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1. Superman (1978)
PG | 143 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
An alien orphan is sent from his dying planet to Earth, where he grows up to become his adoptive home's first and greatest superhero.
Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Gene Hackman, Marlon Brando
Votes: 187,458 | Gross: $134.22M
2. The Odessa File (1974)
PG | 130 min | Drama, Thriller
Following the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, a journalist in possession of the man's diary investigates the alleged sighting of a former S.S. Captain, who commanded a concentration camp during World War II.
Director: Ronald Neame | Stars: Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell, Maria Schell, Mary Tamm
Votes: 12,069 | Gross: $1.11M
3. White Nights (1957)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama, Romance
A humble clerk courts a woman who awaits her lover's return night after night.
Director: Luchino Visconti | Stars: Maria Schell, Marcello Mastroianni, Jean Marais, Marcella Rovena
Votes: 8,998
4. Kojak (1973–1978)
TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in his city.
Stars: Telly Savalas, Dan Frazer, Kevin Dobson, George Savalas
Votes: 8,873
5. The Hanging Tree (1959)
Approved | 107 min | Western
Unusual western about a doctor with a dark past, whose life is complicated and ultimately redeemed by a young thief, and a pretty Swiss immigrant whom he nurses back to health.
Directors: Delmer Daves, Karl Malden, Vincent Sherman | Stars: Gary Cooper, Maria Schell, Karl Malden, George C. Scott
Votes: 4,751
6. Cimarron (1960)
Approved | 147 min | Drama, Romance, Western
The Oklahoma Land Run of April 1889 sets the stage for an epic saga of a frontier adventurer, his wife and family and their friends.
Directors: Anthony Mann, Charles Walters | Stars: Glenn Ford, Maria Schell, Anne Baxter, Arthur O'Connell
Votes: 3,423
7. Voyage of the Damned (1976)
PG | 155 min | Drama, War
The tragic 1939 voyage of SS St. Louis carrying hundreds of German Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany that seemingly no nation is willing to save from certain doom.
Director: Stuart Rosenberg | Stars: Faye Dunaway, Oskar Werner, Lee Grant, Sam Wanamaker
Votes: 3,402
8. Tatort (1970– )
TV-14 | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An anthology series that follows the work of homicide detectives in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Stars: Klaus J. Behrendt, Miroslav Nemec, Udo Wachtveitl, Dietmar Bär
Votes: 3,065
9. The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
Approved | 145 min | Drama, Romance
Drama based on Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky's homonymous novel about the proud Karamazov family in 1870s Russia.
Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Yul Brynner, Maria Schell, Claire Bloom, Lee J. Cobb
Votes: 3,054
10. The Martian Chronicles (1980)
360 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
In the 21st century, Earth begins the colonization of Mars. However, things do not go as planned, at first due to the hostile Martian natives and later because of the self-destructive Earthmen.
Stars: Rock Hudson, Gayle Hunnicutt, Bernie Casey, Christopher Connelly
Votes: 2,511
11. Derrick (1974–1998)
60 min | Crime, Drama
Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant, Inspector Harry Klein, solve murder cases in Munich and surrounding areas.
Stars: Horst Tappert, Fritz Wepper, Willy Schäfer, Holger Petzold
Votes: 1,841
12. What's My Line? (1950–1967)
30 min | Family, Game-Show
Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.
Stars: John Daly, Arlene Francis, Bennett Cerf, Dorothy Kilgallen
Votes: 1,769
13. Gervaise (1956)
116 min | Drama
A poor laundrywoman tries to cope with a depressing burden of society.
Director: René Clément | Stars: Maria Schell, François Périer, Jany Holt, Mathilde Casadesus
Votes: 1,644
14. 99 Women (1969)
Unrated | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A new female inmate at an island prison is abused by fellow convicts and staff, and her disillusionment with the new warden prompts her to join in an attempted breakout and mutiny.
Directors: Jesús Franco, Bruno Mattei | Stars: Maria Schell, Luciana Paluzzi, Mercedes McCambridge, Herbert Lom
Votes: 1,593
15. Night of the Blood Monster (1970)
PG | 84 min | Biography, Horror
Sir Christopher Lee plays the Lord Chief Justice of seventeenth century England who condemns women as witches to further his political and sexual needs.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Christopher Lee, Maria Schell, Leo Genn, Hans Hass Jr.
Votes: 1,527
16. The Magic Box (1951)
Approved | 118 min | Biography, Drama, History
A chronicle of the life of William Friese-Greene, a British inventor and early pioneer in cinema.
Director: John Boulting | Stars: Robert Donat, Maria Schell, Renée Asherson, Richard Attenborough
Votes: 1,418
17. Wetten, dass..? (1981– )
165 min | Comedy, Game-Show, Music
Long-running German TV show airing in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In this self-proclaimed "greatest European TV show" ordinary people try daring or even funny bets. A celebrity is challenged to guess of the person is able to do it.
Stars: Thomas Gottschalk, Frank Elstner, Mirjam Weichselbraun, Michelle Hunziker
Votes: 1,274
18. The Passerby (1982)
110 min | Drama
Being imprisoned for murdering a politician, husband tells his wife why he did this.
Director: Jacques Rouffio | Stars: Romy Schneider, Michel Piccoli, Helmut Griem, Dominique Labourier
Votes: 1,197
19. Just a Gigolo (1978)
R | 147 min | Drama
After World War I, a war hero returns to Berlin to find that there's no place for him--he has no skills other than what he learned in the army, and can only find menial, low-paying jobs. He decides to become a gigolo to lonely rich women.
Director: David Hemmings | Stars: David Bowie, Sydne Rome, Kim Novak, David Hemmings
Votes: 1,151
20. Liquid Television (1991–1994)
TV-14 | 30 min | Animation, Comedy, Crime
MTV's classic, surreal, experimental, grotesque, macabre and darkly humorous animation anthology featuring both serialized and one-off segments. The show also features music videos and rare live action and puppet segments.
Stars: Holly Payne, Robert Scull, William Waghorn, Mandy Perryment
Votes: 1,019
21. The Devil by the Tail (1969)
M/PG | 90 min | Comedy
A Marquise who lures motorists to her hotel by sabotaging their cars gets more than she bargains for when one guest turns out to be a bank robber on the run.
Director: Philippe de Broca | Stars: Yves Montand, Madeleine Renaud, Maria Schell, Jean Rochefort
Votes: 995
22. The Mark (1961)
Approved | 127 min | Drama
A man who served prison time for intent to molest a child tries to build a new life with the help of a sympathetic psychiatrist.
Director: Guy Green | Stars: Maria Schell, Stuart Whitman, Rod Steiger, Brenda de Banzie
Votes: 993
23. Die Harald Schmidt Show (1995–2004)
60 min | Comedy, Talk-Show
Celebrity talk show hosted by "Dirty Harry" Schmidt.
Stars: Harald Schmidt, Helmut Zerlett, Nathalie Licard, Peter Rütten
Votes: 819
24. Inside the Third Reich (1982 TV Movie)
240 min | Biography, Drama, History
A dramatization of the life of Albert Speer (Rutger Hauer), Adolf Hitler's (Sir Derek Jacobi's) young architect and one-time confidant, and his meteoric rise into the Nazi hierarchy. This movie is based on Speer's autobiography of the same name.
Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: Rutger Hauer, John Gielgud, Maria Schell, Blythe Danner
Votes: 702
25. Das Traumschiff (1981– )
60 min | Drama, Romance
Every episode features a cruise to a different spectacular location aboard a German luxury liner. There are usually several storylines, mostly of the romantic kind, involving the passengers... See full summary »
Stars: Heide Keller, Horst Naumann, Siegfried Rauch, Sascha Hehn
Votes: 625
26. Napoleon (1955)
190 min | Biography, Drama, War
Napoléon Bonaparte's life, loves and exceptional destiny from 1769 to 1821, but as seen through the eyes of Talleyrand, the cynical and ironic politician who once was the Emperor of France's Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Director: Sacha Guitry | Stars: Jean-Pierre Aumont, Jeanne Boitel, Pierre Brasseur, Gianna Maria Canale
Votes: 615
27. The Mike Douglas Show (1961–1982)
Comedy, Music, Talk-Show
Mike Douglas, aided by a different celebrity co-host every week, interviews a variety of figures from the world of entertainment.
Stars: Mike Douglas, Ellie Frankel, Ellie Frankel Sextet, Stan Kann
Votes: 579
28. The Heart of the Matter (1953)
Approved | 100 min | Crime, Drama
An unhappily married British security officer stationed in Sierra Leone during World War II falls in love with a young Austrian woman and starts an affair. He soon starts feeling guilty.
Director: George More O'Ferrall | Stars: Trevor Howard, Elizabeth Allan, Maria Schell, Denholm Elliott
Votes: 544
29. The Last Bridge (1954)
102 min | Drama, War
A German nurse gets sent to the front because she gives medical aid to a wounded Serbian partisan during World War II.
Director: Helmut Käutner | Stars: Maria Schell, Bernhard Wicki, Barbara Rütting, Carl Möhner
Votes: 452
30. Playhouse 90 (1956–1961)
90 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Of the many anthology series, this is considered the most ambitious with outstanding talent in front of the camera. Attracting top ranked directors and scripts, it was often filmed live including the entire first season.
Stars: Richard Joy, Paul Lambert, Helen Kleeb, Charles Bickford
Votes: 419
31. The Rats (1955)
91 min | Drama
In the early Fifties Pauline Karka (Maria Schell) comes to Berlin. She is pregnant and totally penniless. She meets the laundry owner Anna John (Heidemarie Hatheyer) who always yearned to ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Maria Schell, Curd Jürgens, Heidemarie Hatheyer, Gustav Knuth
Votes: 372
32. One Life (1958)
Not Rated | 86 min | Drama
Normandy, second half of the nineteenth century. Jeanne Dandieu lives in a manor house with her parents and their servant Rosalie. She gets to know Julien, a handsome man, whom she soon ... See full summary »
Director: Alexandre Astruc | Stars: Maria Schell, Christian Marquand, Pascale Petit, Louis Arbessier
Votes: 355
33. The Twist (1976)
107 min | Comedy
Bored aristocratic Parisian couples begin affairs with each other which only brings trouble.
Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Bruce Dern, Stéphane Audran, Sydne Rome, Jean-Pierre Cassel
Votes: 354
34. Král Drozdia brada (1984)
90 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A fairy-tale about a beautiful but very haughty princess Anna who cruelly mocks each of her suitors. Finally she is forced by the king to marry a beggar. The poor life, hard work and love ... See full summary »
Director: Miloslav Luther | Stars: Adriana Tarábková, Lukás Vaculík, Maria Schell, Gerhard Olschewski
Votes: 333
35. Der Kommissar (1969–1976)
60 min | Crime, Drama
Stars: Erik Ode, Reinhard Glemnitz, Günther Schramm, Helma Seitz
Votes: 298
36. So Little Time (1952)
88 min | Drama, Romance, War
During World War II, German soldiers occupy the home of a beautiful Belgian girl and her mother.
Director: Compton Bennett | Stars: Maria Schell, Marius Goring, Lucie Mannheim, Gabrielle Dorziat
Votes: 267
37. Samson and Delilah (1984 TV Movie)
95 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
The long haired biblical strongman Samson falls in love with beautiful temptress Delilah in Philistine.
Director: Lee Philips | Stars: Max von Sydow, Belinda Bauer, Stephen Macht, Daniel Stern
Votes: 250
38. Kraft Theatre (1947–1958)
60 min | Drama
A well-received anthology series presenting live television dramas.
Stars: Ed Herlihy, Vaughn Taylor, Valerie Cossart, Dan Morgan
Votes: 222
39. Duel in the Forest (1958)
115 min | Crime, Drama, History
The movie reports the historical story of Schinderhannes, based on a play by Carl Zuckmayr. Johannes Bückler, this his real name, led a band of brigands in the Hunsrück mountains during Napoleonic times.
Director: Helmut Käutner | Stars: Curd Jürgens, Maria Schell, Christian Wolff, Fritz Tillmann
Votes: 206
40. Meine Schwester Maria (2002)
Unrated | 90 min | Documentary, Drama
A gentle portrait by the famous German-Swiss-Austrian Hollywood actor Maximilian Schell about his no less famous sister Maria.
Director: Maximilian Schell | Stars: Maria Schell, Maximilian Schell, Gerhard Hannak, Harry Stuhlhofer
Votes: 196
41. Klimbim (1973–1979)
45 min | Comedy, Music
The humor of Klimbim moves between slapstick, absurdity and disrespect and is often presented frivolous-provocative.
Stars: Ingrid Steeger, Elisabeth Volkmann, Wichart von Roëll, Helmut Holger
Votes: 194
42.
The Martian Chronicles (1980)
Episode:
The Expeditions
(1980)
98 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
The exploration of Mars begins with two failed expeditions. Colonel Wilder then leads a crew to discover the secret of Mars - only to find all the Martians dead from chicken pox.
Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: Rock Hudson, Gayle Hunnicutt, Bernie Casey, Christopher Connelly
Votes: 164
43. The Angel with the Trumpet (1950)
98 min | Drama
In the nineteenth century, a young Austrian woman marries into a wealthy family and witnesses the country change through the course of four decades.
Director: Anthony Bushell | Stars: Eileen Herlie, Basil Sydney, Norman Wooland, Maria Schell
Votes: 162
44. The Making of Superman: The Movie (1980 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary
Ernie Anderson narrates this look at the making of Richard Donner's blockbuster 1978 film. Behind-the-scenes footage, as well as scenes from the film, reveal just how audiences were able to... See full summary »
Director: Iain Johnstone | Stars: Ernie Anderson, Christopher Reeve, Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman
Votes: 156
45.
The Martian Chronicles (1980)
Episode:
The Settlers
(1980)
98 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
With native Martians wiped out by disease, thousands of humans now colonize the red planet and attempt to create a second Earth.
Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: Rock Hudson, Gayle Hunnicutt, Bernie Casey, Christopher Connelly
Votes: 147
46.
The Martian Chronicles (1980)
Episode:
The Martians
(1980)
97 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
With Earth destroyed in a nuclear war, Colonel Wilder finds himself alone with his family on Mars. To rebuild what he has lost, Wilder chooses to make Mars his new home.
Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: Rock Hudson, Gayle Hunnicutt, Bernie Casey, Darren McGavin
Votes: 137
47. Reflets de Cannes (1952– )
Documentary
The first show of the French television about movies; the only one dedicated to the Cannes Film Festival. Features interviews and backstage footage devoted to the event, the gala evenings, the competing films, and everyday life in Cannes.
Stars: François Chalais, Jean Cocteau, Marcel Achard, Michèle Morgan
Votes: 135
48. Dalli Dalli (1971–1986)
90 min | Game-Show
There are eight prominent candidates in teams of two against each other.
Stars: Hans Rosenthal, Monika Sundermann, Brigitte Xander, Mady Riehl
Votes: 124
49. Nineteen Nineteen (1985)
99 min | Drama
Two former patients of Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud meet again and discuss their psychiatric treatment 65 years earlier, reopening the wounds of the past, and questioning whether they were healed.
Director: Hugh Brody | Stars: Paul Scofield, Maria Schell, Frank Finlay, Diana Quick
Votes: 122
50.
Kojak (1973–1978)
Episode:
The Pride and the Princess
(1976)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A nun is shot in a churchyard by an assailant. Later she escapes from the hospital, and Kojak learns she is not a real nun but a dethroned Yugoslavian princess who, with the help of her ... See full summary »
Director: Charles S. Dubin | Stars: Telly Savalas, Dan Frazer, Kevin Dobson, George Savalas
Votes: 115