Wolfgang Becker
Know for: Directing
Born: 1954-06-22
Place of birth: Hemer, Germany
Also know as:
Life Is All You Get (1997)
After he loses his job, his father, and his girlfriend, Jan's life is a shambles. Then suddenly he meets freakish street musician Vera, and a...
Daniel Brühl: Breaking Bad (2023)
A portrait of the Spanish-German actor Daniel Brühl, a versatile performer capable of moving easily from the gentlest to the darkest role.
Ernst Lubitsch in Berlin: From Schönhauser Allee to Hollywood (2006)
Featuring interviews with daughter Nicola Lubitsch, film historians Enno Patalas and Jan-Christopher Horak and filmmaker Tom Tykwer (among others),...
The Night of the Filmmakers (1995)
A meditation on the first 100 years of German cinema, featuring an assembly of German filmmakers.
Who is Helene Schwarz? (2005)
Only the chosen few know this woman who started working as a secretary for the German Film and Television Academy (DFFB) on 13 February, 1966. The...
A Lot of Coal (1981)
Adolf Winkelmann's cult movie "A Lot of Coal" tells the story of miner Katlewski. Katlewski is in his early 20s and a miner from Recklinghausen. He...
Good Bye, Lenin! (2003)
Alex Kerner's mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell. When she wakes up he must try to keep her from learning what happened (as she was an...
Good Bye, Lenin! (2003)
Alex Kerner's mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell. When she wakes up he must try to keep her from learning what happened (as she was an...
Life Is All You Get (1997)
After he loses his job, his father, and his girlfriend, Jan's life is a shambles. Then suddenly he meets freakish street musician Vera, and a...
Germany ’09 – 13 Short Films About the State of the Nation (2009)
Thirteen German directors present short films exploring the state of their country.
Nicht mit uns (1991)
Short-documentary by Wolfgang Becker
Child's Play (1993)
When Micha's mother leaves his irascible father, he tries to prevent their divorce by any means he can think of, but his attempts to hold the family...
Sturzflug (1989)
Two dockers from Lübeck get lost in the jungle during their vacation in Thailand. They have to face unexepected challenges coming their way.
Me and Kaminski (2015)
Young journalist Sebastian Zöllner is writing an article on artist Manuel Kaminski. Zöllner hopes that Kaminski dies soon, so that he can...
Child's Play (1993)
When Micha's mother leaves his irascible father, he tries to prevent their divorce by any means he can think of, but his attempts to hold the family...
Welcome to São Paulo (2004)
All the feature is given prestige to by the narration in Caetano Veloso's voice, that also signs one of the segments of the project. São Paulo...
Life Is All You Get (1997)
After he loses his job, his father, and his girlfriend, Jan's life is a shambles. Then suddenly he meets freakish street musician Vera, and a...
Child's Play (1993)
When Micha's mother leaves his irascible father, he tries to prevent their divorce by any means he can think of, but his attempts to hold the family...
Run Lola Run (1998)
Lola receives a phone call from her boyfriend Manni. He lost 100,000 DM in a subway train that belongs to a very bad guy. She has 20 minutes to raise...
Butterflies (1988)
The impassive gaze of a taciturn adolescent loner named Andi, sole witness to the drowning of a young girl in an overgrown, abandoned local canal.
Der Held vom Bahnhof Friedrichstraße (1970)
All his life, Michael Hartung, owner of a hopelessly debt-ridden video store, has bet on the wrong horse. When an ambitious journalist confronts him...
Riviera-Story (1961)
Relations between middle-aged businessman Arthur Dahlberg and his young wife Anja are not at their best. So it occurred to them to leave their...
Me and Kaminski (2015)
Young journalist Sebastian Zöllner is writing an article on artist Manuel Kaminski. Zöllner hopes that Kaminski dies soon, so that he can...
Me and Kaminski (2015)
Young journalist Sebastian Zöllner is writing an article on artist Manuel Kaminski. Zöllner hopes that Kaminski dies soon, so that he can...
Menschen vom Varieté (1939)
In a cosmopolitan city vaudeville theatre, meeting place of the most successful artistes, the art shooter gets in suspicion to have committed a...
Die seltsame Geschichte des Brandner Kaspar (1949)
Brandner Kaspar does not want to die, there is still so much to do and experience on earth. When death appears and wants to get him, Kaspar plays...
Der Held vom Bahnhof Friedrichstraße (1970)
All his life, Michael Hartung, owner of a hopelessly debt-ridden video store, has bet on the wrong horse. When an ambitious journalist confronts him...