Roland EmmerichFilmography

Born:: November 10, 1965
Occupation:: Director, Executive Producer, Producer, Screen Story, Screenwriter
Biography:: A director/writer/producer with a flair for special effects-driven action, German Roland Emmerich made himself at home in blockbuster-hungry 1990s Hollywood. Born and educated in West Germany, Emmerich studied production design as well as direction at the Munich Film and Television School. After...Read More

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Foundation

Crew: Director, Producer

Synopsis: Disaster movie maestro Roland Emmerich and partner Michael Wimer team up to produce what many have considered an impossible adaptation -- that of Isaac Asimov's Foundation. The sprawling work of thoughtful science fiction details mathematician Hari Seldon's goal to preserve humanity after Read More

1/1/10
2012

Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Danny Glover, Amanda Peet, Thandie Newton, Oliver Platt

Synopsis: Disaster movie maven Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow) crafts this apocalyptic sci-fi thriller following an academic researcher who opens a portal into a parallel universe, making contact with his double in an effort to prevent the catastrophic prophecies of the ancient Read More

11/13/09
Fantastic Voyage

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Independence Day director Roland Emmerich teams up with National Treasure screenwriters Marianne and Cormac Wibberley on the remake of the 1966 miniaturized sci-fi flick Fantastic Voyage for 20th Century Fox. In the pic, a group of scientists are shrunken and injected into a dying man's body in Read More

1/1/09
10,000 B.C.

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Steven Strait, Camilla Belle, Cliff Curtis, Joel Virgel, Ben Badra

Synopsis: A young outcast from a primitive tribe is forced to defend his people from a brutal onslaught in Independence Day director Roland Emmerich's fast-paced period adventure. Despite the fact that he is low man on the totem pole in his tribe of fearless hunters, a brave young boy (Steven Strait) longs Read More

3/7/08
Trade

Crew: Producer

Actors: Kevin Kline, Cesar Ramos, Alicja Bachleda, Paulina Gaitan, Marco Perez

Synopsis: After his 13-year-old sister is abducted by sex traffickers, a determined Mexican teen travels from the barrios of Mexico City to a run-down stash house in New Jersey in a desperate attempt to rescue the frightened girl before she is swallowed whole by one of the criminal underworld's darkest Read More

9/7/07
The Day After Tomorrow

Crew: Director, Producer, Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ian Holm, Emmy Rossum, Sela Ward

Synopsis: Directed by Roland Emmerich, this mega-budget, special-effects-laden epic revolves around the onset of an international series of crises brought on by the long-term results of the greenhouse effect. At the eye of the storm is paleoclimatologist (a professor dedicated to the study of weather Read More

5/28/04
Eight Legged Freaks

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: David Arquette, Kari Wuhrer, Scott Terra, Scarlett Johansson

Synopsis: In this throwback monster movie from producer Dean Devlin (Independence Day, Godzilla), David Arquette plays the son of a deceased mine owner, returning home to the economically depressed hamlet of Prosperity, AZ, after a long absence. His arrival coincides with a toxic waste accident in the local Read More

7/17/02
The Patriot

Crew: Director, Executive Producer

Actors: Mel Gibson, Heath Ledger, Joely Richardson, Jason Isaacs, Chris Cooper

Synopsis: Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin, the director/producer team responsible for such sci-fi blockbusters as Independence Day, Stargate, and Godzilla, take a step back in time with this drama set during the American Revolution. Farmer Benjamin Martin (Mel Gibson) was born and raised in South Carolina Read More

6/28/00
The Thirteenth Floor

Crew: Producer

Actors: Craig Bierko, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Gretchen Mol, Vincent D'Onofrio, Dennis Haysbert

Synopsis: The increasingly blurry lines between what is real and what is an artificial construct - both physically and philosophically - are the point of focus in the science fiction drama The Thirteenth Floor. In 1937, a man named Fuller (Armin Mueller-Stahl) gives a note to Ashton (Vincent D'Onofrio), the Read More

5/28/99
Godzilla

Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Matthew Broderick, Jean Reno, Maria Pitillo, Hank Azaria, Kevin Dunn

Synopsis: Dedicated to Tomoyuki Tanaka (1910-1997), who produced the 1954 original and sequels, the Devlin/Emmerich interpretation displays a redesign of Godzilla, now a large lizard mutated after fallout from French nuclear tests. A blinding flash of white light fills the Eastern sky. Thousands of miles Read More

1998
Independence Day

Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Mary McDonnell, Judd Hirsch

Synopsis: A group of intrepid humans attempts to save the Earth from vicious extraterrestrials in this extremely popular science-fiction adventure. Borrowing liberally from War of the Worlds, Aliens, and every sci-fi invasion film inbetween, director Roland Emmerich and producer and co-writer Dean Devlin Read More

1996
Stargate

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Kurt Russell, James Spader, Jaye Davidson, Viveca Lindfors, Alexis Cruz

Synopsis: This lucrative, elephantine-budgeted sci-fi opus paved the way for director Roland Emmerich's mega-hit Independence Day (1996). The story commences in Giza, Egypt, circa 1928, where an archaeological expedition unearths an ancient ring with cryptic hieroglyphs. The film then moves to the present Read More

1994
The High Crusade

Crew: Producer

Actors: John Rhys-Davies, Michael Des Barres, Rick Overton

Synopsis: John Rhys-Davies, Rick Overton and Michael Des Barres star in this science fiction fantasy about a band of British knights at the time of the crusades, who are readying themselves to march on Jerusalem. Suddenly, an alien spacecraft lands outside their camp. The knights impulsively attack and Read More

1994
Universal Soldier

Crew: Director

Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren, Ally Walker, Ed O'Ross, Jerry Orbach

Synopsis: Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren play archenemies from beyond the grave in this action film. During the Vietnam War, Luc (Van Damme), hoping to be sent home, comes upon blood-crazy Scott (Lundgren), who is starting a one-man genocide program. When Luc tries to stop Scott's carnage, Scott Read More

7/10/92
Eye of the Storm

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Craig Sheffer, Bradley Gregg, Lara Flynn Boyle, Dennis Hopper, Leon Rippy

Synopsis: Eye of the Storm is the eerie and tragic story of two brothers haunted by their past. Steven (Bradley Gregg) witnesses the murder of his parents by robbers. Running from the killers, Steven falls from a window and is blinded. Ten years later, Steven and his brother Ray (Craig Sheffer) are managing Read More

1991
Moon 44

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Michael Paré, Malcolm McDowell, Lisa Eichhorn, Brian Thompson, Dean Devlin

Synopsis: In the year 2038, multicosmic corporations are dominating the universe, subsuming planet after planet in search of valuable natural resources. An agent (Michael Pare) of the Galactic Mining Corporation is sent to a remote outpost as a safeguard against the ruthless attempts of the Pyrite company Read More

1990
Ghost Chase

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jason Lively, Tim McDaniel, Jill Whitlow

Synopsis: A seldom-seen freshman effort from Roland Emmerich, co-writer and director of mega-budget '90s blockbusters Stargate, Independence Day and Godzilla, this lightweight comedy reveals a vague glimmer of the director's flair for fantasy filmmaking. The story involves a group of young would-be Read More

1987
Making Contact

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Joshua Morrell, Eva Kryll, Jan Zierold, Tamy Shields

Synopsis: German director Roland Emmerich filmed this conventional supernatural drama set in a small town in mid-America. Little Joey (Joshua Morrell) mourns the death of his father, and to compensate for his loss he "talks" to him on a red toy phone he has in his room. Joey has also been given the power of Read More

8/29/86
The Noah's Ark Principle

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Richy Müller, Franz Buchrieser, Matthias Fuchs

Synopsis: In 1983 when this film was shot, the imaginary, far-distant future was set in 1997, when the evil manipulation of a laboratory in space was planned with the idea of controlling the climate of the area around Saudi Arabia. With this new twist on climate-control, Western forces could invade that Read More

1984