Direction: Percy Adlon

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Percy Adlon. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Bagdad Cafe

1987 · Movie · 91 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Percy Adlon

Cast Marianne Sägebrecht · Jack Palance · Christine Kaufmann · CCH Pounder

Plot A German woman, abandoned by her husband while traveling in the Nevada desert, forms an unlikely alliance with a black American woman. Out of Rosenheim (Bagdad Café) is a look...

7.0

5K votes

7.0

5K votes

Mahler on the Couch

2010 · Movie · 98 min. · Germany

Direction Felix Adlon · Percy Adlon

Cast Johannes Silberschneider · Barbara Romaner · Karl Markovics · Friedrich Mücke

Plot Two legendary Austrians come face to face under less than ideal circumstances in this comedy-drama from the father and son directing team of Percy Adlon and Felix Adlon. Gustav Mahler...

6.5

75 votes

6.5

75 votes

Sugarbaby

1985 · Movie · 86 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Percy Adlon

Cast Marianne Sägebrecht · Eisi Gulp · Toni Berger · Manuela Denz

Plot In a large city lives a lonesome, 38-year old woman. Without friends, she has indulged in food and candy too much and has become a bit overweight. In short, she...

6.2

310 votes

6.2

310 votes

Rosalie Goes Shopping

1988 · Movie · 94 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

5.9

257 votes

5.9

257 votes

Salmonberries

1991 · Movie · 95 min. · Germany

Direction Percy Adlon

Cast Rosel Zech · K.D. Lang · Eugene Omiak · Wayne Waterman

Plot A woman who grew up in a small town in Alaska goes to the public library to try and find out who her parents were. She was brought to town...

5.7

68 votes

5.7

68 votes

The Swing

1983 · Movie · 133 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Percy Adlon

Cast Anja Jaenicke · Lena Stolze · Joachim Bernhard · Susanne Herlet

Plot The Swing is the story of three sisters in a middle-class German family fallen on hard times, set just before the First World War.

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Hawaiian Gardens

2001 · Movie · 110 min. · Germany

Direction Percy Adlon

Cast André Eisermann · Valeria Hernandez · Richard Bradford · Shareen Mitchell

Plot 17-year-old Rosa lives in an offbeat LA beach town with her mother and her mom's lover Bruno. Bruno is a cult novelist. German millionaire Baldi also lives in this community...

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Last Five Days

1982 · Movie · 112 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

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Red Hot and Blue (TV)

1990 · Documentary · 88 min. · Ireland

Direction Percy Adlon · David Byrne · Alex Cox · Jonathan Demme

Cast Afrika Bambaataa · Bono · David Byrne · Neneh Cherry

Plot Modern pop performers reinterpreting several songs of Cole Porter in music videos directed by established directors.

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Céleste

1980 · Movie · 107 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Percy Adlon

Cast Eva Mattes · Jürgen Arndt · Norbert Wartha · Wolf Euba

Plot In 1914, with men gone to war, Marcel Proust hired Céleste Albaret as his attendant. More than eight years later, she was at his side when he died. During this...

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