Anton Diffring

Helmut Doork is a washed-up German circus clown during the beginning of World War II and the Holocaust. Although he was once a famous performer who toured North America and Europe with the Ringling Brothers, Doork is now past his prime and receives little respect. After Doork causes an accident during a show, the head clown convinces the circus owner to demote Doork. Upon returning home, Doork confides his problems to his wife Ada, and she encourages him to stand up for himself. After going back to the circus, Helmut overhears the circus owner agreeing to fire him after the head clown issues an ultimatum. A distraught Helmut is arrested later by the Gestapo and the Schutzstaffel for drunkenly mocking Adolf Hitler in a bar. Following an interrogation at the Gestapo headquarters, he is imprisoned in a Nazi camp for political prisoners. For the next three to four years, he remains there while hoping for a trial and a chance to plead his case.

Over one hour of black-and-white location footage and interviews with the stars and director, all staged outdoors in manifestly frigid conditions. Mann talks about his filmmaking philosophy and the challenges of shooting in such rugged locations, and shares his insights on the Douglas-Harris feud:Harris projects a refreshing honesty and cheeky charm in his interview segment, even asking himself a question at one point! Douglas is equally charismatic, if a little more calculated in his awareness of the camera.

This film is the theatrical follow-up to a very popular German TV-series (also called "Anna"), about a young girl who wants to make it as a prima ballerina.

The arrival of a mysterious comet heralds impending danger from enemies both old and new. As Ace helps the Doctor defend Earth, she is confronted with a dangerous question..."Doctor Who?"

A model named Barbara Hallen has disappeared and her father gets private detective Sam Morgan to go to Paris to find his daughter. Barbara's trail leads Morgan to a plastic surgery clinic owned by Dr. Flamand. Morgan's investigation reveals the horrifying secret behind the Doctor's miracle cures which is blood and organs taken from kidnapped young women. As Morgan's investigation closes witnesses are eliminated, one by one, each in a more horrible way.

Wahnfried (German: Richard und Cosima, French: Richard et Cosima) is a 1986 West German-French drama film directed by Peter Patzak about the life of Richard Wagner. It was screened out of competition at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.

Шерлок Холмс ушел на пенсию. Но когда Макдональд просит его заняться другим делом, он говорит «да». Были некоторые загадочные смерти, и никаких видимых причин убийства. В то же время Холмс берёт это дело, граф Удо фон Фелсек приводит ему ещё одно дело: найти молодого и пропавшего принца, чтобы предотвратить войну между Германией и Англией. Но фон Фелсек не так честен, как кажется...

Герой фильма - австриец Малко Линге выполняет задание ЦРУ в Центральной Америке. По приказу боссов из Лэнгли он должен выследить главаря сальвадорских повстанцев и уничтожить его. Для этого Малко вылетает в Сан-Сальвадор, где при помощи связных входит в высший свет латиноамериканской страны…

Herbie Melbourne is a poor schlemiel who is inadvertently caught between the Devil and the deep blue sea in this German farce about a cab driver assigned to bring a "comrade" back to the East German side of the Berlin wall, a passenger who is dead to the world, permanently, when he arrives. Herbie the cabbie is recruited by the KGB and East German Intelligence to help them discover who murdered the man in his back seat. After arriving on the West German side of the divide, Herbie is then recruited by the CIA and West German Intelligence to become a counterspy, for double what the other side is paying him. As Herbie seems to have no viable way out of this mess, he goes to a therapist for help. Reaching into her bag of tricks, she gives Herbie a small bottle he can sniff when in need of self-confidence, an act guaranteed to put him on top of any situation. Now Herbie is a cabbie, a KGB agent, a CIA agent, and a bottle sniffer -- and he is falling in love with his gorgeous therapist.

Во время Второй мировой войны бывший футболист собирает команду в лагере для военнопленных, чтобы дать отпор немецкой команде.

An English girl and an Indian elephant, born on the same day, share a common destiny...

The leader of a right-wing German political party discovers that an illiterate woodcarver is actually the son of Adolf Hitler.

A copywriter gets famous with his first book. When asked to write a new novel about love for his publisher, he urgently needs tutoring since he doesn't know the first thing about it. His way through the beds leads him to the very young Orli. In her he discovers the true meaning of love, which makes him forget all the wrong paths of the past decades and feel young again.

Camouflaged as a political suspense documentary, Plutonium demonstrates the theft of highly enriched nuclear material from a Third World Country nuclear power plant - enough for five bombs of the Hiroshima type. Is this material now in the hands of terrorists – or in the possession of a brutal and inhuman dictatorship?

Vannina and Giacinto are a young married couple who live their relationship in an unequal way; while the girl is submissive to the will of her husband Giacinto, he sees in his bride only the personal object of his sexual satisfaction.

Рудольф Валентино — актер немого кино, «звездная» карьера которого длилась всего шесть лет. Он приехал в Америку в 1913 году и начинал садовником, работал посудомойщиком, официантом, жиголо и был мелким преступником до того, как начал танцевать на балах за деньги. Знакомство с Аллой Назимовой стало первым шагом на пути Валентино к желаемой славе...

16-year-old Maria is forced into Serra D'Aires convent, secretly run by Satanists.

История жизни девушки, которая из простой школьницы превратилась в игрушку для удовлетворения сексуальных потребностей. Очаровательная и возбуждающая героиня оказывается в одном из публичных домов Гонконга, куда она попадает из женского монастыря. По пути она испытывает много сексуальных приключений.

A Swiss bank discovers some of its clients are becoming the victim of a brilliant blackmailer. The bank's president contacts David Christopher, a former agent with the U.S. Treasury, to help discover who the blackmailer is and to foil his plot. As Christopher delves into the mystery, he uncovers a complicated web of intrigue, car chases, and shoot-outs that takes all of his wits to unravel.

Potato Fritz (Hardy Kruger) and his friends have moved from Germany to the American Wild West, settling eventually in the Rockies. They are besieged by what appear to them to be hostile Native Americans. Before too long, it becomes clear that the hostiles are in fact a gang of gold thieves. This movie is notable among German-made Westerns for its use of authentic period costumes and firearms.

Czechoslovakia, 1942. Three brave Czech patriots risk everything to rid their country of its brutal Nazi leader, SS-General Reinhard Heydrich.

Based on H.P. Lovecraft's The Shadow Out of Time, this is the story of a professor who suffers a seizure which results in total amnesia. As he recuperates he is so different his family deserts him. He gathers knowledge of things outside his specialty for five years, then has another seizure. When he reawakens he is himself again, but now he has no memory of the five years between the attacks. He begins having bizarre dreams, and tries to find out what he was doing during the five years he can't remember. What he discovers, combined with the growing reality of his dreams, convinces him that something much darker than a mere personality shift was going on.

В Каннах взрывается яхта известного немецкого банкира. Сотрудник страховой компании Роберт Лукас отправляется расследовать причины катастрофы. В этом райском уголке он знакомится с миллионершей Хильдой, её служанкой Николь и художницей Анджелой.

Главарь марсельских гангстеров — возвращается в страну с единственной целью — отомстить за смерть своего друга и соратника. Но на этот раз ему придется бороться и с комиссаром полиции, и с гангстерским кланом. Друг будет отомщен, но убийства продолжатся, и родной город станет холодным и чужим…

Wealthy big game hunter Tom Newcliffe has tracked and killed practically every type of animal in the world. But one creature still evades him, the biggest game of all - a werewolf.

When his brother vanishes without a trace, American Robert Stone goes to his last known location: a remote English village. Robert's investigation leads him to the mansion of Jonathon Lanceford, a man obsessed with the Gothic works of Edgar Allen Poe, and his beautiful and enigmatic niece Dominie...

Shatter, an international contract killer, has been assigned to assassinate the President of a small African country and collect his fee from a bank in the Far East. On arrival in Hong Kong his life is threatened and when the bank denies all knowledge of payment arrangements, he realises he has been drawn into a dangerous game where there are no rules. Amongst the players are the Mafia and several foreign intelligence services and the stakes being played for are deadly.

Тони Ардзента — хладнокровный и неуловимый наемный убийца, работающий на могущественный криминальный синдикат, «лучший» в кровавом «бизнесе». Когда Тони неожиданно сообщает своим боссам, что очередной заказ — его последнее дело, после которого он планирует завязать, они, недолго посовещавшись, выносят ему смертный приговор. Но по трагической случайности вместо Тони во взорвавшейся машине погибают его жена и ребенок. Теперь Ардзента неумолим — ведь ему нечего терять. По-прежнему уверенный в своих силах, он объявляет войну синдикату…

1943 год. Немецкие войска отступают под натиском Красной Армии на Восточном фронте и под ударами союзников в Северной Африке. Угроза вторжения в «Европейскую крепость» Гитлера становится реальностью. Убежденный, что союзники изберут местом вторжения в Европу именно Балканы, Гитлер приказал свои генералам любой ценой уничтожить партизан Народно-освободительной армии Югославии, дабы обезопасить свои тылы.

In a small Scottish village, horribly murdered bodies keep turning up. Suspicion falls upon the residents of a nearby castle that is haunted by a curse involving a killer cat.

A tribunal interrogates, tortures and murders "witches" and "heretics" during the Inquisition.

Marina Pinares, the wife of the president of a South American country, insists on being his vice-presidential running mate in the next election. She's no stranger to assassination to get what she wants, so some suspect she'll kill her own husband after the election to become president. In a series of flashbacks we see her rise to power: a party girl willing to sacrifice a friend's virtue to gain favor; the lover of a soldier she later tortures; the mistress of the military man she soon marries.

A private detective (Glenn Corbett) infiltrates a gang of drug-dealing extortionists who prey on politicians.

In Dublin, the acid-scarred, razor-slashed corpse of a young woman is discovered in the boot of the Swiss Ambassador's limousine. The Ambassador, his family and employees all become immediate suspects. Faced with the problem of diplomatic immunity, the police officer in charge of the case brings in John Norton, an ex-Inspector known for his brutal methods, to carry out an "unoffical" investigation. While Norton develops a relationship with the Ambassdor's attractive daughter, several more gruesome murders occur...

The outbreak of World War I places Scots officer Geoffrey Richter-Douglas in an uncomfortable position. Although his allegiance is to Britain, his mother was from an aristocratic Bavarian family, and he spent his summers in Germany as a child. When Geoffrey is approached by a German spy who offers him a chance to defect, he reports the incident to his superiors, but instead of arresting the spy they suggest that he accept her offer--and become an Allied agent. In Germany, among old friends, Geoffrey discovers that loyalty is more complicated than he expected, especially when he finds himself aboard the maiden voyage of a powerful new prototype Zeppelin, headed for Scotland on a secret mission that could decide the outcome of the war.

During WWII, US Lieutenant Morris and British captain Hull are assigned in a mission to kill Rommel.

It's medieval times. Kohlhaas merchants with horses. When going to the local fair to sell his horses, is forced by a noble to leave him part of the merchandise as payment for traveling through his land, promising to give it back when the fair is over. When he returns, the horses are almost dead, and the man refuse to respond, so Kohlhass begins to fight unsuccesfuly against the injustice.

Во время Второй Мировой войны британский самолет сбивают над нацистской территорией. Единственного выжившего американского генерала немцы забирают в ближайший штаб СС. Немцам неизвестно, что генерал обладает полным набором знаний об операции «День Д». Британцы решают, что генералу ни в коем случае нельзя позволить раскрыть детали высадки в Нормандии и приказывают майору Джону Смиту отправиться на его спасение с отрядом спецназа. В отряд входит американский рейнджер лейтенант Шаффер, озадаченный своим участием в британской операции. Когда один из солдат погибает после сброса с парашютом, Шаффер начинает подозревать, что у миссии Смита цель более секретная.

In December of 1944, Lionel Evans, an internationally renowned American conductor, is on a USO tour with his 70-piece symphony orchestra in newly-liberated Belgium. While fleeing from a German counterattack, Evans and his orchestra members are captured by a Panzer division and taken to an old chateau in Luxembourg. Despite orders to execute every prisoner, General Schiller, an avid music lover, commands Evans to give a private concert for him.

Агент ЦРУ Дэн Слейтер вылетает в Австрию на похороны сына. Но, оказавшись на месте, он начинает подозревать, что эта смерть не похожа на несчастный случай в Альпах. Благодаря помощи юной Джины Слейтер нападает на след преступников, но вскоре понимает, что все это слишком похоже на ловушку, и кто-то готовит его двойника, чтобы внедрить в высшие эшелоны американской разведки...

Мир будущего, в котором все письменные издания безжалостно уничтожаются специальным отрядом пожарных-огнеметчиков, а интерес к книгам и их хранение преследуются по закону. Сержант Гай Монтэг слепо выполняет приказы по уничтожению литературы, но встреча с юной Клариссой заставляет его переосмыслить свою жизнь. Он становится инакомыслящим — отщепенцем в тоталитарном обществе, читающем только комиксы.

Первая Мировая война. Молодой Бруно Штахель — выходец из бедной семьи, бывший пехотинец, а ныне пилот в немецких элитных летных войсках. Превзойдя в мастерстве своих товарищей-аристократов, он становится национальным героем и получает высшую награду военных летчиков — медаль «Синий Макс». Генерал Конт фон Клюгерманн, наставник Бруно, купается в лучах его славы. Ради своей собственной выгоды он готов даже на какое-то время закрыть глаза на любовные отношения своей жены Кети и отважного летчика…

Оккупированная немецкими войсками Норвегия. Профессор физики доктор Рольф Петерсен и лидер местного подполья Кнут Страут пытаются сообщить британской разведке о планах нацистов по производству атомной бомбы. Завод в Телемарке является центральным звеном в дьявольской игре. Союзники решают отправить отряд специального назначения с целью разрушить планы врага.

B 501, a newly developed controller for missiles, has disappeared despite the strict surveillance. Phillippe Tissout is sent by his boss to Paris to take over the case.

Вторая мировая война. Союзные войска пытаются узнать как можно больше о засекреченной ракетной технике, которую разработали ученые нацистов. На тщательно охраняемый подэемный завод по производству ракет ФАУ-2 отправлены секретные агенты под видом специально подготовленных инженеров. Их задача — сбор информации и передача её в Лондон. Но никто из них даже не подозревает, что миссия изначально обречена на провал: на завод внедрён двойной агент…

A scientist and his nephew are hosts of Lana, queen of the Amazons, while other crew men try to find and take hold of the legendary Amazons' treasure.

In a late night chemist a shot bank robber has been taken for treatment, and to rendezvous with the gang leader.

Inspector Duval comes to London to help crack the case of a socialite murdered during a jewel heist.

A plastic surgeon and his nurse join a bizarre circus to escape from the police. Here he befriends deformed women and transforms them for his "Temple of Beauty". However, when they threaten to leave, they meet with mysterious accidents.

Доктор Бонне рассчитывает жить вечно, продлевая себе жизнь путём периодической трансплантации околощитовидных желез молодых и здоровых людей. Он выглядит на 40 лет, хотя на самом деле ему 104. Со временем окружающие его люди начинают что-то подозревать…

A jewel thief finds himself a target when a smuggled cigarette case made from a stolen new metal falls into his hands.

Mark Loring is madly jealous of his wife, Mary, former American cabaret singer. Due to an automobile accident, she loses her unborn child, and Mark becomes sterile. His father, Brit-stuffy Sir John Loring, has never approved of the marriage and, again, tries to break it up. Believing that a child will hold the marriage together, Mary suggests artificial insemination to Mark, who finally agrees to accompany her to a clinic in Switzerland. However, when she is again pregnant, Mark finds it impossible to reconcile himself to the situation and leaves her. Prompted by his father, Mark sues for divorce, accusing her of adultery. She contests the divorce and a trial concerns itself with whether or not artificial insemination is a question of adultery. The Catholic Church's National League of Decency placed this film on its Condemned" list.

In this pilot for a series that was never picked up, Dr. Frankenstein has just finished rebuilding his creation, but the monster is unresponsive. He needs to try something different to make it work, perhaps some new parts. Enter a terminally ill sculptor and his assertive wife…

Escaping British prisoners of war hide out in German occupied France.

When publisher William Marshall learns his young ward Melissa Collins has committed suicide, he sets in motion a plan to murder the man who drove Melissa to kill herself. Mistakenly believing that singer Larry Shaw is his intended target, Marshall unwittingly seeks help from the man who actually broke Melissa's heart.

An American detective unmasks a gambler as the head of a banknote counterfeiting gang.

One time members of a resistance group come together every year to remember their dead leader, betrayed to and executed by the Nazis. When it seems that they might finally know the name of the traitor - and that he or she comes from within their own unit - their annual gathering becomes a deadly trial...

Police in Paris recruit an English ship's officer (Michael Craig) to help trap counterfeiters by joining them.

The true story of airman Douglas Bader who overcame the loss of both legs in a 1931 flying accident to become a successful fighter pilot and wing leader during World War II.

Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian moutain climber, escapes from a British POW camp in India and flees north across the Himalayan mountains into Tibet. There he meets and befriends the young Dalai Lama.

Сэр Чарльз Холланд получает известие, что его пропавший без вести во время войны в Северной Африке брат, возможно, жив и находится в одном из племён бедуинов. Чарльз прибывает в Триполи и отправляется на поиски брата. Добравшись до чёрных шатров племени, Холланд находит дневник своего брата и узнаёт его печальную историю.

A Cornish fisherman becomes involved with Iron Curtain spies.

Действие разворачивается в веймарском Берлине. Молодой амбициозный писатель заводит дружбу с бедной, но жизнерадостной певицей.

Allied prisoners of various nationalities pool their resources to plan numerous escapes from an "escape-proof" German P.O.W. camp housed in a Medieval castle.

During autumn of 1944, an RAF Hudson carrying a VIP passenger in possession of highly secret information is shot down and ditches in the North Sea. Fighting the elements and trying to keep up morale, the occupants of the aircraft's dinghy talk about their lives awaiting the rescue they hope will come. The film's title reflects the motto of the RAF's Air Sea Rescue Service, one of whose high speed launches battles against its own mechanical problems, enemy action, time and the weather to locate and rescue the downed crew and the vital secret papers they carry.

A physician is forced to operate on a mystery figure under shady circumstances.

The British inmates of a POW camp think they have an informer among them after several escape attempts fail. One of the prisoners constructs a dummy which they christen "Albert" and use at roll call in order to foil the German guards.

Suave private investigator Norman Conquest intercepts a secret message and meets a beautiful but foreign blonde lady in room 605 of the Park Plaza hotel. But when Conquest wakes up in the room the next morning he is lying next to a dead body. With the mysterious blonde nowhere to be seen, Conquest soon becomes the police s number one suspect with Inspector Williams following his every move. In order to clear his name, Conquest enlists the help of Pixie Everard (Joy Shelton), but the going gets rough when he discovers that the murder is connected to a stash of stolen diamonds. As gun-happy gangs of communists and Nazi sympathizers turn up the heat, Conquest has to solve the murder whilst staying one step ahead of both the gangs and the police.

Steve MacKendrick resigns from the US Army after causing the needless death of a fellow officer. Wanting to serve in the war, he enlists as a Canadian in the British 1st Parachute Brigade. He proves himself exceptionally skilled for a recruit, arousing the suspicion of his commanding officer who starts an investigation. He redeems himself during combat. The film was titled "Paratrooper" in the US.

An American reporter falls in love with a Russian ballet dancer.

A British Sanitary Engineer, goes on holiday with a set of plans for a new secret weapon which he has mistaken for his new plumbing invention. Everyone is hunting for him, including the Russians. The Russians find him and offer him a job in the Kremlin doing research (on plumbing he believes). He accepts, arrives in Russia and falls in love with Tania, a secret agent. And then discovers the true nature of the plans he is carrying...

The organising force of a family of musical prodigies, Robert Mansell is a frustrated composer in seach of one thing personal happiness. This search, however, has landed him in the divorce courts and the judge's summary does not paint him in a favourable light.

An archetypal Englishman returns from a jaunt abroad to face a dastardly foreign count in a screwball duel for the hand of a beautiful mademoiselle.

At the outbreak of WWII the British realise they can't prevent the invasion of the Channel Islands. However, someone realises that a prize cow is on the islands and the Nazis mustn't get hold of her. This is the intrepid story of the cow-napping from under the noses of the Nazis.

Отель "Сахара", расположенный в пустынном оазисе быстро пустеет, когда приходит сообщение, что итальянская армия начала боевые действия в Североафриканской компании. Владелец отеля Эмад так же хочет бежать, но его невеста Ясмин Паллас настаивает на том, чтобы он остался и попытался спасти отель, поскольку это единственная недвижимость, которой он владеет. Кроме них, в отеле остаются: мать Ясмин - мадам Паллас и мажордом Юсеф. Затем последовательно, один за другим, в отель прибывают военные патрули - итальянский, британский, немецкий. Оказавшись между воюющими армиями персоналу отеля приходится проявлять чудеса смекалки, чтобы сохранить движимое и недвижимое имущество...

A US newsman and a British entomologist spy on germ-warfare research in a mythical country.

Посетив Англию, американский хирург доктор Джон Марлоу приглашается в среднеевропейскую страну Воснию. Он соглашается. Во время операции он осознаёт, что его пациент — сам генерал Нива, диктатор страны, который должен быть переизбран на свой пост через несколько дней. Известие о его болезни скрывали от народа. Когда последний умирает, его заменяет двойник, но затем Марлоу становится объектом жестокого преследования со стороны тайной полиции Воснии, поскольку жизненно важно, чтобы о смерти диктатора не стало известно. Спасаясь бегством, он ищет помощи у актрисы Лизы Робинсон, и их обоих преследуют в сельской местности.

A British merchant ship is torpedoed by a German U-Boat and takes shelter in a neutral port. The Captain then strikes back at the German enemy.

A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America and England during WWII.