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| This remake of the 1946 movie of the same name accounts an affair between a seedy drifter and a seductive wife of a roadside cafe owner. This begins a chain of events that culminates in murder. Based on a novel by James M. Cain. Search keywords
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Categories: 1981, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller, USA, West Germany
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| March/April 1917. the first world war is already a couple year old. A sealed train with Russian emigrants keeps on driving from Zurich through Germany and Sweden to Saint-Petersburg. The bolsheviks on the train are lead by Vladimir J. Lenin (Kingsley). There are some unpleasant collisions taking place between enthusiastic Socialists and workers concerned about the war. During the train travel time Lenin's affair with the gracious Inessa comes to an end, and his Nadja is prepared to take him back. The triumphant arrival in Saint-Petersburg exceeds all expectations. Search keywords
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Categories: 1988, Austria, France, Italy, West Germany
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| The film opens with a squad of seasoned German soldiers, led by a disillusioned but skilled sergeant, on a patrol on the Russian front in WWII. They return to base to find a new commander, a traditional Prussian officer who wants only one thing from his command - An Iron Cross to maintain his family honor. The scene is set for a graphic portrayal of the horrors of war and of the conflict between two men of differing backgrounds. Search keywords
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Categories: 1977, Action, Drama, UK, War, West Germany
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Categories: 1972, Drama, West Germany
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| Linda Blair plays Carol, a young woman who must serve 18 months in prison after killing a man (by accident). The prison turns out to be brimming with decadence, corruption and sleaze, where the other female inmates are sadistic crack-selling lesbian rapists and the guards and warden are no better. Racial tensions are high as the inmates is divided into two factions, blacks and whites, who must either join together against the management or kill each other trying. A sleazy blend of sexploitation and blaxploitation make this movie a real winner. Search keywords
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Categories: 1983, Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, USA, West Germany
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| This is a biographical movie about famous best selling German writer, noted mainly for books set in the American Old West, (best known for the characters of Winnetou and Old Shatterhand) and similar books set in the Orient and Middle East.
The film is structured as a kind of biography, and the long central scene of a courtroom battle marks the collapse of May's dreams as he gets more and more deeply embroiled in the realities of Prussian jurisprudence. The matter-of-fact historical framework acquires an added resonance from the fact that all the main parts are played by prominent figures from the Nazi cinema of the '30s. The mesh of fact, fiction, realism and expressionism is complex and fascinating. Search keywords
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Categories: 1974, Biography, Drama, History, War, West Germany
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| The film tells the tragical story of the life of Lola Montes who was a great adventurer and stopped being the attraction of her circus after having been the lover of various important men. Search keywords
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Categories: 1955, Drama, France, Romance, West Germany
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| The film tells the tragical story of the life of Lola Montes who was a great adventurer and stopped being the attraction of her circus after having been the lover of various important men. Search keywords
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Categories: 1955, Drama, France, Romance, West Germany
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| A wonderful Italian adaptation of the story of the wooden puppet who becomes a real boy.
Lonely toy-maker Gepetto always longed for a son, one day a wooden puppet he created comes to life through the intervention of a fairy godmother. But in order for Pinocchio to become a real boy, he must go out in the world and learn some valuable lessons from some rather shifty characters. Search keywords
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Categories: 1972, Family, France, Italy, West Germany
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| A woman, with the complicity of her lover, prepares her husband's anticipated death. The husband's cunning makes it difficult - and meanwhile more than family relations are questioned, the couple being a sample of dirty relations in society at large... Search keywords
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Categories: 1975, Crime, Drama, France, Italy, Mystery, Thriller, West Germany
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Categories: 1955, Drama, Romance, West Germany
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| Juliane Thomas is an ambitious but unemployed young writer. After breaking up with her lover she works at a dentist friend to make ends meet. One day she instantly falls in love with one of the patients (Jean Berner) and promptly writes a movie script about the encounter in which she projects her own fantasies about how things will turn out eventually. By coincidence this movie script is picked up by a film director who happens to be Berner's closest friend and from then on things become very complicated... Search keywords
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Categories: 1957, Comedy, West Germany
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| Made during Bergman's tax-related exile in Germany, the film continues the story of Katarina and Peter EGermann, the feuding, childless, professional couple who appear in one episode of "Scenes From A Marriage." After Peter perpetrates a horrendous crime in its first scene, the rest of the film consists of a non-linear examination of his motivations, incorporating a police psychological investigation, scenes from the Egermanns' married life, and dream sequences. Search keywords
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Categories: 1980, Drama, Sweden, West Germany
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| A collage of documentary and dramatised sequences dealing with such topics as overkill, peace demonstrations, NATO arms policy and life after the next war. Search keywords
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Categories: 1982, Documentary, West Germany
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| This is a jolly coming-of-age story about a 15-year-old boy named Laurent Chevalier who is growing up in bourgeois surroundings in Dijon, France. This is France in the mid-1950s rather than America in the 1990s. Thus, Laurent is unharmed by events which would irreparably shatter the self-esteem of a modern American adolescent: he gets drunk, he smokes, he has sex, he is smothered by his mother, he is ignored by his father, a priest makes a pass at him, he gets rheumatoid fever, etc. There's enough scandalous behavior in this film to make 100 made-for-TV movies, and yet this is a very happy and oddly innocent tale. Search keywords
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Categories: 1971, Drama, France, Italy, West Germany
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| In the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separated in the woods, and Leon, a local peasant who's now a farmer of some wealth, discovers the woman, Rosa, and hides her in his cellar. Leon's a middle-aged Catholic bachelor, tormented by his sexual drive. He doesn't tell Rosa he's seen signs her husband is alive, and he begs her to love him. Rosa offers herself to Leon if he'll help a local Jew in hiding who needs money. Leon pays, and love between Rosa and him does develop, but then Leon's peasant subservience and his limited empathy lead to tragedy. At the war's end, a ray of sunshine comes from an unexpected place. Search keywords
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Categories: 1985, Drama, Romance, War, West Germany
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| Katharina Blum is a young handsome German maid. She meets Ludwig, and they fall in love at once. They spend the night together. In the morning, the police bursts in her flat, looking for Ludwig : he is a terrorist. But he was no longer here. Katharina is arrested, humiliated, suspected to be a terrorist herself, dragged in the mud by the newspapers... A plea for democracy and individual rights. Search keywords
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Categories: 1975, Drama, West Germany
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| Ex-gangster Fernand (Lino Ventura) receives a call from a dying friend, a mob boss nicknamed "The Mexican". The doomed mobster talks Fernand into taking care of some criminal business and looking after his soon-to-be-married daughter. When a longtime mobster heavy, Volfoni takes exception to Fernand for being an outsider, they come after Fernand who is equal to the task. He defends himself in a series of comical killings from the onslaught of the mob. Search keywords
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Categories: 1963, Action, Comedy, Crime, France, Italy, West Germany
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| This Wim Wenders film centers around the story of two angels wandering in a mixture of post-war and modern Berlin. Invisible to humans, they nevertheless give their help and comfort to all the lonely and depressed souls they meet. Finally, after many centuries, one of the angels becomes unhappy with his immortal state and wishes to become human in order to experience the joys of everyday life. He meets a circus acrobat and finds in her the fufillment of all his mortal desires. He also discovers that he is not alone in making this cross over, and that a purely spiritual experience is not enough to satisfy anyone. Search keywords
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Categories: 1987, Drama, Fantasy, France, Romance, West Germany
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| Henri Godot, the owner of a night-club in Paris. He calls to the young hitman, Jo to kill his rival Boby, who intrigues with his lover, Maine. Search keywords
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Categories: 1957, Crime, France, Italy, West Germany
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