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Michael Haneke

Michael Haneke

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Michael Haneke - news / articles


  • 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


  • WIN! A Michael Haneke boxset - 4 November 2009
    - -To celebrate the release of Michael Haneke’s Palme D’Or winning The White Ribbon, out in cinemas on 13th November, we’ve teamed up with Artificial Eye to giveaway two boxsets featuring the director’s best work. - -Two LOVEFiLM members wi

Michael Haneke - what members say


  • Funny Games
  • Funny Games review by from London
    Rated - 5 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...  
  • Code Unknown
  • Code Unknown review by Zamy from London
    Rated - 3 stars jigsaw film 16 March 2007
    ...on in all it's forms. Indeed, this is probably the main thematic strand of most Michael Haneke films. On the plus side we get some great acting performances (not surprising t...  
  • The Piano Teacher
  • The Piano Teacher review by A customer from London
    Rated - 3 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...  

Michael Haneke - filmography


  • 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 »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 80% from 48 members
    Due for release on 8th March 2010
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  • Funny Games on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Naomi Watts,  Tim Roth,  Michael Pitt
    Director: Michael Haneke
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    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.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 6,732 members
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  • Hidden - BLU-RAY Version (2005)
    Starring: Daniel Auteuil,  Juliette Binoche,  Maurice Benichou
    Director: Michael Haneke
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Suburban couple Georges (Daniel Auteuil, JEAN DE FLORETTE) and Anne Laurent (Juliette Binoche, THE ENGLISH PATIENT) become the unwitting victims of an elaborate blackmail plot in this taught psychological thriller from master of suspense Michael Haneke (FUNNY GAMES). Georges, a television presenter,..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 55% from 483 members
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  • Time Of The Wolf on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Isabelle Huppert,  Beatrice Dalle,  Patrice Chereau
    Director: Michael Haneke
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Michael Haneke's TIME OF THE WOLF is an emotionally riveting film that takes place in post-apocalyptic rural France. Keeping the film at a constantly tense level even though the characters are for the most part calm and logical, Haneke has mastered the art of controlling his audience. Viewers will ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 55% from 1,946 member
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  • The Piano Teacher on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Isabelle Huppert,  Annie Girardot,  Benoit Magimel
    Director: Michael Haneke
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Erika (Isabelle Huppert) teaches classical piano in a cold and often abrasive style. Approaching middle age, Erika lives with her doting mother (Annie Girardot) and still sleeps in the same bed with her. Erika's social life consists of occasionally sneaking away to a peep show where she secretly ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 57% from 6,082 members
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  • Funny Games on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Susanne Lothar,  Ulrich Muhe,  Frank Giering
    Director: Michael Haneke
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A powerfully graphic film (even though no violence is ever shown on the screen itself) about an Austrian family who goes on a country vacation and become the victims of two cold-blooded psychopaths who are out to torture them with their "funny games." Haneke's point, that fictional violence is as ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 4,127 members
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Michael Haneke - watch online


  • Time Of The Wolf to Watch Now (2003)
    Starring: Isabelle Huppert,  Beatrice Dalle,  Patrice Chereau
    Director: Michael Haneke
    Certificate: Certificate: 15 (TBC)
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    Run time: 113 minutes
    Michael Haneke's TIME OF THE WOLF is an emotionally riveting film that takes place in post-apocalyptic rural France. Keeping the film at a constantly tense level even though the characters are for the most part calm and logical, Haneke has mastered the art of controlling his audience. Viewers will ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 3 members
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  • The Piano Teacher to Watch Now (2001)
    Starring: Isabelle Huppert,  Annie Girardot,  Benoit Magimel
    Director: Michael Haneke
    Certificate: Certificate: 18 (TBC)
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    Run time: 125 minutes
    Erika (Isabelle Huppert) teaches classical piano in a cold and often abrasive style. Approaching middle age, Erika lives with her doting mother (Annie Girardot) and still sleeps in the same bed with her. Erika's social life consists of occasionally sneaking away to a peep show where she secretly ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 64% from 28 members
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Michael Haneke facts

5 most recent films

The White Ribbon - 4.0 stars
White Ribbon, The - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars
Funny Games - BLU-RAY Version - 3.0 stars
Funny Games - 2.5 stars
Hidden - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

71 Fragments Of A Chronology Of Chance - 3.5 stars
The Michael Haneke Trilogy - 3.5 stars
The Seventh Continent - 3.5 stars
Funny Games - 3.5 stars
Benny's Video - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The White Ribbon - 4.0 stars
White Ribbon, The - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars
Funny Games - 2.5 stars
Time Of The Wolf - 3.0 stars
Hidden - BLU-RAY Version - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Annie Girardot - 5 times - show films
Maurice Benichou - 5 times - show films
Susanne Lothar - 5 times - show films
Isabelle Huppert - 4 times - show films
Udo Samel - 4 times - show films


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