The White Ribbon / Das weiße Band – Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte (2009)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. Who is responsible?
Starring: Christian Friedel, Ernst Jacobi, Leonie Benesch, Ulrich Tukur, Ursina Lardi, Fion Mutert
Director: Michael Haneke
Funny Games (1997)
Crime | Drama | Horror | Thriller
Two violent young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.
Starring: Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Mühe, Arno Frisch, Frank Giering, Stefan Clapczynski, Doris Kunstmann
Director: Michael Haneke
The Piano Teacher / La pianiste (2001)
Drama | Music | Romance
A young man romantically pursues his masochistic piano teacher.
Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot, Benoît Magimel, Susanne Lothar, Udo Samel, Georg Friedrich
Director: Michael Haneke
Le temps du loup / Time of the Wolf (2003)
Drama
Isabelle Huppert and Beatrice Dalle star in Haneke's nightmarish vision of a post-apocalyptic world in which society has completely broken down.
Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Anaïs Demoustier, Béatrice Dalle
Director: Michael Haneke
Caché / Hidden (2005)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Georges, a television talk show host, and his wife Anne, are living the perfect life of modern comfort and security. One day, their idyll is disrupted in the form of a mysterious videotape that appears on their doorstep. On it they are being filmed by a hidden camera from across the street with no clues as to who shot it, or why. As more tapes arrive containing images that are disturbingly intimate and increasingly personal, Georges launches into an investigation of his own as to who is behind this. As he does so, secrets from his past are revealed, and the walls of security he and Anne have built around themselves begin to crumble.
Starring: Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche, Maurice Bénichou, Annie Girardot
Director: Michael Haneke
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance / 71 Fragmente einer Chronologie des Zufalls (1994)
Drama
German-Austrian director Michael Haneke's experimental feature film explores the bleak, disjointed lives of several people only to tie them together at the end, during a tragic, violent climax. Five-to-ten minute segments, spliced together, unravel fractured narratives from ten sets of people, ranging from a couple frustrated by their newly-adopted girl, to a daughter who, to spite her aging father, prevents him from spending time with his granddaughter, to a young runaway who survives German winters in subway stations, stealing and panhandling for food, cigarettes, and comic books.
Starring: Gabriel Cosmin Urdes, Lukas Miko, Otto Grünmandl
Director: Michael Haneke
Funny Games U.S. / Funny Games (2007)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
The vacation begins with Ann, George and their son Georgie on their way to their summer home. The neighbors, Fred and Eva, are already there. They make a date to play golf the next morning. It's a perfect day. Ann begins to make dinner, while her husband and son are busy with their newly restored sailboat. Suddenly, Ann finds herself face to face with a polite young man, the neighbors' guest Peter, who has come to ask for some eggs because Eva has run out. Ann is about to give Peter the eggs, but hesitates. How did he get onto their property? Peter explains that there's a hole in the fence–Fred showed it to him. Things seem strange from the beginning. Soon, violence erupts.
Starring: Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt
Director: Michael Haneke
Code inconnu: Récit incomplet de divers voyages / Code Unknown (2000)
Drama | Romance | War
On a busy Paris boulevard, a youth scornfully tosses a crumpled paper bag into the outstretched hands of a beggar woman. This is the bond which, for an instant, links several very different characters: Anne (Binoche), an actress; her war photo- grapher boyfriend Georges; his farmer father and younger brother Jean, who, contrary to his father's wishes, has no interest in inheriting the farm; Amandou, a music teacher for deaf-mute children, and his family, who originate from Africa; and Maria a Romanian immigrant. Written and directed by Michael Haneke, one of modern cinema's most distinctive and ambitious directors, CODE UNKNOWN is a complex film of powerful emotional force and a fascinating study of the subtle connections and barriers between people, social class, race, and the difficulty of communicating in the modern world
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Thierry Neuvic, Josef Bierbichler, Alexandre Hamidi, Maimouna Hélène Diarra
Director: Michael Haneke
Der siebente Kontinent / The Seventh Continent (1989)
Drama
Haneke's first theatrical feature is a disturbing and masterfully composed portrait of a family's disintegration and ultimate self-destruction.
Starring: Birgit Doll, Dieter Berner, Leni Tanzer, Udo Samel, Silvia Fenz
Director: Michael Haneke
Amour / Love (2012)
Drama | Romance
Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has an attack. The couple's bond of love is severely tested.
Starring: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert, William Shimell
Director: Michael Haneke
Film Independent Spirit Awards 2013 (TV 2013)
Awards
The Independent Spirit Awards (originally known as the FINDIE or Friends of Independents Awards), founded in 1984, are awards dedicated to independent filmmakers. Winners were typically presented with acrylic glass pyramids containing suspended shoestrings representing the paltry budgets of independent films. In 1986, the event was renamed the Independent Spirit Awards. The Independent Spirit Awards are presented by Film Independent, a non-profit organization dedicated to independent film and independent filmmakers. In 2007, the ceremony was slightly changed to Film Independent's Spirit Awards. Since 2006, winners have received a trophy depicting a bird sitting atop of a pole with the shoestrings from the previous design wrapped around the pole.
The awards show was previously held inside a tent on the beach in Santa Monica, California, usually on the day before the Academy Awards (since 1999; originally the Saturday before). Since 1994, the show has been broadcast on the Bravo network and Independent Film Channel.
The 28th Independent Spirit Awards ceremony, celebrating the films of 2012, was held on February 23, 2013.
Starring: Andy Samberg, Derek Connolly, Stephen Chbosky, Matthew McConaughey, Mynette Louie, Adam Leon, Peter Nicks, Michael Haneke, Helen Hunt, Ben Richardson, David O. Russell, Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes
Benny's Video (1992)
Crime | Drama
Haneke poses provocative and challenging questions in this insettling examination of a 14 year-old boy's obsession with violent films and images.
Starring: Ulrich Mühe, Arno Frisch, Angela Winkler, Ingrid Stassner, Stephanie Brehme, Stefan Polasek
Director: Michael Haneke
