Brigitte Mira

Kino im Rausch - Die Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo (2022)

Große Klappe, großes Herz (2018)

Who is the funniest Berliner? Helga Hahnemann or Edith Hancke, Brigitte Mira or Cindy from Marzahn? rbb television is looking for the Berliner with the biggest mouth and the even bigger heart. Who will be number 1? To this day, they inspire TV audiences wi ...

When Fear Eats the Soul (2007)

Mixing scenes of Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows and Fassbinder's Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, François Ozon creates a new film about cinephilic contamination. ...

War’n Sie schon mal in mich verliebt? (2006)

"Did you ever fall in love with me?" - that was how the popular comedian Max Hansen ironically yet endearingly attacked Adolf Hitler as a homosexual. In the late 1920s Hansen was forced to leave Germany. The multi-talented entertainer lost his audience and ...

Angst isst Seele auf (2002)

Shot with striking immediacy by a subjective camera, "Angst isst Seele auf" assumes the point of view of a black actor in Germany dealing with racist abuse as he prepares to appear in a play based on Fassbinder's film, about the taboo relationship between ...

Aszendent Liebe (2001)

The Berlin Observatory is facing the financial end. Against the will of the renowned physicist Robert von Reichenbach, the astrologer Lena Moosbach is set, which quickly establishes itself as a crowd puller and fills the empty cash registers of the planeta ...

Fassbinder's Women (2000)

An essay film in which filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim interviews "the willing victims of Rainer Werner Fassbinder. ...

Ein lasterhaftes Pärchen (2000)

Widow Käthe Mühlmann is a little eccentric. Every day she confides her worries to the photo of her husband Hubert, who has been dead for ten years but is still closer to her than her two friends Arabella and Brigitte. Käthe does indeed have reason to wo ...

Blue Note - A Story of Modern Jazz (1997)

"It must schwing!" was the motto of Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff, two German Jewish immigrants who in 1939 set up Blue Note Records, the jazz label that was home to such greats as Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, Thelonious Monk, Art Blakey, De ...

The sweetness of strangers (1997)

Once upon a time very much alike the twenties in Germany, a little town is frightened to death by an uncaught child murderer. Since somebody has to be blamed the townspeople turn against an inconspicious policeman, a family-man who becomes suspected of the ...

Willi und die Windzors (1996)

The British parliament has decided to get rid of the royal family. All of them have to leave the county and so they move to Germany, where they want to live by their distant relatives, the Bettenberg family. But these are not amused about their snobbish vi ...

Der Showmaster (1993)

Klippen des Todes (1993)

Die Spur führt ins Verderben (1993)

Edgar Allen Poe fanatic and literature professor Dudley (Heinz Hoenig) is an extraordinary chamber scholar, in whose life the mysterious Annabel (Stephanie Philipp) suddenly enters, similar to the title of a poem by his beloved writer. Annabel gives theatr ...

Geheimakte Lenz (1992)

Murderous Decisions (1991)

A thriller about a maniac murderer who to the outside world is a celebrity TV presenter. His beautiful assistant, a woman who has fallen off the career ladder, is terrorized by him. A job-hunting animation artist gets caught in the world of glitter and gla ...

Gesucht wird Ricki Forster (1991)

Rosamunde (1990)

Berlin at the beginning of the 1930s, economic crisis, chaos: Bruno, Franz and Emil, three unemployed young men, are looking for a way out of their misery and decide to kidnap Abel Austerlitz, the son of a rich Jewish factory owner. Emil's charming sister ...

Killer kennen keine Furcht (1989)

Three guests in a luxury hotel. The highly respected managing director of a computer company, an actor and womanizer and finally a bespectacled murderer who has calculated that a hotel room is the perfect setting for the murder of his victim, a Chinese pol ...

Trouble im Penthouse (1988)

Professor Lichtwitz, a successful architect and notorious womanizer, secretly accesses his penthouse via his office. Employee Bodo, assuming Lichtwitz is away, invites dentist's assistant Stella to the "vacant" penthouse for dinner. Unaware of his boss's r ...

Geschminkte Jugend (1988)

Though originally slated for a 1960 release, the full original film was only released in 1988. A heavily altered version with a different directors was released under the title Die Nacht am See in 1963. ...

Dem Tod auf der Spur (1988)

Vicky und Nicky (1987)

A movie directed by Franz Josef Gottlieb. ...

Was zu beweisen war (1986)

A crime comedy directed by Peter Weck. ...

Die Spur der anderen (1985)

Girl in a Boot (1985)

An East Berlin woman falls in love with a Swiss cook. ...

Schwarzer Lohn und weiße Weste (1985)

The head of a newly created office against illegal employment exchange is supposed to stop undeclared work and the shadow economy in his sphere of influence. At the end of the investigation, an international building tycoon, a desperate small businessman a ...

Sigi, der Straßenfeger (1984)

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 thinks he's in luck, but what he doesn't realize is that an unscrupulous businesswoman wanted to use the mon ...

The Roaring Fifties (1983)

The Second World War is over and now begins in post-war Germany, the reconstruction. Jakob Formann sees his chance here and begins a rapid rise as an entrepreneur. ...

Kein Reihenhaus für Robin Hood (1983)

The industrialist Greskämper, who is responsible for mass redundancies, is kidnapped by terrorists. The kidnappers demand a ransom of 1 million marks. The main characters in this crime comedy based on the novel by -ky are two representatives of the 1968 g ...

Der Tod kommt durch die Tür (1983)

Die Murmel (1982)

Kamikaze '89 (1982)

In a futuristic, totalitarian society wherein the government controls all facets of the media, a homicide detective investigates a string of bombings and uncovers more than he bargained for. ...

Drei gegen Hollywood (1982)

In the 1930s, three unsuccessful variety artists dream of making it big. When they hear about the rise of sound films in Hollywood, they see their chance: a language school for silent film stars will bring them fame and success. Full of hope, they travel t ...

Ab in den Süden (1982)

Bühnenbild mit Dame (1982)

Zwei Tote im Sender und Don Carlos im PoGl (1982)

Leben im Winter (1982)

After Midnight (1981)

The Political drama shows the denunciation and persecution of the 19-year-old Sanne in the Nazi state. After she falls in love with her cousin, Sanne is betrayed by her jealous aunt to the Gestapo. ...

Und ab geht die Post (1981)

Lili Marleen (1981)

The story of a German singer named Willie, who while working in Switzerland, falls in love with a Jewish composer named Robert, whose family is helping people to flee from the Nazis. Robert's family is skeptical of Willie, thinking she could be a Nazi as s ...

Fabian (1980)

The story of Jacob Fabian, a somewhat liberal Berlin advertising copywriter who witnesses the collapse of the prewar German society during the 1930s. ...

Primel macht ihr Haus verrückt (1980)

Nine-year-old Primel's single mother must leave town, so her apartment building's seven tenants take turns babysitting. Primel's boundless energy sparks chaos, but also warms hearts. In caring for her, the neighbors transform from strangers into a close-kn ...

Pension Schöller (1980)

Nachbarn und andere nette Menschen (1979)

The Woman Across the Way (1978)

A middle-aged man's doubts about himself transform themselves into paranoia about his younger wife's behavior in this psychological thriller. The husband plants listening devices around their apartment and eventually drives the heretofore innocent woman in ...

Wann heiraten Sie meine Frau? (1978)

Die beiden Freundinnen (1978)

Berlin 1923: A murder case shakes the city. Carpenter Elli poisoned her husband because he wanted to end her love relationship with Grete. For the tortured Elli, the deed is like an act of liberation. ...

Die Geburtstagsfeier (1978)

Adolf and Marlene (1977)

When Hitler watches Marlene Dietrich in a movie, he falls in love with her. He persuades her to come back to Germany to be with him, but upon her arrival, she constantly insults and provokes him until he eventually, on her command, bites the carpet to bits ...

Chinese Roulette (1977)

Ariane and Gerhard Christ, a wealthy Munich couple, plan for the weekend on separate trips, lying to the other about their trysts. However, their itineraries are complicated when they both arrive at the family's country home with their respective lovers. ...

Love Living, Live Loving (1977)

The gentle inhabitants of a quaint Berlin apartment house, damaged by the Second World War but possessing an elegance of its own, love the place where they live, with its motto Liebe das Leben-Lebe das Lieben (Love Living, Live Loving) emblazoned above the ...

Satan’s Brew (1976)

A famous poet who hasn't written a word in two years unconsciously plagiarizes the work of Stefan George, while dealing with several mistresses, his dimwitted brother, and a murder investigation. ...

Anita Drögemöller und die Ruhe an der Ruhr (1976)

Anita Drögemöller has transformed herself from a small-time street prostitute into a luxury call girl. But one day she finds her former pimp dead in her apartment with a broken neck. Chief Inspector Langensiepen takes up the investigation and discovers a ...

Everyone Dies Alone (1976)

When they start losing family members and neighbors due to WWII and the Nazi government's policies, a quiet married couple becomes disillusioned and begins spreading leaflets against the government - a crime punishable by death. ...

Fear of Fear (1975)

After having her second child, a German housewife suffers from postpartum depression before inexplicably falling into a continually misdiagnosed mental state, befuddling her relatives. ...

Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven (1975)

Frau Emma Küsters prepares dinner late one seemingly-ordinary afternoon in her seemingly-ordinary Frankfurt kitchen. She wants to add canned sausages to the stew; her irritating daughter-in-law thinks otherwise. But the point is moot: Ernst Küsters has n ...

The Secret Carrier (1975)

Fox and His Friends (1975)

Fox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and things that he has always wanted. He enters an abusive relationship with wealthy industrialist Eugen in an attempt to climb the social ladder. His desperation for ...

Like a Bird on a Wire (1975)

A pseudo variety show about the Aufbau-Era, the time of the German 'economic miracle'. Brigitte Mira recounts her four husbands through song and joke, on a series of artificial sets. ...

Loriots Telecabinet (1974)

A sharp-witted parody of the talk show format, this self-conceived television special by legendary German comedian Loriot blends satire and sketch comedy. Featuring Loriot in multiple roles, the program playfully disrupts the typical talk show structure wi ...

The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)

The film follows Kaspar Hauser, who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny cellar with only a toy horse to occupy his time, devoid of all human contact except for a man who wears a black overcoat and top hat who feeds him. ...

Käpt'n Senkstakes Abenteuer - Ehrenhäuptling der Watubas (1974)

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)

Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown children offer little companionship. One night she goes to a bar frequented by Arab immigrants and strikes up a friendship with middle-aged mechanic Ali. Th ...

1 Berlin-Harlem (1974)

An African-American GI retires from the US Army in West Berlin to live with his white girlfriend, who already has a baby with another black man. After an argument with her family, she deserts him as well. Despite finding a job and a new place to live, he k ...

Kleiner Mann, was nun? (1973)

Emma Morschel, known as Lämmchen, is expecting a child. So she marries her boyfriend, Johannes Pinneberg. The young marriage gets off to a rocky start: Lämmchen's parents, class-conscious workers, are opposed to their daughter marrying the lowly clerk. ...

Tenderness of the Wolves (1973)

A German serial killer preys on boys and young men during the so-called years of crisis between the wars. Based on the true story of Fritz Haarmann, aka the Butcher of Hanover and the Vampire of Hanover. ...

Der Fall Opa (1972)

Frau Jenny Treibel (1972)

Set in Berlin in the eighties of the 19th century. The focus is on the upper-class family of Kommerzienrat Treibel and the family of Professor Schmidt, who live in modest circumstances. For the former, outward appearances, possessions and the resulting soc ...

Wir hau’n den Hauswirt in die Pfanne (1971)

Zwanzig Mädchen und die Pauker: Heute steht die Penne kopf (1971)

Dreißig Silberlinge (1971)

Prozeß Mariotti (1970)

Das Stunden-Hotel von St. Pauli (1970)

A murder has taken place in the "Ostend" hotel in St. Pauli and Inspector Canisius is called to the crime scene. Mentally shaken, Canisius takes up the investigation. A wide variety of guests and couples were at the hotel that night, and anyone could be th ...

Der Vetter aus Dingsda (1970)

Der Partyphotograph (1968)

A television technician who is mistaken for a star photographer can hardly save himself from girls who are addicted to fame. A simple-minded story of mistaken identity as a hook for striptease acts and cheap jokes. ...

Im Ballhaus wird geschwoft (1968)

Im Ballhaus ist Musike (1967)

Schwarzer Peter - Märchenoper für kleine und große Leute (1966)

Wie lernt man Reisen? (1966)

Bei Pfeiffers ist Ball (1966)

Mrs. Cheney's End (1965)

Annie Get Your Gun (1965)

Frau Luna (1964)

Fritz Steppke and his friends Lämmermeier and Pannecke fly to the moon in a steerable balloon. Mrs. Pusebach has also joined the adventurous traveling party. She considers flying to the moon less dangerous than losing sight of her Pannecke. On the moon, t ...

Jack and Jenny (1963)

Saleswoman Jenny is crazy about the painter Jack. But Jack does not want to marry, even though he loves Jenny passionately. So Jenny looks elsewhere to find the right man. She marries twice, but always ends up back with Jack and gives herself to him with ...

Die Belagerung der Josephine (1963)

Feuerwerk (1963)

Berlin-Melodie (1963)

So toll wie anno dazumal (1962)

Bubusch (1962)

The Tragedy of Silence (1962)

Cautionary drama, with vigorous attack on Germany's laws governing abortion. ...

Die Marquise von Arcis (1961)

Wie einst im Mai (1961)

1838: Fritz Jüterbog and Ottilie von Henkeshofen love each other, but the difference in status is too great for Ottilie's parents to give their consent to a marriage. And so, Fritz sets off for America and returns from there 20 years later as a made man t ...

Im Namen einer Mutter (1960)

A young widow shoots the murderer of her young daughter because the court had to declare the sex offender—who had already killed two children—mentally ill and not criminally responsible; she herself is granted leniency for manslaughter in the heat of t ...

Der Prozeß Mary Dugan (1960)

Die Liebe des Jahres (1959)

Du bist wunderbar (1959)

Schlag auf Schlag (1959)

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Drei Orangen (1959)

So ein Millionär hat's schwer (1958)

Edward Collins wants nothing more than to live a modest life. But as a millionaire with a luxurious villa, chauffeur, and everything his heart desires, women are desperately after him. This time, however, Edward wants to play it safe and, together with his ...

Der Stern von Santa Clara (1958)

Carlo del Ponte, a pop star celebrated in the U.S., travels to his hometown of Santa Clara, Italy, to take some time off. Not only does Carlo find himself caught up in an armed robbery there, but his pretty cousin Antonella is missing her father and believ ...

Wehe, wenn sie losgelassen (1958)

Peter wants to practice for an upcoming jazz competition with his friends Willi, Oskar, and Jupp. But his uncle Tobias, on whose farm Peter lives, must not find out about it. ...

...und abends in die Scala (1958)

The chorus girl Caterina Duval gets the chance of her life when hired as stand-in of a famous star. On the opening night Catarina is singing, dancing and stepping into the hearts of the audience. ...

Was nicht im Baedecker steht: Bitte, einsteigen zu Käses Rundfahrt! (1953)

The Berliner (1948)

Otto, a feckless Everyman, tries to adjust to the postwar travails of his defeated nation. Stymied by black-market profiteers and government bureaucrats, Otto begins fantasizing about a happier life at the end of that ever-elusive rainbow. ...