Helmut Berger Filmography

The Life and Times of Count Luchino Visconti

Actors: Helmut Berger, Meralda Caracciolo Di Melito, Claudia Cardinale, Luchino Gastel, Annie Girardot

Synopsis: Legendary Italian filmmaker Luchino Visconti's life and remarkable cinematic achievements are investigated in depth in Adam Low's 2002 documentary produced by the BBC entitled The Life and Times of Count Luchino Visconti. Born into Italian aristocracy in 1906, Visconti's life was one of Read More

Ludwig 1881

Actors: Helmut Berger, Max Tidof, Herbert Leiser

Synopsis: In 1973, (Helmut Berger starred in one of Luchino Visconti's last masterpieces, a filmed biography of the Mad King of Bavaria (1845-1886) entitled Ludwig. In that film, the king's loss of control over his life was seen as resulting from a tragic disparity between the desires of an admittedly Read More

Einmal Arizona

Actors: Helmut Berger

Synopsis: The real star in this independent movie is the American Southwest, filmed with affection and love by director Hans-Gunther Bucking. In the story, however, a motorcyclist from the former East Germany has cherished the dream of joining the gigantic annual motorcyclists' gathering in Oatman, Arizona. Read More

The Laughter of Maca Daracs

Actors: Barbara Auer, Nikolaus Paryla, Helmut Berger

Synopsis: Maca Daracs (Barbara Auer) is a gypsy woman working in Austria, and she has a problem: she doesn't have any legal right to be working there. Furthermore, the police have already tagged her as someone to check up on really soon. If she can't come up with a husband to make it possible for her to Read More

The Godfather Part III

Actors: Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire, Andy Garcia, Eli Wallach, Sofia Coppola, Joe Mantegna

Synopsis: After a break of more than 15 years, director Francis Ford Coppola and writer Mario Puzo returned to the well for this third and final story of the fictional Corleone crime family. Two decades have passed, and crime kingpin Michael Corleone (Al Pacino), now divorced from his wife Kay (Diane Read More

Nie Im Leben

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Hans-Peter Hallwachs, Helmut Berger, Anica Dobra

Synopsis: Famed actor Helmut Berger directed this nondirectional, experimental film, which focuses on the improvisational conversations of three of life's more clueless individuals: a would-be suicide, a bank robber, and a first-time visitor to Vienna. The film also features a variety of odd visual Read More

Faceless

Actors: Helmut Berger, Brigitte Lahaie, Christopher Mitchum, Telly Savalas, Caroline Munro, Anton Diffring

Synopsis: The demented Dr. Flamand (Helmut Berger) and his beautiful but deadly assistant Nathalie (Brigitte Lahaie) lure unsuspecting victims in this horror feature. The doctor uses the young skins of his victims to perform plastic surgery on his disfigured sister. Telly Savalas is Hallen, the New York Read More

Der Glaserne Himmel

Actors: Helmut Berger, Sylvie Orcier, Agnes Fink, Maria Harmann, Tobias Engel

Synopsis: In this mystery, Julien Lerner (Helmut Berger) is haunted by his nightmare of a woman being strangled to death at an aquarium. While traveling to work one morning, he sees the woman he dreamed about and follows her into a bar. He loses track of her but sees the man who murdered her in the dream. Read More

Die Verlockung

Actors: Levin Kress, Fritz Karl, Therese Jagersberger, Dominic Raacke, Sabine Gautier

Synopsis: Rudi (Levin Kress) is a 17-year-old lost in the fantasy world of Vienna. Every woman looks like Brigitte Bardot to him, and he and his pal Manfred (Fritz Karl) decide to travel to St. Tropez to offer protection for the sex goddess. He is pressed by the local Young Socialists to make a propaganda Read More

Er - Sie - Es

A.D.A.M.

Du Mich Auch

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Anja Franke, Dani Levy, Mathias Gnädinger, Regine Lutz

Synopsis: Julia and Romeo are two disenchanted lovers who want to break up but are unwilling to suffer the pain. After a nasty fight, Romeo storms off and unsuccessfully vents his frustration with a black prostitute. While visiting the ramshackle brothel, he sees a strange man, who may be a government Read More

Code Name: Emerald

Actors: Ed Harris, Horst Buchholz, Helmut Berger, Cyrielle Claire

Synopsis: In this slow-paced thriller set just before D-Day in Paris, Gus Lang (Ed Harris) is an American agent who has to make sure a captured U.S. officer is not forced to divulge the secret of the Normandy invasion. Since audiences know the invasion worked, the success of Gus Lang's espionage forays into Read More

Eroina

Actors: Helmut Berger, Corinne Clery, Marzio C. Honorato, Franco Citti

Synopsis: The wages of heroin on body, mind, and spirit are compassionately portrayed in this drama by Massimo Pirri. Without hammering out a message or moralizing, Pirri shows his protagonists facing the daily challenge of obtaining a fix at any cost. Marco (Helmut Berger) used to be a school teacher, but Read More

Women

Victoria!

Actors: Helmut Berger, Craig Hill

Synopsis: Catalan director Antoni Ribas spent three years creating an epic in three parts, about three days in June, 1917 - a triple play that is successful in this first segment, handling the many factions active and bubbling over in Spain in 1917. The monarchy of Alfonso XIII was weakening so rapidly that Read More

Fluechtige Bekanntschaften

Actors: Angelica Domröse, Günter Lamprecht, Dagmar Biener, Christa Berndl, Hannes Messemer

Synopsis: Susanne (Angelika Domroese) has her hands full with a mother who does not leave her in peace, a daughter who ignores her, an unsatisfactory lover, and a few women friends who are not doing much better than she is. Into this vale of emotional ennui enters an attractive young man -- suggesting that Read More

Die Jaeger

Actors: Barbara Sukowa, Mel Ferrer, Helmut Berger, Karin Baal, Josef Kroner

Synopsis: A hunting party arrives at a lodge in the Tatra mountains in Slovakia, near Hungary (the director of this film, Karoly Makk is Hungarian), where one woman (Barbara Sukowa) in the party had "accidentally" shot and killed her first husband some time ago. She has returned with her new mate (Mel Ferrer Read More

The Deadly Game

Synopsis: Several criminal lawyers reunite every year in the Swiss mountains to entertain themselves with fake trials and murder mysteries. At one year's party, an unwitting American becomes part of the game. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Mia Moglie è Una Strega

Le Rose Di Danzica

Actors: Franco Nero, Helmut Berger, Olga Karlatos, Macha Meril, Roberto Posse

Synopsis: Set in 1919, this confusing, slow-paced, labyrinthian political drama focuses primarily on the confrontation between two military leaders, Konrad von der Berg (Franco Nero) and Erich von Lehner (Helmut Berger). The implication is that the outcome of their meeting will determine whether Germany Read More

Das Fuenfte Gebot

Actors: Helmut Berger, Peter Hooten, Udo Kier, Heinrich Giskes

Synopsis: "Thou shalt not kill" is the fifth of the ten commandments handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai. In this movie, Bernhard and Leo Redder (Helmut Berger and Peter Hooten), who have grown up in an abusive family, escape into the streets at the earliest opportunity. In the Germany of the 1920s Read More

Fantômas

Actors: Helmut Berger, Jacques Dufilho, Pierre Mallet, Gayle Hunnicutt

Il Grande Attaco

Actors: Helmut Berger, Samantha Eggar, Henry Fonda

Synopsis: The American prints of Battle Force credit the direction to one Humphrey Longan, but in fact the man behind the megaphone of this European war flick was Umberto Lenzi. Orson Welles narrates this crazy-quilt of stock battle footage and hapharzardly staged new scenes. A lot of potent acting Read More

Mad Dog

Synopsis: Helmut Berger plays the title character in the Italian melodrama Mad Dog. Berger isn't foaming at the mouth or anything, but he is dangerous, and his bark is far worse than his bite. Sent to jail by an honest police officer, Beger manages to escape. He then methodically conducts a campaign of Read More

Beast With a Gun

Actors: Helmut Berger, Marisa Mell, Richard Harrison

Synopsis: There's nothing more terrifying than a Beast With a Gun, and when psychotic criminal Nanni Vitali (Helmut Berger) and three violent thugs stage a jailbreak, the streets will run red with blood in the final film from notorious director Sergio Grieko. Taking to the pavement in a horrific frenzy of Read More

Victory at Entebbe

Actors: Julius Harris, Helen Hayes, Elizabeth Taylor, Kirk Douglas, Richard Dreyfuss, Burt Lancaster

Synopsis: Within months after the spectacular July 4, 1976 rescue of hostages from Uganda's Entebbe airport, there were two competing TV movies on the subject. The longest (and least) of the two was Victory at Entebbe, hurriedly shot on videotape. The story begins when Arab terrorist capture a civilian Read More

Mission to Kill

Actors: Helmut Berger, Kevin McCarthy

Synopsis: Order to Kill was originally shipped out to Spanish-speaking theatres under the title El Clan de los Immorales. The story concerns a mob family, headed by gambling czar Jose Ferrer. When one of family's hit men (Helmut Berger) fails to come up to expectations, Ferrer orders the man's execution. Read More

The Romantic Englishwoman

Actors: Glenda Jackson, Michael Caine, Helmut Berger, Béatrice Romand, Natalie Delon

Synopsis: Tom Stoppard and Thomas Wiseman's intricate script for The Romantic Englishwoman credibly explores the notion that a writer can manipulate the people in his life as deftly as he can manipulate the characters in his imagination. The title character Elizabeth, played by Glenda Jackson, is the wife Read More

Gruppo di Famiglia in un Interno

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Silvana Mangano, Helmut Berger, Claudia Marsani, Stefano Patrizi

Synopsis: An introverted American professor (Burt Lancaster) has retired to an Italian house, but finds his life interrupted when a decadent family moves upstairs. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Reigen

Synopsis: This drama focuses on the affairs of 10 people. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Ludwig

Actors: Helmut Berger, Romy Schneider, Trevor Howard, Silvana Mangano, Gert Fröbe

Synopsis: Luchino Visconti (Count don Luchino Visconti di Modrone) was a film director, true, but he was also a nobleman and a grand patron of traditional European culture: opera, art, music, crafts and literature. These interests enliven many of his films, but few have been so inspired as the four-hour Read More

Les Voraces

Actors: Helmut Berger, Françoise Fabian, Paul Meurisse, Massimo Girotti

Synopsis: The temptation to roll one of his wealthier customers is too great for casino croupier Kosta (Helmut Berger) to resist. It's too bad the man dies. Luckily for him, the only witness to his crime, Lara (Françoise Fabian), thinks he's too pretty to turn over to the police; she wants him for her bed. Read More

Ash Wednesday

Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Henry Fonda, Helmut Berger, Keith Baxter, Maurice Teynac

Synopsis: A woman undergoes a surgeon's scalpel in a last-ditch attempt to win back her husband in this drama. Barbara Sawyer (Elizabeth Taylor) has been married to her husband, Mark (Henry Fonda), for 30 years, and she's afraid the spark has gone out of their relationship. Barbara is convinced the problem Read More

Un Beau Monstre

Actors: Helmut Berger, Virna Lisi, Charles Aznavour

Synopsis: Helmut Berger is Alain, a real sicko, who may be so because his mother was a prostitute. He can only make love with a "decent" woman when she is drugged senseless, though he can manage one-time encounters with prostitutes and also gladly suffers the abuse of his boyfriends. He seems to have Read More

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

Actors: Dominique Sanda, Lino Capolicchio, Helmut Berger, Fabio Testi, Romolo Valli

Synopsis: Vittorio De Sica directs the lyrical war drama Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini (The Garden of the Finzi-Continis), based on a book by Giorgio Bassani. In Ferrara, Italy, at the beginning of WWII, anti-Semitism is spreading. Mussolini has passed several laws that forbid Jews from going to public Read More

Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray

Actors: Helmut Berger, Richard Todd, Herbert Lom, Marie Liljedahl, Margaret Lee

Synopsis: The classic story of evil by Oscar Wilde is a plodding, campy, trashy production that gives the viewer moments of unintentional laughter. Dorian Gray (Helmut Berger) is the vain young Englishman who sells his soul to the devil to remain eternally youthful in appearance. His portrait is being Read More

The Damned

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Griem, Helmut Berger, Charlotte Rampling

Synopsis: In 1969, The Damned (La caduta degli dei) was director Luchino Visconti's most controversial film to date. Set in the 1930s, the film zeroes in on a Krupp-like family of German munition manufacturers. The Essenbeck clan is headed by the Baron (Rene Kolldehoff), but daughter Sophie (Ingrid Thulin) Read More

Sai Cosa Faceva Stalin Alle Donne?

Actors: Helmut Berger, Piero Vida, Valeria Sabel

Synopsis: This comedic political satire lampoons Russian communist leader Josef Stalin and ridicules the brief period of communism in Italy following World War II. The leader has sex on a bedspread with his own likeness. A hammer and sickle, along with a swastika, is prominently displayed on the posterior Read More

I Giovani Tigri

Actors: Helmut Berger, Vanni de Maigret, Massimo Farinelli, Martine Malle

Synopsis: A group of spoiled rich kids look for kicks before they assume the responsibilities of adulthood and their family legacies. They divert a million dollars bound for a Swiss bank to some less-fortunate individuals. Fast cars, loveless sex, Russian roulette and general rebelliousness drive the teens Read More

Le Streghe

Actors: Silvana Mangano, Annie Girardot, Francisco Rabal, Massimo Girotti, Elsa Albani

Synopsis: This Dino De Laurentiis production from 1965 is actually an anthology of five different directors' work, each telling their own stories about witches. The five stories are "The Witch Burned Alive," "Civic Sense," "The Earth As Seen From The Moon," "The Girl From Sicily," and "A Night Like Any Read More

Fatal Fix

Synopsis: The music of the Pretenders provides the background to this French film about urban heroin addiction. ~ All Movie Guide Read More