Joel Basman’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

Highest-ranked title
Highest-ranked title
Joel Basman has 5 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2010s through the 2020s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Land of Mine.
Recurring themes

The Photographer of Mauthausen
2018
Drama · History

Anthropoid
2016
History · Thriller

Alone in Berlin
2016
War · Thriller

Dark Waters
2019
Drama · Thriller

Septembers of Shiraz
2015
Drama · Thriller

Mean Dreams
2016
Drama · Thriller

Lila & Eve
2015
Thriller · Drama

Pink
2016
Drama · Thriller

In the days following the surrender of Germany in May 1945, a group of young German prisoners of war is handed over to the Danish authorities and subsequently sent to the West Coast, where they are ordered to remove the more than two million mines that the Germans had placed in the sand along the coast. With their bare hands, crawling around in the sand, the boys are forced to perform the dangerous work under the leadership of a Danish sergeant.
Dir. Martin Zandvliet · With Roland Møller, Louis Hofmann, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard

1938. While the Nazi troops march into Vienna, the lawyer Josef Bartok hastily tries to escape to the USA with his wife but is arrested by the Gestapo. Bartok remains steadfast and refuses to cooperate with the Gestapo that requires confidential information from him. Thrown into solitary confinement, Bartok is psychologically tormented for months and begins to weaken. However, when he steals an old book about chess it sets him on course to overcome the mental suffering inflicted upon him, until it becomes a dangerous obsession.
Dir. Philipp Stölzl · With Oliver Masucci, Albrecht Schuch, Birgit Minichmayr
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 members on board. While the few sailors who are still alive barely manage to survive, their families push for accurate information and a British officer struggles to obtain from the Russian government a permit to attempt a rescue before it is late. But general incompetence are against all their efforts.
Dir. Thomas Vinterberg · With Matthias Schoenaerts, Léa Seydoux, Peter Simonischek

The young Orthodox Jew, Motti Wolkenbruch, finds himself at a turning point. His beloved mother wants him to get married and presents one marriage candidate after the other. Unfortunately none of the woman pleases him, because they all look just like her. The situation gets even more complicated, when Motti secretly falls in love with the non-Jewish girl Laura, a so-called Shiksa.
Dir. Michael Steiner · With Noémie Schmidt, Joel Basman, Sunnyi Melles

In the not-too-distant future: after a global catastrophe has wiped out nearly all of humanity on Earth, an elite astronaut from Space Colony Kepler must make a decision that will seal the fate of the people on both planets.
Dir. Tim Fehlbaum · With Nora Arnezeder, Iain Glen, Sarah-Sofie Boussnina