Movies produced in west%20germany

Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy | Actors: John Neville, Eric Idle, Sarah Polley, Oliver Reed, Charles McKeown, Winston Dennis, Jack Purvis, Valentina Cortese, Jonathan Pryce, Bill Paterson, Peter Jeffrey, Uma Thurman, Alison Steadman, Ray Cooper, Don Henderson, Directors: Terry Gilliam,  Plot Summary: Baron Munchausen is a character of European myth that might be considered the predecessor of American tales of Pecos Bill or Paul Bunyan. The Baron's stories are taken to be outrageous and fanciful lies. This is the origin of the name of the psychiatric diagnosis of "Munchausen's Syndrome", a particularly bizzare form of hypochondria.

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Genres: Comedy | Actors: Bud Spencer, Marina Langner, Mario Scarpetta, Gianfranco Barra, Enzo Garinei, Gunther Philipp, Giorgio Bracardi, Nello Pazzafini, Carlo Reali, Salvatore Basile, Giovanni Cianfriglia, Sergio Smacchi, Marcello Verziera, Nicola Di Gioia, James Ordonez, Directors: Steno,  Plot Summary: Banana Joe lives blissfully in a tropical village in Africa, untainted by the ills of modern society. But after a trip to the city, he is exposed to the criminal element, and zany banana trouble ensues!

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Genres: Actors: David Brisbin, Taunie Vrenon, John Erdman, Jim Neu, Sheila McLaughlin, Ben Ben Yehuda, Ted Castle, Frank Conversano, Dan Crozier, Nick Edwards, Wyatt Knaster, John Nesci, Terry O'Reilly, Jose Rafael, William Rice, Directors: Andrew Horn,  Plot Summary: Enzo and Jacques have known each other for a long time. Their friendship started in their childhood days in the mediterranean. They were not real friends in these days, but there was something they both loved and used to do the whole day long: diving. One day Jacques' father, who was a diver too, died in the mediterranean sea. After that incident Enzo and Jacques lost contact. After several years, Enzo and Jacques had grown up, Johanna, a young clerk in a security office, has to go to Peru. There she meets Jacques who works for a group of scientist. He dives for some minutes into ice cold water and the scientist monitor his physical state that is more like a dolphin's than a human's. Johanna can not believe what she sees and gets very interested in Jacques but she's unable to get acquainted with him. Some weeks later, back in her office, she notices a championship for divers that is supposed to take place in Taormina, Italy. In order to see Jacques again she makes up a story so the firm sends her to Italy for business purposes. In Taormina there is also Enzo, the reigning diving world champion. He knows that only Jacques can challenge and probably beat him. This time Johanna and Jacques get closer, but Jacques, being more a dolphin than a man, can not really commit and his rivalry with Enzo pushes both man into dangerous territory...

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Genres: Crime | Mystery | Thriller | Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara, James Mason, Claudia Mori, Irene Papas, Michelle Phillips, Maurice Ronet, Romy Schneider, Omar Sharif, Beatrice Straight, Gert Fröbe, Wolfgang Preiss, Marcel Bozzuffi, Pinkas Braun, Wulf Kessler, Directors: Terence Young,  Plot Summary: Sam Roffe, president of a multi-national pharmaceutical corporation, is killed while mountain-climbing. It is first determined to be an accident, but Inspector Max Hormung later deduces that Roffe was murdered. Sam's daughter Elizabeth assumes control of the company, and while traveling through Europe she immediately becomes a target as well. Suspicion falls on the Roffe cousins, all of whom want to go public with the company and sell their stock at a huge profit. Since this would be against her father's wishes, Elizabeth rejects their advice and decides to keep the company within the family. As Inspector Hormung investigates the background of the cousins, more attempts are made on Elizabeth's life. Hoping to reveal the guilty party, Hormung is able to connect these attempts to a series of murders on prostitutes, which are recorded on snuff films.

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Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller | Actors: Al Pacino, Paul Sorvino, Karen Allen, Richard Cox, Don Scardino, Joe Spinell, Jay Acovone, Randy Jurgensen, Barton Heyman, Gene Davis, Arnaldo Santana, Larry Atlas, Allan Miller, Sonny Grosso, Ed O'Neill, Directors: William Friedkin,  Plot Summary: Cruising is the fictional account of a series of gruesome killings in modern day New York City. Steve Burns, a "beat" officer still wet behind the ears, is recruited by Captain Edelson of the NYPD Homicide Unit to go undercover in search of the perpetrator. The victims in these killings are all homosexual men known to frequent "Leather," S&M (Sadism and Masochism), and B&D (Bondage and Dominance) clubs so Burns, in "deep cover," must mascarade as gay in order to attract the killer. He fits the victims' profiles: dark hair, dark complexion, dark eyes. Cruising tells the story of his adventures and misadventures in this small subculture of gay society as he searches for the killer.

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Genres: Action | Western | Actors: Clint Eastwood, Marianne Koch, Gian Maria Volonté, Wolfgang Lukschy, Sieghardt Rupp, Joseph Egger, Antonio Prieto, José Calvo, Margarita Lozano, Daniel Martín, Benito Stefanelli, Mario Brega, Bruno Carotenuto, Aldo Sambrell, Directors: Sergio Leone,  Plot Summary: An anonymous, but deadly man rides into a town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojo's. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.

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Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller | Western | Actors: Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Gian Maria Volonté, Mara Krupp, Luigi Pistilli, Klaus Kinski, Joseph Egger, Panos Papadopulos, Benito Stefanelli, Roberto Camardiel, Aldo Sambrell, Luis Rodríguez, Tomás Blanco, Lorenzo Robledo, Sergio Mendizábal, Directors: Sergio Leone,  Plot Summary: Two bounty hunters are after the same man, Indio. At first, they go their own ways, but eventually get together to try and find him. But are they after him for the same reason ?

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Genres: Comedy | Drama | Musical | Actors: John Savage, Treat Williams, Beverly D'Angelo, Annie Golden, Dorsey Wright, Don Dacus, Cheryl Barnes, Richard Bright, Ray Nicholas, Charlotte Rae, Miles Chapin, Fern Tailer, Charles Denny, Herman Meckler, Agness Breen, Directors: Milos Forman,  Plot Summary: This movie, based on the cult Broadway musical of the 60s, tells a story about Claude, a young man from Oklahoma who comes to New York City. There he strikes up a friendship with a group of hippies, led by Berger, and falls in love with Sheila, a girl from a rich family. However, their happiness is short because Claude must go to the Vietnam war.

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Genres: Thriller | War | Actors: Dyanne Thorne, Gregory Knoph, Tony Mumolo, Maria Marx, Nicolle Riddell, Jo Jo Deville, Sandy Richman, George 'Buck' Flower, Rodina Keeler, Richard Kennedy, Lance Marshall, Wayne Beauchamp, David F. Friedman, John F. Goff, Colleen Brennan, Directors: Don Edmonds,  Plot Summary: Ilsa is an evil Nazi warden at a death camp that conducts "medical experiments". Ilsa's goal is to prove that woman can withstand more pain and suffering than men and therefore should be allowed to fight on the front lines.

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Genres: Horror | Actors: Dyanne Thorne, Tania Busselier, Eric Falk, Lina Romay, Esther Studer, Esther Moser, Peggy Markoff, Alex Exler, Jesus Franco, Howard Maurer, Sandra L. Brennan, Angela Ritschard, Directors: Jesus Franco,  Plot Summary: Ilsa, now a vicious warden, runs a mental-hospital for young women. A girl deliberately "checks" in to the hospital to find out what has happened to her sister who stayed there. Meanwhile Ilsa and one of the guards are forcing the inmates to have sex with male prisoners, filming them and selling it as pornoflicks.

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Genres: Drama | Romance | Actors: Sylvia Kristel, Shane Briant, Nicholas Clay, Ann Mitchell, Elizabeth Spriggs, Pascale Rivault, Peter Bennett, Anthony Head, Frank Moorey, Bessie Love, John Tynan, Michael Huston, Fran Hunter, Ryan Michael, Mark Colleano, Directors: Just Jaeckin,  Plot Summary: A film adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's novel. After a crippling injury leaves her husband impotent, Lady Chatterly is torn between her love for her husband and her physical desires. With her husband's consent, she seeks out other means of fulfilling her needs.

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Genres: Adventure | Drama | Horror | Actors: Susan Hemingway, William Berger, Herbert Fux, Ana Zanatti, Aida Vargas, Vítor Mendes, Isa Schneider, Herman José, José Viana, Patricia Da Silva, Victor de Sousa, Nicolau Breyner, Esther Studer, Dagmar Bürger, Anton Diffring, Directors: Jesus Franco,  Plot Summary: 16-year-old Maria is forced into Serra D'Aires convent, secretly run by Satanists. Her confessor is in collusion with the Mother Superior. Maria is tortured, forced into sex with men, women, and the horned Devil, and told that it's all a bad dream. She writes a letter to God, and a Knight rescues her, only to fall into the hands of the Inquisition, put on the rack, and condemned to death like Joan of Arc.

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Genres: Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller | Actors: Michael Paré, Lisa Eichhorn, Dean Devlin, Brian Thompson, Malcolm McDowell, Stephen Geoffreys, Leon Rippy, Jochen Nickel, Mehmet Yilmaz, John March, Drew Lucas, David Williamson, Calvin Burke, Andy Howarth, William Begatie, Directors: Roland Emmerich,  Plot Summary: In the year 2038, prisoners are sent as a last resort to defend a corporation's last mining colony from attacks by another corporation's robots. The capitalist spirit escalates into a zealous fervor that causes a war between rival multinational corporations. Amid this chaos, a behind-the-scenes agent is dispatched off-world to a darker corner of the universe to locate a person committing sabotage on a particular planet.

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Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller | Actors: Sean Connery, Christian Slater, Helmut Qualtinger, Elya Baskin, Michael Lonsdale, Volker Prechtel, Feodor Chaliapin Jr., William Hickey, Michael Habeck, Urs Althaus, Valentina Vargas, Ron Perlman, Leopoldo Trieste, Franco Valobra, Vernon Dobtcheff, Directors: Jean-Jacques Annaud,  Plot Summary: 1327: after a mysterious death in a Benedictine Abbey, the monks are convinced that the apocalypse is coming. With the Abbey to play host to a council on the Franciscan's Order's belief that the Church should rid itself of wealth, William of Baskerville, a respected Franciscan monk, is asked to assist in determining the cause of the untimely death. Alas, more deaths occur as the investigation draws closer to uncovering the secret the Abbey wants hidden, and there is finally no stopping the Holy Inquisition from taking an active hand in the process. William and his young novice must race against time to prove the innocence of the unjustly accused and avoid the wrath of Holy Inquisitor Bernardo Gui.

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Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Actors: Barret Oliver, Gerald McRaney, Drum Garrett, Darryl Cooksey, Nicholas Gilbert, Thomas Hill, Deep Roy, Tilo Prückner, Moses Gunn, Noah Hathaway, Alan Oppenheimer, Sydney Bromley, Patricia Hayes, Tami Stronach, Directors: Wolfgang Petersen,  Plot Summary: Chased by school bullies, reprimanded by his father for daydreaming too much Bastian is lost in his own world. Bastian escapes school bullies one rainy day by hiding in an old used book store. After explaining his predicament to the old clerk Bastian notices a large leather bound book with a symbol of two snakes intertwined into an emblem. Soon after the clerk warns Bastian that this book is not for him Bastian, rushes away with it "borrowing" it, while the clerk is in another room. Taking refuge in the attic of his school Bastian opens the book, and a world of fantasy. Learning that the wonderous, beautiful land of Fantasia is being destroyed by a terrible "Nothing" Bastian is taken deeper into the story. Soon discovering the ChildLike Empress is deathly ill, the cause; she needs a new name. A young warrior named Atreyu is called and Bastian follows his adventures, unknowing that he, himself is slowly being written into the mysterious book. Soon realizing that he is now written in the book Bastian realizes that the only one who can save Fantasia is him.

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Genres: Drama | Actors: Harry Dean Stanton, Sam Berry, Bernhard Wicki, Dean Stockwell, Claresie Mobley, Hunter Carson, Edward Fayton, Justin Hogg, Tom Farrell, John Lurie, Sam Shepard, Directors: Plot Summary: A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his wife and son four years before. As his memory returns, he makes contact with various people from his past.

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Genres: Adventure | Family | Actors: Inger Nilsson, Maria Persson, Pär Sundberg, Margot Trooger, Hans Clarin, Paul Esser, Ulf G. Johnsson, Göthe Grefbo, Fredrik Ohlsson, Öllegård Wellton, Staffan Hallerstam, Lissi Alandh, Meta Velander, Siv Ericks, Beppe Wolgers, Directors: Olle Hellbom,  Plot Summary: Pippi Longstocking, a child of incredible strength, moves by herself to a Swedish town with her monkey, horse, and a bag full of gold coins. She befriends two children, Annika and Tommy, shocks the adults of the town, defends herself from bandits, and has a reunion with her seafaring father.

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Genres: Drama | Horror | Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill, Margit Carstensen, Heinz Bennent, Johanna Hofer, Carl Duering, Shaun Lawton, Michael Hogben, Maximilian Rüthlein, Thomas Frey, Leslie Malton, Gerd Neubert, Kerstin Wohlfahrt, Ilse Bahrs, Directors: Andrzej Zulawski,  Plot Summary: A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a possessed love affair.

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Genres: Western | Actors: Lee Van Cleef, Reiner Schöne, Giampiero Albertini, Ignazio Spalla, Aldo Canti, Vassili Karis, Steffen Zacharias, John Bartha, Günther Stoll, Carmelo Reale, Franco Fantasia, Dante Cona, Gérard Boucaron, Vittorio Fanfoni, Gianni Rizzo, Directors: Plot Summary: Master gunslinger Sabata arrives in Hobsonville, a town completely owned by McIntock, a robber baron who is taxing the inhabitants for the cost of future improvements to the town. Or that's what McIntock says he'll do with the money...

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Genres: Comedy | Drama | Actors: Carole Laure, Pierre Clémenti, Anna Prucnal, Sami Frey, Jane Mallett, Roy Callender, John Vernon, Hansi Roll, Therese Schulmeister, Renata Steiger, Berndt Stein, Herbert Stumpfl, Directors: Dusan Makavejev,  Plot Summary: In the contest of the "most virgin" Miss Monde 1984, Miss Canada (Carole Laure) wins, and prize is the marriage with the milk industry tycoon (John Vernon) with his 50 billion dollars fortune. In their honeymoon, Miss Canada "does not accept" the golden penis of her husband, and with the support of the black man Jeremiah Muscle (Roy Callender), she runaways to Paris. There she meets a Latin singer, El Macho (Sami Frey), they have an intercourse in Eiffel Tour and they get stuck together. She moves to a weird anarchic community and later she becomes an actress working in a chocolate advertisement. Meanwhile, the revolutionary, pedophile, and mad killer Anna Planeta (Anna Prucnal) makes candy in her boat while sailing through the canals of a city that seems to be Amsterdam. She meets the sailor Potemkin (Pierre Clémenti) and they have a torrid affair. Meanwhile she uses her candies to seduce young boys and kill her lovers. In the middle of the story, it is presented what seem to be footages of a Nazi doctor and a slaughter in a war with many dead bodies.

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