Günter Meisner
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Biography: Günter Meisner (18 April 1926 – 5 December 1994) was a German TV and film character actor. He is remembered for his several cinematic portrayals of Adolf Hitler and for his role as Mr. Slugworth in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. He was fluent in four languages and appeared in many English-language, German-language and French-language films.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bremen, Germany
Birthday: April 18, 1926
Deathday: December 05, 1994
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Gender: Male
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Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Overview: When eccentric candy man Willy Wonka promises a lifetime supply of sweets and a tour of his chocolate factory to five lucky kids, penniless Charlie Bucket seeks the golden ticket that will make him a winner.
Genres: Family Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-06-29
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Drei gegen drei
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1985-11-28
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The American Success Company
Overview: A husband is humiliated at home and at work. He decides he has had enough of it and hires a prostitute to help him get back at his boss, wife and friends and get a lot richer in the process.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-01
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Funeral in Berlin
Overview: Colonel Stok, a Soviet intelligence officer responsible for security at the Berlin Wall, appears to want to defect but the evidence is contradictory. Stok wants the British to handle his defection and asks for one of their agents, Harry Palmer, to smuggle him out of East Germany.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-22
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Borsalino and Co.
Overview: Marseille. Heaps of flowers and funeral wreaths... "A man who no longer defends his colors is no longer a man."
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-10-23
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In a Glass Cage
Overview: A mysterious teenager named Ángelo cares for Klaus, a German doctor with a dark past who lives trapped in an iron lung.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-08-06
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Ludwig L
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-11-11
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Ace of Aces
Overview: In this action comedy the French boxer Jo Cavalier is charmed on the train to Berlin for the Olympics in Hitler's Germany by the little boy Simon Rosenblum who asks his autograph; when it turns out his adorable young fan is a Jewish orphan in danger of persecution, he risks his one shot at Olympic glory to save Simon and his family, helped only by a German officer-gentleman who became his friend in World War I, by an adventurous escape to Switzerland, Nazi troops on their heals and braving impossible odds in roller coaster-style.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-10-27
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The Saint: The Big Bang
Overview: Simon Templar and a newswoman track down the front man for a deadly corporate takeover.
Genres: Action Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-07-28
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Inside Out
Overview: An American ex-WW II POW returns to Germany 30 years after the war. He teams up with the former commander of his prison camp. Together they spring a Nazi war criminal from jail. He's the only one left who knows where a secret wartime cache of gold is hidden.
Genres: Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-19
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Ticket of No Return
Overview: A sartorially resplendent woman of few words arrives in Berlin with plans to live out the rest of her days as a drunkard.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-10-27
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Moon Child
Overview: Adopted by a treacherous semi-scientific cult where extraordinary mental powers are common, extraordinary 12-year-old David begins an archetypal journey across two continents to find his destiny as Child of the Moon.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1992-04-02
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Operation Caviar
Overview: Bank accountant Thomas Lieven is forced to work as a triple agent for the British, the French and the Nazis.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-10-18
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Ruby Cairo
Overview: Baseball cards and a food-aid worker help a woman follow her shady husband's money trail around the world.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-12
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Between Wars
Overview: This film traces the career of Dr Edward Trenbow (Corin Redgrave), who becomes a well-respected Sydney psychiatrist. In the 1920s, he takes up residence at Callan Park Asylum. The film touches on issues of psychoanalysis and physical treatments, such as fever treatment.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-11-15
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Magdalene
Overview: Father Joseph Mohr, a newly appointed priest in the town of Oberndorf (near Salzburg), meets the beautiful prostitute Magdalene. He struggles to change her situation and make a new life for her, and while doing so, they fall in love. Mohr struggles with his feelings for her, versus his commitment to God. Meanwhile, the Prior, Mohr's superior, whose corrupt dealings with the Baron von Seidl are threatened by Mohr's integrity and honesty, works (unsuccessfully) to falsely accuse Mohr of sexual misconduct with Magdalene, and thereby remove him from office. Meanwhile, Mohr and local schoolteacher Franz Gruber compose the hymn "Silent Night".
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-25
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Under the Volcano
Overview: Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in a small southern Mexican town in 1939. The consul's self-destructive behaviour, perhaps a metaphor for a menaced civilization, is a source of perplexity and sadness to his nomadic, idealistic half-brother, Hugh, and his ex-wife, Yvonne, who has returned with hopes of healing Geoffrey and their broken marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-06-20
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Faraway, So Close!
Overview: Damiel is now married to Marion, runs the pizzeria “Da Angelo” and the two have a child. The solitarily remaining angel Cassiel is more and more dissatisfied with his destiny as a mere observer of human life and finally decides to take the great leap. As Karl Engel he soon gets into a dubious milieu and finds himself as the assistant of the German American Baker, who makes his money with shady arms deals and sends films east in exchange for weapons. Cassiel’s adventure turns into a “thriller” when he decides to put a stop to Baker’s game.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1993-09-01
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Te Rua
Overview: A hundred years after the theft from New Zealand of three irreplaceable tribal carvings, two Maori, Rewi and Peter, decide it's time for ancient grievances to be put right. Both men are in Berlin where the carvings are stored in a museum. Plans go awry when a group that Peter has assembled breaks into the museum. Rewi persuades the others to let him put his own, more daring plan into action. Tensions build and international media interest broadens when a sniper's bullet hits Peter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-07-20
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Werwölfe
Overview: Film about a group of young nazi terrorists commiting crimes after the end of World War 2.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-11-09
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Breakthrough
Overview: Starting in late May 1944, during the German retreat on the Eastern Front, Captain Stransky (Helmut Griem) orders Sergeant Steiner (Richard Burton) to blow up a railway tunnel to prevent Russian forces from using it. Steiner's platoon fails in its mission by coming up against a Russian tank. Steiner then takes a furlough to Paris just as the Allies launch their invasion of Normandy.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-03-01
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The Man on the Wall
Overview: An East German man finds a way to cross the border between East and West Berlin. But when he succeeds in bringing his wife out as well, things are not quite as expected.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-10-07
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The Bridge at Remagen
Overview: In March of 1945, as the War in Europe is coming to a close, fighting erupts between German and American troops at the last remaining bridgehead across the Rhine.
Genres: War Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-06-25
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Is Paris Burning?
Overview: Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it becomes clear the Allies are going to invade, or if he cannot maintain control of the city. After much contemplation Choltitz decides to ignore his orders, enraging the Germans and giving hope to various resistance factions that the city will be liberated. Choltitz, along with Swedish diplomat Raoul Nordling, helps a resistance leader organize his forces.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-10-26
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The Quiller Memorandum
Overview: After two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic neo-Nazi group known as Phoenix, the suave agent Quiller is sent to Berlin to investigate.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-11-10
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Hauser's Memory
Overview: A scientist is persuaded by the government to inject himself with the brain fluid of a dying colleague in order to preserve missile-defense secrets. However, he finds that he is now torn between his own wife and that of his dead colleague, who was a Nazi sympathizer.
Genres: Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-11-24
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The Battle of Sutjeska
Overview: The headquarters of the Marshal Tito's Liberation Army are surrounded by Axis forces. The Partisans have no choice but to fight their way out of the encirclement and face the enemy on the plains of Sutjeska.
Genres: War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1973-07-03
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The Boys from Brazil
Overview: Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.
Genres: Drama Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-10-05
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The Odessa File
Overview: Following the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, investigative journalist Peter Miller sets out to hunt down an SS Captain and former concentration camp commander. In doing so he discovers that, despite allegations of war crimes, the former commander has become a man of importance in industry in post-war Germany, protected from prosecution by a powerful organisation of former SS members called Odessa.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-17
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Voyage of the Damned
Overview: A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-22
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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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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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Night Crossing
Overview: Two men want to escape from East Germany (under Communist rule) but they will only go if they can take their families with them. Based on a true story.
Genres: Adventure Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-05
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Babette Goes to War
Overview: Comedy about a naive French country girl in London who helps the war effort by parachuting into German-occupied France to help kidnap an important German general. She bungles through to a heroic finish of plot and counter-plot.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-09-18
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The Counterfeit Traitor
Overview: Blacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of infiltrating and surveying Nazi Germany.
Genres: War Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-04-17
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Eine Mutter kämpft um ihren Sohn
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1994-12-16
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Leporella
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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The Little People
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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The Man Inside
Overview: Gunter Wallraff is a journalist seeking to expose the unethical journalism practiced by The Standard, a very popular and powerful German newspaper. He goes undercover, using forged identity papers and at great personal risk, to join their staff. Once there, he sees how they don't just report the news, but manufacture it to suit the personal political agenda of the paper's leaders.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-26
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Bride of the Orient
Overview: After the death of his mother, a lonely farmer in rural Switzerland considers finally starting a family of his own. Eventually he pays for a bride from Thailand. The couple don't share a language, but being to know each other. However the village neighbors are suspicious of foreigners.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-03-02
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The Case of Mr. Spalt
Overview: The filmmaker René Perraudin made five comedic short films with Otto Sander in the leading role and knits them into a feature film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1988-03-25
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Gestatten, Bestatter
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Das Geheimnis von Lismore Castle
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1986-05-18
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Der Mord mit der Schere
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1984-07-25
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Plem, Plem – Die Schule brennt
Overview: The Prinz-Eugen-Gymnasium is in a crisis, which is not least due to the insolent students who lack any respect for the staff and the chaotic principal. Three new teachers are supposed to bring discipline and order, but due to a mix-up they are exchanged for three escaped lunatics from a nearby asylum who take on these jobs. One of the three is constantly triggered by the duck dance to freak out, a second is a bosom grabber and the third thinks he is an alien who would like to go home. At the same time, a new student joins the group, the smart checker Jürgen, who immediately falls in love with Karin, the kitchen assistant at the local snack bar. Chaos soon breaks out...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-08-26
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Zwei Tote im Sender und Don Carlos im PoGl
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Das waren noch Zeiten - Kleine Geschichten von Kalke & Söhne
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Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-01-04
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Die Paulskirche
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Gibbi Westgermany
Overview: After years at sea, a young man returns to St. Pauli, where he is ruined by his mother's unkindness and social resistance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-03-14
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Meister Timpe
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Wie Rauch und Staub
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-01-04
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Als Hitler das rosa Kaninchen stahl
Overview: Anna is a Jewish girl in Germany. When the Nazis come to power in the 1930s, her family has to flee the country without being able to bring any of their belongings. Even young Anna's pink toy rabbit has been confiscated along with the family's other possessions. Initially the family lives in Switzerland, but even here they come to feel the antisemitism. And when money becomes scarce, and Anna's father can't find work as a journalist and Jew, they move on to France, where they are no long submitted to racial discrimination, but struggle financially. Eventually the entire family manages to go to England.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-12-25
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Ein Mord am Lietzensee
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-08-11
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The Brothers
Overview: Sex, violence, and family secrets in the German countryside.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-01-11
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Depressionen
Overview: Diary of a Disease - prophesied that all psychiatric experience speaks against the described spontaneous healing. The next depression is determined.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-07-24
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A Happy Family Life
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-06-30
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Flesh of the Orchid
Overview: A disturbed young woman is kept prisoner in a castle by her aunt for her money. The game-keeper, her guardian, tries to rape her but she escapes. In her flight she meets a man also running away, from two killers.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-01-29
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The Brutalization of Franz Blum
Overview: Born into a well-off family, Franz Blum had led a carefree youth until, some time after graduating from high school, he was arrested by the police. For, involved by a gang of bad boys, the young man had taken part in a bank robbery. A "heroic deed" which earned him six years in prison. Once behind bars, he was treated with ruthless inhumanity by the guards. And little by little - but inexorably - Franz turned into an insurgent...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-03-26
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Schlagzeilen über einen Mord
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-02-11
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The College Girl Murders
Overview: Police try to track down a hooded serial killer who murders his victims with a combination of acid and poison gas
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-08-11
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Lobby Doll und die Sitzstangenaffäre
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-06-20
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Großer Ring mit Außenschleife
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-01-29
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Ein Tag - Bericht aus einem deutschen Konzentrationslager 1939
Overview: Germany, January 1939: a day in a concentration camp. Subjected to harsh military discipline the hungry prisoners are digging a huge hole and filling it up again. Several are tortured, die of exhaustion, in the electric fence, or are shot.
Genres: History War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-05-05
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Schaufensterpuppen
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Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-07-04
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The Foggy Night Murderer
Overview: The Foggy Night Murderer
Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-05-22
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Die Wölfe
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-06-11
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The Black Cobra
Overview: After a truck carrying a cargo of narcotics is held up by rival smugglers, the driver sets out to prove his innocence.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-05-16
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Der Kronanwalt
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-06-20
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The Miracle of Father Malachia
Overview: "Wunderbar" takes on a new meaning in this routine satire by Bernhard Wicki about a bar that is miraculously transported by God Himself to a nearby, new location on an island. The nature of the miracle is a bit strange, but it comes in answer to Pater Malachias' prayers to get the sin-ridden place out of the center of the city. The good and naive Malachias is subtly played by Horst Bollimann. Once this miracle of relocation has occurred, the sharks and entrepreneurs, who would bilk both the faithful and the curiosity-seekers alike, crop up like an unwanted epidemic. The mercenary and the sacred clash, as many try to find deeper meaning in what has happened, and Pater Malachias starts to doubt the wisdom of his original prayer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-07-03
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Question 7
Overview: Suspenseful story of a boy and his father, each forced to decide his future on his willingness to stand up for what he believes.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-09-28
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Ein wahrer Held
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-02-09
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Abendstunde im Spätherbst
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-12-01
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Der König ist tot
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-12-01
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The Black Chapel
Overview: 1933 in Germany. The rise of Nazism fears war and some officers, concerned the fate that hostilities would reserve to their country, organize an anti-Nazi group. They send a reporter, Golder, to communicate the plan of the German offensive allies.
Genres: War Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-10-15
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Ship of the Dead
Overview: After a line of mischief Philip Gale, an American sailor, is lured into hiring on the "Yorikke", a tramp cargo, by Lawski, a stoker from Poland. Still, the two become friends within the motley crew of losers from all nations. Gale and his new companion soon are more than disillusioned: the "Yorikke" is far from seaworthy and more of a coffin than a ship, work is close to slavery, and treatment by the officers and their subalterns is harsh and cynical. One day they make an alarming discovery in a tin of plum butter they have procured from the ship's cargo... Written by Anonymous
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-10-01
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Notes from a Gynecologist's Diary
Overview: After a carnival celebration, young Erika Hansen is offered a lift by two young men in a car. The men become abusive. Erika rushes out of the car and is seriously injured. She is brought to a gynecoligal clinic for an acute operation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-03-24
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Kopf oder Zahl
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-08-19
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Estación Central
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Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1990-02-12
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Das Haus mit den sieben Stockwerken
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-10-18
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The Terror of Doctor Mabuse
Overview: Dr. Mabuse has been locked away for years in an insane asylum. Suddenly crimes start occurring and no one knows the culprit. A detective goes to visit the Doctor to find some sort of clues to the robberies.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-09-06
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Roselyne and the Lions
Overview: Thierry drops out of school to apprentice as a lion tamer at the zoo where he meets Roselyne, who shares his passion. They fall in love and when he loses his job, the young lovers journey across France finding odd jobs at several circuses. In Germany, they fall under the tutelage of ageing big cat trainer, Klint, and while they are closer to realising their dreams, they find that their success drivers them part.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama Fantasy Adventure Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-09-23
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Heinrich
Overview: The life and struggles of the German writer Heinrich von Kleist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-10-13
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Das Martyrium des Peter OHey
Overview: Poetic fable about the sophisticated rape of civil rights by a totalitarian power. The orderly existence of Peter O'Hey and his family is shaken one day by the announcement that a tiger has taken up residence in his bathroom. The state, represented by a civil servant, a tax collector and a protocol chief, as well as the private company, represented by a scientist, a circus director and an old hunter, take a keen interest in this news and try to exploit the unusual situation for their personal interests. They besiege the apartment of Peter O'Hey and finally also claim his life by abusing him as a decoy for the tiger.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-05-19
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