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367 this week. Create a new list. List your movie, TV & celebrity picks. 50 people. Sort by List order. 1. Matthias Schweighöfer. Actor. Producer. Director. Army of the Dead (2021) Grimme-Preis award winner, Matthias Schweighöfer, is one of Germany's most successful actors and is quickly becoming an international phenomenon.
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The Blue Angel
• The Blue Angel is available on Tubi With her distinct fashion sense, husky voice, and abundant sex appeal, it was no wonder Marlene Dietrich became one of the most famous actresses in Hollywood in the '30s and '40s. Dietrich stunned audiences with her empathetic, poignant, and gutsy characters, but none quite so salient as The Blue Angel. Dietrich's character gets courted by a man who becomes obsessed with her, and while their love is passionate, it's entirely dependent on her being the uni...
Inglourious Basterds
• Inglorious Basterds is available on Starz and Hungeris available on Tubi While some fans might not know that Fassbender was born in Germany, or that he can speak German (if a little bit rusty in Inglourious Basterds), it's his Irish heritage (he enjoys dual citizenship) that is part of one of his most important movies, Hunger. RELATED: 10 Best Michael Fassbender Movies, According To Rotten Tomatoes The movie concerns the hunger strikes involving Republican prisoners that occurred in 1981 in...
Troy
• Troy is available on Netflix and Inglorious Basterdsis available on Starz Finding fame in sprawling ensemble movies like Troy and appearing alongside several soon-to-be-famous German actors in Inglourious Basterds, Diane Kruger managed to become one of America's leading ladies as well as in her native Germany. In the early '00s, she starred as Dr. Abigail Chase in the wildly popular National Treasure series alongside Nicolas Cage, in which she helped him steal the Declaration of Independenc...
Nosferatu The Vampyre
• Nosterfatu the Vampyre and Fitzcarraldoare both available on Tubi Certainly one of Germany's most prolific actors, Klaus Kinski has more than 130 movie credits to his name. He's most often associated with famous German director Werner Herzog, who made Kinski a household name in movies like Aguirre, The Wrath of God, Nosferatu the Vampyre, Woyzeck, Cobra Verde, and Fitzcarraldo. Known for his explosive performances and maniacal characters, Kinski was a force of nature on and off-camera. Herz...
Run Lola Run
• Run Lola Run is available to purchase on Prime Video and both The Bourne Identity and The Bourne Supremacyare available on HBO Max With her bright red hair and bottomless perseverance, Franka Potente captured audiences everywhere in the arthouse movie Run Lola Run, in which she spent nearly the entire movie literally running in an effort to help her boyfriend come up with a large sum of lost funds. RELATED: Recasting The Characters Of The Bourne Identity (If It Was Made Today) The German ac...
Inglourious Basterds
• Inglorious Basterds is available on Starz, Rush is available on Netflix, and Captain America: Civil Waris available on Disney+ Daniel Brühl made his big splash stateside in Inglourious Basterds, and later in a small role in Captain America: Civil War as Baron Zemo, but it would be his role in the sports movie Rush, the biopic centered on the rivalry between two Formula One drivers, that gave him the attention he deserved in a lead performance. As Niki Lauda, one of the most famous drivers d...
Das Boot
• Das Boot is available on The Roku Channel and Beverly Hills Cop IIis available on HBO Max The famous West German war movie directed by Wolfgang Peterssen, Das Boot became an international sensation when it was released, and is considered one of the best WWII movies ever made. It takes place almost entirely on a German submarine during conflicts in the Atlantic Ocean in World War II. As a war correspondent recounts the diurnal torpor aboard, he observes the struggles of the grizzled U-boat c...
Barbara
• Barbarais available on Tubi An accomplished actress despite her young years, Nina Hoss gained notoriety in America for starring in Barbara, a Soviet-era movie that reveals what life was like behind the Iron Curtain in 1980, specifically for a doctor who tried to apply for an exit visa and found herself exiled to the provinces. RELATED: 10 Best English Remakes of German Films, Ranked According to Rotten Tomatoes Barbara simply wants to escape the Communist German Democratic Republic and live...
Inglourious Basterds
• Inglorious Basterds is available on Starz and Django Unchainedis available on Netflix Christoph Waltz exploded into global consciousness when he played a menacing Nazi officer inInglourious Basterds, which included several other notable German actors, including Michael Fassbender and Diane Kruger. When the German actor, who was born in Vienna but holds dual Austrian-German citizenship, suddenly appeared on America's radar in 2009, he'd already taken home two Academy Awards, one of which was...
Before The Fall
While he's most recently been celebrated for Netflix's cult series Sense8, Max Riemelt has been wowing audiences for nearly two decades. One of his most popular movies was 2004's Before The Fall, which earned him international acclaim for portraying Friedrich Weimer, a young boxer whose skills land him a scholarship at the strict National Political Academy. While there, he encounters incredibly cruel hazing and even death in a high school that is notorious for producing members of the Nazi el...
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Mitten in Deutschland: NSU (2016– ) Anna Maria Mühe (born 1985) is a German actress. Born in Berlin to actor Ulrich Mühe (1953-2007) and actress Jenny Gröllmann (1947-2006), she was invited by director Maria von Heland to a casting for Big Girls Don't Cry. She also played in a video of Schiller's song "Sehnsucht".
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33 people. Sort by List order. 1. Maximilian Schell. Actor. Director. Writer. Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) Maximilian Schell was the most successful German-speaking actor in English-language films since Emil Jannings, the winner of the first Best Actor Academy Award. Like Jannings, Schell won the Oscar, but unlike him, he was a dedicated anti-Nazi.
- Conrad Veidt. Conrad Veidt was a German actor, born on January 22, 1893, in Berlin, Germany. He is best known for his roles in silent films, particularly those directed by German expressionist filmmakers such as F.W.
- Oskar Werner. Oskar Werner was an Austrian actor born on November 13, 1922, in Vienna, Austria. He was known for his work in both German and English language films.
- Albert Bassermann. Albert Bassermann was a German stage and film actor. He was born on September 7, 1867, in Mannheim, Germany, and began his acting career in the late 19th century.
- Armin Mueller-Stahl. Armin Mueller-Stahl is a German actor and musician. He was born on December 17, 1930, in Tilsit, East Prussia, Germany (now Sovetsk, Russia).
Matthias Schweighöfer (German: [maˈtiːas ˈʃvaɪkˌhøːfɐ] ⓘ; born 11 March 1981) is a German actor and filmmaker known for his work in several German and American film productions. He is best known for his role as Lieutenant Franz Herber in the 2008 film Valkyrie .
Mar 9, 2024 · Breaking Baz: German Stars Christian Friedel, Sandra Hüller & Leonie Benesch Make Their Mark On 2024 Oscars. Sandra Hüller (a Best Actress nominee) and Christian Friedel, stars of Jonathan ...
