Anastasia 1956  N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Anatole Litvak
Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, Helen Hayes, Akim Tamiroff, Martita Hunt, Felix Aylmer, Ivan Desny, Natalie Schafer, Sacha Pitoeff, Karel Stepanek, Gregoire Gromoff, Ina De La Haye, Katherine Kath
In 1928, a young Parisian woman (Ingrid Bergman) was recruited to impersonate the daughter of Czar Nicholas II. It was rumored that Anastasia had escaped the Bolshevik's execution of Russia's royal family and, if found, was eligible for the inheritance. As the story progresses, it becomes apparent that she knows much more than an impostor would about intimate details of Anastasia's life. The question remains, is she really Anastasia? Ingrid Bergman won the Oscar for her role as Anastasia.
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Berlin Alexanderplatz 1980  N/R, 930 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Cast: Gunter Lamprecht, Hanna Schygulla, Barbara Sukowa, Gottfried John, Helmut Griem, Udo Kier, Ivan Desny, Hark Bohm, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Karin Baal, Franz Buchrieser, Peter Kollek
World War I Berlin is the backdrop of Alfred Doblin's 1929 novel. Presented as 14 individual episodes, the story follows the life of an ex-convict who tries to live an honorable existence but finds problems at every turn in the Berlin environment during the rise of Nazism.
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Bon Voyage! 1962  N/R, 130 min.
Genre: Family
Director: James Neilson
Cast: Fred MacMurray, Jane Wyman, Michael Callan, Deborah Walley, Tommy Kirk, Kevin Corcoran, Ivan Desny, Jessie Royce Landis, Max Showalter, Georgette Anys
The Willard family goes on a European vacation in this Disney film. Unfortunately, this story lacks depth and entertainment value.
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The Disenchanted 1990  N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Benoit Jacquot
Cast: Judith Godreche, Marcel Bozonnet, Ivan Desny, Therese Liotard, Malcolm Conrath, Thomas Salsmann, Hai Truhong
Seventeen-year-old Beth is disenchanted with life, and who could blame her when illicit sex is what seems to make her an acceptable person to those who influence her life? On the surface she appears controlled, but underneath, Beth is just a little girl trying to survive.
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Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg 1990 N/R, 115 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Kjell Grede
Cast: Stellan Skarsgard, Katharina Thalbach, Karoly Eperjes, Miklos Szekely B., Erland Josephson, Franciszek Pieczka, Jesper Christensen, Ivan Desny, Geza Balkay, Percy Brandt, Laszlo Soos
Based on true events, this is the story of Raoul Wallenberg, a successful Swedish businessman who became an amateur diplomat when he volunteered to go to German-occupied Budapest during World War II as an advocate for trapped Hungarian Jews. His efforts are believed to have saved thousands of Jews. But after the war, he was taken prisoner by the Russians and became a cold war pawn. Depressing at times.
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Les Voleurs 1996  R, 117 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Thieves
Director: Andre Techine
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Daniel Auteuil, Laurence Cote, Benoit Magimel, Ivan Desny, Chiara Mastroianni, Didier Bezace, Fabienne Babe, Julien Riviere, Regis Betoule
Set in Northern France, this is the intriguing story of Juliette (Laurence Cote) and her relationships with a cop (who had arrested her for shoplifting and then let her go) (Daniel Auteuil) and Marie (Catherine Deneuve), a professor who loves her.
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Lola Montes 1955 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Sins of Lola Montes
Director: Max Ophuls
Cast: Martine Carol, Peter Ustinov, Anton Walbrook, Ivan Desny, Will Quadflieg, Oskar Werner, Paulette Dubost, Lise Delamare, Henri Guisol, Jean Galland
Lola Montes (Martine Carol) is a member of a circus troupe who, through flashbacks, remembers her more illustrious past when her fortunes were reversed. Ophuls' last, and perhaps best, film.
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Madeleine 1950 N/R, 101 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: The Strange Case of Madeleine
Director: David Lean
Cast: Ann Todd, Norman Wooland, Ivan Desny, Leslie Banks, Elizabeth Sellars, Edward Chapman, Barbara Everest, Andre Morell, Barry Jones, Anthony Newley, Patricia Raine, Eugene Deckers, Susan Stranks, Ivor Barnard, John Laurie
Madeleine Smith (Ann Todd) was a 19th-century Scottish woman who was accused and put on trial for poisoning her French lover Emile L'Anglier (Ivan Desny) in 1857. The trial is reenacted in this interesting film that leaves the audience guessing. Based on a true story.
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The Marriage of Maria Braun 1978 R, 120 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Cast: Hanna Schygulla, Klaus Lowitsch, Ivan Desny, Gisela Uhlen, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Gottfried John, Hark Bohm, George Byrd, Claus Holm, Gunter Lamprecht
In this, the first of three parables concerning postwar Germany, Hanna Schygulla takes on the role of Maria Braun who is a young woman who uses her head not only to survive but also to prosper. The other two parables are "Lola" and "Veronika Voss."
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Paper Tiger 1975  PG, 99 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ken Annakin
Cast: David Niven, Toshiro Mifune, Hardy Kruger, Jeff Corey, Ivan Desny, Ronald Fraser, Ando, Irene Tsu, Miiko Taka
When an English schoolteacher (David Niven) and the Japanese ambassador's son (Ando) are kidnapped by terrorists, the tutor is able to act out his dreams of heroism.
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Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace 1962  N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Mystery
aka: Valley of Fear
Director: Terence Fisher, Frank Winterstein
Cast: Christopher Lee, Senta Berger, Hans Sohnker, Hans Nielsen, Ivan Desny, Leon Askin, Thorley Walters, Wolfgang Lukschy, Edith Schultze-Westrum, Bernard La Jarrige
In one of the more unusual depictions of the storied sleuth, this German-made film shows the villainous Moriarty (Hans Sohnker) as respected in both the community and by Scotland Yard. But when a necklace is stolen from Cleopatra's tomb, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (Christopher Lee and Thorley Walters) are hot on Moriarty's trail.
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Song Without End 1960 N/R, 141 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: George Cukor, Charles Vidor
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Capucine, Genevieve Page, Patricia Morison, Ivan Desny, Martita Hunt, Lou Jacobi, Albert Rueprecht, Marcel Dalio, Lyndon Brook
This biography of Franz Liszt takes many liberties with the facts but is still a good film with an Academy Award-winning musical score. Womanizer Liszt (Dirk Bogarde) falls for a married Russian princess (Capucine) who encourages him to shift from performing to composing.
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The Wrong Move 1975 N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: The Wrong Movement
Director: Wim Wenders
Cast: Rudiger Vogler, Hanna Schygulla, Hans Christian Blech, Nastassja Kinski, Peter Kern, Ivan Desny, Marianne Hoppe, Lisa Kreuzer, Adolf Hansen, Wim Wenders
Aspiring writer Wilhelm (Rudiger Vogler) sets off on a train ride to Bonn and along the way meets good-looking Therese Farner (Hanna Schygulla), ex-Olympian Laertes (Hans Christian Blech) with his mute teen companion Mignon (Nastassja Kinski), and not-so-great poet Bernhard Landau (Peter Kern). But, within this group, personal connections are not easy to attain.
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| 1. Anastasia (1956)
2. Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)
3. Bon Voyage! (1962)
4. The Disenchanted (1990)
5. Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg (1990)
6. Les Voleurs (1996)
aka: Thieves
7. Lola (1981)
8. Lola Montes (1955)
aka: Sins of Lola Montes
9. Madeleine (1950)
aka: The Strange Case of Madeleine
10. The Marriage of Maria Braun (1978)
11. Paper Tiger (1975)
12. Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace (1962)
aka: Valley of Fear
13. Song Without End (1960)
14. The Wrong Move (1975)
aka: The Wrong Movement
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