Direction: Michael Haneke

Direction Michael Haneke

Cast Jean-Louis Trintignant · Emmanuelle Riva · Isabelle Huppert · William Shimell

Plot Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has an...

Direction Michael Haneke

Cast Susanne Lothar · Ulrich Mühe · Arno Frisch · Frank Giering

Plot A powerfully graphic film (even though no violence is ever shown on the screen itself) about an Austrian family who goes on a country vacation and become the victims of...

Direction Michael Haneke

Cast Isabelle Huppert · Benoît Magimel · Annie Girardot · Anna Sigalevitch

Plot A young man romantically pursues his masochistic piano teacher.

Direction Michael Haneke

Cast Susanne Lothar · Ulrich Tukur · Leonard Proxauf · Burghart Klaußner

Plot Year 1913. Some inexplicable events disturb the quiet life of a German village, just before World War I. A cable has been put up to trip the doctor riding his...

Direction Michael Haneke

Cast Arno Frisch · Angela Winkler · Ulrich Mühe · Ingrid Strassner

Plot Benny's Video is the second in director Michael Haneke's trilogy exploring the role of violence and the media in modern Austrian society. A 14-year-old video enthusiast is so caught up...

Direction Michael Haneke

Cast Birgit Doll · Dieter Berner · Leni Tanzer · Udo Samel

Plot Haneke's first feature is a stylistic take on the anguish of boredom. The film follows three years in the lives of a professional middle class couple searching vainly for an...

Direction Michael Haneke

Cast Branko Samarovski · Judit Pogány · Thierry van Werveke · Deborah Wisniewski

Plot Vienna after the Monarchie (WW I). Andreas Plum has been a humble soldier. Now as a war-disabled person he receives a license to run a barrel-organ, which enables him to...

Direction Michael Haneke

Cast Gabriel Cosmin Urdes · Lukas Miko · Otto Grühandl · Anne Bennent

Plot The third of the trilogy examining the banality of violence in an impersonal modern society, 71 Fragments... looks at the haphazard series of events linking a killer and his victims....

Direction Michael Haneke

Cast Juliette Binoche · Luminita Gheorghiu · Thierry Neuvic · Ona Lu Yenke

Plot Paris. A crowded boulevard. Somebody drops a crumpled scrap of paper into the outstretched hand of a begging woman. The paper is the link that briefly connects the paths of...

Direction Michael Haneke

Cast Daniel Auteuil · Juliette Binoche · Maurice Bénichou · Annie Girardot

Plot Georges, who hosts a TV literary review, receives packages containing videos of himself with his family -- shot secretly from the street -- and alarming drawings whose meaning is obscure....

Direction Michael Haneke

Cast Anett Fritsch · Juan Francisco Gatell · Paola Gardina · Andreas Wolf

Plot Real Theatre from Madrid presents one of Mozarts' greatest opera staged by 2013 Oscar winner Michael Haneke.

Direction Michael Haneke

Cast Naomi Watts · Tim Roth · Michael Pitt · Brady Corbet

Plot Middle-class housewife Anna (Naomi Watts) of how she and her husband George (Tim Roth) and their 10-year-old son Georgie (Devon Gearhart) submitted both physically and mentally to the torture, violence,...

Direction Abbas Kiarostami · Hugh Hudson · David Lynch · John Boorman

Cast Romane Bohringer · Pascal Duquenne · Bruno Ganz · Neil Jordan

Plot In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Lumière brothers' first films, filmmakers Sarah Moon and Philippe Poulet challenged 39 renowned international directors to each complete a 52-second film using...

Direction Michael Haneke

Cast Isabelle Huppert · Jean-Louis Trintignant · Mathieu Kassovitz · Fantine Harduin

Plot A drama about a well-off French family living in a bourgeois bubble in northern France, oblivious to the human misery unfolding in migrant camps around the port town of Calais,...

Direction Michael Haneke

Cast Isabelle Huppert · Béatrice Dalle · Patrice Chéreau · Rona Hartner

Plot Immediately before a global catyclysm, Anna and her family arrive at their holiday home in the countryside only to find it is occupied by a group of complete strangers. This...

Direction Michael Haneke

Cast Ulrich Mühe · Susanne Lothar · André Eisermann · Johannes Silberschneider

Plot The Castle is Haneke's interpretation of Franz Kafka's unfinished prose piece of the same name. The film follows the efforts of a surveyor named 'K', as he wrangles with the...

Direction Michael Haneke

Cast Paulus Manker · Rolf Hoppe · Guido Wieland · Renzo Martini

Plot Made for German TV, this adaptation of Rosei's post-modern thriller views the generational conflict between father and son through the lens of the mystery genre. Despite the aesthetic limitations of...

Direction Michael Haneke

Cast Angelica Domröse · Péter Franke · Lou Castel · Heinz-Werner Kraehkamp

Plot Described as an answer to Fassbinder’s The Marriage of Maria Braun, Fraulein tells the story of a German woman and a former French prisoner of war living in 1950s Germany....

Direction Michael Haneke

Cast Ursula Schult · Guido Wieland · Walter Schmidinger · Bernhard Wicki

Direction Michael Haneke

Cast Regina Sattler · Christian Ingomar · Eva Linder · Christian Spatzek

Plot The dark mood is set in the first scene: the vandalizing of cars. At once a deeply anti-bourgeois impulse and an act that expresses the faceless anomie of the post-war...