Elga Andersen
Also Known As: Helga Hymen, Helga Hymmen
Biography: Elga Andersen (née Helga Hymen or Hymmen) (2 February 1935 – 7 December 1994) was a German actress and singer. She starred in more than one dozen French films in the 1950s and 1960s and also debuted as a recording artist in the 1950s.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Dortmund, Germany
Adult: No
Birthday: February 02, 1935
Age: 90 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: December 07, 1994
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Elevator to the Gallows
Overview: A self-assured businessman murders his employer, the husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-01-29
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Sex Power
Overview: A young Frenchman arrives in Northern California looking to forget a lost love and ends up encountering various forms of feminine power.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-07-17
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Le Mans
Overview: Filmed during the annual 24-hour endurance race at Le Mans, Michael Delaney is a Porsche driver haunted by the memory of an accident at the previous year's race in which a competing driver was killed. Delaney also finds himself increasingly infatuated with the man's widow.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-06-23
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The Serpent
Overview: Vlassov is a Soviet spy who defects in France. He is whisked to the U.S, where Allan Davies takes over the case. After polygraph tests and cross-examinations, Vlassov names several Western European agents who are also spying for the Soviets. Davies wants to take the listed agents into custody; meanwhile, those on the list start dying under mysterious circumstances.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-04-07
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The Eye of the Monocle
Overview: In 1943, a German commando conceals a large quantity of gold in an undersea cave on the coast of Corsica. Years later, Schlumpf, the sole survivor of the commando, returns to Corsica to recuperate the treasure -- with British and Soviet spies on his heels, and closely monitored by Dromard, from the French intelligence services. The monocled Dromard is convinced that he can outfox his opponents, but difficulties accumulate: despite his plump appearance, Herr Schlumpf is a sly fellow; Corsica is teeming with treasure hunters from various nationalities; and all parties readily resort to unnatural alliances, brazen treachery, and strong-arm tactics. Who will get the treasure?
Genres: Thriller Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-11-14
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Why
Overview: Giuseppe Di Noi, an Italian surveyor living in Switzerland, gets arrested at the border while going back to Italy with his family for a vacation. But can someone tell the man why?
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-10-27
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The Battle of the Mods
Overview: In Liverpool there's a gang war between the Mods (who dress in the latest fashions and styles) and the Rockers (who are more into the '50s "greaser" look). Ricky, the son of a wealthy businessman, is a Mod guitar player, and in a gang fight with some Rockers, his girlfriend is killed. He leaves Liverpool for the continent and winds up in Rome, where he becomes involved with his father's mistress.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-08-05
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Coast of Skeletons
Overview: A former district officer is assigned to work on a team of diamond prospectors, who are busy double crossing each other until they are blown up having found bullion.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-03-19
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Cross Current
Overview: A speed-boat racer suffers amnesia after an boating accident and goes to his isolated villa to recuperate. His relationship with his wife is troubled, so he starts an affair (sort of) with the another woman, which results in one of the three of them being shot. But there are several more twists--and more murders--to come.
Genres: Crime Horror Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-08-20
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Johnny Colt
Overview: Starblack is a hero who dresses in black and his face is covered by a black scarf and he carries in his shirt a black star, which he always leaves at the scene of his enterprises, as a symbol of justice.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-08-25
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A Global Affair
Overview: Bob Hope becomes surrogate father to a baby found abandoned at the United Nations. Director Jack Arnold's 1964 comedy also stars Yvonne De Carlo, Robert Sterling, John McGiver and Lilo Pulver.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-30
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They're Too Much
Overview: Three crooks come out of jail on probation and, taking advantage of the economic boom in Germany, they continue their shady business quite legally this time.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-01-21
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The Empire of Night
Overview: Usually cast as secret agent/private eye Lemmy Caution, Eddie Constantine plays "Eddie" in The Empire of Night. This time, Constantine is a cabaret singer at odds with a criminal gang. When the villains try to take over every nightclub in town for their own nefarious purposes, Eddie sings a new tune with his fists. The story takes several unexpected turns, but Constantine remains in charge throughout.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-12-05
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The Black Monocle
Overview: The Marquis de Villemaur reunite strange visitors in his Castle, to meet a survivor of the Third Reich. There is an Italian fascist, Heinrich; a German, Matthias; a Russian; and Dromard, a blind French war hero with a black monocle.
Genres: Crime Thriller Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-08-29
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Girl Merchants
Overview: A young French woman travels to South America for a job offer and ends up a prisoner in a slave camp for women by a sadistic gangster.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-09-13
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To Die of Love
Overview: Michel, a writer of detective novels, is married to Pat, a pretty woman he's been neglecting. One day, the results of a private investigation reveal that his wife is cheating on him. But he'd never contacted a private detective before. The facts are all the more disturbing in that they coincide with the detective story he is writing with his beautiful young secretary. Pat is murdered and found next to her dying lover, who is said to have attempted suicide. But the police soon realize that this is a double murder. The investigation develops; Michel is strongly suspected, as many presumptions seem to weigh heavily on him. The outcome of the investigation brings a surprise that clears Michel's name.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-08-30
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The Empire of Night
Overview: Usually cast as secret agent/private eye Lemmy Caution, Eddie Constantine plays "Eddie" in The Empire of Night. This time, Constantine is a cabaret singer at odds with a criminal gang. When the villains try to take over every nightclub in town for their own nefarious purposes, Eddie sings a new tune with his fists. The story takes several unexpected turns, but Constantine remains in charge throughout.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-12-05
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Le Scorpion
Overview: Peter is commissioned by William to rob an Amsterdam bank. He wants to find out who li is working for. With the help of Corinne, a young prostitute, he investigates and approaches the bank.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-09-21
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Your Turn, Darling
Overview: In this French espionage thriller, Eddie again plays the role that made him a star, Lemmy Caution. Lots of two fisted action.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-09-25
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Solang' die Sterne glüh'n
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Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-07-21
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Coffin from Hong Kong
Overview: A private detective finds the limp body of a young Chinese beauty in his office, shot with his own gun.
Genres: Action Mystery Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-08-21
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Bonjour Tristesse
Overview: A spoiled teenager spends the summer at the French Riviera with her rich, widower, playboy father, but when his old flame resurfaces, she resolves to keep her frivolous lifestyle at all costs.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-15
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The Twilight Girls
Overview: A beautiful and sophisticated teenager is placed in a regimented French girls' boarding school after her father apparently commits suicide over a business scandal. She immediately gains admirers -- a lustful middle-aged artist, a handsome young composer, a fellow female student -- as well as a jealous rival. With the help of her schoolmates, she attempts to elope with the composer, but the adults catch on to the plot, and she is locked into her room at night.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-05-03
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Guerilla Hellcats
Overview: Under the mundane guise of a public relations firm, Singrid Karaman is actually running an intelligence network. Her new mission is to foil an upcoming coup attempt in the African country of Myassaland, and to recover the large stock of diamonds that have fallen into the hands of the mercenaries behind the plot. She instructs a former Nazi, Eric, to form a shock commando and her assistant, Carol, to contact the mercenary leaders, Commandant St Robert and Captain Tarquier. Although Tarquier is very suspicious, St Robert agrees to go aboard Ingrid's yacht.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-07-03
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Ist Mama nicht fabelhaft?
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Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-08-13
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The Pioneers
Overview: In Brazil, a diamond prospector sets out in pursuit of a thief who has robbed him and left him for dead. Along the way, he meets one of his adversary's former mistresses and tries to extract some information from her.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1960-10-29
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So ein Millionär hat's schwer
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-12-18
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Run, Psycho, Run
Overview: Italy, the early 19th century. A villa is the home of a small English community, all rich and superficial people lounging about in its beautiful surroundings. Claire, George's wife, and Robert, her son, are murdered by a mysterious killer. Thinking the murderer is one of the family, distraught George devises a plan to unmask the culprit. Having met a woman, Ann, who is a dead ringer for Claire, he takes her back to the villa and announces their imminent marriage. Ann is considered an outsider and treated with contempt and hostility, while George fails to find any significant clue to the solution: everybody is to be blamed, at least morally, but the final revelation is more bitter than expected...
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-05-01
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