West Germany:16 certified movies

The Professionals (1966)

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
The Professionals
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Burt Lancaster | Lee Marvin | Robert Ryan | Woody Strode | Jack Palance | Claudia Cardinale | Ralph Bellamy | Joe De Santis | Rafael Bertrand | Jorge Martínez de Hoyos | Marie Gomez | José Chávez | Carlos Romero | Vaughn Taylor | David Cadiente
Directors: Richard Brooks
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Wealthy J.W. Grant hires Henry Fardan, Jake Sharp, Hans Ehrengard, and Bill Dolworth, each a specialist in his own field, to go into Mexico to bring back his wife, who has been kidnapped by the revolutionary Raza. Fardan and Dolworth, old comrades of Raza’s, know both the territory and their foe, but a surprise awaits when they locate the captive Mrs. Grant.

The Brain (1988)

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
The Brain
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Tom Bresnahan | Cynthia Preston | David Gale | George Buza | Christine Kossak | Bret Pearson | Bernice Quiggan | Susannah Hoffmann | Justine Campbell | Robert King | Kenneth McGregor | Vinetta Strombergs | Richard Gira | Wendy Springate | Harry Booker
Directors: Ed Hunt
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Dr. Blake runs a TV show called “Independent Thinkers”, which is sort of a Scientology-like self-help/religion program. But he’s not making his audience think any more independently – with the help of an alien organism he calls The Brain, he’s using brainwashing and mind control. The only thing that stands between them and world domination is a brilliant but troubled high school student with a penchant for pranks…

F.I.S.T (1978)

Saturday, February 27th, 2010
F.I.S.T
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Sylvester Stallone | Rod Steiger | Peter Boyle | Melinda Dillon | David Huffman | Kevin Conway | Tony Lo Bianco | Cassie Yates | Peter Donat | John Lehne | Henry Wilcoxon | Richard Herd | Tony Mockus Jr. | Ken Kercheval | Elena Karam
Directors: Norman Jewison
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Johnny Kovak joins the Teamsters trade-union in a local chapter in the 1930s and works his way up in the organization. As he climbs higher and higher his methods become more ruthless and finally senator Madison starts a campaign to find the truth about the alleged connections with the Mob.

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Play Dirty (1968)

Thursday, February 25th, 2010
Play Dirty
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Michael Caine | Nigel Davenport | Nigel Green | Harry Andrews | Patrick Jordan | Daniel Pilon | Martin Burland | George McKeenan | Bridget Espeet | Bernard Archard | Aly Ben Ayed | Enrique Ávila | Mohsen Ben Abdallah | Mohamed Kouka | Takis Emmanuel
Directors: André De Toth
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The Dirty Dozen meet the Stiff Upper Lip. A British Petroleum executive (Michael Caine) is assigned to work with the British Army in North Africa handling port duties for incoming fuels. This gives him the official rank of Captain in the British Army. The Colonel (Nigel Green) in charge of the Dirty Dozen is told he must have a British officer accompany his men on a dangerous mission 400 miles behind the German lines and is saddled with the Petroleum executive, who tries to argue his way out by saying that his contract states he is to only work port duties. That argument is lost on the Brigade Commander (Harry Andrews) who simply points out that the executive is wearing a British uniform. The real leader of the Dirty Dozen (Nigel Davenport), a released prisoner himself, doesn’t need or want the British officer, who’s supposed to be in charge, but he’s promised an extra 2,000 British Pounds if he gets him back alive. Disguised as Italians, their trek across Rommel’s Africa includes meeting and battling many kinds of enemies and the plot twists at the end will keep your interest.

Dead of Winter (1987)

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Dead of Winter
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Mary Steenburgen | Roddy McDowall | Jan Rubes | William Russ | Ken Pogue | Wayne Robson | Mark Malone | Michael Copeman | Sam Malkin | Pamela Moller | Dwayne McLean | Paul Welsh
Directors: Arthur Penn
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An actress is told that she is being considered to take over a movie role that was being played by someone else who greatly resembles her. The first actress, they say, had a breakdown and ran away from the set. She is taken to a country house in upstate New York… and soon learns that what is really going on is much more dangerous than filmmaking.

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Pancho Villa (1972)

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Pancho Villa
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Telly Savalas | Clint Walker | Chuck Connors | Anne Francis | José María Prada | Ángel del Pozo | Luis Dávila | Mónica Randall | Antonio Casas | Alberto Dalbés | Barta Barri | Eduardo Calvo | Lucy Tiller | Inés Oviedo | Dan van Husen
Directors: Eugenio Martín
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Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa is double-crossed in an arms deal planned by his comrade Scotty. Villa and Scotty plot a raid on a U.S. cavalry fort in retaliation.

Salvador (1986)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Salvador
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: James Woods | James Belushi | Michael Murphy | John Savage | Elpidia Carrillo | Tony Plana | Colby Chester | Cynthia Gibb | Will MacMillan | Valerie Wildman | José Carlos Ruiz | Jorge Luke | Juan Fernández | Salvador Sánchez | Rosario Zúñiga
Directors: Oliver Stone
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A journalist, down on his luck in the US, drives to El Salvador to chronicle the events of the 1980 military dictatorship, including the assasination of Archbishop Oscar Romero. He forms an uneasy alliance with both guerillas in the countryside who want him to get pictures out to the US press, and the right-wing military, who want him to bring them photographs of the rebels. Meanwhile he has to find a way of protecting his Salvadorean girlfriend and getting her out of the country.

Shocker (1989)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Shocker
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Romance
Countries: USA
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A murderous TV repairman, Horace Pinker (Mitch Pileggi) is killing people in a small town left, right and center. He eventually finds the home of Lt. Parker (Michael Murphy), who is investigating his crimes, and savagely murders Parker’s wife, son and daughter. His other son, Jonathan (Peter Berg) has a strange connection to Pinker through his dreams, and he directs his father to Pinker’s business, where a small group of officers enter. Pinker escapes in a horrific spree, killing four officers and then targeting Jonathan’s girlfriend, Alison. Another dream leads Jonathan and his dad to a residence where they catch Pinker in in the act of kidnapping. Pinker is arrested after a fight with Jonathan and sentenced to die in the electric chair. When executed, Pinker – who supposedly had given his soul to the devil in exchange for the power to come back as an energy source – takes over people’s bodies and continues committing murders, until Jonathan devises a plan to bring Pinker into the real world, and then cut off his power source…

Prince of Darkness (1987)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Prince of Darkness
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Romance
Countries: USA
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A priest/a millionaire dies and leaves a diary and a casket containing a key. Another priest reads the diary and after visiting a deserted church discovers a large glass tube containing some kind of green swirling liquid locked away. The priest tells a Professor friend of the discovery and the priest, the professor and a couple of students stay in the church to research the tube. Their discovery leads to the fact that the tube contains the Devil’s son, and a prophecy that “when the sleeper awakens the son will release the father.” The tube is locked from the inside and the sleeper is beginning to stir. The students/priest/professor now have a battle to stop the Devil from being released but some of them are being taken over to aid the Son’s cause…

Pin… (1988)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Pin…
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Romance
Countries: USA
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A doctor has a lifelike, anatomically-correct medical dummy, with muscles and organs visible through its clear skin, named Pin (after Pinocchio). Via ventriloquism, Pin explains bodily functions in a way kids can relate to. When the over-strict doctor and his wife are killed in a car crash, his son (Leon) transfers his alter-ego into Pin, whom he always believed was alive. He starts using Pin as an excuse to over-protect his sister (Ursula) from admirers and deflect unwanted intrusions, even to the extent of committing murder.

Die Blechtrommel (1979)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Die Blechtrommel
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Mario Adorf | Angela Winkler | David Bennent | Katharina Thalbach | Daniel Olbrychski | Tina Engel | Berta Drews | Roland Teubner | Tadeusz Kunikowski | Andréa Ferréol | Heinz Bennent | Ilse Pagé | Werner Rehm | Käte Jaenicke | Helmut Brasch
Directors: Volker Schlöndorff
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Danzig in the 1920s/1930s. Oskar Matzerath, son of a local dealer, is a most unusual boy. Equipped with full intellect right from his birth he decides at his third birthday not to grow up as he sees the crazy world around him at the eve of World War II. So he refuses the society and his tin drum symbolizes his protest against the middle-class mentality of his family and neighborhood, which stand for all passive people in Nazi Germany at that time. However, (almost) nobody listens to him, so the catastrophe goes on…

Manon Of The Spring (1986)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Manon Of The Spring
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Yves Montand | Daniel Auteuil | Emmanuelle Béart | Hippolyte Girardot | Margarita Lozano | Yvonne Gamy | Ticky Holgado | Jean Bouchaud | Elisabeth Depardieu | Gabriel Bacquier | Armand Meffre | André Dupon | Pierre Nougaro | Jean Maurel | Roger Souza
Directors: Claude Berri
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In a rural French village an old man and his only remaining relative are successful flower growers using water from a spring on an adjoining property they now own. The grown-up daughter of the previous owner still lives in the hills as a goatherd and comes to realise that not only these two but the whole village knew of the existence of the spring when her father was desperately trying to water his crops. An accident with one of the goats leads her by chance to the source of the spring and the possibility of a terrible revenge.

Marnie (1964)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Marnie
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Tippi Hedren | Sean Connery | Diane Baker | Martin Gabel | Louise Latham | Bob Sweeney | Milton Selzer | Mariette Hartley | Alan Napier | Bruce Dern | Henry Beckman | S. John Launer | Edith Evanson | Meg Wyllie | John Alvin
Directors: Alfred Hitchcock
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The beautiful Marnie Edgar is a first-class bookkeeper and the apple of her employers’ eyes. She happens also to be a compulsive thief who has taken her last employer, Sidney Strutt, to the cleaners before disappearing into thin air. But with Mark Rutland she attempts robbery once too often. He forces her to marry him, and out of love for her uncovers the mysteries of her past that contribute to her penchant for taking other people’s money.

The Shining (1980)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Shining, The
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Elliott Gould | Rebecca De Mornay
Directors: Mick Garris
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Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) gets a job as the custodian of the Overlook Hotel, in the mountains of Colorado. The place is closed down during winter, and Torrance and his family will be the only occupants of the hotel for a long while. When the snow storms block the Torrance family in the hotel, Jack’s son Danny – who has some clairvoyance and telepathy powers – discovers that the hotel is haunted and that the spirits are slowly driving Jack crazy. When Jack meets the ghost of Mr. Grady, the former custodian of the hotel who murdered his wife and his two daughters, things begin to get really nasty…

The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Postman Always Rings Twice, The
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Jack Nicholson | Jessica Lange | John Colicos | Michael Lerner | John P. Ryan | Anjelica Huston | William Traylor | Thomas Hill | Jon Van Ness | Brian Farrell | Raleigh Bond | William Newman | Albert Henderson | Ken Magee | Eugene Peterson
Directors: Bob Rafelson
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This remake of the 1946 movie of the same name accounts an affair between a seedy drifter and a seductive wife of a roadside cafe owner. This begins a chain of events that culminates in murder. Based on a novel by James M. Cain.

Fatal Attraction (1987)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Fatal Attraction
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Michael Douglas | Glenn Close | Anne Archer | Ellen Hamilton Latzen | Stuart Pankin | Ellen Foley | Fred Gwynne | Meg Mundy | Tom Brennan | Lois Smith | Mike Nussbaum | J.J. Johnston | Michael Arkin | Sam Coppola | Eunice Prewitt
Directors: Adrian Lyne
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Happily married New York lawyer Dan Callagher has an affair with his colleague Alex, and the two enjoy a love weekend while Dan’s wife and kid are away. But Alex will not let go of him, and she will stop at nothing to have him for herself. Just how far will she go to get what she wants?.

Leviathan (1989)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Leviathan
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Peter Weller | Richard Crenna | Amanda Pays | Daniel Stern | Ernie Hudson | Michael Carmine | Lisa Eilbacher | Hector Elizondo | Meg Foster | Eugene Lipinski | Larry Dolgin | Pascal Druant | Steve Pelot
Directors: George P. Cosmatos
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Underwater deep-sea miners encounter a Soviet wreck and bring back a dangerous cargo to their base on the ocean floor with horrifying results. In a story owing a lot to _Alien_ and _The Thing_, the crew of the mining base must fight to survive against a genetic mutation that hunts them down one by one. Part of a wave of underwater movies including _The Abyss_ and _Deep Star Six_.

The Hunter (1980)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Hunter, The
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Steve McQueen | Eli Wallach | Kathryn Harrold | LeVar Burton | Ben Johnson | Richard Venture | Tracey Walter | Thomas Rosales Jr. | Teddy Wilson | Ray Bickel | Bobby Bass | Karl Schueneman | Margaret Mary O'Hara | James Spinks | Frank Delfino
Directors: Buzz Kulik
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In order to track down bail jumpers, Ralph ‘Papa’ Thorson goes on a series of routine and not-so-routine searches. Sometimes he takes down his quarry easily. At other times, he’s forced to extreme measures which result in the injury or death of a lawbreaker. And then again, there are other moments when his own life is on the line. It’s all enough to make Thorson question what he has done with his life.

Three Men to Kill (Trois hommes à abattre) (1980)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Three Men to Kill (Trois hommes à abattre)
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Alain Delon | Dalila Di Lazzaro | Michel Auclair | Jean-Pierre Darras
Directors: Jacques Deray
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The Big Easy (1987)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Big Easy, The
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Dennis Quaid | Ellen Barkin | Ned Beatty | John Goodman | Lisa Jane Persky | Ebbe Roe Smith | Tom O'Brien | Charles Ludlam | Grace Zabriskie | Marc Lawrence | Solomon Burke | Gailard Sartain | Jim Chimento | Edward St. Pe | Robert Lesser
Directors: Jim McBride
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Set in New Orleans. Remy McSwain, lieutenant in Homicide finds that he has two problems, the first of a series of gang killings and Ann Osborne, a beautiful attorney from the D.A.’s police corruption task force in his office. He begins a relationship with her as the killings continue only to have charges filed against him for accepting bribes as he stumbles on a police corruption Sting. While this is happening, the criminals insist that none of the crime gangs are behind the killings.