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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 - 5.0 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


  • 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 2,861 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 10,168 members
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  • Funny Games - Blu-ray (2007)
    Starring: Tim Roth,  Naomi Watts,  Brady Corbet
    Director: Michael Haneke
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    In 1997, writer-director Michael Haneke (HIDDEN) made the controversial Austrian thriller, FUNNY GAMES, about two young men who terrorize a family on holiday. A decade later, Haneke was convinced by producer Chris Coen to bring the story to America, filming a nearly word-for-word, shot-for-shot ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 1,695 member
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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 8,663 members
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  • Hidden - Blu-ray (2005)
    Starring: Juliette Binoche,  Annie Girardot,  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 »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 1,208 member
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  • Time of The Wolf on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Jean-Claude Brialy,  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 »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 2,732 members
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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 »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 8,009 members
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  • Code Unknown on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Juliette Binoche,  Thierry Neuvic,  Josef Bierbichler
    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 4,193 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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 5,604 members
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  • The Michael Haneke Trilogy (3 discs) on DVD
    Starring: Arno Frisch,  Angela Winkler,  Ulrich Muhe
    Director: Michael Haneke
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Long before he made the breakout hit, HIDDEN, director Michael Haneke was challenging the foundations of cinema. His films are stark, hard-hitting and thought-provoking, none more than this collection of three of the director’s early films: THE SEVENTH CONTINENT (1989), BENNY’S VIDEO (1992)and 71 ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 445 members
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Michael Haneke facts

5 most recent films

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

5 highest-rated films

71 Fragments Of A Chronology Of Chance - 3.5 stars
The Seventh Continent - 3.5 stars
The Michael Haneke Trilogy - 3.5 stars
The White Ribbon - 3.5 stars
Funny Games - 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 Piano Teacher - 3.0 stars
Hidden - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Susanne Lothar - 5 times - show films
Maurice Benichou - 5 times - show films
Annie Girardot - 5 times - show films
Isabelle Huppert - 4 times - show films
Juliette Binoche - 4 times - show films