Direction: Wolfgang Petersen
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Wolfgang Petersen. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Titles found: 23
Das Boot (TV Miniseries)
1985 · Series · 293 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
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
The NeverEnding Story
1984 · Movie · 94 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
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
Shattered
1991 · Movie · 106 min. · United States
Direction Wolfgang Petersen
Cast Tom Berenger · Greta Scacchi · Bob Hoskins · Joanne Whalley
6.3
4K votes
6.3
4K votes
Black and White Like Day and Night (TV)
1978 · Movie · 103 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Wolfgang Petersen
Cast Bruno Ganz · Gila von Weitershausen · René Deltgen · Ljuba Tadic
6.3
178 votes
6.3
178 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
I Will Kill You, Wolf
1971 · Movie · 60 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
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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Van der Valk und die Reichen (TV)
1973 · Movie · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
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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Hans im Glück (TV)
1976 · Movie · 97 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
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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Vier gegen die Bank (TV)
1976 · Movie · 95 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
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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