Acting

Marie-Lou Sellem

Born 1966-06-19 · Göttingen, Germany

Acting credits

Charlie's Angels poster
6.4

Elena Houghlin is a scientist, engineer and inventor of Calisto -- a sustainable energy source that will revolutionize the way people use power. It will be ready as soon as she works out the last issue, if not it could be turned into a dangerous weapon. But when the cutting edge technology is pushed to an investor before she can do that, Elena turns to the Townsend Agency for help. Now, it's up to the Angels -- Jane, Sabina, and the newly recruited Elena -- to retrieve Calisto before it can be transformed into a weapon of mass destruction.

Charlie's Angels

2019

TÁR poster
7.1

As celebrated conductor Lydia Tár starts rehearsals for a career-defining symphony, the consequences of her past choices begin to echo in the present.

TÁR

2022

99€ Films poster
6.0

Anyone can hold a mini-DV camera. Anyone can get 99 euros in credit. And everyone has already written a five-minute story in school. So everyone is actually prepared to make a 99euro-film. but "99euro-films" is more. It is the proof that German films can also be wild, new, modern, funny, political and entertaining. And all that in 80 minutes. 12 young German filmmakers come together, inspire exciting young actors and go: have an idea and simply film it. Just do it and be independent.

99€ Films

2001

Cocoon poster
6.1

In the heat of a shimmering Berlin summer, Nora spends her days as a third wheel to her older sister Jule and her best friend Aylin. When Romy comes onto the scene, a friendship blossoms. Nora instantly falls for her, opening up a whole new world and unexpected summer of love.

Cocoon

2020

Köln 75 poster
7.1

The true story of Vera Brandes, teenage patron saint of the 1970s Cologne music scene, who risked everything to organize the greatest solo concert in music history: Keith Jarrett’s legendary Köln Concert.

Köln 75

2025

Dornröschen erwacht poster
5.0

After three years in a coma, Juliane Maybach suddenly wakes up, but doesn't remember the last months before the accident that caused her critical condition. The estrangement from her husband Stefan and their daughter Antonia weighs heavily upon her mind and makes her mistrusting everyone. Little by little, Juliane tries to reveal the secrets in her past.

Dornröschen erwacht

2006

Lacrymosa poster
9.0

A talented teenage violinist auditions at a prestigious institute. When the examiner criticises her playing for lacking emotional depth, she resorts to drastic measures.

Lacrymosa

2020

Lottoschein ins Glück poster
5.4

"Bad luck in the game, luck in love": Astrid Seibel knows the saying, of course - but until now she did not know that the two seem to be linked. The mother of two children, who has just been left by her unfaithful husband, actually types six correct numbers in the lottery, but the receipt for the lottery ticket disappears. The lucky finder is her new chance acquaintance Felix, who at first has no idea whose winnings he is holding in his hands. When he finds out, it is already too late: Astrid already knows that he has kept the lottery win from her.

Lottoschein ins Glück

2003

It's for Your Own Good poster
6.3

Three fathers who are also brothers-in-law make a pact to save their daughters from their boyfriends.

It's for Your Own Good

2020

Sooner or Later poster
6.0

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 dreamworld. Her parents, Anette and Uwe, are busy trying to handle reality; both are wrestling with unrealized hopes and dreams along with the added troubles caused by Anette's return to her studies and Uwe's struggling business. When Thomas, a former lover of Anette's and his family move in next door, the already fragile foundations of Nora's family are rocked.

Sooner or Later

2007

Blutspur Antwerpen poster
5.8

A murder in broad daylight in the port of Antwerp: model Jean-Baptiste Kalemba is shot dead by a masked cyclist while jogging in front of the famous “Havenhuis”. Although the assassin must be a professional, Detective Inspector Louma Shapiro and her colleague Pierre Didier suspect a mistake.

Blutspur Antwerpen

2025

Hannah poster
8.0

A picturesque blonde beauty constructs an impenetrable emotional wall that neither her parents, her boyfriend, nor her colleague can penetrate. Hannah may appear perfect on the surface, but her inner demons are slowly consuming her. A photo lab developer who rarely ventures out of her well-fortified apartment, Hannah finds that her repressed memories are unexpectedly jogged by a series of old photographs.

Hannah

2007

Bones and Names poster
6.7

Boris and Jonathan have been a couple for many years. But their relationship has reached a point where they might as well spend their evenings together separately: One lies in bed reading, the other works at a desk in the next room. While actor Boris digs deeper into rehearsals for a new film with an ambitious director and begins to mix real and fictional characters, Jonathan tries to redefine his voice as a writer. Ghosting through these days of wrestling with distance, closeness, trust, desire and fear of loss is Jonathans' young niece Josie, who is trying to deal with the approaching end of her childhood in her own idiosyncratic way. BONES AND NAMES, the feature debut of Fabian Stumm, portrays people searching for their place in life in different ways. A sensitive and humorous reflection on the dissonances in relationships that both connect and distance us from each other.

Bones and Names

2024

Only God Can Judge Me poster
6.8

Ricky spent years behind bars after taking the rap for his brother Rafael and his buddy Latif after a failed robbery. Now, Latif wants to express gratitude by letting Ricky in on a coup that will bring lots of money. After some hesitation, Ricky agrees, and gets his brother Rafael on board. Everything runs smoothly, until police officer Diana turns up on the scene. A nerve-wracking cat and mouse game is set in motion. Director Özgür Yildirim’s most recent film offers insight into Frankfurt’s gangster world. As before in CHIKO – which also starred Moritz Bleibtreu – he portrays the daily life of the criminal underground scene in a large German city.

Only God Can Judge Me

2018

Club Europa poster
5.0

Martha, Yasmin, Jamie and Sam live in a shared apartment in Kreuzberg. Martha is from France, Yasmin from Germany, Jamie from the U.S. and Sam from Cameroon. They sit in their kitchen, cook for each other and dance together. But, compared to his flatmates, Sam left his country, because he needed to take refuge. The camera subtly catches the inequity that evolves between the four characters. Club Europe is a film about millennials who want to act more supportive and altruistic than their parents and need to face the question how far they really want to go in order to help.

Club Europa

2017

Scorched Earth poster
6.5

Professional criminal Trojan returns to Berlin in search of a new job after a failed coup. He cannot refuse the lucrative offer of a painting theft. But the meticulously planned action soon gets out of hand and it's all about survival.

Scorched Earth

2024

Crash Point: Berlin poster
6.0

After a mid-air collision, an uncontrollable passenger plane with 90 souls on board speeds through the skies over Germany. The impact point for the inevitable plane crash is easily calculated: the center of Berlin. Now the race is on to prevent the catastrophe. Will the plane have to be shot down by fighter pilots?

Crash Point: Berlin

2009

Blutadler poster
6.8

A cruel serial killer keeps the Hamburg police in suspense. Two women have already fallen victim to him. Both were killed after a Viking ritual, the so-called blood eagle. Although the perpetrator, Chief Inspector Fabel sends mysterious e-mails, the investigator pats in the dark. Only little by little it turns out that you are dealing not only with a psychopathic killer, but with a mafia gang, in whose machinations even senior police officers are entangled.

Blutadler

2012

Brother and Sister poster
5.7

Neukölln, a trendy district in Berlin. Living space is scarce here. Without surety, proof of credit worthiness and salary there is no chance at all now. Thies knows this game; he works for a real estate management company and watches that the rules are upheld - until he meets Bruno and Sonja. He provides the dissimilar siblings with a flat free of charge on the quiet. And enters into an affair with the brother. Step by step he becomes more deeply immersed in the secret of the "siblings". A Berlin film about a loner who gets caught up. About a couple with unclear residency status. About a city everyone wants to live in.

Brother and Sister

2016

Sad Jokes poster
5.5

Director Joseph is working through a new idea for a film and the breakup with his ex-boyfriend Marc. At the same time Sonya, the mother of his son Pino, is suffering from a depression that increasingly tears her from her life.

Sad Jokes

2024

Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence poster
6.0

Using unpublished and newly digitalised archive footage and film material, Bettina Böhler has brilliantly assembled this film about the life and work of the exceptional artist Christoph Schlingensief, who died in 2010.

Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence

2020

Winter Sleepers poster
6.9

Young blonde translator Rebecca lives with her boyfriend ski instructor Marco in a mountain villa owned by her friend, nurse Laura. Rene, local cinema projectionist, steals Marco's car and gets into a car crash with local Theo, whose daughter, after being in coma for a time, dies. Rene suffers from partial short term memory loss and starts a relationship with Laura. Meanwhile Marco is looking for the man who stole his car and Theo - for the man who killed his daughter...

Winter Sleepers

1997

Love of the Children poster
5.4

Two single parents decide to move in together and their two teenage children fall in love.

Love of the Children

2010

Breaking Horizons poster
6.0

“Congratulations, you’re pregnant!” Lara can hardly believe what the doctor has just told her. The 25-year-old spends her nights hanging around Berlin with best friend Nora, having lost interest in her architectural studies long ago. She has no idea what to do with her life – she does a lot, but nothing properly. She now finds herself pregnant after a night of passion with a charming barman she met at a party. Nora is thrilled by the news though, proclaiming: “we’re having a baby!” After some initial doubts, Lara too begins to see her pregnancy as a chance. Together with Nora, she sets about painting the nursery and goes in search of the baby’s father. Then the gynaecologist gives Lara some bad news…

Breaking Horizons

2012

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