
Adrian Hoven
Actor · 1922 – 1981 · Wöllersdorf, Austria
Adrian Hoven (18 May 1922 – 8 April 1981) was an Austrian actor, producer and film director. He appeared in 100 films between 1947 and 1981. He is best known for his collaborations with filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Movies24
Movie6.1HorrorDramaIn 1700s Austria, a witch-hunter's apprentice has doubts about the righteousness of witch-hunting when he witnesses the brutality, the injustice, the falsehood, the torture and the arbitrary killing that go with the job.
Movie7.0AdventureDer Bagnosträfling
1949 · 1 votes
Movie6.5DramaWarThe story of a German singer named Willie, who while working in Switzerland, falls in love with a Jewish composer named Robert, whose family is helping people to flee from the Nazis. Robert’s family is skeptical of Willie, thinking she could be a Nazi as she becomes famous for singing the song “Lili Marleen”.
Lili Marleen
1981 · 93 votes
Movie4.7ComedyScience FictionOn an island somewhere in the Caribbean a professor is experimenting with mankind. Meanwhile, The Red Lips are moonlighting on a striptease world tour, but as soon as they hit the stage, the girls are up to their pasties in stiffs, Satanists and Sapphic sadists, all after the professor's secret formula for human clones!
Movie6.9HistoryRomanceVickie, short for Victoria, is crowned Queen of England and as such needs to learn the responsibilities of her new post.
Movie6.5DramaThrillerBerlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufacturer, married to the capricious Lydia, loses his temper more and more every day when dealing with his workers and other businessmen; until he meets Felix, a vagrant, who seems to be physically identical to him; a disconcerting fact that leads Hermann Hermann to plot a particular way out of a fake world he actually hates.
Despair
1978 · 48 votes
Movie6.4ComedyDramaA famous poet who hasn't written a word in two years unconsciously plagiarizes the work of Stefan George, while dealing with several mistresses, his dimwitted brother, and a murder investigation.
Movie6.7ComedyLeopold, head waiter at the "Weißen Rössl" (White Horse Inn), is secretly in love with the owner of the restaurant, Josepha. But she's only interested in the lawyer Dr. Siedler. Jealous, Leopold comes up with a plan to gain Josepha's attention.
Movie6.5DramaThe life story of the famed rocket scientist Dr. Werner von Braun, one of the most brilliant and controversial figures of the space age. Dr. von Braun literally pioneered man's adventure into space through his rocket experiments; his was the brain behind the V-2 rockets which blasted London in World War II; his was also the brain which led America into the development and the launching of space satellites.
I Aim at the Stars
1960 · 4 votes
Movie5.4HorrorLorna Green is a performer at a Lisbon nightclub who performs fictionalized acts that involve erotically charged sadomasochistic murders. As she begins to suffer violent, surreal nightmares, she starts to believe that she may be under mind control by a man who may be Satan incarnate.
Movie6.7ComedyCrimeAn American ex-WW II POW returns to Germany 30 years after the war. He teams up with the former commander of his prison camp. Together they spring a Nazi war criminal from jail. He's the only one left who knows where a secret wartime cache of gold is hidden.
Inside Out
1975 · 13 votes
Movie7.7DramaFrau Emma Küsters prepares dinner late one seemingly-ordinary afternoon in her seemingly-ordinary Frankfurt kitchen. She wants to add canned sausages to the stew; her irritating daughter-in-law thinks otherwise. But the point is moot: Ernst Küsters has not only murdered the personnel director at the soap factory where he's employed but succeeded that by committing suicide.
Movie5.8CrimeThrillerRival gangsters from Chicago move to London and attempt to extort money from rich Britons.
Movie7.2DramaFox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and things that he has always wanted. He enters an abusive relationship with wealthy industrialist Eugen in an attempt to climb the social ladder. His desperation for love and affection soon spirals into tragedy.
Movie4.9HorrorA tribunal interrogates, tortures and murders "witches" and "heretics" during the Inquisition.
Movie3.8ComedyFantasyAn "adults only" retelling of the legend of Siegfried.
Siegfried und das sagenhafte Liebesleben der Nibelungen
The Long Swift Sword of Siegfried
1971 · 9 votes
Movie6.3TV MovieDramaAfter having her second child, a German housewife suffers from postpartum depression before inexplicably falling into a continually misdiagnosed mental state, befuddling her relatives.
Movie8.5CrimeThrillerBritish detective Tim Frazer hunts a myserious murderer who kills smugglers in the city of Antwerpen.
Movie5.0ComedyMystery"Red Lips" are two female detectives trying to find missing models and dancers. A pop artist called Klaus Thriller and his werewolf-like assistant, Morpho, are the main suspects for the murderers.
Movie5.8ThrillerA French secret agent gets a license to kill when he is sent to Vienna to plug a security leak in this routine spy saga. He is caught in the crossfire of international enemy agents trying to eliminate the French.
Movie3.8AdventureRomanceThe sequel to 1956's "Liane, Jungle Goddess" finds the title character still a jungle goddess, but captured by slave traders.
Movie6.7WarDramaAdmiral Canaris is chief of the intelligence service of Nazi Germany. His department is quite successful and Hitler grants him all the money he wants for new developments. Still he's a thorn in the side of the Nazi chiefs, since he's not as unscrupulous as they want him and is known to criticize their ideology.
Canaris
1954 · 12 votes
Movie6.3ComedyPediatrician Waldemar Weber is at his wits' end. Of all days, his adopted son Egon—from his first marriage, whom Waldemar has always kept a secret from his young wife Henny—has announced he’s coming to visit on their first wedding anniversary. Waldemar must stop Egon at all costs. When Egon finally shows up at the door, he turns out to be a monkey trainer.
Ach Egon!
1961 · 12 votes
Movie10.0ComedyRomanceA foreign pianist who comes to visit Paris is ripped off by a young man and his sister. But he soon falls in love with this one.
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TV6.2DramaCrimeTatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.
TV6.9CrimeMysteryGraf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre [French title: Le comte Yoster a bien l'honneur] is a TV series which followed the adventures of the title’s amateur gentleman detective. It was a success in particular in Germany and in France. Originally the show was a German production in black-and-white but it evolved into a European co-production in colour.
Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre
1967 · 9 votes
TV7.5DramaCrimeIn late 1920s Berlin, Franz Biberkopf is released from prison and vows to go straight. However, he soon finds himself embroiled in the city’s criminal underworld.
Berlin Alexanderplatz
1980 · 51 votes
TV8.0CrimeAction & AdventureHamburg Transit was a German crime television series that first aired in 1970. It ran for 52 episodes over four series until 1974. It depicts the officers of the Hamburg CID. It was a successor to the show Polizeifunk ruft which ran between 1966 and 1970.
Hamburg Transit
1970 · 4 votes
- TV8.0Crime
Okay S.I.R.
1973 · 1 votes
TV7.3DramaSci-Fi & FantasyIn the future, Simulacron, a computer project simulating reality, encounters strange occurrences after its leader's death. Dr. Stiller questions the sudden disappearance of a friend and wonders if Simulacron holds the answers.
- TV7.0Crime
Jörg Preda berichtet
1966 · 1 votes
- TV10.0Drama
Das Fernsehgericht tagt
1961 · 1 votes
TV8.0CrimeAlarm für Dora X
1962 · 1 votes
TV8.5DramaBitte keine Polizei
1975 · 2 votes
- TV7.0Crime
Das Haus der Schlangen
1964 · 1 votes
TV6.5Das Ding
1979 · 2 votes