Bruno Ganz
- Films to Die For
2025 (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Who the F... is Roger Rossmeisl
2020 Narrator (voice)
- A Hidden Life
2019 Richter
- The Witness
2019 Nikola Radin
- The Naked King - 18 Fragments on Revolution
2019 Narrator German (voice)
- Winter Journey
2019 George Goldsmith
- The House That Jack Built
2018 Verge
- Fortuna
2018 Brother Jean
- The Tobacconist
2018 Sigmund Freud
- The Party
2017 Godfried
- In Times of Fading Light
2017 Wilhelm Powileit
- A Jew Must Die
2016 Arthur Bloch
- Remember
2015 Rudy Kurlander #1
- Giovanni Segantini - Magie des Lichts
2015 Voice of Segantini
- Heidi
2015 Alpöhi
- Amnesia
2015 Bruno
- In Order of Disappearance
2014 Papa
- The Counselor
2013 Diamond Dealer
- Night Train to Lisbon
2013 Older Jorge O'Kelly
- Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas
2013 The Governor
- Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012 (archive footage)
- Of Women and Horses
2012 Franz Mann
- Unknown
2011 Ernst Jürgen
- Colors in the Dark
2011 Fred
- Das Geheimnis unseres Waldes
2011 Narrator (voice)
- Der Kleine Prinz
2011 Geograph
- The Day of the Cat
2010 Kater
- The End Is My Beginning
2010 Tiziano Terzani
- Taxiphone
2010 Stranger
- Julia's Disappearance
2009 John
- The Reader
2008 Professor Rohl
- The Dust of Time
2008 Jacob
- Ein starker Abgang
2008 Heinz Kilian
- The Baader Meinhof Complex
2008 Horst Herold
- Copacabana
2008 Herbert Schubert
- Youth Without Youth
2007 Professor Stanciulescu
- Vitus
2006 Grandfather
- Have No Fear: The Life of Pope John Paul II
2006 Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski
- The Ode to Joy
2006 Kurt Heinrich
- Pablo G. del Amo, un montador de ilusiones
2005 Peter (archive footage)
- Alias Kurban Saïd
2005 Narrator
- Downfall
2004 Adolf Hitler
- The Manchurian Candidate
2004 Delp
- Luther
2003 Johann von Staupitz
- The Power of the Past
2002 Bogliasco
- Epsteins Nacht
2002 Adam Rose
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust II
2001 Faust
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust I
2001 Faust
- Bread and Tulips
2000 Fernando Girasoli
- WhoAfraidWolf
2000
- Antipasto Umbro
2000
- You Can't Go Home Again
1999 Narrator (voice)
- Eternity and a Day
1998 Alexandros
- Gegen Ende der Nacht
1998 Fehleisen
- St. Stephen's: The Living Cathedral
1997 Narrator (German voice)
- Deadly Silence
1997 Hans Plache
- Saint-Ex
1996 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Lumière & Company
1995 Damiel (segment "Wim Wenders")
- Faraway, So Close!
1993 Damiel
- The Absence
1993 Player
- The Last Days of Chez Nous
1992 J.P.
- Prague
1992 Josef
- Night on Fire
1992 Peter Keller
- Le Quatuor des possibles
1992 Narrateur
- Children of Nature
1991 Engill
- Especially on Sunday
1991 Vittorio
- Success
1991 Jacques Tüverlin
- The Architecture of Doom
1989 German narrator (voice)
- Strapless
1989 Raymond Forbes
- Bankomatt
1989 Bruno
- The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway
1988 Ezra Pound
- Love of a Woman
1988 Franco Bassani
- Wings of Desire
1987 Damiel
- El río de oro
1986 Peter
- Private Resistance
1985 Gustav
- In the White City
1983 Paul
- Closed Circuit
1983 Faber
- Remembrance: Film for Curt Bois
1982 Director
- War and Peace
1982
- Circle of Deceit
1981 Georg Laschen
- Lady of the Camelias
1981 Count Perregaux
- La provinciale
1981 Rémy Muller
- Lost and Found
1980 Werner
- Polenta
1980
- The Inventor
1980 Jakob Nüssli
- 5% de risque
1980 David
- Nosferatu the Vampyre
1979 Jonathan Harker
- Return to the Beloved
1979 Dr. Stephan Kern
- Knife in the Head
1978 Hoffmann
- The Boys from Brazil
1978 Professor Bruckner
- Black and White Like Day and Night
1978 Thomas Rosemund
- The Left-Handed Woman
1978 Bruno
- The American Friend
1977 Jonathan Zimmermann
- The Marquise of O
1976 Der Graf
- Lumière
1976 Heinrich Grun
- The Wild Duck
1976 Gregers Werle
- Summer Guests
1976 Jakov Shalimov
- Die Bakchen
1974 Pentheus
- Prinz Friedrich von Homburg
1973 Prinz Friedrich Arthur von Homburg
- Die Mutter
1971
- Eine große Familie
1970 Heinz Hallasch
- Torquato Tasso
1969 Torquato Tasso
- Die Schlacht bei Lobositz
1968 Ulrich Braeker
- Im Dickicht der Städte
1968 George Garga
- The Soft Course
1967 Bernhard Krahl
- Die Unberatenen
1966
- Frühlings Erwachen
1966 Moritz Stiefel
- Der Spaßvogel
1964 Johnny
- A Roof Over Your Head
1962 Fred Weber
- Chikita
1962 Jazzfan
- Der Herr mit der schwarzen Melone
1960 Kammerdiener
