Abraham 1994  TV, 178 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama
Director: Joseph Sargent
Cast: Richard Harris, Maximilian Schell, Barbara Hershey, Vittorio Gassman, Carolina Rosi, Andrea Prodan, Gottfried John, Kevin McNally, Evelina Meghangi, John McEnery
Simple shepherd Abraham (Richard Harris) leads his family and other believers in God on a long and dangerous trek to the Promised Land (Canaan) in this made-for-TV epic.
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A Bridge Too Far 1977 PG, 175 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Drama
Director: Richard Attenborough
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Laurence Olivier, Elliott Gould, Gene Hackman, Anthony Hopkins, Robert Redford, Maximilian Schell, Edward Fox, Hardy Kruger, Ryan O'Neal, Liv Ullmann, Denholm Elliott
This is a detailed examination of the logistical complications behind World War II's failed "Operation Market-Garden" that dropped Allied troops behind enemy lines in preparation for battle. The plan involves British Major General Robert Urquhart (Sean Connery) and American Brigadier General James Gavin (Ryan O'Neal) leading paratroopers on a mission to take over a road and five bridges through Holland to Germany. Meanwhile, Lt. Col. John Frost (Anthony Hopkins) will hold the critical bridge at Amhem so that British Gen. Brian Horrocks (Edward Fox) and Lt. Col. Joe Vandeleur (Michael Caine) will be able to lead troops across the bridge. However, plans go awry, and the mission turns into a disaster.
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The Brothers Bloom 2009  PG-13, 113 min.
Genre: Comedy / Adventure / Drama / Romance
Director: Rian Johnson
Cast: Rachel Weisz, Adrien Brody, Mark Ruffalo, Rinko Kikuchi, Robbie Coltrane, Maximilian Schell, Ricky Jay, Zachary Gordon, Max Records, Andy Nyman, Noah Segan, Ram Bergman, Craig Johnson, Nora Zehetner, Dubravko Jovanovic
Orphaned brothers Stephen (Max Records) and Bloom (Zachary Gordon) grow up protecting each other while scamming their playground pals. Now, as adults, there is competition between Stephen (now played by Mark Ruffalo) and Bloom (now played by Adrien Brody). Stephen comes up with a "grand" scheme to con lonely heiress Penelope (Rachel Weisz) by posing as antique dealers and taking off with her money. All goes as planned–until Bloom falls in love with Penelope.
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The Chosen 1982  PG, 108 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jeremy Kagan
Cast: Maximilian Schell, Rod Steiger, Robby Benson, Barry Miller, Hildy Brooks, Ron Rifkin, Val Avery
Danny Saunders (Robby Benson) is a young Hasid Jewish man who is influenced by the secular interests of his friend Reuven Malters (Barry Miller). Reuven's father (Maximilian Schell) is a Jewish professor who is also a Zionist activist. Conflicts between family and friends arise when Danny's father (Rod Steiger) tries to break up the boys' friendship.
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Coast to Coast 2003 R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Paul Mazursky
Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Judy Davis, Selma Blair, Saul Rubinek, John Salley, Maximilian Schell, Fred Ward, Paul Mazursky, David Julian Hirsh, Kate Lynch, Richard Fitzpatrick
A couple (Richard Dreyfuss and Judy Davis) with marital problems drives across country from Connecticut to L.A. to attend their son's wedding. Along the way they visit friends, reminisce, and talk about their current situation.
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Counterpoint 1968   N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ralph Nelson
Cast: Charlton Heston, Maximilian Schell, Kathryn Hays, Leslie Nielsen, Anton Diffring, Neva Patterson, Peter Masterson, Linden Chiles, Cyril Delevanti
While an American symphony orchestra is on tour in Europe, they are captured by Nazi S.S. forces. The conductor, Evans (Charlton Heston), tries to outwit the evil and devious S.S. commander, General Schiller (Maximilian Schell), in an effort to save his entourage. Not among Heston's best. 1 User Review
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| | Anonymous 05/20/2009 | | Very good movie |
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Cross of Iron 1977 R, 119 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Cast: James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason, David Warner, Senta Berger, Klaus Lowitsch, Vadim Glowna, Roger Fritz
After Russia's severe winter as well as the defeat of the Nazis on the Eastern Front, the retreating German army reflects the weariness and futility of war in this insightful film. 1 User Review
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| | Typical Coburn, Excellent Peckinpah | War Dog 08/18/2009 | | |
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The Deadly Affair 1967 N/R, 109 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Sidney Lumet
Cast: James Mason, Simone Signoret, Maximilian Schell, Harriet Andersson, Harry Andrews, Kenneth Haigh, Lynn Redgrave, Robert Flemyng, William Dysart, Roy Kinnear
Based on John Le Carre's spy novel, "Call for the Dead," this exciting espionage thriller involves the investigation of the apparent suicide of diplomat Samuel Fennan (Robert Flemyng).
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 Deep Impact 1998 PG-13, 115 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi / Action / Thriller
Director: Mimi Leder
Cast: Robert Duvall, Tea Leoni, Elijah Wood, Vanessa Redgrave, Maximilian Schell, Morgan Freeman, Leelee Sobieski, James Cromwell, Mary McCormack, Blair Underwood, Dougray Scott, Laura Innes, Richard Schiff, Jon Favreau, Ron Eldard
A giant comet is heading on a collision course with Earth, and the U.S. President Tom Beck (Morgan Freeman) orders astronaut Spurgeon Tanner (Robert Duvall) and his team aboard a spaceship to destroy the comet. The mission fails, and the President devises Plan B to hold a lottery in which the winners will be sent to giant caves in the hope that IF they can survive the comet's impact, they will continue to propagate the human race. Fourteen-year-old Leo Biederman (Elijah Wood) discovered the comet, and he and his family are given a pass to enter the cave, but his girlfriend Sarah (Leelee Sobieski) and her family must be left behind. Meanwhile, Tanner has not given up and is devising another plan to prevent the catastrophe and save Earth.
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The Eighteenth Angel 1997  R, 88 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: William Bindley
Cast: Christopher McDonald, Rachael Leigh Cook, Stanley Tucci, Wendy Crewson, Maximilian Schell, Cosimo Fusco, Venantino Venantini, Ted Rusoff, Francesca De Sapio, Branislav Tesanovic
Hugh (Christopher McDonald) and daughter Lucy (Rachael Leigh Cook), trying to deal with the apparent suicide of Hugh's wife, head to Rome where they get involved with a religious sect that is preparing for the return of Satan. But the cult needs 18 angelic faces to put on the bodies they have created, and Lucy is targeted as number 18. Confusing at times.
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End of the Game 1976 PG, 106 min.
Genre: Mystery
aka: Getting Away with Murder
Director: Maximilian Schell
Cast: Jon Voight, Jacqueline Bisset, Martin Ritt, Robert Shaw, Helmut Qualtinger, Gabriele Ferzetti, Norbert Schiller, Lil Dagover, Donald Sutherland
Swiss detective Hans Baerlach (Martin Ritt) has been on the trail of Richard Gastmann (Robert Shaw). Now, as he closes in, the waters become murky, and things are not always as clear as they seem.
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Festival in Cannes 2001 PG-13, 99 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Henry Jaglom
Cast: Anouk Aimee, Greta Scacchi, Maximilian Schell, Ron Silver, Zack Norman, Peter Bogdanovich, Jenny Gabrielle, Camilla Campanale, Alex Craig Mann, Kim Kolarich
Three stories about women in the entertainment world intertwine to show the viewer what it would be like to attend the Cannes Film Festival. Popular star Millie (Anouk Aimee) has now hit the age at which she is offered only "mother" roles; a hopeful writer, Alice (Greta Scacchi) arrives looking for financing to turn her story into a movie; and young actress, Blue (Jenny Gabrielle), finds her new film a huge success and herself in great demand.
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The Freshman 1990 PG, 103 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Andrew Bergman
Cast: Marlon Brando, Matthew Broderick, Bruno Kirby, Penelope Ann Miller, Frank Whaley, Jon Polito, Paul Benedict, Kenneth Welsh, Maximilian Schell, Richard Gant
A New York University film student (Matthew Broderick), in need of extra cash, unwittingly becomes involved in a Mafia plot to smuggle endangered animals across borders. Different and clever.
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Heidi 1968 TV, 96 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Delbert Mann
Cast: Maximilian Schell, Jean Simmons, Jennifer Edwards, Michael Redgrave, Walter Slezak, Peter van Eyck, Karl Lieffen, Elizabeth Neumann-Viertel, Miriam Spoerri, John Moulder-Brown
This is a pleasant retelling of the classic tale of the orphaned Heidi (Jennifer Edwards) who goes to live with her grandfather (Michael Redgrave) in the Alps. Good scenery.
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 Judgment at Nuremberg 1961   N/R, 190 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Stanley Kramer
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich, Maximilian Schell, Judy Garland, Montgomery Clift, William Shatner, Ed Binns, Werner Klemperer, Torben Meyer, Kenneth MacKenna
This classic film about the Nazi war crimes as they were presented at the trial at Nuremberg is spellbinding from start to finish. Spencer Tracy plays the compassionate, yet intelligent, American judge, Maximilian Schell excels as the defense attorney, and Burt Lancaster plays the role of the German judge on trial who chose to give in to Nazi threats. Academy Awards were received for Best Actor (Maximilian Schell) and Best Writing; the film was nominated for nine others, including. Best Actor (Spencer Tracy), Director, Supporting Actress (Judy Garland), and Supporting Actor (Montgomery Clift). 1 User Review
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| | Prettry much as "important" as it thinks it is | 1fatts 04/05/2007 | Be wary of "important" movies. The cast and crew, the critics and pundits can become so wrapped in the aura of the message that needs to be imparted to a waiting world that the human story is lost and we find ourselves being barraged by sanctimonious monologues or, worse, symbolism piled on symbolism to express the truth that words cannot express. (Honestly, did anyone really understand the last ten minutes of 2001?)
But this movie is better than that. It doesn't escape it all, I suppose, but the center of the thing is the consideration of what is evil and what is decency, played out on a stage of characters who give it humanity.
I have considered -- rather often, actually -- what has traveled best in this film in the last forty-five years and what has traveled less well. It is the underplaying that still holds us, the messages not spoken but shown on faces and in motions. Maximilian Schell's defense attorney is all words and logic, which, at its best moments, serve as a counterpoint to the quiet humanity which the destroyed reflect and the innocent portray. It was an Academy Award well deserved. I don't think Tracy ever did better work. Montgomery Clift's short scene is among the most moving ever filmed. Dietrich, Garland, so many others do such fine work.
Richard Widmark, on the other hand, is too theatrical, as is Burt Lancaster, Werner Klemperer and too many others. It is the writing and the direction, but most of all, it is the strain of taking on the issue.. It was 1961, and Hollywood was finally putting on film the question of the guilt of the Holocaust. It WAS important. The writing was honest enough to cast shadows of complicity over Western big business, Cold War Political Fears, the growing willingness of a war-weary world to turn a blind eye to last year's injustice and the suffering of those too unimportant to be represented. The responsibility, the scope of all that, and, no doubt, the pride of all that led to too much Hollywood is the writing and direction.
Yet, on the whole, "Judgment" remembers to focus on the people and not the speeches, and that rescues the film and redeems it. It is still, even after nearly half a century, shocking, complex and deeply thought provoking.
And, yes, it is important. How important? I don't think anyone should be allowed to graduate high school without having seen this film and discussed it with a knowledgeable, sensitive adult -- not only as a "Holocaust" discussion, but as the starting point for the question of why good people allow evil into the world and what, if anything, moral people can do to stand against it. |
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Julia 1977 PG, 116 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Cast: Jane Fonda, Jason Robards, Maximilian Schell, Vanessa Redgrave, Meryl Streep, Hal Holbrook, Cathleen Nesbitt, John Glover, Rosemary Murphy, Dora Doll, Lisa Pelikan, John Glover
This story is based on Lillian Hellman's memoirs and stars Jane Fonda as the friend of Julia (Vanessa Redgrave) who is asked to smuggle funds to Germany. The mission is to smuggle Jews out of the area on the eve of World War II. Jason Robards and Vanessa Redgrave won Oscars for Best Supporting Actor and Actress. An Oscar was also awarded for Best Writing. Eight other nominations were received, including Best Picture and Actress (Fonda). Meryl Steep's film debut.
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Krakatoa, East of Java 1969 G, 130 min.
Genre: Action
aka: Volcano
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski
Cast: Maximilian Schell, Diane Baker, Brian Keith, Barbara Werle, John Leyton, Sal Mineo, J.D. Cannon, Rossano Brazzi, Marc Lawrence, Jacqui Chan, Geoffrey Holder, Niall MacGinnis
In 1883, the volcanic island of Krakatoa exploded, sending shock waves several times around the Earth and causing thousands of deaths from fires and tidal waves. This action film uses the explosion as a background for its story of a ship that heads to the island in search of sunken treasure with an assorted collection of people on board, including criminals being taken to prison. Excellent special effects help make this watchable. Rereleased with a new name, perhaps due to the fact that Krakatoa is west of Java rather than east.
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Left Luggage 1998 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jeroen Krabbe
Cast: Laura Fraser, Adam Monty, Isabella Rossellini, Jeroen Krabbe, Topol, Marianne Sagebrecht, Maximilian Schell, David Bradley, Heather Weeks, Miriam Margolyes
During the 1970s a liberal Jewish girl, Chaya (Laura Fraser), finds employment as a nanny for four-year-old Simcha (Adam Monty) in his strict Hassidic home. Chaya becomes devoted to Simcha and, in the process, learns much about his family's beliefs as well as her own.
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Little Odessa 1994 R, 98 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: James Gray
Cast: Tim Roth, Edward Furlong, Maximilian Schell, Vanessa Redgrave, Moira Kelly, Paul(2) Guilfoyle, Natalya Andreichenko, David Vadim, Mina Bern, David Ross
Russian Mafiosi hit man Joshua Shapira (Tim Roth) visits his Russian area in Brooklyn. Apparently the only who is happy to see him is his younger brother, Reuben (Ed Furlong). This is not so surprising as Shapira appears to have no respect for human life as he guns down an old man. Disturbing, but some will be more moved by it than others will.
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The Man in the Glass Booth 1975 PG, 117 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Arthur Hiller
Cast: Maximilian Schell, Lois Nettleton, Luther Adler, Lawrence Pressman, Henry Brown, Richard Rasof, David Nash, Martin Berman, Sy Kramer, Lloyd Bochner, Robert H. Harris, Norbert Schiller, Berry Kroeger, Leonardo Cimino, Connie Sawyer
In 1965, Arthur Goldman (Maximilian Schell) is a wealthy Jewish industrialist enjoying life in a luxury apartment in Manhattan when Israeli agents break into his home and arrest him for being the Nazi war criminal "Dorff" who ran a Nazi death camp. Goldman is drugged and sent to Israel where he is tried while in a protective glass booth. Now the question is, "Is he, or is he not, really Dorff?" This screen adaptation of Robert Shaw's play is so far removed from Shaw's interpretation that Shaw removed his name from the credits.
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 The Phantom of the Opera 1983 TV, 100 min.
Genre: Drama / Horror
Director: Robert Markowitz
Cast: Maximilian Schell, Jane Seymour, Michael York, Jeremy Kemp, Diana Quick, Ferenc Beganyi, Pal Kovacs, Philip Stone, Paul Brooke, Andras Miko, Gellert Raksanyi, Laszlo Nemeth, Jeno Kis, Laszlo Soos, Denes Ujlaky
This classic story is brought to TV with several deviations from the original story–a major one being that it is set in Budapest rather than Paris. After orchestra leader Sandor's (Maximilian Schell) singer wife (Jane Seymour) receives a bad review and commits suicide, Sandor gets into a fight with the critic (Philip Stone) and is burned with acid. Sandor takes refuge beneath the opera house, and five years later emerges as the masked Phantom. He falls in love with chorus girl Maria Gianelli (also played by Seymour) who greatly resembles his dead wife. Maria is in love with the director of the opera, Michael Hartnell (Michael York), but the Phantom tutors Maria and terrorizes the cast and all those who stand in the way of Maria's stardom. Good cast and scenery.
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Pope Joan 1972 PG, 132 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: The Devil's Imposter
Director: Michael Anderson
Cast: Liv Ullmann, Keir Dullea, Robert Beatty, Jeremy Kemp, Patrick Magee, Lesley-Anne Down, Olivia de Havilland, Franco Nero, Maximilian Schell, Trevor Howard
A woman (Liv Ullmann) disguises herself as a man, rises to power in the Catholic Church, and becomes Pope. Set in the modern era, this story is based on a ninth-century legend. "The Devil's Impostor" is a recut version.
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The Rose Garden 1989 PG-13, 111 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Fons Rademakers
Cast: Liv Ullmann, Maximilian Schell, Peter Fonda, Jan Niklas, Kurt Hubner, Hanns Zischler, Gila Almagor
An elderly man (Maximilian Schell) attacks a German businessman, and the defense attorney (Liv Ullmann) uncovers the story of the past lives of the assailant, who was a Holocaust survivor, and the businessman, who commanded the Nazi concentration camp in which his attacker's family was killed.
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The Song of the Lark 2001 TV, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Karen Arthur
Cast: Alison Elliott, Maximilian Schell, Tony Goldwyn, Norman Lloyd, Robert Floyd, Linda Carlson, Endre Hules, Nan Martin, Arliss Howard, Brooks Almy, Rod Loomis, Christian J. Meoli
Growing up in Colorado, Thea Kronborg (Alison Elliott) dreamed of becoming an opera star, and as a young adult she moves to New York City and, with help from others along the way, obtains her dream.
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St. Ives 1976 PG, 93 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Drama
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Cast: Charles Bronson, John Houseman, Jacqueline Bisset, Maximilian Schell, Harry Guardino, Harris Yulin, Dana Elcar, Michael Lerner, Elisha Cook Jr., Daniel J. Travanti, George Memmoli, Dick O'Neill, Jerome Thor, Val Bisoglio, Burr DeBenning
Master-criminal Procane (John Houseman) has written the plans for his next heist, and now the papers have been stolen. Murders and double crosses abound when crime writer St. Ives (Charles Bronson) helps retrieve the incriminating papers that, in the wrong hands, could mark the beginning of a mob war.
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Telling Lies in America 1997 PG-13, 101 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Guy Ferland
Cast: Kevin Bacon, Brad Renfro, Maximilian Schell, Calista Flockhart, Paul Dooley, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Luke Wilson, Damen Fletcher, Jerry Swindall, K.K. Dodds
During the 1960s, Karchy (Brad Renfro) is a young Hungarian immigrant trying to find his niche in America. Unfortunately, he is influenced by Billy Magic (Kevin Bacon), a high-living, rock'n'roll disc jockey. Karchy must decide between the splashy arena of fabrication or the more sensible world of truth and honesty.
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Topkapi 1964 N/R, 120 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama / Comedy / Thriller
Director: Jules Dassin
Cast: Melina Mercouri, Peter Ustinov, Maximilian Schell, Robert Morley, Akim Tamiroff, Jess Hahn, Titos Vandis, Amy Dalby, Despo Diamantidou, Gilles Segal, Ege Emart, Senih Orkan, Ahmet Danyal Topatan, Joseph Dassin, Jules Dassin
Elizabeth Lipp (Melina Mercouri) and Walter Harper (Maximilian Schell), with help from inventor Cedric Page (Robert Morley) and tourist guide Arthur Simon Simpson (Peter Ustinov), plot to relieve the Topkapi Museum of its priceless dagger. When Arthur crosses the Greek-Turkish border, the Turkish police find arms in his car and suspect him of arms smuggling for terrorists and arrest him. Arthur is released after he agrees to act as a spy for them. Now, Arthur has the dilemma of saving himself or remaining loyal to Elizabeth and the plans for the robbery. Ustinov received his second Oscar as Best Supporting Actor.
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 Vampires 1998 R, 104 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller / Action
aka: John Carpenter's Vampires
Director: John Carpenter
Cast: James Woods, Daniel Baldwin, Sheryl Lee, Thomas Ian Griffith, Tim Guinee, Maximilian Schell, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Mark Boone Junior, Thomas Rosales Jr., Gregory Sierra, Mark Sivertsen, Henry Kingi, Clarke Coleman, David Rowden, John Furlong
To avenge his parents' murders by vampires, Jack Crow (James Woods) hunts vampires. One night, master vampire Valek (Thomas Ian Griffith) appears and wipes out most of Crow's team of vampire hunters. Crow knows that something big is up because Valek knew his name. Now, Crow and his friend Montoya (Daniel Baldwin) use vampire-bitten Katrina (Sheryl Lee) as a decoy and enlist the aid of Father Adam Guitean (Tim Guinee) in finding the Black Cross to end the killings.
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The Young Lions 1958 N/R, 170 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Cast: Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Dean Martin, Hope Lange, Maximilian Schell, May Britt, Barbara Rush, Lee Van Cleef, Dora Doll, Parley Baer
This film does an excellent job of examining Nazi beliefs and how one young German soldier (Marlon Brando) becomes disillusioned with the cause for which he fights.
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1. Abraham (1994)
2. The Assisi Underground (1985)
3. Avalanche Express (1979)
4. The Black Hole (1979)
5. A Bridge Too Far (1977)
6. The Brothers Bloom (2009)
7. The Chosen (1982)
8. Coast to Coast (2003)
9. Counterpoint (1968)
10. Cross of Iron (1977)
11. The Deadly Affair (1967)
12. Deep Impact (1998)
13. The Eighteenth Angel (1997)
14. End of the Game (1976)
aka: Getting Away with Murder
15. A Far Off Place (1993)
16. Festival in Cannes (2001)
17. The Freshman (1990)
18. Heidi (1968)
19. Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
20. Julia (1977)
21. Krakatoa, East of Java (1969)
aka: Volcano
22. Left Luggage (1998)
23. Little Odessa (1994)
24. The Man in the Glass Booth (1975)
25. The Odessa File (1974)
26. The Phantom of the Opera (1983)
27. Players (1979)
28. Pope Joan (1972)
aka: The Devil's Imposter
29. The Rose Garden (1989)
30. The Song of the Lark (2001)
31. St. Ives (1976)
32. Telling Lies in America (1997)
33. Topkapi (1964)
34. Vampires (1998)
aka: John Carpenter's Vampires
35. The Young Lions (1958)
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