Leon Askin

A small retirement home on the edge of Vienna where the city's oldest residents live. Patients over the age of 100 begin to die under mysterious circumstances. The police's secret investigation concentrates on the nursing staff at first. But the new medical director, Dr. Klein, discovers that one of the patients is the culprit.

Paul and Bernd take over a small upscale antique store together. On one nightly excursion, Bernd introduces Paul and Lisa with each other. What was intended as a little variety to marriage-like everyday life develops into a great romance accompanied by a threat: If Eva hears about the affair, the financing for the shop will be in danger. Slowly but surely, Paul is ready to give up everything for Lisa: the shop, Eva and especially the loan. Bernd knows that Dragan is his only hope.

Adele and Sibylle, the two brides of narrow-gauge crooks Heinz and Hermann , are fed up with being just appendages . Together with fellow sufferers , they decide to pull off their own coups - and they do it much better , more cleverly and more successfully than their unsuspecting men... underworldand the police are at a loss.

An unhappy young photographer is about to make his debut as a journalist. He is to write an obituary about the weapons-crazy mayor of a Lower Austrian village who, it is said, had a tank from WWII. In the course of his research he unearths a conspiracy of wifes murdering their husbands to get an early widowers pension.

"The art of the stage actor and even of a stage director is evanescent. Nothing remains of it but a 'still' photograph or two (...) Not everyone can be a genius. Somebody has to be a Leon Askin - and that's me." Leon Askin, born in Vienna in 1907 , fled from the Nazis to the USA in 1940. The private Leon Askin is portrayed: his daily routine, his contact with those around him, at work. During quiet moments, he discusses his thoughts about persecution, emigration, work, discipline, success, the image one projects to the world, his identity as a Jew, loneliness, the struggle for recognition and health, life acting - and also about death.

Following the failure of the marriage of the influential publisher Helmreich and his wife, Helmreich wins the suit for the custody of their 6-year old son. His former wife, Uschi, robbed of the meaning of her life, commits an act of desperation.

An unusual love story between a farmer from a small village and a 25-year-old recently released prisoner from Vienna. First he wins the acceptance and sympathy of the villagers before his past catches up with him.

Using archive film material never seen before, Hollywood veteran Leon Askin portrays Adolf Lanz (1874-1954), the man who gave Hitler his ideas.

A man with cognitive problems lives and works in a hospice. One day an American banker discovers that the man is his son.

Four students who work on different jobs during their vacations in summer are tired of doing the same thing every year. Therefore they decide to open up a moving company together and confront themselves with the former boss of one of them.

Un grupo de mujeres, que han sido capturadas y vendidas como esclavas para trabajar brutalmente en una mina de esmeraldas en Sudamérica, idean un plan para sublevarse contra sus opresores. (FILMAFFINITY)

A U.S. Navy submarine captain tries to prevent the Soviets from trying to launch World War III.

Esta es la historia de un gran actor de cine de horror. Conrad Ragzoff interpreó durante muchos años, múltiples personajes malditos. Su tremenda personalidad y ambición poco a poco le llevó a convertirse en un ser vanidoso que acumuló una gran fortuna. Cuando al morir fue a ocupar el gran mausoleo de mármol presidido por una pantalla donde se proyectaría, interpretado por él mismo, su propio elogio fúnebre. Los extraños acontecimientos que siguieron a su muerte y enterramiento, profanado por unos jovenes insensatos, le harán, despues de muerto, llevar a cabo su mas grande y terrorifica interpretación digna solo de Conrad Ragzoff.

When his father - who owned a circus - dies, Oscar inherits 5 million dollars - and 3 orang outangs. However there's a condition connected to the money: if he gives away the apes or just one gets sick or dies during the next 3 years, the zoologic society will get all the money. So he not only has to deal with 3 apes and an annoyed girlfriend, but also with a greedy zoologic society's president.

Película que nos presenta tres sketches diferentes; desde una autopsia en directo, hasta unas imágenes de televisión que pueden provocar serios problemas telepáticos.

Fanny Hobichler, a young promising actress, moves to Vienna in the 1920s in order to pursue her big break. She draws inspiration and seeks help from the popular stage actor Albert Kortz who once started out from the same provincial town as she did and was a close friend of her late father. Kortz, however, dreams of retiring as he is tired of his fame and having to deal with the short-tempered theatre director Jason. Together, they try to outwit Jason.

This ethereal, three-hour biopic is the middle film in Hans-Jürgen Syberberg’s “German Trilogy” on the mythological foundations of the Third Reich. By fusing theater, music, and cinema, Syberberg conjures up Karl May (1842-1912), the immensely popular German author, who set many of his adventure novels in an idealized version of the American Wild West. His tales of the cowboy and the Ubermensch alike were beloved by many, including (Our) Hitler, who supposedly ordered his generals to read May works after defeats in the Russian campaign.

John Considine plays the flamboyant Dr. Death, a thousand-year-old magician who has mastered he art of transferring souls from one body to another and thereby manages to perpetuate himself by jumping from one body to the next. Apparently the Doc is a kindred spirit since his blood is a highly-corrosive acid that can strip flesh from bone

Un paciente ingresado en un manicomio decide escapar y embauca a Billy, un inocente empleado del centro, para que lo acompañe prometiéndole dinero y prosperidad. En su huida, conocen a Jimmie Jean, una camarera que está decidida a cambiar de vida y se va con ellos. (FILMAFFINITY)

Mientras busca un collar de diamantes robado, el detective privado Martin se topa con un inteligente asesino en serie.

A man buys a house and comes to believe that not only is the house haunted by werewolves, but a family of vampires lives next door.

Esmeralda, descendiente de una familia de policías, va a Nueva York para localizar a un oficial del policía, amigo de su padre. Después de encontrarlo le confiesa que ha estado robando joyas a una familia muy rica y que desea devolverlas antes que las echen en falta.

The Confiscation of Confession and 10 million Marks bring the young accident priest Wolf into an adventurous situation: A deadly injured gobber has entrusted him with the hiding-place of the millions of heavy prey, making him the key figure of dangerous gangster interests. The ice-cold cheeks, the fat Felix, and the sex bomb Roma are placed on him to reveal the secret. But Wolf remains ironic - even as Roma tried to seduce him in a completely unchristian way. On the contrary, Wolf brings the beautiful blonde even to think - and so the hunt for the prey ends quite differently

Fabrizio finds refuge from thugs in a convent, and passion in the arms of Lucrezia Borgia.

En 1750, León, un patriota rebelde que ha sido herido, huye por las calles de un pueblo mejicano y se refugia en la iglesia, donde el padre José, un viejo franciscano, lo acoge y se niega terminantemente a entregarlo a las autoridades. Condenados los dos al destierro, no tienen más salida que refugiarse en San Sebastián, un mísero y apartado poblado, donde se verán acosados por toda clase de peligros.

Paula Shultz (Elke Sommer), la atleta más importante de Alemania Oriental, se fuga de la parte comunista de Berlín para intentar vivir en el Berlín occidental. Cuando lo consigue, y al mismo tiempo que es perseguida por los dirigentes comunistas, se ve envuelta en un lío con contrabandistas al lado de un periodista llamado Bill Mason (Bob Crane).

Pauline becomes involved in a series of adventures around the world and is aided by her ever present friend, George.

Peter Churchman dejó de robar bancos hace mucho tiempo y ahora vive como un ciudadano rico y respetado en la costa mediterránea de ​​España. Pero entonces aparece su excompañera Ángela y lo chantajea para que la ayude a robar el Banco Nacional de Pamplona. Se rinde y desarrolla un plan brillante... ¿Será este el fin de su cómoda vida?.

El cantante Guy Lambert (Elvis Presley) está de gira con su espectáculo y, cuando viaja a Bruselas, dos hermosas mujeres lo siguen en secreto. Una de ellas (Annette Day) es una rica heredera, y la otra (Ivonne Romain), una mujer enigmática y seductora. Guy se verá atrapado en un torbellino de intrigas y misterios que incluyen la desaparición de unas joyas y el enfrentamiento con unos detectives.

Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, un batallón de soldados norteamericanos llega a un pequeño pueblo italiano, donde son muy bien recibidos.

Janet Harper es la mujer de un ejecutivo estadounidense destinado a Londres. Su marido tiene mucho trabajo en la fábrica y ella, algunos problemas de adaptación al nuevo hogar y a la ciudad. Un día llama la atención de un caballero prototipo de la buena educación europea, lo que despierta los celos del marido.

During the Cold War, John Goldfarb crashes his spy plane in the Middle East and is taken prisoner by the local government. His captor, King Fawz, soon discovers that Goldfarb used to be a college football star. So he issues him an ultimatum: coach his country's football team, or Fawz will surrender him to the Russians. Goldfarb teams up with undercover reporter Jenny Ericson, and together they plot to escape their dangerous situation.

El robo de un collar de la época de los egipcios que había pertenecido a Cleopatra está llevando de cabeza a Scotland Yard. La infalible intuición de Sherlock Holmes (Christopher Lee) le lleva a pensar que su gran enemigo Moriarty (Hans Söhnker) está detrás de los extraños acontecimientos que se desarrollan en torno al collar. Con la ayuda de Watson (Thorley Walters), Sherlock Holmes intentará resolver este misterio y desenmascarar al malvado y embaucador Moriarty.

El director de un asilo para enfermos mentales es dominado por el malvado genio del Dr. Mabuse.

A 14-year-old girl is caught while trying to pick a doctor's pocket. The doctor ends up taking her in and turning her into a sophisticated lady, whom he marries off to a wealthy man.

C.R. MacNamara, un alto directivo destinado en Berlín Occidental, recibe el encargo de cuidar de la hija de su jefe durante una de sus visitas. Cuando MacNamara se entera de que la chica se ha escapado y ha contraído matrimonio con un exaltado joven comunista, y de que su jefe estará de vuelta en tan solo veinticuatro horas, no le queda más remedio que transformar al reacio revolucionario en un yerno digno; de lo contrario, ya puede despedirse de su ascenso. Pero en menos de lo que se tarda en decir "un, dos, tres", sus planes se le escapan de las manos y provocan un incidente internacional capaz de enfadar a los rusos, a los alemanes y, lo que es peor, a su propia esposa, que ya está con la mosca detrás de la oreja.

A German police man thinks his wife is a call girl.

Karin is now continuing her father's research and is also caught in the cross hairs of the mysterious opponents. Johanson himself retreats to a Cambodian monastery in order to escape the gangsters' shots and recover. Meanwhile, the international criminals manage to steal Johanson's energy formula. Karin then goes after the thieves, supported by Lundstrom. But he also has his own goals. The hunt takes them around the world. It soon turns out that a certain Madame Latour is behind the sinister machinations. Eventually old Johanson falls into her hands. In Southeast Asia, a showdown ensues between the kidnappers and Lundstrom and Karin.

Professor Johansson has made a huge scientific breakthrough; a device that will create a huge magnetic pulse that knocks out all electricity over a continent-wide area. The military applications are already being thought of when Dr. Johansson is kidnapped by a group of profit-seeking mercenaries. Meanwhile, his daughter, Karin, finds herself having to consort with all manner of shady characters as she searches for her father.

The story of young Tchaikovsky through the premiere of his "Sleeping Beauty" ballet.

The fanatical son of a Nazi General leads a squad of German commandos, disguised as American Troops, behind the lines in order to sabotage the Allied Forces.

A group of criminals hijacks a plane, intending to fly it to Cuba.

Slip and the gang (Bowery Boys) foil foes of the exiled, incognito king of Truania (Sig Ruman).

Judy and her grandpa run a trolley between a train depot and a ghost town in Nevada, near the California border. Three spies intent of tracking down an atomic missile gone astray arrive. When the trolley breaks down, Judy and Grandpa unwittingly install the engine from the nearby crashed missile.

Un grupo de arqueólogos viaja a Egipto con la intención de encontrar un importante sarcófago enterrado en el Valle de los Reyes. Durante su estancia deben enfrentarse a los ladrones de tumbas, que buscan lo mismo que ellos.

Harry Steele (Charlton Heston) y el oportunista Ed Morgan (Thomas Mitchell) llegan al Perú atraídos por la leyenda del oro de los incas. Según esa leyenda, el imperio de los incas fue destruido por los dioses cuando el fabuloso tesoro sagrado de oro y piedras preciosas fue robado del templo del Sol, hace ya varios siglos, y que se conserva en la tumba de Manco. Harry tiene un fragmento de un antiguo mapa de piedra que indica la situación de la tumba. Queriendo anticiparse a Ed Morgan, se apodera del avión particular del cónsul rumano y se marcha con Elena Antonescu (Nicole Maurey) a Machu-Picchu, en busca del tesoro...

El ventrílocuo Jerry Morgan ha vuelto a fracasar en el amor. La razón: cuando la relación llega al punto de discutir el matrimonio, su muñeco, Clarence, se vuelve celoso. Su prometida, Audrey, le abandona por lo que Jerry golpea a sus dos muñecos, Clarence y Terrence. Papinek, el creador de los muñecos de Morgan, resulta ser un importante espía, y usará a Jerry y a sus muñecos para transportar unos planos

Antar is sent by Suleiman, head of the Ottoman Empire, to Bagdad to prevent Hammam, Pasha of Bagdad, from purchasing the services of local leader Mustapha to unite the hill tribes and overthrow the emperor. The intrigue mounts as Antar falls in love with dancer Selima, who tries to avenge her father's death against Hammam's right-hand-man Kasseim, whose wife Rosanna has fallen in love with Antar!

Siglo I d.C. En la Roma de Tiberio, el joven y noble Marcelo Galio encuentra en una subasta de esclavos a la bella Diana, enamorada de él desde que eran niños, y ahora pupila del emperador. Marcelo se enfrenta en una violenta puja con Calígula, hijo y sucesor de Tiberio, y consigue quitarle al esclavo griego Demetrio. Enterado el emperador de la disputa, castiga a Marcelo enviándolo a Palestina en calidad de tribuno. Cuando llega, Poncio Pilato acaba de condenar a Cristo a morir en la cruz.

American soldiers undertake a mission to capture a Japanese admiral who has survived an air crash in China during WWII.

El sargento de marines James O`Hearn, se encuentra ante un consejo de guerra, acusado de deserción y unos cuantos cargos más o igual de graves, y se verá obligado a contar su increíble historia que le ha llevado hasta esta situación.

El legionario Paul Lartal sobrevive milagrosamente a un ataque sorpresa y, deambulando por el desierto, se despierta en un idílico reino gobernado por la bella princesa Morjana. Allí transcurren los días como en un cuento de hadas, pero cuando regresa a su puesto, ninguno de sus compañeros da crédito a sus palabras. (FILMAFFINITY)

En su carrera para escapar de sendas bodas impuestas, dos bailarines y cantantes, interpretados por Bing Crosby y Bob Hope, llegan al Pacífico Sur para luchar por el amor y la fortuna de una princesa de la isla, Lala (Dorothy Lamour). Mientras se pelean por conseguirla, deben hacer frente a todo tipo de peligros de la jungla. La atribulada pareja de amigos se convierte en pareja de enemigos, al luchar no sólo para salvar sus vidas sino también por conseguir la mano de Lala. (FILMAFFINIT)

A short film made for the United Jewish Appeal, reuniting the main players behind The Sniper, writers Edna and Edward Anhalt, director Edward Dmytryk, and star Arthur Franz.

Años 50, Europa en plena guerra fría, la historia transcurre entre París y Hungría. Nicholas Strang es el avispado editor del periódico para el cual Jimmy Race trabaja como reportero de investigación. Ambos se enamoran de la misma chica, Jeanne, y al avispado editor intentará aprovechar todos sus recursos para apartar a Jeanne de Jimmy.

In September 1938, an American diplomat negotiated in London the peace of Munich, rather than rush to Paris where his wife, a famous film actress, is about to fall into the arms of a young first. He gains peace but loses his happiness.