Die Heimkehr des Joachim Ott (1980)

Actors: Ostara Körner (actress), Hansjürgen Hürrig (actor), Gerry Wolff (actor), Dieter Wien (actor), Bruno Carstens (actor), Hannes Stelzer (actor), Klaus Bamberg (actor), Ernst Kahler (actor), Gunter Schoß (actor), Willi Schrade (actor), Eberhard Mellies (actor), Jörg Panknin (actor), Herwart Grosse (actor), Carl-Hermann Risse (actor), Gertraud Last (actress),

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Nowhere to Run (1978)

Actors: John Randolph (actor), Allen Garfield (actor), James Keach (actor), Kenneth Tobey (actor), David Janssen (actor), Linda Evans (actress), Lance LeGault (actor), Stefanie Powers (actress), Charles Siebert (actor), John Finnegan (actor), Jerrold Immel (composer), Jim Byrnes (writer), Jim Byrnes (producer), Gary Griffin (editor), Anthony Eisley (actor),

Plot: Harry's married to Marian and things are not going all that well, so he wants out but somehow feels that a divorce is not the answer. After developing a winning blackjack system, he hatches a plan that takes years of preparation: to fake his death, assume a new identity and win $500,000 at blackjack. When his wife notices his peculiar behavior, she is urged by her parents to hire a private investigator to find out what he is doing. In an unusual twist of events, Harry discovers the private investigator and not only hires him to keep tabs on his wife (whom he suspects is having an affair) but they become confidants. Harry carries out his fake suicide successfully and heads for Reno to complete the rest of his plan, but he doesn't count on meeting lovely Amy and falling in love. To further complicate matters, Amy is planning to leave for Israel and Harry decides to go with her, but en route the plane is hijacked and Harry must find a way to conceal both his $500,000 blackjack winnings and his true identity.

Keywords: based-on-novel, husband-wife-relationship, private-detective, secret, three-word-title
Genres: Drama,

Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua (1975)

Actors: Klaus Maria Brandauer (actor), Hans Caninenberg (actor), Rudolf Fernau (actor), Günter Lamprecht (actor), Franz Rudnick (actor), Senta Berger (actress), Friedrich Schiller (writer), Eugen Thomass (composer), Franz Peter Wirth (director), Christine Buchegger (actress), Peter Ehrlich (actor), Sabine von Maydell (actress), Heribert Sasse (actor), Heinz Ehrenfreund (actor), Karlheinz Fiege (actor),

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Die Engel von St. Pauli (1969)

Actors: Karl Lieffen (actor), Herbert Fux (actor), Werner Pochath (actor), Horst Frank (actor), Rainer Basedow (actor), Margot Mahler (actress), Jürgen Roland (director), Herbert Taschner (editor), Siegfried Franz (composer), Gernot Endemann (actor), Günther Neutze (actor), Günter Lüdke (actor), Karl-Ulrich Meves (actor), Hans Waldherr (actor), Horst Hesslein (actor),

Genres: Crime,

The Wild Bunch (1969)

Actors: Edmond O'Brien (actor), Enrique Lucero (actor), Strother Martin (actor), Margarito Luna (actor), Ben Johnson (actor), L.Q. Jones (actor), José Chávez (actor), Emilio Fernández (actor), Alfonso Arau (actor), William Holden (actor), Ernest Borgnine (actor), Bo Hopkins (actor), Albert Dekker (actor), 'Chico' Hernandez (actor), Warren Oates (actor),

Plot: In the Wild Bunch the movie opens with a group of aging outlaw's final score, a bank robbery. The event concludes with a violent and overtly bloody shootout that would generally mark the finale of a movie. This is correct in that it marks the finale of an era, for the characters and the world they live in. They simply can no longer keep up, the times are changing, technology advancing, and they're style of life is getting left behind in the dust that they spent so long galloping through. They abandon their careers for the simpler life of retirement. They enjoy this time, they live their fantasies. During this time the law is always on their tracks, bounty hunters. The further into their fantasy they get, the closer their demise seems to get. When one of their own is captured they are faced with the choice of escape or what is certainly a suicide mission to attempt and free their fallen behind comrade. For them it is not a choice. They all die in what can only be described as a nauseatingly gore filled bloodbath of a battle. They might have succeeded in removing themselves from the wild west however they could not be separated what is inherently their nature. The west was only wild because the wild bunch were present, they influenced their surroundings, not the other way around. It is only after the final shoot out that the bounty hunters catch up with them, now only bullet riddled corpses. They never got caught, they could never get caught because they were already trapped in their own personalities. They turned themselves in to their instincts. The vacation, the fantasy, was bound to end and they knew it.

Keywords: 1910s, actual-animal-killed, afi, ambush, animal-cruelty, anti-hero, armed-child, arms-smuggling, arms-theft, atrocity
Genres: Western,
Taglines: The land had changed. They hadn't. The earth had cooled. They couldn't. They came too late and stayed too long. If you only want to spend two hours in a movie theatre and go home and forget it, stay away from THE WILD BUNCH. Suddenly a new West has emerged. Suddenly it was sundown for nine men. Suddenly their day was over. Suddenly the sky was bathed in blood. Nine men who came too late and stayed too long... Unchanged men in a changing land. Out of step, out of place and desperately out of time. Born too late for their own times. Uncommonly significant for ours.

Quotes:

Pike Bishop: I'd like to make one good score and back off...::Dutch Engstrom: Back off to what?

Pike Bishop: What would you do in his place? He gave his word.::Dutch Engstrom: He gave his word to a railroad.::Pike Bishop: It's his word.::Dutch Engstrom: That ain't what counts! It's who you give it *to*!

Don Jose: We all dream of being a child again, even the worst of us. Perhaps the worst most of all.

[last lines]::Sykes: I Didn't expect to find you here.::Deke Thornton: Why not? I sent them back; That's all I said I'd do.::Sykes: They didn't get very far.::Deke Thornton: I figured.::Sykes: What are your plans, now?::Deke Thornton: Drift around down here. Try to stay out of jail.::Sykes: Well, me and the boys got some work to do. You want to come with us? It ain't like it used to be; but it'll do.

Crazy Lee: Well, how'd you like to kiss my sister's black cat's ass?

Pike Bishop: We're not gonna get rid of anybody! We're gonna stick together, just like it used to be! When you side with a man, you stay with him! And if you can't do that, you're like some animal, you're finished! *We're* finished! All of us!

Pike Bishop: If they move, kill 'em!

Pike Bishop: [Holding a lit cigar to the fuses] You know what this is?::Herrera: Cuidado!::Pike Bishop: Any trouble, no guns for the General.::Herrera: Ha, ha-ha-ha-ha. Very smart. That's very smart for you damn gringos. So nobody can rob the guns.::Pike Bishop: Nobody.::Herrera: I am not afraid. They are not afraid. You blow up the wagon, you die. Or we kill you pretty soon. But we are amigos.

Dutch Engstrom: [impressed] Well, I'd say those fellas know how to handle themselves!::Sykes: They been fightin' Apaches for a thousand years; That's a sure way to learn.::Pike Bishop: They ever get armed, with good leaders, this whole country'll go up in smoke!::Sykes: That it will son, that it will.::Lyle Gorch: They made damn fools out of us, Mr. Bishop! Gettin' so a feller can't sleep with both eyes closed for fear of gettin' his throat cut. Where in hell were you?::Tector Gorch: Now you listen to me, Lyle - You get up off your ass and help once in a while, I wouldn'a got caught near s'easy.

Deke Thornton: What I like and what I need are two different things.

Nazi Agent (1942)

Actors: Marc Lawrence (actor), Wilbur Mack (actor), Baldwin Cooke (actor), Martin Kosleck (actor), Sidney Blackmer (actor), Robert Homans (actor), Ernie Alexander (actor), Roy Barcroft (actor), Rudolph Anders (actor), Edward Hearn (actor), Jack Daley (actor), Mark Daniels (actor), Walter Byron (actor), William Bailey (actor), George Magrill (actor),

Plot: A story of German-born identical twins (both played by Veidt), one a loyal American and the other, a Nazi official. The American is forced to help a group of German spies, but eventually rebels, kills his brother, impersonates him, and exposes the ring.

Keywords: airplane-crash, bird, blackmail, bookstore, brother-vs-brother, butler, chauffeur, code, coercion, consul
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: The Girl and the Gestapo! Hidden enemies! It's thrilling!!

Der müde Tod (1921)

Actors: Walter Janssen (actor), Walter Janssen (actor), Walter Janssen (actor), Paul Biensfeldt (actor), Louis Brody (actor), Walter Janssen (actor), Wilhelm Diegelmann (actor), Wilhelm Diegelmann (actor), Bernhard Goetzke (actor), Bernhard Goetzke (actor), Bernhard Goetzke (actor), Bernhard Goetzke (actor), Bernhard Goetzke (actor), Louis Brody (actor), Walter Janssen (actor),

Plot: As a young couple stops and rests in a small village inn, the man is abducted by Death and is sequestered behind a huge doorless, windowless wall. The woman finds a mystic entrance and is met by Death, who tells her three separate stories set in exotic locales, all involving circumstances similar to hers. In each story, a woman, trying to save her lover from his ultimate tragic fate, fails. The young lady realizes the meaning of the tales and takes the only step she can to reunite herself with her lover.

Keywords: caliph, candle, carnival-of-venice, cemetery, china, chinese-emperor, cross-dressing, death, death-of-loved-one, death-personified
Genres: Fantasy, Thriller,

Quotes:

Junge Maedchen: You dread, awful cactus, you!