Gerhard Bienert

biography:
Gerhard Max Richard Bienert (8 January 1898 – 23 December 1986) was a German stage and film actor.

Gerhard Bienert was born in Berlin, Germany and died in the same city in 1986 at age 88.

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Kleiner Mann – was nun?

overview: The love story of Emma and Johannes begins during the hard years of the Great Depression. Emma repeatedly tries to encourage her husband, who is suffering terribly from unemployment. However, the crisis continues to intensify and social disintegration affects millions.

original_name: Kleiner Mann – was nun?

Geheimkommando Ciupaga

character: Josef Dubienski

original_name: Geheimkommando Ciupaga

Polizeiruf 110

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.

character: Herr Werker

original_name: Polizeiruf 110

origin_country: XG DE

Hans Beimler, Kamerad

character: Herr Dengler

original_name: Hans Beimler, Kamerad

Die Bilder des Zeugen Schattmann

overview: Based on the novel by Peter Edel: the fate of a young Jewish couple during the Nazi era, who, full of dreams and hopes, search for ways to escape the inhumane situation in Hitler's Germany. In their hopeless situation, they meet a man who leads them down a contradictory and dangerous path, but at the end of which lies a new beginning.

character: Leon Schapiro

original_name: Die Bilder des Zeugen Schattmann

Denn ich sah eine neue Erde

overview: Four-part miniseries about the theologian Thomas Müntzer, who became a revolutionary and opponent of Luther during the Peasant War in 1525.

original_name: Denn ich sah eine neue Erde

Verwandte und Bekannte

overview: Using the example of three generations of a Hamburg working class family, the rise of the working class from the founding of the Wilhelmin Empire to the First World War, over the time of the Weimar Republic and National Socialism to the destruction of the Third Reich.

character: Johann Hardekopf

original_name: Verwandte und Bekannte

Català

biography: Gerhard Max Richard Bienert (Berlín, Alemanya, 8 de gener de 1898 - Berlín, Alemanya, 23 de desembre de 1986) va ser un actor de cinema i teatre alemany.

Français

biography:
Gerhard Max Richard Bienert (né le 8 janvier 1898 à Berlin, mort le 23 décembre 1986 dans la même ville) est un acteur allemand.

Fils d'un comptable, il grandit avec son frère Reinhold Bernt, qui deviendra aussi acteur. Après son abitur en 1916, il s'engage dans l'armée. Durant la Première Guerre mondiale, il est dragon dans la cavalerie.

Après la guerre, il fait des études, à la demande de son père, durant deux semestres, de lettres et de philosophie à l'université Humboldt de Berlin qu'il abandonne lorsqu'il découvre le théâtre. En 1919, il entre à l'Académie des arts dramatiques Ernst Busch et au Deutsches Theater de Berlin.

Il tient des rôles secondaires, puis crée une compagnie avec son frère et d'autres jeunes acteurs. Il commence au cinéma en 1922, dans le muet. Il conserve ce genre de rôle dans le cinéma parlant. Durant le régime nazi, il se consacre essentiellement au théâtre. Au cours de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, il se tourne vers le cinéma, au point de faire partie de la Gottbegnadeten-Liste.

Après la guerre, il reste dans la compagnie du Deutsches Theater jusqu'à sa mort. Il est l'un des rares acteurs de Berlin-Ouest à pouvoir tourner en Allemagne de l'Est. Il participe ainsi à des films produits par la DEFA.

Il est enterré au cimetière boisé de Berlin-Zehlendorf.

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also_known_as: Герхард Бинерт

title: The Flight

overview: When Dr. Schmith's proposal for international research on infant mortality is rejected, he decides to leave East Germany and strikes a deal with an escape agency that promises him a leading position at a children's hospital in West Germany. But then the decision is reversed: the project is approved and his international colleagues want Dr. Schmith to head the GDR section. Moreover, he falls in love with his new colleague, Katharina. Schmith initially tries to ignore the arrangements he made with the escape agency, but they blackmail him. Things soon turn deadly...

character: Schmiths Vater

original_title: Die Flucht

title: Love's Confusion

overview: The film tells the love story of two young couples. According to their social ranks, construction worker Edy is dating employee Siegi, while medical student Dieter is dating art school student Sonja. Rather unintentionally, they exchange partners. During a carnival ball, Dieter makes out with Siegi because he falls for her her fresh and happy girlish manner. Sonja coolly observes this game and sees this intermezzo as a test for their relationship. While Siegi and Dieter vacation at the sea, Sonja falls in love with Edy. Now the die seems to be cast for new constellations. But when both couples stand in front of the registrar’s office, they finally come to their senses.

character: Taxifahrer

original_title: Verwirrung der Liebe

title: Les Misérables

overview: In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.

character: President of the Arras court

original_title: Les Misérables

original_language: fr

title: Five from the Jazzband

overview: By pure chance, Jessie and his four jazz musicians are hired to play at the cabaret theatre “Trocadero”.  Unfortunately, she knows nothing about music and it doesn’t help that all four musicians are in love with her.  Jessie doesn’t reciprocate their feelings, because she has a thing for Martin.  Unfortunately, Martin believes that Jessie stole his car … and so, right before the premiere at the cabaret, she ends up in jail.

original_title: Fünf von der Jazzband

title: Feind im Blut

character: Mechaniker

original_title: Feind im Blut

title: The Living Dead

overview: A crazed scientist murders his wife, walls her up, then flees. A reporter sets out to track him down. Remake of Unheimliche Geschichten (Richard Oswald, 1919).

character: Kriminalkommissar

original_title: Unheimliche Geschichten

title: Mother Krause's Journey to Happiness

overview: Mutter Krause, her daughter Erna and her son Paul live in a tenement in the poorer section of Berlin's Wedding district. Along with them lives "the Tenant", his soon-to-be bride Friede, who works as a prostitute, and her child whose name isn't revealed in the film. Mutter Krause is a quiet, long-suffering old woman who earns what little she can delivering newspapers. However, Paul is an alcoholic and spends all her money on drink. Mutter Krause can't pay back the money she owes the man whose newspapers she delivered and he accuses her of stealing and threatens her with arrest. Mutter Krause must then pawn her last valuable possession, a treasured memento of her late husband. Paul then breaks into the same pawn shop. He gets away but is later arrested. Meanwhile, Erna begins dating a young man with Communist views, who turns Erna to Communism and also helps her earn the money her mother needs by more honest means.

character: Untermieter

original_title: Mutter Krausens Fahrt ins Glück

title: Ich vertraue Dir meine Frau an

character: Verkehrspolizist

original_title: Ich vertraue Dir meine Frau an

title: The Pride of Company Three

overview: The adventures of smart soldier Gustav Diestelbeck include managing his superior officer, competing for the canteneer's daughter, evading punishment for discipline faults and hosting Prinz Willibald during his visit to the regiment.

character: Sergeant Schmidt

original_title: Der Stolz der 3. Kompanie

title: Eine Stunde Aufenthalt

overview: A disruption on the Berlin S-Bahn: passengers have an involuntary one-hour layover at Frankfurter Allee S-Bahn station and use the time to take a closer look at their fellow passengers. Alice Räppel, a native Berliner with a heart and a snout, meets Egon Ziesemaus, who is usually plagued by bad luck. Klaus Fiedler, who wants to leave his family, gets to know the actress Inge, and other passengers also quickly make friends.

original_title: Eine Stunde Aufenthalt

title: The Beggar Student

overview: To take a revenge on countess Laura, who slapped him at his proposal, the Governor of the occupied Poland gets her fall in love with a poor student, and exposes him during wedding banquet.

character: Tierbudenbesitzer Kinsky

original_title: Der Bettelstudent

title: Fleur Lafontaine

overview: Berlin, 1948: Paralyzed and robbed of her memory, Fleur regains consciousness after a serious fall. The doctor treating her recognizes that her problem is of a psychological nature and encourages her to face up to her past. The daughter of a brothel owner is reluctant to look back: on a hapless childhood, her relationships with bon vivant Dr. Goldner and the politically committed locksmith Philipp (Hilmar Thate) as well as the difficult period of fascism... This exciting journey into the German past is based on Dinah Nelken's novel "Das angstvolle Heldenleben einer gewissen Fleur Lafontaine".

character: Opa Schnedderich

original_title: Fleur Lafontaine

title: You and Nothing and Berlin

overview: A story about Ulrike, a ten year old girl who is looking for a new father with energy and determination.

character: Karl Krone

original_title: Du und icke und Berlin

title: Flowers for the Man in the Moon

overview: Adam, Evchen, and Manni are looking at the moon through their home-made telescope. Evchen isn't interested, and dismisses the moon as a lump of cheese. Manni, who is a big fan of technology, sees satellites and a car driving over the moon's surface. But Adam hears the moon speak, and hears it ask for flowers to cover its surface. From then on, Adam is determined to breed a kind of flower that can grow on the moon.

character: Opa Sielaff

original_title: Blumen für den Mann im Mond

title: The Man Without a Name

character: Beamter im Zentralnachweisamt für Kriegsvermisste

original_title: Mensch ohne Namen

title: Much Ado About Nothing

overview: Young lovers Hero and Claudio, soon to wed, conspire to get verbal sparring partners and confirmed singles Benedick and Beatrice to wed as well.

character: Holzapfel

original_title: Viel Lärm um nichts

title: Emilia Galotti

overview: The Prince of Guastalla falls in love with the young citizen Emilia Galotti, who is soon to marry Count Appiani. In order to win Emilia, the prince tries to send the count on an "honorable" journey on his behalf with the help of his chamberlain Marinelli. However, after the Count refuses this offer, Marinelli decides to have the wedding carriage robbed on his own initiative in order to have Emilia abducted to the Prince's nearby pleasure palace. But he has not thought of the prince's mistress, Countess Orsina, and Emilia's shaken father Odoardo, both of whom soon arrive at the castle, one to meet the prince, the other to look after his daughter...

character: Odoardo Galotti

original_title: Emilia Galotti

title: Ernst Thälmann – Son of the Working Class

overview: This film is the first of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politician and anti-fascist Ernst Thälmann.  In early November 1918, Ernst Thälmann is an unwilling soldier serving on the western front. As the revolutionary movement at home is threatened by the betrayal of the Social Democrats and fissures in the working class, Thälmann calls on his fellow soldiers to put down their weapons and unite with the workers in the communist struggle at home. Thälmann’s qualms about which side he is fighting on continue, but when the local police attempt to prevent a shipment of provisions and supplies from reaching the people in Petrograd, he intervenes and the ship is unloaded. With this moment of clarity, Thälmann continues to follow his political convictions and joins the workers at the Hamburg uprising in October 1923.

character: Otto Kramer

original_title: Ernst Thälmann - Sohn seiner Klasse

title: Der Prozeß wird vertagt

overview: In 1955, Michael Vierkant, a Jew who had emigrated during the Nazi era, returns from abroad to the Federal Republic of Germany to obtain the conviction of Korn, the former informer responsible for the murder of his sister. Korn is back in office; Michael's efforts remain unsuccessful. There is a direct confrontation between the two, and Michael shoots Korn in self-defense. He flees and is hidden by the young, reclusive artist Marie Jäger, but is then caught by the police and charged with premeditated murder. The case is taken out of the hands of the criminal investigation department by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, which constructs an act of political revenge on behalf of the communists. Michael manages to escape from prison. Marie and her friends organize a press conference at which Michael reveals the connections. The trial is postponed.

character: Gefängnisdirektor

original_title: Der Prozeß wird vertagt

title: Flucht ins Dunkel

character: Müller, Lagerverwalter

original_title: Flucht ins Dunkel

title: Ich will Dich Liebe lehren

original_title: Ich will Dich Liebe lehren

title: Die Unbesiegbaren

overview: The film "Die Unbesiegbaren" covers an episode in German history, in which the Bismarck government tried to mitigate the rise of the social-democrat movement.

character: Wachtmeister Vogt

original_title: Die Unbesiegbaren

title: Das Geheimnis des Ödipus

overview: July 1944: at a fascist front school in occupied Greece, Captain Weirauch, a civilian professor of classical Greek studies, gives a lecture on guilt and atonement in Sophocles' tragedy Oedipus the King.

title: Wedding Night In The Drizzle

overview: This comedic musical tells the story of Gabi, a young hairdresser from the Baltic coast who desperately wants to be a jockey. One day, she packs her bags, drives to Hoppegarten, and is soundly rejected by the head coach. Gabi doesn't want to give up, and in order to at least have a roof over her head, she rushes into a marriage with the seemingly nice Freddie. However, this marriage soon proves to be her second rejection, as Freddie openly dislikes the fact that she wants to be a jockey.

title: Crime Reporter Holm

overview: At a hotel in a resort town in the Bavarian Alps, a retired district attorney from Chicago is shot dead. Crime reporter Peter Holm is on the spot and joins in the murder investigation.

title: Hallo, Taxi!

overview: The story of a philanderer behind the wheel of a cab, who gets into a series of hilarious but also adventurous situations, was based on the actual experiences of Berlin cab drivers. It is an entertaining portrayal of how the main protagonist, Eddy, is to be cleverly dissuaded from his dashing bachelor life. Gaby and her grandpa come up with a few ideas. This is necessary, because Eddy may be a proper cab driver, but in his private life he knows no rules when it comes to winning over pretty girls.

title: Hard Luck Mary

overview: A young woman from the Berlin slums gets her chance to move into a new suburban home with her boyfriend, when she wins a lottery.

title: Hangmen, Women, and Soldiers

overview: Nazi propaganda film with Hans Albers starring in a dual role as a daring German airman and a Russian general, two cousins who find themselves facing each other in bitter enmity after the end of World War I.

title: Berlin-Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf

overview: Franz Biberkopf has served four years in prison. His return to normal life is not successful.

title: Inquest

overview: When a prostitute is murdered in a cheap Berlin boarding house, an investigating judge suspects that the killer is her boyfriend, unaware that his own son and daughter are also mixed up in the case.

title: M

overview: In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seedy underworld network. With both cops and criminals in pursuit, the murderer soon realizes that people are on his trail, sending him into a tense, panicked attempt to escape justice.

title: The Captain from Köpenick

overview: Based on the true story of a cobbler who bought a second-hand captain's uniform, assumed command of a troop of guardsmen, declared the town of  Köpenick under military law, arrested the mayor and confiscated the town treasury.

title: Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World?

overview: Kuhle Wampe takes place in early-1930s Berlin. The film begins with a montage of newspaper headlines describing steadily-rising unemployment figures. This is followed by scenes of a young man looking for work in the city and the family discussing the unpaid back rent. The young man, brother of the protagonist Anni, removes his wristwatch and throws himself from a window out of despair. Shortly thereafter his family is evicted from their apartment. Now homeless, the family moves into a garden colony of sorts with the name “Kuhle Wampe.”

title: The Heath Is Green

overview: A forest ranger, after spending years tracking down a poacher, is taken aback to learn the man is the father of his beloved.

title: Dawn

overview: Released three days after Adolf Hitler became Reichskanzler, it was the first film to have its screening in Nazi Germany. It became a symbol of the new times touted by the Nazi regime.  The title (literally "morning-red") is the German term for the reddish coloring of the east sky about a half hour before the sunrise.  On patrol Captain Liers and his submarine crew sink an important British ship, but while returning to harbour, they're lured into a trap by a British vessel disguised as a neutral Danish one. They sink it after it attacks them without warning, but  while they prepare to rescue survivors, a British destroyer sinks the sub.  On the sea bed 60 feet down, with all but the bridge flooded, the 10 surviving crew have only 8 rescue devices. Liers orders the crew to use them, but they disobey - either all escape or nobody does.

title: Sprung in den Abgrund

title: Ferryman Maria

overview: A beautiful young drifter comes to a small village and battles Death itself to save the man she loves.

title: Trouble Backstairs

title: Thunder, Lightning and Sunshine

overview: Relations between Huckebein, a humble tailor, and Greizinger, a wealthy farmer, become strained after Greizinger breaks off the romance between his son, Franzl, and Huckenbein's daughter, Evi. However, after a situation with a 100 mark note taken from a pair of trousers pressed by Huckebein belonging to Greisinger is resolved, a valuable mineral spring is found on the tailor's property,and the warring fathers become friends and Evi and Franzl are married.

title: The Indian Tomb

overview: After the events of Der Tiger von Eschnapur, Maharadscha Chandra is ready to execute his well-planned vengeance, in which German architect Peter Fürbringer, his fiancée Irene and his assistant will have to fight for their lives amidst a revolt fueled by traitor Prinz Ramigani.

title: Pour le Mérite

overview: This Nazi propaganda film chronicles the rise of the German Air Force ("Luftwaffe") from World War I until Adolf Hitler took power in 1933.

title: Mordsache Holm

overview: A wrecked car is found on the Reichsautobahn between Hamburg and Bremen. Inside is a murdered woman. It soon becomes clear that the woman is the dancer Grazielle Holm. The investigators are certain: it was murder! But unfortunately there are far too many suspects...

title: Gold in New Frisco

overview: In the small town of New Frisco in Alberta, Canada, a stranger named Norton arrives, checks into the most expensive hotel room, and begins courting a saleswoman named Doris. Without revealing anything further to the residents, he starts tinkering with a piece of land outside of town, which arouses considerable interest in him. Inspector de Lacy also becomes very concerned about Norton, even though there is no evidence of any wrongdoing.

title: Alarm

title: Uncle Krüger

overview: An anti-British propaganda film from Nazi Germany which depicts the life of the South African politician Paul Kruger and his eventual defeat by the British during the Boer War.

title: Das Mädchen von Fanö

overview: The two Danish fishermen Frerk and Ipke battle a severe storm off the coast of Fanø harbor. They finally manage to reach land, where they want to recover from the rigors of the journey before heading home to distant Hooge.

title: The Blum Affair

overview: Dr. Blum, a Jewish manufacturer, is falsely accused of a murder. Even when the real killer’s identity becomes evident, the state prosecutor refuses to accept Blum’s innocence.

title: Thomas Müntzer

overview: In 1523, young Thomas Müntzer arrives with his wife Ottilie in the Thuringian village Allstedt to assume the rectorate. As a follower of Luther′s teachings, he finds in the Bible not only reasons for clerical, but also for secular reforms. But when Luther turns away from the rural population after a discord with Müntzer, it is Müntzer who becomes the peoples′ spokesman. He is forced to go to Southern Germany, where he convenes with revolting farmers. But his way leads him back to Thuringia. In 1525, he and Heinrich Pfeiffer form the centre of the Thuringian peasant uprising in Mühlhausen, but their success is diminished by the fact that peasants and craftsmen don′t seem to be able to work together. In Frankenhausen, Müntzer becomes the leader of a peasants′ army that is set to fighting the ruler′s army – and sustains a devastating loss. Müntzer is arrested and sentenced to death by decapitation for his insurgency.

original_title: Thomas Müntzer – Ein Film deutscher Geschichte

title: Die Millionen der Yvette

overview: French milliner Yvette has a small fashion salon in Düsseldorf. The young gentlemen of society fall at her feet, but she is not accepted into their circles. That's why her former lover Maurice Daurignac manages to persuade her to pull off a big coup to get revenge on "high society". She pretends to be the heiress to ten million gold francs. A notary arrives from Paris accompanied by two supposed policemen and delivers the alleged money in a sealed parcel to the Bleichstetter bank in Düsseldorf, where it remains until the end of the inheritance process. The case drags on, and in the meantime the two are living large. When the bombshell bursts, Yvette has the young lawyer Dr. Hellmer to thank for the fact that she cannot be thrown to the angry citizens.

title: Lissy

overview: In 1930s Berlin, a woman’s life unravels as her unemployed husband succumbs to Nazi propaganda and joins the Storm Troopers, while her brother's anti-Nazi stance leads to his death, prompting her to confront her beliefs and make a risky choice.

title: Die Schönste

overview: 13-year old Thomas Berndorf, the son of the rich business man Alexander Berndorf, becomes friends with Hannes Wille, whose father works as foreman. They get to know each because Hannes sometimes is allowed to polish Berndorf′s Mercedes 300. They make a bet whose mother is the most beautiful. Hannes assumes that Mrs. Berndorf is only admired for her expensive jewellery. Thus, he suggests that Thomas should steal a collier from his mother. Out of solidarity, he also robs a golden brooch from his mother. At home at the Berndorfs, a severe crisis threatens Thomas′s parents′ "marriage of convenience", and financial hardships are following on the theft.

title: Ein Mädchen von 16 ½

overview: The young orphan Helga is raised by her aunt after WW II. At the age of sixteen, she turns her back to go her own way. As a rambler, Helga wanders through the night streets of Berlin and has brief acquaintances.

title: Klotz am Bein

overview: The construction of five houses for a workers' housing cooperative has been delayed due to a shortage of workers. It is winter and it is foreseeable that the houses will be completed in the fall at the latest. However, this takes too long for the young electrician Gustav. He is frustrated and wants to finally live within his own four walls. So far, he and his wife Christl, a sales clerk, have been subletting from his parents-in-law. One day, he receives a visit from his Aunt Minne, who informs him that he has inherited an apartment building worth 12,000 marks from his deceased Aunt Erna. He rejoices, as a house is even better than an apartment and he no longer needs to be a member of the building cooperative. The house turns out to be a dilapidated old building with no furniture and no water or electricity. Christl refuses to move into the building and begs Gustav to turn down the inheritance.

title: Reportage 57

overview: The film centers on the story of newlyweds Inga and Heinz. Heinz works in the western sector of Berlin. A gang of crooks involved in various shady dealings tries to draw Heinz into their dark affairs. However, after accidentally learning about the "activities" of his "friends," Heinz informs the police about the impending crime. The gang is arrested.

title: Alwin der Letzte

overview: Alwin Schmieder, his brother August and friend Otto were the only ones in the village to refuse to join the LPG. They continue to toil on their own, and everything in the Schmieder household has gone haywire since Alwin became a widower. At least he needs a wife, but he doesn't like the applicants for Alwin's marriage advertisements. He rejects Barbara, his son Karl's girlfriend, without knowing her - because she is from the city. But suddenly there is movement in the Schmieders' lives. August wants to marry the agronomist Karoline and move in with her in the neighboring village. Barbara, who sneaks into the house on a pretext, wins Alwin's sympathy and he asks Karl to marry her. When it turns out that the young people have set him up, he is furious. And last but not least, Otto joins the LPG. Alwin is the last to see the light.

title: Mother Courage and Her Children

overview: During the Thirty Years' War, the camp-follower Anna Fierling, called "Mother Courage", travels the length and breadth of Europe with her covered wagon. She does not care if it's Catholics or Protestants she trades with as long as business thrives. She loses her three children as a result of the war: bold and spirited Eilif, sincere and upright Swiss Cheese and mute Katrin, who saves the children of Halle by beating a drum on a farmstead roof In wartime, the Fierling children's virtues prove to be deadly. Yet, Mother Courage, remains incorrigible. She will not have anyone "spoil the war" for her and so sets out once more after the soldiers with her wagon.

title: Androcles and the Lion

overview: Rome at the time of the persecution of Christians: Androclus, a poor tailor, frees a lion in the forest from terrible pain caused by a thorn in his paw. The two meet again by chance when the devout Christian is about to be thrown to wild animals in the arena. The lion spares him with gratitude, but the real danger for Androklus comes from another direction.

title: We Are Getting Divorced

overview: Monika and Johannes are married. With increasing frequency, their son Manni becomes the focus of their arguments. Since the two cannot agree to a compromise, they decide to break up. The ten-year-old Manni is supposed to spend four weeks with Monika followed by four weeks with Johannes on an alternating basis. They want to prove to each other who has the better parenting skills. The plan fails, however, because Manni is very good at playing his parents off against each other. When Monika and Johannes finally see through their son’s game, they realize that their way of life does not lead to better parenting and they conclude that good parenting can only be achieved if they work together.

title: Effi Briest

overview: In the nineteenth century, seventeen year old Effi Briest is married to the older Baron von Instetten and moves into a house that she believes has a ghost.

title: The Naked Man on the Sports Field

overview: Kemmel, a sculptor with a troubled nature, wonders, as he approaches his fortieth birthday, whether he has created any truly significant work.

title: Ohne Paß in fremden Betten

overview: Czech tourist Jelinek decides to take a ride on the "Ferris wheel" in Berlin, and as a result he lags behind the train and is left without his belongings and documents.

title: Black Roses

overview: Erkki Collin is a hunted man.  The Czar’s soldiers have been close on the heels of the leader of the rebellious Finns, who have been fighting the Russian occupiers since the end of the 18th Century.  His flight leads him to the chambers of the dancer Marina Feodorowna, in whose house a party is taking place at that very moment.  Marina discovers the intruder, hides him from his pursuers and soon falls in love with him.  But hiding Erkki forever is not an option; so she presents him as her music teacher.  The swindle fails and Prince Governor Abarow, who’s long had a thing for Marina, discovers the real identity of the man, but doesn’t have him arrested.

title: The Man in Search of His Murderer

overview: A man in bad sorts hires a burglar to later kill him, then changes his mind when his fortunes turn and must find the contracted murderer before it is too late.

title: Musketier Meier III

title: Das Leben kann so schön sein

overview: The young marriage of the insurance agent Hannes and his wife Nora is being worn down by financial difficulties and overcrowded living conditions.  Hannes is unable to sell enough policies and life becomes ever worse for the two.  Nora attempts to earn some extra money, but even that proves to be a burden on their relationship, not the least because her boss is hitting up on her.  She's expecting Hannes' child, too, but he is starting to turn further and further away from her.

title: Gewitterflug zu Claudia

overview: Lufthansa captain Hans Droste is friends with English pilot William Crossley, who saved his life during the war. Having just landed in Berlin, Hans receives a telegram from his friend urgently asking him to fly to London and check on his dying uncle, Sir Reginald Crossley. Sir Reginald has only one wish: he wants to right a past wrong and asks Hans to find a girl to whom he wants to bequeath a third of his fortune.

title: Altes Herz geht auf die Reise

overview: The underage Rosemarie is still too young to run her inherited farm by herself; but she's more than aware that her foster father and the farm's administrator, the farmer Schlieker, is constantly skimming from the farm's finances to line his own pocket. To put an end to Schlieker's scheme, Rosemarie asks her godfather, Professor Kittgus, for help. But when Kittgus confronts Schlieker, the farmer not only proves to be unreasonable but also violent...

title: Rasputin, Demon of the Women

overview: The demonic Rasputin is poisoned but survives to continue seducing in evil ways, in this historical thriller.

title: Her Majesty Love

overview: Fred von Wellingen is a wealthy industrialist, part of a large family-owned corporation. Fred has fallen for Lia, a comely bartender in the Berlin Cabaret. He proposes to her, much to the horror of his family, which considers Lia and her unsophisticated father far below their caste. The family convinces Fred to give up the girl in exchange for increased position and income in the company. But Fred's lapse is momentary, and he again pursues Lia. But she, by this time, has learned of his erstwhile agreement and has agreed to marry someone else.

title: The Man Who is Talked About

overview: The Man Who is Talked About is the overly agreeable Toni Mathis (Heinz Ruhmann), a gent constitutionally incapable of saying the word "no" (or "nein," this being a German picture). Though he'd rather breeze through life without responsibilities or obligations, Toni agrees to study zoology in college because his uncle (Hans Moser) wants him to. Alas, despite the Herculean efforts by Toni's servant Hassler (Theo Lingen) to prepare his master for his final exams, Toni forgets to show up for the finals and is expelled post-haste. In desperation, his uncle arranges for Toni to get married, and once again our hero just can't say no. Trouble is, he falls in love with trapeze artist Bianca (Gusti Huber), whose father won't let her marry anyone except another entertainer. Undaunted, Toni studies a book on show business and tries out for the vaudeville stage, and the picture isn't even halfway over yet!

title: Ludwig II, King of Bavaria

overview: In the last years of his life, Bavarian king Ludwig II (1845 – 1886) devotes himself to ambitious architectural projects, which strain the state coffers to the extreme. The monarch, who is afraid of people, also withdraws more and more into a dream world at his various castles. His brother is already in a psychiatric institute and Ludwig is also eventually put under the care of psychiatrist Bernhard von Gudden. The king attempts to get out from under this guardianship at Starnberg lake…

title: Herbstzeit

overview: A retired head cashier, lonely after the death of his wife, lives in the hope of being able to move in with his son and his family after the latter builds a house. The son does not want to destroy his father's dream and conceals the fact that the family will not have enough money to build a house in the foreseeable future. When the father realizes this, he reaches into the cash register of his former company in desperation.

title: The Testament of Dr. Mabuse

overview: After a detective is assaulted by thugs and placed in an asylum run by Professor Baum, he observes the professor's preoccupation with another patient, the criminal genius Dr. Mabuse the hypnotist. When Mabuse's notes are found to be connected with a rash of recent crimes, Commissioner Lohmann must determine how Mabuse is communicating with the criminals, despite conflicting reports on the doctor's whereabouts, and capture him for good.

title: Panic in Chicago

overview: Chicago gangsters use cunning and a series of false identities in a violent battle for dominance, all while attempting to dodge the police.

title: Der Mann mit dem Laubfrosch

overview: An unknown guest checks into an obscure hotel. He is a burly but well-dressed gentleman carrying an umbrella and a tree frog in a glass. This man spends most of his time wandering the hallways and staircases of the inn, ostensibly to hunt for flies to feed his pet. But quite obviously, there is more to it than that: the man also listens at doors and peeks through their keyholes.

title: The Battle of Bademuende

title: Die heute über 40 sind

title: Der kaukasische Kreidekreis

title: Aufruhr in Damaskus

title: Verwandte und Bekannte

title: Ein idealer Gatte

title: Vor Gott und den Menschen

title: Everything for a Woman

overview: A British industrialist offers a job to a German who kindly rescued him when they were pilots on opposite sides of the Great War, but his wife becomes attracted to the foreigner. Complications ensue.

title: Police Report

overview: Director Burckhardt is found shot just after making the moves on Gisela Ostercamp, the wife of a business colleague.  When the criminal investigator Haupt inspects items in the apartment of the dead man, he comes to the conclusiong that Gisela herself is the murderess and accusations start flying between the married couple.  The murdered man's brother, the lawyer Burckhardt, steps up to act as defense counsel for the woman, with whom he has learned to love in the meantime.

title: The Desert Song

overview: When the famous singer Grace Collins got off the plane that had flown her a remote place in Northen Africa little did she know she would meet love and adventure there. If she came there, it was to visit Sir Collins, her stepfather. Falling in love was not on the agenda but how could she resist the charm of Nic Brenten, an alluring and idealistic Dutch engineer? Butcan devotion and generosity really compete with the greed of someone like Sir Collins, a cynical financier who wants to dispossess the locals of the copper mine Brenten helps them to develop ?...

title: Familie Birnchen

title: Bird Waking Weather

overview: Jette and Johannes have been living together for two years when Johannes suggests that they "legalize" their relationship. Jette loves him, but the proposal of marriage terrifies her.

title: Polonia-Express

overview: Railway employee Fritz Marr is not regarded well by his superiors. It is the year 1920, and trains regularly pass the railway hub of Erfurt to the East to secretly transport weapons for the fight against the young Soviet Union. Marr knows about this and wants to mobilise other workers to stop these illegal deliveries. To muzzle him, Marr is relocated to a remote rail work construction site.

title: Herr Kobin geht auf Abenteuer

title: Alwin auf der Landstraße

overview: Ironically, at the beginning of the summer holidays, Alwins strict father has grounded him to get him to improve his spelling. Alwin feels like a prisoner and decides to run away heading to his grandparents in the Harz mountains nearly 200 kilometers away. On the road Alwin meets many people and with their help Alwin slowly progresses towards his destination.

title: Liebesleute

overview: Baron von Goret is an impoverished landowner, whose estate is about to go into receivership.  And so, for that reason, he wishes to marry off his son Hermann with his well-off girlfriend Helga.  But Hermann is in love with the farmer’s daughter Dorothea.  He leaves his father’s estate with her and makes his way to Berlin to make a name for himself.  He’s not successful in this and, so as not to stand in his way, Dorothea leaves him.  Hermann’s aunt brings him back to his father’s estate, where, depressed over losing Dorothea, works tirelessly to clear the estate of all its debts.

title: The Two Seals

overview: The mustached ruler of a mythical principality, learning that his people dislike his spending so much time going hunting, allows his twin brother to take his place.

title: Checkmate

title: Back in the Country

overview: A man supposed to be dead returns from the US to save his family land, resist a rival's attempt to frame him for a shooting, deal with an odious banker, and make sure the heroine finds the right husband.

title: Reserve hat Ruh

title: Susan, Dear Susan

overview: Suse works as a truck driver on a major construction site. The young woman has a hard life behind her. She was foundling, was raised by farmers. Manne, the father of her child, wanted to escape from the GDR and is in prison. After he is released, Manne wants to live again with Suse and their child together. But she rejects him as well as another worshiper. Suse is more interested in the Soviet engineer Boris, but apparently not for her, since he can never remember her at their chance encounters. But a much bigger problem - and a difficult one - is Suse, when she is offered to go to the Soviet Union for six months.

title: Decoy

overview: Viktor Schott, daredevil and womanizer, is charged by his father, a jeweler, to go to Istanbul and purchase a valuable emerald necklace from a rich Persian and to bring it back by ship to Marseille.  A pair of criminals are watching him and attractive Delia, with whom Viktor is in love, is used as bait.  His boyhood friend Sibyl, who is in love with Viktor, warns him of the criminal ship owner and the captain, who intend to steal the jewel during a masked ball on board.  Shortly before reaching the coast of France, an explosion causes the ship to capsize.

title: Her Highness the Saleswoman

title: Gartenparty

title: The Devil's Elixirs

overview: Young seminary student Franziskus has been ceremonially ordained. He wants to escape the harshness and injustice of the world and devote himself to the service of God in the quiet seclusion of a monastery. He is also hoping to forget the beautiful lady Aurelie, whose life he saved in a flooded brook and with whom he spent an amorous night. He knows that her father would never allow her to marry him. But the devil dressed in a monk's habit and under the name Viktorin intervenes in Franziskus's destiny and attempts to lead him astray. To do so he first uses the diabolical elixirs kept at the monastery as a rare relic. When the young monk gets expelled from the monastery, Viktorin prepares another trap with the help of Aurelie's stepmother Euphemie.

title: Sabine Wulff

overview: Sabine Wulff is almost 18 when she is released from the juvenile detention center. She doesn't want to return to her unsupportive parents or to her former boyfriend Jimmy, who got her into trouble by persuading her to steal cigarettes. She instead chooses to begin an honest life by getting a job and renting her own room.

title: The Sorrows of Young Werther

overview: The young and rebellious Werther is passionately, but hopelessly, in love with Lotte. Although he knows that she is married to somebody who can offer her a secure future, Werther tries to be near her. Lotte cannot decide between these two men. She eventually rejects Werther, who does not survive her decision.

title: Hunted

overview: A story of ten years old Karl who is living in Berlin in the beginning of thirties.

title: The Opportunists

overview: The machinations of an ex-officer and a servant who want to get their hands on a fortune.

title: The Blue Angel

overview: Prim professor Immanuel Rath finds some of his students ogling racy photos of cabaret performer Lola Lola and visits a local club, The Blue Angel, in an attempt to catch them there. Seeing Lola perform, the teacher is filled with lust, eventually resigning his position at the school to marry the young woman. However, his marriage to a coquette -- whose job is to entice men -- proves to be more difficult than Rath imagined.

title: Her Other Self

overview: By coincidence Magdalena gets hired for two jobs in the same company (one day, one night shift) and "invents" a sister to "explain" the situation to an engineer who falls for one of the "sisters" while hating the other.

title: I by Day, You by Night

overview: A nightclub waiter and a manicurist share the same room, she sleeps there by night and he by day. They've never meet , but they can't stand each other. Then they meet by chance, not knowing who's who and fall in love.

title: Ein Polterabend

overview: Berlin 1849: The democrat Adolf Glasbrenner, known as Brennglas, publishes the political satire magazine "Phosphor" on a shoestring budget. He plans to marry his lover, the actress Adele Peroni. But the plan comes to a standstill when Adele is to make a guest appearance at the reactionary Royal Prussian Playhouse. A democratic journalist marrying a court actress? Impossible! Together with his friend Pulecke, Brennglas tries to disrupt Adele's performance with a bachelor party...

title: Big and Little

overview: Follows a woman, Lotte, who travels through Germany and seeks human connections, but is unsuccessful as every person she encounters is locked into his own world. Based on the play by Botho Strauß.

title: Amphitryon: Happiness from the Clouds

overview: Lamenting Thebian women are waiting for the men to come back from war. God Jupiter is attracted to one of them: Alkmene. He goes to earth and tries to seduce her as himself: an old man. Failing in this, he disguises himself as Amphitryon (Alkemene's husband) and tries again. Next morning Amphitryon and his men come back from war; he suspects adultery and wants a divorce. Jupiter's wife Juno now also comes to earth and clears things up.

original_title: Amphitryon – Aus den Wolken kommt das Glück

title: Leuchtende Schatten

title: Comradeship

overview: At a mine on the shared edge of France and Germany, an underground explosion leads to the entrapment of a group of French miners. In an effort to save the trapped Frenchmen, German miners Wittkopp and Kasper take it upon themselves to traverse a crumbling war tunnel leading down into the mines. Yet, though the workers harbor no political biases against one another, their callous, less tolerant bosses hope to halt this cross-cultural rescue mission.

title: Top Sergeant Schwenke

overview: A pretty girl helps a popular Berlin policeman solve the murders of a woman he knew and the crooked banker the victim worked for.

title: Annemarie. Die Geschichte einer jungen Liebe

overview: In Annemarie Brinkmann's small German village all the young men are recruited to the front in WWI. When her boyfriend Klaus Renken gets the call they spend their last romantic night together. Time goes by but one day when the pastor announces the names of the fallen villagers: Klaus is among them. Annemarie collapses while the congregation sings a funeral song.

original_title: Annemarie. Die Geschichte einer jungen Liebe

title: Die große und die kleine Welt

overview: The taxi driver Fritz gets to know the millionaire-heiress Iris and marries her against the wishes of her family.  They live together in a small apartment and are very happy.  But Fritz wants to offer Iris more and thus finds a position as a laborer in a large car factory and ends up making a career for himself as a race car driver.  But while he is driving from one victory to another, he is getting more and more estranged from his young wife.  As his career starts to go downhill, he notices the mistakes he has made and tries to win Iris back.

title: The Marriage Swindler

overview: A confidence trickster is released from prison and travels to a village where he blackmails and tricks women out of their savings.

title: Gold in New Frisco

title: Parkstrasse 13

overview: The beautiful Evelyne Schratt, who has many admirerers, and whose two husbands both died under mysterious circumstances, is giving a reception. When one of her admirers is found stabbed to death in a room upstairs, the police detains everyone in the house and begins an interrogation (oh goody:  does dinner come with this mystery theatre, too?). Evelyne admits, that the murdered man tried to blackmail about some information he had about the death of the two husbands.

title: The Young Lady of Barnhelm

overview: During the Seven Years' War, Prussian Major von Tellheim sacrifices his own fortune to save a Saxon estate from being plundered. After the war ends he is discharged and left penniless when the government suspects his noble deed was actually due to a bribe. Believing his lost honour makes him unworthy Tellheim breaks his engagement to Minna von Barnhelm, but she tracks him down to a Berlin tavern to win him back. To test his love Minna pretends she has also lost her wealth, prompting Tellheim’s protective instincts to finally override his stubborn pride. The film concludes with a royal decree from Frederick the Great, restoring Tellheim's rank and fortune and allowing the couple to marry.

title: Rote Mühle

overview: A respectable woman in her 50s inherits a local night club from her husband in a divorce settlement, provided that she shows up there every night at 10:00pm for a month. In spite of eny and provocation, she manages to meet the terms.

title: Krach im Vorderhaus

overview: It can hardly be said that things are peaceful in the Berlin apartment building where the film's story takes place. There are constant clashes between the residents – and sometimes that's quite literal: for example, when the widow Bock hid some explosives among the bricks, which detonated when the building's thieving doorman lit them in his stove.

title: The Night of the Twelfth

overview: A dozen ladies expect marriage impostor Lanski to keep his promises. But he needs more money and decides to kill Mrs. von Droste who has changed her will in his favor. He covers his tracks but is seen by a neighbor who soon blackmails him.

title: Die perfekte Sekretärin

overview: With mixed feelings, Fritz and his young wife travel to Gut Buchholz for a visit. Their aunt’s passion is matchmaking; that’s why it’s troubling that she wasn’t consulted in this case. On the train, the young couple meets Maria Holm, their aunt’s new secretary. She was hired based on a letter of recommendation from the estate manager. They agree that Fritz’s wife will come to the estate as a secretary, while Maria will stay at a hotel for a few days. Meanwhile, the estate manager, Gottlieb, has confessed to the uncle that the secretary he recommended is actually his fiancée.

title: My Heart Calls You

overview: An opera company tries to get an engagement.

title: Feind im Blut

title: The Flight

title: Love's Confusion

title: Les Misérables

title: Five from the Jazzband

title: Feind im Blut

title: The Living Dead

title: Mother Krause's Journey to Happiness

title: Ich vertraue Dir meine Frau an

title: The Pride of Company Three

title: Eine Stunde Aufenthalt

title: The Beggar Student

title: Fleur Lafontaine

title: You and Nothing and Berlin

title: Flowers for the Man in the Moon

title: The Man Without a Name

title: Much Ado About Nothing

title: Emilia Galotti

title: Der Prozeß wird vertagt

title: Flucht ins Dunkel

title: Ich will Dich Liebe lehren

title: Die Unbesiegbaren

title: Das Geheimnis des Ödipus

title: Wedding Night In The Drizzle

title: Crime Reporter Holm

title: Hallo, Taxi!

title: Hard Luck Mary

title: Hangmen, Women, and Soldiers

title: Inquest

title: M

title: The Captain from Köpenick

title: Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World?

title: The Heath Is Green

title: Dawn

title: Sprung in den Abgrund

title: Ferryman Maria

title: Trouble Backstairs

title: Thunder, Lightning and Sunshine

title: The Indian Tomb

title: Pour le Mérite

title: Mordsache Holm

title: Gold in New Frisco

title: Alarm

title: Uncle Krüger

title: Das Mädchen von Fanö

title: The Blum Affair

title: Thomas Müntzer

title: Die Millionen der Yvette

title: Lissy

title: Die Schönste

title: Ein Mädchen von 16 ½

title: Klotz am Bein

title: Reportage 57

title: Alwin der Letzte

title: Mother Courage and Her Children

title: Androcles and the Lion

title: We Are Getting Divorced

title: Effi Briest

title: The Naked Man on the Sports Field

title: Ohne Paß in fremden Betten

title: Black Roses

title: The Man in Search of His Murderer

title: Musketier Meier III

title: Das Leben kann so schön sein

title: Gewitterflug zu Claudia

title: Altes Herz geht auf die Reise

title: Rasputin, Demon of the Women

title: Her Majesty Love

title: The Man Who is Talked About

title: Ludwig II, King of Bavaria

title: Herbstzeit

title: The Testament of Dr. Mabuse

title: Panic in Chicago

title: Der Mann mit dem Laubfrosch

title: The Battle of Bademuende

title: Die heute über 40 sind

title: Der kaukasische Kreidekreis

title: Aufruhr in Damaskus

title: Verwandte und Bekannte

title: Ein idealer Gatte

title: Vor Gott und den Menschen

title: Everything for a Woman

title: Police Report

title: The Desert Song

title: Familie Birnchen

title: Bird Waking Weather

title: Polonia-Express

title: Herr Kobin geht auf Abenteuer

title: Alwin auf der Landstraße

title: Liebesleute

title: The Two Seals

title: Checkmate

title: Back in the Country

title: Reserve hat Ruh

title: Susan, Dear Susan

title: Decoy

title: Her Highness the Saleswoman

title: Gartenparty

title: The Devil's Elixirs

title: Sabine Wulff

title: The Sorrows of Young Werther

title: Hunted

title: The Opportunists

title: The Blue Angel

title: Her Other Self

title: I by Day, You by Night

title: Ein Polterabend

title: Big and Little

title: Amphitryon: Happiness from the Clouds

title: Leuchtende Schatten

title: Comradeship

title: Top Sergeant Schwenke

title: Die große und die kleine Welt

title: The Marriage Swindler

title: Gold in New Frisco

title: Parkstrasse 13

title: The Young Lady of Barnhelm

title: Rote Mühle

title: Krach im Vorderhaus

title: The Night of the Twelfth

title: Die perfekte Sekretärin

title: My Heart Calls You

title: Feind im Blut


Stephen Gaghan

biography:
Stephen Gaghan (/ˈɡeɪɡən/ GAY-gən; born May 6, 1965) is an American screenwriter and director. He is noted for writing the screenplay for Steven Soderbergh's film Traffic, based on a Channel 4 series, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and Syriana, which he wrote and directed. He also wrote and directed the thriller Abandon, the family film Dolittle, and the drama Gold.

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Entourage

overview: Film star Vince Chase navigates the vapid terrain of Los Angeles with a close circle of friends and his trusty agent.

character: Stephen Gaghan

original_name: Entourage

original_language: en

American Gothic

job: Writer

overview: Everything is not what it seems in Trinity, South Carolina. Sheriff Lucas Buck develops a sinister interest in Caleb. Caleb's cousin Gail tries to protect him, but that's complicated since she has feelings for Sheriff Buck. And Caleb's dead sister, Merlyn, returns as an angel, warning him that Buck is an incarnation of evil - and may not be human.

department: Writing

original_name: American Gothic

The Practice

overview: A provocative legal drama focused on young associates at a bare-bones Boston firm and their scrappy boss, Bobby Donnell. The show's forte is its storylines about “people who walk a moral tightrope.”

original_name: The Practice

Sleepwalkers

overview: A high-tech team of dream researchers uses experimental computer technology to enter peoples' dreams and nightmares and help them deal with their subconscious issues there.

original_name: Sleepwalkers

Chambers

job: Executive Producer

overview: Haunted by eerie visions and sinister impulses after a heart transplant, a teenager tries to unmask the truth behind her donor's mysterious death.

department: Production

original_name: Chambers

The Practice

job: Teleplay

job: Executive Story Editor

NYPD Blue

overview: Police drama set in New York City, exploring the internal and external struggles of the fictional 15th precinct of Manhattan. Each episode typically intertwined several plots involving an ensemble cast.

original_name: NYPD Blue

S.I.L.A.

job: Creator

department: Creator

English

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english_name: English

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斯蒂芬·加根

biography: 斯蒂芬·加根（Stephen Gaghan，1965年5月6日-），美国编剧、导演。他以为史蒂文·索德伯格 （Steven Soderbergh） 的电影《交通》撰写剧本而闻名，该电影改编自第 4 频道的系列剧，并因此获得了奥斯卡金像奖，以及他编剧和导演的《叙利亚》。

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english_name: Mandarin

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史提芬·格剛

biography: 史提芬·格剛（Stephen Gaghan，1965 年 5 月 6 日-），美國編劇、導演。他是為史提芬·蘇德堡（Steven Soderbergh）的電影《毒網》（Traffic）（2000 年）撰寫劇本而聞名，該電影改編自第 4 頻道的系列劇，並因此獲得了奧斯卡金像獎，以及他編劇和導演的《油激暗戰》（Syriana）（2005 年）。

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Pусский

iso_639_1: ru

iso_3166_1: RU

english_name: Russian

日本語

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iso_3166_1: JP

english_name: Japanese

Latviešu

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english_name: Latvian

title: Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic'

character: Self

original_title: Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic'

title: Swingers

overview: After 6 years together, Mike's girlfriend leaves him, so he travels to LA to be a star. Six months on, he's still not doing very well— so a few of his friends try to reconnect him to the social scene and hopefully help him forget his failed relationship.

character: Onlooker at Model Party Entrance (uncredited)

original_title: Swingers

title: Alfie

overview: A tale of a philosophical womanizer who is forced to question his seemingly carefree existence.

character: Adam

original_title: Alfie

job: Director

title: Syriana

overview: The Middle Eastern oil industry is the backdrop of this tense drama, which weaves together numerous story lines. Bennett Holiday is an American lawyer in charge of facilitating a dubious merger of oil companies, while Bryan Woodman, a Switzerland-based energy analyst, experiences both personal tragedy and opportunity during a visit with Arabian royalty. Meanwhile, veteran CIA agent Bob Barnes uncovers an assassination plot with unsettling origins.

department: Directing

original_title: Syriana

job: Screenplay

title: Traffic

overview: An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the war becomes personal when he discovers his well-educated daughter is abusing cocaine within their comfortable suburban home. In Mexico, a flawed, but noble policeman agrees to testify against a powerful general in league with a cartel, and in San Diego, a drug kingpin's sheltered trophy wife must learn her husband's ruthless business after he is arrested, endangering her luxurious lifestyle.

original_title: Traffic

title: The Alamo

overview: Based on the 1836 standoff between a group of Texan and Tejano men, led by Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie, and Mexican dictator Santa Anna's forces at the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas.

original_title: The Alamo

title: Rules of Engagement

overview: A Marine Colonel is brought to court-martial after ordering his men to fire on demonstrators surrounding the American embassy in Yemen.

original_title: Rules of Engagement

title: Havoc

overview: A wealthy Los Angeles teen and her superficial friends wants to break out of suburbia and experience Southern California's "gangsta" lifestyle. But problems arise when the preppies get in over their heads and provoke the wrath of a violent Latino gang. Suddenly, their role-playing seems a little too real.

original_title: Havoc

job: Story

title: Havoc

title: Abandon

overview: A psychological thriller about a senior at one of America's most prestigious universities. Under enormous pressure to complete her thesis and earn a top job at one of the world's most competitive consulting firms, Katie is still coping with the sudden unexplained disappearance of her first love two years prior. As the investigation continues, Katie is forced to choose between past passions and new possibilities, even as new facts are uncovered.

original_title: Abandon

title: Abandon

title: Gold

overview: Kenny Wells, a modern-day prospector, hustler, and dreamer, is desperate for a lucky break. Left with few options, Wells teams up with an equally luckless geologist to execute a grandiose, last-ditch effort: to find gold deep in the uncharted jungle of Indonesia.

original_title: Gold

title: Candy Store

overview: The crime thriller, from a script Gaghan wrote with Shannon Burke.

original_title: Candy Store

title: Dolittle

overview: After losing his wife seven years earlier, the eccentric Dr. John Dolittle, famed doctor and veterinarian of Queen Victoria’s England, hermits himself away behind the high walls of Dolittle Manor with only his menagerie of exotic animals for company. But when the young queen falls gravely ill, a reluctant Dolittle is forced to set sail on an epic adventure to a mythical island in search of a cure, regaining his wit and courage as he crosses old adversaries and discovers wondrous creatures.

title: Dolittle

title: Candy Store

title: Candy Store

title: After Earth

overview: One thousand years after cataclysmic events forced humanity's escape from Earth, Nova Prime has become mankind's new home. Legendary General Cypher Raige returns from an extended tour of duty to his estranged family, ready to be a father to his 13-year-old son, Kitai. When an asteroid storm damages Cypher and Kitai's craft, they crash-land on a now unfamiliar and dangerous Earth. As his father lies dying in the cockpit, Kitai must trek across the hostile terrain to recover their rescue beacon. His whole life, Kitai has wanted nothing more than to be a soldier like his father. Today, he gets his chance.

title: Billion Dollar Spy

overview: Set against the high-stakes backdrop of the late Cold War, Adolf Tolkachev, an ordinary man who risks everything to pass thousands of pages of top-secret Soviet intelligence to the U.S. Despite repeated rejections by a wary CIA, Tolkachev persisted, embodying the courage to stand against a regime that betrayed its own people. Finally, finding an ally in CIA agent Tom Lenihan, Tolkachev was able to fundamentally shift the balance of power, proving that true patriotism lies not in blind allegiance but in the willingness to challenge a government when it strays from its ideals.

title: Heaven Can Wait

overview: Not a remake of the same name, but will feature the same concept of the main character plucked away before his time.

title: Billion-Dollar Ransom

overview: Five members of a billionaire's family get kidnapped at the same moment, from different locations—for the unthinkable ransom of a billion dollars.

title: Valley of Ashes

overview: A contemporized, loose adaptation of The Great Gatsby set in San Francisco. Plot TBA.

title: Valley of Ashes

title: Valley of Ashes

title: Syriana

title: Gold

title: White City

overview: About Western diplomats and journalists living in Afghanistan. The story focuses on Jon Liston, a war junkie who has spent the better part of the last decade in Kabul with a front-row seat to the carnage.

title: Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic'

title: Swingers

title: Alfie

title: Syriana

title: Traffic

title: The Alamo

title: Rules of Engagement

title: Havoc

title: Havoc

title: Abandon

title: Abandon

title: Gold

title: Candy Store

title: Dolittle

title: Dolittle

title: Candy Store

title: Candy Store

title: After Earth

title: Billion Dollar Spy

title: Heaven Can Wait

title: Billion-Dollar Ransom

title: Valley of Ashes

title: Valley of Ashes

title: Valley of Ashes

title: Syriana

title: Gold

title: White City