Florian Ballhaus is a Second Assistant Camera and Cinematography Allemand born on 1 january 1965 at Baden-Baden (German)
Florian Ballhaus
Florian Ballhaus participated to
36 films (as actor, director or script writer).
Among those,
20 have good markets following the box office.
Here are the best films classified by number of entries :
Cameraman
, 1h38
Directed by Tim Allen,
Barry SonnenfeldOrigin USAGenres Science fiction,
Comedy,
Action,
Adventure,
Comic science fictionThemes Comedy science fiction films,
Films about extraterrestrial life,
Superhero films,
Buddy films,
Films about extraterrestrial lifeActors Tommy Lee Jones,
Will Smith,
Linda Fiorentino,
Vincent D'Onofrio,
David Schwimmer,
Rip TornRoles Camera Operator
Rating72%
Agent K and his partner Agent D intercept a truck smuggling illegal immigrants into the United States. Inside they discover an alien disguised as a human. When he runs, they shoot him and use neuralyzers to wipe the memories of the border patrol witnesses. D decides to retire and asks K to wipe his memory too. In upstate New York, an alien crash-lands and kills an abusive farmer named Edgar to use his skin as a disguise., 1h28
Directed by Barry SonnenfeldOrigin USAGenres Science fiction,
Comedy,
Action,
Adventure,
Comic science fictionThemes Comedy science fiction films,
Superhero films,
Buddy films,
Films about extraterrestrial lifeActors Tommy Lee Jones,
Will Smith,
Lara Flynn Boyle,
Johnny Knoxville,
Rosario Dawson,
Tony ShalhoubRoles Second Unit Director of Photography
Rating62%
Five years after Agent K's retirement, Agent J (Will Smith) is now a top operative for the MIB, the New York City-based agency that secretly monitors and regulates extraterrestrials' activity on Earth. J has no permanent partner since K resigned and Agent L returned to work in a morgue. Subsequent partners have not lived up to J's standards, so he neuralyzes them back to civilian status., 2h20
Directed by Roland EmmerichOrigin USAGenres Science fiction,
Thriller,
Fantastic,
Action,
AdventureThemes Films about animals,
Dinosaur films,
La fin du monde,
Kaiju films,
Films about magic and magicians,
Seafaring films,
La préhistoire,
Films about religion,
Transport films,
Animaux préhistoriques,
Giant monster films,
Political films,
Dystopian films,
Godzilla films,
Films about extraterrestrial life,
Arme nucléaire,
Disaster filmsActors Matthew Broderick,
Jean Reno,
Maria Pitillo,
Hank Azaria,
Kevin Dunn,
Michael LernerRoles Camera Operator
Rating54%
Following a nuclear test in French Polynesia, the fallout irradiates a lizard's nest. Decades later, an enormous sea creature suddenly attacks a Japanese fishing vessel in the South Pacific, leaving only one fisherman alive. Dr. Niko "Nick" Tatopoulos, an NRC biologist, is sent to Tahiti and to Jamaica, where a wrecked village, footprints, and ship are found. Nick collects skin samples that lead him to believe the creature is an enormous mutant created by nuclear testing. It travels to New York City during the rainiest week of the season, leaving a path of destruction in its wake., 1h49
Directed by David FrankelOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
RomanceThemes Films about writers,
Films about journalists,
La mode,
Children's filmsActors Meryl Streep,
Anne Hathaway,
Emily Blunt,
Stanley Tucci,
Simon Baker,
Tracie ThomsRoles Director of Photography
Rating69%
Andrea "Andy" Sachs (Anne Hathaway) is an aspiring journalist fresh out of Northwestern University. Despite her ridicule for the shallowness of the fashion industry, she lands a job "a million girls would kill for," junior personal assistant to Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep), the icy editor-in-chief of Runway fashion magazine. Andy plans to put up with Miranda's bizarre and humiliating treatment for one year in hopes of getting a job as a reporter or writer somewhere else., 1h59
Directed by Robert SchwentkeOrigin USAGenres Science fiction,
Thriller,
Action,
Adventure,
RomanceThemes Post-apocalyptic films,
Films about religion,
Films set in the future,
Political films,
Dystopian films,
Disaster filmsActors Shailene Woodley,
Theo James,
Miles Teller,
Ansel Elgort,
Jai Courtney,
Kate WinsletRoles Director of Photography
Rating62%
The story begins five days after the assault on the Abnegation faction by Erudite leader Jeanine's mind-controlled Dauntless soldiers. Dauntless leader Eric and his platoon search through the wreckage of Abnegation for a box of unknown origin that contains the symbols for each faction. They recover the box and take it to Erudite. Jeanine claims it contains data from the city's founders and the means to end the Divergence problem–the issue of individuals having the qualities of multiple factions. Only a Divergent can open the box, so she orders all Divergents hunted down and captured., 1h55
Directed by David FrankelOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
AdventureThemes Films about animals,
Films about dogs,
Children's films,
Mise en scène d'un mammifèreActors Owen Wilson,
Jennifer Aniston,
Eric Dane,
Kathleen Turner,
Alan Arkin,
Haley HudsonRoles Director of Photography
Rating70%
Soon after their wedding, John and Jenny Grogan (Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston) escape the brutal Michigan winters and relocate to a cottage in South Florida, where they are hired as reporters for competing newspapers. At The Palm Beach Post, Jenny immediately receives prominent front-page assignments, while at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, John finds himself writing obituaries and two-paragraph articles about mundane news like a fire at the local garbage dump., 1h38
Directed by Robert SchwentkeOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
ActionThemes Films about terrorism,
Transport films,
Aviation films,
Dans un avion,
Disaster films,
Films about aviation accidents or incidents,
Films about hijackingsActors Jodie Foster,
Peter Sarsgaard,
Erika Christensen,
Kate Beahan,
Greta Scacchi,
Sean BeanRoles Director of Photography
Rating63%
Kyle Pratt (Jodie Foster), a U.S. aircraft engineer employed in Berlin, Germany, is widowed with a six-year-old daughter Julia (Marlene Lawston) after her husband David (John Benjamin Hickey) falls off the roof of their building to his death. Kyle decides to bury him in their hometown back in the U.S., on Long Island, NY. They fly aboard a passenger aircraft, the engines of which Kyle helped design. After falling asleep, Kyle wakes to find that Julia is missing. She begins to panic, and Captain Marcus Rich (Sean Bean) is forced to conduct a search. None of the passengers remember seeing her daughter, Julia has no register in either the Berlin airport or the passenger manifest, and Kyle cannot find Julia's boarding pass. Marcus and the other crew members suspect that Kyle has become unhinged by her husband's death, and has imagined bringing her daughter aboard. One flight attendant Stephanie (Kate Beahan) is particularly unsympathetic. Faced with the crew's growing skepticism regarding her daughter's existence, Kyle becomes more and more desperate. Because of her increasingly erratic, panicked behavior, air marshal Gene Carson (Peter Sarsgaard) is ordered to guard and handcuff her., 2h7
Directed by Francis Ford CoppolaOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Fantastic,
Horror,
RomanceThemes Films about magic and magicians,
Films about religion,
Dracula films,
Vampires in filmActors Gary Oldman,
Winona Ryder,
Anthony Hopkins,
Keanu Reeves,
Richard E. Grant,
Cary ElwesRoles First Assistant Camera
Rating74%
In 1462, Vlad Dracula, a member of the Order of the Dragon, returns from a victory against the Turks to find his wife, Elisabeta, has committed suicide after receiving a false report of his death. Enraged that his wife is now damned for committing suicide, Dracula desecrates his chapel and renounces God, declaring that he will rise from the grave to avenge Elisabeta with all the powers of darkness. In a fit of rage, he stabs the chapel's stone cross with his sword and drinks the blood which pours out of it., 1h51
Directed by Robert SchwentkeOrigin USAGenres Thriller,
Comedy,
Action,
Adventure,
Spy,
CrimeThemes Spy films,
Psychologie,
Superhero films,
Super-héros inspiré de comicsActors Bruce Willis,
Mary-Louise Parker,
Morgan Freeman,
John Malkovich,
Helen Mirren,
Karl UrbanRoles Director of Photography
Rating69%
Frank Moses (Bruce Willis), a former black-ops CIA agent, is retired and living a quiet life in a Cleveland, Ohio, suburb. However, Frank is lonely and often chats on the phone with Sarah Ross (Mary-Louise Parker), a Customer Service Agent for the General Services Administration Pension Office in Kansas City, Missouri. He creates opportunities to talk to her by tearing up his pension checks and calling her to say they had never arrived., 2h8
Directed by Wolfgang Petersen,
Duncan HendersonOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Science fiction,
Thriller,
Action,
AdventureThemes Films set in Africa,
La fin du monde,
Medical-themed films,
Films about viral outbreaks,
Catastrophe épidémiologique,
Disaster films,
American disaster filmsActors Dustin Hoffman,
Rene Russo,
Morgan Freeman,
Cuba Gooding Jr.,
Patrick Dempsey,
Donald SutherlandRoles "A" Camera Operator
Rating65%
Motaba, a fictional virus which causes a deadly fever, is discovered in the African jungle in 1967. To keep the virus a secret, U.S. Army officers Donald McClintock (Donald Sutherland) and William Ford (Morgan Freeman) destroy the camp where it was found., 1h35
Directed by Mark WatersOrigin USAGenres ComedyThemes Films about animals,
Films about birds,
Films about penguins,
Children's filmsActors Jim Carrey,
Carla Gugino,
Angela Lansbury,
Madeline Carroll,
Maxwell Perry Cotton,
Lin-Manuel MirandaRoles Director of Photography
Rating59%
Thomas "Tom" Popper (Jim Carrey) is a divorced real-estate entrepreneur whose father traveled around the world during his childhood. He learns that his father has died during an adventure to Antarctica and discovers that his father's will asks for his son to be given a souvenir from his last adventure. The next week, a crate containing a gentoo penguin (Captain) shows up at his doorstep. Eventually, five more penguins arrive. Popper intends to give them away but changes his mind when his children, Janie and Billy (Madeline Carroll and Maxwell Perry Cotton), think that the animals are Billy's birthday present. That night, Popper meets with New York zookeeper Nat Jones (Clark Gregg), who asks for the penguins. Popper tries to stall him by asking him to collect the penguins another time. Jones agrees but not before warning that the conditions in Popper's apartment are not good enough to raise penguins. Popper is forced to pay the board of his apartment to keep the penguins in his apartment and lies to his arrogant neighbor Kent (David Krumholtz) about there being no animals in his home., 2h1
Directed by Robert SchwentkeOrigin USAGenres Science fiction,
Fantastic,
Action,
Adventure,
RomanceThemes Post-apocalyptic films,
Dystopian filmsActors Shailene Woodley,
Theo James,
Miles Teller,
Jeff Daniels,
Zoë Naelle Kravitz,
Naomi WattsRoles Director of Photography
Rating57%
Choqués par le message des fondateurs leur dévoilant le véritable objectif du système des factions, Tris, « Quatre » et leurs compagnons décident de franchir le Mur encerclant Chicago pour découvrir le monde qui les entoure et ses survivants. Mais au-delà de la Clôture, ils découvrent un univers hostile avant d'être accueillis par un nouveau peuple complaisant et protecteur. À peine ont-ils compris avoir fait partie d'une expérience qui visait à restructurer la société qu'ils sont à nouveau confrontés à un défi de plus grande envergure. Alors que les dirigeants de ce nouveau monde ont en effet décidé de sélectionner les individus selon la pureté de leur code génétique, une terrible bataille se prépare à Chicago entre les anciens résistants., 1h55
Directed by Mike NicholsOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
Romantic comedy,
RomanceThemes L'usurpation d'identité,
Musical films,
Children's films,
EscroquerieActors Melanie Griffith,
Harrison Ford,
Sigourney Weaver,
Alec Baldwin,
Joan Cusack,
Philip BoscoRoles First Assistant Camera
Rating67%
Tess McGill (Melanie Griffith) is an Irish American working-class stockbroker's secretary from Staten Island with a bachelor's degree in Business from evening classes. She dreams of an executive position. Tricked by her boss (Oliver Platt) into a date with his lascivious colleague (Kevin Spacey), she gets into trouble by publicly insulting him and is reassigned as secretary to a new financial executive, Katharine Parker (Sigourney Weaver). Seemingly supportive, Katharine encourages Tess to share ideas. Tess suggests that a client, Trask Industries, should invest in radio to gain a foothold in media. Katharine listens to the idea and says she'll pass it through some people. Later, she says the idea wasn't well received. But when Katharine breaks her leg skiing in Europe, she asks Tess to house-sit. While at Katharine's place, Tess discovers some meeting notes where Katharine plans to pass off the merger idea as her own. At home, Tess finds her boyfriend (Alec Baldwin) in bed with another woman. Disillusioned, she returns to Katharine's apartment and begins her transformation., 1h43
Directed by Marc LawrenceOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Romantic comedy,
Crime,
RomanceActors Hugh Grant,
Sarah Jessica Parker,
Sam Elliott,
Mary Steenburgen,
Elisabeth Moss,
Wilford BrimleyRoles Director of Photography
Rating49%
A successful Manhattan couple, lawyer Paul Michael Morgan (Hugh Grant) and real estate agent Meryl Judith Morgan (Sarah Jessica Parker), are separated due to Paul's infidelity. After dinner one night, Meryl and Paul witness the murder of one of Meryl's real estate clients. Then they become targets of contract killer Vincent (Michael Kelly) and must enter the Witness Protection Program., 2h11
Directed by Brian PercivalOrigin USAGenres Drama,
HistoricalThemes Films about children,
Films about religion,
Political films,
Films about Jews and Judaism,
Children's filmsActors Geoffrey Rush,
Roger Allam,
Emily Watson,
Sophie Nélisse,
Ben Schnetzer,
Nico LierschRoles Director of Photography
Rating74%
In April 1938, a voice representing Death (Roger Allam) tells about how the young Liesel Meminger (Sophie Nélisse) has piqued his interest. Liesel is traveling on a train with her mother (Heike Makatsch) and younger brother when her brother dies. At his burial she picks up a book that has been dropped by his graveside (a gravedigger's manual). Liesel is then delivered to foster parents Hans (Geoffrey Rush) and Rosa (Emily Watson) Hubermann because her mother, a Communist, is fleeing Germany. When she arrives, Liesel makes an impression on a neighboring boy, Rudy Steiner (Nico Liersch).