Direction: Wolfgang Becker
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Wolfgang Becker. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Good Bye, Lenin!
2003 · Movie · 118 min. · Germany
Direction Wolfgang Becker
Cast Daniel Brühl · Katrin Saß · Chulpan Khamatova · Maria Simon
Plot October 1989 was a bad time to fall into a coma if you lived in East Germany -- and this is precisely what happens to Alex's proudly socialist mother. Alex...
7.6
76K votes
7.6
76K votes
Life is All You Get
1997 · Movie · 116 min. · Germany
Direction Wolfgang Becker
Cast Jürgen Vogel · Christiane Paul · Ricky Tomlinson · Armin Rohde
Plot The political and social upheaval of the reunification of Germany provides the backdrop for this romantic comedy-drama. Jan Nebel (Jurgen Vogel), a young slaughterhouse worker who doesn't like to work...
6.8
369 votes
6.8
369 votes
Tatort (TV Series)
1970 · Series · 90 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Hartmut Griesmayr · Hajo Gies · Theo Mezger · Peter Schulze-Rohr
Cast Klaus J. Behrendt · Miroslav Nemec · Udo Wachtveitl · Peter Sodann
Plot TV Series (1970-Today). A very famous and long running German cop show, where detectives work to solve a crime.
6.3
101 votes
6.3
101 votes
Me and Kaminski
2015 · Movie · 124 min. · Germany
Direction Wolfgang Becker
Cast Daniel Brühl · Jesper Christensen · Amira Casar · Denis Lavant
Plot In Ich & Kaminsky, a vain but unsuccessful cultural critic plans to write a biography about an aged artist who once caused furore in the art world as a blind...
5.9
88 votes
5.9
88 votes
Peter Voss, der Millionendieb
1958 · Movie · 110 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Wolfgang Becker
Cast O.W. Fischer · Ingrid Andree · Margit Saad · Mara Lane
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Derrick (TV Series)
1974 · Series · 60 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Theodor Grädler · Helmut Ashley · Zbynek Brynych · Alfred Weidenmann
Cast Horst Tappert · Fritz Wepper · Willy Schäfer · Dirk Galuba
Plot Stephan Derrick is "Oberinspektor" at the Munich police. Together with his assistant Harry Klein he has to solve murder cases. This series is more based on psychological methods to find...
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Germany 09: 13 Short Films About the State of the Nation
2009 · Movie · 147 min. · Germany
Direction Tom Tykwer · Fatih Akin · Wolfgang Becker · Sylke Enders
Cast Adriana Altaras · Bernhard Baron Boneberg · Josef Bierbichler · Bernd Birkhahn
Plot Thirteen noted German filmmakers offer their impressions of the past, present and future of the land they call home in this anthology. Coordinated by Tom Tykwer, Deutschland 09, 13 kurze...
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Child's Play
1992 · Movie · 111 min. · Germany
Direction Wolfgang Becker
Cast Angelika Bartsch · Oliver Bröcker · Jürgen Vogel · Burghart Klaußner
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Mutiny in the South Seas
1965 · Movie · 105 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Wolfgang Becker
Cast Joachim Hansen · Harald Juhnke · Horst Niendorf · Gisella Arden
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Schmetterlinge
1988 · Movie · 57 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Wolfgang Becker
Cast Bertram von Boxberg · Lena Boehncke · Dieter Oberholz · Uwe Helfrich
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Der Kommissar (TV Series)
1969 · Series · 60 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Theodor Grädler · Wolfgang Becker · Dietrich Haugk · Wolfgang Staudte
Cast Erik Ode · Reinhard Glemnitz · Günther Schramm · Rosemarie Fendel
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Welcome to São Paulo
2004 · Documentary · 100 min. · Brazil
Direction Leon Cakoff · Wolfgang Becker · Renata de Almeida · María de Medeiros
Plot The city of São Paulo, as seen through the lenses of 13 directors.
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Die Vorstadtkrokodile (TV)
1977 · Movie · 88 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Wolfgang Becker
Cast Wolfgang Sieling · Rita Ramachers · Thomas Bohnen · Thomas Müller
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Riviera-Story
1961 · Movie · 86 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Wolfgang Becker
Cast Ulla Jacobsson · Wolfgang Preiss · Hartmut Reck · Adeline Wagner
Plot The film is a love story in the style of those times, involving a middle-aged businessman (Wolfgang Preiss) from Hamburg (Hamburg in 1961 is also seen in a short sequence),...
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