Franka Potente Filmography

Born:: July 22, 1974
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Best known to international audiences for her portrayal of the flame-haired, hyper-kinetic heroine of Tom Tykwer's Run Lola Run (1998), Franka Potente is one of Germany's fastest rising young actresses. Born on July 22, 1974, in the town of Dülmen, Potente was educated at Munich's Otto Falkenberg...Read More

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Romulus, My Father

Actors: Eric Bana, Franka Potente, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Marton Csokas, Russell Dykstra

Synopsis: Longtime Australian actor Richard Roxburgh makes his directorial debut with this adaptation of Raimond Gaita's acclaimed memoir, adapted for the screen by poet Nick Drake and starring Eric Bana, Franka Potente, and Kodi Smit-McPhee. Despite their hardships in life, Romulus (Bana) and his beautiful Read More

2/29/08
Guerrilla

Actors: Benicio Del Toro, Demián Bichir, Santiago Cabrera, Jorge Minguez, Edgar Ramirez

Synopsis: Nearly 40 years after Che Guevara's execution in Bolivia, director Steven Soderbergh retraces the life of the iconic Cuban revolutionary across the span of two feature-length films -- The Argentine and Guerrilla. The Argentine begins on November 26, 1956, as Fidel Castro (Demián Bichir) sails into Read More

1/1/08
The Argentine

Actors: Benicio Del Toro, Javier Bardem, Julia Ormond, Ryan Gosling, Franka Potente, Demián Bichir

Synopsis: Steven Soderbergh's The Argentine stars Benicio Del Toro as Che Guevara. The film opens with Che as one of the important figures in the growing Cuban rebellion led by Fidel Castro (Demián Bichir). The movie charts how the two successfully built an underground army large enough to successfully Read More

1/1/08
The Elementary Particles

Actors: Moritz Bleibtreu, Christian Ulmen, Martina Gedeck, Franka Potente, Nina Hoss

Synopsis: With his bittersweet, German-language tragicomedy The Elementary Particles, writer-director Oskar Roehler brings to the screen Michel Houellebecq's popular seriocomic novel of two ill-adjusted siblings. Christian Ullmen and Moritz Bleibtreu portray, respectively, Michael and Bruno, half brothers Read More

2006
I Love Your Work

Actors: Giovanni Ribisi, Franka Potente, Christina Ricci, Shalom Harlow, Jared Harris, Marisa Coughlan

Synopsis: A hot young celebrity discovers fame can be a toxic substance in this independent drama. Gray Evans (Giovanni Ribisi) is a successful actor in his late twenties who would seem to have it made. Gray is married to an attractive actress with a solid career of her own, Mia Lang (Franka Potente), he's Read More

11/4/05
Creep

Actors: Franka Potente

Synopsis: When a London modeling agency booker dozes off while waiting for the midnight subway train, the subterranean terror that awaits her in the underground tunnels will send her screaming for her life through a dark labyrinth in this horror entry directed by Christopher Smith and starring Run Lola Read More

1/28/05
A Life In Suitcases

Actors: JJ Feild, Roger Rees, Raymond J. Barry, Stephen Billington, Valentina Cervi

2005
Anatomy 2

Actors: Barnaby Metschurat, Herbert Knaup, Heike Makatsch, Roman Knizka, Wotan Wilke Möhring, Franka Potente, August Diehl

Synopsis: An ambitious, working-class medical graduate with dreams of becoming a research physician arrives in Berlin eager to begin his internship at a reputable clinic in director Stefan Ruzowitzky's sequel to his 2000 sleeper Anatomie. Motivated by his desire to provide patients with human warmth often Read More

8/13/04
The Bourne Supremacy

Actors: Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Brian Cox, Julia Stiles, Karl Urban, Gabriel Mann, Joan Allen

Synopsis: The second chapter in the "Bourne Trilogy," based on Robert Ludlum's best-selling espionage novels, reaches the screen in this sequel to the 2002 thriller The Bourne Identity. Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) has abandoned his life as a CIA assassin and has been traveling beneath the agency's radar Read More

7/23/04
Blueprint

Actors: Franka Potente, Ulrich Thomsen, Hilmir Snær Gudnason, Katja Studt, Justus VonDohnanyi

Synopsis: An unexpected revelation throws a young woman's history into strange new relief in this sci-fi-slanted drama. Siri Sellin (Franka Potente) is a respected concert pianist who makes the startling discovery that her eerie resemblance to her mother is more than the usual similarities between mother Read More

2004
The Bourne Identity

Actors: Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Clive Owen, Chris Cooper

Synopsis: The best-selling suspense novel by late author Robert Ludlum comes to the screen for a second time, following a 1988 made-for-TV movie. Matt Damon stars as Jason Bourne, a barely alive amnesiac with a pair of bullet wounds in his back, pulled from the Mediterranean by Italian fishermen. Bourne's Read More

6/14/02
Storytelling

Actors: Selma Blair, Leo Fitzpatrick, Aleksa Palladino, Robert Wisdom, Noah Fleiss

Synopsis: From the controversial director of Happiness comes another dark look at New Jersey, this time broken into two separate stories. The first is a 26-minute segment entitled "Fiction," which highlights the life of Marcus (Leo Fitzpatrick), an aspiring writer who was born with deformities due to Read More

1/25/02
All I Want

Actors: Elijah Wood, Franka Potente, Mandy Moore, Chris William Martin, Deborah Harry, Elizabeth Perkins, Aaron Pearl

Synopsis: The romantic comedy Try Seventeen is a coming-of-age tale directed by Jeffrey Porter. Jones Dillon (Elijah Wood) is a young writer who is living on his own for the first time. Jones continually writes letters to the father he has never met, while his mother Blanche (Elizabeth Perkins) resides in Read More

2002
The Princess and the Warrior

Actors: Franka Potente, Benno Fürmann, Joachim Krol, Marita Breuer, Jürgen Tarrach, Lars Rudolph

Synopsis: Director Tom Tykwer followed up his international hit Lola Rennt (Run Lola Run) with this drama, which also examines young people living on the edges of the law. Sisi (Franka Potente) is an attractive but withdrawn woman who works in a psychiatric clinic, while Bodo (Benno Fürmann) is looking to Read More

6/22/01
Blow

Actors: Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Jordi Mollà, Franka Potente, Rachel Griffiths

Synopsis: Following the life of cocaine-trafficking pioneer George Jung in a way that recalls Martin Scorsese's Casino, Blow recounts the man's days from his 1950s childhood in Boston to his downfall in the 1980s. George (played by Johnny Depp) begins his life as the son of Fred (Ray Liotta), an earnest Read More

4/6/01
Anatomy

Actors: Herbert Knaup, Heike Makatsch, August Diehl, Franka Potente, Benno Fürmann, Anna Loos, Sebastian Blomberg, Holger Speckhahn

Synopsis: A determined medical student uncovers shady goings on during a prestigious summer anatomy course in this German thriller. When Paula Henning (Run Lola Run's Franka Potente) learns that she's been accepted to a highly competitive internship at a Heidelberg research institution, she's ecstatic. The Read More

2000
Run Lola Run

Actors: Ludger Pistor, Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup, Armin Rohde, Joachim Krol, Nina Petri

Synopsis: Tom Tykwer directed this German thriller in which Manni (Moritz Bleibtreu) handled a smuggling job, delivered the loot, collected the payment, left the bag on the subway, and now has 20 minutes to gather 100,000 deutsche marks or confront the wrath of his boss, local criminal Ronnie (Heino Ferch). Read More

6/18/99
Downhill City

Actors: Franka Potente, Teemu Aromaa, Andreas Brucker, Michaela Rosen, Sebastian Rudolph, Axel Werner

Synopsis: A handful of disparate people in Berlin are drawn to the same residential hotel in the drama Downhill City). Finnish musician Artsi (Teemu Aromaa) heads to Berlin in hopes of hitting the big time; needing a place to stay, he takes a room at the Downhill City Hotel and ties to find a market for his Read More

1999
Bin ich Schön?

Actors: Senta Berger, Gottfried John, Otto Sander, Franka Potente, Anica Dobra

Synopsis: One of Germany's most important female directors, Doris Dörrie chose the subject of the universal quest for happiness for the film Bin ich Schön?. Set in Spain and Germany, the film interlaces individual stories of broken hearts and broken dreams with aspirations of new beginnings. On a hot Read More

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Nach Fünf im Urwald

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