Cast: Brigitte Mira

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Brigitte Mira. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Berlin Alexanderplatz (TV Series)

1980 · Series · 939 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Günter Lamprecht · Karlheinz Braun · Hanna Schygulla · Claus Holm

Plot TV Series (1980). 14 episodes. This film is a 15-1/2 hour episodic exploration of the character of Franz Biberkopf, "hero" of Alfred Döblin's acclaimed novel, as well as the Alexanderplatz...

7.8

641 votes

7.8

641 votes

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

1974 · Movie · 93 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Brigitte Mira · El Hedi ben Salem · Barbara Valentin · Irm Hermann

Plot Emmi, a woman truly in the second half of life, falls in love with Ali, a Berber guest worker more than ten years younger. When they both decide to marry,...

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7.7

3K votes

7.7

3K votes

The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

1974 · Movie · 110 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Werner Herzog

Cast Bruno S. · Walter Ladengast · Brigitte Mira · Willy Semmelrogge

Plot Herzog's film is based upon the true and mysterious story of Kaspar Hauser, a young man who suddenly appeared in Nuremberg in 1828, barely able to speak or walk, and...

7.3

3K votes

7.3

3K votes

Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven

1975 · Movie · 120 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Brigitte Mira · Margit Carstensen · Ingrid Caven · Karlheinz Böhm

Plot Frau Kusters is preparing dinner late one seemingly ordinary afternoon in her seemingly ordinary kitchen in Frankfurt, Germany. Mrs. Kusters wants to add canned sausages to the stew, her annoying...

7.3

667 votes

7.3

667 votes

Fear of Fear (TV)

1975 · Movie · 88 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Margit Carstensen · Ulrich Faulhaber · Brigitte Mira · Irm Hermann

Plot Margot, who lives in a comfortable middle class apartment, fears that she is losing her mind after having had her second child. Her husband Kurt, who is busy studying for...

7.0

227 votes

7.0

227 votes

Chinese Roulette

1976 · Movie · 96 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Anna Karina · Margit Carstensen · Brigitte Mira · Ulli Lommel

Plot A wealthy couple, with a daughter Angela, a young teen who walks with crutches, tells each other they are off for the weekend on business (he to Oslo, she to...

6.9

575 votes

6.9

575 votes

Kamikaze 1989

1982 · Movie · 106 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Wolf Gremm

Cast Rainer Werner Fassbinder · Günther Kaufmann · Boy Gobert · Arnold Marquis

Plot In the near future where "the combine" controls television and news, a bomb threat brings super cop Jansen to the combine's headquarters. Nothing happens, but his boss gives him four...

6.3

22 votes

6.3

22 votes

Satan's Brew

1976 · Movie · 112 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Kurt Raab · Margit Carstensen · Helen Vita · Volker Spengler

Plot Walter, a German anarchist poet, is short of money after his publisher refuses to give him an advance. He tries various ways of raising money, including shooting one of his...

6.2

323 votes

6.2

323 votes

Tenderness of the Wolves

1973 · Movie · 95 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Ulli Lommel

Cast Kurt Raab · Jeff Roden · Margit Carstensen · Ingrid Caven

Plot In 1925, in Germany, Fritz Haarmann is a homosexual, thief and sneak, having a special license from the police. He sells meat in the black market. He also kills boys...

5.9

66 votes

5.9

66 votes

Like a Bird on a Wire (TV)

1975 · Movie · 44 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Brigitte Mira · Evelyn Künneke · Ingfried Hoffmann · El Hedi ben Salem

Plot "Like a Bird on a Wire" is a forty minutes television production featuring Brigitte Mira, the main actress in "Fear eats the Soul", singing cabaret songs and love ballads from...

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Fabian

1980 · Movie · 110 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Wolf Gremm

Cast Hans Peter Hallwachs · Hermann Lause · Silvia Janisch · Mijanou Van Baarzel

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

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Blue Note - A Story of Modern Jazz

1997 · Documentary · 95 min. · Germany

Direction Julian Benedikt · Andreas Morell

Cast Freddie Hubbard · Gil Melle · Herbert Hancock · Horace Silver

Plot "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...

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Jedermannstrasse 11 (TV Series)

1962 · Series · 25 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

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Everyone Dies Alone

1976 · Movie · 102 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Alfred Vohrer

Cast Hildegard Knef · Carl Raddatz · Sylvia Manas · Martin Hirthe

Plot 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 -...

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Girl in a Boot

1985 · Movie · 96 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Herbert Ballmann

Cast Ursela Monn · Christian Kohlund · Evelyn Meyka · Peter Seum

Plot An East Berlin woman falls in love with a Swiss cook but opts to stay her side of the wall.

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Jack and Jenny

1963 · Movie · 86 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Victor Vicas · Steve Previn

Cast Brett Halsey · Senta Berger · Michael Hinz · Marion Michael

Plot 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....

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Nach Mitternacht

1981 · Movie · 110 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

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Der Stern von Santa Clara

1958 · Movie · 85 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Werner Jacobs

Cast Vico Torriani · Gerlinde Locker · Ruth Stephan · Hubert von Meyernick

Plot A musician from the small town of Santa Clara, Mexico makes it big and finds love along the way.

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Fassbinder's Women

2000 · Documentary · 90 min. · Germany

Direction Rosa von Praunheim

Cast Irm Hermann · Peer Raben · Ursula Strätz · Hanna Schygulla

Plot Includes several interviews with the women who formed part of the professional and personal lives of the German film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

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Red Light Hotel

1970 · Movie · 95 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

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