Sibylle Canonica

Acting

Sibylle Canonica

Born 1957-04-26 · Bern, Switzerland

Acting credits

Emerald Green poster
7.0

Emerald Green is the stunning conclusion to Kerstin Gier's Ruby Red Trilogy, picking up where Sapphire Blue left off, reaching new heights of intrigue and romance as Gwen finally uncovers the secrets of the time-traveling society and learns her fate.

Emerald Green

2016

Ruby Red poster
6.9

On her 16th birthday, Gwendolyn Shepherd finds out that instead of her cousin, she has inherited a rare gene that allows her to travel through time.

Ruby Red

2013

Beyond Silence poster
6.9

Beyond Silence is about a family and a young girl’s coming of age story. This German film looks into the lives of the deaf and at a story about the love for music. A girl who has always had to translate speech into sign language for her deaf parents yet when her love for playing music grows strong she must decide to continue doing something she cannot share with her parents.

Beyond Silence

1996

Sisi & I poster
6.2

After an elaborate application process, Empress Elisabeth of Austria hires Countess Irma as her new lady-in-waiting and takes her to her summer residence on Corfu. As the two women become closer there, this soon leads to tensions back in Vienna.

Sisi & I

2023

Family Practice poster
3.6

Simon has a love-hate relationship with his father. When his parents go on holiday, Simon initiates a seductive game of cat-and-mouse with his father’s mistress and gets disastrously tangled up in the sticky family network.

Family Practice

2019

A Girl Named Willow poster
6.2

What could Willow do with an entire forest? That's exactly what she asks herself when she inherits this forest from her aunt Alwina. That's not all, though - Alwina has also left her a small, crooked cabin and, most importantly, her witchcraft. But the question remains: Will Willow even accept this unexpected inheritance, with all the consequences it entails?

A Girl Named Willow

2025

Selma poster
NR

The blazing love affair between aspiring writer Selma and her activist girlfriend Nore threatens to break down over differences in dealing with the emerging Nazi regime, as the lesbian community increasingly comes under fire from the National Socialists. While Nore remains unwavering in her opposition to the regime and her activism, putting not only herself in danger, the melancholy, dreamy Selma clings to her dream of security and a career as a writer – but at what cost?

Selma

Unter Gärtnern poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Unter Gärtnern

2024

Mostly Martha poster
6.7

Martha is a single woman who lives for one passion: cooking. The head chef at a chic restaurant, Martha has no time for anything - or anyone - else. But Martha's solitary life is shaken when a fateful accident brings her sister's eight-year-old daughter, Lina, to her doorstep.

Mostly Martha

2001

The Goldfish poster
6.4

Oliver is a banker and portfolio manager and leads a life in the fast lane, which one day comes to an abrupt end, as he builds a self-inflicted accident on highway with 230 km / h and raced through a guardrail. When he wakes up in the hospital again, he faces a devastating diagnosis: paraplegia. Actually, a rehabilitation stay of several months is planned in the hospital, but Oliver soon falls on his head and ends up in a disabled shared flat with the name "Die Goldfische"

The Goldfish

2019

No artwork available
8.0

The film is based on the figure of the police inspector Simon Polt of the Austrian author Alfred Komarek.

Wedding Shower

2003

It's a Jungle Out There poster
6.7

Anna, 17 years old, is happy to throw her first big birthday party without her parents, but some of her guests are so stoned that they leave a big chaos and, even worse, destroy the favorite record of Anna's father. After the return of her shocked and angry parents, Anna runs away to Munich with her admirer Simon. They discover the nightlife jungle and get to know some typical urban guys. Meanwhile, Anna's parents get in touch with Simon's and try to find their children. On the way across Munich, they remember their own wild and restless youth…

It's a Jungle Out There

1996

Waller's Last Trip poster
6.3

For many years the old Waller worked as a railwayman. After Waller is informed that "his" track will be closed down and that he will be retired, he walks the route for one last time and starts to remember his life along the way: Beginning in his childhood in the 1920s, he commemorates the death of his great love as well as he recalls the legal battle with his illegitimate daughter.

Waller's Last Trip

1989

Mrs. Klein poster
9.0

About Austrian-British psychoanalyst Melanie Klein, whose pioneering achievements mainly in the field of child psychology (The Psychoanalysis of the Child) and object relations theory. The action takes place in London in 1934, which sees twenty-five-year-old Melanie Klein mourning the death of her son Hans, who came to life in a mining accident. Your daughter Melitta interprets the incident as suicide and your mother as a culprit.

Mrs. Klein

1995

Die Braut poster
2.8

The relationship between Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the great German writer, and Christiane Vulpius, a village girl, is one of the instantaneous and fiery passion. They lived together for 28 years, 18 of these living in sin, 10 a married couple. Christiane's rival, Charlotte von Stein, a former favorite of Goethe, begins plotting and scheming against her. Christiane puts up with countless insults and humiliations like having to 'disappear' with their son into the servants' quarters and to stay at home on official occasions. Goethe marries her when she saves his life during an attack by plundering Napoleonic soldiers. Her new social position as Goethe's wife is resented and envied by all. When she is openly attacked by the snooty, jealous people, Goethe is only half-hearted in coming to her defence. But she stays with him for he is her great love, even when she turns to the charms of many youthful admirers...

Die Braut

1999

Der Campus poster
5.8

A married university professor ends his explosive affair with a female student who then accuses him of sexual harassment. A satire with plenty of situation comedy about a misstep with consequences!

Der Campus

1998

Harter Brocken: Der Geheimcode poster
7.0

Policeman Koops witnesses a car accident. The dying driver gives him an envelope with the part of a code. Shortly thereafter, Koops gets in the sights of a contract killer.

Harter Brocken: Der Geheimcode

2019

Bastard poster
6.5

The nine-year-old Nikolas has been missing for days. The criminal psychologist Claudia Meinert notices contradictions in her conversation with the parents of the missing child. In particular Nikolas' mother appears to be hiding something. When a video of the missing Nikolas surfaces, showing him tied up in a cellar, the trail leads to his school. The 13-year-old Leon and Mathilda strike the psychologist as conspicuous and provocative. Shortly afterwards, Meinert encounters the children with Nikolas' parents at the local swimming pool and her suspicions are confirmed: the parents are entangled in an insidious father-mother-child game with the possible suspects Leon and Mathilda. Now it is up to the psychologist to resolve the dark mystery of Nikolas' disappearance and save the child.

Bastard

2011

Inspector Dupin: Brittany Calling poster
6.3

A real and a fake Gauguin take Dupin back to the 19th century.

Inspector Dupin: Brittany Calling

2014

No artwork available
NR

Franziska does not understand where Tom is. During their trip together, he disappears without a trace.

Liebe und andere Gefahren

2009

Age and Beauty poster
6.5

An ill man’s dying wish reunites four old friends.

Age and Beauty

2009

No artwork available
NR

Archaeologist Iris Lanz is preparing an important exhibition. Sebastian, a particularly dedicated student, is allowed to assist her.

Liebe und Wahn

2007

No artwork available
7.0

A TV adaptation of the stage comedy of the same name by Heinrich von Kleist.

Der zerbrochene Krug

1990

Julietta poster
4.3

A dramatic teenage love story set against the backdrop of the Berlin Love Parade.

Julietta

2001