Werner Peters
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Werner Peters (7 July 1918 – 30 March 1971) was a German film actor. He appeared in 102 films between 1947 and 1971.
Peters was born in Werlitzsch, Kreis Delitzsch, Prussian Saxony, and died of a heart attack on a promotion tour for his latest film in Wiesbaden, Germany.
His film career started with the lead in Wolfgang Staudte's Der Untertan, produced in the young German Democratic Republic. Peters then worked in West-Germany, appearing mostly in supporting roles in popular movies. He also established himself in the European and international film industry by frequently playing sinister German or Nazi characters.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.6379 |
| Birthday | 1918-07-07 |
| Place of Birth | |
| Also Known As | Вернер Петерс, |
1958
Rosemary
5.788/26
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 fortu...
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Rosemary
1970
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
7.145/830
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 investi...
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The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
1957
Das Herz von St. Pauli
5.667/9
Due to a lack of money, Hamburg pub owner Jonny Jensen brings two partners on board. As soon as the contract is finalized, the ex-sea bear is almost s...
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Das Herz von St. Pauli
1970
Unter den Dächern von St. Pauli
4/4
Rival gangs are fighting for control of Hamburg's notorious harbor district, spreading fear and terror in the process. In the streets, houses and club...
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Unter den Dächern von St. Pauli
1963
The Black Abbot
6.207/29
Several employees on a nobleman's estate show up at a former abbey, reputed to be haunted, to search for a hidden treasure. Howver, a mysterious hoode...
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The Black Abbot
1955
Ein Polterabend
10/1
Berlin 1849: The democrat Adolf Glasbrenner, known as Brennglas, publishes the political satire magazine "Phosphor" on a shoestring budget. He plans t...
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Ein Polterabend
1968
The Secret War of Harry Frigg
6.138/40
When 5 allied generals are captured in Italy in WWII, it is a propaganda nightmare for the allies. The generals are all 1 star and refuse to take orde...
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The Secret War of Harry Frigg
1955
The Devil from Mill Mountain
8.167/3
This film is set in a medieval mill town in the Harz mountains. The greedy and brutal millman and his accomplices, the castle steward and the mayor, s...
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The Devil from Mill Mountain
1965
Battle of the Bulge
6.892/277
In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent it, Hitler orders an all-out offensive...
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Battle of the Bulge
1951
The Kaiser's Lackey
6.68/25
Diederich Heßling is scared of everything and everyone. But as he grows up, he comes to realize that he has to offer his services to the powers-that-b...
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The Kaiser's Lackey
1962
The Counterfeit Traitor
6.463/54
Blacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of infiltrating and surveying Nazi Germany.
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The Counterfeit Traitor
1964
36 Hours
7.027/74
Germans kidnap an American major and try to convince him that World War II is over, so that they can get details about the Allied invasion of Europe o...
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36 Hours
1960
Punishment Battalion
6/4
The film focuses on life in a World War II German penal battalion camp somewhere in Russia. The convicts include a heroic doctor unjustly convicted of...
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Punishment Battalion
1960
The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
6.781/112
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 preve...
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The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
1971
Angels of Terror
5.867/15
An Australian woman arrives in London to search for her sister who she finds is involved with a heroin smuggling gang. The gang itself is under attack...
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Angels of Terror
1965
The Wild Men of Kurdistan
5.975/40
After dealing with the Shut in the Balkans, Kara Ben-Nemsi ('Karl the German') receives a firman (precious passport) from the padishah (Ottoman sultan...
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The Wild Men of Kurdistan
1964
The Curse of the Hidden Vault
5.867/15
Mobsters conspire to loot another criminal's treasure secured in an enormous booby-trapped vault.
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The Curse of the Hidden Vault
1962
The Door with Seven Locks
6.48/25
A rich man bequeaths seven keys to seven of his friends, but only one will unlock the door to untold wealth.
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The Door with Seven Locks
1975
Hard Women
5.429/7
Rough-and-ready vice detective Perrak has to follow a 1000 leads during the investigation of a trans murder case. In a profoundly mysterious massage p...
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Hard Women
1957
The Devil Strikes at Night
6.969/32
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, f...
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The Devil Strikes at Night
1969
Death Knocks Twice
4.227/11
When private detective Bob Martin looking for a stolen diamond necklace, he also has a clever serial killer on the trail ...
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Death Knocks Twice
1959
Roses for the Prosecutor
7.159/22
April 1945. Because he stole two bars of chocolate, the soldier Rudi is sentenced to death by the court-martial judge Dr. Schramm. Rudi manages to esc...
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Roses for the Prosecutor
1954
Vom Alex zum Eismeer
0/0
Five cameramen of the DEFA travel with the trawler ROS 206 to its fishing grounds in the Arctic Ocean. The journey to the grounds takes 5,5 days. Day...
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Vom Alex zum Eismeer
1956
Das Sonntagskind
7.2/5
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Das Sonntagskind
1962
Hypnosis
5.727/11
Erik, in love with Magda, the fiancée of Georg, his boss, secretly sends her roses every night.
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Hypnosis
1961
Operation Caviar
5.313/8
Bank accountant Thomas Lieven is forced to work as a triple agent for the British, the French and the Nazis.
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Operation Caviar
1956
Anastasia: the Czar's Last Daughter
6.5/4
In 1920, an unknown 24-year-old woman was fished out of Berlin's Landwehr kanal after a suicide attempt. Since she has no papers and no answers to any...
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Anastasia: the Czar's Last Daughter
1965
Black Eagle of Santa Fe
6.25/6
When Comanches go on the warpath, settlers take refuge in Ft. Eagle Rock commanded by Capt. Jackson. Undercover agent Cliff McPherson arrives at the u...
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Black Eagle of Santa Fe
1962
The Carpet of Horror
6.4/10
Shortly after his return from India, a special agent of the British secret service falls victim to an insidious poisoning in London. Scotland Yard get...
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The Carpet of Horror
1963
The Endless Night
7.231/13
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 Ber...
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The Endless Night
1963
The Secret of the Black Widow
6.167/12
Someone is killing people related to a South American expedition. The means of murder are poison darts with rubber spiders attached to them. A writer...
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The Secret of the Black Widow
1958
The Copper
6.857/7
Otto Friedrich Dennert is a celebrated veteran of the Essen police force. While investigating a series of killings of women he reaches retirement age....
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The Copper
1958
13 Little Donkeys and the Sun Court
6.4/5
Martha Krapp is amazed when her husband Josef suddenly appears at the door. He has rarely been seen in recent years, instead traveling the world and e...
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13 Little Donkeys and the Sun Court
1955
The Plot to Assassinate Hitler
6.063/8
A disillusioned Wehrmacht officer named Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg and his co-conspirators attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler on 20 July 1944.
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The Plot to Assassinate Hitler
1959
Jons und Erdme
9/1
Adaptation of Hermann Sudermann's novel about the troubled relationship between the strong willed Erdme and her irascible husband Jons in the Lithunia...
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Jons und Erdme
1958
Blitzmädels an die Front
5/2
During WWII The German 'Wehrmacht' is heavily under fire after the invasion of Normandy. There are also a lot of women participating in the war, worki...
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Blitzmädels an die Front
1959
Bobby Dodd intervenes
9/2
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Bobby Dodd intervenes
1949
Girls in Gingham
6.8/5
A moving saga focusing on the women in a family that spans three generations and almost 70 years of German history, from the Wilhelmine period through...
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Girls in Gingham
1961
The Return of Dr. Mabuse
6.105/19
The supposedly dead and buried Mabuse returns to his criminal activities, as his longtime foe Police Inspector Lohmann, a dauntless girl reporter, and...
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The Return of Dr. Mabuse
1963
Das Feuerschiff
6.5/2
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Das Feuerschiff
1958
Liebe kann wie Gift sein
9/1
After having lost her mother Magdalena was brought up on strict boarding school disciplines. When returning to her father, she is looked after by an e...
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Liebe kann wie Gift sein
1958
Grabenplatz 17
9/3
Murder mystery about the disappearance of a boy who has leukaemia following the murder of his mother, which he witnessed.
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Grabenplatz 17
1955
Hotel Adlon
8.5/2
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Hotel Adlon
1964
The Phantom of Soho
6.361/18
A masked killer is stalking and killing Londoners outside a nightclub.
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The Phantom of Soho
1959
Der Schatz vom Toplitzsee
8/2
Shortly before the end of the war, SS officer Grohmann sinks several crates of counterfeit English money in Lake Toplitz with his comrade Kopetzky. Th...
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Der Schatz vom Toplitzsee
1958
Schmutziger Engel
9/1
A teacher is defamed in an obscene way by an over-excited pupil.
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Schmutziger Engel
1958
Romarei, the Girl with the Green Eyes
6.5/2
Clairvoyant gifted Romarei (Carola Kayser) manages to save her childhood friend Lorenz Ophofen from what would have been a fatal accident. Prang, a gr...
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Romarei, the Girl with the Green Eyes
1963
Scotland Yard Hunts Dr. Mabuse
6.417/12
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...
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Scotland Yard Hunts Dr. Mabuse
1964
The Racetrack Murders
6.273/11
The son of a British racehorse owner conspires with a bookie to ruin the odds of his father's thoroughbred winning an important event.
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The Racetrack Murders
1956
Die Stimme der Sehnsucht
10/1
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Die Stimme der Sehnsucht
1962
The Invisible Dr. Mabuse
6.769/13
Strange things happen in a revue theatre. The dancer Maria seems to be hunted by an invisible admirer. When the body of a probable FBI agent is found...
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The Invisible Dr. Mabuse
1963
The White Spider
6.364/11
After an automobile accident, in which a man is unrecognizably burnt to a crisp, his wife's only able to confirm the corpse's identity by his talisman...
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The White Spider
1967
Dead Run
5.143/7
A thief gets hold of some top secret papers and is chased around Europe by the sinister Organisation.
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Dead Run
1953
Anna Susanna
7/1
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Anna Susanna
1949
The Beaver Coat
6.333/3
Mother Wolffen, a washerwoman, is a woman of principle: A poor man must do what he must to get through life, only he mustn't get caught doing it. All...
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The Beaver Coat
1954
Ernst Thälmann – Son of the Working Class
5.667/9
This film is the first of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politician and anti-fascist Ernst Thälmann. In early Novem...
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Ernst Thälmann – Son of the Working Class
1958
Escape from Sahara
7.5/2
Three Foreign Legionnaires - Luigi, Pat and Kurt - desert during the Algerian war because they have had enough of the inhumane war machine. But their...
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Escape from Sahara
1965
Der Fall Klaus Fuchs
9/1
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Der Fall Klaus Fuchs
1953
Die Unbesiegbaren
7.25/4
The film "Die Unbesiegbaren" covers an episode in German history, in which the Bismarck government tried to mitigate the rise of the social-democrat m...
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Die Unbesiegbaren
1963
The Curse of the Yellow Snake
6.469/16
A Chinese cult bent on taking over the world uses an idol called The Golden Reptile that they believe can give them the power to achieve their goal.
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The Curse of the Yellow Snake
1959
Court Martial
5.6/5
In this war drama, three Nazi survivors are rescued after their battleship sank. Initially they are given heroes' accolades for their courage, but the...
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Court Martial
1969
Istanbul Express
5.375/8
An art dealer on a special mission is pulled into dangerous intrigue while railway detective Cheval tries to help and pursues criminals on the Istanbu...
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Istanbul Express
1948
The Blum Affair
9/1
Dr. Blum, a Jewish manufacturer, is falsely accused of a murder. Even when the real killer’s identity becomes evident, the state prosecutor refuses to...
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The Blum Affair
1958
Lilli, a Girl from the Big City
7/1
The frenzied reporter Lilli is just great: she shoots with both hands and lays her opponents with Jiu-Jitsu while the guys fall to the ground with jus...
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Lilli, a Girl from the Big City
1955
Vor Gott und den Menschen
9/1
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Vor Gott und den Menschen
1960
Endstation Rote Laterne
9/1
Unscrupulous girl traders transport unsuspecting blonde girls from a nightclub in Amsterdam to a brothel in Havana. The young journalist Verena Linkma...
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Endstation Rote Laterne
1950
Rotation
7.143/7
The mechanic Behnke wants to join the Nazi party to secure a good living. However, after his Jewish neighbors have been taken away, he changes his vie...
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Rotation
1955
Star mit fremden Federn
8/1
A striking resemblance between the hairdresser Franz Blume and the famous actor Günther Kolmin leads to a curious mix-up during a vacation in Feuerste...
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Star mit fremden Federn
1961
Blind Justice
6/5
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...
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Blind Justice
1964
Dog Eat Dog!
4.875/8
Three thieves rip off a shipment of used money being sent back to the US. As they are escaping the robbery (after having taken a hostage), they wind u...
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Dog Eat Dog!
1951
Modell Bianka
6/4
The friends Jochen and Gerd both work at the fashion boutique "Saxonia", which has only recently designed a new collection. Therefore, Jochen and Gerd...
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Modell Bianka
1959
The Scarlet Baroness
8/1
During the final days of the Second World War, British intelligence sends an agent to Berlin to try to discover the secrets of Nazi Germany's nuclear...
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The Scarlet Baroness
1956
Spy for Germany
6/8
The true story of a German agent sent to the USA in 1944 in order to stop the development of the atomic bomb.
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Spy for Germany
1969
Zehn kleine Negerlein
7/3
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Zehn kleine Negerlein
1958
Der Tod auf dem Rummelplatz
10/1
A fairground in a small town in northern Germany: a young woman named Margret Winter enjoys herself there with a friend. She has 900 D-Mark in her poc...
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Der Tod auf dem Rummelplatz
1960
Ein Herz braucht Liebe
8/1
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Ein Herz braucht Liebe
1960
Hauptmann - deine Sterne
8/1
Scammers in Bundeswehr uniforms fool a future garrison town.
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Hauptmann - deine Sterne
1961
Auf Wiedersehen
10/1
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Auf Wiedersehen
1967
Lotosblüten für Miss Quon
8.667/3
American Mark Jason is stranded in Southeast Asia and works there as a teacher. One day, he finds diamonds worth several million dollars in his apartm...
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Lotosblüten für Miss Quon
1961
Denn das Weib ist schwach
9/1
The respected lawyer Jolly Gebhardt is in debt because of his lavish lifestyle and is therefore blackmailed by dubious criminals for embezzlement.
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Denn das Weib ist schwach
1958
Besuch aus der Zone
7/1
Germany, end of the 1950s. After his business partner Kleinschmidt fled to the West, Mr. Reichert managed the company they had once founded together i...
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Besuch aus der Zone
1967
The Corrupt Ones
5.375/12
Freelance photographer Cliff Wilder (Robert Stack) finds himself the target of various colorful villains in this quest for an ancient Chinese treasure...
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The Corrupt Ones
1960
The Cat Shows Her Claws
6/5
France under the Occupation. Executed for treason against the Resistance, Cora, code-named "La Chatte", was left for dead. Recovered and cared for by...
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The Cat Shows Her Claws
1969
Fragestunde
10/1
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Fragestunde
1959
The Black Chapel
7.333/3
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-...
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The Black Chapel
1966
I Deal in Danger
6.4/5
During World War II, an American who sympathizes with the Nazi cause defects to Germany, where he is greeted as a hero and given a job broadcasting pr...
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I Deal in Danger
1967
Witness Out of Hell
7/7
Leah Weiss, a Polish Jew, was first forced into prostitution at Auschwitz. Afterwards, she was victimized in medical experiments. Now, twenty years la...
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Witness Out of Hell
1953
The Story of Little Mook
6.6/40
An old man living in an oriental city tells the story of his life to a group of kids: He too was once a young boy by the name of Little Muck - much li...
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The Story of Little Mook
1955
Ernst Thälmann – Leader of the Working Class
7.143/7
This film is the second of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politician and anti-fascist Ernst Thälmann. Autumn, 1918:...
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Ernst Thälmann – Leader of the Working Class
1968
Assignment K
6.333/9
Philip Scott, the boss of a toy company, is secretly also the chief of a British spy organization. Scott's cover is destroyed when enemy agents kidnap...
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Assignment K
1962
Everyone Dies Alone
7/1
In wartime Berlin, a factory foreman, Otto Quangel and his wife, Anna learn that their only son, Paul, has been killed in action in France. In their g...
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Everyone Dies Alone
1964
Three for a Robbery
10/1
Gerhard is a young technical in Düsseldorf who works in a factory of security devices for banks. In agreement with Nicola, Mario and Hans, they prepar...
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Three for a Robbery
1950
The Barge of Happy People
6/3
The girl Marianne inherited a motorboat called “Eintracht” from her parents and struggled to get her to drive it with her uncle. There is a row with t...
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The Barge of Happy People
1966
A Fine Madness
5.05/20
A womanizing poet falls into the hands of a psychiatrist with a straying wife.
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A Fine Madness
1968
The Killer Likes Candy
5.25/4
Shrewd and evasive ex-Nazi and top assassin Oscar Snell is determined to rub out the King of Kafiristan. Snell's sole weakness is his sweet tooth; he...
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The Killer Likes Candy
1960
Der Hauptmann von Köpenick
7.5/2
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Der Hauptmann von Köpenick
1952
Karriere in Paris
9/1
France at the time of the Restoration. The young country gentleman Rastignac comes to Paris to study. He takes up residence in a poor boarding house,...
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Karriere in Paris
1955
Sommerliebe
8/1
Young, pretty Milli is passionate about winter sports, and of all things, she wins a vacation trip to the Baltic Sea at her company - in summer, of co...
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Sommerliebe
1958
The Restless Night
6.5/2
1958: during the Russian campaign, a military priest is called upon to assist Private Baranowski, who has been sentenced to death for desertion, on hi...
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The Restless Night
1947
Between Yesterday and Tomorrow
6.667/6
A group of people gathers back in the post-war ruins of a luxurious Munich hotel they inhabited at one point or another years before; each trying to c...
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Between Yesterday and Tomorrow
2018
Die 1000 Glotzböbbel vom Dr. Mabuse
6.9/4
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Die 1000 Glotzböbbel vom Dr. Mabuse
1959
Melodie und Rhythmus
5.833/3
Father and son have the same taste in women, but different tastes in music: both love the beautiful Linda, but while the father leads a successful dan...
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