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Mario Adorf
Actor 1930 - 2026

Mario Adorf

Zürich, Switzerland

Mario Adorf (born 8 September 1930) was an Italian-German film and stage actor, best known for his lead role in the 1978 film The Tin Drum and The Italian Connection.

Filmography

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Same Same But Different

Same Same But Different

Detlev Buck 2009 1h 47m 7.0

The unexpected, uncertain love story of Sreykeo, a 21-year-old bar girl in Phnom Penh, and Ben, a young German student traveling to Cambodia on a post-graduation summer trip.

Till Eulenspiegel

Till Eulenspiegel

Eberhard Junkersdorf 2003 1h 25m 6.0

Young Jester Till journeys to see his grandfather Marcus, a forgetful wizard. After Marcus creates a happiness potion for the townspeople, he disappears in an explosion of contaminated brew. Till searches for him.

Smilla's Sense of Snow

Smilla's Sense of Snow

Bille August 1997 2h 1m 6.6

A 6 y.o. Inuit boy runs off a snowy roof in Copenhagen and dies. Smilla, a half Inuit who lives in the building and knows the boy, looks into it. What makes an acrophobic boy run up on the roof? The clues take her to Greenland.

Felidae

Felidae

Michael Schaack 1994 1h 22m 8.0

A domestic house cat named Francis investigates the grisly feline murders taking place in his new neighborhood.

The Cave of the Golden Rose 2

The Cave of the Golden Rose 2

Lamberto Bava 1992 3h 20m

Fantaghiro and Romualdo are preparing their marriage when the Black Queen disgusted by their deep love captures Fantaghiro's father. Romualdo and his soldiers go on their journey to free him. But the insidious Black Queen transforms herself into Fantaghiro, makes Romualdo her slave by kissing him and captures the rest of his army.

Fantaghirò

Fantaghirò

Lamberto Bava 1991 3h 20m 9.0

After a queen's tragic death, the king abandons his newborn daughter in a cave, but a witch saves her. Years later, the tomboy princess must confront and ultimately falls in love with the enemy king.

La luna negra

La luna negra

Imanol Uribe 1990 1h 21m

After experiencing a series of traumatic, seemingly unrelated, accidents, Eva begins to notice that her daughter Luna is behaving in increasingly strange ways.

Jours tranquilles à Clichy

Jours tranquilles à Clichy

Claude Chabrol 1990 1h 56m

Expatriate Henry Miller indulges in a variety of sexual escapades while struggling to establish himself as a serious writer in Paris.

Francesco

Francesco

Liliana Cavani 1989 2h 37m

The life of St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) as related by followers who gather after his death to tell stories so that Leone can record them: a privileged and virile youth, a prisoner of war, an heir who turns away from his father and gives all to the poor, a beggar for others, and an inspiration to friends who accept the Gospels' life of…

Notte italiana

Notte italiana

Carlo Mazzacurati 1987 1h 32m

Otello Morsiani, a north-eastern-italian lawyer, takes the job of estimating land holdings on the Po Delta, which are intended to be expropriated to make way for a national park.

Momo

Momo

Johannes Schaaf 1986 1h 41m 7.3

Momo is a young orphan girl who lives in the ruins of an old Roman amphitheater and becomes friends with everybody in the neighborhood. But when a powerful international corporation starts stealing everybody’s time, nobody has any time left for her, let alone their friends or families.

The Holcroft Covenant

The Holcroft Covenant

John Frankenheimer 1985 1h 52m 5.0

A man who was a confidant of Adolf Hitler dies and leaves a fortune to make amends for his Nazi past--but his son has to search the world to find it

Klassenverhältnisse

Klassenverhältnisse

Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub 1984 2h 7m

A young man, recently arrived in New York from Europe, becomes swept up in a series of events that are beyond his knowledge or control.

Smiley's People

Smiley's People

1982 50m 6.0

Called out of retirement to settle the affairs of a friend, Smiley finds his old organization, the Circus, so overwhelmed by political considerations that it doesn't want to know what happened.

Lola

Lola

Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1981 1h 53m 6.3

A cabaret singer corrupts a city planner in 1957 Germany.

Lion of the Desert

Lion of the Desert

Moustapha Akkad 1980 2h 53m 7.0

This movie tells the story of Omar Mukhtar, an Arab Muslim rebel who fought against the Italian conquest of Libya during the second Italo-Senussi War. It gives western viewers a glimpse into this little-known region and chapter of history, and exposes the savage means by which the conquering army attempted to subdue the natives.

Die Blechtrommel

Die Blechtrommel

Volker Schlöndorff 1979 2h 42m 7.8

A mansion is a large and stately dwelling house for the wealthy.

Fedora

Fedora

Billy Wilder 1978 1h 49m 7.2

An ambitious Hollywood hustler becomes involved with a reclusive female star whom he tries to lure out of retirement.

Deutschland im Herbst

Deutschland im Herbst

Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus 1978 2h 3m

Germany in Autumn has no typical plot; it mixes documentary footage with standard movie scenes to present the mood of Germany during the late 1970s. The film covers 2 months in 1977 when a businessman was kidnapped and murdered by the left-wing terrorists known as the RAF-Rote Armee Fraktion (Red Army Faction).

La Faille

La Faille

Peter Fleischmann 1975 1h 50m

During the brutal era of the military government, an innocent tourist manager is accused of being a member of the illegal resistance movement.

Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum

Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum

Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta 1975 1h 44m 8.5

After a chance encounter with a wanted man, a woman is harassed by the police and press until she takes violent action.

La polizia chiede aiuto

La polizia chiede aiuto

Massimo Dallamano 1974 1h 36m 7.5

An unidentified fifteen year-old girl is found hanged after an anonymous tip-off. The girl, Silvia Polvesi, is soon discovered to have been murdered. A peeping tom is caught with photos of her having sex with a teenage drop-out but he is later released due to lack of evidence.

Die Reise nach Wien

Die Reise nach Wien

Edgar Reitz 1973 1h 43m

Two women during WW2 living in a Hunsrück village embark on a trip to Vienna.

Quando le donne persero la coda

Quando le donne persero la coda

Pasquale Festa Campanile 1972 1h 34m

Filli and the cavemen from "When Women Had Tails" are living a carefree life inside a dinosaur skeleton. But when conman Ham introduces them to the concept of currency and economics, their lives fall apart. On top of that, Filli starts to fall in love with Ham.

Milano calibro 9

Milano calibro 9

Fernando Di Leo 1972 1h 42m 7.3

Just out of prison, ex-con Ugo Piazza meets his former employer, a psychopathic gangster Rocco who enjoys sick violence and torture. Both the gangsters and the police believe Ugo has hidden $300,000 that should have gone to an American drug syndicate boss.

Le avventure di Pinocchio

Le avventure di Pinocchio

1972 1h 3m 7.3

Mastro Geppetto is a poor carpenter with no wife and no children. The man is very lonely, and when trading a piece of wood with his colleague Mastero Cherry, he decides to build himself a puppet to make him company.

La polizia ringrazia

La polizia ringrazia

Steno 1972 1h 38m 2.0

Bertone is a moderately honest homicide cop. Unfortunately, the court system is so inept and corrupt that many more-or-less honest policemen have begun taking the law into their own hands. Between his efforts to thwart the growth of crime and to control his vengeful co-workers, homicide-chief Bertone has his hands full

La mala ordina

La mala ordina

Fernando Di Leo 1972 1h 36m 7.5

When a shipment of heroin disappears between Italy and New York, a small-time pimp in Milan is framed for the theft. Two professional hitmen are dispatched from New York to find him, but the real thieves want to get rid of him before the New York killers get to him to eliminate any chance of them finding out he's the wrong man.

La corta notte delle bambole di vetro

La corta notte delle bambole di vetro

Aldo Lado 1971 1h 37m 7.2

An American journalist in Prague searches for his girlfriend who has suddenly disappeared.

L'arciere di fuoco

L'arciere di fuoco

Giorgio Ferroni 1971 1h 43m 5.0

A fun film with stylish costumes that has Gemma as the heir to the Nottingham dukedom who is robbed of his heritage. He joins the already-established 'Merrie Men' and becomes their leader.

L'uccello dalle piume di cristallo

L'uccello dalle piume di cristallo

Dario Argento 1970 1h 36m 7.0

In Italy, the American writer Sam Dalmas (Tony Musant) witnesses an attempt of murder of the owner of an art gallery, a couple of days before his foreseen return to the United States of America. He decides to stay with his girlfriend Julia (Suzy Kendall) and help the police in the investigation, while the serial killer stalks Julia and him.

Deadlock

Deadlock

Roland Klick 1970 1h 33m 6.0

After pulling off a bank robbery two bandits meet in a deserted mining town to divide their loot but an old miner tries to steal it from them.

Krasnaya palatka

Krasnaya palatka

Mikhail Kalatozov 1969 2h 38m 7.5

The commander of a failed 1928 Arctic airship expedition is remembering the events of the "Italia" airship flight...

Gli specialisti

Gli specialisti

Sergio Corbucci 1969 1h 44m 6.5

Bret Dixon (Johnny Hallyday) returns to his hometown when his brother is killed by a lynch mob.

E per tetto un cielo di stelle

E per tetto un cielo di stelle

Giulio Petroni 1968 1h 37m 5.0

The bandit Pratt, looking for Tim, who is responsible for the death of his two sons, attacks a caravan killing all the passengers. Harry, the vagabond, after having robbed the dead, casually meets Tim and they become friends. Running away together from Pratt, they reach Harry's farm, but their hiding place is soon discovered. - filmaffinity

Operazione San Gennaro

Operazione San Gennaro

Dino Risi 1966 1h 44m 6.0

A pair of Americans want to perform the greatest robbery: the treasure of San Genaro, in Napoli.

Ten Little Indians

Ten Little Indians

George Pollock 1965 1h 32m 4.5

Ten strangers are invited as weekend guests to a remote mountain mansion. When the host doesn't show up, the guests start dying, one by one.

Major Dundee

Major Dundee

Sam Peckinpah 1965 2h 5m 7.3

During the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious troop of Army regulars, Confederate prisoners and scouts on an expedition into Mexico to destroy a band of Apaches who have been raiding U.S. bases in Texas.

Le soldatesse

Le soldatesse

Valerio Zurlini 1965 1h 54m 7.0

In WWII, Lieut. Martino and his men are assigned to lead a group of prostitutes through the mountainous ways to serve in brothels for Italian soldiers in Albania.

Io la conoscevo bene

Io la conoscevo bene

Antonio Pietrangeli 1965 1h 55m 8.9

La storia vede protagonista Adriana (Stefania Sandrelli), ragazza di provincia che vuole farsi strada nell'ambiente romano dello spettacolo e allo scopo non esita ad usare il proprio fascino e il proprio corpo. La sua ricerca la porterà a conoscere numerosi personaggi che con maggiore o minore fortuna fanno parte di quel mondo. (from Wikipedia.it)

Winnetou - 1. Teil

Winnetou - 1. Teil

Harald Reinl 1963 1h 41m 6.3

When violent conflict breaks out between greedy railroaders and a tribe of Mescalero Apaches, only two men, destined to be blood brothers, can prevent all-out war: chief's son Winnetou and German engineer Old Shatterhand.

Station Six Sahara

Station Six Sahara

Seth Holt 1963 1h 40m 6.0

A beautiful blonde joins a small group of men running an oil station in the Sahara Desert and starts the emotions soaring.

La visita

La visita

Antonio Pietrangeli 1963 1h 46m 8.5

Certain that "the right man" is crucial to her escaping the confines of the Italian village where she lives, Pina places an ad in the newspaper. She gets a response from Adolfo, who agrees to travel from his residence in Rome to visit her. As flashbacks shed light on both their pasts, suspense builds about how they will relate to one another.

Le goût de la violence

Le goût de la violence

Robert Hossein 1961 1h 25m

Perez kidnaps the President's daughter to trade her for imprisoned revolutionaries.

A cavallo della tigre

A cavallo della tigre

Luigi Comencini 1961 1h 45m 7.5

Giacinto Rossi, a poor driver up to his neck in debt, is imprisoned for simulated crime. He finds himself in a cell with Tagliabue, an unscrupulous murderer; Sorcio, an elderly thief; and Papaleo, an honor-obsessed intellectual who murdered his fiancée's lover. Giacinto is forced by the three men to make a daring escape from prison.

Das Totenschiff

Das Totenschiff

Georg Tressler 1959 1h 38m

After a line of mischief Philip Gale, an American sailor, is lured into hiring on the "Yorikke", a tramp cargo, by Lawski, a stoker from Poland. Still, the two become friends within the motley crew of losers from all nations.

Nachts, wenn der Teufel kam

Nachts, wenn der Teufel kam

Robert Siodmak 1957 1h 40m 7.0

A serial killer terrorizes Hamburg, Germany, during World War II. When the local police can't seem to catch him, the SS is brought into the case.

08/15 - Zweiter Teil

08/15 - Zweiter Teil

Paul May 1955 1h 50m

Winter 1942: Like thousands of other German soldiers, Asch and Vierbein have ended up at the Eastern front. Although Vierbein finds a new friend in Kowalski, the squadron commander captain Witterer, a true army veteran, gives them a really hard time. Witterer’s pointless orders reflect the bad habits of many former superiors.

08/15 - In der Heimat

08/15 - In der Heimat

Paul May 1955 1h 36m

The third part of Paul May′s "08/15" trilogy based on the novel by Hans Hellmut Kirst takes place shortly before the end of World War II: In the spring of 1945, the German troops are practically defeated, and the battalion of Kowalski, major general von Plönnies and Asch who had risen to the rank of lieutenant in the meantime is left to its…

08/15

08/15

Paul May 1954 1h 43m 10.0

Shortly before the outbreak of World War II: Private Asch and gunner Vierbein belong to the same unit but could not be more contrary.

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