
Birthday:
07-16-1911
Deathday:
07-15-1969 (57 years)
Birthplace:
Steinwehr, Pomerania, Germany [now Kamienny Jaz, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland]
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Peter van Eyck, born Götz von Eick (16 July 1911, Steinwehr, Pomerania, Germany (now Kamienny Jaz, Poland) – 15 July 1969, Männedorf near Zürich, Switzerland), was a German-American actor.
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The Wages of Fear
Act like Bimba
event1953 star_border 8
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In a run-down South American town, four men are paid to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin into the jungle through to the oil field. Friendships are tested and rivalries develop as they embark upon the perilous journey.
Rosemary
Act like Fribert
event1958 star_border 5.9
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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 fortune. She uses her charms to bring members of West German industrial elite to her bed. There she finds business secrets and later sells them to French competition. However, when scandal errupts, Rosemarie would find that she can't beat the system.
Action in the North Atlantic
Act like German Ensign (uncredited)
event1943 star_border 7.1
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Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged with getting a supply vessel to Russian allies as part of a sea convoy. When the group of ships comes under attack from a German U-boat, Rossi and Jarvis navigate through dangerous waters to evade Nazi naval forces. Though their mission across the Atlantic is extremely treacherous, they are motivated by the opportunity to strike back at the Germans, who sank one of their earlier ships.
Attack
Act like SS Captain
event1956 star_border 6.7
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Battle of the Bulge, World War II, 1944. Lieutenant Costa, an infantry company officer who must establish artillery observation posts in a strategic area, has serious doubts about Captain Cooney's leadership ability.
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
Act like German Officer
event1951 star_border 6.7
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The life and career of Erwin Rommel and his involvement in the plot to assassinate Hitler.
The Longest Day
Act like Lt. Col. Ocker
event1962 star_border 7.6
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The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"
A Bullet for Joey
Act like Eric Hartman
event1955 star_border 5.5
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Raoul Leduc is a police inspector trailing a spy who plots to kidnap an important American atomic scientist. Joe Victor a gangster who is hired to carry out the abduction, balks when he learns what is at stake and helps Leduc out instead.
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
Act like Hans-Dieter Mundt
event1965 star_border 7.1
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British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the Cold War during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final one.
The Snorkel
Act like Paul Decker
event1958 star_border 7
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On the Italian coast, writer Paul Decker has grown unhappy in his marriage and executes what appears to be a perfect murder of his wife. While Paul is believed to be writing a book in France, his stepdaughter, Candy, suspects him of murdering her mother, as well as her father years before. With the police unwilling to investigate any further, Candy sets out to confirm her suspicions and take Paul down herself.
Five Graves to Cairo
Act like Lt. Schwegler
event1943 star_border 6.9
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The British Army, retreating ahead of victorious Rommel, leaves a lone survivor on the Egyptian border who finds refuge at a remote desert hotel. He assumes the identity of a recently deceased waiter and is helped by the hotel's owner, despite protest from the French chambermaid, who fears the imminent arrival of Rommel and the Germans.
The Bridge at Remagen
Act like Gen. Von Brock
event1969 star_border 6.7
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In March of 1945, as the War in Europe is coming to a close, fighting erupts between German and American troops at the last remaining bridgehead across the Rhine.
Fric-frac en dentelles
Act like Peter Simon
event1957 star_border 6
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Peter Simon, a famous American writer, deserts his girlfriend Eva to live incognito at a small Normandy inn. Eva shams her own murder for revenge. Meanwhile, a young reporter, Françoise, has tracked Peter down. The news of the crime quickly spreads and, believing Peter to be the murderer, the village is in an uproar. Despite misadventures galore, everything turns out right and Peter takes Françoise on their honeymoon.
Shalako
Act like Baron Frederick Von Hallstatt
event1968 star_border 5.7
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Sean Connery is Shalako, a guide in the old West who has to rescue an aristocratic British hunting party from Indians and bandits.
Run for the Sun
Act like Dr. Van Anders / Col. Wilham Von Andre
event1956 star_border 5.9
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Mike, a Hemingway-esque adventure novelist, is spending his days in a self-imposed exile somewhere in Central America. A reporter for Sight Magazine, Katie, has tracked him down in the hope of getting the biggest scoop of her career. Mike falls for Katie. On a flight to Mexico City, their plane crashes near a remote hideaway of Nazi war criminals in hiding. The Nazis want to stay hidden and plan to dispose of their new guests
The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
Act like Henry B. Travers
event1960 star_border 6.8
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A reporter is murdered while driving to his job. The Police are contacted by a clairvoyant who saw the death in a vision, but some dark force is preventing him from seeing the man behind the crime...
Hitler's Madman
event1943 star_border 5.6
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In 1942, a young paratrooper in the RAF returns to Czechoslovakia to encourage his fellow countrymen to sabotage the German war effort.
The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse
Act like Maj. Bob Anders
event1964 star_border 5.8
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The evil Dr. Mabuse develops a death ray with which he threatens the world.
Dr. Mabuse vs. Scotland Yard
Act like Major Bill Tern
event1963 star_border 6.4
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The spirit of the evil Dr. Mabuse takes over the body of a famous professor. The professor/Dr. Mabuse then begins a new crime wave that terrorizes the city.
The Impostor
Act like Hafner
event1944 star_border 6
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The story concerns a condemned murderer named Clement (Jean Gabin), who is "liberated" when the Nazis bomb the French jail that holds him. During his escape, Clement comes across the body of a French soldier; he steals the dead man's uniform and identification papers, then hides from the law by joining the Resistance movement. Clement's new identity and purpose in life reforms him, and in due time he has sacrificed himself in service of his country.
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
Act like Dr. Celliers
event1955 star_border 4.9
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Hunters trespass into Sukulu country, where animals are sacred, posing as photographers.
Night People
Act like Capt. Sergei "Petey" Petrochine
event1954 star_border 5.9
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A US intelligence officer, stationed in Germany, is caught in a political dilemma when the Russians kidnap a young Army private, the son of prominent American businessman. In exchange for the soldier's return, the Russians attempt to barter a trade for an elderly German couple who they want for treason.
Heart of the Casbah
event1952 star_border 7
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Maria-Pilar is the new wife of an Algerian gangster whom the police have just arrested. The son of a first marriage arrives in Algiers from which he has remained far away for a long time. His stepmother, charmed by the teenager, gradually experiences a devouring passion, against which Michel tries in vain to fight: he loves a young girl, Sylvie. Mad with jealousy, his stepmother singles him out for his father's vengeance by distorting the truth. Michel does not escape his father's fury, but when the woman's deception becomes known, Maria-Pilar is strangled to death.
Burning Fuse
event1957 star_border 4.6
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Lola, the wife of arms dealer Pedro Wassewich, is attracted to Ludovic, a young painter who turns out to be the emissary of a notorious gangster. He claims to have been sent by the latter to pick up a shipment. In fact, it's the police who, behind the scenes, orchestrate the operation to catch Wassewich red-handed.
Address Unknown
Act like Heinrich Schulz
event1944 star_border 6.3
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When a German art dealer living in the US returns to his native country he finds himself attracted to Nazi propaganda.
The Moon Is Down
Act like Lt. Tonder
event1943 star_border 6.7
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The story of a small town in Norway that resists German occupation during World War II. Based on a John Steinbeck novel.
Resisting Enemy Interrogation
Act like Capt. Granach - Young Nazi Officer
event1944 star_border 6.2
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A downed American bomber crew quickly falls prey to the clever interrogation techniques of the Germans in this dramatic training film.
Station Six-Sahara
Act like Kramer
event1963 star_border 5.9
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A beautiful blonde joins a small group of men running an oil station in the Sahara Desert and starts the emotions soaring.
Flesh and Desire
Act like Mathias Valdès
event1954
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Giuseppe is accused of killing his employer Matthias who is actually in a hospital with amnesia.
Tevye and His Seven Daughters
Act like Priest
event1968
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Russia, 1905. Tuvia is the only Jew living in the village of Antevka. He is very poor but things change when, as a token of gratitude for a service rendered, he is given a cow and some food. Now, his wife, his seven daughters and himself have access to a better life. Tuvia sells his milk and his butter. Moreover, he is now able to give his daughters a dowry and marry them. But you can't buy happiness...
The Laws of War
Act like Hauptmann Paul Langenau
event1961 star_border 6
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During WW2, in a Nazi-occupied country, a local partisan blows-up a German military train, prompting the Germans to take civilian hostages to be shot if the culprit doesn't surrender before a deadline.
The Dirty Game
Act like Petchatkin
event1965 star_border 5.8
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A U.S. intelligence general recalls three Cold War cases of Soviet, French and Italian spies.
Flesh and the Woman
Act like Fred
event1954 star_border 4.1
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In this romance, a jilted lawyer joins the French Foreign Legion to help him forget his faithless love. While in the desert he espies a village beauty who is the exact double of his true-love.
The River Line
Act like Der Reiher
event1964 star_border 6.5
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France 1944: American pilot Philip Sturgess is shot down but found by a resistance group. In the neighborhood Sturgess meets another American and shortly thereafter the British Major Barton, called “Reiher”. He claims to have fled a German prison camp. Shortly before leaving for Spain to escape the Nazis, Sturgess discovers that Barton has written a letter to Germany. This confirms the suspicion that he could be a German spy…
Jump Into Hell
Act like Lt. Heinrich Heldman
event1955 star_border 4
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Arriving in IndoChina by parachute, Captain Guy Bertrand and his comrades make a courageous stand against the Communist forces. Jump into Hell is one of the first films to deal with the ongoing conflict in Vietnam or, as it was still known in 1955, French IndoChina.
Rommel ruft Kairo
Act like Graf von Almassy
event1959 star_border 1
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In 1942 the Germans devised an operation to introduce in Egypt spies to provoke a rebellion against the British.
On Friday at Eleven
Act like Bleck
event1961 star_border 6.9
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An enigmatic woman recruits a gang of specialised criminals to rob a US Army payroll armoured truck bound for Marseilles. However, things don't go exactly as planned.
Rebel Flight to Cuba
Act like Pink Roberti
event1959 star_border 10
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A group of criminals hijacks a plane, intending to fly it to Cuba.
The Brain
Act like Dr. Peter Corrie
event1962 star_border 5.5
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A millionaire businessman's brain is kept alive after a fatal accident, and communicates clues to a doctor on the trail of the killer
Doctor Crippen Lives
Act like Kommissar Léon Ferrier
event1958 star_border 5.5
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Double murderer Dr. Crippen is using every means possible to search for a manuscript that he suspects is in the possession of the daughter of the man who was executed in his place.
Duel at Sundown
Act like Don McGow
event1965 star_border 5
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During a cattle drive, Don McGow leaves the herd in charge of his younger brother and rides off. When the herd is reported stolen he blames himself and goes in search of the thieves.
Heidi
Act like Dr. Bernd Reboux
event1968 star_border 6.1
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Heidi is an orphaned girl initially raised by her aunt Dete in Maienfeld, Switzerland. In order to get a job in Frankfurt, Dete brings 5-year-old Heidi to her grandfather, who has been at odds with the villagers for years and lives in seclusion on the alm. He at first resents Heidi's arrival, but the girl manages to penetrate his harsh exterior and subsequently has a delightful stay with him and her best friend, young Peter the goat-herd.
The Rest Is Silence
Act like Paul Claudius
event1959 star_border 5.7
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'The Rest Is Silence, a German-made attempt to update Shakespeare, is one of the best and least self-conscious of this minor genre. As indicated by the title, the film's script is a "mufti" version of Hamlet, with young Hardy Krüger trying to prove that his uncle has killed his father. Direct references to the Shakespeare original abound, right down to the re-enactment of the crime for the benefit of the Uncle and the periodic appearances of the ghost of the hero's father.'
Schmutziger Engel
Act like Studienrat Dr. Torsten Agast
event1958
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A teacher is defamed in an obscene way by an over-excited pupil.
Requiem for a Secret Agent
Act like Oscar Rubeck
event1966 star_border 6.8
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A veteran US Secret Service agent must thwart the covert conspiracy of an enemy spy network that threatens the world's safety.
The Young Go Wild
Act like Gefängnisarzt Dr. Knittel
event1959
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High school student Fabian König is kicked out of school and starts a gang that specializes in theft. He falls in love with the orphan girl Ulla, but she rejects him when she finds out how he spends his time. When the pimp Horst tries to rape Ulla, she is rescued by Fabian. Shortly afterwards, Horst's body is found and Fabian is convicted of the murder due to the false testimony of a witness. In prison, he comes to trust the prison doctor Dr. Knittel, who believes him and is able to unmask the real culprit.
Anyone Can Kill Me
Act like Cyril Gad
event1957 star_border 5.9
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The holdup of the bank is a success. All happened according to plan. Now, Cyril Gad and his four accomplices must secure an alibi. What better place than a prison cell? As a result the five gangsters have themselves arrested on minor charges and start waiting until they are released. Unfortunately three of them die mysteriously, another one is openly murdered. The only man still alive, Tony, is scared. Easy to understand why...
There's Always a Price Tag
Act like Éric Fréminger
event1957 star_border 6.3
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A wealthy businessman's wife tries to cover up his suicide to cash in his life insurance policy.
Assignment to Kill
Act like Walter Green
event1968 star_border 6
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A private eye is hired by an insurance company to investigate a shipping magnate suspected of deliberately sinking his own ships for the insurance money. He finds himself involved in a web of deception, double-crossing and murder.
Epilogue
Act like FBI-Agent Bennister alias Steward Stephan Lund
event1950 star_border 5.8
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The reporter Peter Zabel stumbles upon the sinking of the luxury yacht Orplid in Hamburg on August 14, 1949. The ship went down with a wedding party run by artists on a pleasure trip from Hamburg to Scotland . In spite of good weather and no technical problems. Out of personal curiosity, Zabel starts researching. Could the sinking of Orplid have political reasons? A German political thriller and film noir inspired by Carol Reed's "The Third Man".
Labyrinth
Act like Ron Stevens
event1959 star_border 5.5
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Georgia Gale was a great poet, but then she stopped writing and started drinking heavily. Now, as a desperate last resort, she has traveled to Switzerland, where she hopes to find a cure.
Sweetheart of the Gods
Act like Dr. Hans Simon
event1960
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Biography of the famous German actress Renate Müller, who died in 1937 under unsettled circumstances; While doing her first movie for the UFA in Berlin, she meets the elderly secretary-general Dr. Simon and is impressed by his charm. Although her Nazi-friend Volker discourages her to befriend a Jew, they start dating. While she ascends to one of the most famous German actresses of her time, Simon is suffering more and more under the Nazi regime.
Blind Justice
Act like Robert Kessler
event1961 star_border 5.2
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A man is accused of murdering his wife. The state prosecutor assumes he did the deed to spend more time with his lover. But the woman in question says that his wife committed suicide in her presence and that the accused is innocent. Despite the objections of the prosecutor, the accused is set free and is found dead shortly thereafter. The prosecutor decides to pursue the case and comes upon a band of criminals, who sell German state secrets. Shortly before the investigation comes to a close, a woman is murdered. When a witness asserts to have seen him near the woman's dead body, the prosecutor himself ends up in court and must now prove his innocence.
À belles dents
Act like Peter von Kessner
event1966 star_border 3.5
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An orphaned young woman goes to Paris looking for work and love. Working as an au-pair, she is discovered by a fashion photographer and becomes a model. She falls in love with an architect but leaves him to marry a rich man.
Export in Blond
Act like Rolf Carste
event1950
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The good-looking blond Iris is kidnapped by a gang of traffickers and shipped to Rio De Janeiro. There she is expected to fetch top prize from potential buyers of young women.
The Devil's Agent
Act like Georg Droste
event1962 star_border 6.2
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German actor Peter van Eyck stars as Droste, a mild-mannered businessman who was an intelligence expert during World War II. When Droste runs into his old friend Baron Von Straub (Christopher Lee), the two rekindle a friendship that was interrupted by the war. However, when Von Straub asks Droste to deliver a small package to a friend in West Germany, the befuddled Droste is set up for a series of complicated spy games.
An Alibi for Death
Act like Günther Rohn
event1963 star_border 7
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Lawyer Maria Rohn takes on the case of Martin Siebeck. The truck driver allegedly ran over a man on the highway. Siebeck denies the crime and states that two people threw the victim in front of his truck at full speed. The more Maria Rohn looks into the case, the more she notices inconsistencies. Her husband Günther is also behaving more and more strangely. It seems that he was also involved in the accident...
High Season for Spies
Act like Kramer / Jack Haskins
event1966 star_border 6
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A scientist discovers the formula of a particular resistant steel, and a spy ring from an enemy power sets after him to obtain it.
The Glass Tower
Act like John Lawrence
event1957 star_border 6.6
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Katja Fleming has given up her job as an actress and married the business man Robert Fleming. But the cold that surrounds her in her modern, luxurious high-rise makes her lonely. Then she meets the author John Lawrence, who wants to convince her to perform in his new play.
Mr. Arkadin
Act like Thaddeus
event1955 star_border 6.9
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Claiming that he doesn't know his own past, a rich man enlists an ex-con with an odd bit of detective work. Gregory Arkadin says he can't remember anything before the late 1920s, and convict Guy Van Stratten is happy to take the job of exploring his new acquaintance's life story. Guy's research turns up stunning details about his employer's past, and as his work seems linked to untimely deaths, the mystery surrounding Mr. Arkadin deepens.
Seduction by the Sea
Act like Peter
event1963 star_border 5.9
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A young women is hired by a woman to seduce her son and convince him to return to home from his self-induced exile.
And So to Bed
Act like Chef
event1963 star_border 5.7
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Twelve different episodes of erotic relationships are described as examples of modern love substitute.
Foxhole in Cairo
Act like Count Almaszy
event1960 star_border 5.5
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A German spy in Cairo must report back to Rommel with information on British positions.
The Black Chapel
Act like Robert Golder
event1959 star_border 7.5
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1933 in Germany. The rise of Nazism fears war and some officers, concerned the fate that hostilities would reserve to their country, organize an anti-Nazi group. They send a reporter, Golder, to communicate the plan of the German offensive allies.
No Time for Ecstasy
Act like Michel Georgenko
event1961
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Michel, a young man of Ukrainian origin, flees the Red Army and joins the International Brigades in Perpignan to fight Franco. He was arrested for being Russian, Communist and deserter. He was wounded by his involvement, but fell in love with an American journalist.
Furioso
Act like Peter von Rhoden
event1950
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About the power of love and that love is such a strong force that humans are willing to commit the most ruthless acts to achieve it. And the one who loses in the game of love, can die as a result of it. This is how love is, according to "Furioso".
Der Cornet
Act like Mönchschreiber
event1955 star_border 9
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Adventure film based on a Rilke poem.
Million Dollar Man
Act like Muller
event1967 star_border 4.3
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A U.S. Treasury Department agent is sent to Morocco to find a fortune in counterfeit money hidden by the Nazis during World War II. The agent escapes from prison with the only man who knows the location of the bogus bills. The duo is shadowed by a group of former Nazi soldiers who hope they will lead them to recover the lost loot. The feature plays as a crime drama with overtones of international espionage.
Red Roses for the Fuhrer
Act like il colonnello Kerr
event1968 star_border 5.5
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James Daly is an American special soldier who goes behind enemy territory during WWII. His Objective: to steal top secret SS document that can change the course of the war.
The Rawhide Years
Act like Andre Boucher
event1956 star_border 5.5
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Ben Matthews gives up the flashy life of a riverboat gambler, hoping to settle down in Galena with his girlfriend, luscious entertainer Zoe. But Galena's leading citizen is murdered on the boat; Ben, on arrival, finds a lynch mob after his neck, and flees. Three years of wandering later, Zoe's letters stop coming and Ben returns to find her and attempt the hopeless task of clearing himself.
Alarm in Morocco
Act like Howard
event1953
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When 1 of 2 Foreign Legion officers is killed after witnessing a secret experiment on a death ray (capable of shooting down aircraft) in southern Morocco, the other gets vengeance by infiltrating the organization responsible.
Girl on the Third Floor
Act like Franck Richter
event1955 star_border 5
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A Parisian reporter tries to exonerate a fugitive neighbor of charges he murdered his wife.
Edge of Darkness
Act like German Soldier (uncredited)
event1943 star_border 6.1
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The film pivots around the local Norwegian doctor and his family. The doctor's wife (Ruth Gordon) wants to hold on to the pretence of gracious living and ignore their German occupiers. The doctor, Martin Stensgard (Walter Huston), would also prefer to stay neutral, but is torn. His brother-in-law, the wealthy owner of the local fish cannery, collaborates with the Nazis. The doctor's daughter, Karen (Ann Sheridan), is involved with the resistance and with its leader Gunnar Brogge (Errol Flynn). The doctor's son has just returned to town, having been sent down from the university, and is soon influenced by his Nazi-sympathizer uncle. Captain Koenig (Helmut Dantine), the young German commandant of the occupying garrison, whose fanatic determination to do everything by the book and spoutings about the invincibility of the Reich hides a growing fear of a local uprising.
Kidnapped to Mystery Island
Act like Captain McPherson
event1964 star_border 6
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Three year old Ada, daughter of the British captain McPherson, is captured by the Indian Tukh sect to represent the incarnation of Kali. Ever hidden in a vast underground system of caverns, she watches over human sacrifices, doubting her vocation. 15 years have passed when her father finally finds her and attempts a rescue, together with a snake-hunter who has fallen in love with her.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Act like Officer (1 ep.)
event1955 star_border 7.7
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A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
Code 3
(1 ep.)
event1957 star_border 4.5
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Code 3 is an American crime drama that aired in syndication in 1957. The stories were all based on actual files of the Los Angeles sheriff's office.
Der Kommissar
Act like Herr Wegener (1 ep.)
event1969 star_border 7.5
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Der Kommissar is a German television series about a group of detectives of the Munich homicide squad. All 97 episodes, which were shot in black-and-white and first broadcast between 1969 and 1976, were written by Herbert Reinecker and starred Erik Ode as Kommissar Herbert Keller. Keller's assistants were Walter Grabert, Robert Heines, and Harry Klein who, in 1974, was replaced by his younger brother Erwin Klein.
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