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Volker Schlöndorff

Actor · 94 credits · 30 in highly-rated films

Best known for The Tin Drum (1979)

Frequent collaborators: Wim Wenders, Margarethe von Trotta, Alexander Kluge, Billy Wilder, Werner Herzog

Best Volker Schlöndorff movies by genre

Movies (50 total, ranked by score)

  1. Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’

    1986

    Documentary

    1

  2. Billy Wilder Speaks

    2006 · ★ 7.0 (18 votes)

    Documentary, TV Movie

    2

  3. Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer

    2022 · ★ 7.9 (14 votes)

    Documentary

    3

  4. Melville, le dernier samouraï

    2020 · ★ 7.7 (3 votes)

    Documentary

    4

  5. Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder

    2017 · ★ 7.5 (3 votes)

    Documentary

    5

  6. Die Verhoevens

    2003

    Documentary

    6

  7. Tangerine Dream: Sound from Another World

    2016

    Documentary

    7

  8. From Caligari to Hitler

    2015 · ★ 7.4 (24 votes)

    Documentary, History

    8

  9. Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg

    2024 · ★ 7.1 (10 votes)

    Documentary

    9

  10. The Stones and Brian Jones

    2024 · ★ 7.1 (9 votes)

    Documentary, Music

    10

  11. Hollywood's Second World War

    2019 · ★ 8.0 (2 votes)

    Documentary, War, History

    11

  12. Schrott - Die Atzenposse

    2000

    Comedy

    12

  13. Knef - Die frühen Jahre

    2005

    Documentary

    13

  14. Melville Steps Out of the Shadows

    2010

    Documentary

    14

  15. Memories of Last Year in Marienbad

    2010

    Documentary

    15

  16. Romy Schneider & Alain Delon: An Enduring Passion

    2022 · ★ 7.2 (5 votes)

    Documentary, TV Movie

    16

  17. Unraveling the Enigma: The Making of Marienbad

    2009

    Documentary

    17

  18. Michael Nyman in Progress

    2010 · ★ 1.5 (1 votes)

    Documentary

    18

  19. The Night of the Filmmakers

    1995 · ★ 5.0 (3 votes)

    Documentary

    19

  20. Fritz Lang, le cercle du destin - Les films allemands

    2004 · ★ 7.0 (2 votes)

    Documentary

    20

  21. Peter Lorre : Derrière le masque du maudit

    2024 · ★ 7.5 (4 votes)

    Documentary

    21

  22. Volker Schlöndorff Remembers The Tin Drum

    2001

    Documentary

    22

  23. Volker Schlöndorff: The Beat of the Drum

    2020

    Documentary, TV Movie

    23

  24. A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner

    2021 · ★ 8.5 (2 votes)

    Documentary

    24

  25. Ulrich Matthes - Leidenschaft und Haltung

    —

    Documentary

    25

  26. Alain Resnais, the Audacious

    2022 · ★ 9.0 (3 votes)

    Documentary, TV Movie

    26

  27. Fassbinder

    2015 · ★ 6.2 (9 votes)

    Documentary

    27

  28. Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema

    1976

    Documentary

    28

  29. Who is Helene Schwarz?

    2005

    Documentary

    29

  30. Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century

    2015 · ★ 7.5 (2 votes)

    Documentary, TV Movie

    30

Credits are ranked using the same weighted score as movie collections. Last updated Aug 29, 2026.