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Daniel Brühl has 33 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Inglourious Basterds.
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Inglourious Basterds
2009 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Peacock · Included

All Quiet on the Western Front
2022 · Movie · Actor
Top 2%Netflix · Included

Rush
2013 · Movie · Actor
Top 3%Prime Video · Included

The King's Man
2021 · Movie · Actor
Top 22%Hulu · Included

Eden
2025 · Movie · Actor
Top 24%Netflix · Included

A Most Wanted Man
2014 · Movie · Actor
Top 35%Prime Video · Included

In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.
Dir. Quentin Tarantino · With Brad Pitt, Mélanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz

Paul Baumer and his friends Albert and Muller, egged on by romantic dreams of heroism, voluntarily enlist in the German army. Full of excitement and patriotic fervour, the boys enthusiastically march into a war they believe in. But once on the Western Front, they discover the soul-destroying horror of World War I.
Dir. Edward Berger · With Felix Kammerer, Albrecht Schuch, Aaron Hilmer

In the 1970s, a rivalry propels race car drivers Niki Lauda and James Hunt to fame and glory — until a horrible accident threatens to end it all.
Dir. Ron Howard · With Chris Hemsworth, Daniel Brühl, Olivia Wilde

Alex Kerner's mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell. When she wakes up he must try to keep her from learning what happened (as she was an avid communist supporter) to avoid shocking her which could lead to another heart attack.
Dir. Wolfgang Becker · With Daniel Brühl, Katrin Sass, Chulpan Khamatova

The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion.
Dir. Niki Caro · With Jessica Chastain, Daniel Brühl, Johan Heldenbergh

France, 1914, during World War I. On Christmas Eve, an extraordinary event takes place in the bloody no man's land that the French and the Scots dispute with the Germans…
Dir. Christian Carion · With Diane Kruger, Benno Fürmann, Guillaume Canet

Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the government to recover artwork she believes rightfully belongs to her family.
Dir. Simon Curtis · With Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds, Tatiana Maslany

A young woman's desperate search for her abducted boyfriend draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, a sect nobody ever escaped from.
Dir. Florian Gallenberger · With Emma Watson, Daniel Brühl, Michael Nyqvist

As a collection of history's worst tyrants and criminal masterminds gather to plot a war to wipe out millions, one man must race against time to stop them.
Dir. Matthew Vaughn · With Ralph Fiennes, Gemma Arterton, Rhys Ifans

A group of disillusioned outsiders abandon modern society in search of a new beginning. Settling on a remote, uninhabited island, their utopian dream quickly unravels as they discover that the greatest threat isn’t the brutal climate or deadly wildlife, but each other.
Dir. Ron Howard · With Sydney Sweeney, Daniel Brühl, Jude Law

Three activists cobble together a kidnapping plot after they encounter a businessman in his home.
Dir. Hans Weingartner · With Daniel Brühl, Julia Jentsch, Stipe Erceg

A Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg and becomes a person of interest for a covert government team tracking the movements of potential terrorists.
Dir. Anton Corbijn · With Philip Seymour Hoffman, Willem Dafoe, Robin Wright

A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38.
Dir. Florian Gallenberger · With Ulrich Tukur, Dagmar Manzel, Steve Buscemi

An English teacher brings soccer to a German school in the 19th Century.
Dir. Sebastian Grobler · With Daniel Brühl, Burghart Klaußner, Thomas Thieme

New York, 1896. Police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt brings together criminal psychologist Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, newspaper illustrator John Moore and secretary Sara Howard to investigate several murders of male prostitutes.
Dir. Cary Joji Fukunaga · With Daniel Brühl, Luke Evans, Dakota Fanning

In 2041, humans live side-by-side with robots and androids. A well-known cybernetic engineer, Alex Garel, returns to his hometown to create a new model of robot child.
Dir. Kike Maíllo · With Daniel Brühl, Marta Etura, Alberto Ammann
Five old friends decide to move in together as an alternative to living in a retirement home. Joining them is an ethnology student whose thesis is on the aging population.
Dir. Stéphane Robelin · With Guy Bedos, Geraldine Chaplin, Pierre Richard

Berlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime’s victory over France, a kitchen-cum-living room in Prenzlauer Berg is filled with grief. Anna and Otto Quangel’s son has been killed at the front. This working class couple had long believed in the ‘Führer’ and followed him willingly, but now they realise that his promises are nothing but lies and deceit. They begin writing postcards as a form of resistance and in a bid to raise awareness: Stop the war machine! Kill Hitler! Putting their lives at risk, they distribute these cards in the entrances of tenement buildings and in stairwells. But the SS and the Gestapo are soon onto them, and even their neighbours pose a threat.
Dir. Vincent Perez · With Emma Thompson, Brendan Gleeson, Daniel Brühl

Marion and Jack try to rekindle their relationship with a visit to Paris, home of Marion's parents — and several of her ex-boyfriends.
Dir. Julie Delpy · With Julie Delpy, Adam Goldberg, Daniel Brühl

Berlin, the Prenzlauer Berg district. Daniel is a movie star accustomed to success. His loft apartment is stylish and so is his wife, and the nanny has the children under control. Everything is tip-top, bilingual and ready for him to jet off to an audition in London where a role in an American superhero film awaits the celebrated German-Spanish actor. Popping into the local bar on the corner, he finds Bruno sitting there. As transpires by the minute, Bruno has been waiting for this moment for a long time. And so this eternally overlooked man – one of reunification's losers and a victim of the gentrification of what was once East Berlin – takes his revenge. With Daniel as his target...
Dir. Daniel Brühl · With Daniel Brühl, Peter Kurth, Rike Eckermann

Andrea, a gifted young Polish violinist from Krakow, is bound for America when he is swept overboard by a storm. When the Widdington sisters discover the handsome stranger on the beach below their house, they nurse him back to health. However, the presence of the musically talented young man disrupts the peaceful lives of Ursula and Janet and the community in which they live.
Dir. Charles Dance · With Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Daniel Brühl

Following the events of “Avengers: Endgame”, the Falcon, Sam Wilson and the Winter Soldier, Bucky Barnes team up in a global adventure that tests their abilities, and their patience.
Dir. Malcolm Spellman · With Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, Wyatt Russell
A 14-year-old orphan named Krabat flees the horrors of the 30 Years War by becoming an apprentice to an ominous master of a mysterious mill. Krabat is not only taught the craft of milling, but is also instructed in the sinister world of the darker arts. When the life of his friend and protector is threatened, Krabat must struggle to free himself from an evil sorcerer's control in a gripping fight for freedom, friendship and love.
Dir. Marco Kreuzpaintner · With David Kross, Daniel Brühl, Robert Stadlober

Adam Jones is a Chef who destroyed his career with drugs and diva behavior. He cleans up and returns to London, determined to redeem himself by spearheading a top restaurant that can gain three Michelin stars.
Dir. John Wells · With Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Omar Sy

In 1976, four hijackers take over an Air France airplane en route from Tel Aviv to Paris and force it to land in Entebbe, Uganda. With 248 passengers on board, one of the most daring rescue missions ever is set in motion.
Dir. José Padilha · With Rosamund Pike, Daniel Brühl, Eddie Marsan

Orbiting above a planet on the brink of war, scientists test a device to solve an energy crisis and end up face-to-face with a dark alternate reality.
Dir. Julius Onah · With Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Daniel Brühl, Chris O'Dowd

Marion and Mingus both come from failed relationships but, by bringing their children together, they've managed to form a small yet happy family. Tensions in their household soon begin to spike when Marion's jovial father shows up on their doorstep with his randy daughter and her peculiar boyfriend in tow. As the motor-mouthed houseguests shatter every taboo imaginable, the happy couple begin to question their commitment.
Dir. Julie Delpy · With Julie Delpy, Chris Rock, Albert Delpy

Inspired by true events that occurred during the fierce rivalry between Germany (Audi) and Italy (Lancia) at the 1983 Rally World Championships.
Dir. Stefano Mordini · With Riccardo Scamarcio, Volker Bruch, Daniel Brühl

Kingdom of Hungary, 17th century. As she gets older, powerful Countess Erzsébet Báthory (1560-1614), blinded by the passion that she feels for a younger man, succumbs to the mad delusion that blood will keep her young and beautiful forever.
Dir. Julie Delpy · With Julie Delpy, Daniel Brühl, William Hurt

Though no one can see him, Hollow Face lurks in the corners, desperately desiring love but only knowing how to spread fear and hate. He creeps into the life of John Farrow after Farrow’s beloved 12-year-old daughter Mia is assaulted in their home. The line between the real and the imaginary blurs as fissures start to open within the family unit. It seems that no security measure can keep Hollow Face out.
Dir. Juan Carlos Fresnadillo · With Clive Owen, Carice van Houten, Ella Purnell
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