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  • Michael Haneke's Amour wins top prize at Cannes - 27 May 2012
    -Austrian director Michael Haneke was awarded Cannes Film Festival's top prize for the second time on Sunday (27May12), thanks to his love tale Amour.-As the star-studded 12-day festival drew to a close in France on Sunday, native actress Bernice Bejo led a judging pane


  • The Trouble with Haneke - 9 November 2009
    like an organ.” - -A funny kind of game, you might think. Perhaps it’s a stretch to link the Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke to Hitchcock. He’s a virtuoso, no doubt, but he’s an art-house fixture, and not just because his movies are subtitl


  • The White Ribbon: Michael Haneke - 6 November 2009
    -The best director working in Europe today? Michael Haneke has continually provoked and challenged with his filmmaking over the course of the past four decades. With his latest offering The White Ribbon, a look at the strange happenings taking place in an Austrian farm

Michael Haneke - what members say


  • Funny Games
  • Funny Games review by from London
    Rated - 5.0 stars oh... my... god 6 July 2004
    ... held hostage and persecuted by two extremely deranged individuals. Director Michael Haneke plays with the suspense genre, with the audience's expectations and with his ab...   Read customer review
  • Code Unknown
  • Code Unknown review by from south yorkshire
    Rated - 1.0 stars Code: Who Knows? 12 January 2005
    ...on-linear vignettes that suggest conclusions that are never delivered. Director Michael Haneke deliberately shirks any narrative conventions of a beginning, middle and end. W...   Read customer review
  • The Piano Teacher
  • The Piano Teacher review by A customer from London
    Rated - 3.0 stars Complex psychological drama 7 July 2004
    ...th her mother and her students at a musical conservatory in Vienna. director Michael Haneke doesn't flinch from showing disturbing scenes which demonstrate the troubled na...   Read customer review

Michael Haneke - filmography


  • Amour on DVD (2012)
    Starring: Jean-Louis Trintignant,  Emmanuelle Riva,  Isabelle Huppert
    Director: Michael Haneke
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Focusing on the lives of an elderly couple and the strain their relationship undergoes after one of them suffers a mild stroke, AMOUR is one of the most powerfully moving, emotionally devastating pieces of cinema ever made. From one of, if not the greatest director working today – MICHAEL HANEKE. ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 2,256 members
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  • The White Ribbon on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Ulrich Tukur,  Susanne Lothar,  Burghart Klaussner
    Director: Michael Haneke
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A village in Protestant northern Germany. 1913-1914. On the eve of World War I. The story of the children and teenagers of a choir run by the village schoolteacher, and their families: the baron, the steward, the pastor, the doctor, the midwife, the tenant farmers. Strange accidents occur and ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 11,732 members
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  • The White Ribbon (2009)
    Starring: Ulrich Tukur,  Susanne Lothar,  Burghart Klaussner
    Director: Michael Haneke
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A village in Protestant northern Germany. 1913-1914. On the eve of World War I. The story of the children and teenagers of a choir run by the village schoolteacher, and their families: the baron, the steward, the pastor, the doctor, the midwife, the tenant farmers. Strange accidents occur and ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 3,364 members
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  • Funny Games on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Naomi Watts,  Tim Roth,  Michael Pitt
    Director: Michael Haneke
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Director Michael Haneke (CACHE) remakes his own 1997 feature, this time casting Naomi Watts, Brady Corbet, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt, and Devon Gearhart. Following the original's premise, the thriller explores the chaos surrounding a family hostage situation.
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 9,838 members
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  • Funny Games - Blu-ray (2007)
    Starring: Devon Gearhart,  Tim Roth,  Brady Corbet
    Director: Michael Haneke
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    In this US remake of his 1997 film 'Funny Games', director Michael Haneke delivers a savage critique on the way violence is portrayed in the media. Arriving at their remote holiday cabin in the Hamptons for a quiet vacation, George (Tim Roth), his wife Ann (Naomi Watts), and their young son Georgie ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 1,848 member
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  • Hidden on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Aissa Maiga,  Annie Girardot,  Juliette Binoche
    Director: Michael Haneke
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Georges, who hosts a TV literary review, receives packages containing videos of himself with his family -- shot secretly from the street -- and alarming drawings whose meaning is obscure. He has no idea who may be sending them. Gradually, the footage on the tapes becomes more personal, suggesting ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 29,981 members
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  • Hidden - Blu-ray (2005)
    Starring: Aissa Maiga,  Annie Girardot,  Juliette Binoche
    Director: Michael Haneke
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Acclaimed French thriller from writer-director Michael Haneke. Georges (Daniel Auteuil) is a successful TV presenter, happily married to Anne (Juliette Binoche). Their idyllic, middle-class life is suddenly derailed when Georges starts receiving tapes through the post, from someone who has been ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 1,391 member
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  • Time of The Wolf on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Jean-Claude Brialy,  Philippe Noiret,  Maurice Benichou
    Director: Michael Haneke
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Isabelle Huppert stars in this tense post-apocalyptic drama, set in a world in which society has completely broken down. Anne (Huppert) flees the city with her husband and two children, hoping to find refuge at the family's country home. But when they arrive they realise they have made a terrible ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 2,952 members
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  • Code Unknown on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Juliette Binoche,  Josef Bierbichler,  Thierry Neuvic
    Director: Michael Haneke
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    German-born filmmaker Michael Haneke continues the bleak, formalist experimentation of his 1994 breakthrough 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance with this similarly fragmented tale of racism, intolerance, and hatred in modern-day Paris. The focus of the narrative is split between three sets of ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 4,534 members
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  • The Castle on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Ulrich Muhe,  Frank Giering,  Susanne Lothar
    Director: Michael Haneke
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    A land surveyor is summoned to remote village by the local government, house in 'The Castle'. But when he arrives he is unable to persuade the locals of his legitimacy and himself in an absurd spiral of provincial bureaucracy that soon becomes a surreal, all encompassing nightmare. Ulrich Mühe (The ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 89 members
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  • Funny Games on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Arno Frisch,  Ulrich Muhe,  Frank Giering
    Director: Michael Haneke
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Anna (Susan Lothar) and Georg Schober (Ulrich Mühe) arrive with their son, Georgie, at their lakeside holiday home. Through their neighbour, Fred, they meet Paul (Arno Frisch) and his friend Peter (Frank Giering). However, once inside Anna and Georg's house, Peter and Paul begin to torture them, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 6,093 members
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  • The Michael Haneke Trilogy (3 discs) on DVD
    Starring: Ulrich Muhe,  Arno Frisch,  Udo Samel
    Director: Michael Haneke
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Three films by acclaimed Austrian director Michael Haneke, known as his 'Glaciation' trilogy. 'The Seventh Continent' (1989) portrays three years in the life of Georg (Dieter Berner), his wife Anna (Birgit Doll) and their daughter Eva (Leni Tanzer), during which time a psychological blindness leads ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 517 members
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Michael Haneke facts

5 most recent films

Amour - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Amour - 3.5 stars
The White Ribbon - 3.5 stars
The White Ribbon - 3.5 stars
Funny Games - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Amour - 3.5 stars
Amour - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
71 Fragments Of A Chronology Of Chance - 3.5 stars
The Seventh Continent - 3.5 stars
The Michael Haneke Trilogy - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Funny Games - 3.0 stars
Time of The Wolf - 3.0 stars
Funny Games - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
The Castle - 3.0 stars
The Piano Teacher - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Susanne Lothar - 7 times - show films
Isabelle Huppert - 6 times - show films
Maurice Benichou - 5 times - show films
Ulrich Muhe - 5 times - show films
Annie Girardot - 5 times - show films