Karin Dor
Also Known As: Kätherose Derr, Rose Dor
Biography: Karin Dor (born February 22, 1938, Wiesbaden, Germany) was a German actress who became popular in the 1960s playing heroines in Edgar Wallace and Karl May movies. She starred in the James Bond movie You Only Live Twice and the Alfred Hitchcock movie Topaz. Dor was born as Kätherose Derr. She was married to George Robotham, a U.S. stunt-director, from 1988 until his death in 2007. The couple lived in Los Angeles and Munich. Her previous marriage was to Harald Reinl (1954–68); she had a child by that marriage. In 2008 she was back on stage again in Munich in Man lebt nur dreimal ("You Only Live Thrice"). She died in Munich on 6 November 2017. Description above from the Wikipedia article Karin Dor, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Wiesbaden, Germany
Birthday: February 22, 1938
Deathday: November 06, 2017
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Gender: Female
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You Only Live Twice
Overview: A mysterious spacecraft captures Russian and American space capsules and brings the two superpowers to the brink of war. James Bond investigates the case in Japan and comes face to face with his archenemy Blofeld.
Genres: Action Thriller Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-06-13
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Topaz
Overview: Copenhagen, Denmark, 1962. When a high-ranking Soviet official decides to change sides, a French intelligence agent is caught up in a cold, silent and bloody spy war in which his own family will play a decisive role.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-17
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Assignment Terror
Overview: Aliens from a dying world plot to conquer earth by preying on man's superstitions. Bringing two dead scientists back to life, they use their knowledge to re-animate various earth monsters, including the werewolf, Frankenstein's monster, the mummy Tao-Tet, and the vampire Count de Meirhoff.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-02-24
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The Face of Fu Manchu
Overview: Grisly strangulations in London alert Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard to the possibility that fiendish Fu Manchu may not after all be dead, even though Smith witnessed his execution. A killer spray made from Tibetan berries seems to be involved and clues keep leading back to the Thames.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-08-06
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The Valley of Death
Overview: An army gold shipment and its escort vanish in the Ozarks, prompting accusations of theft and desertion but frontiersman Old Shatterhand and Apache chief Winnetou help solve the mystery of the missing army gold.
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-12-12
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Last of the Renegades
Overview: Forester, a ruthless oil baron, wants to create a war between the native American tribes and the white men. Old Shatterhand, Winnetou and their sidekick Castlepool try to prevent this.
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-09-17
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Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy 2
Overview: Now Brunhild knows by which treason she was won for king Gunther of Burgund by Siegfried of Xanthen, and has been revenged by his foul murder by Hagen, more bloody revenge is inevitable. Hagen steals the Nibelungen-treasure to sink it in the stream and manages to kill Alberich and seize his invisibility-cap. Queen Kriemhild is packed of to an abbey so her son may grow up to become a prelate, but Hagen's men raid them and kill the child. She now accepts to become the wife of Etzel, king of the truly barbaric Hun nomads and invites the Burgund court nomenclature at their Danube court for their heir's baptism a few years later, but prepared a bloody conspiracy with her xenophobic brother-in-law behind her surprisingly chivalric husband's back, while Gunther accepts, hoping to avoid a far bloodier war, despite the danger for his party of knights, which materializes...
Genres: Drama Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-02-16
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Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy
Overview: A young hero defeats a dragon to find acceptance to the court of burgundy.
Genres: Drama Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-12-13
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The Terrible People
Overview: The ghost of a hanged man returns to fulfill his promise. All of his accusers must die!
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-08-25
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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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The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle
Overview: A strangler is loose on a British estate, and he not only strangles his victims but brands an "M" onto their foreheads before he decapitates them.
Genres: Crime Thriller Horror
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-06-21
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The Forger of London
Overview: A ring of counterfeiters is flooding the country with phony money, and suspicion falls upon a wealthy playboy who may--or may not--have amnesia.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-08-15
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The Sinister Monk
Overview: A hooded serial killer finds a novel way to murder his victims--he lashes them to death with a whip. The police try to track him down before any more murders occur.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-12-17
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Treasure of Silver Lake
Overview: Fred Engel's father is murdered by Colonel Brinkley in order to acquire a treasure map, however the Colonel only acquires half of it, the other half as held by Mrs. Butler. Discovering the scene of the crime, Old Shatterhand and Winnetou help Fred bring his father's murderer to justice and locate the treasure of Silver Lake.
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-12-12
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The Green Archer
Overview: The country estate of American emigre Abel Bellamy is haunted by the ghost of the Green Archer, a 14th century Robin Hood type figure who terrorised the former lords of the manor. Now, with the gangster coming home on vaguely defined business and his niece Valerie arriving with her adoptive father to take up residence in the adjacent mansion, much to Bellamy's annoyance, the archer has returned. Who is he and what does he want?
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-02-02
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I Am the Other Woman
Overview: Successful architect Robert has a one-night stand with a mysterious lady in red. The next day they meet again, but Carolin is now a corporate lawyer working on a major contract for Robert ...
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2006-02-08
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Rosen aus dem Süden
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1954-01-01
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The White Horse Inn
Overview: Leopold, head waiter at the "Weißen Rössl" (White Horse Inn), is secretly in love with the owner of the restaurant, Josepha. But she's only interested in the lawyer Dr. Siedler. Jealous, Leopold comes up with a plan to gain Josepha's attention.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-12-20
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The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism
Overview: In the Olden Tymes, Count Regula is drawn and quartered for killing twelve virgins in his dungeon torture chamber. Thirty-five years later, he comes back to seek revenge on the daughter of his intended thirteenth victim and the son of his prosecutor in order to attain immortal life.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-10-05
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Four Against The Desert
Overview: 4 field researchers are stranded in the African Sahara.
Genres: Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-12
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Ohne Krimi geht die Mimi nie ins Bett
Overview: Consul Keyser, a factory owner, is vacationing with his daughter Marion on a Mediterranean island, hoping to bring her together with his assistant Dr. Thomas Steffen. On this island, however, the passionate fisherman Michael Lutz and his somewhat neglected admirer Barbara Holstein already spend their vacations.Michael asks the singer Bob Stuart, together with his band in their ghost costumes to drive away the annoying newcomers again. However, it no longer comes to this, because on behalf of Gina, the wife of the local police chief, real gangsters appear with the tourists and finally flee with their dinghy. So now the vacationers have to rely on each other willy-nilly, and the couples finally find each other.
Genres: Romance Music Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-10-19
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Room 13
Overview: A serial-killer is murdering the ladies of a night club. Detective Gray is seeking for the killer but can only find a lot of gangsters. And the killer is about to act again...
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-02-20
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The Invisible Dr. Mabuse
Overview: Strange things happen in a revue theatre. The dancer Maria seems to be hunted by an invisible admirer. When the body of a probable FBI agent is found in a trunk the police asks FBI man Joe Como for help. Como gets interested in the revue theatre and an ominous transport firm soon. When he is receiving mysterious threatening letters he is sure that Dr. Mabuse has risen again. But what is going on at "Enterprise X" so that both the goverment and the mad genius in crime are interested in it?
Genres: Crime Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-03-30
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Rosamunde Pilcher: Herzensfragen
Overview: The lieutenant Fraser is expelled from the army for saving the honor of his Superior. Since this gratefulness uses him as chauffeur in his familiar mansion. There it knows Lady Claire.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-01-02
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Im schwarzen Rössl
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Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-12-22
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Hotel der toten Gäste
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Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-03-26
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Target for Killing
Overview: A secret agent is charged with preventing a crime syndicate's plot to assassinate a young heiress.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-09-29
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The Spy with Ten Faces
Overview: Paul Hubsschmid is Paul Finney aka Upperseven, master of disguise. He's out to stop a diamond smuggling operation which fronts for a missile building project.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-02-24
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The Carpet of Horror
Overview: Shortly after his return from India, a special agent of the British secret service falls victim to an insidious poisoning in London. Scotland Yard gets involved. But too late: valuable information has fallen into the hands of an international criminal gang...
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-07-31
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Johann Strauss: The King Without a Crown
Overview: A biopic about Austrian composer Johann Strauß.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1987-03-20
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Almenrausch und Edelweiß
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-12-20
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Die Zwillinge vom Zillertal
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-09-26
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Bei Pichler stimmt die Kasse nicht
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-05-18
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The Secret of the Black Widow
Overview: Someone is killing people related to a South American expedition. The means of murder are poison darts with rubber spiders attached to them. A writer and some police detectives investigate.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-11-28
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13 Little Donkeys and the Sun Court
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-10-31
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Am Sonntag will mein Süßer mit mir segeln gehn
Overview: Albert and Corinna begin a camping site in their backyard and soon welcome a bunch of eccentric, love lost holiday goers.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-10-12
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The Last Tomahawk
Overview: As Alice and Cora Munro attempt to find their father, a British officer in the French and Indian War, they are set upon by French soldiers and their cohorts, Huron tribesmen led by the evil Magua. Fighting to rescue the women are Chingachgook and his son Unkas, the last of the Mohican tribe, and their white ally, the frontiersman Natty Bumppo, known as Falkenauge.
Genres: Western
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-04-17
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Das blaue Meer und Du
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Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-10-14
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Kleiner Mann - ganz groß
Overview: His grandpa gives the orphan boy Robbie a foal that they call "little brother". The boy loves the animal and wants to train it as a racing horse - but then his grandpa dies. Robbie's sister isn't old enough to care for themselves, so they get a guardian who decides to sell all the horses. Robbie hides his "little brother" at a farm, but it's hard for him to come up with the rent regularly..
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-02-12
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Rosen-Resli
Overview: The nine-year-old orphan Therese has recently moved in with a family of gardeners. She continues to take loving care of her former foster mother, from whom she had to leave when she fell ill with a heart condition. With the help of old Jacob, the girl manages to grow a particularly beautiful rose. After some complications, this proves to be a stroke of luck, and not just for her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1954-05-04
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The Bellboy and the Playgirls
Overview: The bellboy aspires to be a private eye and is reading a book to learn the trade. The 'suspicious' activities of women in the hotel give him a chance to practice his skills. Surprise! They are representatives of a lingerie manufacturer. To investigate further, he poses as a potential buyer, and the women take turns modeling their wares. The film is a re-edited version of a West German film from 1958 originally titled “Mit Eva fing die Sünde an” with roughly 15 minutes of additional footage shot by Francis Ford Coppola and Jack Hill with nudity inserted for an American release in 1962. Coppola has since said that the project was "adding five three-minute nudie sketches in color to a stupid German movie that had been shot in black-and-white"
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-02-12
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As Long as You Live
Overview: Amidst the chaos of the Spanish Civil War, a nurse tends to a wounded pilot.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1955-10-13
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The White Spider
Overview: After an automobile accident, in which a man is unrecognizably burnt to a crisp, his wife's only able to confirm the corpse's identity by his talisman: a small, white spider. However, soon, there are more corpses walking around than at a comic con convention and every single one of them was a white spider sitting on or nearby the body.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-04-05
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Ein Sommer, den man nie vergißt
Overview: The young Ernst Leuchtenthal is planning to travel to the USA for a year to study. Before he leaves, his father asks him for a meeting. Consul Leuchtenthal wants to get his son a "good" marriage before he disappears overseas. The old man has the very young, attractive Christine von Auffenberg in mind, who runs a breeding farm for chinchillas. This would fit in well with the consul's business, as he earns good money as a fur trader. Ernst is not too keen on marrying a woman his father has chosen for him, especially as he does not love Christine. In the local children's home he meets the light-blonde Marianne, and for him it is like love at first sight.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-12-18
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So angelt man keinen Mann
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-09-27
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Haie an Bord
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Genres: Crime Music Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-04-14
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Mein Freund, der Lipizzaner
Overview: Horse lover Paul Scheibner has dedicated himself to an unprofitable art: The young man wants to become a rider at the Spanish Riding School in Vienna. When his uncomprehending girlfriend Regina leaves him for a nouveau riche hotelier's son, he finds solace with the animal-loving stud secretary Julia. But then his beloved stallion “Maestoso” suddenly falls ill and is to be sold.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1994-05-14
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Ihre große Prüfung
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1954-12-20
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Worüber man nicht spricht
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-09-18
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Where Are You Taking That Woman
Overview: A lady killer tracked by the police, takes refuge at a psychiatrist's home, and the doctor tells him three stories, to convince him that crime does not pay
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-07-28
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Skandal um Dodo
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-01-15
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Der schweigende Engel
Overview: The deaf-mute little girl Angelika is a talented dancer and is trained by a ballet mistress so that she gets the leading role in an opera despite the intrigues of a rival. Angelika's brother gets out of prison and wants to build an honest life for himself, but falls back into the clutches of his former gang, who use him and the unsuspecting Angelika to circulate counterfeit money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1954-10-20
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Santa Lucia
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Genres: Music Comedy Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-08-19
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Women in Hospital
Overview: Schuman and Oberhoff are successful hospital doctors who treat pregnant women. However, their personal lives are a mess. Schuman has to deal with his drug-addicted wife Claudia, while Oberhoff deals with his teenage daughter's pregnancy.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-04-07
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Mit Eva fing die Sünde an
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-08-14
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Dear Caroline
Overview: Against the backdrop of the French revolution, young Caroline tries to reunite with her first love, despite her arranged marriage to an older politician.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-01-18
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Hochzeitsnacht im Paradies
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-10-23
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Harald Reinl - Kino ohne Probleme
Overview: Documentary about German director Harald Reinl
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1985-12-15
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Dark Echoes
Overview: The zombie ghost of a sunken excursion boat captain haunts an Austrian lake in search of vengeance against those who caused the accident.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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The Misplaced World
Overview: By chance Paul Kromberger discovers on the internet a photograph of the US opera diva Caterina Fabiani who is the spitting image of Evelyn, his dead wife. His unease and growing sense of alarm are transferred to his daughter, Sophie. Filled with curiosity, she leaves Germany and journeys across the Atlantic to make contact with this stranger.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-05-07
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Gipfeltreffen
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1985-06-22
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Rosamunde Pilcher: Der Preis der Liebe
Overview: Henry Farland moves to the country with his wife Allison and daughter - to live with Jack, his benefactor. He is increasingly forcing his life ideas on the young family. Allison suffers greatly from this situation, but Henry enjoys this life to the fullest and even begins an affair with his childhood friend. But then Christopher suddenly appears in Allison's life, desperately looking for a donor for his leukemia-stricken son...
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1998-02-15
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Rosamunde Pilcher: Ruf der Vergangenheit
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-11-12
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I Knew Her Well
Overview: A young woman from the Italian countryside experiences the dark side of the business after she moves to Rome to become a star.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-12-01
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German Grusel
Overview: A documentary directed by Oliver Schwehm.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-11-16
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Der Lord und das Kätzchen
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Warhead
Overview: A weapons expert is reluctantly sent on a mission to a middle-east warzone to locate a lost nuclear warhead and dismantle it before it falls into the wrong hands. But before he can complete his work, he is taken prisoner and thrust into the conflict, and finds himself looking out for more than just the warhead
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-02-15
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Inside 'You Only Live Twice'
Overview: A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "You Only Live Twice"
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-17
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Inside 'Diamonds Are Forever'
Overview: A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "Diamonds are Forever"
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-17
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The Desperado Trail
Overview: Rollins' gang wants to grab land by inciting the settlers in a war against the Indians but Winnetou and Old Shatterhand try to keep the peace, until Rollins frames Winnetou up for the murder of Jicarilla Chief's son.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-10-14
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