Udo Kier films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 42 films on Boxlist

Known for The Secret Agent, Suspiria and Melancholia.

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Starring Udo Kier

The Secret Agent
2025 · Film
8.6/10 · TMDB
In 1977 Recife, Marcelo, a technology expert in his early forties, returns in the midst of Carnaval to reunite with his son and plot a dangerous escape under the ever-watchful eyes of Brazil’s repressive military regime.
Suspiria
1977 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.
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Melancholia
2011 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.
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Bacurau
2019 · Film
7.9/10 · TMDB
Bacurau, a small town in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their community has vanished from most maps.
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Breaking the Waves
1996 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
In a small and conservative Scottish village, a woman's paralytic husband convinces her to have extramarital intercourse so she can tell him about it and give him a reason for living.
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My Own Private Idaho
1991 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters is a gay hustler afflicted with narcolepsy. Scott Favor is the rebellious son of a mayor. Together, the two travel from Portland, Oregon to Idaho and finally to the coast of...
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Brawl in Cell Block 99
2017 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
After working as a drug courier and getting into a brutal shootout with police, a former boxer finds himself at the mercy of his enemies as they force him to instigate violent acts that turn the prison he resides in into a battleground.
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Dogville
2003 · Film
7.8/10 · TMDB
A barren soundstage is stylishly utilized to create a minimalist small-town setting in which a mysterious woman named Grace hides from the criminals who pursue her. The town is two-faced and offers to harbor Grace as long as she can make...
The Painted Bird
2019 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
A young boy wanders Eastern Europe during World War II.
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American Animals
2018 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Lexington, Kentucky, 2004. Four young men attempt to execute one of the most audacious art heists in the history of the United States.
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Europa
1991 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
Postwar Germany, 1945. Leopold Kessler, an American of German descent, works as a sleeping car conductor for the Zentropa railway line. When he meets Katharina Hartmann, the railroad owner's daughter, and they fall in love, his life...
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Swan Song
2021 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
An aging hairdresser escapes his nursing home to embark on an odyssey across his small town to style a dead woman's hair for her funeral, rediscovering his sparkle along the way.
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Dancer in the Dark
2000 · Film
7.9/10 · TMDB
Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder and will suffer the same fate without an expensive operation. When life gets too...
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Shadow of the Vampire
2000 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Director F.W. Murnau makes a Faustian pact with a vampire to get him to star in his 1922 film "Nosferatu."
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Soul Kitchen
2009 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
SOUL KITCHEN centers on a likable but hopelessly disorganized restauranteur, Zinos, whose cafe is second home to a motley crew of lovable eccentrics. When his girlfriend Nadine up and moves to Shanghai, a love-sick Zinos decides to fly...
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Dragged Across Concrete
2019 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Two policemen, one an old-timer, the other his volatile younger partner, find themselves suspended when a video of their strong-arm tactics becomes the media's cause du jour. Low on cash and with no other options, these two embittered...
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Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
2018 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
On the rocky path to sobriety after a life-changing accident, John Callahan discovers the healing power of art, willing his injured hands into drawing hilarious, often controversial cartoons, which bring him a new lease on life.
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Blade
1998 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
The Daywalker known as "Blade" - a half-vampire, half-mortal man - becomes the protector of humanity against an underground army of vampires.
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By Design
2026 · Film
5.4/10 · TMDB
A woman swaps bodies with a chair, and everyone likes her better as a chair.
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The Mountain
2019 · Film
5.2/10 · TMDB
1950s America. Since his mother‘s confinement to an institution, Andy has lived in the shadow of his stoic father. A family acquaintance, Dr. Wallace Fiennes, employs the introverted young man as a photographer to document an asylum tour...
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Nymphomaniac: Vol. II
2013 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
The continuation of Joe's sexually dictated life delves into the darker aspects of her adult life and what led to her being in Seligman's care.
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Armageddon
1998 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
When an asteroid threatens to collide with Earth, NASA honcho Dan Truman determines the only way to stop it is to drill into its surface and detonate a nuclear bomb. This leads him to renowned driller Harry Stamper, who agrees to helm the...
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Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
1994 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
He's Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. Jim Carrey is on the case to find the Miami Dolphins' missing mascot and quarterback Dan Marino. He goes eyeball to eyeball with a man-eating shark, stakes out the Miami Dolphins and woos and wows the...
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My Neighbor Adolf
2022 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
South America, 1960. A lonely and grumpy Holocaust survivor convinces himself that his new neighbor is none other than Adolf Hitler. Not being taken seriously, he starts an independent investigation to prove his claim, but when the...
Downsizing
2017 · Film
5.3/10 · TMDB
A kindly occupational therapist undergoes a new procedure to be shrunken to four inches tall so that he and his wife can help save the planet and afford a nice lifestyle at the same time.
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The Lords of Salem
2012 · Film
5.4/10 · TMDB
Heidi, a radio DJ, is sent a box containing a record - a "gift from the Lords". The sounds within the grooves trigger flashbacks of her town's violent past. Is Heidi going mad, or are the Lords back to take revenge on Salem, Massachusetts?
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Last Moment of Clarity
2020 · Film
5.2/10 · TMDB
A normal New Yorker's life is upended when his girlfriend is murdered by the Bulgarian mob. He flees to Paris to hide from her killers. But three years later, he sees a similar looking woman on the silver screen. Obsession with past love...
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Iron Sky
2012 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
In the last moments of World War II, a secret Nazi space program evaded destruction by fleeing to the Dark Side of the Moon. During 70 years of utter secrecy, the Nazis construct a gigantic space fortress with a massive armada of flying...
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For Love or Money
1993 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
New York concierge Doug Ireland wants to go into business for himself and refurbish a hotel on Roosevelt Island, N.Y., but he needs an investor. With a few weeks left before his option on the site runs out, Doug agrees to help wealthy...
Halloween
2007 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
After being committed for 17 years, Michael Myers, now a grown man and still very dangerous, escapes from the mental institution (where he was committed as a 10 year old) and he immediately returns to Haddonfield, where he wants to find...
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Skin Walker
2019 · Film
5.5/10 · TMDB
When her grandmother is brutally murdered, Regine, a fragile young woman must return to the countryside she has struggled to escape in order to engage with the family guilt she’s tried to shut out of her life - and to connect with the...
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The Adventures of Pinocchio
1996 · Film
5.3/10 · TMDB
One of puppet-maker Geppetto's creations comes magically to life. This puppet, Pinocchio, has one major desire and that is to become a real boy someday. In order to accomplish this goal he has to learn to act responsibly. This film shows...
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The Story of O
1975 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDB
The beautiful O is taken by her boyfriend, Rene, to a bizarre retreat, where she is trained in bondage and sexual perversion...
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Iron Sky: The Coming Race
2019 · Film
5.0/10 · TMDB
Twenty years after the events of Iron Sky, the former Nazi Moonbase has become the last refuge of mankind. Earth was devastated by a nuclear war, but buried deep under the wasteland lies a power that could save the last of humanity - or...
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End of Days
1999 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
On 28 December 1999, the citizens of New York City are getting ready for the turn of the millennium. However, Satan decides to crash the party by coming to the city, inhabiting a man's body, and searching for his chosen bride—a 20-year-old...
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Johnny Mnemonic
1995 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
In a dystopian 2021, Johnny is a data trafficker who has an implant that allows him to securely store data too sensitive for regular computer networks. On one delivery run, he accepts a package that not only exceeds the implant's safety...
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Far Cry
2008 · Film
3.6/10 · TMDB
Jack Carver, a former member of the Special Forces takes the journalist Valerie Cardinal to an Island to visit her uncle Max who is working in a Military complex on the Island. As they arrive Valerie gets captured by the minions of Doctor...
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Barb Wire
1996 · Film
4.0/10 · TMDB
A sexy nightclub owner, Barb Wire moonlights as a mercenary in Steel Harbor, one of the last free zones in the now fascist United States. When scientist Cora Devonshire wanders into Barb's establishment, she gets roped into a top-secret...
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Surviving Christmas
2004 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDB
Drew Latham is an executive leading an empty, shallow life with only wealth on his side. Facing another lonely Christmas ahead, he revisit his old childhood home in the hope of reliving some old holiday memories – but he finds that the...
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BloodRayne
2005 · Film
4.2/10 · TMDB
In 18th-century Romania, after spending much of her life in a traveling circus, human-vampire hybrid Rayne escapes and plots to take down her father, Kagan, the evil vampire king. When she's discovered by three vampire hunters, she manages...
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FearDotCom
2002 · Film
3.7/10 · TMDB
When four bodies are discovered among the industrial decay and urban grime of New York City, brash young detective Mike Reilly teams with ambitious Department of Health researcher Terry Huston to uncover the cause behind their violent and...
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The Kingdom II
2024 · Film
Set in the neurosurgical ward of Copenhagen's Rigshospitalet, the city and country's main hospital, nicknamed "Riget", "Riget" means "the realm" or "the kingdom" and leads one to think of "dødsriget", the realm of the dead.

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