Fritz Wepper

Prominenten Playback Show

character: Self

original_name: Prominenten Playback Show

original_language: de

Fliege

original_name: Fliege

Derrick

overview: Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein, who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings.

character: Harry Klein

original_name: Derrick

Vera Brühne

overview: Dr. Dietrich Schwarz is found dead in his villa on Lake Starnberg. What initially appears to be a suicide turns into a mystery after an autopsy reveals two bullets in the doctor’s head. Vera Brühne becomes the prime suspect; she is alleged to have committed the murder with Hans Ferbach in order to claim the inheritance. Based on circumstantial evidence, she is sentenced to life in prison. But were the two of them really the perpetrators...

character: Dr. Xaver Wallner

original_name: Vera Brühne

For Heaven's Sake

overview: Sister Hanna is a spirited, witty, resolute, warm-hearted, and - attractive nun. With her wit and street cred, she takes charge of Kaltenthal Cloister, transforming it into a popular refuge for all those seeking help of one kind or another. She also brings new life to the sleepy provincial community, proving herself quite a match for her great rival and opponent, the mayor Wolfgang Wöller.

character: Wolfgang Wöller

original_name: Um Himmels Willen

Mord in bester Gesellschaft

overview: Mord in bester Gesellschaft is a German television series.

character: Dr. Wendelin Winter

original_name: Mord in bester Gesellschaft

The Commissioner

overview: Der Kommissar is a German television series about a group of detectives of the Munich homicide squad. All 97 episodes, which were shot in black-and-white and first broadcast between 1969 and 1976, were written by Herbert Reinecker and starred Erik Ode as Kommissar Herbert Keller. Keller's assistants were Walter Grabert, Robert Heines, and Harry Klein who, in 1974, was replaced by his younger brother Erwin Klein.

original_name: Der Kommissar

Der Bulle von Tölz

character: Bürgermeister Geisreiter

original_name: Der Bulle von Tölz

origin_country: DE AT

Die fünfte Kolonne

overview: Die fünfte Kolonne is a German television series.

character: Rolf Kleinschmidt

original_name: Die fünfte Kolonne

Unter weißen Segeln

overview: Unter weißen Segeln is a German television series.

character: Michael Stellmann

original_name: Unter weißen Segeln

Zwei Brüder

character: Christoph Thaler

original_name: Zwei Brüder

Drei zum Verlieben

original_name: Drei zum Verlieben

Das Traumhotel

character: Ferry

original_name: Das Traumhotel

origin_country: AT DE

Kanal fatal

character: Raumschiff-Commander

original_name: Kanal fatal

Stars in the Ring

overview: Every year there was a Gala of the Stars at the Zirkus Krone in Munich.

original_name: Stars in der Manege

Die Harald Schmidt Show

overview: The Harald Schmidt Show is a German late night talk show hosted on Sky Deutschland by comedian Harald Schmidt. The show first aired from 5 December 1995 to 23 December 2003 on Sat.1. Schmidt then moved his show to Das Erste as Harald Schmidt and Schmidt & Pocher, but he returned to Sat.1 on 13 September 2011. After cancellation on Sat.1, the show continued on Sky Deutschland in September 2012.

original_name: Die Harald Schmidt Show

Die Fälle des Herrn Konstantin

character: Grothe

original_name: Die Fälle des Herrn Konstantin

Die große Maus-Show

original_name: Die große Maus-Show

Zwischen Tag und Nacht

character: Thaler

original_name: Zwischen Tag und Nacht

Protokolle des Bösen

original_name: Protokolle des Bösen

In aller Freundschaft

overview: German soap opera about the staff of the fictional hospital "Sachsenklinik" in the city of Leipzig.

character: Matthias Hofer

original_name: In aller Freundschaft

Peter Alexander: Wir gratulieren

original_name: Peter Alexander: Wir gratulieren

Through the Night with...

overview:
Durch die Nacht mit … is a German documentary film television series produced by ZDF for Franco-German television channel ARTE. Locations are mainly in France or Germany.

The title of the French version is Au cœur de la nuit.

Two Celebrities spend an filmed evening together. One of them is the host who sets the location and the program. There is no moderator.

original_name: Durch die Nacht mit …

German Television Award

original_name: Deutscher Fernsehpreis

Hotel Elfie

overview: Hotel Elfie is a German television series.

original_name: Hotel Elfie

Scene of the Crime

overview: Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.

character: Hartmut Utz

original_name: Tatort

origin_country: AT CH DE

Köpfe in Bayern

original_name: Köpfe in Bayern

Leute heute

original_name: Leute heute

Im Leben von …

original_name: Im Leben von …

Flitterabend

original_name: Flitterabend

Die Gailtalerin

original_name: Die Gailtalerin

German Film Award

original_name: Deutscher Filmpreis

Blauer Panther

original_name: Blauer Panther

Bambi

overview: The Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in international media and television to personalities in the media, arts, culture, sports, and other fields "with vision and creativity who affected and inspired the German public that year", both domestic and foreign. First held in 1948, it is the oldest media award in Germany. The trophy is named after Felix Salten's book Bambi, A Life in the Woods and its statuettes are in the shape of the novel's titular fawn character. They were originally made of porcelain until 1958, when the organizers switched to using gold, with the casting done by the art casting workshop of Ernst Strassacker in Süßen.

RTL Samstag Nacht

overview: RTL Samstag Nacht was a comedy show, which ran from 6 November 1993 to 23 May 1998 on the German TV network RTL. RTL Samstag Nacht was the first major comedy show in German television, created after the example of the long-running American show Saturday Night Live and broadcast late on Saturday night. It helped comedy in German television to a breakthrough and was a model for several later comedy shows. Karl Ranseier was a recurring character featured in fake news reports telling about his death at the end of each episode. The name Karl Ranseier has become a catchphrase in Germany that has led to its own joke category of Ranseiers which are in widespread usage outside of the comedy origin.

Beckmann

overview: Reinhold Beckmann hosts a weekly talk show.

Das Traumschiff

overview: The series is about a cruise ship that travels to places around the world.

Unser Mann im Süden

overview: Honorary Consul Heinrich Hammerstein is on hand in Gran Canaria to assist German vacationers with any of their problems.

Deutsch

Fritz Wepper

biography: Fritz Wepper war ein deutscher Schauspieler und Synchronsprecher. International wurde er 1959 durch den Antikriegsfilm Die Brücke bekannt. Seinen Durchbruch hatte er in der Rolle des Assistenten Harry Klein in den Krimiserien Derrick und Der Kommissar.

Català

biography: Fritz Wepper (Munic, Alemanya, 17 d’agost de 1941 - Munic, Alemanya, 25 de març de 2024) va ser un actor de cinema i televisió alemany. Era germà de l'actor Elmar Wepper. Era el pare de l'actriu Sophie Wepper.

title: The Bridge

overview: A group of German boys are ordered to protect a small bridge in their home village during the waning months of the second world war. Truckloads of defeated, cynical Wehrmacht soldiers flee the approaching American troops, but the boys, full of enthusiasm for the "blood and honor" Nazi ideology, stay to defend the useless bridge. The film is based on a West German anti-war novel of the same name, written by Gregor Dorfmeister.

title: Cabaret

overview: Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound the clarion call to decadent fun, while outside a certain political party grows into a brutal force.

title: Derrick - Die Pflicht ruft!

overview: Inspector Stephan Derrick has made it: the crime rate in Munich has fallen to the 0% mark. His prestige is high, and he even has his own elevator with a body-friendly entrance.  However, the elimination competitions for the "European Song Contest" force an abortion of his trip to Lapland due to fatalities. The hit king Arno Hello, apparently a parody of Dieter Bohlen and Jürgen Drews, is determined to win the contest...

title: Das Weihnachts-Ekel

overview: Robert Lahnstein, feared TV commentator, doesn't like people, not even at Christmas. He wants to be alone - even on Christmas Eve. He thinks Christmas is just as hypocritical as politics. That's why he packs his SUV with a frozen goose and a Christmas tree to retreat to his lonely cabin in the mountains. But the plan ends for him in a tree. With the last of his strength he reaches a barn. But he is not allowed to be alone even in the deepest wilderness, because other people have also sought shelter from the snowstorm in this barn and Robert Lahnstein has to gradually put aside his rudeness and his prejudices.

title: Der Arzt von St. Pauli

overview: A good doctor is out to stop his evil doctor brother from blackmailing his patients.

title: Murder on the Orient Express

overview: Agatha Christie's classic whodunit speeds into the twenty-first century. World-famous sleuth Hercule Poirot has just finished a case in Istanbul and is returning home to London onboard the luxurious Orient Express. But, the train comes to a sudden halt when a rock slide blocks the tracks ahead. And all the thrills of riding the famous train come to a halt when a man discovered dead in his compartment, stabbed nine times. The train is stranded. No one has gotten on or gotten off. That can only mean one thing: the killer is onboard, and it is up to Hercule Poirot to find him.

title: Wir hau'n die Pauker in die Pfanne

overview: Principal Gottlieb Taft's twin brother Gotthold Taft partakes in the most recent prank by faking his death and promising a large inheritance to the Mommsen-Gymnasium and the principal. Of course, the inheritance is tied to many embarrassing conditions.

title: For Heaven's Sake - Christmas in Kaltental

overview: In the period before Christmas, Mayor Wolfgang Wöller (Wepper) has to have a 'private audience' with the Pope. Not wanting to go alone, he takes the nun Hanna Jakobi (Hartwig) with him. When he arrives in Rome, however, it turns out that he is not the only one who has been invited. Deeply hurt in his pride, the mayor decides to go home, but a traffic strike thwarts this.

original_title: Um Himmels Willen - Weihnachten im Kaltenthal

title: The Last Battle

overview: The plot explores the devastation of civilization and issues of brutality, hostility and isolation. Pierre Jolivet stars as the main character (identified only as "The Man" in the end credits) who is menaced by "The Brute" (played by Jean Reno) on his journey through a world filled by people rendered nearly mute by some unknown incident.

title: The Man with the Glass Eye

overview: A man is found dead in a London hotel. The knife is still firmly stuck in the victim's chest, and Inspector Perkins strangely finds a glass eye in his jacket pocket. Kurt after that a second, mysterious murder happens: A city-famous dancer of the Las Vegas Girls, who perform at the London Odeon Theater, is poisoned. Is there a connection between the pretty dancer and the hotel guest? Inspector Perkins and his colleagues are pressed for time. The "man with the glass eye" strikes deadly again and again. A first clue leads Scotland Yard to a billiard club, where one has to show a glass eye as an admission ticket.

title: Vater aus heiterem Himmel

title: Derrick contre Superman

overview: Derrick and his deputy, Harry Klein, back from holidays, discover that french TV channel 5 is dead. They'll have to build a plan to create a new "new 5 channel". They'll be helped by Starsky & Hutch, Matt Houston, Captain Kirk or french inspector Navarro, while Superman, assisted by Number 6 and Roger Moore, will try to thwart their plan.

title: When Night Falls on the Reeperbahn

overview: A crime reporter uncovers a lurid plot by a Hamburg gang to dose impressionable young girls with LSD in order to enslave them into prostitution. Featuring mad killers, psychedelic acid trips and ladies mud wrestling!

title: Hochwürden wird Papa

overview: The priest Hannes Jagermüller struggles to keep his flock under control in the idyllic village of St. Gilgen on Lake Wolfgang. His arch-rival, the mayor Oskar Lindner, is planning to build a ski resort with a hotel on the "magical" wedding meadow.

title: Question 7

overview: Suspenseful story of a boy and his father, each forced to decide his future on his willingness to stand up for what he believes.

title: The River Line

overview: France 1944: American pilot Philip Sturgess is shot down but found by a resistance group. In the neighborhood Sturgess meets another American and shortly thereafter the British Major Barton, called “Reiher”. He claims to have fled a German prison camp. Shortly before leaving for Spain to escape the Nazis, Sturgess discovers that Barton has written a letter to Germany. This confirms the suspicion that he could be a German spy…

title: Nachbarn sind zum Ärgern da

title: Alter vor Schönheit

title: Das Go-Go-Girl vom Blow-Up

overview: Monique finances her medical studies as a go-go dancer in a Munich nightclub. Her relatives, who are involved in local politics, want the club, which they consider immoral, closed down, but during an inspection tour they take a liking to the establishment themselves, taking indecent photos on behalf of the club owner. This leads to an intriguing story full of lies and blackmail, from which everyone involved tries to get out without losing face.

title: Heute blau und morgen blau

overview: Hugo Bunzel, a caring father and town councillor in the tranquil town of Lieberich, is a self-confessed teetotaller and, as such, president of the Association for Combating Drunkenness. He is blindsided when he learns that he will inherit a fortune worth millions - but only on condition that he drinks three bottles of champagne a day for a month. A tough test, which Bunzel initially submits to with great reluctance, but soon becomes more and more cheerful, regardless of the entanglements around him...

title: On the Reeperbahn at Half Past Midnight

overview: Seafarer Hannes Teversen helps his friend Pit to get his pub on the Reeperbahn going again...

title: Mein Schulfreund

overview: In the midst of World War II, postman Ludwig Fuchs writes a letter to his former school friend Field Marshal Hermann Göring, urging him to work for peace. He is declared mentally incompetent. After the war, he struggles to shake off the stigma of alleged mental illness. Göring is executed. Fuchs forces the court to examine him: he vandalizes the lobby of Post Office 122 in Munich and is rehabilitated (with full salary compensation for lost years).

title: Nicht ohne meinen Schwiegervater

overview: Psychotherapist Ulf Weiß and his girlfriend Sarah Gievenbeck want to get married. They go to Sarah's parents' house for a weekend. Sarah's father, Heinrich Gievenbeck, a judge at Münster District Court, is extremely pedantic and keeps a close eye on his daughter's well-being. So this weekend he wants to test whether Ulf really is the right man for Sarah. At first Ulf and Sarah have to sleep in separate rooms, and the next morning Heinrich asks Ulf to come hunting with him at the crack of dawn. Ulf does Heinrich the favor. But he accidentally shoots Heinrich's beloved dog instead of the stag.

title: Nicht ohne meine Schwiegereltern

overview: Psychotherapist Ulf has finally managed to marry his Sarah and become Heinrich's son-in-law, but that's only where the problems begin. Just now, Sarah's parents have planned to visit Ulf's parents for a weekend.

title: Der Pauker

overview: Secondary-school teacher Dr. Hermann Seidel is transferred from his sleepy, provincial grammar school to the big city. Here, he has to deal with a class of obstreperous students, where his outmoded teaching methods help him precious little. With the aid of good friends, however, he manages to turn things around, and he soon gets a handle on the students in his very own way…

title: Sie nannten ihn Krambambuli

title: Tischlein deck dich

overview: Once upon a time, there had been a tailor who sent his three sons out into the world, so that they might find fortune and learn something proper. The oldest went to a carpenter and was gifted a small table at the end of his apprenticeship. It set itself with all kinds of delicacies when ordered to. When he visits a hostelry, however, he gets cheated from the table by the innkeeper. The second son became the apprentice to a miller and received a donkey as a parting gift which could spew gold. But he as well got cheated out of the wages of his apprenticeship by the criminal innkeeper. The third son conveniently received a club as a parting gift from his turner master. Spontaneously, he helps his brothers reclaim what was theirs, and the thievish innkeeper experiences a bad surprise.

title: Ein unverbesserlicher Dickkopf

overview: Widowed Balthasar Pelkofer lives only for his nursery. He has no private life, and there is hardly any time for his grown-up daughter Maxi. When competition from a discount garden center forces him into bankruptcy, his life begins to totter. At least Balthasar now has more time for his daughter. However, Maxi is more surprised than pleased by her father's unexpected attention. Then he meets the self-confident Annette - a real stroke of luck. But with his stubborn nature, the self-centered man soon alienates the charming and open-minded Annette. In a painfully funny way, Balthasar has to learn what is really important in life.

title: Was Ihr wollt

title: Das Attentat - Heydrich in Prag

overview: Based on historical events, the film tells the story of Operation Anthropoid which led to the assassination of the German SS leader Heydrich in Prague by Czech rebels led by Josef Gabcik and Jan Kubis.

title: Kurhotel Alpenglück

overview: Decades have passed since Richard Steiner left his small hometown on Lake Tegernsee to pursue a career in Berlin. Over the years, he has built up a successful law firm as a commercial lawyer and leads a sophisticated life with a charming wife, a luxurious apartment - and an attractive lover. One day, however, Richard is confronted with his long-suppressed roots: his uncle has unexpectedly bequeathed him a hotel in his home village. Richard reluctantly travels to Lake Tegernsee with his nature-loving wife Christina.

title: Der Engel, der seine Harfe versetzte

overview: One day, an exceptionally beautiful girl shows up at Josua Webmann’s pawnshop to pawn a golden harp. Josua’s apprentice, Klaas, immediately sees her as an angel. That evening, she meets him again and dances with him, causing even the previously indifferent Lissy to take notice of Klaas. Meanwhile, Josua worries about his money and negotiates with an instrument dealer who makes him a generous offer for the harp. The next day, the girl and the harp have disappeared again—but she has left behind unexpected wealth.

title: Drei in fremden Betten

overview: Hoteliers Otto and Ludwig König run a luxury hotel at Munich's Viktualienmarkt. They are surprised by a visit from their rich sister Nane, owner of the Hotel Sacher in Vienna: she wants to marry for the fifth time and this immediately causes alarm among the brothers. The future husband, Dr. Brösel, is put under the microscope.

title: Ein Gauner Gottes

overview: After 20 years, carpenter Johannes Keinath returns to his hometown on Lake Constance. When he fights off two crooks during a robbery, he believes he has fatally injured one of them.

title: Wie wär's, Monsieur?

title: Eines schönen Tages

title: Miracle of the White Stallions

overview: In WWII Austria, Col. Alois Podhajsky must protect his beloved Lipizzaner stallions and make sure that they are surrendered into the right hands. But Patton's something of a horse fancier and can help...if he sees the stallions perform.

title: Ein Schlaf Gefangener

title: Männer im gefährlichen Alter

overview: Jewel thieves Mario and Henry are struggling to find a stable life after a long spell in prison: Mario as a saxophonist, Henry as a garbage collector.

title: Jeanne oder Die Lerche

title: Tierärztin Christine II: Die Versuchung

overview: A vet has successfully taken over her father's practice. Now the already smouldering marital crisis comes to a head when anonymous letters accuse her husband of having an affair. Meanwhile, the doctor is being courted by the local mayor.

title: Hinter diesen Mauern

title: Um Himmels Willen - Das Wunder von Fatima

original_title: Um Himmels Willen - Das Wunder von Fatima

title: Um Himmels Willen - Weihnachten unter Palmen

original_title: Um Himmels Willen - Weihnachten unter Palmen

title: Um Himmels Willen - Mission unmöglich

title: Ein Engel namens Hans-Dieter

overview: Hans-Dieter Anhäuser, owner of a joke articles factory, is a creep. He cheats on his wife, neglects his children, bullies his employees - and all just before Christmas. But then he has an accident, falls into a coma and experiences his own funeral in a dream. In the process, he learns what everyone really thinks of him. To make matters worse, he meets his deceased father-in-law, the former factory owner, who tells him that he, Hans-Dieter, has one last chance. If he doesn't manage to make his family happy by Christmas, he will send him to hell on Christmas Eve.

title: Baby frei Haus

overview: Star photographer Christoph Baumgartner and his neighbor Kurt Schollwer, a former record-breaking swimmer, are intimate enemies. The two fight each other tooth and nail. Their petty war is abruptly interrupted when the two discover an abandoned baby on their doorstep. At first, each suspects the other of being the raven father. A genetic test is due...

title: Lindburgs Fall

overview: Peter Lindburg played the role of "Kommissar Kämpfer" in the crime series "Blaulicht" for decades. Now the series is to be canceled, which doesn't sit well with the star who has been spoiled by success. Offended, he returns to his hometown in Thuringia, which he once left for the sake of his career. But even here the TV investigator can't let go of crime: when he believes he has witnessed a murder one evening and strongly suspects the highly respected public prosecutor Dr. Eugen von Wangenheim of the crime, Lindburg causes all kinds of commotion with the local authorities. The press also gets wind of the case.

title: Gräfliches Roulette

overview: Although Count Emanuel lives in a stately castle, he is hopelessly impoverished. In order to maintain his lifestyle, he is persuaded by a good friend to adopt the newly rich self-made millionaire Otto Meier and his family. With a title of nobility, Otto and his family would finally come to social recognition. Emanuel, in turn, would not have to worry about covering his bank account. At first, worlds collide in the dreadful count and the shrill Meier clan - until a common enemy fuses the unequal "adoptive family" firmly together.

title: Die blaue Kanone

overview: Their names are Hans Kleiber and Harry Groß. They wear police badges and are causing pure chaos. The cops from Lake Wörthersee have been tasked with bringing Verena, the daughter of public prosecutor Brösing, home safely. The young woman was an assistant to the magician Carnetti and is now dating the cuddly rocker Faltinger. The Alpine dream team is supported by the nearsighted policewoman Jutta.

title: Zahlungsaufschub

title: Drei unter einer Decke

overview: Eerie things happen after Ludwig's death, which was caused by a golf ball. Brother Otto's best piece goes on strike. A catastrophe for the proven womanizer. Otto thinks this is Ludwig's revenge for dragging him onto the golf course. Sister Nane also feels Ludwig's wrath; she is keeping his begrudging will hidden. To appease him, the siblings turn to the magician Hartmut Pfähler - supposedly an expert in the supernatural.

title: Drei in fremden Kissen

overview: Once again, the hotel run by brothers Ludwig and Otto König is not fully booked. This changes when Genevieve Büglmeier, a rich sausage and meat manufacturer, turns up at the hotel and wants to book the four-poster room and the entire floor for herself. But the four-poster room has been booked for Otto and Ludwig's sister, Nane. What Nane doesn't realize is that Genevieve has arrived accompanied by Herbert Faltemeier, from whom Nane has just been divorced...

title: Schmetterlinge weinen nicht

overview: Cilly is too young for compromises. The man she loves is much older than her. Although he too is overwhelmed by his passion, he hesitates to burn all his bridges. When he is finally ready to end his marriage for this relationship, the conflicts between the lovers become increasingly intense...

title: Alle mal herhören, auch die, die schwerhören..!

original_title: Alle mal herhören, auch die, die schwerhören..!

title: Alles außer Liebe

overview: After his wife dies, Toni only gets involved in affairs. His latest conquest is the American Emma, who wants to go on vacation with him to Lake Wolfgang. When they arrive, they discover that the apartment is already occupied by two other vacationers. The apartment has been rented out twice by mistake and now they have no choice but to share the house. Friction soon arises between Toni and the cookbook author Julia.

title: Unser Mann im Süden

title: Zum Glück verrückt - Eine unschlagbare Familie

original_title: Zum Glück verrückt - Eine unschlagbare Familie

title: Zinngeschrei

title: Mein Fritz – Ein persönlicher Blick auf Fritz Wepper

overview: Director, cinematographer and author Susanne Kellermann takes a very personal look at her husband Fritz Wepper. When he receives a serious cancer diagnosis in spring 2020, Susanne Kellermann begins to follow his everyday life and his work during the filming of the final episodes of "For Heaven's Sake". Fritz Wepper talks impressively about his childhood, the parallel filming of "Cabaret" and "Der Kommissar" and about dealing with the last things in life.

title: Die Geschäfte des Herrn Mercadet

title: Kinder fallen nach oben

title: Kolportage

title: Sonderurlaub

title: Zwei Matrosen auf der Alm

title: Platons Gastmahl

title: Das Abschiedsgeschenk

title: Um 8 Uhr kommt Sadowski

title: Elektra

title: Ein Abschiedsgeschenk

title: Othello

title: Unsere kleine Stadt

title: Colombe

title: Olivia

title: Der eingebildete Doktor

title: The Games

overview: From Great Britain, the United States, France, Italy, Australia and behind the Iron Curtain. They are the most superbly conditioned animals in the world. They are also the pawns of powerful nations, the victims of dangerous drugs and the object of many men's ambitions. Once every four years they come together... for the Olympic Games.

title: Gamle Venner

overview: Two older German men are headed for Southern Norway in their Trabant in 1990. They're going back to "old haunts", to a beach they left in the days of May 1945. They have one goal for the trip, to find something they once dug down.

title: The Bridge

title: Cabaret

title: Derrick - Die Pflicht ruft!

title: Das Weihnachts-Ekel

title: Der Arzt von St. Pauli

title: Murder on the Orient Express

title: Wir hau'n die Pauker in die Pfanne

title: The Last Battle

title: The Man with the Glass Eye

title: Vater aus heiterem Himmel

title: Derrick contre Superman

title: When Night Falls on the Reeperbahn

title: Hochwürden wird Papa

title: Question 7

title: The River Line

title: Nachbarn sind zum Ärgern da

title: Alter vor Schönheit

title: Das Go-Go-Girl vom Blow-Up

title: Heute blau und morgen blau

title: On the Reeperbahn at Half Past Midnight

title: Mein Schulfreund

title: Nicht ohne meine Schwiegereltern

title: Nicht ohne meinen Schwiegervater

title: Der Pauker

title: Sie nannten ihn Krambambuli

title: Tischlein deck dich

title: Ein unverbesserlicher Dickkopf

title: Was Ihr wollt

title: Das Attentat - Heydrich in Prag

title: Kurhotel Alpenglück

title: Der Engel, der seine Harfe versetzte

title: Drei in fremden Betten

title: Ein Gauner Gottes

title: Wie wär's, Monsieur?

title: Eines schönen Tages

title: Miracle of the White Stallions

title: Ein Schlaf Gefangener

title: Männer im gefährlichen Alter

title: Jeanne oder Die Lerche

title: Tierärztin Christine II: Die Versuchung

title: Hinter diesen Mauern

title: Um Himmels Willen - Mission unmöglich

title: Ein Engel namens Hans-Dieter

title: Baby frei Haus

title: Lindburgs Fall

title: Gräfliches Roulette

title: Die blaue Kanone

title: Zahlungsaufschub

title: Drei in fremden Kissen

title: Drei unter einer Decke

title: Schmetterlinge weinen nicht

title: Alles außer Liebe

title: Unser Mann im Süden

title: Zinngeschrei

title: Die Geschäfte des Herrn Mercadet

title: Kinder fallen nach oben

title: Kolportage

title: Sonderurlaub

title: Zwei Matrosen auf der Alm

title: Platons Gastmahl

title: Das Abschiedsgeschenk

title: Um 8 Uhr kommt Sadowski

title: Elektra

title: Othello

title: Ein Abschiedsgeschenk

title: Olivia

title: Colombe

title: Unsere kleine Stadt

title: Der eingebildete Doktor

title: The Games

title: Gamle Venner


Beat Kiyoshi

biography: Beat Kiyoshi is a Japanese actor born in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan.

English

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iso_3166_1: US

english_name: English

日本語

iso_639_1: ja

iso_3166_1: JP

english_name: Japanese

普通话

iso_639_1: zh

iso_3166_1: CN

english_name: Mandarin

Český

iso_639_1: cs

iso_3166_1: CZ

english_name: Czech

普通话

iso_3166_1: HK

Italiano

Beat Kiyoshi

biography: Beat Kiyoshi è un attore giapponese.

iso_639_1: it

iso_3166_1: IT

english_name: Italian

Український

iso_639_1: uk

iso_3166_1: UA

english_name: Ukrainian

title: Kikujiro

overview: Brash, loudmouthed and opportunistic, Kikujiro is the unlikely companion for Masao who is determined to see the mother he has never met. The two begin a series of adventures which soon turns out to be a whimsical journey of laughter and tears with a wide array of surprises and unique characters along the way.

character: Man at Bus Stop

original_title: 菊次郎の夏

original_language: ja

title: Azuke

overview: Two high school girls with supernatural powers fell in love with werewolves created by scientists. Eventually he died because of the scientist, and the two faced off against the scientist.

original_title: おあずけ

title: Vengance Of A Man

overview: An executive of the yakuza osako clan leaves the underworld to raise his only son, but a war between the "Kaiyama" clan brings him back.

original_title: 侠（おとこ）の復讐

title: Takeshis'

overview: Beat Takeshi lives the busy and sometimes surreal life of a showbiz celebrity. One day he meets his blond lookalike named Kitano, a shy convenience store cashier, who, still an unknown actor, is waiting for his big break. After their paths cross, Kitano seems to begin hallucinating about becoming Beat.

original_title: Takeshis'

title: Achilles and the Tortoise

overview: Machisu is a painter. He never had the success he thinks he is entitled to. Regardless of this, he always remains trying to be successful. His wife Sachiko keeps supporting him, despite all setbacks.

character: Man at the Construction Site

original_title: アキレスと亀

title: 漫才協会 THE MOVIE 舞台の上の懲りない面々

original_title: 漫才協会 THE MOVIE 舞台の上の懲りない面々

title: Village of Doom

overview: Rejected by the military and frowned upon by his fellow villagers, a young man nicknamed 'Genius' falls into a series of dangerous love affairs during World War II.

character: Soldier

original_title: 丑三つの村

title: Final Fighter

overview: We thoroughly pursue the power of a fight. A fight story that can also be enjoyed as a how-to video for fighting!

original_title: ファイナル・ファイター

title: Completely... With That Air!

overview: This film is Beat Takeshi's first starring role.

original_title: Sukkari... sono ki de!

title: Makoto-chan

overview: A series of interconnected vignettes regarding Makoto Sawada, an energetic yet socially inept kindergartner, and his long-suffering family. Makoto strives to receive the title of his school's "Best Child" award, resulting in chaos and misunderstandings wherever he goes.

original_title: まことちゃん

title: The Dump Truck Rascal

overview: Depicting the turbulent life of truck driver Takashi, his fellow drivers, and the women he meets.

original_title: ダンプ渡り鳥

title: Free and Easy 8

overview: When Su-san invites his late friend's daughter to come along on a fishing trip, she falls in love with Hama-chan's fishing protégé.

character: Cab Driver

original_title: 釣りバカ日誌8

title: Baku

overview: A film about an armoured truck, a bomb, a man and his girlfriend.

original_title: 爆　ＢＡＫＵ！

title: Tax Inspector Madogiwa Taro: Case File 30

overview: A man is murdered after stealing documents from the Olympic Department of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.

original_title: 税務調査官・窓際太郎の事件簿30

title: Fetus Training

overview: A pregnant woman is told by her doctor that she should maintain a calm attitude throughout her pregnancy for the health of her baby. When a man tries to rob her house in the middle of the night, she has to vanquish him without losing her calm attitude.

original_title: 胎児教育

title: Partner in Crime

overview: For the past 15 years, Fuyukawa Misaki has lived a quiet, reclusive life while keeping her secret well-hidden. With just two months left before the statute of limitations on the murder of her colleague expires, a mysterious man appears in Misaki’s life, who says, “I know your secret.” Is he a friend or foe? The nameless man who claims to know about Misaki’s past does not reveal any personal information about himself, but only says he wants to live with her in exchange for keeping her secret. Hence, a bizarre living arrangement begins. Who is this man and what is his purpose? Meanwhile, conventional detective Kiba is convinced that Misaki is the elusive criminal behind the 15-year old murder case and is determined to uncover evidence to prove his theory. As this peculiar love-suspense drama unfolds, you will need to piece together information to solve the mysterious puzzle of murder while the clock counts down to the expiration deadline.

original_title: 共犯者

title: Dr. Hikojiro

overview: One day, Hikojiro receives an emergency call from inn proprietress Shino Ogawa to examine Tadahiko Mori, a guest complaining of stomach pain. Mori, who owns an art gallery in Tokyo, has come to Kyoto on a trip with his only daughter, high school student Nanami. Hikojiro gives him his business card, telling him to contact him if the pain comes back. However, the next day, Mori is found dead...!

character: Fukumura

original_title: ドクター彦次郎１～塀の中から来た名医！

title: Dr. Hikojiro 2

overview: One day, Hikojiro goes to visit Sayo Kujo, an old lady who has been hospitalized. Sayo has been told that she has a year to live by assistant professor Natsuhiko Moriwaki, and insists on returning to the house she was born and raised in. It so happens that Hikojiro will be the one to treat her at home from now on. At the university hospital, Hikojiro runs into a familiar face - Hazuki, the daughter of Tetsuji Tonoyama, the man who taught Hikojiro how to make takoyaki. Hazuki is now a nurse at the university hospital and Hikojiro is surprised to see a strange poster on the hospital bulletin board that implies she's having an affair with Moriwaki. The hospital is currently preparing to elect a new chief surgeon, and the candidates are assistant professors Moriwaki and Shinsuke Noguchi, heads of the first and second surgical department. Both of their factions have been publishing defamatory statements about each other.

original_title: ドクター彦次郎２～塀の中から来た名医！

title: Manon

overview: A story about a woman who is a research student of a theater company and the three men who are at the mercy of her.

character: Financial Company Employee

original_title: マノン

title: Sure Death! 3

overview: Third movie in the Hissatsu (Sure Death!) Series.  Chasing the killer of a lawman, a group of assassins fall foul of a group of blackmarket financiers who dispatch their own hitmen to dispose of them.

original_title: 必殺！Ⅲ裏か表か

title: Zetsumetsukigushu

overview: A short film by Hirotaka Nozaki.

original_title: 絶滅危惧種

title: Pink Lady: The Woman Who Can't Stand It

overview: Sakura was once the female star of a television show about a team of superheroes, but retired from acting after its cancelation and got married. One day, she attends a reunion of the show's cast and crew and crosses paths once again with her red-garbed castmate Kotaro, who she had been secretly attracted to.

original_title: ピンク・レディ 女はそれを我慢できないッ

title: Scars and Codes 2

overview: A drug deal within Anzai-gumi's territory sparks conflict with the Otsuru Family, leading to the death of the group's secretary, Daimura (Toshiyuki Nagashima). Driven by vengeance, the Daimura-gumi is determined to retaliate. Their lieutenant, Kawabe (Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi), captures and tortures a member of the Otsuru Family, uncovering that the mastermind behind the chaos is Higashio (Eiichi Furui), Anzai-gumi’s underboss. Enraged, Kawabe prepares for revenge.  However, war has already begun. Otsuru Family attacks claim the lives of many young Anzai-gumi members. Amidst the bloodshed, Tachibana (Kazuki Namioka) receives crucial words from Boss Anzai (Koichi Iwaki) about what it truly means to live as a yakuza.

original_title: 疵と掟２

title: Yamada Village Waltz

overview: In Yamada Village, which is suffering from a serious shortage of wives due to the wave of depopulation, four young men from the village decide to go on an arranged marriage. However, they are rejected by the other women because of Yamada Village's too rural character. Then, a beautiful young writer, Ayakoji Reika, who has fallen into a slump, comes to Yamada Village in search of the countryside...

original_title: 山田村ワルツ

title: Tokyo Bordello

overview: A ruined businessman was forced to sell his daughter, Hisano, to a brothel in Yoshiwara, the largest red-light district in Tokyo.  The owner of the brothel has hopes to make her a great new addition which will attract the richest of customers. But after several months of training, she tries to flee Yoshiwara when the time has come for her to take her first customer...

character: Gen-san

original_title: 吉原炎上

title: Sunset Sunrise

overview: In 2020, the world is forced into lockdown by the COVID pandemic. As remote work is popularized in order to keep the infection rate under control, a young man employed by a company in Tokyo moves to a country town on the Sanriku Coast in Miyagi Prefecture, where he could enjoy fishing, in search of a new lifestyle. But gradually, we found that there were problems such as "empty houses" in the local area.

character: Kurokawa Shigezo

original_title: サンセット・サンライズ

title: M. Connection 2: The Final Shooting

overview: Mirage, the female master thief. Her latest target is the ‘Crystal Lady’, a diamond worth an astronomical sum. Mondo is once again determined to arrest Mirage. However, a woman involved in the case is murdered, and Mondo’s partner Steve, who was guarding the diamond, is also struck down by a fatal bullet. Is Mirage the culprit…?

original_title: 爆裂！Mコネクション 2　 ザ・ファイナル・シューティング

place_of_birth: Yamagata, Japan

title: Kikujiro

media_type: movie

title: Azuke

title: Vengance Of A Man

title: Takeshis'

title: Achilles and the Tortoise

title: 漫才協会 THE MOVIE 舞台の上の懲りない面々

original_title: 漫才協会 THE MOVIE 舞台の上の懲りない面々

title: Village of Doom

title: Final Fighter

title: Makoto-chan

title: The Dump Truck Rascal

title: Completely... With That Air!

title: Free and Easy 8

title: Baku

original_title: 税務調査官・窓際太郎の事件簿30

title: Fetus Training

title: Partner in Crime

title: Dr. Hikojiro

original_title: ドクター彦次郎１～塀の中から来た名医！

title: Dr. Hikojiro 2

original_title: ドクター彦次郎２～塀の中から来た名医！

title: Manon

title: Sure Death! 3

title: Zetsumetsukigushu

title: Pink Lady: The Woman Who Can't Stand It

original_title: ピンク・レディ 女はそれを我慢できないッ

title: Scars and Codes 2

title: Yamada Village Waltz

title: Tokyo Bordello

title: Sunset Sunrise

title: M. Connection 2: The Final Shooting

original_title: 爆裂！Mコネクション 2　 ザ・ファイナル・シューティング


Susi Stach

Inspector Rex

overview: After his handler is killed, police dog Rex teams up with recently-divorced inspector Richard Moser to investigate crimes and solve mysteries on the streets of Vienna. And they sometimes get help from their two-legged friend, Inspector Stockinger.

character: Elvira Kramer

original_name: Kommissar Rex

Pagan Peak

overview: When a gruesomely staged body is found at the German-Austrian border, two detectives investigate. As the ritual-like murders continue, they enter the killer’s sinister world, set in the Alpine wilderness.

character: Hof-Wirtin

original_name: Der Pass

8 x 45

overview: 8 x 45 is an Austrian television series.

character: Oberschwester

Letzter Wille

character: Maria Baumgartner

original_name: Letzter Wille

Trautmann

overview: Trautmann is an Austrian television series.

character: Hausmeisterin

original_name: Trautmann

Vier Frauen und ein Todesfall

character: Traudl Troger

original_name: Vier Frauen und ein Todesfall

Scene of the Crime

overview: Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.

character: Helga Sailer

Vienna Crime Squad

overview: SOKO Donau is an Austrian television series.

character: Elfi Kowalski

original_name: SOKO Donau

character: Katharina Reiser

character: Maria Hödlmoser

Schnell ermittelt

overview: Angelika Schnell is the head of homicide and living proof that chaos is just another form of order. Nevertheless, she is a brilliant investigator - even if her methods are sometimes quite unconventional: In addition to hard facts, she also allows her distinctive inner voice to apply, which often leads to incomprehensible but very important conclusions...

character: Maria Weissenberger

original_name: Schnell ermittelt

CopStories

character: Dorfer

original_name: CopStories

Murder by the Lake

overview: Murder by the Lake is a German-Austrian TV crime series that has been produced since 2014 by Rowboat Film- und Fernsehproduktion and Graf Filmproduktion in cooperation with the German television broadcaster ZDF and the Austrian television broadcaster ORF. The series is filmed and set in the adjacent towns of Bregenz, Austria, and Lindau, Germany, which are both located on the southeastern shore of Lake Constance.

character: Christine Ludwig

original_name: Die Toten vom Bodensee

Suburbia - Women on the Edge

overview: Vienna suburb. Better society. Appearance and reality. A golden cage. But is everything that glitters really gold? Actually, the five "suburban women" of the title couldn't be doing any better in their supposedly perfect, affluent world – could they?

character: Franziska Pudschedl

original_name: Vorstadtweiber

Trautmann

character: Janica Karadarevic

Himmel, Herrgott, Sakrament

character: Cornelia Vogelsang

original_name: Himmel, Herrgott, Sakrament

Murder in the Mountains

overview: SOKO Kitzbühel is an Austrian television series produced by ORF and ZDF. It is a spin-off of the German crime series SOKO 5113. It is set in the renowned Tyrolean tourist centre of Kitzbühel. The production company "beo-Film" has produced the show since 2001. The German abbreviation SOKO stands for Sonderkommission, "special commission", a task force with specific duties.

character: Christa Mooshofer

original_name: SOKO Kitzbühel

Die Fälle der Gerti B.

overview: Police inspector Gerti Bruckner faces challenges with her marriage, upcoming promotion, and a murder case in her neighborhood. Investigating with her younger superior brings old stories back to light and brings her personal environment closer.

character: Gerti Bruckner

original_name: Die Fälle der Gerti B.

Sturm kommt auf

overview: After World War I, political divisions deepen in a village in Upper Bavaria. Julius Kraus, a reclusive cobbler, finds himself caught between the fronts when his Jewish identity is revealed. The two 90-minute feature films are based on the novel "Unruhe um einen Friedfertigen" (Unrest Around a Peaceful Man) by Oskar Maria Graf, a masterpiece of German-language exile literature.

character: Anna Stelzinger

original_name: Sturm kommt auf

Deutsch

Susi Stach

biography: Susi Stach (* 1961 in Wien) ist eine österreichische Schauspielerin und Schauspieldozentin.

iso_639_1: de

iso_3166_1: DE

english_name: German

iso_3166_1: CH

title: Dead in 3 Days

overview: When Nina and her high school friends receive eerie text messages declaring that they will all die within three days, they dismiss it as a hokey prank - until one by one, the pals start turning up dead in the alpine countryside. With the cops stymied, Nina and her remaining friends must scour their past for clues to identify the madman before he kills them all.

character: Erika Haas

original_title: In 3 Tagen bist du tot

title: The Guardian Angel

overview: When a body is found floating inside a pond deep in the forest, Detective Paul Werner is faced with a mystery.

character: Stefanie „Fanny“ Hofstätter

original_title: Der Schutzengel

title: Im Schatten der Angst - Du sollst nicht lügen

overview: A man is murdered on a remote riverbank, and a young woman confesses to the murder to the police that same night. Forensic psychologist Karla Eckhardt identifies the confessed perpetrator as Anna Lobrecht, whom she had classified as a compulsive liar in a report two years ago. It's possible that Lobrecht isn't telling the whole truth this time either.

character: Irene Radek

title: The Poll Diaries

overview: In 1914 on a family estate, Oda helps a wounded anarchist, and as their illicit friendship deepens, a family turmoil erupts as the war closes in.

character: Gudrun Koskull

original_title: Poll

title: Annas zweite Chance

overview: From one day to the next, Anna, a millionaire's wife from Hamburg, is left with nothing: her husband has absconded with a fraudulent loan and a young mistress. Anna returns to Vienna, where a wealthy friend leaves her her fruit stall at the famous Naschmarkt. However, the sleazy Charly also has his eye on the property. Only Bernhard, a former chamber singer, sticks by Anna, but he too is on Charly's payroll.

character: Liesi Schäuber

original_title: Annas zweite Chance

title: Three Wheels One Summer

overview: Summer on Three Wheels is the story of the shy outsider Flake, who not only suffers because his parents named him after the stuttering keyboardist of a famous rock band. He also absolutely fails to confess his love to the girl he secretly yearns for and to assert himself against his rival.  So Flake first makes the wrong decisions - and then to the drug dealer Kim and the embittered wheelchair user Philipp. A special kind of tour de force develops from this encounter: a road movie that leads in a Piaggio moped car at 45 km/h from the top of Stuttgart to Lake Constance.

character: Frau Nickel

original_title: Sommer auf drei Rädern

title: Der Metzger traut sich

overview: The time has come: Willibald Metzger is marrying the woman of his dreams, Danjela Djurkovic! But everything changes at the altar. Instead of saying "I do," Danjela leaves Willibald frozen in shock at the altar and disappears with a stranger. The inconsolable Metzger, almost drowning in alcohol, and his best friend, caretaker Petar Wollnar, try to get to the bottom of the situation. Because something isn't quite right.

character: Major Pichlmayr

original_title: Der Metzger traut sich

title: Julia und der Offizier

overview: In 1964, young Julia Welling is sent to Bavaria to create and manage a home for children. For the past of her father (a member of the Nazi party) Julia now defends the values of democracy and wants children to be treated like whole persons. Her first days in Bavaria are difficult because the people are very conservative: when she notices some parents beating their children, she steps in and they don't understand her intervention. She meets a young American officer who is organizing the end of US occupation forces in Germany; he helps her get a former military installator for her new children's home. She manages to install the home and begin her activities, but one night a violent farmer tries to burn down the building because she has protected his son.

character: Gerda

original_title: Julia und der Offizier

title: Falco: Damn It, We're Still Alive!

overview: Deals with the life, work, and tragic death of Johann "Falco" Hölzel. The biopic portrays his work through his early days, as member of the Viennese band "Drahdiwaberl", and later with his own hits as solo artist, like "Der Kommissar", "Wiener Blut", and his worldwide smash-hit "Rock Me Amadeus".

character: Maria Hölzel

original_title: Falco - Verdammt, wir leben noch!

title: Schrille Nacht

overview: On December 24, in the middle of the supposedly quietest time of the year, anything is possible! And this is exactly what the episodic film "Schrille Nacht" tells in seven short stories.

character: Bernadette

original_title: Schrille Nacht

title: Thank You for Bombing

overview: Thank you for Bombing accompanies three correspondents to their working place in conflict areas and gives an insight into their daily routine aside from cameras and satellite phones - somewhere between bombing alarm, laundry and Bach flower therapy.

character: Martina

original_title: Thank You for Bombing

title: Kotsch

overview: KOTSCH tells the story of four friends called Alf (Christoph Theußl), Boris (Andreas Kiendl), Chris (Michael Ostrowski) and Dalli (Michael Fuith), who grew up together in the small town Fohnsdorf in Styria.

title: Der erste Tag

overview: The movie is about a nuclear desaster in the Czech nuclear power station Dukovany.

title: Tabu - Es ist die Seele ein Fremdes auf Erden

overview: The Austrian expressionist poet Georg Trakl was in love with his sister. And she loved him back. Their relationship became sexual and caused quite a stir in the local society. But when his sister asked him to flee with her to Australia where no one knew them and they could live as husband and wife, he refused for he could not live without the beauty of the German language. Torn between his love for words and his love for Grete, Georg turned to drugs and entered a downward spiral.

title: Taking It Back

overview: Most of the time, Patrick Angerer enjoys a pretty laid back view of life. So he's not especially impressed by the protest action his workmates are taking against the strict wage targets set by the new management of Falkendorf steel plant. But things suddenly begin to get interesting for Patrick when his ex, Barbara Brossman, still the great love of his life, is sent to Falkendorf as the union's lawyer: as she's brought along her new partner, Patrick has his work cut out trying to convince Babs that his life doesn't entirely consist of football and trips down the pub.

title: Your Beauty Is Worth Nothing

overview: The twelve-year old immigrant Veysel and his family have a hard time to become integrated into Austrian life. They have more and more inner family-oriented problems. Veysel's neighbour Cem teaches him how to pronounce a poem in German for school. At the time when Veysel wants to take the courage to recite it to his secret love Ana, the immigration police disrupts his plans.

title: Ruhm

overview: A nameless man receives phone calls intended for someone else and ends up pretending to be that person, while a female character rebels against her author.

title: Coming of Age

overview: Does luck have a use by date? Both thought that at eighty they have experienced everything until, like a bolt of lightening, Rosa and Bruno come together and immediately fall head over heels. There are two obstacles to their happiness though: Bruno’s marriage, which has long been routine, and Rosa’s illness; she has cancer and not long left to live. Despite the difficult circumstances, the two decide to breakaway – Bruno from his relationship and Rosa from her retirement home. Against the advice of carers, doctors and relatives, the pair moves into a new apartment together. ANFANG 80 shows with a great deal of unequivocal humour how insensitively and sometimes desperately overburdened society reacts to love among the elderly.

title: Für dich dreh ich die Zeit zurück

overview: Hartmut has been with Erika for over 40 years, but his wife has Alzheimer's and their memories together are fading. When they both visit their granddaughter's dance club, they hear songs from the seventies. Suddenly Erika is moving to the beat of the music as if she had never forgotten a dance step. And although she then falls back into her own world, Hartmut finds new hope. If he could manage to turn back time, he could bring back Erika, the love of his life.

title: Beautiful Girl

overview: Fifteen-year-old Charlotte thinks her parents' relationship is perfect. It's all the more surprising for her when they get separated. Her parents' separation is her first lesson in life on how painful love can be. Charlotte has to move and go to a new school. Here she meets two boys, Sulzer and Carlo, who are best friends. While Sulzer is a shallow lady's man adored by girls, Carlo is his exact opposite. Their fateful meeting makes three inseparable friends out of them. But the question remains if love isn't hiding in the friendship of this trio...

title: Fräulein Phyllis

overview: 'Clemence M. Schönborn"s first feature film is a typical Austrian black comedy, dealing with an easy-going forty-something, who likes playing games with others, which has serious consequences... Phyllis, in her early 40s, still lives together with her mother, whom she loves and hates at the same time. When she gets to know Henry, supporting actor of a soap opera, she pretends to love him, but sleeps with the show's lead actor Walter, whom she finally runs over with her car, which makes Henry the show's new star - and the new lover of the lead actress Doris. However, Phyllis isn't done with him...

title: Isenhart: The Hunt Is on for Your Soul

overview: In the middle of century XII much of the European territory is ruled by the Holy Roman Empire and violence and cruelty are the order of the day. Several German regions are terrorized by a dangerous murderer who is dedicated to kill young girls. Therefore, Isanhart and Laurin, his faithful companion in arms, will travel from end to end of the old continent to hunt the ruthless criminal.

original_title: Isenhart - Die Jagd nach dem Seelenfänger

title: Woman in Gold

overview: Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the government to recover artwork she believes rightfully belongs to her family.

title: Murer: Anatomy of a Trial

overview: Franz Murer, the Butcher of Vilnius, a former Austrian SS officer, established, organized, and ruled the Vilnius ghetto in Lithuania during the World War II. Different survivors of the Shoah testify when he is judged in 1963, hoping to do justice, but, although the evidence is overwhelming, the desire to close this obscure chapter of history seems to surpass the desire for justice.

title: Spain

overview: Four loosely connected stories tell of the here and now, where human trafficking, the vagaries of people smugglers, violence against women, restrictive immigration laws, gambling addiction, debt and business deals of all kinds are the order of the day.

title: Balanceakt

overview: For the first time in her life, Marie has no control over her body. Multiple sclerosis makes everyday life a challenge and puts the relationship with her family to the test.

title: Kinder des Sturms

overview: The film is set in post-war Germany. It tells the story of widow Rosemarie Hermann, who flees Silesia with her sister Bettina, her father, and their two children Maria and Johannes ("Jojo"). In the general chaos, she loses her daughter. In her attempt to find her, she finally receives support from Harald Bergmann, who works for the tracing service of the German Red Cross and also finds her a job there. Maria initially lives in a children's home near Lübeck and is then placed with a foster family.

title: Planet Ottakring

overview: The death of Ottakring's last godfather and the encounter with a very clever young woman unintentionally turn the clever crook Sammy into the business-minded driving force of an Austrian parallel world in the midst of the global economic crisis.

title: Villa Eva

overview: After the death of her father, the headstrong Countess Eva Marie-Luise von Aspach-Ney returns from Berlin to the Saarland. Her father left behind a villa, which is now Eva's only source of livelihood. Due to her chosen path in life, her father's inheritance has been placed in a foundation. Now Eva has to transfer a considerable amount to the aforementioned foundation every year if she wants to keep the villa. The countess and the other residents of the villa, including Trude, the maid of honor, and her husband, janitor Gustav Düppenweiler, are faced with a seemingly impossible financial task. To make matters worse, the conflict with the hermit Philipp Arthur Limberger threatens to escalate. The community must now stick together in order not to lose their beloved roof over their heads.

title: Der Fall der Gerti B.

overview: Three friends from Floridsdorf – separated by 40 years and with lives that couldn't be more different – meet on an evening that will change their future destinies forever.

title: Der vierte Mann

overview: A kidnapped musician and his missing violin are the prelude to a series of murders whose victims were deeply involved in business connections between the GDR and Austria. The investigators of SOKO Vienna and Leipzig are working together.

title: Letzter Kirtag

overview: Even Franz Gasperlmaier had never seen anything like this before. He's seen a lot of things, after all, Gasperlmaier has been a police officer in Altaussee for more than twenty years. But a stabbed man on a Monday morning in the festival tent at the Altaussee Kirtag is too much even for a seasoned man like him. And so he makes a wrong decision, not his last one that day, and the dead man sitting in his own blood in the festival tent won't be the only victim.

title: Snotty Boy

overview: 1960's Siegheilkirchen, a small town in the Austrian hinterland is steeped in reactionary and ultra-Catholic attitudes. The son of a hard-working innkeeper and his wife, called Snotty Boy by all and sundry, is at odds with the narrow-minded confines of his home town. But his unstoppable talent for drawing gives him an outlet for his discontent.

title: Im Schatten der Angst - Der Skorpion

overview: Is a murderer always a murderer? Karla Eckhardt supports easing measures for convicted murderer Anton Lisky. But as soon as she is released, Lisky's work colleague is killed. Was Karla wrong?

title: Hunters in the Snow

overview:
The protagonist, Franz, copies the paintings of old masters. He slowly loses his sense of reality, resulting in angst-ridden fantasies and a desire for self-destruction.
 Franz has an uphill battle with the loss of values and spread of capitalism around him. He rejects advertising to the point of destroying its manifestations.

title: Nasty Little Things

overview: In a world between sink attachments and Weight Watchers meetings, Josef feels crushed by his own weight. He doesn't even dare to go to the tango class his brother gave him as a gift to get him out of the house, for fear of public humiliation. But an unexpected encounter with the rapper Monobrother triggers something in Josef.

title: Steirerhass

title: Dead in 3 Days

title: The Guardian Angel

title: The Poll Diaries

title: Annas zweite Chance

title: Three Wheels One Summer

title: Der Metzger traut sich

title: Julia und der Offizier

title: Falco: Damn It, We're Still Alive!

title: Schrille Nacht

title: Thank You for Bombing

title: Kotsch

title: Der erste Tag

title: Taking It Back

title: Your Beauty Is Worth Nothing

title: Ruhm

title: Coming of Age

title: Für dich dreh ich die Zeit zurück

title: Beautiful Girl

title: Fräulein Phyllis

title: Isenhart: The Hunt Is on for Your Soul

title: Woman in Gold

title: Murer: Anatomy of a Trial

title: Spain

title: Balanceakt

title: Kinder des Sturms

title: Planet Ottakring

title: Villa Eva

title: Der Fall der Gerti B.

title: Der vierte Mann

title: Letzter Kirtag

title: Snotty Boy

title: Im Schatten der Angst - Der Skorpion

title: Hunters in the Snow

title: Nasty Little Things

title: Steirerhass


Sebastiano Celeste

biography: Sebastiano Celeste was born on 15 November 1940 in Italy. He is a cinematographer and assistant director, known for La piovra, The Dirty Seven and Alien Interferenze.

The Devil's Game

job: Director of Photography

overview: A story about the devil's influence on five people's lives in 20th-century Venice.

department: Camera

original_name: I giochi del diavolo

original_language: it

The Squad

overview: One of the most enthralling crime series among Italian viewers: airing on Rai Tre from March 3, 2000, "La Squadra" offers a realistic overview of the world of crime through the cases investigated by the Sant'Andrea Police Station in Naples.

original_name: La squadra

Lenin... The Train

overview: In March 1917, amidst World War I, a sealed train carries Russian revolutionaries, led by Lenin, from Germany to St. Petersburg. Along the journey, political tensions and personal dramas unfold, culminating in a historic arrival.

original_name: Il treno di Lenin

Camilla parlami d'amore

original_name: Camilla parlami d'amore

Italiano

Sebastiano Celeste

biography:
Sebastiano Celeste, conosciuto anche come Nino Celeste (Santa Croce di Magliano, 15 novembre 1940), è un direttore della fotografia italiano.

Inizia a lavorare giovanissimo come assistente operatore con Giulio Albonico e Pino Pinori. Dopo 3 anni diventa operatore di macchina con Giulio Albonico nel film Diario di una schizofrenica per la regia di Nelo Risi premiato al festival del cinema di venezia.

Ha lavorato, tra gli altri, nei film di Pier Paolo Pasolini, Damiano Damiani, Carlo Lizzani, Lucio Fulci, Mario Bava, Roberto Faenza, Liliana Cavani, Umberto Lenzi, Alessandro Capone, Bruno Corbucci, Bisha Besnik, Saimir Kumbaro, Nelo Risi, Citto Maselli, Florestano Vancini, Giorgio Capitani, Sandro Bolchi, Castellano e Pipolo, Federico Moccia.

Per la TV ha illuminato le prime quattro serie de La piovra con Michele Placido, regia di Damiano Damiani, Florestano Vancini, Luigi Perelli e Il treno di Lenin (Damiani).

Ha inoltre lavorato per la TV nelle soap opere Sottocasa (200 puntate), Agrodolce (230 puntate), La squadra (52 puntate) e Un posto al sole (500 puntate). Ha preso parte alla giuria de I 400 Corti Film Fest[1]. Nel 2018 riceve il Premio Internazionale Vincenzo Crocitti alla Carriera.[2] È stato membro di giuria all'Ariano International Film Festival.

title: Lenin: The Train

overview: March/April 1917. The first world war is already a couple year to pace. A sealed train with Russian emigrants keeps on driving from Zürich Germany and Sweden to Sint-Petersburg. The outlaws stand under the guidance of Vladimir J. Lenin. Two senior officers support the revolutionary bomb "to ensure that everything runs smoothly. Yet there are some unpleasant clashes between Socialists and enthusiastic workers who are worried about the war. During train travel there comes an end to Lenin's affair with the gracious Inessa, and his wife Nadja is prepared take back him. The triumphant entrance in St. Petersburg will exceed all expectations....

original_title: Lenin: The Train

original_language: en

job: Camera Operator

title: Forza Italia!

overview: Much-censored documentary encompassing thirty years of Italian politics under the governance of the Christian Democracy (DC), entirely composed of — occasionally dubbed — archival footage.

original_title: Forza Italia!

title: The Walls of Sana'a

overview: The capital of Yemen, the city of Sana'a, holds an important part of history within its walls filled with medieval architecture and culture. But that same culture was about to disappear with the country's modernization which came after the civil war in the 1960's. To impeach such modern invasion, director Pasolini pledges to UNESCO for the recognition of Sana'a as a World Heritage Site.

original_title: Le mura di Sana'a

title: Savage Three

overview: By day, Ovidio (Joe Dallesandro) and his two friends work at a data center. After work, they blow off steam by committing random acts of savage violence, swiftly graduating from sparking a riot at a football game to vehicle theft, rape, and murder. The police are convinced this recent spate of crimes is politically motivated, but world-weary veteran Commissario Santaga (Enrico Maria Salerno) suspects a far more terrifying explanation: that these young men are motivated by nothing more than boredom and disaffection at civilized society. As Ovidio's behavior escalates, a psychological game of cat-and-mouse ensues between the two adversaries, building towards a shocking final confrontation.

original_title: Fango bollente

title: La madama

overview: In the slang of the underworld or "mala" there is a special term for cop: "Madama".  But if word were to get around that the "Madama" is Vito (Christian De Sica) they might even start to like the guy.  Vito is a funny sort of a cop.  For a start he doesn't like the uniform (he never wears it).  Things might even go smoothly for him, if it weren't for an incredible number of beautiful girls who always manage to get in his way.  Especially one girl Angelo (shouldn't that have been Angela?  No, the girl's name really is Angelo).  Problems arise too, with his direct supervisor, who also happens to be a relative.  But Vito puts up with it all and manages to stay his usual calm and polite self, even when he risks getting killed.

original_title: La madama

title: Classe mista 3ª A

overview: Three teenagers are preparing for their final exams, but their main interest is certainly not their studies. Stefano dumps his girlfriend for the beautiful Caterina, but her boyfriend Gianluca forces him to disguise himself as a Jim Morrison fan to win over another classmate. Annalisa, the girl Stefano dumped, will find the man of her dreams.

original_title: Classe mista 3ª A

title: The Cop in Blue Jeans

overview: A top undercover cop finds and arrests a series of purse snatchers until he discovers an American at the top of an evil ring of thieves.

original_title: Squadra antiscippo

title: Puzzle

overview: In London, A man who has amnesia attempts to uncover the truth about his identity. A menacing individual accuses him of betrayal, and soon more pieces of his puzzling past begin to fall in place.

original_title: L'uomo senza memoria

title: Rugantino

overview: A beautiful girl Rosina lives In Rome. Her husband is strong as a bull and jealous as Shakespeare's Othello. Once the husband of Rosina kills a wealthy aristocrat, who sang the serenade to his wife, and now he is hiding from justice.

original_title: Rugantino

title: Il Mistero di Bellavista

overview: A doorman and a street cleaner, intrigued by the passage of Halley's Comet, ask Professor Bellavista if they can observe the sky through his telescope. The two, instead of observing the comet, end up framing a window of the apartment opposite and believe they have discovered a crime. So they set out in search of the body.

original_title: Il Mistero di Bellavista

title: A Man Called Blade

overview: Maurizio Merli stars as a hatchet-wielding bounty hunter with a dark past and an even more desperate future. But when he disrupts the balance of power in a corrupt mining town, he unleashes a firestorm of brutality, betrayal and cold-blooded murder. Now, one man stalks a savage land where justice walks a razor and no bullets slice deeper than vengeance. He is A MAN CALLED BLADE.

original_title: Mannaja

title: Once Upon a Time in the West There Was a Man Called Invincible

overview: A gunman and his sheriff companion are hired to deliver a million dollars in gold by traveling through gang-infested lands, while in disguise.

original_title: Lo chiamavano Tresette... giocava sempre col morto

title: December 12th

overview: On December 12th, 1969 a bomb went off at the Piazza Fontana in Milan that killed 16 people and injured 84. Railway worker and anarchist activist Giuseppe Pinelli was picked up, along with other anarchists, for questioning regarding the attack. He was held and interrogated for three days, longer than Italian law specified that people could be held without seeing a judge. Just before midnight on December 15, 1969 Pinelli was seen to fall to his death from a fourth floor window of the Milan police station. Although officially deemed a suicide, the reporter who watched the fall from the street maintained that he was pushed. Three police officers interrogating Pinelli were put under investigation in 1971 for murder but charges were dropped because of lack of evidence.

original_title: 12 dicembre

title: The Sicilian Connection

overview: An Italian-American pizzeria manager returns to Sicily to assassinate a judge, enlisting his honest younger brother for help. As the brother's morals clash with the task, the only way to save him is through a sacrifice that appeases the mafia.

original_title: Pizza Connection

title: La mia mamma suona il rock

overview: Cristiano and Franco are the owners of a fashion house and a couple. Cristiano is obsessed with the idea of having a child, to make him happy Franco think of kidnapping Massimo and treating him like a son

original_title: La mia mamma suona il rock

title: H2S

overview: Young student runs away from a 1984-esque dictatorship, lives for a while with a crazy girl in a surrealistic “igloo” in snowy wilderness and then returns to lead a revolution against the oppressive system. Sci-fi tale consistent with the political climate of May 68.

title: Difendimi dalla notte

overview: Late at night, Angelo returns from a mission in Africa and slips behind the wheel of a taxi, navigating a city he barely recognizes. Shrouded in darkness, its streets pulse with a strange, unsettling energy. But the true nightmare begins when he finally reaches home. Confronted by sudden eruptions of senseless violence and drawn into a web of increasingly twisted personal entanglements, Angelo is forced down a harrowing path. As he ventures ever deeper into the abyss of the night, he finds himself changed in ways he never could have imagined.

original_title: Difendimi dalla notte

title: The Spider Labyrinth

overview: A young professor travels to Budapest to locate a lost colleague. Once there, he gets tangled up in a supernatural mystery.

original_title: Il nido del ragno

title: The Tailor's Wife

original_title: La moglie del sarto

title: La settima onda

original_title: La settima onda

title: The Diamond Peddlers

overview: Bumbling crooks Butch and Toby pose as priests in order to elude being arrested by the authorities in Africa. Butch and Toby deliver a statue of the Virgin Mary from Africa to Amsterdam. Unbenownst to the clueless duo, they're really smuggling diamonds. A group of equally inept mobsters give chase.

title: Violent Naples

overview: Inspector Betti (Maurizio Merli) is transferred to Naples and immediately after his arrival receives a warm welcome from The Commandante (Barry Sullivan), the city's crime lord. Betti then goes on a personal mission against corruption and organized crime, and tries to force the syndicate out of town with any means necessary.

title: Laboratorio teatrale di Luca Ronconi

overview: A documentary about director Luca Ronconi. He is asked about his life and his choice to devote himself to theater and in particular, at that precise moment in his career, to undertake the production of Pier Paolo Pasolini's Calderon as part of the Prato theater workshop.

title: Escape from Women's Prison

overview: Four female convicts break out of prison, and during their escape they take hostage a bus full of young female tennis players. They drive the bus to the house of the judge who originally sent them to prison, where--since this is after all a women-in-prison picture--the hostages undergo various forms of physical and sexual abuse in various degrees of nudity.

original_title: Le evase - Storie di sesso e di violenze

title: Off Season

overview: A couple arrive in an off-season Cesenatico but they quickly split up after a bad argument. The girl then settles in an uninhabited flat with a photographer she met before and with whom she has an affair. His ex gets kidnapped by three amateur robbers. Both stories end with a dramatic and grotesque epilogue.

title: Emanuelle: Queen of the Desert

overview: Armed soldiers, thirsty and lost, run into the mysterious Sheila, who claims to be able to guide them to safety.

title: Stato d'emergenza - Il caso Dozier

title: The House of Clocks

overview: A gang of ruthless thugs intent on robbery prey upon a seemingly harmless elderly couple, Vittorio and Sara.  The simple plan turns into a terrifying nightmare, as Vittorio's antique clock collection mysteriously turns back time.  Now the hunters become the hunted and the old couple becomes a vengeful, malevolent force.

title: In camera mia

title: Tornare indietro

overview: A painter from Turin, Stefano Faenza, arrives in Reggio Calabria on the occasion of a personal exhibition organized in his honor in Locride. Behind this initiative there is a schoolmate of his, Gino Jacona, today councillor to the culture. During the trip, on the 106 state road, that takes him from the airport to the town, Stefano remembers the period he spent in this region in the early 70s...

title: Burraco fatale

overview: Irma, Eugenia, Miranda and Rina are four different women, each with their own character, their own weaknesses and their own eccentricities, but linked by a deep and lasting knowledge over time, united and marked by their essential card games. When they decide to participate in a national buraco tournament and get out of their everyday life, they will suddenly find themselves with their cards exposed. Life always offers a second chance and love can go back to upsetting at any age. After all, it is the game of burraco that has taught him that a game must be played completely, to the end, and that no result is ever taken for granted.

title: Little Funny Guy

overview: Movie starts with a small boy watching his father boarding a ship to America. Years later, all grown up and in colour, Pippolo Cavallo (Adriano Celentano) takes the same route (dressed as a woman) to search for his father and begin a new life.

title: Separati in casa

overview: The housing shortage means that two spouses have to continue living under the same roof despite the ongoing legal separation. Incidents and misunderstandings to no end, but the couple's son will take care of fixing everything.

title: Once a Year, Every Year

overview: A man enters a restaurant in Trastevere, in the suburbs of Rome, and asks the owner to cook him the superb bass he has just been given. He wants it served at the dinner gathering like every year the group of inseparable friends he is a member of. The others join him. The last to come is a lawyer who has just liquidated the succession of the one that will be missing tonight. The deceased leaves them an estate in Umbria provided they live there in community. What will the friends decide during this dinner like no other?

title: The Angel with the Gun

overview: The revenge of a young woman who sees her family brutally shot to death.

title: The Cat & the Moon

title: Zorro

overview: A newly arrived governor finds his province under the control of the corrupt Colonel Huerta. To avoid assassination by Huerta, he pretends to be weak and indecisive so Huerta will believe he poses no threat. But secretly he masquerades as Zorro, and joins the monk Francisco and the beautiful aristocrat Hortensia in their fight for justice against Huerta and his soldiers.

title: The Crazy Bunch

overview: Tricky Dicky is after a gold treasure with his companion. He tracks the treasure down in insane asylums, Ku Klux Klan rallies, and finally, the outlaw's hideout.

original_title: Di Tresette ce n'è uno, tutti gli altri son nessuno

title: Corbari

overview: The real story of the partisan Silvio Corbari (Giuliano Gemma). Silvio forms a band of partisans in Northern Italy, completely independent from the Italian organized resistance (CLN). Ines (Tina Aumont), leaves her husband to join the band and becomes Silvio's lover. Silvio seems to suceed in creating a free-zone, his personal republic, independent from Nazi-occupied Italy, in a little village called Tregnano.

title: Improvviso

title: Diary of a Schizophrenic Girl

overview: Anna is a girl who has been under psychiatric therapy for a long time and she needs lots and lots of love.

title: La vita cambia

title: Long Live Robin Hood

overview: John Lackland seizes the English throne, believing the rightful ruler, his brother Richard the Lionheart, to be dead. When he learns that Richard is being held captive by the German emperor and can be ransomed for a large sum of money, he refuses to pay and orders the messengers, including Sir Henry of Nottingham, to be killed. Sir Henry escapes to Sherwood Forest, which belongs to his estates. There he joins forces with a group of Anglo-Saxons and fights under the name Robin Hood against the regime of the king's traitors...

title: Roma nuda

title: The Dark Sun

overview: After the death of his mother a man returns to his hometown Palermo in southern Italy in order to get hold of the legacy. Once there he is forced to participate in various crimes commited by the mafia.

title: Puro cashmere

overview: Giuliano, kindergarten teacher, goes to his ex's birthday, meets Liliana and falls in love with her.

title: The Suspect

overview: Fascism has forced the leadership of the Italian Communist Party to settle in Paris. In Italy arrests of militants are decimating the organization, so Emilio is sent on a mission in the area of Turin, to put out of harm whistleblowers.

title: My Wife Goes Back to School

overview: Aristide Buratti is a wealthy grocer married to attractive Valentina. Although they seem to have a happy marriage, Valentina feels herself culturally inferior because she is a high school dropout. Despite her husband's objections, she enrolls at a private boarding school.

title: L'amante tutta da scoprire

overview: Erika and George are two crooks hired by a rich lady to get rid of her philandering husband.

title: Panarea

overview: During a summer weekend in the island of Panarea, a series of stories of love between the vacationers are intertwined.

title: Carioca Tigre

title: Rome, November 12, 1994

overview: Francesco Maselli pitched this documentary to the CGIL, CISL, and UIL trade unions as part of the 1.5 million-strong protest march on November 12, 1994 against Silvio Berlusconi's projects on social security and the reform of the pension system. A large number of directors, cinematographers, camera operators and technicians from all over the country worked for free in 22 different crews, chronicling one of largest political gatherings ever held in Italy.

title: Il mondo di mezzo

title: Words and Blood

overview: The youth protest against corruption in Italian politics. When they subsequently find themselves in trouble, they take the law into their own hands: they form the Red Brigade, which wreaks death and destruction.

title: Department Store

overview: A series of skits involving customers and store personnel from several departments of the big department store.

title: Lend Me Your Wife

overview: Alex Fortini, a transplant to Milan, lives behind his lover who owns an advertising agency. When his wife, who had left five years ago, reappears, fearing that she will want to ask him for a divorce and alimony, he unwittingly gets into a lot of trouble.

title: Free Hand for a Tough Cop

overview: A cop recruits a criminal and his cohorts to help track down a violent crime lord who has kidnapped the ill daughter of a rich family.

title: Two Brothers in Trinity

overview: Charming, blithely amoral devil-may-care rogue Jesse Smith and peaceful, devout straight-arrow Mormon Lester O'Hara are estranged half brothers who are reunited after receiving a sizable inheritance from their deceased mother. The wildly contrasting mismatched duo get into all sorts of trouble while trying to claim said inheritance. Written by Woodyanders

original_title: Jesse & Lester - Due fratelli in un posto chiamato Trinità

title: The Last Decameron: Adultery in 7 Easy Lessons

overview: Seven novels of Boccaccio featuring dirty jokes.

original_title: Decameron n° 3 - Le più belle donne del Boccaccio

title: Canterbury proibito

overview: Two young boys compete for the same girl - a third enjoys from a distance . Two men are abusing a girl. Three men desires a married woman. Two nuns get out in the nice weather with a bunch of monks.

title: The Barons

overview: Leopoldo Lalumera, grandson of a wealthy eighty-four-year-old baron, infuriated during a galactic convention with a prosaic maid, discovers, on the eve of the wedding with his cousin Mariantonia, that he has become impotent.

title: Skipper

overview: Skipper Alex Grimaldi has two weaknesses: his daughter, born from a previous relationship, and, obviously, his boat. Always with a Tuscan cigar in his mouth, Fabio Testi’s sailor embarks on real seaside adventures because of his clients who are often dangerous criminals.

title: The Night of the Devils

overview: In this adaptation of Tolstoy's story the Wurdulak, a mentally ill patient known as Nicola flashes back to horrifying experiences that he encountered while driving through the country. Upon damaging his car, Nicola sets out for help, only to meet a mysterious family that lives in total fear of someone or something. This evil force slowly penetrates the household and thrusts each of its members into a frenzy of absolute terror.

title: College

overview: A romance between a student of a college of high class and a cadet of the nearby Naval Academy.

title: Il Cioccolatino

title: Uomini senza donne

overview: Alex and Max are two "bachelors" who share the same house: Alex, advertising copywriter, is boxing, is an impenitent dongiovanni and does not hesitate to betray his colleague and girlfriend Paola; Max, saxophonist, neglects his ulcer and is attracted, yes, but also scared, by women.

title: Anna: the Pleasure, the Torment

overview: A beautiful but poor young girl finds all the money and material goods she never had when she becomes the girlfriend of a crime boss, but soon learns that there is a price to be paid for that kind of life.

title: The Venus of Ille

overview: A wealthy landowner uncovers a bronze statue of Venus on his property. He asks an antique expert to examine the statue and confirm its wealth. Upon arrival, the expert is striken with love by the landowner’s daughter-in-law who bears an uncanny resemblance to the statue.

title: The Long Arm of the Godfather

overview: A  treacherous low-level mafioso greedily rips off a shipment of arms from his powerful godfather and tries to sell them to an especially dubious group of Arabs

title: Bocche inutili

overview: Having escaped the roundup of the Rome ghetto, Ester, a 40-year-old Jewish woman, is sent to the Fossoli camp where she befriends Ada. Having avoided the transport to Auschwitz, Ester is left with one last, difficult mission: to save the child she has discovered she is expecting.

title: Il ritratto incompiuto

title: La Donna del Treno

overview: A woman travels in a compartment of a train and a young man sits next to her with whom, almost immediately, sparks strike: once they arrive at their destination the boy realizes that the young lady has forgotten a book and so follows her to to return it. When the two are alone at home, without having even introduced themselves, they soon end up in each other's arms and spend an intense night of love. At dawn the man leaves.  Also at dawn that same morning, a man is killed in his garage and it is soon discovered that he is the brother of the young man on the train.

title: Gli Inaffidabili

title: Scratch and Win

overview: Andrea, Maurizio and Sergio are professional idlers, lazy, indolent and full of inventiveness. Maurizio is engaged to the policewoman Anna, of whom he is extremely jealous, Sergio still lives with his mother and Andrea is tyrannized by his wife and his brother-in-law, a former boxer. When a crew arrives in town to shoot a commercial, Andrea and Sergio meet two actresses; in the meantime, Maurizio is dumped by Anna. The three spend a large sum of money on a scratch card to travel to Sardinia in search of the actresses in the commercial.

title: Keys in Hand

overview: The brave Baccello, at the time departed as a young crusader for the Holy Land, returns to Sarnano where he is anxious to find his beautiful wife Ubalda to whom on the day of departure he had a sturdy chastity belt worn ...

title: Uomini sull'orlo di una crisi di nervi

overview: "Men on the edge of a nervous breakdown" - Vincenzo, Gianni, Nicola and Pino are four friends who for years have been seeing every Monday to play poker. But this time Nicola is in crisis with his wife. The evening is ruined, but Pino has an idea. Why not invite a "ring"?

title: School Teacher Dances... with Her Class

overview: Girls' dance instructor Claudia Gambetti takes over the boy's gym class after gym teacher Martorelli breaks both his legs owing to one of his student's pranks. Soon both teachers and students are interested in learning more of Claudia's athletic dance moves. Director Fiorontori has made some debts betting on horses and wants Claudia to win a disco competition to balance the school budget, too. When the boys team are invited to face off against their superior Russian counterparts, Claudia calls in her dancing girls to be used as a secret weapon.

title: The Gamecock

overview: Elena and Carlo are a married couple facing sexual difficulties due to the husband's loss of virility. They explore various erotic schemes to rekindle their intimacy, but their efforts are unsuccessful. In a moment of despair, Elena attempts suicide, prompting Carlo to confront their issues and seek a resolution.

title: La colonna infame

overview: Historical drama, based upon the novel by Alessandro Manzoni.

title: Jungle Erotic

overview: Young women have an adventure in the African jungle

title: The Sisters

overview: Faced with a broken marriage, a woman decides to try to rekindle an incestuous relationship with her younger sister, who is married to a wealthy older man.

title: Venezia, carnevale, un amore

title: Il Mistero di Bellavista

title: The Magician

title: L'Enfant tombée du ciel

overview: An Italian family welcomes a little girl fleeing the Sarajevo war.

title: Mao Tse Tung

overview: The film unfolds the reality in a communist country in the 1970s through the eyes and wise ways of an ordinary gypsy. The events take place in a small town in Albania. Besides the well-organized civilized life, a strange Gypsy community is settled in the town. The calm flow of their life is troubled by the birth of a child. The son, who is the ninth child in this Gypsy family, will bring joy not only to his family, but to the entire gypsy community. What could possibly trouble the strong communist establishment of the time? A child is born but not an ordinary one. His name is Mao Tse Tung. A gypsy Mao Tse Tung in the 1970s.

title: Us and Lenin

overview: In a nursing home the elderly deal with their past.

title: The Last Wish

overview: Mentor Hasa, a senior officer of the State Security, finds himself from a "spy" into a tapped man and his life takes a dramatic turn. His last wish to his son, Martin, is that his story is told to the whole world.

title: Una bambina di troppo

title: The Sweet House of Horrors

overview: A murdered couple return from the beyond to care for their two young children, as well as seek revenge against their killer, accept their children's step parents, and try to prevent their house from being sold.

place_of_birth: Santa Croce di Magliano, Campobasso, Molise, Italy

title: Lenin: The Train

title: Forza Italia!

title: The Walls of Sana'a

title: Savage Three

title: La madama

title: Classe mista 3ª A

title: The Cop in Blue Jeans

title: Puzzle

title: Rugantino

title: Il Mistero di Bellavista

title: A Man Called Blade

title: December 12th

title: The Sicilian Connection

title: La mia mamma suona il rock

title: H2S

title: Difendimi dalla notte

title: The Spider Labyrinth

title: The Tailor's Wife

title: La settima onda

title: The Diamond Peddlers

title: Violent Naples

title: Laboratorio teatrale di Luca Ronconi

title: Escape from Women's Prison

title: Off Season

title: Emanuelle: Queen of the Desert

title: Stato d'emergenza - Il caso Dozier

title: The House of Clocks

title: In camera mia

title: Tornare indietro

title: Burraco fatale

title: Little Funny Guy

title: Separati in casa

title: Once a Year, Every Year

title: The Angel with the Gun

title: The Cat & the Moon

title: Zorro

title: The Crazy Bunch

title: Corbari

title: Improvviso

title: Diary of a Schizophrenic Girl

title: La vita cambia

title: Long Live Robin Hood

title: Roma nuda

title: The Dark Sun

title: Puro cashmere

title: The Suspect

title: My Wife Goes Back to School

title: L'amante tutta da scoprire

title: Panarea

title: Carioca Tigre

title: Rome, November 12, 1994

title: Il mondo di mezzo

title: Words and Blood

title: Department Store

title: Lend Me Your Wife

title: Free Hand for a Tough Cop

title: Two Brothers in Trinity

title: Canterbury proibito

title: The Barons

title: Skipper

title: The Night of the Devils

title: College

title: Il Cioccolatino

title: Uomini senza donne

title: Anna: the Pleasure, the Torment

title: The Venus of Ille

title: The Long Arm of the Godfather

title: Bocche inutili

title: Il ritratto incompiuto

title: La Donna del Treno

title: Gli Inaffidabili

title: Scratch and Win

title: Keys in Hand

title: Uomini sull'orlo di una crisi di nervi

title: School Teacher Dances... with Her Class

title: The Gamecock

title: La colonna infame

title: Jungle Erotic

title: The Sisters

title: Venezia, carnevale, un amore

title: Il Mistero di Bellavista

title: The Magician

title: L'Enfant tombée du ciel

title: Mao Tse Tung

title: Us and Lenin

title: The Last Wish

title: Una bambina di troppo

title: The Sweet House of Horrors