Biography
Sunnyi Melles (born 7 October 1958) is a Hungarian-Swiss actress. She is the daughter of Austrian orchestral conductor Carl Melles and Hungarian noblewoman Judith von Rohonczy. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sunnyi Melles, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Three Investigators and The Carpathian Dog
2025
as Evelyn Boogle
A call for help from gallery owner Mr. Prentice leads the three detectives into a new adventure: his apartment is said to be haunted. When the Carpath...

Mr. K
2025
as Gaga
Mr. K, a traveling magician, finds himself in a Kafkaesque nightmare when he can’t find the exit of the hotel, he has slept in. His attempts to get ou...

Springtime in Amsterdam
2023
Four people at a crossroads in their lives who meet by chance in Amsterdam. The city becomes their magical dream world, seemingly offering opportuniti...

Triangle of Sadness
2022
as Vera
A celebrity model couple are invited on a luxury cruise for the uber-rich, helmed by an unhinged, alcoholic captain. What first appears Instagrammable...
Alice
2022
Written in 1865, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was a popular success. All British schoolchildren and their parents knew about the escapades of the ...

Enfant Terrible
2020
as Rosel Zech
When 22-year-old Rainer Werner Fassbinder storms the stage of a small, progressive theatre in Munich 1967, and seizes the production without further a...

Narcissus and Goldmund
2020
as Gräfin
In the dark middle ages, young unruly Goldmund is sent to a monastery by his father to atone for the sins of his mother, who abandoned them. There, he...

Sissi - Die Getriebene
2019
as Kaiserin Elisabeth

The Final Problem
2019
as Karin Sessler
A snowed-in holiday hotel. A dead body in a room locked from the inside. The hotel manager wants to cover it up, but in the blink of an eye the whole ...
22 Karat Liebe
2019
Ursula, the bride's mother and her sister Hilde are late. They are climbing the staircase of the town hall to reach the rooms where the wedding ceremo...

Schönberg: Gurre-Lieder
2019
as Narrator
Rarely has a theatrical world premiere been so warmly received as Dutch National Opera’s production of Arnold Schönberg’s late-Romantic Gurre-Lieder i...

Kaisersturz
2018
as Kaiserin Auguste Viktoria
While World War One is coming to an end, the Social Democrat Friedrich Ebert is trying to maintain political stability in Berlin. In the haughty Princ...

Der große Rudolph
2018
as Gerdi
The fact that Rudolph Moshammer is a dazzling figure and the most prominent fashion designer in Munich is no longer enough for his silent partners and...

Safari: Match Me If You Can
2018
as Aurelie
Munich, the city of singles and unfulfilled desire. Whoever feels like having a one-night stand can just use Safari, a new dating app. But is it also ...

The Awakening of Motti Wolkenbruch
2018
as Mrs. Silberzweig
The young Orthodox Jew, Motti Wolkenbruch, finds himself at a turning point. His beloved mother wants him to get married and presents one marriage can...

As Green As It Gets
2018
as Evelyn von Zeydlitz
Georg "Schorsch" Kempter is a gardener in a small Bavarian town, working day-in, day-out in his nursery, which is facing bankruptcy. He doesn't like t...

Der Bauer zu Nathal – Kein Film über Thomas Bernhard
2018
as herself

Pretty Far from Okay
2017
as Ursula Finsterwalder
Isi doesn't get the world anymore. Just a short while ago, life was wild, fun, and without obligations, but suddenly everyone around her seems to be g...

The Invention of Love
2013
as Amine von Kirsch / Claudia
A young woman has the idea of setting up her boyfriend with a very wealthy but sickly lady to claim her inheritance.

Ein schmaler Grat
2013
as Frau Heintz
Psychothriller by facts. A lightly labile journalist (Felicitas Woll) wants to explore the motives of a women murderer (Heiner Lauterbach). When he wa...

Measuring the World
2012
as Marie Elizabeth von Humboldt
Germany in the early 19th century. "Die Vermessung der Welt" follows the two brilliant and eccentric scientists Alexander von Humboldt and Carl Friedr...

Frisch gepresst
2012
as Mutter
Andrea, a childless single, humiliates herself on a date with ex‐crush Gregor, blacks out, and wakes in his bed. Determined to change, she meets ideal...
Der Heiratsschwindler und seine Frau
2012
as Gabriele Muntz
Marriage swindler Herbert Krugschenk is a master of his trade. His success is based on meticulous planning, and his wife "Schnuck" is responsible for ...

Zettl
2012
as Jacky Timmendorf
A social satire in which a chauffeur accidentally becomes the editor of an online newspaper.

Die Verführerin Adele Spitzeder
2012
as Betty Vio
Adele Spitzeder, an actress of medium talent, finds the role of her life as a dazzling financial genius, but in truth the operator of a gigantic pyram...

Woman in Love
2011
as Annegret
An actor's career takes a "Tootsie"-like turn when he lets himself be cast as a woman in a movie.

Hanni & Nanni
2010
as Erika's Mother
Hanni and Nanni are not only sisters, but also best friends. The twins are inseparable and always up to something. When they cause a wild chase throug...

Nanga Parbat
2010
as Diplomatengattin
Drama about the tragic Nanga Parbat expedition by the two Messner brothers in 1970, on which Reinhold Messners younger brother Günther died.

Live Wire
2009
as Sigrid Freesmann
A comedy about relationships. A just-divorced couple, the wife's lover; a convicted criminal, his pregnant wife and his best friend; the economy minis...

Die kluge Bauerntochter
2009
as Königsmutter
The Farmer's Daughter is given a riddle to solve by the king: "Come to me, neither naked nor clothed, neither walking nor riding, nor driving, neither...

Julia's Disappearance
2009
as Alessia
A comedy about aging, youth and other eternal truths. Of all days, precisely on her fiftieth birthday, Julia has to experience that age makes you invi...

Vision – From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen
2009
as Markgräfin von Stade
Hildegard von Bingen was truly a woman ahead of her time. A visionary in every sense of the word, this famed 12th-century Benedictine nun was a Christ...

Effi Briest
2009
as Sidonie von Rasenapp
Following her parents' wishes, spirited seventeen-year-old Effi Briest marries Baron von Innstetten – a former admirer of her mother – who is twenty y...

Buddenbrooks
2008
as Senatorin Möllendorpf
Mid-19th-century, Baltic Sea port city of Lubeck, Germany. Follows the fourth generation of the Buddenbrook mercantile family as Tony and Thomas reach...

1½ Ritter - Auf der Suche nach der hinreißenden Herzelinde
2008
as Prostituierte
The story of Lanze who is in love with the princess. One day the princess is kidnapped by the Dark Knight and Lanze starts his journey to rescue her. ...

The Baader Meinhof Complex
2008
as Frau Buddenberg
'Der Baader Meinhof Komplex' depicts the political turmoil in the period from 1967 to the bloody "Deutschen Herbst" in 1977. The movie approaches the ...

Falco: Damn It, We're Still Alive!
2008
as Prostituierte Bar Bijou
Deals with the life, work, and tragic death of Johann "Falco" Hölzel. The biopic portrays his work through his early days, as member of the Viennese b...
Franziskas Gespür für Männer
2006
as Lisa Saalbach
Franziska sees police recovering a dead body and recognizes the woman as the one who had her make-up done by Franzika only days before. The hobby-dete...

Felix: The Toy Rabbit and the Time Machine
2006
as Gertrude (voice)
Sophie and her family are visiting the city Museum of Natural Sciences where Prof. Snork is working on a new time machine... Suddenly the whole machin...

Snow White
2005
as Mutter Nico
The life of 20-year-old Nico from upper class Zurich is all party, sex and drugs when she meets Paco, the front man of a rap band. She finds herself d...

Waves
2005
as Bella von Buttlär
Adapted from Eduard von Keyserling’s 1911 novel of the same title, Waves depicts both the lives and loves of an aristocratic German family during a su...
Onkel Wanja
2004
Musen, Macht und Glamour - Die Welt der Maximilianstraße
2004
as Self
Documentary about the Maximilianstraße in Munich.

Pumuckl und sein Zirkusabenteuer
2003
as Frau Magiaro
Master Eder's cousin Ferdinand turns up one day after his death to collect his inheritance. What he doesn't realize is that Pumuckl is also part of hi...

Olga's Summer
2002
as Ella
A 16 years old Olga is dreaming about leaving house when suddenly she meets a mysterious man who is ready to join her.

Mr. Boogie
2000
as Claudia Schuhmacher
A comedy directed by Vesna Jovanoska.
Cymbelin
2000
as Imogen

Balzac: A Life of Passion
1999
as Baroness von Galvenberg
This is the sprawling saga of Honoré de Balzac, a man who created a great literary oeuvre from the dramas and adventures of his own life - a life that...

Long Hello and Short Goodbye
1999
as Aurelia
The cop Kahnitz wants to finish off the little gangster Ben. The young undercover policewoman Melody is supposed to tempt him to make his final break....

Queen of the Lake
1998
as Queen
Prince Victor looks in vain for a swan which was wounded by one of his servants. Instead he discovers a beautiful girl with golden hair who has an arr...
Die Rättin
1997
as Damroka
A drama directed by Martin Buchhorn based on the novel by Günter Grass. At the center of the film is artist Marcus Frank, who is informed by a talking...
Beast in the Family
1997
as Connie
Perpetuate a series of murders against members of the aristocratic family Decker. Laura, married to one of them and the city attorney will investigate...
Die Bernauerin
1997
as Agnes Bernauerin
Ich schenk’ Dir die Sterne
1991
as Laura Montesi
An eccentric pop singer from a dreary social background in a Munich suburb turns men's heads by the dozen and makes an unexpected career when a seriou...

Money
1989
as Gabriele Gessmann
One day, Carmen Müller realizes that her husband Werner has been unemployed for months and has accumulated debts of 80,000 DM in their bank account. S...
Faust - Vom Himmel durch die Welt zur Hölle
1988
as Margarete

Maschenka
1987
as Lilli
Film adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's debut novel, 'Mary'.

Paradise
1986
as Angelika
Viktor and Angelika are a straight couple. He is a professor of veterinary science and she has studied art history. Both are more interested in their ...
Der wilde Clown
1986
as Janis

'38 - Vienna Before the Fall
1986
as Carola
The film presents the political events surrounding the Anschluss in March of 1938 through the lives of Carola Hell, a popular young actress at the pre...

Drei gegen drei
1985
as Frau Pelikan
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...
Dormire
1985
as Claudia Danner
Two women meet in a train.

Emilia Galotti
1984
as Emilia Galotti
A tragedy by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.

Die wilden Fünfziger
1983
as Bambi

Who's Going Crazy Here, Doctor?
1981
as Marlene Schulz
Patient No. 7, a man who has been wrongly committed to a psychiatric hospital for years, escapes and embarks on a chaotic journey through the outside ...

Die Leidenschaftlichen
1981
as Lotte

Steppenwolf
1974
as Rosa
In the bourgeois circles of Europe after the Great War, can anything save the modern man? Harry Haller, a solitary intellectual, has all his life fear...
Kochschule Schwarz
N/A
as Gauleiterin