Adrian HovenFilmography

Looping

Actors: Shelley Winters, Hans-Christian Blech, Ingrid Caven, Sydne Rome, Adrian Hoven

Synopsis: Looping is an obscure German melodrama bearing traces of the silent classic Variety. Shelley Winters and Hans-Christian Blech star as Carmen and Johnny, two carnival performers. Business is bad, and their act is going nowhere. To lure in new audiences, Johnny hires a stripteaser named Tanja (Sydne Read More

Despair

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Andréa Ferréol, Volker Spengler, Klaus Löwitsch

Synopsis: Having made as many films as he had years, at 31, Rainer Werner Fassbinder essayed a slightly different approach for his 32nd film, Despair. Here, he uses a witty screenplay written by the well-known playwright Tom Stoppard, based on a novel by Vladimir Nabokov. Furthermore, the entire film, set Read More

Waldrausch

Halbe-Halbe

Actors: Hans-Peter Hallwachs, Bernd Tauber, Agnes Duenneisen, Mascha Gonska, Kai Fischer

Synopsis: An out of work architect and a recently discharged military man meet at a critical moment in their lives. Each of them has been deprived of an occupation which gave meaning to their existence, and is left, instead, with a $15,000 severance check. Neither one handles the situation at all well. Read More

Eierdiebe

Actors: Marquard Bohm, Rolf Zacher, Gerhard Olschewski

Synopsis: A group of unsuspecting small-time crooks stumble on an apparently abandoned cache of heroin. This gives them big-time ideas, and, fueled by their renewed inspiration, they take their revenge on some old enemies. In the meantime, a big-time mob boss is keeping an eye on their activities. He has Read More

Satan's Brew

Actors: Kurt Raab, Helen Vita, Margit Carstensen, Volker Spengler, Ingrid Caven

Synopsis: This fast-paced black comedy by wunderkind director Rainer Werner Fassbinder follows the frantic efforts of a starving and confused writer, Walter Kranz (Kurt Raab) to beg, borrow or steal enough money to survive on, and at the same time make some sense of his confusing life. Unable to write Read More

Fear of Fear

Actors: Margit Carstensen, Ulrich Faulhaber, Brigitte Mira, Irm Hermann, Armin Meier

Synopsis: A housewife's slow descent into suicidal depression is chronicled in great detail in this movie by experimental film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

Schatten Der Engel

Actors: Ingrid Caven, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Klaus Löwitsch, Annemarie Düringer, Adrian Hoven

Synopsis: The anguish and suffering of a trio of outcasts is shown in this movie, based on Schatten der Engel Rainer Werner Fassbinder's controversial and possibly anti-Semitic stage play. A prostitute (Ingrid Craven) with a gift for eliciting confidences from her clients, her pimp (Fassbinder), and one of Read More

Inside Out

Actors: Telly Savalas, Robert Culp, James Mason, Aldo Ray, Günter Meisner

Synopsis: Telly Savalas, James Mason and Robert Culp join together to discover a hidden cache of $6 million in Nazi gold in this action caper retitled both Hitler's Gold and The Golden Heist. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Fox and His Friends

Actors: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Peter Chatel, Harry Baer, Adrian Hoven

Synopsis: Faustrecht der Freiheit (Fox and His Friends) was one of the many films in the short, but prolific, career of German auteur Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Fassbinder plays Franz Biberkopf, a financially poor gay man who performs in a traveling circus as Fox the Talking Head. One day, he lucks into Read More

Martha

Synopsis: Martha is a wealthy and totally self-involved woman -- so much so that on a trip during which her father dies, she does indeed cry, but only because she lost her purse. She marries a stranger who claims not to be at all attracted to her, and their wedding is only the beginning of a battle between Read More

Mark of the Devil II

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: This British/German horrorama was the sequel to....drum roll please....Mark of the Devil (1970). The original film starred Herbert Lom as a "burning judge" preying upon accused witches in 18th century Austria. Anton Diffring substitutes for Herebert Lom in Part 2, but the basic premise remains Read More

Siegfried und das Sagenhafte Liebesleben Der Nibelungen

Crew: Director

Mark of the Devil

Crew: Producer

Actors: Herbert Lom, Olivera Vuco, Udo Kier, Reggie Nalder, Inge Schoener

Synopsis: Released as Mark of the Devil to U.S. theaters (accompanied by complimentary barf-bags for squeamish patrons with urpy tendencies), this gory torture-fest was produced in Germany under the title of Hexen bis aufs Blut Gequält (Witches Tortured Till They Bleed). The story is comprised of equal Read More

Two Undercover Angels

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Cult director Jesus Franco revived the sexy female detectives of the Red Lips Agency (first seen in 1960's Labios Rojos) for this entertainingly bizarre comedic thriller. Diana (Janine Reynaud) and Regina (Rossana Yanni) investigate the disappearances of several models and nightclub performers Read More

Castle of the Creeping Flesh

Synopsis: This plodding German horror production (aka Im Schloss der Bluten Begierde or In the Castle of Bloody Lust) stars Howard Vernon -- a familiar face in countless Euro-horror films such as Awful Dr. Orloff and A Virgin Among the Living Dead -- as the evil Dr. Saxon, who is compelled by a family curse Read More

Succubus

Crew: Producer

Actors: Janine Reynaud, Jack Taylor, Howard Vernon, Michel Lemoine

Synopsis: This strange, surrealistic German horror film from cult director Jesus Franco stars Janine Reynaud as Lorna Green, who performs a pseudo-snuff nightclub act involving erotically staged S&M murders. Lorna's mind is controlled by a man who might be Satan (Michel Lemoine), and she slowly loses her Read More

Der Mörder mit dem Seidenschal

Crew: Director

Actors: Susanne Uhlen, Carl Möhner, Folco Lulli

Kiss Me, Monster

Synopsis: Janine Reynaud and Rossana Yanni return as Diana and Regina, the sexy female detectives from the Red Lips Agency, in cult filmmaker Jesus Franco's enjoyable sequel to El Caso de las Dos Bellezas. The women receive some song lyrics from a messenger who has been stabbed in the back, and they visit Read More

Im Schloss Der Blutigen Begierde

Crew: Director

Avec la Peau des Autres

Actors: Lino Ventura, Jean Bouise, Marilù Tolo, Wolfgang Preiss, Jean Servais, Adrian Hoven

Synopsis: A French secret agent Lino Ventura gets a license to kill when he is sent to Vienna to plug a security leak in this routine spy saga. He is caught in the crossfire of international enemy agents trying to eliminate the French. He dodges bullets fired by double-crossing double agents and a Read More

Cave of the Living Dead

Synopsis: In this lively horror film, a number of young women have mysteriously vanished and now Inspector Doren is assigned to find them. He goes to the village where the seven murdered maidens lived and ends up assisted by the town witch who leads him to a strange laboratory located in the deepest Read More

Case 33: Antwerp

Allotria in Zell Am See

Die Schwarze Kobra

Seven Daring Girls

Synopsis: In this adventure, seven women graduate from a ritzy Swiss boarding school and decide to board a cargo boat for a little cruise. They end up partying with the ship's crew. They are docked in South America when the women encounter a young man in charge of a meteorological station on a remote Amazon Read More

Ach Egon!

Saison in Salzburg

Das Raetsel der roten Orchidee

Actors: Fritz Rasp, Wolfgang Buttner

Synopsis: Even while a series of British second features based on the works of Edgar Wallace was flourishing in the 1960s, Germany was grinding out its own Wallace series. Secret of the Red Orchid top-bills British actor Christopher Lee in a story of a joint effort between the FBI and Scotland Yard. The Read More

Insel Der Amazonen

Im Weissen Roessl

Synopsis: This comical presentation is a re-make from the 1952 classic and has everyone chasing everyone! In German only. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Wir Wollen Niemals Auseinandergehen

Foxhole in Cairo

Actors: James Robertson Justice, Adrian Hoven, Niall MacGinnis, Peter Van Eyck, Robert Urquhart, Michael Caine

Synopsis: Albert Lieven plays German general Erwin Rommel in this British war drama set in Libya and Egypt. A spy working on behalf of Rommel slips behind British lines and swipes "valuable" battle plans. Actually the information is false, planted by counterintelligence in hopes of misleading the "desert Read More

Arzt Aus Leidenschaft

Nature Girl and the Slaver

Synopsis: When African tribes need to unite to confront corrupt slave traders, a police official gets help from a teenager who might be able to help. (AKA Jungle Girl and the Slaver) ~ All Movie Guide Read More

I Aim at the Stars

Actors: Curd Jürgens, Victoria Shaw, Herbert Lom, Gia Scala, James Daly

Synopsis: The career of rocket scientist Wernher von Braun (Curt Jurgens) is the focus of this film. Supposedly bullied by the Nazis into working for the Third Reich, the end of the war leaves the rocket man with a decision to take his talents to either Russia or the United States. He chooses the U. S., but Read More

Jungle Girl and the Slaver

Synopsis: When African tribes need to unite to battle evil slave traders, a police officer searches for a teenager who might be able to rally the people. (AKA Nature Girl and the Slaver) ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Wien, Du Stadt Meiner Traeume

Actors: Adrian Hoven, Erika Remberg, Hertha Feiler, Hans Holt, Paul Hoerbiger

Synopsis: As can be gathered from its title, which translates to Vienna, City of My Dreams, this film is an old-fashioned Austrian comedy with operatic undertones. Hans Holt stars as the obligatory incognito king, in this case one "Alexander of Alania." Escaping a revolution, Alexander takes a job as Read More

Rommel Ruft Kairo

Scherben Bringen Glueck

Liane, Die Weisse Sklavin

Die Unentschuldigte Stunde

Actors: Adrian Hoven, Erika Remberg, Joseph Meinrad, Alma Seidler

Synopsis: The indefatigable Willi Forst was back in 1957 with Die Unentschuldigte Stunde (The Unexcused Hour). Following his usual pattern, Forst not only directed the picture, but also collaborated on the screenplay. Based on the popular stage play by Stefan Bekeffi and A. Stella, the story concerns a Read More

... Wie Einst Lili Marleen

Actors: Adrian Hoven, Marianne Hold, Lucie Englisch, Peter Carsten, Hannelore Schroth

Synopsis: The wartime song hit Lili Marlene is woven into the plotline of this German romantic drama. The story concerns a German soldier named Franz (Adrian Hoven) and his lady love Christa (Marianne Hold). When first they met in a restaurant, the orchestra was playing Lili Marlene. Then and there, the two Read More

Canaris - Master Spy

Synopsis: In this German espionage film, made after WW II, the life of Admiral Canaris, the former head of Nazi counterintelligence, is profiled. Much of the focus is upon the Admiral's gradual disenchantment with Hitler's vision. As the war progresses, Canaris begins looking into anti-Hitler organizations. Read More

Solange du Lebst

Actors: Marianne Koch, Adrian Hoven, Kurt Heintel, Willy Roesner, Karin Dor

Synopsis: Solange du Lebst (As Long as You Live) is set during the Spanish Civil War. Though most of the citizens of a small Spanish town evacuate before the arrival of the Communist troops, nurse Marianne Koch elects to remain behind. She eventually falls in love with a downed German pilot, despite the Read More

Heimatland

Actors: Rudolf Prack, Adrian Hoven, Marianne Hold, Hannelore Bollmann, Oska Sima

Synopsis: Heimatland (Homeland) is based on Krambambuli, a novel by Maria von Ebner-Eschenbachs. Krambambuli is the name of the pet dog owned by hero Thomas Helmberg (Rudolf Frack). As Thomas pursues his romance with Helga Sonnleithner (Marianne Hold), he is thwarted at every turn by his rival for Helga's Read More

Die Stadt ist voller Geheimnisse

Actors: Karl Ludwig Diehl, Werner Fuetterer, Paul Hoerbiger, Adrian Hoven

Synopsis: One of several films helmed by internationally renowned actor-director Fritz Kortner after his return to Germany in 1947, Die Stadt ist Voller Geheimnisse was released in English-speaking countries as Secrets of the City, City of Secrets and This Town is Full of Secrets. Adapted from a stage play Read More

Canaris

Actors: O.E. Hasse, Adrian Hoven, Martin Held, Wolfgang Preiss

Synopsis: O.E. Hasse stars in this "retro" German historical biography as Admiral Canaris, who during WW2 was the man in charge of Germany's home defenses. The film takes great pains to point out the Admiral's essential dislike of Nazism, suggesting that he was sympathetic to the aims of the German Read More

Affairs of Dr. Holl

Actors: Maria Schell, Heidemarie Hatheyer, Carl Wery, Otto Gebuhr

Synopsis: Maria Schell, who attained international stardom with her performance in The Last Bridge, essays the title role in Angelika. Based on a popular radio serial, the story revolves around the incurably ill daughter of wealthy Herr Alberti (Carl Wery). Angelika falls in love with her doctor, a young Read More

Mädchenjahre Einer Koenigin

Actors: Romy Schneider, Adrian Hoven, Karl Ludwig Diehl, Magda Schneider, Christl Mardayn

Synopsis: Filmed in 1954 as Madchenjahre einer Konigin, The Story of Vickie stars 16-year-old Romy Schneider as England's soon-to-be Queen Victoria. Purportedly based on the Queen's diary and letters, the story concerns the early romance between "Vickie" and her beloved Prince Albert (Adrian Hoven). When Read More

Meine Schwester und Ich

Hannerl

Season in Salzburg

Actors: Adrian Hoven, Gretl Schoerg, Hans Richter

Synopsis: The name of Austrian director Ernst Marischka was virtually synonymous with "musical comedy" during the late 1940s - early 1950s. In Marischka's Season in Salzburg, the music is given equal footing with the comedy, resulting in a very well-balanced film. Popular leading-lady Hannerl Matz portrays Read More

Ich Hab' Mein Herz in Heidelberg Verloren

Tromba, the Tiger Man

Actors: Rene Deltgen, Angelika Hauff, Gustav Knuth, Hilde Weissner, Grethe Weiser

Synopsis: Originally released in Europe as simply Tromba, this German melodrama was distributed in the U.S. by Lippert Studios. The title character, played by Rene Deltgren, is a circus tiger trainer. To keep his beasts in line, Tromba utilizes hypnotism. This works so well on the job that Tromba begins Read More

Das Weisse Abenteuer

Der Bagnostraefling

Actors: Paul Dahlke, Richard Haeussler, Käthe Dorsch, Winnie Markus, Walter Franck

Synopsis: This German melodrama is set in the Paris of some hundred years ago. It is a tale of two brothers: Robert (Paul Dahlke), a gentleman thief, and Pierre (Richard Haueseler), a less gentlemanly prefect of police. It is understood that neither brother will intrude upon the province of the other. But Read More

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