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1990
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Much of 1919 takes place in 1984, but the spectre of that year looms large over the proceedings. Paul Scofield and...
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Sophie Rubin
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1984
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This lavish retelling of the story of the Hebrew strong man and history's most famous lady barber was based in part on the...
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1984
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The two-part TV movie Inside the Third Reich was based on the extraordinary revelatory (if self-serving) autobiographical...
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1982
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A man's tragic past leads him to take justice into his own hands in this troubling look at life in Europe after WWII. Max...
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1982
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The intertwined lives of people of both Polish and German extraction who live on the pre-World War II border between the two...
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Valeska
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1979
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Originally made for television as a sequel to the classic Lilies of the Field, this film concerns an ex-soldier turned...
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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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Mutti
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1979
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1979
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1978
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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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1976
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Maria Schell guest stars as a East European nun who arrives in New York accompanied by a countryman named Toza (Herb...
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1976
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Often described as "Ship of Fools with a conscience," Voyage of the Damned is based on a true story. In 1939, the Nazis...
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1976
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1975
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1974
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The Odessa File is set in Hamburg in the winter of 1963. Jon Voight plays Peter Miller, a German reporter who is...
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Frau Miller
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1974
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1974
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1973
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This erotic horror film from cult director Jesus Franco is based on the witch-hunting exploits of Lord Chief Justice Jeffreys...
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Mother Rosa
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1970
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An eccentric family in need of money turns their crumbling chateau into a hotel in order to renovate the old place. Repairs...
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Diane
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1969
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Jesus Franco's campy women's prison film, though both stereotypical and rare to find in its original version, is worthwhile...
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Leoni
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1969
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1969
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A flamboyant, scatterbrained divorced woman allows a pompous composer to use her home to finish his unfinished symphony. He...
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Agnes
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1963
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This light comedy concerns psychiatrist Lilli Koenig (Maria Schell). Her practice revolves around idle, wealthy women with...
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Lilli Koenig
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1962
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Guy Green's social drama stars Stuart Whitman as the title character, a man whose unhealthy childhood has left him bewildered...
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Mrs. Ruth Leighton
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1961
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1961
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This drama provides an account of an honorable German soldier during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. A German soldier is...
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1960
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The petty tyrannies and misunderstandings that lead to war are the focus of this conventional, multi-national action film by...
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Mana
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1960
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The Oklahoma land rush of 1889 provides the starting point for this western drama, based on a novel by Edna Ferber. Yancey...
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Sabra Cravet
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1960
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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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Mana
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1959
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Gary Cooper plays a frontier doctor with a checkered past who works in a rowdy Montana mining camp. Cooper falls in love with...
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Elizabeth Mahler
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1959
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Schinderhannes is the legendary Robin Hood of Germany, a thief who did not focus on robbing from the rich but on defeating...
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Julchen
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1959
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Dostoyevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov is given a Hollywood screen treatment by producer Pandro S. Berman and director...
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Grushenka
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1958
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A Life is based on a novel by Guy De Mauppasant. Maria Schell plays Jeanne, who enters into a loveless marriage with...
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Jeanne Dandieu
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1958
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Natalia
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1957
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1956
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Emile Zola's obscure novel entitled "L'Assommoir" has been made into several films. This is one of the best. In this two hour...
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Gervaise Macquart
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1956
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West Germany's entry in the 1957 Cannes Film Festival was this cinemadaptation of the Gerhardt Hauptman play Rose Bernd. The...
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Rose Bernd
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1956
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Showing no signs of slowing down in his 70th year, Sacha Guitry served as director and writer of the lavish historical epic...
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1955
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The popularity of Maria Schell continued on its upward course via the 1955 drama Herr Ueber Leben und Todd (Master Over Life...
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1955
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Pauline Karka
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1955
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In this German drama, a mediocre actress is quite happy to have a steady stream of bit movie roles. Unfortunately, an...
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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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Helga Reinbeck
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1954
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Angelika
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1954
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1953
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Heart of the Matter is a faithful if somewhat austere adaptation of the same-named novel by Graham Greene. Set in Sierra...
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Helen Rolt
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1953
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1953
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In this German-language romantic drama, Elisabeth (Maria Schell) tries to make it to her husband's (O.W. Fischer) performance...
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1953
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So Little Time takes so much time to tell its thinnish story. The scene is Nazi-occupied Belgium. Maria Schell plays a proud...
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Nicole de Malvines
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1952
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1952
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The Magic Box was the English film industry's contribution to the 1951 Festival of Britain. Its all-star cast generously...
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Helena Friese-Greene
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1951
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1950
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Anna Linden
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1950
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Nach dem Sturm (After the Storm) is based on a story by the prolific Carl Zuckmeyer. Shortly after VE day, Austrian girl...
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1948
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1948
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