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Synopsis: At the height of the free love movement, Jesus Christ Superstar is a stage sensation, and controversial actor Klaus Kinski takes the stage of Berlin's Deutschlandhalle to read from his own text entitled "Jesus Christus Erlöser." The date is November 20, 1971, and Kinski stands bathed in the Read More
Synopsis: Troma Team Pictures, the independent production company who've taken a brave stand for creative tastelessness with such films as The Toxic Avenger, Sgt. Kabukiman N.Y.P.D., and Terror Firmer, launched their own film festival to provide a showcase for real independent filmmakers in the midst of the Read More
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Synopsis: In his last film, actor Klaus Kinski directs himself in this story of notorious 18th-century composer/violinst Niccolo Paganini. Mainly because of the emphasis on Paganini's sex life, the film's producers called the film "pornographic" (although there are no graphic sex scenes) and sued Kinski. Read More
Actors: Klaus Kinski, Barbara de Rossi, Yorgo Voyagis, Donald Pleasence, Christopher Plummer
Synopsis: In this sequel to 1987's Nosferatu the Vampire, Nosferatu (Klaus Kinski) is brought back to life by gypsies and shows his thanks by pushing an old lady out of a window onto a row of spikes. He seduces a local princess and battles a professor (Christopher Plummer) who is out to destroy him. Read More
Actors: Klaus Kinski, King Ampaw, Jose Lewgoy, Salvatore Basile, Nana Agyefi Kwame II
Synopsis: Director Werner Herzog, as usual, has spared no one -- especially himself -- in bringing this story of 19th-century African slave trading to the screen. Klaus Kinski plays an enterprising young Brazilian who after impregnating the three daughters of his plantation-owning employer, is sent to West Read More
Synopsis: This is a Whodunit-type film, where someone is using a nasty pair of scissors to play a one-by-one elimination game with a troop of group-therapy patients. The group is made up of attractive women who soon realize that they could be next. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: William Devane, Lauren Hutton, Klaus Kinski
Synopsis: The "history is inviolate" theory so chillingly elucidated in Ray Bradbury's The Sound of Thunder is recycled for the made-for-TV Timestalkers. William Devane plays a genially eccentric professor who teams with time traveller Lauren Hutton to prevent the course of history from being disastrously Read More
Synopsis: In this spaghetti western, Klaus Kinski appears as a lustful gunman who's after three murderers. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Lewis Collins, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Mimsy Farmer, Klaus Kinski
Synopsis: In this commando action-adventure by Antonio Margheriti, Captain Wesley (Lewis Collins) has been charged with cleaning out some drug sites in Thailand and gathers up four of his mercenaries for the task. His superior is Fletcher (Ernest Borgnine), a drug enforcement officer with shady business Read More
Actors: Klaus Kinski, Talia Balsam, Barbara Whinnery, Sally Brown, Carole Francis
Synopsis: A homicidal maniac doctor specializes in murder and owns a peaceful boarding house for lovely aspiring actresses. They feel safe and comfortable there. Little do they know, the good-doctor is getting his jollies by crawling through narrow spaces between the walls peeking at them through the Read More
Actors: Klaus Kinski, Harvey Keitel, Fernando Rey, Maria Lamor, Jose Vivo
Synopsis: A laid-back spoof of knights in shining armor, El Caballero del Dragon is set in a medieval European village, but the knight's armor is actually a spacesuit. Boetius (Klaus Kinski) is a necromancer and alchemist fawning after the near-senile Count of Rue (Jose Vivo). Opposite Boetius is Fray Lupo (Fernando Rey Read More
Actors: Stan Ivar, Wendy Schaal, Lyman Ward, Robert Jaffe, Annette McCarthy, Klaus Kinski
Synopsis: Less than a year before James Cameron's turbo-charged sequel, Hollywood (or its overseas counterparts) still managed to find ways to retread the badly-worn theme of Ridley Scott's Alien, as evidenced in this 1985 low-budget item. When a mysterious canister is uncovered on Saturn's largest moon Read More
Actors: Diane Keaton, Yorgo Voyagis, Klaus Kinski, Sami Frey, Michael Cristofer
Synopsis: Based on John Le Carré's novel by the same name, this story about Charlie (Diane Keaton) a female double agent working between the Palestinians and Israelis, loses some of the excitement and in-depth characterization engendered by the long novel -- mainly because the novel is hard to capture in a Read More
Actors: Bud Cort, Carol Kane, Klaus Kinski, Marisa Berenson, Carroll Baker
Synopsis: Supposedly focusing on the life of Sigmund Freud by means of a fictional secret diary, this attempt at satirizing the man from his childhood through his first forays into psychoanalysis is weak on laughter, especially since it is difficult to tell whether a scene is serious or not. Freud (Bud Read More
Synopsis: Among the first original anthology series to be produced for cable television, The Hitchhiker was a collection of tales of the supernatural and bizarre. The title character, played during the first season by Nicholas Campbell and thereafter by Page Fletcher, was an unnamed drifter who wandered Read More
Synopsis: In this atmospheric, somewhat eerie retelling of the classic story, a young woman named Beauty (Susan Sarandon) is forced to leave her father's home and go to live in the castle of a frightening Beast Klaus Kinski. The reason for this demand is that Beauty's father, on his travels, had stolen a Read More
Actors: Penelope Palmer, Klaus Kinski, Michel Robin, Hélène Surgère
Synopsis: A compelling but very strange relationship between a young and lonely fourteen-year-old girl and a mute peasant farmer is at the core of this curious film by Raphaele Billetdoux. Elisabeth (Penelope Palmer) has reason to be unhappy at home so when she meets Marcel (Klaus Kinski), a farmer who Read More
Actors: Klaus Kinski, Brie Howard, Norbert Weisser, Crofton Hardester, Kendra Kirchner
Synopsis: Several movie genres collide head-on in Android. Klaus Kinski plays a slightly cracked scientist, working in solitude on a remote space station. Kinski is hoping to develop a race of humanlike robots, the prototype of which is Max. 404 (Don Opper). He is interrupted by a coed gang of space-hopping Read More
Actors: Werner Herzog, Klaus Kinski
Synopsis: Documentarian Les Blank, who filmed Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe, trained his cameras on Herzog again, as the eccentric German filmmaker made his epic, Fitzcarraldo, in the Amazon rainforest of Peru. Herzog's production is in trouble right from the start. He begins filming with Jason Robards Read More
Actors: Ray Sharkey, Ornella Muti, Klaus Kinski, Armand Assante, King Vidor
Synopsis: James Toback wrote and directed this typically intense and idiosyncratic satiric thriller. Byron Levin (Ray Sharkey) is an investment planner who has grown tired of his job and is bored by his relationship with his girlfriend Vicky (Susan Heldfond). When Frederick Stockheinz (Klaus Kinski), an Read More
Actors: Klaus Kinski, Jose Lewgoy, Miguel Angel Fuentes, Paul Hittscher, Claudia Cardinale
Synopsis: German filmmaker Werner Herzog has never done anything by halves. When Herzog tackled Fitzcarraldo, the story of an obsessed impresario (Klaus Kinski) whose foremost desire in life is to bring both Enrico Caruso and an opera house to the deepest jungles of South America, the director boldly Read More
Actors: Ken Wahl, Klaus Kinski, Alberta Watson
Synopsis: Soviets steal a cache of plutonium leaving one rogue super CIA agent to steal it back and save the world. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Klaus Kinski, Oliver Reed, Nicol Williamson, Sarah Miles, Sterling Hayden, Lance Holcomb
Synopsis: A big black mamba snake that has gotten loose in a townhouse slithers through a kidnapping plot in this film. Based on a novel by Alan Scholefield, Venom features a big name British cast that seems to be slumming in a B-movie project. Dr. Marion Stowe (Sarah Miles) is a toxicologist who has Read More
Actors: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Paula Prentiss, Klaus Kinski, Dana Elcar
Synopsis: As if in some way Billy Wilder sensed that Buddy Buddy would ultimately turn out to be his final feature film, Wilder lets loose scatter-shot stingers at a wide range of pop-culture targets -- from sex clinics, to 60 Minutes, to movie references, to disco, to Betamax video recorders. Based on Read More
Actors: Klaus Kinski, Marianna Hill, Craig Wasson, Donna Wilkes, Richard Herd
Synopsis: When Dr. Peter Fales's (Klaus Kinski) patients start getting annhilated by an unknown serial killer, he and his daughter Alison (Donna Wilkes) both come under suspicion. Part slasher film and part psychological thriller, Schizoid co-stars Marianna Hill as Julie, a syndicated "Dear Abby"-style Read More
Actors: Klaus Kinski, Maria Schneider, Patrice Melennec
Synopsis: Klaus Kinski plays a motorcycle rider whose bike breaks down in a small French village. He is helped by Madeleine (Maria Schneider), a young woman who is a social outcast from having a child out of wedlock. When news spreads that a little girl was run down by a cyclist, locals focus their blame on Read More
Synopsis: One of the better efforts from prolific cult director Jesus Franco, this Swiss-German horror film stars Klaus Kinski, in his final film for Franco, as the notorious Jack the Ripper. A respected doctor by day, Kinski bloodily dismembers London prostitutes by night, until the local Inspector's Read More
Actors: Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani, Bruno Ganz, Roland Topor, Jacques Dufilho
Synopsis: For Werner Herzog's 1979 remake of F.W. Murnau's classic 1922 silent horror-fest Nosferatu, star Klaus Kinski adopts the same makeup style used by Murnau's leading man Max Schreck. Yet in the Herzog version, the crucial difference is that Nosferatu becomes more and more decayed and desiccated as Read More
Actors: Catherine Jourdan, Klaus Kinski, Alida Valli, Pierre Clémenti
Actors: Klaus Kinski, Eva Mattes, Wolfgang Reichmann, Willy Semmelrogge, Josef Bierbichler
Synopsis: Controversial German director Werner Herzog helmed this cinematization of Woyzeck, playwright Georg Büchner's anti-military tale of depersonalization run amok. Utilizing the more grotesque elements of German expressionism, combined with his own sense of the outrageous, Herzog plunges us directly Read More
Actors: Klaus Kinski, Dominique Sanda, Alain Cuny, Pierre Clémenti, Jean-Pierre Kalfon
Synopsis: Roland des Roncesvalles is a legendary knight from the age of chivalry in France. In the 11th-century epic La Chanson de Roland, he is depicted as a key figure in halting the advance of the Arabs into France. In this story, the 10th-century legend is staged by a group of 12th-century pilgrims Read More
Actors: Yehoram Gaon, Ori Levy, Arik Lavi, Klaus Kinski, Sybil Danning
Synopsis: This thrill-packed fact-based action-adventure from Israel chronicles the daring rescue of 104 passengers from a hijacked plane in Entebbe, Uganda, on July 4, 1976. The film is also known as Entebbe: Operation Thunderbolt. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Alain Delon, Ornella Muti, Stéphane Audran, Maurice Ronet, Mireille Darc
Synopsis: Xavier Marechal (Alain Delon) is a businessman whose long-time business partner and friend is Philippe Dubaye (Maurice Ronet) a member of the French parliamentary assembly. In the film, Philippe has just killed Cerrano, a fellow assemblyman who threatened to disclose Philippe's involvement in Read More
Synopsis: Klaus Kinski is the leading man of The Liberators. But, Kinski being Kinski, we'd hesitate to call him the hero. He's a crooked World War 2 soldier with no friends at all. He butts heads with the Germans, the Americans and his own partners in crime. The film's title, need we add, is meant to be Read More
Synopsis: In this actioner, a priest-turned terrorist abducts a U.N. dignitary and nearly causes an unmendable rift between the U.S. and Greece. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Mel Ferrer, Klaus Kinski, Heinz Bennent, Elke Sommer, Andrea Rau
Synopsis: In this crime thriller, Morelli (Mel Ferrer) is a writer whose books no longer sell well, at least in part because of his slavish worship of "the classics." His response to this insult to his pride is to kill young women in a horrific manner; he calls it "revolutionary disgust." Bossi (Klaus Kinski Read More
Actors: George C. Scott, Trish VanDevere, Virginia McKenna, Bernard Lee, Patricia Quinn
Synopsis: This Hallmark Hall of Fame adaptation of the classic fairy tale Beauty and the Beast stars George C. Scott and his wife Trish Van Devere in the title roles -- and it should not take a rocket scientist to determine who plays what role. It all begins when Edward Beaumont (Bernard Lee) makes the Read More
Actors: Bernard Blier, Klaus Kinski, Marie Dubois, Jean-Luc Bideau, Charles Vanel
Synopsis: After his family tries to kill him and he has been pronounced dead, Michel (Klaus Kinski) returns to vex them. He presents each one with a voodoo doll, warning of their fate. Wandering over the streets of Paris, Michel is the haunted and hunted, as he himself hunts his villainous kin. ~ Clarke Read More
Actors: Romy Schneider, Fabio Testi, Jacques Dutronc, Klaus Kinski, Claude Dauphin
Synopsis: Freelance photographer Servais (Fabio Testi) meets luckless Nadine Chevalier (Romy Schneider) an aging, world-weary, would-be movie star who thus far has only been able to find work in cheap exploitation movies. Trying to win her affection, Servais borrows the money from his underworld employers Read More
Synopsis: Italian filmmaker Luigi Bazzoni (Giornata Nera per l'Ariete) directed this stylish and surrealistic giallo thriller reminiscent of such paranoid classics of the form as Il Profumo della Signora in Nero and Tutti i Colori del Buio. Florinda Bolkan stars as a translator named Alice Cespi, whose life Read More
Actors: Hiram Keller, Tina Aumont, Klaus Kinski, Fons Rademakers
Synopsis: After one of his peers apparently commits suicide, a doctor (Hiram Keller) discovers that the dead man had developed a drug which halts the aging process. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Miou-Miou, Robert Charlebois, Patrick McGoohan, Klaus Kinski
Synopsis: An amiable con man sets out to land a big score from a man even less honorable than himself in this comic spaghetti western. Joe Thanks (Terence Hill) is a swindler and quick-draw artist who wanders into a dusty little town after literally falling out of a stagecoach while asleep. After besting Read More
Actors: Barbi Benton, Hampton Fancher, Murray Roman, Broderick Crawford, Lionel Stander
Synopsis: Lynn (Barbara Benton) is the 19 year old girl who leaves her repressive parent's home in search of a matrimonial prospect. Her first attempt as love proves disappointing, but soon she discovers all men want the same thing from her. Lynn asks for money for sex and hooks up with a blackmailer who Read More
Actors: Klaus Kinski, Katia Christine
Synopsis: In this sci-fi chiller, a young woman's peace is shattered when she begins hearing loud screams in her head. They are the agonized wailings of an astronaut deliberately marooned upon the moon by a double-crossing experimenter. Soon the woman becomes possessed by the astronaut. ~ Sandra Brennan Read More
Actors: Klaus Kinski, Chen Lee
Synopsis: Director Mario Caiano, best known for the gorgeous horror film Amanti d'Oltretomba, made eleven Westerns in his career, but none as strange as this one. Perhaps it might help some to recall that the TV-series Kung Fu was enjoying great popularity at around the same time employing a similar Read More
Synopsis: In this drama, a jealous wife murders her husband, a French antique dealer, after she suspects him of marital infidelity. In reality, the man was frequently gone at night because he was doubling as a secret agent. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: Death Smiles on a Murderer (La Morte ha Sorriso All'Assassino) is a grotesque yarn starring the equally grotesque Klaus Kinski. The murderer of the title thinks he's gotten off scott free. But, no, someone has been dabbling in Things Man Was Not Meant to Know, and soon the murder victims have been Read More
Actors: Klaus Kinski, Cecilia Rivera, Ruy Guerra, Helena Rojo, Del Negro, Daniel Zacapa
Synopsis: The most famed and well-regarded collaboration between New German Cinema director Werner Herzog and his frequent leading man, Klaus Kinski, this epic historical drama was legendary for the arduousness of its on-location filming and the convincing zealous obsession employed by Kinski in playing the Read More
Actors: Peter Carsten, Karin Field, Anthony Franciosa, Klaus Kinski, Michele Mercier, Silvano Tranquilli
Synopsis: In this remake of his own La Danza Macabra, director Antonio Margheriti casts Anthony Franciosa as writer Alan Foster, who accepts a bet from Edgar Allan Poe (Klaus Kinski) and his friend Thomas Blackwood (Enrico Osterman). No one has ever survived a night in Blackwood's castle, but the skeptical Read More
Synopsis: When the leader of a criminal band travels to Mexico in search of a fortune in stolen gold, he promises to reward a man with a portion of the treasure if he can lead them to its hiding place. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Klaus Kinski, Margaret Lee
Synopsis: Fernando DiLeo, best known for a series of westerns and crime films, tried his hand at horror with this extremely sick little item loaded with nudity and violence. Set at a remote mental institution (inexplicably located in a castle), the film features Klaus Kinski as a doctor whose mostly female Read More
Synopsis: In this spaghetti Western, Richard Harrison stars as a mercenary who hunts down the gunrunners who raped his wife (Anne Puskin) and killed his brother. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: This peculiar spaghetti western was inspired by the success of the American television series Macho Callahan with Italian audiences. Jeff Cameron (a pseudonym for actor Geoffredo Scarciofolo) plays Macho Callaghan, with spelling changed for legal reasons. Macho is the sole survivor of a bloody Read More
Actors: Simone Blondell, Klaus Kinski, Gordon Mitchell, Hunt Powers, Dennis Colt
Synopsis: Prolific filmmaker Demofilo Fidani directed this revenge-themed western under the name "Miles Deem," as well as co-authoring the screenplay with Tonino Ricci. Nevada (Hunt Powers) and a nameless bounty-hunter (Geoffredo Scarciofolo as "Jeff Cameron") spend the film searching for Hagen (Gordon Mitchell Read More
Synopsis: In this western, a brave hero helps a man wrongly accused of killing a saloon girl in a small Texas town. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: Nazis are threatening, and only a squad of British commandos can stop them. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Stéphane Audran, Lilli Palmer, Klaus Kinski, Michel Constantin, Jean Claudio
Synopsis: A network of spies affects the lives of people in and out of the organization in this routine espionage drama. Dominique (Stephane Audran) is the neglected wife of a spy who tracks him down at a Paris antique shop. Finding him with a female spy, the enraged wife shoots both of them. Dominique Read More
Synopsis: Don't let the title mislead you, this film doesn't come from the Bible Belt; it's actually a western where a trigger-happy quickdraw guy has to draw upon all his talent just to stay alive. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: This audaciously dishonest spaghetti western from prolific director Demofilo Fidani (using the pseudonym "Lucky Dickerson") was created piecemeal using lengthy sequences from Fidani's previous films. The premise has legendary gunslinger Django (Hunt Powers) recounting some of his greatest Read More
Actors: Christopher Lee, Klaus Kinski, Soledad Miranda, Maria Rohm, Herbert Lom
Synopsis: This doggedly faithful adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel about a vampiric nobleman was helmed by cult director Jesus Franco. Despite its textual loyalty and atmospheric photography by Manuel Merino, the film -- a co-production from Spain, Italy, Germany, and Liechtenstein -- is plodding and dull. Read More
Actors: Klaus Kinski, Margaret Lee, Christiane Kruger, Günther Stoll, Sydney Chaplin
Synopsis: This psychological drama finds Helen (Margaret Lee) wanting a divorce from her adoring husband John (Klaus Kinski). She leaves him and is killed in an auto wreck. John finds himself the target of a police investigation to determine if the death was an accident, murder or suicide. His wife had Read More
Synopsis: Klaus Kinski, who apparently accepted every script that was shoved under his door, heads the cast of the Italian Gangster's Law. Kinski plays a Mafia boss, caught in a web of intrigue, deceit, and blood oaths. Likewise enmeshed in the bloody plot convolutions are Maurice Poll, Suzy Andersen, and Max Delys Read More
Actors: James Darren, Barbara McNair, Klaus Kinski, Dennis Price
Synopsis: Not to be confused with Massimo Dallamano's contemporaneous treatment of the Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch classic, this unrelated (but quite entertaining) thriller from cult director Jesus Franco was originally known as Black Angel. James Darren stars as Jimmy Logan, an American jazz musician in Read More
Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Klaus Kinski, Frank Wolff, Luigi Pistilli, Vonetta McGee
Synopsis: Italian filmmaker Sergio Corbucci directed this serious-minded populist spin on the spaghetti western, starring Jean-Louis Trintignant as Silence, whose vocal cords have been slashed by sadistic bounty-hunters. Silence joins with local hillfolk in fighting the corrupt and tyrannical authorities in Read More
Synopsis: Unable to cope with life after stardom a former headliner with the Ziegfeld Follies becomes an alcoholic. Meanwhile her horrifying sons run off to commit a terrible crime. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: John Garko, William Berger, Sydney Chaplin, Klaus Kinski
Synopsis: In this western, an engimatic stranger stops a stage from being robbed. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Claudio Brook, Margaret Lee, Bernard Blier, Jean Topart, Klaus Kinski
Synopsis: Coplan (Claudio Brook) is a free-lance undercover agent who offers his services to the highest bidder. He receives a phone call from an old girlfriend in Turkey imploring him to see her immediately. The panic-stricken woman gives sketchy details of a plot that threatens world security. When Coplan Read More
Synopsis: Ruthless Four follows four prospectors who are out to strike a big lode in the Nevada gold rush days. When one of the four hits the riches, he finds the other three are out to partake of the hard-earned find. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: In this suspenseful caper, a sightless professor decides to steal jewels and relics from the Vatican. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: A slightly off-center Robin Hood-type and his nutty band make their living robbing from other thieves and giving their booty to the poor. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Janet Leigh, Robert Hoffman, Klaus Kinski, Riccardo Cucciolla
Synopsis: A group of international jewel thieves band together to pull off a huge heist in this suspenseful caper film that was shot in Europe, New York, and Brazil. The adventure begins in Rio where a burned out school teacher (Edward G. Robinson) decides to chuck his unfulfilling career and try to steal Read More
Actors: Burl Ives, Troy Donahue, Gert Fröbe, Hermione Gingold, Terry-Thomas, Lionel Jeffries
Synopsis: Produced in the wake of the all-star "comedy spectacular" Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, Fantastic Flying Fools (originally titled Blast-Off, and also released as Those Fantastic Flying Fools) is based very loosely on a Jules Verne novel. A 19th century British newspaper offers a Read More
Actors: Christopher Lee, Leo Genn, Anthony Newlands, Heinz Drache, Klaus Kinski
Synopsis: Based on an Edgar Wallace murder mystery this chiller centers on a Scotland Yard investigation of a series of puzzling deaths plaguing a traveling circus and the hunt for loot stolen from an armored car robbery. Suspects include the mask-wearing and disfigured lion tamer, a vengeful ringmaster, an Read More
Synopsis: During WWII, the army chooses five of its most courageous and coldhearted soldiers to infiltrate German lines for a suicide mission to secure enemy plans. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: Adapted from an Edgar Wallace story, the plot of The Creature with the Blue Hand concerns an innocent man who is accused of murder. The real perpetrator is, of course, the title character. Since Klaus Kinski plays both roles, it's understandable why the authorities are confused. One of several Read More
Actors: Robert Cummings
Synopsis: While traveling through Hong Kong, Bob Mitchell (Robert Cummings) accidentally stumbles into the middle of criminal negotiations between a mean gang, the Five Golden Dragons, and the local mobsters. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Frankie Avalon, George Nader, Shirley Eaton, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Klaus Kinski
Synopsis: Two Yankee spies team up with British intelligence to stop the beautiful but deadly Su-Muru, a woman with eyes literally on ruling the world. Having gathered an enormous army of gorgeous women, she and her minions use their considerable wiles and natural attributes to enslave the world's most Read More
Actors: Gian Maria Volontè, Lou Castel, Martine Beswicke, Andrea Checchi, Klaus Kinski
Synopsis: It is early in the 20th century, and an American traveler has come to Mexico at just the wrong time to continue living a peaceful life, for the Revolution has begun and he quickly finds himself in the thick of it. At first, he is right in the middle between government troops and the Read More
Actors: Albert Lieven, Gary Raymond
Synopsis: Though based on an Edgar Wallace novel, Traitor's Gate was not part of the long-running British series of second features based on the works of Wallace. Albert Lieven plays a London businessman who doubles as a high-tech crook. He organizes an elite gang of thieves to steal the crown jewels. Their Read More
Actors: Tony Randall, Senta Berger, Terry-Thomas, Herbert Lom, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Klaus Kinski
Synopsis: Films like Bang, Bang, You're Dead helped kill the movie career of Tony Randall in the mid-1960s. Randall plays an innocent oil company representative who gets tied up with a gang of crooks in Morocco. The head criminals, played by Herbert Lom and Klaus Kinski, plunge Randall into the middle of a Read More
Synopsis: How to Kill a Lady is an Bond-style thriller with an international cast. The lady in question is toothsome Molly Peters. The killers are members of Lebanese crime syndicate who'd like to claim Molly's millions. Stewart Granger is the secret agent assigned to protect the girl from harm, while Read More
Actors: Ian McShane, Francesca Annis, Klaus Kinski, Mark Eden, Tony Tanner
Synopsis: In this drama, the difficulties of being a young woman during the 1960s are examined. The story centers upon a country girl who comes to London to pursue a modeling career and ends up living with three girls and a young man--who is one of the others' brother. While waiting for her big break, the Read More
Actors: Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Gian Maria Volontè, Josef Egger, Mara Krup
Synopsis: This pulse-pounding follow-up to Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars brings back Clint Eastwood as the serape-clad, cigar-chewing "Man With No Name." Engaged in an ongoing battle with bounty hunter Col. Douglas Mortimer (Lee Van Cleef), the Man joins forces with his enemy to capture homicidal Read More
Actors: Bourvil, Henry Fonda, Robert Ryan, Vittorio Gassman, Mario Adorf, Annie Girardot, Peter Van Eyck
Synopsis: La Guerre Secrete is divided into four separate vignettes, each scene representing a day in the life of international espionage agents. Stories involve a secret agent (Vittorio Gassman) who goes undercover as a kidnapper, an attempt to impede a Russian attack on two submarines, and an undercover Read More
Synopsis: In this spy comedy, a jet-setting playboy takes time off from his daredevil endeavors to help a seductive FBI agent save a nuclear scientist from a nefarious megalomaniac with designs on controlling the world. The sexy agent and the playboy are also pursued by a ring of Chinese agents who also Read More
Actors: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Tom Courtenay, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness
Synopsis: Based on the Nobel Prize-winning novel by Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago covers the years prior to, during, and after the Russian Revolution, as seen through the eyes of poet/physician Yuri Zhivago (Omar Sharif). In the tradition of Russian novels, a multitude of characters and subplots Read More
Actors: Götz George, Carl Lange, Heinz Reincke
Synopsis: German director Alfred Vohrer often based his films on popular novels written by the likes of Edgar Wallace and Johannes Mario Simmel. British novelist James Hadley Chase's book Pay or Die was adapted to the screen for this Vohrer action feature. After denying a crime syndicate 100,000 pounds on Read More
Actors: Lex Barker, Pierre Brice, Anthony Steel, Karin Dor, Klaus Kinski
Synopsis: In this western, an entry in the "Winnetou" series based on Germany's Karl May's novels, follows the attempts of two con men to cheat the Apaches out of their oil rights. They are foiled by Old Shatterhand and Winnetou, his Apache partner. The film was made on location in Yugoslavia. ~ Sandra Read More
Synopsis: This mystery is based on an Edgar Wallace tale and centers upon an enigmatic, seemingly supernatural abbot who lives in a tower connected to an abandoned old country manse said to contain a fabulous treasure. It is the black-hooded monk's duty to keep thieves at bay. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More
Actors: Heinz Drache, Barbara Rutting, Gunter Pfitzmann
Synopsis: The German The Squeaker is the third film version of the Edgar Wallace mystery novel of the same name. The title character is an omnipotent "fence" who has cornered the diamond-smuggling racket. The fence travels in polite society under the guise of a wealthy philanthropist. A Scotland Yard Read More
Synopsis: In this suspense film, two heirs visit the isolated estate of their benefactor and find themselves hunted by a strangler with an Indian scarf. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: Fritz Lang had washed his hands of the Dr. Mabuse series with 1960's 1000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse. Thus, the directorial reins of Dr. Mabuse vs. Scotland Yard (Scotland Yard jagt Dr. Mabuse) were in the capable, if not inspired, hands of Paul May. Declared legally dead, the evil, megalomaniac Mabuse Read More
Synopsis: People are being shot with bullets shaped like black widow spiders, and now it's up to London Sensation reporter Welby to track down the killer. When Welby discovers that the leader of an old Mexican expedition was killed by the bite of a black widow, his investigation leads him to the darkest Read More
Actors: William Holden, Lilli Palmer, Hugh Griffith, Ernst Schroeder, Erica Beer, Eva Dahlbeck
Synopsis: In this tense espionage drama set in 1942, William Holden plays Eric Erickson, an American-born Swede who is put on the Allied blacklist for trading oil with the Nazis. Collins (Hugh Griffith), a British intelligence agent, offers to expunge Erickson's name from the blacklist after the war in Read More
Synopsis: In this remake of The Return of the Frog, Scotland Yard investigates a series of murders which take place on the waterfront. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: This West German production is the second film based on the Edgar Wallace novel of the same name (the first was the 1940 Chamber of Horrors). The story -- which owes a great deal to The Cat and the Canary -- concerns the potential heirs to an eccentric's fortune, whose potential wealth (and fate) Read More
Synopsis: In this mystery, a young countess almost loses her life. Investigators soon discover that the attempt is linked to a murder that occurred 20-years ago. The plot is based on an Edgar Wallace story. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Christopher Lee, Marius Goring, Penelope Horner, Ingrid van Bergen, William Lucas
Synopsis: In this detective film, a Chinese detective breaks up a drug smuggling ring and tries to find the "Daffodil Killer." The drug smugglers had devised the ingenious method of smuggling heroin from Hong Kong in the stems of daffodils. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
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
Actors: Karin Baal, Klaus Kinski
Synopsis: Originally titled Die Toten Augen von London, this German melodrama is the second film version of Edgar Wallace's The Testament of Gordon Stewart. The story centers on a seemingly kindly blind man who covertly controls a sinister criminal organization comprised of sightless henchmen. Actually, he Read More
Synopsis: If you're into stories about disgruntled postal employees, you'll probably get an extra kick out of the gory German melodrama The Avenger. The "hero" is a criminal who uses the European mail services to (literally) dispatch his victims. First he slices off the heads of his enemies. Then he neatly Read More
Actors: John Gavin, Liselotte Pulver, Keenan Wynn, Erich Maria Remarque, Don DeFore, Thayer David, Jock Mahoney
Synopsis: Douglas Sirk directed this doomed World War II love story, seen from the German side of the war, as filtered through a distinctly late-'50s Hollywood banality. The film is based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque, the author of the classic World War I anti-war novel All Quiet On the Western Read More
Actors: Elisabeth Müller, Hannelore Schroth
Synopsis: Gellebte Corinna (Beloved Corinna) was adapted from a novel by Robert Pilchowski. The title character is played by Swiss leading lady Elizabeth Mueller, whose second film this was. An impressionable country girl, Corinna follows her urban lover (Hans Soehnker) to the Big City, only to discover Read More
Actors: Ingrid Bergman, Mathias Wiemann, Renate Mannhardt, Kurt Kreuger, Elise Aulinger
Synopsis: Roberto Rossellini directs his then-wife Ingrid Bergman in the suspenseful drama La Paura (Fear), based on the book by Stefan Zweig. Guilt-stricken Irene Wagner (Bergman) is forced to hide her secret affair with Erich Baumann (Kurt Kreuger) from her husband, Professor Albert Wagner (Mathias Read More
Synopsis: Klaus Kinski stars in this World War II tale of a well-known clairvoyant who is forced, not altogether unwillingly, to collaborate with the Nazis. This film was remade with the same name in 1988, with Klaus Maria Brandauer in the title role. ~ Brian Gusse, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: O.W. Fischer, Ruth Leuwerik, Marianne Koch, Paul Bildt, Friedrich Domin
Synopsis: O. W. Fischer stars as Ludwig II, the "mad king" of Bavaria. The film downplays some of Ludwig's most outrageous eccentricities, concentrating instead on his fascination with the Arts. The King's particular favorite in this realm is composer Richard Wagner, played by Paul Bildt. Ludwig's obsession Read More
Actors: Richard Basehart, Gary Merrill, Oskar Werner, Hildegarde Neff, Dominique Blanchar, O.E. Hasse
Synopsis: With the Third Reich disintegrating, several members of the German army are defecting to the Americans and offering their services as spies. US officer Gary Merrill trusts none of these last-minute "converts", but German prisoner Oskar Werner seems to be sincere. Werner insists that by helping the Read More
Synopsis: When his family is killed because of him, an amnesiac attempts to go after the responsible party, but cannot seem to remember anything. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More
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