Vladek Sheybal
Also Known As: Владек Шейбал, Władysław Sheybal
Biography: Vladek Sheybal (born Władysław Rudolf Z. Sheybal; 12 March 1923 – 16 October 1992) was a Polish character actor, singer and director of both television and stage productions.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Zgierz, Lódzkie, Poland
Birthday: March 12, 1923
Deathday: October 16, 1992
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Gender: Male
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From Russia with Love
Overview: Agent 007 is back in the second installment of the James Bond series, this time battling a secret crime organization known as SPECTRE. Russians Rosa Klebb and Kronsteen are out to snatch a decoding device known as the Lektor, using the ravishing Tatiana to lure Bond into helping them. Bond willingly travels to meet Tatiana in Istanbul, where he must rely on his wits to escape with his life in a series of deadly encounters with the enemy.
Genres: Action Thriller Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-10-10
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The Lady Vanishes
Overview: On the eve of World War II, zany heiress Amanda Kelly travels by train to Switzerland. While passing through Germany, she meets a sweet elderly lady, who suddenly vanishes. Distraught, she questions her fellow passengers who claim that the woman was never there. Unsure if it's all in her mind or if there's a more sinister plot afoot, Amanda teams up with photographer Robert Condon to discover the truth.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-04-30
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Billion Dollar Brain
Overview: A former British spy stumbles into in a plot to overthrow Communism with the help of a supercomputer. But who is working for whom?
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-11-02
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Champagne Charlie
Overview: This is the story of the Charles Heidsieck who opened the market for Champagne sales in America just prior to the American Civil War. He is a reluctant French spy and is captured and spends time in a Union prison. There are two parallel love stories (he is French) and some battles with his uncle for control of the family vineyard (because his father married his mother who the uncle also loved).
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-12
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S*P*Y*S
Overview: Two CIA bunglers botch a Soviet defection, then both sides mark them for termination.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-09-05
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Doppelgänger
Overview: A planet is discovered in the same orbit as Earth's but is located on the exact opposite side of the sun, making it not visible from Earth. The European Space Exploration Council decide to send American astronaut Glenn Ross and British scientist John Kane via spaceship to explore the other planet.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-08-27
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Kanal
Overview: During the last few days of the Warsaw Uprising following World War II, a modest group of Resistance members remains. The band must take refuge in the sewers under the orders of leader Zadra, but it's only a matter of time before they will have to emerge. However, when they try, they are met only with intense hostility from the Nazis. Despite their attempts stay resolute through immense mental strain, it becomes increasingly apparent that they may be doomed.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1957-04-20
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The Wind and the Lion
Overview: At the beginning of the 20th century an American woman is abducted in Morocco by Berbers, and the attempts to free her range from diplomatic pressure to military intervention.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-22
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La fine – The End
Overview: Ex-architect PATRICK KEILLER brings a graphic and compositional sense of landscape to this complex essay film following a conceited modern-day flaneur who conjects ruminatively over images of a curiously ill-defined European landscape. From within these images of construction, roadways and the never-ending to-ing and fro-ing of Europe's numerous train stations, can be glimpsed the visage of the old Europe, defined by borders, varied cultures and a distinct sense of place.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Leo the Last
Overview: Prince Leo, last in the line of rulers of a long-deposed monarchy on continental Europe and jaded with the frenetic search for kicks with the European jet-set, returns to his father's London town house for rest.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-04
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Trzy kobiety
Overview: Three women, ex-prisoners of a Nazi death camp, decide to live together after the war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1957-05-06
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The Spy's Wife
Overview: A spy and his wife simultaneously attempt adultery.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Gulliver's Travels
Overview: Based on the novel of the same name by Jonathan Swift and built around the Lilliput and Blefuscu episode. It was made partly in live action and partly animated.
Genres: Fantasy Family Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-05-06
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House of Pleasure for Women
Overview: The United States of America, after the great success of Vietnam, Watergate and so on, have decided to expand their activities in Italy. Mr. Chips has chosen Eddie Mordace to open the Italian branch of the multinational American Love Company. So Eddie opens in Milan a small branch of the Company whose purpose is to comfort women. Eddie hires Simbad, Adone and later, when business starts to go well, Ugolino, a real Count, and Ivanoe, a raper, who becames the attraction of the House.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-01-23
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Invasion: UFO
Overview: The Earth is threatened by an alien race who kidnap and kill humans and even animals and use them for their body parts. In the year 1980 S.H.A.D.O. (Supreme Headquarters Alien Defence Organization), a highly secret military organization, is set up in the hope of defending the Earth from this alien threat. This organization operates from a secret location beneath the Harlington-Straker film studio in London. S.H.A.D.O. also has a base on the moon with Interceptors as well as an early warning satellite that detects inbound UFOs (called S.I.D.), and operate a fleet of submarines. General James Henderson and commander Ed Straker have a team of highly trained and well equipped females and males to battle the regularly incoming hostile UFOs.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-09-06
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UFO - Allarme rosso... Attacco alla Terra!
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Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-09-06
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The Kiss of Death
Overview: Adaptation of a novel by Carolina Invernizio.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-08-22
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Women in Love
Overview: Growing up in the sheltered confines of a 1920s English coal-mining community, free-spirited sisters Gudrun and Ursula explore erotic love with a wealthy playboy and a philosophical educator, with cataclysmic results for all four.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-09-13
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After Midnight
Overview: An alcoholic night watchman in a Dublin hotel redeems himself with the help of a new assistant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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The Debussy Film
Overview: An actor is playing Claude Debussy in a film about the composer's life, and finds himself identifying with his subject very closely.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-05-18
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Best Ever Bond
Overview: Roger Moore presents the ten best sequences ever to have appeared in the James Bond series, and cast members recall their favourite moments.
Genres: Documentary Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-22
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Hamlet
Overview: The classic Shakespeare play in a way you've never seen.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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The Jigsaw Man
Overview: Philip Kimberly, the former head of the British Secret Service who defected to Russia, is given plastic surgery and sent back to Britain by the KGB to retrieve some vital documents. With the documents in hand, he instead plays off MI6 and the KGB against each other.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-11
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Where Is Parsifal?
Overview: Tucked away in his castle, a hypochondriac inventor plays generous host to a revolving cast of wacky guests. But to pay off his mounting debts, he must sell either a powerful businessman or a rich gypsy on his latest creation: a laser skywriter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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The Kitchen
Overview: Alvin Rakoff's adaptation of Arnold Wesker's The Kitchen for Play of the Week. The Kitchen, first preformed in 1957, was Wesker's first work and his most performed play. The Kitchen has been produced in sixty cities including Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo, Paris - where it was the first widely recognized production by Théâtre du Soleil in 1967, Moscow, Montreal and Zurich.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-11-02
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Man of Rope
Overview: Story of a man in prison, condemned to death, and his subsequent execution. Inspired by "Ballad of Reading Gaol" by Oscar Wilde.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Return from the Ashes
Overview: A Jewish woman, Dr. Michele Wolf, interred in a Nazi concentration camp during WWII returns to her Paris home after the war's end. She's unaware that her husband, the handsome gigolo and chess master Stanislaw Pilgrin, has been having an affair with her stepdaughter Fabi in her absence.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-11-16
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Puppet on a Chain
Overview: Following a triple professional hit a U.S. agent, Paul Sherman, arrives in Amsterdam to investigate a heroin smuggling ring. He finds a city rife with drugs and a police force unable or unwilling to do much about it. With his incognito female fellow agent, Maggie, the American is soon stirring things up.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-08-02
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Strike It Rich
Overview: A London accountant on his honeymoon gets swept away by gambling fever.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-26
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Casino Royale
Overview: Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thinks up the ultimate plan - that every agent will be named 'James Bond'. One of the Bonds, whose real name is Evelyn Tremble is sent to take on Le Chiffre in a game of baccarat, but all the Bonds get more than they can handle.
Genres: Adventure Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-04-13
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Dance of the Seven Veils
Overview: Russell’s composer biopics were usually labours of love. This was the opposite: he regarded Strauss’s music as 'bombastic, sham and hollow', and despised the composer for claiming to be apolitical while cosying up to the Nazi regime. Strauss is depicted in a variety of grotesquely caricatured situations: attacked by nuns after adopting Nietzsche’s philosophy, duels with jealous husbands, literally batters his critics into submission with his music, and glorifies the women in his life and fantasies.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-02-15
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Scorpio
Overview: Cross is an old hand at the CIA who often teams up with Frenchman Jean “Scorpio” Laurier, a gifted freelance operative. After their last mission together, the CIA orders Scorpio to eliminate Cross, leaving him no choice but to obey.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-04-11
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Double X: The Name of the Game
Overview: Expert safecracker Arthur Clutten masterminds heists for a criminal syndicate he belongs to. But after witnessing the brutal methods of persuasion being meted out by gang leader, Ignatius Smith Clutten decides to quit. But he realizes the gang would sooner see him killed than quitting. After stealing some documents incriminating Smith and his boss, Edward Ross, Clutten then puts his family in hiding and goes on the run...but his daughter has been kidnapped by the gang and a hitman has been hired and is close to finding Clutten.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-06-05
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Red Dawn
Overview: It is the dawn of World War III. In mid-western America, a group of teenagers band together to defend their town—and their country—from invading Soviet forces.
Genres: Action Thriller War Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-08-10
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The Sell Out
Overview: This action drama centers on a former CIA operative who grudgingly rejoins the spy game due to the machinations of his one-time student - a screw up who goes to work for the Soviets. As his job drags him deeper into a dangerous and under-handed world, the student wants out of the agency and oout of the U.S.S.R. But the man's choices have made him a target and now both the United States and Russia want him dead, sending their mos able hit men to do it.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-01
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Mosquito Squadron
Overview: England, World War II. Quint Munroe, RAF officer and new leader of a Mosquito squadron, is tasked with destroying a secret Nazi base in France while trying to overcome the disappearance of a brother-in-arms.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-08-22
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All About a Prima Ballerina
Overview: An actor and his protege lock themselves away from the world while he rehearses for a part in an upcoming feature.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-17
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Pilate and Others
Overview: The trial of Yeshua Ha-Notsri is led by prosecutor Pontius Pilate who believes in the innocence of the accused but is forced to sentence him to death. This biblical story is set in present-day Germany.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-03-29
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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 Apple
Overview: In the glitzy, glittering futuristic world of 1994, music is king -- and the man who controls it is all-powerful malicious mogul Mr. Boogalow. Now he has his eye on two fresh-faced young singers, Alphie and Bibi, who score a hit at his WorldVision Song Festival and fall under the irresistible spell of fame, money, and temptation.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Science Fiction Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-21
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A Distant Thunder
Overview: Peter Barkham hero-worships his distinguished father. However, this is threatened by the intrusion of events and people from his father's wartime past.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-11-26
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The Fearless Vampire Killers
Overview: A noted professor and his dim-witted apprentice fall prey to their inquiring vampires, while on the trail of the ominous damsel in distress.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-11-13
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To Grab the Ring
Overview: This film takes a decidedly satirical look at the inner workings of the gangster underworld. Alfred Lowell is a washed-up actor sent to London to take care of some mob business. Alfred's mind is not on his job, as he prefers to probe his past for the reasons why he has failed as a thespian. He entertains thoughts of suicide, but his involvement in the gang prevents him from ending his life.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1968-03-14
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The Boy Friend
Overview: The assistant stage manager of a small-time theatrical company is forced to understudy for the leading lady at a matinée performance at which an illustrious Hollywood director is in the audience scouting for actors to be in his latest "all-talking, all-dancing, all-singing" extravaganza.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-16
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Innocent Bystanders
Overview: Washed-up agent John Craig is given the task of proving his worth by tracking down a Russian scientist on the run. Cross and double-cross is the name of the game.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-09-01
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Running Blind
Overview: Cold War thriller set in Iceland – a British agent and his Icelandic fiancee try to protect an electronic device from falling into the clutches of the KGB.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-05
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Fire and Sword
Overview: The young knight Tristan is injured in a fight in Ireland and cared for by the beautiful Isolde. He falls in love with her, unaware that she is the daughter of the Irish king.
Genres: Romance Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-01-15
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The Limbo Line
Overview: The Limbo Line tells a story of Cold War double-crossing with British secret agent Manston trying to break up a group of Russian agents who return defectors to Moscow for brainwashing. When a Russian ballerina defects to Germany, Manston goes after the head of The Limbo Line in an effort to stop the group from kidnapping the defectors. Acting against the orders of his boss, Manston is faced with killing the communist leader of the movement in Germany or allowing the dancer to be turned over for interrogation and reprisals for her political beliefs. Matters are further complicated when Manston finds himself falling for the ballerina…
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-03-03
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Deadfall
Overview: Cat burglar Henry Clarke and his accomplices the Moreaus attempt to steal diamonds from the chateau of millionaire Salinas.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-09-11
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The Last Valley
Overview: People in a small German village in the last valley to remain untouched by the devastating Thirty Years' War try to exist in peace with a group of soldiers occupying the valley.
Genres: History War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-01-28
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