Wolfgang Petersen

Four Against the Bank (2016)

After losing their respective nest eggs thanks to a bumbling bank employee, three men use him to plot a bold and batty heist to get their money back. ...

Poseidon (2006)

A packed cruise ship traveling the Atlantic is hit and overturned by a massive wave, compelling the passengers to begin a dramatic fight for their lives. ...

Troy (2004)

In year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age, two emerging nations begin to clash. Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was taken b ...

The Agency (2003)

The Agency receives word that Fidel Castro will be assassinated when he visits America and the CIA has 48 hours to stop the assassination. ...

The Perfect Storm (2000)

In October 1991, a confluence of weather conditions combined to form a killer storm in the North Atlantic. Caught in the storm was the sword-fishing boat Andrea Gail. ...

Bicentennial Man (1999)

Richard Martin buys a gift, a new NDR-114 robot. The product is named Andrew by the youngest of the family's children. "Bicentennial Man" follows the life and times of Andrew, a robot purchased as a household appliance programmed to perform menial tasks. A ...

Instinct (1999)

In a prison for the criminally insane, deranged anthropologist Ethan Powell is set to be examined by a bright young psychiatrist, Theo Caulder. Driven by ambition and a hunger for the truth, Caulder will eventually risk everything—even put his very life ...

Red Corner (1997)

An American attorney on business in China, ends up wrongfully on trial for murder and his only key to innocence is a female defense lawyer from the country. ...

Air Force One (1997)

When Russian neo-nationalists hijack Air Force One, the world's most secure and extraordinary aircraft, the President is faced with a nearly impossible decision to give in to terrorist demands or sacrifice not only the country's dignity, but the lives of h ...

Outbreak (1995)

A deadly airborne virus finds its way into the USA and starts killing off people at an epidemic rate. Col. Sam Daniels' job is to stop the virus spreading from a small town, which must be quarantined, and to prevent an over reaction by the White House. ...

In the Line of Fire (1993)

Veteran Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan is a man haunted by his failure to save President Kennedy while serving protection detail in Dallas. Thirty years later, a man calling himself "Booth" threatens the life of the current President, forcing Horrigan ...

Shattered (1991)

Dan Merrick comes out from a shattering car accident with amnesia. He finds that he is married to Judith who is trying to help him start his life again. He keeps getting flashbacks about events and places that he can't remember. He meets pet shop owner and ...

Enemy Mine (1985)

A soldier from Earth crashlands on an alien world after sustaining battle damage. Eventually he encounters another survivor, but from the enemy species he was fighting; they band together to survive on this hostile world. In the end the human finds himself ...

The NeverEnding Story (1984)

While hiding from bullies in his school's attic, a young boy discovers the extraordinary land of Fantasia, through a magical book called The Neverending Story. The book tells the tale of Atreyu, a young warrior who, with the help of a luck dragon named Fal ...

Das Boot (1981)

A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. The crew tries to survive below the surface, while stretching both the boat and themselves to their limits. ...

Black and White Like Day and Night (1978)

A scientist who swore off playing chess after a nervous breakdown as a boy wunderkind, creates an undefeated chess program. But the Russian world champ beats Tommy Rosemund's masterwork in a televised match. So the West German mathematician becomes a top c ...

The Consequence (1977)

Thomas, the son of a prison warden, falls for Martin, one of the prison inmates. After Martin is released, they try to build a relationship and a life together but, no one will leave them alone. ...

Planübung (1977)

A fictionalized version of a military training fight. ...

Four Against the Bank (1976)

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. ...

Hans in Luck (1976)

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. ...

Stellenweise Glatteis (1975)

Karl Maiwald, a Dortmund auto mechanic, struggles amid neighbor disputes and family tension. Discovering his company's clandestine bugging, he exposes management, expecting union backing. Yet the union's hidden ownership of the firm stuns him, as he realiz ...

Die Stadt im Tal (1975)

Pinned to the Ground (1974)

Two young oil salesmen from Hamburg, who are tasked with buying oil from the Middle East as cheaply as possible for their company, get caught up in a clash between a local gang of drug smugglers and the police. Each stage of this dangerous adventure could ...

One or the Other of Us (1974)

Psychological thriller that focuses on the intense conflict between a university professor and a blackmailer. ...

Van der Valk and the Rich (1973)

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 of running away with her. ...

Smog (1973)

Every day they clean the dirty windows of their cars from the filthy film that has formed overnight. Measuring stations call a low smog warning. But one day a soccer player collapses on the pitch with breathlessness. ...

I Will Kill You, Wolf (1971)

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. ...

Ich Nicht (1969)

A staging of a young man's liberation from his bourgeois confinement using only music and sounds. ...

The Cuckoo Years (1967)

Experimental fiction film about young people taking on different creative tasks. ...

The Foundling (1967)

The story centers on the Roman merchant Piacchi, who raises the foundling Nicolo after the death of his son and bequeaths all his possessions to the young man. However, the adopted son turns against Piacchi and his wife. ...

Der Eine - der Andere (1967)

One man interacts with an invisible orchestra, another one is stuck in a bin. ...

Stadt auf Stelzen (1965)

Directorial debut of Wolfgang Petersen ...

U-96, The True Story of 'Das Boot' (2023)

The international success of the film Das Boot by Wolfgang Petersen made U-96 one of the most famous submarines in cinematic history. But the true story of one of Hitler's most fearsome U-boats and its crew goes far beyond fiction. For the first time, this ...

Das Boot Revisited: An Underwater Success Story (2021)

In 1981, a film about the misadventures of a German U-boat crew in 1941 becomes a worldwide hit almost four decades after the end of the World War II. Millions of viewers worldwide make Das Boot the most internationally successful German film of all time. ...

Open Wounds – A Journey through German Genre Films (2017)

A documentary about German cinema from 1960 to 1990. It follows "Verfluchte Liebe deutscher Film. ...

Stardust Hollywood - Sternenstaub und Götterwelten (2013)

Documentary about Hollywood. ...

Der Bernd (2012)

Wolfgang Petersen: Back to the Boat (2011)

Author Gundolf S. Freyermuth goes Back to the Boat with director Wolfgang Petersen, star Jürgen Prochnow, and others to discuss the production of 'Das Boot'. ...

Filmlegenden. Deutsch (2005)

A parade of well-known actors and directors from Germany ...

Gottschalk meets Petersen (2005)

Starbuck Holger Meins (2002)

Twenty-five years after the death of Holger Meins, filmmaker and former student friend of the deceased, Gerd Conradt takes an in-depth look at the helmsman of the Baader-Meinhof gang. Who was Holger Meins? What led him into the underground? What circumstan ...

Hollywood, Germany - Die amerikanische Herausforderung (1996)

Documentary by Eckhart Schmidt. ...

The NeverEnding Story (1984)

While hiding from bullies in his school's attic, a young boy discovers the extraordinary land of Fantasia, through a magical book called The Neverending Story. The book tells the tale of Atreyu, a young warrior who, with the help of a luck dragon named Fal ...

Das Boot: Behind The Scenes (1981)

Comprehensive classic piece that looks at the process of creating the movie, told with a strong, well-constructed narrative that plays almost as a movie itself, a detailed retelling of how the movie was made and the dedication to authenticity that's eviden ...