Werner Peters
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Werner Peters (7 July 1918 – 30 March 1971) was a German film actor. He appeared in 102 films between 1947 and 1971.
Peters was born in Werlitzsch, Kreis Delitzsch, Prussian Saxony, and died of a heart attack on a promotion tour for his latest film in Wiesbaden, Germany.
His film career started with the lead in Wolfgang Staudte's Der Untertan, produced in the young German Democratic Republic. Peters then worked in West-Germany, appearing mostly in supporting roles in popular movies. He also established himself in the European and international film industry by frequently playing sinister German or Nazi characters.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 5.454 |
| Birthday | 1918-07-07 |
| Place of Birth | |
| Also Known As | Вернер Петерс, |
1958
Rosemary
5.9/20
West Germany in '50s is becoming an economic superpower. In such climate, Rosemarie is just one of many enterpreneurs who wants her piece of new fortu...
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Rosemary
1970
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
7.195/727
An American writer living in Rome witnesses an attempted murder that is connected to an ongoing killing spree in the city, and conducts his own invest...
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The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
1957
Das Herz von St. Pauli
5/5
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Das Herz von St. Pauli
1970
Unter den Dächern von St. Pauli
3.5/2
Rival gangs are fighting for control of Hamburg's notorious harbor district, spreading fear and terror in the process. In the streets, houses and club...
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Unter den Dächern von St. Pauli
1955
Ein Polterabend
0/0
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Ein Polterabend
1963
The Black Abbot
6/22
Several employees on a nobleman's estate show up at a former abbey, reputed to be haunted, to search for a hidden treasure. Howver, a mysterious hoode...
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The Black Abbot
1968
The Secret War of Harry Frigg
6.074/34
When 5 allied generals are captured in Italy in WWII, it is a propaganda nightmare for the allies. The generals are all 1 star and refuse to take orde...
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The Secret War of Harry Frigg
1955
Der Teufel vom Mühlenberg
7.2/2
This film is set in a medieval mill town in the Harz mountains. The greedy and brutal millman and his accomplices, the castle steward and the mayor, s...
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Der Teufel vom Mühlenberg
1965
Battle of the Bulge
6.9/246
In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent it, Hitler orders an all-out offensive...
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Battle of the Bulge
1951
The Kaiser's Lackey
6.5/23
Diederich Heßling is scared of everything and everyone. But as he grows up, he comes to realize that he has to offer his services to the powers-that-b...
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The Kaiser's Lackey
1962
The Counterfeit Traitor
6.5/30
Blacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of infiltrating and surveying Nazi Germany.
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The Counterfeit Traitor
1964
36 Hours
6.9/62
Germans kidnap an American major and try to convince him that World War II is over, so that they can get details about the Allied invasion of Europe o...
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36 Hours
1960
Punishment Battalion
6.3/3
The film focuses on life in a World War II German penal battalion camp somewhere in Russia. The convicts include a heroic doctor unjustly convicted of...
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Punishment Battalion
1960
The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
6.816/95
A reporter is murdered while driving to his job. The Police are contacted by a clairvoyant who saw the death in a vision, but some dark force is preve...
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The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
1965
The Wild Men of Kurdistan
6/32
After dealing with the Shut in the Balkans, Kara Ben-Nemsi ('Karl the German') receives a firman (precious passport) from the padishah (Ottoman sultan...
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The Wild Men of Kurdistan
1964
The Curse of the Hidden Vault
6.2/10
Mobsters conspire to loot another criminal's treasure secured in an enormous booby-trapped vault.
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The Curse of the Hidden Vault
1971
Angels of Terror
6.3/11
An Australian woman arrives in London to search for her sister who she finds is involved with a heroin smuggling gang. The gang itself is under attack...
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Angels of Terror
1970
Hard Women
5.4/5
Rough-and-ready vice detective Perrak has to follow a 1000 leads during the investigation of a trans murder case. In a profoundly mysterious massage p...
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Hard Women
1959
Roses for the Prosecutor
7/16
April 1945. Because he stole two bars of chocolate, the soldier Rudi is sentenced to death by the court-martial judge Dr. Schramm. Rudi manages to esc...
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Roses for the Prosecutor
1956
Das Sonntagskind
5.7/3
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Das Sonntagskind
1961
Operation Caviar
5.1/7
Bank accountant Thomas Lieven is forced to work as a triple agent for the British, the French and the Nazis.
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Operation Caviar
1956
Anastasia: the Czar's Last Daughter
5.3/3
In 1920, an unknown 24-year-old woman was fished out of Berlin's Landwehr kanal after a suicide attempt. Since she has no papers and no answers to any...
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Anastasia: the Czar's Last Daughter
1965
Black Eagle of Santa Fe
6.4/4
When Comanches go on the warpath, settlers take refuge in Ft. Eagle Rock commanded by Capt. Jackson. Undercover agent Cliff McPherson arrives at the u...
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Black Eagle of Santa Fe
1963
The Endless Night
7/11
Anthology film about a night at airport Berlin-Tempelhof. Due to fog passengers can't leave Berlin by plane and struggle to find other ways out of Ber...
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The Endless Night
1959
Jons und Erdme
0/0
Adaptation of Hermann Sudermann's novel about the troubled relationship between the strong willed Erdme and her irascible husband Jons in the Lithunia...
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Jons und Erdme
1962
The Door with Seven Locks
6.2/20
A rich man bequeaths seven keys to seven of his friends, but only one will unlock the door to untold wealth.
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The Door with Seven Locks
1963
The Secret of the Black Widow
5.6/10
Someone is killing people related to a South American expedition. The means of murder are poison darts with rubber spiders attached to them. A writer...
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The Secret of the Black Widow
1958
The Copper
6.2/5
Otto Friedrich Dennert is a celebrated veteran of the Essen police force. While investigating a series of killings of women he reaches retirement age....
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The Copper
1969
Death Knocks Twice
4.3/9
When private detective Bob Martin looking for a stolen diamond necklace, he also has a clever serial killer on the trail ...
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Death Knocks Twice
1958
13 Little Donkeys and the Sun Court
5.7/3
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13 Little Donkeys and the Sun Court
1955
The Plot to Assassinate Hitler
5.8/7
A disillusioned Wehrmacht officer named Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg and his co-conspirators attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler on 20 July 1944.
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The Plot to Assassinate Hitler
1958
Lightning girls to the front
1/1
During WWII The German 'Wehrmacht' is heavily under fire after the invasion of Normandy. There are also a lot of women participating in the war, worki...
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Lightning girls to the front
1959
Bobby Dodd intervenes
10/1
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Bobby Dodd intervenes
1949
Girls in Gingham
6.5/4
A moving saga focusing on the women in a family that spans three generations and almost 70 years of German history, from the Wilhelmine period through...
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Girls in Gingham
1963
Das Feuerschiff
4/1
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Das Feuerschiff
1958
Grabenplatz 17
8/1
Murder mystery about the disappearance of a boy who has leukaemia following the murder of his mother, which he witnessed.
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Grabenplatz 17
1955
Hotel Adlon
7/1
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Hotel Adlon
1961
The Return of Dr. Mabuse
6.3/14
The supposedly dead and buried Mabuse returns to his criminal activities, as his longtime foe Police Inspector Lohmann, a dauntless girl reporter, and...
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The Return of Dr. Mabuse
1958
Liebe kann wie Gift sein
0/0
After having lost her mother Magdalena was brought up on strict boarding school disciplines. When returning to her father, she is looked after by an e...
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Liebe kann wie Gift sein
1957
The Devil Strikes at Night
6.9/28
Hamburg, Germany, 1944, during World War II. A serial killer terrorizes the city. When it seems clear that the local police are unable to catch him, f...
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The Devil Strikes at Night
1964
The Phantom of Soho
6.3/9
A masked killer is stalking and killing Londoners outside a nightclub.
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The Phantom of Soho
1958
Romarei, the Girl with the Green Eyes
6/1
Clairvoyant gifted Romarei (Carola Kayser) manages to save her childhood friend Lorenz Ophofen from what would have been a fatal accident. Prang, a gr...
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Romarei, the Girl with the Green Eyes
1958
Schmutziger Engel
0/0
A teacher is defamed in an obscene way by an over-excited pupil.
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Schmutziger Engel
1959
Der Schatz vom Toplitzsee
0/0
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Der Schatz vom Toplitzsee
1963
Dr. Mabuse vs. Scotland Yard
6.4/8
The spirit of the evil Dr. Mabuse takes over the body of a famous professor. The professor/Dr. Mabuse then begins a new crime wave that terrorizes the...
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Dr. Mabuse vs. Scotland Yard
1964
The Racetrack Murders
5.7/6
The son of a British racehorse owner conspires with a bookie to ruin the odds of his father's thoroughbred winning an important event.
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The Racetrack Murders
1956
Die Stimme der Sehnsucht
0/0
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Die Stimme der Sehnsucht
1962
The Carpet of Horror
5.6/5
An evil genius uses poison gas to avenge himself on his enemies.
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The Carpet of Horror
1962
The Invisible Dr. Mabuse
6.5/10
Strange things happen in a revue theatre. The dancer Maria seems to be hunted by an invisible admirer. When the body of a probable FBI agent is found...
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The Invisible Dr. Mabuse
1963
Die weiße Spinne
6.2/8
After an automobile accident, in which a man is unrecognizably burnt to a crisp, his wife's only able to confirm the corpse's identity by his talisman...
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Die weiße Spinne
1953
Anna Susanna
0/0
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Anna Susanna
1954
Ernst Thälmann – Son of the Working Class
4.4/6
This film is the first of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politician and anti-fascist Ernst Thälmann. In early Novem...
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Ernst Thälmann – Son of the Working Class
1963
The Curse of the Yellow Snake
5.8/10
A Chinese cult bent on taking over the world uses an idol called The Golden Reptile that they believe can give them the power to achieve their goal.
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The Curse of the Yellow Snake
1953
Die Unbesiegbaren
7/3
The film "Die Unbesiegbaren" covers an episode in German history, in which the Bismarck government tried to mitigate the rise of the social-democrat m...
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Die Unbesiegbaren
1949
The Beaver Coat
6/2
Mother Wolffen, a washerwoman, is a woman of principle: A poor man must do what he must to get through life, only he mustn't get caught doing it. All...
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The Beaver Coat
1958
Escape from Sahara
0/0
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Escape from Sahara
1965
Der Fall Klaus Fuchs
0/0
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Der Fall Klaus Fuchs
1959
Court Martial
5.2/4
In this war drama, three Nazi survivors are rescued after their battleship sank. Initially they are given heroes' accolades for their courage, but the...
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Court Martial
1969
Istanbul Express
5.1/7
An art dealer on a special mission is pulled into dangerous intrigue while railway detective Cheval tries to help and pursues criminals on the Istanbu...
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Istanbul Express
1955
Vor Gott und den Menschen
0/0
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Vor Gott und den Menschen
1955
Star mit fremden Federn
0/0
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Star mit fremden Federn
1949
Rotation
6.7/6
The mechanic Behnke wants to join the Nazi party to secure a good living. However, after his Jewish neighbors have been taken away, he changes his vie...
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Rotation
1961
Blind Justice
5.2/4
A man is accused of murdering his wife. The state prosecutor assumes he did the deed to spend more time with his lover. But the woman in question says...
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Blind Justice
1948
The Blum Affair
0/0
Dr. Blum, a Jewish manufacturer, is falsely accused of a murder. Even when the real killer’s identity becomes evident, the state prosecutor refuses to...
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The Blum Affair
1960
Endstation Rote Laterne
0/0
Unscrupulous girl traders transport unsuspecting blonde girls from a nightclub in Amsterdam to a brothel in Havana. The young journalist Verena Linkma...
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Endstation Rote Laterne
1959
The Scarlet Baroness
0/0
During the final days of the Second World War, British intelligence sends an agent to Berlin to try to discover the secrets of Nazi Germany's nuclear...
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The Scarlet Baroness
1964
Dog Eat Dog!
4.3/7
Three thieves rip off a shipment of used money being sent back to the US. As they are escaping the robbery (after having taken a hostage), they wind u...
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Dog Eat Dog!
1951
Modell Bianka
5/3
The friends Jochen and Gerd both work at the fashion boutique "Saxonia", which has only recently designed a new collection. Therefore, Jochen and Gerd...
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Modell Bianka
1956
Spy for Germany
5.4/5
The true story of a German agent sent to the USA in 1944 in order to stop the development of the atomic bomb.
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Spy for Germany
1969
Zehn kleine Negerlein
7/3
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Zehn kleine Negerlein
1958
Der Tod auf dem Rummelplatz
0/0
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Der Tod auf dem Rummelplatz
1960
Hauptmann - deine Sterne
0/0
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Hauptmann - deine Sterne
1960
Ein Herz braucht Liebe
0/0
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Ein Herz braucht Liebe
1961
Denn das Weib ist schwach
0/0
The respected lawyer Jolly Gebhardt is in debt because of his lavish lifestyle and is therefore blackmailed by dubious criminals for embezzlement.
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Denn das Weib ist schwach
1967
Dead Run
5.2/5
A thief gets hold of some top secret papers and is chased around Europe by the sinister Organisation.
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Dead Run
1958
Visit from the zone
0/0
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Visit from the zone
1967
Lotosblüten für Miss Quon
7/1
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Lotosblüten für Miss Quon
1961
Auf Wiedersehen
0/0
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Auf Wiedersehen
1967
The Corrupt Ones
5.278/9
Freelance photographer Cliff Wilder (Robert Stack) finds himself the target of various colorful villains in this quest for an ancient Chinese treasure...
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The Corrupt Ones
1969
Fragestunde
0/0
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Fragestunde
1959
The Black Chapel
7.5/2
1933 in Germany. The rise of Nazism fears war and some officers, concerned the fate that hostilities would reserve to their country, organize an anti-...
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The Black Chapel
1966
I Deal In Danger
5.75/4
Compilation of the show Blue Light.
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I Deal In Danger
1967
Witness Out of Hell
6.7/6
Leah Weiss, a Polish Jew, was first forced into prostitution at Auschwitz. Afterwards, she was victimized in medical experiments. Now, twenty years la...
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Witness Out of Hell
1955
Ernst Thälmann – Leader of the Working Class
6.4/4
This film is the second of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politician and anti-fascist Ernst Thälmann. Autumn, 1918:...
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Ernst Thälmann – Leader of the Working Class
1958
Lilli, a Girl from the Big City
0/0
The frenzied reporter Lilli is just great: she shoots with both hands and lays her opponents with Jiu-Jitsu while the guys fall to the ground with jus...
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Lilli, a Girl from the Big City
1962
Hypnosis
5.2/9
Erik, the hypnotist Georg's assistant, is in love with Magda, Georg's fiancée, and secretly sends her roses every night. Chris, the guy delivering the...
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Hypnosis
1968
Assignment K
6/6
Philip Scott, the boss of a toy company, is secretly also the chief of a British spy organization. Scott's cover is destroyed when enemy agents kidnap...
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Assignment K
1962
Jeder stirbt für sich allein
0/0
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Jeder stirbt für sich allein
1964
Three for a Robbery
0/0
Gerhard is a young technical in Düsseldorf who works in a factory of security devices for banks. In agreement with Nicola, Mario and Hans, they prepar...
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Three for a Robbery
1966
A Fine Madness
4.8/16
A womanizing poet falls into the hands of a psychiatrist with a straying wife.
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A Fine Madness
1950
Der Kahn der fröhlichen Leute
4.5/2
The girl Marianne inherited a motorboat called “Eintracht” from her parents and struggled to get her to drive it with her uncle. There is a row with t...
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Der Kahn der fröhlichen Leute
1968
The Killer Likes Candy
5/2
Shrewd and evasive ex-Nazi and top assassin Oscar Snell is determined to rub out the King of Kafiristan. Snell's sole weakness is his sweet tooth; he...
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The Killer Likes Candy
1960
Der Hauptmann von Köpenick
6/1
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Der Hauptmann von Köpenick
1952
Karriere in Paris
0/0
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Karriere in Paris
1955
Sommerliebe
0/0
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Sommerliebe
1958
The Restless Night
4/1
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The Restless Night
1947
Between Yesterday and Tomorrow
6/3
A group of people gathers back in the post-war ruins of a luxurious Munich hotel they inhabited at one point or another years before; each trying to c...
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Between Yesterday and Tomorrow
2018
Die 1000 Glotzböbbel vom Dr. Mabuse
6.875/4
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Die 1000 Glotzböbbel vom Dr. Mabuse
1954
Vom Alex zum Eismeer
0/0
Five cameramen of the DEFA travel with the trawler ROS 206 to its fishing grounds in the Arctic Ocean. The journey to the grounds takes 5,5 days. Day...
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Vom Alex zum Eismeer
1960
The Cat Shows Her Claws
5/3
France under the Occupation. Executed for treason against the Resistance, Cora, code-named "La Chatte", was left for dead. Recovered and cared for by...
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The Cat Shows Her Claws
1954
The Story of Little Mook
6.9/31
An old man living in an oriental city tells the story of his life to a group of kids: He too was once a young boy by the name of Little Muck - much li...
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