Doris Dörrie

Directing

Doris Dörrie

Born

1955-05-26 (71)

Place of birth

Hannover, Germany

Known for

Directing

Credits

77 titles

Doris Dörrie (born 26 May 1955, Hannover) is a German film director, producer and author.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 2 titles

2000s · 6 titles

Filming Desire: A Journey Through Women’s Cinema poster
8.0

The film consists largely of a series of interviews with female filmmakers from several different countries and filmmaking eras. Some, such as Agnès Varda and Catherine Breillat (both from France), have been making films for decades in a conscious effort to provide an alternative to the male filmmaking model; others, such as Moufida Tlatli (Tunisia) and Carine Adler (England), are relative newcomers to directing, and their approaches seem more personal and less political. The film as a whole manages to cover some important topics in the feminist debate about film -- how does one construct a female gaze, how can one film nude bodies without objectifying the actors (of either sex), what constitutes a strong female role -- while also making it clear that “women’s film” comprises as many different approaches to filmmaking as there are female filmmakers.

Filming Desire: A Journey Through Women’s Cinema

2000

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NR

What happens when famous directors stage an opera? Eckhart Schmidt shows successful and failed attempts.

Tatort Oper - Wie Filmemacher Oper machen

2007

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6.3

This is not merely another film about cinema history; it is a film about the love of cinema, a journey of discovery through over a century of German film history. Ten people working in film today remember their favourite films of yesteryear.

Auge in Auge - Eine deutsche Filmgeschichte

2008

Return to Go poster
4.6

After Sam, a penniless Afro-German singer, discovers he's HIV positive, he gets utterly drunk, spends a few miserable days, but promptly falls (back) in love. Amidst a crumbling former East Berlin (its bulidings, cars, people & culture), Sam develops a "family" for the new millenium, for the new generation of post-drug cocktail AIDS victims. The fragile "family" he forms includes his on-again-off-again boyfriend Rainer, and his best friend Bastl with his latest fling, Mike. Like the old, schmaltzy East German songs which Sam is recording, the sweet innocence of the characters struggle to prevail, the misfortunes of the characters nothwithstanding.

Return to Go

2001

How to Cook Your Life poster
5.6

A Zen priest in San Francisco and cookbook author use Zen Buddhism and cooking to relate to everyday life.

How to Cook Your Life

2007

No artwork available
NR

Documentary about the Maximilianstraße in Munich.

Musen, Macht und Glamour - Die Welt der Maximilianstraße

2004

1980s · 1 titles

Series credits

DAS! poster
4.7

Every evening at 6:45 p.m. sharp, a prominent guest takes a seat on the red sofa—and DAS! provides daily updates on what's hot in the north.

DAS!

1991

Markus Lanz poster
5.5

TV presenter Markus Lanz invites prominent guests and experts from all areas of public life to his colourful talk show. As a rule, there are four guests, introduced individually to contribute their personal experiences to the topics.

Markus Lanz

2008

Die Harald Schmidt Show poster
7.4

The Harald Schmidt Show is a German late night talk show hosted on Sky Deutschland by comedian Harald Schmidt. The show first aired from 5 December 1995 to 23 December 2003 on Sat.1. Schmidt then moved his show to Das Erste as Harald Schmidt and Schmidt & Pocher, but he returned to Sat.1 on 13 September 2011. After cancellation on Sat.1, the show continued on Sky Deutschland in September 2012.

Die Harald Schmidt Show

1995

Leute heute poster
5.2

No synopsis available yet.

Leute heute

1997

Kölner Treff poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

Kölner Treff

1976

NDR Talk Show poster
6.6

No synopsis available yet.

NDR Talk Show

1979

The Dick Cavett Show poster
6.8

The Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various television networks.

The Dick Cavett Show

1968

No artwork available
7.2

No synopsis available yet.

3 nach 9

1974

Bambi poster
9.0

The Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in international media and television to personalities in the media, arts, culture, sports, and other fields "with vision and creativity who affected and inspired the German public that year", both domestic and foreign. First held in 1948, it is the oldest media award in Germany. The trophy is named after Felix Salten's book Bambi, A Life in the Woods and its statuettes are in the shape of the novel's titular fawn character. They were originally made of porcelain until 1958, when the organizers switched to using gold, with the casting done by the art casting workshop of Ernst Strassacker in Süßen.

Bambi

1948

No artwork available
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

German Film Award

1951

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sternstunde Philosophie

1998

Boulevard Bio poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Boulevard Bio

1991

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Münchner Runde

2000

No artwork available
8.5

A 30-minute weekly cultural magazine program. The head of aspekte, Wolgang Herles, describes the program as follows: "For 40 years, "aspekte" has repeatedly set out to enrich television with cultural contrasts. "aspekte" understands culture not as the sum of facts and events, but as the taste, the sound, the rhythms of the times. It has proven itself as a journal of true luxury and fashions as well as an instrument of public education and information."

aspekte

1965

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6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Thadeusz

2005

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Bavarian Film Awards

1979

Square poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Square

2012

Lesenswert poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Lesenswert

2013

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Gottschalk Live

2012

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Millionär gesucht! - Die SKL Show

1998

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Lesen! Mit Elke Heidenreich

2003

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Germany, Your Artists

2008

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Hoffmanns fabelhafte Welt der Gemüse

2013

Behind the camera

How Can I Help poster
7.0

In 2030, retired actress Mrs. Winkler lives bitterly and marked by pain. When her daughter Emi accepts a theater offer, a care robot named Pavlovich takes over the care of her mother. Unexpectedly, his knowledge of classical plays seems to reawaken Mrs. Winkler's will to live...

How Can I Help

2026

How Can I Help poster
7.0

In 2030, retired actress Mrs. Winkler lives bitterly and marked by pain. When her daughter Emi accepts a theater offer, a care robot named Pavlovich takes over the care of her mother. Unexpectedly, his knowledge of classical plays seems to reawaken Mrs. Winkler's will to live...

How Can I Help

2026

Me and Him poster
3.6

A man's enthusiastic penis starts talking to him, getting him into awkward situations and convincing everyone he tells that he's completely insane.

Me and Him

1988

Men... poster
6.1

A successful, womanizing middle-aged man decides to move out of the house he shares with his wife after she confesses to having an affair. He looks for a new place to live and ends up moving into his wife's lover's apartment as a roommate. The husband begins to take an interest in the artistic work of the lover and coaches him for a big job interview. Little does he know that the job he's helping the lover to get is within his own company... A story about strange circumstances and the limits of friendship.

Men...

1985

Men... poster
6.1

A successful, womanizing middle-aged man decides to move out of the house he shares with his wife after she confesses to having an affair. He looks for a new place to live and ends up moving into his wife's lover's apartment as a roommate. The husband begins to take an interest in the artistic work of the lover and coaches him for a big job interview. Little does he know that the job he's helping the lover to get is within his own company... A story about strange circumstances and the limits of friendship.

Men...

1985

Greetings from Fukushima poster
6.1

A young German woman bonds with an elderly Japanese woman while touring the Fukushima region of Japan in the aftermath of the 2011 earthquake.

Greetings from Fukushima

2016

Greetings from Fukushima poster
6.1

A young German woman bonds with an elderly Japanese woman while touring the Fukushima region of Japan in the aftermath of the 2011 earthquake.

Greetings from Fukushima

2016

Am I Beautiful? poster
6.7

Between Munich and Seville, the destinies of sixteen characters intertwine and intersect, missing each other or colliding head-on. They are all, without knowing it, at a pivotal moment in their lives...

Am I Beautiful?

1998

Am I Beautiful? poster
6.7

Between Munich and Seville, the destinies of sixteen characters intertwine and intersect, missing each other or colliding head-on. They are all, without knowing it, at a pivotal moment in their lives...

Am I Beautiful?

1998

Naked poster
5.4

The story of three couples, one of which just broke up, one that seems to be about to, and one perfectly okay. They are all friends, and from time to time, they gather to talk about everything. One time, they gather for dinner at the second couple's "mansion“— the husband became rich with his business. We see each couple as they prepare themselves for the party and learn a lot about their relationships. At the dinner, they get to talking about recognizing each other's peer with closed eyes and decide to try it, naked.

Naked

2002

Naked poster
5.4

The story of three couples, one of which just broke up, one that seems to be about to, and one perfectly okay. They are all friends, and from time to time, they gather to talk about everything. One time, they gather for dinner at the second couple's "mansion“— the husband became rich with his business. We see each couple as they prepare themselves for the party and learn a lot about their relationships. At the dinner, they get to talking about recognizing each other's peer with closed eyes and decide to try it, naked.

Naked

2002

Bliss poster
5.4

Two young people in Berlin, a refugee and a homeless punk, form a relationship.

Bliss

2012

Bliss poster
5.4

Two young people in Berlin, a refugee and a homeless punk, form a relationship.

Bliss

2012

In the Belly of the Whale poster
9.0

After a fight with her father, 15-year-old Carla sets out to find her mother, who ran away years ago. Her odyssey through Schleswig-Holstein, accompanied by a young musician, goes hand in hand with her growing self-awareness.

In the Belly of the Whale

1985

In the Belly of the Whale poster
9.0

After a fight with her father, 15-year-old Carla sets out to find her mother, who ran away years ago. Her odyssey through Schleswig-Holstein, accompanied by a young musician, goes hand in hand with her growing self-awareness.

In the Belly of the Whale

1985

Midsommar Stories poster
4.3

Tells the stories of a few people who are driven by different dreams, needs, and fears. At some point or another in their lives, IKEA plays a fateful role - in a comical or tragic way.

Midsommar Stories

1999

Money poster
5.5

One day, Carmen Müller realizes that her husband Werner has been unemployed for months and has accumulated debts of 80,000 DM in their bank account. She comes up with a plan to rob her bank. When the branch manager and neighbor Lothar Fuchs, whom Carmen has always envied for his beauty and wealth, recognizes her, she takes him hostage. In their hideout in the Allgäu, the banker falls in love with the housewife, just as Werner and Fuchs' mistress Gabriele grow closer. The quartet form an alliance and defraud the bank together. Having come into money so suddenly, the Müllers don't feel comfortable either and secretly distribute their fortune around the neighborhood.

Money

1989

Enlightenment Guaranteed poster
6.9

Two middle aged German brothers - one New Age and recently divorced, the other uptight and sceptical - travel to a Zen monastery in Japan in search of enlightenment, or perhaps just in search of themselves.

Enlightenment Guaranteed

2000

Happy Birthday, Türke! poster
5.3

Kemal Kayankaya, a private detective, was hired by a Turkish women, Ilter, to search for his husband, Amend, who has been missing since the death of her father, Vassif. Unknownst to him, he was about to unravel the secrets of his client's family, as well as their various dealings with the underworld and the police. Moreover, being a Turk raised in a German foster family, he has also begun to understand and accept his own ethnicity.

Happy Birthday, Türke!

1992

Happy Birthday, Türke! poster
5.3

Kemal Kayankaya, a private detective, was hired by a Turkish women, Ilter, to search for his husband, Amend, who has been missing since the death of her father, Vassif. Unknownst to him, he was about to unravel the secrets of his client's family, as well as their various dealings with the underworld and the police. Moreover, being a Turk raised in a German foster family, he has also begun to understand and accept his own ethnicity.

Happy Birthday, Türke!

1992

The Master Butcher poster
7.8

After his return from World War I, there is no more work for Fidelis in his parents' butcher shop in Swabia, Germany. To make a better life for himself and Eva, the former fiancée of a friend who fell in battle, he emigrates to Argus, a town in North Dakota, in the United States. The artist Delphine, in whom Eva will find a friend, also moves there. To relieve Eva's homesickness, Fidelis founds a singing club.

The Master Butcher

2019

Cherry Blossoms & Demons poster
5.1

When everything in his life seems to be going wrong, downtrodden and alcohol-dependent Karl has a fateful encounter in Munich with Yu, a mysterious Japanese dancer from his father’s past. Unexpectedly, Yu begins to help Karl confront his demons (both literal and figurative) and begin to heal.

Cherry Blossoms & Demons

2019

Cherry Blossoms & Demons poster
5.1

When everything in his life seems to be going wrong, downtrodden and alcohol-dependent Karl has a fateful encounter in Munich with Yu, a mysterious Japanese dancer from his father’s past. Unexpectedly, Yu begins to help Karl confront his demons (both literal and figurative) and begin to heal.

Cherry Blossoms & Demons

2019

Short Plays poster
5.1

Football seen through the eyes of some of the best directors of the world.

Short Plays

2014

The Hairdresser poster
6.1

When a salon refuses to hire her because of her plump figure, irrepressible hair stylist Kathi plots revenge by opening her own beauty parlor next door. But when she faces a cash-flow problem, Kathi resorts to some creative means of raising capital.

The Hairdresser

2010

The Fisherman and His Wife poster
5.8

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. Ida begins traveling with the two men, and surprisingly develops an infatuation with the rumpled Otto instead of the handsome Leo. When Ida discovers she's pregnant with Otto's child, the two marry, and upon their return to Germany, Ida attempts to join in the business by creating a line of scarves decorated with koi patterns. However, the honeymoon proves short-lived, and Ida's presence creates a rift between Otto and Leo, as the latter sets up his own concern, raising koi with his new bride, Yoko.

The Fisherman and His Wife

2005

No artwork available
7.0

A chapter in the life of 16-year-old Laura, whose parents are divorced. She splits her time between a quiet, middle-class life with her father in a small provincial town and weekends and vacations with her mother, who lives in Cologne’s alternative scene with her new partner and artistic ambitions. There, Laura finds her first great love, Felix. But he is drawn to an older female graffiti artist.

Dazwischen

1982

No artwork available
7.0

A chapter in the life of 16-year-old Laura, whose parents are divorced. She splits her time between a quiet, middle-class life with her father in a small provincial town and weekends and vacations with her mother, who lives in Cologne’s alternative scene with her new partner and artistic ambitions. There, Laura finds her first great love, Felix. But he is drawn to an older female graffiti artist.

Dazwischen

1982

Nobody Loves Me poster
6.4

On the brink of her 30th birthday, Fanny feels the door to marital happiness closing on her. She is obsessed with death and even visits evening classes on dying, so it seems fitting that she encounters a skeleton in the malfunctioning elevator of her apartment building. The skeleton is her neighbour Orfeo, a Black, gay, self-declared psychic, who convinces her that she is about to meet "him". But is it really Lothar, the new yuppie apartment manager ...?

Nobody Loves Me

1994

Nobody Loves Me poster
6.4

On the brink of her 30th birthday, Fanny feels the door to marital happiness closing on her. She is obsessed with death and even visits evening classes on dying, so it seems fitting that she encounters a skeleton in the malfunctioning elevator of her apartment building. The skeleton is her neighbour Orfeo, a Black, gay, self-declared psychic, who convinces her that she is about to meet "him". But is it really Lothar, the new yuppie apartment manager ...?

Nobody Loves Me

1994

Cherry Blossoms poster
7.3

After finding out that her husband, Rudi, has a fatal illness, Trudi Angermeier arranges a trip to Berlin so they can see their children. Of course, the kids don't know the real reason they're visiting -- and the catch is, neither does Rudi...

Cherry Blossoms

2008

Cherry Blossoms poster
7.3

After finding out that her husband, Rudi, has a fatal illness, Trudi Angermeier arranges a trip to Berlin so they can see their children. Of course, the kids don't know the real reason they're visiting -- and the catch is, neither does Rudi...

Cherry Blossoms

2008

Straight Through the Heart poster
5.0

Anna, an odd, quirky young girl begins a romance with the much older dentist Dr. Armin Thal. Both lovers are neurotic, and both seem to thrive on feeding off each other's neuroses.

Straight Through the Heart

1983

Straight Through the Heart poster
5.0

Anna, an odd, quirky young girl begins a romance with the much older dentist Dr. Armin Thal. Both lovers are neurotic, and both seem to thrive on feeding off each other's neuroses.

Straight Through the Heart

1983

Ob's stürmt oder schneit poster
10.0

On December 12, 1945 Maria Stadler got (as one of the first from the American occupying power) the license to operate a movie theater. At first she ran a traveling cinema, which went so well that she opened on 30 October 1953 Maria's Kino in Bad Endorf, which still exists today. In the winter of 1976/77 students of the Munich University of Film and Television made a documentary about the idealist, who had since become a movie legend.

Ob's stürmt oder schneit

1977

Ob's stürmt oder schneit poster
10.0

On December 12, 1945 Maria Stadler got (as one of the first from the American occupying power) the license to operate a movie theater. At first she ran a traveling cinema, which went so well that she opened on 30 October 1953 Maria's Kino in Bad Endorf, which still exists today. In the winter of 1976/77 students of the Munich University of Film and Television made a documentary about the idealist, who had since become a movie legend.

Ob's stürmt oder schneit

1977

Ob's stürmt oder schneit poster
10.0

On December 12, 1945 Maria Stadler got (as one of the first from the American occupying power) the license to operate a movie theater. At first she ran a traveling cinema, which went so well that she opened on 30 October 1953 Maria's Kino in Bad Endorf, which still exists today. In the winter of 1976/77 students of the Munich University of Film and Television made a documentary about the idealist, who had since become a movie legend.

Ob's stürmt oder schneit

1977

No artwork available
10.0

This film deals with the everyday problems and self-discovery difficulties of young people today. The actors are amateurs who find themselves in a similar situation in their private lives.

Max und Sandy

1978

No artwork available
10.0

This film deals with the everyday problems and self-discovery difficulties of young people today. The actors are amateurs who find themselves in a similar situation in their private lives.

Max und Sandy

1978

Augenblick poster
9.0

In 1996, cinematographer Helge Weindler died in Almeria, Spain, while shooting his wife Doris Dörrie's new film. A year later, she set out to retrace her grief and pain in a very private film.

Augenblick

1998