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Alexander Kluge

Director · 277 credits · 5 in highly-rated films

Best known for The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time (1985)

Frequent collaborators: Edgar Reitz, Werner Herzog, Volker Schlöndorff, Helge Schneider, Maximiliane Mainka

Directed movies (255 total, ranked by score)

  1. Paper Tiger Television, New York

    1989

    91
  2. Beginnings of Film Art

    2024

    Documentary

    92
  3. Rettung vor dem Tode / 4000 Jahre Liebe / Rettet Liebe vor dem Tode?

    93
  4. Some Kind of Shadow Machines Were Passing by

    1990

    94
  5. Pretty Woman and other stories, a film with Alexander Kluge

    2012

    Documentary

    95
  6. We Philosophers from Eve’s Rib

    2018

    96
  7. Light Veins

    2014

    97
  8. The Trickiness of Peace Treaties

    2006

    98
  9. Mein Jahrhundert, mein Tier!

    2007

    99
  10. Im Sturm der Zeit - Facts & Fakes

    2007

    100
  11. Als die Himmel noch miteinander sprachen

    2011

    101
  12. A Poker Game

    1966

    102
  13. Werewolves Playoffs

    2020

    103
  14. Ballad Journal No. 9: “Cold Death Interrupts Love”

    1995

    104
  15. Neonröhren des Himmels

    1998

    105
  16. 100 Years of the German Rhine

    1998

    106
  17. Storm Over Egypt

    2006

    107
  18. A Woman Like a Volcano

    2003

    108
  19. Der schwedische Mozart

    1998

    109
  20. Portrait of Heiner Müller for his 60th Birthday

    1989

    110
  21. Conversation with Heiner Müller in Garath

    1989

    111
  22. Rome, as Far Away as the Moon

    1991

    112
  23. Every Frozen Structure has its Academy

    1991

    113
  24. “Wastage” of humans / Comrade Mauser / “Victim of History”

    1991

    114
  25. Mind, Power, Castration

    1993

    115
  26. Anti-Opera

    1993

    116
  27. Under the Sign of Mars

    1994

    117
  28. The World is Not Bad, but Full

    1994

    118
  29. The Voice of the Playwright

    1995

    119
  30. Omnivore Democracy

    1995

    120

Credits are ranked using the same weighted score as movie collections. Last updated Sep 3, 2026.