BRUNO GANZ' BEST FILMS
by CarlosAlvar | created - 04 Feb 2022 | updated - 04 Feb 2022 | PublicFilms rated 7 or above: 31 (31 points) Films rated 8 or above: 2 (4 points) Films rated 9 or above: - Awards nominations: 4 (4 points) Awards won: 2 (2 points) ..................................................... Total: 41 points
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1. Downfall (2004)
R | 156 min | Biography, Drama, History
Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII.
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel | Stars: Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Ulrich Matthes, Juliane Köhler
Votes: 375,419 | Gross: $5.51M
2. Wings of Desire (1987)
PG-13 | 128 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
An angel tires of his purely ethereal life of merely overseeing the human activity of Berlin's residents, and longs for the tangible joys of physical existence when he falls in love with a mortal.
Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander, Curt Bois
Votes: 77,086 | Gross: $3.33M
3. Eternity and a Day (1998)
Unrated | 137 min | Drama
Famous writer Alexander is very ill and has little time left to live. He meets a little boy on the street, who is an illegal immigrant from Albania, and goes on a journey with him to take the boy home.
Director: Theodoros Angelopoulos | Stars: Bruno Ganz, Isabelle Renauld, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Ahilleas Skevis
Votes: 14,445 | Gross: $0.11M
4. The Reader (2008)
R | 124 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.
Director: Stephen Daldry | Stars: Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, Bruno Ganz, Jeanette Hain
Votes: 260,024 | Gross: $34.19M
5. Vitus (2006)
PG | 123 min | Drama, Music
A twelve-year-old piano prodigy who suffocates from his parent's big dreams for him decides to make his escape--and with the aid of his grandfather--chase his own dreams instead.
Director: Fredi M. Murer | Stars: Fabrizio Borsani, Bruno Ganz, Teo Gheorghiu, Julika Jenkins
Votes: 5,191 | Gross: $0.19M
6. Es Dach überem Chopf (1962)
106 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Kurt Früh | Stars: Zarli Carigiet, Valerie Steinmann, Erika Halm, Gion Janett
Votes: 75
7. Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
PG | 107 min | Drama, Horror
Count Dracula moves from Transylvania to Wismar, spreading the Black Plague across the land. Only a woman pure of heart can bring an end to his reign of horror.
Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani, Bruno Ganz, Roland Topor
Votes: 40,568
8. Remember (I) (2015)
R | 94 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
With the aid of a fellow Auschwitz survivor and a hand-written letter, an elderly man with dementia goes in search of the person he believes to be responsible for the death of his family in the death camp to kill him himself.
Director: Atom Egoyan | Stars: Christopher Plummer, Kim Roberts, Amanda Smith, Martin Landau
Votes: 27,862 | Gross: $0.64M
9. Heidi (2015)
111 min | Drama, Family
A story of a young girl who lives in the Swiss Alps with her goat herding Grandfather.
Director: Alain Gsponer | Stars: Anuk Steffen, Anna Schinz, Lilian Naef, Bruno Ganz
Votes: 7,098
10. Winter Journey (2019)
87 min | Biography, Drama, History
Martin Goldsmith never knew what happened to his parents before they escaped from Germany in 1941. Over a weekend, he confronts his father and we are brought back to the complex and confusing 1930s when the parents were young musicians.
Directors: Anders Østergaard, Erzsébet Rácz | Stars: Bruno Ganz, Martin Goldsmith, Harvey Friedman, Leonard Scheicher
Votes: 140
11. The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)
R | 150 min | Action, Biography, Crime
A look at Germany's terrorist group, The Red Army Faction (RAF), which organized bombings, robberies, kidnappings, and assassinations in the late 1960s and '70s.
Director: Uli Edel | Stars: Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu, Johanna Wokalek, Bruno Ganz
Votes: 40,138 | Gross: $0.48M
12. A Hidden Life (2019)
PG-13 | 174 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The Austrian Franz Jägerstätter, a conscientious objector, refuses to fight for the Nazis in World War II.
Director: Terrence Malick | Stars: August Diehl, Valerie Pachner, Maria Simon, Karin Neuhäuser
Votes: 28,195
13. The American Friend (1977)
Not Rated | 128 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Tom Ripley, who deals in forged art, suggests a picture framer he knows would make a good hit man.
Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz, Lisa Kreuzer, Gérard Blain
Votes: 18,615
14. Children of Nature (1991)
82 min | Drama, Romance
Old Thorgeir must leave his home far off in the Icelandic 'countryside' and move into a home for senior citizens in Reykjavik. There he meets an old friend from his childhood, Stella. ... See full summary »
Director: Friðrik Þór Friðriksson | Stars: Gísli Halldórsson, Sigríður Hagalín, Baldvin Halldórsson, Björn Karlsson
Votes: 1,600
15. In the White City (1983)
108 min | Drama
A Swiss sailor abandons his post during a stopover in Lisbon and takes up residence in a small hotel in the city.
Director: Alain Tanner | Stars: Bruno Ganz, Teresa Madruga, Julia Vonderlinn, José Carvalho
Votes: 1,409
16. Sommergäste (1976)
115 min | Drama
A group of people from the wealthy middle class in endless quasi intellectual quarrels and discussions trying to find some meaning in their comfortable and indolent life.
Director: Peter Stein | Stars: Wolf Redl, Edith Clever, Ilse Ritter, Michael König
Votes: 67
17. Bread and Tulips (2000)
PG-13 | 114 min | Comedy, Romance
After being forgotten in a highway café during a bus trip, a housewife decides to start a new life by herself in Venice.
Director: Silvio Soldini | Stars: Licia Maglietta, Bruno Ganz, Giuseppe Battiston, Antonio Catania
Votes: 10,078 | Gross: $5.31M
18. Faraway, So Close! (1993)
PG-13 | 140 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
A group of angels in the German capital look longingly upon the life of humans.
Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Otto Sander, Bruno Ganz, Peter Falk, Horst Buchholz
Votes: 9,124 | Gross: $0.81M
19. Der Erfinder (1980)
97 min | Drama
Jakob is an obsessive inventor who lives in a Swiss village. He receives unconditional support from his friend Otti, but that is about all; the other villagers do not tolerate Jakob's ... See full summary »
Director: Kurt Gloor | Stars: Bruno Ganz, Walo Lüönd, Verena Peter, Oliver Diggelmann
Votes: 127
20. Oggetti smarriti (1980)
110 min | Comedy, Drama
Oppressed by her husband, her lover, and her obsessive mother, a bourgeois from Milan is reunited at the Central Station of that city with a childhood companion. Throughout 24 hours there, ... See full summary »
Director: Giuseppe Bertolucci | Stars: Mariangela Melato, Bruno Ganz, Renato Salvatori, Maria Luisa Santella
Votes: 42
21. Erfolg (1991)
265 min | Drama
Munich in the 1920's. An art-gallery manager puts on a show featuring the scandalous works of a woman artist who committed suicide. He is unjustly accused of having committed adultery with her, and the authorities decide to intervene.
Director: Franz Seitz | Stars: Bruno Ganz, Franziska Walser, Peter Simonischek, Mathieu Carrière
Votes: 24
22. In Order of Disappearance (2014)
R | 116 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
After his son is murdered by drug dealers, a snowplow driver starts seeking revenge.
Director: Hans Petter Moland | Stars: Stellan Skarsgård, Bruno Ganz, Pål Sverre Hagen, Jakob Oftebro
Votes: 29,154 | Gross: $0.05M
23. Krieg und Frieden (1982)
123 min | Drama, History
At the peak of the Cold War, the short-range missile crisis, neutron bombs could have potentially annihilated Central Europe.
Directors: Stefan Aust, Axel Engstfeld, Alexander Kluge, Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: Jürgen Prochnow, Günther Kaufmann, Manfred Zapatka, Karl-Heinz Merz
Votes: 97
24. The Marquise of O (1976)
PG | 102 min | Drama, History
A German Marquise has to deal with a pregnancy she cannot explain and an infatuated Russian Count.
Director: Éric Rohmer | Stars: Edith Clever, Bruno Ganz, Edda Seippel, Peter Lühr
Votes: 3,038 | Gross: $0.00M
25. Circle of Deceit (1981)
R | 108 min | Drama, War
A German journalist, escaping from broken marriage, goes to Lebanon to cover the civil war. Soon, he realizes that he can't handle the truth.
Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: Bruno Ganz, Hanna Schygulla, Jean Carmet, Jerzy Skolimowski
Votes: 975
26. The Wild Duck (1976)
100 min | Drama
This tragic drama is adapted from a popular Ibsen play about the relationship between a mother, her ego-maniacal husband, and their daughter. The father never approves of anything the daughter does.
Director: Hans W. Geissendörfer | Stars: Bruno Ganz, Peter Kern, Anne Bennent, Jean Seberg
Votes: 122
27. Brandnacht (1992)
97 min | Drama, Thriller
Peter Keller, who lives in Berlin, receives a letter from his homeland, the Swiss Emmental. Otto Balsiger, who had served in the army as a soldier under Keller's command, is accused of ... See full summary »
Director: Markus Fischer | Stars: Bruno Ganz, Barbara Auer, Rolf Hoppe, Ueli Jäggi
Votes: 66
28. Etwas wird sichtbar (1981)
114 min | Drama
Director: Harun Farocki | Stars: Marcel Werner, Hanns Zischler, Inga Humpe, Bruno Ganz
Votes: 28
29. The Boys from Brazil (1978)
R | 125 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A Nazi hunter in Paraguay discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner | Stars: Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, James Mason, Lilli Palmer
Votes: 30,586 | Gross: $19.00M
30. Knife in the Head (1978)
113 min | Drama
During a police raid on a youth center, the biogeneticist Hoffmann is shot in the head. When he awakes from a coma, he can't remember anyting. The police accuse him of being a terrorist.
Director: Reinhard Hauff | Stars: Bruno Ganz, Angela Winkler, Hans Christian Blech, Heinz Hoenig
Votes: 722
31. The Witness (II) (2018)
R | 113 min | Action, Drama
An action drama about an enthusiastic junior officer from the Hague War Tribunal in pursuit of justice.
Director: Mitko Panov | Stars: Bruno Ganz, Natasha Petrovic, Pádraic Delaney, Refet Abazi
Votes: 54
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