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Complete Filmography

Ein fast perfekter Antrag
2026
as Alice
Grumpy widower Walter lives alone with his dog in Regensburg and spends his time writing restaurant reviews on the internet. But when he meets his old...
75 Jahre ARD - Die große Jubiläumsshow
2025
as Self

Weddings and Wokes: A Family Dilemma
2024
as Dorothea Böttcher
Anna and Thomas want to get married in the South Tyrolean Alps. However, Stephan's daughter Antigone and the family clan bring so much chaos to the pl...

Iris Berben - Ein persönliches Porträt
2024
She is the grande dame of German and international cinema, always a bit of a rocker chick, freedom-loving, adventurous and willing to take risks. This...

Kreis der Wahrheit
2024
as Self
Two sisters from Vienna, Helga Feldner-Busztin and Elisabeth Scheiderbauer, recount their deportation as children - ages seven and fourteen - with the...

Sukowa - Playful Like A Child
2024
“Acting is something anyone can do,” says Barbara Sukowa. “It’s completely intuitive and instinctual, much like a child dressing up.” Those who have w...

791 km
2023
as Marianne
5 people of different personalities have to take a taxi from Munich to Hamburg, as the train service is canceled. The strangers discover that every on...

Trauzeugen
2023
as Dr. Kober
A divorce lawyer and a couples therapist, both completely different, must, as witnesses, save their best friends' wedding at all costs.

Paradise
2023
as Sophie Theissen (alt)
A man sees the dark side of the time-manipulating biotech company he works for when a crushing debt forces his wife to give up 40 years of her own lif...

Family Affairs
2022
as Dorothea
The Berger and Böttcher families come to Dorothea's finca on Lanzarote for a weekend trip. The mood is tense and escalates as various mysteries are re...

Triangle of Sadness
2022
as Therese
A celebrity model couple are invited on a luxury cruise for the uber-rich, helmed by an unhinged, alcoholic captain. What first appears Instagrammable...

Und dann steht einer auf und öffnet das Fenster
2022
as Karla Jenner
Karla, a strong, sensual and experienced woman, learns that she has terminal cancer. She only has a few months left. After a wild life as a photograph...

Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life
2021
as Self

Das Unwort
2020
as Dr. Gisela Nüssen-Winkelmann
After a Jewish boy was harassed by his classmates for months, an argument breaks out between the overwhelmed parents, the class teacher and the school...

Mein Altweibersommer
2020
as Ebba
Ebba, a successful food chemist, has a terrible dream in which she gives birth to a healthy bear cub. For her, this is a sign from fate that something...

Nicht tot zu kriegen
2020
as Simone Mankus
Simone Mankus is a woman in her prime who has left little out in her life. The former showbiz diva is a child of the late 60s, endowed with humor, a s...

Lang lebe die Königin
2020
as Rose Just
The young sales presenter Nina Just is not respected in the slightest by her mother Rose, who lives in a farmhouse with her partner Werner. The young ...

How About Adolf?
2018
as Dorothea
The family dinner at Stephan and Elisabeth could have been wonderful. But when Thomas announces that he and his pregnant girlfriend Anna are going to ...

Crossroads
2018
as Hanne Dührsen
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.

Alt, aber Polt
2018
as Mira Martell
Simon Polt (Erwin Steinhauer) is no longer a gendarme. Arrived in retirement, he participates cheerfully in the Weinviertel on village life. When a co...

High Society
2017
as Trixi von Schlacht
Two girls from very different social backgrounds discover, at the age of 25, that they had been switched at birth.

Godless Youth
2017
as Direktorin
German students compete to enter one of the country's elite schools.

Conni & Co 2 - Das Geheimnis des T-Rex
2017
as Marianne Klawitter
Teenager Connie and her friends try to save an island full of nature and place of their encounters from being destroyed by the construction of a hotel...
Familie!
2016
as Lea Behrwaldt
The focus is on a family - or what one might think of it today: a wide variety of characters and interests collide when people grow together into a fa...

Conni & Co
2016
as Oma Marianne
A young girl goes through the ups and downs of school-life.

Show What You Love
2016
as Herself
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 Türken...

Shakespeares letzte Runde
2016
as Titania

Eddie the Eagle
2016
as Petra
The feel-good story of Michael 'Eddie' Edwards, an unlikely but courageous British ski-jumper who never stopped believing in himself—even as an entire...

Alki Alki
2015
as Galina Iwanowa Schnurkinowa
Tobias and Flasche are childhood friends. However, their alcoholic friendship is doing more harm than good to Tobias, who realizes he should focus on ...

The Wagner-Clan
2015
as Cosima Wagner
After the death of genius Richard Wagner his wife Cosima fights for his legacy even against the will of her children Sigmund and Sieglinde.

Die Neue
2015
as Eva
Eva is a passionate teacher. After the death of her mother, she tries to find a new direction in life. Then Sevda, a Turkish girl, joins her class. Sh...

Die Eisläuferin
2015
as Katharina Wendt
Chaos in the Chancellery: Prime Minister Katharina Wendt loses her memory during a spontaneous trip with husband Helmuth and wakes up every morning si...

Dreamgirls
2015
as Margaux Reimann
Parallel love stories of three young women in Berlin: Hannah - an unhappy attorney who sexually demeans herself in order to get at least some love and...

Das Zeugenhaus
2014
as Gräfin Belavar
Witnesses about to testify at the Nuremberg War Trials needed a safe place to wait. All under one roof, each with their own secrets. And the countess ...

Der Mann, der Udo Jürgens ist
2014
as Herself
The moving story and amazing new insights into the life of the legendary entertainer! Udo Jürgens looks back on his life and career with disarming hon...

Sternstunde ihres Lebens
2014
as Elisabeth Selbert
Bonn 1948. The member of parliament and lawyer Elisabeth Selbert fights tirelessly for the inclusion of the sentence "Men and women have equal rights"...

Miss Sixty
2014
as Luise Jansen
Now that we’re all living longer and “40 is the new 30,” why can’t 60 be the new 40? That’s what Louise and Frans think when they embark on bold new l...

Ein weites Herz
2013
as Petra Vermehren
When Isa provokes the Nazis with a satirical song at her graduation party, she is denied her degree despite passing her exams. She has to give up her ...

Stille
2013
as Amanda
Harry Cliewer, a famous television journalist, is at the height of his career. His daring interview with a top banker becomes a scandal and a ratings ...

Die Kronzeugin - Mord in den Bergen
2013
as Evelyn Frank / Eva Bernhardt
In her former life, Eva Bernhardt was called Evelyn Frank and was a notorious brothel owner in Berlin. But then she decided to testify as a key witnes...

The Pursuit of Unhappiness
2012
as Tiffanys Mutter
Based on the best-selling psychology book by Paul Watzlawick, the film tells the story of Tiffany Blechschmid, a neurotic, moony, superstitious, contr...

Years of Love
2011
as Vera
Vera Lenz meets up with her divorced husband Uli again after years. They have decided to sell their former house on the North Sea to finally draw a li...
Niemand ist eine Insel
2011
as Sylvia Moran
Silvia's career as an actress goes into decline after a few unfortunate statements recorded with a microphone hidden in his dressing room. On the othe...

My Family kills me
2011
as Helen
Helen, in her early 50s, really doesn't know which problem she should solve first: her husband seems to be cheating on her, the children are in terrib...

Die Prinzessin auf der Erbse
2010
as Schwester des Königs
The king turns 70 in a few days, when he is supposed to give up his crown. His sister has waited for this day all her life: Finally, she will step out...

Tiger Team: The Mountain of 1000 Dragons
2010
as Lady Q
The Viennese detective children Biggi, Patrick and Luke find a key in dragon form, and their curiosity is aroused. They realize that the sinister Lad...

Kennedy's Brain
2010
as Louise Cantor
A young Swedish freelance investigative journalist dies under mysterious circumstances in South Africa, and his mother sets off in a relentless pursui...

The Day Will Come
2009
as Judith
Thirty years after giving her daughter up for adoption in order to join the terrorist underground in Germany, Judith is tracked down by her now adult ...

Horst Schlämmer - Isch kandidiere!
2009
as Self
So far he has earned his living as deputy editor-in-chief at the Grevenbroicher Tagblatt, but actually Horst Schlämmer had always guessed: he was dest...
Kommissar Süden und das Geheimnis der Königin
2009
as Soraya Roos

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

Der russische Geliebte
2008
as Julia Neumann
When Julia, a frustrated literature professor, gets the opportunity to teach in Paris for one year, the dream of her life comes true. Living in a smal...

Gott schützt die Liebenden
2008
as Sybille Loredo alias Victoria Brunswick
The daily confrontation with the darkest abysses of the human soul has turned war reporter Paul Holland into an incorrigible cynic. Only one thing kee...

Duel at Night
2007
as Isabella Wellingsen
The committed inspector Jonas Birke, just new to the Frankfurt homicide squad, only has this one night left. The next day, his superior Lehm wants to ...

Suddenly Gina
2007
as Bundeskanzlerin
Laurens works for the German Minister of Finance and is an extremely correct and conscientious person. He knows his way around numbers, but less so wi...

Die Mauer – Berlin '61
2006
as Lavinia Kellermann
August 1961: To earn a bit of West German money, East Berlin "plaselayer" Hans Kuhlke smuggles scrap metal to his friend Erwin Sawatzke in West Berlin...

Silberhochzeit
2006
as Alma
Based on a short story by Elke Heidenreich, this TV movie focuses on a couple's silver wedding party and the revelation of some bitter, long hidden se...
Schöne Witwen küssen besser
2004
as Corinna Herrmann
Con artist Corinna seizes the opportunity and slips into the role of a baron's widow. She manages to gain access to the chambers of a billionaire in N...
Das Kommando
2004
as Dr. Ellen Büchner
General Heinz Büchner is in charge of a special unit of the German army. His son Christopher is a member of the unit. They get the mission to take out...

Die schöne Braut in Schwarz
2004
as Sylvia Rosch
Sylvia Rosch is a woman with dangerous obsessions. Camouflaged by perfectly rehearsed masquerades, she wages a merciless campaign of revenge. Anyone w...
Dienstreise - Was für eine Nacht
2003
as Rita Lehmann
Tragicomic, the hero entangled in a strange, strange world. In addition, Armin Rohde rumbles in use for fun and hilarious commission through the scene...
Wer liebt, hat Recht
2002
as Maja
Based on an autobiographic novel by Anita Lenz, the movie focuses on a apparently happy couple whose marriage turns out to be a big lie. Maja, author ...

Beloved Sister
2002
as Claire
Claire returns to her parental home as an adult. She has been in a wheelchair since childhood, having lost a foot in an accident at the age of six. Sh...

666: In Bed with the Devil
2002
as Iris Berben
Frank Faust is a born loser. At some point it even becomes too much for his great love, Jennifer, who leaves him and flees to Munich. Frank's desperat...

Ein mörderischer Plan
2001
as Dr. psych. Luisa Büchner
Psychologist Luisa, unable to heal herself, retreats to an East Frisian island for peace, only to encounter her former love Robert and be drawn into a...

The Beast
2000
as Lea Hoffmann
An adulterous woman draws a meticulous plan to murder her husband with the help of her lover, a much younger man. Committed the crime, they move to a ...
Gefährliche Träume - Das Geheimnis einer Frau
2000
as Nora Bruhn
Todesflug
2000
as Marlene
Todsünden – Die zwei Gesichter einer Frau
1999
as Cathrin / Vera
A woman emotionally kills her twin sister and slips into her role, but the dead's dark past catches up with her.

Der Solist – Kein Weg zurück
1999
as Maja Stein
In Hamburg, a suspicious crash and mafia-style killings hinge on witness Maja Stein, who demands protection. Detectives Lanart and Marquardt hide her ...
Die Zauberfrau
1999
as Charlotte Pfeffer

Das Miststück
1998
as Anna Maron
When Anna Maron follows her brutal husband after a violent argument, she catches him with his mistress to make matters worse. Completely distraught, A...

Am I Beautiful?
1998
as Rita
Between Munich and Seville, the destinies of sixteen characters intertwine and intersect, missing each other or colliding head-on. They are all, witho...

Lady Rettich, Czerni and I
1998
as Frau Rettich
When Marie embarks on a road trip to a small seaside town, she’s joined by her quirky best friend Czerni and the eccentric, free-spirited schoolteache...
Ultimate Trespass
1998
as Christine Wagner
Christine Wagner is raped by a burglar in her house while her husband Stefan is on a business trip. When she later wants to report the break-in and th...

Andrea and Marie
1998
as Marie
Die sieben Feuer des Todes
1997
as Marta Weber
Firefighters Stefan and Johannes and psychologist Marta Weber, Stefan's girlfriend, are targeted by the psychopathic arsonist Kovacz. Johannes is kill...
Der stille Herr Genardy
1997
as Sigrid Pelzer
Simones Entscheidung
1997
as Simone
Architect shuttles between two husbands.

The Killer Condom
1996
as Frau Dr. Riffleson
In New York City, detective Luigi Mackeroni investigates a string of mysterious penile mutilations at the Hotel Quickie. After Mackeroni attempts to h...

Peanuts - Die Bank zahlt alles
1996
as Dr. Greta Goerre
Building contractor Jochen Schuster takes out loans worth millions to finance a dubious building project and fulfill the extravagant wishes of his lov...
Der gefälschte Sommer
1996
as Bettina Wagner
Verliebte Feinde
1995
as Kristina Bouvier

Rudy, the Racing Pig
1995
as Almut Gützkow
Flat-dwelling urban family win a pig in a raffle, and decide to keep it. They lose their flat (no pets allowed) but eventually Rudi the pig makes good...
Tod in Miami
1994
as Susanne Evers
Susanne's dream vacation in Florida ends in tragedy. She learns that she has been cheated on by her husband Michael and a little later he is killed by...

Le Silence du cœur
1994
After losing her husband and finding herself alone with her son, a woman learns the cause of her mother's death when she was seven years old.
Im Himmel hört Dich niemand weinen
1993
as Dora Mar
Ein Mann für meine Frau
1993
as Susanne Ahlemann
Christinas Seitensprung
1993
as Christina Faber
Sommerliebe
1993
as Franziska
Das große Fest
1992
as Johanna
Brothers Friedrich and Richard inherit their father’s seaside hotel after reunification. Ambitious Western businessman Friedrich plots a massive devel...
Cosimas Lexikon
1992
as Cosima Richter
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Cosima Richter's East Berlin apartment building is to be renovated. Cosima is furious about the project and visits ...

Rochade
1992
as Zdenka
At the centre of Peter Patzak's existentialist film noir stands the hopeless struggle against the arms mafia in Czechoslovakia and its connections wit...
Verflixte Leidenschaft
1992
as Julia / Elke Steinman / Barbara
Dornberger
1992
as Lilli

The Frog Prince
1991
as Königin
When a young princess, instead of being fully dedicated to her love, persists in running around like a tomboy and roaming the forests with her gang, a...
Altes Herz wird nochmal jung
1991
as Henriette
A movie with three episodes starring Johannes Heesters.

St. Petri Schnee
1991
In Morwede, a remote Westphalian village, the doctor meets Dr. Amberg in the 1930s.

Lex Minister
1990
Minister Otto Sauer has just resigned. As usual, he walks over to the Eden Bar to muse about the rise and the fall of the mighty. This time, however, ...
Das Geheimnis des gelben Geparden
1990
as Miriam
Since the death of her husband, a yellow cheetah has been the companion of the attractive Miriam. When the animal falls ill, the woman seeks the help ...

Karambolage
1989
as Nina Achtermann
Dr. Philipp Achtermann, a microbiologist from the GDR, was attending a conference in Frankfurt on business. On the return journey with his wife Nina, ...

Drei D
1988
as Host
The film by a film student making his graduation film about a film student making his graduation film.
Tagebuch für einen Mörder
1988
as Liz Ferber
Only a short time left until Max Telligan's diary is finished. Hollywood is already interested in the book's film rights. US producer Terry Wilde make...
Ein naheliegender Mord
1988
as Julia
Flohr und die Traumfrau
1987
as Gast
Rückfahrt in den Tod
1986
as Conny van Haagen
Paul Kranz, the manager of a TEE that had just arrived from Hamburg, received terrible news in Paris. His wife Ruth is in a coma after a serious traff...
Beinahe Trinidad
1985

Rallye Paris-Dakar
1984
as Vera Beck
1984 Dakar Rally also known as the 1984 Paris–Dakar Rally was the 6th running of the Dakar Rally event. The course was extended through Ivory Coast, G...

Sigi, der Straßenfeger
1984
as Jane Wolff
Street sweeper Sigi finds a box containing not only 300,000 marks, but also a photo of his unsympathetic superior in a compromising situation. Sigi th...

Tapetenwechsel
1984
as Laura
Munich with a housing shortage. Mona is given notice to leave the apartment: personal use. The landlady's son, a new "doctor", is to move in. Without ...
Ein Mann namens Parvus
1984

Schwarzfahrer
1983
as Lisa
Chris, Alois and Harry keep their heads above water in West Berlin with small robberies and odd jobs. When they manage to rob an armored car coming fr...

Oh Dear Harry!
1981
as Jane
Down-on-his-luck private detective Harry Werner just wants a quiet life, but trouble always finds him. When he stumbles into a case involving a missin...
Die Baronin - Fontane machte sie unsterblich
1981
as Elisabeth v. Ardenne - young
Das Fräulein von Scuderi
1976
as Madelon
Duet for Three
1976
Abschied vom Abschied
1974
Der Fall Eleni Voulgari
1971
as Seleni

Supergirl
1971
as Fancesca Farnese
In this comedy, Iris Berben plays a mysterious, supernaturally beautiful girl from another planet, who confuses and flusters the men on earth, where s...

Compañeros
1970
as Lola
Arms dealer Yolaf Peterson aims to make a sale to guerilla Mongo, but the money is locked in a bank safe, the combination known only to Professor Xant...

Love 600
1970
as Eva
Eva is the object of rich Sugar Daddy's affection. But while he showers her with gifts, she wants someone younger - namely Erich, who's more her style...

Detective
1969
as Annabella Quant
Andy and Sebastian want to make a lot of money in a quick and easy way. Inspired by the movies, they become private investigators. Their first case ha...

Brandstifter
1969
as Iris
Anka, a student active in the extra-parliamentary opposition, has had enough of inconsequential discussions. As she no longer believes that she can ch...

The Man with the Glass Eye
1969
as Ann
A man is found dead in a London hotel. The knife is still firmly stuck in the victim's chest, and Inspector Perkins strangely finds a glass eye in his...
Das Mißverständnis
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A nun leaves the monastery to do some shopping. Due to a satanic misunderstanding, she becomes a triple murderer.