Matthias Schweighöfer
Matthias Schweighöfer (German: [maˈtiːasˈʃvaɪkˌhøːfɐ]; born 11 March 1981) is a German actor and filmmaker known for his work in several German and American film productions. He is best known for his role as Lieutenant Franz Herber in the 2008 film Valkyrie. In 2021, Schweighöfer appeared as Ludwig Dieter in the Netflix film Army of the Dead, directed by Zack Snyder. He reprised his role in the prequel film, Army of Thieves, which he also directed.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 3.7506 |
| Birthday | 1981-03-11 |
| Place of Birth | Anklam, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, East Germany [now Germany] |
| Also Known As | ماتیاس شوایگهوفر, |
2007
Eight Miles High
6.2/44
Achim Bornhak's movie focuses on the restless life of Uschi Obermaier, the icon of the 1968 movement in Germany and groupie. At the age of 16, Uschi i...
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Eight Miles High
2008
Valkyrie
6.954/4056
Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to cre...
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Valkyrie
2023
Family Switch
6.386/774
When the Walker family members switch bodies with each other during a rare planetary alignment, their hilarious journey to find their way back to norm...
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Family Switch
2004
Off Beat
6.132/38
Traumatised paramedic looks for the woman of his dreams.
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Off Beat
2003
Die Klasse von '99 - Schule war gestern, Leben ist jetzt
6.556/9
The story of a group of contemporary young people, growing up in well-to-do small-town
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Die Klasse von '99 - Schule war gestern, Leben ist jetzt
2005
The Young Schiller
4.8/10
The young Friedrich Schiller begins his life as a poet with a dramatic escape. After the sensational success of his first drama "The Robbers", he dese...
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The Young Schiller
2000
3 Tage 44
7/1
Because the war is not for him, the young soldier Albert deserts. He wants to wait out the end of World War II on his parents' farm in East Prussia. H...
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3 Tage 44
2007
Rabbit Without Ears
6.1/401
Rainbow press reporter Ludo is sentenced to 8 months, but is released on probation. But he has to work 300 hours for a local daycare center and meets...
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Rabbit Without Ears
2008
The Red Baron
6.604/275
Richthofen goes off to war like thousands of other men. As fighter pilots, they become cult heroes for the soldiers on the battlefields. Marked by spo...
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The Red Baron
2003
Soloalbum
5.563/48
Ben is a young editor for a famous german music magazine in the mid 90's. His life is falling apart after his girlfriend breaks up with him. From now...
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Soloalbum
2010
Friendship!
6.257/136
A young man from East Germany travels to San Francisco to search for his father, who fled 12 years ago. Together with his best friend, he starts the j...
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Friendship!
2005
Combat 16
6.227/11
16 year-old Georg is forced to leave his home in the West, which means saying goodbye to his two loves; his girlfriend, and his Taekwondo team, someth...
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Combat 16
2002
Nachts im Park
7.667/3
After the sudden death of his wife, heart surgeon Dr. Steffen Hennings becomes increasingly withdrawn. He works a lot, but he doesn't sleep. A horrifi...
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Nachts im Park
2008
The Architect
5.2/15
Accepting a prize, architect Georg Winter explains that an architect has the good fortune of measuring every completed building against the rightness...
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The Architect
2004
Baal
5.682/11
Baal, a young artist whom society regards as a genius, does not want to be monopolized by the culture and business.
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Baal
2006
Der blaue Affe
4.5/2
A short movie about people trying to forget about their everyday life in the Weimarer Republik. But it was not an ordinary day, it was the dark friday...
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Der blaue Affe
2009
12 Paces without a Head
5.9/19
The era of the feared sea pirates Klaus Störtebeker and Gödeke Michels is coming to an end. After a long period with no booty at last a bulging ship a...
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12 Paces without a Head
2005
Polly Blue Eyes
6.5/7
Polly, a 20-year-old released from juvenile detention, wants to lead an honest life away from her petty criminal family. She takes a job at a fast foo...
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Polly Blue Eyes
2011
Woman in Love
5.9/108
An actor's career takes a "Tootsie"-like turn when he lets himself be cast as a woman in a movie.
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Woman in Love
2009
Marcel Reich-Ranicki - Mein Leben
6.1/13
The film tells the early life story of Marcel Reich-Ranicki, who was born in Wloclawek, Poland in 1920. During the Third Reich, the family was in grea...
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Marcel Reich-Ranicki - Mein Leben
2010
3nity
5.694/18
Hage, the Holy Spirit, is writing a musical, when Jesus returns to earth at Christmas to prepare the apocalypse. To prevent this, Hage tries to convin...
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3nity
2011
What a Man
5.3/130
What a man is a comedy that tells the story of a young professor, Alex (Matthias Schweighofer), who after being left by his girlfriend Caroline (Mavie...
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What a Man
2001
Heart Over Head
6.5/16
Jakob, an 18-year-old boy, comes back to Frankfurt after he left after his mothers death one year ago. While trying to sort his life he meets a Polish...
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Heart Over Head
2002
Friends of Friends
5.8/15
Dominik Graf relocates the story of the same name by Henry James from the 19th century to the year 2001.
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Friends of Friends
2007
Fata Morgana
6.3/3
A spontaneous trip by jeep into the Moroccan desert turns into a nightmare for the young couple, Daniel and Laura: lost in the middle of nowhere. A my...
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Fata Morgana
2023
Heart of Stone
6.725/1890
An intelligence operative for a shadowy global peacekeeping agency races to stop a hacker from stealing its most valuable — and dangerous — weapon.
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Heart of Stone
2012
Russendisko
5.4/64
Three young Russian friends, who move from Moscow to Berlin in a lucky wave of emigration right after the fall of the Berlin wall. They take their cha...
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Russendisko
2013
Break Up Man
5.91/150
BREAK UP MAN is an odd couple road movie and tells the story of Henri, who works for a break up agency in Berlin and on behalf of those who want to se...
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Break Up Man
2013
Kokowääh 2
5.987/198
Who said a patchwork family is without problems? Two years after the turbulence of Kokowääh, everyday life turns to everyday chaos…
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Kokowääh 2
2000
Verbotenes Verlangen - Ich liebe meinen Schüler
5.125/8
(Television) melodrama about an established, happily married teacher who falls in love with one of her pupils and becomes pregnant by him.
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Verbotenes Verlangen - Ich liebe meinen Schüler
2007
An Old Maid
6.5/14
Henriette lives alone in a luxurious old apartment in Wiesbaden, which she inherited from her parents. Her everyday life is as quiet and orderly as th...
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An Old Maid
2013
Rabbit Without Ears and Two-Eared Chick
5.477/22
The no-ear bunny can do everything just as well as the other bunnies. But because he has no ears, nobody wants to play with him. When one day an egg i...
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Rabbit Without Ears and Two-Eared Chick
2014
Joy of Fatherhood
6.1/136
A sperm donor becomes impotent - and so he searches for the woman, who got his sperm, to become a father after all...
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Joy of Fatherhood
2013
Frau Ella
6.5/75
A young man goes on a road trip with an old lady he saves from a hospital.
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Frau Ella
2000
Kiss Me, Frog
6.2/5
Modern version of The Frog King. Out of an impulse, 15-year-old Anna kisses a frog which then turns into a prince. But the curse is not solved that ea...
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Kiss Me, Frog
2014
Male Mistakes
6/38
Daniel and Thomas are two friends who are trying to catch girls in various therapy groups.
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Male Mistakes
2009
Rabbit Without Ears 2
5.7/274
Two years have passed. There is a normal life, but handsome Ludo meets his old love, and Anna is very jealous...
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Rabbit Without Ears 2
2004
Cold Spring
4.4/5
A rebellious young woman is thrown out by her wealthy, but marbly parents and gets into a nightmare of poverty, prostitution and sickness.
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Cold Spring
2023
Oppenheimer
8.032/11656
The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.
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Oppenheimer
2015
The Manny
6.31/137
Young industrialist Clemens Klina doesn't have time for his children and accidentally hires a man who actually came to him, seeking revenge, as a nann...
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The Manny
2002
Ballett ist ausgefallen
9/1
The 10-year-old Elisa skips her dull ballet lessons to visit ice-cream parlor Dolomiti where teenage Holger, the object of her infatuation, works. Her...
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Ballett ist ausgefallen
2014
Bibi & Tina: Bewildered and Bewitched
6.2/65
When robbers hit Falkenstein castle, teen witch Bibi and pal Tina hunt for the crooks, then devise a plan to save the neighbors' failing ranch.
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Bibi & Tina: Bewildered and Bewitched
2009
Night Train
5.6/179
Two Passengers and the conductor discover that a person has passed away on their Night Train cabin. They come across valuable diamonds on his person,...
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Night Train
2023
Girl You Know It's True
7.333/123
The rise and fall of Milli Vanilli, a studio group assembled by German producer Frank Farian and fronted by nightclub dancers Robert Pilatus and Fabri...
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Girl You Know It's True
2016
Four Against the Bank
5.9/178
After losing their respective nest eggs thanks to a bumbling bank employee, three men use him to plot a bold and batty heist to get their money back.
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Four Against the Bank
1998
Spuk aus der Gruft
8/3
The young Friedrich Freiherr von Kuhlbanz died almost 300 years ago, but he is cursed beyond death. "I will not rot in my grave if I have committed th...
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Spuk aus der Gruft
2025
Amrum
7.098/56
On Amrum Island in spring 1945, twelve-year-old Nanning hunts seals, fishes at night, and works the fields to help feed his family. When the war ends,...
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Amrum
2001
Babykram ist Männersache
5/5
Arne and his younger brother Malte run the scrapyard they inherited from their parents on the outskirts of Hamburg and live a rather disoriented exist...
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Babykram ist Männersache
2016
The Most Beautiful Day
7.024/273
The overambitious pianist Andi and the more laid back Benno have one thing in common: They will both die soon. So the two of them decide to have the m...
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The Most Beautiful Day
2016
Robinson Crusoe
5.816/358
On a tiny exotic island, Tuesday, an outgoing parrot lives with his quirky animal friends in paradise. However, Tuesday can't stop dreaming about disc...
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Robinson Crusoe
Bike Me Up
0/0
Six filmmakers take part in this anthology film which cross six European cities, celebrating the locations’ relationships with cycling.
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Bike Me Up
2003
Hamlet_X
4.8/5
A great mosaic, a labyrinth of scenes, dialogue splinters, interviews, portraits of people surrounding Hamlet and wanting to be part of his story.
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Hamlet_X
2005
Happy End
9/1
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Happy End
2025
The Life of Wishes
5.7/5
Felix is at an impasse in his family life and his job. His wife Bianca wants a separation, his children are moving away from him and his hair is falli...
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The Life of Wishes
2018
Hot Dog
5.6/125
A pair of Tactical Units Police Officers from different walks of life come together to rescue an ambassador's daughter.
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Hot Dog
2012
Tim Sander goes to Hollywood
0/0
In a brief moment of exuberance, Berlin actor Tim Sander bets his much more successful buddy Matthias Schweighöfer that he can land a role in a Hollyw...
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Tim Sander goes to Hollywood
2011
Hut in the Woods
7/26
Two misfit males, one man-child, one boy, find each other, building a small cabin in the woods to create a new life. Their daily struggle for survival...
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Hut in the Woods
2002
FearDotCom
3.794/407
When four bodies are discovered among the industrial decay and urban grime of New York City, brash young detective Mike Reilly teams with ambitious De...
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FearDotCom
2017
Bullyparade: The Movie
5.286/224
A multi-episode movie based on the skit TV show "bullyparade".
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Bullyparade: The Movie
2018
Kursk
6.635/699
Barents Sea, August 12th, 2000. During a Russian naval exercise, and after suffering a serious accident, the K-141 Kursk submarine sinks with 118 crew...
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Kursk
2017
Die Helene Fischer Show 2017
0/0
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Die Helene Fischer Show 2017
2018
Vielmachglas
5.9/51
Marleen is in her early 20s, works in a movie theater, still lives at home and is somehow aimless. Her parents torment her with questions about her fu...
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Vielmachglas
2001
Vorspiel mit Nachspiel
8/2
A homosexual couple in Berlin, one of whom has a fervent desire to adopt, discovers that the other already has a son. They are able to track him down...
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Vorspiel mit Nachspiel
1998
Ein Mann fällt nicht vom Himmel
3.667/3
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Ein Mann fällt nicht vom Himmel
2018
100 Things
6.563/315
Best friends Toni and Paul decide to relinquish all of their belongings for 100 days, whereby they receive one of their items back on each day. During...
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100 Things
2000
Friends
5.75/4
Nils, Tayfun and Caro were best friends as children. When love came along later, the friendship fell apart. Nils became a policeman and unexpectedly m...
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Friends
1997
Changing Skins
5.773/11
Inspired by West German terrorists, two pupils kidnap a teacher in East Germany.
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Changing Skins
2009
Must Love Death
3.9/8
Disappointed by love, suicidal Norman arranges to meet some like-minded people. But when he arrives at the meeting the alleged suicides turn out to be...
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Must Love Death
2006
Lulu
4/5
Everyone is addicted to Lulu. As a symbol of the seductress, she drags everyone around her into the abyss: the elderly Dr. Goll, the mediocre painter...
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Lulu
2020
Resistance
6.946/470
The story of mime Marcel Marceau as he works with a group of Jewish boy scouts and the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans dur...
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Resistance
2021
Army of the Dead
6.206/4379
Following a zombie outbreak in Las Vegas, a group of mercenaries take the ultimate gamble: venturing into the quarantine zone to pull off the greatest...
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Army of the Dead
2021
Army of Thieves
6.803/2262
A mysterious woman recruits bank teller Ludwig Dieter to lead a group of aspiring thieves on a top-secret heist during the early stages of the zombie...
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Army of Thieves
2022
The Swimmers
7.4/637
From war-torn Syria to the 2016 Rio Olympics, two young sisters embark on a risky voyage, putting their hearts and their swimming skills to heroic use...
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The Swimmers
2021
Creating an Army of the Dead
6/22
Zack Snyder and his Army of the Dead team dive into the film's wild stunts, groundbreaking effects and the evolution of the zombie genre.
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Creating an Army of the Dead
2021
Hinterland
6.282/85
Vienna, 1920. The Austro-Hungarian Empire has collapsed. Peter Perg returns home from the Great War, after years of captivity. But the Vienna he comes...
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Hinterland
2025
Brick
5.789/714
When a mysterious brick wall encloses their apartment building overnight, Tim and Olivia must unite with their wary neighbors to get out alive.
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Brick
Play Dead
0/0
After a deadly ambush wipes out his unit in the final days of World War II, a shell-shocked Allied soldier must survive the night by pretending to be...
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Play Dead
2025
Elio
6.917/950
Elio, a space fanatic with an active imagination, finds himself on a cosmic misadventure where he must form new bonds with eccentric alien lifeforms,...
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Elio
Mister
0/0
A man wakes up in a strange house covered in blood and comes to realize his true identity while fighting off contract killers from his past—including...
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