Michael Haneke

1989–present·8 films

Austrian cinema's coldest provocateur. Three Palme d'Or films. Every film is designed to implicate the audience in the violence they're watching.

The most important European director alive. Love him or hate him, you can't ignore him.

bourgeois crueltyprovocationPalme d'Or machine

Filmography

The Seventh Continent

1989

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Family destroys everything, then themselves. True story.

Benny's Video

1992

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Teenager films himself committing murder.

Funny Games

1997

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Home invasion. Killers address camera. Remade shot-for-shot.

Code Unknown

2000

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Interconnected Paris stories.

The Piano Teacher

2001

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Huppert as sexually repressed professor. Fearless.

Caché

2005

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Surveillance tapes. Post-colonial guilt as thriller.

The White Ribbon

2009

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Pre-WWI children. Roots of fascism. Palme d'Or.

Amour

2012

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Elderly love. Mercy killing. Palme d'Or.

8 films in Michael Haneke