Bruno Ganz

Bruno Ganz

March 22, 1941 · 85 years old

Bruno Ganz (March 22, 1941 – February 16, 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 19…

Known For

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The House That Jack Built

The House That Jack Built

2018 · 2h 32m · Movie

In five episodes, failed architect and vicious sociopath Jack recounts his elaborately orchestrated murders -- each, as he views them, a towering work of art that defines his life's work as a serial killer in the Pacific Northwest.

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Downfall

Downfall

2004 · 2h 36m · Movie

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.

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Unknown

Unknown

2011 · 1h 53m · Movie

When a man awakens from a coma only to discover that someone has taken on his identity, he teams up with a young woman to prove who he is.

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The Reader

The Reader

2008 · 2h 4m · Movie

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.

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The Manchurian Candidate

The Manchurian Candidate

2004 · 2h 9m · Movie

In the midst of the Gulf War, soldiers are kidnapped and brainwashed for sinister purposes.

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The Counselor

The Counselor

2013 · 1h 57m · Movie

A lawyer finds himself in over his head when he gets involved in drug trafficking.

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A Hidden Life

A Hidden Life

2019 · 2h 54m · Movie

The Austrian Franz Jägerstätter, a conscientious objector, refuses to fight for the Nazis in World War II.

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Wings of Desire

Wings of Desire

1987 · 2h 8m · Movie

An angel meets Peter Falk, and loves a French trapeze artist in Berlin.

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The Party

The Party

2017 · 1h 11m · Movie

Janet hosts a party to celebrate her new promotion, but once the guests arrive, it becomes clear that not everything will be going down as smoothly as the red wine.

6.7
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Nosferatu the Vampyre

Nosferatu the Vampyre

1979 · 1h 47m · Movie

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.

7.4
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Remember

Remember

2015 · 1h 34m · Movie

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.

7.4
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The Baader Meinhof Complex

The Baader Meinhof Complex

2008 · 2h 30m · Movie

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.

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The Boys from Brazil

The Boys from Brazil

1978 · 2h 5m · Movie

A Nazi hunter in Paraguay discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.

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In Order of Disappearance

In Order of Disappearance

2014 · 1h 56m · Movie

After his son is murdered by drug dealers, a snowplow driver starts seeking revenge.

7.1
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Night Train to Lisbon

Night Train to Lisbon

2013 · 1h 51m · Movie

Swiss Professor Raimund Gregorius abandons his lectures and buttoned-down life to embark on a thrilling adventure that will take him on a journey to the very heart of himself.

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The American Friend

The American Friend

1977 · 2h 8m · Movie

Tom Ripley, who deals in forged art, suggests a picture framer he knows would make a good hit man.

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Heidi

Heidi

2015 · 1h 51m · Movie

A story of a young girl who lives in the Swiss Alps with her goat herding Grandfather.

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Luther

Luther

2003 · 2h 3m · Movie

During the early sixteenth century, idealistic German monk Martin Luther, disgusted by the materialism in the Catholic Church, begins the dialogue that will lead to the Protestant Reformation.

6.6
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Eternity and a Day

Eternity and a Day

1998 · 2h 17m · Movie

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.

7.9
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Youth Without Youth

Youth Without Youth

2007 · 2h 4m · Movie

A love story wrapped in a mystery. Set in World War II Europe, a professor is changed by a cataclysmic event and explores the mysteries of life.

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Bread and Tulips

Bread and Tulips

2000 · 1h 54m · Movie

After being forgotten in a highway café during a bus trip, a housewife decides to start a new life by herself in Venice.

7.3
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Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas

Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas

2013 · 2h 2m · Movie

In the 16th century in the Cévennes, a horse dealer by the name of Michael Kohlhaas leads a happy family life. When a lord treats him unjustly, he raises an army and puts the country to fire and sword in order to have his rights r...

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Faraway, So Close!

Faraway, So Close!

1993 · 2h 20m · Movie

A group of angels in the German capital look longingly upon the life of humans.

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Vitus

Vitus

2006 · 2h 3m · Movie

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.

7.6
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The Tobacconist

The Tobacconist

2018 · 1h 57m · Movie

Based on the international bestseller by Robert Seethaler. A tender, heart-breaking story about one young man and his friendship with Sigmund Freud during the Nazi occupation of Vienna....

6.5
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In the White City

In the White City

1983 · 1h 48m · Movie

A Swiss sailor abandons his post during a stopover in Lisbon and takes up residence in a small hotel in the city.

7.3
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Amnesia

Amnesia

2015 · 1h 36m · Movie

Jo has come to Ibiza to be a DJ in the club Amnesia. He befriends a solitary woman who's trying to forget her past. As Jo draws her into techno music, Martha puts everything she had previously lived by into question.

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The Last Days of Chez Nous

The Last Days of Chez Nous

1992 · 1h 36m · Movie

Vicki returns to her elder sister Beth's house in Australia after an affair in Italy. Beth, with a teenage daughter, has become involved in something of a marriage of convenience with Frenchman J.P., and her rather prickly housepr...

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Hands Up!

Hands Up!

1985 · 1h 20m · Movie

Four young men and a woman reunite on a freight train ten years after completing their medical studies. They reminisce about their shared past, when Poland was ruled by implacable Stalinism.

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The Left-Handed Woman

The Left-Handed Woman

1978 · 1h 59m · Movie

After returning from a business trip in Finland, Bruno (Bruno Ganz) find that his wife Marianne (Edith Clever) wants her husband to leave her alone with their son. A struggle with loneliness and adapting to the new situation ensues.

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Retour à la bien-aimée

Retour à la bien-aimée

1979 · 1h 38m · Movie

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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Von einem der auszog - Wim Wenders' frühe Jahre

Von einem der auszog - Wim Wenders' frühe Jahre

2008 · 1h 36m · Movie

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 W...

7.5
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The Witness

The Witness

2019 · 1h 53m · Movie

An action drama about an enthusiastic junior officer from the Hague War Tribunal in pursuit of justice.

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