3 Movies Starring Dieter Laser

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1975-10-10

Languages:

German

Countries:

West Germany

Runtime:

106 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (2618 Reviews)

Genres:

CrimeDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Heinrich Bèll (novel)

Volker Schlèndorff (screenplay)

Margarethe von Trotta (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Katharina Blum is a young handsome German maid. She meets Ludwig, and they fall in love at once. They spend the night together. In the morning, the police bursts in her flat, looking for Ludwig : he is a terrorist. But he was no longer here. Katharina is arrested, humiliated, suspected to be a terrorist herself, dragged in the mud by the newspapers... A plea for democracy and individual rights.

Die glèserne Zelle

Die glèserne Zelle

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1981-05-01

Languages:

German

Countries:

West Germany, Portugal

Runtime:

93 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (72 Reviews)

Genres:

CrimeDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Klaus Bèdekerl

Hans W. Geissendèrfer

Patricia Highsmith (novel)

Fullplot:

The architect Phillip Braun is framed by his former employer Lasky that embezzles the money that should be used to buy suitable material of a construction that collapses, killing a person. Phillip is wrongly imprisoned and for five years his lawyer David Reinalt is not capable to prove that Lasky is the responsible for the accident. When Phillip is released, he meets his beautiful wife Lisa Braun and then his son Timmie. Soon Lasky seeks Philip out to poison the relationship of his wife with David. Lisa is very close to David and Phillip becomes suspicious of their friendship. David finds a job for Phillip with a friend of him and he tells that Lasky is pressing him because he is still trying to prove Phillip's innocence. Soon Lisa confesses to her husband that she had a brief two-week love affair with David a long time ago when he was in prison, but now they are only friends. Phillips is disturbed with the revelation and his jealous increases while Lisa frequently visits David. One day, Phillip visits David and he tells that he has just saved his life since Lasky was trying to kill him. But Phillip kills David with a statue and cleans his fingerprints. Lasky and Phillip becomes the prime suspect of Police Commissioner èsterreicher. However, Lasky had bugged David's apartment and he blackmails Phillip with an audio tape. What will Phillip do?

The Human Centipede (First Sequence)

The Human Centipede (First Sequence)

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2010-04-28

Languages:

English, German, Japanese

Countries:

Netherlands

Runtime:

92 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

4.5 (52597 Reviews)

Director:

Tom Six

Genres:

Horror

Fullplot:

Two pretty but ditsy American girls are on a road trip through Europe. In Germany, they end up alone at night with a broken car in the woods. They search for help and find an isolated villa. The next day, they awaken to find themselves trapped in a terrifying makeshift basement hospital along with a Japanese man. An older German man identifies himself as a retired surgeon specialized in separating Siamese twins. However, his three "patients" are not about to be separated but joined together in a horrific operation. He plans to be the first person to connect people via their gastric systems. By doing so, he plans to bring to life his sick lifetime fantasy, the human centipede.

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