Biography
Franka Potente is a German film actress and singer. She was born on July 22, 1974 in Münster North Rhine-Westphalia and raised in nearby Dülmen. She first appeared in the comedy After Five in the Forest Primeval (1995) and gained critical recognition in the action thriller Lola rennt (released in English as Run Lola Run) (1998). Potente received Germany's highest film and television awards for her performances in Run Lola Run and Opernball. After half a decade of critically acclaimed roles in Ge...
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2021
Writer, Director
An ex-felon returns home from prison and must confront the demons of his past.
The Haunted Swordsman
2019
as The Onibaba Witch
The latest in acclaimed puppeteer Kevin McTurk’s SPIRIT CABINET series follows a ronin samurai on a supernatural quest for vengeance with only a sever...
Princess Emmy
2019
as Queen Karla (voice)
Princess Emmy has a secret gift – she is the only one in the kingdom of Kandis who can speak to horses. She has a wonderful time with her best friends...
Between Worlds
2018
as Julie
Joe, a down-on-his-luck truck driver haunted by the memory of his deceased wife and child, meets Julie, a spiritually gifted woman who enlists his hel...
25 km/h
2018
as Ute
A road movie about two very different brothers who have not seen each other for 20 years: city manager Christian and cabinetmaker Georg, who never le...
Muse
2017
as Susan Gilard
Samuel Salomon, a literature professor, has been off work for almost a year after the tragic death of his girlfriend. Samuel has been suffering from a...
Der Island-Krimi: Tod der Elfenfrau
2016
In Iceland, Elf Commissioner Isolda Thorsdóttir is found shot in an elf park. Crime writer Solveig Karlsdóttir and Inspector Finsen discover a terrifi...
Der Island-Krimi: Der Tote im Westfjord
2016
as Solveig Karlsdóttir
Crime writer Solveig Karlsdottir is pretty successful - although that's not particularly easy in Iceland. After all, with only two murders a year in t...
The Conjuring 2
2016
as Anita Gregory
Lorraine and Ed Warren travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits.
Beate Uhse - das Recht auf Liebe
2011
as Beate Uhse
Beate Uhse was a German pilot and entrepreneur. The only female stunt pilot in Germany in the 1930s, after World War II she started the first sex shop...
Small Lights
2010
as Valerie
Valerie is a self-confident and modern woman - she commutes between L.A., where she works, and Berlin, where she lives with her partner above the roof...
Shanghai
2010
as Leni Müller
An American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed. While he un...
Che: Part Two
2008
as Tania (Haydee Tamara Bunke Bider)
After the Cuban Revolution, Che is at the height of his fame and power. Then he disappears, re-emerging incognito in Bolivia, where he organizes a sma...
The Bridge
2008
as Elfie Bauer
A group of German boys is ordered to protect a small bridge in their home village during the waning months of the second world war. Truckloads of defe...
Manhunt
2008
as Beate Klarsfeld
Nazi hunters Serge and Beate Klarsfeld devoted twelve years of their lives to relentlessly tracking down Klaus Barbie, who had fled to Latin America u...
Eichmann
2007
as Vera Less
Based upon the final confession of Adolf Eichmann, made before his execution in Israel, of his role in Hitler's plan for the final solution.
The Bourne Ultimatum
2007
as Marie Helena Kreutz (archive footage) (uncredited)
Bourne is brought out of hiding once again by reporter Simon Ross who is trying to unveil Operation Blackbriar, an upgrade to Project Treadstone, in a...
Romulus, My Father
2007
as Christina
The story of Romulus, his beautiful wife, Christina, and their struggle in the face of great adversity to bring up their son, Raimond. It is a story o...
Der die Tollkirsche ausgräbt
2006
Director
The film is set in a country house in Germany on that summer day in 1918 when Germany became a republic and the former emperor left the country. Cecil...
The Elementary Particles
2006
as Annabelle
Based on Michel Houellebecq's controversial novel, Atomised (aka The Elementary Particles) focuses on Michael and Bruno, two very different half-broth...
A Life in Suitcases
2005
as Trixie Boudain
Follows Tulse Luper as he is swept into the ill-fortuned tides of the 20th century and forced to spend his life in a succession of imprisonments.
Creep
2004
as Kate
Trapped in a London subway station, a woman who's being pursued by a potential attacker heads into the unknown labyrinth of tunnels beneath the city's...
The Bourne Supremacy
2004
as Marie Helene Kreutz
A CIA operation to purchase classified Russian documents is blown by a rival agent, who then shows up in the sleepy seaside village where Bourne and M...
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea
2004
as Trixie Boudain
The second of three parts, we follow Tulse Luper as he works in a cinema, which gives him ample opportunity to cross paths with virtually every artist...
Blueprint
2003
as Iris Sellin
The story of the first cloned human being - told in her own words: At the age of thirty the world-famous composer Iris Sellin learns that she has an i...
Anatomy 2
2003
as Paula Henning
The doctor and soccer player in the leisure time Jo Hauser decides to move to Berlin and be an intern in a famous clinic, expecting to increase his kn...
I Love Your Work
2003
as Mia Lang
A fictional movie star, Gray Evans, goes through the disintegration of his marriage, his gradual mental breakdown, and his increasing obsession with a...
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story
2003
as Trixie Boudain
The first of three parts, we follow Tulse Luper in three distinct episodes: as a child during the first World War, as an explorer in Mormon Utah, and ...
Try Seventeen
2002
as Jane
Teenager Jones has opted not to go to college and is instead renting a room in a boarding house to work on his writing skills. Soon, Jones finds himse...
The Bourne Identity
2002
as Marie Helena Kreutz
Wounded to the brink of death and suffering from amnesia, Jason Bourne is rescued at sea by a fisherman. With nothing to go on but a Swiss bank accoun...
La mer
2002
A man is swimming in the ocean. Suddenly he is hit by something. Unconsciously he drops to the bottom. When he wakes up on the beach again everything ...
Storytelling
2001
as Toby's Editor
College and high school serve as the backdrop for two stories about dysfunction and personal turmoil.
Blow
2001
as Barbara Buckley
A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her husband as he is trying to make a living for the family....
The Princess and the Warrior
2000
as Simone 'Sissi' Schmidt
Young nurse Sissi lives a secluded life entirely devoted to her patients at Birkenhof asylum. Her first encounter with ex-soldier and drifter Bodo has...
Anatomy
2000
as Paula
Medical student Paula wins a place at an exclusive Heidelberg medical school. When the body of a young man she met on the train turns up on her dissec...
Paradise Mall
1999
as Mona Wendt
Südsee, eigene Insel
1999
as Kassiererin
Downhill City
1999
as Peggy
A handful of disparate people in Berlin are drawn to the same residential hotel in the drama Downhill City. Finnish musician Artsi heads to Berlin in...
Am I Beautiful?
1998
as Linda
Between Munich and Seville, the destinies of sixteen characters intertwine and intersect, missing each other or colliding head-on. They are all, witho...
Run Lola Run
1998
as Lola
Lola receives a phone call from her boyfriend Manni. He lost 100,000 DM in a subway train that belongs to a very bad guy. She has 20 minutes to raise ...
Opera ball
1998
as Gabrielle Becker
The Vienna State Opera on Thursday before the Carnival. As every year the large ball rather is attended by celebrities from politics and the media. Ju...
Blood Sisters
1997
as Lisa Manocci
Melanie can't stand her life anymore, a source of too much suffering. One day she decides to end it all and sets off in a stolen car on a suicidal rac...
Die drei Mädels von der Tankstelle
1997
as Lena
Wigald, a spoiled offspring, is no good with women. He finds solace with a psychiatrist and love with his poodle. When his mother dies, he is only all...
Coming In
1997
as Nina
Copywriter Lorenz is gay and has a relationship with his boss Adrian. The two are happy together until Lorenz meets secretary Nina one day. Nina has j...
It's a Jungle Out There
1995
as Anna
Anna, 17 years old, is happy to throw her first big birthday party without her parents, but some of her guests are so stoned that they leave a big cha...