Heinz Bennent
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Heinz Bennent (July 18, 1921 - October 12, 2011) was a German actor. His career began after the end of World War II in Göttingen. He moved to Switzerland in the 1970s, where he lives until his death. His children, Anne Bennent and David Bennent also work as actors.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Stolberg, Germany
Adult: No
Birthday: July 18, 1921
Age: 103 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: October 12, 2011
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The Tin Drum
Overview: Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his mother, Agnes, Oskar is reluctant to enter a world he sees as filled with hypocrisy and injustice, and vows on his third birthday to never grow up. Miraculously, he gets his wish. As the Nazis rise to power in Danzig, Oskar wills himself to remain a child, beating his tin drum incessantly and screaming in protest at the chaos surrounding him.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-05-02
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The Last Metro
Overview: In occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-09-17
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The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
Overview: After a chance encounter with a wanted man, a woman is harassed by the police and press until she takes violent action.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-01-10
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Womanlight
Overview: Having both suffered extreme losses, a man and a woman try to form a relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-08-29
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Possession
Overview: A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a possessed love affair.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-27
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Mord im Pfarrhaus
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Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-11-21
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Kalt ist der Abendhauch
Overview: Love story spanning 60 years of the lives of Charlotte and Hugo. As a teenager before the war she is in love with him, but he marries her sister. They share some brief happy moments during the difficult post-war period, then they are separated for the longest time. They meet again as 80-year olds.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-08-28
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From the Life of the Marionettes
Overview: Peter and Katarina are at a marital crossroads, but, when he brutally kills a burlesque dancer, their domestic squabbles are rendered trivial by comparison. In the wake of the crime, the film backtracks, painting a portrait of the fraught union between Peter and Katarina. When does a marriage go bad? What causes a member of the German bourgeoisie to murder an innocent woman?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-10-08
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Spy, Stand Up
Overview: Sebastien Grenier, a former French spy, is working as a financial analyst in Zurich. However, his peaceful existence starts to disintegrate when he is recruited by a top French intelligence operative to discover how one of their own secret agents was found out and executed in broad daylight.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-01-27
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The Serpent's Egg
Overview: Berlin, 1923. Following the suicide of his brother, American circus acrobat Abel Rosenberg attempts to survive while facing unemployment, depression, alcoholism and the social decay of Germany during the Weimar Republic.
Genres: Mystery Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-10-28
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Bennent mal vier
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1998-12-06
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My Name is Victor
Overview: No one knows, or is ever likely to know how many disabled or handicapped relatives have been hidden from the outside world in attics and basements over the years. In this wry comedy, Basile is an eleven-year old boy living in a rural French town (along with his mother) with his grandparents. He has the usual boyish adventures in town, punctuated with odd goings-on brought about by events which take place in his grandfather's crocodile farm. However, there is a deep rivalry between his grandmother and her wheelchair-bound half-sister, Cecile, who has kept hidden from the world (and her family), and has lived in the attic for decades. Basile eventually feels the wrongness of her situation and feels that he may be the reincarnation of Victor, Cecile's long-lost lover. Eventually things come to a head in a confrontation which provides the town gossips with material for years to come.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-03-16
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Lulu
Overview: Lulu models for a young painter who tries to seduce her. When her husband enters the room he dies from a heart attack. Lulu marries the painter, who commits suicide when he finds out that she has been having a long standing affair with Dr Schon and whose son gives her a job. Lulu kills Dr Schon and goes to London to live with his son. Eventually, she becomes a prostitute and dies a victim of Jack the Ripper.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-03-01
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Jonas and Lila, Til Tomorrow
Overview: It’s December 1999, and 25-year-old Jonah has just graduated from film school. As the new millennium begins, Jonah marries his longtime sweetheart Lila. Over the course of six months, the couple meet a number of interesting people, including Irina, an exiled Russian actress, as well as spending their time with Jonah’s sister Cecile and his filmmaking mentor Anziano. The discussions Jonah has with these friends and strangers help him to gain some perspective on his life and the new millennium.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-11-10
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Metamorphosis
Overview: An adaptation of Franz Kafka's classic story about Gregor Samsa, a man who awakes and sees himself suddenly turned into a repulsive insect.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie Fantasy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-10-16
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The Net
Overview: The aging writer Aurelio Morelli is disillusioned: although the critics like his books, they are barely read. He develops hatred on youth and their depraved moral. One night he goes with a callgirl - and kills her. The police doesn't have a clue, only the unscrupulous sensational journalist Bossi suspects him. Instead of naming him to the police, he persuades Morelli to write about the murder for his paper. Morelli uses the occasion to write his memoirs, in which he confesses lots of other crimes before this last one...
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-12-25
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I Want to Live
Overview: I Want to Live (German: Ich will leben) is a 1976 Austrian drama film directed by Jörg A. Eggers. The film was selected as the Austrian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 50th Academy Awards, but was not nominated.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-02-01
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Nea
Overview: In Genève, bookseller and publisher Axel Thorpe catches willful, rich 16-year-old Sibylle Ashby shoplifting. She brags about her writing, so he challenges her to produce a book. She writes an erotic novel that Thorpe publishes anonymously, and it becomes a best seller. She also tries to capture the love of this 40-year-old publisher but he drops her for her older sister.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-08-17
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The Wild Duck
Overview: Consul Werle holds a reception in honour of the homecoming of his son Gregers. At the reception, Gregers meets his childhood friend, Hjalmar Ekdal, who is married to Gina, a former maid of the Werle family. Hjalmar is unaware that Werle had an affair with Gina and that their 14-year-old daughter Hedwig is not his child. Gregers moves in with the Ekdals with the intention of allowing unsuspecting Hjalmar and his family to share in the "happiness of truth". Hedwig is entirely devoted to a wild duck, which lives on a pond outside their house. When Hjalmar learns the truth about his daughter, he wants to leave his family. Gregers advises Hedwig to kill the wild duck so that her father, impressed by this sacrifice, will return home. On the following day, Hedwig's birthday, she doesn't shoot the duck, but shoots herself instead.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-09-01
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Das Sahara-Projekt
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1993-10-24
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Der Pott
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-01-12
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Kleine Geschichten mit großen Tieren
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-03-05
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Brass Target
Overview: General George S. Patton died in a car accident in 1945. But was his death actually a murder. Is he targeted by Nazis angered by Germany's defeat? Or by Russians who knew that Patton had argued in favor of invading the Soviet Union towards the end of the war? Or is it because Patton is investigating the theft of a quarter of a billion dollars of Nazi gold? Or is it because his subordinate Colonels - the flamboyantly gay Colonel and his worried lover are fearful that he is getting too close to discovering the truth.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-22
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Une femme fatale
Overview: A young, easygoing pilot discovers the mutual attraction between his chief pilot's wife and himself. The two become lovers, and are nearly discovered on several occasions. However, when the wife becomes pregnant, her husband has reason to believe he is not the father and, indeed, that the culprit is the young pilot. He arranges for the young man to have an unfortunate accident, and all proceeds as if nothing had happened.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-11-16
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Das Schloß
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-04-11
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Acht Stunden Zeit
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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Die Eltern
Overview: Ann, a ten-year-old girl, becomes the sole heir of millions from her grandmother. Ann's parents, who are short of money and have lost all hope of a bright future try to manipulate Ann's imagination in such a way that she loses her mind.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-01-22
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Perahim - die zweite Chance
Overview: After eleven years of solitary confinement, Perahim, convicted of murdering a police officer, is released early from prison after exceptionally good behavior. He has a son that he wants to take care of.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-05-13
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Love from a Stranger
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Genres: TV Movie Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-12-05
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Kopfstand, Madam!
Overview: Married with a young daughter, a 30-year-old woman yearns to return to her working life as a translator, to the confusion and consternation of her husband, a prosperous engineer. A formally stringent adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-03-02
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Der Nebbich
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-11-04
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Special Section
Overview: In occupied France during the WWII, a German officer is murdered. The collaborationist Vichy government decides to pin the murder on six petty criminals. Loyal judges are called in to convict them as quickly as possible.
Genres: Drama History Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-04-23
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The Death of Mario Ricci
Overview: A TV reporter and his assisstant go to a small Swiss village to do a programme with a reclusive scientist, an expert on world food shortages. During this time, an Italian immigrant worker is killed in a road crash and the reporter becomes involved in uncovering the truth about his death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-05-25
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A French Woman
Overview: Wed just as war breaks out, Jeanne hardly gets to know her military husband, Louis, before the debacle of 1940. While waiting for his return from a POW camp, Jeanne journeys through countless affairs with Louis' comrades- in-arms. Hoping to forget these wartime betrayls, Louis takes his wife and the infant twins he didn't father to Berlin, where she falls for Matthais, a sensitive German industrialist. When the Indochinese war sends Louis to Vietnam, Matthais follows Jeanne back to France. A subsequent move to Damascus where Louis is posted as military attache, fails to break their bond.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-03-14
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Year of the Turtle
Overview: The story of an impossible love between a 60 years old jobless bookkeeper and an unpredictable 40 years younger woman, who seems to be in big troubles.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1988-11-17
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Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness
Overview: Sisters Maria and Anna live together. Maria is a most proficient executive secretary, encouraging Anna to finish her studies and start a career. Anna broods, threatens to quit university, takes pills, and keeps a diary. When Maria's relationship with Maurice, the son of her boss, starts to lead to love, Anna takes a selfish and drastic step that plummets Maria into solitude. No longer able to connect with Maurice, Maria does establish a relationship with Miriam, a typist at her office who becomes a surrogate younger sister. But Maria is intrusive as well as helpful. Can this or any relationship work out for this talented woman whose past seems to choke her soul?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-09-17
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Das Rendezvous von Senlis
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-04-24
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Princesse Marie
Overview: The story of Napoleon Bonaparte's grandniece, the famous Princess Marie, her friendship and her work with Sigmund Freud.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-03-04
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Germany in Autumn
Overview: Germany in Autumn does not have a plot per se; it mixes documentary footage, along with standard movie scenes, to give the audience the mood of Germany during the late 1970s. The movie covers the two month time period during 1977 when a businessman was kidnapped, and later murdered, by the left-wing terrorists known as the RAF-Rote Armee Fraktion (Red Army Fraction). The businessman had been kidnapped in an effort to secure the release of the orginal leaders of the RAF, also known as the Baader-Meinhof gang. When the kidnapping effort and a plane hijacking effort failed, the three most prominent leaders of the RAF, Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, and Jan-Carl Raspe, all committed suicide in prison. It has become an article of faith within the left-wing community that these three were actually murdered by the state.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-03-03
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Eine Gefangene bei Stalin und Hitler
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-01-26
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Millowitsch - Theater - Schneider Wibbel
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-06-12
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Freiheit im Dezember
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-06-01
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Szenen aus dem Eheleben
Overview: Through psychological warfare, a man manages to outdo his former wife's second husband and return to her.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-03-28
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Im Kreis
Overview: On a rainy vacation day in a hotel room in Yugoslavia, a 40-year-old father and his adolescent daughter are bored. In the free-flowing surroundings, the dreams he once had in his youth come back to life in him. The game becomes almost serious. Only the presence of his daughter makes him realize that there is no way to start a new life without acting irresponsibly towards his child. And so he is left with a quiet resignation and the hope that his daughter will do better one day.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-02-12
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Die erste Legion
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-08-27
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Die Ängste des Dr. Schenk
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Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-02-19
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Trees die upright
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-08-27
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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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Detective Story
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-04-28
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Nasrin oder Die Kunst zu träumen
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-06-17
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Krieg und Frieden
Overview: The third episodical film, after Deutschland im Herbst and Der Kandidat, in which notable German film makers reflect on the state of their country.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-09-30
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Alle hatten sich abgewandt
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-01-14
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Nur der Freiheit gehört unser Leben
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-11-05
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Sarah
Overview: An insurance investigator meets an attractive woman in a hotel on his way to check out the causes of a fire that destroyed a movie set.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-04-27
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Die Frau des Fotografen oder Die große Liebe
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-06-26
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Meetings in the Forest
Overview: The fate of a young girl named Svea, who has always been hunted down, in the depths of an immense forest governed by the monstrous Akos, not far from a mysterious castle inhabited by the noble Adrien, who will become the willing sacrificial victim of an incredible sylvan entity.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-06-04
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Der Portland-Ring
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-05-28
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Marie
Overview: When her father dies unexpectantly, a young woman starts to get suspicious about her mother's behaviour.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Alle lieben Célimare
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-05-11
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Ein ehrenwerter Herr
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-06-11
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He Joe
Overview: A lonely man is taunted by the voice of a woman he once knew.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-09-12
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Der Mann im Schilf
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-10-30
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Le Transfuge
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Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-11-13
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Tears of Stone
Overview: About Icelandic composer Jon Leifs (1899-1968) who spent much of his life in Germany before WWII. The film begins in the 1930s after he has married the daughter of an industrialist, Annie, who is also a concert pianist. This era was frustrating for Leifs because his works were seldom performed. Iceland's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1995
Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 1995-09-15
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Eine Rose für Jane
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-10-29
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Der Teufel ist los
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-02-06
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Die Tochter des Brunnenmachers
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-06-20
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Madame Pompadour
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Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-11-11
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L'amour des femmes
Overview: Although there are women in the lives of the three main protagonists -- a middle-aged architect, his construction designer, and a journalist -- the women are not as crucial to the men's search for an identity as the title might suggest. When the three men run into a former professor of the architect and designer, they are inspired by his fanfare and expansive nature. Still in search of solutions to their particular problems, the men head out to visit the professor and get to the bottom of their own issues. Unfortunately, the professor turns out to be more "loco" than otherwise, and the three men watch their hopes burst like a popped balloon -- it seems like their ability to assess human character should now be added to their list of problem spots.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-02-13
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Elles ne pensent qu'à ça...
Overview: Arrived in New York, Margaux went to the bedside of her daughter Jess, who tried to commit suicide. She lives with Vic, who no longer satisfies her sexually. His ex, his father and his best friend, reappear soon in the life of Jess.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-03-16
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Entziehung - Ein Tagebuch
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-06-05
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König Lear
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Das Apostelspiel
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-12-24
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Mandala
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-03-01
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Eiszeit
Overview: After World War II, an aging controversial Norwegian Nobel Prize winner must confront his past and the moral implications of his Nazi sympathies while being challenged by a man intent on holding him accountable.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-08-15
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Der Teufelsschüler
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-03-20
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Street of Mirrors
Overview: Francesca, a magistrate, seems happily married to a successful and wealthy engineer. They prepare to spend a holiday together when Francesca is instructed to shed light on the mysterious death of a girl, Rosa Franceschi, who threw herself from the terrace of her house. Francesca interrogates friends and neighbours of the victim, especially Veronica Marini who, living opposite the victim's apartment, followed the whole story. This is how she discovers her husband's affair with Rosa Franceschi and her involvement in the girl's suicide or murder.
Genres: Crime Thriller Horror Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-04-14
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Der Maulkorb
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-02-26
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Le Lit
Overview: Martin, a sculptor, is dying in his bed on a barge that floats along a fog-shrouded waterway. As he agonizingly descends into a final oblivion, his second wife is at his bedside, comforted by his first wife -- also present.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-12-31
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Der einsame Weg
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1987-11-11
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The Pleasure of Love
Overview: Guillaume de Burlador is a private tutor who hits a low point sufficiently severe for him to contemplate a somewhat theatrical suicide. Instead he is taken off by flying boat to a mad French colonial possession bedecked by mad servants and crazy decor. Three educated and rather gorgeous women live there, and they hire him to tutor a young teenager, but more with plans to seduce him in mind.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-04-10
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Rouge Capucine
Overview: The life of the actress and model Capucine inspired this film by Michel Soutter, played by Capucine herself in the company of Heinz Béat, Antoinette Moya, Corinne Corderey and Jean-Pierre Malo.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-10-24
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Der Snob
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1984-03-05
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Rapt ou la Séparation des races
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Le due croci
Overview: Le Due Croci brings us the story of Blessed Titus Brandsma, a Dutch Carmelite friar, Catholic priest, journalist and professor of philosophy. Brandsma was vehemently opposed to Nazi ideology and died in the infamous Dachau concentration camp. He has been beatified as a Martyr of the Faith.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1988-03-30
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