Oskar Homolka — Actor (21)
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Boys' Night Out (1962) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Boys' Night Out
director: Michael Gordon actor: Kim Novak / James Garner …
other title: Venere in pigiama / Sexy …
Fred, George, Doug and Howie are quickly reaching middle-age. Three of them are married, only Fred is still a bachelor. They want something different than their ordinary marriages, children and TV-dinners. In secret, they get themselves an apartment with a beautiful young woman, Kathy, for romantic rendezvous. But Kathy does not tell them that she is a sociology student researching the sexual life of the white middle-class male.
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The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
director: Henry Levin / George Pal actor: Laurence Harvey / Karlheinz Böhm …
other title: Avventura nella fantasia / Brødrene Grimms vidunderlige verden …
The Grimm brothers Wilhelm and Jacob, known for their literary works in the nineteenth century, have their lives dramatized. Wilhelm fights to write something entertaining amongst the sea of dry, non-fiction books they write and he sets about collecting oral-tradition fairy tales to put into print. Their life story is countered with reenactments of three of their stories including "The Dancing Princess," "The Cobbler and the Elves" and "The Singing Bone."
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The Key (1958) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Key
director: Carol Reed actor: William Holden / Sophia Loren …
other title: La chiave / A Chave …
In wartime England, circa 1941, poorly-armed tugs are sent into "U-Boat Alley" to rescue damaged Allied ships. An American named David Ross arrives to captain one of these tugs. He's given a key by a fellow tugboat-man -- a key to an apartment and its pretty female resident. Should something happen to the friend, Ross can use the key.
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Ebb Tide (1937) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Ebb Tide
director: James P. Hogan actor: Oskar Homolka / Frances Farmer …
In 1890, two British expatriates, Robert Herrick and Huish, and German Captain Jakob Thorbecke, are commissioned to sail a Yankee schooner called The Golden State , whose captain and crew have died of smallpox. From Tehua in the South Seas to Australia, they are to deliver a cargo of champagne. Thorbecke decides to head for Peru, however, so he can sell the merchandise and pocket the money. While sailing, Faith Wishart, daughter of the deceased captain, comes out of her hiding place on board and, by briefly holding Thorbecke at gunpoint, demands he make the delivery.
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I Remember Mama (1948) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
I Remember Mama
director: George Stevens actor: Irene Dunne / Barbara Bel Geddes …
other title: Mamma ti ricordo! / Geheimnis einer Mutter …
Norwegian immigrant Marta Hanson keeps a firm but loving hand on her household of four children, a devoted husband and a highly-educated lodger who reads great literature to the family every evening. Through financial crises, illnesses and the small triumphs of everyday life, Marta maintains her optimism and sense of humor, traits she passes on to her aspiring-author daughter, Katrin.
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The Long Ships (1964) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Long Ships
director: Jack Cardiff actor: Richard Widmark / Sidney Poitier …
other title: Le lunghe navi / Røde Orm og Langskibet …
Moorish ruler El Mansuh is determined to locate a massive bell made of gold known as the "Mother of Voices." Viking explorer Rolfe also becomes intent on finding the mythical treasure, and sails with his crew from Scandinavia to Africa to track it down. Reluctantly working together, El Mansuh and Rolfe, along with their men, embark on a quest for the prized object, but only one leader will be able to claim the bell as his own — if it even exists at all.
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The Shop at Sly Corner (1947) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Shop at Sly Corner
director: George King actor: Oskar Homolka / Derek Farr …
other title: Ricatto / Butikken på hjørnet …
In Britain, a man with a shady past uses his antiquities shop as a front for smuggled diamonds but his young shop-assistant starts blackmailing him, leading to murder and to a police investigation.
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The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Madwoman of Chaillot
director: Bryan Forbes actor: Katharine Hepburn / Charles Boyer …
other title: La pazza di Chaillot / Die Irre von Chaillot …
An eccentric Parisian woman's optimistic perception of life begins to sound more rational than the traditional beliefs of others. The story is set in a 20th-century society endangered by power and greed and imagines the rebellion of the "little people" against corrupt and soulless authority.
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The Happening (1967) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
The Happening
director: Elliot Silverstein actor: Anthony Quinn / Michael Parks …
other title: Cominciò per gioco / Acontece Cada Coisa …
A group of young drifters kidnap wealthy businessman Roc Delmonico just for kicks. They keep him captive, demanding a ransom for his safe release. However there is no one - wife, Mafia associates or mother - willing to part with the $200,000 ransom. Demonico is dismayed that no one appears unduly concerned about his fate and joins forces with the kidnappers to plot his revenge, blackmailing his once nearest and dearest into parting with $3,000,000 in hush money.
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Funeral in Berlin (1966) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Funeral in Berlin
director: Guy Hamilton actor: Michael Caine / Paul Hubschmid …
other title: Funerale a Berlino / Opgør i Berlin …
Colonel Stok, a Soviet intelligence officer responsible for security at the Berlin Wall, appears to want to defect but the evidence is contradictory. Stok wants the British to handle his defection and asks for one of their agents, Harry Palmer, to smuggle him out of East Germany.
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Billion Dollar Brain (1967) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Billion Dollar Brain
director: Ken Russell actor: Michael Caine / Karl Malden …
other title: Il cervello da un miliardo di dollari / Milliard dollar hjernen …
A former British spy stumbles into in a plot to overthrow Communism with the help of a supercomputer. But who is working for whom?
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Mr. Sardonicus (1961) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Mr. Sardonicus
director: William Castle actor: Ronald Lewis / Audrey Dalton …
other title: Der unheimliche Mr. Sardonicus / El Barón Sardónico …
In 1880, Sir Robert Cargrave, a London physician known for his experimental work in paralysis treatment, is summoned to Gorslava by the mysterious Baron Sardonicus—who is now married to Cargrave's former wife, Maude—to treat his disfigurement. When Cargrave arrives, he finds the masked baron is a cruel sadist who has threatened to harm Maude if he is not successfully cured.
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Tragedy of the Street (1927) [Movie] IMDb WikiData Douban TMDB
Dirnentragödie
director: Bruno Rahn actor: Asta Nielsen / Hilde Jennings …
other title: Dirnentragödie / Tragedia de una prostituta o la tragedia de la calle …
Auguste is an aging prostitute who falls in love with Felix, a younger student. While Felix has strayed away from his parents, Auguste starts taking care of him and spends her life savings into a cake shop to move further away from prostitution, but trouble comes when another woman enters the picture.
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Ball of Fire (1941) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData
Ball of Fire
director: Howard Hawks actor: Gary Cooper / Barbara Stanwyck …
other title: Colpo di fulmine / Die merkwürdige Zähmung der Gangsterbraut Sugarpuss …
A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.
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Comrade X (1940) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Comrade X
director: King Vidor actor: Clark Gable / Hedy Lamarr …
other title: Corrispondente X / Camarade X …
An American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Communist leave the country.
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War and Peace (1956) [Movie] TMDB IMDb NeoDB WikiData Douban
War and Peace
director: King Vidor actor: Audrey Hepburn / Henry Fonda …
other title: Guerra e pace / Krig og fred …
Napoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia including his disastrous 1812 invasion serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two aristocratic families.
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The Invisible Woman (1940) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Invisible Woman
director: A. Edward Sutherland actor: Virginia Bruce / John Barrymore …
other title: La donna invisibile / Die unsichtbare Frau …
Kitty Carroll, an attractive store model, volunteers to become a test subject for a machine that will make her invisible so that she can use her invisibility to exact revenge on her ex-boss.