Biography: Tom Tykwer |

Touted as the next major German director, Tom Tykwer made his international breakthrough with the hit Run Lola Run (1998). A movie fan and autodidact, Tykwer made his first Super-8 film at age 11. Undeterred by his failure to gain admission to... more
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Cast: Armin Mueller-Stahl Naomi Watts   
Tags: Political Thriller Psychological Thriller Thriller 
Length: 118min
Clive Owen and Naomi Watts star in Run Lola Run director Tom Tykwer's action thriller concerning an ambitious Interpol agent who targets corruption at the top levels of the world's largest banking institutions. The world's most powerful banks have...

Deutschland 09, 13 kurze Filme zur Lage der Nation (2009)
Length: 151min
Thirteen noted German filmmakers offer their impressions of the past, present and future of the land they call home in this anthology. Coordinated by Tom Tykwer, Deutschland 09, 13 kurze Filme zur Lage der Nation is comprised of thirteen twelve-minute...

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)
Cast: Dustin Hoffman John Hurt   
Tags: Period Film Psychological Thriller Thriller 
Length: 147min
An obsessive French perfumer with a highly developed olfactory sense and an all-consuming drive to capture the essence of love eventually resorts to murder in his unrepentant quest to find the key ingredient for his recipe in director Tom Tykwer's...

Cast: Gérard Depardieu Ethan Coen Christopher Doyle Alfonso Cuarón Wes Craven Joel Coen Alexander Payne Gus Van Sant 
Tags: Drama Romantic Drama 
Length: 120min
Twenty acclaimed filmmakers from around the world look at love in the City of Lights in this omnibus feature. Paris, Je T'Aime features 18 short stories, each set in a different part of Paris and each featuring a different cast and director (two...

Cast: Natalie Portman   
Length: 5min
This short film served as Run Lola Run director Tom Tykwer's contribution to the anthology film Paris, Je T'Aime. Natalie Portman stars as an American actress who experiences love with a blind Frenchman. Along with Faubourg Saint-Denis, Paris, Je...

Cast: Krzysztof Kieslowski Harvey Weinstein Sydney Pollack   
Tags: Romance Psychological Drama Romantic Drama Drama 
Length: 96min
German filmmaker Tom Tykwer made his English-language debut with this feature, which was adapted from a screenplay co-authored by the late Krzysztof Kieslowski. Philippa (Cate Blanchett) is a British schoolteacher living in Italy, whose husband fell...

The Princess and the Warrior (2000)
Tags: Psychological Drama Romance Romantic Drama Drama 
Length: 135min
Director Tom Tykwer followed up his international hit Lola Rennt (Run Lola Run) with this drama, which also examines young people living on the edges of the law. Sisi (Franka Potente) is an attractive but withdrawn woman who works in a psychiatric...

Tags: Thriller Chase Movie 
Length: 81min
Tom Tykwer directed this German thriller in which Manni (Moritz Bleibtreu) handled a smuggling job, delivered the loot, collected the payment, left the bag on the subway, and now has 20 minutes to gather 100,000 deutsche marks or confront the wrath of...

Tags: Psychological Drama Drama Mystery Ensemble Film 
Length: 122min
Winterschlaefer (Winter Sleepers) is the sophomore effort from German director Tom Tykwer, released a year before Lola Rennt (Run Lola Run) won him international acclaim for its unique look and storytelling methods. Winter Sleepers follows a...

Tags: Drama 
Length: 106min
This German psychodrama looks into the events that lead an introverted woman into taking extreme action against her oppressors. Poor Maria has spent her life being ignored and pushed around by men. First there was her invalid father whom she waited on...

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