Dennis Gansel

Dennis Gansel

Director (b. 1973)
6
Movies
70.0%
Avg ThumbScore
Action
Top Genre

Frequent Collaborators

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The ThumbScore for Dennis Gansel (70.0%) is the average audience approval rating across 6 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Dennis's films are well-received by everyday viewers.

Dennis Gansel (born 4 October 1973) is a German film director, writer and actor. Gansel was born in 1973 in Hanover, Germany. He grew up in East Berlin and started making films when he was 17. Gansel worked in the festivals for film and television and with disabled people. During this time, he prepared himself for film school.

He studied at Munich Film School HFF where he studied for 5 years. Gansel is best known for directing The Wave and his following project; the vampire film We Are The Night, which starred Karoline Herfurth, Nina Hoss, Jennifer Ulrich, Anna Fischer and Max Riemelt. Other than directing, Gansel has also tried acting. He has had several small roles in his own movies as wells as others. Gansel frequently casts Max Riemelt in his films and frequently works with editor Jochen Retter and composer/musician Heiko Maile. His favourite director is Sydney Pollack. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dennis Gansel, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Born 1973-10-04 in Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany.

On ThumbScore, Dennis Gansel appears in 6 films with an average audience score of 70.0%, most frequently in the Action genre.

Sources: TMDB

Every Dennis Gansel movie, ranked by audience score

Free to watch now (26 Oct): The Wave (Kanopy).

The Wave
The Wave
2008
๐Ÿ‘ 82%
Before the Fall
Before the Fall
2004
๐Ÿ‘ 77%
We Are the Night
We Are the Night
2010
๐Ÿ‘ 71%
Mechanic: Resurrection
Mechanic: Resurrection
2016
๐Ÿ‘ 70%
Girls on Top
Girls on Top
2001
๐Ÿ‘ 63%
The Tank
The Tank
2025
๐Ÿ‘ 57%