D'entre a suya filmografía, se puet destacar as suyas interpretacions en bellas cintas como Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum (1975, Volker Schlöndorff y Margarethe von Trotta), Das Boot (1981, Wolfgang Petersen), Dune (1984, David Lynch), Beverly Hills Cop II (1987, Tony Scott), The Fourth War (1990, John Frankenheimer), Judge Dredd (1995, Danny Cannon), The English Patient (1996, Anthony Minghella), The Replacement Killers (1998, Antoine Fuqua), House of the Dead (2003, Uwe Boll), The Da Vinci Code (2006, Ron Howard), u La Conjura de El Escorial (2008, Antonio del Real).