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Udo Kier has 41 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 2020s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Suspiria.
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Suspiria
1977 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Blade
1998 · Movie · Actor
Top 5%Max · Included

The Secret Agent
2025 · Movie · Actor
Top 7%Hulu · Included

Breaking the Waves
1996 · Movie · Actor
Top 13%MUBI · Included

Europa
1991 · Movie · Actor
Top 19%MUBI · Included

The Painted Bird
2019 · Movie · Actor
Top 30%AMC+ · Included

An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.
Dir. Dario Argento · With Jessica Harper, Stefania Casini, Flavio Bucci
The Daywalker known as "Blade" - a half-vampire, half-mortal man - becomes the protector of humanity against an underground army of vampires.
Dir. Stephen Norrington · With Wesley Snipes, Stephen Dorff, Kris Kristofferson

Bacurau, a small town in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their community has vanished from most maps.
Dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho, Juliano Dornelles · With Bárbara Colen, Thomás Aquino, Silvero Pereira

Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. Hoping to reunite with his son, he travels to Recife during Carnival but soon realizes that the city is not the safe haven he was expecting.
Dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho · With Wagner Moura, Alice Carvalho, Gabriel Leone
With a torrid past that haunts him, a movie theatre owner is hired to search for the only existing print of a film so notorious that its single screening caused the viewers to become homicidally insane.
Dir. John Carpenter · With Norman Reedus, Udo Kier, Christopher Redman

After working as a drug courier and getting into a brutal shootout with police, a former boxer finds himself at the mercy of his enemies as they force him to instigate violent acts that turn the prison he resides in into a battleground.
Dir. S. Craig Zahler · With Vince Vaughn, Jennifer Carpenter, Don Johnson

In a small, conservative Scottish village, an oilman is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who prayed for his return, feels guilty; even more, when he urges her to have sex with another.
Dir. Lars von Trier · With Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgård, Katrin Cartlidge

Just after World War II, an American takes a railway job in Germany, but finds his position politically sensitive with various people trying to use him.
Dir. Lars von Trier · With Jean-Marc Barr, Barbara Sukowa, Udo Kier

After losing his parents, a young Jewish boy wanders Eastern Europe, seeking refuge during World War II.
Dir. Václav Marhoul · With Petr Kotlár, Nina Šunevič, Alla Sokolova

On the rocky path to sobriety after a life-changing accident, John Callahan discovers the healing power of art, willing his injured hands into drawing hilarious, often controversial cartoons, which bring him a new lease on life.
Dir. Gus Van Sant · With Joaquin Phoenix, Jonah Hill, Rooney Mara

Set in Paris in 1919, biopic centers on the life of late Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, focusing on his last days as well as his rivalry with Pablo Picasso. Modigliani, a Jew, has fallen in love with Jeanne, a young and beautiful Catholic girl. The couple has an illegitimate child, and Jeanne's bigoted parents send the baby to a faraway convent to be raised by nuns.
Dir. Mick Davis · With Andy Garcia, Elsa Zylberstein, Omid Djalili

He's Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. The Ace is on the case to find the Miami Dolphins' missing mascot and quarterback Dan Marino. He goes eyeball to eyeball with a man-eating shark, stakes out the Miami Dolphins and woos and wows the ladies. Whether he's undercover, under fire or underwater, he always gets his man… or beast!
Dir. Tom Shadyac · With Jim Carrey, Courteney Cox, Sean Young
In 1700s Austria, a witch-hunter's apprentice has doubts about the righteousness of witch-hunting when he witnesses the brutality, the injustice, the falsehood, the torture and the arbitrary killing that go with the job.
Dir. Michael Armstrong, Adrian Hoven · With Herbert Lom, Udo Kier, Olivera Katarina

Lexington, Kentucky, 2004. Four young men attempt to execute one of the most audacious art heists in the history of the United States.
Dir. Bart Layton · With Evan Peters, Barry Keoghan, Blake Jenner

Director F.W. Murnau makes a Faustian pact with a vampire to get him to star in his 1922 film "Nosferatu."
Dir. E. Elias Merhige · With John Malkovich, Willem Dafoe, Udo Kier
Within the decadent walls of the Frankenstein mansion, the Baron and his depraved assistant Otto have discovered the means of creating new life. As the Baron's laboratory begins to fill up with stitched body parts, the Baroness dallies with the randy new manservant and soon the decadent, permissive household is consumed by an outrageous, bizarre and hilarious combination of death and dismemberment.
Dir. Paul Morrissey · With Joe Dallesandro, Udo Kier, Monique van Vooren

The continuation of Joe's sexually dictated life delves into the darker aspects of her adult life and what led to her being in Seligman's care.
Dir. Lars von Trier · With Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgård, Stacy Martin
Deathly ill Count Dracula and his slimy underling, Anton, travel to Italy in search of a virgin's blood. They're welcomed at the crumbling estate of indebted Marchese Di Fiore, who's desperate to marry off his daughters to rich suitors. But there, instead of pure women, the count encounters incestuous lesbians with vile blood and Marxist manservant Mario, who's suspicious of the aristocratic Dracula.
Dir. Paul Morrissey · With Udo Kier, Joe Dallesandro, Vittorio De Sica

Cynical bodyguard Jericho is hired by a man possessed by Satan, who is in search of his bride. When Jericho realizes what is happening, he must do everything he can to save the woman and the world.
Dir. Peter Hyams · With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gabriel Byrne, Robin Tunney

as Andre Toulon
A recently divorced young man discovers a mint condition Blade doll in his deceased brother's closet and plans to sell the toy at a convention in Oregon celebrating the 30th anniversary of the infamous Toulon Murders. All hell breaks loose during the auction when a strange force animates all of the puppets throughout the convention, setting them on a bloody killing spree.
Dir. Tommy Wiklund, Sonny Laguna · With Thomas Lennon, Jenny Pellicer, Michael Paré
Down a seedy city street in her neighborhood, young Enola Penny is obsessed with what appears to be a long abandoned theatre. One night, she sees that the front door is slightly ajar and impulsively decides to sneak inside. But there in the dark, decrepit auditorium, a show unlike any other unfolds before her eyes. Its host is an eerie human puppet named Peg Poett who will introduce Penny to six tales of the bizarre: A couple traveling in a remote part of the French Pyrenees cross paths with a lustful witch; A paranoid lover faces the wrath of a partner who has been pushed to her limit; The Freudian dreams of an unfaithful husband blur the lines between fantasy and reality; The horrors of the real world are interpreted through the mind of a child; A woman addicted to other people's memories gets her fix through the vitreous fluid of her victims' eyeballs; And a perverse obsession with sweets turns sour for a couple in too deep.
Dir. Buddy Giovinazzo, Tom Savini, Richard Stanley, Douglas Buck, Karim Hussain, David Gregory, Jeremy Kasten · With Udo Kier, Virginia Newcomb, Amanda Marquardt

A one-time (and now one-handed) master film editor toiling in the cinematic sweatshops of 1970s Italy becomes the prime suspect in a series of brutal murders.
Dir. Adam Brooks, Matthew Kennedy · With Paz de la Huerta, Samantha Hill, Laurence R. Harvey

In a dystopian 2021, Johnny is a data trafficker who has an implant that allows him to securely store data too sensitive for regular computer networks. On one delivery run, he accepts a package that not only exceeds the implant's safety limits—and will kill him if the data is not removed in time—but also contains information far more important and valuable than he had ever imagined. On a race against time, he must avoid the assassins sent to kill him and remove the data before it, too, ends his life.
Dir. Robert Longo · With Keanu Reeves, Dina Meyer, Takeshi Kitano

Brad has committed murder and barricaded himself inside his house. With the help of his friends and neighbours, the cops piece together the strange tale of how this nice young man arrived at such a dark place.
Dir. Werner Herzog · With Michael Shannon, Willem Dafoe, Chloë Sevigny
A wealthy executive, Drew Latham (Ben Affleck) has no close relationships and becomes nostalgic for his childhood home as Christmas approaches. When he visits the house and finds another family living there, he offers the residents, Tom Valco (James Gandolfini) and his wife, Christine (Catherine O'Hara), a large sum of money to pretend they are his parents. Soon Drew tests the couple's patience, and, when their daughter, Alicia (Christina Applegate), arrives, things get increasingly tense.
Dir. Mike Mitchell · With Ben Affleck, James Gandolfini, Christina Applegate

In the last moments of World War II, a secret Nazi space program evaded destruction by fleeing to the Dark Side of the Moon. During 70 years of utter secrecy, the Nazis construct a gigantic space fortress with a massive armada of flying saucers.
Dir. Timo Vuorensola · With Julia Dietze, Christopher Kirby, Götz Otto
A director and screenwriter pen a script and, in the process, blur the line between fiction and reality.
Dir. Lars von Trier · With Lars von Trier, Niels Vørsel, Claes Kastholm Hansen
Paranoid computer programmer Simon wakes up to find a package in his room one day. Despite attempts at securing his apartment, the packages keep arriving. While cameras watch Simon's every move, he struggles to find the answers to the mysterious forces taking over his life.
Dir. Jeff Renfroe, Marteinn Þórsson · With Jeremy Sisto, Udo Kier, Deborah Kara Unger

In the near future, oil reserves are nearly depleted and Europe is connected by series of underground tunnels. While navigating these tunnels, Roger hears voices, one in particular. Seeking a way to rid himself of the voice only leads Roger deeper into a bizarre conspiracy of control - mind and body.
Dir. Tarik Saleh · With Vincent Gallo, Juliette Lewis, Udo Kier

as Wolfgang Kortzfleisch / Adolf Hitler
29 years after the events of Iron Sky, the former Nazi Moonbase has become the last refuge of mankind. Earth was devastated by a nuclear war, but buried deep under the wasteland lies a power that could save the last of humanity - or destroy it once and for all. An old enemy leads our heroes on an adventure into the Hollow Earth. To save humanity, they must battle the Vril, an ancient shapeshifting reptilian race, and their army of dinosaurs.
Dir. Timo Vuorensola · With Lara Rossi, Vladimir Burlakov, Kit Dale
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