David Hess
Also Known As: David A. Hess, David Alexander Hess
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia David Alexander Hess (September 19, 1936 – October 7, 2011) was an American actor, singer, songwriter, and director. He came to prominence for his portrayals of murderous villains and gruff characters in several films in the 1970s and 1980s. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Hess, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: September 19, 1936
Deathday: October 07, 2011
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Avalanche Express
Overview: CIA agent Harry Wargrave is sent to aid Gen. Marenkov, a senior Russian official, who is defecting to the west. Wargrave decides they should travel to safety on a train across Europe, the "Atlantic Express". During the journey, they must survive attacks by terrorists and an avalanche, all planned by Russian spy-catcher Nikolai Bunin.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-09-27
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Smash Cut
Overview: Television news celebrity April Carson turns to the services of private investigator Isaac Beaumonde to seek her missing sister, a stripper known as Gigi Spot. Carson assumes a role in a horror movie in the process, eventually learning that the movie's director, Able Whitman, is not only the culprit, but that he has rendered her sister's body into props for the production.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-07-18
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Body Count
Overview: A bodybuilder, a junk-food addict and a wild blonde nymph and their friends are stalked by a terrifying figure. An horrific tale of murder as a fun-loving group of college students explore the Colorado wilderness.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1986-10-28
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Zombie Nation
Overview: A psycho cop has a habit for pulling over random women and taking them to an abandoned warehouse, where he tortures and kills them. He gets what's coming to him when a pack of zombie women rise from their graves in order to get proper revenge.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-05
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The Absence of Light
Overview: When a scientist discovers the possibility of the meaning of life, two shadowy organizations learn of this and will stop at nothing to steal the scientist's work for themselves. As a result, two burned-out assassins named Puritan and Sultan are assigned to protect the scientist and keep his project from falling into the wrong hands.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-08-04
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House on the Edge of the Park
Overview: A posh couple experience car trouble on their way to a villa party and stop into a local mechanic's shop for assistance, unaware of his shady background. After he and his mentally challenged assistant fix the car, the couple invite them to the party to return the favor, leading to an evening of mayhem.
Genres: Thriller Crime Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-11-06
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Zodiac Killer
Overview: A young man who works at a nursing home uses the legendary Zodiac killer's M.O. to kill people who neglect their elderly relatives.
Genres: Action Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-03-30
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Nutcracker: An American Nightmare
Overview: It's another crazy Christmas and psychotherapist Dr. Carlton Fairfax, Jr. is losing control of his patients and his sanity - then he meets one particularly mysterious patient who sees to it that he definitely continues down that road.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-08-01
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Eric Falk: Sunshine-Judo auf Ibiza
Overview: Featurette about the 1980 film "Gefangene Frauen" starring Eric Falk and Erwin C. Dietrich.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-06-10
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Jonathan of the Bears
Overview: A young boy witnesses his parents' murder. Later, as he grows up, he befriends a bear in the wilderness and the chief of a local Indian tribe, and he stays with the Indians, but makes an enemy of the chief's son. As he enters adulthood he sets out to find the men responsible for his parents' deaths.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1995-04-21
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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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The Last House on the Left
Overview: On the eve of her 17th birthday, Mari and friend Phyllis set off from her family home to attend a rock concert in the city. Attempting to score some drugs on the way, the pair run afoul of a group of vicious crooks, headed up by the sadistic Krug.
Genres: Horror Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-08-30
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Swamp Thing
Overview: Mutated by his own secret formula, Dr. Alec Holland becomes Swamp Thing; a half human, half plant superhero who will stop at nothing to rescue government agent Alice Cable and defeat his evil arch nemesis...Even if it costs him his life.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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American Grindhouse
Overview: This documentary explores the hidden history of the American Exploitation Film. The movie digs deep into this often overlooked category of U.S. cinema and unearths the shameless and occasionally shocking origins of this popular entertainment.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-02-04
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Hitch Hike
Overview: A bickering couple driving cross-country pick up a murderous hitchhiker who threatens to kill them unless they take him to a sanctuary. In return he agrees to split some bank loot he has on him.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-04-30
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The American Nightmare
Overview: An examination into the nature of 1960's-70's horror films, the involved artists, and how they reflected contemporary society.
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-11
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Roland Klick: The Heart Is a Hungry Hunter
Overview: The gritty, kinetic, visionary cinema of Roland Klick is ripe for rediscovery. After shooting with international stars, such as Mario Adorf and Dennis Hopper, Klick celebrated international success and achieved cult status. Yet after making only six features, he disappeared from the scene in a rather mysterious way. The story of an uncompromising film maniac.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2013-02-08
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Tales That'll Tear Your Heart Out
Overview: Excerpts from an unfinished 1976 zombie-western anthology film by Wes Craven, in the style popularized by Amicus films, which were given an official home video release with The Last House on the Left, and placed in sections of an American version of the Italian film, Zombi Holocaust.
Genres: Horror Thriller Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-08-27
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White Star
Overview: A clean-cut synth artist in Germany hopes to turn his career around with the help of a washed-up, erratic, publicity-crazed American manager.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-10-27
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Buck at the Edge of Heaven
Overview: Loosely based upon Jack London's novels, this is a canine adventure set in the wilderness of the far North, amidst gold diggers, outlaws and children-in-distress.
Genres: Family Adventure Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Road to Ruin
Overview: This is a solid in-depth look at the making of the movie The Naked Prey featuring interviews with David Hess, Franco Nero, Corinne Cléry as well as members of the crew. It's cool to learn that Nero put in a word for David Hess - the two actors had worked together on the TV film '21 Hours at Munich' and Nero had great things to say about the young and ambitious actor and recommended him for this film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-02-16
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Armed and Dangerous
Overview: After policeman Frank Dooley is framed for theft and loses his job on the force, he joins a security guard agency and teams up with inept former defense lawyer Norman Kane. When the two botch a job guarding a local warehouse, they begin to uncover corruption within the company and their union.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-08-15
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Maybe Baby
Overview: For a happily married man changes his life completely and he finds himself in distress when his wife decides to have a baby after several years of marriage.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-05
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Debris Documentar
Overview: The film, released on DVD in 2014 as part of a boxset also containitng Melancholie der Engel (2009) and Reise nach Agatis (2010), deals with the everyday life of a man, Carsten , who works on the set of the 2004 Ulli Lommel film Zombie Nation. At the same time, he is planning to realize his own film, a task he finds extremely difficult.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-09-28
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Celluloid Crime of the Century
Overview: 40-minute documentary on the making of Wes Craven's 1972 classic, The Last House on the Left.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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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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Fallen Angels
Overview: When a turn of the century prison reformatory is slated for demolition, a grisly discovery is made. Hidden deep underground beneath the west cell block is a sub-basement structure that has not been entered in 100 years. Inside are the skeletal remains of several brutally slain children. As a CSI team arrives at the prison, an even more disturbing discovery is made that will eventually unveil a legion of seven demons and their even more chilling origins: each demon is responsible for one of the seven deadly sins. Seven deadly sins...Seven deadly demons...Seven more deadly ways to die...
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-05
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Let's Get Harry
Overview: Harry Burck has been kidnapped by South American terrorists, and when the US Government refuses to intervene, Harry's friends decide to take matters into their own hands!
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-10-31
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21 Hours at Munich
Overview: A dramatization of the incident in 1972 when Arab terrorists broke into the Olympic compound in Munich and murdered 11 Israeli athletes.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-25
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Murder in Blue Light
Overview: Model Starlet, leads a double life; at night, she becomes Sherry, a Times Square prostitute, in order to search for her brother's killer. He was a marine who had been involved in a game of hot potato with a live hand-grenade on a boat returning from Lebanon. The game had ended tragically when the grenade went off, killing three men and injuring six others, castrating one of them. Now someone is stalking New York and stabbing ex-marines to death, leaving fake hand-grenades between their legs after castrating them. Hard-boiled policeman Flanigan thinks Starlet is putting herself in too much danger, so he intentionally exposes her double identity, then poses as her to catch the real killer.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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