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Ulrich Mühe has 5 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2000s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by The Lives of Others.
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In 1984 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and his actress-lover Christa-Maria. Wiesler becomes unexpectedly sympathetic to the couple, and faces conflicting loyalties when his superior takes a liking to Christa-Maria.
Dir. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck · With Martina Gedeck, Ulrich Mühe, Sebastian Koch
Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.
Dir. Michael Haneke · With Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Mühe, Arno Frisch

A 14-year-old video enthusiast obsessed with violent films decides to make one of his own and show it to his parents, with tragic results.
Dir. Michael Haneke · With Arno Frisch, Angela Winkler, Ulrich Mühe

Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is appalled to discover that a poison gas he helped discover is being used to kill Jews. Driven by his conscience to alert the rest of the world, Gerstein teams up with a young Jesuit priest, Riccardo Fontana, but their protestations fall on deaf ears in the Vatican.
Dir. Costa-Gavras · With Ulrich Tukur, Mathieu Kassovitz, Ulrich Mühe
Hitler no longer believes in himself, and can barely see himself as an equal to even his sheep dog. But to seize the helm of the war he would have to create one of his famous fiery speeches to mobilize the masses. Goebbels therefore brings a Jewish acting teacher Grünbaum and his family from the camps in order to train the leader in rhetoric. Grünbaum is torn, but starts Hitler in his therapy ...
Dir. Dani Levy · With Helge Schneider, Ulrich Mühe, Sylvester Groth
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