8 Movies Starring Helmut Griem

The Damned

The Damned

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1969-12-18

Languages:

Italian, German

Countries:

Italy, West Germany

Runtime:

156 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (4943 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Nicola Badalucco (story)

Enrico Medioli (story)

Luchino Visconti (story)

Fullplot:

The power and fortune of the Von Essenbeck family remained intact even when Germany lost the great war and during the depression that followed. Now it's 1934 and the baron has summoned his family to a dinner that also brings a cousin rising in the Nazi party to the great house accompanied by a rising manager at the baron's company. Two little girls recite poetry in the parlor and then play hide-and-seek with their cousin Martin. Suddenly there is a scream. The baron has been shot with their father's gun and the father flees the country.

The McKenzie Break

The McKenzie Break

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1971-05-01

Languages:

English, German

Countries:

Ireland, UK

Runtime:

108 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

6.5 (1092 Reviews)

Director:

Lamont Johnson

Cast:

Writer:

William W. Norton (screenplay)

Sidney Shelley (novel)

Fullplot:

Cabaret

Cabaret

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1972-02-13

Languages:

English, German, Hebrew, French

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

124 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

7.9 (33951 Reviews)

Director:

Bob Fosse

Cast:

Writer:

Joe Masteroff (based on the musical play "Cabaret" book by)

John Van Druten (based on the play by)

Christopher Isherwood (stories)

Jay Presson Allen (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Sally Bowles, an American singer in 1930s Berlin, falls in love with bi-sexual Brian. They are both then seduced by Max, a rich playboy. Sally becomes pregnant, and Brian offers to marry her... All the characters are linked by the Kit-Kat club, a nightspot where Sally sings.

The Desert of the Tartars

The Desert of the Tartars

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1976-10-29

Languages:

Italian

Countries:

Italy, France, West Germany

Runtime:

140 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (1196 Reviews)

Director:

Valerio Zurlini

Cast:

Writer:

Dino Buzzati (novel)

Andrè G. Brunelin (story)

Jean-Louis Bertuccelli (story)

Valerio Zurlini (dialogue)

Andrè G. Brunelin (screenplay)

Fullplot:

As his first assignment, lieutenant Drogo is sent to an isolated fortress on the borders of a desert and of a range of high mountains. The mission of the garrison is to prevent a possible incursion by the fearsome Tartars, coming from beyond the desert. Some fellow officers are eagerly awaiting an attack; some no longer want to believe in it; others take advantage of the vague threat to further their career. All of them are sacrificing everything -- health, youth, friends, family -- for a distant military ideal: leading the defence against the onslaught of the enemy. But in the vast emptiness surrounding the fortress, nobody has ever sighted the Tartars...

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 Meetings of Anna

The Meetings of Anna

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1978-11-08

Languages:

French

Countries:

France, Belgium, West Germany

Runtime:

120 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.5 (552 Reviews)

Director:

Chantal Akerman

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

Anna, a detached and diffident director, arrives in Germany to show her latest film; she checks into a hotel, invites a stranger to her bed, and abruptly tells him to leave. He asks her to a birthday lunch with his mother and daughter; she goes. Afterward, in Cologne, she meets an old friend, a Polish Jew and war refugee. In Brussels, she spends the night at a hotel with her mother, whom she rarely sees. On the train, a stranger tells his story. Last, it's home to Paris, where her lover Daniel picks her up and they go to a hotel. Throughout, people make personal revelations to her, and Anna listens with little affect. Although it was 30 years ago, the war seems ever present.

The Hamburg Syndrome

The Hamburg Syndrome

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1980-03-12

Languages:

German

Countries:

France, West Germany

Runtime:

117 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.1 (171 Reviews)

Genres:

Sci-Fi

Cast:

Writer:

Peter Fleischmann

Otto Jègersberg

Roland Topor

Fullplot:

La passante du Sans-Souci

La passante du Sans-Souci

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1982-04-14

Languages:

French

Countries:

France, West Germany

Runtime:

110 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (630 Reviews)

Director:

Jacques Rouffio

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Jacques Rouffio (scenario and adaptation)

Jacques Kirsner (scenario and adaptation)

Joseph Kessel (novel)

Fullplot:

Max Baumstein is a reputable businessman, a rich self-made man with a conscience - he founded a highly visible and active international organization fighting against violations of human rights. Why would he commit an act that apparently negates the principles he has striven for so long to uphold? Eventually, he reveals a secret about himself that he kept hidden from his younger wife Lina, and that in a roundabout way concerns her as well. It is the conclusion of a struggle that started many decades earlier, when Elsa Wiener, a German singer exiled in Paris, without money or relations, a refugee among many others, faced two daunting problems: surviving in a foreign city, and saving her husband Michel from the clutches of the Nazis.

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