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Moritz Bleibtreu has 19 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2010s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by Knockin' on Heaven's Door.
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Assassination Games
2011
Action · Crime

Fire with Fire
2012
Action · Crime

Pistol Whipped
2008
Action · Thriller

Overheard
2009
Drama · Thriller

Changing Lanes
2002
Thriller · Drama

Faster
2010
Crime · Drama

Recoil
2012
Action · Crime

I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore
2017
Thriller · Drama

The Baader Meinhof Complex
2008 · Movie · Actor
Top 17%Prime Video · Included

Cut Off
2018 · Movie · Actor
Top 32%Prime Video · Included

Soul Kitchen
2009 · Movie · Actor
Top 44%MUBI · Included

Angel of Evil
2010 · Movie · Actor
Top 47%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Female Agents
2008 · Movie · Actor
Top 61%Prime Video · Included

The Confessions
2016 · Movie · Actor
Top 84%Prime Video · Included

Lola receives a phone call from her boyfriend Manni. He lost 100,000 DM in a subway train that belongs to a very bad guy. She has 20 minutes to raise this amount and meet Manni. Otherwise, he will rob a store to get the money. Three different alternatives may happen depending on some minor event along Lola's run.
Dir. Tom Tykwer · With Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup

Two young men, Martin and Rudi, both suffering from terminal cancer, get to know each other in a hospital room. They drown their desperation in tequila and decide to take one last trip to the sea. Drunk and still in pajamas they steal the first fancy car they find, a 60's Mercedes convertible. The car happens to belong to a bunch of gangsters, which immediately start to chase it, since it contains more than the pistol Martin finds in the glove box.
Dir. Thomas Jahn · With Til Schweiger, Jan Josef Liefers, Thierry van Werveke

20 volunteers agree to take part in a seemingly well-paid experiment advertised by the university. It is supposed to be about aggressive behavior in an artificial prison situation. A journalist senses a story behind the ad and smuggles himself in among the test subjects. They are randomly divided into prisoners and guards. What seems like a game at the beginning soon turns into bloody seriousness.
Dir. Oliver Hirschbiegel · With Moritz Bleibtreu, Christian Berkel, Justus von Dohnányi

When German police viciously quell a protest against the shah of Iran, popular journalist Ulrike Meinhof rebels against her dishonest marriage, walks away from her children and joins radical anarchist Andreas Baader. Together with Baader's girlfriend, Gudrun Ensslin, they form the violent Red Faction Army, and together perpetrate a slew of terrorist attacks as a way of disrupting the fabric of what they see as an increasingly fascist state.
Dir. Uli Edel · With Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu, Johanna Wokalek

Daniel’s drab existence as a physics teacher takes an adventurous turn when he falls in love with a Turkish girl named Melek. He spontaneously decides to follow her to Instanbul by car. On the road across Europe, he picks up his free-spirited friend Juli, who is secretly in love with him.
Dir. Fatih Akin · With Moritz Bleibtreu, Christiane Paul, Mehmet Kurtuluş
Stefan and Kai run a thriving business: a home-grown cannabis trade disguised as a pizza delivery service. For now they just have to fight aphids.
Dir. Christian Zübert · With Lucas Gregorowicz, Moritz Bleibtreu, Marie Zielcke

A coroner finds a capsule in the head of a heavily mutilated corpse, containing a phone number and single word: the name of his daughter.
Dir. Christian Alvart · With Moritz Bleibtreu, Jasna Fritzi Bauer, Lars Eidinger

In Hamburg, German-Greek chef Zinos unknowingly disturbs the peace in his locals-only restaurant by hiring a more talented chef.
Dir. Fatih Akin · With Adam Bousdoukos, Moritz Bleibtreu, Pheline Roggan
Sequel to Lammbock. Stefan and Kai meet again after years. Stefan became a successful lawyer in Dubai while Kai is stuck in their home town. Kai has relationship issues and is trying hard to get in touch with his step son who is getting in serious trouble with some drug dealers. Can Kai and Stefan solve his problems? And what happened to their old friend Frank?
Dir. Christian Zübert · With Moritz Bleibtreu, Lucas Gregorowicz, Wotan Wilke Möhring

Set in Italy in the 1970s, VALLANZASCA is the true story of the Italian underworld’s most infamous outlaw. A criminal by age 9, Renato Vallanzasca grew up to become the country’s most notorious mobster before the age of 27. Vallanzasca and his gang wrested control of the Milan underworld with a string of high profile robberies, kidnappings and murders. In the process, he captivated the public and earned the nickname ‘il bel Renè’ – for his devilish charm and handsome face. Arrested multiple times, his daring escapes from prison enraged the government, angered his rivals and fed his legend.
Dir. Michele Placido · With Kim Rossi Stuart, Filippo Timi, Valeria Solarino

When Banker Till (Axel Stein) is kidnapped during a bank robbery, he has the time of his life...
Dir. Peter Thorwarth · With Axel Stein, Moritz Bleibtreu, Jasmin Gerat
Erik has is own motorbike workshop in a sleepy little town. He may have the telling word ‘scoundrel’ tattooed onto his lower arm but he nonetheless creates an impression of a well-behaved average Joe. His relationship with his girlfriend Julia is going well and her daughter Linda is very fond of her new Dad. But then all of a sudden the mysterious Henry appears and begins following him about like a sinister shadow. The more Erik tries to shake off his diabolical guest the more Henry intrudes into his life. But then when a violent gangster named Keitel enters the fray and threatens not only Erik but Julia and Linda, Erik’s seemingly ideal world begins to run off the rails.
Dir. Maximilian Erlenwein · With Jürgen Vogel, Moritz Bleibtreu, Petra Schmidt-Schaller

May 1944, a group of French servicewomen and resistance fighters are enlisted into the British Special Operations Executive commando group under the command of Louise Desfontaines and her brother Pierre. Their mission, to rescue a British army geologist caught reconnoitering the beaches at Normandy.
Dir. Jean-Paul Salomé · With Sophie Marceau, Julie Depardieu, Marie Gillain

Based on Michel Houellebecq's controversial novel, Atomised (aka The Elementary Particles) focuses on Michael and Bruno, two very different half-brothers and their disturbed sexuality. After a chaotic childhood with a hippie mother only caring for her affairs, Michael, a molecular biologist, is more interested in genes than women, while Bruno is obsessed with his sexual desires, but mostly finds his satisfaction with prostitutes. But Bruno's life changes when he gets to know the experienced Christiane. In the meantime, Michael meets Annabelle, the love of his youth, again.
Dir. Oskar Roehler · With Christian Ulmen, Moritz Bleibtreu, Martina Gedeck
15-year-old Nina witnesses a terrible crime that puts her life in danger. Being an orphan, she has nobody she can trust. When corrupt businessman Thomas Backer sends five killers after Nina, witness protection officer, Max, a former special-forces soldier, is responsible for her safety. They soon overcome their initial distance to find common ground. While on the run from the ruthless Backer, Rudi, one of Max’s former comrades, comes to their rescue – and continues to help the two out of some precarious situations. Even Max’s ex-girlfriend Sara is not just there to help him as a federal prosecutor. Nevertheless, Nina and Max face ever-increasing danger, and soon the teenager is not the only one in need of a guardian angel – Max could use one too.
Dir. Til Schweiger · With Til Schweiger, Luna Schweiger, Moritz Bleibtreu

A G8 meeting is being held at a luxury hotel on the German coast. The world's most powerful economists are gathered to enact important provisions that will deeply influence the world economy. One of the guests is a mysterious Italian monk, invited by Daniel Rochè, the director of the International Monetary Fund. He wants the monk to receive his confession, that night, in secret. The next morning, Rochè is found dead...
Dir. Roberto Andò · With Toni Servillo, Pierfrancesco Favino, Daniel Auteuil

In 1915, a man survives the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire, but loses his family, speech and faith. One night, he learns that his twin daughters may be alive, and goes on a quest to find them.
Dir. Fatih Akin · With Tahar Rahim, Simon Abkarian, Makram J. Khoury

A disparate group of characters unknowingly bond by the sexual choices they make. Consumed by loneliness, a British businessman ponders a rendezvous with a prostitute. The businessman's wife prepares to call it quits with her younger lover. A Brazilian student breaks up with her boyfriend in London. A recovering alcoholic travels to Phoenix in search of his missing daughter. A paroled sex offender struggles to stay composed when propositioned in a Denver airport. A widower's religious devotion is put to a difficult test.
Dir. Fernando Meirelles · With Rachel Weisz, Jude Law, Ben Foster

Carter Page III, a middle-aged gay man in Washington, D. C., is a "walker", a single man who escorts other men's wives to social events so the husbands do not have to. One of the women he escorts, Lynn Lockner, is the wife of a United States senator and is carrying on an affair with a lobbyist. When she finds the lobbyist murdered, she embroils Carter in an investigation that leads to the highest levels of the federal government.
Dir. Paul Schrader · With Woody Harrelson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Lauren Bacall
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