Biography
Matthias Schweighöfer (German: [maˈtiːasˈʃvaɪkˌhøːfɐ]; 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. In 2021, Schweighöfer appeared as Ludwig Dieter in the Netflix film Army of the Dead, directed by Zack Snyder. He reprised his role in the prequel film, Army of Thieves, which he also directed. Description above from the Wikipedia article M...
Known For
Complete Filmography
The Life of Wishes
2025
as Felix
Felix is at an impasse in his family life and his job. His wife Bianca wants a separation, his children are moving away from him and his hair is falli...
The Life of Wishes
2025
Producer
Felix is at an impasse in his family life and his job. His wife Bianca wants a separation, his children are moving away from him and his hair is falli...

Amrum
2025
as Theo
Amrum Island, Spring 1945. In the final days of the war, 12-year-old Nanning braves the treacherous sea to hunt seals, goes fishing at night, and work...

Brick
2025
When a mysterious brick wall encloses their apartment building overnight, Tim and Olivia must unite with their wary neighbors to get out alive.

Elio
2025
as Ambassador Tegmen (voice)
Elio, a space fanatic with an active imagination, finds himself on a cosmic misadventure where he must form new bonds with eccentric alien lifeforms, ...

Girl You Know It's True
2023
as Frank Farian
Dancers Pilatus and Morvan rise to fame in the late 80's who become stars with No.1 hits and won a Grammy. The duo never sang a word in their songs an...

Family Switch
2023
as Rolf
When the Walker family members switch bodies with each other during a rare planetary alignment, their hilarious journey to find their way back to norm...

Heart of Stone
2023
as Jack of Hearts
An intelligence operative for a shadowy global peacekeeping agency races to stop a hacker from stealing its most valuable — and dangerous — weapon.

Oppenheimer
2023
as Werner Heisenberg
The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.

The Swimmers
2022
as Sven
From war-torn Syria to the 2016 Rio Olympics, two young sisters embark on a risky voyage, putting their hearts and their swimming skills to heroic use...

Army of Thieves
2021
as Ludwig Dieter
A mysterious woman recruits bank teller Ludwig Dieter to lead a group of aspiring thieves on a top-secret heist during the early stages of the zombie ...

Army of Thieves
2021
Producer, Director
A mysterious woman recruits bank teller Ludwig Dieter to lead a group of aspiring thieves on a top-secret heist during the early stages of the zombie ...

Hinterland
2021
as Josef
Vienna, 1920. The Austro-Hungarian Empire has collapsed. Peter Perg returns home from the Great War, after years of captivity. But the Vienna he comes...

Creating an Army of the Dead
2021
as Self
Zack Snyder and his Army of the Dead team dive into the film's wild stunts, groundbreaking effects and the evolution of the zombie genre.

Army of the Dead
2021
as Ludwig Dieter
Following a zombie outbreak in Las Vegas, a group of mercenaries take the ultimate gamble: venturing into the quarantine zone to pull off the greatest...

Takeover
2020
Producer
Two teenagers, who look exactly the same, but never met before, are changing places during holidays in a theme park.

Resistance
2020
as Klaus Barbie
The story of mime Marcel Marceau as he works with a group of Jewish boy scouts and the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans dur...

Resistance
2020
Producer
The story of mime Marcel Marceau as he works with a group of Jewish boy scouts and the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans dur...

100 Things
2018
as Anton Katz
Best friends Toni and Paul decide to relinquish all of their belongings for 100 days, whereby they receive one of their items back on each day. During...

100 Things
2018
Producer
Best friends Toni and Paul decide to relinquish all of their belongings for 100 days, whereby they receive one of their items back on each day. During...

Kursk
2018
as Pavel Sonin
Barents Sea, August 12th, 2000. During a Russian naval exercise, and after suffering a serious accident, the K-141 Kursk submarine sinks with 118 crew...

Vielmachglas
2018
as Erik Ruge
Marleen is in her early 20s, works in a movie theater, still lives at home and is somehow aimless. Her parents torment her with questions about her fu...

Vielmachglas
2018
Producer
Marleen is in her early 20s, works in a movie theater, still lives at home and is somehow aimless. Her parents torment her with questions about her fu...

Hot Dog
2018
as Theo Ransoff
A pair of Tactical Units Police Officers from different walks of life come together to rescue an ambassador's daughter.

Hot Dog
2018
Producer
A pair of Tactical Units Police Officers from different walks of life come together to rescue an ambassador's daughter.

Die Helene Fischer Show 2017
2017
as Self

Bullyparade: The Movie
2017
A multi-episode movie based on the skit TV show "bullyparade".

Four Against the Bank
2016
as Max
After losing their respective nest eggs thanks to a bumbling bank employee, three men use him to plot a bold and batty heist to get their money back.

Jack the Ripper: The London Slasher
2016
Producer
A serial killer walks the streets of Whitechapel, London, attacking and killing women, which later came to be known as the 'Whitechapel murders' stret...

The Most Beautiful Day
2016
as Andi
The overambitious pianist Andi and the more laid back Benno have one thing in common: They will both die soon. So the two of them decide to have the m...

The Most Beautiful Day
2016
Producer
The overambitious pianist Andi and the more laid back Benno have one thing in common: They will both die soon. So the two of them decide to have the m...

Robinson Crusoe
2016
as Robinson Crusoe (voice)
On a tiny exotic island, Tuesday, an outgoing parrot lives with his quirky animal friends in paradise. However, Tuesday can't stop dreaming about disc...

Highway to Hellas
2015
Producer
The life of Jorg Geissner, a German banker, totally transforms with a visit to Paladiki Island, Greece. A business trip to check on a project called “...

The Manny
2015
as Clemens
Young industrialist Clemens Klina doesn't have time for his children and accidentally hires a man who actually came to him, seeking revenge, as a nann...

The Manny
2015
Director, Writer, Producer
Young industrialist Clemens Klina doesn't have time for his children and accidentally hires a man who actually came to him, seeking revenge, as a nann...

Bibi & Tina: Bewildered and Bewitched
2014
as Prinz Charming
When robbers hit Falkenstein castle, teen witch Bibi and pal Tina hunt for the crooks, then devise a plan to save the neighbors' failing ranch.

Male Mistakes
2014
as Partygast
Daniel and Thomas are two friends who are trying to catch girls in various therapy groups.

Joy of Fatherhood
2014
as Felix
A sperm donor becomes impotent - and so he searches for the woman, who got his sperm, to become a father after all...

Joy of Fatherhood
2014
Director
A sperm donor becomes impotent - and so he searches for the woman, who got his sperm, to become a father after all...

Frau Ella
2013
as Sascha
A young man goes on a road trip with an old lady he saves from a hospital.

Frau Ella
2013
Producer
A young man goes on a road trip with an old lady he saves from a hospital.

Rabbit Without Ears and Two-Eared Chick
2013
as Fuchs
The no-ear bunny can do everything just as well as the other bunnies. But because he has no ears, nobody wants to play with him. When one day an egg i...

Kokowääh 2
2013
as Matthias Schweighöfer
Who said a patchwork family is without problems? Two years after the turbulence of Kokowääh, everyday life turns to everyday chaos…

Break Up Man
2013
as Paul Voigt
BREAK UP MAN is an odd couple road movie and tells the story of Henri, who works for a break up agency in Berlin and on behalf of those who want to se...

Break Up Man
2013
Director, Producer
BREAK UP MAN is an odd couple road movie and tells the story of Henri, who works for a break up agency in Berlin and on behalf of those who want to se...
Tim Sander goes to Hollywood
2012
as self

Russendisko
2012
as Wladimir Kaminer
Three young Russian friends, who move from Moscow to Berlin in a lucky wave of emigration right after the fall of the Berlin wall. They take their cha...

Woman in Love
2011
as Alex Honk
An actor's career takes a "Tootsie"-like turn when he lets himself be cast as a woman in a movie.

Hut in the Woods
2011
as Matze
Two misfit males, one man-child, one boy, find each other, building a small cabin in the woods to create a new life. Their daily struggle for survival...

What a Man
2011
as Alex
What a man is a comedy that tells the story of a young professor, Alex (Matthias Schweighofer), who after being left by his girlfriend Caroline (Mavie...

What a Man
2011
Director, Screenplay, Producer
What a man is a comedy that tells the story of a young professor, Alex (Matthias Schweighofer), who after being left by his girlfriend Caroline (Mavie...

3nity
2010
as Christl
Hage, the Holy Spirit, is writing a musical, when Jesus returns to earth at Christmas to prepare the apocalypse. To prevent this, Hage tries to convin...

Friendship!
2010
as Tom
A young man from East Germany travels to San Francisco to search for his father, who fled 12 years ago. Together with his best friend, he starts the j...

12 Paces without a Head
2009
as Gödeke Michels
The era of the feared sea pirates Klaus Störtebeker and Gödeke Michels is coming to an end. After a long period with no booty at last a bulging ship a...

Rabbit Without Ears 2
2009
as Moritz
Two years have passed. There is a normal life, but handsome Ludo meets his old love, and Anna is very jealous...

Must Love Death
2009
as Fan 2
Disappointed by love, suicidal Norman arranges to meet some like-minded people. But when he arrives at the meeting the alleged suicides turn out to be...

Night Train
2009
as Frankie
Two Passengers and the conductor discover that a person has passed away on their Night Train cabin. They come across valuable diamonds on his person, ...

Marcel Reich-Ranicki - Mein Leben
2009
as Marcel Reich-Ranicki
The film tells the early life story of Marcel Reich-Ranicki, who was born in Wloclawek, Poland in 1920. During the Third Reich, the family was in grea...

Valkyrie
2008
as SS-Soldat im Erschießungskommando
Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to cre...

The Architect
2008
as Jan Winter
Accepting a prize, architect Georg Winter explains that an architect has the good fortune of measuring every completed building against the rightness ...

The Red Baron
2008
as Baron Manfred von Richthofen
Richthofen goes off to war like thousands of other men. As fighter pilots, they become cult heroes for the soldiers on the battlefields. Marked by spo...

Rabbit Without Ears
2007
as Moritz
Rainbow press reporter Ludo is sentenced to 8 months, but is released on probation. But he has to work 300 hours for a local daycare center and meets ...

An Old Maid
2007
as Felix
Henriette lives alone in a luxurious old apartment in Wiesbaden, which she inherited from her parents. Her everyday life is as quiet and orderly as th...

Fata Morgana
2007
as Daniel
A spontaneous trip by jeep into the Moroccan desert turns into a nightmare for the young couple, Daniel and Laura: lost in the middle of nowhere. A my...

Eight Miles High
2007
as Rainer Langhans
Achim Bornhak's movie focuses on the restless life of Uschi Obermaier, the icon of the 1968 movement in Germany and groupie. At the age of 16, Uschi i...
Der blaue Affe
2006
as Laurin
A short movie about people trying to forget about their everyday life in the Weimarer Republik. But it was not an ordinary day, it was the dark friday...

Lulu
2006
as Jack
Everyone is addicted to Lulu. As a symbol of the seductress, she drags everyone around her into the abyss: the elderly Dr. Goll, the mediocre painter ...

Polly Blue Eyes
2005
as Ronald 'Ronny' Helske

The Young Schiller
2005
as Friedrich Schiller
The young Friedrich Schiller begins his life as a poet with a dramatic escape. After the sensational success of his first drama "The Robbers", he dese...

Happy End
2005

Combat 16
2005
as Daniel
16 year-old Georg is forced to leave his home in the West, which means saying goodbye to his two loves; his girlfriend, and his Taekwondo team, someth...

Off Beat
2004
as Crash
Traumatised paramedic looks for the woman of his dreams.

Baal
2004
as Baal
Baal, a young artist whom society regards as a genius, does not want to be monopolized by the culture and business.

Cold Spring
2004
as Ben Lüders
A rebellious young woman is thrown out by her wealthy, but marbly parents and gets into a nightmare of poverty, prostitution and sickness.

Die Klasse von '99 - Schule war gestern, Leben ist jetzt
2003
as Felix
The story of a group of contemporary young people, growing up in well-to-do small-town

Hamlet_X
2003
as Osric
A great mosaic, a labyrinth of scenes, dialogue splinters, interviews, portraits of people surrounding Hamlet and wanting to be part of his story.

Soloalbum
2003
as Ben
Ben is a young editor for a famous german music magazine in the mid 90's. His life is falling apart after his girlfriend breaks up with him. From now ...

FearDotCom
2002
as Dieter Schrader
When four bodies are discovered among the industrial decay and urban grime of New York City, brash young detective Mike Reilly teams with ambitious De...

Friends of Friends
2002
as Gregor
Dominik Graf relocates the story of the same name by Henry James from the 19th century to the year 2001.

Nachts im Park
2002
as Hansen
After the sudden death of his wife, heart surgeon Dr. Steffen Hennings becomes increasingly withdrawn. He works a lot, but he doesn't sleep. A horrifi...
Ballett ist ausgefallen
2002
The 10-year-old Elisa skips her dull ballet lessons to visit ice-cream parlor Dolomiti where teenage Holger, the object of her infatuation, works. Her...

Heart Over Head
2001
as Dirk Bachmann
Jakob, an 18-year-old boy, comes back to Frankfurt after he left after his mothers death one year ago. While trying to sort his life he meets a Polish...

Mein Vater die Tunte
2001
as Jan Quinn
A homosexual couple in Berlin, one of whom has a fervent desire to adopt, discovers that the other already has a son. They are able to track him down ...

Babykram ist Männersache
2001
as Malte
Arne and his younger brother Malte run the scrapyard they inherited from their parents on the outskirts of Hamburg and live a rather disoriented exist...

Kiss Me, Frog
2000
as Prinz Dietbert
Modern version of The Frog King. Out of an impulse, 15-year-old Anna kisses a frog which then turns into a prince. But the curse is not solved that ea...

Verbotenes Verlangen - Ich liebe meinen Schüler
2000
as Ben Simon
(Television) melodrama about an established, happily married teacher who falls in love with one of her pupils and becomes pregnant by him.
3 Tage 44
2000
as Albert
Because the war is not for him, the young soldier Albert deserts. He wants to wait out the end of World War II on his parents' farm in East Prussia. H...

Friends
2000
as Speedy
Nils, Tayfun and Caro were best friends as children. When love came along later, the friendship fell apart. Nils became a policeman and unexpectedly m...

Spuk aus der Gruft
1998
as Torsten
The young Friedrich Freiherr von Kuhlbanz died almost 300 years ago, but he is cursed beyond death. "I will not rot in my grave if I have committed th...
Ein Mann fällt nicht vom Himmel
1998
as Dieter

Changing Skins
1997
Inspired by West German terrorists, two pupils kidnap a teacher in East Germany.
Bike Me Up
N/A
as Berlin Segment
Six filmmakers take part in this anthology film which cross six European cities, celebrating the locations’ relationships with cycling.
Play Dead
N/A
Described as Don’t Breathe meets 1917. Plot TBA.
Go West
N/A
Director, Producer
Bike Me Up
N/A
Director
Six filmmakers take part in this anthology film which cross six European cities, celebrating the locations’ relationships with cycling.