Tom TykwerFilmography

Born:: January 1, 1965 in Wuppertal, Germany
Occupation:: Director, Composer (Music Score), Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: Touted as the next major German director, Tom Tykwer made his international breakthrough with the hit Run Lola Run (1998). A movie fan and autodidact, Tykwer made his first Super-8 film at age 11. Undeterred by his failure to gain admission to Germany's film schools, he entered the film industry...Read More

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The International

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Director, Producer

Actors: Clive Owen, Naomi Watts, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Brian F. O'Byrne

Synopsis: Clive Owen and Naomi Watts star in Run Lola Run director Tom Tykwer's action thriller concerning an ambitious Interpol agent who targets corruption at the top levels of the world's largest banking institutions. The world's most powerful banks have become hopelessly corrupt, prompting Interpol Read More

2/13/09
Deutschland 09, 13 kurze Filme zur Lage der Nation

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Thirteen noted German filmmakers offer their impressions of the past, present and future of the land they call home in this anthology. Coordinated by Tom Tykwer, Deutschland 09, 13 kurze Filme zur Lage der Nation is comprised of thirteen twelve-minute films, each from a different director and each Read More

2009
Paris, Je T'Aime

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Twenty acclaimed filmmakers from around the world look at love in the City of Lights in this omnibus feature. Paris, Je T'Aime features 18 short stories, each set in a different part of Paris and each featuring a different cast and director (two segments were produced by two filmmakers in Read More

5/4/07
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Director, Music Producer, Musical Performer, Screenwriter

Actors: Ben Whishaw, Alan Rickman, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Dustin Hoffman, Karoline Herfurth

Synopsis: An obsessive French perfumer with a highly developed olfactory sense and an all-consuming drive to capture the essence of love eventually resorts to murder in his unrepentant quest to find the key ingredient for his recipe in director Tom Tykwer's adaptation of author Patrick Suskind's Read More

12/27/06
Faubourg Saint-Denis

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Natalie Portman, Melchior Beslon

Synopsis: This short film served as Run Lola Run director Tom Tykwer's contribution to the anthology film Paris, Je T'Aime. Natalie Portman stars as an American actress who experiences love with a blind Frenchman. Along with Faubourg Saint-Denis, Paris, Je T'Aime includes films by Joel Coen, Gus Van Sant Read More

2006
Underexposure

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Samer Qahtan, Yousif Al-Ani, Auwatif Al-Salman, Hayder Helo, Majed Rasheed

2005
Lautlos

Crew: Producer

Actors: Joachim Krol, Nadja Uhl, Christian Berkel, Rudolph Martin, Lisa Martinek

Synopsis: An elusive hit-man whose targets never see him coming and who always manages to disappear without a trace is forced to risk it all after falling for a mysterious woman in director Mennan Yapo's dark crime thriller. Viktor (Jaochim Król) is a stealthy killing machine with a reputation for Read More

2004
Heaven

Crew: Director

Actors: Cate Blanchett, Giovanni Ribisi, Remo Girone, Stefania Rocca, Matthis Sbargia

Synopsis: German filmmaker Tom Tykwer made his English-language debut with this feature, which was adapted from a screenplay co-authored by the late Krzysztof Kieslowski. Philippa (Cate Blanchett) is a British schoolteacher living in Italy, whose husband fell victim to a drug overdose, as have several of Read More

10/4/02
The Princess and the Warrior

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Franka Potente, Benno Fürmann, Joachim Krol, Marita Breuer, Jürgen Tarrach, Lars Rudolph

Synopsis: Director Tom Tykwer followed up his international hit Lola Rennt (Run Lola Run) with this drama, which also examines young people living on the edges of the law. Sisi (Franka Potente) is an attractive but withdrawn woman who works in a psychiatric clinic, while Bodo (Benno Fürmann) is looking to Read More

6/22/01
Winter Sleepers

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Ulrich Matthes, Marie-Lou Sellem, Floriane Daniel, Heino Ferch, Josef Bierbichler

Synopsis: Winterschlaefer (Winter Sleepers) is the sophomore effort from German director Tom Tykwer, released a year before Lola Rennt (Run Lola Run) won him international acclaim for its unique look and storytelling methods. Winter Sleepers follows a blizzard-filled winter in the lives of a handful of Read More

3/17/00
Run Lola Run

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Ludger Pistor, Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup, Armin Rohde, Joachim Krol, Nina Petri

Synopsis: Tom Tykwer directed this German thriller in which Manni (Moritz Bleibtreu) handled a smuggling job, delivered the loot, collected the payment, left the bag on the subway, and now has 20 minutes to gather 100,000 deutsche marks or confront the wrath of his boss, local criminal Ronnie (Heino Ferch). Read More

6/18/99
Absolute Giganten

Crew: Producer

Actors: Frank Giering, Guido A. Schick, Silvana Bosi, Florian Lukas, Antoine Monot, Jr., Barbara De Koy, Julia Hummer, Gustav Peter Wohler, Michael Sideris, Jochen Nickel

Synopsis: In the port town of Hamburg, Germany, Floyd (Frank Giering) disappoints his sanctimonious boss by announcing that he's shipping out to South Africa and Singapore now that his two-year probation for an unspecified juvenile offense has been completed. When he shares the news with his devoted friends Read More

1999
Das Leben ist eine Baustelle

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Ricky Tomlinson, Christiane Paul

Synopsis: The political and social upheaval of the reunification of Germany provides the backdrop for this romantic comedy-drama. Jan Nebel (Jurgen Vogel), a young slaughterhouse worker who doesn't like to work much more than is necessary in order to keep his job, is walking home through Berlin one evening Read More

1997
Die Toedliche Maria

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Director, Producer, Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Nina Petri, Josef Bierbichler, Peter Franke, Joachim Krol, Katja Studt

Synopsis: This German psychodrama looks into the events that lead an introverted woman into taking extreme action against her oppressors. Poor Maria has spent her life being ignored and pushed around by men. First there was her invalid father whom she waited on hand and foot. Then there was her cold and Read More

1993