Klaus Kinski
Date of Birth: 08 Oct 1926
Country: Germany
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.
Total Credits at Criticker: 123 (Actor), 1 (Director), 1 (Writer)
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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)
Two bounty hunters with completely different intentions team up to track down a Western outlaw.
In the 16th century, the ruthless and insane Aguirre leads a Spanish expedition in search of El Dorado. (imdb)
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)
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)
Life of a Russian doctor/poet who, although married, falls for a political activist's wife and experiences hardships during the Bolshevik Revolution. (imdb)
The feared bandit Cobra Verde (Klaus Kinski) is hired by a plantation owner to supervise his slaves... (imdb)
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)
Franz Woyzeck (Kinski) is a hapless, hopeless soldier, alone and powerless in society, assaulted from all sides by forces he cannot control. (imdb)
A serial killer whose mother was a prostitute starts killing streetwalkers as a way of paying back his mother for her abuse. (imdb)
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)
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.
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)
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)
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)
WWII is entering its last phase: Germany is in ruins, but does not yield. The US army lacks crucial knowledge about the German units operating on the opposite side of the Rhine, and decides to send two German prisoners to gather information. The scheme is risky: the Gestapo retains a terribly efficient network to identify and capture spies and deserters... (imdb)
Please Kill Mr. Kinski (1999) - Short Film
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Scotland Yard is after a homicidal maniac called The Blue Hand, which is what he uses to kill his victims. (imdb)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Lost material from one of the last performances of Klaus Kinski on stage. (user Charlie)
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)
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)
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)
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)
A girl loves an older man. He demands that she goes in a brothel, as evidence that she loves him. (imdb)
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)
The US intelligence chief in Europe relates the stories of three different espionage operations that he was involved in. (imdb)
Blacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of infiltrating and surveying Nazi Germany. (imdb)
There's a frontier feud on the border of Mexico. Outlaw Hagen's brothers have been killed by Nevada's Kid's family.
Klaus Kinski plays the ghost of Duncan McBride, murdered owner of a plantation and ruby mine on the island of Sunanow... (imdb)
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)
Adaption of the classic novel Carmen which puts the main characters into a Spaghetti Western setting.
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)
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)
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)
Sartana is falsely accused of robbing a bank, and must find the real robbers and clear his name. (imdb)
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.
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)
A maniac is loose in London, decapitating his victims and sending the heads to Scotland Yard. (imdb)
Rival gangsters from Chicago move to London and attempt to extort money from rich Britons. (imdb)
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)
Mobsters conspire to loot another criminal's treasure secured in an enormous booby-trapped vault. (imdb)
A businessman organises a caper to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. (imdb)
A woman named Justine is (willingly) used and abused by all manner of perverts, freaks and sexual deviants. (imdb)
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)
A man discovers an ancient Incan formula for raising the dead, and uses it for a series of revenge murders. (imdb)
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)
Three rogues set out to rob $300,000 from an Indian-hating cavalry major. (imdb)
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)
In this western, a brave hero helps a man wrongly accused of killing a saloon girl in a small Texas town. (Answers.com)
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)
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)
A band of mercenaries are hired to fight a Burmese opium warlord in the Golden Triangle area of southeast Asia. (imdb)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Nazis are threatening, and only a squad of British commandos can stop them. (allmovie.com)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
A con artist who fleeces wealthy widows falls for his latest mark. (TCM.com)
When a dazzling craft illuminates the sky above a medieval European village, the townspeople fear mayhem while the ruling party prepares for battle with the mysterious "dragon in the sky." After Princess Alba is discovered missing, the quest for power and the young girl's affections drive Klever to free her from the strange cosmic knight. But is that her desire? Worldly boundaries are crossed in this gothic sci-fi tale of power, greed and the universal language of love. (imdb)
After the success of "Der Hexer", this sequel was shot 9 months later by the same director with mostly the same cast - unfortunately Joachim Fuchsberger did not return. Obviously, the sequel had another problem from the start: the first movie had revealed the secret identity of the "Hexer" in the end, so the possibility for a similar surprise was gone. Nevertheless, a solid story was put on celluloid here which makes it an average contribution to the Edgar Wallace series at least... (imdb)
After denying a crime syndicate 100,000 pounds on demand, a British millionaire is soon dead. His nephew Don (Gotz George), heir to the fortune, is determined to get his vengeance and begins his own search for the guilty parties. It would seem Don has fortune on his side as the gang boss (Richard Muench) is having problems not only among his men, but also with his woman. (allmovie.com)
In this mystery, a young countess almost loses her life. Investigators soon discover that the attempt is linked to a murder that occurred 20-years ago. The plot is based on an Edgar Wallace story. (allmovie.com)
A singer (Jourdan) who is controlled by her agent and the pressures of her ambiguously related co-workers attempts to make sense of her existence while exploring a zoo managed by a mysterious man (Kinski).
A german Western about the brutal bandit Pedro Ortiz and his gang.
A man wakes up in the wilderness with a head wound and amnesia, lying next to a corpse. He rides into the nearest town and has to rely on his guns and his wits to figure out who he is and who he can trust to help unravel his past, and get revenge on the man who wronged him.
Timestalkers (1987) - TV Movie
Scott, a history professor, becomes involved with two time travelers from the year 2586 after making a discovery in an old photograph. One of the time travelers is determined to change the course of history, the other to stop him. Scott's fascination with the Old West comes in handy when they all return to 1886. (imdb)
The plot consists of good guys and bad guys trying to out maneuver each other while both are after Stephane Audran (imdb)
A lone gunman tracks down the members of an outlaw gang that killed his friends. (imdb)
A doctor trying to develop a serum to lengthen life tries his formula out on the unsuspecting residents of an old-age home. (imdb)
Terrorists take over a plutonium bomb and threaten to detonate it in a Saudi Arabian oil field. A special anti-terrorist unit is sent in to stop them. (imdb)
In this spy comedy, a jet-setting playboy takes time off from his daredevil endeavors to help a seductive FBI agent save a nuclear scientist from a nefarious megalomaniac with designs on controlling the world. The sexy agent and the playboy are also pursued by a ring of Chinese agents who also want the scientist. (allmovie.com)
The life of Ludwig II. of Bavaria, first cousin of the ill-fated Elisabeth von Oesterreich, better known as Sissi. (imdb)
When Sally moves to London to pursue a modelling career, she moves in with Angela and Dee and discovers the world of the carefree bachelor girl, over a weekend of parties and romantic encounters.
In Germany during World War II, a well-known psychic decides to collaborate with the Nazis. (imdb)
As a child Jeremiah witnesses the massacre of his parents and little sister by whites dressed as Indians. As an adult he has grown into a hate-filled Indian killer who sells their scalps. When he captures a beautiful Indian girl he is forced by and by to learn the truth. (spaghetti-western.net)
A bounty hunter tracks a vicious gang of gunrunners across the border into Mexico. (imdb)
Adalberto Albertini's silly comic sequel to the grim Fighting Fists of Shanghai Joe (1973) reunites the characters from Mario Caiano's original, but jettisons nearly everything that made it interesting. This time, Kinski plays a sinister town boss who is brought down by Shanghai Joe (Lie) and a smooth-talking snake-oil salesman (Tommy Polgar). Unlike the brutal, bloody original, this film is played primarily for slapstick humor, and even the martial arts sequences are weak. (spaghetti-western.net)
Jason and Adam are brothers who specialize in jewel heists. Jason is betrayed by Adam, who steals his girlfriend, and has him beaten and left for dead. A female doctor nurses him back to health, and he sets about planning his revenge. (imdb)
Diamond robber, who got left behind into the hands of the police, gets out of prison and teams up with the funder of the robbery, who never saw the loot, to get even with the other members of the gang. (imdb)
The hero steals the haul from the thieves, gives it back to the police but charges 10% for that. (imdb)
At the end of the 19th century, during the British rule of India, the goddess Kali commits a number of murders, among which the man who was conducting a cargo of serum to a village infected with disease. Worried with the vast number of fatalities that will result from stopping this shipment, Dr. Palmer asks for help from Major Talbot. The Major suspects about the murderer turn onto the doctor, and he must take refuge in the jungle, after faking his own death by a tiger. (imdb)
A lady killer tracked by the police, takes refuge at a psichiatrist's home, and the doctor tells him three stories, to convince him that crime does not pay. In Vienna, an investigative reporter is run down by a car when he was researching a gang that produces fake diamonds; his sister calls a friend for help, and the man almost suffers a similar fate. (imdb)
As Germany's fortunes in the latter part of World War II wane, several young boys, in their enthusiasm to do something "for the fatherland", volunteer to fight with the German army in the East. Horrified at the news that their children are to be sent to the Russian front, the boys' mothers begin a desperate effort to get their sons back. (imdb)
Based on a true story. Madame Claude, a well connected Parisienne with dark past, runs a network of high-class call girls. She sends her girls to any place in the world to satisfy sexual desires of wealthy and powerful men. Claude's manipulations also involve big business and politics. Meanwhile, photographer David Evans is trying to clear his own criminal record by providing the authorities with pictures of Claude's girls with important clients in compromising positions. (imdb)
While running from police, a female thief and her band of robbers take refuge on a desert island where they discover a mysterious abandoned mansion. (imdb)
A billionaire businessman hires a man to influence a South American dictator. He winds up having an affair with the billionaire's wife. (imdb)
Dr. Alex Nijinksi (Klaus Kinski) stumbles upon a secret experimental laboratory when he returns to his wife's ancestral homestead. Work in the lab turns the curious doctor into a Jekyll and Hyde split personality, with the evil alter ago going on a killing rampage in the town which blamed on a pair of tramps. (wikipedia.org)
After a man's wife is killed by a panther his only reason to live becomes revenge which slowly consumes him. (imdb)
A drifter on a motorcycle happens to be passing through a town immediately after a young school girl has been run over and killed by an unknown person on a motorcycle. (imdb)
Elisabeth, a 11 year old girl, visits Marcel, a mute gardener every morning with whom she shares a very particular friendship. During three years, their bond grows stronger, as Marcel seems to be the only person she can connect to. (imdb)
In the 11th-century epic Roland des Roncesvalles is a legendary knight from the age of chivalry in France. He is depicted as a key figure in halting the advance of the Arabs into France. (imdb)
The aging writer Aurelio Morelli is disillusioned: although the critics like his books, they are barely read. He develops hatred on youth and their depraved morals. (imdb)
After a truck carrying a cargo of narcotics is held up by rival smugglers, the driver sets out to prove his innocence. (imdb)
Young Sigmund Freud discovers the ultimate answer to all his patient's problems - hypnosis. Hilarity ensues.
After his family tries to kill him and he has been pronounced dead, Michel returns to vex them. He presents each one with a voodoo doll, warning of their fate. (imdb)
As the end of the Second World War approaches and the Soviet Red Army is advancing, a group of concentration camp inmates is helped to escape by a Polish doctor. They hide in a wood where they meet other fugitives, who have been there for months, constantly in fear of being discovered. Out of fear of the German army patrols, they do not dare to leave the forest, even as the food supplies run low.
In Istanbul, a young woman is attacked by six thugs and the agent Frank Milland who had set a rendez-vous with her, is outnumbered, and she dies. Frank is menaced later in order to stop his inquiry about the thugs identities. Each clue he follows leads to more and more danger. Then he comes across Eva, a young woman who is the dead girl's spitting image; either she is her twin sister, or the woman who died in his arms. Eventually he encounters a mad sculptor, who is more than he pretends to be.