Plaza Real (1988)

Actors: Alfred Lucchetti (actor), Walter Buschhoff (actor), José María Blanco (actor), Herbert Vesely (director), Herbert Vesely (writer), Jon Finch (actor), Ulrike Pahl (editor), Sonja Martin (actress), Jürgen Dohme (producer), Patchai Reyes (composer), Mia Nygren (actress), Antonio Reyes (composer), Wolfgang Frank (actor), Pepe Pardo (actor), Michael Flynn (actor),

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Die Herausforderung (1986)

Actors: Annekathrin Bürger (actress), Klaus Gehrke (actor), Wolfgang Greese (actor), Carl-Hermann Risse (actor), Ursula Werner (actress), Günter Wolf (actor), Hildegard Alex (actress), Kirsten Block (actress), Peer Jäger (actor), Achim Hübner (actor), Achim Hübner (director), Werner Kamenik (actor), Ulrike Mai (actress), Joachim Zschocke (actor), Walter Baumert (writer),

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Konets operatsii Rezident (1986)

Actors: Boris Khimichev (actor), Mikael Tariverdiyev (composer), Raisa Ryazanova (actress), Vatslav Dvorzhetsky (actor), Yevgeni Gerasimov (actor), Irina Rozanova (actress), Leonid Yarmolnik (actor), Georgi Zhzhyonov (actor), Pyotr Velyaminov (actor), Boris Klyuev (actor), Boris Ivanov (actor), Heino Mandri (actor), Nina Menshikova (actress), Vadim Andreev (actor), Nikolai Prokopovich (actor),

Genres: Action, Adventure,

I leilasia mias zois (1978)

Actors: Andreas Filippides (actor), Nikos Kouros (actor), Dimitris Banos (actor), Nasos Kedrakas (actor), Giannis Fyrios (actor), Vasilis Tsaglos (actor), Vagelis Protopapas (actor), Angelos Georgiadis (actor), Giorgos Grigoriou (actor), Thaleia Papazoglou (actress), Dinos Doulgerakis (actor), Nikitas Tsakiroglou (actor), Dimitris Ioakeimidis (actor), Kakia Panagiotou (actress), Alekos Mavridis (actor),

Genres: Drama, Romance,

Streng geheim - Ich war Cicero (1963)

Actors: Ruth-Maria Kubitschek (actress), Herbert Hübner (actor), Hannes Messemer (actor), Ulli Philipp (actress), Herbert Tiede (actor), Georg Hartmann (actor), Fritz Rémond Jr. (actor), Rudolf Nussgruber (director), Hans D. Bove (writer),

Genres: Drama, Thriller, War,

A Matter of WHO (1961)

Actors: Edwin Astley (composer), Vincent Ball (actor), Michael Ripper (actor), Richard Briers (actor), Terry-Thomas (actor), Guy Deghy (actor), Sonja Ziemann (actress), Honor Blackman (actress), Geoffrey Keen (actor), Eduard Linkers (actor), Martin Benson (actor), Clive Morton (actor), Alex Nicol (actor), Don Chaffey (director), Anthony Mendleson (costume designer),

Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery,

Herr Puntila und sein Knecht Matti (1957)

Actors: Paul Dessau (composer), Fred Düren (actor), Erwin Geschonneck (actor), Friedrich Gnaß (actor), Peter Kalisch (actor), Erik S. Klein (actor), Sabine Thalbach (actress), Helga Raumer (actress), Hans-Peter Minetti (actor), Regine Lutz (actress), Eva Brumby (actress), Bertolt Brecht (writer), Trude Bechmann (actress), Charlotte Küter (actress), Else Wolz (actress),

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Background to Danger (1943)

Actors: Charles La Torre (actor), Kurt Katch (actor), Carl Harbaugh (actor), Dick Botiller (actor), Frederick Giermann (actor), Jean De Briac (actor), Charles Irwin (actor), Turhan Bey (actor), Jean Del Val (actor), William Edmunds (actor), Jack Chefe (actor), John Bleifer (actor), Pedro de Cordoba (actor), Steven Geray (actor), Peter Lorre (actor),

Plot: Ankara in neutral Turkey : World War Two. A town of intrigue and of provocateurs. The Germans are planning to leak maps apparently proving that the Russians are about to invade the country. American Joe Barton is in the know and in the middle, along with Zaloshoff and his sister who may or may not be Russians. What is clear though is that odious Colonel Robinson is a full-blown Nazi.

Keywords: airplane, ambassador, ankara-turkey, assassin, assassination-attempt, automobile-accident, based-on-novel, beating, belly-dancer, berlin-germany
Genres: Drama, Thriller, War,
Taglines: Love in the midst of intrigue!

Quotes:

Nikolai Zaleshoff: Oh, you Americans, always in a hurry, hurry, business, business!

Colonel Robinson: Curious touch of the grotesque: A dead man on the floor; a condemned man sitting before me; and a Strauss waltz as a funeral march. What could be more entertaining?

'Mac' McNamara: [Last lines Asking about Joe and Tamara] What are you going to do in Moscow?::Joe Barton: We're gonna cement Russian-American relations.

Nikolai Zaleshoff: How did you know the gun wasn't loaded?::Joe Barton: By its weight.::Nikolai Zaleshoff: There might have been one bullet in it.::Joe Barton: That's the chance I had to take.::Nikolai Zaleshoff: YOU had to take?

Colonel Robinson: They're taking you downstairs to the cellars. You'll be separated from this room by several meters of stonework, but I think I'll be able to hear your reactions to Capt. Mailler's persuasive methods.

Joe Barton: When you flop in your country you end up in a coffin.

Colonel Robinson: [ To Rudick] In international diplomacy, the shortest distance between two points is never a straight line.

Joe Barton: There's a couple of numbers that won't do you any good. They're in Brooklyn.

Mailler: [Pointing a gun] Keep moving. Understand?::Joe Barton: [Reacting to the gun] That's on language I do understand.

Joe Barton: [Dryly to Robinson] You still talk as much as ever.

Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo (1937)

Actors: Sherry Hall (actor), Robert Kent (actor), Eugene Borden (actor), Sidney Blackmer (actor), Ramsay Hill (actor), Harold Huber (actor), George Davis (actor), Jean De Briac (actor), Jack Chefe (actor), Art Dupuis (actor), André Cheron (actor), Antonio Filauri (actor), John Bleifer (actor), Robert Graves (actor), Keye Luke (actor),

Plot: Chan is on a gambling vacation in Monaco. He is called upon to solve two murders. One is a casino messenger on his way to Paris with a million dollars in bonds. The other is a two-bit Chicago gangster recently tending bar in a Monte Carlo hotel. Everyone is suspect and a third of the dialogue is in French.

Keywords: alibi, aphorism, asian-comedian, asian-detective, asian-hero, asian-stereotype, banker, bartender, bigamy, bribery
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller,
Taglines: Triple murder for high stakes! A new high in mystery excitement! And laughs, too!

Quotes:

Lee Chan: Gosh, I like detective work better than painting.::Charlie Chan: If paintings as full of imagination as detective work, [Laughs] he will be Chinese Rembrandt.

Charlie Chan: Humble presence is of no more consequence than one drop of rain in cloudburst.

Lee Chan: [unable to get his hat from the hatcheck after having lost all his comp money at roulette] Oh, Pop, I haven't got a cent in my pocket.::Charlie Chan: Rejoice that you still have honorable pants.

Lee Chan: [stranded on road in broken down taxi] It's no use, Pop. We'd better start walking back.::Charlie Chan: Illustrious ancestor once say, 'Destination never reached by turning back on same.'

Lee Chan: [sitting in jail cell] Why should these officers arrest us? I told them who we are.::Charlie Chan: Fortunately assassination of French language not serious crime.

Charlie Chan: In future remember tongue often hang man quicker than rope.

Charlie Chan: [to Lee at dining table] Can assist in negotiating one order of waffles without danger of arrest?

Charlie Chan: Questions are key to door of truth.

Anna Karenina (1935)

Actors: Harry Allen (actor), Mahlon Hamilton (actor), Stanley Andrews (actor), Harry Beresford (actor), Otto Fries (actor), Mischa Auer (actor), André Cheron (actor), Davison Clark (actor), Harry Cording (actor), Gino Corrado (actor), Sidney Bracey (actor), Sam Flint (actor), Reginald Denny (actor), Adolph Faylauer (actor), Sam Harris (actor),

Plot: This version of the Tolstoy classic lingers longer in Moscow during the weeks that follow the initial meeting of the starstruck lovers-to-be Vronsky and Anna Karenina. The story -- as it unfolds -- also focuses on Kitty, a young woman who is related to Anna's sister-in-law whose marital rift has brought Anna to Moscow. Until Anna shows up, Kitty had hopes of getting Vronsky, who is single and well connected, to propose to her. Ignored by Vronsky, Kitty turns her attention to another suitor, a man who seems to have a lot in common with Tolstoy.

Keywords: 1800s, 19th-century, adultery, ballet, balls, based-on-novel, character-name-in-title, croquet, death, depression
Genres: Drama, Romance,

Quotes:

Anna Karenina: You know, Dolly, men like Stiva aren't really conscious of deception at all. They put their wives and homes in one compartment... and these other women into another.

Stiva: Levin thinks we are parasitic idlers simply because we don't plow the fields.::Levin: An excellent statement of my position.

Vronsky: Our meetings are so brief, the dance also.::Anna Karenina: But our reunions are so frequent.::Vronsky: When I leave you, I'm lost in a world of strangers. When I touch your hand, we're alone.::Anna Karenina: [Smiling as she switches dance partners] I return you to the world!

Anna Karenina: I didn't know you were going back to St. Petersburg so soon. Why this change of plan?::Vronsky: Why? To be where you are. You know that. Forgive me, I... I had to say it.::Anna Karenina: You shouldn't. You shouldn't. You must forget that you said it.::Vronsky: Nothing of you. I shall never forget anything of you.

Vronsky: I love your frown when you concentrate.::Anna Karenina: [playing croquet] How do you expect me to make this shot if you talk to me?

Karenin: For some time, I have known that in uniting my life to yours, I have made a mistake. But this I must bear for the sake of my public duty... and for the sake of my child. I believe in marriage as a sacrament. I could not consider myself justified in breaking the ties by which we are bound by a higher power. The family cannot be broken up by a... whim or a caprice or even by the... by the sin of one of the partners in the marriage. Our life must go on as it has done in the past.::Anna Karenina: But it can't go on.::Karenin: It must. I have stated these views in public, and I will not violate them in private.::Anna Karenina: Then you will not give me a divorce?::Anna Karenina: Never. Why should I? To permit you to legalize a sin? To justify your conduct and his? Never.

Karenin: You will remain here as my wife... before the world. You will never see this... this *person* again.

Anna Karenina: You say this knowing this I cannot do. There is no life for me without my child. To leave him would be infamous and base. I couldn't. And you know I couldn't.::Karenin: Very well. I can assume, then, that you will never again jeopardize my honor.::Anna Karenina: Oh, your honor! Your selfishness! Your hypocrisy! Your egotism! You've never considered me as a human being. Your social position and... your reputation. These must be kept up at what cost to those who are around you? At what cost?::Karenin: [Checking his pocket watch] It's time for my appointment at the ministry.

Vronsky: One must never pardon an insult, but may freely give one.

Anna Karenina: I feel pain. I feel tears.::Vronsky: Why?::Anna Karenina: Because I'm so happy. Not to think, only to live, only to feel.