Bruno Ganz — Actor (39)
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Lumière & Company (1995)
Lumière et Compagnie IMDb TMDB
Francis Girod / David Lynch … actor: Jeff Alperi / Romane Bohringer …
other title: Lumière et Compagnie / Lumière e Companhia …
40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of 1895. There were three rules: (1) The film could be no longer than 52 seconds, (2) no synchronized sound was permitted, and (3) no more than three takes.
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Faraway, So Close! (1993)
In weiter Ferne, so nah!
★ 7.0 6 ratings
Wim Wenders actor: Otto Sander / Bruno Ganz …
other title: Così lontano così vicino / Så fjern, så nær …
A group of angels look longingly upon the life of humans. Berlin now is a very different place: unified in name but overrun with crime, corruption, and—in what turns out to be a key theme here—Americans.
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Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012)
Final Cut: Hölgyeim és uraim
György Pálfi actor: Brigitte Bardot / Alain Delon …
other title: Final Cut - Ladies and Gentlemen / Final Cut : Ladies And Gentlemen …
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 man and woman... in an archetypical love story cut from 500 classics from all around the world.
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Bread and Tulips (2000)
Pane e tulipani WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Silvio Soldini actor: Licia Maglietta / Bruno Ganz …
other title: Pane e tulipani / Brot und Tulpen …
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.
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The American Friend (1977)
Der amerikanische Freund
Wim Wenders actor: Dennis Hopper / Bruno Ganz …
other title: L'amico americano / Den amerikanske ven …
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.
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The Party (2017)
The Party
Sally Potter actor: Patricia Clarkson / Cherry Jones …
other title: A Festa
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 their belief systems – and their values – into total disarray.
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The House That Jack Built (2018)
The House That Jack Built
★ 7.2 11 ratings
Lars von Trier actor: Matt Dillon / Bruno Ganz …
other title: La casa di Jack / The House That Jack Built - A Casa de Jack …
Failed architect, engineer and vicious murderer Jack narrates the details of some of his most elaborately orchestrated crimes, each of them a towering piece of art that defines his life's work as a serial killer for twelve years.
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Unknown (2011)
Unknown
★ 6.0 5 ratings
Jaume Collet-Serra actor: Liam Neeson / Diane Kruger …
other title: Unknown - Senza identità / Sem Identidade …
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 of a young woman, he sets out to prove who he is.
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Lumiere (1976)
Lumière Douban NeoDB
让娜·莫罗 actor: 露西娅·波塞 / 弗朗辛·拉塞特 …
other title: 光 / Lumière
Sarah, an actress nearing 40, has invited the woman who has been her best friend for 16 years and two younger women to her vacation retreat in Provence. There are the simple pleasures of lounging in adjacent hammocks, the sun, the food, conversations about men. This is prologue for what happened a year ago in Paris with a man Sarah has long taken for granted as a platonic friend. She had just finished a film, also finishing her liaison with the director, and was about to get an award and start work on a new film and begin a romance with a German writer.
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Downfall (2004)
Der Untergang
★ 8.5 16 ratings
Oliver Hirschbiegel actor: Bruno Ganz / Alexandra Maria Lara …
other title: La caduta - Gli ultimi giorni di Hitler / A Queda: Hitler e o fim do Terceiro Reich …
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 from the west. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still achieve victory and orders his generals and advisers to fight to the last man. When the end finally does come, and Hitler lies dead by his own hand, what is left of his military must find a way to end the killing that is the Battle of Berlin, and lay down their arms in surrender.
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The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
The Manchurian Candidate
Jonathan Demme actor: Denzel Washington / Meryl Streep …
other title: O Candidato da Verdade / Der Manchurian Kandidat …
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 squad-mate Sergeant Raymond Shaw, now a vice-presidential candidate, is the hero he remembers him being. As Marco's doubts deepen, Shaw's political power grows, and, when Marco finds a mysterious implant embedded in his back, the memory of what really happened begins to return.
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Eternity and a Day (1998)
Μια αιωνιότητα και μια μέρα
★ 7.8 9 ratings
Theo Angelopoulos actor: Bruno Ganz / Fabrizio Bentivoglio …
other title: L'eternità e un giorno / A Eternidade e um Dia …
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.
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Wings of Desire (1987)
Der Himmel über Berlin
★ 8.3 16 ratings
Wim Wenders actor: Bruno Ganz / Solveig Dommartin …
other title: Il cielo sopra Berlino / Himlen over Berlin …
Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisible rays of hope to the distressed but never interacting with them. When Damiel falls in love with lonely trapeze artist Marion, the angel longs to experience life in the physical world, and finds -- with some words of wisdom from actor Peter Falk -- that it might be possible for him to take human form.
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Heidi (2015)
Heidi
★ 8.5 13 ratings
Alain Gsponer actor: Anuk Steffen / Bruno Ganz …
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 grandfather to live in the wealthy Sesemann household in Frankfurt, Germany as a companion to Klara, a sheltered, disabled girl in a wheelchair. Heidi is unhappy but makes the best of the situation, always longing for her grandfather.
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The Reader (2008)
The Reader
★ 7.6 12 ratings
Stephen Daldry actor: Kate Winslet / Ralph Fiennes …
other title: The Reader - A voce alta / O Leitor …
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 to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom.