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7.0

♡ 1

Documentary

Marcel Wehn Director

Wim Wenders as Self

Bruno Ganz as Self

Edda Köchl as Self

Rüdiger Vogler as Self

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 foundations of the German New Wave and cemented the reputation of their director. In One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders' Early Years Marcel Wehn explores the background to these films. Through personal recollection and rare home movie footage, it documents the director's early life, from experiments with his first camera, via his deviation from a career in medicine in favour of art and film, through to international recognition for the Road Trilogy. Central to these were themes that became cornerstones of all his work: national identity, the importance of personal relationships and the allure of the road. With contributions from the director and the many collaborators who helped define his vision, One Who Set Forth is a compelling account of Wim Wenders' life and work.

The Marquise of O

1976

7.0

♡ 9

80%

74%

Éric Rohmer Director

Eduard Linkers as Der Arzt

Bruno Ganz as Der Graf

Thomas Straus as Der Kurier

Éric Rohmer as Russian Soldier

A German Marquise has to deal with a pregnancy she cannot explain and an infatuated Russian Count.

Knife in the Head

1978

7.0

♡ 8

86%

100%

Drama

Reinhard Hauff Director

Hans Christian Blech as Anleitner

Angela Winkler as Ann Hoffmann

Bruno Ganz as Dr. Berthold Hoffmann

Herbert Kerz as Hausmeister

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 the center - Hoffmann runs into the building and ends up being shot in the head. He awakens with brain trauma, partially paralyzed and unable to speak. The police accuse him of stabbing an officer; the radicals herald him as an innocent victim of police brutality. During his slow recovery at the hospital, Hoffmann must piece together his life and struggle to remember the events of that night.

Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas

2013

French

6.1

♡ 16

47%

Arnaud des Pallières Director

David Bennent as César

Mads Mikkelsen as Michael Kohlhaas

Guillaume Delaunay as The Giant

Bruno Ganz as The Governor

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 unjustly, this pious, upstanding man raises an army and puts the country to fire and sword in order to have his rights restored.

Trilogia II: I skoni tou hronou

2008

Greek

6.5

♡ 5

47%

Drama

Theodoros Angelopoulos Director

Willem Dafoe as A

Christiane Paul as Helga

Bruno Ganz as Jacob

Michel Piccoli as Spyros

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, Germany, Russia, Kazakhstan, Canada and the USA. The main character is Eleni, who is claimed and claims the absoluteness of love. At the same time the film is a long journey into the vast history and the events of the last fifty years that left their mark on the 20th century. The characters in the film move as though in a dream. The dust of time confuses memories. A searches for them and experiences them in the present.

Remember

2015

7.5

♡ 22

68%

Atom Egoyan Director

Sugith Varughese as Cleveland Holiday Inn Desk Clerk

Dean Norris as John Kurlander

Bruno Ganz as Rudy Kurlander #1

Duane Murray as Tyler's Dad

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 death of his family.

The Left-Handed Woman

1977

6.5

♡ 2

Peter Handke Director

Hanns Zischler as

Bruno Ganz as Bruno

Gérard Depardieu as Mann mit dem T-Shirt

Rüdiger Vogler as Schauspieler

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, a couple with an unhappy marriage agree to a trial separation. They try to patch things up, and at the same time other relationships begin to develop for them.

A Hidden Life

2019

husband wife relationship

7.4

♡ 42

82%

conscientious objector

Drama

Terrence Malick Director

Ermin Sijamija as Ermin

Bruno Ganz as Judge Lueben

Maria Simon as Resie Schwaninger

Waldemar Kobus as Warder Stein

Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis during World War II.

Youth Without Youth

2007

6.1

♡ 21

33%

44%

amnesia

Francis Ford Coppola Director

Tim Roth as Dominic

André Hennicke as Josef Rudolf

Matt Damon as Life Magazine Reporter

Bruno Ganz as Professor Stanciulescu

Professor of language and philosophy Dominic Matei is struck by lightning and ages backwards from 70 to 40 in a week, attracting the world and the Nazis. While on the run, the professor meets a young woman who has her own experience with a lightning storm. Not only does Dominic find love again, but her new abilities hold the key to his research.

Retour à la bien-aimée

1979

French

5.7

♡ 2

Jean-François Adam Director

Bruno Ganz as Dr. Stephan Kern

Aline Bertrand as Elise

Isabelle Huppert as Jeanne Kern

Jacques Dutronc as Julien

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.

In the White City

1983

French

7.3

♡ 5

90%

Alain Tanner Director

Julia Vonderlinn as Élisa / The Swiss woman

Cecília Guimarães as La dame du train

José Carvalho as Le patron

Bruno Ganz as Paul

Fed up with the sea, Paul, a Swiss mechanic working in the noisy bowels of a merchant ship, lands in Lisbon.

The Last Days of Chez Nous

1992

6.5

♡ 3

86%

Gillian Armstrong Director

Miranda Otto as Annie

Bill Hunter as Beth's Father

Bruno Ganz as J.P.

Kerry Fox as Vicki

The story of sisters Vicki and Beth, when Vicki begins an affair with Beth's intriguing French husband.

Vitus

2006

7.6

68%

Fredi M. Murer Director

Heidy Forster as Gina Fois

Bruno Ganz as Grandfather

Julika Jenkins as Helen von Holzen, mother

Urs Jucker as Leo von Holzen, father

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 him.

The American Friend

1977

7.4

♡ 26

88%

80%

husband wife relationship

Wim Wenders Director

Samuel Fuller as Der Amerikaner

Wim Wenders as Figure Wrapped in Plaster Bandages in Ambulance

Bruno Ganz as Jonathan Zimmermann

Dennis Hopper as Tom Ripley

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 gangster Raoul Minot to kill a rival, he suggests Zimmerman, and the two, exploiting Zimmerman's terminal illness, coerce him into being a hitman.

Bread and Tulips

2000

Italian

7.3

♡ 6

71%

husband wife relationship

Silvio Soldini Director

Tatiana Lepore as Adele

Felice Andreasi as Fermo

Bruno Ganz as Fernando Girasole

Lina Bernardi as Nancy

An endearing light comedy about a woman who spontaneously becomes a resident of Venice after her family left her behind. While enjoying the wonderful people she meets she achieves a new life and the first time independent of her family.

Hands Up!

1981

Polish

6.5

♡ 4

post-apocalyptic future

refugee train

Jerzy Skolimowski Director

Fred Zinnemann as Self

Alan Bates as Self

Bruno Ganz as Self

David Essex as Self

The reunion of a group of former medical students results in a flood of bitter memories.

The Tobacconist

2018

6.5

♡ 4

25%

Nikolaus Leytner Director

Karoline Eichhorn as Anna Freud

Haymon Maria Buttinger as Echse

Johannes Krisch as Otto Trsnjek

Bruno Ganz as Sigmund Freud

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 and hardships of life by working as an apprentice to the mutilated war veteran Otto Trsnjek in a small tobacco shop, where he meets the famous psychiatrist Sigmund Freud, a regular customer, who will become a valuable friend in times of chaos and uncertainty.

Eternity and a Day

1998

Greek

7.9

♡ 9

95%

undocumented immigrant

writer

Theodoros Angelopoulos Director

Bruno Ganz as Alexandros

Isabelle Renauld as Anna

Fabrizio Bentivoglio as The Poet

Mihalis Giannatos as Ticket Inspector

Famous writer Alexander contracts a terminal illness. He receives a letter from his wife describing a summer day 30 years ago, and leaves his seaside home to remember his past. This journey will allow him to wander between the past and the present, and encounter unexpected people, allowing him to collect unforgettable memories in the final moments of his life.

Look Who's Back

2015

7.0

♡ 33

81%

adolf hitler

third reich (iii reich 1933-45)

David Wnendt Director

Katja Riemann as Katja Bellini

Jörg Thadeusz as Moderator Thadeusz

Angela Merkel as Self

Bruno Ganz as Self

When Adolf Hitler reawakens at the site of his former bunker in present-day Berlin, he is mistaken for a comedian and quickly becomes a media phenomenon.

Wings of Desire

1987