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The Black Hole

The Black Hole (1979) more movies like this

directed by Gary Nelson
featuring Maximilian Schell, Anthony Perkins, Robert Forster, Joseph Bottoms, Yvette Mimieux

An ambitious sci-fier from the Disney folks, The Black Hole takes place in the future. A quintet of space travelers stumble across a "black hole." Not wishing to be sucked into the void, the crew prepares to flee, but stops long enough to investigate a mysterious space vessel near the entrance of the hole. Manning this craft is mad scientist Dr. ...

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Cross of Iron

Cross of Iron (1976) more movies like this

directed by Sam Peckinpah
featuring James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason, David Warner, Klaus Löwitsch

A quote from Bertolt Brecht ends this bitter and angry war film by Sam Peckinpah: "Do not rejoice in his defeat, you men. For though the world has stood up and stopped the bastard, the bitch that bore him is in heat again." Peckinpah's intense and belligerently non-commercial work, (based on the book by Willi Heinrich), is a World War II tale told ...

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Julia

Julia (1977) more movies like this

directed by Fred Zinnemann
featuring Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards, Jr., Maximilian Schell, Hal Holbrook

The film traces the lifelong relationship between playwright Lillian Hellman and Julia, a wealthy girl who turns her back on her upbringing to follow her ideals. In the 1930s, while the adult Hellman (Jane Fonda) struggles to establish herself as a playwright with the help of her lover, Dashiell Hammett (Jason Robards), Julia (Vanessa Redgrave) ...

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Judgment at Nuremberg

Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) more movies like this

directed by Stanley Kramer
featuring Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich, Maximilian Schell, Judy Garland, Montgomery Clift, Werner Klemperer

After the end of World War II, the world gradually became aware of the full extent of the war crimes perpetrated by the Third Reich. In 1948, a series of trials were held in Nuremberg, Germany, by an international tribunal, headed by American legal and military officials, with the intent of bringing to justice those guilty of crimes against ...

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Vampires

Vampires (1998) more movies like this

directed by John Carpenter
featuring James Woods, Daniel Baldwin, Sheryl Lee, Thomas Ian Griffith, Tim Guinee, Maximilian Schell

John Carpenter directed this horror-western, adapted from the novel Vampire$ by John Steakley, illuminating the pivotal figure of fearless vampire killer Jack Crow (James Woods), who lost his parents to the creatures. In a remote New Mexico location, Crow and his team, protected with chain-mail fang shields on their throats, blast away at a ...

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The Odessa File

The Odessa File (1974) more movies like this

directed by Ronald Neame
featuring Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell, Maria Schell, Mary Tamm, Derek Jacobi

The Odessa File is set in Hamburg in the winter of 1963. Jon Voight plays Peter Miller, a German reporter who is investigating the whereabouts of missing Nazi war criminals. After reading the diary of a Holocaust survivor who has recently committed suicide, Miller goes on the trail of in-hiding SS officer Eduard Roschmann (Maximilian Schell). The ...

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Topkapi

Topkapi (1964) more movies like this

directed by Jules Dassin
featuring Melina Mercouri, Peter Ustinov, Maximilian Schell, Robert Morley, Akim Tamiroff

After years of enduring movie lampoons of his 1955 crime-caper classic Rififi, director Jules Dassin topped them all with his own spoof, Topkapi. It's a rather disreputable crew that teams for the elaborate jewel theft masterminded by Maximillian Schell. Sexy Melina Mercouri (Mrs. Dassin) is probably the best of the batch: the others are faffling ...

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Heidi

Heidi (1968) more movies like this

directed by Delbert Mann
featuring Maximilian Schell, Jean Simmons

Made-for-television adaptation of Johanna Spyri's classic children's tale about an orphaned girl who goes to live with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps. Nicole Gagne, All Movie Guide

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Krakatoa, East of Java

Krakatoa, East of Java (1969) more movies like this

directed by Bernard Kowalski
featuring Maximilian Schell, Diane Baker, Brian Keith, Barbara Werle, John Leyton

Volcano is the reissue title of the muddled disaster flick Krakatoa: East of Java. The name change was reportedly put into effect after thousands of filmgoers noted publicly that Krakatoa is west of Java. As might be expected, the story takes place in 1883, when the long-dormant volcano at Krakatoa erupted with A-bomb force. Since everyone knows ...

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A Far Off Place

A Far Off Place (1993) more movies like this

directed by Mikael Salomon
featuring Reese Witherspoon, Jack Thompson, Sarel Bok, Maximilian Schell

The directorial debut of Academy Award-nominated cinematographer Mikael Salomon (The Abyss), A Far Off Place is based on a pair of books by novelist Laurens Van der Post. Reese Witherspoon stars as Nonnie Parker, a young girl living on an African game preserve with her parents. Ethan Embry is Harry Winslow, the snooty son of a visiting dignitary. ...

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The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years (1996) more movies like this

directed by Kevin James Dobson
featuring Richard Chamberlain, Amanda Donohoe, Maximilian Schell, Zach English

This follow-up to the wildly popular miniseries The Thorn Birds (based on the best-selling novel by Colleen McCullough) tells the tale of a period during World War II that was not covered in the original story. In 1943, Father Ralph de Bricassart (Richard Chamberlain) is a Catholic priest who loves Meggie (Amanda Donohoe), with whom he had an ...

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The Chosen (1981) more movies like this

directed by Jeremy Kagan
featuring Maximilian Schell, Rod Steiger, Robby Benson, Barry Miller, Hildy Brooks

The overemphatic acting of Robby Benson was something of an endurance test to certain critics of the 1980s, but even these carpers were impressed by Benson's outstanding performance in The Chosen. Set in the Brooklyn of the 1940s, the film elucidates the friendship between two young Jews of differing factions. Benson is Hassidic, while Barry ...

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Little Odessa (1994) more movies like this

directed by James Gray
featuring Tim Roth, Edward Furlong, Moira Kelly, Vanessa Redgrave, Maximilian Schell

A somber portrait of organized crime and family trauma, Little Odessa centers on the trouble caused when hit man Joshua Shapira (Tim Roth) returns to his old neighborhood of Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. A hired killer for the Russian Mafia, Joshua is given an assignment in his hometown, where he renews contact with his younger brother Reuben (Edward ...

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Players (1979) more movies like this

directed by Anthony Harvey
featuring Ali MacGraw, Dean Paul Martin, Maximilian Schell, Pancho Gonzales, Steve Guttenberg

A young man and an older woman wonder if tennis is the only place where love means nothing in this romantic drama. Twenty-something Chris (Dean Paul Martin) is a rising star on the professional tennis circuit. Nicole (Ali MacGraw) is an artist in her early 40s who's involved with a wealthy man. Chris falls for Nicole, but while she's certainly ...

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St. Ives (1976) more movies like this

directed by J. Lee Thompson
featuring Charles Bronson, John Houseman, Jacqueline Bisset, Maximilian Schell, Harry Guardino

Ex-crime reporter turned novelist Raymond St. Ives (Charles Bronson) is drawn back into the world of his former profession by wealthy Abner Procane (John Houseman). St. Ives is hired to locate a stolen set of ledgers that, if made public, could trigger an all-out mob war. Amazingly, St. Ives fails to recognize who his real friends and enemies are ...

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The Eighteenth Angel (1997) more movies like this

directed by William Bindley
featuring Christopher McDonald, Maximilian Schell, Rachael Leigh Cook, Stanley Tucci, Wendy Crewson

This ominous apocalypse thriller sports a fairly ambitious but ultimately confusing plot involving a prophecy which proclaims that the return of Satan will be precipitated by the arrival of eighteen physically-perfect angelic beings. In order to fulfill the prophecy, a secret sect of Etruscan monks conspire with an obsessed geneticist to ...

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Avalanche Express (1979) more movies like this

directed by Mark Robson
featuring Robert Shaw, Lee Marvin, Linda Evans, Maximilian Schell, Michael Connors

Lee Marvin plays a CIA agent who lures a Soviet biological warfare expert aboard a European train in the hopes of murdering the expert, thus eliminating a world threat. Things go awry when the train is caught in an avalanche. All Movie Guide

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Telling Lies In America (1997) more movies like this

directed by Guy Ferland
featuring Kevin Bacon, Brad Renfro, Maximilian Schell, Calista Flockhart, Paul Dooley

Karchy Jonas (Brad Renfro) was born in Hungary and immigrated to Cleveland, Ohio in the early 1960s where he felt adrift in a strange sea of American culture. Jonas tries to fit in at the Catholic high school he attends but finds himself a laughing stock. At home, his stern father (Maximilian Schell) insists that he adhere to traditional Hungarian ...

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My Sister Maria (2004) more movies like this

directed by Maximilian Schell
featuring Maria Schell, Maximilian Schell

Eighteen years after his acclaimed 1984 documentary on Marlene Dietrich, actor/director Maximilian Schell has created another moving portrait of a German-speaking actress, this time his own sister. Meine Schwester Maria documents the rapid rise and decline of Maria Schell, the briefly beloved star of such films as Die Ratten and The Brothers ...

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Der Rosengarten (1989) more movies like this

directed by Fons Rademakers
featuring Liv Ullmann, Maximilian Schell, Peter Fonda, Jan Niklas, Katarina Lena Muller

The US/German co-production The Rose Garden is based on an actual court case. Cast against type, Maximillian Schell plays a shabby old man who, without warning, attacks well-to-do Kurt Hubner at the Frankfurt airport. Hubner presses charges, and it looks like an open-and-shut case. But public-defender Liv Ullmann, who has witnessed the incident, ...

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The Song of the Lark (2000) more movies like this

directed by Karen Arthur
featuring Alison Elliott, Maximilian Schell, Tony Goldwyn, Arliss Howard

Acclaimed author Willa Cather offers a moving tale of an artist's self-discovery in a semi-autobiographical tale concerning a young woman from rural Colorado who moves to the big city to seek her fortune as a world-famous opera star. Originally aired as part of PBS' popular Masterpiece Theatre series, The Song of the Lark details the passion of ...

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The Assisi Underground (1984) more movies like this

directed by Alexander Ramati
featuring Ben Cross, James Mason, Irene Papas, Maximilian Schell, Karlheinz Hackl

Set during World War II, The Assisi Underground deals with the efforts made by a handful of hardy European souls to rescue Jews from the Holocaust. Ben Cross plays a dynamic young Catholic priest who puts his own life on the line to save thousands of refugees from Nazi-occupied Italy. While the role of the Vatican in the war is still a matter of ...

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The Man in the Glass Booth (1975) more movies like this

directed by Arthur Hiller
featuring Maximilian Schell, Lois Nettleton, Luther Adler, Lawrence Pressman, Henry Brown

Actor/writer Robert Shaw's powerhouse stage play The Man in the Glass Booth was transferred to the screen as part of the American Film Theatre series. Maximilian Schell plays Arthur Goldman, a Jewish businessmen living in Manhattan in 1965. A group of Israeli underground agents barge into Goldman's office and kidnap him. He is brought to Israel, ...

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The Reluctant Saint (1962) more movies like this

directed by Edward Dmytryk
featuring Maximilian Schell, Ricardo Montalban, Lea Padovani, Akim Tamiroff, Mark Damon

Directed by Edward Dmytryk, The Reluctant Saint is based on the life of Saint Joseph of Cupertino. When young Giuseppe Diesa (Maximilian Schell) is sent to work at a monastery circa 17th century Italy -- his parents believed he was mentally challenged -- he surprises a local bishop by his incredible relationship with the monastery's animals. ...

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Amo Non Amo (1979) more movies like this

directed by Armenia Balducci
featuring Jacqueline Bisset, Maximilian Schell, Terence Stamp, Monica Guerritore

In a resort town near Rome, Louise (Jacqueline Bisset) attempts to cope with her divorce, a new career, and John (Maximilian Schell), a boyfriend who is not much of an improvement on the husband she left behind. She has a demanding son, a demanding career, a demanding lover, and makes some impossible demands on herself. She gets together with a ...

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