Cast: Sebastian Koch

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Sebastian Koch. 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

Homeland (TV Series)

2011 · Series · 50 min. · United States

Direction Howard Gordon · Alex Gansa · Gideon Raff · Lesli Linka Glatter

Cast Claire Danes · Damian Lewis · Mandy Patinkin · Rupert Friend

Synopsis Homeland (TV Series) (2011) follows CIA officer Carrie Mathison as she navigates the complex world of counterterrorism. After learning a prisoner of war has been turned by al-Qaeda, she becomes convinced that rescued Marine Nicholas Brody is a threat to...

7.6

42K votes

7.6

42K votes

The Manns (TV Miniseries)

2001 · Series · 312 min. · Germany

Direction Heinrich Breloer

Cast Armin Mueller-Stahl · Monica Bleibtreu · Jürgen Hentsch · Veronica Ferres

Synopsis Chronicle about Germany's most extraodinary literary family.

7.2

72 votes

7.2

72 votes

Your Honor (TV Series)

2022 · Series · 45 min. · Germany

Direction David Nawrath

Cast Jurij Drevensek · Sebastian Koch · Taddeo Kufus · Jack Hofer

Synopsis An incorruptible judge has spent his career fighting organized crime. However, tables are turned when his son is guilty of a hit-and-run case.

7.1

52 votes

7.1

52 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

Gloomy Sunday - The Piano Player

2003 · Movie · 114 min. · Germany

Direction Rolf Schübel

Cast Joachim Król · Erika Marozsán · Stefano Dionisi · Ben Becker

Synopsis As the turmoil of World War II engulfs Hungary, a Budapest eatery, Restaurant Szabo, hosts its own conflicts. Its restaurant owner, Laszlo, hires pianist Andras, and both men love Ilona, which is further complicated when their regular customer Hans, an...

7.1

115 votes

7.1

115 votes

Black Book

2006 · Movie · 135 min. · Netherlands

Direction Paul Verhoeven

Cast Carice van Houten · Thom Hoffman · Halina Reijn · Sebastian Koch

Synopsis Zwartboek centres on Rachel (Carice Van Houten), a Jewish singer in the Netherlands who becomes part of the Dutch resistance at the end of WWII. When her cover is blown and the war ends, she is accused of having been...

7.0

17K votes

7.0

17K votes

The Danish Girl

2015 · Movie · 120 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Tom Hooper

Cast Eddie Redmayne · Alicia Vikander · Matthias Schoenaerts · Amber Heard

Synopsis Inspired by the true story of Danish artists Einar Wegener and his wife Gerda. It starts with a question, a simple favor asked of a husband by his wife on an afternoon chilled by the Baltic wind while both are...

6.8

27K votes

6.8

27K votes

Napoléon (TV Miniseries)

2002 · Series · 380 min. · France

Direction Yves Simoneau

Cast Christian Clavier · Isabella Rossellini · Gérard Depardieu · John Malkovich

Synopsis The year is 1816, and NAPOLEON, held prisoner by the British on the island of St. Helena, is telling the young English girl BETSY his life story. His meteoric rise to military prominence begins with his victory over the Royalists...

6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

Bridge of Spies

2015 · Movie · 135 min. · United States

Direction Steven Spielberg

Cast Tom Hanks · Mark Rylance · Amy Ryan · Scott Shepherd

Synopsis Bridge of Spies (2015) follows James Donovan, an American lawyer recruited by the CIA during the Cold War. Tasked with negotiating the release of a captured U.S. pilot, Donovan must also navigate the complexities of espionage and diplomacy. His mission...

6.8

38K votes

6.8

38K votes

The Tunnel

2001 · Movie · 180 min. · Germany

Direction Roland Suso Richter

Cast Heino Ferch · Nicolette Krebitz · Sebastian Koch · Alexandra Maria Lara

Synopsis Anti-communist East German swimming champion Harry Melchior (Heino Ferch) narrowly escapes the Communist regime just after the Berlin Wall is completed, and is determined to rescue his beloved sister, whom he was forced to leave behind.

6.7

285 votes

6.7

285 votes

The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden

2013 · Documentary · 120 min. · United States

Direction Daniel Geller · Dayna Goldfine

Cast Cate Blanchett · Sebastian Koch · Thomas Kretschmann · Diane Kruger

Synopsis 'The Galapagos Affair' is a gripping tale of idealistic dreams gone awry, set in the brutal yet alluring landscape of the Galapagos Islands. This film skillfully interweaves an unsolved 1930s murder mystery with stories of present day Galapagos pioneers (a...

6.6

32 votes

6.6

32 votes

Never Look Away

2018 · Movie · 188 min. · Germany

Direction Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Cast Sebastian Koch · Tom Schilling · Paula Beer · Lars Eidinger

Synopsis German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR-regime.

6.6

2K votes

6.6

2K votes

Speer und er (TV)

2005 · Movie · 270 min. · Germany

Direction Heinrich Breloer

Cast Sebastian Koch · Tobias Moretti · Dagmar Manzel · Andre Hennicke

Synopsis A reassessment of the role german architect Albert Speer (1905-1981) played in the Third Reich. Speer, who was ultimately convicted at the Nuremburg trials and served a 20-year prison sentence, was known for designing many of the Third Reich's buildings...

6.6

88 votes

6.6

88 votes

Fog in August

2016 · Movie · 126 min. · Germany

Direction Kai Wessel

Cast Ivo Pietzcker · Sebastian Koch · Thomas Schubert · Fritzi Haberlandt

Synopsis A Roma boy is placed in a mental hospital and experiences the Nazi euthanasia program. Aware of what was happening and attached to friends, the lad attempts to sabotage the program. The film addresses the complexities of the program director,...

6.5

389 votes

6.5

389 votes

Au nom de ma fille

2016 · Movie · 83 min. · France

Direction Vincent Garenq

Cast Daniel Auteuil · Sebastian Koch · Marie-Josée Croze · Audrey Quoturi

Synopsis Based on a true story, this film tells the struggle of Andre Bamberski to bring justice to his daughter Kalinka who died in disturbing circumstances. After 27 years of investigation to hunt down his presumed murderer, Bamberski will finally get...

6.5

300 votes

6.5

300 votes

Princess Marie (TV)

2004 · Movie · 190 min. · Austria

Direction Benoît Jacquot

Cast Catherine Deneuve · Heinz Bennent · Anne Bennent · Isild Le Besco

Synopsis This movie tells the story of Napoleon Bonaparte’s grandniece, the famous Princess Marie, her friendship and her work with Sigmund Freud, “the father of psychoanalysis”.

6.3

22 votes

6.3

22 votes

In the Shadow

2012 · Movie · 106 min. · Czech Republic

Direction David Ondricek

Cast Sebastian Koch · Ivan Trojan · Jirí Stepnicka · Sona Norisová

Synopsis In the former Czechoslovakia in the 1950s, police captain Hakl investigates a jewelery robbery in Prague. An opened safe deposit leads to a known burglar. What seems an easy case soon starts to tangle. When he is called off the...

6.3

181 votes

6.3

181 votes

Shadowplay (TV Series)

2020 · Series · 45 min. · France

Direction Måns Mårlind · Björn Stein

Cast Taylor Kitsch · Michael C. Hall · Logan Marshall-Green · Nina Hoss

Synopsis Max McLaughlin is an American cop who arrives in Berlin in the summer of 1946 to help create a police force in the chaotic aftermath of the war.

6.3

457 votes

6.3

457 votes

Unknown

2011 · Movie · 113 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jaume Collet-Serra

Cast Liam Neeson · Diane Kruger · January Jones · Bruno Ganz

Synopsis In Unknown (2011), Dr. Martin Harris awakens from a coma after a car accident in Berlin, only to discover that his identity has been stolen. His wife no longer recognizes him, and another man claims to be him. As he...

Max

6.2

29K votes

6.2

29K votes