Bruno Ganz Archives

The Boys From Brazil (1978)

Rating: ★★

Jun 4, 2008Nazi Cloning Experiments

Big-budget thrillers with Nazi villains were popular in the 70s. This pits acting legends Laurence Olivier and Gregory Peck on opposite sides in a conceptually ingenious plot about the attempts to clone Hitler

Director: Franklin J. Schaffner

Actors: Laurence Olivier, Gregory Peck, James Mason, Steve Guttenberg, …

Category: Science Fiction

4 June 200821 November 2021 by Roog

Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)

Rating: ★★★★

Feb 5, 2003Dracula Adaptation

Werner Herzog conducts a remake of the silent German classic with Klaus Kinski as Dracula. A very different film to the original but quite unique in Herzog's individualistic way

Director: Werner Herzog

Actors: Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani, Bruno Ganz, Roland Topor

Category: Horror

5 February 200322 January 2025 by Roog

Wings of Desire (1987)

Rating: ★★★★★

Nov 1, 2002Angels

Wim Wenders' exquisitely lovely film about angels that hover over West Berlin invisibly observing the human condition. One of the most beautiful of all paeans to the human condition.

Director: Wim Wenders

Actors: Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Peter Falk, Otto Sander

Category: Fantasy

1 November 200228 November 2025 by Roog

Faraway, So Close! (1993)

Rating: ★★★★½

Nov 21, 2001Angels

Wim Wenders returns to angels in this sequel to Wings of Desire, along with most of the cast. Again Wenders delivers a work of haunting beauty about the angels invisibly looking in on humanity

Director: Wim Wenders

Actors: Otto Sander, Willem Dafoe, Nastassja Kinski, Horst Buccholz, …

Category: Fantasy

21 November 200121 October 2025 by Roog

The Manchurian Candidate (2004)

Rating: ★★½

Nov 8, 2004Brainwashed Assassin/Political Thriller

Remake of the classic Cold War thriller from Jonathan Demme that has been updated for the era of George W. Bush

Director: Jonathan Demme

Actors: Denzel Washington, Liev Schreiber, Meryl Streep, Kimberly Elise, …

Category: Science Fiction

8 November 20048 March 2025 by Roog

Youth Without Youth (2007)

Rating: ★★

Apr 4, 2009Man Regains His Youth

Francis Ford Coppola film that came out the same time as The Case of Benjamin Button where Tim Roth regains his youth after being hit by a lightning bolt

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Actors: Tim Roth, Alexandra Maria Lara, Bruno Ganz, Marcel Iures, …

Category: Fantasy

4 April 200911 May 2021 by Roog

The House That Jack Built (2018)

Rating: ★★★★

Feb 8, 2019Serial Killer

Lars von Trier, who I would argue is the best director at work in the world, makes a film about a serial killer. The results, as you might expect from von Trier, are outrageous, blackly funny and challengingly provocative

Director: Lars von Trier

Actors: Matt Dillon, Bruno Ganz, Uma Thurman, Siobhan Fallon Hogan, …

Category: Horror

8 February 20195 November 2025 by Roog