Director Baran bo Odar (1978)

Dark (2017–2020), a German science fiction thriller created by Baran bo Odar, follows the mysterious disappearances of children in the town of Winden. As the story unfolds, we learn about the broken relationships, hidden identities, and unsettling pasts of four families intertwined in this small community. The show explores these themes across multiple generations, with its time-traveling plot taking us back to 1986 and 1953. When members of the central families discover a wormhole beneath the local nuclear power plant, they are forced to confront long-buried secrets. Through revelations about the Kahnwald, Nielsen, ...

The American action thriller film Sleepless (2017), directed by Baran bo Odar and written by Andrea Berloff, is a remake of the French film Sleepless Night in 2011. Two masked men are seen chasing after a van, causing it to crash. The men turn out to be cops – Vincent Downs and Sean Cass (T.I.). As they fight off their attackers and kill one of them, more thugs arrive with guns. In the midst of the chaos, Vincent and Sean manage to steal a duffel bag containing 25 kilograms of cocaine. Vincent has been an Internal Affairs officer for two years and has been ...

Who Am I (2014) is a German techno-thriller film co-written and directed by Baran bo Odar. Benjamin Engel, a hacker from Berlin, is in an interrogation room, requested specifically by the officer in charge to speak with Hanne Lindberg, Head of the Cyber Division of Europol. He claims to have valuable information on FR13NDS (/frɛndz/), a notorious hacking group connected to the Russian cyber mafia, and MRX, an infamous hacker on Darknet. In exchange for sharing this information, Benjamin asks Hanne to listen to him. Reluctantly, she agrees and takes a seat. Benjamin goes on to describe himself as a superhero with no ...

The Silence (2010) is a German thriller film directed by Baran bo Odar, adapted from the novel of the same name by Jan Costin Wagner. In summer 1986, Pia, an 11-year-old schoolgirl, was killed in a wheat field near a small provincial German town. One man carried out the murder while another watched silently from his passenger seat. The victim’s body was then placed in the trunk of a red car while her bicycle was left behind. Fast forward to 2009, when 13-year-old Sinikka Weghamm disappears from the local fair and her bicycle is found in the same location as ...