Sort by IMDb Rating - Highest Rated Movies and TV Shows With Bruno Ganz
- Job Types
- Movies or TV
- Genres
- Keywords
- IMDb Rating
- Instant Watch Options
- In Theaters
- Release Year
1. Eine große Familie (1970 TV Movie)
125 min | Drama
Director: Peter Beauvais | Stars: Bruno Ganz, Erika Deutinger, Barbie Millowitsch-Steinhaus, Nikolaus Schilling
Votes: 18
2. Die Schlacht bei Lobositz (1968 TV Movie)
120 min | Drama, War
Director: Franz Peter Wirth | Stars: Bruno Ganz, Harald Leipnitz, Ernst Fritz Fürbringer, Regine Lutz
Votes: 17
3. Die Wette (1990 TV Movie)
80 min | Comedy, Crime
The bet.
Director: Martin Walz | Stars: Rudolf Hrusínský, Beatrice Manowski, Thomas Wolff, Bruno Ganz
Votes: 23
4. Das Jahrhundert des Theaters (2002– )
60 min
From the "birth of the director" to the "heroes of modernity" - an overview of the world of theater - illuminates the interaction with the history of the past hundred years is also shown.
Stars: Esther Schweins, Otto Sander, Gert Voss, Peter Stein
Votes: 11
5. Claudio Abbado - Die Stille hören (2003 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 67 min | Documentary, Biography
Claudio Abbado - Hearing the Silence conveys an intensely moving view on one of the leading musicians of our time. In several interviews, Abbado talks about artistic, musical and ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Smaczny | Stars: Claudio Abbado, Kolja Blacher, Péter Esterházy, Bruno Ganz
Votes: 21
6. The Big Ben Cinematic Universe (2018– )
10 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
The BBCU (Big Ben Cinematic Universe) is a web series about various topics and people, they take part in lots of life-threatening situations.
Stars: Ben Woodhall, Cole Egerton, Ryan Liu, Jack Colemen
Votes: 7
7. Zur Person (1963–2004)
Talk-Show
One person was interviewed by a German television broadcaster, in the Günter Gaus celebrity, special politician.
Stars: Günter Gaus, Egon Bahr, Günter Grass, Christa Wolf
Votes: 15
8. Peer Gynt (1971 TV Movie)
310 min | Drama
Peer Gynt chronicles the journey of its titular character from the Norwegian mountains to the North African desert.
Stars: Edith Clever, Jutta Lampe, Michael König, Bruno Ganz
Votes: 22
9. Hitlers letzte Tage - Der Film 'Der Untergang' (2004 TV Movie)
58 min | Documentary
Director: Eckhart Schmidt | Stars: Rainer Klausmann, Bernd Lepel, Christine Rothe, Christian Berkel
Votes: 71
10. Heller Tag (1994)
85 min | Drama
Goerge has a fatal illness. He is frightened by his pending death and is alone in his fear. During the short period he still has to live, many changes happen to him.
Director: Andre Nitzschke | Stars: Christian Blümel, Werner Dissel, Engel, Bruno Ganz
Votes: 14
11. 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: 375,717 | Gross: $5.51M
12. Universum (1987– )
45 min | Documentary
A wide variety of documentary subjects, from animals (dragonflies, ants) to people (Genghis Khan) to science (time, perception) to places (St. Stephens Cathedral, Umbria). The style is ... See full summary »
Stars: Otto Clemens, Cornelius Obonya, Gregor Seberg, Peter Faerber
Votes: 153
13. Der Ignorant und der Wahnsinnige (1972 TV Movie)
120 min | Drama
Director: Claus Peymann | Stars: Angela Schmid, Ulrich Wildgruber, Bruno Ganz, Maria Singer
Votes: 14
14. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust II (2001 TV Movie)
1,320 min | Drama
TV broadcast of a performance of the Faust-Ensemble at the Arena in Berlin, 2000.
Director: Thomas Grimm | Stars: Rolf Boysen, Bruno Ganz, Stephan Baumecker, Dorothee Hartinger
Votes: 47
15. The Architecture of Doom (1989)
Not Rated | 119 min | Documentary, History
An absorbing and chilling documentary about the National Socialist aesthetic, and how attempts to create the Aryan Ideal caused the extermination of millions. Aspects covered include: ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Cohen | Stars: Rolf Arsenius, Bruno Ganz, Sam Gray, Martin Bormann
Votes: 1,137
16. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust I (2001 TV Movie)
287 min | Drama
Mephistopheles, knowing Faust's dissatisfaction, makes a wager with the Lord that he, the Devil, can win Faust's soul. Thus it comes about that Faust in his experiments with the supernatural conjures up the Devil himself.
Director: Peter Schönhofer | Stars: Rolf Boysen, Bruno Ganz, Christian Nickel, Robert Hunger-Bühler
Votes: 35
17. Torquato Tasso (I) (1969 TV Movie)
135 min | Drama
Director: Martin Batty | Stars: Wolfgang Schwarz, Jutta Lampe, Edith Clever, Bruno Ganz
Votes: 9
18. 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: 77,235 | Gross: $3.33M
19. 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: 14,466 | Gross: $0.11M
20. Brot (2011)
18 min | Short, Drama
Shortly after World War II, an elderly married couple experience an unusual night... a night that has yet to reveal how the war has affected the two of them.
Director: Ahmet Tas | Stars: Bruno Ganz, Angela Winkler
Votes: 14
21. Es Dach überem Chopf (1962)
106 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Kurt Früh | Stars: Zarli Carigiet, Valerie Steinmann, Erika Halm, Gion Janett
Votes: 75
22.
Universum (1987– )
Episode:
St. Stephan - Der lebende Dom
(1997)
45 min | Documentary
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 astonishing natural areas in Austria. Georg ... See full summary »
Director: Georg Riha | Stars: Bruno Ganz, Malcolm Penny
Votes: 8
23. 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: 43
24. 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: 260,241 | Gross: $34.19M
25. 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: 5,192 | Gross: $0.19M
26. Väter und Söhne - Eine deutsche Tragödie (1986– )
480 min | Drama
Follows two wealthy families in Germany during the first half of the 20th century. One of them is German, the other one Jewish.
Stars: Julie Christie, Tina Engel, Dieter Laser, Rüdiger Vogler
Votes: 89
27. 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: 68
28. 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: 27,891 | Gross: $0.64M
29. Charlie Rose (1991–2017)
60 min | News, Talk-Show
Charlie Rose interviews noteworthy people in fields including politics and government, business and economics, science and technology, media, sports and the arts.
Stars: Charlie Rose, Mark Halperin, Al Hunt, Thomas Friedman
Votes: 1,166
30. Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us (2003 Video)
43 min | Documentary, Short
This is a documentary about the making of Wings of Desire (1987). The director, writer, actors, composer and other contributors speak at length and in detail about how the award-winning film was devised, cast, filmed, scored and edited.
Director: J.M. Kenny | Stars: Peter Falk, Bruno Ganz, Peter Handke, Jürgen Knieper
Votes: 105
31. 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
32. Gedächtnis: Ein Film für Curt Bois und Bernhard Minetti (1982)
90 min | Documentary
Directors: Bruno Ganz, Otto Sander | Stars: Curt Bois, Bernhard Minetti, Otto Sander, Bruno Ganz
Votes: 18
33. 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: 28,249
34. 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: 40,629
35. 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: 18,653
36. 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: 7,123
37. 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
38. 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
39. Logik des Gefühls (1982)
95 min | Drama
Director: Ingo Kratisch | Stars: Sabine Andreas, Gerd David, Bruno Ganz, Klaus Hoffmann
Votes: 12
40. Etwas wird sichtbar (1981)
114 min | Drama
Director: Harun Farocki | Stars: Marcel Werner, Hanns Zischler, Inga Humpe, Bruno Ganz
Votes: 28
41. Epoca: The Making of History (2002)
90 min | Documentary, History, War
Directors: Andreas Hoessli, Isabella Huser | Stars: Vladimir B. Barkovsky, Joel Barr, Bruno Ganz, Jerzy Konieczny
Votes: 15
42. 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: 40,158 | Gross: $0.48M
43. 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: 10,086 | Gross: $5.31M
44. 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: 1,415
45. 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: 1,602
46. The Naked King (2019)
108 min | Documentary, History
A documentary about the revolutions in 1979 and 1980 in Iran and Poland.
Director: Andreas Hoessli | Stars: Amir Hassan Cheheltan, Tadeusz Chetko, Massoumeh Ebtekar, Bruno Ganz
Votes: 23
47. Der Bernd (2012)
90 min | Documentary
Director: Carlos Gerstenhauer | Stars: Jean-Jacques Annaud, Stefan Aust, Oliver Berben, Moritz Bleibtreu
Votes: 24
48. 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: 9,134 | Gross: $0.81M
49. 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
50. 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: 29,171 | Gross: $0.05M