Klaus Kinski
Birthday: 1926-10-18
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Biography: Nikolaus Karl Günther Nakszyński, best known as Klaus Kinski (18 October 1926 – 23 November 1991), was a German actor. He appeared in over 130 films, and is perhaps best-remembered as a leading role actor in Werner Herzog films: Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), Nosferatu (1979), Woyzeck (1979), Fitzcarraldo (1982) and Cobra Verde (1987). Description above from the Wikipedia article Klaus Kinski, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Doctor Zhivago
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a poli...
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Woyzeck
Having fathered an illegitimate child with his lover, Marie, feckless soldier Franz Woyzeck takes od...
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That Most Important Thing: Love
Servais Mont, a freelance photographer who works taking compromising photos, gets fascinated by Nadi...
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Secret of the Red Orchid
Rival gangsters from Chicago move to London and attempt to extort money from rich Britons....
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The Last Ride to Santa Cruz
A former sheriff begins to persecute the gang led by Pedro Ortiz, after his wife is taken away....
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Jesus Christ Saviour
Klaus Kinski has perhaps the most ferocious reputation of all screen actors: his volatility was docu...
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Aguirre, the Wrath of God
A few decades after the destruction of the Inca Empire, a Spanish expedition led by the infamous Agu...
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Last of the Renegades
Forester, a ruthless oil baron, wants to create a war between the native American tribes and the whi...
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A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot
Expert conman Joe Thanks teams up with half-breed Bill and naive Lucy to steal $300,000 from the Ind...
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Death Smiles on a Murderer
Greta is a beautiful young woman abused by her brother Franz and left to die in childbirth by her il...
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That Man in Istanbul
An American adventurer who has a gambling den in Istanbul, who is suspected to be involved in the ki...
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Count Dracula
A faithful adaptation of the classic tale portrays Dracula as an old man who grows younger whenever ...
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Cobra Verde
A fearsome 19th century bandit, Cobra Verde cuts a swath through Brazil until he arrives at the suga...
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Nosferatu the Vampyre
A real estate agent leaves behind his beautiful wife to go to Transylvania to visit the mysterious C...
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The Fighting Fists of Shanghai Joe
A Chinese immigrant, recently arrived in America, fights to free Mexican slaves from their cruel mas...
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The Black Abbot
Several employees on a nobleman's estate show up at a former abbey, reputed to be haunted, to search...
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The Inn on the River
A serial killer named The Shark is terrorizing London by killing his victims with a speargun and the...
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Venom
International terrorists attempt to kidnap a wealthy couple's child. Their plan comes unstuck, howev...
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My Best Fiend
A film that describes the love-hate relationship between Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski, the deep tr...
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The Little Drummer Girl
An American Actress with a penchant for lying is forceably recruited by Mosad, the Israeli intellige...
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The Great Silence
A mute gunslinger fights in the defense of a group of outlaws and a vengeful young widow, against a ...
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Golden Night
After his family tries to kill him and he has been pronounced dead, Michel returns from the dead and...
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Fitzcarraldo
Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, ...
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Operation Thunderbolt
In July 1976, an Air France flight from Tel-Aviv to Paris via Athens was hijacked and forced to land...
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The Indian Scarf
When a wealthy man dies, his avaricious relatives look forward to inheriting all his money. However,...
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Again the Ringer
Arthur Milton aka Der Hexer (The Magician/Ringer) must return to London after his calling card was l...
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Slaughter Hotel
A masked killer stalks an institution for mentally disturbed rich women....
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Nosferatu in Venice
Professor Paris Catalano visits Venice, to investigate the last known appearance of the famous vampi...
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Venus in Furs
A musician finds the corpse of a beautiful woman on the beach. The woman returns from the dead to ta...
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Buddy Buddy
During a high profile Mafia testimony case, a contract killer checks-in a hotel room near the courth...
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Burden of Dreams
The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director We...
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Peter Baumgartner, Filmkameramann
Peter Baumgartner talks about his life and work as a DoP for Erwin C. Dietrich and Jess Franco....
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Filming Silenzio
Featurette about the making of Sergio Corbucci's 'Il grande silenzio' consisting mostly of footage f...
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The Counterfeit Traitor
Blacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of infil...
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A Bullet for the General
El Chuncho's bandits rob arms from a train, intending to sell the weapons to Elias' revolutionaries....
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The Pleasure Girls
When Sally moves to London to pursue a modelling career, she moves in with Angela and Dee and discov...
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Paganini
Legendary "devil violinist" Niccolo Paganini sets all of 19th century Europe into frenzy....
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Creature with the Blue Hand
Scotland Yard is after a homicidal maniac called The Blue Hand, which is what he uses to kill his vi...
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The Million Eyes of Sumuru
Sumuru is a beautiful but evil woman who plans world domination by having her sexy all-female army e...
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Fruits of Passion
A girl named O loves a rich, and much older man. She is subjected to a variety of humiliating experi...
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I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death
Sartana is falsely accused of robbing a bank, and must find the real robbers and clear his name....
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Android
Eccentric scientist Dr. Daniel and his shy assistant Max lead a quiet life on their space station, c...
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Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire
From Murnau to Herzog, and until modern incarnations, a mischievous exploration of a cinematographic...
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The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus
Self-taught magician, transformist at the Grande Eugène cabaret, man of theater, television and cine...
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Jack the Ripper
A serial killer whose mother was a prostitute starts killing streetwalkers as a way of paying back h...
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Shoot the Living and Pray for the Dead
Dan Hogan and his gang have held up a bank for $100,000 in gold bars. They meet up at Jackal's Ranch...
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Love & Money
An investment planner, bored with his job and his girlfriend, is given the opportunity to help open ...
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Coplan Saves His Skin
Free-lance undercover agent Coplan receives a phone call from an old girlfriend in Turkey. The panic...
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Web of the Spider
Alan Foster, a professional American journalist, travels to London to meet with Edgar Allan Poe for ...
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Zoo zéro
Eva is a singer in a Noah's Ark themed nightclub, where the guests wear animal masks. She is approac...
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Our Man in Marrakesh
One of six travelers who catch the bus from Casablanca airport to Marrakesh is carrying $2 million t...
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Mark of the Tortoise
English millionaire Sir Cyrus Bradley is being blackmailed by “The Tortoise” Crime Syndicate. He is ...
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Scotland Yard Hunts Dr. Mabuse
The spirit of the evil Dr. Mabuse takes over the body of a famous professor. The professor/Dr. Mabus...
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The Devil's Daffodil
A Chinese detective breaks up a drug smuggling ring and tries to find the "Daffodil Killer". The dru...
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The Strange Countess
Strange fortune hunters are behind a girl's murder in this Edgar Wallace tale....
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Traitor's Gate
A businessman organises a caper to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London....
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Death of a Corrupt Man
In the middle of the night, deputy Philippe Dubaye wakes up his old friend Xavier Maréchal with dist...
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Timestalkers
History professor Scott McKenzie makes an anachronistic discovery in a photograph from the Old West ...
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The Curse of the Hidden Vault
Mobsters conspire to loot another criminal's treasure secured in an enormous booby-trapped vault....
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Footprints on the Moon
Alice, a young translator, finds the real world slowly merging with her recurring nightmares as she ...
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Eye of the Spider
A diamond robber, who was left behind in the hands of the police, gets out of prison and teams up wi...
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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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Star Knight
A medieval alchemist (Klaus Kinski), knight (Harvey Keitel) and priest (Fernando Rey) mistake a flyi...
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Black Killer
The town of Tombstone is overrun by Ramon, Pedro, Miguel, Ryan and Slide -- five outlaw brothers who...
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Vengeance Is a Dish Served Cold
After witnessing the brutal murder of his entire family by Native Americans as a child, Jeremiah Bri...
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A Noose Is Waiting for You Trinity
This sequel to the popular spaghetti western "Clint the Stranger" was released four years after the ...
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If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death
After a stagecoach is robbed and the passengers murdered, a long and tangled series of surprise atta...
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Five for Hell
Lt. Glenn Hoffmann is the the fun-loving leader of a bunch of oddball, acrobatic G.I.s whose mission...
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The Price of Death
Four people are killed in a saloon hold-up. The townspeople pin the murders on local no-count black ...
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A Time to Love and a Time to Die
A German soldier home on leave falls in love with a girl, then returns to World War II....
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Crawlspace
A man who runs an apartment house for women is the demented son of a Nazi surgeon who has the house ...
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The Door with Seven Locks
A rich man bequeaths seven keys to seven of his friends, but only one will unlock the door to untold...
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Five Golden Dragons
While travelling through Hong Kong, Bob Mitchell accidentally stumbles into the middle of criminal n...
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The Ruthless Four
After years of hard work, old Sam Cooper has finally found a gold mine. Since he cannot take everyth...
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Grand Slam
Professor James Anders is a seemingly mild-mannered teacher, an American working in Rio De Janeiro. ...
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The Soldier
Terrorists take over a plutonium bomb and threaten to detonate it in a Saudi Arabian oil field. A sp...
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And God Said to Cain
An innocent man sentenced to ten years in prison for a crime he did not commit, is released from jai...
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Salt in the Wound
A twist of fate leads a recent Westpoint grad into being responsible for the execution of two fellow...
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Creature
A crew of scientists arrives on a far, cold planet to examine archaic artifacts of unknown origin. T...
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Schizoid
When Dr. Pieter Fales' patients start receiving ominous letters and getting murdered by an unknown b...
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The Hand That Feeds the Dead
Baron Ivan Rassimov, a brilliant doctor, died horribly during a fire burst in his laboratory. Since ...
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The Bastard
A criminal (Giuliano Gemma) seeks vengeance when his double-dealing brother (Klaus Kinski) steals hi...
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Twice a Judas
Luke Barrett, having lost his memory due to an accident, does not realize that Dingus had killed his...
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The Bloody Hands of the Law
When a crime boss is murdered while in hospital, a young woman sees the killers, but her room mate c...
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The Beast
Foul, twitchy, and deranged sex maniac Johnny Laster comes up with a plan to abduct a lovely young h...
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Piccadilly Zero Hour 12
Mike Hilton served eight years in prison for being innocent. When he is released from prison early, ...
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The Night of the Assassin
During the civil war in Cyprus, an island nation split between the Greeks and the Turks, a British p...
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Lifespan
Cult icon Klaus Kinski features in this dark and intriguing existential thriller. He plays the myste...
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Man, Pride and Vengeance
A Spanish army officer, Don Jose, stationed in Seville, meets and begins a relationship with a myste...
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Adios Compañeros
Macho Callaghan is a lieutenant in the Federal Guards and his job is to capture Butch Cassidy, Ironh...
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Coffin Full of Dollars
There's a frontier feud on the border of Mexico, where outlaw Hagen's brothers have been killed by N...
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His Name Was King
The Benson brothers, who are smuggling guns across the Mexican border, kill King's brother and rape ...
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Commando Leopard
A cruel dictator rules a Latin American state. Corruption, brutality and exploitation are present ev...
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The Avenger
A maniac is loose in London, decapitating his victims and sending the heads to Scotland Yard....
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The Red Pastures
A serial killer is on the run, after escaping a mental institution. He befriends a woman and her chi...
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Western, Italian Style
A featurette (most likely shot for American television) about the Spaghetti Western genre during the...
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Return of Shanghai Joe
A sinister town boss called Pat Barnes has exploited almost everyone in the town. If they don't succ...
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Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
A history of the famous vampire of books and movies, using film clips, previews and other methods....
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Please Kill Mr. Kinski
In 1986, director David Schmoeller worked with notoriously eccentric and tantrum-prone actor Klaus K...
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Kinski rigando Paganini
Behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of Klaus Kinski's "Paganini"....
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Double Face
After a businessman's unfaithful wife is seemingly killed in a car accident, he is led by several un...
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Code Name: Wild Geese
Commander Robin Wesley, leader of a group of mercenaries, go to the Golden Triangle in Southeast Asi...
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The Song of Roland
Roland des Roncesvalles is a legendary knight from the age of chivalry in France. In the 11th-centur...
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Revenge of the Stolen Stars
Klaus kinski plays the ghost of Duncan McBride, murdered owner of a plantation and ruby mine on the ...
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Target for Killing
A secret agent is charged with preventing a crime syndicate's plot to assassinate a young heiress....
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The Net
The aging writer Aurelio Morelli is disillusioned: although the critics like his books, they are bar...
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Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau
A childhood in boarding school, volunteered at 17 for the war and dismissed for indiscipline, thug i...
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Madame Claude
Based on a true story. Madame Claude, a well connected Parisienne with dark past, runs a network of ...
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Psychopath
The hero steals the haul from the thieves, gives it back to the police but charges 10% for his servi...
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Secret of the Chinese Carnation
Professor Wilkens has invented a formula for a new type of fuel and puts it on a microfiche that he ...
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How Did a Nice Girl Like You Get Into This Business?
Playboy magazine darling (and one-time playmate of Hugh Hefner) Barbi Benton is Naughty Cheerleader ...
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Churchill's Leopards
A British commando team heads into France to blow up a German-held dam in preparation for D-Day, whi...
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The Child Woman
Elisabeth, a 11 year old girl, visits Marcel, a mute gardener every morning with whom she shares a v...
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Haine
Klaus Kinski plays the role of a drifter on a motorcycle who happens to be passing through town imme...
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Kali-Yug, Goddess of Vengeance
At the end of the 19th century, during the British rule of India, the goddess Kali commits a number ...
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Only the Cool
A network of spies affects the lives of people in and out of the organization in this espionage dram...
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The Secret of the Black Widow
Someone is killing people related to a South American expedition. The means of murder are poison dar...
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Dead Eyes of London
A disfigured killer with glazed-over white eyes is doing the dirty work so that an insurance agent-d...
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Children, Mother, and the General
As Germany's fortunes in the latter part of World War II wane, several young boys, in their enthusia...
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Corinna Darling
Out of love, young Corinna follows the plantation owner Mannsfeld to the Far East - where she has to...
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Morituri
As the end of the Second World War approaches and the Soviet Red Army is advancing, a group of conce...
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Whiteface
After a long time, a circus is back in the area of Tidal Basin and already the strange phantom has r...
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The Dirty Game
A U.S. intelligence general recalls three Cold War cases of Soviet, French and Italian spies....
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Othelo The Great
A beautifully told story using archival footage to explore the life of Grande Otelo, a groundbreakin...
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Bankraub in der Rue Latour
Cliff is down on his luck when he decides to become a gangster. In order to get rich and impress his...
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The Black Cobra
After a truck carrying a cargo of narcotics is held up by rival smugglers, the driver sets out to pr...
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The Vatican Affair
A blind professor masterminds the theft of treasure from St. Peter's Basilica in Rome....
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Hanussen
In Germany during World War II, a well-known psychic decides to collaborate with the Nazis....
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Where Are You Taking That Woman
A lady killer tracked by the police, takes refuge at a psychiatrist's home, and the doctor tells him...
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Sarajevo
The film portrays the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in 1914....
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Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor
Klaus Kinski is one of the few German actors who has achieved international fame. He made headlines....
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I Am My Films: A Portrait of Werner Herzog
Interview film with German director Werner Herzog revisiting the films he made up to ca. 1977....
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Fear
Irene Wagner, the wife of the prominent German scientist Professor Albert Wagner, had been having an...
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White Hunter
After a man's wife is killed by a panther, his only reason to live becomes revenge, which slowly con...
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Gegen das Schweigen - Machtmissbrauch bei Theater und Film
Insults, humiliation, violence, sexual assault - the world behind the camera and the scenes can be a...
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Beauty and the Beast
The beautiful daughter of a merchant sacrifices her freedom to save her father from the punishment o...
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Portrait: Werner Herzog
An autobiographical short film by Werner Herzog made in 1986. Herzog tells stories about his life an...
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The Squeaker
Scotland Yard investigates a series of murders where the victims have died by snake venom poisoning....
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FantastiCozzi
A feature-length documentary about the life and career of Italian director Luigi Cozzi and his obses...
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Diary
A film diary in which Perlov films the minutiae of his and his family's day-to-day life. From these ...
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The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud
Screwball account of the legendary psychologist's life leading up to his ground-breaking theories....
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Location Africa
Making-of documentary that covers "Cobra Verde," Herzog's last film with Kinski before Kinski's deat...
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Fifty Shades of Erotica
Before Fifty Shades of Grey and beyond the limits of desire, Nucleus Films draw back the veil on Fif...
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For a Few Dollars More
Two bounty hunters both pursue the brutal and sadistic bandit, El Indio, who has a large bounty on h...
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The Mystery of the Indian Temple
Doctor Palmer, wrongly accused of the murder of a British officer, is a prisoner of the Maharajah of...
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Decision Before Dawn
WWII is entering its last phase: Germany is in ruins, but does not yield. The US army lacks crucial ...
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Lover of the Monster
Anijeska, the Rassimov's heir, moves with her husband, Dr. Alex Nijinski, to her father's mansion. I...
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AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.
Unleashed from the video vaults of the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA), AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE #2: ...
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Beloved Count
Cult director Jess Franco recalls the making of his adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula starring Chr...
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Kinski
Documentary film about the turbulent life and career of actor Klaus Kinski, a man whose genius was o...
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Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained
A tribute to Italian filmmaker Sergio Corbucci (1926-90), presented by American filmmaker Quentin Ta...
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The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
THE AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE VAULT is a 2-disc, 500-minute odyssey that collects eight feature-length VH...
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Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
A documentary about the rise and fall of the Cannon Film Group, the legendary independent film compa...
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