. Since the hotel is fully booked, she stays with her old college friend Vera and her husband Bruno. It turns out that Vera and Jo used to be in love with the same man. The two women's musings are interrupted when Molesch suddenly appears in the garden.

title: Dreileben: Don’t Follow Me Around

title: A Map of the Heart

overview: Katrin and Jürgen spend their holidays in Corsica. Katrin is in her mid-thirties, working as a tracer at Jürgen’s company who suddenly remembers he’s married – but not with Kathrin. So they decide to end their vacation earlier than they had planned. Virtually a second before they start to drive back to the airport, Katrin takes her belongings out of Jürgen’s car again and lets him go. Now being alone for the remaining days of her vacation, Katrin finds herself more and more bewildered by the things that happened to her.

title: A Map of the Heart

title: Friends of Friends

title: The Invisible Girl

overview: Eleven years ago, an 8-year-old girl disappeared from a small German town on the German-Czech border. Although her body was never found, nor were there any traces of blood or DNA evidence, a mentally-disabled man was coerced to confess to the crime. Even though he withdrew his admission of guilt two days later, the forced confession was enough to convince the ruling judge. The responsible investigator Altendorf was discharged so that the investigation could be sped along by another colleague.

title: A City Is Blackmailed

overview: A village is blackmailing the city of Leipzig.

title: A City Is Blackmailed

title: Lawinen der Erinnerung

overview: The leitmotif for this film portrait is Oliver Storz’s autobiographical novel Die Freibadclique, which tells the story of a group of friends drafted into the army as fifteen-year-olds just before the end of the Second World War. Again and again, Dominik Graf reads passages from this account and, by juxtaposing them with clips from Storz’s films, reveals the echoes of the past they contain. Whether in his more experimental television plays or his Willy Brandt film "Im Schatten der Macht", Storz always provided new perspectives on the war and on Germany itself. Via a series of personal interviews Graf held with the journalist, director and producer shortly before the latter’s death in summer 2011, we are introduced to an analytical, unconventional man who witnessed the course of history. Graf takes up Storz’s reflections in his commentary, throwing light on an unexpected history of German television.

title: Munich: Secrets of a City

title: The Cat

overview: Two bank robbers hold the clerks hostage and demand 3 million German marks as ransom. What the police do not realize is that the true criminal mastermind watches them from outside the bank, anticipating every move.

title: Your Best Years

overview: Vera Kemp, heiress of an industrial enterprise, lives in an apparently perfect world. While she doesn't care for big business, her husband Manfred runs the company. However, she learns about his affair with a younger woman and tries to save her marriage. During a vacation in Italy, Manfred and their son Max die in a road accident. Vera nearly despairs of her grief and, even worse, recognizes that her whole life has been a lie. Andreas Wolgast, a former employee, is the only one who supports her fight for the company and against her caballing family...

title: Treffer

overview: Albi, Franz and Tayfun want little more in life than to ride their bikes, but things toughen up when they get unemployed.

title: Wealthy Corpses: A Crime Story from Starnberg

overview: Starnberg. An idyll with fangs. This is where police master trainee Ariane from Dortmund ends up. Inspector Lu takes her firmly under his wing. Her first cases are typical and strange: the Kini is found dead in the lake - again. And then Sisi is kidnapped.

title: My Falcon

overview: Forensic biologist Inga Ehrenberg is so absorbed in her work at the Forensic Medicine Institute that she doesn't initially notice how lonely she is after her divorce a few years ago. It is only when her father claims that she has a half-sister and a falconer asks her to take care of a young falcon that she finds herself in a whirlwind of long-hidden, painful feelings. She begins to tame the falcon, convinced that the bird will never leave her.

title: The Vow

overview: 1818 in the Münsterland: Innumerable pilgrims seeking comfort and consolation visit the bedside of Anna Katharina von Emmerich, a nun whose body bears marks of the holy wounds of Christ on her chest, forehead and hands. Clemens von Brentano, an artist in his prime, visits the nun′s sickbed as a simple "writer of the wonders of God" to take down her visions and beliefs. He believes himself to be in charge of his life as a devout Catholic. The former rake′s encounter with the charismatic nun proves fateful, however. For both of them.

title: Beloved Sisters

overview: A love triangle forms between post-Enlightenment writer Friedrich Schiller and two sisters -- one who became his wife, and the other, his biographer.

title: Beloved Sisters

title: Shadows of the Past

overview: As a 16-year-old girl, Christina experienced her great love – with 39-year-old Jakob. When he died in an accident, he left an irrevocable gap in her life. Twenty years later, young Patrick rescues Christina from a thunderstorm. From the beginning, he reminds her of Jacob, from his friendly and confident nature to his characteristic gestures. The two become lovers. Christina is happy with Patrick, in whom she sees more and more the Jacob she has found again. But the more the two men become one person for Christina, the more irritated Patrick becomes. When he begins to see more than coincidence in their encounter, Christina has disappeared.

title: The Scorpion

overview: Josef Bertholt is head of operations of the Munich Police's drug squad. When his wife Lily is the victim of a hit by drug dealers, he becomes even more obsessed with his work.

title: The Gamblers

overview: Jojo was counting on his inheritance from a rich uncle to pay off his gambling debts, but the old man played a dirty trick on him, giving him custody of an oversized dog, and leaving the real cash in the hands of one of his neices. His comfortable fantasy of future solvency has been sorely tried; to restore it, he begins to try wooing his cousin Kathrin (the woman with the loot). However, as things progress, he finds himself actually falling for her, which is perhaps the only really decent thing that he's done in his adult life. When he and a gambling buddy take Kathrin on a jaunt to the south of France, things get pretty dicey when a corrupt cop comes onto the scene. In this romantic thriller, only one will survive.

title: Second Sight

overview: A young woman who works in a bookstore has been terrified by nightmares about having committed suicide in a past lifetime, combined with a sense of déjà vu regarding a specific apartment building. When she meets a young man who works in an optical company, whether she knows it or not, she is that much closer to the truth about her visions.

title: Doktor Knock

overview: The diabolically brilliant doctor Dr. Knock from Karlsruhe takes over a rural doctor's practice in Bavaria. To achieve his goal of a lucrative sanatorium, he must overcome empty waiting rooms, empty coffers and gullible citizens. And so Dr. Knock intrigues ruthlessly. He succeeds in acquiring power, prestige and the desired property. But what is the deal with the blue letters with no sender that flutter into the practice?

title: Second Sight

title: Cold Spring

overview: A rebellious young woman is thrown out by her wealthy, but marbly parents and gets into a nightmare of poverty, prostitution and sickness.

title: Tiger, Löwe, Panther

overview: The three friends Pat, Nicoletta and Sissy are in their 30s and actually lead very decent lives. But that alone does not satisfy them: Like cats of prey, they are on the hunt for happiness, which they seek in relationships with the opposite sex.

title: Kommissar Süden und der Luftgitarrist

overview: Inspector Süden's friend and colleague Martin Heuer is in the final of the German qualifying round for the air guitar world championship. Suddenly his toughest competitor is nowhere to be found: Edward Loos, an architect and loner in real life, who is better than anyone else as an air guitarist, has disappeared and nobody seems to be bothered by it.  Although this is not actually a case for Missing Persons Division 11 - Loos has disappeared but has not been reported missing - Inspector Süden and his team trust Heuer's intuition and set out to search for an air guitarist who has vanished into thin air. But another spooky case is keeping the missing persons department busy. A man claims to have seen his wife, who died in the 2004 tsunami, again in the Munich subway.

title: Was heißt hier Ende? Der Filmkritiker Michael Althen

overview: Documentary about German film critic Michael Althen.

title: Bitter Innocence

overview: 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 daughter Eva. But a merger puts his position in jeopardy. Brandt randomly observes Larssen, who’s responsible for the merger, raping the waitress Vanessa. Instead of helping her, he takes a file which has previously been stolen by Larssen. It contains incriminating evidence against Larssen. Brandt tries to blackmail Larssen, but Larssen is capable to shift the buck back to Brandt. Slowly Brandt’s family becomes involved...

title: Manhunt: Escape to the Carpathians

overview: A breathless criminal hunt, which leads into the remote mountain world of Romania, with the portrait of a foreign country, which has remained standing in time. Hanna Landauer and Sven Schröder are part of a special unit of the LKA, which traps fugitives across the borders to the remotest corners of the world.

title: Friends of Friends

title: Neon City

overview: Episode movie about the no-future generation of the early 1980s.

title: Neon City

title: Journey to Weimar

title: Bei Thea

overview: David flies from Tel Aviv to Munich to study. Through a gay friend he meets Thea, the older quirky landlady of a gay pub. He becomes friends with Thea. She recognizes through a ring David wears that he is her grandson.

title: Doomed Love: A Journey Through German Genre Films

overview: An alternative history of the not-so-well-known West German genre cinema of the 1960s and 1970s.

title: Es werde Stadt! – 50 Jahre Grimme-Preis in Marl

overview: An overview of the interconnecting relationship between the most important TV award in Germany, the Grimme-Preis, and the town Marl where it is handed out once a year.

original_title: Es werde Stadt! – 50 Jahre Grimme-Preis in Marl

title: Nur ein kleines bisschen Liebe

title: Golem

overview: Upcoming science-fiction thriller directed by Dominik Graf.

title: Twilight Eternal

overview: It's his last chance to get back on his feet. And so Philipp Keyser knows no scruples as he approaches the young painter Alma, to find a lost painting, which is in the possession of a mysterious old man. Too late, Philip is clear that he expires more and more the young woman. In the main roles of Dominik Graf's film "In the evening of all days" Friedrich Mücke and the great theater actor and narrator Ernst Jacobi are to be experienced.

title: Die Beute

overview: The private detective Nelly has a moored and industrial property. The moor has been cultivated for a year, but the politics are still there. The children of the industry blame her wife Gerda, who made the most of her profit.

title: A Whispering in the Mountain of Things

overview: Dominik Graf, now a leading filmmaker, revisits his late father Robert Graf’s acting career (1956–1966), during which Robert appeared in 20 features and 25 TV dramas by directors like Hoffmann, Staudte, Siodmak, Sturges, and Comencini. Through archival clips and personal reflections, Dominik “meets” his father and confronts the West German society and film industry of that era, where scripted narratives often outweighed real life.

title: Der kostbare Gast

overview: Satire by Dominik Graf. An unsuspecting man is hired as a surrogate father.  The income is good, the apartment is fully furnished, only the children's room is empty. A middle-class couple (Donata Höffner and “Tatort” detective Charles Brauer) desperately want a child. But the doctors say the potential father is infertile. With her husband's consent, the woman hits on a former lover (Dietrich Mattausch). He doesn't need to be asked twice and is soon in bed with her... Dominik Graf received the Young Director Award at the Bavarian Film Festival for his original final project at the Munich University.

title: A Whispering in the Mountain of Things

title: Der kostbare Gast

title: A Whispering in the Mountain of Things

title: Melting Ink

overview: In 2020, the author Anatol Regnier published Jeder schreibt für sich allein, a book that examines the life and work of writers in Nazi Germany. In collaboration with Regnier, Dominik Graf, Constantin Lieband, and Felix von Boehm have adapted this book into a polyphonic essay film of the same name  – almost three hours in duration – that takes a meticulous look at the contradictory biographies of Hans Fallada, Gottfried Benn, Erich Kästner, Ina Seidel and Will Vesper.

title: Melting Ink

title: The Vow

title: The Scorpion

title: Crossroads

overview: A woman goes through a weekend full of ups and downs after a shocking diagnose, according to which she has less than a year left to live.

title: Fabian: Going to the Dogs

overview: In 1930s Berlin, Dr. Jakob Fabian, who works by day in advertising for a cigarette company and by night wanders the streets of the city, falls in love with an actress. As her career begins to blossom, prospects for his future begin to wane.

title: Fabian: Going to the Dogs

title: Tiger, Löwe, Panther

title: The Invincibles

title: Lawinen der Erinnerung

title: Frauen sind was Wunderbares

overview: An attractive teacher is faced with a big problem: she can't decide which of her two “men of the heart” she should choose. She has to choose between her current boyfriend, who is a free-spirited womanizer, and a reserved university lecturer who has a six-year-old son.

title: Doppelgänger

overview: The Munich student Albert is haunted in his daily life by the disturbing claim that his doppelgänger is walking around the city. The political topic of surveillance, a subject that has often been discussed in the shared student apartment, also becomes intertwined with Albert’s perceived threat. Under the rebellious slogan “Make Yourself Unrecognizable!”, the roommates have been developing little sabotage actions. For Albert, whose fear of control and loss of identity is already growing, the personal and political levels merge. His fear of loss of control and identity develops into a journey between mistrust, identity, and the question of whether reality and paranoia can still be distinguished from each other.

title: Doppelgänger

title: Wildboden

overview: From Erna Schilling's perspective, the focus is on Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's turbulent final years in the Davos mountains, in the ‘Wildbodenhaus’ where they lived together. It was there that Kirchner's addiction to art and morphine reached its peak, paralleled by his defamation by the Nazis, and that on one tragic morning, the heartbeat of love stopped beating for a moment.

title: Bis ans Ende der Nacht

title: Baal

title: Irren ist männlich

title: Mythos Metropolis

title: Munich: Secrets of a City

title: 1+1=3

title: The Universal Theory

title: Maiden's War

title: Tango im Bauch

title: Show What You Love

title: Fremder Bruder

title: Kieselsteine

title: Friends of Friends

title: Drei gegen drei

title: The Invincibles

title: The Invincibles

title: The Red Cockatoo

title: Hotte in Paradise

title: Dreileben: Don’t Follow Me Around

title: Dreileben: Don’t Follow Me Around

title: A Map of the Heart

title: A Map of the Heart

title: Friends of Friends

title: The Invisible Girl

title: A City Is Blackmailed

title: A City Is Blackmailed

title: Lawinen der Erinnerung

title: Munich: Secrets of a City

title: The Cat

title: Your Best Years

title: Treffer

title: My Falcon

title: The Vow

title: Beloved Sisters

title: Beloved Sisters

title: Shadows of the Past

title: The Scorpion

title: The Gamblers

title: Second Sight

title: Doktor Knock

title: Second Sight

title: Cold Spring

title: Tiger, Löwe, Panther

title: Kommissar Süden und der Luftgitarrist

title: Bitter Innocence

title: Manhunt: Escape to the Carpathians

title: Friends of Friends

title: Neon City

title: Neon City

title: Journey to Weimar

title: Bei Thea

title: Nur ein kleines bisschen Liebe

title: Golem

title: Twilight Eternal

title: Die Beute

title: A Whispering in the Mountain of Things

title: Der kostbare Gast

title: A Whispering in the Mountain of Things

title: Der kostbare Gast

title: A Whispering in the Mountain of Things

title: Melting Ink

title: Melting Ink

title: The Vow

title: The Scorpion

title: Crossroads

title: Fabian: Going to the Dogs

title: Fabian: Going to the Dogs

title: Tiger, Löwe, Panther

title: The Invincibles

title: Lawinen der Erinnerung

title: Frauen sind was Wunderbares

title: Doppelgänger

title: Doppelgänger

title: Wildboden

title: Bis ans Ende der Nacht

title: Baal


Daisaku Kimura

Pусский

iso_639_1: ru

iso_3166_1: RU

english_name: Russian

Český

iso_639_1: cs

iso_3166_1: CZ

english_name: Czech

普通话

iso_639_1: zh

iso_3166_1: HK

english_name: Mandarin

iso_3166_1: CN

Український

iso_639_1: uk

iso_3166_1: UA

english_name: Ukrainian

also_known_as: Дайсаку Кимура

title: Photographing Mt. Tsurugi: 873 days of fierce fighting at an altitude of 3,000 meters

overview: Army surveying team attempted to scale Mount Tsurugi, a peak never before reached by humans, in order to map Japan. This behind-the-scenes documentary, was shot by director Osawa Yoshitaka and the renowned cameraman Kimura Daisaku, who made his directorial debut with this film. Filming took place in the secluded Tateyama mountain range, boasting an altitude of 3,000 meters and lasted over 200 days. The film vividly showcases the pride of the "activists" who risked their lives to tackle the gruelling two-year production schedule.

original_title: 劔岳 撮影の記 標高3000メートル、激闘の873日

original_language: ja

title: Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Hidden Fortress'

overview: Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "The Hidden Fortress" (1958).

original_title: 黒澤明～創ると云う事は素晴らしい～隠し砦の三悪人

title: Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Yojimbo'

overview: Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Yojimbo" (1961).

original_title: 黒澤明～創ると云う事は素晴らしい～用心棒

title: Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Sanjuro'

overview: Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Sanjuro" (1962).

original_title: 黒澤明～創ると云う事は素晴らしい～椿三十郎

title: Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Dodes'ka-den'

overview: Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Dodes'ka-den" (1970).

original_title: 黒澤明～創ると云う事は素晴らしい～どですかでん

title: The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi

overview: Obayashi's take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the numerous movie-adaptions by Kon Ichikawa, the most known being The Inugami Family. Kosuke Kindaichi is the most famous detective in Japan. Kindaichi gets a new case to figure out who has beheaded a valuable statue and made off with its head.

character: Photo Studio Staff B

original_title: 金田一耕助の冒険

job: Director of Photography

title: The Longest Tunnel

overview: After a passenger ship sinks in 1954, Go Akutsu devises a life-saving project in the form of a tunnel under the Tsugaru Strait. While working on this project Akutsu becomes involved with Tae Makimura leading to his estrangement from his wife.

department: Camera

original_title: 海峡

title: Virus

overview: Scientists in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure to a military virus that was released in a plane crash and has wiped out the rest of the world.

original_title: 復活の日

title: The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity

overview: In 1907, a group of men climb an unconquered peak in the last unmapped region of Japan.

original_title: 劔岳 点の記

job: Screenplay

title: The Black Battlefront Kidnappers

overview: A taut, economical policier-cum-gang-hostage thriller.

original_title: 野獣狩り

title: Submersion of Japan

overview: A team of geophysicists investigating seismic activity on the seafloor discover that the islands of Japan, after suffering from massive volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, will be pulled into the ocean, killing millions.

original_title: 日本沈没

title: The Yoshida School

overview: Coinciding with the LDP presidential election of the entire national public, a masterpiece depicting the reverse side of Showa political history released, superimposed cast, a group image of real politicians centered on Shigeru Yoshida and political history after the war.

original_title: 小説吉田学校

title: Climbing to Spring

overview: Toru grew up in alpine countryside around Mount Tate. As a child, he resented the yearly trek up the mountain with his father to prepare their mountain hut for the summer season of climbers. When Toru grows up, he leaves his hometown and enters the working world as a stock trader. One day, Toru receives word that his father has passed away. He returns to Mount Tate once again, and becomes conscious of a new calling. But, does Toru have what it takes to follow in his father’s footsteps?

original_title: 春を背負って

title: Climbing to Spring

title: Monument to Holy Service

overview: A rural high school takes part in a mountain-climbing exercise and are caught in a sudden typhoon.

original_title: 聖職の碑

title: The Beast Shall Die

overview: Kunihiko Date, a young criminal genius, puts a perfect crime plan into action to take revenge on the men who once drove his father to ruin.

original_title: 野獣死すべし 復讐のメカニック

title: Abduction

overview: The director of a large Tokyo trading company is kidnapped and held for ransom. A young but experienced detective is put on the case while being at the centre of a nationwide television sensation.

original_title: 誘拐

title: Bloom in the Moonlight “The Story of Rentaro Taki”

overview: A dying pianist composes one final song for his childhood friend.

original_title: わが愛の譜　滝廉太郎物語

title: Blood Type: Blue

overview: UFOs appear on Earth, and people who actually see them suddenly find that their blood has turned blue. Soon panic and hysteria result in the new "blue-bloods" being persecuted by the rest of mankind, and eventually certain all-too-familiar measures begin to be taken against them.

original_title: ブルークリスマス

title: Midwinter Camellia

overview: Yasuo Furuhata directs this romantic yakuza flick based on a book by popular romance novelist Tomiko Miyao. Set in 1932, the film centers on Peony (Yoko Minamino), a geisha who was forced into the business at a young age by her dissipated father.

original_title: 寒椿

title: Mount Hakkoda

overview: Two infantry regiments of the Imperial Japanese Army—210 men overall—tackled Mt. Hakkoda in the winter of 1902 to prepare for war with Russia.

original_title: 八甲田山

title: The Boss' Wife

overview: The widow of a murdered yakuza boss serves jail time for attacking the man she believes killed her husband. After her release, as she is shadowed by a hitman, she returns to thoughts of revenge.

original_title: 姐御

title: Night Train

overview: A woman faces betrayal, which tests her love.

title: Station

overview: A detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in murdering police officers.

title: Choji Snack Bar

overview: Eiji lives a quiet life running a small Izakaya with his wife. He spends his days cooking for and serving the lively residents of his small hometown.

title: A Chaos of Flowers

overview: Set in the Taisho era, Hana no ran is a story about fashionable people without impulse control. Much of the action centers on a popular woman writer, the real-life poet Akiko Yosano, and her experiences among the literati of early 20th century Japan. Because of her independent, anti-war and often erotic poetry, she was a lightning rod for revolutionaries and other extremists, many of whom were destined to glamorous, yet ultimately pointless, deaths.

title: Buddies

overview: Based on a celebrated book by Kuniko Mukoda, this film directed by Yasuo Furuhata tells of a close friendship undone by love.

title: Railroad Man

overview: A railway stationmaster at a dying end-of-the-line village in Hokkaido is haunted by memories of his dead wife and daughter. When the railroad line is scheduled to be closed, he is offered a job at a hotel, but he is emotionally unable to part with his career as a railroader. His life takes a turn when he meets a young woman with an interest in trains who resembles his daughter.

title: A Chorus of Angels

overview: Teacher Kawashima Haru takes a position on a remote island off the coast of Hokkaido, where she takes charge of six students. However, she is later forced to leave after an accident occurs. 20 years later, Haru learns that one of her former students has committed a crime, and eventually returns to the island once more.

title: Climbing to Spring

title: Estate Inheritance

overview: The unexpected death of Fujishima Motoharu, president of a medium-sized firm, triggers a fierce battle over his estate inheritance among family members.

title: Labyrinth Romanesque

overview: A serial killing occurs at a port town brothel.

title: Night Train to the Stars

overview: “Night Train to the Stars” is a biography of the fascinating life of Kenji Miyazawa, one of Japan's most beloved fantasy novelists. Miyazawa is an idealist pledging with his friend Kanai to work for the improved life of farmers. Troubled by his family’s interest in money making and social status, he leaves home after graduating high school to join a Buddhist sect in Tokyo. After falling out with a friend, and receiving news about his sister re-emerging pneumonia, he decides to return home where starts his own experimental school, teaching new farming methods to young local farmers while also instructing them in music and arts. It was only after his death, through the help of his brother Seiroku, that his writings became widely read.

original_title: わが心の銀河鉄道　宮沢賢治物語

title: Ghost Train

title: Lost in Time

overview: A story of friendship between two women, Yae and Kiyoko. Their friendship is tested when artist Yae, who suffers from fatal illness, develops special feelings towards her best friend Kiyoko’s boyfriend Kosuke.

title: Red Moon

overview: Namiko Morita, who lived in Otaru, moved to this area with her husband, Yutaro, and opened the brewery "Morita Brewery". Eventually, they succeeded in this business and lived happily while raising three children.  However, in August 1945, the situation changed completely due to the Soviet invasion of Manchuria.

title: A Brief Message from the Heart

overview: A young woman tries to reconcile with her mother, who left their family for another man.

original_title: 日本一短い「母」への手紙

title: Falling Camellia

overview: During the Edo period, a gifted swordsman was exiled from his clan when he questioned the misconduct of his leader. Years after, his dying wife wish was for him to go back to his clan.

title: House on Fire

overview: In the 50s, the complicated life of a popular writer who must share his life with his family, his numerous mistresses and his work

title: The Geisha House

overview: Set in a Kyoto geisha house during the post-WWII era, the young Omocha begins her rigorous apprenticeship within the traditional community of geiko and maiko. She must navigate complex internal rivalries and a strict social hierarchy while the house struggles to maintain its customs. As modern society shifts around them, the residents face the increasing pressure of Japan's changing cultural identity.

title: Yojimbo

overview: A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant Tazaemon and sake merchant Tokuemon to hire him as a personal bodyguard, then artfully sets in motion a full-scale gang war between the two ambitious and unscrupulous men.

title: Yakuza Ladies: Blood Ties

overview: Turbulent life of Kiwa, the successor of the most prominent yakuza in Osaka, the Domoto Clan.

title: Demon

overview: Shuji was once a feared member of the Yakuza crime syndicate, but he's reformed his ways, abandoned his old life and left the city for a small coastal fishing town where he's become an honest fisherman.

title: Moment of Demon

overview: Filled with guilt over his forbidden desires, a young man leaves home and his studies. He finds a new smaller place to stay, a low-paying but satisfying job and a girlfriend. Then his mother, unable to fight her forbidden desires, shows up.

title: Heavenly Sin

overview: Elite lawyer Ryoko enlists the help of a foreign mafia in rescuing her son from a criminal who holds grudge against her.

title: Aoba shigereru

overview: Based on the novel of the same name by Hisashi Inoue.

title: Yakuza Ladies Revisited

overview: The wife of a yakuza lieutenant tries to keep the peace when the clan's heir suddenly dies and a succession conflict threatens to break out.

title: Falling Camellia

title: Yakuza Ladies 3

overview: Upon the passing of the Sakanishi Clan’s boss, a fierce battle between his wife Hazuki and his disciple Terada breaks out. Will Hazuki be able to assume her husband’s position as the head of the established yakuza clan?

title: Ryakudatsu ai

overview: The fear of the fiercely obsessive woman who deprives her best friend of her husband. An emotionally charged movie starring Hitomi Kuroki, Masato Furuoya, and Hisako Manda.

title: Reason For Not Divorcing

overview: Yoshiko Mita and Masahiko Tsugawa enthusiastically perform a couple who know each other’s affairs and affairs and still do not part with each other even after various emotional conflicts. A work that is highly supported by women.

title: She-Shogun

overview: The rise to power of the famed Lady Kasuga no Tsubone, who established the 'Ooku' (the women's quarters at Edo castle) and acted as nursemaid to Tokugawa Iemitsu, the future 3rd Shogun is chronicled in this historical drama. Intrigue and suspicion abound as the two brothers Iemitsu and Tadanaga vie for the post of Shogun, while behind the scenes the remnants of the defeated Toyotomi faction, lead by Lord Ishida Mitsunari attempt to discredit the Tokugawa Shogunate and regain their former position as rulers of the nation. The hidden battles between Shogun Hidetada's wife and mistresses of the 'Ooku' come to light as they force the two brothers into a life or death struggle.

title: Sugata Sanshiro

overview: The story of Sanshiro Sugata, a young man who wants to learn the new art of judo. A wise teacher reveals to Sanshiro that judo is not merely a means of combat nor a demonstration of physical skill, but an art which reveals the artist to himself.

title: Diary of Early Winter Shower

overview: Kounosuke Mibu and Tae Horikawa are unable to forget each other, even though they met and fell in love 20 years ago. They had promised each other that they would build a retreat in Shiguretei, but Ushio was hospitalized after a stroke a few days later, and when his wife, Takako, rushed to the hospital, she discovered their love affair, which in reality had not gone beyond kissing. Now, 20 years later, against the advice of her ikebana mentor, Tae rushes to meet Ushio at Shiguretei, only to see him clutching his chest in pain. Eventually, the design and plans for the dream retreat are seen by Tae, but she has to visit Kyoto alone... or maybe she's heading for somewhere else.

title: Five Gents on the Spot

overview: As his fashion company rides a wave of post-recession success, President Kurihara seeks to expand into women’s apparel through a deepening partnership with a French firm.

title: Five Gents and a Chinese Merchant

overview: An aging company president pushes a youth-focused corporate fitness campaign but struggles to keep up himself.

title: Tidal Wave

overview: Two hundred million years ago, Earth had a single continent. As the millennia progressed, the single continent slowly split off into smaller continents and islands. Thirty million years ago, the country of Japan was part of the continent of Asia, and has since split off into its own archipelago. Another landmass shift is about to occur...

title: Fox and Raccoon

overview: A group of hustling peddlers swindle rural towns with fake goods, facing betrayals, close calls, and constant setbacks as they chase survival and dream of a better future.

title: The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi

title: Reminiscence

overview: A detective in Toyama is forced to confront his painful past when he takes on a murder case involving his two estranged childhood friends.

title: Too Much

overview: When Suzie and her parents take a visit to Japan her father's business partner, an inventor called Tetsuro decides to make Suzie a robot. The robot's name is 'Too Much' (or TM for short) and he and Suzie become the best of friends. But when the day comes for Suzie to return home she finds she's not allowed to take TM with her, so they run away together. However, they must watch out for a rival inventor of Tetsuro's is looking for them so that he can examine TM's programming. Will TM and Suzie manage to escape from his clutches and prove that love conquers all?

title: Yakuza Ladies: The Final Battle

overview: A Yakuza boss's wife and the widow of a rival crime syndicate's murdered leader bond over a common purpose: to seek vengeance.

original_title: 極道の妻たち　最後の戦い

title: A Light in the Harbor

overview: Miura, an aging ex-yakuza, develops an unexpected bond with Kota, a blind orphan. As they grow closer like family, Miura learns that Kota's sight can be restored with surgery. Determined to help, he steals money from his former yakuza group and leaves it for Kota before turning himself in. 12 years later, Miura is released from prison. Upon learning this, the yakuza plans to kill both Miura and Kota. Miura sacrifices himself to protect Kota, and...

title: The Haunted Samurai

overview: A lowly but academically diligent warrior named Bessho Hikoshiro finds himself unable to move up in the world due to the stifling caste system of the Bakumatsu era. After being expelled from the household into which he was adopted through marriage and separated from his wife and son, he moves in with his disapproving elder brother and his wife. He meets his old class rival Enomoto Takeaki, now a commander of a naval ship, and is later told by a kindly noodle shop owner that Enomoto's rise in social status came about after he prayed at a shrine in Mukojima.  Stumbling home drunk one night, Hikoshiro falls down a riverbank and comes across a small run-down shrine which he is convinced is affiliated to the one in Mukojima. Pressing his hands together in prayer, he unwittingly invites the unwanted attentions of the gods of poverty, pestilence and death..

title: Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS

overview: A Japanese film that tells the tale of the birth of VHS. It follows Kagatani Shizuo, an electronics employee who rallies his coworkers to save their jobs by increasing sales. They do this by developing the VHS standard. They battle with Sony and their standard and ultimately prevail.

title: The Firefly

overview: Shūji Yamaoka was a suicide pilot during the war who somehow survived Japan's surrender. After decades of working as a fisherman in Kumamoto, a provincial seaside city in southern Kyushu, Yamaoka remains reluctant to discuss his wartime experiences with anyone, much less an intrusive reporter looking for a feature story. Then a series of events shake Yamaoka to the core, forcing him to re-evaluate his past.

title: Yakuza Ladies Revisited 2

overview: Recently released from prison for a murder sentence, a yakuza boss's wife leaves Hong Kong for a fresh start, but a betrayal leads to her return.

original_title: 新・極道の妻たち 覚悟しいや

original_title: 劔岳 撮影の記 標高3000メートル、激闘の873日

original_title: 黒澤明～創ると云う事は素晴らしい～隠し砦の三悪人

original_title: 黒澤明～創ると云う事は素晴らしい～用心棒

original_title: 黒澤明～創ると云う事は素晴らしい～椿三十郎

original_title: 黒澤明～創ると云う事は素晴らしい～どですかでん

title: The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi

title: The Longest Tunnel

title: Virus

title: The Black Battlefront Kidnappers

title: Submersion of Japan

title: The Yoshida School

title: Climbing to Spring

title: Climbing to Spring

title: Monument to Holy Service

title: The Beast Shall Die

original_title: 野獣死すべし 復讐のメカニック

title: Abduction

original_title: わが愛の譜　滝廉太郎物語

title: Blood Type: Blue

title: Midwinter Camellia

title: Mount Hakkoda

title: The Boss' Wife

title: Night Train

title: Station

title: Choji Snack Bar

title: A Chaos of Flowers

title: Buddies

title: Railroad Man

title: A Chorus of Angels

title: Climbing to Spring

title: Estate Inheritance

title: Labyrinth Romanesque

title: Night Train to the Stars

original_title: わが心の銀河鉄道　宮沢賢治物語

title: Ghost Train

title: Lost in Time

title: Red Moon

title: A Brief Message from the Heart

original_title: 日本一短い「母」への手紙

title: Falling Camellia

title: House on Fire

title: The Geisha House

title: Yojimbo

title: Yakuza Ladies: Blood Ties

title: Demon

title: Moment of Demon

title: Heavenly Sin

title: Aoba shigereru

title: Yakuza Ladies Revisited

title: Falling Camellia

title: Yakuza Ladies 3

title: Ryakudatsu ai

title: Reason For Not Divorcing

title: She-Shogun

title: Sugata Sanshiro

title: Diary of Early Winter Shower

title: Five Gents on the Spot

title: Five Gents and a Chinese Merchant

title: Tidal Wave

title: Fox and Raccoon

title: The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi

title: Reminiscence

title: Too Much

title: Yakuza Ladies: The Final Battle

original_title: 極道の妻たち　最後の戦い

title: A Light in the Harbor

title: The Haunted Samurai

title: Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS

title: The Firefly

title: Yakuza Ladies Revisited 2

original_title: 新・極道の妻たち 覚悟しいや