Michael Haneke

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 a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.

Dir. Michael Haneke · With Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert

An aged tailor recalls his life as the schoolteacher of a small village in Northern Germany that was struck by a series of strange events in the year leading up to WWI.

Dir. Michael Haneke · With Christian Friedel, Ernst Jacobi, Leonie Benesch

Chronicles three years of a middle-class family seemingly caught up in their daily routines, troubled only by minor incidents. Behind their apparent calm and repetitive existence, however, they're planning something much more sinister.

Dir. Michael Haneke · With Birgit Doll, Dieter Berner, Leni Tanzer

Two psychotic 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.

Dir. Michael Haneke · With Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Mühe, Arno Frisch

Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her.

Dir. Michael Haneke · With Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot, Benoît Magimel

George, host of a television show focusing on literature, receives videos shot on the sly that feature his family, along with disturbing drawings that are difficult to interpret. He has no idea who has made and sent him the videos. Progressively, the contents of the videos become more personal, indicating that the sender has known George for a long time.

Dir. Michael Haneke · With Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche, Annie Girardot

When Ann, husband George, and son Georgie arrive at their holiday home they are visited by a pair of polite and seemingly pleasant young men. Armed with deceptively sweet smiles and some golf clubs, they proceed to terrorize and torture the tight-knit clan, giving them until the next day to survive.

Dir. Michael Haneke · With Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt

A 14-year-old video enthusiast obsessed with violent films decides to make one of his own and show it to his parents, with tragic results.

Dir. Michael Haneke · With Arno Frisch, Angela Winkler, Ulrich Mühe

71 scenes revolving around multiple Viennese residents who are by chance involved with a senseless gun slaughter on Christmas Eve.

Dir. Michael Haneke · With Gabriel Cosmin Urdes, Lukas Miko, Otto Grünmandl

A series of events unfold like a chain reaction, all stemming from a minor event that brings the film's five characters together. Set in Paris, France, Anne is an actress whose boyfriend Georges photographs the war in Kosovo. Georges' brother, Jean, is looking for the entry code to Georges' apartment. These characters' lives interconnect with a Romanian immigrant and a deaf teacher.

Dir. Michael Haneke · With Juliette Binoche, Thierry Neuvic, Josef Bierbichler

A middle-class family flees an unspecified disaster that has struck the city and takes refuge in their country home. They think this will allow them to escape the chaos, but they soon realize that getting away won’t be so easy.

Dir. Michael Haneke · With Isabelle Huppert, Patrice Chéreau, Brigitte Roüan

A well-to-do French family living in Calais deal with a series of setbacks and crises while paying little attention to the grim conditions in the refugee camps within a few miles of their home.

Dir. Michael Haneke · With Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Mathieu Kassovitz