Mario Adorf

Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his mother, Agnes, Oskar is reluctant to enter a world...

After trying to smuggle a package into prison for his father Willi, Harry and his girlfriend Marlies also end up in jail. While Harry is billeted...

Germany in the autumn of 1957: Lola, a seductive cabaret singer-prostitute exults in her power as a temptress of men, but she wants out—she...

Momo is a young orphan girl who lives in the ruins of an old Roman amphitheater and becomes friends with everybody in the neighborhood. But when a...

In this delightful romantic comedy, four beautiful women attempt to deal with their sexual frustrations in fashionable Rome society.

A former sheriff begins to persecute the gang led by Pedro Ortiz, after his wife is taken away.

The construction of the Great Western Railroad creates heavy conflict between the railway company and neighboring Indian tribes. Worse, criminal gang...

West Germany in '50s is becoming an economic superpower. In such climate, Rosemarie is just one of many enterpreneurs who wants her piece of new...

After a chance encounter with a wanted man, a woman is harassed by the police and press until she takes violent action.

Ten strangers are invited as weekend guests to a remote mountain mansion. When the host doesn't show up, the guests start dying, one by one, in...

An American writer living in Rome witnesses an attempted murder that is connected to an ongoing killing spree in the city, and conducts his own...

An American adventurer who has a gambling den in Istanbul, who is suspected to be involved in the kidnapping of a nuclear scientist, but ultimately...

In this sun soaked adventure for the entire family, a group of five orphaned children form their own makeshift family while attempting to operate...

Hud Dixon returns to his hometown when his brother is killed by a lynch mob.

Italian Francesco ( Mario Adorf ) runs a restaurant in Cologne , partnership is the brewer Zach ( Willy Millowitsch ) . Francesco has problems : a "...

Filli and the cavemen from "When Women Had Tails" are living a carefree life inside a dinosaur skeleton. But when conman Ham introduces them to the...

Torn by personal guilt, Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic expedition aboard the airship Italia.

A domestic house cat named Francis investigates the grisly feline murders taking place in his new neighborhood.

Smilla Jaspersen, half Danish, half Greenlander, attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apartment building....

While an admiral's son is hunted by secret agents, his sister plays his part on a warship.

Zigeuner is on the hunt for the woman of his dreams, a woman who should also play the main role in the film. Meanwhile, ruthless producer Oskar...

Just out of prison, ex-con Ugo Piazza meets his former employer, a psychopathic gangster Rocco who enjoys sick violence and torture. Both the...

In New Zealand, a scientist, his family and down-on-his-luck investigator are trying to prove that the beaching of the local whale population is...

During the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious troop of Army regulars, Confederate prisoners and scouts on...

Documentary about the history of German television.

Germany in Autumn does not have a plot per se; it mixes documentary footage, along with standard movie scenes, to give the audience the mood of...

When a shipment of heroin disappears between Italy and New York, a small-time pimp in Milan is framed for the theft. Two professional hitmen are...

Pasquale and Maria, husband and wife, live in a palace supposedly haunted by ghosts and pay no rent. When Pasquale finds some food in the cupboard he...

How the Italian Fascist Party managed to turn the physical elimination of a political enemy into a test of strength fundamental for the ascent into...

An American journalist in Prague searches for his girlfriend who has suddenly disappeared.

Portrayal of a talented, influencial and troubled artist: a filmmaker who fought his own demons and seemed to live his own legend like no other...

Life in the barracks, drill, harassment, and private Asch′s pranks are the ingredients of Hans Hellmut Kirst′s successful novel "08/15"...

Around the year 1500, the Italian priest Don Filippo Neri helps street kids and orphans in his poor little chapel.

Two brothers fell in love with the same woman, who was nearly killed by one of them in an accident. After the two men parted in anger, they meet...

An ambitious Hollywood hustler becomes involved with a reclusive female star, whom he tries to lure out of retirement.

One of Europe's most beloved folk tale hero, Jester Till is the ultimate prankster embodying the simple wisdom and earthy humor of medieval European...

A bullied young boy befriends a flying, talking moose that crashed through his ceiling after a test-flight with Santa went terribly awry in this...

Otello Morsiani, a north-eastern-italian lawyer, takes the job of estimating land holdings on the Po Delta, which are intended to be expropriated to...

During a wave of political violence in Italy, a policeman who's already survived an assassination is assigned to act as a bodyguard to a morally...

The life of St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) as related by followers who gather after his death to tell stories so that Leone can record them: a...

Expatriate Henry Miller indulges in a variety of sexual escapades while struggling to establish himself as a serious writer in Paris.

A pair of Americans want to perform the greatest robbery: the treasure of San Genaro, in Napoli.

In pre-WWI Austria-Hungary, a physician struggles with his decision about which woman will he marry.

Certain that "the right man" is crucial to her escaping the confines of the Italian village where she lives, Pina places an ad in the newspaper. She...

After pulling off a bank robbery two bandits meet in a deserted mining town to divide their loot but an old miner tries to steal it from them.

Bertone is a moderately honest homicide cop. Unfortunately, the court system is so inept and corrupt that many more-or-less honest policemen have...

The enthusiasms, fears, joys and disappointments of the (private and professional) life of a well-known group of boys fond of physics and...

Giacinto Rossi, a poor driver up to his neck in debt, is imprisoned for simulated crime. He finds himself in a cell with Tagliabue, an unscrupulous...

Hamburg, Germany, 1944, during World War II. A serial killer terrorizes the city. When it seems clear that the local police are unable to catch him,...

Professor Preobrazhensky puts courageous experiences, trying to turn a dog in equal to in all of the person. As a result somebody turns out Doggies....

Set in the greek island Milos, this action comedy follows a group of people searching for the actual Venus de Milo

The bandit Pratt, looking for Tim, who is responsible for the death of his two sons, attacks a caravan killing all the passengers. Harry, the...

Werner von Basil, a Austrian intellectual, was captured by the Nazis in 1938. They want to break him to confess smuggling. Without any mental...

The film features several horse trainers and other track workers talking about their roles at the track, always eventually interrupted by an older...

A 14-year-old girl is caught while trying to pick a doctor's pocket. The doctor ends up taking her in and turning her into a sophisticated lady, whom...

A beautiful blonde joins a small group of men running an oil station in the Sahara Desert and starts the emotions soaring.

In the middle of a war between two kingdoms queen died tragically while giving birth to her third daughter. The king wanted a male heir to his throne...

Italian Made-for-TV film by Alberto Negrin.

A doctor disbarred for euthanasia is called in by a man to help his son, who has been depressed since the suicide of his partner. But in the dead...

The story follows two simple as well as incorrigible petty crooks, who always fail spectacularly in search of the big coup.

A young man whose father's fortune was stolen by his closest friends sets out to get revenge in this odyssey through the world's major financial...

Based on the novel by Friedrich Gerstäcker, the film, set entirely in the state of Arkansas, tells of the conflict of interests between the...

Perez kidnaps the President's daughter to trade her for imprisoned revolutionaries.

Dr. Fritz Böhler is a prisoner of war doctor in the Soviet POW camp 5110/47 near Stalingrad. Despite the harshest conditions, he tries to help...

Antonio (Enrico Salimbeni) may not have been the most energetic waiter in the most popular restaurant in this unfashionable Adriatic tourist town,...

After his twin sister is killed in an accident, her distraught brother jams her corpse in a cello case and hits the road.

After a line of mischief Philip Gale, an American sailor, is lured into hiring on the "Yorikke", a tramp cargo, by Lawski, a stoker from Poland....

A discredited police inspector is given a second chance, in the form of a dangerous assignment. Chosen because of his uncanny resemblance to a Lt....

Taking place almost entirely during a murder trial, the film details in significant detail the deep roots sunk by organised crime into the business...

Luca Manzi is a fourteen year old boy when the Northern Italy Republic of Salò is governed by the Fascists. He becomes a partisan but when the...

The celebration of Joachim 'Blacky' Fuchsberger's 80th birthday. A biographical documentary.

In a luxurious cruise a woman recognizes the voice of the man who killed her husband 50 years ago during World War II. The reunion brings bitter...

A group of four outlaws led by Abel Dragna Fraserville decide to settle in a small, civilized and peaceful town of 1,200 inhabitants in which even...

The history of a family, in the film business now for three generations, behind and in front of the camera. The film is not only a foray through the...

Four aging animals, a dog, a cat, a donkey and a rooster escape from their former homes because they weren't as productive and useful for their...

The world's most loved fairy tale is back in a whole new fantastic imagining in Pinocchio. When a piece of pine-wood falls into the hands of the poor...

Anthology film about a night at airport Berlin-Tempelhof. Due to fog passengers can't leave Berlin by plane and struggle to find other ways out of...

London, in 1730. Charly, Jim and Ben work hard, with the brave Maud, in a cotton mill to earn a few shillings. They all dream of the wonderful island...

Bruno Stiegler, a boxing promoter with a disreputable past, returns from America to Berlin to make some big things again with his friends. Fatally,...

The third part of Paul May′s "08/15" trilogy based on the novel by Hans Hellmut Kirst takes place shortly before the end of World War II: In...

Winter 1942: Like thousands of other German soldiers, Asch and Vierbein have ended up at the Eastern front. Although Vierbein finds a new friend in...

A motorcycle gang in post-war Germany wreaks havok on a town, until one of their members begins to have second thoughts after a run-in with the...

Based on a novel by Vladimir Nabokov, this English-language satirical drama details the experiences of Frank (John Moulder Brown), a young orphan who...

A pair of mismatched cops stumble onto a major protection racket involving a seedy restaurant.

The young Marion is arrested by the police for pimping, prostitution and indecent exposure. Reporter Axel Rottmann sense a lucrative story for his...

Edgar Burgman, after collaborating to assassinate the elder senator husband of Alice Young, the wife remarried. The woman, after a short period,...

Two women during WW2 living in a Hunsrück village embark on a trip to Vienna.

Based on the true story of Benjamin Prufer and Sreykeo Solvan. The unexpected and uncertain love story of Sreykeo, a 21 year old bar girl in Phnom...

A U.S. intelligence general recalls three Cold War cases of Soviet, French and Italian spies.

by joseph sargent

French docu-drama which chronicles the chain of events that lead to the hanging of German-journalist Richard Sorge, who was executed in 1944 after he...

Did an 18-year-old immigrant from the slums murder his father in cold blood? The twelve jurors must find a unanimous verdict.

Also known as The Scalawag Bunch - This bunch is none other than the Merry Men of Sherwood Forest and their feisty leader, Robin Hood. This is a '70s...

An heiress (Piccolo) fakes her own kidnapping in order to get money from her parents and hides in the river Po's delta among eel fisherman and is...

In WWII, Lieut. Martino and his men are assigned to lead a group of prostitutes through the mountainous ways to serve in brothels for Italian...

The paths of three men cross for a short time in post-war Berlin. Robert and Willy are unattached and unemployed, Georg has joined them from Hamburg,...

After a terrorist attack against a train, the police arrest the young laborer Stefano Baldini, member of a group of militant leftists. Entrusted for...

The brewery manager Heinrich Hartholz does not shy away from driving independent beer publishers into ruin in order to take over their property....

Pepe is 15. His life in social misery changes completely when he is chosen as the main character of a film production. Shot on location where he...

The story of Marie Ward, a religious woman from a devout, aristocratic Yorkshire Catholic family who lived between 1585 and 1645 and moved to St....

Love story between a fisherman of the Adriatic coast and a young girl of the village.

13 people between the end of 60 and the middle 80: They have already experienced many things in their lives. Everyone has their own hopes, desires,...

Grein, a truck driver, works for Sienmann, an undesirable man, dedicated to fraud.

Klaus Kinski is one of the few German actors who has achieved international fame. He made headlines. And disappeared behind them. Kinski lived his...

A young man, recently arrived in New York from Europe, becomes swept up in a series of events that are beyond his knowledge or control.

A filmed stage play of The Nibelungs.

The bizarre story of a play's development at Munich's Kammerspiele theatre.

Early short by Alexander Kluge.

A young woman has the idea of setting up her boyfriend with a very wealthy but sickly lady to claim her inheritance.

A man who was a confidant of Adolf Hitler dies and leaves a fortune to make amends for his Nazi past—but his son has to search the world to...

The famous Hamburg psychiatrist Dr. Magnus Sorel is in a deep crisis. Not only that his Serbo-Croatian patient Masha has reported him for sexual...

A young father takes his son on a journey away from Buenos Aires and through the strange and wondrous world of rural South America. The man is...

After the end of Word War II, a lone and elusive skier from the German Mountain Troops continues to kill British Occupation Forces personnel,...

A vivacious woman tries to please all of her lovers but finds she can't handle the jealousy that erupts among them.

As every year, German brewery tycoon Karl Schneibel spends the summer holiday on an Italian island with his beloved grandson Christian, near the...

11-year-old Christian lives with his Italian mother Gioia in poverty on the island of Ischia. His German father died in a rescue mission before...

A documentary short film by Ferdinand Khittl on Munich's 800th anniversary.

A young woman from the Italian countryside experiences the dark side of the business after she moves to Rome to become a star.

Italy gives sponsors the choice between banishment and prison. Mario Adorf decides to go into exile.

An alternative history of the not-so-well-known West German genre cinema of the 1960s and 1970s.

The story (based on a novel by James Hadley Chase) concerns the efforts of the genial and deceptively tentative Lepski (Michael Brandon), an...

Olaf tries to make his dreams reality and thereby always gets into trouble with his surroundings. He meets his biggest obstacle yet when his father...

At the start of the 20th century, a man lives in solitude on an island. One day on the mainland, he saves a young woman from some nasty folk and...

The film is based on the autobiographical novel by Jean Egen. Written with a sense of humor, he quickly sold out in France within a few weeks it sold...

In Part Three, entitled "The Last Fight," gangster Santer Jr. attempts to seize an oil well on Indian territory. To prevent this, Winnetou and Old...

Fantaghiro and Romualdo are preparing their marriage when the Black Queen disgusted by their deep love captures Fantaghiro's father. Romualdo and his...

Mastro Geppetto is a poor carpenter with no wife and no children. The man is very lonely, and after trading a piece of wood with his colleague Mastro...

An honest and idealistic archaeologist, to find the legendary burial of an Etruscan king, collides with the interests of a group of "grave robbers". ...

Having developed a revolutionary device that puts water in the mouth of all secret services in the world, professor Forrester is about to go on a...

The intricate history of UFA, a film production company founded in 1917 that has survived the Weimar Republic, the Nazi regime, the Adenauer era and...

A documentary directed by Kathrin Anderson.

A funny walk through the life story of Billy Wilder (1906-2002), a cinematic genius; a portrait of a filmmaker who never was a boring man, a superb...

The life of workers and their families in a construction site of a highway in 1965.

Adventure about the life of legendary bandi Fra Diavolo (played by Tony Russel).

Lilo Maertens has been the editor of a women's magazine for several years. Now the women's rights activist is close to her 80th birthday and has to...

A young man seeks freedom and eventually gets conformed. To escape society, he wanders south. After some adventures he returns to his lover, where he...

In retracing the making of FEDORA, Robert Fischer’s documentary SWAN SONG: THE STORY OF BILLY WILDERʼS FEDORA adds yet another layer of...

Portrays the film star Mario Adorf and his passion for acting, the stage, the cinema, singing and writing. Together with the director Dominik...

Greece 1974 - during the brutal era of the military government, and innocent tourist manager (Ugo Tognazzi) is accused of being a member of the...

An unidentified fifteen year-old girl is found hanged after an anonymous tip-off. The girl, Silvia Polvesi, is soon discovered to have been...

Insatiable playboy Marco Donati decides to marry his latest flame, the beautiful Francesca. When the news gets into local newspapers, many of his...

The social ferment in late 19th century Russia which led to the 1917 Russian Revolution is movingly portrayed in this lengthy historical drama, which...

After experiencing a series of traumatic, seemingly unrelated, accidents, Eva begins to notice that her daughter Luna is behaving in increasingly...

The incredible story of Bruno Lüdke (1908-44), the alleged worst mass murderer in German criminal history; or actually, a story of forged files...

Having always lived in solitude, working the land (his only company being a cat), one day Alceo meets Ester, a girl much younger than him.