Maria Schell

Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood (2021)

With the help of Hollywood, top Nazi Albert Speer tried to unscrupulously whitewash himself of his crimes in the 1970s. Speer gave long interviews to Hollywood author Jack Neuman and mimed the "good Nazi". After his release from 20 years in prison in Spand ...

Mothers and Daughters (2012)

Relationships between mothers and daughters are often very complex. Love and protective instincts, recognition and pride play just as important a role as patronization and envy, dependency and jealousy. This documentary allows prominent mother-daughter pai ...

My Sister Maria (2002)

Maximilian Schell's portrait of his sister Maria. ...

Herbst in Lugano (1988)

Nineteen Nineteen (1985)

Two former patients of Sigmund Freud meet again and discuss their psychiatric treatment 65 years earlier. ...

King Thrushbeard (1984)

When a selfless king learns of a beautiful princess in a neighboring kingdom who callously turns down every suitor with an insult, he tries his luck to no avail. So, he hatches a plot with her father in which the princess is married to him, in disguise as ...

Samson and Delilah (1984)

A tale of passion and betrayal in which Samson, a judge of Israel who fled with his tribe during the Great Exodus from Egypt, uses his herculean strength in the fight against the Philistine oppressors. He is seduced by Delilah, a Philistine courtesan, who ...

Der Trauschein (1983)

Frau Jenny Treibel (1982)

Jenny Bürstenbinder has climbed the social ladder by marrying Kommerzienrat Treibel. The professor's daughter Corinna Schmidt plans to do the same and woos Treibel's son Leopold with charm and wit. But Jenny Treibel lacks an adequate dowry. ...

Inside the Third Reich (1982)

A dramatization of the life of Albert Speer, Hitler's young architect and onetime confidant, and his meteoric rise into the Nazi hierarchy. Based upon Speer's own monograph of the same title. ...

The Passerby (1982)

Max Baumstein is a reputable businessman who founded an 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? As he is tried for first ...

The Making of 'Superman: The Movie' (1982)

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 "believe a man can fly." This program features interviews with key ...

Der Besuch der alten Dame (1982)

As a teenager, Carla Zachanassian had a child with a man named Serge Miller. When he refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. Now, many years later, she is a multimillionaire and returns to the town of her childhood, where she is welcomed with ope ...

Liebe bleibt nicht ohne Schmerzen (1980)

Four contemplative stories about problems with love: "Profitability" is about money, "The Smile" is about coping with a difficult situation, an "Experiment with Alf" is supposed to save a marriage, and in "Paternity" a lawyer and her husband are committed ...

Der Thronfolger (1980)

Christmas Lilies of the Field (1979)

In this belated sequel to 'Lilies of the Field' (1963), jack-of-all-trades Homer Smith revisits the chapel in the Arizona desert that he helped build for five German nuns under the supervision of Mother Maria, and he reluctantly helps them out of a pinch o ...

Moral (1979)

The First Polka (1979)

The intertwined lives of people of both Polish and German extraction who live on the pre-World War II border between the two countries are explored in this drama. Valeska is the Polish/German matriarch of a family living on the German side of the border. H ...

Der Wald (1979)

Superman (1978)

Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush, Lois Lane. Clark must summon his superhero alter-ego when the nefarious Lex Luthor launches a plan to take over the world. ...

Just a Gigolo (1978)

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. ...

Spiel der Verlierer (1978)

The 50-year-old haulier Kluth is left by his wife and falls in love with 15-year-old Anita, the daughter of the owners of his favorite pub. Anita's parents tolerate the relationship because Kluth supports them financially. But when Anita is expecting Kluth ...

Teerosen (1978)

Voyage of the Damned (1976)

A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival. ...

The Twist (1976)

Claire de La Tour Picquet shares her life between her husband, the successful novelist William Brandeis, and her lover, Jacques Lalouet, William's publisher. Then she discovers that her lover has a mistress, Charlie, who is also that of her husband... ...

So oder so ist das Leben (1976)

An entrepreneur of social prestige gets intimate with the housekeeper, while his wife has a lover who is 20 years younger than her, whom she eventually loses to her nymphomaniac daughter. ...

Die Heiratsvermittlerin (1976)

Die Ohrfeige (1975)

Mischa Gallé's first film was made in 1971, but not picked up and shown until 1975. ...

Change (1975)

Based on the drama by Wolfgang Bauer. Fery Kaltenböck is a painter of the Viennese avant-garde in the post-1968 milieu. His lack of success plunges him into depression. Out of frustration, he builds the Pölten painter Blasius Okopenko into a star, only t ...

Die Kurpfuscherin (1974)

The Odessa File (1974)

Following the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, investigative journalist Peter Miller sets out to hunt down an SS Captain and former concentration camp commander. In doing so he discovers that, despite allegations of war crimes, the former commander has be ...

Immobilien (1973)

The supposedly naive owner of the castle, Louise Strothmann von Auerheim, advertises that the entire family estate is for sale. This not only attracts the attention of her money-hungry relatives, but also a whole host of potential buyers, from porn factory ...

Die Pfarrhauskomödie (1972)

When Ambrosia, the pastor's cook, leaves the village for a while to give birth to the child she is expecting from the pastor in a secluded place, the buxom and love-struck Irma takes her place in the parish. And soon she too is looking forward to the joys ...

Chamsin (1972)

Miriam, the wife of the Israeli plantation holder David, is the mother of Jack and Emanuel. She also has a daughter, but she was not recognized by her husband and sent to Switzerland. After the death of David the daughter returns from Switzerland and she h ...

Dust in the Sun (1972)

In the dry, dusty western hamlet of San Angelo, landowner Joe Bradford kills his brother and then marries his brother's widow, Gertie. ...

Die keusche Susanne (1972)

Marie (1972)

When her father dies unexpectantly, a young woman starts to get suspicious about her mother's behaviour. ...

The Provocation (1970)

An expedition of archaeology students in Israel. ...

The Bloody Judge (1970)

In 1685 England, an overzealous Lord Chancellor condemns various rebels and "witches" to satisfy his political whims, ignorant of the true consequences of his actions. ...

99 Women (1969)

Female prisoners endure the horrors of drug abuse, prostitution and rampant sadism at an island prison. When an escape attempt goes awry, the fugitives discover that escaping can be as dangerous as remaining in the prison. ...

The Devil by the Tail (1969)

In this comedy, a run-down hotel drums up customers by sabotaging passing cars. The stuck motorists are then obliged to stay. Unfortunately, one of the sabotaged cars belongs to a bank robber. The hotel staff wants the robber out, but they also want to kee ...

Die ungarische Hochzeit (1969)

Nora oder Ein Puppenheim (1965)

Zwei Whisky und ein Sofa (1963)

Beate Dehn and Klaus Hartmann are two ambitious young architects locked in a fierce professional rivalry. When both enter the same high-stakes design competition, their battle of wits turns personal—and seductive. Charming and manipulative, Klaus has a r ...

L'assassin connaît la musique (1963)

Lionel Fribourg, a great composer (at least that's what he thinks) has a problem with his noisy environment: he can't complete his unfinished symphony. Of course there is a market for unfinished symphonies but, for all he knows, only one became famous. So ...

Only a Woman (1962)

A psychotherapist's love life is a disaster because of her own fears and neuroses. Involving herself in her patients love life add more complications. ...

Das Riesenrad (1961)

The story of a marriage over time, based on a play by Jan de Hartog. Maria Schell and O. W. Fischer play an aristocratic Austrian couple who meet during the imperial era and experience the first five decades of the 20th century together: temptations and tr ...

The Mark (1961)

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. ...

Cimarron (1960)

The epic story of a family involved in the Oklahoma Land Rush of April 22, 1889. ...

Ninotchka (1960)

A no-nonsense diplomat of the Soviet Union, Nina Ivanovna Ninotchka Yakushova arrives in Paris to ensure the sale of jewels seized during the Russian Revolution. Meanwhile, carefree bachelor Count Leon d'Algout attempts to intercept the valuables on behalf ...

As the Sea Rages (1959)

After five years of war, Clements, a professional seaman, has no ambitions other than to live in peace and carry out his activity. Having settled down in the archipelago of the Aegean Sea, he has founded a small sponge fishing company in an idyllic place a ...

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1959)

During the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge. ...

The Hanging Tree (1959)

Joseph "Doc" Frail is a doctor with a past he's trying to outrun. While in Montana, he comes across a mining camp with a hanging tree and rescues a man named Rune from the noose. With Rune as his servant, Frail decides to settle down, and he takes over as ...

Der Schinderhannes (1958)

1802: The adventurous life story of Hans Bückler, known as "Schinderhannes", who fights against the French occupying forces and large landowners who exploit poor farmers in the Hunsrück region during the Napoleonic Wars. ...

End of Desire (1958)

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 marries. Her happiness is short-lived as she finds out that not only h ...

The Western: A Lost TV Special (1958)

A 1958 TV special celebrating westerns featuring John Wayne, John Ford, Gary Cooper, Gene Autry, Gabby Hayes and more. ...

The Brothers Karamazov (1958)

Ryevsk, Russia, 1870. Tensions abound in the Karamazov family. Fyodor is a wealthy libertine who holds his purse strings tightly. His four grown sons include Dmitri, the eldest, an elegant officer, always broke and at odds with his father, betrothed to Kat ...

Magyarország lángokban (1957)

White Nights (1957)

A middle-aged man meets a young woman who is waiting on a canal bridge for her lover's return. ...

The Sins of Rose Bernd (1957)

A young domestic worker on a farm is used and abused by the men in her life. ...

Liebe (1956)

Anna falls madly in love with an Italian violinist, who instead marries her sister Monika. ...

Gervaise (1956)

Gervaise Macquart is a beautiful Parisian laundress and mother whose lover, Lantier, walks out on her. She eventually marries Henri Coupeau, a roofer who has an unfortunate accident. As her now crippled husband descends into alcoholism, Gervaise tries to m ...

The Rats (1955)

Soon after World War II, a pregnant Polish refugee, Pauline, wanders Berlin looking for the boyfriend who abandoned her. She has no option but to sell her child to another woman, Anna. After the birth, Pauline decides she wants the baby back. ...

Napoleon (1955)

The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. The film is notable for its use of location shooting for numerous scenes, especially at the French estates of Malmaison and Fontainebleau, the Palace of Vers ...

Master Over Life and Death (1955)

Barbara is married to Georg Bertram, a professor of medicine who once saved her father's life. Things go awry for the couple when she gives birth to a mentally defective child. For Georg, coldly clinical, euthanizing the infant is the only way out. He is a ...

The Last Bridge (1954)

A German nurse gets sent to the front because she gives medical aid to a wounded Yugoslav partisan during World War II. ...

The Heart of the Matter (1953)

Based on Graham Greene's novel, a married colonial police chief struggles with his conscience when he has an affair with a younger woman. ...

Tagebuch einer Verliebten (1953)

In South Tirol, shortly after ww-ii: Paul and Barbara Holzmann and their son Charlie own a small gasoline station. At their wedding anniversary, of all days, Barbara finds proof that Paul may again have cheated on her. At first she believes his explanation ...

As Long as You're Near Me (1953)

An actress used to playing only bit parts becomes the center of attention when a movie director buys her life story as a film project, she is now faced with a psychological crisis. ...

Dreaming Lips (1953)

Until we meet again (1952)

This is the tear-jerking love story between young Pamela and casino owner Mayrhoefer. ...

So Little Time (1952)

During World War II, German soldiers occupy the home of a beautiful Belgian girl and her mother. ...

The Magic Box (1952)

Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once young and handsome William Green. He changed his name to include his first wife's for the photographic portrait work he excelled at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a ...

Dr. Holl (1951)

A doctor marries his seemingly incurable patient to fulfill her last wish. A serum he develops saves her, and the union born of compassion develops into a loving marriage. ...

Es kommt ein Tag (1950)

Melodrama set during wartime. ...

Maresi (1950)

The Angel with the Trumpet (1950)

Sad tale of a woman who marries the man her family wishes her to wed, not Wooland, the man she truly loves. Years after her lover's suicide, Herlie joins him before the Gestapo can get to her because of her Jewish ancestry. ...

The Last Night (1949)

Set in German-occupied France in 1944 where a female resistance operative and a German army officer fall in love. ...

The Angel with the Trumpet (1948)

A long time-span of Austrian history (from the late 19th century to the years after world war II) is reflected in the ups and downs of a family of piano-makers in Vienna. ...

Steibruch (1942)

A man in his fifties returns from America to his native village. Everyone knows that in the New World he served a lengthy prison sentence for manslaughter. He retreats to an isolated quarry in the woods he inherited. There he lives like a hermit, gruffly d ...