Dan van Husen
Also Known As: Rudolf van Husen, Dan Van Husen, Dan Van Hüsen, Werner van Husen, Dan van Hussen
Biography: Dan van Husen (30 April 1945 – 31 May 2020) was a German actor. He started his career in the 1960s, playing in a number of Spaghetti Westerns (usually he was cast as the bad guy), and also performed in Italian and German films by renowned directors including Frederico Fellini and Werner Herzog and in German TV series. Starting in the 2000s he performed in Hollywood films, and in 2008 had a role in a Dutch World War 2 movie, Winter in Wartime. Dan van Husen died from COVID-19 in Ilminster, Somerset, England in May 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic in England at age 75. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dan van Husen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Gummersbach, Germany
Birthday: April 30, 1945
Deathday: May 31, 2020
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Gender: Male
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Enemy at the Gates
Overview: A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.
Genres: Drama War History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-02-28
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Richy Guitar
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Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1985-07-07
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Tsunami
Overview: A series of explosions carried out by an oil drilling platform in the North Sea causes little earthquakes and alarm the population of coastal areas closest to the epicenter.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2005-08-28
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The Corpse Packs His Bags
Overview: A London slasher pack the suitcases of his victims before stabbing them to death in this adaptation of Edgar Wallace's 'Secret of the Black Suitcases.'
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-10-01
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Nosferatu the Vampyre
Overview: A real estate agent leaves behind his beautiful wife to go to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a property in Wismar.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-01-17
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Night of the Skull
Overview: After Lord Archibald Marion is brutally murdered by an unknown assailant, his bitter and feuding family members gather for a reading of the will, setting into motion an increasingly chilling series of deaths when their arrival is marked by a second grisly killing.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-09-29
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Kiss Me Killer
Overview: A deadly look into the savage world of gangsters. The aftermath of a holdup turns into a game of deceit and doublecross. A vengeful woman brings about the destruction of the entire gang of ruthless killers.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-03-31
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Forest of the Damned
Overview: A group of friends go on a roadtrip and come to a stop in a forest where legend has it a group of naked bisexual female monsters lurk. Will they awaken them? And if so will they survive?
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-05-13
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Darkhunters
Overview: Walking the Earth as an undead spirit has Charlie Jackson in a quandary. Unable to interact with his family, Charlie feels he's been forsaken by God. Now, his ultimate goal is to get to heaven as soon as possible - but that's easier said than done. The battle between good and evil for Charlie's soul has begun, and salvation might only come via Carol Miller, a darkhunter who brings lost souls back to death.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-07
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Winter in Wartime
Overview: During World War II in the freezing winter of 1944-45 the western Netherlands are in the grip of a famine. Many people move east to provide for their families. Fourteen year old Michiel can't wait to join the Dutch resistance, to the dismay of his father, who, as mayor, works to prevent escalations in the village.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2008-11-17
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Morena
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1986-03-07
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The Sea Wolves
Overview: A German spy is passing on information about the location of Allied ships in the neutral harbor of Goa, India, with catastrophic results. Unable to undertake a full military operation in the Portuguese stronghold, English intelligence brings out of retirement a crew of geriatric ex-soldiers, veterans from World War I, using their age as cover. These old soldiers are asked to take to the seas and pull off an unlikely undercover mission.
Genres: War Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-07-03
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Alpha City
Overview: The beautiful Raphaela is the dream girl of Alpha City, a decadent metropolis. The rather naive Frank falls in love with this very woman, who shows no interest in him. A mysterious American comes to Raphaela to keep her admirer off. But love is a strange game - and sometimes a dangerous one.
Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1985-08-22
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The Man Who Sold The World
Overview: The story of Max: a man who becomes embroiled in time and space and the many dimensions of man's mind and his place within his own universe.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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The Scarlet Worm
Overview: An aging killer trains a young hired gun in a plot to assassinate a meek brothel owner performing barbaric abortion acts on his prostitutes.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-08-27
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El Condor
Overview: Luke, an escaped convict, and Jaroo, a loner gold prospector, team up with a band of Apache Indians in 19th century Mexico to capture a large, heavily armed fortress for the millions -- or billions -- of dollars in gold that are rumored to be stored within. Written by Brian C. Madsen
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-06-19
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A Bullet for Sandoval
Overview: After his girlfriend dies in childbirth, Confederate deserter John Warner travels to Mexico, where the woman's father, Don Pedro Sandoval, grudgingly hands over his child. But with no locals willing to provide milk, the baby dies. Rounding up a group of rebels, Warner goes on a rampage through northern Mexico, with the ultimate goal of taking down Sandoval in this gritty Western.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-08-19
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Murder by Music
Overview: Katharine Milford commits suicide by jumping out the window. Her brother, Richard refuses to believe the police story about suicide, and when it is discovered that more people had contact with Katharine died in the same way he starts a private investigation, which leads the man into Londons 'dirtiest hippie clubs. It seems that music is the common factor in all suicide - or was it murder?
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-08-22
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Shoot First… Ask Questions Later
Overview: The White, the Yellow, and the Black (Italian: Il bianco, il giallo, il nero, also known as Shoot First… Ask Questions Later) is a 1975 Spaghetti Western comedy film. It is the last spaghetti western directed by Sergio Corbucci. Differently from his previous western films, this is openly parodic.
Genres: Western Adventure Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-01-17
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Arizona Colt Returns
Overview: Famed gunman Arizona Colt is sent by Moreno to rescue his daughter from the grips of Arizona's old enemy, Keane. But certain complications make the mission far more dangerous than expected.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-08-14
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Battle of the Godfathers
Overview: Hamburg business man Otto Westermann is also the boss of organized crime in the city. His reign as godfather is in danger, though, as an ambitious Sicilian mafioso enters the fray. His goal is clear and simple: he wants to take over Hamburg. But Westermann isn't as easy to defeat as the Sicilian expects. And soon Hamburg is on the verge of a bloody mob war.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-11-30
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Salon Kitty
Overview: Kitty runs a brothel in Nazi Germany where the soldiers come to "relax". Recording devices have been installed in each room by a power hungry army official who plans to use the information to blackmail Hitler and gain power himself. A girl named Margherita discovers the little ploy and with Kitty's help plans to take on the dangerous task of exposing the conspiracy.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-03-02
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Killer Barbys vs. Dracula
Overview: The Killer Barbies are playing at Tivoli World, a Wild West park in Spain. Komrade Irina and Komrade Ivan Ivanovich arrive from Transylvania, bringing with them the "dead" Count Dracula to be placed on display. After hearing the Killer Barbies, however, Dracula awakens, falls in love with Silvia (who looks like Charo on a bad hair day), and decides to make her his own. Realizing that they have a vampire on their hands, park owners Pepe Morgan and Martin Fierro call in the world famous, blind vampire hunter, Dr Seward. While Seward tries to track Dracula with his nose, Dracula manages to knock off a few cast members -- a faux Dracula, Bela, an acrobot with orange hair, and both Komrades Ivan and Irina. When Dracula tries to bite Silvia during a performance, Dr Seward decides to use Silvia as bait. He sends her out walking alone. When Dracula follows, they pursue and stake him. Dracula metamorphs into a white rabbit and hops away.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-08
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The Squeeze
Overview: A retired safe cracker is recruited by a young conman to return to the "business" for a million dollar heist.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-10-25
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Catlow
Overview: An outlaw tries to avoid interference as he journeys to Mexico to pull off a $2,000,000 gold robbery.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-10-01
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Freak Orlando
Overview: FREAK ORLANDO is divided into five more-or-less distinct sections, all featuring "Freak" Orlando, a woman, played by the late Magdalena Montezuma, who appears in various guises, and deformities, throughout.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-11-06
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The Arizona Kid
Overview: A Filipino immigrant travels the American west searching for his relatives. Although he doesn't speak much English, he winds up getting involved with Chinese immigrants, and a beautiful blonde American girl and finds himself appointed sheriff of a small town that's having trouble with an outlaw gang.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 1970-09-05
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On the Threshold to Another World
Overview: A documentary shot on the set of "Killer Barbys vs. Dracula" directed by Viktor Seastrom.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-29
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Chain Reaction
Overview: A prison bus with over a dozen criminals on board has an accident and rams another car, in which Dr. Douglas Madsen was on his way home. Most of the prisoners die. Four of them survive, one of them severely injured. After having killed all the guards, they head for the woods. They take Dr. Douglas Madsen hostage. Suddenly a huge house appears in the middle of the woods. The leader of the group, Arthur, emphasizes that he will kill Douglas and every single member of the "family" if his wounded brother would die. Meanwhile some members of the family show strange behavior, and very soon mayhem breaks loose.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-18
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Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn
Overview: Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral and witnessing a murder.
Genres: Family Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-23
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Spiel mir das Lied und du bist tot!
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Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-04-01
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Don't Turn the Other Cheek
Overview: A spaghetti western in which three adventurers team up during the Mexican Revolution. Mary O'Donnell, a radical Irish journalist, wants to foment a peasant revolt in Mexico. She enlists the help of a seedy bandit, Lozoya, by saving him from a death sentence in Utah. They meet a man calling himself Prince Dmitri Vassilovich Orlowsky, who claims to be a Russian prince, not to mention a man of the cloth. Wallach pretends to be a Mexican folk hero. The trio crosses the border, the two men seeking a cache of gold while O'Donnell pursues her revolution.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-12-22
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Making of Oorlogswinter
Overview: A behind the scenes look at the production of Martin Koolhoven's film, Oorlogswinter.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2008-11-30
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Zombie Massacre 2: Reich of the Dead
Overview: Set in the WWII it tells the story of a bunch of american soldiers fighting against a horde of zombies created by the Nazis using the prisoners of the camps... They have only one night to save their own lives but the enemy is stronger and stronger...
Genres: Horror War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-06-08
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Strike Back
Overview: Dave knows what it is to suffer. Especially when he takes the rap for a gang of motorbike thieves and ends up in jail. All for the love of Corinna, his beautiful girlfriend. Refused parole and nearly insane with frustration he makes a violent escape to be with her and strike back.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-09-10
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Paradise. An Imperialist Tragicomedy
Overview: A multinational company owned by Mrs Judit Angst is facing financial difficulties: she decides to hire a group of young anarchists to fake her "kidnapping". After a couple of weeks spent in confinement she will be able to justify the downfall of her company before the people and at the same time to gain the status of the opponent to the destruction and chaos.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Wehe, wenn Schwarzenbeck kommt
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-01-18
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Drawn in Blood
Overview: What do you do when love turns into suspicion and mourning turns to fear? When Marian gets word that her brother Michael has committed suicide, she travels to Berlin to sort out his life. Marian reunites with her childhood friend Susanne who offers to help her pack up Michael s things. Together, they find unnerving photographs and clues that something might not be right. Written by Anonymous
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2006-12-30
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Auf schmalem Grat
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-05-22
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Funeral Etiquette
Overview: A dead man, two rivals for the widow's favour. The bald-headed undertaker ruins the work of his rival, the dead man's hairdresser. Each man has worked out a plan for seducing the widow.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-12
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Doc
Overview: Doc Holliday travels to Tombstone, Ariz., with prostitute Katie Elder. Although the trip is difficult because Doc is ill with tuberculosis, they eventually reach their destination, where Holliday is reunited with his old friend Marshal Wyatt Earp, who has been clashing with the Clanton gang. Tensions between Earp and the Clantons rise until their infamous final showdown brings it to a head.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-08-01
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Dracula Blows His Cool
Overview: An ancestor of the famous vampire gets a job as a photographer shooting beautiful fashion models at the family estate.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-10-12
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Light the Fuse… Sartana Is Coming
Overview: Wily roving gunslinger Sartana arrives in a small town and tries to find a hidden fortune of half a million dollars in gold and two million dollars in counterfeit money. Naturally, a bunch of other treacherous folks who include conniving widow Senora Manassas, shrewd fellow gunslinger Grand Full, and the vicious and unhinged General Monk are also looking to get their greedy hands on said fortune.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-12-24
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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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Tender and Perverse Emmanuelle
Overview: After his wife, a concert pianist, is found murdered a wealthy man is suspected of her murder. But as more suspects begin to pile up this mystery might take its toll on more than one participant.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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More Dollars for the MacGregors
Overview: Robert MacGregor and Gladys MacGregor is a marriage that is dedicated to hunting outlaws wanted by the justice. But instead of delivering them alive, kill them in order to steal from them and also collect the reward. She deceives them and he kills treason, winning the love of great gunslinger. But ambition leads them to face a cruel and cunning murderer who kills for Donna. However, a mysterious stranger appears, Ross Stewart which initially appears to be from Robert. However, when the latter's wife dies, he unveiled plans stranger ...
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-09-27
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Invitation to the Dance
Overview: Theo Gromberg is a bon vivant, apparently with built-in guarantee to failure. Faithful to his side is his friend Enno, an Italian guest workers. Both have a dream: to which they want to get into the trucking business its own trucks.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-02-13
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Brimstone
Overview: In the menacing inferno of the old North-American West, Liz is a genuine survivor who is hunted by a vengeful preacher for a crime she didn’t commit.
Genres: Thriller Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-03-12
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Robin Hood, l'invincibile arciere
Overview: Robin Hood tries to help a crossed gentleman, in love with Isabel, because the girl's uncle has decided to marry her with another.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-03-27
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Zero Point
Overview: A corrupt lawyer hires a killer to murder his client's divorced ex-wife. The start of a true love story.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Eine wie keiner
Overview: The adolescent Melli moves from the monastery to a big city. Since she is not very popular and is considered a gray mouse, she wants to be part of the popular girls' clique of the school. In the new environment she falls in love with Roque.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-03-25
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Anita Drögemöller und die Ruhe an der Ruhr
Overview: Anita Drögemöller has transformed herself from a small-time street prostitute into a luxury call girl. But one day she finds her former pimp dead in her apartment with a broken neck. Chief Inspector Langensiepen takes up the investigation and discovers an impenetrable web of sex, lies, raison d'état and murder.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-09-08
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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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Berlinger
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Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-11-06
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Captain Apache
Overview: The title character is a US army Captain of Native American descent who is asked to investigate the murder of an Indian agent. His only clue is "April morning", the last words spoken by the victim. Can he unravel the mystery before the clock runs out?
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-10-27
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Comeback
Overview: A once-famous blues singer whose career has taken a downturn tries to get back on top.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-04-23
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Wild Geese II
Overview: A group of mercenaries is hired to spring Rudolf Hess from Spandau Prison in Berlin.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-18
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The Trojan Women
Overview: In the aftermath of the Trojan Wars, Queen Hecuba takes stock of the defeated kingdom. Her son has been killed, and his widow, Andromache, is left to raise their son, Astyanax, alone. Hecuba's daughter, Cassandra, fears being enslaved by her Greek masters, while Helen of Troy risks being executed. Astyanax also becomes the focus of the Greeks' attention as the last male heir of the Trojan royal family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-05-01
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Cry of the Black Wolves
Overview: A fur hunter living as a hermit in the Alaskan mountains is mistakenly suspected of the murder of a gold prospector. The murdered man's sister hires a gunslinger to catch the hunter, but after a dramatic confrontation, the two men become friends. Adventure movie based on Jack London's novel "Son of the Wolf".
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-10-04
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Bad Man's River
Overview: Robber Roy King loses his wife, Alicia, to revolutionary Montero. Despite their rivalry they collaborate in an attempt to rob the Mexican government of one million dollars.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-03
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Bloodline
Overview: A pampered heiress inherits her father's pharmaceutical empire when he dies in a suspicious accident, and soon finds herself surrounded by ruthless board members and grasping family members who will seemingly stop at nothing to profit.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-29
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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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Kinder der Nacht 2
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Genres: Horror
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Sonny and Jed
Overview: As thoroughly unlikeable a robber as ever walked the West, Joe nonetheless robs from the rich and gives to the poor. Not only is he a murderous, ill-tempered sort, he is bad-mannered, too. When beautiful Sonny decides he should be her man and teach her how to be a proper outlaw, sparks fly.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-08-11
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Pancho Villa
Overview: In 1916, during the Mexican Revolution, General Pancho Villa manages to escape from the clutches of General Goyo, his greatest enemy, only to face an even greater problem when he meets McDermott, a mysterious adventurer who promises to get him weapons and ammunition for his troops.
Genres: Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-10-31
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Cut-Throats Nine
Overview: A wagon load of convicts on their way to prison is being escorted through the mountains by a cavalry troop. They are attacked by a bandit gang, and only a sergeant, his beautiful young daughter and an assortment of seven sadistic, murderous prisoners survive, and they are left without horses or a wagon. The sergeant must find a way to get his prisoners to their destination while protecting his daughter, watching out for the still pursuing bandits and trying to determine which one of the prisoners was the man who raped and murdered his wife.
Genres: Crime Thriller Western Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-07-10
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Cry, Onion!
Overview: Onion Jack has bought a piece of land on which to settle, but the property is still in possession of the orphans of the original owner and is coveted by the local oil baron.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-08-25
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