Armin Mueller-Stahl

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 Russian mob family.

Dir. David Cronenberg · With Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Vincent Cassel

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 younger brother, Conrad: a gift certificate to play a unique kind of game. In nary a nanosecond, Nicholas finds himself consumed by a dangerous set of ever-changing rules, unable to distinguish where the charade ends and reality begins.

Dir. David Fincher · With Michael Douglas, Sean Penn, Deborah Kara Unger

A quintet of cabbies in five cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.

Dir. Jim Jarmusch · With Winona Ryder, Gena Rowlands, Giancarlo Esposito

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 desperate message for a friend of his in the most unexpected place.

Dir. Josef Rusnak · With Craig Bierko, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Gretchen Mol

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 of their preconceptions and prejudices.

Dir. William Friedkin · With Courtney B. Vance, Ossie Davis, George C. Scott

Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is recruited by the Vatican to investigate the apparent return of the Illuminati – a secret, underground organization – after four cardinals are kidnapped on the night of the papal conclave.

Dir. Ron Howard · With Tom Hanks, Ewan McGregor, Ayelet Zurer

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.

Dir. Scott Hicks · With Geoffrey Rush, Noah Taylor, Armin Mueller-Stahl

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 teaches him how to box with the motto “fight with your fists and lead with your heart”. As he grows to manhood, PK uses these words to take on the system and the injustices he sees around him - and finds that one person really can make a difference.

Dir. John G. Avildsen · With Morgan Freeman, Stephen Dorff, Simon Fenton

A rancher, his clairvoyant wife and their family face turbulent years in South America.

Dir. Bille August · With Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Jeremy Irons

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. After meeting sports writer Robert Krohn, Veronika begins to dream of a return to stardom. As the couple's relationship escalates in intensity, Veronika begins seriously planning her return to the screen -- only to realize how debilitated she has become through her drug habit.

Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder · With Rosel Zech, Hilmar Thate, Cornelia Froboess

A lawyer defends her father accused of war crimes, but there is more to the case than she suspects.

Dir. Costa-Gavras · With Jessica Lange, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Donald Moffat

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 Kommondant, Jakob overhears a German radio broadcast about Russian troop movements. Returned to the ghetto, the shopkeeper shares his information with a friend and then rumors fly that there is a secret radio within the ghetto.

Dir. Peter Kassovitz · With Robin Williams, Liev Schreiber, Hannah Taylor-Gordon

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 money, property, and love. Pitting a corrupt building contractor against the new straight-arrow building commissioner, Lola launches an outrageous plan to elevate herself in a world where everything, and everyone, is for sale. Shot in childlike candy colors, Fassbinder’s homage to Josef von Sternberg’s classic The Blue Angel stands as a satiric tribute to capitalism.

Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder · With Barbara Sukowa, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Mario Adorf

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, and conspiracy to destabilize world governments, their investigation takes them from Berlin, Milan, New York and Istanbul. Finding themselves in a chase across the globe, their relentless tenacity puts their own lives at risk.

Dir. Tom Tykwer · With Clive Owen, Naomi Watts, Armin Mueller-Stahl

When a train carrying atomic warheads mysteriously crashes in the former Soviet Union, a nuclear specialist discovers the accident is really part of a plot to cover up the theft of the weapons. Assigned to help her recover the missing bombs is a crack Special Forces Colonel.

Dir. Mimi Leder · With George Clooney, Nicole Kidman, Marcel Iureș

After a colleague is murdered, insurance worker Kafka gets embroiled in an underground group who are attempting to thwart a secret organization that controls the major events in society.

Dir. Steven Soderbergh · With Jeremy Irons, Theresa Russell, Joel Grey

In an alternate futuristic society, a tough female police detective is paired with a talking dinosaur to find the killer of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals leading them to a mad scientist bent on creating a new Armageddon.

Dir. Jonathan R. Betuel · With Whoopi Goldberg, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Juliet Landau