Alexandra Maria Lara Filmography

Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: With delicately chiseled Eastern European features and a lithe, graceful presence, Romanian-born actress Alexandra Maria Lara evinced professional qualities that promised to set her apart from her contemporaries. She launched her career rather nonchalantly, with roles that confined her to her...Read More

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The City of Your Final Destination

Actors: Omar Metwally, Anthony Hopkins, Laura Linney, Charlotte Gainsbourg

Synopsis: James Ivory's adaptation of Peter Cameron's The City of Your Final Destination tells the story of how the family of a writer makes sense of their past decades after the author commits suicide. The plot begins when a graduate student approaches the writer's offspring about access to their father's Read More

1/1/08
Youth Without Youth

Actors: Tim Roth, Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Marcel Iures

Synopsis: Legendary director Francis Ford Coppola returns to the director's chair after a ten-year hiatus with this adaptation of Romanian author Mircea Eliade's tome detailing the arduous journey of a professor whose life is thrown into chaos as World War II looms ominously on the horizon. When the seventy Read More

12/14/07
Control

Actors: Samantha Morton, Sam Riley, Alexandra Maria Lara, Joe Anderson, Toby Kebbell

Synopsis: Prolific music-video helmer and award-winning photographer Anton Corbijn makes his feature directorial debut with this biographical drama concerning the late Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis. Based on the book Touching from a Distance: Ian Curtis & Joy Division by the enigmatic singer's wife Deborah Curtis Read More

10/10/07
I Really Hate My Job

Actors: Neve Campbell, Shirley Henderson, Alexandra Maria Lara, Anna Maxwell Martin, Oana Pellea, Danny Huston

Synopsis: As the employees at a London restaurant prepare for the arrival of a high-profile Hollywood actor, it quickly becomes apparent that the five women working to make this important meal a success suffer form delusions of grandeur. In the eye of most customers they're three waitresses, a cook, and a Read More

2007
Offset

Actors: Alexandra Maria Lara, Felix Klare, Razvan Vasilescu, Katharina Thalbach, Manfred Zapatka

Synopsis: The pull between Eastern Europe and the West is symbolized in a story of love and difficult choices brought to the screen by filmmaker Didi Danquart. Nicu (Razvan Vasilescu) is a man well into middle age who runs a successful print shop in Bucharest. Brindusa (Alexandra Maria Lara) is a beautiful Read More

2006
The Tunnel

Actors: Heino Ferch, Nicolette Krebitz, Sebastian Koch, Alexandra Maria Lara, Claudia Michelsen

Synopsis: The true story of Hasso Herschel inspired this epic Cold War drama from Germany. Harry Melchoir (Heino Ferch) was a respected German athlete when the Berlin Wall forcibly divided the nation in 1961. Unwilling to cooperate with the East German authorities, Melchoir escaped to West Berlin, along Read More

4/29/05
Downfall

Actors: Bruno Ganz, Juliane Köhler, Alexandra Maria Lara, Corinna Harfouch, Ulrich Matthes

Synopsis: The last ten days of Adolf Hitler and his Nazi regime are seen through the eyes of a young woman in his employ in this historical drama from Germany. Traudl Junge (Alexandra Maria Lara) was 22 years old when, in the fall of 1942, she was hired to be personal secretary to Adolf Hitler (Bruno Ganz). Read More

2/18/05
The Fisherman and His Wife

Actors: Alexandra Maria Lara, Christian Ulmen, Simon Verhoeven, Young-Shin Kim, Eva Christian

Synopsis: A shared love of fish leads to a variety of romantic predicaments in this offbeat comedy from writer and director Doris Dörrie. Otto (Christian Ulmen) and Leo (Simon Verhoeven) are two men from Germany who have launched a successful business in which they import koi, the beautiful Japanese fish Read More

2005
Was Nicht Passt, Wird Passend Gemacht

Synopsis: A crew of construction workers simultaneously initiate a young architect into their midst while literally trying to diffuse an explosive situation in German director Peter Thorwarth's 2003 work comedy, Was Nicht Passt, Wird Passend Gemacht (If It Don't Fit, Use a Bigger Hammer). Crew leader Horst Read More

2003
Naked

Actors: Heike Makatsch, Benno Fürmann, Alexandra Maria Lara, Jürgen Vogel, Nina Hoss

Synopsis: Three couples with varying degrees of success in both financial and romantic matters find they know relatively little about themselves or their respective partners in director Doris Dorrie's 2002 film Naked. Successful stockbroker Dylan (Mehmet Kurtulus) and his gorgeous wife, Charlotte (Nina Read More

2002
Honolulu

Actors: Stefan Maass, Jochen Nickel, Chiara Schoras, Daniel Brühl, Anna Thalbach

Synopsis: Produced and directed by seven Munich Film School students, Honolulu takes place not in Hawaii, but inside of a rural town just outside of Munich, Germany. Several vignettes, lasting approximately 10 to 15 minutes each, are connected by one of the town's public bus routes, outside of which two men Read More

2002
Doctor Zhivago

Actors: Keira Knightley, Hans Matheson, Sam Neill, Kris Marshall

Synopsis: Boris Pasternak's Nobel Prize-winning novel of love and betrayal amidst the Soviet Revolution is given a new interpretation for the small screen in this made-for-television adaptation. Yury Zhivago (Hans Matheson) is a young man who is sent to live with his aunt and uncle, Anna and Alexander Read More

2002
Napoleon

Actors: Christian Clavier, Isabella Rossellini, Gérard Depardieu, John Malkovich

Synopsis: Filmed in France, Hungary, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Morocco, and Canada, this ambitious biographical TV miniseries chronicles the life and times of the "Little Corporal" from Corsica who managed to conquer nearly all of Europe within a period of a dozen years. The narrative begins in the Read More

2002
Leo und Claire

Actors: Michael Degen, Franziska Petri, Suzanne von Borsody, Alexandra Maria Lara, Axel Milberg

2001
Fisimatenten

Actors: Maximilian Schell, Edgar Selge, Tonio Arango, Alexandra Maria Lara, Neza Selbuz

Synopsis: An artist finds that leaving the creative life behind is more complicated than he expected in this comedy. Edward Schreiner (Tonio Arango) is a painter whose unusual ideas about art have prevented him from winning an audience for his work. Edward insists on destroying all of his work, convinced Read More

2000
Südsee, eigene Insel

Actors: Herbert Knaup, Andrea Sawatzki, Alexandra Maria Lara, Ben Becker, Nils Nellessen

Synopsis: In this satire on office intrigue and middle-class status seeking, Albert (Herbert Knaup) is a ordinary middle-aged finance executive with a wife, Sabine (Andrea Sawitzki), a teenage daughter, Sandra (Alexandra Maria Lara), and a fine home in an upscale suburb of Munich. Just before Albert is Read More

1999