In Fedora, Billy Wilder approaches Hollywood stardom in the same fashion as he did in Sunset Boulevard--with cynicism,...
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Countess Sobryanski
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1978
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The Lost Continent is a crazy-quilt of a film, with chunks of several unrelated plotlines sewn together willy nilly....
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1968
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An unemployed, cynical Yankee pilot begins working for a strange colonel flying between Lisbon and Mozambique. He is in one...
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1966
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Hypnosis is a psychological thriller reminiscent of themes found in Magic and Dead of Night. Erik (Jean Sorel) is the...
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1966
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1964
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1964
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1964
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1964
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This black comedy is based on the dastardly deeds of French serial killer Henri-Desire Landru, who wined, dined, scammed,...
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1963
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This overdone German film relies on a repetitive plot centered around bedroom antics worthy of daytime dramas. A call girl...
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1963
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1963
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1963
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1962
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1962
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In his Ballade Pour un Voyou, first-time director Jean-Claude Bonnardot has put together an uneven, occasionally suspenseful...
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Martha
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1962
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1962
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This costume drama chronicles the tumultuous rise of Catherine the Great in Russia. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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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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Pirate Jenny
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1962
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1960
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In this tragedy, a sailor heads to Hamburg to search for the girl who became his friend a decade before when he had been a...
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1960
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Berlin provides the backdrop for this crime drama that centers on a military doctor falsely accused of dealing illegal...
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Lilli Hoffman
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1959
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Meant to be a diatribe against yellow journalism and current social ills, this weakly limned drama by Josef von Baky features...
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1959
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Yves Allegret's 3DLa Fille de Hambourg3D (literally 3DThe Girl of Hambourg3D) was released stateside as 3DPort of Desire3D....
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Marian
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1958
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In Svengali, the 1955 adaptation of George DuMaurier's classic novel Trilby, Donald Wolfit achieves the near-impossible: he...
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Trilby O'Ferrall
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1955
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1954
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Young Britisher Susanne Mallinson (Claire Bloom) is visiting the occupied city of postwar Berlin, as the guest of her...
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Bettina Mallinson
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1953
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This minor 1952 drama resurfaced during the 1989 Berlin Film Festival, and was found to have previously unsuspected...
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1952
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Holiday for Henrietta (originally released in 1952 as La Fete a Henriette) is a Pirandellian comedy about the art of...
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Rita Solar
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1952
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Also known as Alraune and Mandrake, The Unnatural is a kinky science fiction film, elevated by the bravura performance of...
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Alraune
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1952
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Given to violent, unpredictable behavior, composer Richard Morton (Gary Merrill) is an accident waiting to happen. Attempting...
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Lisa Muller
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1952
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When undercover secret agent Tyrone Power is thwarted in his efforts to obtain a vital document with details of the Russian...
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Janine
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1952
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Ernest Hemingway could never come to terms with Hollywood's preoccupation with The Happy Ending: he accepted the money for...
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Countess Liz
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1952
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Nachts aut den Strassen (Detour) stars German film favorite Hans Albers as a middle-aged truck driver named Heinrich. Coming...
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Inge Hoffmann
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1951
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With the Third Reich disintegrating, several members of the German army are defecting to the Americans and offering their...
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Hilde
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1951
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The ever-popular Viennese operetta star Willi Forst serves as producer, director, co-writer and star of Es Geschehen Noch...
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1951
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1951
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The reminiscences of a maid provide the basis for this German drama. The story is told via flashback. The maid recalls the...
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Christine
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1950
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1947
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1947
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In this, the first film produced in postwar Germany, a doctor who served in a concentration camp attempts to deal with his...
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Susanne Wallner
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1946
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