Tom Tykwer
Tom Tykwer is a German film director, producer, screenwriter, and composer. He is best known internationally for directing the thriller films Run Lola Run (1998), Heaven (2002), Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006), and The International (2009). He collaborated with The Wachowskis as co-director for the science fiction film Cloud Atlas (2012) and the Netflix series Sense8 (2015–2018), and worked on the score for Lana Wachowski's The Matrix Resurrections (2021). Tykwer is also well known as the co-creator of the internationally acclaimed German television series Babylon Berlin (2017–).
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The Light
director
2025
The Light
writer
2025
A Hologram for the King
director
2016
A Hologram for the King
writer
2016
Then Is It the End?
actor
2015
Rosakinder
director
2012
Rosakinder
actor
2012
Cloud Atlas
writer
2012
Cloud Atlas
director
2012
Three
director
2010
Three
writer
2010
Germany 09
writer
2009
Germany 09
director
2009
The International
director
2009
Paris, je t'aime
director
2007
Paris, je t'aime
writer
2007
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
director
2006
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
writer
2006
Heaven
director
2002
The Princess and the Warrior
director
2000
The Princess and the Warrior
writer
2000
Run Lola Run
director
1999
Run Lola Run
writer
1999
Winter Sleepers
writer
1997
Winter Sleepers
director
1997
Life is All You Get
writer
1997
Deadly Maria
writer
1994
Deadly Maria
director
1994
Epilog
writer
1992
Epilog
director
1992