Christopher Franke
Nascimento : 1953-04-06, Berlin, Germany
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Christopher Franke (born 6 April 1953) is a German musician and composer. From 1971 to 1987, he was a member of the electronic group Tangerine Dream. Initially, a drummer with The Agitation later renamed Agitation Free, his primary focus eventually shifted to keyboards and synthesizers as the group moved away from its psychedelic rock origins. While he was not the first musician to use an analog sequencer, he was probably the first to turn it into a live performance instrument, thus laying the rhythmic foundation for classic Tangerine Dream pieces and indeed for the whole Berlin school sound.
After his departure from the group, he founded the Sonic Images record label, a new-age music label called Earthtone, and the Berlin Symphonic Film Orchestra, and produced a number of solo music works. After leaving Tangerine Dream, his only live concert was on 9 October 1991 at the Astoria Theatre in London. He performed on stage with Edgar Rothermich (a.k.a. Richard E. Roth) who is also his producer and engineer on all his solo projects and film music after 1990.
Franke moved to Los Angeles in 1991 to pursue film work. In 1995 he scored the AFI short Requiem. He may be best known for composing the music for the science fiction television series Babylon 5, as well as the score of the anime movie Tenchi Muyo! in Love and in 2005 the music for the German musical Ludwig² (with Konstantin Wecker).
Ricochet - from 1975 - was the first live album from Tangerine Dream. Remastered edition by Steven Wilson. In DTS-HD MA and FLAC 5.1 surround.
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A glowing, prismatic portrait of the rise and fall of America's first celebrity designer—Halston—the man who was synonymous with fashion in the 1970s, and became the emperor of NYC nightlife. Interviews with friends and witnesses (including Liza Minnelli, Diane Von Furstenberg, André Leon Talley, Anjelica Huston, Bob Colacello, and Billy Joel, among others) round out this glittering evocation of the man who defined the most beautiful and decadent era of recent memory.
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Esta última versão do Babylon 5 é dividida em duas partes: a primeira é sobre uma entidade que possui um trabalhador. Ele quer ser exorcizado, mas o coronel Lochley impede o padre e envia-o e o hospedeiro de volta à Terra. A segunda é sobre Galen tentando enganar o presidente Sheridan para assassinar o futuro presidente Centauri para impedi-lo de atacar a Terra em 30 anos.
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Interviews with scientists and authors, animated bits, and a storyline involving a deaf photographer are used in this docudrama to illustrate the link between quantum mechanics, neurobiology, human consciousness and day-to-day reality.
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Um estudante americano de jornalismo, Matt Buckner, vai morar com sua irmã e sua família em Londres. Lá, ele conhece Pete Dunham, que o introduz ao seu mundo tribal, onde os torcedores dos times opostos brigam antes e depois dos jogos. Mas Bovver, o líder de Pete, suspeita dos motivos de Matt e, inadvertidamente, reabre uma antiga rivalidade entre o irmão de Pete e o líder de uma gangue rival.
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Amanda é uma fotógrafa surda, em busca de respostas para a vida e a existência. O espectador acompanha a jornada de Amanda através de conceitos científicos e espirituais, passando pela física quântica e teologia, com a colaboração de especialistas.
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Daisy Lowendahl is a best-selling suspense novelist who finds herself at her isolated beach house with a local young fan who knows almost everything about her, and two men — one of whom may be trying to kill her, the other of whom could save her life, causing Daisy to be thrown into the middle of a real-life drama.
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Lieutenent Rick Hunter, now of San Diego Police Department, along with his 'new' partner Sergeant Dee Dee McCall, must track down a group of women bank robbers who appear to be behind bars when the crimes occur, while simultaneously looking for an excon he put away who has just been released and is now on a vengeful crime wave.
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A betrayed wife, whose husband leaves her after 25 years, returns to the lake where she first fell in love and begins an affair with the son of her first love.
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Um patrulheiro, que caiu em desgraça, assume comando de uma nave assombrada para uma missão de escoltar um grupo de embaixadores que estão indo visitar um planeta com uma escavação arqueológica.
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Take a journey back to prehistoric America when mighty dinosaurs ruled the continent. From New York to New Mexico, these powerful animals lived, hunted and died in the very place you call home. Watch millions of years of violent evolution unfold before your eyes. You’ll meet the never-before-seen Zuniceratops, a uniquely North American creature that was first of its kind to have horns over its eyes. You’ll also visit all your favorites including the T-Rex, Triceratops, Stegosaurus and the ferocious Raptor, with a startling new appearance that’ ll surprise you. You won’t see more authentic and terrifying dinosaurs anywhere... except buried in your own backyard
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O célebre detetive belga Hercule Poirot é incumbido de desvendar um assassinato ocorrido dentro do luxuoso Expresso Oriente. Contudo, à medida que o confinamento dos passageiros se perpetua fica claro que o crime ocorrido no vagão tem raízes mais sinistras do que ele imaginava.
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A superintendent (Gerald McRaney), trying to save his high school's troubled finances, falls in love with a teacher (Naomi Judd) whose music program he must cut.
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Um grupo de Caçadores de Almas chega a Babylon 5 exigindo o retorno de algo que foi roubado deles.
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Susan Ivanova descobre uma nave espacial abandonada no hiperespaço. Eles rebocam de volta para Babylon 5, então coisas estranhas começam a acontecer. As pessoas estão sendo telepaticamente tomadas por alienígenas de outro (terceiro) espaço.
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Tarzan returns to his homeland of Africa to save his home from destruction.
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Londo Mollari, o Imperador Centauri, relata o contato inicial entre os Humanos e Minbari, que resultou em um grande incidente e na guerra subsequente, para um ansioso par de jovens que queriam uma história sobre amor e conflito.
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A beautiful orphan of mysterious parentage is asked by her adoptive family to help find a husband for their niece, but when two suitors both fall for the orphan girl, the niece instigates a scheme to discredit her in the eyes of her guardians. Based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott.
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Jess Koster is a young attorney in LA who is being stalked by the serial killer she is prosecuting.
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O maior vilão do universo, Kain, liberta-se de seu aprisionamento na Polícia Galáctica e foge para destruir a Família Real Jurai e, assim, tomar o poder do planeta. Kain volta ao passado para matar Achika, filha do príncipe Yosho, na Terra. Mas Achika é a mãe de Tenchi, e por causa disso, Tenchi começa a desaparecer no presente.
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Ma Barker and her sons rob banks, shoot people and wind up at the top of the FBI's Most Wanted list in the 1930s.
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A scarred, unattractive young woman is conned into helping with a robbery of her employer. As a result, she is sent to prison, gets plastic surgery, and returns to seek revenge on those who wronged her.
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A waitress-dancer remembers her loving brother and their bittersweet childhood in Hong Kong.
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A Las Vegas cab driver finds a million dollars of stolen money in his cab after his fare is murdered. Soon after, a ruthless hitman is in persuit; he will stop at nothing to recover the money and dispose of all witnesses.
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Dr. Julian Mater is suspended and gets his license revoked for performing experiments on dying patients in cellular regeneration. A couple of years later, he returns to the hospital that condemned his work to begin practicing his grizzly experiments once more.
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Margaret, who has certain mental disabilities, struggles when her husband, Jake, is diagnosed with schizophrenia and the authorities wish to take her children away from her. She has to prove in a court of law that she is capable of taking care of her family.
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This made-for-TV film version uses the title and general premise of Jules Verne's novel, but had its heroes carry out the journey in an earth-penetrating machine. A television series was supposed to follow, but was never produced. Cast includes John Neville, F. Murray Abraham and Kim Miyori.
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Durante a Guerra do Vietnã, o soldado Luc Deveraux descobre que seu superior, Andrew Scott, se tornou descontroladamente violento, e os dois lutam até a morte. Seus corpos são resgatados e colocados num programa secreto em que são reanimados e treinados para se tornar máquinas assassinas. Inicialmente, Devereaux e Scott não têm memória de suas vidas passadas, mas lampejos do passado começam a retornar, reavivando o intenso conflito.
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A socialite comes out of a coma determined to identify her assailant who may be a family member with a motive to strike again.
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Santos attempts to lead a people's revolt in Colombia to overthrow the Presidente. When his revolt fails and he is killed, his sister Christina goes to New York to find McBain, a lieutenant Santos rescued during the Vietnam War. McBain agrees to help, recruits his old war buddies, raises some cash by killing a few drug dealers, then leads an attack to topple the Colombian government.
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US-American comedy from the year 1991 with Thomas Gottschalk in the lead role. The German TV host plays an East German who can get his Trabi reach speeds of up to 250 and uses environmentally friendly turnip juice as fuel. In the USA, he wants to make it big with his invention. There, he gets caught up in a series of screw-ups.
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Jerry Mitchell está tendo um dia daqueles: Se atrasou para a aula, seu carro estava com o pneu furado e o professor o mandou para a sala do diretor da escola. Só que o pior ainda estava por vir. Quando ele precisa dar uma passada urgente no banheiro, tem o azar de trombar com Buddy Revell, o valentão recém-chegado à escola. Ao se desculpar, Jerry dá um tapinha de leve nas costas do rapaz. Terrível erro! Buddy não suporta ser tocado e desafia o pobre coitado para uma briga às três da tarde, no estacionamento da escola. Em pânico, Jerry pede ajuda a sua irmã mais nova e, juntos, eles precisam pensar em uma maneira de evitar o confronto, já que ele é um covarde de primeira. O tempo passa e as opções de Jerry vão ficando cada vez menores.
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A farm boy reluctantly becomes a member of the undead when a girl he meets turns out to be part of a band of vampires who roam the highways in stolen cars.
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New York journalist visits her distant cousin for the first time to write an article about her hard life in the bayous of Louisiana. Journalist's wild drug addicted daughter just adds to tensions between two families' cultures.
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The remarkable Grand Canyon film set to the synth music of Tangerine Dream.
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Após a morte de um companheiro de guerra, ex-soldado utiliza sua habilidade com armas para sitiar o Central Park, em Nova Iorque, em protesto contra a indiferença do governo em relação aos veteranos de guerra.
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Em uma floresta encantada habitada por fadas, duendes, unicórnios e mortais, um morador é escolhido pelo destino para uma missão heroica. Ele deve salvar a bela princesa Lili e derrotar o Senhor das Trevas; caso contrário, o mundo nunca mais verá a luz do sol.
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East Germans abduct a U.S. coed (Linda Blair) and throw her in a women's prison run by a brutal inmate (Sylvia Kristel).
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O colegial Louden Swain, é um praticante da luta livre e um rapaz obcecado, tentando perder cerca de 10 quilos num curto espaço de tempo, para desafiar Shute, um imbatível campeão, pesando quase 80 quilos, duro na queda e considerado o melhor lutador do estado. Até o dia em que uma sexy mulher, ameaça arrastar Louden, e seus sonhos para um amor não correspondido.
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Andy e Vicky participaram de experimentos secretos quando jovens. Eles se casaram e tiveram uma filha, que adquiriu uma estranha habilidade de causar incêndios com a força da mente. Logo, ela se torna alvo de uma enigmática agência.
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Two Texas border guards find a jeep buried in the desert, with a skeleton, a scoped rifle, and a box with $800,000 in cash. Before they decide whether to keep the money or report it, they privately investigate the clues and unravel a decades old mystery.
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Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, tropas nazistas acampam em uma antiga fortaleza romena e acabam despertando uma força sobrenatural diabólica das profundezas.
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Two young lovers learn that a small group of child-like space aliens are marooned on Earth and are being held prisoner at a top secret military facility. The couple then decide to liberate the extraterrestrial castaways and help them make a rendezvous with a rescue ship sent from the alien home planet.
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Em Chicago, um adolescente (Tom Cruise) aproveita que seus pais viajaram e telefona para uma call-girl (Rebecca De Mornay). Ele acaba se envolvendo com ela e usa sua casa para que várias colegas de trabalho dela recebam seus "clientes", sendo que recebe a metade por ser "a casa". Mas nem tudo ocorre como planejara.
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When the teenagers in a small Illinois town start getting murdered, the police chief makes a connection to the mysterious scientific experiments being done at the local university and must stop them before his own son is dragged into the deadly scheme.
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Frank é um especialista em crimes com cofres e pedras preciosas e após ficar preso algum tempo, decide dar novo rumo a sua vida. Casa, família e trabalho estão em seus planos. Até que um chefe do crime lhe envolve em um último crime, que lhe dará o dinheiro para iniciar sua nova vida.
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Na selva costariquenha, um grupo de voluntários trabalha em uma companhia de petróleo. No entanto, uma torre de perfuração é incendiada, ameaçando incinerar toda a região. A solução é mandar um grupo de homens para o local com um carregamento de explosivos para conter o fogo. Liderados por Jackie Scanlon (Roy Scheider), o grupo terá de transportar os explosivos por mais de 200 milhas, em território selvagem, utilizando dois caminhões velhos. Refilmagem do filme francês "Salário do Medo (1953)".
German TV film, also shown on Spanish TV in 1976, this is a film all about TD which includes informal interviews and concert/studio footage, most of which seems to have been done exclusively for the film. The interviews are in the German language. The street name in the title refers to where Edgar Froese used to live in Berlin (apparently Klaus Schulze lived on the same street at the time) and is now the site of the TDI offices.
