Cinematography: Kolja Brandt

The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Kolja Brandt. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.


The Terror (TV Miniseries)

2018 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Dave Kajganich · Max Borenstein · Alexander Woo · Edward Berger

Cast Ciarán Hinds · Jared Harris · Tobias Menzies · Paul Ready

Synopsis TV Series (2018-Present Day). Set in 1847. A crew of a Royal Naval expedition is sent to find the Arctic's treacherous Northwest Passage but instead discovers a monstrous predator, a cunning and vicious Gothic horror that stalks the ships in...

6.9

6K votes

6.9

6K votes

North Face

2008 · Movie · 121 min. · Germany

Direction Philipp Stölzl

Cast Benno Fürmann · Florian Lukas · Johanna Wokalek · Georg Friedrich

Synopsis 1937. The attempt by two young Bavarians to conquer the Eiger becomes a life-threatening battle as the weather closes in...

6.8

644 votes

6.8

644 votes

Ghosts of Beirut

2023 · Series · 45 min. · United States

Direction Avi Issacharoff · Lior Raz · Greg Barker

Cast Amir Khoury · Hisham Suliman · Dina Shihabi · Dermot Mulroney

Synopsis TV Mini-Series (2023). 4 Episodes. A four-part spy drama based on one of the greatest espionage stories of modern times: the manhunt for Imad Mughniyeh, the elusive Lebanese terrorist who outwitted his adversaries in the CIA and Mossad for over...

6.6

253 votes

6.6

253 votes

Naked Among Wolves (TV)

2015 · Movie · 105 min. · Germany

Direction Philipp Kadelbach

Cast Florian Stetter · Peter Schneider · Sylvester Groth · Sabin Tambrea

Synopsis Concentration camp Buchenwald, end of March 1945. Inmate Hans Pippig discovers in a carrying case of an incoming prisoner a Jewish infant. If reported the three-year-old is dedicated to the death. On the other hand, a violation of the provisions...

6.6

132 votes

6.6

132 votes

Direction Raoul Peck

Cast Josh Hartnett · Ettore D'Alessandro · Luis del Valle · Denis Lyons

Synopsis The path to the new world, an unsettling and intricate story of genocides. Conquest, slavery and the fabrication of "Whiteness".

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6.5

164 votes

6.5

164 votes

Tough Enough

2006 · Movie · 98 min. · Germany

Direction Detlev Buck

Cast David Kross · Jenny Elvers · Erhan Emre · Oktay Özdemir

Synopsis When Miriam splits up with her wealthy lover, she and her 15-year-old son Michael have to move from posh Zehlendorf to run-down Berlin-Neukölln. The boy finds friends in his new neighborhood, but at school he is victimized and pressed for...

6.4

155 votes

6.4

155 votes

The Young Karl Marx

2017 · Movie · 112 min. · France

Direction Raoul Peck

Cast August Diehl · Stefan Konarske · Vicky Krieps · Olivier Gourmet

Synopsis 26 year-old Karl Marx embarks with his wife, Jenny, on the road to exile. In 1844 Paris, he meets Friedrich Engels, an industrialist's son, who investigated the sordid birth of the British working-class. Engels, the dandy, provides the last piece...

6.3

2K votes

6.3

2K votes

Young Goethe in Love

2010 · Movie · 102 min. · Germany

Direction Philipp Stölzl

Cast Alexander Fehling · Miriam Stein · Moritz Bleibtreu · Volker Bruch

Synopsis Germany, year 1772. The young and boisterous Johann Goethe is sent by his father to a sleepy little town to mend his ways after failing his law exams. At first, he tries to do his best at the Supreme Court...

6.3

143 votes

6.3

143 votes

Colonia

2015 · Movie · 110 min. · Germany

Direction Florian Gallenberger

Cast Emma Watson · Daniel Brühl · Michael Nyqvist · Julian Ovenden

Synopsis Young German newlyweds Lena (Emma Watson) and Daniel (Daniel Brühl) get separated during the 1973 Chilean military coup against president Salvador Allende. Lena finds out that Daniel has been abducted by Pinochet’s secret police and tracks him to a wooded...

6.0

3K votes

6.0

3K votes

The Operative

2019 · Movie · 120 min. · Germany

Direction Yuval Adler

Cast Diane Kruger · Martin Freeman · Cas Anvar · Werner Daehn

Synopsis Rachel, who is actually called something else, speaks several languages fluently and is at home everywhere and nowhere. Perfect qualifications for an agent, according to the Israeli foreign intelligence service Mossad that recruits her. Her liaison officer Thomas holds her...

5.7

100 votes

5.7

100 votes

Direction Peter Chelsom

Cast Simon Pegg · Rosamund Pike · Toni Collette · Stellan Skarsgard

Synopsis A psychiatrist searches the globe to find the secret of happiness. Hector (Simon Pegg) is a quirky psychiatrist who has become increasingly tired of his humdrum life. As he tells his girlfriend, Clara (Rosamund Pike), he feels like a fraud:...

5.6

3K votes

5.6

3K votes

The Terror: Infamy (TV Miniseries)

2019 · Series · 45 min. · United States

Direction Alexander Woo · Max Borenstein · Josef Kubota Wladyka · Tim Mielants

Cast Derek Mio · Ciarán Hinds · Tobias Menzies · Paul Ready

Synopsis TV Series (2019). 2 Seasons. 20 Episodes. Set during World War II, the haunting and suspenseful 10-episode season centers on a series of bizarre deaths that haunt a Japanese-American community, and a young man’s journey to understand and combat the...

5.6

745 votes

5.6

745 votes

Blackout (TV Miniseries)

2021 · Series · 45 min. · Germany

Direction Oliver Rihs · Lancelot von Naso

Cast Moritz Bleibtreu · Milena Dreissig · Marie Leuenberger · Stephan Kampwirth

Synopsis On a cold November day, electricity fails all over Europe. Blackout. While the government and authorities struggle with the effects and with clarification, a former hacker comes into the focus of the investigators.

5.3

145 votes

5.3

145 votes

The Expatriate

2012 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Philipp Stölzl

Cast Aaron Eckhart · Olga Kurylenko · Liana Liberato · Kate Linder

Synopsis An ex-CIA agent and his estranged daughter are forced on the run when his employers mark them both for termination as part of a wide-reaching international conspiracy.

5.0

3K votes

5.0

3K votes

The Secrets We Keep

2020 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Yuval Adler

Cast Joel Kinnaman · Noomi Rapace · Amy Seimetz · Chris Messina

Synopsis In post-WWII America, a woman (Rapace), rebuilding her life in the suburbs with her husband (Messina), kidnaps her neighbor (Kinnaman) and seeks vengeance for the heinous war crimes she believes he committed against her.

4.9

379 votes

4.9

379 votes

Berlin, I Love You

2019 · Movie · 120 min. · Germany

Direction Dianna Agron · Peter Chelsom · Fernando Eimbcke · Justin Franklin

Cast Keira Knightley · Helen Mirren · Luke Wilson · Jim Sturgess

Synopsis Latest installment of the Cities of Love franchise (Paris, je t'aime / New York, I Love You / Rio, Eu Te Amo), this collective feature-film is made of ten stories of romance set in the German capital.

4.0

89 votes

4.0

89 votes