Àlex Brendemühl

Acting

Àlex Brendemühl

Born

1972-11-27 (53)

Place of birth

Barcelona, Spain

Known for

Acting

Credits

79 titles

Àlex Brendemühl i Gubern is a Spanish-German actor. Born in Barcelona to a Spanish mother and a German father, he has appeared in more than sixty films and television shows since 1995.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 16 titles

Staring at Strangers poster
6.5

Carpenter Sergio runs away and hides in a closet after his boss fired him. When the closet arrives at its buyer's house, he decides to stay there, hiding in his new home living with an unknown family.

Staring at Strangers

2022

The Offering poster
5.1

Jan, a mysterious character haunted by a deep feeling of guilt, tries to get Violeta back, a youth love he lost 20 years ago, with a sickening plan.

The Offering

2020

Little Girl Blue poster
6.3

In 2016, French writer and photographer Carole Achache took her own life. After Carole's death, her daughter Mona Achache, a film director, discovers thousands of photos, letters and recordings that Carole left behind, but these buried secrets make her disappearance even more of an enigma. Through the power of filmmaking and the beauty of incarnation with the help of actress Marion Cotillard, the director brings her mother back to life to retrace her journey and find out who she really was.

Little Girl Blue

2023

Apuntes para una ficción consentida poster
4.0

Swiss actress Lea Grand lives in Madrid, turning away from roles that make her foreignness her defining trait while developing a cabaret built from Saint Teresa of Avila’s words. When Basel Stadt theater invites her back to her home city, performance opens an unsettled question of belonging.

Apuntes para una ficción consentida

2026

Coven poster
6.7

French Basque Country, year 1609. The men of a small fishing village have gone to sea. Judge Rostegui, who has been charged by the king with ridding the country of the devil's wiles, arrests Ana and her friends and accuses them of witchcraft.

Coven

2020

The Monkey poster
6.3

In 1588, a castaway from the Spanish Armada, sent from Portugal by Philip II of Spain to conquer England, is captured on an Irish beach. There he is tried, declared guilty and hanged to death. All of this would be reasonable according to the laws of war and hatred among humans. The problem is the prisoner is a monkey.

The Monkey

2021

Stories Not to Be Told poster
5.8

Five tales of human vulnerability and the hilarious, painful, and awkward curveballs life throws us.

Stories Not to Be Told

2022

Runner poster
7.0

Cris dedicates herself body and soul to athletics. While preparing for the 800-meter race at the Spanish National Championships, she suffers a severe psychotic break brought on by mounting pressure. As recovery unfolds, Cris keeps her eyes fixed on the track, holding on to the dream that has always defined.

Runner

2026

Morlaix poster
6.9

A young high school student marked by the recent death of her mother, Gwen, spends her time with her group of friends, including her lover Thomas, an apprentice baker. When Jean-Luc, a Parisian student who looks like an artist, moves into the area, Gwen does not hide her trouble, as if a decisive life choice was before her. One day, she discovers a film at the cinema that seems inexplicably inspired by her own life. Will she find the answers she is looking for?

Morlaix

2025

Unbestechlich poster
5.2

The inspectors Joseph Kanjaa and Clarissa Jakobs are new to the LKA in Düsseldorf. But not to the delight of their colleagues. Because the two are investigating internally. After a drug operation, cocaine and cash disappeared into the pockets of the police officers involved. Joseph and Clarissa are convinced of that. But they can't prove it. You have to catch Stefan Krohn and his two colleagues in the act. Young Tim...

Unbestechlich

2023

La Tarara poster
NR

A symbolic short film exploring the relationship between an aunt and her nephew through a blend of fashion, visual arts, and cinematic storytelling. Part of the three-film "Where Talent Ignites" project showcasing Spanish creativity.

La Tarara

2026

Creatura poster
6.1

After moving in with her boyfriend, Mila becomes aware of her loss of desire.

Creatura

2023

The Diaries of Adam and Eve poster
4.2

Eve and Adam meet in Eden. It soon becomes apparent that they don’t find each other particularly attractive. But do they have a choice? Writing helps. They each start keeping a diary about this first encounter between two human beings — from very different perspectives, as one might imagine. And as they get on each other’s nerves and recount terrible things about each other, they discover an unexpected new emotion: love.

The Diaries of Adam and Eve

2025

All That’s Due poster
NR

16 years after “Love of the Children“, the drama tells the story of Mira and her patchwork family. She has recently taken over the management of a supermarket. Her relationship with her husband Tarik and her two daughters gives her support. But a single weak moment in which Mira fails to tell the truth leads to other half-truths and lies until everything blows up in her face.

All That’s Due

2026

When a River Becomes the Sea poster
10.0

The heroine, a young archaeology student, whose relationship with herself, and with those around her, is forever marked by a traumatic event. Initially, Gaia cannot find the words to describe her situation, let alone the courage to speak about it. Eventually, however – like an archaeological excavation – she begins to uncover fragments of the past in order to piece her life together.

When a River Becomes the Sea

2025

Gold Lust poster
5.5

Late 1800s. The arrival of the railroad to an isolated town brings the long-awaited progress, but also Oleguer, a dark loan shark with shady dealings. When he seizes and stays at Cileta and her family's farmhouse, the young peasant will do anything possible to get her house back. Even if that means following in the dark footsteps of the money-lender.

Gold Lust

2024

2010s · 29 titles

Transit poster
6.7

In an attempt to flee Nazi-occupied France, Georg assumes the identity of a dead author but soon finds himself stuck in Marseilles, where he falls in love with Maria, a young woman searching for her missing husband.

Transit

2018

Mother poster
6.7

Ten years have gone by since Elena's six-year old son has disappeared. The last thing she heard of him was a phone call he gave her, saying that he was lost on a beach in France and couldn't find his father. Nowadays, Elena lives on this same beach and manages a restaurant. She is finally beginning to emerge from this tragic episode when she meets a French teenager who strongly reminds her of her lost son. The two of them will embark on a relationship which will sow chaos and distrust around them.

Mother

2019

Measuring the World poster
6.4

Germany in the early 19th century. "Die Vermessung der Welt" follows the two brilliant and eccentric scientists Alexander von Humboldt and Carl Friedrich Gauss on their life paths.

Measuring the World

2012

From the Land of the Moon poster
6.6

In 1950s France, a free-spirited woman trapped in an arranged marriage falls in love with an injured veteran of the Indochinese War.

From the Land of the Moon

2016

Painless poster
6.2

While searching for a solution to his serious health condition, David, a renowned neurosurgeon, discovers a sinister secret hidden in the past.

Painless

2012

Twin Murders: The Silence of the White City poster
5.7

Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country, Spain, 2019. Two corpses appear in the crypt of the Old Cathedral. Police officer Unai López de Ayala, an expert in criminal profiling, must hunt down the ritual murderer who has been terrorizing the city for two decades.

Twin Murders: The Silence of the White City

2019

Django poster
6.3

The story of Django Reinhardt, famous guitarist and composer, and his flight from German-occupied Paris in 1943.

Django

2017

Among Wolves poster
6.2

Entre lobos (Among Wolves) tells the remarkable story of a poor country boy named Marcos, who at the age of 7 is handed over to his father's employer, a rich landowner, who in turn delivers him to a life of labor with a hermetic goatherd in an isolated valley. The old man, who lives in a cave, is unused to human company and at first seems not very interested in having a live-in apprentice. The boy, who was abused by his parents, is frightened and equally aloof initially. Despite this, the shepherd begins teaching Marcos how to herd the goats, as well as how to care for himself and how to survive in the wilderness by trapping and fishing.

Among Wolves

2010

The German Doctor poster
6.5

Patagonia, 1960. A German doctor meets an Argentinean family and follows them to a town where the family will be starting a new life. The family welcomes the doctor into their home and entrust their young daughter to his care, not knowing that he is one of the most dangerous criminals in the world.

The German Doctor

2013

Truman poster
7.0

Tomás, who lives in Canada, travels to Madrid, Spain, to visit his old friend Julián. Both of them, accompanied by Truman, Julián's faithful dog, will share many surprising and emotional little moments, triggered by the hard situation Julián is going through, for just a few days.

Truman

2015

ma ma poster
6.2

After finding a lump in one of her breasts, Magda goes to visit her doctor who gives her bad news: she needs a mastectomy, preceded by severe chemo treatments. While she ponders this ill fortune at a soccer game where her son Dani participates, she attracts the attention of talent scout Arturo, who is looking for talented young players to enroll them in the junior leagues.

ma ma

2015

7 Reasons to Run Away (from Society) poster
5.9

The family, the tenant, the wedding, the businessman, the neighbors, the poor child and the run over. 7 black comedy stories of a dysfunctional society.

7 Reasons to Run Away (from Society)

2019

Hedi Schneider Is Stuck poster
6.2

A model family's happy life unexpectedly goes off the rails when the carefree Hedi, played by Laura Tonke, suddenly starts having panic attacks. First mental illness and then drug dependency – the happiness that these happy-go-lucky thirty-somethings once took for granted suddenly seems unattainable, and their world fragile and uncertain.

Hedi Schneider Is Stuck

2015

Seven Years poster
6.4

The drama is centered on four friends and business partners who in one evening are forced to find a way to save their company and themselves. The impossible decision they face is agreeing on who will be the one to sacrifice their freedom to save the others from personal and financial demise. It is a race against time that will put their friendship and sanity to the test. Who will take the fall?

Seven Years

2016

Falling Star poster
5.9

During a brief rule towards the end of the 19th century, the Italian duke Amadeo of Savoy occupied the Spanish throne. However, confined to the safety of life within the palace walls, the lonely, frustrated king and his servants succumb to playful adventures focused more on pleasure than his duties.

Falling Star

2014

Petra poster
6.2

Petra doesn’t know who her father is. Her entire life, it’s been hidden from her. After the death of her mother, she embarks on a search that leads her to Jaume, a famous artist and a powerful, ruthless man. On her path to uncovering the truth, Petra also meets Jaume’s son, Lucas, as well as Marisa, his mother and Jaume’s wife. That is when the story of these characters begins to intertwine in a spiral of malice, family secrets and violence that drives them all to the edge. But fate’s cruel logic is derailed by a twist that opens a path to hope and redemption.

Petra

2018

Rewind: Die zweite Chance poster
5.1

While investigating of a murder case, widowed police commissioner Lenders makes a confusing discovery; one of the victims comes from a different time. Did an implanted chip make this time travel possible? More victims follow. What is the motive behind the murders? And what is the connection between the victims? Can he use the chip to change his own life story?

Rewind: Die zweite Chance

2018

The Mosquito Net poster
5.5

Maria suffers from Alzheimer's disease. Luis, Maria's fifteen-year-old grandson, doesn't say very much either; he shuts himself off in his own silent world to escape his parent's marital crisis, spending time instead picking up stray cats and dogs off the street. His father, Miguel, wants to put a stop to this eccentric behavior, but his protective mother Alice indulges him. Nevertheless, the animals begin to appear at home in increasing numbers, making life complicated for the family in their flat.

The Mosquito Net

2010

Heroes poster
7.4

A young publicist, with a successful professional life but with an empty personal life, finds himself on a trip against time to get to an important business meeting. During the trip, he meets a girl and, although they are very different and have opposite ways of life, they click when recalling the most mythical and emotional time of their childhood: the last summer they spent with their gang

Heroes

2010

Detour poster
5.7

Alma and Jan are having an affair and yet Jan does not want to admit it. In order to force him to recognize their relationship, Alma secretly takes Jan's small son, Juri on a trip. Accompanied by the delivery man Bruno, the two drive in the direction of Berlin. At a rest stop, he tries clumsily to get closer to Alma but she rebuffs him. In doing so, Alma unwittingly injures him in such a way that he drops all his inhibitions. Whereas Bruno until now was acting covertly in the hope of establishing contact, he now wants to take for himself what has been denied him.

Detour

2017

The Forest poster
5.7

The life of a spanish couple gets complicated when the Civil War begins and a strange green light appears in the woods, opening the door to the world of the Bream Lords.

The Forest

2012

Nemez poster
6.0

Right out of jail, Dima tries to make a new beginning in Berlin, Germany. But his past holds him back. His criminal associates continue to rely on Dima and his father wants to take his family back to their native Russia. Only the relationship with art student Nadja gives Dima hope. If only there wasn't his criminal past.

Nemez

2013

Dying Beyond Their Means poster
5.3

Isaki Lacuesta presents a social satire in which five common or garden citizens, from a country pretty much identical to our own, see their lives ripped apart by the economic crisis. With nothing more to lose, they come up with a crazy plan to save the Spanish and world economy: kidnap the chairman of the Central Bank and demand that he return everything to the way it used to be.

Dying Beyond Their Means

2014

Call Me Francis poster
6.7

Biopic about Jorge Maria Bergoglio before he became Pope Francis I.

Call Me Francis

2015

The Prayer poster
6.3

Thomas is a drug addict. In an effort to put an end to his habit, he joins a community of former addicts who live isolated in the mountains and use prayer as a way to cure themselves.

The Prayer

2018

Parisiennes poster
NR

Japanese writer Kyoko Murakai comes to in Paris with the purpose of meeting “mythic Parisian women” and uncover the secret of their fulfilling lifestyles, which, she hopes, will serve as an inspiration for the main character of her next novel. This literary and sentimental saga, is also for Kyoko an attempt to emancipate herself from a still misogynistic Japanese society.

Parisiennes

2015

Eltern poster
6.5

Christine and Conrad are what we call modern parents nowadays: While he stays home to raise children, she makes a career as a doctor, earning big money. When Konrad with comes home with the offer to act as a theater director again, organizing the day-to-day family life becomes increasingly difficult. Who will take care of their daughters Emma and Kate? As it turns out, it is in fact not that easy to find a competent girl.

Eltern

2013

Love of the Children poster
5.4

Two single parents decide to move in together and their two teenage children fall in love.

Love of the Children

2010

The Diver Inside poster
4.5

Paul, a famous composer living in Ibiza, is accused of having seriously mistreated his ex-partner Irene.

The Diver Inside

2019

2000s · 9 titles

Omar Martínez poster
9.0

Karim, a boy from illegal Maghreb, lives of hawking CDs in a Spanish city, and takes extra money boxing under the name of Omar Martinez. Train in the gym of his only friend's uncle, Toni, who lives, and dreams of returning to Morocco. He also dreams of winning the love of Olga, another immigrant from Ukraine who is hoping to become a lady"". Among them establish a triangle of love and friendship where dreams collide with each reality than live.

Omar Martínez

2006

Unconscious poster
6.9

A Freudian comedy set in Barcelona, 1913, that playfully questions sexual taboos through a Sherlock Holmes-style investigation.

Unconscious

2004

Me poster
5.2

A handyman named Hans moves to a small town in Majorca where his his presence strikes a discord with the local residents.

Me

2007

The Hours of the Day poster
5.5

Abel lives with his mother in a small town on the outskirts of Barcelona. His life, grey and boring, is based on the small family business, his mother's house, his girlfriend's bed, and the town bars. However under an appearance of quiet and gentle man, Abel hides a dark and morbid personality.

The Hours of the Day

2003

The Consul of Sodom poster
5.6

Fascinating journey through the life and work of the prestigious Catalan poet Jaime Gil de Biedma, both marked by sexuality and eroticism. Charismatic and somewhat eccentric, brilliant intellectual with extraordinary sensitivity and member of Barcelona's 'gauche divine' in the 60s, Gil de Biedma liked to describe himself as a 'poet of experience' while he suffered dreadfully from the dichotomy strangling him: bourgeois and executive for a multinational by day, communist and homosexual poet by night.

The Consul of Sodom

2009

Vorvik poster
6.3

The president of a major biogenetic laboratory crazy for a board and falls down dead. His daughter Sofia inherited, just eighteen years a true empire, and make it impossible to discover the cause of the strange death of his father.

Vorvik

2005

Rage poster
5.6

A romantic thriller about a construction worker in hiding for killing his foreman who hides in the mansion where his girlfriend works as a maid.

Rage

2009

In the City poster
6.1

A group of eight thirtysomethings search for happiness in their relationships.

In the City

2003

Searching for Love poster
5.8

When Ana married Felix, the leader of a rock band and son of a travel agent, she thought her life would be plenty of excitement and travels. Now, in her forties, she leads a monotonous life with her husband and her daughter, giving cooking lessons and taking French courses. But one day she receives an invitation to give a cooking course in Paris.

Searching for Love

2004

Series credits

Scene of the Crime poster
6.2

Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.

Scene of the Crime

1970

Red Queen poster
7.0

A gifted woman's intellect brings chance to lead covert European police force. But it backfires, costing her everything. Following murder at her home and kidnapped heiress, her ex-supervisor enlists a policeman's aid to reinstate her.

Red Queen

2024

Der Kriminalist poster
4.5

Der Kriminalist is a German television series produced by Monaco Film Hamburg, subsidiary of Odeon Film. Directors during the first season were Sherry Hormann and Torsten C. Fischer, during the second: Thomas Jahn, Jobst Oetzmann and Torsten C. Fischer.

Der Kriminalist

2006

Kommissarin Lucas poster
5.8

No synopsis available yet.

Kommissarin Lucas

2003

I, Addict poster
7.3

Javier Giner, a thirty-year-old audiovisual professional, voluntarily checks himself into a rehabilitation center due to his alcohol and cocaine use. Armed with his personal journal and complete determination to reverse the path he's going down, Javier faces what is undoubtedly the key moment of his life. The months of recovery in the rehab center, surrounded by nature and a cast of memorable characters, completely change Javier Giner's life.

I, Addict

2024

I, Addict poster
7.3

Javier Giner, a thirty-year-old audiovisual professional, voluntarily checks himself into a rehabilitation center due to his alcohol and cocaine use. Armed with his personal journal and complete determination to reverse the path he's going down, Javier faces what is undoubtedly the key moment of his life. The months of recovery in the rehab center, surrounded by nature and a cast of memorable characters, completely change Javier Giner's life.

I, Addict

2024

Furies poster
7.1

Seeking to avenge her father's death, a young woman becomes entangled in the web of the Fury, peacekeeper of the Paris criminal underworld.

Furies

2024

Jet Lag poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Jet Lag

2001

Carlos, rey emperador poster
6.9

As the life of Charles of Habsburg is told since his arrival to Spain, it can be seen how the heir to the crowns of Germany, Burgundy, the Netherlands, the Free County, Artois, Nevers and Rethel, of the territories of the Crown of Aragon and its related Italian territories, and of the territories of the Catholic Monarchs in Castile, North Africa and the Americas, matures as a statesman and gets stronger in face of menaces around him and good and bad advice from his counselors.

Carlos, rey emperador

2015

Alive and Kicking poster
5.2

'Los Espabilados' tells the story of Mickey L'Angelo, Guada, Yeray, Lucas and Samuel, a group of extraordinary young people who escape from a psychiatric center in search of their place in the world. Despite their clinical diagnoses, these boys face life with humor and courage because inside they are clear that it is society that is sick and not them. The boys will go on a journey through Europe to find the brother of one of them, while they are facing their daily medical conditions. In this series we will enjoy their adventures, their search for acceptance while making the most of their lives.

Alive and Kicking

2021

El mal invisible poster
5.4

No synopsis available yet.

El mal invisible

2025

La canción poster
7.7

Spain, 1968, an ambitious television executive is tasked with winning the Eurovision Song Contest. Massiel's catchy "La La La" triumphs with an iconic performance. This is the story behind that unexpected victory.

La canción

2025

All Those Things We Never Said poster
8.2

Three days before her wedding, Julia receives a phone call saying her father will not attend the ceremony because he is dead. After the funeral, the daughter receives a coffin containing a father-like android with all his memories.

All Those Things We Never Said

2022

Böser Wolf poster
4.7

The duo of investigators, Pia Kirchhoff and Oliver von Bodenstein, has to solve a case of a dead girl found on the river Main, while digging deeper into a chasm of viciousness and brutality.

Böser Wolf

2016

Elles et moi poster
1.0

January 1939. The fall of Barcelona seals the defeat of the Spanish Republicans. Five hundred thousand of them choose exile. Upon arriving in France, the men are disarmed and interned in camps. As for the families, the administration distributes them among makeshift centers, several of which are in Ardèche. Elles et moi chooses to follow the fate of the Esteva family during these terrible months and the five years of war that follow. Lluis, the father, lives in hope of reconquest. Pilar, his courageous and energetic wife, feels that this new country will become her home for a long time to come. She thus leads her two children, Isabel and Ignacio, into this new life...

Elles et moi

2009

Les veus del Pamano poster
NR

Catalan miniseries.

Les veus del Pamano

2009

Andorra Between Two Evils poster
8.0

Spain 1952. The country lies in the grip of Franco's ruthless dictatorship. In a Spanish police station, Francesc Viel, a left-wing republican, is forced to recount his past.

Andorra Between Two Evils

2000

Behind the camera