This story starts in 1980 in Paris as the memories of Andrei Borodin (Igor Kostolevsky), a Soviet agent, take the action back...
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1981
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Anyone interested in why UFOs might be stealing our lettuce deserves to sit through this film. The plot, not a regular...
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1979
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The West German Just a Gigolo has little to do with the popular song of the same name. Its central character, played by...
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1979
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The very healthy looking Susan Anton is appropriately cast in Goldengirl. The daughter of a former Olympic athlete,...
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Serafin
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1979
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The Patriot is the kind of symbolic, avant-garde, historical and cultural drama that lends itself to several viewings in...
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1979
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Based on a short story by Sheridan Le Fanu, this thriller follows a series of murders that occur as a young man attempts to...
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1979
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Michel Serrault plays a double role in this lighthearted comedy. An ineffectual actor is called on to portray his look-alike...
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Wilfrid
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1979
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Cruise Missile takes its time getting to its much-anticipated climax, but by and large it's worth the wait. Peter Graves...
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1978
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Also released as Sergeant Steiner, Breakthrough is a German war flick helmed by western specialist Andrew McLaglen. Richard...
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Gen. Hoffmann
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1978
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1977
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Though not Ian Fleming's most famous James Bond novel, 1962's The Spy Who Loved Me was distinguished by the unique device of...
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Stromberg
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1977
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This German picture, filmed in Puerto Rico, stars Curt Jurgens as a tough German sea captain. He rescues a group of nurses...
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1977
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French New Wave director Claude Chabrol steps away from his usual style of mysteries and psychological dramas for the sex...
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Jeweler
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1976
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1976
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1976
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This epic drama profiles the life of the 18th-century scientist Cagliostro (Bekim Fehmiu) who founded the mysterious Masons...
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Cardinal Braschi
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1975
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Peter Sellers stays busy in this comedy playing Hitler, Prince Kyoto, and four others in this tale of an anti-Nazi French...
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Gen. Von Grotjahn
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1975
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In this drama, a young woman with expensive tastes uses unusual methods to confront the corporation and its CEO who controls...
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1974
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Vault of Horror is the first sequel to 1972's horror hit Tales from the Crypt. It is also known as Tales from the Crypt, Part...
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1973
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1972
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This French film is a sex comedy set in the World War I period. Franz (Leonard Whiting) is in love with the Colonel's...
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General
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1972
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Adapted from a Fred Mustard Stewart novel, this offbeat occult thriller stars Alan Alda (just prior to his eleven-year stint...
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1971
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Nicholas and Alexandra covers the rise and fall of the last of the Russian Romanovs. We first meet Czar Nicholas...
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German Consul Sklarz
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1971
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Kill is an English-language, French-made crime thriller/melodrama with elements of satire. In this film, Alan (James Mason)...
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Chief
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1971
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Alvarez
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1971
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Serge (Serge Gainsbourg) is sent to France by New York mobsters to secure a shipment of heroin. The supplier in France is...
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Emery
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1970
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1970
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An undercover agent has a clever plan to get into a terrorist ring, but finds more than he bargained for in this 1970 film....
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1970
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Konrad Johannsen (Curt Jurgens) is the World War II submarine commander who made a pact with God. He agreed to become a...
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1970
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In this British sex-comedy, a car salesman journeys to France and encounters an apparently lonely woman. He immediately...
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1970
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1970
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Originally released as The Battle of the Neretva, this sprawling epic is a tribute to the Yugoslav partisan fighters of World...
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1969
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In this exciting war drama, a hard-nosed army colonel helps to prepare French beaches for D-day using a band of convicted...
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1969
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Two physician brothers meet after several years when one is accused of murder. Dr. Jan Diffring (Curt Jurgens) is the...
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Dr. Jan Diffring
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1969
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Released as Mark of the Devil to U.S. theaters (accompanied by complimentary barf-bags for squeamish patrons with urpy...
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1969
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Curt Jurgens once again displays his considerable charms as an actor while performing in a role set in the middle of the...
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Hannes Teversen
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1969
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Baron Von Richter
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1969
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The Assassination Bureau is loosely based on a turn-of-the-century yarn written by Jack London. Nellie Bly-style girl...
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Gen. von Pinck
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1969
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Agent OSS 117 (John Gavin) is the American secret agent who battles an evil organization that carries out assassinations. He...
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Major
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1968
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This film combines both black-and-white and color photography to tell the story of a circus beset with financial woes. Leni...
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1968
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There must be some significance to the fact that neither Jean Negulesco nor chroniclers of his career are eager to include...
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1968
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Set near the end of World War II in the Netherlands, Dirty Heroes concerns a group of ex-convicts recruited into the U.S....
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1967
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1967
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The Man from UNCLE comes to the big screen in this spy thriller comprised of episodes from the popular television series....
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1967
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Novelist Jean De Bruce's "Bondish" secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de la Bruce--alias O.S.S. 117--is portrayed by John Gavin in...
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1967
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How to Kill a Lady is an Bond-style thriller with an international cast. The lady in question is toothsome Molly Peters. The...
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1966
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1966
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Montgomery Clift made his last screen appearance in this French-produced Cold War thriller, completed shortly before his...
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1966
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1966
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1965
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1965
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Martin (Jean Gabin) is a venerable gardener who passes counterfeit currency to make ends meet in this situation comedy. When...
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Baron
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1965
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Walter Slezak plays a guide in a Vienna wax museum in this fantasy. When the tourists get to the figure of Chancellor...
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Alexander I of Russia
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1965
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A trio of crooks just out of prison plan their next scheme to strike it rich in this amusing crime comedy. Kurt...
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Kurt Lehnert
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1965
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Joseph Conrad's cerebral, philosophical novel Lord Jim is streamlined and simplified by producer/director/writer...
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Cornelius
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1965
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By 1964, the French had turned over their interest in the Vietnam War to the Americans. The heyday of the French Indochinese...
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Lud
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1964
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A professor of astronomy, David Garrett (Ian Carmichael), is involved with a highly confidential project to develop missiles....
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Hubert Marek
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1964
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Much of this drama parallels the action in the famed medieval morality play Everyman. The movie begins with an industrial...
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Hans Wilke, General Director
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1964
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Patricia Neal plays Allison Crawford, a woman who has suffered psychosomatic blindness for a number of years. Upon...
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Eric Crawford
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1964
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Nutty, Naughty Chateau is summed up in the encyclopedic book The United Artists Story as "Sex comedy drama." No more, no...
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Hugo Falsen
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1963
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1963
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Boiling over with sexual shenanigans and general sleaziness the Mexico-set tale centers on a confused socialite who falls in...
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Paul Beckman
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1963
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Curt Jurgens stars as a middle-aged playboy, living by his wits on the Riviera. Among the ladies with whom Jurgens dallies...
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1962
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Tycoon
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1962
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In a rather confusing and slow-paced manner, this wartime drama about a real-life dilemma is meant to highlight the...
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Gen. Tellheim
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1962
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Hampered by over-orchestrated music, smeary color photography and (in the English version at least) poor dubbing, this 1963...
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Macheath
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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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1962
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Triumph of Michael Strogoff borrows its title and main characters from a famous Jules Verne adventure novel. This, however,...
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Michael Strogoff
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1961
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In this psychological thriller an Austrian nobleman tries to stay sane in the face of Nazi torture during World War II. The...
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Werner von Basil
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1960
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The English title of this different type of wartime drama refers to a chess player's attempts to stay sane while Nazi...
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Werner von Basil
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1960
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Into his adventure, a prominent Czar tries to get an important message sent to the Grand Duke. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1960
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1960
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In this drama, a freighter captain's family suffers financial difficulties. To help them, he involves himself in a plot to...
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Eric Mullen
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1959
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Feeling hamstrung and confined by Hollywood, writer/director Robert Siodmak returned to Europe to make most of his latter-day...
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Alexander II of Russia
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1959
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Mark Conrad
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1959
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Prof. Immanuel Rath
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1959
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Filmed in Germany, Duel in the Forest is set in the 18th century. Feudal lords regularly oppress the German peasantry, taxing...
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1959
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The career of rocket scientist Wernher von Braun (Curt Jurgens) is the focus of this film. Supposedly bullied by the Nazis...
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Wernher von Braun
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1959
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Adapted from a novelette by Prosper Merimée, Tamango ran into censorship problems in the U.S. for several reasons, not least...
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Capt. Reinker,Ship's captain
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1958
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1958
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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 drama, a Jewish refugee finds himself stranded in Paris just as the Nazi invaders arrive. Desperate to escape, he...
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Col. Prokoszny
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1958
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This Happy Feeling is based on the F. Hugh Herbert play For Love or Money. Debbie Reynolds plays impulsive Janet Blake, who...
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Preston Mitchell
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1958
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Alan Burgess' novel The Small Woman was the source for the British/American co-production Inn of the Sixth Happiness. Set in...
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Capt. Lin Nan
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1958
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Filmed in 1955, Les Espions (The Spies) was based on Midnight Patient, a novel by Egon Hostowsky. The scene is a rundown...
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Visitor
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1957
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Director Andre Cayatte's first film in two years, Oeil pour Oeil (An Eye for an Eye) was adapted from a novel by Vahe Katcha....
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Walter
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1957
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This war drama is based on actual events from World War II. The Nazis invade the Netherlands and capture an important British...
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Bernes
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1957
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1957
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An Arab man enters a desert to chase the doctor who caused his wife's unexpected death. ~ Rovi...
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1957
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Maj. Brand
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1957
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The Enemy Below is a study of submarine warfare from the vantage point of both sides. Robert Mitchum plays the captain of an...
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Von Stolberg
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1957
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The Russian Czar's special courier, Jurgens, is entrusted with an important message destined for the Czar's troops and he...
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Michael Strogoff
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1956
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Lilli Palmer stars in the German Teufel in Seide (Devil in Silk). Lilli plays Melanie, the new wife of famed concert pianist...
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1956
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Eric Carradine
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1956
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1955
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The Devil's General (Des Teufels General) stars Curt Jurgens as a courageous Luftwaffe officer. Jurgens loves the service,...
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Gen. Harras
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1955
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1955
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1955
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A good cast smooths over the rough spots of Les Heros sont Fatigues. The scene is the African republic of Liberia, which in...
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Wolf
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1955
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1955
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1954
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1954
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Confession of Ina Kahr is a pay-the-bills effort from the great German director G. W. Pabst. Told in flashback, the film...
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1954
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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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1954
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1953
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1953
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At the end of World War II, Austria was divided into four sectors, each governed by a separate world power. The Austrian...
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Capitano Herakles
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1953
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1953
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1953
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1953
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1952
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Aka House of Life, this German film takes place in a busy maternity hospital. The multicharactered, multistoried narrative is...
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1952
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1951
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1951
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Wiener Madeln is the story of 19th-century Austrian composer Carl Michael Zihrer. Though not as famous as such...
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1950
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1950
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1949
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Curt Jurgens was still spelling his name "Curd Jurgens" when he was featured in the Austrian musical romance Das Kuckucksei....
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1949
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In a sense, The Mozart Story can qualify as an international production. The balance of the film was lensed in Austria by...
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1948
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Das Singende Haus (The Singing House) was financed in Germany but filmed in Vienna. The heroine (Herta Mayen) is the daughter...
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1947
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1944
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1943
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1942
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1940
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1940
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German musical-comedy favorite Willy Forst is writer, director and star of Operetta. Produced in 1940, the film did not...
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1940
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1939
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In this drama, a devoted woman takes the rap for her yellow-bellied lover's crime and gets sent to Australia's Parmatta...
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1938
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1937
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It hardly takes a linguistics expert to figure out that the title of this German comedy translates as Family On Parade. Curt...
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1936
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Originally Der Konigswaltser, The Royal Waltz is a lighthearted opera with no message or moral whatsoever. As he often would...
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1936
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