Sam Wanamaker — Actor (28)
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The Competition (1980) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Competition
director: Joel Oliansky actor: Richard Dreyfuss / Amy Irving …
other title: Competition / A Competição …
The movie centers on a piano competition whose winner is assured of success. It is Paul's last chance to compete, but newcomer Heidi may be a better pianist. Can romance be far away? Will she take a dive despite the pressure to win from her teacher, Greta, or will she condemn Paul to obscurity?
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Killer Rules (1993) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Killer Rules
director: Robert Ellis Miller actor: Jamey Sheridan / Sela Ward …
other title: Regole assassine
Two adoptive brothers -- one a mob hit man, the other a Department of Justice investigator -- who are unaware of each other's existence until they become involved with the same woman, end up in a deadly triangle in this thriller.
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The Sell Out (1976) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Sell Out
director: Peter Collinson actor: Oliver Reed / Richard Widmark …
other title: La spia senza domani / Espía sin mañana (Mañana no amanecerá)
This action drama centers on a former CIA operative who grudgingly rejoins the spy game due to the machinations of his one-time student - a screw up who goes to work for the Soviets. As his job drags him deeper into a dangerous and under-handed world, the student wants out of the agency and oout of the U.S.S.R. But the man's choices have made him a target and now both the United States and Russia want him dead, sending their mos able hit men to do it.
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Man in the Middle (1964) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Man in the Middle
director: Guy Hamilton actor: Robert Mitchum / France Nuyen …
other title: Tra due fuochi / Plädoyer für einen Mörder …
In a remote jungle outpost in the Far Eastern theater of World War II, a hotheaded American soldier murders an allied British sergeant in cold blood. Stalwart American Lt. Colonel Barney Adams (Mitchum) is dispatched to defend him in the ensuing court martial. But when Lt. Adams starts encountering roadblocks in his search for evidence, and his key witnesses start disappearing one after another, he soon realizes he's merely a pawn in a mysterious conspiracy that could extend to the highest levels of military power.
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Danger Route (1967) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Danger Route
director: Seth Holt actor: Richard Johnson / Carol Lynley …
other title: Ratten im Secret Service / Ruta Peligrosa …
Jonas Wilde, a British secret agent licensed to kill, wants to resign from his murderous work, but his superiors pressure him into taking on a new assignment-the assassination of a defecting Soviet scientist. In the course of the dangerous mission, he discovers a mole has infiltrated British intelligence.
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The Law (1974) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Law
director: John Badham actor: Judd Hirsch / John Beck …
other title: La Loi / Anwalt gegen das Gericht
An examination of the workings of a big city's legal system as seen through the eyes of people involved in a sensational murder trial.
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Pure Luck (1991) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Pure Luck
director: Nadia Tass actor: Martin Short / Danny Glover …
other title: É tutta fortuna / Reine Glückssache …
The daughter of a wealthy businessman has disappeared in Mexico, and all the efforts to find her have been unsuccessful. A psychologist, knowing that the girl has an ultra bad luck, persuades her father to send to Mexico one of his employees, an accountant with super bad luck, to find her. Perhaps he will be lucky, and his bad luck could help to find the unlucky girl.
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Taras Bulba (1962) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Taras Bulba
director: J. Lee Thompson actor: Tony Curtis / Yul Brynner …
other title: Taras il magnifico / Kosakken Taras Bulba
Ukraine, 16th century. While the Poles dominate the Cossack steppes, Andrei, son of Taras Bulba, a Cossack leader, must choose between his love for his family and his folk and his passion for a Polish woman.
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Judgment in Berlin (1988) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Judgment in Berlin
director: Leo Penn actor: Martin Sheen / Sam Wanamaker …
other title: Berlino: Opzione Zero / Ein Richter für Berlin …
An American judge in Germany must decide if the hijacking of an East German plane into West Berlin was justified.
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Charlie Muffin (1979) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Charlie Muffin
director: Jack Gold actor: David Hemmings / Jennie Linden …
other title: L'abbraccio dell'orso / A Deadly Game
Charlie Muffin, top British Intelligence operative, has just broken up a major Soviet spy network in England. However, a new Director with new ideas takes over and wants Charlie out. But then a high-ranking Soviet spy-master hints that he wants to defect, and both British Intelligence and the CIA want him and will do anything to get him. Charlie may be the only man who can bring the defection off successfully, but is the whole thing an elaborate set-up? And when your so-called allies are stabbing each other and you in the back to get this prize, whom can Charlie trust on either side?
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Give Us This Day (1949) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Give Us This Day
director: Edward Dmytryk actor: Sam Wanamaker / Lea Padovani …
other title: Cristo tra i muratori / Haus der Sehnsucht …
Exiled from Hollywood due to the blacklist, director Edward Dmytryk briefly operated in England in the late 1940s. Though filmed in its entirety in London, Dmytryk's Give Us This Day is set in New York during the depression. Fellow blacklistee Sam Wanamaker is starred as the head of an Italian immigrant family struggling to survive the economic crisis.
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Raw Deal (1986) [Movie] IMDb Skybridge TMDB WikiData
Raw Deal
director: John Irvin actor: Arnold Schwarzenegger / Kathryn Harrold …
other title: Codice Magnum / Sagen er bank …
Mark Kaminsky is kicked out of the FBI for his rough treatment of a suspect. He winds up as the sheriff of a small town in North Carolina. FBI Chief Harry Shannon, whose son has been killed by a mobster named Patrovina, enlists Kaminsky in a personal vendetta with a promise of reinstatement into the FBI if Patrovina is taken down. To accomplish this, he must go undercover and join Patrovina's gang.
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The Day the Fish Came Out (1967) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Όταν τα Ψάρια Βγήκαν στη Στεριά
director: Mihalis Kakogiannis actor: Tom Courtenay / Candice Bergen …
other title: Der Tag, an dem die Fische kamen / Όταν τα Ψάρια Βγήκαν στη Στεριά …
A plane carrying a weapon more dangerous than a nuclear weapon goes down near Greece. To prevent panic, the officials go in dressed as tourists (who are dressed so casually that the pilots assume that they are all gay). The pilots are not to make themselves known and can't contact the rescue team. The secrecy causes a comedy of errors including the desolate Greek Isle deciding that since tourists have now arrived, they have to become touristy.