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Max Richter

Born March 22, 1966 · Hamelin, Lower Saxony, West Germany [now Germany] (age 60)

Max Richter (/ˈrɪxtər/; German: [ˈʁɪçtɐ]; born 22 March 1966) is a German-born British composer and pianist. He works within postminimalist and contemporary classical styles. Richter is classically trained, having graduated in composition from the University of Edinburgh and the Royal Academy of Music in London, and studied with Luciano Berio in Italy. Richter arranges, performs, and composes mus…

Known For

Hamnet

MovieDramaRomance

The powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare's timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.

Miss Sloane

Miss Sloane · 2016

MovieThrillerDrama

An ambitious lobbyist faces off against the powerful gun lobby in an attempt to pass gun control legislation.

Mary Queen of Scots

Mary Queen of Scots · 2018

Mary Queen of Scots

MovieDramaHistory

In 1561, Mary Stuart, widow of the King of France, returns to Scotland, reclaims her rightful throne and menaces the future of Queen Elizabeth I as ruler of England, because she has a legitimate claim to the English throne. Betrayals, rebellions, conspiracies and their own life choices imperil both Queens. They experience the bitter cost of power, until their tragic fate is finally fulfilled.

Never Look Away

Never Look Away · 2018

Never Look Away

MovieDramaRomance

German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR regime.

Spaceman

Spaceman · 2024

MovieScience FictionAdventure

Six months into a solo mission, a lonely astronaut confronts the cracks in his marriage with help from a mysterious creature he discovers on his ship.

Ad Astra

Ad Astra · 2019

MovieScience FictionDrama

The near future, a time when both hope and hardships drive humanity to look to the stars and beyond. While a mysterious phenomenon menaces to destroy life on planet Earth, astronaut Roy McBride undertakes a mission across the immensity of space and its many perils to uncover the truth about a lost expedition that decades before boldly faced emptiness and silence in search of the unknown.

Hostiles

Hostiles · 2017

MovieDramaWestern

A legendary Native American-hating Army captain nearing retirement in 1892 is given one last assignment: to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory back to his Montana reservation.

Perfect Sense

Perfect Sense · 2011

MovieDramaScience Fiction

In Glasgow, Scotland, while a mysterious pandemic begins to spread around the world, Susan, a brilliant epidemiologist, falls in love with Michael, a skillful cook.

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Hamnet

MovieDramaRomance

The powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare's timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.

Original Music Composer

Miss Sloane

Miss Sloane · 2016

MovieThrillerDrama

An ambitious lobbyist faces off against the powerful gun lobby in an attempt to pass gun control legislation.

Original Music Composer

Mary Queen of Scots

Mary Queen of Scots · 2018

Mary Queen of Scots

MovieDramaHistory

In 1561, Mary Stuart, widow of the King of France, returns to Scotland, reclaims her rightful throne and menaces the future of Queen Elizabeth I as ruler of England, because she has a legitimate claim to the English throne. Betrayals, rebellions, conspiracies and their own life choices imperil both Queens. They experience the bitter cost of power, until their tragic fate is finally fulfilled.

Orchestrator

Never Look Away

Never Look Away · 2018

Never Look Away

MovieDramaRomance

German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR regime.

Original Music Composer

Spaceman

Spaceman · 2024

MovieScience FictionAdventure

Six months into a solo mission, a lonely astronaut confronts the cracks in his marriage with help from a mysterious creature he discovers on his ship.

Original Music Composer

Ad Astra

Ad Astra · 2019

MovieScience FictionDrama

The near future, a time when both hope and hardships drive humanity to look to the stars and beyond. While a mysterious phenomenon menaces to destroy life on planet Earth, astronaut Roy McBride undertakes a mission across the immensity of space and its many perils to uncover the truth about a lost expedition that decades before boldly faced emptiness and silence in search of the unknown.

Original Music Composer

Hostiles

Hostiles · 2017

MovieDramaWestern

A legendary Native American-hating Army captain nearing retirement in 1892 is given one last assignment: to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory back to his Montana reservation.

Original Music Composer

Perfect Sense

Perfect Sense · 2011

MovieDramaScience Fiction

In Glasgow, Scotland, while a mysterious pandemic begins to spread around the world, Susan, a brilliant epidemiologist, falls in love with Michael, a skillful cook.

Original Music Composer

White Boy Rick

White Boy Rick · 2018

MovieCrimeDrama

The story of Richard Wershe Jr., a teenager who became an undercover informant for the police during the 1980s, and was ultimately arrested for drug trafficking and sentenced to life in prison.

Original Music Composer

Into the Forest

Into the Forest · 2016

Into the Forest

MovieDramaScience Fiction

In the not too distant future, two young women who live in a remote ancient forest discover the world around them is on the brink of an apocalypse. Informed only by rumor, they fight intruders, disease, loneliness & starvation.

Original Music Composer

Disconnect

Disconnect · 2013

MovieDramaThriller

A hard-working lawyer, attached to his cell phone, can't find the time to communicate with his family. An estranged couple uses the internet as a means to escape from their lifeless marriage. A widowed ex-cop struggles to raise a mischievous son who cyber-bullies a classmate. An ambitious journalist sees a career-making story in a teen that performs on an adult-only site. They are strangers, neighbors and colleagues and their stories collide as ordinary people struggling to connect in today's wired world.

Original Music Composer

The Lunchbox

The Lunchbox · 2013

MovieDramaRomance

A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system (Mumbai's Dabbawallahs) connects a young housewife to a stranger in the dusk of his life. They build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox. Gradually, this fantasy threatens to overwhelm their reality.

Original Music Composer

Escobar: Paradise Lost

Escobar: Paradise Lost · 2014

Escobar: Paradise Lost

MovieThrillerRomance

For Pablo Escobar family is everything. When young surfer Nick falls for Escobar's niece, Maria, he finds his life on the line when he's pulled into the dangerous world of the family business.

Original Music Composer

Morgan

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

A corporate risk-management consultant must determine whether or not to terminate an artificial being's life that was made in a laboratory environment.

Original Music Composer

Sarah's Key

Sarah's Key · 2010

On the night of 16 July 1942, ten year old Sarah and her parents are being arrested and transported to the Velodrome d'Hiver in Paris where thousands of other jews are being sent to get deported. Sarah however managed to lock her little brother in a closet just before the police entered their apartment. Sixty years later, Julia Jarmond, an American journalist in Paris, gets the assignment to write an article about this raid, a black page in the history of France. She starts digging archives and through Sarah's file discovers a well kept secret about her own in-laws.

Original Music Composer

Testament of Youth

Testament of Youth · 2015

Testament of Youth

MovieHistoryDrama

Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman’s point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and dreams to the edge of despair and back again, it’s a film about young love, the futility of war and how to make sense of the darkest times.

Original Music Composer

The Congress

The Congress · 2013

MovieDramaScience Fiction

An aging, out-of-work actress accepts one last job, though the consequences of her decision affect her in ways she didn't consider.

Original Music Composer

The Sense of an Ending

The Sense of an Ending · 2017

The Sense of an Ending

MovieMysteryDrama

A man becomes haunted by his past and is presented with a mysterious legacy that causes him to re-think his current situation in life.

Original Music Composer

The Last Days on Mars

The Last Days on Mars · 2013

The Last Days on Mars

MovieScience FictionThriller

On the last day of the first manned mission to Mars, a crew member of Tantalus Base believes he has made an astounding discovery – fossilized evidence of bacterial life. Unwilling to let the relief crew claim all the glory, he disobeys orders to pack up and goes out on an unauthorized expedition to collect further samples. But a routine excavation turns to disaster when the porous ground collapses and he falls into a deep crevice. His devastated colleagues attempt to recover his body. However, when another vanishes, they start to suspect that the life-form they have discovered is not without danger.

Original Music Composer

Womb

MovieRomanceScience Fiction

A woman's consuming love forces her to bear the clone of her dead beloved. From his infancy to manhood, she faces the unavoidable complexities of her controversial decision.

Original Music Composer

Wadjda

An enterprising Saudi girl signs on for her school's Quran recitation competition as a way to raise the remaining funds she needs in order to buy the green bicycle that has captured her interest.

Original Music Composer

Waltz with Bashir

Waltz with Bashir · 2008

Waltz with Bashir

MovieAnimationDocumentary

A film director from Israel interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.

Original Music Composer

The Nun

The Nun · 2013

Suzanne Simonin describes her life of suffering in letters. As a young woman she is sent to a convent against her will. Since her parents cannot afford the dowry required for a marriage befitting her rank they decide she must instead become a nun. Although a kind and understanding Mother Superior helps her to learn the convent’s daily routine, Suzanne’s desire for freedom remains unabated. When the Mother Superior dies, Suzanne finds herself faced with reprisals, humiliation and harassment at the hands of the new Abbess and the other Sisters. For many years, Suzanne is subjected to bigotry and religious fanaticism. (Berlinale.de)

Original Music Composer

Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster

Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster · 2011

Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster

MovieCrimeDrama

Based on a real WWII vet and family man turned bank robber. Disillusioned by his post war circumstances, Eddie Boyd is torn between the need to provide for his young family and an unfulfilled dream to head to Hollywood to become a star. He discovers a way to do both, robbing banks Hollywood style, but his dream leads him down a path of danger and tragedy.

Original Music Composer

Black Mirror

Black Mirror · 2011

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyDrama

Twisted tales run wild in this mind-bending anthology series that reveals humanity's worst traits, greatest innovations and more.

Original Music Composer

The Leftovers

The Leftovers · 2014

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyDrama

When 2% of the world's population abruptly disappears without explanation, the world struggles to understand just what they're supposed to do about it. This is the story of the people who didn't make the cut.

Original Music Composer

Later... with Jools Holland

Later... with Jools Holland · 1992

Later... with Jools Holland

Later... with Jools Holland is a contemporary British music television show hosted by Jools Holland.

Invasion

Invasion · 2021

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyDrama

Earth is visited by an alien species that threatens humanity's existence. Events unfold in real time through the eyes of five ordinary people across the globe as they struggle to make sense of the chaos unraveling around them.

Main Title Theme Composer

My Brilliant Friend

My Brilliant Friend · 2018

My Brilliant Friend

When the most important friend in her life seems to have disappeared without a trace, Elena Greco, a now-elderly woman immersed in a house full of books, turns on her computer and starts writing the story of their friendship.

Original Music Composer

Taboo

SeriesDramaMystery

Adventurer James Keziah Delaney returns to London from Africa in 1814 along with fourteen stolen diamonds to seek vengeance after the death of his father.

Original Music Composer

The Veil

The Veil · 2024

SeriesDramaCrime

Two women play a deadly game of truth and lies on the road from Istanbul to Paris and London. One woman has a secret, the other a mission to reveal it before thousands of lives are lost. In the shadows, mission controllers at the CIA and French DGSE must put differences aside and work together to avert potential disaster.

Music

Guerrilla

Guerrilla · 2017

Set against the backdrop of one of the most explosive times in U.K. history, discover the story of a politically active couple whose relationship and values are tested when they liberate a political prisoner and form a radical underground cell in 1970s London.

Original Music Composer