Roland Emmerich

Roland Emmerich is a German film director, screenwriter, and producer who is known for his work on disaster and action flicks. He made a name for himself with The Noah's Ark Principle (1981) and co-founded Centropolis Entertainment in 1985 with his sister. Besides his work in the entertainment industry, he is a collector of art and an active campaigner for the LGBT community, global warming awareness and equal rights.

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Independence Day (1996)

Action-packed

On July 2, a giant alien mothership enters orbit around Earth and deploys several dozen saucer-shaped 'destroyer' spacecraft that quickly lay waste to major cities around the planet. On July 3, the United States conducts a coordinated counterattack that fails. On ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roland Emmerich
CAST:  Will Smith  •  Bill Pullman  •  Jeff Goldblum  •  Mary McDonnell

On July 2, a giant alien mothership enters orbit around Earth and deploys several dozen saucer-shaped 'destroyer' spacecraft that quickly lay waste to major cities around the planet. On July 3, the United States conducts a coordinated counterattack that fails. On ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roland Emmerich
CAST:  Will Smith  •  Bill Pullman  •  Jeff Goldblum  •  Mary McDonnell

10,000 BC (2008)

A prehistoric epic that follows a young mammoth hunter's journey through uncharted territory to secure the future of his tribe.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roland Emmerich
CAST:  Steven Strait  •  Camilla Belle  •  Cliff Curtis  •  Nathanael Baring

A prehistoric epic that follows a young mammoth hunter's journey through uncharted territory to secure the future of his tribe.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roland Emmerich
CAST:  Steven Strait  •  Camilla Belle  •  Cliff Curtis  •  Nathanael Baring

Godzilla (1998)

French nuclear tests irradiate an iguana into a giant monster that viciously attacks freighter ships in the Pacific Ocean. A team of experts, including Niko Tatopoulos, conclude that the oversized reptile is the culprit. Before long, the giant lizard is loose in ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roland Emmerich
CAST:  Matthew Broderick  •  Jean Reno  •  Maria Pitillo  •  Hank Azaria

French nuclear tests irradiate an iguana into a giant monster that viciously attacks freighter ships in the Pacific Ocean. A team of experts, including Niko Tatopoulos, conclude that the oversized reptile is the culprit. Before long, the giant lizard is loose in ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roland Emmerich
CAST:  Matthew Broderick  •  Jean Reno  •  Maria Pitillo  •  Hank Azaria

Stargate (1994)

An interstellar teleportation device, found in Egypt, leads to a planet with humans resembling ancient Egyptians who worship the god Ra.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roland Emmerich
CAST:  Kurt Russell  •  James Spader  •  Alexis Cruz  •  Viveca Lindfors

An interstellar teleportation device, found in Egypt, leads to a planet with humans resembling ancient Egyptians who worship the god Ra.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roland Emmerich
CAST:  Kurt Russell  •  James Spader  •  Alexis Cruz  •  Viveca Lindfors

The Day After Tomorrow (2004)

After years of increases in the greenhouse effect, havoc is wreaked globally in the form of catastrophic hurricanes, tornadoes, tidal waves, floods and the beginning of a new Ice Age. Paleoclimatologist, Jack Hall tries to warn the world while also shepherding to ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roland Emmerich
CAST:  Dennis Quaid  •  Jake Gyllenhaal  •  Emmy Rossum  •  Dash Mihok

After years of increases in the greenhouse effect, havoc is wreaked globally in the form of catastrophic hurricanes, tornadoes, tidal waves, floods and the beginning of a new Ice Age. Paleoclimatologist, Jack Hall tries to warn the world while also shepherding to ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roland Emmerich
CAST:  Dennis Quaid  •  Jake Gyllenhaal  •  Emmy Rossum  •  Dash Mihok

The Patriot (2000)

EpicPowerfulClassicDramatic

After proving himself on the field of battle in the French and Indian War, Benjamin Martin wants nothing more to do with such things, preferring the simple life of a farmer. But when his son Gabriel enlists in the army to defend their new nation, America, against ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roland Emmerich
CAST:  Mel Gibson  •  Heath Ledger  •  Joely Richardson  •  Jason Isaacs

After proving himself on the field of battle in the French and Indian War, Benjamin Martin wants nothing more to do with such things, preferring the simple life of a farmer. But when his son Gabriel enlists in the army to defend their new nation, America, against ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roland Emmerich
CAST:  Mel Gibson  •  Heath Ledger  •  Joely Richardson  •  Jason Isaacs

Universal Soldier (1992)

An American soldier who had been killed during the Vietnam War is revived 25 years later by the military as a semi-android, UniSols, a high-tech soldier of the future. After the failure of the initiative to erase all the soldier's memories, he begins to experience ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roland Emmerich
CAST:  Jean-Claude Van Damme  •  Dolph Lundgren  •  Ally Walker  •  Ed O'Ross

An American soldier who had been killed during the Vietnam War is revived 25 years later by the military as a semi-android, UniSols, a high-tech soldier of the future. After the failure of the initiative to erase all the soldier's memories, he begins to experience ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roland Emmerich
CAST:  Jean-Claude Van Damme  •  Dolph Lundgren  •  Ally Walker  •  Ed O'Ross

Moon 44 (1990)

Year 2038: The mineral resources of the earth are drained, in space there are fights for the last deposits on other planets and satellites. This is the situation when one of the bigger mining corporations has lost all but one mineral moons and many of their fully ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roland Emmerich
CAST:  Michael Paré  •  Lisa Eichhorn  •  Dean Devlin  •  Brian Thompson

Year 2038: The mineral resources of the earth are drained, in space there are fights for the last deposits on other planets and satellites. This is the situation when one of the bigger mining corporations has lost all but one mineral moons and many of their fully ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roland Emmerich
CAST:  Michael Paré  •  Lisa Eichhorn  •  Dean Devlin  •  Brian Thompson

The Noah's Ark Principle (1984)

Emotional

The year is 1997, and World Peace seems to have come, with most classic weapons of mass destruction having been abandoned. However, orbiting the Earth there is the European/American space station FLORIDA ARKLAB, capable of controlling the weather at any location on ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roland Emmerich
CAST:  Richy Müller  •  Aviva Joel  •  Matthias Fuchs  •  Nikolas Lansky

The year is 1997, and World Peace seems to have come, with most classic weapons of mass destruction having been abandoned. However, orbiting the Earth there is the European/American space station FLORIDA ARKLAB, capable of controlling the weather at any location on ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roland Emmerich
CAST:  Richy Müller  •  Aviva Joel  •  Matthias Fuchs  •  Nikolas Lansky

Anonymous (2011)

Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, the story advances the theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford who penned Shakespeare's plays.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roland Emmerich
CAST:  Jamie Campbell Bower  •  Rhys Ifans  •  David Thewlis  •  Joely Richardson

Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, the story advances the theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford who penned Shakespeare's plays.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roland Emmerich
CAST:  Jamie Campbell Bower  •  Rhys Ifans  •  David Thewlis  •  Joely Richardson

White House Down (2013)

Fast pacedMindlessAction-packed

Capitol Policeman John Cale has just been denied his dream job with the Secret Service of protecting President James Sawyer. Not wanting to let down his little girl with the news, he takes her on a tour of the White House, when the complex is overtaken by a heavily ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roland Emmerich
CAST:  Channing Tatum  •  Jamie Foxx  •  Joey King  •  Maggie Gyllenhaal

Capitol Policeman John Cale has just been denied his dream job with the Secret Service of protecting President James Sawyer. Not wanting to let down his little girl with the news, he takes her on a tour of the White House, when the complex is overtaken by a heavily ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roland Emmerich
CAST:  Channing Tatum  •  Jamie Foxx  •  Joey King  •  Maggie Gyllenhaal

Hollywood between Paranoia and Sci-Fi: The Power of Myth (2011)

Gives insight into the creators mindset and how they culled from real life events to create some of the biggest sci-fi films of all time.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Julia Kuperberg  •  Clara Kuperberg
CAST:  James Cameron  •  Roland Emmerich  •  George Lucas  •  Steven Spielberg

Gives insight into the creators mindset and how they culled from real life events to create some of the biggest sci-fi films of all time.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Julia Kuperberg  •  Clara Kuperberg
CAST:  James Cameron  •  Roland Emmerich  •  George Lucas  •  Steven Spielberg

Ghost Chase (1987)

In an old Hollywood mansion, the spirit of an old family retainer inhabits an old grandfather clock. When a movie company uses the mansion for a film, the spirit inhabits the body of an alien and persuades the two filmmakers to track down an old house that will ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roland Emmerich
CAST:  Jason Lively  •  Tim McDaniel  •  Leonard Lansink  •  Jill Whitlow

In an old Hollywood mansion, the spirit of an old family retainer inhabits an old grandfather clock. When a movie company uses the mansion for a film, the spirit inhabits the body of an alien and persuades the two filmmakers to track down an old house that will ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roland Emmerich
CAST:  Jason Lively  •  Tim McDaniel  •  Leonard Lansink  •  Jill Whitlow

2012 (2009)

Disturbing

Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms, learns that the earth's core is heating up. He warns U.S. President Thomas Wilson that the crust of the earth is becoming ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roland Emmerich
CAST:  John Cusack  •  Amanda Peet  •  Chiwetel Ejiofor  •  Thandiwe Newton

Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms, learns that the earth's core is heating up. He warns U.S. President Thomas Wilson that the crust of the earth is becoming ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roland Emmerich
CAST:  John Cusack  •  Amanda Peet  •  Chiwetel Ejiofor  •  Thandiwe Newton

The 120 Days of Bottrop (1997)

An eccentric homage to the Rainer Werner Fassbinder days of German filmmaking.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Christoph Schlingensief
CAST:  Udo Kier  •  Margit Carstensen  •  Irm Hermann  •  Volker Spengler

An eccentric homage to the Rainer Werner Fassbinder days of German filmmaking.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Christoph Schlingensief
CAST:  Udo Kier  •  Margit Carstensen  •  Irm Hermann  •  Volker Spengler

Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)

We always knew they were coming back. Using recovered alien technology, the nations of Earth have collaborated on an immense defense program to protect the planet. But nothing can prepare us for the aliens’ advanced and unprecedented force. Only the ingenuity of a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roland Emmerich
CAST:  Liam Hemsworth  •  Bill Pullman  •  Jeff Goldblum  •  Charlotte Gainsbourg

We always knew they were coming back. Using recovered alien technology, the nations of Earth have collaborated on an immense defense program to protect the planet. But nothing can prepare us for the aliens’ advanced and unprecedented force. Only the ingenuity of a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roland Emmerich
CAST:  Liam Hemsworth  •  Bill Pullman  •  Jeff Goldblum  •  Charlotte Gainsbourg

Stonewall (2015)

Kicked out by his parents, a gay teenager leaves small-town Indiana for New York's Greenwich Village, where growing discrimination against the gay community leads to riots on June 28, 1969.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roland Emmerich
CAST:  Jeremy Irvine  •  Jonny Beauchamp  •  Jonathan Rhys Meyers  •  Ron Perlman

Kicked out by his parents, a gay teenager leaves small-town Indiana for New York's Greenwich Village, where growing discrimination against the gay community leads to riots on June 28, 1969.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roland Emmerich
CAST:  Jeremy Irvine  •  Jonny Beauchamp  •  Jonathan Rhys Meyers  •  Ron Perlman

2012 Startling New Secrets (2009)

Massive earthquakes. Giant tidal waves. Super volcanoes exploding. Raging firestorms. These are just a few visions of a global apocalypse that some say will happen on December 21, 2012. That's when the eerily accurate Mayan calendar will come to a sudden end. That ...  (more)

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CAST:  Lester Holt  •  Roland Emmerich  •  Patrick Geryl

Massive earthquakes. Giant tidal waves. Super volcanoes exploding. Raging firestorms. These are just a few visions of a global apocalypse that some say will happen on December 21, 2012. That's when the eerily accurate Mayan calendar will come to a sudden end. That ...  (more)

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CAST:  Lester Holt  •  Roland Emmerich  •  Patrick Geryl

Midway (2019)

The story of the Battle of Midway, and the leaders and soldiers who used their instincts, fortitude and bravery to overcome massive odds.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roland Emmerich
CAST:  Ed Skrein  •  Patrick Wilson  •  Luke Kleintank  •  Luke Evans

The story of the Battle of Midway, and the leaders and soldiers who used their instincts, fortitude and bravery to overcome massive odds.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roland Emmerich
CAST:  Ed Skrein  •  Patrick Wilson  •  Luke Kleintank  •  Luke Evans

Making Contact (1985)

A nine year old boy named Joey, who after the tragic death of his father, begins to experience psychic powers such as allowing him to move inanimate objects with his mind, set things on fire, and even communicate with his dead father. However, not everything is ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roland Emmerich
CAST:  Joshua Morrell  •  Eva Kryll  •  Tammy Shields  •  Jan Zierold

A nine year old boy named Joey, who after the tragic death of his father, begins to experience psychic powers such as allowing him to move inanimate objects with his mind, set things on fire, and even communicate with his dead father. However, not everything is ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roland Emmerich
CAST:  Joshua Morrell  •  Eva Kryll  •  Tammy Shields  •  Jan Zierold
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