Anton Diffring
Biography: Anton Diffring (born Alfred Pollack; October 20, 1918 – May 20, 1989) was a German actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Anton Diffring, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: October 20, 1916
Deathday: May 20, 1989
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Tales of Frankenstein
1958-01-01
Tales of Frankenstein
Overview: In this pilot for a series that was never picked up, Dr. Frankenstein has just finished rebuilding his creation, but the monster is unresponsive. He needs to try something different to make it work, perhaps some new parts. Enter a terminally ill sculptor and his assertive wife…
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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Where Eagles Dare
1968-12-04
Where Eagles Dare
Overview: World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the Schloss Adler, a Bavarian castle that's nearly impossible to breach. It's up to a group of skilled Allied soldiers to liberate the general before it's too late.
Genres: Action Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-04
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Only the Wind Knows the Answer
1974-11-20
Only the Wind Knows the Answer
Overview: The yacht of millionaire Hellmann explodes in the Mediterranean Sea, with him and 8 men crew on board. Insurance agent Lucas investigates at the Cote D'Azur, because there's the suspicion that it could have been suicide. He finds out that Hellmann's villa was monitored, the tapes also contain information about the explosion. He uses them for blackmail.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-11-20
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Enter Inspector Duval
1961-06-01
Enter Inspector Duval
Overview: Inspector Duval comes to London to help crack the case of a socialite murdered during a jewel heist.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-06-01
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Waldrausch
1977-09-07
Waldrausch
Overview: In order to stop the annual flooding, a dam is to be built in the mountain valley; a life-threatening undertaking for the inhabitants.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-09-07
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Mark of the Devil Part II
1973-01-26
Mark of the Devil Part II
Overview: A tribunal interrogates, tortures and murders "witches" and "heretics" during the Inquisition.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-01-26
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Circus of Horrors
1960-04-01
Circus of Horrors
Overview: A plastic surgeon and his nurse join a bizarre circus to escape from the police. Here he befriends deformed women and transforms them for his "Temple of Beauty". However, when they threaten to leave, they meet with mysterious accidents.
Genres: Horror Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-04-01
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The Beast Must Die
1974-04-01
The Beast Must Die
Overview: Wealthy big game hunter Tom Newcliffe has tracked and killed practically every type of animal in the world. But one creature still evades him, the biggest game of all - a werewolf.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-04-01
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The Man Who Could Cheat Death
1959-06-15
The Man Who Could Cheat Death
Overview: Dr. Bonner plans to live forever through periodic gland transplants from younger, healthier human victims. Bonner looks about 40; he's really 104 years old. But people are starting to get suspicious, and he may not make 200.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-06-15
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The Masks of Death
1984-12-23
The Masks of Death
Overview: Sherlock Holmes has retired. But when MacDonald asks him to take on another case, he says yes. There have been some mysterious murders, and there are no visible causes for the deaths. At the same time Holmes gets this case, Graf Udo Von Felseck gives him another case: find a young and missing prince to prevent war between Germany and England. But Von Felseck is not as honest as he seems...
Genres: TV Movie Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-23
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Faceless
1988-06-22
Faceless
Overview: A detective investigating a missing model in Paris uncovers a plastic surgeon’s horrifying secret involving kidnapped women, blood, and organs.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-06-22
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Borsalino and Co.
1974-10-23
Borsalino and Co.
Overview: Marseille. Heaps of flowers and funeral wreaths... "A man who no longer defends his colors is no longer a man."
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-10-23
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The Swiss Conspiracy
1976-03-01
The Swiss Conspiracy
Overview: A Swiss bank discovers some of its clients are becoming the victim of a brilliant blackmailer. The bank's president contacts David Christopher, a former agent with the U.S. Treasury, to help discover who the blackmailer is and to foil his plot. As Christopher delves into the mystery, he uncovers a complicated web of intrigue, car chases, and shoot-outs that takes all of his wits to unravel.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-03-01
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Zeppelin
1971-04-08
Zeppelin
Overview: The outbreak of World War I places Scots officer Geoffrey Richter-Douglas in an uncomfortable position. Although his allegiance is to Britain, his mother was from an aristocratic Bavarian family, and he spent his summers in Germany as a child. When Geoffrey is approached by a German spy who offers him a chance to defect, he reports the incident to his superiors, but instead of arresting the spy they suggest that he accept her offer--and become an Allied agent. In Germany, among old friends, Geoffrey discovers that loyalty is more complicated than he expected, especially when he finds himself aboard the maiden voyage of a powerful new prototype Zeppelin, headed for Scotland on a secret mission that could decide the outcome of the war.
Genres: Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-04-08
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Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun
1977-03-10
Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun
Overview: 16-year-old Maria is forced into Serra D'Aires convent, secretly run by Satanists.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-03-10
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The Blue Max
1966-06-21
The Blue Max
Overview: A young pilot in the German air force of 1918, disliked as lower-class and unchivalrous, tries ambitiously to earn the medal offered for 20 kills.
Genres: War Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-06-21
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Operation: Daybreak
1975-11-01
Operation: Daybreak
Overview: Czechoslovakia, 1942. Three brave Czech patriots risk everything to rid their country of its brutal Nazi leader, SS-General Reinhard Heydrich.
Genres: Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-11-01
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Vanessa
1976-10-11
Vanessa
Overview: Following her parents' death, Vanessa was raised in a convent. Due to an inheritance, she travels to Hong Kong to learn that she inherited a chain of bordellos. Soon, Vanessa has trouble coping as she's thrust into her new world of carnal delights.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-10-11
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I Am a Camera
1955-07-21
I Am a Camera
Overview: Just before the Nazis ascend to power in Berlin, Chris, an aspiring novelist from England, meets flamboyant cabaret entertainer Sally Bowles and an unusual friendship is born. As Sally feeds her extravagant tastes, Chris goes along for the ride, until their Jewish pal, Fritz, encounters trouble.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-07-21
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Shatter
1974-12-06
Shatter
Overview: Shatter, an international contract killer, has been assigned to assassinate the President of a small African country and collect his fee from a bank in the Far East. On arrival in Hong Kong his life is threatened and when the bank denies all knowledge of payment arrangements, he realises he has been drawn into a dangerous game where there are no rules. Amongst the players are the Mafia and several foreign intelligence services and the stakes being played for are deadly.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-06
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Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eyes
1973-04-12
Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eyes
Overview: In a small Scottish village, horribly murdered bodies keep turning up. Suspicion falls upon the residents of a nearby castle that is haunted by a curse involving a killer cat.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-04-12
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Little Mother
1973-01-05
Little Mother
Overview: Marina Pinares, the wife of the president of a South American country, insists on being his vice-presidential running mate in the next election. She's no stranger to assassination to get what she wants, so some suspect she'll kill her own husband after the election to become president. In a series of flashbacks we see her rise to power: a party girl willing to sacrifice a friend's virtue to gain favor; the lover of a soldier she later tortures; the mistress of the military man she soon marries.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-05
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House of Secrets
1956-10-23
House of Secrets
Overview: Police in Paris recruit an English ship's officer (Michael Craig) to help trap counterfeiters by joining them.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-23
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Albert R.N.
1953-11-23
Albert R.N.
Overview: The British inmates of a POW camp think they have an informer among them after several escape attempts fail. One of the prisoners constructs a dummy which they christen "Albert" and use at roll call in order to foil the German guards.
Genres: War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-23
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Lady of Vengeance
1957-08-01
Lady of Vengeance
Overview: When publisher William Marshall learns his young ward Melissa Collins has committed suicide, he sets in motion a plan to murder the man who drove Melissa to kill herself. Mistakenly believing that singer Larry Shaw is his intended target, Marshall unwittingly seeks help from the man who actually broke Melissa's heart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-08-01
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Kill Rommel!
1969-09-06
Kill Rommel!
Overview: During WWII, US Lieutenant Morris and British captain Hull are assigned in a mission to kill Rommel.
Genres: War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-09-06
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Tony Arzenta
1973-08-23
Tony Arzenta
Overview: A mob hitman wants to retire, but his bosses don't think that's a good idea. Complications - and many bloody shootouts - ensue.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-08-23
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Counterpoint
1967-12-22
Counterpoint
Overview: In December of 1944, Lionel Evans, an internationally renowned American conductor, is on a USO tour with his 70-piece symphony orchestra in newly-liberated Belgium. While fleeing from a German counterattack, Evans and his orchestra members are captured by a Panzer division and taken to an old chateau in Luxembourg. Despite orders to execute every prisoner, General Schiller, an avid music lover, commands Evans to give a private concert for him.
Genres: War Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-22
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The Traitor
1957-03-01
The Traitor
Overview: One time members of a resistance group come together every year to remember their dead leader, betrayed to and executed by the Nazis. When it seems that they might finally know the name of the traitor - and that he or she comes from within their own unit - their annual gathering becomes a deadly trial...
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-01
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Lana: Queen of the Amazons
1964-11-10
Lana: Queen of the Amazons
Overview: A scientist and his nephew are hosts of Lana, queen of the Amazons, while other crew men try to find and take hold of the legendary Amazons' treasure.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-11-10
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Vorsicht Mister Dodd
1964-02-13
Vorsicht Mister Dodd
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-02-13
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Operation Diplomat
1953-12-01
Operation Diplomat
Overview: A physician is forced to operate on a mystery figure under shady circumstances.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-01
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Song of Paris
1952-02-10
Song of Paris
Overview: An archetypal Englishman returns from a jaunt abroad to face a dastardly foreign count in a screwball duel for the hand of a beautiful mademoiselle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-02-10
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Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street
1972-11-17
Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street
Overview: A private detective (Glenn Corbett) infiltrates a gang of drug-dealing extortionists who prey on politicians.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-11-17
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Anna
1988-12-15
Anna
Overview: This film is the theatrical follow-up to a very popular German TV-series (also called "Anna"), about a young girl who wants to make it as a prima ballerina.
Genres: Drama Romance Music Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1988-12-15
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Doublecross
1956-02-01
Doublecross
Overview: A Cornish fisherman becomes involved with Iron Curtain spies.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-02-01
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Tusk
1980-03-01
Tusk
Overview: An English girl and an Indian elephant, born on the same day, share a common destiny...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-03-01
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Montana Trap
1976-05-05
Montana Trap
Overview: Potato Fritz (Hardy Kruger) and his friends have moved from Germany to the American Wild West, settling eventually in the Rockies. They are besieged by what appear to them to be hostile Native Americans. Before too long, it becomes clear that the hostiles are in fact a gang of gold thieves. This movie is notable among German-made Westerns for its use of authentic period costumes and firearms.
Genres: Western
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-05-05
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Non Stop Trouble with Spies
1983-02-18
Non Stop Trouble with Spies
Overview: The harmless Berlin taxi driver Herbert Boeckmann has a bad day: Three mysterious gentlemen put the corpse of Boris Stravinsky, a Russian economist, into the car. Unsuspecting Herbert brings the "passenger" to East Berlin. There Boeckmann falls into the clutches of the KGB, who considers him a top agent of the CIA. As Herbert eventually returns to the western part of the city, the CIA waiting for him to be the taxi driver again suspected of being a top agent of the KGB. To prove his innocence, Herbert must find the real killer of Stravinsky. Herbert is given mysterious vials to which he sniffs in extreme situations, helping them not only to amazing powers and unsuspected abilities. As Super Agent "Herbie Melbourne" mixed Herbert on the agent scene. But between the lines he gets in the line of professional killer.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-02-18
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S.A.S. San Salvador
1983-02-25
S.A.S. San Salvador
Overview: Enrique Chacon kills Oscar Romero, a Catholic archbishop in San Salvador. The CIA calls a special agent, Malko Linge, a ruined prince who lives with an expensive woman - Countess Alexandra - to get rid of this nuisance of a man. He does, with many encounters with sweet girls, and macho villains.
Genres: Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-02-25
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The Summer of the Samurai
1986-06-19
The Summer of the Samurai
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1986-06-19
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Top Secret
1952-11-10
Top Secret
Overview: A British Sanitary Engineer, goes on holiday with a set of plans for a new secret weapon which he has mistaken for his new plumbing invention. Everyone is hunting for him, including the Russians. The Russians find him and offer him a job in the Kremlin doing research (on plumbing he believes). He accepts, arrives in Russia and falls in love with Tania, a secret agent. And then discovers the true nature of the plans he is carrying...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-10
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Das Einhorn
1978-09-28
Das Einhorn
Overview: A copywriter gets famous with his first book. When asked to write a new novel about love for his publisher, he urgently needs tutoring since he doesn't know the first thing about it. His way through the beds leads him to the very young Orli. In her he discovers the true meaning of love, which makes him forget all the wrong paths of the past decades and feel young again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-09-28
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Mark of the Phoenix
1958-10-31
Mark of the Phoenix
Overview: A jewel thief finds himself a target when a smuggled cigarette case made from a stolen new metal falls into his hands.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-10-31
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Operation Dead End
1986-04-10
Operation Dead End
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Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1986-04-10
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Marie Ward - Zwischen Galgen und Glorie
1985-05-02
Marie Ward - Zwischen Galgen und Glorie
Overview: The story of Marie Ward, a religious woman from a devout, aristocratic Yorkshire Catholic family who lived between 1585 and 1645 and moved to St. Omer in Walloon France, where she joined the Order of St. Clare, later returning to England to found her own order and devote her life to helping others.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1985-05-02
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Geld, Geld, Geld - 2 Milliarden gegen die Bank von England
1965-06-14
Geld, Geld, Geld - 2 Milliarden gegen die Bank von England
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-06-14
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Shots in 3/4 Time
1965-04-08
Shots in 3/4 Time
Overview: B 501, a newly developed controller for missiles, has disappeared despite the strict surveillance. Phillippe Tissout is sent by his boss to Paris to take over the case.
Genres: Action
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-04-08
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Hotel Sahara
1951-07-09
Hotel Sahara
Overview: World War II farce about the hotel of the title
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-07-09
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Incident at Midnight
1963-01-01
Incident at Midnight
Overview: In a late night chemist a shot bank robber has been taken for treatment, and to rendezvous with the gang leader.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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Son of Hitler
1979-01-01
Son of Hitler
Overview: The leader of a right-wing German political party discovers that an illiterate woodcarver is actually the son of Adolf Hitler.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Der Besuch
1984-03-18
Der Besuch
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1984-03-18
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Seven Thunders
1957-09-04
Seven Thunders
Overview: Escaping British prisoners of war hide out in German occupied France.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-04
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The Crooked Sky
1957-03-31
The Crooked Sky
Overview: An American detective unmasks a gambler as the head of a banknote counterfeiting gang.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-31
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The Woman's Angle
1952-02-12
The Woman's Angle
Overview: The organising force of a family of musical prodigies, Robert Mansell is a frustrated composer in seach of one thing personal happiness. This search, however, has landed him in the divorce courts and the judge's summary does not paint him in a favourable light.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-02-12
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Neutral Port
1940-12-06
Neutral Port
Overview: A British merchant ship is torpedoed by a German U-Boat and takes shelter in a neutral port. The Captain then strikes back at the German enemy.
Genres: War Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-06
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Convoy
1940-09-28
Convoy
Overview: A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America and England during WWII.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-28
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Plutonium
1978-06-25
Plutonium
Overview: Camouflaged as a political suspense documentary, Plutonium demonstrates the theft of highly enriched nuclear material from a Third World Country nuclear power plant - enough for five bombs of the Hiroshima type. Is this material now in the hands of terrorists – or in the possession of a brutal and inhuman dictatorship?
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-06-25
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Io sono mia
1977-11-18
Io sono mia
Overview: Vannina and Giacinto are a young married couple who live their relationship in an unequal way; while the girl is submissive to the will of her husband Giacinto, he sees in his bride only the personal object of his sexual satisfaction.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-11-18
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The Day the Clown Cried
The Day the Clown Cried
Overview: An unfinished and unreleased Swedish-French comedy-drama about a Circus clown imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
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Weltuntergang
1984-07-01
Weltuntergang
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Genres: History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1984-07-01
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Lehmanns Erzählungen
1975-04-07
Lehmanns Erzählungen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-04-07
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The Double Man
1967-04-25
The Double Man
Overview: In a complex piece of espionage the Russian secret service attempts to kidnap a high ranking officer in the CIA and replace him with a double of its own.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-04-25
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Wahnfried
1986-04-16
Wahnfried
Overview: Wahnfried (German: Richard und Cosima, French: Richard et Cosima) is a 1986 West German-French drama film directed by Peter Patzak about the life of Richard Wagner. It was screened out of competition at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1986-04-16
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Seven Years in Tibet
1956-05-01
Seven Years in Tibet
Overview: Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian moutain climber, escapes from a British POW camp in India and flees north across the Himalayan mountains into Tibet. There he meets and befriends the young Dalai Lama.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-01
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The Battle of Sutjeska
1973-07-03
The Battle of Sutjeska
Overview: The headquarters of the Marshal Tito's Liberation Army are surrounded by Axis forces. The Partisans have no choice but to fight their way out of the encirclement and face the enemy on the plains of Sutjeska.
Genres: War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1973-07-03
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The Heroes of Telemark
1965-11-12
The Heroes of Telemark
Overview: Set in German-occupied Norway, resistance fighter Knut Straud enlists the reluctant physicist Rolf Pedersen in an effort to destroy the German heavy water production plant in rural Telemark.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-11-12
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Escape to Victory
1981-06-17
Escape to Victory
Overview: A group of POWs in a German prison camp during World War II play the German National Soccer Team in this powerful film depicting the role of prisoners during wartime.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-06-17
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Doctor Who: Silver Nemesis
1988-12-07
Doctor Who: Silver Nemesis
Overview: The arrival of a mysterious comet heralds impending danger from enemies both old and new. As Ace helps the Doctor defend Earth, she is confronted with a dangerous question..."Doctor Who?"
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-07
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Valentino
1977-09-07
Valentino
Overview: In 1926 the tragic and untimely death of a silent screen actor caused female moviegoers to riot in the streets and in some cases to commit suicide...
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-09-07
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Operation Crossbow
1965-04-01
Operation Crossbow
Overview: Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant. The film alternates between German developments of the V-1 missile and V-2 rocket (with a German cast speaking their own language) and discovery by British Intelligence of the weapon.
Genres: Drama War Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-01
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The Black Tent
1956-04-09
The Black Tent
Overview: During the British retreat through Libya, a British officer takes shelter with a group of Arab Bedouin. He marries the chief's daughter. Sometime later, his younger brother, who had believed him to be dead, is informed that he may be alive in Libya - prompting him to set out and search for him.
Genres: Romance Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-04-09
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Piggies
1970-04-24
Piggies
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-04-24
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The Red Beret
1953-08-11
The Red Beret
Overview: Steve MacKendrick resigns from the US Army after causing the needless death of a fellow officer. Wanting to serve in the war, he enlists as a Canadian in the British 1st Parachute Brigade. He proves himself exceptionally skilled for a recruit, arousing the suspicion of his commanding officer who starts an investigation. He redeems himself during combat. The film was titled "Paratrooper" in the US.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-11
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Der Durchdreher
1979-03-08
Der Durchdreher
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-03-08
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Michael Kohlhaas - The Rebel
1969-04-11
Michael Kohlhaas - The Rebel
Overview: In medieval times, a horse merchant is forced by a noble to leave part of his stock as payment for crossing his land. Upon returning, he finds his horses near death, and when the noble refuses to compensate him, the merchant fights unsuccessfully against the injustice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-04-11
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Reach for the Sky
1956-07-05
Reach for the Sky
Overview: The true story of airman Douglas Bader who overcame the loss of both legs in a 1931 flying accident to become a successful fighter pilot and wing leader during World War II.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-07-05
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The Colditz Story
1955-01-25
The Colditz Story
Overview: Allied prisoners of various nationalities pool their resources to plan numerous escapes from an "escape-proof" German P.O.W. camp housed in a Medieval castle.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-01-25
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The Sea Shall Not Have Them
1954-06-01
The Sea Shall Not Have Them
Overview: During autumn of 1944, an RAF Hudson carrying a VIP passenger in possession of highly secret information is shot down and ditches in the North Sea. Fighting the elements and trying to keep up morale, the occupants of the aircraft's dinghy talk about their lives awaiting the rescue they hope will come. The film's title reflects the motto of the RAF's Air Sea Rescue Service, one of whose high speed launches battles against its own mechanical problems, enemy action, time and the weather to locate and rescue the downed crew and the vital secret papers they carry.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-01
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State Secret
1950-09-11
State Secret
Overview: While working in England, an American surgeon Dr. John Marlowe is invited to Vosnia (a fictitious East-European country) to receive an award and demonstrate his life-saving surgery. Unwittingly caught in the middle of a dangerous and corrupt series of political events, Marlowe then becomes the object of a shoot-to-kill, vicious pursuit. Fleeing, he seeks help from an English-speaking actress, Lisa Robinson, and the two attempt to escape across the treacherous mountains of Vosnia.
Genres: Thriller Drama Romance Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-09-11
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Park Plaza 605
1953-09-11
Park Plaza 605
Overview: Suave private investigator Norman Conquest intercepts a secret message and meets a beautiful but foreign blonde lady in room 605 of the Park Plaza hotel. But when Conquest wakes up in the room the next morning he is lying next to a dead body. With the mysterious blonde nowhere to be seen, Conquest soon becomes the police s number one suspect with Inspector Williams following his every move. In order to clear his name, Conquest enlists the help of Pixie Everard (Joy Shelton), but the going gets rough when he discovers that the murder is connected to a stash of stolen diamonds. As gun-happy gangs of communists and Nazi sympathizers turn up the heat, Conquest has to solve the murder whilst staying one step ahead of both the gangs and the police.
Genres: Drama Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-11
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H.P. Lovecraft: Schatten aus der Zeit
1975-01-01
H.P. Lovecraft: Schatten aus der Zeit
Overview: Based on H.P. Lovecraft's The Shadow Out of Time, this is the story of a professor who suffers a seizure which results in total amnesia. As he recuperates he is so different his family deserts him. He gathers knowledge of things outside his specialty for five years, then has another seizure. When he reawakens he is himself again, but now he has no memory of the five years between the attacks. He begins having bizarre dreams, and tries to find out what he was doing during the five years he can't remember. What he discovers, combined with the growing reality of his dreams, convinces him that something much darker than a mere personality shift was going on.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway
2003-10-31
The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway
Overview: Over one hour of black-and-white location footage and interviews with the stars and director, all staged outdoors in manifestly frigid conditions. Mann talks about his filmmaking philosophy and the challenges of shooting in such rugged locations, and shares his insights on the Douglas-Harris feud.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-31
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Fahrenheit 451
1966-09-07
Fahrenheit 451
Overview: In the future, the government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and maintaining a group of enforcers, known as “firemen,” to perform the necessary book burnings. Fireman Montag begins to question the morality of his vocation…
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-09-07
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The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire
1971-08-24
The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire
Overview: In Dublin, the acid-scarred, razor-slashed corpse of a young woman is discovered in the boot of the Swiss Ambassador's limousine. The Ambassador, his family and employees all become immediate suspects. Faced with the problem of diplomatic immunity, the police officer in charge of the case brings in John Norton, an ex-Inspector known for his brutal methods, to carry out an "unoffical" investigation. While Norton develops a relationship with the Ambassdor's attractive daughter, several more gruesome murders occur...
Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-08-24
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Never Let Me Go
1953-03-18
Never Let Me Go
Overview: An American reporter falls in love with a Russian ballet dancer.
Genres: Romance Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-18
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Appointment with Venus
1951-10-08
Appointment with Venus
Overview: At the outbreak of WWII the British realise they can't prevent the invasion of the Channel Islands. However, someone realises that a prize cow is on the islands and the Nazis mustn't get hold of her. This is the intrepid story of the cow-napping from under the noses of the Nazis.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-08
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Highly Dangerous
1950-12-06
Highly Dangerous
Overview: A US newsman and a British entomologist spy on germ-warfare research in a mythical country.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-06
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Kiss Me and Die
1974-02-09
Kiss Me and Die
Overview: When his brother vanishes without a trace, American Robert Stone goes to his last known location: a remote English village. Robert's investigation leads him to the mansion of Jonathon Lanceford, a man obsessed with the Gothic works of Edgar Allen Poe, and his beautiful and enigmatic niece Dominie...
Genres: TV Movie Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-02-09
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A Question of Adultery
1958-07-15
A Question of Adultery
Overview: Mark Loring is madly jealous of his wife, Mary, former American cabaret singer. Due to an automobile accident, she loses her unborn child, and Mark becomes sterile. His father, Brit-stuffy Sir John Loring, has never approved of the marriage and, again, tries to break it up. Believing that a child will hold the marriage together, Mary suggests artificial insemination to Mark, who finally agrees to accompany her to a clinic in Switzerland. However, when she is again pregnant, Mark finds it impossible to reconcile himself to the situation and leaves her. Prompted by his father, Mark sues for divorce, accusing her of adultery. She contests the divorce and a trial concerns itself with whether or not artificial insemination is a question of adultery. The Catholic Church's National League of Decency placed this film on its Condemned" list.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-07-15
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The Indians Are Still Far Away
1977-03-19
The Indians Are Still Far Away
Overview: A 17-year-old high school student, Jenny Kern, is found dead from cold and exhaustion in the suburbs of Lausanne, Switzerland.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-03-19
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The Day the Clown Cried [Reconstruction]
1972-08-01
The Day the Clown Cried [Reconstruction]
Overview: A reconstruction of available footage from Jerry Lewis' famous abandoned film, The Day the Clown Cried.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-08-01
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