Christine Kaufmann
Also Known As: Cristine Kofmann
Biography: Christine Maria Kaufmann (born January 11, 1945) is a German actress. In 1961 she won the Golden Globe Award for New Star Of The Year - Actress, the only German to be so honoured. Born to a German father and a French mother in Lengdorf, Styria, Kaufmann became a ballerina at the Munich Opera. She started her film career at the age of seven in the 1952 adaptation of Im weißen Rößl (White Horse Inn). The film which brought her fame was Rosen-Resli, released in 1954, when she was only nine. She gained international recognition when she starred with Steve Reeves in The Last Days of Pompeii (1959) and with Kirk Douglas in Town Without Pity (1961). The following year she appeared in Escape from East Berlin. In 1963 Kaufmann married Tony Curtis, whom she had met during the filming of Taras Bulba (1962). They had two daughters, Alexandra (born July 19, 1964) and Allegra (born July 11, 1966). They divorced in 1968. Kaufmann resumed her career, which she had interrupted during her marriage. Kaufmann is also a successful businesswoman, promoting her own cosmetics products line that sells well in Germany. She has written several books about beauty and health, as well as two autobiographies. She speaks three languages: German, English, and French. Description above from the Wikipedia article Christine Kaufmann, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lengdorf, Styria, Austria
Birthday: January 11, 1945
Deathday: March 28, 2017
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Gender: Female
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Lili Marleen
Overview: The story of a German singer named Willie who while working in Switzerland falls in love with a Jewish composer named Robert whose family is helping people to flee from the Nazis. Robert’s family is skeptical of Willie, thinking she could be a Nazi as she becomes famous for singing the song “Lili Marleen”.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-01-14
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Lola
Overview: Germany in the autumn of 1957: Lola, a seductive cabaret singer-prostitute exults in her power as a temptress of men, but she wants out—she wants money, property, and love. Pitting a corrupt building contractor against the new straight-arrow building commissioner, Lola launches an outrageous plan to elevate herself in a world where everything, and everyone, is for sale. Shot in childlike candy colors, Fassbinder’s homage to Josef von Sternberg’s classic The Blue Angel stands as a satiric tribute to capitalism.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-08-20
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Bagdad Cafe
Overview: A German woman named Jasmin stumbles upon a dilapidated motel/diner in the middle of nowhere. Her unusual appearance and demeanor are at first suspicious to Brenda, the exasperated owner who has difficulty making ends meet. But when an unlikely magic sparks between the two women, this lonely desert outpost is transformed into a thriving and popular oasis.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1987-11-12
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Girls in Uniform
Overview: In a strict Prussian boarding school for girls, sensitive student Manuela von Meinhardis develops a forbidden love to one of her teachers, the compassionate Elisabeth von Bernburg.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-07-07
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Day of the Idiots
Overview: A woman experiences psychic disintegration and ends up in a psychiatric hospital.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-10-31
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Die singenden Engel von Tirol
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-09-19
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Die Winzerin von Langenlois
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-03-28
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Witwer mit fünf Töchtern
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-09-06
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The Swordsman of Siena
Overview: A 16th-century Spanish overlord hires Thomas Stanswood (Stuart Granger) to protect his, less than eager, fiancee (Sylva Koscina) from rebels. Thomas finds himself drawn to both the fiancee and the rebels side.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-10-19
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Winter Holidays
Overview: Alberto Moretti arrives in Cortina D'Ampezzo, with daughter Marcella,who has just won a TV contest, the prize of which is a free stay in a luxury hotel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-06-18
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Taras Bulba
Overview: Ukraine, 16th century. While the Poles dominate the Cossack steppes, Andrei, son of Taras Bulba, a Cossack leader, must choose between his love for his family and his folk and his passion for a Polish woman.
Genres: Adventure Romance History War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-11-21
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The Last Days of Pompeii
Overview: Glaucus, a demobilized centurion returns home to Pompeii to find his father murdered by a gang of black-hooded Christian robbers that terrorizes the city and he decides to investigate the matter while the nearby volcano threatens to erupt.
Genres: Adventure History Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-11-12
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A Man Named Rocca
Overview: Roberto goes to Marseilles to give a hand to his friend Xavier, wrongly imprisoned following a frame-up organized by his associate Villanova. Roberto sets out to seduce Villanova's mistress, but when Villanova is killed, Roberto ends up leader of the band...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-11-17
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Murders in the Rue Morgue
Overview: In Paris, in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Cesar Charron owns a theater at the Rue Morgue where he performs the play "Murders in the Rue Morgue" with his wife Madeleine Charron, who has dreadful nightmares. When there are several murders by acid of people connected to Cesar, the prime suspect of Inspector Vidocq would be Cesar's former partner Rene Marot. But Marot murdered Madeleine's mother many years ago and committed suicide immediately after.
Genres: Crime Horror Thriller Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-07-21
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Hard to Be a God
Overview: Another planet in the period of medieval times. An employee of the institute of experimental history from Earth, who is send under the name of noble don Rumata of Estor as a spy with a mission to contact the local resident of the institute, arrives in the city of Arkanar. But the resident perishes under an unlucky attempt to make a palace coup, and Rumata have to take his place as the resident. Soon he meets all the horrors of the medieval society - a peasant war, palace coups, mass executions. To continue to be an indifferent watcher of all these horrors turns out to be simply impossible...
Genres: Drama Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1990-01-25
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Egon Schiele: Excess and Punishment
Overview: In 1912, in Austria, the painter Egon Schiele is sent to jail accused of pornography with the nymphet Tatjana in his erotic paints. His mate, the model Vally, gets help from a famous lawyer to release him. Then he leaves Vally, marries with another woman and goes to the war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-10-28
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The Last Pedestrian
Overview: Heinz Erhardt wanders through the Black Forest as a photographer for a magazine. On the train he meets a young girl who from now on does not leave his side.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-09-15
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Town Without Pity
Overview: Four American soldiers stationed near a German village face death in the rape of a local girl and are defended by outside counsel Major Steve Grant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-10
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Constantine and the Cross
Overview: Constantine is fighting against Barbarians with his father when he is called to Rome. In his way to Rome, he falls in an ambush planned by Maxence, who wants to become emperor.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-02-02
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The Excluded
Overview: Die Ausgesperrten revolves around an unlikely group of 4 youths in Vienna who band together, each for different reasons, to mug people. Two are fraternal twins, the third a blue-collar worker, the fourth the privileged daughter of wealthy parents who "needs a little dirt in her life". The story provides penetrating insights into the Austria of the 50s, in which some enjoyed the benefits of the "Economic Miracle", while others were shut out. It repeatedly references Austria's Nazi past and the numerous ways in which it influences the present despite the conspiracy of silence which surrounds it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-03-26
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Fireflower: The Two Lives of Marisa Mell
Overview: Who was Marisa Mell? The personae Marisa Mell and Marlies Theres Moitzi, the famous Graz actress’ real name, are juxtaposed in the documentary Feuerblume several companions, such as Christine Kaufmann, and her friend Erika Pluhar, remember the actress. The film is also an attempt to illuminate and question the role of women in the film business of the 1960s and 1980s from a contemporary gaze and feminist perspective, and against the backdrop of the MeToo movement.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2023-03-25
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The Death of Maria Malibran
Overview: A series of tableaux illustrating the life and death of a celebrated 19th century German opera singer.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-03-02
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Gold Flakes
Overview: Werner Schroeter's rhapsody of excess leaps from 1949 Cuba to contemporary France to points in between, while its feverishly shifting visual style evokes and parodies everything from kitschy Mexican telenovelas to silent French art films.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-05-20
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Willow Springs
Overview: Living together in an isolated house, three women go to murderous lengths to keep strangers out of their private retreat.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-04-03
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The Story Teller
Overview: In this mystery/thriller based on a novel by Patricia Highsmith, Nico Thomkins (Udo Schenk), a writer, and his wife Helen (Anke Sevenich) are in the habit of playing games with one another. Even while they are breaking up, they are sufficiently in tune with one another to continue this practice. When the writer's wife takes off without leaving a note behind, people begin to suspect that he may have murdered her, and he plays along with this notion to the point of planting clues which would incriminate him. Obviously, no one with a shred of common sense would do such a thing, and these tricks get him into trouble. However, his troubles don't really begin until he starts to search for her in earnest.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-05-26
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Alle lieben Peter
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Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-06-03
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Liebesticket nach Hause
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Genres: Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-09-22
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The White Horse Inn
Overview: Head waiter Leopold has been secretly in love with the hostess Josepha for a long time, but she only has eyes for Dr. Siedler, a guest in the White Horse Inn. Leopold tries to get Dr. Siedler interested in the daughter of Industrialist Giesecke, who would rather see his daughter married to Sigismund.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1952-12-19
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Fahr zur Hölle
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Genres: Mystery Action
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-02-13
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Escape from East Berlin
Overview: East Berlin, shortly after the construction of the Berlin Wall. Kurt Schröder and his family dig a tunnel to escape to West Berlin as they struggle to overcome the obstacles blocking their underground path to freedom.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-10-22
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Rosen-Resli
Overview: The nine-year-old orphan Therese has recently moved in with a family of gardeners. She continues to take loving care of her former foster mother, from whom she had to leave when she fell ill with a heart condition. With the help of old Jacob, the girl manages to grow a particularly beautiful rose. After some complications, this proves to be a stroke of luck, and not just for her.
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1954-05-04
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Wenn die Alpenrosen blüh'n
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1955-09-22
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Salto Mortale
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1954-12-17
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90 Minuten nach Mitternacht
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-10-25
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Die wilden Fünfziger
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-09-23
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Der Klosterjäger
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1953-08-28
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Blackmail Chase
Overview: A couple of friends aspiring to join film land get mixed up in a robbery, ordered by a mafia boss who wants to seize the evidence he needs to blackmail an American politician.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-02
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Höllische Nachbarn
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1998-10-01
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Höllische Nachbarn - Nur Frauen sind schlimmer
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-04-07
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Embezzled Heaven
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-10-02
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Die Stimme der Sehnsucht
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Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-09-26
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Toller Hecht auf krummer Tour
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-12-22
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Via Mala
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-08-09
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Weihnachten mit Willy Wuff II - Eine Mama für Lieschen
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1995-12-02
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Love Birds
Overview: Two couples live their erotic fantasies out until one of the women is murdered.
Genres: Mystery Drama Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-11-07
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First Love
Overview: Ugo meets the 18-year-old Renata in the hostel where she is staying. He falls in love with and leaves with her for several romantic places until the money ends. Ugo will try to get the girl engaged on a local TV station, but Renata falls in love with a manager.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-02-04
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Romy Schneider: A Woman in Three Notes
Overview: Documentary portrait of the actress Romy Schneider, in which director Frederick Baker tries to form an overall picture from the facets of image, myth, real life and screen persona.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-09-21
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Die Schläfer
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1998-11-22
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Bend Sinister
Overview: In a fictitious European city known as Padukgrad, where a government arises following the rise of a philosophy known as "Ekwilism", which discourages the idea of anyone being different from anyone else, and promotes the state as the prominent good in society.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-01-07
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Der schweigende Engel
Overview: The deaf-mute little girl Angelika is a talented dancer and is trained by a ballet mistress so that she gets the leading role in an opera despite the intrigues of a rival. Angelika's brother gets out of prison and wants to build an honest life for himself, but falls back into the clutches of his former gang, who use him and the unsuspecting Angelika to circulate counterfeit money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1954-10-20
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Immobilien
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-02-21
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Ein Herz schlägt für Erika
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-02-23
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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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Staatsanwältin Corda
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1953-03-04
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Stille
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Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2013-02-13
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Caipiranha - Vorsicht, bissiger Nachbar!
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1998-07-08
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Russian adventure. Peter Fleischmann is filming "It's not easy to be a god."
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1990-01-22
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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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Das Double
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1993-12-30
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Club der Träume - Türkei, Marmaris
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Genres: Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2003-01-19
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Inflation im Paradies
Overview: Four-part episodic film about the everyday lives of young people. The focus is on a café as a communication point for various cliques.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-05-05
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Gestrickte Spuren
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-08-12
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Julius Caesar
Overview: Jealous conspirators convince Caesar's friend Brutus to join their assassination plot against Caesar. To stop Caesar from gaining too much power, Brutus and the conspirators kill him on the Ides of March.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-22
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Tender Sharks
Overview: While an admiral's son is hunted by secret agents, his sister plays his part on a warship.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-03-10
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Birkenhof & Lerchenau
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Auf Biegen oder Brechen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-11-14
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Red Lips
Overview: A lawyer heads out on the road in an attempt to find his daughter who has been missing for quite some time. To help him navigate the secret world his daughter lived within that he knows nothing about, he recruits the help of Irene a close friend of his daughter's. But Irene has plans of her own.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-05-14
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Wild and Wonderful
Overview: Cognac, a pampered poodle and popular star on French television, creates marital problems for his pretty owner Giselle when he becomes jealous of her new husband.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-06-09
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Das Männerquartett
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-01-16
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Ziemlich weit weg
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-09-28
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The Swing
Overview: Garden parties, music and dancing characterize the lives of a family of German aristocrats in the days leading to World War I.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-10-14
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Toto, Fabrizi and the Young People Today
Overview: A boy and a girl fall in love but their fathers take a strong dislike to each other, clashing repeatedly during the preparations for the upcoming marriage.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-08-18
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The Knickerbocker Gang: The Talking Grave
Overview: What are the Knickerbocker Band doing at midnight in the cemetery? Is a spirit really speaking form the sinister grave? Why does Melissa, daughter of the dead sorcerer, receive threats? Has it all to do with the mysterious legacy of the magician?
Genres: Crime Family Mystery Horror
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1994-04-29
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Weihnachten mit Willy Wuff
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Genres: Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1994-12-22
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Haider lebt - 1. April 2021
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-11-07
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Zum Abschied Chrysanthemen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-04-17
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Pankow ’95
Overview: Futuristic view of life in Pankow, East Berlin. The GDR has turned into a madhouse with serious economic problems.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-10-27
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The Gold of Love
Overview: Young Patricia wanders through a Viennese night full of lust for love, visions of drugs and violence, gleaming frenzy and dark alleys.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-02-25
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Rings of Fear
Overview: Angelo Russo, a sixteen year-old girl, is found dead in a river, having been fatally violated with a large blunt instrument. Inspector Di Salvo is assigned to the case and focuses his investigations on St. Theresa's, the exclusive school where Angelo boarded. Three of the murdered girl's classmates, Franca, Paola and Virgina (who call themselves "The Inseparables"), receive threatening poems from an individual using the name "Nemesis". Bizarre "accidents" start to befall the girls: Franca is injured when someone causes her horse to bolt and Virgina nearly breaks her neck on marbles left at the top of a staircase. But Di Salvo is determined to find the killer, even if it means using unorthodox methods. He is aided by Angelo Russo's little sister Emily, whose helpful clues lead to a boutique owned by a dubious character and a vice ring where "rich influential men pay well for teenage favours" ...
Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-08-19
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Joan's Dream
Overview: With the ascetic grandeur of Carl Th. Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc, Schroeter evokes the visions of Saint Joan, partly through unused footage of Darling and Caven pantomiming in his 1972 film The Death of Maria Malibran. - MoMA
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Un trono para Cristy
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-06-02
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