Cast: Ulrich Mühe

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


The Lives of Others

2006 · Movie · 137 min. · Germany

Direction Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Cast Ulrich Mühe · Martina Gedeck · Sebastian Koch · Ulrich Tukur

Synopsis The Lives of Others (2006) is a gripping drama set in 1980s East Germany, where the secret police, or Stasi, surveil citizens to suppress dissent. The story follows a dedicated Stasi officer tasked with monitoring a playwright and his actress...

8.0

74K votes

8.0

74K votes

Funny Games

1997 · Movie · 108 min. · Austria

Direction Michael Haneke

Cast Susanne Lothar · Ulrich Mühe · Arno Frisch · Frank Giering

Synopsis In Funny Games (1997), a wealthy family arrives at their secluded lakeside vacation home, expecting a peaceful retreat. Their tranquility is shattered when two polite yet unsettling young men appear, asking for help. What begins as a seemingly innocent encounter...

Max

7.4

41K votes

7.4

41K votes

Benny's Video

1992 · Movie · 105 min. · Austria

Direction Michael Haneke

Cast Arno Frisch · Angela Winkler · Ulrich Mühe · Ingrid Strassner

Synopsis Benny's Video is the second in director Michael Haneke's trilogy exploring the role of violence and the media in modern Austrian society. A 14-year-old video enthusiast is so caught up in film fantasy that he can no longer relate to...

Max

7.2

5K votes

7.2

5K votes

Amen

2002 · Movie · 132 min. · France

Direction Costa-Gavras

Cast Ulrich Tukur · Mathieu Kassovitz · Ulrich Mühe · Marcel Iures

Synopsis Kurt Gerstein, a brilliant German scientist, is recruited into the SS during the opening years of the Second World War. Assigned as a sanitation engineer, Gerstein is sent to the Eastern Front to supervise water purification for the German Army....

7.1

8K votes

7.1

8K votes

Direction Rainer Simon

Cast Kathrin Waligura · Peter Zimmermann · Siegfried Höchst · Joachim Lätsch

Synopsis Two German soldiers captured by the Russians in World War I become close friends. Richard shares intimate stories about his wife Anna, and Karl falls in love with her in his thoughts. One day, Karl escapes and goes to Richard's...

6.3

48 votes

6.3

48 votes

The Castle (TV)

1997 · Movie · 123 min. · Austria

Direction Michael Haneke

Cast Ulrich Mühe · Susanne Lothar · André Eisermann · Johannes Silberschneider

Synopsis The Castle is Haneke's interpretation of Franz Kafka's unfinished prose piece of the same name. The film follows the efforts of a surveyor named 'K', as he wrangles with the impenetrable bureaucracy of a governmental department which has summoned him...

6.0

1K votes

6.0

1K votes

The Last U-Boat (TV)

1993 · Movie · 105 min. · Germany

Direction Frank Beyer

Cast Ulrich Mühe · Ulrich Tukur · Kaoru Kobayashi · Goro Ohashi

Synopsis Near the end of the war a lone U-Boat is sent from Germany to japan carring plutonium needed for a japanies A-Bomb. During the long sail, the officers hear from the radio that Germany had lost the war and Hitler...

5.0

190 votes

5.0

190 votes

Straight Shooter

1999 · Movie · 90 min. · Germany

Direction Thomas Bohn

Cast Dennis Hopper · Heino Ferch · Katja Flint · Jürgen Schornagel

Synopsis Politicians and lobbyists are being killed by a former soldier who blames them for killing his daughter. Only Frank Hector (Dennis Hopper), his former trainer, can stop the killer. But Hector has his own doubts about his mission and the...

4.6

325 votes

4.6

325 votes

Spy Sorge

2003 · Movie · 182 min. · Japan

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Iain Glen · Masahiro Motoki · Kippei Shiina · Takaya Kamikawa

Synopsis Spy Sorge depicts the life of Soviet spy Richard Sorge, whose infiltration of the German embassy in Tokyo gave Stalin an ear to Axis plans through the 1930's and into the first months of World War II.

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Night Time

1998 · Movie · 96 min. · Germany

Direction Peter Fratzscher

Cast Jan Josef Liefers · Marie Bäumer · Ulrich Mühe · Christoph Waltz

Synopsis Thomas Krömer follows the traces of a brutal murder in werewolf-manner out of personal interest. After investigating for some time, the traces all point to one person: himself. Now, he has to find out whether he surprisingly turns into a...

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Snowland

2005 · Movie · 142 min. · Germany

Direction Hans W. Geissendörfer

Cast Thomas Kretschmann · Julia Jentsch · Maria Schrader · Ulrich Mühe

Synopsis In the snowy landscape of Lapland, a newly-widowed writer discovers the traces of a bygone love story through which she finds a way back to her own life.

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Der Blaue (The Blue One)

1994 · Movie · 96 min. · Germany

Direction Lienhard Wawrzyn

Cast Manfred Krug · Ulrich Mühe · Meret Becker · Klaus Manchen

Synopsis Ex-GDR citizen Dr. Otto Skrodt is about to become an important politician in Bonn when his old friend Karl shows up to ask him for some financial help. Karl had been imprisoned in the GDR because of a denunciation of...

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Not rated

Spider's Web

1989 · Movie · 196 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Bernhard Wicki

Cast Ulrich Mühe · Klaus Maria Brandauer · Armin Mueller-Stahl · Corinna Kirchhoff

Synopsis Ulrich Muhe plays a German businessman who was born completely without scruples. This makes him an eminently suitable candidate for success in the chaotic years after World War I. The shameless man's story is contrasted with that of his polar...

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Nikolaikirche (TV)

1995 · Movie · 130 min. · Germany

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Ende der Unschuld (TV)

1991 · Movie · 184 min. · Germany

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Not rated