| Year | Title | Role | Language | Director | With... | Notes |
|---|
| 1960 | Officer Factory [de] | Oberleutnant Krafft | German | Frank Wisbar
Written by Hans Hellmut Kirst | Horst Frank |
| 1961 | Girl from Hong Kong | Glenn Dierks | German | Franz Peter Wirth | Akiko Wakabayashi and Hanns Lothar |
| Barbara | Doctor Poul Aggersø | German | Frank Wisbar | Harriet Andersson |
| The Dream of Lieschen Mueller | Jan | German | Helmut Käutner | Sonja Ziemann, Martin Held and Cornelia Froboess |
| 1962 | Oggi a Berlino [it](Today in Berlin) | Hans | Italian | Piero Vivarelli
Written by Piero Vivarelli, Giuseppe Isani |
| 1963 | Because, Because of a Woman | Johann Muller | French | Michel Deville | Mylène Demongeot, Marie Laforêt and Jacques Charrier |
| 1968 | Bel Ami [de] | Georges Duroy | German | Helmut Käutner | TV film |
| 1969 | The Damned | Aschenbach | English | Luchino Visconti | Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin and Helmut Berger |
| 1970 | The McKenzie Break | Kapitänleutnant Schlüter | English | Lamont Johnson | Brian Keith |
| 1972 | Cabaret | Baron Maximilian von Heune | English | Bob Fosse | Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Joel Grey and Fritz Wepper |
| The Morals of Ruth Halbfass | Franz Vogelsang | German | Volker Schlöndorff | Senta Berger |
| Ludwig | Count Dürckheim | English | Luchino Visconti | Helmut Berger, Romy Schneider, Gert Fröbe, Trevor Howard and Silvana Mangano |
| 1975 | Children of Rage | Dr. David Shalom | English | Arthur Allan Seidelman | Olga Georges-Picot |
| 1976 | The Clown | Hans Schnier | German | Vojtěch Jasný
Written by Heinrich Böll | Hanna Schygulla and Hans Christian Blech |
| The Desert of the Tartars | Lieutenant Simeon | Italian | Valerio Zurlini | Vittorio Gassman, Laurent Terzieff, Max von Sydow, Philippe Noiret, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Fernando Rey, Giuliano Gemma and Francisco Rabal |
| Voyage of the Damned | Otto Schiendick | English | Stuart Rosenberg | Faye Dunaway, Oskar Werner, Lee Grant, Max von Sydow, James Mason, Malcolm McDowell, Orson Welles, Katharine Ross, Ben Gazzara, Fernando Rey, José Ferrer, Maria Schell and Julie Harris |
| 1978 | Germany in Autumn | German | Rainer Werner Fassbinder,
Volker Schlöndorff,
Edgar Reitz,
Alexander Kluge, et al. |
| The Glass Cell | Phillip Braun | German | Hans W. Geißendörfer | Brigitte Fossey and Bernhard Wicki |
| Mannen i skuggan [sv] | Willi Mohr | Swedish | Arne Mattsson | Slobodan Dimitrijević |
| Les Rendez-vous d'Anna | Heinrich Schneider | French | Chantal Akerman | Aurore Clément |
| 1979 | Breakthrough | Major Stransky | English | Andrew V. McLaglen | Richard Burton, Robert Mitchum, Rod Steiger and Curd Jürgens |
| The Hamburg Syndrome | Sebastian | German | Peter Fleischmann | Fernando Arrabal |
| 1980 | Put on Ice | Lehrer Brasch | German | Bernhard Sinkel | Ángela Molina and Martin Benrath |
| 1981 | Malou [de] | Martin Rethmann | German | Jeanine Meerapfel | Ingrid Caven and Ivan Desny |
| Sting in the Flesh [de] | Hans | German | Heidi Genée | Barbara Lass |
| The Temptation [pl] | Ludwig | German | Krzysztof Zanussi | Maja Komorowska and Eva Maria Meineke | TV film |
| 1982 | The Magic Mountain | James Tienappel | German | Hans W. Geißendörfer | Christoph Eichhorn, Marie-France Pisier, Rod Steiger and Charles Aznavour |
| Elective Affinities [fr] | Eduard Otto | French | Claude Chabrol | Stéphane Audran | TV film |
| La Passante du Sans-Souci | Michel Wiener | French | Jacques Rouffio | Romy Schneider and Michel Piccoli |
| 1984 | The Devil's Lieutenant | Judge Advocate Kunze | English | John Goldschmidt | Ian Charleson, Barbara De Rossi and Claudine Auger | TV film |
| 1986 | Peter the Great | Alexander Menshikov | English | Marvin J. Chomsky,
Lawrence Schiller | Maximilian Schell, Vanessa Redgrave, Laurence Olivier, Omar Sharif, Lilli Palmer, Ursula Andress, Hanna Schygulla, Elke Sommer and Trevor Howard | TV miniseries |
| Boundaries of Time: Caspar David Friedrich | Carl Gustav Carus | German | Peter Schamoni | Sabine Sinjen and Hans Peter Hallwachs |
| 1987 | The Second Victory | Karl Fischer | English | Gerald Thomas | Anthony Andrews, Max von Sydow, Mario Adorf and Renée Soutendijk |
| 1988 | Faust [de] | Faust | German | Dieter Dorn
(Filmed theatre performance) | Romuald Pekny [de], Sunnyi Melles and Cornelia Froboess |
| 1989 | A proposito di quella strana ragazza | Ugo De Magistris | Italian | Marco Leto | Joely Richardson |
| Hard Days, Hard Nights | Kronschneider | German | Horst Königstein [de] | Rita Tushingham |
| 1990 | The Plot to Kill Hitler | Field Marshal Erwin Rommel | English | Lawrence Schiller | Brad Davis and Ian Richardson | TV film |
| Shooting Stars | Gutke | English | Chris Bernard | Sharon Duce and Gary McDonald |
| 1991 | Landläufiger Tod | Judge Sonnenberg | German | Michael Schottenberg | Paulus Manker and Mercedes Echerer | TV film |
| 1993 | Charlemagne, le prince à cheval | Widukind | English | Clive Donner | Christian Brendel [fr], Anny Duperey and Frank Finlay | TV miniseries |
| Verlassen Sie bitte Ihren Mann! | Pertussini | German | Reinhard Schwabenitzky | Elfi Eschke |
| 1995 | Brennendes Herz | Gustav Regler | German | Peter Patzak | Dominique Sanda, Thomas Kretschmann, Dieter Laser and John Phillip Law |
| 1997 | The Lost Daughter | Rolf Sutter | English | Roger Cardinal | Richard Chamberlain | TV film |
| 2000 | Lourdes [it] | Auguste La Fontaine | Italian | Lodovico Gasparini [it] | Alessandro Gassmann, Stefania Rocca, Andréa Ferréol and Sydne Rome | TV film |
| 2001 | Death Train to the Pacific [de] | Oscar | German | Hans Werner [de] | Anja Kling | TV film |