Armin Mueller-Stahl Archives

Kafka (1991)

Rating: ★★½

Jun 7, 2002Fictionalised Author Biopic/Mad Scientists

Steven Soderbergh's second film was this flop pseudo-biopic that places Franz Kafka (Jeremy Irons) alongside mad scientist elements and German Expressionist homages but fails to find much of Kafka's paranoid mood

Director: Steven Soderbergh

Actors: Jeremy Irons, Ian Holm, Theresa Russell, Alec Guinness, …

Category: Science Fiction

7 June 20028 December 2020 by Roog

The House of the Spirits (1993)

Rating: ★★

Apr 18, 2001Latin American Family Saga/Magical Realism

A star-studded but ponderous adaptation of Isabel Allende's cross-generational family saga set in an unnamed South American republic that comes with Magical Realist elements

Director: Bille August

Actors: Jeremy Irons, Meryl Streep, Winona Ryder, Antonio Banderas, …

Category: Fantasy

18 April 200112 April 2026 by Roog

Taxandria (1994)

Rating: ★★★½

Sep 11, 2000Fabulism/Surreal Fantasy Dystopia

Extraordinary Belgian fabulist film, part-animated, part live-action, that takes place in a surreal alternate world

Director: Raoul Servais

Actors: Elliott Spiers, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Andrew Sachs

Category: Fantasy

11 September 20008 April 2025 by Roog

Theodore Rex (1995)

Rating: ½

May 24, 2010Cop and Dinosaur Partner

Disastrous flop that tries to do a Lethal Weapon buddy cop film by way of Jurassic Park and gives us a film about a cop with a dinosaur partner!

Director: Jonathan Betuel

Actors: Whoopi Goldberg, Armin Mueller-Stahl, George Newbern, Juliet Landau, …

Category: Science Fiction

24 May 20104 November 2020 by Roog

The Game (1997)

Rating: ★★

Nov 18, 2007Reality Games

David Fincher film in which Michael Douglas is wound into a conspiracy that makes him doubt everything around him. Fincher creates paranoia but the story eventually becomes an improbably contrived house of cards

Director: David Fincher

Actors: Michael Douglas, Deborah Kara Unger, Sean Penn, James Rebhorn, …

Category: Fantasy

18 November 20072 March 2026 by Roog

The X Files (1998)

Rating: ★★

Mar 29, 1999The X Files Film Spinoff/Alien Invasion Conspiracy

Film spinoff from tv's hit ultra-paranoid alien conspiracy drama. The film is caught in the unenviable position of trying to give fans what they want and reiterate the basics of the series for new audiences, while giving away no plot details in advance, and as a result ended up pleasing nobody

Director: Rob Bowman

Actors: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Martin Landau, John Neville, …

Category: Science Fiction

29 March 199913 June 2025 by Roog

The Third Miracle (1999)

Rating: ★★★★

Nov 4, 1999Catholic Sainthood and Miracles

Agnieszka Holland film with Ed Harris as a Catholic priest who has lost his faith who is asked defend the authenticity of a supposed miracle

Director: Agnieszka Holland

Actors: Ed Harris, Anne Heche, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Michael Rispoli, …

Category: Fantasy

4 November 199922 November 2020 by Roog

The Thirteenth Floor (1999)

Rating: ★★

Jun 16, 1999Virtual Reality

A Roland Emmerich produced Virtual Reality film that toys with some ideas that almost make it a great SF film before cliches and a bad twist ending take over

Director: Josef Rusnak

Actors: Craig Bierko, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Gretchen Mol, Vincent D'Onofrio, …

Category: Science Fiction

16 June 19995 July 2026 by Roog

Mission to Mars (2000)

Rating: ★★★½

Mar 10, 2000Mars Landing/Alien Artefact

Brian De Palma makes a surprisingly good hard science film about a rescue mission send to save the first manned Mars expedition and their encountering alien artifacts on the planet

Director: Brian De Palma

Actors: Gary Sinise, Tim Robbins, Don Cheadle, Connie Nielsen, …

Category: Science Fiction

10 March 20003 February 2026 by Roog

Angels & Demons (2009)

Rating: ★

May 19, 2009The Da Vinci Code Sequel

Ron Howard and Tom Hanks follow up their adaptation of The Da Vinci Code by turning to an earlier Dan Brown novel concerning conspiratorial goings-on in The Vatican but the show collapses amid absurdly contrived plotting

Director: Ron Howard

Actors: Tom Hanks, Ewan McGregor, Ayelet Zurer, Stellan Skarsgård, …

Category: Science Fiction

19 May 200918 November 2025 by Roog