The Lives of Others / Das Leben der Anderen (2006)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.
Starring: Martina Gedeck, Ulrich Mühe, Sebastian Koch, Ulrich Tukur, Thomas Thieme, Hans-Uwe Bauer
Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Funny Games (1997)
Crime | Drama | Horror | Thriller
Two violent young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.
Starring: Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Mühe, Arno Frisch, Frank Giering, Stefan Clapczynski, Doris Kunstmann
Director: Michael Haneke
Amen. / Eyewitness (2002)
Crime | Drama | War
In World War II, the sanitation engineer and family man Kurt Gerstein is assigned by SS to be the Head of the Institute for Hygiene to purify the water for the German Army in the front. Later, he is invited to participate in termination of plagues in the concentration camps and he develops the lethal gas Zyklon-B. When he witnesses that the SS is killing Jews instead, he decides to denounce the genocide to the Pope to expose to the world and save the Jewish families. The idealist Jesuit priest Riccardo Fontana from an influent Italian family gives his best efforts being the liaison of Gerstein and the leaders of the Vatican.
Starring: Ulrich Tukur, Mathieu Kassovitz, Ulrich Mühe, Michel Duchaussoy, Marcel Iures, Friedrich von Thun
Director: Costa-Gavras
Das Spinnennetz / Spider's Web (1989)
Drama
Der Spinnennetz was released in English-speaking countries as The Spider's Web. Ulrich Muhe plays a German businessman who was born completely without scruples. This makes him an eminently suitable candidate for success in the chaotic years after World War I. The shameless man's story is contrasted with that of his polar opposite, a Jewish anarchist (Klaus Maria Brandauer). This unusually long film needs every one of its 198 minutes to do full justice to its Byzantine storyline. Director Bernhard Wicki co-adapted the screenplay from a novel by Joseph Roth.
Starring: Ulrich Mühe, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Andrea Jonasson, Corinna Kirchhoff
Director: Bernhard Wicki
Benny's Video (1992)
Crime | Drama
Haneke poses provocative and challenging questions in this insettling examination of a 14 year-old boy's obsession with violent films and images.
Starring: Ulrich Mühe, Arno Frisch, Angela Winkler, Ingrid Stassner, Stephanie Brehme, Stefan Polasek
Director: Michael Haneke
