Der Spinnennetz was released in English-speaking countries as The Spider's Web. Ulrich Muhe plays a German businessman who...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1989
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Director
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1987
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The life and times of Marie Ward, the founder of the Loretto Order of nuns, (aka the Institute of Mary) are examined in this...
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1985
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No more than a two-hour dialogue between three disparate foreigners held for investigation in a Paris cell block in 1939,...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1985
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In a complex story of automotive intrigue, oil barons, corporate finance, and international villainy, the inventor of an...
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1985
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Based on a semi-autobiographical novel by Yuri Bondarev, this romantic drama starts at the close of World War II near...
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Werber
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1984
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Michel Piccoli plays Akiva Liebskind, a Russian chess genius in the Swiss-filmed Dangerous Moves. He is pitted against Soviet...
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1984
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Based on a non-fiction bestseller of the same name by Rolf Hochhuth, Eine Liebe In Deutschland is about a tragic and...
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1983
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Whatever it is about 19th century composer Robert Schumann and his pianist wife Clara Wieck that fascinates filmmakers, it is...
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1983
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Travis (Harry Dean Stanton) is wandering through the Texas desert, a bit shaky and in desperate need of water, when he...
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1983
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This adaptation of a Mark Twain story features a daydreaming apprentice who finds himself in medieval Europe. ~ Rovi...
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1982
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In an extended, two-hour, black-and-white record of the mental disintegration of theatrical-star Lisa (Katharina Thalbach),...
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Lehrter
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1982
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Director Bertrand Tavernier provides an unexpected feminist slant to the otherwise standard sci-fi trappings of Death Watch....
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1980
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Having made as many films as he had years, at 31, Rainer Werner Fassbinder essayed a slightly different approach for his 32nd...
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1978
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When a school crashes down around the children inside for no apparent reason, architect Phillip Braun (Helmut Griem) is...
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1978
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While on an automobile tour of Italy with his mother, the German publisher in this story has an accident which results in...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1977
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Mourning for a lost relationship can be every bit as devastating as mourning for someone who has died. In this drama based...
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1977
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Crime and Passion is a mediocre comedy-drama, about an investment counselor who doesn't handle his investments wisely. Andre...
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Rolf
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1975
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1971
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In this German tragedy, a generally humane bureaucrat ruins his life by too rigorously enforcing the rules concerning honest...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1971
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Director
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1965
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Friedrich Durrenmatt's misanthropic theatrical piece The Visit has never been totally successful in any production, not even...
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Director
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1964
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A woman married to a well-meaning but stuffy attorney has an adulterous affair with a flamboyant author. The novelist is a...
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Karl Rodenbach
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1963
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Romance, sex, and marriage are the themes of this episodic Italian comedy. The first of the four vignettes, "The Women"...
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1962
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The Longest Day is a mammoth, all-star re-creation of the D-Day invasion, personally orchestrated by Darryl F. Zanuck....
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Director
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1962
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La Notte is another of Michelangelo Antonioni's cinematic interrupted journeys. Just as no one solved the central mystery in...
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Tommaso
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1961
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"Wunderbar" takes on a new meaning in this routine satire by Bernhard Wicki about a bar that is miraculously transported by...
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Director
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1961
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1960
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In this drama, following the retreat of the Germans from Stalingrad, a deserter is sentenced to die. A pastor speaks to the...
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Priest Brunner
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1959
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Bernhard Wicki's directorial debut, this is an excellent little film with little plot and no known names on the roster. In...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1959
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In this suspenseful WW II drama a Parisian widow assists with the Resistance. Unfortunately, she falls in love with a German...
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1959
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1959
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In this big-top melodrama, a circus barker gets involved with a lovely-high diver and murders her husband. He beats her,...
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1958
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In this romantic comedy, a cocquette playfully pursues any man she can find. She is most enamored of a handsome playboy whom...
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1958
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1958
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La Chatte (The Cat) in this wartime meller is played by Francoise Arnoul. When her husband is murdered by the Gestapo, Cora...
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Bernard
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1958
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Ruth Leuwerik plays the regal title character in the lavish German historical drama Koenige Louise (Queen Louise). The wife...
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Czar of Russia
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1957
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1957
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1956
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1956
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Frucht Ohne Liebe (Fruit Without Love) is the story of a trouble marriage. Barbara and George Kling (Gertrud Kueckelmann,...
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Walter Kolb
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1956
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1955
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Two films concerning the July 20, 1944 plot to kill Adolph Hitler were released in Germany within the same week. The second...
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1955
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1955
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Das Zweite Leben (Double Destiny) is based on Siegfried, a short story and play by Jean Girardoux. Michel Auclair stars as a...
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Reinhard
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1954
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Curt Jurgens was still billing himself as Curd Juergens when he starred in the German "reality" drama Gefangene der Liche...
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Franz Martens
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1954
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The winner of the International Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, Die Leitze Bruecke (The Last Bridge) was the most...
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Boro
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1954
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Director Paul Verhoeven manages to cut through the sentimental strudel in this biopic of "waltz king" Johann Strauss. Future...
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1954
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1953
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1953
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