7 Movies Starring Lilli Palmer

Thunder Rock

Thunder Rock

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1944-09-16

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

90 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (421 Reviews)

Director:

Roy Boulting

Cast:

Writer:

Robert Ardrey (play)

Jeffrey Dell (screenplay)

Bernard Miles (screenplay)

Fullplot:

David Charleston, once a world renowned journalist, now lives alone maintaining the Thunder Rock lighthouse in Lake Michigan. He doesn't cash is paychecks and has no contact other than the monthly inspector's visit. When alone, he imagines conversations with those who died when a 19th century packet ship with some 60 passengers sank. He imagines their lives, their problems their fears and their hopes. In one of these conversations he recalls his own efforts in the 1930s when he tried desperately to convince first his editors and later the public of the dangers of fascism and the inevitability of war. Few would listen. One of the passengers, a spinster, tells her story of seeking independence from a world dominated by men. There's also the case of a doctor who is banished for using unacceptable methods. David has given up on life but the imaginary passengers give him hope for the future

Body and Soul

Body and Soul

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1947-11-09

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

104 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (2970 Reviews)

Director:

Robert Rossen

Cast:

Writer:

Abraham Polonsky (original screenplay)

Fullplot:

Charley Davis wins an amateur boxing match and is taken on by promoter Quinn. Charley's mother doesn't want him to fight, but when Charley's father is accidentally killed, Charley sets up a fight for money. His career blooms as he wins fight after fight, but soon an unethical promoter named Roberts begins to show an interest in Charley, and Charley finds himself faced with increasingly difficult choices.

Mèdchen in Uniform

Mèdchen in Uniform

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1958-11-05

Languages:

German

Countries:

West Germany, France

Runtime:

91 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (755 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Christa Winsloe (play)

Friedrich Dammann (screenplay)

Franz Hèllering (screenplay)

Fullplot:

After the death of her parents young girl Manuela von Meinhardis is sent to a boarding school where Prussian drill rules the education. Desperately seeking love and warmth in Manuela's heart special emotions for the only human lady teacher, Fraeulein von Bernburg, start growing. Manuela falls in love with her. It's just a matter of time until that forbidden love becomes known what immediatly leads to desaster. Though Elisabeth von Bernburg has never returned the love she is forced to leave the school; Manuela gets a severe punishment, like someone who has committed a crime.

Hard Contract

Hard Contract

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1969-06-23

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

106 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

(335 Reviews)

Director:

S. Lee Pogostin

Genres:

DramaMystery

Fullplot:

A cold hearted American hit man goes to Europe for 'one last score'. His encounter with a beautiful young woman casts self doubt on his lifeblood, and influences him to resist carrying out the contract

The House That Screamed

The House That Screamed

Basic Info:

Languages:

English, Spanish

Countries:

Spain

Runtime:

99 min

Rated:

GP

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (1470 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Narciso Ibèèez Serrador (screenplay)

Juan Tèbar (story)

Fullplot:

Lilli Palmer owns and runs a school for wayward girls in France. Her absolute discipline has fostered a social order among the girls with rampant sex, lesbianism and torture the norm. Palmer also has an adolescent son (Moulder Brown) she tries to keep isolated from the young women lest he be tainted by sexual relations; She explains that he must wait for a girl "just like his mother". Meanwhile, girls are "running away" (being murdered) one by one, with their corpses and any evidence of their outcome not to be found. Beware cut versions; the film was shown back in the 70's on network TV chopped to only 76 minutes!

The Boys from Brazil

The Boys from Brazil

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1978-10-12

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK, USA

Runtime:

125 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

(19452 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Ira Levin (novel)

Heywood Gould (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Barry Kohler, a young Nazi hunter, tracks down a group of former SS officers meeting in Paraguay in the late 1970s. The Nazis, led by Dr Mengele, are planning something. Old Nazi hunter, Ezra Lieberman, is at first uninterested in Kohler's findings. But when he is told something of their plan, he is eager to find out more. Lieberman visits several homes in Europe and the U.S. in order to uncover the Nazi plot. It is at one of these houses he notices something strange, which turns out to be a horrible discovery.

The Holcroft Covenant

The Holcroft Covenant

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1985-10-18

Languages:

English, German, Serbian

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

112 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.7 (1802 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Robert Ludlum (novel)

George Axelrod (screenplay)

Edward Anhalt (screenplay)

John Hopkins (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Noel Holcroft is a foreign-born American citizen working in New York as an architect. In Geneva he meets with a respected Swiss banker who tells him he has been designated to be executor of a huge 4 1/2 billion dollar trust fund designed to make reparations for the war crimes of the Nazis. Holcroft's father, who committed suicide in 1945, was a key Hitler financial advisor who became conscience-stricken about German war atrocities, turned against the Fuehrer, and covertly diverted Nazi funds to a secret Swiss account. Under the terms of the covenant Holcroft must locate the sons of his father's two associates so they can jointly activate their fathers' account. They battle the sinister forces seem to be trying to prevent them from signing the document as it is believed that it will be used to establish a Fourth Reich.

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