Bruno Ganz
Bruno Ganz (22 March 1941 – 16 February 2019) was a Swiss actor who debuted at the theatre in 1961 and gained there a good reputation as a solid, young actor. In 1970 he founded with 'Peter Stein' the theatre company "Schaubuehne" of Berlin. His debut at the movies was early and unsuccessful in 1960. Only in 1975 after "Sommergaeste (1975)" he could show his talent as a reflexive actor with tendencies towards introspection.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 11.427 |
| Birthday | 1941-03-22 |
| Place of Birth | Zürich, Switzerland |
| Also Known As |
1987
Wings of Desire
7.768/1140
Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisible rays of hope to the distre...
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Wings of Desire
2004
Downfall
7.847/3461
In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking fr...
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Downfall
1998
Eternity and a Day
7.629/147
An ailing Greek man attempts to take a young, illegal Albanian immigrant home.
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Eternity and a Day
1983
In the White City
7.047/32
Fed up with the sea, Paul, a Swiss mechanic working in the noisy bowels of a merchant ship, lands in Lisbon.
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In the White City
1978
Knife in the Head
6.1/13
One night when seeking his estranged wife, Hoffmann goes to the youth center where she works. The police are there rounding up radicals who frequent t...
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Knife in the Head
1997
St. Stephen's: The Living Cathedral
0/0
St. Stephen’s Cathedral ranks amongst Austria‘s most famous cultural monuments. Yet, one would not think of that Cathedral being one of the most aston...
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St. Stephen's: The Living Cathedral
1981
Circle of Deceit
6/21
Georg Laschen leaves his family in West Germany to go work as a war correspondent in Beirut during the fights between Christians and Palestinians.
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Circle of Deceit
2010
The Day of the Cat
5.7/7
The Swiss President, called by all only "big hangover", is in trouble: the election is coming and according to surveys his chances are not very good....
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The Day of the Cat
2010
The End Is My Beginning
5.9/23
When an extraordinary man who has lived through all is approaching his end, he decides to call his son to join him for the last time at his home in Tu...
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The End Is My Beginning
2011
Colors in the Dark
6.7/8
Anita and Fred have been a couple for 50 years, and happily married for nearly as long. They have two grown children, and their grandchildren are fini...
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Colors in the Dark
1996
Saint-Ex
1/1
Poetic biography of author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
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Saint-Ex
1968
Die Schlacht bei Lobositz
0/0
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Die Schlacht bei Lobositz
1978
Black and White Like Day and Night
5.9/7
A scientist who swore off playing chess after a nervous breakdown as a boy wunderkind, creates an undefeated chess program. But the Russian world cham...
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Black and White Like Day and Night
1982
Logik des Gefühls
0/0
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Logik des Gefühls
1976
The Wild Duck
0/0
Consul Werle holds a reception in honour of the homecoming of his son Gregers. At the reception, Gregers meets his childhood friend, Hjalmar Ekdal, w...
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The Wild Duck
2008
Ein starker Abgang
7/1
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Ein starker Abgang
1991
Success
2/1
For fans of history, this glimpse of Munich society in the 1920s will be a much-treasured event. The story revolves around an art-gallery manager who...
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Success
1976
Summer Guests
6.3/3
A group of people from the wealthy middle class in engage in quasi intellectual quarrels and discussions trying to find some meaning in their comforta...
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Summer Guests
1981
The Inventor
7/1
In this interesting World War I drama, Bruno Ganz gives a compelling performance as Jakob, an obsessive inventor who lives in a Swiss village. He rece...
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The Inventor
1983
System Without Shadow
6.8/4
Computer operator Faber works on securing computers for big companies and banks. His private life is rather dull until he meets a strange women, Julie...
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System Without Shadow
2011
Das Geheimnis unseres Waldes
0/0
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Das Geheimnis unseres Waldes
1980
5% de risque
5/1
A troubled gentleman named David ponders whether vegemite can be consumed undiluted without posing a health risk. Meanwhile his friend, a senior gover...
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5% de risque
1997
Deadly Silence
0/0
A gay man's return to his family in East Germany begins a series of tragic events.
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Deadly Silence
2015
Giovanni Segantini - Magie des Lichts
6.5/2
Artist, anarchist, drop-out, paperless immigrant: Giovanni Segantini was all of this. He created, usually under the open sky, monumental, idealized al...
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Giovanni Segantini - Magie des Lichts
1993
Night on Fire
2/1
Enquiries into the murder of a young woman take the private investigator Peter Keller to the idyllic village of Schwant in Emmental. But, the more ent...
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Night on Fire
1967
Der sanfte Lauf
6/2
Bernhard works as a warehouse clerk in Munich. After being sentenced to probation for a physical altercation with a right-wing extremist, he could no...
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Der sanfte Lauf
2008
Copacabana
2/1
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Copacabana
2017
In Times of Fading Light
6.375/16
Just before the fall of the Berlin Wall, the birthday celebrations of an East German family turn into a tragicomical moment of political and personal...
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In Times of Fading Light
2001
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust I
10/1
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust I
2019
The Witness
7/1
An action drama about an enthusiastic junior officer from the Hague War Tribunal in pursuit of justice.
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The Witness
2016
A Jew Must Die
4.1/7
A film based on Jacques Chessex' novel of the same title; featuring André Wilms as Chessex and Bruno Ganz as Arthur Bloch, Swiss Jew killed by Swiss N...
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A Jew Must Die
2004
Bruno Ganz - Ein europäischer Schauspieler
6/1
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Bruno Ganz - Ein europäischer Schauspieler
1993
The Absence
5.3/3
Four nameless people -- the old man, the woman, the soldier, and the gambler -- journey to a desolate wasteland beyond the limits of an unnamed city.
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The Absence
2019
Winter Journey
8/2
Tucson, Arizona, September 1996. At the request of his son Martin, George Goldsmith tells him of his past in Nazi Germany as a member of a family of J...
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Winter Journey
1989
Bankomatt
0/0
With three of his companions in a fatal gas-station robbery drowned while evading a police roadblock, the surviving young thug has no reason to turn h...
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Bankomatt
2005
Alias Kurban Saïd
0/0
The mystery of the author of the 1937 cult novel Ali and Nino - a recently-rediscovered Romeo and Juliet of the Caucasus - is explored in Alias Kurban...
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Alias Kurban Saïd
2020
Who the F... is Roger Rossmeisl
0/0
A 90'- documentary about Roger Raymond Rossmeisl (1927-1979), the most overlooked great guitar maker of all time. Roger's voice is spoken by Bruno Gan...
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Who the F... is Roger Rossmeisl
1999
You Can't Go Home Again
0/0
A 1998 Dutch documentary about Klaus Mann, the son of novelist Thomas Mann. An openly bisexual writer who spent World War II in Amsterdam, Klaus suffe...
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You Can't Go Home Again
1980
Polenta
0/0
Two men and a young girl meet at the end of the world
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Polenta
2001
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust II
0/0
Second part of Goethe's Tragedy
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust II
2022
Bruno Ganz - The Longing Revolutionary
0/0
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Bruno Ganz - The Longing Revolutionary
1995
Diario senza date
0/0
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Diario senza date
2000
Bread and Tulips
7.279/249
An endearing light comedy about a woman who spontaneously becomes a resident of Venice after her family left her behind. While enjoying the wonderful...
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Bread and Tulips
1993
Faraway, So Close!
6.8/138
Damiel is now married to Marion, runs the pizzeria “Da Angelo” and the two have a child. The solitarily remaining angel Cassiel is more and more dissa...
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Faraway, So Close!
1977
The American Friend
7.2/303
Tom Ripley, an American who deals in forged art, is slighted at an auction in Hamburg by picture framer Jonathan Zimmerman. When Ripley is asked by ga...
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The American Friend
2009
Julia's Disappearance
6.5/2
A comedy about aging, youth and other eternal truths. Of all days, precisely on her fiftieth birthday, Julia has to experience that age makes you invi...
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Julia's Disappearance
1992
The Last Days of Chez Nous
5.7/9
The story of sisters Vicki and Beth, when Vicki begins an affair with Beth's intriguing French husband.
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The Last Days of Chez Nous
1980
Lost and Found
5/3
Oppressed by her husband, her lover, and her obsessive mother, a bourgeois woman is reunited with a childhood companion at the central train station i...
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Lost and Found
1976
The Marquise of O
6.6/59
A German Marquise has to deal with a pregnancy she cannot explain and an infatuated Russian Count.
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The Marquise of O
1989
The Architecture of Doom
7.3/26
Featuring never-before-seen film footage of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime, The Architecture of Doom captures the inner workings of the Third Reich...
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The Architecture of Doom
2008
The Dust of Time
6.5/35
A, an American film director of Greek ancestry, is making a film that tells his story and the story of his parents. It is a tale that unfolds in Italy...
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The Dust of Time
1989
Strapless
8.3/3
An expatriate American doctor in London allows herself to lighten up when her freewheeling younger sister and a mysterious man enter her life. Her inh...
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Strapless
2012
Of Women and Horses
5.6/22
This microcosm of power and money has no time for Gracieuse, whose only assets are her talent, her fiercely stubborn character, and, most particularly...
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Of Women and Horses
2002
The Power of the Past
0/0
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The Power of the Past
2006
Have No Fear: The Life of Pope John Paul II
5.4/7
The eventful life of a humble Polish priest who once decried the pomp of the Catholic Church "a circus" and labeled the Pope a "prisoner of the Vatica...
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Have No Fear: The Life of Pope John Paul II
2002
Epsteins Nacht
0/0
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Epsteins Nacht
2014
In Order of Disappearance
6.869/541
Upstanding community leader Nils has just won an award for "Citizen of the Year" when he learns the news that his son has died of a heroin overdose. S...
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In Order of Disappearance
1985
Private Resistance
6/3
Otto, a Jewish refugee who managed to escape from Berlin in the early days of WW2, is now the owner of an Amsterdam ice cream parlor. Otto's place soo...
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Private Resistance
1968
Im Dickicht der Städte
0/0
An inexplicable showdown between two men and the downfall of a family that has moved from the prairies to the jungle of the big city.
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Im Dickicht der Städte
2015
Heidi
7.108/357
Heidi, is an eight-year-old Swiss orphan who is given by her aunt to her mountain-dwelling grandfather. She is then stolen back by her aunt from her g...
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Heidi
2015
Remember
7.4/647
With the aid of a fellow Auschwitz survivor and a hand-written letter, an elderly man with dementia goes in search of the person responsible for the d...
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Remember
1988
Love of a Woman
0/0
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Love of a Woman
2003
Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us
9/2
This is a documentary about the making of "Wings of Desire" (1987). The director, writer, actors, composer and other contributors speak at length and...
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Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us
2018
The House That Jack Built
7.162/2440
Failed architect, engineer and vicious murderer Jack narrates the details of some of his most elaborately orchestrated crimes, each of them a towering...
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The House That Jack Built
1986
El río de oro
3.7/7
During a long summer, the tranquility of a couple and their three children resting in a country house is altered with the arrival of the children's un...
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El río de oro
2006
The Ode to Joy
4.5/2
Based on the true story of the Bandō prisoner-of-war camp in World War I. It depicts the friendship of the German POWs with the director of the camp a...
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The Ode to Joy
1986
Thomas Bernhard – Ein Widerspruch. »Die Ursache bin ich selbst«
0/0
Thomas Bernhard in Madrid.
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Thomas Bernhard – Ein Widerspruch. »Die Ursache bin ich selbst«
2018
Fortuna
6.5/13
Fortuna, a 14-year-old Ethiopian girl, has had no news of her parents since they crossed the Mediterranean Sea. Together with other refugees, she is g...
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Fortuna
2018
The Tobacconist
6.591/82
Vienna, 1937, on the eve of the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany. The young and inexperienced Franz Huchel begins to learn about both the joys...
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The Tobacconist
1999
The End of an Eternity
0/0
Documentary that recounts the ups and downs of the shooting of Eternity and a Day (1998), focusing on the exhaustive preparation of the shot-sequence...
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The End of an Eternity
1979
Nosferatu the Vampyre
7.318/721
Jonathan Harker, a real estate agent, goes to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a property in Wismar. O...
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Nosferatu the Vampyre
2007
Youth Without Youth
6.11/204
A love story wrapped in a mystery. Set in Europe before WWII, professor of language and philosophy Dominic Matei is struck by lightning and ages back...
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Youth Without Youth
1979
Return to the Beloved
6.2/8
Julien seeks to reconquer Jeanne, his ex-wife, of whom he is separated and who lives with another man. He is prepared to go far to make it happen.
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Return to the Beloved
1995
Lumière and Company
6.385/61
40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under condition...
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Lumière and Company
1981
Lady of the Camelias
6.4/23
A young girl from the provinces, comes to Paris with one goal: to become a part of the rich bourgeoisie. To achieve this she will use her unique beaut...
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Lady of the Camelias
2005
Pablo G. del Amo, un montador de ilusiones
6/1
Documentary about the personal and professional life of Pablo G. del Amo. He is the most influential movie editor in Spain.
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Pablo G. del Amo, un montador de ilusiones
1991
Especially on Sunday
6.6/10
Four lighthearted stories set in the idyllic Italian countryside: an old grouch finds himself followed by a stray dog; a lonely widow spies on her new...
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Especially on Sunday
1992
Prague
6/4
This ambitious overview of the history of Prague provides a wealth of information about the city, both visual and verbal, but suffers from a one-note...
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Prague
1977
The Left-Handed Woman
6.6/9
Mourning for a lost relationship can be every bit as devastating as mourning for someone who has died. In this drama based on the director's own novel...
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The Left-Handed Woman
1986
Fathers and Sons
0/0
Follows two wealthy families in Germany during the first half of the 20th century. One of them is German, the other one Jewish.
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Fathers and Sons
1964
Der Spaßvogel
0/0
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Der Spaßvogel
1966
Die Unberatenen
0/0
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Die Unberatenen
1988
The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway
0/0
Larger-than-life American author Ernest Hemingway is the subject of this biopic that chronicles the famous writer's life from childhood to his suicide...
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The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway
2000
WhoAfraidWolf
0/0
A group of actors making their way to Rome ends up losing its way due to the fog, the darkness, the ice and their own feelings of guilt, suddenly gett...
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WhoAfraidWolf
1966
Frühlings Erwachen
0/0
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Frühlings Erwachen
1979
The Making of 'Nosferatu'
6.3/3
Werner Herzog discusses the making of "Nosferatu" on set.
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The Making of 'Nosferatu'
2015
Amnesia
5.455/44
A young composer moves from Berlin to the island of Ibiza and begins a friendship with an elderly woman whose painful past has caused her to reject ev...
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Amnesia
1981
La provinciale
5.75/4
In this drama, a provincial girl goes to Paris in search of her fortune. Although she finds the City of Light to be quite different from what she'd im...
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La provinciale
1972
The Ignoramus and the Madman
0/0
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The Ignoramus and the Madman
2012
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
7.5/66
A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, and so on. The only same thing: The love between ma...
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Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2013
Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas
5.943/184
In the 16th century in the Cévennes, a horse dealer by the name of Michael Kohlhaas leads a happy and prosperous family life. When a lord treats him u...
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Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas
2017
The Party
6.34/482
Various individuals think they’re coming together for a party in a private home, but a series of revelations results in a huge crisis that throws thei...
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The Party
1995
Il Grande Fausto
6.1/4
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Il Grande Fausto
2008
One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders' Early Years
7.667/3
The early films of Wim Wenders are now regarded as landmarks of European film. Alice in the Cities, Wrong Move and Kings of the Road became foundation...
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One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders' Early Years
1982
Gedächtnis: Ein Film für Curt Bois und Bernhard Minetti
1/1
Voted for in Sight & Sound's 2022 Greatest Films of All Time poll
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Gedächtnis: Ein Film für Curt Bois und Bernhard Minetti
2008
The Reader
7.437/2792
The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only t...
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The Reader
1991
Children of Nature
6/13
An elderly couple leave their retirement home to make one last journey back to their home in the Western Fjords.
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Children of Nature
2006
Vitus
7.4/70
Vitus tells the story of a highly-gifted boy (played by real-life piano prodigy Teo Gheorghiu) whose parents have demanding and ambitious plans for hi...
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Vitus
2011
Unknown
6.667/3585
A man awakens from a coma, only to discover that someone has taken on his identity and that no one, (not even his wife), believes him. With the help o...
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Unknown
1971
Die Mutter
0/0
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Die Mutter
1998
Gegen Ende der Nacht
7/1
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Gegen Ende der Nacht
2003
Luther
6.406/287
During the early 16th Century idealistic German monk Martin Luther, disgusted by the materialism in the church, begins the dialogue that will lead to...
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Luther
2004
The Manchurian Candidate
6.461/1395
Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terrible nightmares. He begins to doubt that his fellow s...
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The Manchurian Candidate
2013
The Counselor
5.266/1717
A lawyer finds himself in far over his head when he attempts to get involved in drug trafficking.
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The Counselor
1960
Der Herr mit der schwarzen Melone
0/0
Hugo Wiederkehr, as a dutiful bank employee, has to deal with all kinds of customers. Among other things, with the industrialist Meissen and his prett...
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Der Herr mit der schwarzen Melone
1973
Prinz Friedrich von Homburg
0/0
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Prinz Friedrich von Homburg
2020
Wim Wenders, Desperado
7.7/3
"Wings Of Desire" and "Buena Vista Social Club", "Paris, Texas" and "The State Of Things": Wim Wenders is considered one of the pioneers of New German...
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Wim Wenders, Desperado
2000
Klaus Kinski - I'm not an actor
0/0
Klaus Kinski is one of the few German actors who has achieved international fame. He made headlines. And disappeared behind them. Kinski lived his par...
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Klaus Kinski - I'm not an actor
2007
Coda: Thirty Years Later
4.8/5
A behind-the-scenes look at the trials and tribulations of filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola directing his first film in ten years, Youth Without Youth (...
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Coda: Thirty Years Later
2013
Night Train to Lisbon
6.527/367
Raimund Gregorius, having saved a beautiful Portuguese woman from leaping to her death, stumbles upon a mesmerizing book by a Portuguese author, which...
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Night Train to Lisbon
1976
Lumière
7.8/6
Sarah, an actress nearing her forties, has invited 3 friends to join her for a holiday in Provence. This is the prologue for what happened a year ago...
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Lumière
1962
Chikita
0/0
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Chikita
1970
Eine große Familie
0/0
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Eine große Familie
2005
Hitlers letzte Tage - Der Film "Der Untergang"
0/0
Documentary about the 2004 movie 'Der Untergang' aka. 'Downfall'
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Hitlers letzte Tage - Der Film "Der Untergang"
1985
Hands Up!
6/5
The reunion of a group of former medical students results in a flood of bitter memories.
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Hands Up!
1962
A Roof Over Your Head
7/1
A poor family with 6 kids that live in a ramshackle hut are suddenly offered a nice flat for cheap - with the landlord hoping they'll drive away their...
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A Roof Over Your Head
1982
Krieg und Frieden
0/0
The third episodical film, after Deutschland im Herbst and Der Kandidat, in which notable German film makers reflect on the state of their country.
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Krieg und Frieden
2008
The Baader Meinhof Complex
6.958/523
'Der Baader Meinhof Komplex' depicts the political turmoil in the period from 1967 to the bloody "Deutschen Herbst" in 1977. The movie approaches the...
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The Baader Meinhof Complex
2019
A Hidden Life
7.145/577
Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis during World War II.
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A Hidden Life
2019
The Naked King - 18 Fragments on Revolution
0/0
In 1979, a revolution in Iran. In 1980, a revolution in Poland. The fall of the Shah, the “King of Kings,” in Iran. Mass strikes and the foundation of...
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The Naked King - 18 Fragments on Revolution
1978
The Boys from Brazil
6.708/348
Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.
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