Direction: Sherry Hormann

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Sherry Hormann. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


3096 Days

2013 · Movie · 109 min. · Germany

Direction Sherry Hormann

Cast Antonia Campbell-Hughes · Thure Lindhardt · Vlasto Peyitch · Trine Dyrholm

Synopsis A young Austrian girl is kidnapped and held in captivity for eight years. Based on the real-life case of Natascha Kampusch.

6.6

689 votes

6.6

689 votes

Desert Flower

2009 · Movie · 120 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Sherry Hormann

Cast Liya Kebede · Sally Hawkins · Craig Parkinson · Tim Seyfi

Synopsis Based on the world best-selling book DESERT FLOWER by Waris Dirie - the autobiography of a Somalian nomad circumcised at 5, sold in marriage at 13, who became an American supermodel and is now at the age of 38, the...

6.5

3K votes

6.5

3K votes

Guys and Balls

2004 · Movie · 106 min. · Germany

Direction Sherry Hormann

Cast Maximilian Brückner · Lisa Maria Potthoff · Dietmar Bär · Saskia Vester

Synopsis Ecki is a young man who works in a bakery in Dortmund and plays soccer on his local team. Already under pressure for playing badly, his homophobic team-members find out that he is gay and throw him off the team....

6.4

56 votes

6.4

56 votes

Against All Evidence (TV)

2002 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Sherry Hormann

Cast Nina Petri · Petra Wright · William Sanford · Archie Kao

Synopsis To save her daughter from the death penalty, a mother takes on the American legal system.

3.4

80 votes

3.4

80 votes

The Pursuit of Unhappiness

2012 · Movie · 87 min. · Germany

Direction Sherry Hormann

Cast Johanna Wokalek · Iris Berben · David Kross · Itay Tiran

Synopsis Tiffany is a neurotic, moody, superstitious, contradictory and single young woman in her late 20s. Although she sells fortune cookies in her Berlin gourmet shop, she has a great personal mistrust of good fortune, and especially of happiness.

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House of Promises (TV Series)

2022 · Series · 45 min. · Germany

Direction Umut Dag · Sherry Hormann

Cast Naemi Florez · Ludwig Simon · Alexander Scheer · Nina Kunzendorf

Synopsis Berlin in the 1920s. A dazzling place, but times are not only golden. They are marked by poverty and crime. Vicky arrives in the city, led by promises of a better life, she's looking for a job.

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A Regular Woman

2019 · Movie · 96 min. · Germany

Direction Sherry Hormann

Cast Almila Bagriacik

Synopsis The film A regular woman portrays the fate of Hatun Ayhrun Sürücü, a German woman of Turkish descent, and her struggle for a free, self-determined life in the face of her family's opposition. Her brothers refuse to accept her lifestyle;...

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Direction Christian Görlitz · Filippos Tsitos · Thomas Jahn · Torsten C. Fischer

Cast Christian Berkel · Antonia Cäcilia Holfelder · Suzan Anbeh · Nils Nelleßen

Synopsis Bruno Schumann is a new type of criminal investigator: clever, ruthless, agile and sharpens his insights eagle in each case that never leaves unresolved. Beside him, his fellow Inspectors Henry and Anne Weber Vogts are responsible to solve the murders...

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