Wolf Rilla
Birth : 1920-03-16, Berlin, Germany
Death : 2005-10-19
History
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Wolf Rilla (1920–2005) was a film director and writer of German background, although he worked mainly in English.
He worked on both versions of Village of the Damned, in the first as director and in the second as a writer. he wrote many influential books for students. the Writer and the Screen: On Writing for Film and Television and the A to Z of Movie Making.
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A pregnant girl stays with her aunt and is forced to share a room with a mysterious male lodger.
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Lobster fisherman David decides to seek his fortune in London where he finds lodging in a boarding house for girls.
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Mexican experimental feature film, made for the 1968 olympics.
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Early 1960s realist drama following a day in the lives of two London flatmates. Sylvia Syms and June Ritchie star as Billa and Ginnie, two singletons sharing a London flat who both work as night club hostesses in the same Soho club. Tensions arise when Ginnie becomes romantically entangled with rich married businessman Bob Shelbourne (Edward Judd), causing Billa to become jealous of their relationship.
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Early 1960s realist drama following a day in the lives of two London flatmates. Sylvia Syms and June Ritchie star as Billa and Ginnie, two singletons sharing a London flat who both work as night club hostesses in the same Soho club. Tensions arise when Ginnie becomes romantically entangled with rich married businessman Bob Shelbourne (Edward Judd), causing Billa to become jealous of their relationship.
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An assortment of international criminals plans to steal priceless Egyptian artifacts from a Cairo museum. MGM remake of Asphalt Jungle set in Egypt.
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Sailor Albert gets a message from the Navy saying he can't marry for certain unexplained legal reasons. Everyone, including his domineering mother-in-law to be, jumps to the conclusion that there must be another woman involved.
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A playboy tries to recruit a gang, who include an American who needs cash to satisfy his wife's expensive tastes, and an old time expert cracksman, to rob a foreign embassy's safe, but trouble starts when the plan begins to go wrong.
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In a small English village everyone suddenly falls unconscious. When they awake every woman of child bearing age is pregnant. The resulting children have the same strange blond hair, eyes and a strong connection to each other.
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In a small English village everyone suddenly falls unconscious. When they awake every woman of child bearing age is pregnant. The resulting children have the same strange blond hair, eyes and a strong connection to each other.
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A killer breaks into an apartment to steal a valuable brooch. He kills an old woman, but in fleeing he encounters a young woman on the stairs who will become his target.
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A German scholar has girl troubles while studying at Cambridge.
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Tod is a motherless boy, who is mistreated by his violent father. He eventually finds happiness with kindly foster parents.
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Tod is a motherless boy, who is mistreated by his violent father. He eventually finds happiness with kindly foster parents.
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Life is strange and worrying for a cadet who arrives in the Pacific in the colonial service. And the testy resident commissioner, who had been expecting an experienced man, soon shows his disapproval.
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A Merchant Navy hero of the Korean War returns to England after three years of captivity in Communist hands, his mind confused by brain-washing and indoctrination at the hands of his captors, and accepts a post as an instructor at the Outward Bound Sea School.
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Katie attempts to save her father's failing garage, after he is killed during a stock car race. She is assisted by an American driver, Larry Duke, but unfortunately one of the creditors is determined to take the garage.
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When young reporter and amateur biker Jerry Marsh investigates a mysterious hooded figure on a motorbike, he discovers crooks hiding out in a ruined castle with atomic sabotage on their minds...
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Having been given enforced retirement due to his age, Mick-Mack creates strain upon his extended family.
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After being framed for a murder he didn't commit, Tom Penney (Donald Houston) serves his time and returns to his rural English home to establish a quiet life. When another victim is found, however, Tom is blamed for the crime and flees rather than returnng to prison. Hoping to find the real killer -- or killers -- Tom investigates while keeping a low profile to elude his pursuers, and a vital clue leads him on the path to possible redemption.
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A middle-aged garage owner's life is turned upside down when his new mechanics gets it on with his sexy younger wife.
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A middle-aged garage owner's life is turned upside down when his new mechanics gets it on with his sexy younger wife.
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An English colonel finds love with an American widow, to the displeasure of his children.
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An English colonel finds love with an American widow, to the displeasure of his children.
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An amateur detective races against time to clear the name of his cousin, who is accused of murdering her husband. It is based on the novel Whispering Woman by Gerald Verner.
