Uwe Boll (born June 22, 1965) is a German filmmaker and restaurateur. He finances his own films through his production companies Boll KG and Event Film Productions. Many of his films are produced on low budgets and Boll himself has backed his projects financially or made use of crowdfunding platforms. His career is generally divided into two distinct phases: the first of big-budget fare, many adapted from video games, with a usually renowned cast, most of which gained him a reputation as a 'schlock maestro', while receiving primarily negative critical reviews, with Alone in the Dark (2005) considered one of the worst films ever made. His second phase is marked by films of smaller or independent backing, relatively unknown actors and different approaches to filmmaking; Boll's Rampage film series, Tunnel Rats, Stoic, Amoklauf, Heart of America, Assault on Wall Street and Darfur were better received. Boll decided to branch out from filmmaking in 2016 to work in the restaurant industry. He opened his Bauhaus Restaurant in Vancouver, which had earned positive reviews among food critics. In 2022, he returned to making films after selling the restaurant.

Filmography

• 2026Citizen Vigilante — Broadcast director (uncredited), Director, Writer, Producer, Director of Photography
• 2025ApoKalypse — Office Boll (voice)
• 2025Run — Director, Writer, Producer
• 2024Bandidos and I — Director, Producer
• 2024First Shift — Writer, Producer, Director
• 2023Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World — Uwe Boll
• 2023Luna Project — Executive Producer
• 2023Thanatomania
• 2022Hanau: Germany in Winter — Director, Writer, Producer
• 2017House of Evil — Producer
• 2016Rampage: President Down — Rampage Killer #2 (uncredited), Director, Screenplay, Writer, Producer, Executive Producer
• 2015ABCs of Superheroes — President
• 2015Anger of the Dead — Producer
• 2015Mission NinetyTwo: Part II - Energy — Boat owner
• 2015Zombie Massacre 2: Reich of the Dead — Producer
• 2014Blood Valley: Seed's Revenge — Producer, Thanks, Characters
• 2014In the Name of the King III — Executive Producer, Director
• 2014Rampage: Capital Punishment — Andy the Producer, Director, Executive Producer, Writer
• 2013Assault on Wall Street — Director, Writer, Executive Producer
• 2013Legend of the Red Reaper — Executive Producer
• 2013Prisoners of the Sun — Co-Producer
• 2013Suddenly — Director
• 2013The Profane Exhibit — Director, Executive Producer
• 2013The Real Uwe Boll — Er selbst
• 2013Zombie Massacre — Président des États-Unis, Producer
• 201150/50 — Thanks
• 2011Auschwitz — Nazi Officer, Producer, Director, Writer
• 2011Blubberella — Adolf Hitler, Director, Writer, Producer
• 2011In the Name of the King 2: Two Worlds — Director, Executive Producer
• 2011Schlaraffenhaus — Presenter
• 2010BloodRayne: The Third Reich — Director, Producer
• 2010Max Schmeling — Referee #2, Director
• 2010The Final Storm — Director, Producer
• 2009Attack on Darfur — Director, Writer, Producer, Story, Screenplay, Idea
• 2009Kopf oder Zahl — Thanks
• 2009Rampage — Director, Writer, Producer
• 2009Stoic — Director, Writer, Producer
• 2008Alone in the Dark 2 — Producer
• 2008Far Cry — Director, Producer
• 2008Tunnel Rats — Director, Writer, Producer
• 2007BloodRayne II: Deliverance — Director, Executive Producer
• 2007In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale — Director, Producer
• 2007Postal — Uwe Boll, Director, Producer, Writer
• 2007They Wait — Executive Producer
• 2006BloodRayne — Director, Producer
• 2006Seed — Director, Screenplay, Producer
• 2005Alone in the Dark — Director, Executive Producer
• 2004Nightwish: Wish I Had An Angel — Director
• 2003Heart of America — Story, Director, Executive Producer
• 2003House of the Dead — Director, Producer
• 2002Angels Don't Sleep Here — Executive Producer
• 2001Blackwoods — Director, Screenplay, Executive Producer
• 2000Fiasco — Producer
• 2000Sanctimony — Director, Writer, Producer
• 1998Fake - Die Fälschung — Producer
• 1997The First Semester — Director, Screenplay, Executive Producer
• 1994Amoklauf — Director, Writer
• 1994Boxen — Director, Writer, Producer
• 1993Barschel: Murder in Geneva — Producer, Director, Writer
• 1992German Fried Movie — Tipgeber, Writer, Producer, Director
• 23 Years Later: The Castle of the Dead — Director, Writer
• Alone in the Dark — Director, Writer
• First Shift: Redemption — Writer, Director, Producer
• First Shift: Vengeance — Director, Writer, Producer
• Ness — Director
• Rampage IV: The New Blood — Executive Producer, Screenplay, Director, Writer

Appearances as themselves (17)

• 2025Going Postal: The Legacy Foretold — Self
• 2021Demnächst auf VHS — Self
• 2020Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business — Self
• 2018Fuck You All: The Uwe Boll Story — Self
• 2015Cinema Perverso — Self
• Kino Plus — Self
• 2014La Petite Mort 2: Nasty Tapes — Himself
• Pantoffelkino — Self - Guest
• Roche & Böhmermann — Self
• 2012Tim Sander goes to Hollywood — self
• Landesschau Rheinland-Pfalz — Self
• 2010Raging Boll — Self
• 2009Into the Pit: The Shocking Story of Deadpit.com — Self
• 2008Visiting Uwe — Self
• 2007Bloodsucking Cinema — Self
• 2007Heckler — Self
• 2003Zombiegeddon — Self