Max Riemelt

Acting

Max Riemelt

Born

1984-01-07 (42)

Place of birth

Berlin, Germany

Known for

Acting

Credits

84 titles

Max Riemelt (born in East Berlin, East Germany on 7 January 1984) is a German actor. Internationally, he is best known for playing Wolfgang Bogdanow in the television series Sense8. He is also well-known for acting in movies such as Before the Fall (2004), The Wave (2008) and Free Fall (2013). At the 2004 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, he won the best actor award for ‘Napola’ and in the 2006 Bavarian Film Awards, he won the best young actor award for ‘Der Rote Kakadu’. Riemelt's career began in Germany at the age of 13, in the TV productions Eine Familie zum Küssen and Praxis Bülowbogen. The following year Riemelt played his first leading role in the ZDF Christmas series Zwei all…

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 14 titles

The Matrix Resurrections poster
6.3

Plagued by strange memories, Neo's life takes an unexpected turn when he finds himself back inside the Matrix.

The Matrix Resurrections

2021

The Tasters poster
6.7

In autumn 1943, in Gross-Partsch, 26-year-old Rosa, who had come from Berlin to stay with the parents of her husband Gregor, who was fighting on the Russian front, was taken by the SS to a mysterious place. Forced to taste a dish, she joins the group of tasters responsible for checking that the food destined for Hitler is not poisoned.

The Tasters

2025

Free Fall – Who You Are poster
8.0

Marc’s world unravels when a secret affair with fellow officer Kay forces him to choose between the life he built and the truth he can no longer deny. Free Fall – Who You Are is a reimagined recut of the 2013 cult film Freier Fall. Expanding beyond a coming-out story, Free Fall - Who You Are asks a deeper question: what happens when an honest life truly begins?

Free Fall – Who You Are

2026

Two to One poster
6.3

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, a communist family discovers a bunker full of money soon to be worthless. With the help of their neighbors, they embark on a race against time to enter the capitalist world in style.

Two to One

2024

Talking About the Weather poster
6.6

Clara is studying for a Ph.D in philosophy in Berlin. In this middle-class male academic environment, she feels pushed to one side. She returns to her childhood village in former East Germany for her mother's birthday, and becomes aware that a distance has grown between her and her family.

Talking About the Weather

2022

Home Stories poster
5.0

As a contestant in a singing casting show, Lea is asked by the TV team who she is and what makes her special. She doesn't know and begins to slip into different roles in her search for what makes her special, developing an unexpected fascination for her aunt Kati. Kati's return home as head architect for the renovation of the Residenzschloss after many years abroad reunites the family in one place. This reunion raises the hopes of grandparents Friedrich and Christel that they can join forces to give their pension, which has few visitors, a new lease of life.

Home Stories

2026

About Luis poster
6.5

The two people in their late thirties, Constanze and Jens, have a very stressful daily life. Their situation intensifies when their ten-year-old son Luis begins having problems at school. The parents now find themselves in conflict between fulfilling societal conventions and trying to protect their son. The existing values of both are put to a severe test. They underestimate how much Luis is being bullied at school and that he urgently needs help.

About Luis

2025

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Herkunft

2027

Der Schneegänger poster
6.0

After missing four years, the body of a little boy is found in the forest. An unlikely pair of police officers investigate the boy's death.

Der Schneegänger

2020

The Peppercorns and the Secret of the Deep Sea poster
5.3

As soon as Jaswinder, the mother of Alice's friend Tarun, discovered a way to avoid plastic, it is attacked and the documents about it, which are also top secret, stolen. Shortly thereafter, it also disappears without a trace. Alice, as the remaining peppercorn, searches for clues and comes across toxic waste companies who want to prevent the documents from being published at all costs. Will you take Alice to Jaswinder ...?

The Peppercorns and the Secret of the Deep Sea

2021

Ernesto's Island poster
6.3

Matthias, a successful employee enjoys his luxurious single life in Berlin until his mother dies. With her last wish to scatter her ashes in Cuba, she sends him on a journey into his past, to search for a true home.

Ernesto's Island

2023

Spurlos in Venedig poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

Spurlos in Venedig

2025

Ein Taxi zur Bescherung poster
6.0

Hamburg cab driver Axel Parschke finds himself in the Ore Mountains shortly before Christmas Eve: what begins as a lucrative job for IT analyst Jan Olsmer, who has gone blind after an accident and wants to meet his internet acquaintance Jenny Feller in the small village of Bergroda, turns into an emotional journey into a new life for the man who has been divorced for many years. With strangers who become friends along the way, such as his passenger Jan or the high school graduate Linh Ngyuen, who are picked up along the way. And then there's the car mechanic Sofia Lieberwirth, in whose workshop Axel and his cab, damaged in an accident, are involuntarily stranded. After the celebration in Mettenschicht and a Christmas Eve spent together against their will, the cards are reshuffled for everyone.

Ein Taxi zur Bescherung

2022

Precious Ivie poster
5.3

Two Afro-German half-sisters that never met before, get closer through their father's death, search their roots and find themselves.

Precious Ivie

2021

2010s · 23 titles

Berlin Syndrome poster
6.0

A passionate holiday romance leads to an obsessive relationship when an Australian photojournalist wakes one morning in an abandoned Berlin apartment and is unable to leave.

Berlin Syndrome

2017

Free Fall poster
7.7

A promising career with the police, a baby on the way... Marc's life seems to be right on track. Then he meets fellow policeman Kay and during their regular jogs Marc experiences a never-before-felt sense of ease and effortlessness – and what it means to fall in love with another man.

Free Fall

2013

We Are the Night poster
6.0

One night, 18 year old Lena is bitten by Louise, leader of a female vampire trio that are as deadly as they are beautiful. Her newfound vampiric lifestyle is a blessing and a curse at the same time. At first, she enjoys the limitless freedom, the luxury, the parties. But soon the murderous blood lust of her comrades in arms proves too much for her, and she falls dangerously in love with Tom, a young undercover cop.

We Are the Night

2010

Warsaw 44 poster
6.7

City of Warsaw, Poland, August 1st, 1944. Citizens have experienced inhuman acts of terror and violence during five long years of Nazi occupation. As the Soviet Army relentlessly approaches, the youngest and bravest among them rise up as one and face tyranny fighting street by street, but the price to pay will be high and hard the way to freedom…

Warsaw 44

2014

To Life! poster
5.2

Fate has taken its toll on the aging cabaret singer Ruth and the young but terminally ill Jonas. Yet despite their great age difference and their entirely opposite experiences in life, they form an intense bond and give each other a reason and purpose to live.

To Life!

2014

Sense8: Creating the World poster
7.7

Go behind the scenes and around the world with the "Sense8" cast and crew in this in-depth look at how the hit series is made.

Sense8: Creating the World

2015

Head Burst poster
6.6

Markus is a handsome and respectable architect who has a secret: he is a pedophile. Despite feeling disgust of himself, Markus can't help but feel attracted to young boys. When he thinks he won't be able to suppress his deepest feelings, he decides to isolate himself.

Head Burst

2019

The Fourth State poster
6.0

A journalist gets caught up in a terrorist plot in Moscow while investigating the Russian secret service.

The Fourth State

2012

The German Friend poster
5.4

It’s the late 1950s, and in an affluent and quietly respectable part of Buenos Aires, young Sulamit Löwenstein strikes up a friendship with her next-door neighbour Friedrich over the whereabouts of her family dog. She is the daughter of German-Jewish immigrants to Argentina, he is the son of a senior SS officer, a tragic political legacy from whose shadow both characters struggle to escape over the next three decades. Following the teenaged Friedrich to Germany, Sulamit finds him caught up in the radical politics of late-1960s student life; and she’s forced to make important decisions about her attitude to her homeland when Friedrich returns to Argentina to join the fight against the military junta.

The German Friend

2012

Urban Explorer poster
5.1

Anxious to explore the mysterious hidden world under metropolitan Berlin, an international group of four urban explorers hires a local guide, Kris, who leads them into the maze of escape tunnels and subterranean fortifications under the city. When their guide has a bad fall, two of the girls in the group frantically set off to seek help while Denis, the young American, stays behind. Armin, a former East German border guard suddenly appears from nowhere. Out of sheer desperation, Denis allows Armin to lead them and their unconscious guide to safety and it is at this moment that Denis realizes he has just made the biggest mistake of his life!

Urban Explorer

2011

My Mother's Girlfriend poster
3.7

Family is complicated, no question. But Jan finds it particularly hard: his lesbian mother Victoria asks him to become a sperm donor for the common desire child with partner Rosalie. Jan would be father and stepbrother in one. An absurd idea? Not if Jan is shot in that same Rosalie ...

My Mother's Girlfriend

2019

Icons of Light poster
5.0

Katharina and Steffen seem like the quintessential successful Berlin couple -- they have well-paying jobs, a loving relationship and a spectacular apartment. One night, fed up with the predictability of their lives, they decide on a radical change: They're going to extinguish all traces of their existence and start over. They set up a camera to film the process, hoping others will follow their lead. They begin to destroy their belongings, empty their bank accounts and erase the digital remnants of their lives. Even from their best friends, the couple Robert and Paul, they intend to hide their plan to disappear forever. As everything around them breaks into pieces, their film takes a turn of its own - and their secretive revolution becomes a fight for their love.

Icons of Light

2016

Sanctuary poster
7.2

Summer 1968. 14-year-old Wolfgang is deported from his family in the secluded Church Welfare Institution sanctuary. One thing is clear for Wolfgang: His yearning for freedom, he will not soon buried in the bog.

Sanctuary

2015

A Family of Three poster
5.0

When novelist Andrea Dewenter dies in a car accident, the lives of her husband Christian, grown-up son Lars, and adolescent daughter Elaine go off the rails. For all three, the few days between Andrea's sudden death and her funeral turn into an emotional roller coaster that eventually shows them the virtue of being a family.

A Family of Three

2012

Forgotten poster
5.9

During their childhood, Hanna and Clarissa were best friends. They spent every vacation together in an old summer house on a small island. Shortly after Hanna’s 9th birthday, they suddenly lost touch and only meet again unexpectedly 25 years later. Hanna is now married, has a seven-year-old daughter and is the chief resident physician at the hospital where she reunites with Clarissa. Her old friend has been brought to the hospital ER for overdosing on sleeping pills. The two women pick up their friendship where they left off and spontaneously decide to spend a few days on the island, just like in the old days. When Hanna learns that Maria, a playmate of hers from the island’s village, disappeared as a child and was never seen or heard from again, she begins to search in the past. Something horrible must have happened on the island and they must have been involved.

Forgotten

2012

Amnesia poster
5.5

A young composer moves from Berlin to the island of Ibiza and begins a friendship with an elderly woman whose painful past has caused her to reject everything to do with Germany, including her native language.

Amnesia

2015

Auslandseinsatz poster
5.7

Three young soldiers are called up to one of the most dangerous trouble spots in the world - Afghanistan. But it's not just the constant psychological pressure that gets to them, the different cultures and ways of life in the country also pose problems for the young and impetuous men. However, it is precisely the interpersonal aspect that moves them, and so they become friends with Malik Jamil (Omar El-Saeidi) and his children. Life and the situation at the post seem to relax as a result. But then there is a dramatic turn in the life of Malik's daughter, caused by the insurgent Taliban. And in times of battle, one fate affects the lives of others and the soldiers must painfully realize that war is never just.

Auslandseinsatz

2012

Partly Sunny poster
6.2

Two young guys in a bar hit on the woman they fancy by sending one of them over who tells her that the other one is terminally ill...

Partly Sunny

2012

Elly Beinhorn: Solo Flight poster
5.4

The story of Elly Beinhorn, the first German aviator ever to fly around the world which made her a national hero in the 1930s.

Elly Beinhorn: Solo Flight

2014

Playoff poster
4.5

In the 1980s, an Israeli refugee, deemed a traitor, coaches West Germany's basketball team.

Playoff

2011

Storno: Todsicher versichert poster
7.0

On his way to the provinces, young insurance agent Rupert crashes his car into a jam cart and picks up a real piglet. On top of that, he's given a good shaking by area manager Schulze, so the next day he takes his briefcase to the farms in the area. But the suspicious farmers wave him off. Only the farmer's wife Olivia shows any interest. She wants to take out an unexpectedly high life insurance policy for her sick father. Rupert is delighted, even though there might be a problem with the health check. Luckily, Rupert had made friends with the drunken family doctor Doctor Wedekind the night before. Surely he will be able to help? Olivia, however, isn't right, so the village policemen soon have their hands full. And so does the pretty waitress Lena...

Storno: Todsicher versichert

2015

Schandmal – Der Tote im Berg poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Schandmal – Der Tote im Berg

2011

Blutgeld poster
4.8

The film is based on a true story about HIV-contaminated blood products in Germany in the 1980s. The brothers Ralf, Stefan and Thomas are hemophiliacs and live in constant fear of injury. When a new type of coagulant comes onto the market, they seem to be able to lead a normal life. It soon becomes apparent that a disproportionate number of hemophiliacs are contracting HIV, but the Federal Health Office remains inactive. Stefan is the first to die, but he is only diagnosed with pneumonia. While Ralf does not want to accept this, his brother Thomas refuses to accept it, as he is afraid of his family being ostracized by society if his HIV disease becomes public. This leads to a bitter argument between the brothers.

Blutgeld

2013

2000s · 18 titles

Before the Fall poster
7.1

In 1942, Friedrich Weimer's boxing skills get him an appointment to a National Political Academy (NaPolA) – high schools that produce Nazi elite. Over his father's objections, Friedrich enrolls. During his year in seventh column, Friedrich encounters hazing, cruelty, death, and the Nazi code. His friendship with Albrecht, the ascetic son of the area's governor, is central to this education.

Before the Fall

2004

The Wave poster
7.5

A school teacher discusses types of government with his class. His students find it too boring to repeatedly go over national socialism and believe that dictatorship cannot be established in modern Germany. He starts an experiment to show how easily the masses can become manipulated.

The Wave

2008

Girls on Top poster
5.2

The adventures of three teenage girls - Inken, Vicky and Lena - and their quest to have their first orgasm.

Girls on Top

2001

Girls on Top 2 poster
4.8

Inken and Lucy are facing hard times when their parents' money is radically cut off. Together with Lena, who is fed up with her boyfriend, they desperately search for money, an apartment and love. But because each individual point is difficult to realize on its own, the girls decide to kill all three birds with one stone for the sake of simplicity. The solution: they need rich, nice boys with suitable living space - and they need them now! But until then, horrendous rents, false identities and sleazy neighbors put their friendship to the test.

Girls on Top 2

2004

Snipers Valley poster
4.6

Young Bundeswehr soldiers Tom and Charly are stationed in Kosovo with the KFOR peacekeeping force. Their mission is to secure peace. Although the brutal war between the enemy Serbs and Albanians is officially over, the hatred between people continues to smoulder. When Tom and Charly rescue the young Serbian Mirjana from the fatal shot of the young sniper Durcan, they get caught between all fronts. They lose their professional distance due to the resulting closeness to Mirjana - who has to learn that her father was a war criminal - but also to Durcan - whose entire family was wiped out. Soon they are entangled in a conflict about guilt, manipulation, love and revenge...

Snipers Valley

2007

The Red Cockatoo poster
5.5

A coming-of-age story set in Germany in the 1960s. Siggi becomes involved in a love triangle when he falls for Luise, but the tightening political climate forces him to make a fateful decision.

The Red Cockatoo

2006

13 Semester poster
6.3

When Momo leaves his small home town to go to university, he is full of enthusiasm and confidence, but slowly the pressures of study and campus living begin to grind him down. Half way through his course he finds himself at a crossroads with both his relationship and studies.

13 Semester

2009

Lottoschein ins Glück poster
5.4

"Bad luck in the game, luck in love": Astrid Seibel knows the saying, of course - but until now she did not know that the two seem to be linked. The mother of two children, who has just been left by her unfaithful husband, actually types six correct numbers in the lottery, but the receipt for the lottery ticket disappears. The lucky finder is her new chance acquaintance Felix, who at first has no idea whose winnings he is holding in his hands. When he finds out, it is already too late: Astrid already knows that he has kept the lottery win from her.

Lottoschein ins Glück

2003

Der Untergang der Pamir poster
7.5

The story of the German sail-training ship Pamir that sunk in a hurricane.

Der Untergang der Pamir

2006

Run for Your Life! poster
4.9

He lived the junkie's life as a heroin addict. Triathlon transformed him. Biopic of the record breaking Ironman Andreas Niedrig.

Run for Your Life!

2008

Bear on the Run poster
4.0

Thirteen-year-old Julia leaves Berlin, where she resides with her father, to spend vacation in the Czech Republic. While there she experiences first love, and also tries to help the local kids rescue a circus bear from a rich German hunter who's willing to pay for a bit of sport. If the parents get their way they'll use Mr. Big Game to finance the circus and even contribute to local pensions. The children and the bear head for the forest.

Bear on the Run

2000

No artwork available
3.5

From an early age, Arnold believes he is an extraterrestrial. Day in, day out, he is busy trying to build a flying machine that will finally take him "home". Protected by his mother Ida and her long-time admirer, the country doctor Emil, he is regarded as a quirky but lovable outsider in his home village.

Up! Up! To the sky

2008

GG 19 – Deutschland in 19 Artikeln poster
4.5

No synopsis available yet.

GG 19 – Deutschland in 19 Artikeln

2007

No artwork available
10.0

1945 outside Berlin. A German and a Russian soldier meet behind enemy lines. Both are deserters. Both are desperate to survive this war without getting killed or killing anyone themselves. And both don't understand a single word of the other ones language...

(Feinde)

2005

An die Grenze poster
4.8

19-year-old NVA soldier, Alex Karow, is sent to the West German-East German border in May 1974, shortly after Willy Brandt's resignation and during the World Cup. The army is dominated by brutal rituals, tolerated or used by the officers. Alex understands that the ideals of balance, democracy and human dignity are propaganda. The question of what happens when the other appears in the sights of the Kalashnikov occupies the soldiers day and night, interrupted almost exclusively by the games of the World Cup with the historic encounter between the GDR and the FRG. Alex draws strength from his love for Christine, a confident tractor driver who lives in the neighbouring village. Christine encourages him not to do what his father expects, but to follow his dream of becoming a photographer. But when her brother sends Alex's photo from the border fortifications to the West, everything gets out of control...

An die Grenze

2007

Thousand Oceans poster
7.0

Five friends spend their holidays on a faraway island in the sea. On the last day of the holidays, out of the blue, Björn informs his friends that he will not return home but intends to stay in this paradise forever. There is no sign of life from Björn after that. His best friend Meikel is very concerned about the mysterious disappearance - but nobody cares and no one helps him in his search for the lost friend.

Thousand Oceans

2008

No artwork available
9.0

Teenager Charlotte adores her cool father until she realizes that he is leading a double life.

Mein Vater und andere Betrüger

2001

Brennendes Schweigen poster
7.0

The petty dealer Ole was found murdered and burned. Siggi Baumeister, tabloid journalist in Berlin, senses an explosive story

Brennendes Schweigen

2000

Series credits

DAS! poster
4.7

Every evening at 6:45 p.m. sharp, a prominent guest takes a seat on the red sofa—and DAS! provides daily updates on what's hot in the north.

DAS!

1991

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

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

ZIBB

2003

Morgenmagazin poster
5.3

No synopsis available yet.

Morgenmagazin

1992

Kölner Treff poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

Kölner Treff

1976

In All Friendship poster
6.3

German soap opera about the staff of the fictional hospital "Sachsenklinik" in the city of Leipzig.

In All Friendship

1998

Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police poster
6.6

A long-running German television series about a two-man team of highway police, originally set in Berlin and later in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police

1996

Wolffs Revier poster
3.7

Wolffs Revier is a German television series.

Wolffs Revier

1992

Alphateam – Die Lebensretter im OP poster
6.0

Alphateam – Die Lebensretter im OP was a German hospital drama television series which aired on Sat.1 between 1996 and 2005. The series covered the work of a team of doctors, nurses and caregivers in the fictional Hamburg Hansa Clinic, located in the Altona district.

Alphateam – Die Lebensretter im OP

1997

No artwork available
NR

Annual awarding of the Grimme Awards.

Grimme Award

1964

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

Sense8 poster
7.7

One gunshot, one death, one moment out of time that irrevocably links eight minds in disparate parts of the world, putting them in each other's lives, each other's secrets, and in terrible danger. Ordinary people suddenly reborn as "Sensates."

Sense8

2015

Der Staatsanwalt poster
5.4

No synopsis available yet.

Der Staatsanwalt

2005

Der letzte Bulle poster
7.3

Der letzte Bulle is a German television series that was first aired in 2010. The series is about a cop from the 1980s put into a modern police department in Essen.

Der letzte Bulle

2010

Balko poster
6.2

Balko is a German prime time television series broadcast on the private TV channel RTL. It is a police detective story with comical twists featuring two inspectors of the Dortmund police, Balko and his colleague Klaus Krapp. Balko's main characteristics are his coolness and his consistently laid-back appearance, whereas “Krappi” is a typical mama’s boy and very clumsy. The series started in 1995 and has won several television awards.

Balko

1995

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Bavarian Film Awards

1979

Deutscher Fernsehpreis poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Deutscher Fernsehpreis

1999

World on Fire poster
7.5

The story of World War II told through the intertwining fates of ordinary people from all sides of this global conflict as they grapple with the effect of the war on their everyday lives.

World on Fire

2019

Bonn poster
7.7

Bonn depicts the rise of the young West Germany, a country struggling to break free from the terrors and legacies of World War II and longing for a 'normal' life. Into this heady and volatile mix steps Toni, a young woman determined to seize every opportunity, overcome every obstacle and make her own way in what is still a very male-dominated society. But what at first appears to be only an entry-level office job at one of the country's two competing secret services soon sucks her ever deeper into a clandestine world of secrets and suspicion. Based on true events.

Bonn

2023

In the Face of Crime poster
6.8

Im Angesicht des Verbrechens is a German television series about the Russian mafia in Berlin. It received high critical acclaim, but the viewer figures were disappointing. It was broadcast by ARTE and Das Erste.

In the Face of Crime

2010

Sleeping Dog poster
6.2

A former detective now living on the streets searches for the truth after a new death raises unnerving doubts about a supposedly settled murder case.

Sleeping Dog

2023

Zwei allein poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Zwei allein

1998

The Grim Ones poster
4.0

On a North Sea island, sinister doppelgängers threaten the inhabitants. As Soma tries to discover who she really is, her past becomes the key to the mystery.

The Grim Ones

2026

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Decent Man

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