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Oliver Masucci

Oliver Masucci

Actor, also producer · Born December 6, 1968 (57) · Stuttgart, Germany

Oliver Masucci (born December 6, 1968) is a German actor. He gained international recognition for his portrayal of Adolf Hitler in the satirical film Look Who's Back (2015) and as Ulrich Nielsen in the Netflix series Dark (2017–2020). Other more recent film roles include Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022), Day Shift (2022) and The Palace (2023). Masucci's performance as Rainer Werner Fassbinder in Enfant Terrible (2020) earned him the 2021 German Film Award (Lola) for Best Leading Actor. He also starred as Dr. Josef Bartok in the 2021 film adaptation of Stefan Zweig’s Schachnovelle, Chess Story, a performance that earned him the Bavarian Film Award for Best Actor.

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Biography from TMDB.

Born
December 6, 1968 (57)
From
Stuttgart, Germany
Works as
Actor, also producer
Titles
27 on MovieCove · 54 credits in all
Links
IMDb (opens in a new tab)TMDB (opens in a new tab)Wikidata (opens in a new tab)

Known for

TMDB popularity, last 155 days to Oct 26Down 5% in 30 days

What are Oliver Masucci's films like?

Across their 20 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Bonds and Power.

Genres

Biography4 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 81st percentile, at or above their average across these genres
: browse their Biography movies
Adventure2 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 33rd percentile
: browse their Adventure movies
Comedy2 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 53rd percentile
: browse their Comedy movies
Drama2 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 62nd percentile, at or above their average across these genres
: browse their Drama movies

Their MovieCove films by primary genre. The badge is the typical Midcredits score of the genre's films, the median percentile; an up arrow marks a genre at or above their average across these genres.

Themes

share of theme weight
Bonds
22%
Power
19%
Survival
17%
Self
14%
Morality
10%
Society
10%
Ideas
7%
Family bonds7 titles, browse their movies with this themeTrauma3 titles, browse their movies with this themeJustice5 titles, browse their movies with this themeCorruption3 titles, browse their movies with this themeSurvival3 titles, browse their movies with this themeFriendship3 titles, browse their movies with this themeAmbition2 titles, browse their movies with this themeFreedom3 titles, browse their movies with this theme

What they feel like to watch

their average across 13 films
ToneFeelDemandtheir average · filled zone: the category
Stylized: How far its world departs from everyday reality. Browse their stylized movies.
Tone · Style
naturalisticheightened

Grounded 4 · Stylized 6 · Heightened 3

Charged: How hard the emotional peaks hit while you watch. Browse their charged movies.
Feel · Intensity
gentleintense

Gentle 1 · Charged 10 · Intense 2

Shifting: How much it swings between very different feelings. Browse their shifting movies.
Feel · Swings
steadyswings

Steady 5 · Shifting 7 · Whiplash 1

Some laughs: How much of the runtime is played for laughs. Browse their some laughs movies.
Feel · Humor
noneconstant

A split, not a type: Straight-faced 8 · Some laughs 3 · Funny 2

Even-paced: How fast it moves from scene to scene. Browse their even-paced movies.
Demand · Pace
slowrelentless

Slow burn 5 · Even-paced 8 · Relentless 0

Engaged: How much focus it asks of you — look away and lose the thread? Browse their engaged movies.
Demand · Attention
casualfull focus

Casual 4 · Engaged 8 · Full focus 1

Resolved: How much is left for you to interpret. Browse their resolved movies.
Demand · Resolution
resolvedambiguous

Resolved 10 · Open-ended 2 · Ambiguous 1

Roles they play

14 analyzed roles

Usually the Hero: 5 of 14 analyzed roles.

Hero
5 of 14
Shadow
5 of 14
Mentor
2 of 14
Trickster
1 of 14
Threshold guardian
1 of 14
Show the 14 roles

Moods and endings

endings are an aggregate; no title is named

Dominant moods · mentions across their titles

Tense
15
Dread
7
Melancholic
8
Contemplative
8
Hopeful
5
Other
10

How their films linger

Thought-provoking8 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteUnsettling9 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteHopeful7 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteHaunting5 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteBittersweet5 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteRousing3 titles, browse their movies with this aftertaste

How their films end · 2 with a twist

  • Happy1
  • Bittersweet12
  • Tragic1
  • Ambiguous5
  • Cyclical1

AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.

Where can I watch Oliver Masucci's films?

As of October 24, 2026, 18 of their 27 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Prime Video (5).

Also on these channels

Subscription and free streaming for Oliver Masucci's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.

Filmography

54 credits, 27 with a MovieCove page; 10 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.

  • Woodwalkers 3 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2028)

    as Andrew Milling

  • Adams Acht(2026)

    as Karl Adam

    Midcredits score: 80th percentile of all films

  • Woodwalkers 2(2026)

    as Andrew Milling

    Midcredits score: 33rd percentile of all films

  • Speed Train(2025)

    as Gray

    Midcredits score: 1st percentile of all films

  • King & Conqueror(2025)

    Show 7 episodes · as Baldwin of Flanders

    Midcredits score: 20th percentile of all shows

  • The German(2025)

    Show 8 episodes · Producer · as Uri

    Midcredits score: 79th percentile of all shows

  • Woodwalkers(2024)

    as Andrew Milling

    Midcredits score: 20th percentile of all films

  • Herrhausen: The Banker and the Bomb(2023)

    Show 4 episodes · as Alfred Herrhausen

    Midcredits score: 60th percentile of all shows

  • Bad Director (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2024)

    as Gregor Samsa

  • One Trillion Dollars (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2023)

    Show 6 episodes · as Malcolm McCaine

  • The Palace(2023)

    as Hansueli

    Midcredits score: 24th percentile of all films

  • The Swarm(2023)

    Show 8 episodes · as Jasper Alban

    Midcredits score: 14th percentile of all shows

  • German Crime Story: Gefesselt(2023)

    Show 6 episodes · as Raik Doormann

    Midcredits score: 68th percentile of all shows

  • Day Shift(2022)

    as Klaus

    Midcredits score: 46th percentile of all films

  • Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore(2022)

    as Anton Vogel

    Midcredits score: 46th percentile of all films

  • Chess Story(2021)

    as Dr. Josef Bartok

    Midcredits score: 77th percentile of all films

  • Tribes of Europa(2021)

    Show 6 episodes · as Moses

    Midcredits score: 41st percentile of all shows

  • Enfant Terrible(2020)

    as Rainer Werner Fassbinder

    Midcredits score: 32nd percentile of all films

  • When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit(2019)

    as Arthur Kemper

    Midcredits score: 81st percentile of all films

  • Ein Dorf wehrt sich (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)

    as Dr. Ernst Kaltenbrunner

  • Play (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)

    as Frank Reitwein

  • Lysis (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)

    as Father

  • Der Auftrag (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)

    as Mario Lobeck

  • Berlin Wall(2019)

    Show as Ilja Schneider

    Midcredits score: 38th percentile of all shows

  • Never Look Away(2018)

    as Antonius van Verten

    Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all films

  • Magnificent Times (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)

    as Claus Müller-Todt

  • Playmaker (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)

    as Dejan

  • Dark(2017)

    Show 17 episodes · as Ulrich Nielsen

    Midcredits score: 98th percentile of all shows

  • Deadly Leaks 2(2017)

    as Paul Holthaus

    Midcredits score: 42nd percentile of all films

  • 4 Blocks(2017)

    Show 19 episodes · as Hagen Kutscha

    Midcredits score: 85th percentile of all shows

  • Winnetou & Old Shatterhand(2016)

    as Ugly Joe

    Midcredits score: 47th percentile of all films

  • Deadly Leaks (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)

    as Paul Holthaus

  • Die vierte Gewalt (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)

    as Chefredakteur Weishaupt

  • The Girlfriend Experience(2016)

    Show 5 episodes · as Georges Verhoeven

    Midcredits score: 46th percentile of all shows

  • Mordkommission Berlin 1 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)

    as Viktor Parkov

  • Look Who's Back(2015)

    as Adolf Hitler

    Midcredits score: 81st percentile of all films

  • Shades of Guilt (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)

    Show 1 episode · as Richard

  • Was ihr wollt (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2011)

    as Antonio

  • Volcano(2009)

    as Gernot

    Midcredits score: 19th percentile of all films

  • Volcano (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2009)

    Show 2 episodes · as Gernot

  • Crocodile Alert (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2006)

    as Killiak

  • Blood of the Templars (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2004)

    Show 2 episodes · as Ares de Saintclair

  • SOKO Köln (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2003)

    Show 1 episode · as Daniel Rosi

  • Madrid (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2003)

    as Karl

  • The German Bronx (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1997)

    Show 1 episode · as Rolf

  • Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1996)

    Show 1 episode · as Fabio Brega

  • A.S. Gefahr ist sein Geschäft (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1995)

    Show 1 episode · as Axel Seewald

  • Im Namen des Gesetzes (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1994)

    Show 1 episode · as Richard Steiner

  • Die Wache (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1994)

    Show 1 episode · as Edgar Svensen · as Josef Kiel

  • Andy (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1992)

    as Andy

  • Police Call 110(1971)

    Show 1 episode · as Matthias Dell

    Midcredits score: 24th percentile of all shows

  • Tatort(1970)

    Show 1 episode · as Luan Berisha

    Midcredits score: 43rd percentile of all shows

  • Phantom of Belgrade (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

    Actor

  • Shelter Me (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

    as Jon Boylan

Career shape

Star power in the 99th percentile of 239,109 people with a billed film role, over a full career of 54 titles, 51 of them dated from 1970 to 2026; peak year 2022.

Biggest box office

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022)

$407M worldwide

Highest rated

Dark (2017)

Midcredits 98th

Film career

19702026

Peak 2022 · at the high point of their film career. Top draw in 7 MovieCove titles. Film roles by billing, audience size and rating; 25+ votes. A show carries a single first-air date, so shows are not on the curve.

  • 2015Screen debut· Look Who's Back
  • 2015First top-billed film· Look Who's Back

By role

only this rolewith another role
Acting54 of 54: 54 only acting, 0 with another role · typical Midcredits score46th

By decade

1970s2 · acting1990s6 · acting2000s6 · acting2010s20 · acting2020s17 · acting

Billing

usually 2nd · top billed in 45% of 11 roles
1520

Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored. Billing is TMDB cast order for roles with 25+ votes, billed in the top 30; the columns are the share of top-billed roles in each era, 5-year spans from the year on the label, merged until each holds at least 5 roles.

How do Oliver Masucci's films land?

Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 46th percentile, the median of all 15; across their 13 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 46th percentile for acclaim.

Acclaim · how much people like their films

46thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 13

Approval · how many liked their films

45thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 13

Reach · how many have seen their films

81stpercentile
Typical film, the median of 13

Midcredits score across 27 titles, by percentile

  • 75th and up8
  • 50th to 74th2
  • 25th to 49th10
  • Below 25th7

Shape of the crowd

15 of their 27 titles are Mixed.

  • Universally Loved3
  • Cult Classic1
  • Crowd Pleaser7
  • Broadly Agreed1
  • Mixed15

Most divisive · actor

Enfant Terrible (2020)

78th percentile spread · 37% rated it 4 or lower

Most loved · actor

Dark (2017)

Midcredits 98th · 93% liked

Reviewers score the acting 66/100 in their films, across 10 reviewed titles; fans 78, detractors 37. The element that speaks to their work as an actor.

Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.

Is Oliver Masucci's work okay for kids?

Across up to 6 MovieCove titles with content scores, sex & nudity, profanity and frightening / intense run heavier than most films.

Their medianMedian of all filmsMiddle 80% of their titles
Violence & Gore5 titles46–71 · median 51 · moderatenear the median of all filmsMedian of all films: 44
Sex & Nudity6 titles22–75 · median 47 · moderateheavier than most filmsMedian of all films: 32
Profanity5 titles14–56 · median 46 · moderateheavier than most filmsMedian of all films: 36
Alcohol & Drugs5 titles10–38 · median 35 · mildnear the median of all filmsMedian of all films: 33
Frightening / Intense5 titles40–62 · median 54 · moderateheavier than most filmsMedian of all films: 39

Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted. The band's colour is the severity of their median, named beside it.

Who does Oliver Masucci work with?

People who share at least 2 of Oliver Masucci's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Max Wiedemann shares the most, 4.

Directors

Writers

Actors

Composers and editors

Producers

Mixed roles