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Klaus Kinski
portrait Date of Birth: Oct 8, 1926
Nationality: German
Biography: Though he invariably looked sickly and tubercular, Polish/German actor Klaus Kinski rose to fame in roles calling for near-manic aggressiveness. His war career consisted primarily of a year and a half in a British POW camp. After this experience, Kinski took to the theater, where he rapidly built a reputation for on-stage brilliance and off-stage emotional instability. International stardom came Kinski's way via his off-the-beam appearances in the films of director Werner Herzog. With 1989's Paganini, he proved to be as colorful and chaotic a director as he was an actor. He was the father of actress Nastassja Kinski; died in 1991.
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Jesus Christ Savior (2008)
Summary: Lost material from one of the last performances of Klaus Kinski on stage. (user Charlie)
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Please Kill Mr. Kinski (1999)
Summary: In 1985, Director David Schmoeller found himself in the unenviable position of directing the crazed actor Klaus Kinski in the horror film Crawlspace. Kinski was already famous for hating directors, but Schmoeller soon discovered that even basic duties as yelling "Action!" prompted tantrums in Kinski. (WFMU)
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My Best Fiend -- Klaus Kinski (1999)
Summary: In the 1950s, when Werner Herzog was 13, he was sharing an apartment with Klaus Kinski, an ego-maniacal live-wire. In an unabated, 48 hour fit of rage, Kinski destroyed every piece of furniture in sight. From this chaos, a beautiful albeit volatile partnership was born. In 1972, Herzog cast Kinski in Aguirre, The Wrath of God. Four more films would follow. In this personal documentary, Herzog traces the often violent up and downs of their relationship, revisiting Munich apartment where they first met - and thrashed, and the various locations of their films. (imdb)
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Kinski Paganini (1989)
Summary: Kinski believed that he lived through the same experiences as the legendary "devil violinist" Niccolo Paganini, who set whole Europe of the 19th century into frenzy and through whose personality Kinski offers us an incredibly profound and honest insight into his own life; a life of extremities. (imdb)
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Nosferatu in Venice (1988)
Summary: A vampire hunter (Plummer) sails into Venice on a gondola seeking the undead one. He has been tracking him across the globe and is very close now to staking him where he lies before he is reawakened. Unfortunately he is revived by a seance and floats about the city, preying on aristocratic women and flamenco dancers looking for the look-alike descendant of a woman he once contaminated.
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Cobra Verde (1987)
Summary: The feared bandit Cobra Verde (Klaus Kinski) is hired by a plantation owner to supervise his slaves... (imdb)
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Crawlspace (1986)
Summary: A man who runs an apartment house for women is the demented son of a Nazi surgeon who has the house equipped with secret passageways, hidden rooms and torture and murder devices. (imdb)
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Kommando Leopard (1985)
Summary: A cruel dictator rules a Latin American state. Corruption, brutality and exploitation are present every day. A few people begin to organize resistance. Under the leader "El Leopardo" a small group of guerrillas fights against the violent government... (imdb)
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Creature (1985)
Summary: A crew of scientists arrives on a far, cold planet to examine archaic artefacts of unknown origin. They discover that the German enemies have already a ship there. When they seek their help after a failed landing, they only find the German's bodies, obviously slaughtered by one of the archaic creatures, awoken to new life. Now the alien is after them. (imdb)
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Revenge of the Stolen Stars (1985)
Summary: Klaus Kinski plays the ghost of Duncan McBride, murdered owner of a plantation and ruby mine on the island of Sunanow... (imdb)
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Code Name: Wild Geese (1984)
Summary: A band of mercenaries are hired to fight a Burmese opium warlord in the Golden Triangle area of southeast Asia. (imdb)
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Little Drummer Girl, The (1984)
Summary: An American Actress with a penchant for lying is forcibly recruited by Mosad, the Israeli intelligence agency to trap a Palestinian bomber, by pretending to be the girlfriend of his dead brother. (imdb)
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Yoman (1983)
Summary: A film diary in which Perlov films the minutiae of his and his family's day-to-day life. From these small bits, he builds up a broad picture of life in Israel in the '70s and '80s. (shaister.blogspot.com)
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Android (1982)
Summary: Eccentric scientist Dr.Daniel and his shy, clumsy assistant Max, lead a quiet life on their space station where they carry out illegal research into androids, until they receive an unwelcome visit from three fugitives from justice, one of whom is female. Dr.Daniel and Max are both interested in her, but one of them has rather more sinister intentions than just romance... (imdb)
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Fitzcarraldo (1982)
Summary: The story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an extremely determined man who intends to build an opera house in the middle of the Peruvian jungle. (imdb)
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Burden of Dreams (1982)
Summary: A documentary on the chaotic production of Werner Herzog's epic 'Fitzcarraldo' , showing how the film managed to get made despite problems that would have floored a less obsessively driven director (imdb)
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Fruits Of Passion, The (1981)
Summary: A girl loves an older man. He demands that she goes in a brothel, as evidence that she loves him. (imdb)
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Venom (1981)
Summary: International terrorists attempt to kidnap a wealthy couples child. Their plan comes unstuck when the boy's pet snake, a deadly Black Mamba, escapes, and the terrorists and several hostages are trapped in the boy's London home. A tense evening is had by all as the snake creeps around the house picking off the various characters one by one. (imdb)
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Buddy Buddy (1981)
Summary: Walter Matthau plays a professional killer going by the name of Trabucco, who is on his way to rub out gangster Rudy "Disco" Gambola, set to testify against the mob. As Trabucco heads off to a hotel across the street from the courthouse where he plans to set his hit, he runs into the depressed Victor Clooney, who laments the fact that his wife has left him for the head of a weird Californian sex clinic... (imdb)
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Schizoid (1980)
Summary: Julie (Mariana Hill) is an advice columnist for the city newspaper who begins to receive anonymous notes threatening murder and worse. At about the same time, female members of the group therapy session she attends are being stabbed, one by one, by an unknown assailant. Is there a connection? (imdb)
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Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
Summary: Jonathan and Lucy live in Wismar and the Count wants a house there. Varna is a port on the Black Sea, close to Dracula's castle. (imdb)
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Woyzeck (1979)
Summary: Franz Woyzeck (Kinski) is a hapless, hopeless soldier, alone and powerless in society, assaulted from all sides by forces he cannot control. (imdb)
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Mivtsa Yonatan (1977)
Summary: Based on the real-life incidents at Entebbe, Operation Thunderbolt takes off at lightning speed to bring the riveting story of the ultimate fight for freedom to the screen. A cinematic classic in Israel, Operation Thunderbolt was nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Film. Also includes the documentary "Raid on Entebbe," featuring on-camera interviews with top political leaders and military commanders. (Netflix)
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Death of a Corrupt Man (1977)
Summary: Xavier Marechal (Alain Delon) is a businessman whose long-time business partner and friend is Philippe Dubaye (Maurice Ronet) a member of the French parliamentary assembly. In the film, Philippe has just killed Cerrano, a fellow assemblyman who threatened to disclose Philippe's involvement in political corruption. After killing the man, he steals his notebook which contains blackmail information implicating many members of the government... (allmovie.com)
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Jack the Ripper (1976)
Summary: A serial killer whose mother was a prostitute starts killing streetwalkers as a way of paying back his mother for her abuse. (imdb)
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Primal Impulse (1975)
Summary: Alice Cespi - a translator - gets fired because she didn't show up at work for three consecutive days. She has no recollection of what happened those three days and goes looking for answers in a former tourist area called Garma.
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Genius, Two Partners, and a Dupe, A (1975)
Summary: Three rogues set out to rob $300,000 from an Indian-hating cavalry major. (imdb)
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Important c'est d'aimer, L' (1975)
Summary: Servais Mont, a photographer, meets Nadine Chevalier who earns her money starring in cheap soft-core movies. Trying to help her, he borrows the money from the loan sharks to finance the theatrical production of 'Richard III' and gives Nadine a part. Nadine is torn apart between Servais, for whom she is falling in love, and her husband Jacques, to whom she has moral obligations. (imdb)
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Evil Face (1974)
Summary: stars Klaus Kinski as a professor obsessed with restoring his lover's beauty after she's badly disfigured in a fire. When respected doctor Baron Ivan Rassimov dies in a horrible lab fire, his young daughter Tanja (Katia Christine) narrowly escapes death. With burns over most of her body, including her face, Tanja covers her visage with a vale, a retreats to a life of solitude... (allmovie.com)
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Death Smiles on a Murderer (1973)
Summary: A man discovers an ancient Incan formula for raising the dead, and uses it for a series of revenge murders. (imdb)
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Bloody Hands of the Law, The (1973)
Summary: When a crime boss is murdered during a stay in a high-security hospital and the only witness turns up dead, a loose-cannon police detective becomes obsessed with finding the killers, even if it means taking on the Mafia and going up against corrupt cops. (moviesunlimited.com)
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Noose Is Waiting for You Trinity, A (1972)
Summary: A wanted gunman returns home to his wife’s ranch who hires him as a ranch hand on the promise he never touches his gun again. This becomes a problem when a tyrant tries to buy up all the local ranches and hangs those who refuse his offer. (spaghetti-western.net)
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Fighting Fists of Shanghai Joe, The (1972)
Summary: A Chinese immigrant named Chin How lands in a small Texas town inhabited by hard-nosed cowboys who don't take kindly to outsiders. The town folk soon realize that Chin is no ordinary drifter and he quickly gains a reputation for his unbeatable fighting skills... (imdb)
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Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972)
Summary: In the 16th century, the ruthless and insane Aguirre leads a Spanish expedition in search of El Dorado. (imdb)
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Web of the Spider (1971)
Summary: The journalist Alan Foster makes a bet than he can spend one night at the haunted Blackwood Castle. As he learns, the rumours of ghosts at the castle are indeed true. (imdb)
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Black Killer (1971)
Summary: The town of Tombstone is at the mercy of five brothers, the dreaded O'Hares. An expert gunslinger, Burt (Fred Robsham), arrives on the scene and is immediately persuaded to take on the duties of sheriff. A mysterious lawyer (Klaus Kinski), lurking mostly in the background, occasionally joins in the action with his deadly law books. (spaghetti-western.net)
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Asylum Erotica (1971)
Summary: In a psychiatric clinic for rich women, dies murdered, one after another, a nurse and two patients, while an arrow hit another woman. The guilty is a masked man. The police decide to set up a trap, but the line of murdering isn't still over. (imdb)
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To Kill a Jackal (1971)
Summary: Dan Hogan and his gang have held up a bank for $100,000 in gold bars. They meet up at Jackal's Ranch, a weigh station for stage coaches. While waiting for the gold to arrive they encounter a stranger, John Webb, who wants half the gold in exchange for guiding them safely to Mexico. Reluctantly, Dan agrees and they set across the brutal desert for a race to the border with the Rangers hot on their tail. Is John who he says he is? Is he really after the gold or does he have an ulterior motive? (imdb)
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Barrel Full of Dollars, A (1971)
Summary: There's a frontier feud on the border of Mexico. Outlaw Hagen's brothers have been killed by Nevada's Kid's family.
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Price of Death (1971)
Summary: In this western, a brave hero helps a man wrongly accused of killing a saloon girl in a small Texas town. (Answers.com)
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Count Dracula (1970)
Summary: Jess Franco's version of the Bram Stoker classic has Count Dracula as an old man who grows younger whenever he dines on the blood of young maidens. (imdb)
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Churchill's Leopards (1970)
Summary: Nazis are threatening, and only a squad of British commandos can stop them. (allmovie.com)
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And God Said to Cain (1970)
Summary: Gary Hamilton, innocently sentenced to ten years in prison is released. When he comes out he promises himself to seek revenge on the guilty. (imdb)
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Beast, The (1970)
Summary: Kinski, as the sadistic bandit Johnny 'The Beast' Laster, has more on his mind than just the loot from his robberies. He's a sex-crazed maniac and any woman he meets is a potential rape victim. (spaghetti-western.net)
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Marquis de Sade: Justine (1969)
Summary: A woman named Justine is (willingly) used and abused by all manner of perverts, freaks and sexual deviants. (imdb)
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Venus In Furs (1969)
Summary: James Darren stars as a traumatized trumpeter sucked into a whirlpool of psycho-sexual horror along with his sultry girlfriend, a kinky lesbian, a depraved playboy and the mysterious, insatiable beauty who may lead them all straight to Hell. (Amazon.com)
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Double Face (1969)
Summary: The plot centres on John Alexander, a successful business man whose wife just happens to be a lesbian. She is, unfortunately, killed in a car crash towards the start of the film and John then encounters Christine; a sexy and uninhibited blonde seductress who seems to have a keen interest in him. One thing leads to another, and John ends up seeing a blue movie starring Christine and, apparently, his wife! The mystery then builds as John comes to believe that his wife is still alive. (imdb)
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Angel of Death: Sartana (1969)
Summary: Sartana is falsely accused of robbing a bank, and must find the real robbers and clear his name. (imdb)
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Salt in the Wound (1969)
Summary: Italy, 1943: Corporal Brian Haskins and Private John Grayson are due to be executed after facing a US military tribunal. Fresh out of West Point, Lieutenant Michael Sheppard is given command of their execution but his incompetence leads his firing squad members straight into an ambush set up by German forces. Haskins, Grayson and Sheppard are the only survivors and they eventually wind up in the small town of St. Michele, where the locals welcome them as liberators... (dvdtalk.com)
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Five for Hell (1969)
Summary: John Garko is a fun-loving leader of a bunch of oddball G.I.s whose mission is to steal the German's secret attack plans from a villa behind enemy lines, where they run into a brutal Nazi commander. (imdb)
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Ruthless Four, The (1968)
Summary: Ruthless Four follows four prospectors who are out to strike a big lode in the Nevada gold rush days. When one of the four hits the riches, he finds the other three are out to partake of the hard-earned find. (nytimes.com)
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Man: His Pride and His Vengeance (1968)
Summary: Adaption of the classic novel Carmen which puts the main characters into a Spaghetti Western setting.
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If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death (1968)
Summary: After a stagecoach is robbed and the passengers murdered, a long and tangled series of surprise attacks a murderous double-crosses leaves the coach's strongbox in the hands of the killer Lasky. It is up to the legendary hero Sartana to track down the missing money and determine just who is ultimately behind the grisly robberies and killings. (imdb)
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Great Silence, The (1968)
Summary: Bounty killers led by Loco prey on outlaws hiding out in the snowbound Utah mountains. After Pauline's husband becomes Loco's latest victim, she hires a gunman for revenge; Silence, mute since his throat was cut as a child. (imdb)
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Five Golden Dragons (1967)
Summary: A con artist who fleeces wealthy widows falls for his latest mark. (TCM.com)
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Million Eyes of Sumuru, The (1967)
Summary: Frankie Avalon and George Nader (that guy from "The Robot Monster") are a couple of wise-cracking, swingin' secret agents. Their enemy is Shirley Eaton as Su-Muru, who plans to remove all of the men who are currently in power and replace them with her army of women, most of who are shown in skimpy (for 1967) bikinis or mini skirts, and who can all perform complex tasks such as break a man's neck with their thighs... (imdb)
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Bloody Dead, The (1967)
Summary: Scotland Yard is after a homicidal maniac called The Blue Hand, which is what he uses to kill his victims. (imdb)
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Grand Slam (1967)
Summary: After retirement, Professor James Anders presents criminal Mark Milford an elaborate plan to rob a diamond company in Brazil with a crew of professionals. The men assemble in Rio de Janeiro and run in to an unanticipated problem: a new alarm system called Grand Slam 70. (imdb)
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Circus of Fear (1966)
Summary: A circus becomes the location for stolen loot and murder. (imdb)
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Our Man in Marrakesh (1966)
Summary: One of six travellers who catch the bus from Casablanca airport to Marrakesh is carrying $2 million to pay a local operator to fix United Nations votes. But which one? (imdb)
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Bullet for the General, A (1966)
Summary: El Chuncho's bandits rob arms from a train, intending to sell the weapons to Elias' revolutionaries. They are helped by one of the passengers, Bill Tate, and allow him to join them, unware he is an assassin working for the Mexican government (imdb)
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For A Few Dollars More (1965)
Summary: Two bounty hunters with completely different intentions team up to track down a Western outlaw.
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Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Summary: Life of a Russian doctor/poet who, although married, falls for a political activist's wife and experiences hardships during the Bolshevik Revolution. (imdb)
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Dirty Game, The (1965)
Summary: The US intelligence chief in Europe relates the stories of three different espionage operations that he was involved in. (imdb)
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Gruft mit dem Rätselschloß, Die (1964)
Summary: Mobsters conspire to loot another criminal's treasure secured in an enormous booby-trapped vault. (imdb)
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Winnetou II: Last of the Renegades (1964)
Summary: Forester, a ruthless oil baron, wants to create a war between the native American tribes and the white men. Old Shatterhand, Winnetou and their sidekick Castlepool try to prevent this. (imdb)
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Verrätertor, Das (1964)
Summary: A businessman organises a caper to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. (imdb)
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Scotland Yard vs. Dr. Mabuse (1963)
Summary: The spirit of the evil Dr. Mabuse takes over the body of a famous professor. The professor/Dr. Mabuse then begins a new crime wave that terrorizes the city. (imdb)
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Indische Tuch, Das (1963)
Summary: When a wealthy man dies, his avaricious relatives look forward to inheriting all his money. However, he leaves a provision in his will that they all must spend a week together in his castle before they will be able to inherit anything. At the castle (which is cut off from the outside world), the relatives soon begin to be killed off one by one, each strangled with an Indian scarf. The estate's executor, a lawyer, sets out to find the killer before everyone--including himself--is murdered. (imdb)
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Der schwarze Abt (1963)
Summary: 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 hooded figure begins killing off those who may have figured out where the treasure is hidden. (imdb)
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Inn on the River, The (1962)
Summary: A serial killer named The Shark is terrorizing London by killing his victims with a speargun and then, dressed in a scuba-diver's wetsuit, using the city's sewer tunnels to make his getaway. Inspector Wade of Scotland Yard is assigned to the case, and he begins to suspect that the Shark is tied in with a smuggling ring the authorities believe is run out of a dive on the Thames waterfront called The Mekka. (imdb)
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Counterfeit Traitor, The (1962)
Summary: Blacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of infiltrating and surveying Nazi Germany. (imdb)
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Secret of the Red Orchid (1962)
Summary: Rival gangsters from Chicago move to London and attempt to extort money from rich Britons. (imdb)
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Door with Seven Locks, The (1962)
Summary: A woman arrives at a lonely mansion and finds herself mixed up with a lunatic who has built his own torture chamber, which is already crowded with victims - and he plans to make her his next one. (imdb)
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Dead Eyes of London, The (1961)
Summary: Wealthy, heavily insured men are being murdered at an alarming rate. Scotland Yard investigates and finds clues that lead to a ring of blind men, led by a mysterious "reverend." (imdb)
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Geheimnis der gelben Narzissen, Das (1961)
Summary: A Chinese detective breaks up a drug smuggling ring and tries to find the "Daffodil Killer." The drug smugglers had devised the ingenious method of smuggling heroin from Hong Kong in the stems of daffodils. (Allmovie)
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Der Rächer (1960)
Summary: A maniac is loose in London, decapitating his victims and sending the heads to Scotland Yard. (imdb)
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Time to Love and a Time to Die, A (1958)
Summary: In 1944, a company of German soldiers on the Russian front are numbed by the horrors and hardships of war when Private Ernst Graeber's long awaited furlough comes through. Back home in Germany, he finds his home bombed. While hopelessly searching for his parents, he meets lovely Elizabeth Kruse, daughter of a political prisoner; together they try to wrest sanity and survival from a world full of hatred. (imdb)
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