Alexander Engel
Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: June 04, 1902
Deathday: July 25, 1968
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The Horror of Blackwood Castle
1968-01-18
The Horror of Blackwood Castle
Overview: Scotland Yard must discover why people are being murdered by a monstrous dog at Blackwood Castle.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-01-18
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The Indian Scarf
1963-09-13
The Indian Scarf
Overview: When a wealthy man dies, his avaricious relatives look forward to inheriting all his money. However, he leaves a provision in his will that they all must spend a week together in his castle before they will be able to inherit anything. At the castle (which is cut off from the outside world), the relatives soon begin to be killed off one by one, each strangled with an Indian scarf.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-09-13
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Heart of Stone
1950-12-08
Heart of Stone
Overview: Lavish adaptation of Wilhelm Hauff′s fairy tale: Young charburner Peter Munk dreams of joining the upper class. He makes a deal with the sinister Holländer-Michel, who offers to trade Peter′s human heart for one made of stone. Once he has the "cold heart" in his body, Peter eventually strikes a fortune and enjoys great wealth, but at the same time, he becomes a bitter and emotionless man – and, having lost all traces of humanity, even murders his wife Lisbeth. Only then does Peter Munk finally realize what has become of him, and he decides to regain his real heart from Holländer-Michel.
Genres: Family Drama Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1950-12-08
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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
1961-12-25
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Overview: Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother remarrying the murderer, his uncle.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Mystery
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-12-25
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Two Undercover Angels
1969-03-28
Two Undercover Angels
Overview: "Red Lips" are two female detectives trying to find missing models and dancers. A pop artist called Klaus Thriller and his werewolf-like assistant, Morpho, are the main suspects for the murderers.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-03-28
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The Final Chord
1936-06-26
The Final Chord
Overview: After her husband dies, a German woman who gave up her infant for adoption to emigrate to America returns to Germany, discovering that her child is being raised by a married orchestra conductor.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-06-26
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The Mad Executioners
1963-11-22
The Mad Executioners
Overview: A group of hooded vigilantes hang wrong-doers with a rope stolen from Scotland Yard's Black Museum.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-11-22
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Waldwinter
1956-03-27
Waldwinter
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Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-03-27
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Riot in Cockaigne
1957-09-14
Riot in Cockaigne
Overview: Once upon a time there was a king who had received a magic button from a fairy for his good deeds, which brought prosperity and wealth to the whole country. The times of worry and hunger were soon forgotten and the land of milk and honey lived in Saus and Braus. But with the abundance came inertia and boredom. Then the clever princess decided to put an end to the magic with the support of some children. And under no circumstances did the lazy citizens want to allow this.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-09-14
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The Young Woman of Scuderi
1955-07-28
The Young Woman of Scuderi
Overview: Several men have been murdered lately, mostly rich lovers on their way to meet their mistresses with gifts of fine jewelry. To fight this scourge, King Louis XIV decides to create a special court named "La chambre ardente", designed to find and punish the perpetrators of such heinous crimes. An unexpected person, Mademoiselle de Scudéry, the famous poetess, will find herself entangled in the web of a criminal intrigue linked with the jewel murders, along with a a goldsmith, his daughter and her fiancé...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1955-07-28
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A Time to Love and a Time to Die
1958-07-09
A Time to Love and a Time to Die
Overview: A German soldier home on leave falls in love with a girl, then returns to World War II.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-07-09
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The Strange Countess
1961-11-08
The Strange Countess
Overview: Strange fortune hunters are behind a girl's murder in this Edgar Wallace tale.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-11-08
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Sergeant Berry
1938-12-22
Sergeant Berry
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Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-12-22
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The Blue Swords
1949-12-30
The Blue Swords
Overview: The story of Johann Friedrich Böttger, an apothecary’s apprentice and alchemist’s assistant. Fleeing from the Prussian King, he goes to Saxony, where King Frederick August the Strong takes him to a fortress and demands that he create gold. Böttger is equipped with everything he would need for the task, but he has known for a while that actual gold production is a myth and instead experiments with porcelain—white porcelain, as the Chinese are said to possess. In 1709, he finally succeeds in surprising the King with the "white gold," the first white porcelain made in Europe, he hopes for freedom.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1949-12-30
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The Merry Wives of Windsor
1950-12-22
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Overview: For the corpulent nobleman Sir John Falstaff, the inn in the small English town of Windsor is the best of all places. Here he can indulge in excessive dining and intemperate drinking, as well as swagger and boast about his adventures, particularly those of an amorous nature. At present, he has designs on the two young women, Mistress Reich and Fluth, who, in turn, lead the paunchy protagonist mightily by the nose.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1950-12-22
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Die Rolle seines Lebens
1967-06-15
Die Rolle seines Lebens
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-06-15
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Vom Teufel geholt
1969-03-18
Vom Teufel geholt
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-03-18
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Ab Mitternacht
1938-04-07
Ab Mitternacht
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-04-07
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… und wenn’s nur einer wär’ …
1949-03-18
… und wenn’s nur einer wär’ …
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1949-03-18
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The Return of Dr. Mabuse
1961-01-01
The Return of Dr. Mabuse
Overview: The supposedly dead and buried Mabuse returns to his criminal activities, as his longtime foe Police Inspector Lohmann, a dauntless girl reporter, and an American - who may be an FBI agent, or maybe a Chicago mobster - investigate a series of gruesome murders connected to a maximum security prison and involving a minister who has written a book called "The Anatomy Of The Devil".
Genres: Crime Thriller Science Fiction Mystery
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Kriminalkommissar Eyck
1940-02-02
Kriminalkommissar Eyck
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1940-02-02
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White Slaves
1937-01-05
White Slaves
Overview: Russia, 1917. Revolution is in the air. The Sevastopol anchors In Saint Petersburg. The sailors are thirsty for women and celebration. The ship becomes a dancehall. Bloodbath, pillage and kidnapping follows. A Nazi/Germany propaganda film.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-01-05
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Long Legs, Long Fingers
1966-08-26
Long Legs, Long Fingers
Overview: Baron Holberg, who looks back with pride on a long family tradition as hotel thieves, is horrified when his daughter Doris falls in love with the lawyer Robert Hammond, of all people, rather than choosing the art thief Sammy, as he would wish. Under the pretext that they are being pursued by the police, he lures his daughter away from the lawyer, but when he confesses the deception to her, Doris immediately sets off for Hammond's country estate near London. However, Hammond's father is not too fond of the connection either...
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-08-26
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