Maria Schell
Also Known As: Maria Margarethe Anna Schell , Мария Шелл
Biography: Maria Margarethe Anna Schell (15 January 1926, Vienna – 26 April 2005, Preitenegg, Carinthia) was an Austrian/Swiss actress, who won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival in 1956 for Gervaise. The daughter of a Swiss author and an Austrian actress, she was the older sister of actor Maximilian Schell, and lesser-known actors Carl Schell and Immy (Immaculata) Schell. Description above from the Wikipedia article Maria Schell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria
Adult: No
Birthday: January 15, 1926
Age: 99 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: April 26, 2005
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
Overview: During the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge.
Genres: War Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-12
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Liebe
Overview: Anna falls madly in love with an Italian violinist, who instead marries her sister Monika.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-09-26
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Superman
Overview: Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush, Lois Lane. Clark must summon his superhero alter-ego when the nefarious Lex Luthor launches a plan to take over the world.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-14
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The Passerby
Overview: Max Baumstein is a reputable businessman who founded an international organization fighting against violations of human rights. Why would he commit an act that apparently negates the principles he has striven for so long to uphold? As he is tried for first-degree murder for killing a Paraguayan ambassador in cold blood, he reveals a secret about himself that he kept hidden from his wife Lina. His act is the conclusion of a struggle that started many decades earlier in his childhood...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-04-14
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Just a Gigolo
Overview: After World War I, a war hero returns to Berlin to find that there's no place for him--he has no skills other than what he learned in the army, and can only find menial, low-paying jobs. He decides to become a gigolo to lonely rich women.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-11-16
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99 Women
Overview: Female prisoners endure the horrors of drug abuse, prostitution and rampant sadism at an island prison. When an escape attempt goes awry, the fugitives discover that escaping can be as dangerous as remaining in the prison.
Genres: Thriller Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-03-05
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The Bloody Judge
Overview: Horror icon Christopher Lee, who worked with Jess Franco on several occasions, plays Lord George Jeffreys, the infamous and merciless judge and Lord Chancellor in England torn by strife between the reigning King James II and William of Orange. Convincend of doing what's necessary, the cruel judge mercilessly persecutes "traitors" who sympathize with the King's opponent William of Orange. As well as "witches" who are accused of being in league with the devil...
Genres: Horror History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-02-05
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The Hanging Tree
Overview: Joseph "Doc" Frail is a doctor with a past he's trying to outrun. While in Montana, he comes across a mining camp with a hanging tree and rescues a man named Rune from the noose. With Rune as his servant, Frail decides to settle down, and he takes over as town doctor. He meets Elizabeth, who is suffering from shock, and the two soon fall in love. But when Elizabeth is attacked, Frail's attempt to help her lands them both in trouble.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-02-19
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Napoleon
Overview: The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. The film is notable for its use of location shooting for numerous scenes, especially at the French estates of Malmaison and Fontainebleau, the Palace of Versailles, and sites of Napoleonic battles including Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-03-25
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The Brothers Karamazov
Overview: Ryevsk, Russia, 1870. Tensions abound in the Karamazov family. Fyodor is a wealthy libertine who holds his purse strings tightly. His four grown sons include Dmitri, the eldest, an elegant officer, always broke and at odds with his father, betrothed to Katya, herself lovely and rich. The other brothers include a sterile aesthete, a factotum who is a bastard, and a monk. Family tensions erupt when Dmitri falls in love with one of his father's mistresses, the coquette Grushenka. Two brothers see Dmitri's jealousy of their father as an opportunity to inherit sooner. Acts of violence lead to the story's conclusion: trials of honor, conscience, forgiveness, and redemption.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-02-20
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Le Notti Bianche
Overview: A middle-aged man meets a young woman who is waiting on a canal bridge for her lover's return.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-11-14
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Cimarron
Overview: The epic story of a family involved in the Oklahoma Land Rush of April 22, 1889.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-01
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The Magic Box
Overview: Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he was so good at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-01
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Gervaise
Overview: An adaptation of Émile Zola’s 1877 masterpiece L’assommoir, the film is an uncompromising depiction of a lowly laundress’s struggles to deal with an alcoholic husband while running her own business.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-09-05
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The Last Bridge
Overview: A German nurse gets sent to the front because she gives medical aid to a wounded Yugoslav partisan during World War II.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1954-02-11
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L'assassin connaît la musique
Overview: Lionel Fribourg, a great composer (at least that's what he thinks) has a problem with his noisy environment: he can't complete his unfinished symphony. Of course there is a market for unfinished symphonies but, for all he knows, only one became famous. So he had better find a way to finish it. At long last, he comes across Agnès, a divorced woman who agrees to let him her quiet home. Lionel, full of hope, resumes work...
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-10-16
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The Devil by the Tail
Overview: In this comedy, a run-down hotel drums up customers by sabotaging passing cars. The stuck motorists are then obliged to stay. Unfortunately, one of the sabotaged cars belongs to a bank robber. The hotel staff wants the robber out, but they also want to keep his ill-gotten money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-02-07
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The Twist
Overview: Claire de La Tour Picquet shares her life between her husband, the successful novelist William Brandeis, and her lover, Jacques Lalouet, William's publisher. Then she discovers that her lover has a mistress, Charlie, who is also that of her husband...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-06-23
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Mothers and Daughters
Overview: Relationships between mothers and daughters are often very complex. Love and protective instincts, recognition and pride play just as important a role as patronization and envy, dependency and jealousy. This documentary allows prominent mother-daughter pairs to have their say, being surprisingly open about birth and puberty, growing up, sexuality and old age.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-09-16
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The Mark
Overview: A man who served prison time for intent to molest a child tries to build a new life with the help of a sympathetic psychiatrist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-26
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Der Schinderhannes
Overview: 1802: The adventurous life story of Hans Bückler, known as “Schinderhannes”, who fights against the French occupying forces and large landowners who exploit poor farmers in the Hunsrück region during the Napoleonic Wars.
Genres: History Romance Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-12-17
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King Thrushbeard
Overview: When a selfless king learns of a beautiful princess in a neighboring kingdom who callously turns down every suitor with an insult, he tries his luck to no avail. So, he hatches a plot with her father in which the princess is married to him, in disguise as a beggar, so he can teach her lessons about humility and compassion.
Genres: Family Fantasy Romance
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1984-12-01
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The Rats
Overview: Soon after World War II, a pregnant Polish refugee, Pauline, wanders Berlin looking for the boyfriend who abandoned her. She has no option but to sell her child to another woman, Anna. After the birth, Pauline decides she wants the baby back.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1955-07-06
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The Heart of the Matter
Overview: Based on Graham Greene’s novel, a married colonial police chief struggles with his conscience when he has an affair with a younger woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-03
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My Sister Maria
Overview: Maximilian Schell's portrait of his sister Maria.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-03-01
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Rose Bernd
Overview: West Germany's entry in the 1957 Cannes Film Festival was this cinemadaptation of the Gerhardt Hauptman play Rose Bernd. The title character, played by Maria Schell, is a servant girl on a remote farm. Sexually assaulted by both her employer and a coworker, Rose later bears a child, who die soon afterward. After nearly two hours of unrelieved misery, Rose finally finds happiness in the arms of a longtime admirer (where has he been for the past 12 reels?) Rose Bernd (aka The Sins of Rose Bernd) received a smattering of American showings thanks to the drawing power of star Maria Schell.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-01-31
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Das Riesenrad
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-08-25
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Until we meet again
Overview: This is the tear-jerking love story between young Pamela and casino owner Mayrhoefer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1952-10-06
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The Angel with the Trumpet
Overview: Sad tale of a woman who marries the man her family wishes her to wed, not Wooland, the man she truly loves. Years after her lover's suicide, Herlie joins him before the Gestapo can get to her because of her Jewish ancestry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-20
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The Angel with the Trumpet
Overview: A long time-span of Austrian history (from the late 19th century to the years after world war II) is reflected in the ups and downs of a family of piano-makers in Vienna.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1948-08-19
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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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So Little Time
Overview: During World War II, German soldiers occupy the home of a beautiful Belgian girl and her mother.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-04-18
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Steibruch
Overview: A man in his fifties returns from America to his native village. Everyone knows that in the New World he served a lengthy prison sentence for manslaughter. He retreats to an isolated quarry in the woods he inherited. There he lives like a hermit, gruffly disencouraging anyone to come near the place.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1942-01-01
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Dr. Holl
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1951-03-23
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Die erste Polka
Overview: The intertwined lives of people of both Polish and German extraction who live on the pre-World War II border between the two countries are explored in this drama. Valeska is the Polish/German matriarch of a family living on the German side of the border. Her son is involved with the Hitler youth, but nonetheless keeps secret the presence on family land of a Jew who is hiding from the authorities. When the son inadvertently kills a soldier to prevent his sister from being raped, he runs away after borrowing money from the Jewish man. When soldiers come to the family's door looking for the missing soldier who had been billeted there, the Jewish man commits suicide. In another episode, one of the family's daughters marries a German soldier in a ceremony presided over by a Polish priest.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-02-28
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Es kommt ein Tag
Overview: Melodrama set during wartime.
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1950-10-16
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Die Pfarrhauskomödie
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-09-25
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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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Zwei Whisky und ein Sofa
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-12-20
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Liebe bleibt nicht ohne Schmerzen
Overview: TV-film by Alfred Vohrer
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-11-23
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Dust in the Sun
Overview: In the dry, dusty western hamlet of San Angelo, landowner Joe Bradford kills his brother and then marries his brother's widow, Gertie. Gertie's son, Hawk, decides that something's rotten in this state of affairs and thinks about taking action
Genres: Western
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-06-09
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Only a Woman
Overview: A psychotherapist's love life is a disaster because of her own fears and neuroses. Involving herself in her patients love life add more complications.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-11-30
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Frau Jenny Treibel
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-12-14
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Die ungarische Hochzeit
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Master Over Life and Death
Overview: Barbara is married to Georg Bertram, a professor of medicine who once saved her father's life. Things go awry for the couple when she gives birth to a mentally defective child. For Georg, coldly clinical, euthanizing the infant is the only way out. He is about to commit the irreparable when Barbara manages to interrupt his fatal act. By mutual agreement, husband and wife decide that Barbara will go to Saint-Guénolé in Brittany, where she and their son will be cared for by Louise Kerbrec, Georg's former nurse, in the hypothetical hope that the boy's condition will improve. What they do not know yet is that Barbara will meet there another doctor, Daniel Karentis, much more sympathetic than Georg and also much handsomer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1955-01-07
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End of Desire
Overview: Normandy, second half of the nineteenth century. Jeanne Dandieu lives in a manor house with her parents and their servant Rosalie. She gets to know Julien, a handsome man, whom she soon marries. Her happiness is short-lived as she finds out that not only has Julien married her for her money but he cheats on her as well, with Rosalie to crown it all.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-09-24
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Maresi
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1950-06-01
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Immobilien
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-02-21
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Die keusche Susanne
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-01-09
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Samson and Delilah
Overview: A tale of passion and betrayal in which Samson, a judge of Israel who fled with his tribe during the Great Exodus from Egypt, uses his herculean strength in the fight against the Philistine oppressors. He is seduced by Delilah, a Philistine courtesan, who uses her cunning to discover the secret of her lover's great power and then betrays him.
Genres: TV Movie Action Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-31
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Inside the Third Reich
Overview: A dramatization of the life of Albert Speer, Hitler's young architect and onetime confidant, and his meteoric rise into the Nazi hierarchy. Based upon Speer's own monograph of the same title.
Genres: History War Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-09
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Change
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-06-06
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Der Trauschein
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Die Kurpfuscherin
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-11-02
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Der Thronfolger
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-08-10
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Herbst in Lugano
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1988-10-08
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Teerosen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-07-08
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Die Heiratsvermittlerin
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-01-15
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Der Wald
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Marie
Overview: When her father dies unexpectantly, a young woman starts to get suspicious about her mother's behaviour.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Dreaming Lips
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1953-01-29
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Tagebuch einer Verliebten
Overview: In South Tirol, shortly after ww-ii: Paul and Barbara Holzmann and their son Charlie own a small gasoline station. At their wedding anniversary, of all days, Barbara finds proof that Paul may again have cheated on her. At first she believes his explanations, but when she finds more proof later, she leaves and seeks comfort in the arms of her former friend Nicola in Italy. The story is told from the perspective of her diary.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1953-10-18
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As the Sea Rages
Overview: After five years of war, Clements, a professional seaman, has no ambitions other than to live in peace and carry out his activity. Having settled down in the archipelago of the Aegean Sea, he has founded a small sponge fishing company in an idyllic place and foresees an optimistic future. Unfortunately, he soon finds himself caught in a crossfire...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-11-10
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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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The Last Night
Overview: Set in German-occupied France in 1944 where a female resistance operative and a German army officer fall in love.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1949-02-11
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Christmas Lilies of the Field
Overview: In this belated sequel to 'Lilies of the Field' (1963), jack-of-all-trades Homer Smith revisits the chapel in the Arizona desert that he helped build for five German nuns under the supervision of Mother Maria, and he reluctantly helps them out of a pinch once more.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-16
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Nineteen Nineteen
Overview: Two former patients of Sigmund Freud meet again and discuss their psychiatric treatment 65 years earlier.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-14
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The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
Overview: Ernie Anderson narrates this look at the making of Richard Donner's blockbuster 1978 film. Behind-the-scenes footage, as well as scenes from the film, reveal just how audiences were able to "believe a man can fly." This program features interviews with key cast and crew.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Die Ohrfeige
Overview: Mischa Gallé's first film was made in 1971, but not picked up and shown until 1975.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-10-15
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Der Besuch der alten Dame
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Spiel der Verlierer
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-10-12
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Moral
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-10-05
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So oder so ist das Leben
Overview: An entrepreneur of social prestige gets intimate with the housekeeper, while his wife has a lover who is 20 years younger than her, whom she eventually loses to her nymphomaniac daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-01-23
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The Provocation
Overview: An expedition of archaeology students in Israel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-02-11
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Nora oder Ein Puppenheim
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-12-19
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Magyarország lángokban
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1957-12-01
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Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2021-05-03
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