10 Movies Starring Matthias Schweighèfer

Soloalbum

Soloalbum

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2003-03-27

Languages:

German

Countries:

Germany

IMDB Ratings:

(1744 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Jens-Frederik Otto

Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre (novel)

Fullplot:

The Red Baron

The Red Baron

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2008-04-10

Languages:

German, English, French

Countries:

Germany, UK

Runtime:

106 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.3 (8884 Reviews)

Fullplot:

Baron Manfred von Richthofen is the most feared and celebrated pilot of the German air force in World War I. To him and his companions, air combats are events of sporty nature, technical challenge and honorable acting, ignoring the terrible extent of war. But after falling in love with the nurse Kète, Manfred realizes he is only used for propaganda means. Caught between his disgust for the war, and the responsibility for his fighter wing, von Richthofen sets out to fly again.

Off Beat

Off Beat

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2005-02-03

Languages:

German, Turkish

Countries:

Germany

Runtime:

100 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (1684 Reviews)

Genres:

DramaRomance

Fullplot:

Eight Miles High

Eight Miles High

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2007-02-01

Languages:

German, English, Italian

Countries:

Germany

Runtime:

114 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (2231 Reviews)

Director:

Achim Bornhak

Cast:

Writer:

Olaf Kraemer (screenplay)

Achim Bornhak (screenplay)

Claus Peter Hant (story)

Dagmar Benke (story)

Olaf Kraemer (book)

Martin Ritzenhoff (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Achim Bornhak's movie focuses on the restless life of Uschi Obermaier, the icon of the 1968 movement in Germany and groupie. At the age of 16, Uschi is bored by her job in a photo lab, but soon becomes the "it girl" of Munich's club scene. When she gets to know Rainer Langhans, they move to Berlin and live in "Kommune 1", the first politically-motivated commune in Germany. While the other occupants claim she isn't political enough, Uschi just wants to have fun, works as fashion model and leads international music stars in temptation...

Friendship!

Friendship!

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2010-01-14

Languages:

German, English

Countries:

Germany, USA

Runtime:

110 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (4250 Reviews)

Director:

Markus Goller

Genres:

Comedy

Fullplot:

Mein Leben - Marcel Reich-Ranicki

Mein Leben - Marcel Reich-Ranicki

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2009-04-10

Languages:

German

Countries:

Germany

Runtime:

90 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (284 Reviews)

Director:

Dror Zahavi

Cast:

Writer:

Michael Gutmann (teleplay)

Marcel Reich-Ranicki (autobiography)

Fullplot:

In 1929, the 9 year old Polish Jew Marcel Reich-Ranicki is sent by his artistic mother to Berlin to study. Marcel loves the German literature and music, but in October 1938 the Nazis deport him to Poland. After the German invasion of Poland, Marcel tries to survive in the ghetto of Warschau. In 1942 his parents and brother are deported and exterminated in Treblinka, but Marcel and his wife Tosia can hide with a friendly Polish couple till in 1944 the Russian army liberates them. A civil servant in postwar communist Poland, Marcel falls in disgrace in 1949. In 1958 he flees to Germany, where in Frankfurt he will become a distinguished literary critic for the FAZ.

3faltig

3faltig

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2010-10-21

Languages:

German

Countries:

Germany, Austria

Runtime:

95 min

IMDB Ratings:

5.3 (291 Reviews)

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Murmel Clausen

Hermann Brèuer

Christian Tramitz

Harald Sicheritz

Fullplot:

Hage, the Holy Spirit, is writing a musical, when Jesus returns to earth at Christmas to prepare the apocalypse. To prevent this, Hage tries to convince him that mankind is worth saving with the help of a beautiful striptease dancer.

Russendisko

Russendisko

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2012-03-29

Languages:

German, Russian, Vietnamese

Countries:

Germany

Runtime:

100 min

IMDB Ratings:

5.6 (1295 Reviews)

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Oliver Ziegenbalg

Wladimir Kaminer (novel)

Fullplot:

Russendisko is the story of Wladimir, Andrej and Mischa. Three young Russian friends, who move from Moscow to Berlin in a lucky wave of emigration right after the fall of the Berlin wall. They take their chance looking for a better life and find themselves involved in the tales of everyday lunacy on the streets of Berlin and its spirit of the early nineties. Russendisko is a modern fairy tale, a story of friendship, of love, of dreams and the search for happiness and its fulfillment. The film is based on the mega selling novel by Wladimir Kaminer.

What a Man

What a Man

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2011-08-25

Languages:

German, Turkish, English, Mandarin, French

Countries:

Germany, USA

Runtime:

95 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.6 (2725 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Matthias Schweighèfer (screenplay)

Doron Wisotzky (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Nice guy Alex has gone well out of his way to accommodate his petulant and demanding girlfriend Carolin, so it comes as a complete surprise when he finds out she's cheated on him and thinks little of their relationship (ending it). As he actively questions if he's all the man he should be, best friends Okke and Nele stick loyally by his side to weather him through it.

Frau Ella

Frau Ella

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2013-10-17

Languages:

German

Countries:

Germany

Runtime:

105 min

IMDB Ratings:

5.9 (775 Reviews)

Director:

Markus Goller

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Dirk Ahner

Florian Beckerhoff (novel)

Fullplot:

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