Michael Mellinger
Also Known As: Michael Melinger
Biography: Michael Andreas Mellinger (30 May 1929 – 17 March 2004) was a German actor in film, television, theatre and radio.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kochel am See, Germany
Birthday: May 30, 1929
Deathday: March 17, 2004
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Gender: Male
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At the Fountainhead (Of German Strength)
Overview: A rich and challenging account of the experiences of a German Jewish musician who settled in Britain to escape Nazi persecution. Two of his friends are being sued by a former SS Kommandant, who denies their accusation that he was responsible for the genocide of 300 Belgians. Documentary interviews and archive footage merge with dramatised scenes to create a new way of representing history and memory.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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The Assassination Bureau
Overview: In 1908 London, a women's rights campaigner discovers the Assassination Bureau Limited, an organization that kills for justice. When its motives are called into question, she commissions the assassination of its chairman. Knowing that his colleagues have recently become more motivated by greed than morality, he turns the situation into a challenge for his board members: kill him or be killed.
Genres: Comedy Crime Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-03-09
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Ghost Dance
Overview: Through the experiences of two women in Paris and London, Ghost Dance offers an analysis of the complexity of our conceptions of ghosts, memory and the past. The film focuses on the French philosopher Jacques Derrida, who observes, 'I think cinema, when it's not boring, is the art of letting ghosts come back.' He also says that 'memory is the past that has never had the form of the present.'
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-15
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Sticky Wickets
Overview: It's a big night at the New Dragon Inn when a coach of distinguished Germans arrives. But disaster looms - it's the local cricket team's annual fancy dress bash and the theme is the Second World War.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-14
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The Awakening
Overview: When a British archaeologist violates an Egyptian queen's tomb, her evil spirit enters his daughter.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-07-09
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Dirty Pretty Things
Overview: An undocumented immigrant finds a human heart in one of the toilets of the west London hotel where he works with other undocumented immigrants.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-05
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Nackt unter Wölfen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-04-10
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Maria's Child
Overview: Maria is a dancer who becomes pregnant, unexpectedly, and has to decide whether or not to keep the baby. When her live-in boyfriend, who is not the father, admits to cheating on her, she kicks him out. Still unable to decide what to do, she imagines a dialogue with the fetus.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-03-28
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South Pacific
Overview: The professional recording of the 1952 original London production at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-06
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Man on a String
Overview: U.S. spies catch a Moscow-born U.S. citizen helping spies, and they force him to counterspy.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-05-20
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Licking Hitler
Overview: 1941 and the upper class Anna Seaton is hired as part of an allied radio propaganda project, creating disinformation about the Nazi war effort. But tensions between her and brilliant, working class writer Archie MacLean threaten to undermine her work.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-10
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Until September
Overview: American tour guide Mo Alexander misses her tour group, and then her flight out of Paris. Stuck in the city of romance, Mo runs into the very suave -- and very married -- Xavier, who attempts to seduce Mo while his family is out of town. His charms prove hard to resist, and Mo succumbs, though her conscience weighs heavy. Soon their bickering romance of convenience takes a serious turn, and, in spite of himself, Xavier finds he's falling in love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-21
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Temptation of Sainthood
Overview: The story of a man who believed God was changing him into a woman so he could save the world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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The Ebb-Tide
Overview: A down-on-his-luck sea captain accepts an assignment on a rickety boat with a mysterious cargo and a questionable crew. As disaster befalls disaster, the crew finds itself on an uncharted island with a mad ex-sea captain who lives with a mute woman who threatens to kill them all.
Genres: TV Movie Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-29
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Gossip from the Forest
Overview: The events around the signing of The Armistice at the end of the First World War.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-07-28
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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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None of That
Overview: Elizabeth Cane arrives in Mexico and starts to take an interest in a bull fighter, but he can find only contempt for this refined American woman and what she represents.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-10-30
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Goldfinger
Overview: Special agent 007 comes face to face with one of the most notorious villains of all time, and now he must outwit and outgun the powerful tycoon to prevent him from cashing in on a devious scheme to raid Fort Knox -- and obliterate the world's economy.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-20
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The Password Is Courage
Overview: Sergeant-Major Charles Coward, a brave British soldier is captured by German forces during World War II. When he's thrown into a prisoner of war camp, he immediately plans his escape. Masquerading as a wounded German soldier, he makes it as far as the medical tent, where the deceived enemy forces award him the Iron Cross. Though he is ultimately discovered, he goes on to courageously pursue his freedom with a whimsical and undying audacity.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-01
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They Who Dare
Overview: In Greece during the war a small group of British commandoes and patriots land on an island with orders to attack two airfields from which the Luftwaffe is threatening allied forces in Egypt. The island is crawling with troops, and even moving by night the men soon run into trouble.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-02-02
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Three Crooked Men
Overview: Three men arrive in a small town to pull the local bank heist.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-10-01
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Stalag Luft
Overview: Few wartime prisoners have attempted escape quite as many times as bumbling RAF Officer James Forrester. Though Officer Forrester has twenty-three escape attempts to his name, each successive attempt he makes to break free somehow seems to go worse than the last. But this time there's a difference, because Officer Forrester isn't just plotting his own escape, but the escape of all 327 of his fellow prisoners as well - and all at once. In fact even the Germans want to escape!
Genres: Drama Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-27
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The Secret Man
Overview: A physicist finds himself drawn into an investigation to track down a spy at his research station.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-01
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Masks of Evil
Overview: A top secret mission for French Intelligence brings Indy to Istanbul during the first world war. Exploring the city's dark and dangerous streets, he is thrust into a web of betrayal and murder when he discovers a vile Turkish plot to assassinate French espionage agents. Evil of a more enduring kind awaits him in Transylvania where he engages in a mortal combat with bloodthirsty Vlad the Impaler and his horrific army of the living dead. With his life at stake, Indy must garner all his strength and wits in order to defeat the fiend and save mankind.
Genres: Adventure Horror Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-05
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The Beachcomber
Overview: Mr. Gray is the new Resident in Charge of the Welcome Islands in the Indian Ocean. The Islands are full of life, but the only other Europeans are the "sanctimonious, psalm-singing" brother-sister missionary team of Martha and Owen Jordans, and the Honourable Ted - a hard-drinking, womanizing social outcast whose English family pays him to stay away. Martha and Ted become an unlikely team when cholera threatens the islands and they must do their best to stop its spread.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-08-10
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Ascendancy
Overview: Ascendancy is a 1983 British film. It tells the story of a woman who is a member of the British landowning 'Ascendancy' in Ireland during World War I. Gradually, she learns about the Irish independence movement, and becomes involved with it.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Carry On Up the Khyber
Overview: Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond looks after the British outpost near the Khybar pass. Protected by the kilted Third Foot and Mouth regiment, you would think they were safe, but the Khazi of Kalabar has other ideas—he wants all the British dead. But his troops fear the 'skirted-devils, who are rumoured not to wear any underwear.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-02-12
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Radio Cab Murder
Overview: Fred Martin, a taxi driver who is a reformed convict, is used by the police to go undercover in order to help catch a gang of safe robbers. However things start to go wrong when the police stake out the wrong bank and Fred finds himself alone with the crooks.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-10-01
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South of Algiers
Overview: Archaeologists Van Heflin and Eric Portman undertake an expedition in Tunisia in search of an ancient mask.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-17
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Behind the Scenes with 'Goldfinger'
Overview: A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "Goldfinger".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-09
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Three Kinds of Heat
Overview: Three friends persecute a gang of criminals from Harlem to the parties of the High Society of London.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-01
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Eye of the Needle
Overview: Great Britain, 1944, during World War II. Relentlessly pursued by several MI5 agents, Henry Faber the Needle, a ruthless German spy in possession of vital information about D-Day, takes refuge on Storm Island, an inhospitable, sparsely inhabited island off the coast of northern Scotland.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-07-24
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