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Maximilian Schell
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Filmography
Maximilian Schell - what members say
review by from Andover, Hampshire England
Judges are Judged. 7 February 2011
review by from Belfast
Compelling tale or psychological bore? 26 November 2004
review by from Midlothian
Classic heist movie 12 December 2005
Maximilian Schell - filmography
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The Brothers Bloom - Blu-ray
(2008)
Starring: Rinko Kikuchi, Nora Zehetner, Rachel Weisz
Director: Rian Johnson
Certificate: 
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When the younger of two notorious sibling con artists announces a plan to go legit, his brother implores him to carry out one last swindle in the eagerly anticipated sophomore feature from BRICK writer/director Rian Johnson. Tired of a life on the run, a confidence man who has dedicated his life to ..read more »
 
62%
from 1,297 member
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The Brothers Bloom
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Rinko Kikuchi, Nora Zehetner, Rachel Weisz
Director: Rian Johnson
Certificate:
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For as long as they can remember, the Brothers Bloom have had only each other to depend on. From their childhood in a long series of gloomy foster homes to their high-flying lives as international con artists, Stephen and Bloom have shared everything. Stephen brilliantly concocts intricate stories ..read more »
62%
from 5,947 members
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House of the Sleeping Beauties
(2006)
Starring: Vadim Glowna, Angela Winkler, Maximilian Schell
Director: Vadim Glowna
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Away from every-day-life in Berlin which fades out in the afternoon entering darkness Edmond visits by advise of his older friend Kogi a mysterious 'maison', kind of a bordello, specialized for senile customers beyond their 80's. In this 'etablissement', it is possible for these old men to spend ..read more »
35%
from 2 members
Currently unavailable
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Coast To Coast
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, Judy Davis, Selma Blair
Director: Paul Mazursky
Certificate: 
City by city, mile by mile, a married couple on the verge of a breakup travel across the country to revisit their tumultuous past and rediscover what it means to fall in and out of love - and maybe back again. With each new stop comes a new revelation for the couple - a chance to expose their ..read more »
47%
from 113 members
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Joan Of Arc
(1999)
Starring: Leelee Sobieski, Jacqueline Bisset, Powers Boothe
Director: Christian Duguay
Certificate:
It was once said of Ingrid Bergman that she'd played Joan of Arc so often that she wouldn't be satisfied until she was burned at the stake. Actually, nobody ever said that, but someone should have. Directed by Bergman's then-husband Roberto Rossellini, Joan at the Stake is a nonmusical adaptation ..read more »
58%
from 346 members
Not currently released
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John Carpenter's Vampires
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Maximilian Schell, Tim Guinee, Thomas Rosales
Director: John Carpenter
Certificate: 
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Prolific director John Carpenter takes on the vampire genre in his action-horror film VAMPIRES. Bitter, tough-as-nails vampire hunter Jack Crow (James Woods) leads a specialized team, funded by no less than the Vatican, that is dedicated to destroying the race of vampires that inhabit the earth. ..read more »
59%
from 4,448 members
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Deep Impact - Blu-ray
(1998)
Starring: Robert Duvall, Tea Leoni, Vanessa Redgrave
Director: Mimi Leder
Certificate:
A reporter believes that she has discovered a Congressman's affair. But as it turns out, Elle isn't a mistress, but something used to describe an event so cataclysmic that it could destroy the planet...When it is discovered that an enormous comet is on a collision course with Earth, a handful of ..read more »
64%
from 768 members
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Deep Impact
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Robert Duvall, Tea Leoni, Vanessa Redgrave
Director: Mimi Leder
Certificate:
A fourteen-year-old amateur astronomer, an ambitious newswoman, and a former astronaut all find themselves at the forefront of catastrophe when it is discovered that a comet is on a fatal collision course with the Earth. In the time leading up to the disaster, they find themselves searching for ..read more »
63%
from 9,026 members
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Little Odessa
(1994)
Starring: Tim Roth, Edward Furlong, Moira Kelly
Director: James Gray
Certificate:
Hitman Joshua plays a deadly game of chance when he returns to Brighton Beach to eliminate an Iranian jeweller. His return stirs up a past that could incite his own execution...
57%
from 44 members
Currently unavailable
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Marlene
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Marlene Dietrich
Director: Maximilian Schell
Certificate: 
‘Marlene’ is no standard movie star documentary. It is a mystery story, a discourse on truth and fiction, a battle with a sacred monster, a caustic comedy of errors, and the story of the making of a film all rolled into one. Despite personally selecting Schell to make the film about her, Dietrich ..read more »
70%
from 53 members
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Phantom Of The Opera
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Maximilian Schell, Jane Seymour, Michael York
Director: Robert Markowitz
Certificate:
The classic story with Maximilian Schell as the underground 'monster' deep in the recesses of the Paris Opera House, well hidden from cruel and prying eyes. But when he falls in love with the beauteous opera singer (Jane Seymour), he becomes aware of his intense loneliness; in desperation, the ..read more »
41%
from 196 members
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The Chosen
(1981)
Starring: Maximilian Schell, Rod Steiger, Robby Benson
Director: Jeremy Kagan
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It's a story of two Brooklyn boys who in their mid-teens find themselves divided by the same religion that unites them. Danny's father is a strict orthodox rabbi. Reuven's is a secular scholar with radical views. Danny has been taught to accept faith blindly, Reuven to question the centuries-old ..read more »
48%
from 8 members
Currently unavailable
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The Black Hole
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Maximilian Schell, Anthony Perkins, Robert Forster
Director: Gary Nelson
Certificate: 
A space crew travelling the cosmos runs into a long-missing craft, manned by Dr. Hans Reinhardt. Upon meeting Reinhardt, the astronauts discover that he is not only insane, but steadfast in his efforts to travel through a nearby "black hole", an abyss from which no one can escape. Matters worsen ..read more »
61%
from 2,243 members
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Cross Of Iron
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: James Coburn, James Mason, David Warner
Director: Sam Peckinpah
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A quote from Bertolt Brecht ends this bitter and angry war film by Sam Peckinpah: Do not rejoice in his defeat, you men. For though the world has stood up and stopped the bastard, the bitch that bore him is in heat again. Peckinpah's intense and belligerently non-commercial work, (based on the book ..read more »
70%
from 3,647 members
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Cross Of Iron - Blu-ray
(1977)
Starring: James Coburn, James Mason, David Warner
Director: Sam Peckinpah
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A very strong anti-war message film, set during World War II and told entirely from the German perspective. A German Army Sergeant doggedly struggles to keep his platoon intact while surviving the horrors of the Russian front in 1943.
70%
from 233 members
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The Man In The Glass Booth
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: Maximilian Schell, Lois Nettleton, Luther Adler
Director: Arthur Hiller
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This adaptation of Robert Shaw's play is part of the American Film Theatre series, conceived in the 1970s by producer Ely Landau, and meant to be shown theatrically just like a play, with tickets sold in advance. Arthur Goldman stars as an eccentric Jewish tycoon who watches over his financial ..read more »
55%
from 107 members
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The Odessa File
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell, Maria Schell
Director: Ronald Neame
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The tense true story of a newsman whose search for a Nazi murderer leads him to the discovery of a top secret Nazi organisation file named 'Odessa'... Based on the novel by Frederick Forsythe.
71%
from 1,371 member
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Heidi
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Michael Redgrave, Jennifer Edwards, Maximilian Schell
Director: Delbert Mann
Certificate: 
This is a made-for-television version of Johanna Spyri's timeless classic about a young orphan girl named Heidi living with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps. At first Heidi finds him to be a cold and distant man, but soon her heartwarming nature sheds light and a newfound happiness on her once ..read more »
63%
from 33 members
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Krakatoa - East Of Java
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Maximilian Schell, Barbara Werle, John Leyton
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski
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Treasure hunters in the South Pacific find more than doubloons, as the titular volcano threatens to wash out the tiny island of Java (of which Krakatoa actually lies west) with a giant tsunami. Based on an actual massive eruption in the 1800s, which devastated the island and killed thousands.
54%
from 139 members
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The Deadly Affair
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: James Mason, Simone Signoret, Harry Andrews
Director: Sidney Lumet
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A Foreign Office man apparently commits suicide. A colleague is not convinced and teams up with a retired CID Inspector to look into it. They finally uncover a spy ring but in doing so endanger their own lives.....
66%
from 447 members
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Topkapi
on DVD
(1964)
Starring: Melina Mercouri, Maximilian Schell, Peter Ustinov
Director: Jules Dassin
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Five years after directing the heist classic RIFIFI, Jules Dassin returns to robbery with TOPKAPI. Again there is a long and daring break-in, as his heroes attempt to steal the priceless Emerald Dagger from the Topkapi Palace Museum in Istanbul, but in contrast to the bleak RIFIFI, the mood in ..read more »
59%
from 458 members
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Judgement At Nuremberg
on DVD
(1961)
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark
Director: Stanley Kramer
Certificate:
"Judgment at Nuremberg" explores the post-World War II war crimes committed by the Third Reich through a series of trials held in 1948 Nuremberg, Germany. Judge Dan Haywood is oversees the trials of four German judges -specifically Dr. Ernst Janning and Emil Hahn - accused of knowingly sentencing ..read more »
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from 1,113 member
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Maximilian Schell facts
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...f whom believed that they were only doing their duty.
The film won two Oscars, Maximilian Schell as a leading actor and Abby Mann as the writer and well deserved they are too.
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