Cast: Alexander Beyer

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


Good Bye, Lenin!

2003 · Movie · 118 min. · Germany

Direction Wolfgang Becker

Cast Daniel Brühl · Katrin Saß · Chulpan Khamatova · Maria Simon

Synopsis October 1989 was a bad time to fall into a coma if you lived in East Germany -- and this is precisely what happens to Alex's proudly socialist mother. Alex has a big problem on his hands when she suddenly...

7.6

76K votes

7.6

76K votes

The Fox

2022 · Movie · 118 min. · Austria

Direction Adrian Goiginger

Cast Simon Morzé · Adrianna Gradziel · Karl Markovics · Alexander Beyer

Synopsis The true story of Franz Streitberger, the director's great-grandfather, a motorcycle courier for the Austrian Army. At the beginning of the Second World War, this introverted young soldier comes across a wounded fox cub that he looks after and takes...

7.2

86 votes

7.2

86 votes

Carlos (TV Miniseries)

2010 · Series · 333 min. · France

Direction Olivier Assayas

Cast Edgar Ramirez · Alexander Beyer · Anna Thalbach · Susanne Wuest

Synopsis TV Miniseries (2010). 3 episodes. The story of Venezuelan revolutionary Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization and raided the 1975 OPEC meeting. The man who hijacked the world.

7.1

2K votes

7.1

2K votes

Redemption Road (TV Miniseries)

2017 · Series · 203 min. · Germany

Direction Matthias Glasner

Cast Ronald Zehrfeld · Johanna Wokalek · Saskia Reeves · Barbara Auer

Synopsis The story of two Jewish children from Berlin, who were sent to England by their parents to escape Nazi persecution in the fall of 1938.

7.0

54 votes

7.0

54 votes

Deutschland 83 (TV Series)

2015 · Series · 42 min. · Germany

Direction Edward Berger · Samira Radsi

Cast Alexander Beyer · Sonja Gerhardt · Sylvester Groth · Jonas Nay

Synopsis TV Series (2015). 8 Episodes. Set in 1983, 24-year-old East German Martin Rauch (Jonas Nay) is sent by the Stasi to spy on the West as an aide to a West Germany General (Ulrich Noethen) in this German-language drama.

7.0

1K votes

7.0

1K votes

Direction Park Chan-wook

Cast Florence Pugh · Alexander Skarsgård · Michael Shannon · Clare Holman

Synopsis TV Miniseries (2018). 6 Episodes. This miniseries adaptation of John Le Carré novel centers on an actress (Florence Pugh) in the late ’70s who becomes embroiled in a plot involving a mysterious stranger Khalil (Alexander Skarsgård) and a controlling spy...

6.8

2K votes

6.8

2K votes

War and Peace (TV Miniseries)

2007 · Series · 395 min. · Russia

Direction Robert Dornhelm · Brendan Donnison

Cast Brenda Blethyn · Malcolm McDowell · Clémence Poésy · Alexander Beyer

Synopsis Leo Tolstoy's epic historical novel comes to life in this sumptuous remaking of this timeless tale of self-sacrifice and self-indulgence, set against the background of Russian social life during the Napoleonic War. Written by Enrico Medioli (Once Upon A Time...

6.6

633 votes

6.6

633 votes

Persian Lessons

2020 · Movie · 127 min. · Russia

Direction Vadim Perelman

Cast Nahuel Pérez Biscayart · Lars Eidinger · Leonie Benesch · Jonas Nay

Synopsis 1942. Gilles, a young Belgian man, is arrested by the SS alongside other Jews and sent to a concentration camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids execution by swearing to the guards that he is not Jewish, but Persian. This lie...

6.6

2K votes

6.6

2K votes

The Legends of Rita

2000 · Movie · 103 min. · Germany

Direction Volker Schlöndorff

Cast Bibiana Beglau · Martin Wuttke · Nadja Uhl · Harald Schrott

Synopsis Rita Vogt is a radical West German terrorist who abandons the revolution and settles in East Germany with a new identity provided by the East German secret service. She lives in constant fear of having her cover blown, which unavoidably...

6.6

357 votes

6.6

357 votes

Direction Randa Chahoud · Soleen Yusef

Cast Jonas Nay · Maria Schrader · Sylvester Groth · Corinna Harfouch

Synopsis TV Series (2020). 8 Episodes. Martin Rauch experiences the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 during his activities as an East German spy.

6.6

182 votes

6.6

182 votes

Deutschland 86 (TV Series)

2018 · Series · 60 min. · Germany

Direction Anna Thomson · Jörg Winger · Florian Micoud Cossen · Arne Feldhusen

Cast Maria Schrader · Emilia Pieske · Helena Pieske · Sylvester Groth

Synopsis TV Series (2018). 10 Episodes. Martin Rauch is recruited by the HVA to infiltrate the West Germany army. As a rookie spy his decisions constantly put his cover at risk and force his agency to take extreme measure

6.5

275 votes

6.5

275 votes

Sun Alley

1999 · Movie · 87 min. · Germany

Direction Leander Haussmann

Cast Alexander Scheer · Alexander Beyer · Katharina Thalbach · Henry Hübchen

Synopsis A “mufta” is a multifunctional table, a “Minetta” is a radio, mopeds are called “Swallous” and “Asthmakraut Halle”─ a special asthma medication ─ is the only recreational drug available. The Soviet Union is big brother, the rest of the world...

6.4

269 votes

6.4

269 votes

A Spy Story (TV)

2019 · Movie · 120 min. · Germany

Direction Sven Bohse

Cast Michael Baral · Lilly Barshy · Oskar Buschow · Alexander Beyer

Synopsis Due to the fall of the Berlin Wall, a double agent is targeted by the American foreign intelligence service CIA.

6.2

71 votes

6.2

71 votes

Operation Mincemeat

2021 · Movie · 128 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Madden

Cast Colin Firth · Matthew Macfadyen · Kelly MacDonald · Penelope Wilton

Synopsis During IIWW in 1943 the Allies are determined to launch an all-out assault on Fortress Europe. But they face an impossible challenge – to protect a massive invasion force from entrenched German firepower and avert a potential massacre. It falls...

6.0

696 votes

6.0

696 votes

The Turncoat (TV Miniseries)

2020 · Series · 173 min. · Germany

Direction Florian Gallenberger

Cast Jannis Niewöhner · Rainer Bock · Bjarne Mädel · Florian Lukas

Synopsis Year 1944, during IIWW. Walter Proska is a young Wehrmacht soldier who begins to question the purpose of the war, who the real enemy is and whether his real duty should be to his fatherland or his own conscience.

5.8

303 votes

5.8

303 votes

3º Colder

2005 · Movie · 113 min. · Germany

Direction Florian Hoffmeister

Cast Bibiana Beglau · Johann von Bülow · Sebastian Blomberg · Alexander Beyer

Synopsis Five years after he went missing on a holiday in northern Spain, Jan returns to his hometown of Nuremberg - and to the various friends, and the former lover, he left behind. But understandably, his reappearance sparks some complex responses:...

5.6

46 votes

5.6

46 votes

Leningrad

2009 · Movie · 110 min. · Russia

Direction Aleksandr Buravsky

Cast Mira Sorvino · Olga Sutulova · Gabriel Byrne · Aleksandr Abdulov

Synopsis When in 1941 Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, their troops quickly besieged Leningrad. Foreign journalists are evacuated but one of them, Kate Davies, is presumed dead and misses the plane. Alone in the city she is helped by Nina...

5.4

1K votes

5.4

1K votes

The Fifth Estate

2013 · Movie · 124 min. · United States

Direction Bill Condon

Cast Benedict Cumberbatch · Daniel Brühl · Alicia Vikander · Carice van Houten

Synopsis The heady, early days of Wikileaks to its abrupt end after a series of controversial and history changing info leaks. The website's overnight success brought instant fame to its principal architects, but as their power expanded across the globe, Daniel...

5.4

6K votes

5.4

6K votes

4.5

304 votes