
Thorsten Merten
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 4.022 |
Birthday | 1963-12-01 |
Place of Birth | Ruhla, Germany |
Also Known As |

2006

The Elementary Particles
6.1/138
Based on Michel Houellebecq's controversial novel, Atomised (aka The Elementary Particles) focuses on Michael and Bruno, two very different half-broth...
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The Elementary Particles

2002

Grill Point
7/24
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 o...
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Grill Point

2021

Sprachlos in Irland
4.2/5
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 t...
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Sprachlos in Irland

2004

Operation Valkyrie
6/50
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 wi...
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Operation Valkyrie

2008

Underdogs
6.8/5
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Underdogs

2007

Die Weihnachtswette
4.125/4
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Die Weihnachtswette

2008

November Child
5.5/11
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 thei...
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November Child

2023

Miss Merkel - Ein Uckermark-Krimi
5.4/9
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...
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Miss Merkel - Ein Uckermark-Krimi

2022

Locked in Society
6.4/67
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 extr...
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Locked in Society

2006

Four Windows
4.4/5
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, th...
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Four Windows

2003

Gun-shy
6/15
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 doi...
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Gun-shy

2022

What You Can See from Here
6.5/25
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 again...
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What You Can See from Here

2011

Arschkalt
5.1/15
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Arschkalt

2023

Kleine Eheverbrechen
5/1
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 accumulate...
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Kleine Eheverbrechen

2009

I've Never Been Happier
6.6/7
Success is a question of confidence, particularly in times of crisis. Life would be unbearable if there weren’t beautiful things to brighten it up a l...
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I've Never Been Happier

2005

Wahrheit oder Pflicht
7/2
Annika's life and experiences as a young woman include peculiar sex, an unfortunately cold best friend, a terrible tutor/boyfriend, and a sensible and...
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Wahrheit oder Pflicht

2007

Lunik
3/2
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 anti-capit...
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Lunik

2022

Hunting Season
5.8/29
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 looking...
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Hunting Season

2022

Eine riskante Entscheidung
5.5/1
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Eine riskante Entscheidung

2007

Meer is nich
7/1
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Meer is nich

2022

Alfons Jitterbit – Class Trip Chaos!
6.4/8
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 adventur...
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Alfons Jitterbit – Class Trip Chaos!

2007

Die Frau am Ende der Straße
1/1
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. Af...
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Die Frau am Ende der Straße

2013

Kohlhaas or the Proportionality of Means
6.9/5
Deep in the Bavarian countryside Kleist’s historical drama Michael Kohlhaas is being shot. But instead of shooting a huge epic with impressive costume...
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Kohlhaas or the Proportionality of Means

2013

Silvi - Maybe Love
7.2/2
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. A...
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Silvi - Maybe Love

2013

Der zweite Mann
4/2
A young financial auditor, promoted to his first serious position, soon finds himself following in the fatal footsteps of his predecessor.
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Der zweite Mann

2012

Ruhm
6.4/6
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 au...
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Ruhm

2014

Willkommen bei Habib
4.3/3
Four men’s destinies slam into each other and intertwine on four balmy summer nights. Old wounds are reopened, new ones appear, unexpectedly there is...
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Willkommen bei Habib

2014

Der Rücktritt
5.5/2
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 face...
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Der Rücktritt

2010

Haltet die Welt an
6/1
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 one even...
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Haltet die Welt an

2023

Der zweite Kurzschluss
5/1
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 ri...
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Der zweite Kurzschluss

2014

Open the Wall
7.4/35
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.
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Open the Wall

2014

We Are Young. We Are Strong.
6.8/74
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 se...
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We Are Young. We Are Strong.

2024

Night to be Gone
10/1
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 thei...
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Night to be Gone

2024

Roxy
10/1
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 passenge...
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Roxy

2013

Sunny
5/1
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.
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Sunny

2011

Inklusion - gemeinsam anders
0/0
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Inklusion - gemeinsam anders

2010

Auf Doktor komm raus
5/1
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. And then...
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Auf Doktor komm raus

2012

Sushi in Suhl
5.9/18
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 province of T...
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Sushi in Suhl

2010

Gravity
5.974/19
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 up-a...
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Gravity

2015

Naked Among Wolves
7.4/130
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...
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Naked Among Wolves

2015

Foreign Body
6/1
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. Donor...
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Foreign Body

2024

Der Fall Marianne Voss
6.5/6
Griesenow, 2013: The hairdresser Marianne Voss is found dead in the forest by her daughter Heike. Shortly afterwards, her husband Karsten comes under...
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Der Fall Marianne Voss

2024

Miss Merkel - Mord auf dem Friedhof
5.7/7
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Miss Merkel - Mord auf dem Friedhof

2012

Schneeweißchen und Rosenrot
7/2
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 fl...
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Schneeweißchen und Rosenrot

2024

From Hilde with Love
7.9/7
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 c...
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From Hilde with Love

1992

Silent Country
5.8/5
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 letharg...
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Silent Country

2016

A Dangerous Fortune
5.9/7
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.
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A Dangerous Fortune

2016

The Last Pig
6/13
Plum out of luck, Swabian farmer Huber’s farm goes under. Then his girlfriend Birgit takes over her father’s newly-acquired firm – in former East Germ...
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The Last Pig

2004

Transport
0/0
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Transport

2011

Weisst du eigentlich dass ganz viele Blumen blühen im Park
0/0
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Weisst du eigentlich dass ganz viele Blumen blühen im Park

2015

Alki Alki
6.6/10
Tobias and Flasche are childhood friends. However, their alcoholic friendship is doing more harm than good to Tobias, who realizes he should focus on...
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Alki Alki

2004

Charlotte
1/1
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 im...
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Charlotte

2011

Augen zu
7/1
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Augen zu

2017

In Times of Fading Light
6.4/18
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...
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In Times of Fading Light

2013

The Golden Goose
5.5/6
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 Gol...
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The Golden Goose

2008

Remarque - Sein Weg zum Ruhm
8/2
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Remarque - Sein Weg zum Ruhm

2015

Heil
5/38
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.
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Heil

2018

Gundermann
7.261/67
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 s...
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Gundermann

2017

Rübezahls Schatz
5.818/11
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 plunder...
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Rübezahls Schatz

2017

Tiger Milk
6.3/20
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 depor...
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Tiger Milk

2015

Einschnitt
0/0
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Einschnitt

2017

Das Nebelhaus
6.2/4
Four former classmates, Philipp, Leonie, Timo and Yasmin arrange reunion over the weekend in one of Philipp's properties. Philipp's wife and daughter...
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Das Nebelhaus

2017

Hit Mom – Mörderische Weihnachten
4.9/7
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 financi...
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Hit Mom – Mörderische Weihnachten

2017

Brothers
6.5/4
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...
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Brothers

2010

Frösche petzen nicht
8/2
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Frösche petzen nicht

2005

In Liebe eine Eins
6/1
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In Liebe eine Eins

2018

The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
7.5/111
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 Roxy...
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The Most Beautiful Girl in the World

2019

Good Girl Gone Bad
5.5/9
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 ch...
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Good Girl Gone Bad

2010

Empathie
6/1
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Empathie

2018

Atlas
6.423/26
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...
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Atlas

2015

Rough Road Ahead
5.7/5
Germany, 1967. Ruby & Martin, a young couple, are rehearsing their uprising. The price is high: expulsion from school, parental violence, and ultimate...
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Rough Road Ahead

2011

Stopped on Track
7.1/40
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 i...
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Stopped on Track

2018

Donbass
6.913/104
In the historic Donbass region of eastern Ukraine, despite the cruel war that has been raging since 2014 between the self-proclaimed People's Republic...
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Donbass

2020

Nothing More Perfect
4/1
The full attention of everyone - just for a moment in time. Maya is sixteen and tries to find online-fame and understanding through a selfie-live-vlog...
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Nothing More Perfect

2007

Sooner or Later
6/1
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...
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Sooner or Later

2021

Curveball
7.3/9
Although he already has searched Iraq unsuccessfully for weapons of mass destruction as a member of a UN mission, German bio-weapons expert Arndt Wolf...
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Curveball

2019

Der vierte Mann
4/2
A kidnapped musician and his missing violin are the prelude to a series of murders whose victims were deeply involved in business connections between...
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Der vierte Mann

2019

Alfons Zitterbacke
5.3/10
Clumsy peculiar pupil Alfons Zitterbacke dreams of being an astronaut and wreaks havoc anywhere he goes but against all odds wants to proof everyone w...
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Alfons Zitterbacke

1994

Oben - Unten
0/0
Comedy drama about one of life's perennial losers who finally strikes it lucky with a beautiful woman, but not before experiencing the usual seemingly...
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Oben - Unten

2020

In Berlin wächst kein Orangenbaum
5.8/8
After 14 years of prison Nabil is released and thrown back into his life.
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In Berlin wächst kein Orangenbaum

2020

Exit
6.1/18
Year 2047: "Inifinitalk" is the AI developed by some guys, offering possible eternal life through digitization of peoples mind and when they want to s...
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Exit

2019

Knorx
0/0
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Knorx

2019

The Audition
6.036/42
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 Alexand...
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The Audition

2024

Bach - A Christmas Miracle
6.5/2
Leipzig, December 1734: Christmas brings the Bach family together. The first snow has fallen and the children Gottfried and Elisabeth are delighted ab...
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Bach - A Christmas Miracle


Der Held vom Bahnhof Friedrichstraße
0/0
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 w...
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Der Held vom Bahnhof Friedrichstraße


Die Nichte des Polizisten
0/0
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 23-year-old...
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