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Wolfgang Petersen

Wolfgang Petersen


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  • Das Boot
  • Das Boot review by from Swindon
    Rated - 4.0 stars Das Good 18 January 2007
    ...the TV series and this has convinced me to go back and rent it at somepoint. Go Wolfgang Petersen!!! ...   Read customer review
  • In the Line of Fire
  • In the Line of Fire review by A customer from Stroud England
    Rated - 4.0 stars Another Eastwood Hit 16 August 2004
    ...is a taut fast moving thriller from the first frames right to the end. Director Wolfgang Petersen's sure touch and Eastwood's laconic dialogue combines tension, humour and a bit...   Read customer review
  • Enemy Mine
  • Enemy Mine review by HD from WEST BROMWICH
    Rated - 4.0 stars 15 April 2004
    ...nded on a harsh planet and must overcome their differences in order to survive. Wolfgang Petersen directed this movie and such hits as Air Force One, Outbreak, and In the Line o...   Read customer review

Wolfgang Petersen - filmography


  • Poseidon on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Jimmy Bennett,  Richard Dreyfuss,  Freddy Rodríguez
    Director: Wolfgang Petersen,  Wolfgang
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Action starring Kurt Russell. It's New Year's Eve and festivities have begun aboard the luxury cruise ship Poseidon, at sea in the North Atlantic. One of the finest vessels of its kind, Poseidon stands more than 20 stories tall, boasts 800 staterooms and 13 passenger decks. Tonight, many of the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 36,307 members
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  • Troy on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Wolfgang Petersen,  Rose Bryne,  Saffron Burrows
    Director: Wolfgang Petersen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Swords and sandals abound in this epic tale of love and war starring Brad Pitt as the muscle-bound Achilles. Set in 1193 BC, the film is based on Homer's sprawling epic poem 'The Iliad'. It tells the story of Paris, Prince of Troy (Orlando Bloom), who falls in love with the wife of King Menelaus of ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 81,405 members
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  • The Perfect Storm - Blu-ray (2000)
    Starring: Cherry Jones,  Diane Lane,  John C. Reilly
    Director: Wolfgang Petersen
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Wolfgang Petersen's screen adaptation of Sebastian Junger's semi-fictional book about the loss of a fishing vessel and its crew during one of the biggest storms for decades seen off the coast of the US. In the autumn of 1991 the Andrea Gail leaves the port of Gloucester, Massachusetts, never to be ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 1,593 member
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  • The Perfect Storm on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Cherry Jones,  Diane Lane,  John C. Reilly
    Director: Wolfgang Petersen
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Wolfgang Petersen's screen adaptation of Sebastian Junger's semi-fictional book about the loss of a fishing vessel and its crew during one of the biggest storms for decades seen off the coast of the US. In the autumn of 1991 the Andrea Gail leaves the port of Gloucester, Massachusetts, never to be ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 11,180 members
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  • Bicentennial Man on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Stephen Root,  Wendy Crewson,  John Michael Higgins
    Director: Chris Columbus
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Robin Williams re-teams with 'Mrs Doubtfire' director Chris Columbus for this big-screen adaptation of Isaac Asimov's short story. In the United States of the present, Richard Martin (Sam Neill) purchases brand new domestic android NDR 114 (Williams) - nicknamed 'Andrew' - to act as a household ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 6,183 members
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  • Air Force One on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Harrison Ford,  William H. Macy,  Glenn Close
    Director: Wolfgang Petersen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    American President James Marshall (Harrison Ford) is flying home from Moscow with his family and entourage on the presidential plane Air Force One. After posing as journalists to get on board, a group of terrorists, led by Ivan Korshunov (Gary Oldman), seize control of the craft. They threaten to ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 11,977 members
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  • Air Force One - Blu-ray (1997)
    Starring: Harrison Ford,  William H. Macy,  Glenn Close
    Director: Wolfgang Petersen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    American President James Marshall (Harrison Ford) is flying home from Moscow with his family and entourage on the presidential plane Air Force One. After posing as journalists to get on board, a group of terrorists, led by Ivan Korshunov (Gary Oldman), seize control of the craft. They threaten to ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 2,218 members
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  • Outbreak on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Dustin Hoffman,  Rene Russo,  Morgan Freeman
    Director: Wolfgang Petersen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    A deadly virus from the African rainforests breaks out in Cedar Creek, California after a monkey carrying the disease is transported over illegally. Those who are infected soon die, and it is up to Colonel Sam Daniels (Dustin Hoffman), a US army viral expert, to find an antidote. To do this he must ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 10,261 members
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  • In the Line of Fire - Blu-ray (1993)
    Starring: Gary Cole,  Dylan McDermott,  Clint Eastwood
    Director: Wolfgang Petersen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Ever since he failed to save the life of President John F. Kennedy in the 1963 Dealey Plaza assassination, secret service agent Frank Horrigan (Clint Eastwood) has had to live with the guilty feeling that maybe things would have been different if he had reacted more quickly. Thirty years after the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 1,589 member
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  • In the Line of Fire on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Gary Cole,  Dylan McDermott,  Clint Eastwood
    Director: Wolfgang Petersen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Clint Eastwood delivers one of his finest performances, as a secret service agent haunted by his past in Wolfgang Petersen's taut thriller In the Line of Fire. Eastwood plays Frank Horrigan, a secret service agent who keeps thinking back to November 22, 1963, when, as an agent hand-picked by ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 10,742 members
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  • Shattered (1991)
    Starring: Tom Berenger,  Bob Hoskins,  Greta Scacchi
    Director: Wolfgang Petersen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A wealthy and powerful architect is left with a completely disfigured face and amnesia after his car plummets off a cliff. As he struggles to reconstruct his life, he experiences strange flashbacks of nightmarish and erotic memories that don't match the story he has been told.
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 52 members
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  • Enemy Mine on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Louis Gossett Jr.,  Brion James,  Richard Marcus
    Director: Wolfgang Petersen
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    An Earthman (Dennis Quaid) and his alien enemy (Lou Gossett Jnr) both find themselves stranded on the hostile planet Fyrine IV. The two enemies quickly find that they must join forces to survive and in doing so discover that the other is not the evil monster they were brought up to believe.
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 3,955 members
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  • The Neverending Story on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Gerald McRaney,  Tami Stronach,  Noah Hathaway
    Director: Wolfgang Petersen
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Animated adventures based on the novel by Michael Ende. A withdrawn, bookish boy called Bastian, who fears his bullying schoolmates and an impending test, steals a mysterious book and reads it in the school attic. He is drawn into the fantasy to such an extent that it soon becomes clear he is the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 6,003 members
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  • Das Boot - Blu-ray (1981)
    Starring: Jurgen Prochnow,  Herbert Gronemeyer
    Director: Wolfgang Petersen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Wolfgang Petersen's director's cut version of life on a German U-96 features considerable material cut from the original feature. Regarded as one of the most accurate representations of Germany's elite U-Boat crewmen during World War Two, the story is told from the crew's perspective and emphasises ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 84% from 365 members
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  • Das Boot on DVD (1981)
    Starring: Jurgen Prochnow,  Herbert Gronemeyer
    Director: Wolfgang Petersen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Wolfgang Petersen's director's cut version of life on a German U-96 features considerable material cut from the original feature. Regarded as one of the most accurate representations of Germany's elite U-Boat crewmen during World War Two, the story is told from the crew's perspective and emphasises ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 19,491 members
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  • The Consequence (1977)
    Starring: Jürgen Prochnow,  Ernst Hannawald,  Walo Lüönd
    Director: Wolfgang Petersen
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Thomas is the son of a prison warden. He falls for and seduces Martin, who is older and one of the prison inmates. After Martin is released, They try to build a relationship and a life together but, no one will let them alone.
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 3 members
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Wolfgang Petersen facts

5 most recent films

Poseidon - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Poseidon - 3.0 stars
Troy - 3.0 stars
Troy - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
The Perfect Storm - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Das Boot - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Das Boot - The Mini Series - 4.0 stars
The Neverending Story - 3.5 stars
Das Boot - 3.5 stars
The Neverending Story - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Consequence - 3.0 stars
Poseidon - 3.0 stars
The Perfect Storm - 3.0 stars
Poseidon - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Troy - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Saffron Burrows - 10 times - show films
Rose Bryne - 10 times - show films
Julie Christie - 10 times - show films
Brenden Gleeson - 10 times - show films
Eric Bana - 9 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Wolfgang - 4 times - show films
Wolfgang Peterse - 3 times - show films
Eric Bana - 3 times - show films
Chris Columbus - 1 times - show films