Maria Schell
Country: Austria
Total Credits at Criticker: 31 (Actor)
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A humble clerk courts a woman who night after night awaits for the return of her lover. (imdb)
937 Jewish Germans are offered safe haven in Havana, Cuba, in 1939. They depart Hamburg in high spirits, looking forward to their new life. However, the whole voyage is actually a Nazi propaganda scheme and the passengers are never really intended to be allowed ashore once they reach their destination. After weeks of unsuccessful pleas they are forced to return back to Europe. (imdb)
After reading the diary of an eldery Jewish man who commited suicide, freelance journalist Peter Miller begins to investigate the alleged sighting of a former SS-Captain who commanded a concentration camp during World War II. Miller eventually finds himself involved with the powerful organization of former SS members, called ODESSA, as well as with the Israeli secret service. Miller probes deeper and eventually discovers a link between the SS-Captain, ODESSA, and his own family. (imdb)
An adaptation of Emile Zola's novel L'Assommoir, about the troubles encountered by a family because of alcohol.
Character study of a Doctor who saves a local criminal from a mob who are trying to hang him, but then tries to control the life of the young man, realising that he can exploit his secret. (imdb)
The epic saga of a frontier family, Cimarron starts with the Oklahoma Land Rush on 22 April 1889. The Cravet family builds their newspaper Oklahoma Wigwam into a business empire and Yancey Cravet is the adventurer-idealist who, to his wife's anger, spurns the opportunity to become governor since this means helping to defraud the indians of their land and oil. (imdb)
long time-span of Austrian history (from the late 19th century to the years after world war II) is reflected in the ups and downs of a family of piano-makers in Vienna. (imdb)
In this adaptation of the Dostoevsky classic, four brothers fight to adjust to the death of their domineering father. (imdb)
The story of William Friese-Greene, a British inventor who made the first movie camera. (imdb)
Maria Schell stars as an East German girl anxious to get a fake passport to the West. To raise the necessary funds, she sells her illegitimate baby to another woman (Barbara Rush), who hopes that the child will bring her closer to her husband. There are rats scampering on the set and chewing up prop food, but the actual "rats" of the title are of the human variety--notably the petty crook (Curt Jurgens) who impregnates Ms. Schell in the first place.
Normandy, second half of the nineteenth century. Jeanne Dandieu lives in a manor house with her parents and their servant Rosalie (imdb)
Movie adaptation of the novel by Graham Greene, and based on his war-time experiences in Sierra Leone.
Rose Bernd is a young and attractive maid from Silesia. She works at the estate of Christoph Flamm and has an affair with him. While being engaged to another man, she gets into immense trouble.
After World War I, a war hero returns to Berlin to find that there's no place for him--he has no skills other than what he learned in the army, and can only find menial, low-paying jobs. He decides to become a gigolo to lonely rich women.
Bloody Jess (2003) - TV Movie
25-minute documentary featuring recent interviews with Lee and Franco.
Inside the Third Reich (1982) - TV Movie
A dramatization of the life of Albert Speer, Hitler's young architect and onetime confidant, and his meteoric rise into the Nazi hierarchy. Based upon Speer's own monograph of the same title. (imdb)
A Marquise who lures motorists to her hotel by sabotaging their cars gets more than she bargains for when one guest turns out to be a bank robber on the run (imdb)
After five tears of war, Clements, a professional seaman, has no ambitions other than to live in peace and carry out his activity. Having settled down in the archipelago of the Aegean Sea, he has founded a small sponge fishing company in an idyllic place and foresees an optimistic future. Unfortunately, he soon finds himself caught in a crossfire. (imdb)
A German nurse gets sent to the front because she gives medical aid to a wounded Serbian partisan during World War II.
Eileen Herlie, a German girl of Jewish heritage, is in love with Norman Wooland, but at her family's insistence marries Basil Sydney. Wooland's reaction is swift and decisive: he commits suicide. Years later, Hitler comes to power. Once more, Herlie's fate is in the hands of others. This time, however, she makes up her own mind as to what her future holds in store. An unpleasant, relentlessly unhappy tale, brilliantly acted by a top-drawer cast. (imdb)
A man who served prison time for intent to molest a child tries to build a new life with the help of a sympathetic psychiatrist. (imdb)
24 hours in the life of a German family near the Polish border on the day before Hitler announces that Germany has invaded Poland.
The movie reports the historical story of Schinderhannes, based on a play by Carl Zuckmayr. Johannes Bückler, this his real name, led a band of brigands in the Hunsrück mountains during Napoleonic times. (imdb)
Bored aristocratic Parisian couples begin affairs with each other which only brings trouble. (imdb)
A watch manufacturer experiences the turmoil of the first half of the 20th century in Vienna. (imdb)
During World War II, German soldiers occupy the home of a beautiful Belgian girl and her mother.
When a selfless king learns of a beautiful princess in a neighboring kingdom who callously turns down every suitor with an insult, he tries his luck to no avail. So, he hatches a plot with her father in which the princess is married to him, in disguise as a beggar, so he can teach her lessons about humility and compassion.