Simon Verhoeven
Simon Verhoeven is a German actor, screenwriter and film director. He is the son of the actor Senta Berger and the director Michael Verhoeven. His filmography as an actor includes Bride of the Wind (2001) and The Sinking of the Laconia (2010).
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Männerherzen... und die ganz ganz große Liebe
The sequel of the "Men in the city" movie which reunites all the characters.
Männerherzen
Fünf Männer auf der Suche nach der großen Liebe und etwas Glück. Doch was heißt es heute ein Mann zu sein und was erwarten Frauen eigentlich von Männern. Fünf Lebensentwürfe, die aufeinander prallen, fünf Wahrheiten, die berühren.(NalafischSkypig)
Mogadischu
In 1977, skyjackers abduct Lufthansa Flight 181, subsequently involving Germany's special operations unit GSG 9 to free all the hostages.
Stellungswechsel
The subject of male prostitution gets a distinctly zany and offbeat twist in Stellungswechsel (AKA Special Escort), Maggie Peren's tale of five male underdogs who promulgate themselves as female escorts in the city of Munich.
Der Fischer und seine Frau
Otto and Leo are two men from Germany who have launched a successful business in which they import koi, the beautiful Japanese fish, for collectors in their native land. While on a business trip to Japan, Otto and Leo meet Ida, a German tourist who is studying fashion design.
Das Wunder von Bern
The movie deals with the championship-winning German soccer team of 1954. Its story is linked with two others: The family of a young boy is split due to the events in World War II, and the father returns from Russia after eleven years. The second story is about a reporter and his wife reporting from the tournament.
Bride of the Wind
A biopic of Alma Mahler, the wife of composer Gustav Mahler (as well as Walter Gropius and Franz Werfel), and the mistress of Oskar Kokoschka.
My Mother's Courage
The deportation of 4000 Jews from Budapest to Auschwitz in July 1944, as told by George Tabori, and how the narrator's mother escaped it, owing to coincidence, courage and some help from where you'd least expect it.