Udo KierFilmography

Metropia

Actors: Vincent Gallo, Juliette Lewis, Udo Kier, Stellan Skarsgård

Synopsis: A man who hears voices in his head discovers he's not crazy, but something far worse is going on in this animated sci-fi drama from director Tarik Saleh. It's the year 2024, and the global oil supply ha finally bottomed out; poverty is widespread, and with automobiles no longer practical, a system Read More

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

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

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

Holly

Actors: Ron Livingston, Virginie Ledoyen, Thuy Nguyen, Chris Penn, Udo Kier

Synopsis: A two-bit criminal gets a shot at redemption while traveling through Southeast Asia in this 2006 drama from director Guy Moshe. Ron Livingston stars Patrick, a low-level con man who scores a gig transporting some stolen goods from Cambodia. When Patrick is sidelined at a brothel, he finds himself Read More

Mother of Tears

Actors: Asia Argento, Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni, Udo Kier, Adam James, Philippe Leroy, Moran Atias

Synopsis: After beginning the witchy tale of the malevolent "Three Mothers" at a secretive ballet academy in Freiburg, Germany (Suspiria), and later tracking the supernatural goings-on to a doomed tenement building in New York City (Inferno), Italian horror icon Dario Argento draws his long-running trilogy Read More

Halloween

Actors: Malcolm McDowell, Sheri Moon Zombie, Tyler Mane, Scout Taylor-Compton, Brad Dourif

Synopsis: The Devil's Rejects director Rob Zombie resurrects one of the most notorious slashers in screen history with this re-imagining of the 1978 John Carpenter classic that spawned numerous sequels and countless imitators. As a child, young Michael Myers (Daeg Faerch) committed one of the most Read More

Tell

Actors: Mike Müller, Axel Stein, Christian Tramitz, Udo Kier, Erich Vock, Gardi Hutter

Synopsis: Experience a whole new take on a legendary figure in director Mike Eschmann's comic tale of an Austrian man whose fantasies of Swiss citizenship spur him on a mission to protect Switzerland from the bothersome Habsburgs. Told in the tradition of Mel Brooks, Eschmann's riotous romp features a Read More

Werewolf Women of the S.S.

Actors: Udo Kier, Sheri Moon Zombie, Tom Towles, Sybil Danning, Bill Moseley

Lulu & Jimi

Actors: Jennifer Decker, Ray Fearon, Katrin Sass, Udo Kier, Rolf Zacher

Synopsis: Rock 'n' roll energy and colorful style drive Oskar Roehler's lively romance following two young lovers as they reject their bigoted society and hit the road to escape the oppressive powers that be. For Lulu and Jimi it was love at first sight. But Lulu's meddling mother Gertrude will do anything Read More

Fall Down Dead

Synopsis: In a city swallowed up by darkness, a group of seven strangers are stalked by a serial killer seeking the one woman who can identify him to the authorities. The lights are out due to rolling blackouts, and most of the locals are cowering in their homes as a homicidal maniac dubbed the Picasso Read More

Crusade: A March Through Time

Actors: Stephanie Leonidas, Joe Flynn, Emily Watson, Michael Culkin

Synopsis: A disgraced European football (read: soccer) player inadvertently winds up in the 13th Century after breaking into his mother's advanced physicals laboratory and using her experimental time machine to try and correct the mistake that got his team knocked clean out of the competition. It was the Read More

Manderlay

Actors: Bryce Dallas Howard, Isaach de Bankolé, Danny Glover, Willem Dafoe, Michael Abiteboul

Synopsis: The politics of slavery and the follies of nation-building highlight Danish director Lars von Trier's thought-provoking follow-up to the director's 2003 drama Dogville, featuring The Village's Bryce Dallas Howard in the role originally played by Nicole Kidman, and shot in the same stage-bound Read More

BloodRayne

Actors: Kristanna Loken, Michelle Rodriguez, Ben Kingsley, Michael Madsen, Matthew Davis, Billy Zane

Synopsis: The war against the forces of darkness becomes a family affair in this cinematic prequel to the popular video game Bloodrayne. In 16th century Europe, Lord Kagan (Ben Kingsley) is an evil ruler who holds more power than any man alive, but he still dreams of having more, and when he's told of three Read More

The Killing Grounds

Actors: Armand Assante, Udo Kier, Daniel Bernhardt, Shirly Brener

Synopsis: Armand Assante and Udo Kier star in director Ivan Nichev's tale of two warring gangs of drug dealers struggling to gain the upper hand in the lucrative Berlin drug trade. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide Read More

Pray for Morning

Actors: Jonathan Trent, Jessica Stroup, Dennis Flanagan, Ashlee Turner, Jackson Rathbone

Synopsis: Twenty years after the brutal slaying of five students at an abandoned resort hotel, a group of fearless students return to the site of the original crime only to discover that the murderer is still on the loose and waiting to strike again. The year was 1984: A group of five students broke into Read More

Modigliani

Actors: Andy Garcia, Elsa Zylberstein, Hippolyte Girardot, Omid Djalili, Eva Herzigova

Synopsis: A gifted artist wages a personal war against his demons as well as a world that refuses to accept his creative vision in this biographical drama based on the true story of Amedeo Modigliani. Modigliani (Andy Garcia) was an Italian Jew who was living in Paris in the 1910s, when the city's bohemian Read More

Headspace

Actors: Christopher Denham

Synopsis: A twenty-five year old man whose chance encounter with a mysterious stranger has found his intellect rapidly expanding finds himself at the center of a gruesome murder case in an award-winning horror thriller starring Olivia Hussey, Sean Young, Dee Wallace Stone, and Udo Kier. Alex Borden is Read More

Masters of Horror: Cigarette Burns

Actors: Norman Reedus, Udo Kier, Gary Hetherington

Synopsis: Directed by horror expert John Carpenter, Masters of Horror: Cigarette Burns concerns a man who makes his living hunting down films that are often thought lost. He sets off to find a legendary film titled "Le Fin Absolute du Monde," a movie that supposedly turned the one audience who saw it into a Read More

Surviving Christmas

Actors: Ben Affleck, James Gandolfini, Christina Applegate, Catherine O'Hara, Josh Zuckerman

Synopsis: Directed by Mike Mitchell, Surviving Christmas finds Drew Latham (Ben Affleck) uneager to spend another lonely Christmas in his own home. Longing for holidays past, Drew travels to his childhood home intending to relive the experience of a family Christmas -- unfortunately, his family no longer Read More

Dogville

Actors: Nicole Kidman, John Hurt, Paul Bettany, Philip Baker Hall, James Caan, Stellan Skarsgård, Jeremy Davies, Chloë Sevigny

Synopsis: Set in a small fictional town in the U.S. during the 1930s, Lars von Trier's Dogville was filmed in a studio with a minimal set and features narration by John Hurt. On the run from a group of gangsters, Grace (Nicole Kidman) arrives in the small mining town of Dogville. Town philosopher Tom Edison Read More

Love Object

Actors: Desmond Harrington, Melissa Sagemiller, Udo Kier, Robert Bagnell, Michael Peña

Synopsis: Robert Parigi writes and directs the low-budget horror movie Love Object. Technical writer Kenneth (Desmond Harrington) is too shy to reveal his attraction to co-worker Lisa (Melissa Sagemiller). He's only able to relax after ordering Nikki, a Lisa-lookalike sex doll with realistic anatomy. The Read More

One Point O

Actors: Jeremy Sisto, Deborah Kara Unger, Bruce Payne, Eugene Byrd, Ana Maria Popa

Synopsis: Writer/directors Jeff Renfroe and Marteinn Thorsson make their feature debut with the paranoid thriller One Point O (1.0). Jeremy Sisto plays a computer programmer named Simon J. who gets used as a test subject. His corporate employers are secretly conducting a experiment on him in order to test Read More

30 Days Until I'm Famous

Synopsis: In this satirically witty look at the entertainment industry, Cole (Sean Patrick Flanery) is a record company executive who makes a wager with one of his colleagues that he can take anyone off the street and turn him or her into a star. Enter Maggie Moreno (Camille Guaty), an attractive woman with Read More

Evil Eyes

Actors: Adam Baldwin, Jennifer Gates, Mark A. Sheppard, Kristin Lorenz, Udo Kier

Celluloid Horror

Actors: Udo Kier, Buddy Giovinazzo, Kier-La Janisse, Jörg Buttgereit, Jean Rollin

Dracula.3000

Synopsis: The undead discover a new home in the far reaches of space in this blend of science fiction, action, and horror. In the year 3000 A.D., the crew of a commercial space freighter happens upon the wreckage of the Demeter, a massive space ship that has been missing for nearly a century. Aware Read More

Medea

Synopsis: Shooting entirely on analog video, Lars von Trier directs the made-for-Danish-TV version of the ancient Greek tragedy Medea by Euripides. The screenplay is based on a 1960s adaptation written by master Danish filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyer that was never produced during his lifetime. The Read More

Jargo

Synopsis: A handsome boy on the brink of adulthood finds his quest to become a man leading him down a dangerous path in director Maria Solrun's dark coming-of-age tale. Jargo (Constantin von Jascheroff) has everything a young man could want; a lavish home in Saudi Arabia and more money than he knows what to Read More

All The Queen's Men

Actors: Matt LeBlanc, Eddie Izzard, James Cosmo, Nicolette Krebitz, Udo Kier

Synopsis: A few good men are sent on a secret mission as a few good women in this comic tale of wartime espionage, loosely based upon a true story. Steven O'Rourke (Matt LeBlanc) is an American intelligence agent who, during World War II, has been assigned to obtain an Enigma machine, a special Read More

Invincible

Actors: Tim Roth, Jouko Ahola, Anna Gourari, Max Raab, Jacob Wein

Synopsis: Werner Herzog returned to dramatic filmmaking for the first time in a decade with this historical drama, based on a true story, about a man who rose to fame and fortune in 1932 as the Nazis rose to power in Germany, only to renounce his career in order to stand beside his people as a symbol of Read More

fear dot com

Actors: Stephen Dorff, Natascha McElhone, Stephen Rea, Udo Kier, Amelia Curtis

Synopsis: Terror is lurking online in this thriller directed by William Malone, who also helmed the 1999 remake of House on Haunted Hill. Mike Reilly (Stephen Dorff) is a NYPD detective who has been assigned to look into a string of murders which have taken place in Manhattan, with Terry Houston (Natascha McElhone Read More

Pigs Will Fly

Actors: Andreas Schmidt, Thomas Morris, Laura Tonke, Kirsten Block, Alexis Lezin

Synopsis: Eoin Moore's domestic abuse drama Pigs Will Fly focuses its attention on the abuser more than the victim. Laxe (Andreas Schmidt) is an emotionally troubled Berlin policeman who, after witnessing a male associate of his wife's flirt with her, beats Manuella (Kristen Block). Afterward she is Read More

Revelation

Actors: Terence Stamp, James D'Arcy, Natasha Wightman, Udo Kier, Liam Cunningham

Synopsis: A powerful ancient relic holds the key to ultimate destruction in director Stuart Urban's religious-flavored thriller Revelation. Since the crucifixion of Christ, the Loculus has eluded the grasp of the demonic Grand Master (Udo Kier), who seeks to find the artifact and learn its mysterious Read More

Mary Higgins Clark's He Sees You When You're Sleeping

Synopsis: In this Ghost-like blend of fantasy and crime melodrama, stockbroker Sterling Brooks (Cameron Bancroft) dies before his time in a freak accident. Not having led the most exemplary of lives, Brooks is not permitted to enter Heaven until he performs a good deed on earth. Thus, he endeavors to rescue Read More

The Last Minute

Actors: Max Beesley, Emily Corrie, Tom Bell, Jason Isaacs, Kate Ashfield

Synopsis: In between the big-budget Blade and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, British filmmaker Stephen Norrington directs the straight-to-video crime drama The Last Minute. Told in flashback, the story follows the rise and fall of Billy Byrne (Max Beesley). With a determined goal to be famous, he Read More

Mrs. Meitlemeihr

Actors: Udo Kier

Synopsis: One of the most feared men in human history experiences a bit of gender-bending comedy in this short film from director Graham Rose. Set in an alternate reality in which Adolf Hitler managed to survive the events of World War II, the former dictator has now been forced into hiding in post-war Read More

Megiddo: The Omega Code 2

Actors: Michael York, Michael Biehn, Diane Venora, R. Lee Ermey, Udo Kier

Synopsis: In this combination sequel and prequel to the surprise box-office success The Omega Code, one man becomes the leader of an evil empire that could destroy the world, and his brother must rise against him in the defense of good. Stone Alexander (played as a child by Gavin Fink) is a moody Read More

Die Gottesanbeterin

Actors: Christiane Horbiger, Udo Kier, Jan Niklas, Simon Schwarz

Synopsis: An Austrian housewife discovers a new hobby that's fun, profitable, and lethal in this black comedy. Sixty-ish Trixi (Christiane Hoerbiger) is hardly an ordinary grandmother; she's grown bored with her longtime marriage to loutish Siggi (Klaus Ofczarek), and as a diversion, uses her grocery Read More

Double Deception

Actors: Louis Mandylor, James Russo, Rei Kikukawa, Udo Kier

Synopsis: While in a convenience store, professional bodyguard Luke Campbell (Louis Mandylor) turns his back on the lovely woman he's protecting, Lisa Ozaki, only to have her kidnapped in the blink of an eye. A ransom of two million dollars is asked for her return. There is one problem: Lisa wasn't Lisa Read More

Shadow of the Vampire

Actors: John Malkovich, Willem Dafoe, Cary Elwes, Eddie Izzard

Synopsis: The torturous production of the classic 1922 vampire film Nosferatu is recreated in this stylized account of director F.W. Murnau and his obsession with creating realistic horror by any means necessary -- even if those means include actual bloodletting. The film begins as Murnau (John Malkovich) Read More

Dancer in the Dark

Actors: Björk, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse, Peter Stormare, Joel Grey

Synopsis: Reportedly the third in acclaimed director Lars von Trier's "Golden Hearts" trilogy (preceded by Breaking the Waves and The Idiots), this film is a hip reworking of the classic Hollywood Musical, starring international pop diva Bjork. Set somewhere in rural Washington state, Czech immigrant Selma Read More

Just One Night

Actors: Seymour Cassel, Timothy Hutton, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Udo Kier

Synopsis: A groom-to-be wanting to put his best foot forward finds that's not so simple in this updated screwball comedy. Isaac Adler (Timothy Hutton) is a straight-laced college professor who is invited to give a lecture in San Francisco on the day before his wedding. Adler accepts the invitation, certain Read More

Stingers

Synopsis: A pair of low-rent hoods botch their shot at the big time in this stylish crime-drama. Ross (Andrew Roperto) and Martin (Richmond Arquette) are a pair of close friends and small-time hustlers looking for a bigger score. Ross and Martin are regulars at a downtown saloon, where they make the Read More

Critical Mass

End of Days

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gabriel Byrne, Robin Tunney, Kevin Pollak, CCH Pounder, Rod Steiger

Synopsis: 1999 proved a banner year for screen portrayals of Satan's love life: first his relationship with Saddam Hussein went under the microscope in South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut, and a few months later his search for a girl to settle down with became the basis of this thriller. With the Read More

Spy Games

Actors: Bill Pullman, Irène Jacob, Bruno Kirby, Glenn Plummer, Udo Kier

Synopsis: Finnish director Ilkka Jarvilaturi directs an international cast in this deadpan post-Cold War spy farce. Jaded CIA veteran Harry (Bill Pullman) and young SVR agent Natasha (Irene Jacob) are on-again off-again lovers who have little to do in Helsinki except spy on one another, until a courier (Bruno Kirby Read More

Besat

Actors: Udo Kier, Ole Lemmeke, Kirsti Eline Torhaug, Ole Ernst, Niels Anders Thorn

Synopsis: In this slick Danish thriller, a mysterious traveler arrives at the Copenhagen airport and the city is soon thrown into darkness. When the lights are turned back on, the stranger is rushed to a hospital suffering from bizarre Ebola-like symptoms. Soren (Ole Lemmeke), an ambitious junior Read More

Final Run

Synopsis: "1000 Tons of Steel! 200 Lives at Stake! 100 Miles per Hour! One Man to Stop it!" That's the situation as set up by the ad campaign for the thrill-packed TV movie Final Run. The action takes place on board the Grand Royale, a luxury train controlled by a supercomputer created by a shady Read More

Doomsdayer

Actors: Joe Lara, Udo Kier, Brigitte Nielsen

Synopsis: Unctuous uberzillionaire Max Gast (Udo Kier), a diabolical industrialist who thinks the world is dangerously overpopulated, prepares to use his space-based weapon to cause widespread nuclear meltdowns at power plants around the world and thereby reduce the population by several hundred million. Read More

Killer Deal

Actors: Rick Rossovich, Claudette Mink, Ellen Dubin, Peter MacNeill, Richard Eden

Synopsis: The plot of the futuristic made-for-TV thriller Killer Deal is predicated on the notion that a world-wide economic collapse in 2009 AD will utterly wipe out the Middle Class in America. In this not-so-brave new world, the rich and privileged Upper Class lives in Parkland, a luxurious walled Read More

The New Adventures of Pinocchio

Synopsis: Offering a new twist on the classic fairytale, this sequel to The Adventures of Pinocchio (1996) finds the formerly wooden puppet attempting to right a damaging mistake. When Pinocchio (Michael Anderson) buys a potion from the mysterious Madame Flambeau, he gets himself into more trouble that he Read More

Armageddon

Actors: Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Liv Tyler, Ben Affleck, Will Patton

Synopsis: Michael Bay (The Rock) directed this science fiction action thriller in the When Worlds Collide tradition. After astronomy students discover a comet-asteroid collision, an asteroid fragment "the size of the Super Dome" threatens. It's destroyed by a secret USA defense in space, but a large chunk Read More

Ice

Actors: Grant Show, Eva La Rue, Flex, Audie England, Michael Riley

Synopsis: The made-for-TV disaster flick Ice first aired on German television under the title Eis: wehn die Welt erfriert on November 29, 1998. Thanks to a precipitous temperature drop on the sun, a second ice age hits Los Angeles, resulting in unseasonable 70-degrees-below-zero weather and a general Read More

Blade

Actors: Wesley Snipes, Stephen Dorff, Kris Kristofferson, N'Bushe Wright, Donal Logue

Synopsis: British director Stephen Norrington helmed this David S. Goyer adaptation of the Marvel Comics character created in 1973 by scripter Marv Wolfman and artist Gene Colan. In the Tomb of Dracula comic book origin, just before Blade's mother gave birth to Blade, she was bitten by a vampire, which made Read More

Betty

Actors: Cheryl Pollak, Udo Kier, Holland Taylor, Ron Perlman

Synopsis: Richard Murphy made his feature directorial debut with this drama about sexy Hollywood film star Betty Monday (Cheryl Pollak) who walks away from a $70-million movie during production. In search of a more meaningful way of life, she drives to Palm Springs, rents a condo from slightly unreal real Read More

Life in the Fast Lane

Actors: Fairuza Balk, Noah Taylor, Debi Mazar, Téa Leoni, James LeGros

Synopsis: Eleanor Gaver wrote and directed this slapstick comedy-fantasy about graffiti-artist Jeff (Noah Taylor), who loves artist Mona (Fairuza Balk). After Mona produces a painting in which a church sculpture crushes a girl, she sees a church accident identical to her painting, although a stranger (Patrick Dempsey Read More

Die Gebrüder Skladanowsky

Actors: Udo Kier, Nadine Büttner, Christophe Merg

Synopsis: This highly idiosyncratic film, seen mostly at film festivals, is intended to be shown in segments broken up by musical interludes. It is a centennial tribute and depiction of the efforts of the brothers Skladanowsky to create and show the first motion pictures, hence, much of it was filmed using Read More

The End of Violence

Actors: Samuel Fuller, Frederic Forrest, Udo Kier, Traci Lind, Bill Pullman, Andie MacDowell, Gabriel Byrne

Synopsis: Wim Wenders directed this allegorical drama about the emotional impact of violence in our culture, set against the backdrop of California's entertainment business. Mike Max (Bill Pullman) is a Hollywood producer who has earned a great deal of money and power in the film industry through his Read More

The Kingdom II

Actors: Ernst-Hugo Järegård, Kirsten Rolffes, Holger Juul Hansen, Søren Pilmark, Ghita Nørby

Synopsis: Morten Arnfred and Lars von Trier's second chapter in the ongoing Danish television series The Kingdom chronicles the further misadventures of the staff and patients of an ultramodern Copenhagen hospital located atop an ancient, haunted swamp. The film opens with Judith (Birgitte Raaberg) giving Read More

Lea

Actors: Lenka Vlasakova, Christian Redl, Hanna Schygulla

Synopsis: A woman uses poetry to communicate the emotions she cannot verbalize in this drama. At the age of seven, Lea has already become accustomed to verbal and physical abuse from her father, but when she witnesses the rape and murder of her mother during one of her father's particularly vicious tirades Read More

The Adventures of Pinocchio

Actors: Martin Landau, Jonathan Taylor Thomas

Synopsis: Unlike the more familiar animated Pinocchio by Disney, there are no song interludes here, and characters added to the story by Disney (such as Jiminy Cricket) are not included. Producer Francis Ford Coppola and director Steve Barron, (known for the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film) closely Read More

Breaking the Waves

Actors: Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgård, Katrin Cartlidge, Jean-Marc Barr, Adrian Rawlins

Synopsis: With Breaking The Waves, director Lars von Trier fashions an often disturbing tale of the singular power of love. Bess (the Oscar-nominated Emily Watson) is a naïve, borderline simple young woman who lives in a Scottish coastal town ruled by the religious doctrine of its council of elders. Read More

Barb Wire

Actors: Pamela Anderson, Temuera Morrison, Victoria Rowell, Jack Noseworthy, Xander Berkeley

Synopsis: Set in the year 2017, Barb Wire takes place after democracy has fallen and a fascist military junta has taken over the U.S. government, plotting to wipe out the country with Red Ribbon, a laboratory-manufactured disease derived from the AIDS virus. The entire test city of Topeka has been Read More

Paradise Framed

Synopsis: In this art-film, a famous multimedia artist abandons his former life for a new one in a hermetically sealed room filled with living portraits. His new space becomes a haven for the terminally dysfunctional. Trouble ensues when two strangers, the world-weary Col. Hardy and the handsome son of an Read More

Nur Uber Meine Leiche

Synopsis: In this unusual German comedy, an arrogant and ultra macho misogynist, Fred, is killed by his wife and finds himself at the gates of hell begging for mercy. He is given one more chance on the condition that he return to earth and teach three disillusioned women that love exists. He has three days. Read More

Die Spalte

Synopsis: This trashy German comedy is only for those adventurous few who find humor in the basest bodily functions, graphic violence, and degrading sex. The free-form story is set somewhere in Africa where an unhinged UN general is seen playing S&M games with his athletically handsome, but pea-brained Read More

Johnny Mnemonic

Actors: Henry Rollins, Keanu Reeves, Dolph Lundgren, Beat Takeshi Kitano, Ice-T, Dina Meyer

Synopsis: In a near-future world in which the fast-paced digital lifestyle has given rise to a worldwide plague called Nerve Attenuation Syndrome, Johnny (Keanu Reeves), a data courier, accepts an assignment that he hopes will allow him to pay for the restoration of the childhood memories he dumped in order Read More

Rotwang Muss Weg!

Synopsis: German politics and filmmaking are parodied in this comedic mystery that centers on a line-up of odd-balls, each suspected of killing a politician, as they explain their different motives for committing the crime. It is up to the viewer to decide which one of them committed the crime (the Read More

Duke Of Groove

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

Actors: Jim Carrey, Courteney Cox Arquette, Sean Young, Dan Marino

Synopsis: When your dog, bird, or water-dwelling mammal disappears, who do you call? Ace Ventura (Jim Carrey) is a low-rent private eye who specializes in recovering lost animals, so when Snowflake, the Miami Dolphins' aquatic mascot, is kidnapped, team representative Melissa Robinson (Courtney Cox) puts Read More

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Actors: Uma Thurman, John Hurt, Rain Phoenix, Noriyuki "Pat" Morita, Lorraine Bracco

Synopsis: Writer/director Gus Van Sant's early bid for big-time commercial success -- a success he didn't manage to achieve until Good Will Hunting -- is based on Tom Robbins' 1976 feminist bestseller. Uma Thurman plays Sissy Hankshaw, a woman born with very large thumbs. After her parents (Grace Zabriskie Read More

The Kingdom

Actors: Ernst-Hugo Järegård, Kirsten Rolffes, Holger Juul Hansen, Ghita Nørby, Udo Kier

Synopsis: Originally created for Danish television, Morten Arnfred and Lars von Trier's supernatural thriller The Kingdom chronicles the bizarre occurrences at the title hospital, the largest and most respected hospital in the country. While the series deals with such real-life complications as murder Read More

For Love or Money

Actors: Michael J. Fox, Gabrielle Anwar, Anthony Higgins, Michael Tucker, Bob Balaban

Synopsis: Michael J. Fox stars as Doug Ireland in this romantic comedy about a brash concierge at a swanky New York hotel who always makes it a point to go out of his way for the hotel guests. But Doug doesn't want to be a concierge forever. What he would really like to do is build a swanky hotel of his Read More

Josh and S.A.M.

Actors: Jacob Tierney, Noah Fleiss, Martha Plimpton, Stephen Tobolowsky, Joan Allen

Synopsis: In this road movie, the motorists are a pair of preteens--brothers Josh (Jacob Tierney) and Sam (Noah Fleiss)--who hit the highway after their parents announce their pending divorce. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Zentropa

Actors: Jean-Marc Barr, Barbara Sukowa, Udo Kier, Erik Mork

Synopsis: Europa (retitled Zentropa for the American release) is an hallucinatory Danish film set in postwar Germany. Jean-Marc Barr plays a young German who aspires for a job as a street conductor. But this is no mere "Joe Job;" Barr's adventures on the line are designed as a metaphor for the emergence of Read More

My Own Private Idaho

Actors: River Phoenix, Keanu Reeves, James Russo, William Richert, Rodney Harvey

Synopsis: Gus Van Sant's dreamtime riff on Shakespeare's "Henry IV, Parts I and II" features River Phoenix as Mike Waters, a narcoleptic male hustler who is first seen drifting on a stretch of highway in Idaho. Mike shifts from Seattle to Portland, where he has taken up with Scott Favor (Keanu Reeves), who Read More

Epidemic

Actors: Lars von Trier, Niels Vørsel, Udo Kier

Synopsis: Director Lars von Trier stars in a double role in this experimental horror fantasy. He pretentiously portrays a director who spends a year and a half preparing to make a horror film with help from a government grant. In the second part, he plays a young physician who unknowingly has a plague virus Read More

Am Nächsten Morgen Kehrte Der Minister Nicht An Seinen Arbeitsplatz Zuruck

Actors: Udo Kier, Margitta Haberland, Ciliane Dahlen, Ric Schachtebeck, Frieder Butzmann

Synopsis: Creditable for its images but not its rather weak dialogue, this is an erotic, sci-fi view of a technological world gone to the extreme. What unfolds is a journey into the subconscious mind of the "Minister for Lust," and given his title, that is just what dominates his subconscious. Without the Read More

Egomania - Insel Der Hoffnung

Der Unbesiegebare

Actors: Udo Kier, Piero vonArnim, Linda Himbert, Kurt von Ruffin, Makato Ozaki

Synopsis: This is an uneven sci-fi farce that combines electronic imaging and video but stops short of a rampant, comic-book approach to its tale. Hurry Cane (Piero von Arnim), Daisy Bit (Linda Himbert), and the crazed Dr. Popov (Hans-Peter Hallwachs) are a determined trio bent on completing a trip to Mars Read More

Hur und Heilig

Pankow '95

Actors: Udo Kier, Christine Kaufmann, Magdalena Montezuma

Synopsis: Using George Orwell's 1984 as inspiration, director Gabor Altorjay has projected current problems and characteristics of socialist governments into the future in this rather conventional film. The setting is a "nerve clinic" whose patients' fantasies provide some needed relief to the heavy-duty Read More

Die Insel Der Blutigen Plantage

Narcisz Es Psyche

Actors: Patricia Adriani, Udo Kier, György Cserhalmi

Synopsis: Narcisus and Psyche is based on a novel by Sandor Weores which was adapted by Vilmos Csaplar and director Gabor Body for a feature-length, 140-minute film. Borrowing the character of Psyche from mythology and placing her in Europe in the 19th century, the authors give her a "modern" life. She is Read More

Lola

Actors: Barbara Sukowa, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Mario Adorf, Matthias Fuchs, Helga Feddersen

Synopsis: Part of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's The Entire History of the German Federal Republic trilogy, Lola stars Barbara Sukowa in the title role, a seductive cabaret singer and dancer in the 1950s who is romantically involved with Von Bohm (Armin Mueller-Stahl), a straight-as-an-arrow building inspector. Read More

Lili Marleen

Actors: Hanna Schygulla, Giancarlo Giannini, Mel Ferrer, Karl-Heinz von Hassel, Christine Kaufmann

Synopsis: German cabaret star Lili Marleen inspired a song that was extremely popular with the German soldiers during WW II. This war drama offers a fictionalized account of her story that begins in 1938 while she performs in a Zurich cabaret. It is her boyfriend, a Swiss Jew who also turns out to be a Read More

Docteur Jekyll et les Femmes

Actors: Udo Kier, Marina Pierro, Howard Vernon, Clement Harari

Synopsis: A bizarre Euro-kink variation on Robert Louis Stevenson's classic, this intriguing film from Polish director Walerian Borowczyk takes place almost exclusively in the palatial home of Dr. Henry Jekyll (Udo Kier), where the good doctor is being feted prior to his engagement to the austere Miss Fanny Read More

Berlin Alexanderplatz

Actors: Günter Lamprecht, Hanna Schygulla, Franz Buchrieser, Gottfried John, Barbara Sukowa

Synopsis: Rainer Werner Fassbinder's sweeping 16-hour-long drama Berlin Alexanderplatz is an adaptation of the novel by Alfred Doblin. Franz Biberkopf (Günter Lamprecht) is released from prison as the film opens; he had been jailed for four years after killing his girlfriend Ida. Franz becomes involved with Read More

Die Dritte Generation

Actors: Margit Carstensen, Eddie Constantine, Hanna Schygulla, Volker Spengler

Synopsis: German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder both directed and photographed The Third Generation (Die Dritte Generation). Displaying a sense of humor that can most kindly be described as perverse, Fassbinder follows the exploits of a group of well-heeled German terrorists. Without truly taking sides Read More

Das Fuenfte Gebot

Actors: Helmut Berger, Peter Hooten, Udo Kier, Heinrich Giskes

Synopsis: "Thou shalt not kill" is the fifth of the ten commandments handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai. In this movie, Bernhard and Leo Redder (Helmut Berger and Peter Hooten), who have grown up in an abusive family, escape into the streets at the earliest opportunity. In the Germany of the 1920s Read More

Victor

Suspiria

Actors: Jessica Harper, Joan Bennett, Alida Valli, Stefania Casini

Synopsis: A candy-colored nightmare from Italian terror maestro Dario Argento, Suspiria weaves a menacing tale of witchcraft as a fairy tale gone horribly awry. From the moment she arrives in Freiberg, Germany, to attend the prestigious Tans Academy, American ballet-dancer Suzy Banyon (Jessica Harper) Read More

Belcanto Oder Darf Eine Nutte Schluchzen?

Actors: Nikolaus Dutsch, Romy Haag, Udo Kier, Gabriele Lafari

Synopsis: Based on a novel by the exiled German writer Heinrich Mann, Belcanto forsakes the normal conception of a plot and unfolds instead as a series of three separate expressions of the beginning, middle, and end of an elaborate and elegant party. In the first segment, the idea of an opera is suggested Read More

Griechische Feigen

Synopsis: In this sex comedy, an unusually good-looking German girl goes on vacation in Greece, and a large number of people try to get her to go to bed with them. With a light, teasing manner, she turns all of them down, until at last she meets a boy she really likes. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

The Stationmaster's Wife

Actors: Kurt Raab, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Gustav Bayrhammer, Bernhard Helfrich, Udo Kier

Synopsis: This drama is set in Bavaria prior to Hitler's rise to power and chronicles the many affairs of a stationmaster's bored wife. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The House on Straw Hill

Synopsis: Udo Kier and Fiona Richmond star in this psychological thriller concerning a successful novelist who becomes obsessed with the pretty occupant of an isolated farmhouse. As his intrigue regarding the mysterious woman intensify, the writer is gradually overpowered by frightening hallucinations and Read More

Flesh for Frankenstein

Actors: Joe Dallesandro, Udo Kier, Monique Van Vooren, Arno Juerging, Srdjan Zelenovic

Synopsis: Incest, necrophilia, and Joe Dallesandro? It must be Andy Warhol. Warhol did indeed co-produce this 1973 schlock spectacular -- originally presented in 3D -- that was directed by Factory fave Paul Morrissey. Starring Udo Kier in the role of "Ze Baron," Flesh for Frankenstein is a horror story for Read More

The Story of O

Actors: Corinne Clery, Udo Kier, Anthony Steel, Jean Gaven

Synopsis: Based on the best-selling novel by Dominique Aury (who wrote it under the pen name "Pauline Reage"), this erotic tale of sexual dominance and submission was directed by Just Jaeckin, who was following his success as the creator of another softcore erotic film, Emmanuelle (1974). French fashion Read More

Blood for Dracula

Actors: Joe Dallesandro, Udo Kier, Vittorio De Sica, Maxime McKendry, Arno Juerging

Synopsis: The second of two horror films shot in a single production term and bearing the name of pop-art icon Andy Warhol (whose participation pretty much ended with the use of his name), this film is slightly superior to its higher-profile predecessor, Andy Warhol's Frankenstein. Direction is credited to Warhol Read More

Pan

The Salzburg Connection

Actors: Elisabeth Felchner, Barry Newman, Anna Karina, Klaus Maria Brandauer

Synopsis: This espionage thriller is based on a spy novel by Helen MacInnes and tells the tale of a Yankee lawyer who goes to the lovely little Austrian city on vacation and ends up hopelessly entangled in an international web of rival spies and neo-Nazis searching for a chest that holds the names of Nazi Read More

Medea

Actors: Maria Callas, Guiseppe Gentili, Laurent Terzieff, Massimo Girotti, Margarethe Clementi

Synopsis: Put in the coldest possible terms, Medea is the story of a woman who gets sore at her husband and kills her children to get even. Greek opera diva Maria Callas is certainly in her element as Medea in this 1970 film version of the venerable theatrical piece, with Giuseppe Gentili as her husband Read More

La Stagione Dei Sensi

Mark of the Devil

Actors: Herbert Lom, Olivera Vuco, Udo Kier, Reggie Nalder, Inge Schoener

Synopsis: Released as Mark of the Devil to U.S. theaters (accompanied by complimentary barf-bags for squeamish patrons with urpy tendencies), this gory torture-fest was produced in Germany under the title of Hexen bis aufs Blut Gequält (Witches Tortured Till They Bleed). The story is comprised of equal Read More

La Provocation

Actors: Jean Marais, Maria Schell, Corinne Le Poulain

Schamlos

Actors: Udo Kier, Rolf Eden, Vladimir Medar

Synopsis: Pohlmann (Udo Kier) is a young racketeer who falls for a stripper named Annabelle (Maria Paal). The two have a passionate affair before she is found murdered. The girl's father accepts his offer to track down the killer, and Pohlmann narrows his focus on two people. One is a homosexual actor who Read More