Ferdy Mayne
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1916-03-11
Locus Natus: Mainz, Germany
Et ut: Ferdinand Mayne, Ferdinand Philip Mayer-Horckel, Ferdie Mayne
The Formula
While investigating the death of a friend and fellow cop, Los Angeles police officer Barney Caine stumbles across evidence that Nazis created a...
release : 1980.12.19popularis : 4.607
The Fearless Vampire Killers
A noted professor and his dim-witted apprentice fall prey to their inquiring vampires, while on the trail of the ominous damsel in distress.
release : 1967.11.13popularis : 13.063
Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story
The life and tragic death of the "Playboy" centerfold model/actress Dorothy Stratten.
release : 1981.11.01popularis : 4.239
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
In order to boost circulation of his newspaper, Lord Rawnsley announces an air race and offers £10,000 to the first person who can fly across...
release : 1965.06.16popularis : 14.8
Where Eagles Dare
World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the Schloss Adler, a Bavarian castle that's nearly...
release : 1968.12.04popularis : 17.877
My Lovely Monster
A silent film character is stuck in a German theater and wants to return to his film.
release : 1991.02.16popularis : 1.278
The Exchange Student
Monsieur Bosquier, the owner of a private school, is far from pleased when his eldest son, Philippe, fails his end of year exams. He decides to send...
release : 1967.12.01popularis : 9.004
The Vampire Lovers
In the heart of Styria the Karnstein Family, even after their mortal deaths, rise from their tombs spreading evil in the countryside in their lust...
release : 1970.10.04popularis : 8.011
The Black Stallion Returns
"Black" is a stunning fire-and-silk stallion celebrated the world over. But to his young American owner, Alec Ramsay, he's much more. So, when the...
release : 1983.03.25popularis : 8.216
Our Man in Havana
Jim Wormold is an expatriate Englishman living in pre-revolutionary Havana with his teenage daughter Milly. He owns a vacuum cleaner shop but...
release : 1960.01.27popularis : 8.893
Hawk the Slayer
Hawk the Slayer, after seeing both his father and bride die at the hands of his malevolent brother, Voltan, sets out for revenge and the chance to...
release : 1980.08.27popularis : 6.063
Joe: The Busybody
A writer accidentally shoots his blackmailer and tries to hide the body.
release : 1971.08.31popularis : 9.919
The Blue Parrot
'Rocks' Owen, the well-off owner of a car-hire business, is found murdered; the last place he was seen alive was the Blue Parrot nightclub. Scotland...
release : 1953.10.01popularis : 1.106
The Pirate
An Israeli man, raised by a wealthy and powerful Arab, comes into conflict with his heritage when he is entrusted with managing his country's oil...
release : 1978.11.21popularis : 3.708
The Man Who Watched Trains Go By
A meek teller thinks he's killed his boss. He flees with a box of cash hoping for a new life with his younger mistress.
release : 1952.12.01popularis : 5.729
The Captain's Paradise
Mediterranean ferryboat captain Henry St James has things well organized - a loving and very English wife Maud in Gibraltar, and the loving if rather...
release : 1953.09.28popularis : 2.347
Roadhouse Girl
A middle-aged garage owner's life is turned upside down when his new mechanics gets it on with his sexy younger wife.
release : 1953.11.01popularis : 1.778
Three Sundays to Live
Band leader Frank Martin is convicted and sentenced to death for murdering the owner of a club in which he had performed. Frank's innocent of the...
release : 1957.10.01popularis : 1.223
Frightmare
Drama students decide to pay tribute to their favorite horror star by stealing his body from his crypt for a farewell party. They fail to realize...
release : 1981.09.09popularis : 5.276
The Vampire Happening
An American actress inherits a castle in Transylvania. What she doesn't know is that her ancestor, the Baroness Catali, was in actuality a vampire...
release : 1971.06.04popularis : 2.698
The End of the Line
The wife of a night club owner frames an American writer for his murder.
release : 1957.12.01popularis : 1.073
Tommy the Toreador
Tommy is a happy sailor, travelling the world, singing his favourite songs. When he visits Spain, he gets mistaken for a famous bullfighter. Tommy...
release : 1959.12.21popularis : 7.176
The Big Chance
A clerk sees his big chance to escape a humdrum existence, but his resolve is tested as many unexpected obstacles arise.
release : 1957.09.01popularis : 0.921
Malaga
A female former OSS agent is sent to Tangiers, Morocco, to infiltrate and destroy an international smuggling ring.
release : 1954.06.24popularis : 1.906
Third Party Risk
Vacationing at a resort hotel in Spain, a man discovers he is the only one not mixed up one way or another in murder, drugs and microfilm smuggling....
release : 1954.10.08popularis : 2.532
The Glass Cage
A circus barker stages a sensational new act, the world's longest fast undertaken by “Sapolio”, on view in a glass cage. But this act...
release : 1955.04.15popularis : 3.457
The Bobo
Unsuccessful singing bullfighter Juan arrives in Barcelona to try his luck in a big town. He finally persuades a devious local impresario to book...
release : 1967.03.31popularis : 2.989
The Walking Stick
A young woman's highly ordered and structured life is turned upside-down when she meets a handsome stranger at a party. Friendship soon develops into...
release : 1970.04.15popularis : 8.613
Perilous Assignment
"Perilous Assignment" is an episode of ABC's Walt Disney Presents. Disney loved to show viewers behind the scenes of the daring shoots of its...
release : 1959.11.06popularis : 1.262
No One Will Notice You're Naked
Rosario Trapanese is determined to show he is not the typical old-fashion Sicilian. When his firm sends him to Denmark, a more sexual liberated...
release : 1971.08.12popularis : 3.339
Mrs. Harris fährt nach Monte Carlo
A comedy directed by Franz Josef Gottlieb.
release : 1989.02.22popularis : 0.574
Gates to Paradise
In 1212, a Children's Crusade is launched after a young shepherd, Jacques de Cloyes, claims to have had a vision in which it is said that the...
release : 1968.05.31popularis : 6.035
The Green Helmet
After suffering a near fatal accident in his last race over the hill, top British race car driver Greg Rafferty, is about to call it quits when he...
release : 1961.04.20popularis : 0.649
3 Steps to the Gallows
A U.S. sailor (Scott Brady) docks in London and in three days tries to save his brother from the gallows.
release : 1953.12.01popularis : 2.14
Prelude to Fame
While vacationing in Italy, Nick Morell, son of John Morell, a famous English philosopher and amateur musician and his wife Catherine, becomes...
release : 1950.05.02popularis : 0.705
Freud: The Secret Passion
An examination of Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud's career when he began to treat patients diagnosed with hysteria, using the radical technique...
release : 1962.12.12popularis : 5.331
Meet Sexton Blake
The famous detective and his trusty side-kick, Tinker, are called in by the War Office to find some important papers that were stolen from a man...
release : 1945.02.05popularis : 1.21
Three Spare Wives
A man inherits a harem of three wives from his late uncle, which he brings home to his real wife in England. British comedy from 1962.
release : 1962.01.01popularis : 1.552
Cairo Road
In colonial Egypt, a British police officer sets out on a daring hunt for drug smuggling gangs operating along the notorious Cairo Road.
release : 1950.06.21popularis : 1.204
Die Reise nach Wien
Two women during WW2 living in a Hunsrück village embark on a trip to Vienna.
release : 1973.09.26popularis : 0.693
Das Schweigen im Walde
The young Count Ettingen leads a dissolute life in Munich with the demanding Baroness Prankha at his side. To finance his life, he has his uncle cut...
release : 1976.10.13popularis : 1.079
Third Man on the Mountain
Third Man on the Mountain is an American film directed by Ken Annakin and produced by Walt Disney Productions, released in 1959. It is adapted from a...
release : 1959.11.10popularis : 4.431
Yellowbeard
For years Yellowbeard had looted the Spanish Main, making men eat their lips and swallow their hearts. Caught and convicted for tax evasion, he's...
release : 1983.06.24popularis : 10.096
The Echo Murders
Detective Sexton Blake takes on Nazi spies while solving a series of crimes.
release : 1945.12.17popularis : 1.329
Highway to Battle
Months before the out break of WWII, suspicion falls on a German ambassador when one of his envoys fails to return to Berlin. The arrival of two...
release : 1961.05.21popularis : 0.924
You Pay Your Money
Crime drama in which a couple get involved in a web of intrigue surrounding the husband's employer.
release : 1957.02.13popularis : 1.793
Hotel Sahara
World War II farce about the hotel of the title
release : 1951.07.09popularis : 2.487
The Persuaders!
Two episodes of the TV series "The Persuaders" joined into a movie. Two playboys, Brett Sinclair (Roger Moore) and Danny Wilde (Tony Curtis),...
release : 1973.04.01popularis : 2.285
Celia: The Sinister Affair of Poor Aunt Nora
An actress, urged by her detective boyfriend, takes a job as housekeeper for a wealthy elderly woman. The woman's new young husband claims she's ill...
release : 1949.08.29popularis : 1.868
Die Spur führt ins Verderben
Edgar Allen Poe fanatic and literature professor Dudley (Heinz Hoenig) is an extraordinary chamber scholar, in whose life the mysterious Annabel...
release : 1993.01.01popularis : 0.883
The Best House in London
In Victorian London, the British Government attempts a solution to the problem of prostitution by establishing the world's most fabulous brothel.
release : 1969.01.01popularis : 4.101
An Outpost of Progress
A dramatic adaptation of a literary classic by Joseph Conrad, exploring universal themes dealing with individual morality and the responsibility of...
release : 1982.10.01popularis : 0.825
The Broken Horseshoe
When a hit and run patient is murdered an attending doctor is placed under suspicion.
release : 1953.01.10popularis : 1.482
Cross-Roads
A ghost returns from the grave to seek revenge.
release : 1955.02.01popularis : 1.89
Deadly Record
A young airline pilot wrongly accused of murdering his unfaithful wife searches for the real killer.
release : 1959.06.01popularis : 0.871
The Tigress
It's the roaring twenties in Berlin. The Tigress, a gorgeous, wild, and very independent street walker, falls for a handsome grifter. When one of her...
release : 1992.10.15popularis : 3.404
Ben-Hur
In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of...
release : 1959.11.18popularis : 39.104
The Music Machine
At a famous London disco venue, a competition is announced to select two dancers to star in a new film.
release : 1979.05.01popularis : 1.456
The Eagle Has Landed
When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious...
release : 1976.12.24popularis : 14.759
The Tell-Tale Heart
A man is sitting in a padded cell. He remembers how he got there. Munich in the run-up to Christmas: The loner roams the city, has abnormal ideas...
release : 1979.12.27popularis : 0.702
Next to No Time
Unassuming planning engineer David Webb finds himself on the Queen Elizabeth to New York with instructions to negotiate a high-powered loan. His lack...
release : 1958.08.04popularis : 2.629
The Password Is Courage
Sergeant-Major Charles Coward, a brave British soldier is captured by German forces during World War II. When he's thrown into a prisoner of war...
release : 1962.06.01popularis : 3.25
Red
A painter is entertained by a group of 3 troubadours.
release : 1976.12.01popularis : 1.412
The Magic Christian
Sir Guy Grand, the richest man in the world, adopts a homeless man, Youngman. Together, they set out to prove that anyone--and anything--can be...
release : 1969.12.12popularis : 5.945
Storm Over the Nile
In 1885, while his regiment is sent to the Sudan to battle the rebellious Dervish tribes, British Lieutenant Harry Faversham resigns his officer's...
release : 1955.12.26popularis : 3.501
One Night with You
Two strangers meet when they both miss their trains, and end up spending a penniless day and night together. An English version of 'It Happened One...
release : 1948.04.25popularis : 1.28
Blue Murder at St. Trinian's
With their headmistress under lock and key in her majesty's prison, the St Trinian's girls find themselves under the protection of the army. However,...
release : 1957.12.01popularis : 3.138
Howling II: Stirba - Werewolf Bitch
When a young journalist dies in violent circumstances, her brother soon learns, by way of the mysterious Stefan Crosscoe, that his sister has...
release : 1985.08.28popularis : 8.495
Call from Space
A movie director and his wanna-be actor/eccentric inventor nephew are filming a low-budget sci-fi movie. Things get interesting when the nephews'...
release : 1989.01.01popularis : 1.175
Freckled Max and the Spooks
A parody of Frankensteinian stories. It is a story of a little boy, an orphan who arrives at the Castle of Count Frankenstein - a world inhabited by...
release : 1987.10.17popularis : 2.115
Warlock: The Armageddon
Every six hundred years, a great evil has the opportunity to escape and unleash Armageddon. A group of five stones has the power to either free the...
release : 1993.05.01popularis : 10.563
Find the Lady
During New Year's Eve, a young model spends the day searching for her grandmother, who has suspiciously gone missing.
release : 1956.10.01popularis : 1.036
Au Pair Girls
Four sexy young foreign girls come to England as au pairs and quickly become quite intimate with their employers, host families, and just about...
release : 1972.07.01popularis : 6.234
When Eight Bells Toll
In a vein similar to Bond movies, a British agent Philip Calvert is on a mission to determine the whereabouts of a ship that disappeared near the...
release : 1971.03.09popularis : 5.335
The Killers Within
A man must track down the reasons behind his brother's mysterious death, and uncovers a secret neo-Nazi group headed by a powerful congressman.
release : 1995.01.01popularis : 1.981
Operation Crossbow
Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant. The film alternates between...
release : 1965.04.01popularis : 7.281
The Narrowing Circle
A journalist is framed for the murder of a rival and has to prove his innocence, whatever the cost.
release : 1956.02.29popularis : 1.269
Beautiful Stranger
An ex-chorus girl lives on the Riviera, supported by a married man she doesn't know is a crook.
release : 1954.07.13popularis : 3.596
Magdalene
Father Joseph Mohr, a newly appointed priest in the town of Oberndorf (near Salzburg), meets the beautiful prostitute Magdalene. He struggles to...
release : 1988.11.25popularis : 3.016
Chief Zabu
An outrageous social comedy about a New York realtor who dreams of having political influence by taking over a new Polynesian nation.
release : 2016.10.28popularis : 3.027
Benefit of the Doubt
Twenty two years earlier, Karen helped convict her father, Frank, for the murder of her mother. With his new freedom, thanks to parole, Frank returns...
release : 1993.06.17popularis : 4.876
The Hit Man
When a desperate kid tries to steal the car of a famous movie director to help his family pay their debt to a predatory lender, the director and his...
release : 1991.06.29popularis : 2.673
The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud
Screwball account of the legendary psychologist's life leading up to his ground-breaking theories.
release : 1984.01.01popularis : 3.063
Pirates
The adventures of pirate Captain Red and his first mate Frog.
release : 1986.05.08popularis : 12.795
A Friendship in Vienna
Inge Dournenvald and Lise Mueller are best friends in pre-WW2 Austria, despite the fact that Inge is Jewish and Lise is the daughter of a Nazi...
release : 1988.08.27popularis : 0.937
Wallenberg: A Hero's Story
The story of Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat responsible for saving thousands of lives from the Nazi Holocaust.
release : 1985.04.07popularis : 2.576
In the Shadow of the Sandcastle
The ex-cop Robin kills an actor and steals his money and cocaine. And now he is supposed to find the killer together with an interpol inspector. To...
release : 1996.10.20popularis : 2.267
Longshot
When one of the foosball team members is injured, a 14-year-old girl takes the champion's place.
release : 1981.01.01popularis : 3.063
To the Bitter End
15 years ago Paul Jordan was a star in Hollywood musicals. But then he retired from showbiz and married the rich Joan. Now, after being dependent on...
release : 1975.10.22popularis : 1.691
Evita Peron
Aspiring actress Eva Duarte rises from a minor celebrity to the wife of a powerful Argentine dictator, but her all consuming fiery rage, ambition,...
release : 1981.02.23popularis : 6.707
Conan the Destroyer
Conan is commissioned by the evil queen Taramis to safely escort a teen princess and her powerful bodyguard to a far away castle to retrieve the...
release : 1984.06.29popularis : 24.437
Revenge of the Pink Panther
Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau is dead. At least that is what the world—and Charles Dreyfus—believe when a dead body is discovered in...
release : 1978.01.08popularis : 10.837
Old Mother Riley Overseas
Mrs. Riley is tricked out of her license for a pub and joins her daughter in Portugal.
release : 1943.06.01popularis : 1.296
Generale - Anatomie der Marneschlacht
The movie depicts the events from July until September of 1914 which led to the defeat of the German troops at the Marne. While Sebastian Haffner...
release : 1977.04.28popularis : 1.226
The Spider's Web
Mystery film based on an Agatha Christie story.
release : 1960.11.01popularis : 3.038
A Man Called Intrepid
During World War II, a wealthy Canadian uses his own money to help the Allies form an espionage network.
release : 1979.05.07popularis : 2.558
Fedora
An ambitious Hollywood hustler becomes involved with a reclusive female star, whom he tries to lure out of retirement.
release : 1978.06.29popularis : 5.933
Barry Lyndon
An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century England, transforming himself from the humble Redmond...
release : 1975.12.18popularis : 17.431
Knight Moves
A chess grandmaster is in a big tournament, and when his lover is found painted up and the blood drained out of her body he becomes a chief suspect....
release : 1992.01.14popularis : 7.733
Broken Journey
A plane flying over the Swiss Alps develops engine trouble and is forced to crash-land on a glacier. Unable to radio for help because of damaged...
release : 1948.04.14popularis : 1.682
It's Trad, Dad!
The hero and heroine want to popularize a trad jazz in their town. Some older people feel displeased about a trad jazz, and prevent their trying. The...
release : 1962.03.30popularis : 0.977
Vote for Huggett
A firm of solicitors do battle with the head of the local council over a parcel of river front land, owned by the Huggett family, in order to build a...
release : 1949.02.01popularis : 1.503
Group Madness
A behind-the-scenes documentary of the making of 1983's Yellowbeard
release : 1983.06.11popularis : 2.378
Hot Chili
A group of American teenage boys goes south of the border to work for the summer at a Mexican resort. There they encounter many wacky guests and have...
release : 1985.07.31popularis : 3.423
Innocent Bystanders
Washed-up agent John Craig is given the task of proving his worth by tracking down a Russian scientist on the run. Cross and double-cross is the name...
release : 1972.09.01popularis : 3.698
A Woman of Mystery
UK mystery about a reporter investigating the suicide of a seemingly insignificant hatcheck girl.
release : 1958.04.21popularis : 0.547
Encore
Encore is a 1951 anthology film composed of adaptations of three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham: "The Ant and the Grasshopper", directed by...
release : 1951.06.11popularis : 2.215
Night Train to Terror
God and Satan are on a train discussing the fate of three individuals. The stories of the people in question are told in a trio of very strange...
release : 1985.05.01popularis : 3.823
The Adventurers
The wealthy playboy son of an assassinated South American diplomat discovers that his father was murdered on orders of the corrupt president of the...
release : 1970.03.25popularis : 6.544
The Big Money
Petty thief Willie Frith steals a suitcase full of bank notes, only to find out that they have been given all the same serial number. But this is...
release : 1958.06.09popularis : 3.641
Crossroads to Crime
Crossroads to Crime is about the investigations of a police constable (Anthony Oliver) who, working undercover without support from his colleagues,...
release : 1960.11.01popularis : 1.662
Venetian Bird
Private eye Edward Mercer travels to Venice to locate a man due a reward for his aid in the war. Shortly after arriving, he becomes the prime suspect...
release : 1952.10.01popularis : 2.439
English Without Tears
While Lady Christabel Beauclark, a bird fancier, is scurrying about demanding certain territorial rights for British birds from other countries, Her...
release : 1944.07.28popularis : 2.139
Shadow of Treason
Steve, newly arrived in Trieste, saves Tina from being shot in her own night-club. She engages him as a bodyguard come detective, giving him a list...
release : 1963.06.01popularis : 2.251
Von Richthofen and Brown
Spend time on both sides of World War I, partly with German flying ace Baron Manfred Von Richthofen (John Phillip Law), aka "The Red Baron," and his...
release : 1971.06.30popularis : 5.915
The Limbo Line
The Limbo Line tells a story of Cold War double-crossing with British secret agent Manston trying to break up a group of Russian agents who return...
release : 1969.03.03popularis : 2.316
The Baby and the Battleship
After a quayside mix-up with the Italian family of his fiancée, Able Seaman Knocker White finds himself literally left holding the baby....
release : 1956.06.01popularis : 4
Abandon Ship
After a massive luxury liner sinks into the ocean, the ship's officer must command a rickety lifeboat, built for only nine, that is stuffed with over...
release : 1957.03.12popularis : 5.254
Warn That Man
At the height of World War II, the Germans discover that a certain British personage is to stay at the country house of Lord Buckley. They devise a...
release : 1943.07.13popularis : 1.147
Value for Money
A wealthy young man from Yorkshire visits a London nightclub and meets a performer. She decides to take him for every penny he is worth, and he...
release : 1955.08.09popularis : 2.304
The Magic Carpet
A short documentary feature with Marius Goring and Ferdy Mayne.
release : 1956.01.01popularis : 1.304
The Divided Heart
During World War II, a German woman, Inga, goes missing and is presumed dead. Her infant son is placed in an orphanage where, years later, he's...
release : 1954.11.09popularis : 2.638
Promise Her Anything
A widowed mother decides to go after the child psychologist she works for because she thinks he'll be able to provide for her toddler, the catch is...
release : 1966.02.22popularis : 3.683
All Hallowe'en
A woman falls in love with a ghost on All Hallows Eve.
release : 1953.08.01popularis : 0.332