Direction: Wolfgang Petersen

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


Direction Wolfgang Petersen

Cast Jürgen Prochnow · Herbert Grönemeyer · Klaus Wennemann · Hubertus Bengsch

Synopsis TV Miniserie (1985-1987). 3 episodes. A World War II German U-Boat crew have a terrifying patrol mission in the early days of the war.

8.0

98 votes

8.0

98 votes

The Boat

1981 · Movie · 150 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Wolfgang Petersen

Cast Jürgen Prochnow · Herbert Grönemeyer · Klaus Wennemann · Hubertus Bengsch

Synopsis With the once-feared wolfpacks reduced to 12 lone U-boats, Captain Lehmann-Willenbrock (Jürgen Prochnow) sets out once more to hunt allied shipping. Now it's a different story - German air support and intelligence is weak, and British destroyers seem to be...

7.7

22K votes

7.7

22K votes

Direction Wolfgang Petersen

Cast Barret Oliver · Noah Hathaway · Moses Gunn · Tami Stronach

Synopsis The German Wolfgang Petersen (Das Boot, In the Line of Fire) made his first English-language film with this 1984 fantasy about a boy (Barret Oliver) visualizing the stories of a book he's reading. The imagined tale involves another boy, a...

6.9

97K votes

6.9

97K votes

In the Line of Fire

1993 · Movie · 135 min. · United States

Direction Wolfgang Petersen

Cast Clint Eastwood · John Malkovich · René Russo · Dylan McDermott

Synopsis Aging secret service agent Frank Horrigan (Clint Eastwood), on duty the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, is still unable to forget his failure on that fateful day, even as he nears retirement in 1993. When Mitch Leary...

6.7

19K votes

6.7

19K votes

Enemy Mine

1985 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction Wolfgang Petersen

Cast Dennis Quaid · Louis Gossett Jr. · Brion James · Richard Marcus

Synopsis During a bloody battle, two warring ships crash on a barren planet, with only one survivor from each ship. At first, the human pilot and the lizardlike Drac continue to fight, but the planet's harsh climate and the need to...

6.6

11K votes

6.6

11K votes

Troy

2004 · Movie · 163 min. · United States

Direction Wolfgang Petersen

Cast Brad Pitt · Eric Bana · Orlando Bloom · Brian Cox

Synopsis Based on the epic poem 'The Iliad' by Homer, the film follows the assault on Troy by the united Greek forces and chronicles the fates of the men involved. The war started when young Trojan prince Paris (Orlando Bloom) seduces...

6.5

82K votes

6.5

82K votes

The Consequence

1977 · Movie · 100 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Wolfgang Petersen

Cast Jürgen Prochnow · Ernst Hannawald · Werner Schwuchow · Hans-Michael Rehberg

Synopsis Thomas is the son of a prison warden. He falls for and seduces Martin, who is older and one of the prison inmates. After Martin is released, They try to build a relationship and a life together but, no one...

6.4

63 votes

6.4

63 votes

6.3

4K 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

Synopsis 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

Outbreak

1995 · Movie · 127 min. · United States

Direction Wolfgang Petersen

Cast Dustin Hoffman · René Russo · Morgan Freeman · Kevin Spacey

Synopsis Colonel Sam Daniels, head of the US Army’s viral outbreak crisis centre USARMIID in Maryland, is sent to investigate an outbreak of hemorrhagic fever in Zaire. Daniels is then persuaded by his military superiors to regard the virus as non-lethal....

5.7

15K votes

5.7

15K votes

The Perfect Storm

2000 · Movie · 129 min. · United States

Direction Wolfgang Petersen

Cast George Clooney · Mark Wahlberg · Diane Lane · John C. Reilly

Synopsis Billy Tyne is a sword-fishing-boat captain out of Gloucester, highly competitive and stung by a string of poor outings. His crew is hardly back in port when he tells them he's going out again, even though it's October and the...

5.6

57K votes

5.6

57K votes

Poseidon

2006 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Wolfgang Petersen

Cast Josh Lucas · Kurt Russell · Emmy Rossum · Jacinda Barrett

Synopsis A remake of the 1972 disaster classic, about a luxury ocean liner that capsizes from a colossal tidal wave, leaving it's survivors to fend for themselves as they find a way out. It's New Year's Eve and festivities have begun...

5.1

17K votes

5.1

17K votes

Vier gegen die Bank

2016 · Movie · 96 min. · Germany

Direction Wolfgang Petersen

Cast Antje Traue · Alexandra Maria Lara · Til Schweiger · Jana Pallaske

Synopsis Four men, betrayed by the bank, unite to take revenge.

4.8

280 votes

4.8

280 votes

Air Force One

1997 · Movie · 124 min. · United States

Direction Wolfgang Petersen

Cast Harrison Ford · Gary Oldman · Glenn Close · William H. Macy

Synopsis President James Marshall (Harrison Ford) is one of the most respected leaders in the history of America. When Kazakhstanian separatists commit atrocities on their own people, Marshall authorizes a guerrilla mission to take their leader, General Radek (Jürgen Prochnow), into...

4.5

27K votes

4.5

27K votes

Direction Wolfgang Petersen

Cast Wolf Roth · Ursula Sieg · Tilly Zinner · Ingrid Oppermann

Synopsis A young woman takes the train to Berlin. She wants to kill her friend Wolf, a theater actor. When the woman meets him, he tells her about his weird wife.

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Direction Wolfgang Petersen

Cast Frank Finlay · Judy Winter · Helmut Käutner · Hans Helmut Dickow

Synopsis Dutch police officer Van der Valk is pulled away for a private investigation for a friend of the chief of police to find the missing junior manager. When he gets to know his woman, he is fascinated by the thought...

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Direction Wolfgang Petersen

Cast Jürgen Prochnow · Tilo Prückner · Ingmar Zeisberg · Christiane Domschke

Synopsis When Hans wakes up one morning, he realizes that he is longer than his bed, his feet sticking out over the edge of the bed. The young man remembers his happy childhood. Hans knows it's time to leave home

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Die rote Fahne (S)

1968 · Documentary · 12 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Carlos Bustamante · Gerd Conradt · Harun Farocki · Holger Meins

Cast Thomas Giefer · Thomas Mitscherlich · Rüdiger Minow · Kai Ehlers

Synopsis A red flag is carried in the middle of the busy Berlin streets in a relay race through the city. The relay race, in which a total of 15 people are involved, begins in the Schloßstraße in the Berlin district...

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Direction Wolfgang Petersen

Cast Walter Kohut · Harald Leipnitz · Herbert Bötticher · Günther Neutze

Synopsis One evening, the once successful architect Helmut is tired of the recession giving no jobs, he gets the idea of robbing a bank. He recruits members of his golf club that are not paying their fees.

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