Klaus Kinski
Nikolaus Karl Günther Nakszyński, best known as Klaus Kinski (18 October 1926 – 23 November 1991), was a German actor. He appeared in over 130 films, and is perhaps best-remembered as a leading role actor in Werner Herzog films: Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), Nosferatu... Read full bio →
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Django & Django
An homage to Italian director Sergio Corbucci of the 1960s and contemporary director Quentin Tarantino, recounting a memorable period in Italian cinema with the sensibility of today.
FantastiCozzi
A feature-length documentary about the life and career of Italian director Luigi Cozzi and his obsession with Science Fiction and Fantasy.
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
The history of the independent film company, The Cannon Film Group, Inc.
Jesus Christus Erlöser
Klaus Kinski has perhaps the most ferocious reputation of all screen actors: his volatility was documented to electrifying effect in Werner Herzog’s 1999 portrait My Best Fiend. This documentary provides further fascinating insight into the talent and the tantrums of the great man.
Mein liebster Feind - Klaus Kinski
A look at the tumultuous yet productive relationship between German director Werner Herzog and actor Klaus Kinski.
Paganini
Legendary "devil violinist" Niccolo Paganini sets all of 19th century Europe into frenzy.
Nosferatu a Venezia
Professor Paris Catalano visits Venice, to investigate the last known appearance of the famous vampire Nosferatu during the carnival of 1786.
Cobra Verde
During the 1800s, paroled Brazilian bandit Cobra Verde is sent to West Africa with a few troops to man an old Portuguese fort and to convince the local African ruler to resume the slave trade with Brazil.
Crawlspace
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.
Kommando Leopard
A cruel dictator rules a Latin American state. Corruption, brutality and exploitation are present every day. A few people begin to organise resistance. Under the leader "El Leopardo" a small group of guerillas fights against the violent government...
El caballero del dragón
Princess Alba is abducted by a dragon, and it's up to Klever to save her. But, it turns out that this dragon is an alien spacecraft, and Alba falls in love with the human-alien inside it.
Creature
A expedition to Titan uncovers an alien being, that goes on a rampage.
The Little Drummer Girl
An American Actress with a penchant for lying is forceably recruited by Mosad, the Israeli intelligence agency to trap a Palestinian bomber, by pretending to be the girlfriend of his dead brother.
Geheimcode Wildgänse
Commander Robin Wesley, leader of a group of mercenaries, go to the Golden Triangle in Southeast Asia to overthrow the dictator, who is a major manufacturer and dealer of the world's opium.
Diary
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.
The Soldier
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.
Fitzcarraldo
The story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an extremely determined man who intends to build an opera house in the middle of a jungle.
Android
Eccentric scientist Dr .Daniel and his shy assistant max lead a quiet life on their space station where they carry out illegal research on androids until they receive an unwelcome visit from three fugitives one of whom is female. Dr. Daniel and Max are both interested in her but one of them has more sinister intentions.
Venom
International terrorists attempt to kidnap a wealthy couples child. Their plan comes unstuck when a deadly Black Mamba, sent by mistake instead of a harmless snake, escapes and the terrorists and several hostages are trapped in the boy's London home.
Les fruits de la passion
A girl loves an older man. He demands that she goes in a brothel, as evidence that she loves him. (imdb)
Buddy Buddy
During a high profile Mafia testimony case, a contract killer checks-in a hotel room near the courthouse while his next door depressed neighbor wants to commit suicide due to marital problems.
Schizoid
An advice columnist in the midst of getting a divorce begins receiving threatening notes from an anonymous stalker. Meanwhile, members of her group therapy session are being murdered by an unknown assailant.
Haine
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.
Woyzeck
Franz Woyzeck is a hapless, hopeless soldier; alone and powerless in society, assaulted from all sides by forces he cannot control.
Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht
A real estate agent leaves behind his beautiful wife to go to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a property in Wismar.
Mort d'un pourri
In the middle of the night, deputy Philippe Dubaye wakes up his old friend Xavier Maréchal with disturbing news: he has just killed Serrano, a racketeer with extant political connections. Serrano kept proofs of Dubaye's involvement in corrupt dealings and was poised to use them against the deputy.
Mivtsa Yonatan
In July 1976, an Air France flight from Tel-Aviv to Paris via Athens was hijacked and forced to land in Entebbe, Uganda. The Jewish passengers were separated and held hostage in demand to release many terrorists held in Israeli prisons.
Madame Claude
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.
Jack the Ripper
A serial killer whose mother was a prostitute starts killing streetwalkers as a way of paying back his mother for her abuse.
Un genio, due compari, un pollo
Three rogues set out to rob $300,000 from an Indian-hating cavalry major.
Le orme
After being tormented by dreams about astronauts on the moon, a translator visits a deserted seaside town whose inhabitants know her, although she does not know them.
L'important c'est d'aimer
Servais Mont, a freelance photographer who works taking compromising photos, gets fascinated by Nadine Chevalier, a tormented low-budget movie actress married to an eccentric film photo collector.
Das Netz
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 moral. One night he goes with a callgirl - and kills her. The police doesn't have a clue, only the unscrupulous sensational journalist Bossi suspects him.
Che botte ragazzi!
A sinister town boss called Pat Barnes has exploited almost everyone in the town. If they don't succumb to his demands they normally end up dead. Barnes is finally brought down by Shanghai Joe and a smooth-talking snake-oil salesman.
La mano che nutre la morte
Baron Ivan Rassimov, a brilliant doctor, died horribly during a fire burst in his laboratory. Since that day, his daughter Tanja retired to a life of reclusion, covering with a dark veil her disfigured face.
La morte ha sorriso all'assassino
Greta is a beautiful young woman abused by her brother Franz and left to die in childbirth by her illicit lover, the aristocrat Dr. von Ravensbrück. Bereft with grief, Franz reanimates his dead sister using a formula engraved on an ancient Incan medallion.
Il mio nome è Shangai Joe
A Chinese immigrant, recently arrived in America, fights to free Mexican slaves from their cruel master.
Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes
A few decades after the destruction of the Inca Empire, a Spanish expedition led by the infamous Aguirre leaves the mountains of Peru and goes down the Amazon River in search of the lost city of El Dorado. When great difficulties arise, Aguirre’s men start to wonder whether their quest will lead them to prosperity or certain death.
Prega il morto e ammazza il vivo
After Dan Hogan and his gang rob a bank, they hire a mysterious man to guide them across the Mexican border in return for half of the loot.
La vendetta è un piatto che si serve freddo
Orphaned by an Indian attack on his family's ranch, Jeremiah Bridger becomes a scalp-hunter until he runs into a crooked rancher whose men, dressed as Indians, kill white farmers for their lands.
La bestia uccide a sangue freddo
A masked killer stalks an institution for mentally disturbed rich women.
L'occhio del ragno
A diamond robber, who was left behind in the hands of the police, gets out of prison and teams up with the man who funded the robbery, but who never saw the loot, to get even with the other members of the gang.
Giù la testa... hombre
A lone gunman tracks down the members of an outlaw gang that killed his friends.
Nachts, wenn Dracula erwacht
Count Dracula, a vampire who regains his youth by drinking the blood of maidens, is pursued in London and Transylvania by Professor Van Helsing, Jonathan Harker and Quincey Morris.
E Dio disse a Caino...
An innocent man sentenced to ten years in prison for a crime he did not commit, is released from jail, promising to seek revenge on the guilty.
Sono Sartana, il vostro becchino
Sartana is falsely accused of robbing a bank, and must find the real robbers and clear his name.
Paroxismus
A couple who get involved in an underground scene of kinky sex and sadism have a surprise coming to them...
Marquis de Sade: Justine
A woman named Justine is (willingly) used and abused by all manner of perverts, freaks and sexual deviants.
A doppia faccia
A millionare is unwittingly led into murder by his lesbian wife.
Se incontri Sartana prega per la tua morte
After a stagecoach is robbed and the passengers murdered, a long and tangled series of surprise attacks and 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.
Ognuno per sé
After years of hard work, old Sam Cooper has finally found a gold mine. Since he cannot take everything he has found with him, he blows up the entrance. To help him exploit his discovery, he calls on his godson Manolo Sanchez. But Manolo is accompanied by "the blond," a strange man who seems to dominate him.
Il grande silenzio
A mute gunslinger fights in the defense of a group of outlaws and a vengeful young widow, against a group of ruthless bounty hunters.
I bastardi
A criminal (Giuliano Gemma) seeks vengeance when his double-dealing brother (Klaus Kinski) steals his jewels and mutilates his shooting hand.
Due volte Giuda
Luke Barret loses his memory after a bullet grazed his head in a shoot-out in the wild West. Trying to discover the man who tried to kill him, he will discover he is a paid gunman too, and terrible truths about his family.
Coplan sauve sa peau
Free-lance undercover agent Coplan receives a phone call from an old girlfriend in Turkey. The panic-stricken woman gives sketchy details of a plot that threatens world security. When Coplan arrives, he is told the woman has been killed, and the trail of the murderer leads to her mad-scientist brother.
The Million Eyes of Sumuru
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.
L'uomo, l'orgoglio, la vendetta
A Spanish army officer, Don Jose (Nero), stationed in Seville, meets and begins a relationship with a mysterious gypsy, Carmen (Aumont). After he discovers she has cheated on him with his Lieutenant, he kills the officer and flees the city with Carmen. He recovers from his wounds and is forced to begin the life of a bandit.
Five Golden Dragons
While travelling through Hong Kong, Bob Mitchell accidentally stumbles into the middle of criminal negotiations between a mean gang, the Five Golden Dragons and the local mobsters.
Die blaue Hand
Scotland Yard is after a homicidal maniac called The Blue Hand, which is what he uses to kill his victims.
Ad ogni costo
To pull off a daring diamond heist in Rio during Carnival, a retired schoolteacher hires four professionals who must contend with a revolutionary alarm system and a taciturn secretary.
Our Man in Marrakesh
One of six travelers 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?
El chuncho, quien sabe?
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.
Circus of Fear
A circus becomes the location for stolen loot and murder.
The Pleasure Girls
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 in Swinging London. Over one weekend - filled with parties, blossoming friendships, and romantic encounters with Keith and Nikko (Klaus Kinski) - the vivacious girls learn about life's pleasures and pains.
Per qualche dollaro in più
For a Few Dollars More is a Spaghetti Western from Italian director Sergio Leone from 1965 and the sequel to A Fistful of Dollars.
Neues vom Hexer
Arthur Milton aka Der Hexer (The Magician/Ringer) must return to London after his calling card was left at the scene of a murder he did not commit.
Doctor Zhivago
Doctor Zhivago is the filmed adapation of the Russian novel by Boris Pasternak from director David Lean that was an international success and today deemed a classic. Omar Sharif and Julie Kristie play two protagonists who in fact love each other yet because of their current situation cannot find a way be together.
Winnetou - 2. Teil
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.
Wartezimmer zum Jenseits
English millionaire Sir Cyrus Bradley is being blackmailed by “The Tortoise” Crime Syndicate. He is to pay £ 100,000.00 Pounds to stay alive and not be murdered. After his refusal to pay the money, he is quickly killed. Cyrus‘ nephew, Don Micklem, plans to avenge the death of his uncle and sets out on a quest to expose “The Tortoise“…
Die Gruft mit dem Rätselschloss
Mobsters conspire to loot another criminal's treasure secured in an enormous booby-trapped vault.
Das Verrätertor
A businessman organises a caper to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
Scotland Yard jagt Dr. Mabuse
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.
Der schwarze Abt
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.
Der Zinker
Scotland Yard investigates a series of murders where the victims have died by snake venom poisoning.
Das indische Tuch
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.
Das Geheimnis der schwarzen Witwe
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 and some police detectives investigate.
The Counterfeit Traitor
Blacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of infiltrating and surveying Nazi Germany.
Die Tür mit den 7 Schlössern
A rich man bequeaths seven keys to seven of his friends, but only one will unlock the door to untold wealth.
Das Rätsel der roten Orchidee
Rival gangsters from Chicago move to London and attempt to extort money from rich Britons.
Das Gasthaus an der Themse
A serial killer named The Shark is terrorizing London by killing his victims with a speargun and then, dressed in a scruba-diver's wetsuit, using the city's sewer tunnels to make his getaway.
Die toten Augen von London
A disfigured killer with glazed-over white eyes is doing the dirty work so that an insurance agent-doctor can get the victims' insurance money.
Die seltsame Gräfin
Strange fortune hunters are behind a girl's murder in this Edgar Wallace tale.
Das Geheimnis der gelben Narzissen
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.
Der Rächer
A maniac is loose in London, decapitating his victims and sending the heads to Scotland Yard.
A Time to Love and a Time to Die
1944. Alors qu'il revient dans sa ville natale pour une permission de trois semaines, Ernst Graeber, jeune soldat allemand envoyé sur le front russe, rencontre Elisabeth Kruse, dont il tombe amoureux. Mais la guerre qui continue va bouleverser leur histoire...
Hanussen
In Germany before World War II, a well-known psychic decides to collaborate with the Nazis.
Non credo più all'amore (La paura)
Irene Wagner, the wife of the prominent German scientist Professor Albert Wagner, had been having an affair with Erich Baumann. She does not disclose this to her husband, hoping to preserve his innocence and their "perfect marriage". This fills her with anxiety and guilt.
Decision Before Dawn
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.