D'entre a suya filmografía, se puet destacar as cintas Alice in den Städten (1974, con Rüdiger Vogler, Yella Rottländer y Lisa Kreuzer), Hammett (1982, con Frederic Forrest, Peter Boyle, Marilu Henner y Roy Kinnear), Paris, Texas (1984, con Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski y Hunter Carson), Der Himmel über Berlin (1987, con Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander, Curt Bois y Peter Falk), The End of Violence (1997, con Bill Pullman, Gabriel Byrne, Traci Lind, Rosalind Chao y Andie MacDowell), u The Million Dollar Hotel (2000, con Jeremy Davies, Milla Jovovich, Mel Gibson, Jimmy Smits, Donal Logue, Peter Stormare y Amanda Plummer).