Howard Vernon
Birthday: 1908-07-15
Place of Birth: Baden-Baden, Grand Duchy of Baden [now Baden-Württemberg, Germany]
Biography: Howard Vernon (15 July 1908 – 25 July 1996), born Mario Walter Lippert, was a German-Swiss stage and film actor who appeared in films by Jean-Pierre Melville, Sacha Guitry, Fritz Lang, Roger Vadim, Jean-Luc Godard and Jesús Franco. Vernon was born Mario Lippert in Baden-Baden, Germany, to a Swiss father and a German mother. Originally a stage and radio actor, he played Nazi officers, gangsters and psychopaths in French and American films after World War II. In the 1960s, he became a favourite actor of Spanish film director Jesús Franco, starring in many low-budget horror and erotic films produced in Spain and France. He died in Issy-les-Moulineaux, France, 10 days after his 88th birthday. Description above from the Wikipedia article Howard Vernon, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Delicatessen
In a post-apocalyptic world, the residents of an apartment above the butcher shop receive an occasio...
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The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein
After the death of Victor Frankenstein, two figures vie for control of his monster and the radical t...
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Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein
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The Train
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What's New Pussycat?
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Operation Double Cross
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The Devil Came from Akasava
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Zombie Lake
In a small village, somewhere in France, German soldiers, killed and thrown into the lake by the Res...
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Revenge in the House of Usher
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Angel of Death
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Bob le Flambeur
In Paris, Bob Montagne is practically synonymous with gambling -- and winning. He is kind, classy an...
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Terminus
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The Diabolical Dr. Z
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The Invisible Man's Love Life
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Castle of the Creeping Flesh
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Dr. Wong's Virtual Hell
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Succubus
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She Killed in Ecstasy
A young doctor kills himself after a medical committee terminates his research into human embryos, c...
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Faceless
A detective investigating a missing model in Paris uncovers a plastic surgeon’s horrifying secret in...
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The Silence of the Sea
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The Sinister Doctor Orloff
The son of the infamous Dr. Orloff clashes with his father when he begins to stalk and dismember pro...
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The Greedy Ones
According to legend, a group of women escaped from Atlantis just before the destruction of the conti...
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The Bloody Judge
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The Secret Ways
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The Night of the Generals
A German intelligence officer investigates a prostitute's killing in Warsaw during World War II. He ...
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Far from Manhattan
Christian, an art critic, must write a study on the painter René Dimanche in order to understand why...
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Manina, the Lighthouse-Keeper's Daughter
Gerard, a 25-year-old student, decides to find a treasure Troilus lost in the sea after the Peloponn...
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The Musician Killer
A dedicated clarinetist receives a valuable violin and has a difficult time deciding what to do with...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne
In 19th century London, a sex maniac sneaks into the engagement party of Dr. Henry Jekyll and Miss F...
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The French Sex Murders
After a French prostitute is found dead, one of her regular clients is tried and convicted for her m...
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Women in Cellblock 9
A group of female freedom-fighters led by Karine Levere is caught by the warden of a women's prison,...
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The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
A reporter is murdered while driving to his job. The Police are contacted by a clairvoyant who saw t...
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Virgin Report
Part documentary, part mockumentary, part sexploitation, all Franco. Starting in the Garden of Eden ...
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The Sadistic Baron Von Klaus
In the eerie village of Holfen, a series of gruesome murders sparks rumors of a centuries-old curse,...
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The Game Is Over
Renee Saccard is a pampered, selfish young wife of a middle-aged Parisian businessman who falls in l...
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Behind These Walls
June 1944, a French town towards the end of the occupation. Following several attacks perpetrated by...
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Angel and Sinner
During the stagecoach trip of a frightened group of inhabitants of Rouen, Elisabeth Rousset, known a...
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Clandestine
A resistance leader is wounded when the Germans raid his underground print shop. He escapes to the h...
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The Uncatchable Mr. Frederic
The novelist Suzanne Delmont creates a character, "The Uncatcable Frédéric", a sort of Arsène Lupin....
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Alert Nights
Hélène, a young waitress working in a bar frequented by German soldiers, saves the life of Pierre, a...
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Mr. Orchid
This character study of a French patriot during the Nazi Occupation has comedian Noel as the chief o...
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Devil and the Angel
The Director of an international banknote printing institute, mutilated by the face of the Great War...
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Sky Battalion
Film in two eras.1st era: They are not angels. Chronicle of a Free French parachute training camp du...
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The Royalists
The Marquis de Montauran was appointed to command the Chouans whose first two revolts were crushed. ...
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Colonel Durand
In his younger days, a dashing officer, Colonel Durand, compromised Madame De Monthieux, who entered...
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The Devil Who Limped
The film is a 125-minute, black-and-white biography of French priest and diplomat Charles Maurice de...
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The Demons
A group of nuns become possessed by demons and are then tortured in a dungeon of horrors during the ...
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The Inn of Sin
Two murders are committed in an inn for the possession of a bag containing a fortune....
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The Man on the Eiffel Tower
A down-and-out student is hired to kill a wealthy woman. When someone else is suspected of the crime...
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Si ça vous chante
A fashionable singer makes a stopover in the harbor of Cannes, while a radio journalist investigates...
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The Girl with the Whip
The daughter of a notorious smuggler is raised as a boy by her foster mother....
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Hotbed of Sin
A couple of dancers performs in a night club. The man is jealous of Gina, his partner,and keeps maki...
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Pensione Edelweiss
A man who was injured in an accident has a visitor in his hospital. The visitor suggests a strange d...
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Ogroff
Ogroff, an AWOL-solider-turned-hermit, lives in the French backwoods, and, still believing war to be...
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Countess Perverse
Two rich aristocrats lure a virgin to a remote Spanish island for a night of sex, death and cannibal...
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Poison Ivy
FBI Agent Lemmy Caution is sent after a missing two million in Casablanca while mob boss mistress Ca...
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Adventures of Captain Fabian
It all begins with the discreet romance between the Creole maid Lea Mariotte and her young boss, Geo...
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Hommage à Vernon
Forgotten Straub-Huillet film that shows outtakes from "Der Tod des Empedokles"....
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The Other Side of the Mirror
A nightclub singer is haunted by the ghost of her late father. The dead man summons her through a mi...
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Celestine
The story opens with Celestine eluding arrest with a friend as the police raid a brothel. While hidi...
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Atomic Agent
Murderous foreign agents are after a scientist who has invented an atomic engine that could change t...
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Robinson and His Tempestuous Slaves
Robinson, a down-on-his-luck pharmacist who’s pestered by his nagging wife and overbearing mother-in...
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The Making of 'The Howl of the Devil'
Short film made on the production of HOWL OF THE DEVIL....
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The Complex of Toulon
It is due to some professional obligations that brothers Charles and Fredi turn their attention to t...
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The Mark of Zorro
In nineteenth-century California, two children listen to the adventures of a grandfather who fought ...
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The Howl of the Devil
Hector Doriani is a stage and screen actor who feels himself living in the shadow of his dead twin b...
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Sinner: The Secret Diary of a Nymphomaniac
Linda comes to the big city in search of fun and excitement. What she finds is exploitation and abu...
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A Friend Will Come Tonight
Commander Gerard and his band of guerrillas have found the ideal hideout: a nursing home in the Alps...
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Love and Death
In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleo...
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Doctor Crippen Lives
Double murderer Dr. Crippen is using every means possible to search for a manuscript that he suspect...
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The Adventures of Sylvia Couski
The ex-wife of a famous sculptor convinces her lover to remove one of his sculptures from an exhibit...
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Black Angel of the Mississippi
Early Spanish western. Ramon Torrado’s westerns remain among the most obscure ones. Of his four west...
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The Orgies of Dr. Orloff
A doctor invites his relatives to his castle, all the while planning to murder them when they arrive...
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Dossier AST-555
A cabaret is used as a cover for drug trafficking, but the police are unable to uncover the means us...
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Black Sin
A companion piece to the earlier film ‘The Death of Empedocles’, 'Black Sin' is an adaptation of the...
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Sex Charade
The story revolves around Anne who is held hostage by an escaped maniac from an insane asylum. The f...
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Lovers of Devil's Island
A lawyer finds out that a young couple convicted of murder was in fact framed for the crime and goes...
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Don't Change Hands
A well-known politician receives a tape showing her son in a porno movie. She decides to hire a fema...
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Royal Affairs in Versailles
Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocra...
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The Theatre of the Matters
The fortunes of a small theatrical company based in the Paris suburbs....
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Seven Women for Satan
Boris Zaroff is a modern businessman who is haunted by his past -- his father was the notorious Coun...
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The River of Three Junks
In Saigon, the heads of the French counter-espionage network replace the secretary of dangerous traf...
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From Hell to Victory
In 1939, at a Paris café, six friends of various nationalities vow to meet again at the same spot af...
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The Long Vacation of Lotte H. Eisner
Historian, author, and movie critic Lotte H. Eisner is the subject of this documentary. She recalls ...
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Dolls for Sale
Al Pereira arrives at the "House of Vice" and receives orders to spy on a crime ring called the Quad...
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Blood on My Shoes
Agents across the globe take turns spying on and double-crossing one another in an attempt to locate...
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Jungle of Fear
The mountains of the South Asian country are covered with dense rainforest. A cobra, scorpions and o...
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Hey Stranger
An actor and poet falls in love with a former mortuary photographer turned waitress. They find thems...
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Mr. Scrupule, Gangster
Mr. Scrupule is a mild-mannered smuggler operating on the coast of Nice. If it hadn't been for an un...
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Le Petit Jacques
Noël Rambert is overwhelmed by fate. Marthe, his wife, has left him. His son, little Jacques, sickly...
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Pas de souris dans le business
Without seeming to touch it, journalist Trupeau is interested in the doings of Mireille, a jewelry s...
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Alert in the Canary Islands
Maxime Bellac owns an art gallery. He has an affair with Michelle. One night when they have dinner t...
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Love Me Strangely
Alain Revent, a seductive and refined man, derives a peculiar satisfaction from debasing his wives. ...
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How to Seduce a Virgin
Martine Bressac is released from a psychiatric clinic after a year's treatment and is driven home by...
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Alphaville
Lemmy Caution is on a mission to eliminate Professor Von Braun, the creator of a malevolent computer...
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Un cas intéressant
Adaptation for TV of the Dino Buzzati play "Un caso clinico". A modern Kafkaesque horror story in wh...
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On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts
The habits and customs of a strange association, "La Sociéte des Gentlemen Redempteurs", which has t...
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X312 - Flight to Hell
A plane leaving the turmoil of a South American country in the midst of a revolution crash-lands in ...
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The Blood Rose
Frédéric Lansac, an artist and botanist, has a wild affair with party girl Moira, but throws her ove...
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Trip to Bangkok, Coffin included
The colonel Daniel Blimp, of the secret British service, travels to Bangkok to investigate the murde...
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Lorna, the Exorcist
Twenty years after seducing a businessman, a demonic temptress lays claim to the man's daughter....
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Zorro the Avenger
Don Jose disguises himself as Zorro, the masked freedom fighter, who tries to protect his people fro...
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The Carpathian Mushroom
A miraculous mushroom is discovered by a film director's daughter.It would be used to cure an actres...
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The Mad Dog
Claude Brasseur plays a villain on the run from both the police and the mob. Good atmosphere in the ...
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Marquis de Sade: Justine
Without a family, penniless and separated from her sister, a beautiful chaste woman will have to cop...
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The Unknown Man of Shandigor
Crazed scientist Herbert Von Krantz has invented a device to sterilize all nuclear weapons -- and a ...
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Vice and Virtue
1944 : Occupied France. Juliette (Vice) is Wehrmacht General Bamberg's mistress and enjoys a privile...
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Ce que cherche Jacques
A moral adventure: one sees friendships being born and being discarded, under the pressure of avowed...
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The Death of Empedocles
Film adaptation by Straub and Huillet of Hölderlin’s 1798 tragedy on the symbolic death of Empedocle...
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08/15 at Home
The third part of Paul May′s "08/15" trilogy based on the novel by Hans Hellmut Kirst takes place sh...
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Du Guesclin
A chronicle of the life of Bertrand du Guesclin, grand officer of the French army in the 14th centur...
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Secret Document: Vienna
During the Great War, in Austria, an officer was shot on the orders of his superior von Pennwitz. Ou...
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Léon Morin, Priest
Barny, although a Marxist, is intrigued by the mysteries of religion. In confession, she teases a pr...
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The Mysterious Melody AKA Ce soir les souris dansent
An old violin maker has been killed and the investigators have only one clue: on the night of the cr...
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Lucrèce Borgia
In the early 16th century, Italy is ruled by the powerful Borgia family, led by César Borgia and his...
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The Dinosaur and the Baby
An hour-long discussion between Fritz Lang and Jean-Luc Godard in which they discuss a variety of ar...
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Rendezvous
In France, during the Second World War, journalist Paul Roy is a member of the Resistance, while his...
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Première brigade criminelle
Commissaire Masson tells a young journalist about the only failure of his career: the wife of a Cana...
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El fugitivo de Amberes
A thief steals a Jewel in France and travels to Barcelona to try to sell it. Both the Police and a f...
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The Hotheads
Truck drivers hauling supplies are caught in the battle between the French and Arabs in this routine...
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Until the Last One
Just released from prison after serving a six-month sentence, Fernand Bastia goes into hiding. He ha...
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The Chips Are Down
A society heiress and a resistance fighter are tragically killed at the same moment and meet in the ...
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Mayerling
Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria clashes with his father, Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, over impl...
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Operation Thunder
The inhabitants of a small provincial town are requisitioned to take part in the French army's major...
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Fifteen Year Old Captain
Dick Sand travels aboard the "Pilgrim" when, following dramatic events, the ship becomes without a c...
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The Day of the Jackal
An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill P...
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Daughter of Dracula
Luisa is called to the bed of her dying mother Edith at Karlstein Castle. Before she dies, she tells...
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The Awful Dr. Orlof
Dr. Orlof, a former prison doctor, abducts beautiful women from nightclubs to use their skin to repa...
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A Virgin Among the Living Dead
A girl arrives from London to visit her estranged relatives in a remote castle for the reading of he...
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Le fou du roi
Dieudonné, poet and dreamer, is the opposite of his father, the famous D'Artagnan, as he hates walks...
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Residence for Spies
Ms. Pendleton is the commander-in-chief of a women's training camp for western spies, recently estab...
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Nightmares Come at Night
Diana Lorys, Collette Jack and Soledad Miranda star in this sexy thriller about two alluring dancers...
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The Shadow of Zorro
A battle between revolutionary Mexicans and the U.S. cavalry brings Zorro onto the scene to enact ve...
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Autopsia de un criminal
Carlos, a reckless card player burdened by debt, becomes involved in a shady affair when an old flam...
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Death at Dawn
The prestigious composer Virgilio Delise, suspected of being involved in the death of his stepfather...
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Triple Cross
Safecracker Eddie Chapman is languishing in prison on the island of Jersey when the Nazis arrive. An...
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Black Jack
A man who lost everything in the war now smuggles contraband into and out of Spain, but the law's cl...
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Phantom of the Big Tent
Mr. Rossi and Mr. Capelli, co-owners of a successful traveling circus, have a rivalry over the affec...
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The Garden That Tilts
Karl, a young killer is to kill Kate, an adventurous lady living in a mansion by a lake. He approach...
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The Elusive Pimpernel
A British aristocrat goes in disguise to France to rescue people from The Terror of the guillotine....
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The Poppy Is Also a Flower
A special United Nations bureau organises a campaign to trace a drug-smuggling ring across Europe to...
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Deadline
A journalist sets out to report on a minor earthquake in the Australian outback, and finds that the ...
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The Rock of Acapulco
Sandrine dreams of becoming a singer in Paris but for the time being she is only a salesgirl at Tati...
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Description of a Struggle
Chris Marker’s documentary portrays Israel twelve years after its founding, blending location and ar...
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