Thomas Mann Movies

Composer Gustav von Aschenbach travels to Venice for health reasons. There, he becomes obsessed with the stunning beauty of an adolescent Polish boy...

Literary adaptation: a handsome youth of humble origins rises in society through his connections made as an elevator attendant in a luxury hotel.

A short mime adaptation of a Thomas Mann story about a Parisian urchin who makes her living selling human heads.

A keen chronicle of the unlikely rise to power of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and a dissection of the Third Reich (1933-1945), but also an analysis of...

Gregorius, the Outcast. As an infant, he was abandoned by his own parents, conceived through the sinful love of a brother and sister. As a young man,...

Based on a Thomas Mann novel and made with amateurs the directors found while doing a workshop at Ceará.

Thomas Mann's witty and intimate story of a irresistible scoundrel.

Adaptation of Thomas Mann's novella.

Explores the complex relationship between the spirit, body, and mind. The film is a nightmare with closed eyes because it counts among the most...

Short film based on Thomas Mann's short story "Der Kleiderschrank".

Hans Castorp, fresh from university and about to become a civil engineer, comes to the Sanatorium Berghof in the Swiss Alps to visit his cousin...

Mid-19th-century, Baltic Sea port city of Lubeck, Germany. Follows the fourth generation of the Buddenbrook mercantile family as Tony and Thomas...

A musician beds down a prostitute he knows is diseased in order to gain inspiration, an act he later believes to have been a tacit pact with Satan

Adaptation of Thomas Mann's 1901 novel, which chronicles the decline of a wealthy German merchant family over the course of four generations,...

First part of two of the saga of the troubled Buddenbrook family and their business in mid 19th century Germany.

This drama is taken from Thomas Mann's 1903 semi-autobiographical novel. Tonio (Jean Claude Brialy) is an aspiring writer and the son of a rigid...