Horst Buchholz
Also Known As: Хорст Буххольц, Хорст Бухгольц, the German James Dean, Horst Werner Buchholz, هورست بوخهولتس
Biography: Horst Werner Buchholz (4 December 1933 – 3 March 2003) was a German actor, remembered for his part in The Magnificent Seven and Nine Hours to Rama. He appeared in over sixty films during his acting career from 1952–2002. He was married to French actress Myriam Bru from 1958 to his death, and one of their two children is the actor Christopher Buchholz. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany
Adult: No
Birthday: December 04, 1933
Age: 91 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 03, 2003
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One, Two, Three
Overview: C.R. MacNamara is a managing director for Coca Cola in West Berlin during the Cold War, just before the Wall is put up. When Scarlett, the rebellious daughter of his boss, comes to West Berlin, MacNamara has to look after her, but this turns out to be a difficult task when she reveals to be married to a communist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-15
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The Magnificent Seven
Overview: An oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes.
Genres: Western Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-10-12
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Touch and Die
Overview: Martin Sheen stars as an American newsman in Rome who begins to investigate the appearance of several corpses found throughout Europe with their hands cut off. He soon uncovers not only plots of plutonium theft, but also of nuclear arms deals and dark political schemes.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Resurrection
Overview: Young Prince Nechljudov is summoned as a judge in a murder trial. A rich merchant was found dead in the room of the inn where he was staying and the prostitute Maslova was accused of the crime. Nechljudov recognizes in the woman the maid of the aunts he had seduced and abandoned years before and tries to convince the authorities of her of his innocence but to no avail. Convinced that he is responsible for her moral fall, he follows her to Siberia where she must serve her sentence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-10-21
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Confessions of Felix Krull
Overview: Thomas Mann's witty and intimate story of a irresistible scoundrel.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-04-24
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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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Aphrodite
Overview: Harry is a young millionaire on holiday; he takes his yacht to a Greek island, and stays in the mansion of his friend...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Iron Eagle III
Overview: Chappy discovers a drug-smuggling scheme at his own air base. It turns out that the lives of some village people in Peru are at stake, and he decides to fly there with ancient airplanes and friends to free them.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-09
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Life Is Beautiful
Overview: A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While locked up he tries to convince his son that the whole thing is just a game.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1997-12-20
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The Amazing Captain Nemo
Overview: Captain Nemo is found in suspended animation under the sea and revived by modern-day Navy men in order to battle a fiendish mad scientist.
Genres: Science Fiction Fantasy Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-12
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Nine Hours to Rama
Overview: José Ferrer and Horst Buchholz star in this fictionalised account of events leading up to the assassination of Indian spiritual leader and independence campaigner Mahatma Gandhi.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-04-30
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And the Violins Stopped Playing
Overview: This is the true story about a group of Romani's (gypsy) in occupied Poland during World War II as they confront the atrocities and tragedies of a forgotten holocaust.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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...But Johnny!
Overview: The charm of the beautiful Jonny is of a frightening effectiveness on the women. He uses it to create his company which offers his talents to lonely ladies. His business is going great and he is getting rich. But will Jonny be able to provide quality services for a long time?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-05-01
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Le avventure e gli amori di Miguel Cervantes
Overview: This epic Spanish biopic chronicles the life of Cervantes, Spain's great novelist, playwright and poet, during the 16th-century, when as a young man he goes to Italy to become a soldier for the Pope. Later he helps the Pope's emissary wage war against the Spanish Moors. His exploits win him great favor. He falls in love with a famous Italian courtesan and she with him. Unfortunately, the Pope splits them apart with his newest decree which demands that all prostitutes leave the city. Upset, Cervantes goes to fight in the famed sea battle of Lepanto and comes back a hero. Later he is captured by Barbary pirates and ransomed by Trinitarian friars.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-11-02
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Ankle Bone
Overview: While escaping from prison to be with her lesbian friend, a 19-year-old girl breaks her ankle and is picked up by an ex-con, with whom she begins a passionate affair. She finally turns to prostitution and robbery to support herself.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-12-19
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Berlin Tunnel 21
Overview: In Berlin in 1961, an American soldier and a German engineer join forces to build a tunnel under the Berlin Wall in order to smuggle out refugees, including the soldier's East German girlfriend.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-25
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Faraway, So Close!
Overview: Damiel is now married to Marion, runs the pizzeria “Da Angelo” and the two have a child. The solitarily remaining angel Cassiel is more and more dissatisfied with his destiny as a mere observer of human life and finally decides to take the great leap. As Karl Engel he soon gets into a dubious milieu and finds himself as the assistant of the German American Baker, who makes his money with shady arms deals and sends films east in exchange for weapons. Cassiel’s adventure turns into a “thriller” when he decides to put a stop to Baker’s game.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1993-09-01
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That Man in Istanbul
Overview: An American adventurer who has a gambling den in Istanbul, who is suspected to be involved in the kidnapping of a nuclear scientist, but ultimately becomes self on the search for the disappeared and gets a striving for world domination secret organization.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-08-11
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Teenage Wolfpack
Overview: The drama of a youthful triangle among gang leader Freddy, his brother Jan, and bad girl Cissy, in one of the first considerations of juvenile delinquency in post-war West Germany.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-09-27
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Tiger Bay
Overview: In Tiger Bay, the docklands of Cardiff, rough-and-tumble street urchin Gillie witnesses the brutal killing of a young woman at the hands of visiting Polish sailor Korchinsky. Instead of reporting the crime to the authorities, Gillie merely pockets a prize for herself — Korchinsky's shiny black revolver — and flees the scene. When Detective Graham discovers that Gillie has the murder weapon, the fiery young girl weaves a web of lies to throw him off course.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-01
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Sahara
Overview: After her father dies, young Dale takes his place in a trans-African auto race, but ends up being abducted by a desert sheik.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-01
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Monpti
Overview: A poor 22 years old Hungarian man who's recently arrived in Paris meets a seemingly wealthy 17 years old Parisian girl. They fall in love, but tragedy ensues when the truth behind the girl is revealed.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-09-12
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Code Name: Emerald
Overview: In preparation for Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Nazi occupied territory, the 'overlords' were the few Allied agents who knew the details of the operation. When one them is captured by the Germans, a double agent must infiltrate occupied Paris, with the help of a high level German officer and the French Resistance.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-07
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Fanny
Overview: Almost 19-year-old Marius feels himself in a rut in Marseille, his life planned for him by his cafe'-owning father, and he longs for the sea. The night before he is to leave on a 5-year voyage, Fanny, a girl he grew up with, reveals that she is in love with him, and he discovers that he is in love with her. He must choose between an exciting life at sea, and a boring life with the woman he loves. And Fanny must choose between keeping the man she loves, and letting him live the life he seems to want.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-06-28
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Dead of Night
Overview: This anthology tells three stories: a man buys a car that takes him back and forth through time; a tale of vampires; and a distraught mother asks for her drowned son to come back to life and gets more than she bargained for.
Genres: Horror Thriller Science Fiction Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-03-29
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The Empty Canvas
Overview: An aspiring young artist breaks from his wealthy, possessive mother to live a bohemian existence in the artist's section of Rome and falls in love with a beautiful model who wants an uncommitted relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-12-04
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The Savior
Overview: This is rural France. It's the summer of 1943, the weather is fine and sunny and life is sweet. On one of these beautiful days, Nanette, a fourteen-year-old peasant girl, meets a slightly injured young man near the farm she lives on. Her life is about to change forever.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-09-01
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From Hell to Victory
Overview: In 1939, at a Paris café, six friends of various nationalities vow to meet again at the same spot after the end of WW2.
Genres: War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-03-15
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Detective Lovelorn and the Revenge of the Pharaoh
Overview: Planet B - Edition No. 3
Genres: Fantasy Adventure Comedy Action
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-02-12
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Marco the Magnificent
Overview: Young Marco Polo travels to China to help Kublai Khan fight against rebels, headed by his own son, with a new invention: gunpowder.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-08-06
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The Enemy
Overview: A CIA agent and a geneticist battle to keep a deadly biological weapon from falling into the wrong hands when the weapon's inventor is kidnapped.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-02-10
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Kinderraub in Rio - Eine Mutter schlägt zurück
Overview: Alberto and Linda Conti have moved to Brazil for two years with their nine year old son Stefano, where Alberto has a job as an engineer. In the secluded world of foreigners, the family adapts speedily until Stefano suddenly disappears. Following the lead of their passion for adventure, he and a friend end up with a group of street kids and cross the path of the "death squadron". To their horror, Alberto and Linda discover that Stefano has been caught by the organic mafia, who kidnap streetkids and sell them for their organs. Out of her mind with worry, the usually calm Linda turns into an ice-cold fighter. She believes to have found a fighting partner in the surgeon Dr. Toelz, a friend's husband. She soon finds out, however, that Toeolz is deeply involved in the illegal trade and is in contact with the men who are holding her son. Linda is determined to save her son at any price and will do everything necessary to realize this goal...
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-11
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Herrscher ohne Krone
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-01-15
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The Dove Must Not Fly
Overview: An undercover Nazi in Libya aims to steal fuel and deliver it to a specific location in the desert where an Italian bomber would refuel on its way to Allied target.
Genres: Action War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-03-11
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The Cave of the Golden Rose 4
Overview: A black cloud travels across country, kills animals and plants and dries up the rivers. When the cloud reaches Fantaghiro's kingdom she meets Prince Parsel who follows the cloud to get his stolen castle back. After her castle vanishes, too, Fantaghiro joins Parsel on his journey to find her home, her people, her family and her love.
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1994-12-19
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Ship of the Dead
Overview: After a line of mischief Philip Gale, an American sailor, is lured into hiring on the "Yorikke", a tramp cargo, by Lawski, a stoker from Poland. Still, the two become friends within the motley crew of losers from all nations. Gale and his new companion soon are more than disillusioned: the "Yorikke" is far from seaworthy and more of a coffin than a ship, work is close to slavery, and treatment by the officers and their subalterns is harsh and cynical. One day they make an alarming discovery in a tin of plum butter they have procured from the ship's cargo... Written by Anonymous
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-10-01
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The Firebird
Overview: The sick King Jorgen worries about the marriage of his daughter Elena. The fairytale-like, dramatic confusion triggers a shimmering golden fire bird with its wondrous song every full moon night - it makes the king heal and brings the "good" prince as husband of the "good" Princess Elena.
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1997-02-27
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Atlantic Affairs
Overview: A cinematic journey into the music of Udo Lindenberg.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-11-03
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Sky Without Stars
Overview: Anna is a factory worker in East Germany. Her five-year-old son Jochen lives with his grandparents in the West and Anna wants him to live with her, so she abducts him. Along the way she meets Carl who helps her with her son and they fall in love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1955-10-14
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A Piece of Heaven
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-01-03
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The Girl and the Legend
Overview: London, in 1730. Charly, Jim and Ben work hard, with the brave Maud, in a cotton mill to earn a few shillings. They all dream of the wonderful island told by Daniel Defoe. The latter lives in a miserable room. He is disgraced and rejected by his son Tom, a scoundrel who blames his father for losing his position at the Court ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-02-07
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Marianne, Meine Jugendliebe
Overview: German-language version of Duvivier's MARIANNE DE MA JEUNESSE, filmed separately with a largely different cast (thus, not the same film). No known US release.
Genres: Fantasy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1955-03-18
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Wet Asphalt
Overview: In Berlin, when the journalist Greg Bachmann is released from prison six months before the end of his sentence, there is a driver named Jupp waiting for him. Soon he learns that the famous journalist Cesar Boyd was the responsible for the shorter sentence. Cesar offers a position of his assistant to Greg; in return, Boyd would write his story about his interviews to war criminals and Greg would help him in other matters. Meanwhile Boyd welcomes the daughter of a deceased friend, Bettina, and he becomes her guardian.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-04-02
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The Great Waltz
Overview: A musical based on the life and music of Johann Strauss, Jr.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-11-01
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How, When, and with Whom
Overview: Paola, wife of a wealthy Turinese industrialist, meets Alberto, a friend of her husband, who emigrated to Argentina and has returned for business reasons. After a few days, Alberto confesses his love to Paola, but she resists. However, during a vacation in Sardinia, having waited in vain for the arrival of her husband, she gives in to Alberto's wishes.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-07-31
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In der Mitte eines Lebens
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2003-04-18
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Adventure in Berlin
Overview: The plot revolves around a gang of criminals, mostly former guards of Auschwitz, who print and distribute counterfeit U.S. currency in Berlin after World War II.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1952-11-28
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Return to Fantasy Island
Overview: A second feature-length pilot film for the wish-fulfillment series sees six lucky people having their dreams fulfilled on the luxury resort island. Career woman Margo Dean's assistant, Lowell Benson, hopes to romance her; Brian and Lucy Faber want to see the daughter they gave up for adoption; Janet Fleming, who lost her memory on her honeymoon, wants to relive it to cure her amnesia.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-20
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Women in Hospital
Overview: Schuman and Oberhoff are successful hospital doctors who treat pregnant women. However, their personal lives are a mess. Schuman has to deal with his drug-addicted wife Claudia, while Oberhoff deals with his teenage daughter's pregnancy.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-04-07
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Der Club der grünen Witwen
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-05-27
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Geisterstunde - Fahrstuhl ins Jenseits
Overview: While they are stuck in the elevator, three employees of a TV station tell each other stories about supernatural phenomena. They tell of the “dream girlfriend” of a 16-year-old girl who fell victim to a crime 33 years ago; of a bully who turns out to be an alien; and of a comic artist who falls victim to his mirror doppelganger.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1997-04-20
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Last Stop Love
Overview: German romance
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-01-23
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Johnny Banco
Overview: A hustler of humble origins steals $200,000 from a gangster and heads to Monte Carlo.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-08-10
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Der kleine Unterschied
Overview: A 60-year-old journalist falls in love with a young woman, abandons his wife and children and ends up falling into loneliness.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Horst Buchholz... Mein Papa
Overview: A documentary directed by Christopher Buchholz and Sandra Hacker.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2005-02-11
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Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge
Overview: Abandoned by his father, he was a reform school kid with nothing going for him and a giant chip on his shoulder. He joined the Marines but never stayed far from trouble. Then he discovered acting — and the woman who would be with him for most of his meteoric career. He was Steve McQueen, one of Hollywood's highest paid stars — and one of its most difficult, most rebellious and, when he wished, most charming.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-02-02
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Die Fräulein von damals
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1986-04-30
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Traumfrau mit Verspätung
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-12-09
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Tödliches Erbe
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1995-01-22
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Regine
Overview: Martin Lundt, heir to his family's industrial business, falls for and, against his family's wishes, weds the family maid, Régine. Soon thereafter, rumors begin to circulate about Régine's faithfulness and being to haunt Martin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-02-23
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Flight from Paradise
Overview: In a futuristic society, an old man tells the legend of a strange medal to two children. In flashback, we learn that after a nuclear catastrophe, two teenagers were living in an artificial paradise, maintained by electronic means, and once decide to leave that shelter and escape using that same medal - a mini video-disc - in search of outer-space freedom.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Wenn ich mich fürchte
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1984-10-18
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Dunckel
Overview: Three young men kill two policemen after a chaotic bank raid; a problem which forces the trio to make a desperate escape across the border to Poland.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1999-10-28
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Voyage of Terror
Overview: An infectious disease researcher is on a cruise with her daughter when an ebola-type virus attacks the ship's passengers and crew.
Genres: Thriller Drama TV Movie Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-02
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The Catamount Killing
Overview: A banker troubled by both business and personal problems is transferred to a small town. There he meets and seduces an older woman. Together, they decide to pull off a payroll holdup together.
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-11-12
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Guns for Hire: The Making of 'The Magnificent Seven'
Overview: A documentary about 'The Magnificent Seven'.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-13
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Heller als der Mond
Overview: A moonstruck comedy about lovers and robbers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-01-13
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Die Schule der Väter
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1955-09-29
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Funkeln im Auge
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1984-02-19
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The Savage Bees
Overview: In this horror-drama the festive fun of the annual Mardi Gras celebration is brought to a halt when a swarm of African killer bees escape from a foreign freighter.
Genres: Horror Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-11-22
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Raid on Entebbe
Overview: Based on a true operation by Israeli commandos. An Air France flight is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The airplane landed in Uganda. The terrorists released some passengers, keeping 94 Jews and 12 air crew hostage. The Israeli government would not negotiate. A rescue plan was devised, and less than 100 commandos were flown across Africa to rescue the passengers in surprisingly successful operation.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-26
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Sündige Grenze
Overview: Film about young smugglers.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1951-11-08
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