Tom Tykwer (German: [ˈtɪkvɐ]; born 23 May 1965) is a German film director, screenwriter, and composer. He is best known internationally for directing Run Lola Run (1998), Heaven (2002), Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006), and The International (2009).

Filmography

• 2027I Rarely Wake Up Dreaming — Producer
• 2026Kochschule Schwarz — Producer
• 2025The Light — Producer, Screenplay, Director, Original Music Composer
• 2022Looop Lapeta — Original Story
• 2021The Matrix Resurrections — Original Music Composer
• 2019Lusala — Executive Producer
• 2018Supa Modo — Producer
• Babylon Berlin — Director, Writer, Executive Producer, Original Music Composer, Creator
• 2016A Hologram for the King — Director, Screenplay, Original Music Composer
• Sense8 — Director
• 2013Something Necessary — Producer
• 2012Cloud Atlas — Screenplay, Producer, Director, Music, Original Music Composer
• 2012Rosakinder — Self, Director
• 201160 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero — Director
• 2010Soul Boy — Producer, Supervising Technical Director
• 2010Three — Director, Screenplay, Original Music Composer
• 2009Germany ’09 – 13 Short Films About the State of the Nation — Director
• 2009Inglourious Basterds — Thanks
• 2009On the Other Side of the Screen: 100 Years of Moviemento Cinema
• 2009The International — Director, Original Music Composer
• 2008Man in Things — Director
• 2007The Heart Is a Dark Forest — Producer
• 2006A Friend of Mine — Producer
• 2006Cinema 16: European Short Films (European Edition) — Director
• 2006Paris Je T'aime — Director, Music, Writer
• 2006Perfume: The Story of a Murderer — Director, Screenplay, Original Music Composer
• 2004Downfall — Thanks
• 2004Soundless — Producer
• 2004True — Director, Screenplay, Original Music Composer
• 2002Heaven — Director
• 2000The Princess and the Warrior — Director, Screenplay, Original Music Composer
• 1999Gigantic — Producer
• 1998Run Lola Run — Director, Original Music Composer, Screenplay
• 1997Life Is All You Get — Screenplay
• 1997Winter Sleepers — Director, Screenplay, Original Music Composer
• 1993Deadly Maria — Director, Screenplay, Producer, Original Music Composer
• 1992Epilog — Director, Writer, Original Music Composer
• 1990Because — Director, Writer, Original Music Composer
• 1984Zyklopen-Uschi — Assistant Camera

Appearances as themselves (25)

• 2025What is an Ocean… Reconnecting the Cast and Crew of Cloud Atlas — Self - Interviewee
• 2015Was heißt hier Ende? Der Filmkritiker Michael Althen — Self
• 2014How I Learned to Love the Numbers — Self
• 2008Auge in Auge - Eine deutsche Filmgeschichte — Self
• 2008Critic — Self
• 2008Michael Ballhaus - Eine Reise durch mein Leben — Self
• 2006Ernst Lubitsch in Berlin: From Schönhauser Allee to Hollywood — Himself
• G&G - Gesichter und Geschichten — Self
• 2005Who is Helene Schwarz? — Self
• 2004In Free Fall - Tom Tykwer and the Cinema — Self
• ZIBB — Self
• Deutscher Fernsehpreis — Self
• The Johannes B. Kerner Show — Self
• Taff — self
• Die Harald Schmidt Show — Self
• Kulturzeit — self
• NeXt — Self
• Morgenmagazin — Self
• Goldene Kamera — Self - Presenter
• Bavarian Film Awards — Self
• NDR Talk Show — Self
• 3 nach 9 — Self
• Grimme Award — Self
• German Film Award — Self
• Bambi — Self