Air Force One (1997)
Action | Drama | Thriller
Communist radicals hijack Air Force One with the U.S. President and his family on board. The Vice President negotiates from Washington D.C., while the President, a veteran, fights to rescue the hostages on board.
Starring: Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, Glenn Close, Wendy Crewson, Liesel Matthews, Paul Guilfoyle
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Outbreak (1995)
Action | Drama | Thriller
Army doctors struggle to find a cure for a deadly virus spreading throughout a California town that was brought to America by an African monkey.
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey, Cuba Gooding Jr., Donald Sutherland
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Vier gegen die Bank / Four Against the Bank (2016)
Comedy | Crime
Four men, betrayed by the bank, unite to take revenge.
Starring: Til Schweiger, Matthias Schweighöfer, Jana Pallaske, Antje Traue, Claudia Michelsen, Michael Herbig
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
In the Line of Fire (1993)
Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Aging Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan, on duty the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated, is still unable to forget his failure on that fateful day, even as he nears retirement 30 years later. When a psychotic man calling himself Booth threatens to kill the current president, Horrigan discovers that the man knows far more about him than he knows about the man. Booth dares Horrigan to catch him, taunting the troubled agent with his past disappointments, as Horrigan desperately tries to protect the President and regain his self-respect at the same time.
Starring: Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich, Rene Russo, Dylan McDermott, Gary Cole, Eric Bruskotter
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Poseidon (2006)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller
It's New Year's Eve on the Poseidon. Partying voyagers lift glasses to toast the future. The future comes in a rush: a 150-foot rogue wave flips the cruise ship over… and a desperate struggle to survive begins.
Starring: Kurt Russell, Josh Lucas, Richard Dreyfuss, Mike Vogel, Emmy Rossum, Jacinda Barrett
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
The Perfect Storm (2000)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller
October 1991. It was "the perfect storm" – a tempest that may happen only once in a century – a nor'easter created by so rare a combination of factors that it could not possibly have been worse. Creating waves ten stories high and winds of 120 miles an hour (193 kph), the storm whipped the sea to inconceivable levels few people on Earth have ever witnessed. Few, except the six-man crew of the Andrea Gail, a commercial fishing boat headed towards its hellish center.
Starring: George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, John C. Reilly, Diane Lane, William Fichtner, John Hawkes
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Enemy Mine (1985)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi
A soldier from Earth crash-lands on an alien world after sustaining battle damage. Eventually he encounters another survivor, but from the enemy species he was fighting; they band together to survive on this hostile world.
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Louis Gossett Jr., Brion James, Lance Kerwin, Carolyn McCormick, Bumper Robinson
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Troy (2004)
Action | Adventure | Drama
The epic tale of the Iliad charting the rise and fall of the ultimate Greek hero, Achilles, explodes onto the screen in this adaptation. The section concerned, follows Paris's betrayal of the king of Sparta, Menelaus, which results in the almighty siege of Troy. The characteristic moment was the sending of the Trojan Horse, to trick the enemy into allowing warriors into the city.
Starring: Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, Orlando Bloom, Diane Kruger, Brian Cox
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Shattered (1991)
Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Dan Merrick comes out from a shattering car accident with amnesia. He finds that he is married to Judith who is trying to help him start his life again. He keeps getting flashbacks about events and places that he can't remember. He meets pet shop owner and part time private detective Gus Klein who is supposedly done some work for him prior to the accident. Klein helps Merrick to find out more about his past and true identity.
Starring: Tom Berenger, Bob Hoskins, Greta Scacchi
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
IMDb Info
The NeverEnding Story / Die unendliche Geschichte (1984)
Adventure | Drama | Family | Fantasy
When young Bastian borrows a mysterious, ornately-bound book, he never dreamed turning a page would draw him into a shimmering fantasy world of racing snails, hang-glider bats, soaring luckdragons, puckish elves, a Childlike Empress, the brave warrior Atreyu and a slab-faced walking quarry called a Rock Biter.
Starring: Noah Hathaway, Barret Oliver, Tami Stronach, Gerald McRaney, Deep Roy, Tilo Prückner, Moses Gunn
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Das Boot / The Boat (1981)
Action | Drama | History | War
This is the story of 42 raw recruits caught up in a war they didn't understand, and the Captain who must lead them in their struggle to survive.
Starring: Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
