Thorsten Merten
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Known For:Acting
Birthday:1963-12-01
Place of Birth:Ruhla, Germany
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The Elementary Particles (2006)
Based on Michel Houellebecq's controversial novel, Atomised (aka The Elementary Particles) focuses on Michael and Bruno, two very different...

Grill Point (2002)
In the style of a documentary this tragic comedy tells the story of a relationship crisis between two married couples and their longing to break out...

Sprachlos in Irland (2021)
For Connie, things have been going to plan for many years, both professionally and in her private life. That is, until the son of the CEO takes over...

Operation Valkyrie (2004)
In 1944, a group of high command officers plot an attempt against Hitler, and one of the leaders of the conspiracy, Stauffenberg, goes to a meeting...

November Child (2008)
Malchow, German Democratic Republic, 1980. 20-year-old Anne is hiding Juri, a deserter of the Red Army. The two fall in love with each other. But...

Miss Merkel - Ein Uckermark-Krimi (2023)
Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel is retired and lives with her husband and pug in a small town. She is bored with the quiet life. When a man is...

Locked in Society (2022)
On a Friday afternoon, there was an unexpected knock on the door of the staff room of a city high school. An ambitious father is willing to go to...

Four Windows (2006)
They want to get away from each other, but they clasp each other even more firmly. They seek to save appearances at all force. The more they laugh,...

Gun-shy (2003)
Dito Tsintsadze's drama focuses on a loner whose life changes dramatically, when he gets to know a beautiful, but strange girl. Lukas, a young man...

What You Can See from Here (2022)
On a beautiful spring day, a small village full of eccentric characters wake up to hear Selma has had a premonition: she dreamt of a rare animal...

Kleine Eheverbrechen (2023)
After a blow to the head, Gilles wakes up in the hospital. He knows that his wife Lisa caused the injury. The act is the result of years of...

I've Never Been Happier (2009)
Success is a question of confidence, particularly in times of crisis. Life would be unbearable if there weren’t beautiful things to brighten it...

Wahrheit oder Pflicht (2005)
Annika's life and experiences as a young woman include peculiar sex, an unfortunately cold best friend, a terrible tutor/boyfriend, and a sensible...

Lunik (2007)
The Hotel Lunik is a refuge for a group of radical utopists. In the center of it all, are the Siblings Franz and Babette, who through their...

Hunting Season (2022)
In the German comedy Jagdsaison, a wellness weekend for three friends is in danger of derailing: Marlene is in a serious midlife crisis and is...

Alfons Jitterbit – Class Trip Chaos! (2022)
After oversleeping yet again, Alfons manages to catch the bus to his class trip to the Baltic Sea at the last minute. In his luggage: lots of...

Die Frau am Ende der Straße (2007)
Maren Eggert and Matthias Brandt star in this drama about a family, trying to start a new life, which fails because of the mother's mental disease....

Kohlhaas or the Proportionality of Means (2013)
Deep in the Bavarian countryside Kleist’s historical drama Michael Kohlhaas is being shot. But instead of shooting a huge epic with impressive...

Silvi - Maybe Love (2013)
Silvi is in her late forties. Her husband has just left her. Until this point, she was fairly content with her life, but now everything is in ruins....

Der zweite Mann (2013)
A young financial auditor, promoted to his first serious position, soon finds himself following in the fatal footsteps of his predecessor.

Ruhm (2012)
A nameless man receives phone calls intended for someone else and ends up pretending to be that person, while a female character rebels against her...

Willkommen bei Habib (2014)
Four men’s destinies slam into each other and intertwine on four balmy summer nights. Old wounds are reopened, new ones appear, unexpectedly...

Der Rücktritt (2014)
In 2012 German Bundespraesident Christian Wulff declares his resignation in the great hall of Bellevue Palace. At the side of his wife, he had to...

Haltet die Welt an (2010)
Katja Winzer lives with her eight-year-old son Tobias and her partner Jürgen in a small town near Bremerhaven. When Tobias does not come home...

Der zweite Kurzschluss (2023)
Bettina and Martin meet again, one year later on New Year's Eve. This time, they are trapped in the backroom of Moosbach's sports hall since Martin...

Open the Wall (2014)
A lighthearted look at the opening of the border crossing of Bornholmer Straße in Berlin from the point of view of the confused border guards.

We Are Young. We Are Strong. (2014)
On 24th August 1992 in the eastern German city of Rostock a rampaging mob, to the applause and cheering of more than 3,000 bystanders, besieged and...

Night to be Gone (2024)
Omer and Carine move restlessly from place to place and keep their heads above water with tournaments at the pool table. Both are on the run from...

Roxy (2024)
The life of a taxi driver is to not judge or get involved. It's to go where he's told to go, for a price. One day, Thomas gets a group of odd...

Sunny (2013)
Young 19-year-old Hajo wrestles with caring for his 6-month-old son and finding both work and his role of being a father.

Auf Doktor komm raus (2010)
Actually, the young Berlin doctor Jan Büchner wanted to go directly to the Baltic Sea for a week. But a detour forces him to drive over land....

Sushi in Suhl (2012)
One evening in the mid-sixties, Rolf Anschütz, a chef who runs a small restaurant in a town called Suhl in the middle of the East German...

Gravity (2010)
The story of a seemingly settled bank employee who breaks the shackles of his everyday life and becomes a wanderer between worlds. Frederik is an...

Naked Among Wolves (2015)
Taking place at the Concentration camp Buchenwald at the end of March 1945, prisoner Hans Pippig discovers in a carrying case of an incoming prisoner...

Foreign Body (2015)
Wolfgang follows a ransom note from his supposed illegal kidney donor Irina back to Istanbul, the city which he would love to erase from memory....

Der Fall Marianne Voss (2024)
Griesenow, 2013: The hairdresser Marianne Voss is found dead in the forest by her daughter Heike. Shortly afterwards, her husband Karsten comes under...

Schneeweißchen und Rosenrot (2012)
A poor peasant woman lives in a cabin in the woods. She grows two rose-trees in front of her house, one with white roses and one with red. When the...

From Hilde with Love (2024)
In Berlin 1942, Hilde is a member of an anti-Nazi group. She falls in love with another member, Hans. The two spend a summer together until they get...

Silent Country (1992)
A young, naive and enthusiastic theater director named Kai comes to a grim provincial town to put on Beckett's Waiting for Godot. Although the...

A Dangerous Fortune (2016)
A shocking secret behind a young boy's death leads to three generations of treachery in the midst of the wealth and decadence of Victorian England.

The Last Pig (2016)
Plum out of luck, Swabian farmer Huber’s farm goes under. Then his girlfriend Birgit takes over her father’s newly-acquired firm –...

Weisst du eigentlich dass ganz viele Blumen blühen im Park (2011)

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

Charlotte (2004)
A woman travels by train. She is trapped between her memories of a love affair she had ended and her search for freedom. Her destiny depends on the...

In Times of Fading Light (2017)
Just before the fall of the Berlin Wall, the birthday celebrations of an East German family turn into a tragicomical moment of political and personal...

The Golden Goose (2013)
Simpleton is a poor carpenter's apprentice. Everyone makes fun of his naivete. His greatest wish is to make the sad Princess happy. When he gets a...

Heil (2015)
An African-German Author loses his memory and is used by a modern National Socialist Party as promotion-figure for more political power over Germany.

Tiger Milk (2017)
Best friends Nini and Jameelah are both 14 years old and live in the same housing complex in Berlin. Jameelah's family is from Iraq and might be...

Gundermann (2018)
The real life story of East German singer and writer Gerhard Gundermann and his struggles with music, life as a coal miner and his dealings with the...

Rübezahls Schatz (2017)
The mountain spirit Rübezahl falls in love with the young maid Rosa. Blind with love, he does not notice that the Baroness of Harrant wants to...

Das Nebelhaus (2017)
Four former classmates, Philipp, Leonie, Timo and Yasmin arrange reunion over the weekend in one of Philipp's properties. Philipp's wife and daughter...

Hit Mom – Mörderische Weihnachten (2017)
Hanni works around the clock as a cleaning lady. She has to because her husband, whom she loves, has not exactly shown himself to be a support...

Brothers (2017)
A young man is searching for his place in the world. He finds his way, religion and his "brothers" in the radical Islam. What begins with the wish of...

The Most Beautiful Girl in the World (2018)
17-year-old Cyril is funny, smart and an all-round good guy. Just his somewhat overlarge nose spoils the picture. On a school trip to Berlin with...

Good Girl Gone Bad (2019)
West Germany, 1983. Seventeen-year-old Ursula wants it all and is thus too much, although all she's looking for is love. Enter Siegfried Grimm, the...

Atlas (2018)
Walter is a 60-year-old removal man for forced evictions. He recognizes in one of the tenants about to be evicted his estranged son, Jan. In order to...

Rough Road Ahead (2015)
Germany, 1967. Ruby & Martin, a young couple, are rehearsing their uprising. The price is high: expulsion from school, parental violence, and...

Stopped on Track (2011)
Frank and Simone have fulfilled a dream and live with their two children in a row house in the suburbs. They are a happy couple, until the day Frank...

Donbass (2018)
In the historic Donbass region of eastern Ukraine, despite the cruel war that has been raging since 2014 between the self-proclaimed People's...

Nothing More Perfect (2020)
The full attention of everyone - just for a moment in time. Maya is sixteen and tries to find online-fame and understanding through a...

Sooner or Later (2007)
Nora is fourteen and lives with her parents in a quiet Berlin suburb. She is a romantic introvert who spends her day retreated into her own enchanted...

Curveball (2021)
Although he already has searched Iraq unsuccessfully for weapons of mass destruction as a member of a UN mission, German bio-weapons expert Arndt...

Der vierte Mann (2019)
A kidnapped musician and his missing violin are the prelude to a series of murders whose victims were deeply involved in business connections between...

Alfons Zitterbacke (2019)
Clumsy peculiar pupil Alfons Zitterbacke dreams of being an astronaut and wreaks havoc anywhere he goes but against all odds wants to proof everyone...

Oben - Unten (1994)
Comedy drama about one of life's perennial losers who finally strikes it lucky with a beautiful woman, but not before experiencing the usual...

In Berlin wächst kein Orangenbaum (2020)
After 14 years of prison Nabil is released and thrown back into his life.

Exit (2020)
Year 2047: "Inifinitalk" is the AI developed by some guys, offering possible eternal life through digitization of peoples mind and when they want to...

The Audition (2019)
Anna teaches violin at a music school, her husband is an instrument-maker. They have a 10-year-old son, Jonas. At school, Anna champions young...

Bach - A Christmas Miracle (2024)
Leipzig, December 1734: Christmas brings the Bach family together. The first snow has fallen and the children Gottfried and Elisabeth are delighted...

Der Held vom Bahnhof Friedrichstraße (1970)
All his life, Michael Hartung, owner of a hopelessly debt-ridden video store, has bet on the wrong horse. When an ambitious journalist confronts him...

Die Nichte des Polizisten (1970)
A group of young, ambitious candidates for a special police unit in Baden-Württemberg are driven to perform at their best. One of them is...

The Last Word (2020)
A story about a funeral eulogy speaker who loses faith in her work and tries to sabotage her husband's funeral.

Die Chefin (2012)
First Police Chief Inspector Vera Lanz, a Munich police detective, attempts to balance her professional and private life.

Wolffs Revier (1992)
Wolffs Revier is a German television series.

Der Kriminalist (2006)
Der Kriminalist is a German television series produced by Monaco Film Hamburg, subsidiary of Odeon Film. Directors during the first season were...

Bella Block (1993)
Bella Block is a long-running German detective television series starring Hannelore Hoger, first broadcast in 1994 on ZDF. In 2010 the 30th series...

Stubbe – Von Fall zu Fall (1995)
Stubbe – Von Fall zu Fall is a German crime detective television series starring Wolfgang Stumph as detective Stubbe. It is being broadcast on...

Donna Leon (2000)
Murder, Venice, relationships...it's a delicious concoction in the hands of crime novelist Donna Leon. Venice provides the backdrop for the lush film...

Donna Leon (2000)
Murder, Venice, relationships...it's a delicious concoction in the hands of crime novelist Donna Leon. Venice provides the backdrop for the lush film...

Bloch (2002)
Bloch is a German television series.

Helen Dorn (2014)
Helen Dorn is an expert Police Commissioner, who’s years of experience have given her killer instinct when it comes to crime. On the department...

Scene of the Crime (1970)
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the...

Polizeiruf 110 (1971)
Polizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic...

Scene of the Crime (1970)
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the...

The Gryphon (2023)
The Gryphon, a dark power from another world, is a threat to Mark and all he loves. Mark must accept his heavy family legacy and go into battle to...

Scene of the Crime (1970)
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the...

SOKO Köln (2003)
The SOKO Köln investigates the cathedral city with humor and often with hard work. Their cases take them into a variety of environments, from...

Vienna Crime Squad (2005)
SOKO Donau is an Austrian television series.

Divided We Stand (2022)
ZERV" tells of the first years after the fall of the Wall, the breaks in life courses, of completely different biographies and of the successful...

SOKO Leipzig (2001)
SOKO Leipzig is a German police procedural television programme, a spin-off of the earlier German police programme SOKO 5113. It was first broadcast...

Hamburg Dockland (2007)
Shows the interaction between Hamburg police officers and paramedics.

Wilsberg (1995)
Georg Wilsberg is an antiquarian in Münster. He used to be a lawyer but lost his license. Since then he has been working as a private detective....

Coast Guard (1997)
Küstenwache is a German television series that tells the fictionalized adventures of a unit of Federal Coast Guard officers off the German coast...

Berlin Bad Trip (2023)
Jannik and Tai, mobbed by their classmates, are two 17-year-old students who one day find their school principal drunk as a skunk on the...

Scene of the Crime (1970)
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the...

Scene of the Crime (1970)
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the...

Bruder - Schwarze Macht (2017)
"Bruder - Schwarze Macht" is about the radicalization of the adolescent German-Turkish Melih and his older sister Sibel, who tries to get him out of...

Kommissar Stolberg (2006)
Stolberg is a German detective television series, starring chief inspector Martin Stolberg. The series is more serious and less flashy than other...

SOKO Kitzbühel (2001)
SOKO Kitzbühel is an Austrian television series produced by ORF and ZDF. It is a spin-off of the German crime series SOKO 5113. It is set in the...

Der Kriminalist (2006)
Der Kriminalist is a German television series produced by Monaco Film Hamburg, subsidiary of Odeon Film. Directors during the first season were...

Scene of the Crime (1970)
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the...

Scene of the Crime (1970)
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the...

Scene of the Crime (1970)
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the...

Babylon Berlin (2017)
Beneath the decadence of 1929 Berlin, lies an underworld city of sin. Police investigator Gereon Rath has been transferred from Cologne to the...

Sam: A Saxon (2023)
Based on the true story of Sam Meffire’s rise and fall in East Germany, this miniseries follows Sam’s desperate search for a place he can...

Scene of the Crime (1970)
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the...

The Next Level (2025)
Rosa Bernhard, a young journalist, investigates the death of an American tourist named Zofia, who died following a night out at a nightclub called...