Hardy Krüger
Also Known As: Харди Крюгер
Biography: Hardy Krüger (born Franz Eberhard August Krüger; 12 April 1928 - 19 Januar 2022) was a German actor. He is thought of as one of the greatest German actors of the 1960s. He was born in Wedding, Berlin, Germany. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hardy Krüger, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany
Birthday: April 12, 1928
Deathday: January 19, 2022
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Flight of the Phoenix
Overview: A cargo aircraft crashes in a sandstorm in the Sahara with less than a dozen men on board. One of the passengers is an airplane designer who comes up with the idea of ripping off the undamaged wing and using it as the basis for a replacement aircraft they need to build before their food and water run out.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-15
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Barry Lyndon
Overview: An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century England, transforming himself from the humble Redmond Barry into the noble Barry Lyndon.
Genres: Drama Romance War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-18
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The Defector
Overview: An American scientist is sent by the CIA to East Germany to retrieve a secret microfilm from a Soviet scientist interested in defecting to the West but the Stasi secret police's surveillance complicates matters.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-10-19
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The Secret of Santa Vittoria
Overview: During World War II, Italian villagers hide their wine from the German army.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-02
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A Bridge Too Far
Overview: The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII to end the war quickly by securing three bridges in Holland allowing access over the Rhine into Germany. A combination of poor allied intelligence and the presence of two crack German panzer divisions meant that the final part of this operation (the bridge in Arnhem over the Rhine) was doomed to failure.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-15
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Hatari!
Overview: A female wildlife photographer arrives on an East African reservation where a group of men trap wild animals for zoos and circuses.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-19
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Two Among Millions
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-10-01
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The Wild Geese
Overview: A British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It hires a band of (largely aged) mercenaries in London and sends them in to save the virtuous but imprisoned opposition leader who is also critically ill and due for execution. Just when the team has performed a perfect rescue, the multinational does a deal with the vicious dictator leaving the mercenary band to escape under their own steam and exact revenge.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-28
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The Red Tent
Overview: Torn by personal guilt, Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic expedition aboard the airship Italia.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1969-12-23
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The Inside Man
Overview: In 1981, after the successful test of a submarine tracker device developed by the Swedish scientist Paul Mandell and sponsored by the US government through his representative Miller, his industry is totally burned and the laser device is stolen. Stig Larsson from the Swedish Secret Agency suspects of an inside job and brings the Swedish Marine Thomas Kallin to investigate Paul undercover as his driver. The naive Kallin is double-crossed but continues his investigation while Larsson finds the truth about the heist.
Genres: Thriller Action Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-08-31
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Wrong Is Right
Overview: Political double-talk, dirty tricks, hidden microphones, spy satellites, bugging the Oval Office and a nuclear bomb for sale are all ingredients in this swift, funny and frightening look at the possibilities in today's political arenas. Sean Connery stars as TV Newsman Patrick Hale on an international chase to track two suitcase sized nuclear weapons and to uncover the twisting maze of apparent involvement of US Government agencies.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-04-16
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Taxi for Tobruk
Overview: During World War II, French Commandos join forces with a German officer in order to survive the African desert.
Genres: History Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-05-09
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The Battle of Neretva
Overview: In January 1943 the German army, afraid of an Allied invasion of the Balkans, launched a great offensive against Yugoslav Partisans in Western Bosnia. The only way out for Partisan forces and thousands of refugees was the bridge on the river Neretva.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1969-10-07
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Sundays and Cybele
Overview: The tragic story of a young orphan girl who is befriended by an innocent but emotionally disabled veteran of the French Indochina War.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-11-12
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Blind Date
Overview: Dutch painter Jan-Van Rooyer hurries to keep a rendezvous with Jacqueline Cousteau, an elegant, sophisticated Frenchwoman, slightly his elder, whose relationship with him had turned from art student into one of love trysts. He arrives and is confronted by Detective Police Inspector Morgan who accuses him of having murdered Jacqueline. Morgan listens sceptically to the dazed denials of Van Rooyer as he tells the story of his relationship with the murdered woman. Morgan, after hearing the story, realizes that the mystery has deepened, and it becomes more complicated when the Assistant Commissioner, Sir Brian Lewis, explains that Jacqueline was not married but was being kept by Sir Howard Fenton, a high-ranking diplomat whose names must be kept out of the case.
Genres: Mystery Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-08-01
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The One That Got Away
Overview: Based on the true story of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner of war captured in Britain to escape back to Germany during the Second World War.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-11-22
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Franciscan of Bourges
Overview: Albert is a Franciscan monk and a medical orderly at a monastery in France. Although he is German, the kindly monk helps hide French resistance members. Albert tries to maintain the delicate balance between the warring factions by helping out the afflicted and not getting involved in political ideology.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-04-29
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Blue Fin
Overview: Based on the children's novel by celebrated South Australian author 'Colin Thiele' , this is an emotional father and son story about tuna fishing of Southern Blue Fin tuna in South Australia's Port Lincoln fishing district. Accident prone son Snook is forever making mistakes much to the chagrin of his father Pascoe. But when tragedy strikes the fishing boat during a deep sea fishing trek in the Southern Ocean, the boy is called on to become a man in a rites of sea passage to reconcile is past mishaps and save both his father and the ship from certain disaster.
Genres: Drama Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-01
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The Big Grasshopper
Overview: While he is trying to escape from a hit man, Carl is setting up a kidnapping in Beirut. He gets lost on his way, falling in love with Salène, a.k.a. "La grande sauterelle"...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-01-11
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Liane, Jungle Goddess
Overview: Researchers in the African jungle find a young white woman living with a tribe, that adores her as goddess. They carry her off and proudly report to the press. It turns out that she may be Liane, the long lost daughter of the rich shipowner Amelongen. So Toren starts civilizing her and takes her to Germany, where she - now in love with Toren - has to defend herself against accusations of legacy-hunting. Will she fit into her new society?
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-10-03
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Paper Tiger
Overview: A somewhat prim and proper Englishman is hired as the tutor to the son of the Japanese ambassador. His life changes when he and the boy are kidnapped by terrorists for political purposes.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-11-05
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The Lady of Monza
Overview: A true story taken from the archives of the archdiocese of Milan. Based on the life of Marianna De Leyva, better known as "The Nun of Monza," a 17th century nun accused of and tried by the church for breaking celibacy and plotting murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-02-26
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What the Peeper Saw
Overview: A wealthy author's second wife begins to suspect that her 12-year old stepson may have murdered his mother, who mysteriously died in a bathtub accident.
Genres: Horror Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-10-14
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The Four Truths
Overview: "Les quatre vérités" aka "The Four Truths" is a movie anthology that consists of four segments, all loosely parodying fables from the 17th-century French poet Jean de la Fontaine. The US cut usually features only 3 segments.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-12-21
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Bachelor of Hearts
Overview: A German scholar has girl troubles while studying at Cambridge.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-12
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The Fox of Paris
Overview: Paris, 1944. With France under Nazi occupation, General Quade entrusts an important mission to Furstenwerth, the commander of the Wermacht: to secretly transmit secret documents to the Allies. While carrying out this mission, the commander falls under the spell of a young French resistance fighter, Yvonne. He is discovered and arrested by the Gestapo. Yvonne and her group of resistance fighters will do everything to free him.
Genres: Drama Thriller War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-11-13
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Die Christel von der Post
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-12-20
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My Name is Niki
Overview: Winnie is desperate and doesn't know what to do next. She is about to marry her lover Paul, who has returned from war captivity. Both want to emigrate to America short after marriage. But the young woman has an illegitimate one-and-a-half-year-old son, whom she has kept secret from her fiancé. The short-tempered Paul would never understand that. When she is on her way to the orphanage, the grumpy senior civil servant Hieronymus Spitz and his little dog Tobby get into her train compartment. After a short observation, Winnie is certain that the misantrope actually has a good heart, because he lovingly takes care of his dog. Without further ado she leaves little Niki with the tax accountant and disappears from the train. Only a note with a request remains. The overwhelmed old gentleman initially wants to get rid of the child, but then takes it home and takes care of it together with his housekeeper. Both take the bundle of joy to their hearts. But then everything turns out differently.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1952-08-29
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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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The Rest Is Silence
Overview: 'The Rest Is Silence, a German-made attempt to update Shakespeare, is one of the best and least self-conscious of this minor genre. As indicated by the title, the film's script is a "mufti" version of Hamlet, with young Hardy Krüger trying to prove that his uncle has killed his father. Direct references to the Shakespeare original abound, right down to the re-enactment of the crime for the benefit of the Uncle and the periodic appearances of the ghost of the hero's father.'
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-07-21
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As Long as You're Near Me
Overview: An actress used to playing only bit parts becomes the center of attention when a movie director buys her life story as a film project, she is now faced with a psychological crisis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1953-08-27
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Liane, Daughter of the Jungle
Overview: A German expedition is in the African jungles on an unidentified misson. During this mission one of the German explorers, Thoren, is attacked and captured by the local natives called the Botos.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-11-11
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Der letzte Sommer
Overview: A Nordic revolutionary's plans to murder the president go awry when he falls in love with the man's daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1954-10-28
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The Uninhibited
Overview: Vincent is recovering from a nervous breakdown in a seaside village on the Costa Brava. He enters into an affair with nightclub owner Jenny, but their relationship changes when she falls for alcoholic author Pascal Regnier, who is struggling to resume his writing career. Vincent eventually returns home, leaving Jenny to stay on with Pascal and his young son Daniel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-04-21
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Der Himmel ist nie ausverkauft
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1955-07-20
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Bumerang
Overview: The paths of three men cross for a short time in post-war Berlin. Robert and Willy are unattached and unemployed, Georg has joined them from Hamburg, he has a family and occasionally does something crooked. That's what the three of them are up to together: A safe is to be cracked, the plan comes from Robert. Then Else shows up, a former girlfriend of Robert's who now lives with his buddy Willy. She is interested in Robert again, but he turns her down. Blind with jealousy, Willy nevertheless feels betrayed and rats out their joint scheme to the police. As they stand in front of the strongbox, they are surrounded by police officers. One of them, Inspector Stern, suddenly recognizes in Robert the man who saved his life during the war.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-01-14
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Feine Gesellschaft – Beschränkte Haftung
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-03-12
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Das Fräulein und der Vagabund
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1949-11-01
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Confess, Dr. Corda
Overview: A doctor goes to meet a beautiful girl at a park bench near a wooded area. When he arrives, he finds her battered body lying next to a stream! He then finds himself to be the prime suspect. Who's the killer?
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-05-22
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An der schönen blauen Donau
Overview: A young king and a princess are engaged to be married but have never met. Both are reluctant to take part in an arranged marriage but they meet in Vienna and fall in love.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1955-01-25
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Diese Nacht vergess ich nie
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1949-05-03
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I Can't Marry Everyone
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1952-09-04
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Ich und Du
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1953-11-27
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Illusion in Moll
Overview: After the death of her husband (Albrecht Schoenhals) wealthy but lonely hotel owner Maria Alsbacher (Sybille Schmitz) falls in love with a charming bandleader and singer (Maurice Teynac) without realizing that he is only behind her money. When she decides to marry him, her son (Hardy Krüger) enlists the help of his tragically ill fiancee Lydia (Hildegard Knef) to unmask this man for the villain he really is.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1952-12-18
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Muss man sich gleich scheiden lassen?
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1953-10-01
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Alibi
Overview: An industrialist's wife was killed and now her lover is accused of murder.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1955-12-30
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Mein Freund, der Dieb
Overview: Germany in the post-war period. Due to the circumstances of the time and his lack of prospects, the young Bimbo has become a hoodlum who keeps his head above water with petty crime. One night he robs the writer Percy, but is picked up by the police shortly afterwards in a drunken state. As he has Percy's wallet with him, the police think he is the robber and take him to his address. Percy can hardly believe his eyes when he sees the robber again. But instead of handing him over to the police, he takes Bimbo under his wing and tries to make a better person out of him - not an easy task.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1951-11-08
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The Girl on The Roof
Overview: A comedy of manners, the film centers on virtuous actress Patty O'Neill, who meets playboy architect Donald Gresham on the observation deck of the Empire State Building and accepts his invitation to join him for drinks and dinner in his apartment. There she meets Donald's upstairs neighbors, his ex-fiancée Cynthia and her father, roguish David Slader. Both men are determined to bed the young woman, but they quickly discover Patty is more interested in engaging in spirited discussions about the pressing moral and sexual issues of the day than surrendering her virginity to either one of them. After resisting their amorous advances throughout the night, Patty leaves and returns to the Empire State Building, where Donald finds her and proposes marriage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1953-12-16
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Bank Vault 713
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-08-28
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Das Mädchen aus der Südsee
Overview: Hamburg student Richard Kirbach indulges in an unusual hobby: he plays chess via shortwave with Arnold Pieper, an old German coconut planter in the South Seas. The men, who are so different, become so close that one day Pieper asks the young man for a big favor. Arnold has a capricious and rather volatile daughter named Lale, who, in his opinion, gets up to a lot of mischief in Europe. To put an end to this, Pieper quickly asks Richard to marry Lale, who is unknown to him. In order to make the marriage attractive to him, the fat old man also offers “prize money” of $5,000, which the poor student could really use.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1950-09-28
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Insel ohne Moral
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1950-10-23
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Familiengeheimnisse - Liebe, Schuld und Tod
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-01-09
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The Big Hit
Overview: Frank Willes, a young professional footballer, is involved in a road accident from which he emerges partially crippled, having crashed into the car of a wealthy shopkeeper who dies in the accident. Willes then learns that the merchant's widow, Clémence Grandval, stands to gain a fortune from her husband's life insurance. He also discovers that his accident may not have been an accident at all.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-06-24
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Death and the Lumberjack
Overview: An organ grinder called “El Rubio” has the crank of his street organ confiscated because he did not have his identification papers in order. From then on, a journey full of misfortune begins in which he tries hard to find a crank like the impounded one, to allow him to work again.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-05-03
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Song of the World
Overview: In Haute-Provence, two rival farming clans clash over the four seasons of the year. A young lumberjack, who has gone up to Rebeillard country to fell trees, has not been heard from for several months. Concerned by his long absence, his father sets out to find him. Antonio, known as "Bouche d'or" (Golden Mouth), the man from the river, accompanied him out of friendship; the two of them toiled together for long days, but one night, at the edge of the wood, they discovered a blond woman lying on the ground, giving birth to a child: it was Clara, a young blind woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-10-07
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The Spy Who Never Was
Overview: A diabolical tale of romance, murder, and mistaken identity as a treacherous terrorist organization hunts an enemy agent with the intention of killing him, but instead they set their sights on the wrong man. Left in the wake of their mistaken pursuit is a trail of broken lives and brutal murders.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-06-01
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Le Solitaire
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-10-24
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Junge Adler
Overview: Director Brakke has good reason to be happy: he has just received the news that his son, Theo, won first place in the local boat race. To be sure, he had forbidden his son to take part in the competition, because the son's grades in school are substandard. In the end, Brakke sees no other way than to pull Theo from school and install him as an apprentice in his airplane manufacturing plant. Although Theo is received by the other 150 apprentices in a friendly fashion, he behaves in an arrogant and disrespectful tone towards them. He feels himself to be better than them, because his father is the director of the factory.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1944-05-24
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Von Werra
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-01-16
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Without Trumpet or Drum
Overview: Summer 1870. Following the French defeat at Sedan. Léon, a soldier in a detachment isolated in the Ardennes forest, is sent in search of water. When he discovers the most peaceful of rivers, he decides to undress and bathe in it. At bend of the river he catches sight of another naked swimmer. It's a Prussian! Both men start bickering a bit: aren't they supposed to be arch enemies? But they soon fraternize. Unfortunately the patrol has not vanished in the haze and they hear it coming. Each man gets hold of his uniform and runs away in two opposite directions. The only trouble is that Fritz the Prussian has donned the French uniform and Leon the Prussian one!
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-12-22
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Schön muß man sein
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1951-02-01
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To Each His Hell
Overview: After her daughter is kidnapped, a mother discovers that there can be something even worse after "the worst."
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-02-02
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The Moon Is Blue
Overview: Two aging playboys are both after the same attractive young woman, but she fends them off by claiming that she plans to remain a virgin until her wedding night. Both men determine to find a way around her objections.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-08
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The Dream of Lieschen Müller
Overview: Lieschen Müller is in her mid-20s, works a dull office job and fancies the handsome waiter from the diner down the street, wishing for a more exciting life. In a vivid, lucid dream she happens upon a gigantic fortune, allowing her to live out her wildest fantasies. Quickly, however, she realizes that that's not what makes her happy.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-12-19
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Kätchen für alles
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1949-10-17
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Nein, ich gebe niemals auf!
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1985-12-28
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Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Overview: This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such memorable films as Anatomy of a Murder, Exodus, Laura, Forever Amber, Advise and Consent, In Harm's Way, The Moon Is Blue, The Man with the Golden Arm, and many other movies made from the '30s through the '70s. Interviews with actors Frank Sinatra, Vincent Price, James Stewart, Michael Caine, and others who worked with the flamboyant and sometimes control-obsessed director add information and insight to the story.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-28
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The Hardy Krüger Story
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2019-11-10
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