Percy Adlon

Directing

Percy Adlon

Born — Died

1935-06-01 — 2024-03-10

Place of birth

Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Known for

Directing

Credits

56 titles

Paul Rudolf Parsifal "Percy" Adlon was a German director, screenwriter, and producer. He is best known for his film Bagdad Cafe. He is associated with the New German Cinema movement, and is known for his strong female characters and surrealist tendencies.

Known for

Film credits

Series credits

Behind the camera

Bagdad Cafe poster
7.2

A German woman named Jasmin stumbles upon a dilapidated motel/diner in the middle of nowhere. Her unusual appearance and demeanor are at first suspicious to Brenda, the exasperated owner who has difficulty making ends meet. But when an unlikely magic sparks between the two women, this lonely desert outpost is transformed into a thriving and popular oasis.

Bagdad Cafe

1987

Bagdad Cafe poster
7.2

A German woman named Jasmin stumbles upon a dilapidated motel/diner in the middle of nowhere. Her unusual appearance and demeanor are at first suspicious to Brenda, the exasperated owner who has difficulty making ends meet. But when an unlikely magic sparks between the two women, this lonely desert outpost is transformed into a thriving and popular oasis.

Bagdad Cafe

1987

Bagdad Cafe poster
7.2

A German woman named Jasmin stumbles upon a dilapidated motel/diner in the middle of nowhere. Her unusual appearance and demeanor are at first suspicious to Brenda, the exasperated owner who has difficulty making ends meet. But when an unlikely magic sparks between the two women, this lonely desert outpost is transformed into a thriving and popular oasis.

Bagdad Cafe

1987

Hawaiian Gardens poster
3.0

A romantic drama/detective story about big-time copyright fraud and a bigger-time crush. A complicated love triangle plays out to a dramatic climax, taking us from a strip mall somewhere in the glaring dust of Los Angeles County to a dark forest in Germany.

Hawaiian Gardens

2001

Hawaiian Gardens poster
3.0

A romantic drama/detective story about big-time copyright fraud and a bigger-time crush. A complicated love triangle plays out to a dramatic climax, taking us from a strip mall somewhere in the glaring dust of Los Angeles County to a dark forest in Germany.

Hawaiian Gardens

2001

Younger and Younger poster
4.2

The eccentric owner of a Los Angeles self-storage company finds his world come crashing down when his long-suffering wife dies, only to return as a beautiful ghost.

Younger and Younger

1993

Younger and Younger poster
4.2

The eccentric owner of a Los Angeles self-storage company finds his world come crashing down when his long-suffering wife dies, only to return as a beautiful ghost.

Younger and Younger

1993

Younger and Younger poster
4.2

The eccentric owner of a Los Angeles self-storage company finds his world come crashing down when his long-suffering wife dies, only to return as a beautiful ghost.

Younger and Younger

1993

Eat Your Heart Out poster
4.5

A womanizer gets his own cooking show and, ironically, the females who call in end up airing their relationship problems to him.

Eat Your Heart Out

1997

Salmonberries poster
5.5

A young orphaned woman named Kotzebue is trying to find out who her parents are in the icy landscapes of Alaska. Kotzebue is helped by an East German librarian, whose husband was killed while fleeing from the GDR. Although both women could not be more different from each other, a fragile relationship forms.

Salmonberries

1991

Salmonberries poster
5.5

A young orphaned woman named Kotzebue is trying to find out who her parents are in the icy landscapes of Alaska. Kotzebue is helped by an East German librarian, whose husband was killed while fleeing from the GDR. Although both women could not be more different from each other, a fragile relationship forms.

Salmonberries

1991

Sugarbaby poster
5.5

A plump Munich mortuary worker tracks down and seduces a married subway conductor.

Sugarbaby

1985

Sugarbaby poster
5.5

A plump Munich mortuary worker tracks down and seduces a married subway conductor.

Sugarbaby

1985

Sugarbaby poster
5.5

A plump Munich mortuary worker tracks down and seduces a married subway conductor.

Sugarbaby

1985

Céleste poster
6.7

In 1914, with men gone to war, Marcel Proust hired Céleste Albaret as his attendant. More than eight years later, she was at his side when he died. During this entire time, she only entered his room when he rang for her, sleeping from 9 AM to 3 PM to wait during the night while he wrote. Marcel uses her as more than a servant: she is his muse, telling stories of her childhood to stir his remembrance of things past; she's in cahoots with him as he manipulates those he wants to draw on for his writing; she listens appalled to his descriptions of the underside of Paris. Hers is a life of love and sweet devotion as he races time to finish his work before death.

Céleste

1981

Céleste poster
6.7

In 1914, with men gone to war, Marcel Proust hired Céleste Albaret as his attendant. More than eight years later, she was at his side when he died. During this entire time, she only entered his room when he rang for her, sleeping from 9 AM to 3 PM to wait during the night while he wrote. Marcel uses her as more than a servant: she is his muse, telling stories of her childhood to stir his remembrance of things past; she's in cahoots with him as he manipulates those he wants to draw on for his writing; she listens appalled to his descriptions of the underside of Paris. Hers is a life of love and sweet devotion as he races time to finish his work before death.

Céleste

1981

In der glanzvollen Welt des Hotel Adlon poster
7.0

The documentary tells the story of the Berlin luxury hotel, which was built by the director's great-grandfather and fell victim to a fire shortly after the end of the Second World War.

In der glanzvollen Welt des Hotel Adlon

1997

Rosalie Goes Shopping poster
5.8

Rosalie loves to shop too much to let a little thing like no money stop her. When the local shopkeepers no longer take her bad checks or bad credit cards, she's finds herself out of ways to please her consumerist tendencies… until she discovers The Internet! Master shopper becomes master hacker, and Rosalie is back on top.

Rosalie Goes Shopping

1989

Rosalie Goes Shopping poster
5.8

Rosalie loves to shop too much to let a little thing like no money stop her. When the local shopkeepers no longer take her bad checks or bad credit cards, she's finds herself out of ways to please her consumerist tendencies… until she discovers The Internet! Master shopper becomes master hacker, and Rosalie is back on top.

Rosalie Goes Shopping

1989

Rosalie Goes Shopping poster
5.8

Rosalie loves to shop too much to let a little thing like no money stop her. When the local shopkeepers no longer take her bad checks or bad credit cards, she's finds herself out of ways to please her consumerist tendencies… until she discovers The Internet! Master shopper becomes master hacker, and Rosalie is back on top.

Rosalie Goes Shopping

1989

Mahler on the Couch poster
5.2

Alma Mahler's affair with the young architect Walter Gropius sets in motion a marital drama that forces her husband Gustav Mahler to seek advice from Sigmund Freud.

Mahler on the Couch

2010

Der Tänzer Heinz Bosl poster
NR

A documentary about dancer Heinz Bosl who died in 1975 - aged 28.

Der Tänzer Heinz Bosl

1976

Der Tänzer Heinz Bosl poster
NR

A documentary about dancer Heinz Bosl who died in 1975 - aged 28.

Der Tänzer Heinz Bosl

1976

The Guardian and His Poet poster
9.0

About the life of writer Robert Walser.

The Guardian and His Poet

1978

The Guardian and His Poet poster
9.0

About the life of writer Robert Walser.

The Guardian and His Poet

1978

Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter poster
NR

This music special is dedicated to dispelling the prejudices associated with the HIV infection and raising money for AIDS research and relief. Some of today's most celebrated recording artists performing their interpretations of the classic songs of Cole Porter.

Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter

1990

No artwork available
NR

Tomi Ungerer moves with his wife Yvonne from New York to Nova Scotia, to a small peninsula with a wooden fisherman's house and a few stables. This first of four documentaries that Adlon makes about the French artist and writer is a breakthrough - both for Ungerer, who becomes better known in Germany as a result, and for the filmmaker himself, who signs his first major work with it.

Tomi Ungerer's Country Life

1973

No artwork available
NR

Tomi Ungerer moves with his wife Yvonne from New York to Nova Scotia, to a small peninsula with a wooden fisherman's house and a few stables. This first of four documentaries that Adlon makes about the French artist and writer is a breakthrough - both for Ungerer, who becomes better known in Germany as a result, and for the filmmaker himself, who signs his first major work with it.

Tomi Ungerer's Country Life

1973

The Swing poster
5.5

Based on Annette Kolb’s autobiographical novel of the same name, THE SWING is a lavish, breathless reconstruction of life in Munich towards the end of the 19th century. The deceptively simple story centers around the Lautenschlags, a Bavarian-French Catholic family overflowing with artistry but short on practicalities like financial acumen.

The Swing

1983

The Swing poster
5.5

Based on Annette Kolb’s autobiographical novel of the same name, THE SWING is a lavish, breathless reconstruction of life in Munich towards the end of the 19th century. The deceptively simple story centers around the Lautenschlags, a Bavarian-French Catholic family overflowing with artistry but short on practicalities like financial acumen.

The Swing

1983

Bagdad Cafe poster
NR

Smack bang in the middle of nowhere (or was it somewhere on the legendary Route 66?) two women are thrown together by chance. Stranded tourist Jasmin stumbles out of her unhappy marriage and finds herself at Brenda’s remote cafe and motel. Ordinarily, no one would choose to stay at the Bagdad Cafe but in the dust and isolation, unexpected and extraordinary friendships begin to blossom. The lost are found as individuals transform into an eclectic community bound by music, magic and some very strong coffee.

Bagdad Cafe

2021

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Mann vor wilder Landschaft

2019

Herschel and the Music of the Stars poster
8.0

Not far from Windsor Castle, the Austrian composer Joseph Haydn visits the German astronomer Friedrich W. Herschel in the summer of 1792. But what begins as an informal afternoon ends in disaster for Haydn: his traditional world view is shaken by Herschel's cosmic experiences.

Herschel and the Music of the Stars

1986

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The House of Ape Painter Gabriel Max

1980

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The House of Ape Painter Gabriel Max

1980

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Die Bilek

1978

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Die Bilek

1978

Last Five Days poster
6.0

At Gestapo head quarters a young woman establishes a relationship with another inmate. This young woman is Sophie Scholl who tells the story of her life and of her resistance movement′s courageous fight against Hitler′s Nazi regime.

Last Five Days

1982

Last Five Days poster
6.0

At Gestapo head quarters a young woman establishes a relationship with another inmate. This young woman is Sophie Scholl who tells the story of her life and of her resistance movement′s courageous fight against Hitler′s Nazi regime.

Last Five Days

1982

Koenig's Sphere poster
10.0

Adlon recounts the making of the sculpture, "Kugelkaryatide" the sphere that stood in the center of Tobin Plaza between the two towers of the World Trade Center. The film follows the sculpture from its creation as the largest bronze sculpture of recent times to the aftermath, where it now stands, heavily scarred, in Battery Park.

Koenig's Sphere

2002