Til SchweigerFilmography

Phantomschmerz

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Til Schweiger, Jana Pallaske, Stipe Erceg, Luna Schweiger

Synopsis: This earnest, German-language psychological drama follows the turmoil of a cyclist and womanizer (Til Schweiger), who loses one of his legs in a hit-and-run accident and must adjust, mentally and emotionally, to the presence of the disability. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide Read More

1 1/2 Ritter - Auf der Suche nach der hinreißenden Herzelinde

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Til Schweiger, Rick Kavanian, Udo Kier, Tobias Moretti

Synopsis: With an approach that recalls such outings as Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1974) and Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993), Til Schweiger's zany farce 1 1/2 Knights - In Search of the Ravishing Princess Herzelinde concerns two knights who set out on a heroic mission, to rescue the kidnapped Read More

The Red Baron

Actors: Matthias Schweighofer, Lena Headey, Til Schweiger, Joseph Fiennes, Volker Bruch

Synopsis: The true story of one of World War One's deadliest air aces comes to the screen in this historical drama. Manfred von Richthofen (Matthias Schweighoefer) became fascinated with flying when he was a boy, and as a young man he joins the German army and becomes part of their budding air force. Flying Read More

Far Cry

Actors: Til Schweiger, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Craig Fairbrass, Udo Kier

Synopsis: A hardened seaman and a dogged reporter become trapped on an island with a mysterious scientist, a ruthless band of mercenaries, and a vicious pack of unidentifiable creatures in BloodRayne director Uwe Boll's seventh video game-to-screen adaptation. A team of mercenaries has been attacked on a Read More

Rabbit Without Ears

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Til Schweiger, Nora Tschirner, Matthias Schweighofer, Alwara Hoefels, Jürgen Vogel

Synopsis: A womanizing, muckraking Berlin journalist meets his match in the unlikely form of a children's day care owner in director/star Til Schweiger's breezy romantic comedy. Ludo (Schweiger) and his photographer Moritz (Matthias Schweighoefer) cover the Berlin celebrity circuit with a flair that's truly Read More

Already Dead

Actors: Ron Eldard, Til Schweiger

Synopsis: A happy and successful family man is lured down the destructive path of revenge after his son is killed and his wife brutalized in a vicious home invasion. Thomas Archer (Ron Eldard) had it all, a successful career as a senior associate at a prominent architectural firm, a beautiful wife, and a Read More

Keinohrhasen

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Love finds a tabloid journalist in an unexpected place in this romantic comedy from Germany. Ludo (Til Schweiger) is a reporter who has enjoyed a successful career documenting the peccadilloes of the rich and famous with the help of his photographer sidekick Moritz (Matthias Schweighoefer). But a Read More

Body Armour

Actors: Til Schweiger, Chazz Palminteri

Synopsis: A disgraced bodyguard is torn between duty and vengeance when he's forced to protect the very same assassin who previously murdered his client. John Ridley (Til Schweiger) has been sworn to protect, and when he fails at his job, he simply walks away. Haunted, he spends years attempting to erase Read More

Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo

Actors: Rob Schneider, Eddie Griffin, Jeroen Krabbé, Til Schweiger, Hanna Verboom

Synopsis: Women of the world beware -- the world's least likely male pleasure machine is back in business and breaching international boundaries in this sequel to the comedy hit Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo. Despite his lack of enthusiasm for his career as a lover-for-hire, Deuce (once again played by Rob Schneider Read More

Dreamship Surprise: Period 1

Actors: Michael "Bully" Herbig, Rick Kavanian, Christian Tramitz, Anja Kling, Hans Michael Rehberg

Barefoot

Crew: Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Til Schweiger, Johanna Wokalek, Nadja Tiller, Michael Mendl, Steffen Wink

Synopsis: German writer-director Til Schweiger's romantic comedy Barefoot (Barfuss) concerns itself with the plight of Nick Keller (Schweiger) a young man branded as an outcast and a ne'er-do-well by his exorbitantly wealthy family. Unable to hold a permanent job, and harboring deep-seated contempt for Read More

King Arthur

Actors: Clive Owen, Keira Knightley, Ioan Gruffudd, Stephen Dillane, Stellan Skarsgård

Synopsis: An ambitious attempt to wed the legend of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table with known historical facts of the era, this action adventure drama begins with the fall of the Roman Empire in 450 A.D. as Roman armies flee the British Isles. Arthur (Clive Owen), a heroic knight and devoted Read More

The Daltons

Actors: Eric Ramzy, Said Serrari, Romain Berger, Marthe Villalonga, Javivi

Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life

Actors: Angelina Jolie, Gerard Butler, Ciarán Hinds, Chris Barrie, Noah Taylor

Synopsis: This sequel to the 2001 hit video-game adaptation Lara Croft: Tomb Raider finds Jan de Bont stepping in for director Simon West, helming his first feature since 1999's The Haunting. From a script by first-time scribe Dean Georgaris, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life finds Angelina Jolie Read More

In Enemy Hands

Actors: William H. Macy, Til Schweiger, Scott Caan, Thomas Kretschmann, Lauren Holly

Synopsis: As Hitler's grip of fear continues to tighten during World War II, the capture of the U.S.S. Swordfish by a German U-boat leads to a brutal struggle for survival between axis and allies deep beneath the ocean surface. Following the capture of the U.S.S. Swordfish, the German crew soon begins to Read More

What To Do In Case Of Fire

Actors: Til Schweiger, Doris Schretzmayer, Martin Feifel, Nadja Uhl, Sebastian Blomberg

Synopsis: What to Do in Case of Fire is a stylish German comedy from director Gregor Schnitzler. A 20-year-old bomb goes off in an abandoned mansion in present day Berlin, and all the evidence implicates a a group of anarchists that planted the explosives in the late 1980s . By this time, however, most of Read More

Joe and Max

Actors: Leonard Roberts, Til Schweiger, Peta Wilson, John Toles-Bey

Synopsis: In the 1930s and '40s, the rivalry between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling was one of the greatest in the history of professional boxing. Louis was one of the first African-Americans to win the Heavyweight championship, and he was a great symbol of hope and achievement for blacks before the advent of Read More

Driven

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Burt Reynolds, Kip Pardue, Stacy Edwards, Til Schweiger

Synopsis: Sylvester Stallone wrote the screenplay for this action-packed drama directed by Renny Harlin and set in the dangerous, high-stakes world of CART auto racing. Jimmy Bly (Kip Pardue) is an up-and-coming young star of the open-wheel circuit, but he's slipping in the rankings as the championships Read More

Jetzt Oder Nie: Zeit Ist Geld

Crew: Producer

Actors: Elizabeth Scherrer, Martin Semmelrogge, Thierry van Werveke

Synopsis: This comedy from Germany follows the misadventures of three senior citizens with an unusual plan to finance one last spree. Carla (Christel Okras), Beta (Christel Peters), and Lilli (Elisabeth Scherer) are three elderly women who have known each other since childhood and remain the best of Read More

Investigating Sex

Actors: Dermot Mulroney, Alan Cumming, Neve Campbell, Robin Tunney, Nick Nolte

Synopsis: A group of bohemian intellectuals struggle to have an intelligent discussion of perhaps the world's most emotional subject in this comedy-drama from director Alan Rudolph. Edgar (Dermot Mulroney) is an artist living in Paris during the 1920s who believes that sex is a subject of vital importance Read More

Magicians

Actors: Til Schweiger, Claire Forlani, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Alan Arkin

Synopsis: A would-be illusionist tries to create some magic for himself and his friends in this comic road movie. Max (Til Schweiger) is a struggling professional magician who has a great act, once you get past the fact that most of his tricks don't work very well. One day, Max meets Hugo (Fabrizio Read More

A Girl Called Rose Marie

Actors: Nina Hoss, Heiner Lauterbach, Mathieu Carrière, Horst Krause, Hannelore Elsner

Synopsis: A remake of the highly-regarded 1958 film Das Maedchen Rosemarie (released as Rosemary in the U.S.), this fact-based drama follows the rise and fall of a German beauty who went from ex-convict to courtesan of some of Germany's most powerful men to the victim of an unsolved murder. The story begins Read More

SLC Punk

Actors: Matthew Lillard, Michael A. Goorjian, Annabeth Gish, Jennifer Lien, Christopher McDonald, Devon Sawa, Summer Phoenix, Til Schweiger, Adam Pascal

Synopsis: What's it like being the only punk rockers in the biggest Mormon community in the world? Stevo (Matthew Lillard) and Heroin Bob (Michael Goorjian) provide the answer to this and other questions in SLC Punk. Stevo and Bob (whose name is actually an ironic reference to his fear of needles) are two Read More

Bang Boom Bang: Ein todsicheres Ding

Actors: Oliver Korittke, Markus Knuefken, Ralf Richter, Diether Krebs, Martin Semmelrogge

Synopsis: What's a criminal to do when he has problems managing other people's money? Keek (Oliver Korittke) is an awkward sometimes-thief whose partner Kalle (Ralf Richter) is serving time in jail. Keek was put in charge of watching over Kalle's money while he is behind bars, but Keek has managed to spend Read More

Der Grosse Bagarozy

Actors: Til Schweiger, Corinna Harfouch, Thomas Heinze, Sonja Kerskes, Christine Neubauer

Synopsis: It's said that love can change a man, but one woman finds herself wondering just how powerful love might be in this comedy. Cora Dulz (Corinna Harfouch) is a psychiatrist who begins working with Stanislaus Nagy (Til Schweiger), a good looking but mysterious man who is obsessed with the late Read More

The Replacement Killers

Actors: Carlos Gomez, Chow Yun-Fat, Mira Sorvino, Michael Rooker, Jürgen Prochnow, Kenneth Tsang, Danny Trejo

Synopsis: Music video and TV commercials director Antoine Fuqua made his feature directorial debut with this action thriller starring Hong Kong superstar Chow Yun-Fat. Chinese immigrant John Lee (Yun-Fat) has a violent past as a professional killer. It brings him only remorse, but it makes him the ideal Read More

Judas Kiss

Actors: Simon Baker-Denny, Gil Bellows, Carla Gugino, Alan Rickman, Til Schweiger

Synopsis: Young lovers and small-time New Orleans scammers Coco Chavez (Carla Gugino) and Junior Armstrong (Simon Baker-Denny) move up a few rungs when they kidnap wealthy computer mogul Ben Dyson (Greg Wise) in Sebastian Gutierrez's neo-noir. During the crime, Coco kills Dyson's girlfriend, Patty (Beverly Penberthy Read More

Der Eisbär

Crew: Director

Knockin' On Heaven's Door

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Til Schweiger, Jan Josef Liefers, Thierry van Werveke, Moritz Bleibtreu, Huub Stapel

Synopsis: Two terminal patients leave their hospital beds for the open highway in this German road movie, a popular success in Germany. When cancer victim Rudi (Jan Josef Liefers) meets Martin (Til Schweiger), who has a brain tumor, they knock back tequila one night and decide to head north to experience Read More

Brute

Actors: Til Schweiger, Pete Postlethwaite, John Hurt, Polly Walker

Synopsis: Meciej Dejczer directed this German-French-Polish period drama made with English dialogue. British prisoner Gerry, aka Brute (Til Schweiger) is sent away to complete his sentence in a rundown Romanian orphanage run by sinister Sincal (Pete Postlethwaite), who profits by selling children and other Read More

Das Superweib

Synopsis: This German farce has fun parodying the local filmmaking industry and some its more popular stars as it tells the riotous tale of a neglected, lonely Munich housewife who writes a tawdry best-selling account of her sexual past. The situation begins when Franziska, the wife tires of hanging around Read More

Maennerpension

Synopsis: In this German comedy, a pair of convicts attempt to exploit a new rehab program that has inmates paired with female chaperones who escort them outside the prisons one weekend per month in the hopes that the feminine influence will imbue the criminals with good, loving, and more socially Read More

Phantom Pain

Actors: Til Schweiger, Jana Pallaske, Stipe Erceg, Luna Schweiger, Julia Brendler

Synopsis: Kristy is confused about her sexuality. She wonders: is she a lesbian or is she really a man trapped in a female form? This comedy drama centers upon her search to learn the truth. Her friends, most of whom who live on society's fringe, like herself are little help. Her transvestite roommate Read More

Bunte Hunde

Synopsis: This stylish German thriller from auteur Lars Becker offers a suspenseful look into the world of contemporary gangsters. One particularly clever gang has slipped up and stands trial for smuggling limousines into Eastern Europe as the film opens. Two of the trio, Toni, the leader, and Pepe, his Read More

Der bewegte Mann

Actors: Til Schweiger, Katja Riemann, Joachim Krol, Rufus Beck, Armin Rohde

Synopsis: Much of the dialog in this very funny German film was taken directly from the two gay comic books by underground cartoonist Ralf Koenig on which the movie was based. Though the comics were written from a gay perspective, the film is slanted towards heterosexual couples. It tells the story of Axel Read More

Ebbies Bluff

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