Mario Adorf — Actor (35)
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What Have They Done to Your Daughters? (1974) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
La polizia chiede aiuto
director: Massimo Dallamano actor: Giovanna Ralli / Claudio Cassinelli …
other title: La polizia chiede aiuto / Der Tod trägt schwarzes Leder …
An unidentified fifteen year-old girl is found hanged after an anonymous tip-off. The girl, Silvia Polvesi, is soon discovered to have been murdered. A peeping tom is caught with photos of her having sex with a teenage drop-out but he is later released due to lack of evidence. The investigation, conducted by Inspector Silvestri and the assistant public prosecutor Vittoria Stori, focuses on the girl's parents. It transpires that a private detective, Ruggero Pollente, was hired by Silvia's mother because the latter was concerned about her activities. As a conspiracy begins to emerge, Pollente's body is found dismembered and his girlfriend is subsequently attacked by a machete-wielding killer clad in motorcycle gear...
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The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData
L'uccello dalle piume di cristallo
director: Dario Argento actor: Tony Musante / Suzy Kendall …
other title: L'uccello dalle piume di cristallo / Fuglen med krystalfjerpragten …
An American writer living in Rome witnesses an attempted murder that is connected to an ongoing killing spree in the city and conducts his own investigation, despite he and his girlfriend being targeted by the killer.
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Deadlock (1970) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Deadlock
director: Roland Klick actor: Mario Adorf / Anthony Dawson …
other title: Encuentro en Deadlock / Duello a tre
After pulling off a bank robbery two bandits meet in a deserted mining town to divide their loot but an old miner tries to steal it from them.
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Measures Against Fanatics (1969) [Movie] NeoDB Douban WikiData TMDB IMDb
Maßnahmen gegen Fanatiker
director: 沃纳·赫尔佐格 actor: Petar Radenkovic / Hans Tiedemann …
other title: Maßnahmen gegen Fanatiker / 留心对抗梦幻 …
The film features several horse trainers and other track workers talking about their roles at the track, always eventually interrupted by an older man who claims to be the true authority, and demands that they be thrown out. One recurring young man, the first to appear, claims that he protects the horses from enthusiastic racing fans. He does not appear to be employed by the track, but seems to provide his services voluntarily. His protection from "fanatics" gives the film its title. The film is shot in a documentary style, but the sheer implausibility of the dialogue leaves the exact nature of the film ambiguous.
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Caliber 9 (1972) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB WikiData Douban IMDb
Milano Calibro 9
director: Fernando Di Leo actor: Gastone Moschin / Barbara Bouchet …
other title: Milano Calibro 9 / Milano Kaliber 9 …
Just out of prison, ex-con Ugo Piazza meets his former employer, a psychopathic gangster Rocco who enjoys sick violence and torture. Both the gangsters and the police believe Ugo has hidden $300,000 that should have gone to an American drug syndicate boss.
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The Tin Drum (1979) [Movie] Douban NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData
Die Blechtrommel
director: Volker Schlöndorff actor: Mario Adorf / Angela Winkler …
other title: Il tamburo di latta / Bliktrommen …
In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.
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Lola (1981) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB Douban IMDb WikiData
Lola
director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder actor: Barbara Sukowa / Armin Mueller-Stahl …
other title: Lola, une femme allemande
1981 film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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Smiley's People (1982) [TV] TMDB
Smiley's People
director: John le Carré actor: Alec Guinness / Anthony Bate …
other title: Tutti gli uomini di Smiley / Smileys Leute …
Called out of retirement to settle the affairs of a friend, Smiley finds his old organization, the Circus, so overwhelmed by political considerations that it doesn't want to know what happened. He begins to follow up the clues of his friends past days, discovering that the clues lead to a high person in the Russian Secret service, and a secret important enough to kill for.
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Notte italiana (1987) [Movie] TMDB
Notte italiana
director: Carlo Mazzacurati actor: Marco Messeri / Giulia Boschi …
other title: Die Nacht kennt keine Zeugen / Nuit italienne
Otello Morsiani, a north-eastern-italian lawyer, takes the job of estimating land holdings on the Po Delta, which are intended to be expropriated to make way for a national park. The lawyer soon discovers that in that area, once target of methane extraction, the soil is now at risk to sink, due to hydrogeological disturbance: in the meanwhile, he also digs out a mystery tied to a death dating back twenty years before.
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The Italian Connection (1972) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
La mala ordina
director: Fernando Di Leo actor: Mario Adorf / Henry Silva …
other title: La mala ordina / Der Mafiaboss – Sie töten wie Schakale …
When a shipment of heroin disappears between Italy and New York, a small-time pimp in Milan is framed for the theft. Two professional hitmen are dispatched from New York to find him, but the real thieves want to get rid of him before the New York killers get to him to eliminate any chance of them finding out he's the wrong man.
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Short Night of Glass Dolls (1971) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
La corta notte delle bambole di vetro
director: Aldo Lado actor: Ingrid Thulin / Jean Sorel …
other title: La corta notte delle bambole di vetro / Malastrana …
An American journalist in Prague searches for his girlfriend who has suddenly disappeared.
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Momo (1986) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB Douban TMDB
Momo
director: Johannes Schaaf actor: Radost Bokel / Mario Adorf …
Momo is a young orphan girl who lives in the ruins of an old Roman amphitheater and becomes friends with everybody in the neighborhood. But when a powerful international corporation starts stealing everybody’s time, nobody has any time left for her, let alone their friends or families. Momo, together with Master Hora, the custodian of time, are the only ones who can go up against the time thieves before all is lost forever.
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Smilla's Sense of Snow (1997) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData Douban
Smilla's Sense of Snow
director: Bille August actor: Julia Ormond / Gabriel Byrne …
other title: Il senso di Smilla per la neve / Frøken Smillas fornemmelse for sne …
Smilla Jaspersen attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apartment building. Suspecting wrongdoing, Smilla uncovers a trail of clues leading towards a secretive corporation that has made several mysterious expeditions to Greenland.
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King, Queen, Knave (1972) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
King, Queen, Knave
director: Jerzy Skolimowski actor: John Moulder-Brown / David Niven …
other title: Un ospite gradito... per mia moglie / König, Dame, Bube …
Based on a novel by Vladimir Nabokov, this English-language satirical drama details the experiences of Frank (John Moulder Brown), a young orphan who finds himself deep in the romantic clutches of his uncle's sensual wife. After Frank's parents die, he goes to live with his aunt Martha (Gina Lollabrigida) and uncle Charles (David Niven). Sexy Martha entices Frank into her embrace then wants him to kill her husband so that they can live off of his money. Frank wouldn't mind so much, but he really likes his uncle.
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Execution Squad (1972) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
La polizia ringrazia
director: Steno actor: Enrico Maria Salerno / Mariangela Melato …
other title: La polizia ringrazia / Das Syndikat …
Bertone is a moderately honest homicide cop. Unfortunately, the court system is so inept and corrupt that many more-or-less honest policemen have begun taking the law into their own hands. Between his efforts to thwart the growth of crime and to control his vengeful co-workers, homicide-chief Bertone has his hands full
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On the Tiger's Back (1961) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
A cavallo della tigre
director: Luigi Comencini actor: Nino Manfredi / Mario Adorf …
other title: A cavallo della tigre / Vergewaltigt in Ketten …
Giacinto Rossi, a poor driver up to his neck in debt, is imprisoned for simulated crime. He finds himself in a cell with Tagliabue, an unscrupulous murderer; Sorcio, an elderly thief; and Papaleo, an honor-obsessed intellectual who murdered his fiancée's lover. Giacinto is forced by the three men to make a daring escape from prison.
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Francesco (1989) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Francesco
director: Liliana Cavani actor: Mickey Rourke / Helena Bonham Carter …
other title: Franziskus
The life of St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) as related by followers who gather after his death to tell stories so that Leone can record them: a privileged and virile youth, a prisoner of war, an heir who turns away from his father and gives all to the poor, a beggar for others, and an inspiration to friends who accept the Gospels' life of poverty.