Screenplay: Christian Petzold

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Christian Petzold. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Afire

2023 · Movie · 102 min. · Germany

Direction Christian Petzold

Cast Thomas Schubert · Paula Beer · Langston Uibel · Enno Trebs

Plot A hot, dry summer, like so many in recent years. Forest fires are uncontrollable. Four young people meet in a holiday home on the Baltic Sea not far from Ahrenshoop....

6.8

642 votes

6.8

642 votes

Something to Remind Me (TV)

2001 · Movie · 90 min. · Germany

Direction Christian Petzold

Cast Nina Hoss · Andre Hennicke · Sven Pippig · Kathrin Angerer

Plot Middle-aged lawyer Thomas (André Hennicke) meets Leyla (Nina Hoss), a younger cold reserved pretty blonde, in a suburban swimming-pool. Thomas falls in love with her and, after their paths keep...

6.8

47 votes

6.8

47 votes

Wolfsburg

2003 · Movie · 90 min. · Germany

Direction Christian Petzold

Cast Benno Fürmann · Nina Hoss · Antje Westermann · Astrid Meyerfeldt

Plot Car salesman Phillip Wagner is driving along an asphalted dirt track used by the locals as a short cut to Wolfsburg. He is having an argument on the telephone with...

6.8

173 votes

6.8

173 votes

Die Beischlafdiebin (TV)

1998 · Movie · 88 min. · Germany

Direction Christian Petzold

Cast Constanze Engelbrecht · Nele Mueller-Stöfen · Wolfram Berger · Richy Müller

Plot Petra professionally works as a thief abroad to finance the studies of her younger sister Franziska in Germany.

6.7

23 votes

6.7

23 votes

The State I Am In

2000 · Movie · 106 min. · Germany

Direction Christian Petzold

Cast Julia Hummer · Barbara Auer · Richy Müller · Bilge Bingul

Plot Clara and Hans are left-wing terrorists, who are chased by the police since almost fifteen years. The puberty of her increasingly rebellious daughter Jeanne imposes a threat on their security,...

6.7

207 votes

6.7

207 votes

Gespenster (Ghosts)

2005 · Movie · 85 min. · Germany

Direction Christian Petzold

Cast Julia Hummer · Sabine Timoteo · Marianne Basler · Aurélien Recoing

Plot Nina, an end-of-teenage orphan with mental problems, starts a new job as a garden cleaner when she meets Toni. They fell in love with each other, but soon Toni starts...

6.4

193 votes

6.4

193 votes

Barbara

2012 · Movie · 100 min. · Germany

Direction Christian Petzold

Cast Nina Hoss · Ronald Zehrfeld · Rainer Bock · Jasna Fritzi Bauer

Plot East Germany. Barbara has requested a departure permit. It is the summer of 1980. She is a physician and is transferred, for disciplinary reasons, to a small hospital far away...

6.4

3K votes

6.4

3K votes

Phoenix

2014 · Movie · 94 min. · Germany

Direction Christian Petzold

Cast Nina Hoss · Ronald Zehrfeld · Uwe Preuss · Nina Kunzendorf

Plot A spellbinding mystery of identity, illusion, and deception unfolds against the turmoil of post-World War II Germany. Nelly Lenz, a German-Jewish nightclub singer, has survived a concentration camp, but with...

6.4

3K votes

6.4

3K votes

Jerichow

2008 · Movie · 93 min. · Germany

Direction Christian Petzold

Cast Nina Hoss · Benno Fürmann · Hilmi Sözer · Claudia Geisler

Plot The dishonorably discharged war veteran Thomas returns to his home village of Jerichow. Ali, a local Turkish-German businessman, owner of a snack-bar chain, hires him as a driver. That's when...

6.3

255 votes

6.3

255 votes

Undine

2020 · Movie · 89 min. · Germany

Direction Christian Petzold

Cast Paula Beer · Franz Rogowski · Maryam Zaree · Jacob Matschenz

Plot Undine is a city guide in Berlin.But when the man she loves leaves her, the ancient myth catches up with her. Undine has to kill the man who betrays her...

6.2

1K votes

6.2

1K votes

Beats Being Dead (TV)

2011 · Movie · 88 min. · Germany

Direction Christian Petzold

Cast Jacob Matschenz · Luna Mijovic · Vijessna Ferkic · Rainer Bock

Plot Johannes is a loner who wants a better job. And then he meets Ana. Ana is attractive and even though her job is even less prestigious than Johannes's, he falls...

6.1

133 votes

6.1

133 votes

Transit

2018 · Movie · 97 min. · Germany

Direction Christian Petzold

Cast Franz Rogowski · Paula Beer · Godehard Giese · Lilien Batman

Plot When a man flees France after the Nazi invasion, he assumes the identity of a dead author whose papers he possesses. Stuck in Marseilles, he meets a young woman desperate...

6.1

942 votes

6.1

942 votes

Yella

2007 · Movie · 89 min. · Germany

Direction Christian Petzold

Cast Nina Hoss · Devid Striesow · Hinnerk Schönemann · Christian Redl

Plot Yella (Nina Hoss) is estranged from her possessive and violent husband; but he can't quite bring himself to give her up. When their fraught interaction finally comes to dramatic conclusion,...

6.0

230 votes

6.0

230 votes

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Police Call 110: Wolves (TV)

2016 · Movie · 90 min. · Germany

Direction Christian Petzold

Cast Matthias Brandt · Barbara Auer · Sebastian Hülk · Michael Witte

Plot Two detectives get involved in a strange case of wolves attacking people in a remote bavarian village.

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Not rated

Ostwärts (S)

1991 · Documentary · 24 min. · Germany

Direction Christian Petzold

Plot Shortly after German reunification, three residents of a quiet area north of Berlin talk about their plans and attempts at new economic beginnings amid the changes brought by the fall...

Not rated

Not rated

Police Call 110: Tatorte (TV)

2018 · Movie · 88 min. · Germany

Direction Christian Petzold

Cast Matthias Brandt · Barbara Auer · Maryam Zaree · Bettina Mittendorfer

Plot A lovelorn detective engages in bickering matches with his ex and his rookie sidekick while solving a brutal murder.

Not rated

Not rated

Not rated

Pilots (TV)

1995 · Movie · 68 min. · Germany

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Not rated

Süden (S)

1990 · Documentary · 10 min. · Germany

Direction Christian Petzold

Plot A lonesome car. The wind is whistling. A door of an undefined building opens-is it a holiday bungalow, a shed or a ruin? A woman is standing at the window....

Not rated

Not rated