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Armin Mueller-Stahl (born 17 December 1930) is a German film actor, painter, writer and musician. Description above from the Wikipedia article Armin Mueller-Stahl, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Armin Mueller-Stahl - Ein Gaukler in Hollywood
2021
as Self
Armin Mueller-Stahl was one of the few Germans to become a celebrated Hollywood actor. He had to start all over again several times: after the Second ...

Große Klappe, großes Herz
2018
as Gast
Who is the funniest Berliner? Helga Hahnemann or Edith Hancke, Brigitte Mira or Cindy from Marzahn? rbb television is looking for the Berliner with th...

Marina, Mabuse und Morituri - 70 Jahre Deutscher Nachkriegsfilm im Spiegel der CCC
2017
as Himself
A documentary directed by Kathrin Anderson.

Knight of Cups
2015
as Fr. Zeitlinger
Rick is a screenwriter living in Los Angeles. While successful in his career, his life feels empty. Haunted and confused, he finds temporary solace in...

Crusaders II Fall of the Holy Land
2012
An outstanding and powerful dramatization of the Crusades. Set in the 11th Century, three men set off on an epic journey to the Holy Land to take part...

Angels & Demons
2009
as Cardinal Strauss
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is recruited by the Vatican to investigate the apparent return of the Illuminati – a secret, underground organizati...

The International
2009
as Wilhelm Wexler
An interpol agent and an attorney are determined to bring one of the world's most powerful banks to justice. Uncovering money laundering, arms trading...

Leningrad
2009
as von Leeb
When in 1941 Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, their troops quickly besieged Leningrad. Foreign journalists are evacuated but one of them, Kate D...

Buddenbrooks
2008
as Johann Buddenbrook
Mid-19th-century, Baltic Sea port city of Lubeck, Germany. Follows the fourth generation of the Buddenbrook mercantile family as Tony and Thomas reach...

Local Color
2008
as Nicoli Seroff
A successful artist looks back with loving memories on the summer of his defining year, 1974. A talented but troubled 18-year-old aspiring artist befr...

Eastern Promises
2007
as Semyon
A Russian teenager living in London dies during childbirth but leaves clues in her diary that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russia...

The Red Elvis
2007
as Himself
A documentary on the late American entertainer Dean Reed, who became a huge star in East Germany after settling there in 1973.

I Am the Other Woman
2006
as Herr Winter
Successful architect Robert has a one-night stand with a mysterious lady in red. The next day they meet again, but Carolin is now a corporate lawyer w...

The Dust Factory
2004
as Grandpa Randolph
Ryan is a teenager who lacks the ability to speak. One day, Ryan falls off a bridge and he finds himself transported to a strange fantasy world where ...

The Story of an African Farm
2004
as Otto
The 1870's. South Africa. Life is normal at the farm on the slopes of a Karoo Kopje.Things change when the sinister, eccentric Bonaparte Blenkins with...

The Long Run
2001
as Bertold " Barry " Böhmer
A failed track coach finally finds someone who he believes has what it takes to win. The Comrades Marathon is a 90-k race in South Africa. An aging ru...

The Crusaders
2001
as Alessio
Towards the end of the eleventh century, Pope Urban II announces a crusade against the Saracens, who have occupied the holy city of Jerusalem. Three y...

Pilgrim
2000
as Mac
A beautiful artist helps an amnesiac piece together his identity and evade a gangster on his trail.

Mission to Mars
2000
as Ray Beck (uncredited)
When the first manned mission to Mars meets with a catastrophic and mysterious disaster after reporting an unidentified structure, a rescue mission is...

Jesus
1999
as Joseph
Jesus, a carpenter living a simple life, discovers his destiny as the biblical Messiah.

Jakob the Liar
1999
as Prof. Dr. Kirschbaum
In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out after curfew. While waiting for the German ...

The Third Miracle
1999
as Erzbischof Werner
The Vatican sends a priest to verify some miracles, performed by a woman who has been nominated for sainthood...

The Thirteenth Floor
1999
as Hannon Fuller
In Los Angeles, a wealthy man, known as Mr. Fuller, discovers a shocking secret about the world he lives in. Fearing for his life, he leaves a despera...

The X-Files
1998
as Strughold
Mulder and Scully, now taken off the FBI's X Files cases, must find a way to fight the shadowy elements of the government to find out the truth about ...

The Commissioner
1998
as Hans Koenig
John Hurt stars as a scandal-hit member of parliament, dispatched to the political backwaters of the European Commission in Brussels as penance for hi...

The Peacemaker
1997
as Dimitri Vertikoff
When a train carrying atomic warheads mysteriously crashes in the former Soviet Union, a nuclear specialist discovers the accident is really part of a...

The Game
1997
as Anson Baer
In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a cold-hearted loner, receives an unusual present from his y...

12 Angry Men
1997
as Juror 4
During the trial of a man accused of his father's murder, a lone juror takes a stand against the guilty verdict handed down by the others as a result ...

In the Presence of Mine Enemies
1997
as Rabbi Adam Heller
In the Warsau ghetto of 1943, one man's struggle to keep his family together leads him to the ultimate crisis of faith and one final chance at redempt...

Conversation with the Beast
1997
as Adolf Hitler
An American historian (Mr Webster) comes to Berlin to visit an old man who claims to be the real Adolf Hitler and to be 103 years old. The Hitler who ...

Conversation with the Beast
1997
Screenplay, Director
An American historian (Mr Webster) comes to Berlin to visit an old man who claims to be the real Adolf Hitler and to be 103 years old. The Hitler who ...

The Ogre
1996
as Count von Kaltenborn
Frenchman Abel Tiffauges is a naive man who lives a simple life working as a mechanic. Falsely accused of being a child abuser, he is recruited as a s...

Shine
1996
as Peter
Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.

Taxandria
1996
as Karol / Virgilus
A lighthouse guardian leads a young prince towards an imaginary world, Taxandria, where the boy learns about the power of love and the value of libert...

Theodore Rex
1995
as Elizar Kane
In an alternate futuristic society, a tough female police detective is paired with a talking dinosaur to find the killer of dinosaurs and other prehis...

A Pyromaniac's Love Story
1995
as Mr. Linzer
A pastry boy and the son of a hair-piece mogul become involved in an arson scandal. Sergio is offered a bribe in exchange for taking the blame for the...

The Last Good Time
1994
as Joseph Kopple
A reclusive aging widower struggling with tax problems has a complete change in his views of life as he has a chance encounter with a young woman who ...

Holy Matrimony
1994
as Uncle Wilhelm
A young Hutterite boy must marry his late brother's wife who comes from outside the community.

The Film Narrator
1993
as Kinoerzähler
Germany in the Thirties. A movie teller realizes that his profession is not longer needed. Silent movies are not produced any longer. Telling stories ...

The House of the Spirits
1993
as Severo del Valle
A rancher, his clairvoyant wife and their family face turbulent years in South America.

Red Hot
1993
as Dimitri
In 1959, a young Soviet musician risks everything to pursue his newfound love of American rock 'n' roll.

Far from Berlin
1993
East Berliner Dieter was working at a very low-level factory job when East and West Germany were unified. He has a very ill child to take care of who ...

The Power of One
1992
as Doc
PK, an English orphan terrorized for his family's political beliefs in Africa, turns to his only friend, a kindly world-wise prisoner, Geel Piet. Geel...

Utz
1992
as Baron Kaspar Joachim von Utz
Hugh Whitemore adapted Bruce Chatwin's novel for this tale of a New York antique dealer who travels to Prague to buy the porcelain collection of the l...

Night on Earth
1991
as Helmut Grokenberger
An anthology of 5 different cab drivers in 5 American and European cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.

Bronstein's Children
1991
as Arno Bronstein
East Berlin, 1973. Eighteen-year-old Hans Bronstein and his girlfriend arrive at his parents’ summer house to find a former Nazi camp Kapo chained the...

Kafka
1991
as Grubach
Kafka, an insurance worker gets embroiled in an underground group after a co-worker is murdered. The underground group is responsible for bombings all...

Avalon
1990
as Sam Krichinsky
A Polish-Jewish family comes to the U.S. at the beginning of the twentieth century. There, the family and their children try to make themselves a bett...

Monolog für einen Taxifahrer
1990
as Narrator (voice)
A film about the experiences of a cab driver who drives a young, heavily pregnant woman who has collapsed in a store to hospital. The encounters durin...

Music Box
1989
as Mike Laszlo
A lawyer defends her father accused of war crimes, but there is more to the case than she suspects.

Spider's Web
1989
as Baron von Rastchuk
Ulrich Mühe plays a German businessman who was born completely without scruples. This makes him an eminently suitable candidate for success in the cha...

Schweinegeld
1989
as Maxwell
A satire about corruption, about big and small crimes: The noble clochard Maxwell, the unsuccessful film producer Harry and the unemployed actress Wal...

Just For Kicks
1989
The life of Tamás, antiquities dealer, runs in a normal, everyday way, he is stealing, swindling, cheating on his wife just like everybody else. Sudde...

Midnight Cop
1988
as Inspector Alex Glass
Police Commissioner Alex Glass has been twisted into a sarcastic cynic by the hard luck story that is his life and by his daily contact with the crimi...
Tagebuch für einen Mörder
1988
as Max Telligan
Only a short time left until Max Telligan's diary is finished. Hollywood is already interested in the book's film rights. US producer Terry Wilde make...

Lethal Obsession
1987
as Axel Baumgartner

Unser Mann im Dschungel
1987
as Lutz Kehlmann
A German engineer Lutz Kehlmann is to lead a dam project in South America. When he flies over the area of the dam the helicopter crashes and Kehlmann ...
Der Fall Franza
1987
as Dr. Leopold Jordan / Dr. Körner

Momo
1986
as Chef der Grauen
Momo is a young orphan girl who lives in the ruins of an old Roman amphitheater and becomes friends with everybody in the neighborhood. But when a pow...
Auf den Tag genau
1986

Hautnah
1985
as Dold
Private eye Dold, a specialist in surveillance tasks, is sent to investigate a Frankfurt bordello boss. He's a pain in the butt for many in the red-li...

The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time
1985
as Blinder Regisseur
A poignant film essay about 'superfluous people' facing up to a moment of crisis in their lives.

Forget Mozart
1985
as Graf Pergen
In the dead of night, a few hours after Mozart's death, the usual suspects are summoned to Mozart's room by Count Pergen, head of the secret police, w...

Die Mitläufer
1985

Colonel Redl
1985
as Thronfolger
Set during the fading glory of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the film tells of the rise and fall of Alfred Redl, an ambitious young officer who proceed...

Angry Harvest
1985
as Leon Wolny
In the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separated in the woods, and Leon, a local peasant who's n...
Gauner im Paradies
1985
as Otto Flamm

Tausend Augen
1984
as Arnold
Hamburg student Gabriele constantly dreams of her boyfriend in Australia. The reality is different, because while she sits in lecture halls during the...

Trauma
1984
as Sam
Maria has suffered from depression since the death of her child, and goes to live in a lonely house by the sea.

Rita Ritter
1984
as Cloos
A writer tries unsuccessfully to sell his screenplays and plays. He marries a television editor, but she only wants to fuck him and thinks nothing of ...

Un dimanche de flics
1983
as The lawyer
Two policemen, Franck and Rupert, intervene in a Parisian heliport where drugs are exchanged for a large sum of money. They decide to keep the loot an...

A Love in Germany
1983
as Mayer
In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that he left 40 years before. He wants to discover what...

Embers
1983
as François Korb / Andres Korb
Francois Korb is an arms manufacturer who sold both to the Germans and the Allied forces. Korb's home life is less than ideal, since his wife is havin...

The Wounded Man
1983
as Henri's Father
Henri is a lonely, isolated young man who lets no one get close to him. He meets a street hustler and comes out of his shell, going 180 degrees into g...
Ruhe sanft, Bruno
1983
as Fjodor Kuschnik

The Train Killer
1983
as Tetzlav
Based on a true story, this film is a dramatization of the events that led to the destruction of one of the most famous trains in history, the Orient ...
The Lite Trap
1982
as Harald Liebe
Germany, 1981. State Security Service agent Harald Love is sent on a secret mission from the GDR to the Federal Republic, to verify an informant with ...

God Does Not Believe in Us Anymore
1982
as Gandhi
After his father is murdered by the Nazis in 1938, a young Viennese Jew named Ferry Tobler flees to Prague, where he joins forces with another expatri...

Veronika Voss
1982
as Max Rehbein
In Munich 1955, German film star Veronika Voss becomes a drug addict at the mercy of corrupt Dr. Marianne Katz, who keeps her supplied with morphine. ...
Ich werde warten
1982
as Tony Sikora
Flucht aus Pommern
1982
as Lyssek
Die Gartenlaube
1982
as Ernst Keil
Die Flügel der Nacht
1982
as Goedel
Elser, employee and bearer of secrets in a public institute, throws everything away and disappears, so he is suspected of treason. But he is on a trip...

Collin
1981
as Andreas Roth

Lola
1981
as von Bohm
Germany in the autumn of 1957: Lola, a seductive cabaret singer-prostitute exults in her power as a temptress of men, but she wants out—she wants mone...
Ja und Nein
1981
as Martin
Die längste Sekunde
1980
as Viktor

Geschlossene Gesellschaft
1978
as Robert
Three couples want to spend a short break together. Some have a traffic accident, the others are prevented professionally. So the designer Robert and ...

The Flight
1977
as Dr. Schmith
When Dr. Schmith's proposal for international research on infant mortality is rejected, he decides to leave East Germany and strikes a deal with an es...

Carnations in Aspic
1976
as Wolfgang Schmidt
A commercial artist with a lisp chooses silence, unexpectedly propelling his career. His perceived innovation leads to rapid advancement in an ad agen...

Jacob the Liar
1975
as Roman Schlamm
A Jewish ghetto in the east of Europe, 1944. By coincidence, Jakob Heym eavesdrops on a German radio broadcast announcing the Soviet Army is making sl...

Kit & Co.
1974
as Slavovitz
The adventures of Kit Bellew and his friend Shorty during the gold fever at the end of the 19th century.

Die eigene Haut
1974
as Vater Klemm
Eighteen-year-old Wolfgang has just passed his A-levels and still has a few months to go before he has to start his military service. Instead of sitti...
Die Hosen des Ritters von Bredow
1973
as Dechant
Götz von Bredow's elk-leather trousers have their own special meaning: whoever wears them cannot come to any harm. Only they must not be washed. The m...

Die sieben Affären der Dona Juanita
1973
She is called Dona Juanita: the attractive young architect Anita Nachtigall, who manages a department on a large construction site with great success....

Janus Head
1972
as Dr. Brock
World-famous geneticist Professor Hülsenbeck is a man of integrity who refuses to mix science and political gain. When his findings are being used to ...

Her Third
1972
as Blinder
In this East German film, the third one in The Third is Margit's third lover. After her mother's death, Margit has two affairs which don't work out, a...

Kein Mann für Camp Detrick
1970
as Oberleutnant Heide
Who doesn't know the dream of an unexpected million-dollar inheritance? For microbiologist Dr. Wolf, it seems to come true when an American lawyer vis...

Fatal Error
1970
as Chris Howard
At the end of the 19th century, the Wyoming Oil Company has established itself in the vicinity of Wind River City at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, ...

A Lord of Alexander Square
1967
as Dr. Achim Engelhardt
Ewald Honig can't break his bad habit. Hardly has he crossed over into the GDR when the strapping, well-built man in his late fifties once again start...

Columbus 64
1966
as Georg Brecher
Georg Brecher, journalist and casual writer, leads a report into the uranium mining of bismuth. Under the impression of hard work underground and the ...

Alaska - Foxes
1964
as Sowjetischer Arzt
Captain Jim Leslie, a US Air Force pilot, is transferred to a remote Alaskan base not far from the Soviet border. Here he meets his old friend Harris ...

Preludio 11
1964
as Quintana
Daniela – a single mother, whose boyfriend left for the US – believes wholeheartedly in Cuba's revolutionary new order. Meanwhile, in Florida, a plot ...

Der Andere neben dir
1964
as Reinhard Marschner
Two doctors, a German and a Czech brain surgeon, meet in a Berlin hospital, unaware of how fatefully they are linked by events from a dark past. A tri...

Christine
1963
as Willibald Güttler
Christine is a young farm worker in a small village in post-war Germany. Her attempts to improve her situation through further education are hampered ...

Rauhreif
1963
as Thomas Rothardt
In 1960, 400,000 farmers are forced to join the LPG. After the forced collectivization, Thomas, son of the experienced LPG chairman Rothardt, is deleg...

Naked Among Wolves
1963
as Höfel
Based on a true story of inmates at KZ Buchenwald that risked their lives to hide a small Jewish boy shortly before the liberation of the camp.

...And Your Love Too
1962
as Ulli
On August 13th, 1961 - the night that the Berlin Wall goes up - three people must make a decision that will change their lives forever.

Die letzte Chance
1962
as Seiser
It is a fateful moment: during one of his concerts, Jewish pianist Klaus Seiser discovers Gestapo officer Dr. Becker in the audience. He had imprisone...

Star-Crossed Lovers
1962
as Michael
Magdalena and Michael have loved each other since they were children. But when the Nazis come to power, Michael rebels against the regime and is sente...

Five Cartridges
1960
as Pierre, der Franzose
It is the year 1936 and the Spanish Civil War is raging. When the German commander of an international brigade is badly wounded he gives his five comr...

Flucht aus der Hölle
1960
as Hans Röder
Algeria, mid-50s: it is the time of uprisings against the French colonial power. The German-born foreign legionary Hans Röder witnesses inhuman crimin...
Menschen von Budapest
1960
as Laszlo
In spring 1957 Budapest, former lovers Sándor and Mónika reunite after 16 years at a street‐corner café. Their conversation flashes back to 1941, when...

Wenn die Nacht kein Ende nimmt
1959
as Andreas
The 17-year-old commercial student Doris, a young, blameless girl, lives with her relatives without parents. It is the nerve-wracking circumstances th...
Heimliche Ehen
1956
as Norbert
Tanger - Legende einer Stadt
N/A
as Hanson