Acting

Helmut Rühl

Born

1955-01-01 (71)

Place of birth

Tuttlingen, Germany

Known for

Acting

Credits

30 titles

IMDb profile

Known for

6.3

A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together.

The Old Fox

1977

6.2

A team of inspectors investigates murders in and around the small Upper Bavarian town of Rosenheim, and they still have plenty of time to see idyllic landscapes and luxurious pre-alpine villas and enjoy sumptuous Bavarian fare with beer.

Die Rosenheim-Cops

2002

6.2

Polizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic Republic, and after the dissolution of Fernsehen der DDR the series was picked up by ARD. It was originally created as a counterpart to the West German series Tatort, and quickly became a public favorite.

Polizeiruf 110

1971

5.9

SOKO Leipzig is a German police procedural television programme, a spin-off of the earlier German police programme SOKO 5113. It was first broadcast on 31 January 2001, on German television channel ZDF. On 12 November 2008, the first part of a two-part crossover between SOKO Leipzig and British police procedural The Bill was aired, with the same version being shown on both ZDF and British television channel ITV1.

Leipzig Homicide

2001

5.8

Küstenwache is a German television series that tells the fictionalized adventures of a unit of Federal Coast Guard officers off the German coast of the Baltic Sea.

Küstenwache

1997

No artwork available

3.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die Wache

1994

Film credits

2010s · 3 titles

6.1

The budding friendship between two very different neighbors takes a tragic turn when David runs over a young woman and causes her death. At Robert's insistence David leaves her lying and flees. While Robert hopes his new neighbor will now be irreversibly bound to him, David is increasingly devoured by feelings of guilt. When he meets Vanessa, the sister of his victim, he believes he can put things right. But he hasn't taken Robert into account. Robert is prepared to do anything to keep his neighbor to himself.

The Good Neighbor

2011

5.6

A man and two women are trying their luck in the red room in the countryside. The older (but therefore not wiser) Fred, freshly divorced as a kisser who still desires his ex, meets the self-confident Lucy, who feels called to explore the soul of men in her novels. She lives with her intimate friend Sibil in a Vorpommern house in the countryside. Fred decides to move from Berlin to the two women and try a ménage-à-trois. They get to know each other and themselves.

The Red Room

2010

No synopsis available yet.

Kalte Karibik

2010

2000s · 8 titles

6.7

A hit man whose mission is to prevent the printing of a tell-all book written by a former Mafioso, falls in love with the employee who may lose her job if the book doesn't get published.

Killing Is My Business, Honey

2009

5.7

Summer is the time to travel, enjoy life, and do or leave what you want. A motor home with two occupants makes its way south. But the two travelers do not travel voluntarily, and certainly not together.

SommerHundeSöhne

2005

5.0

What do you do when love turns into suspicion and mourning turns to fear? When Marian gets word that her brother Michael has committed suicide, she travels to Berlin to sort out his life. Marian reunites with her childhood friend Susanne who offers to help her pack up Michael s things. Together, they find unnerving photographs and clues that something might not be right. Written by Anonymous

Drawn in Blood

2006

3.9

David, a recently fired scrapyard worker and Marie, a prostitute, both about 20 years old, meet on New Year's Eve in Berlin and decide to run away together. As David's arm is plastered from an accident Marie continues to prostitute herself to finance their restless journey through the Ruhr area. Their love and their will to survive guide them though all problems.

Love, Money, Love

2000

No artwork available

5.0

In 2005 Berlin, 28-year-old Katja juggles acting ambitions, night-shifts, and a shared flat. Her role in Chekhov’s “The Seagull” mirrors her tangled love life, fractured family, and rejected faith. When offered a chance to escape it all, news of the Pope’s death forces her to confront, not flee, her reality.

21:37

2009

No artwork available

4.0

This documentary feature addresses the question of how gay men lived and could live their lives under 'real socialism'...

Balkan Traffic

2007

Young people disappear in Berlin's subway shafts, near the "Kill Your Darling" disco.

Kill Your Darling

2009

6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Fliehendes Land

2004

Series credits

6.3

A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together.

The Old Fox

1977

6.3

A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together.

The Old Fox

1977

6.2

Die Rosenheim-Cops

2002

6.2

Polizeiruf 110

1971

5.9

Leipzig Homicide

2001

5.8

Küstenwache is a German television series that tells the fictionalized adventures of a unit of Federal Coast Guard officers off the German coast of the Baltic Sea.

Küstenwache

1997

5.8

Küstenwache is a German television series that tells the fictionalized adventures of a unit of Federal Coast Guard officers off the German coast of the Baltic Sea.

Küstenwache

1997

5.8

Küstenwache is a German television series that tells the fictionalized adventures of a unit of Federal Coast Guard officers off the German coast of the Baltic Sea.

Küstenwache

1997

No artwork available

3.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die Wache

1994

No artwork available

7.2

No synopsis available yet.

Im Namen des Gesetzes

1994

7.3

Der Fahnder is a German television krimi series which was aired between 1984 and 2005. In the Netherlands the series was broadcast by the VARA from 3 October 1985.

Der Fahnder

1984

6.9

Die Pfefferkörner is a German television series produced by Der Kinderkanal. The peppercorns are five friends from Hamburg: Jana Holstein Coutre, Natasha "Tascha" Jaonzäns, Philip "Fiete" Overbeck, Cem Gülec and Vivien "Vivi" Overbeck, Fiete's eight year old sister. After school, the young detectives meet at a high level of a spice warehouse of the company Overbeck & Associates, which belongs to Fiete and Vivi's parents in the first part, but is later given to Fiete and Vivi to look after. Here, in the historic warehouse district, the five friends have their headquarters. With smarts, combined delivery and support of the Internet, they find their cases here. The detectives convict polluters, animal dealers and drug smugglers. They also help each other with personal problems they encounter. Cem has lost his parents in a car accident and sometimes feels sad and lonely. Jana lives with her divorcee mother, a lawyer who is rarely at home. Natasha comes from Latvia. Her parents initially have very strict rules in terms of her education, that make Natasha unhappy. Fiete has problems showing his feelings and hides them behind grumpiness and hostility towards girls, until he falls in love with Natasha. Vivi is suffering from her role of the youngest member of the group. She believes that she must constantly struggle for recognition.