 12 Angry Men 1997  TV, 117 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William Friedkin
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Courtney B. Vance, George C. Scott, Mykelti Williamson, Tony Danza, Ossie Davis, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Dorian Harewood, James Gandolfini, Hume Cronyn
This TV remake of the 1957 original Sidney Lumet film features convincing performances by a strong cast portraying jurors deciding on whether or not to convict a Latino youth of murder.
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Angels & Demons 2009 PG-13, 138 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Director: Ron Howard
Cast: Tom Hanks, Ayelet Zurer, Ewan McGregor, Stellan Skarsgard, Pierfrancesco Favino, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Thure Lindhardt, David Pasquesi, Cosimo Fusco, Victor Alfieri, Franklin Amobi, Curt Lowens, Bob Yerkes, Marc Fionini
Based on Dan Brown's bestselling book, events transpire after those of "The Da Vinci Code." The Pope has died, and, after being summoned by the Vatican, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) travels to Rome where he decodes a symbol found on a murder victim's skin. Clues lead to a resurrected sect, the Illuminatis, that has kidnapped four high-ranking Cardinals who are in line to succeed the Pope. The plan is to kill them one-by-one and then bomb Vatican City to show the power of science over faith. Along the way, Langdon joins forces with Italian scientist Vittoria Vetra (Ayelet Zurer), and they search through catacombs and crypts for answers to the villains' identities.
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Angry Harvest 1986 N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Bitter Harvest
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Cast: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Wojciech Pszoniak, Gerd Baltus, Anita Hofer, Hans Beerhenke, Kate Jaenicke, Isa Haller, Margit Carstensen, Kurt Raab, Klaus Abramowsky, Malgoscha Gebel
During the winter of 1942-1943 in the midst of World War II and Nazi occupation, working-class Polish Catholic farmer Leon (Armin Mueller-Stahl) hides sophisticated Viennese Jewish refugee Rosa (Elisabeth Trissenaar) in his cellar. Leon soon falls in love with Rosa, but the relationship is doomed from the start and ends in tragedy.
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The Assistant 1997  N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Daniel Petrie
Cast: Gil Bellows, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Joan Plowright, Kate Greenhouse, Jaimz Woolvett, Dick Callahan, Frank Moore, Alon Nashman, Tony Mohamed, Darlene Mignacco
Jobs are hard to find in the early 1900s, and Frank (Gil Bellows) finds a job working in a Jewish immigrant's store. Frank hooks up with a petty thief who robs the store, and now Frank feels responsible and agrees to help the store owner. In the process, love blossoms. Based on Bernard Malamud's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, the film doesn't do the story justice.
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 Avalon 1990  PG, 126 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Barry Levinson
Cast: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Leo Fuchs, Eve Gordon, Elizabeth Perkins, Lou Jacobi, Joan Plowright, Aidan Quinn, Kevin Pollak, Elijah Wood
When the patriarch of a Jewish family arrives in America following World War II, he tries to bridge the gap between the modern era and the past by telling his grandchildren stories about their long-lost relatives.
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The Dust Factory 2004 PG, 98 min.
Genre: Family / Fantasy
Director: Eric Small
Cast: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Hayden Panettiere, Ryan Kelley, Michael Angarano, Kim Myers, George De La Pena, Peter Horton, Kyle Hanson, Ted Roisum, Ayanna Berkshire, Robert Blanche
Teenagers Melanie (Hayden Panettiere) and Ryan (Ryan Kelley) experience an adventure in a fantasy world where they are guided by Ryan's Alzheimer-suffering Grandpa Randolph (Armin Mueller-Stahl) and learn to help each other make leaps from their troubled lives.
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Eastern Promises 2007 R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Director: David Cronenberg
Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Vincent Cassel, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Sinead Cusack, Jerzy Skolimowski, Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse, Aleksander Mikic, Shannon-Fleur Roux, Raza Jaffrey, Josef Altin, Mina E. Mina, Lalita Ahmed
While serving as a midwife in London's Russian emigre section, Anna's (Naomi Watts) patient dies while giving birth. Anna determines to find the baby's family rather than put the baby in the foster-care system. Anna uses the girl's diary, and the clues, albeit in Russian, lead her to Semyon (Armin Mueller-Stahl) who, unknown to Anna, heads a brutal crime family. Semyon wants to get his hands on the diary because of the secrets it holds, and he also wants the baby. But, the diary is not the only thing holding secrets. Semyon's son Dirill (Vincent Cassel) and underling Nickolai (Viggo Mortensen) have their own secrets–some of which are revealed in the diary–and will stop at nothing to get their hands on that diary. Mortensen received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.
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The Game 1997  R, 128 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Thriller / Mystery
Director: David Fincher
Cast: Michael Douglas, Sean Penn, Deborah Kara Unger, James Rebhorn, Anna Katerina, Peter Donat, Carroll Baker, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Charles Martinet, Scott Hunter McGuire, John Aprea, Daniel Shorr, Elizabeth Dennehy, Florentine Mocanu, Caroline Barclay
Accepting an unusual birthday gift–for the "man who has everything"–from his brother Conrad (Sean Penn), wealthy recluse Nicholas Van Orton (Michael Douglas) enters the live-action "Game," a real-life game designed by Consumer Recreation Services. Nicholas' ordered lifestyle is turned upside down when he becomes deeply involved in the game and begins to suspect that his particular game is an attempt to steal his fortune, drive him insane, and even kill him.
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Holy Matrimony 1994  PG-13, 93 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Leonard Nimoy
Cast: Patricia Arquette, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Tate Donovan, John Schuck, Lois Smith, Courtney B. Vance, Jeffrey Nordling, Richard Riehle, Mary Pat Gleason, Alaine Byrne, Frank Novak
On the lam after stealing the receipts from her boss, Havana (Patricia Arquette) and boyfriend Peter (Tate Donovan) head to Canada and Peter's boyhood home with a religious sect. Though the commune leaders don't care much for Havana, she and Peter marry to satisfy the leaders. Peter is soon killed in an auto accident, and, according to the commune's laws, Havana must marry her husband's brother, 12-year-old Ezekiel (Joseph Gordon-Levitt). Matters continue to go downhill as Havana searches for the loot while Ezekiel knows its location, and the FBI agent on her trail also looks for it.
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The House of the Spirits 1993 R, 145 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Bille August
Cast: Jeremy Irons, Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Winona Ryder, Antonio Banderas, Vincent Gallo, Vanessa Redgrave, Maria Conchita Alonso, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Sarita Choudhury, Jan Niklas, Teri Polo, Frank(2) Baker, Miriam Colon, Oscar A. Colon
Based on Isabel Allende's novel, this is the tale of 50 years in the lives of three generations of the prominent Trueba family of South America. The story begins in Chile during 1926 when Esteban Trueba (Jeremy Irons) falls in love with Rosa Del Valle (Teri Polo), but she dies. Twenty years later, Esteban meets Rosa's sister Clara (Meryl Streep), and they marry and have a daughter, Blanca. Later, Clara and Blanca (Winona Ryder) move out in order to get away from the violent Esteban. Esteban, who is now a senator, has his sister Ferula (Glenn Close) banned from his home. The country as well as Esteban's family are fighting, but Esteban finally renounces his power and oppression.
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In the Presence of Mine Enemies 1997 PG-13, 96 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joan Micklin Silver
Cast: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Charles Dance, Elina Lowensohn, Chad Lowe, Don McKellar, Tony Nardi, John Dunn-Hill, Peter Friedman, Jason Shayne Schwartz, Alon Nashman, Susan Almgren, Alexandra Clermont
A Rabbi (Armin Mueller-Stahl) struggles to keep his faith and his family together in a Warsaw ghetto during the days preceding the Jewish uprising during World War II.
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The International 2009 R, 118 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Tom Tykwer
Cast: Clive Owen, Naomi Watts, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Brian F. O'Byrne, Ulrich Thomsen, Michel Voletti, Patrick Baladi, Jay Villiers, Fabrice Scott, Haluk Bilginer, Luca Barbareschi, Jack McGee, Allesandro Fabrizi, Felix Solis, Nilaja Sun
Interpol agent Louis Salinger (Clive Owen) teams up with Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Eleanor Whitman (Naomi Watts) to investigate the International Bank of Business and Credit and its connection to an Italian arms dealer. Salinger and Whitman find their lives in peril as they travel through Berlin, Milan, New York, and Istanbul on the trail of the bank's paid assassin, The Consultant (Brian F. O'Byrne). They end up at New York's Guggenheim Museum where bullets fly and concrete shatters as they try to stop the bank's financing of war and terror.
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 Jakob the Liar 1999 PG-13, 114 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Peter Kassovitz
Cast: Robin Williams, Hannah Taylor-Gordon, Eva Igo, Istvan Balint, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Bob Balaban, Alan Arkin, Michael Jeter, Mark Margolis, Liev Schreiber
Set during World War II in Nazi-occupied Poland, this is the story of Jakob Heym (Robin Williams) who tells lies about fictitious news bulletins, which he claims show the Allies winning. The fabrications bring renewed hope to his fellow Jews who have been on the verge of suicide.
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Jesus 1999 TV, 173 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Roger Young
Cast: Jeremy Sisto, Jacqueline Bisset, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Debra Messing, Gary Oldman, David O'Hara, Jeroen Krabbe, G.W. Bailey, Luca Zingaretti, Luca Barbareschi
Jeremy Sisto takes on the role of Jesus in this modern interpretation of the Bible, which, as it turns out, is rather uninspired.
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Kafka 1991 PG-13, 98 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Jeremy Irons, Theresa Russell, Joel Grey, Ian Holm, Jeroen Krabbe, Alec Guinness, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Brian Glover, Robert Flemyng, Keith Allen
Blending material from Kafka's work, this story relates the investigation by Franz Kafka (Jeremy Irons) into the mysterious disappearance of his friend in Prague during 1919.
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Killing Blue 1988  R, 95 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Midnight Cop
Director: Peter Patzak
Cast: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Morgan Fairchild, Frank Stallone, Michael York, Julia Kent, Monika Bleibtreu, Allegra Curtis, Harvey Friedman, Josef Sumner, Ludger Pistor, Constanze Saskia Rahn, Hans Martin Stier
Inspector Alex Glas (Armin Mueller-Stahl) immerses himself in a tough case that includes drugs, prostitution, and murder as a retreat from his memories of a failed marriage–along with his accidental killing of a girl. Convoluted and hard to follow.
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Music Box 1989 PG-13, 123 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Costa-Gavras
Cast: Jessica Lange, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Frederic Forrest, Donald Moffat, Lukas Haas, Michael Rooker, Cheryl Lynn Bruce, Albert Hall, Mari Torocsik, J.S. Block, Sol Frieder, Elzbieta Czyzewska, Magda Szekely Marburg, Felix Shuman, Michael Shillo
Following her father Michael Laszlo's (Armin Mueller-Stahl) arrest for being a Nazi sympathizer, Ann Talbot (Jessica Lange) agrees to defend her father. Laszlo was a Hungarian immigrant who came to the United States during World War II, claiming to be a farmer. It is now 50 years later, and he faces deportation because he has lied about his occupation. A trial awaits him in Hungary for wartime atrocities. Ann is convinced that her father is innocent, but as the trial progresses, she struggles emotionally as her father's guilt becomes more and more evident. Lange received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress.
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Night on Earth 1991 R, 125 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Cast: Gena Rowlands, Winona Ryder, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Giancarlo Esposito, Rosie Perez, Isaach De Bankole, Beatrice Dalle, Roberto Benigni, Paolo Bonacelli, Lisanne Falk
Inventive Jim Jarmusch brings us five stories that happen simultaneously across the globe–all occurring in taxies. Set in Los Angeles, New York City, Paris, Rome, and Helsinski, the international cast adds to the pleasure of this film.
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The Ogre 1996 N/R, 118 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Volker Schlondorff
Cast: John Malkovich, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Gottfried John, Marianne Sagebrecht, Volker Spengler, Heino Ferch, Dieter Laser, Agnes Soral, Sasha Hanau, Vernon Dobtcheff
An introverted, almost-childlike Abel Tiffauges (John Malkovich) was a French soldier captured during World War II and sent to a POW camp. From there he serves in a Nazi training camp where his "vocation" is kidnapping young boys for training in the camp.
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Peacemaker 1997 R, 122 min.
Genre: Action / Thriller
Director: Mimi Leder
Cast: George Clooney, Nicole Kidman, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Marcel Iures, Michael Boatman, Aleksandr Baluyev, Rene Medvesek, Gary Werntz, Randall Batinkoff, Jim Haynie, Alexander Strobele, Holt McCallany, Joan Copeland, Carlos Gomez, Slavko Juraga
A train crash in Russia sets off a nuclear explosion. Was it an accident or not? White House anti-smuggling official Dr. Julia Kelly (Nicole Kidman) thinks not, and U.S. intelligence officer Lt. Col. Thomas Devoe (George Clooney) agrees. Together, they set out to get answers that lead to a terrorist Dusan Gavrich (Marcel Iures) who has plans to set off a nuclear explosion in Manhattan.
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The Power of One 1992 PG-13, 126 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John G. Avildsen
Cast: Stephen Dorff, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Morgan Freeman, John Gielgud, Fay Masterson, Simon Fenton, Guy Witcher, Daniel Craig, Alois Moyo, Ian Roberts, Marius Weyers, Nomadlozi Kubheka, Agatha Hurle
When he is seven years old, South African P.K. (Guy Witcher) is sent to an Afrikaan boarding school where he suffers abuse as the only White boy at the school. By the time he is 18 years old, P.K. (Stephen Dorff) has been influenced by Geel Piet (Morgan Freeman) who has taught him to box. With his new expertise as a boxer and his fluidity with languages, P.K. gains the reputation of the myth of the Rainmaker who will bring peace to all the African tribes, and his work continues in building a better future for Africa.
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A Pyromaniac's Love Story 1995 PG, 94 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Joshua Brand
Cast: William Baldwin, John Leguizamo, Sadie Frost, Erika Eleniak, Michael Lerner, Joan Plowright, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Mike Starr, Julio Oscar Mechoso
Pastry baker Sergio Cuccio (John Leguizamo) accepts money in return for confessing to arson in the fire at his pastry shop. No sooner does he confess, than others also falsely confess, and the real arsonist, Garet Lumpke (William Baldwin) finds himself out in the cold; he had set the fire to impress Stephanie (Erika Eleniak).
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 Shine 1996 PG-13, 105 min.
Genre: Drama / Musical / Romance
Director: Scott Hicks
Cast: Geoffrey Rush, Noah Taylor, Alex Rafalowicz, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Lynn Redgrave, John Gielgud, Googie Withers, Chris Haywood, Sonia Todd, Justin Braine, Gordon Poole, Nicholas Bell, Marianna Doherty, Danielle Cox, Joey Kennedy
This film provides a biographical account of Austrian piano virtuoso David Helfgrott. As a youth, David (Alex Rafalowicz) was a child prodigy, but in his twenties David (Noah Taylor) suffered a nervous breakdown brought on by abuse from his overbearing father, Peter (Armin Mueller-Stahl). After more than 15 years of problems, David (Geoffrey Rush) finally triumphs over adversity when he falls in love with Gillian (Lynn Redgrave) who helps him regain his life and fame in the music world. Rush won the Best Actor Oscar. The film was also nominated for nine others, including Best Picture, Director, and Supporting Actor (Mueller-Stahl).
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 Theodore Rex 1995  PG, 90 min.
Genre: Family / Comedy / Action / Fantasy
Director: Jonathan Betuel
Cast: Whoopi Goldberg, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Richard Roundtree, Bud Cort, Joe Dellesandro, Juliet Landau, George Newbern, Carol Kane, Jack Riley, Peter Mackenzie, Stephen McHattie, Tony T. Johnson, Susie Coelho, Peter Kwong
A futuristic police officer (Whoopi Goldberg) and her animatronic sidekick (a dinosaur) investigate a murder and a weird scientist (Armin Mueller-Stahl) in this not-so-very-funny comedic escapade. 1 User Review
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| | Christian Soldier 07/17/2009 | | the comical adventures were wonderful, a must see |
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The Third Miracle 1999 R, 119 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Cast: Ed Harris, Anne Heche, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Michael Rispoli, Charles Haid, Ken James, Barbara Sukowa, James Gallanders, Jean-Louis Roux, Caterina Scorsone
A Chicago priest, Father Frank Shore (Ed Harris), is a Vatican-appointed investigator of purported miracles, who is sent to look into the events surrounding the recovery of a terminally ill girl. But Father Frank soon questions his life's purpose when he falls in love with Roxanne (Anne Heche), the daughter of the woman being considered for sainthood.
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The Thirteenth Floor 1999 R, 120 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: Josef Rusnak
Cast: Craig Bierko, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Gretchen Mol, Vincent D'Onofrio, Dennis Haysbert, Steve Schub, Jeremy Roberts, Leon Rippy, Janet MacLachlan, Rif Hutton, Tia Texada, Brad William Henke, Venessia Valentino, Burt Bulos, Howard S. Miller
A computer scientist, Hannon Fuller (Armin Mueller-Stahl), is murdered but not before he leaves Douglas Hall (Craig Bierko) a message about his new discovery. When Douglas logs on to his computer, he uncovers a massive cyberspace invention that allows journeys back and forth to 1937–but not without consequences.
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The X-Files: Fight the Future 1998 PG-13, 121 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: Rob Bowman
Cast: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Martin Landau, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Blythe Danner, Mitch Pileggi, William B. Davis, John Neville, Terry O'Quinn, Glenne Headly
FBI special agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) head for Dallas, Texas, where they investigate an explosion in a high-rise building. This leads to uncovering the secret behind a black ooze that uses humans as hosts. Are they treading on a high-level government cover-up?
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| 1. 12 Angry Men (1997)
2. Angels & Demons (2009)
3. Angry Harvest (1986)
aka: Bitter Harvest
4. The Assistant (1997)
5. Avalon (1990)
6. The Dust Factory (2004)
7. Eastern Promises (2007)
8. The Game (1997)
9. Holy Matrimony (1994)
10. The House of the Spirits (1993)
11. In the Presence of Mine Enemies (1997)
12. The International (2009)
13. Jacob the Liar (1974)
14. Jakob the Liar (1999)
15. Jesus (1999)
16. Kafka (1991)
17. Killing Blue (1988)
aka: Midnight Cop
18. The Last Good Time (1994)
19. Lola (1981)
20. Music Box (1989)
21. Night on Earth (1991)
22. The Ogre (1996)
23. Peacemaker (1997)
24. The Power of One (1992)
25. A Pyromaniac's Love Story (1995)
26. Shine (1996)
27. Theodore Rex (1995)
28. The Third Miracle (1999)
29. The Thirteenth Floor (1999)
30. Veronika Voss (1982)
31. The X-Files: Fight the Future (1998)
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