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Thomas Kretschmann has 41 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including The Pianist.
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Merantau
2009
Action · Drama

Snitch
2013
Action · Drama

Proof of Life
2000
Thriller · Action

Catch a Fire
2006
Action · Drama

Assault on Wall Street
2013
Drama · Thriller

Dead Man Down
2013
Thriller · Action

Rust Creek
2019
Thriller · Drama

A Score to Settle
2019
Action · Crime

The Pianist
2002 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Prime Video · Included

Gran Turismo
2023 · Movie · Actor
Top 2%Max · Included

Downfall
2004 · Movie · Actor
Top 3%Tubi · Free w/ ads

A Taxi Driver
2017 · Movie · Actor
Top 3%Prime Video · Included

Balloon
2018 · Movie · Actor
Top 4%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Upgraded
2024 · Movie · Actor
Top 14%Prime Video · Included

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.
Dir. Roman Polanski · With Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay

The ultimate wish-fulfillment tale of a teenage Gran Turismo player whose gaming skills won him a series of Nissan competitions to become an actual professional racecar driver.
Dir. Neill Blomkamp · With Archie Madekwe, David Harbour, Orlando Bloom

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still achieve victory and orders his generals and advisers to fight to the last man. When the end finally does come, and Hitler lies dead by his own hand, what is left of his military must find a way to end the killing that is the Battle of Berlin, and lay down their arms in surrender.
Dir. Oliver Hirschbiegel · With Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Corinna Harfouch

May, 1980. Man-seob is a taxi driver in Seoul who lives from hand to mouth, raising his young daughter alone. One day, he hears that there is a foreigner who will pay big money for a drive down to Gwangju city. Not knowing that he’s a German journalist with a hidden agenda, Man-seob takes the job.
Dir. Jang Hoon · With Song Kang-ho, Thomas Kretschmann, Yoo Hai-jin

Two families attempt a daredevil plan to escape the GDR with a homemade hot air balloon, but it crashes just before the border. The Stasi finds traces of this attempt to escape and immediately starts investigations, while the two families are forced to build a new escape balloon. With each passing day the Stasi is closer on their heels – a nerve-wracking race against time begins.
Dir. Michael Herbig · With Karoline Schuch, Friedrich Mücke, Alicia von Rittberg

Ana is an ambitious intern dreaming of a career in the art world while trying to impress her demanding boss Claire. When she's upgraded to first class on a work trip, she meets handsome Will, and Ana pretends to be her boss– a white lie that sets off a glamorous chain of events, romance and opportunity, until her fib threatens to surface.
Dir. Carlson Young · With Camila Mendes, Archie Renaux, Marisa Tomei

A German Platoon is explored through the brutal fighting of the Battle of Stalingrad. After half of their number is wiped out and they're placed under the command of a sadistic captain, the platoon lieutenant leads his men to desert. The platoon members attempt escape from the city, now surrounded by the Soviet Army.
Dir. Joseph Vilsmaier · With Dominique Horwitz, Thomas Kretschmann, Jochen Nickel

In 1933 New York, an overly ambitious movie producer coerces his cast and hired ship crew to travel to mysterious Skull Island, where they encounter Kong, a giant ape who is immediately smitten with the leading lady.
Dir. Peter Jackson · With Naomi Watts, Adrien Brody, Jack Black

As the city is locked down under quarantine, Alice finds out that the people that died from the previous incident at the Umbrella Corporation have turned into zombies. She then joins a small band of elite soldiers, who are enlisted to rescue the missing daughter of the creator of the mutating T-virus. Once lack of luck and resources happen, they begin to wage an exhilarating battle to survive and escape before the Umbrella Corporation erases its experiment from the face of the earth.
Dir. Alexander Witt · With Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Oded Fehr

The story of the pioneering project to rehabilitate child survivors of the Holocaust on the shores of Lake Windermere.
Dir. Michael Samuels · With Thomas Kretschmann, Romola Garai, Iain Glen

As the only legitimate heir of England's King William, teenage Victoria gets caught up in the political machinations of her own family. Victoria's mother wants her to sign a regency order, while her Belgian uncle schemes to arrange a marriage between the future monarch and Prince Albert, the man who will become the love of her life.
Dir. Jean-Marc Vallée · With Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Paul Bettany

Doormat Wesley Gibson is an office worker whose life is going nowhere. He meets an attractive woman named Fox and discovers that his recently murdered father - whom Wesley never knew - belonged to the Fraternity, a secret society of assassins which takes its orders from Fate itself. Fox and Sloan, the Fraternity's leader, teach Wesley, through intense training, to tap into dormant powers and hone his innate killing skills. Though he enjoys his newfound abilities, he begins to suspect that there is more to the Fraternity than meets the eye.
Dir. Timur Bekmambetov · With James McAvoy, Angelina Jolie, Morgan Freeman

Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events unfold so that he becomes a central player, he finds himself tasked with both leading the coup and personally killing the Führer.
Dir. Bryan Singer · With Tom Cruise, Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy
In 1981, an enthusiastic young adventurer follows his dreams into the Bolivian Amazon jungle with two friends and a guide with a mysterious past. Their journey quickly turns into a terrifying ordeal as the darkest elements of human nature and the deadliest threats of the wilderness lead to an all-out fight for survival.
Dir. Greg McLean · With Daniel Radcliffe, Alex Russell, Thomas Kretschmann

Blade forms an uneasy alliance with the vampire council in order to combat the Reapers, who are feeding on vampires.
Dir. Guillermo del Toro · With Wesley Snipes, Kris Kristofferson, Ron Perlman

A TransSiberian train journey from China to Moscow becomes a thrilling chase of deception and murder when an American couple encounters a mysterious pair of fellow travelers.
Dir. Brad Anderson · With Woody Harrelson, Emily Mortimer, Kate Mara

While staying at an isolated island resort, James and Em are enjoying a perfect vacation of pristine beaches, exceptional staff, and soaking up the sun. But guided by the seductive and mysterious Gabi, they venture outside the resort grounds and find themselves in a culture filled with violence, hedonism, and untold horror. A tragic accident leaves them facing a zero tolerance policy for crime: either you'll be executed, or, if you’re rich enough to afford it, you can watch yourself die instead.
Dir. Brandon Cronenberg · With Alexander Skarsgård, Mia Goth, Cleopatra Coleman

A man awakes -- without memory -- in a pit full of bodies and must figure out if the people who rescued him are the killers, or if he is the murderer.
Dir. Gonzalo López-Gallego · With Sharlto Copley, Joseph Morgan, Thomas Kretschmann

Two policemen, one an old-timer, the other his volatile younger partner, find themselves suspended when a video of their strong-arm tactics becomes the media's cause du jour. Low on cash and with no other options, these two embittered soldiers descend into the criminal underworld to gain their just due, but instead find far more than they wanted awaiting them in the shadows.
Dir. S. Craig Zahler · With Mel Gibson, Vince Vaughn, Tory Kittles

Las Vegas showroom magician Cris Johnson has a secret which torments him: he can see a few minutes into the future. Sick of the examinations he underwent as a child and the interest of the government and medical establishment in his power, he lies low under an assumed name in Vegas, performing cheap tricks and living off small-time gambling "winnings." But when a terrorist group threatens to detonate a nuclear device in Los Angeles, government agent Callie Ferris must use all her wiles to capture Cris and convince him to help her stop the cataclysm.
Dir. Lee Tamahori · With Nicolas Cage, Julianne Moore, Jessica Biel

Spirited New Yorker Linda Voss goes to work for international lawyer and secret Office of Strategic Services operative Ed Leland just before World War II. As they fall in love, the United States enters the fight against Hitler, and Linda volunteers to work for Ed spying undercover behind Nazi lines. Assigned to uncover information about a German bomb, Linda also has personal motives to fulfill: discovering the fate of her Jewish family members in Berlin.
Dir. David Seltzer · With Michael Douglas, Melanie Griffith, Liam Neeson

In the midst of World War II, the battle under the sea rages and the Nazis have the upper hand as the Allies are unable to crack their war codes. However, after a wrecked U-boat sends out an SOS signal, the Allies realise this is their chance to seize the 'enigma coding machine'.
Dir. Jonathan Mostow · With Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton, Harvey Keitel
Lilli is suspicious of her sister's new fiance, but when an attractive stranger enters her life, she's suddenly distracted by the thralls of desire.
Dir. Sherry Hormann · With Svenja Jung, Theo Trebs, Tijan Marei

It's the late 19th century, and the mysterious Dracula has arrived in London, posing as an American entrepreneur who wants to bring modern science to Victorian society. He's especially interested in the new technology of electricity, which promises to brighten the night - useful for someone who avoids the sun. But he has another reason for his travels: he hopes to take revenge on those who cursed him with immortality centuries earlier. Everything seems to be going according to plan... until he becomes infatuated with a woman who appears to be a reincarnation of his dead wife.
Dir. Cole Haddon, Daniel Knauf · With Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Jessica De Gouw, Katie McGrath

A young policewoman slowly goes insane while tracking down an elusive serial rapist/killer through Italy when she herself becomes a victim of the brutal man's obsession.
Dir. Dario Argento · With Asia Argento, Thomas Kretschmann, Marco Leonardi
A band of determined Russian soldiers fight to hold a strategic building in their devastated city against a ruthless German army, and in the process become deeply connected to a Russian woman who has been living there.
Dir. Fyodor Bondarchuk · With Mariya Smolnikova, Yanina Studilina, Pyotr Fyodorov
Two years have passed. There is a normal life, but handsome Ludo meets his old love, and Anna is very jealous...
Dir. Til Schweiger · With Til Schweiger, Nora Tschirner, Matthias Schweighöfer

An assassin teams up with a woman to help her find her father and uncover the mysteries of her ancestry.
Dir. Aleksander Bach · With Rupert Friend, Zachary Quinto, Hannah Ware
Set in the future on a war-ravaged Earth, four exhausted soldiers man Sentinel - a remote military base in a vast ocean that separates two warring continents. While their tour of duty ended three months ago, the relief crew still hasn't arrived and as the empty weeks turn to months, paranoia descends, testing relationships to breaking point...
Dir. Tanel Toom · With Kate Bosworth, Lucien Laviscount, Martin McCann
Sam and Fordy run a credit card fraud scheme, but when they steal from the wrong man, they find themselves threatened by sadistic gangster. They need to raise £5m and pull off a daring diamond heist to clear their debt.
Dir. Julian Gilbey · With Ed Speleers, Will Poulter, Alfie Allen
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