Uli EdelFilmography

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The Baader Meinhof Complex

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu, Johanna Wokalek, Bruno Ganz, Vinzenz Kiefer, Nadja Uhl

Synopsis: Director Uli Edel teams with screenwriter Bernd Eichinger to explore a dark period in German history with this drama detailing the rise and fall of the Red Army Faction, a left-wing terrorist organization that became increasingly active following World War II. Also known as the Baader-Meinhof Read More

9/25/08
Hubert Selby Jr: It'll Be Better Tomorrow

Actors: Robert Downey, Jr., Hubert Selby, Jr., Lou Reed, Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto

Synopsis: Hubert Selby Jr. was a powerful and influential literary figure whose best-known novels, Last Exit to Brooklyn and Requiem for a Dream, dealt with the dark underside of life in a way that was bleak and often shocking, but also laced with compassion and understanding for the tortured lives of his Read More

2005
Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King

Crew: Director

Actors: Julian Sands, Max von Sydow, Samuel West, Robert Pattinson, Kristanna Loken, Benno Fürmann, Alicia Witt

Synopsis: After witnessing the brutal murder of his powerful father King Solomon of the Netherlands, a young heir to the throne begins preparation for his ultimate revenge in director Uli Edel's medivel tale of might and magic. An allied royal court has granted refuge to young Siegfried following the tragic Read More

2004
Evil Never Dies

Crew: Director

Actors: Thomas Gibson, Katherine Heigl, Simon Bossell, John Waters, Chris Kirby

Synopsis: After his wife is murdered by sadistic serial killer William Charles Lee (Simon Bossell), police detective Mark Ryan (Thomas Gibson) goes into so profound an emotional slump that he is forced to quit his job and sign on as a college security guard. Soon afterward, several vicious murders occur Read More

2003
Julius Caesar

Crew: Director

Actors: Jeremy Sisto, Richard Harris, Chris Noth, Christopher Walken, Valeria Golino

Synopsis: This ambitious, four-hour cable miniseries stars Jeremy Sisto (taking time off from his regular series Six Feet Under) as Roman general-turned-emperor Julius Caesar. Expensively filmed in Malta and Bulgaria, the production vividly traces Caesar's rise to prominence as a brilliant military Read More

2003
King of Texas

Crew: Director

Actors: Patrick Stewart

Synopsis: Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear is transplanted to 19th century Texas in this made-for-cable drama. Patrick Stewart stars as John Lear, the wealthiest and most powerful rancher in the territory. Failing in body and mind, Lear decides to divide his vast property among his three daughters Read More

2002
The Mists of Avalon

Crew: Director

Actors: Anjelica Huston, Julianna Margulies, Joan Allen, Samantha Mathis, Caroline Goodall

Synopsis: This three-hour miniseries adapts Marion Zimmer Bradley's feminist recasting of the Arthurian mythos into a big-budget cable television event. In ancient England, Christianity is spreading and the Saxons are invading. It's up to Viviane (Anjelica Huston) -- Lady of the Lake and high priestess of Read More

2001
The Little Vampire

Crew: Director

Actors: Jonathan Lipnicki, Richard E. Grant, Jim Carter, Alice Krige

Synopsis: Nine-year-old Tony (Jerry Maguire's Jonathan Lipnicki) has just moved with his parents (Tommy Hinkley and Pamela Gidley) to a small town in the Scottish Highlands, where his father is overseeing the building of a golf course for old squire Lord McAshton (John Wood). Tony is picked on by his new Read More

10/27/00
Purgatory

Crew: Director

Actors: Randy Quaid, Eric Roberts, Sam Shepard

Synopsis: In this fantasy set in the Old West, Blackjack Britton (Eric Roberts) is an outlaw on the run from police after a bank robbery. Britton and his gang wind up in a small town called Refuge, where things are rather unusual -- outlaws are warmly welcomed and offered free food and lodging but warned Read More

1999
Homicide: Life on the Street: Something Sacred, Part 1

Crew: Director

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Michelle Forbes, Peter Gerety

Synopsis: This episode of Homicide: Life on the Street, originally telecast as two-hour special, has since been edited into two hour-long installments for syndication. In part one, Lewis (Clark Johnson) completely drops out of sight after being suspended for a heated confrontation with litigious drug dealer Read More

1998
Homicide: Life on the Street: Something Sacred, Part 2

Crew: Director

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Michelle Forbes, Peter Gerety

Synopsis: This episode of Homicide: Life on the Street, originally telecast as a two-hour special, has since been edited into two hour-long installments for syndication. In part two, the homicide unit has been ordered to concentrate exclusively on the murders of a priest and monsignor. Bayliss (Kyle Secor) Read More

1998
Homicide: Life on the Street: Double Blind

Crew: Director

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Michelle Forbes, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: Memories of his late colleague Steve Crosetti continue to haunt Lewis (Clark Johnson), as well as former cop Chris Thormann (Lee Tergesen), who was blinded by a gunman in one of Homicide's first-season story arcs. Thormann's agony intensifies when the man who robbed him of his sight comes up for Read More

1997
Homicide: Life on the Street: Have a Conscience

Crew: Director

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Michelle Forbes, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: Having been exonerated by the federal grand jury, Kellerman (Reed Diamond) is upset that the media has stopped covering him now that he is no longer suspected of corruption. So unnerved is Kellerman by his recent traumatic experiences that he may very well mess up the homicide squad's latest Read More

1997
Rasputin

Crew: Director

Actors: Alan Rickman, Greta Scacchi, Ian McKellen

Synopsis: Rasputin is a dramatization of the life story of one of the most intriguing figures in all history. A crude peasant from Siberia, Rasputin (Alan Rickman) was a self-styled charismatic holy man who traveled widely, openly engaging in drunkenness, sexual indulgences, and general debauchery. In the Read More

1996
Tyson

Crew: Director

Actors: Paul Winfield, Michael Jai White

Synopsis: This made-for-television movie tells the story of the tumultuous life of heavyweight boxing champ Mike Tyson. The movie follows the boxer (played by Michael Jai White) from his early New York youth as criminal offender all the way to his years as a national boxing celebrity. With the help of Read More

1995
Body of Evidence

Crew: Director

Actors: Madonna, Willem Dafoe, Anne Archer, Joe Mantegna, Julianne Moore

Synopsis: Madonna plays Rebecca Carlson, a sex bomb who parades naked in front of the open windows of her houseboat at all hours while the lobstermen catch crabs. This entry in the Basic Instinct sweepstakes poses the question: If love hurts, does sex kill? The judge and jury certainly want to find out when Read More

1993
Confessions of Sorority Girls

Crew: Director

Actors: Jamie Luner, Alyssa Milano, Brian Bloom

Synopsis: This campy remake of Roger Corman's 1957 drama Sorority Girl was part of a series of made-for-cable adaptations of old American International Pictures titles, prepared by original co-producer Samuel Z. Arkoff. Uli Edel captures just about the right over-the-top theatrics in this period drama, set Read More

1993
Tales From the Crypt: Came the Dawn

Crew: Director

1993
Last Exit to Brooklyn

Crew: Director

Actors: Stephen Lang, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Burt Young, Peter Dobson, Jerry Orbach

Synopsis: Hubert Selby's controversial 1964 cult novel Last Exit To Brooklyn is adapted to the big screen by director Ulrich Edel in this drama. The story is set in the early 1950s in Red Hook, Brooklyn, a blighted waterfront town of boarded-up storefronts and striking factory workers. Harry Black (Stephen Lang Read More

5/2/90
Christiane F.

Crew: Director

Actors: Thomas Haustein, David Bowie, Natja Brunkhorst

Synopsis: Helmed by director Uli Edel, this West German coming-of-age drama is the tale of an aimless teen-aged girl, played by Natja Brunkhorst. In search of kicks, Brunkhorst falls in with junkie/pusher Thomas Haustein. Christiane F boasts a generous chunk of concert footage featuring David Bowie. ~ Hal Read More

1982
Perahim - Die Zweite Chance

Crew: Screenwriter

1974