Skip over navigation

Maximilian Schell

Maximilian Schell


What members say | Filmography

Maximilian Schell - what members say


  • Judgement At Nuremberg
  • Judgement At Nuremberg review by from Andover, Hampshire England
    Rated - 5.0 stars Judges are Judged. 7 February 2011
    ...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. ...   Read customer review
  • The Man In The Glass Booth
  • The Man In The Glass Booth review by from Belfast
    Rated - 3.0 stars Compelling tale or psychological bore? 26 November 2004
    ... onto the events of the trial where the plot really unfolds. The performance of Maximilian Schell is excellant, however I found the movie a little unrealistic and claustrophobic...   Read customer review
  • Topkapi
  • Topkapi review by from Midlothian
    Rated - 3.0 stars Classic heist movie 12 December 2005
    ... doesn't always sparkle. It has a great international cast around a charismatic Maximilian Schell and slapsticky Peter Ustinov. Most of the movie is set in Istanbul of the 1960s...   Read customer review

Maximilian Schell - filmography


  • The Brothers Bloom on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Rinko Kikuchi,  Nora Zehetner,  Rachel Weisz
    Director: Rian Johnson
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: Unavailable
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 7,318 members
    Sign up
  • The Brothers Bloom - Blu-ray (2008)
    Starring: zachary gordon,  Nora Zehetner,  Mark Ruffalo
    Director: Rian Johnson
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Crime comedy caper starring Adrien Brody, Mark Ruffalo and Rachel Weisz. Brothers Stephen Bloom (Ruffalo) and Bloom Bloom (Brody) have been professional con artists since childhood, and have honed the art of swindling fortunes to perfection. When they meet beautiful but lonely New Jersey heiress ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 1,561 member
    Sign up
  • House of the Sleeping Beauties (2006)
    Starring: Vadim Glowna,  Angela Winkler,  Maximilian Schell
    Director: Vadim Glowna
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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 »
    1.5 stars out of 5 26% from 3 members
    Currently unavailable
    Sign up
  • Coast To Coast on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Richard Dreyfuss,  Judy Davis,  Saul Rubinek
    Director: Paul Mazursky
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Barnaby (Richard Dreyfuss) and Maxine (Maxine Pierce) have been together for years; but when Maxine decides that she has had enough and wants to leave Barnaby, he asks for one last chance to save their relationship. This takes the form of the journey to their son's wedding in Los Angeles - a ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 115 members
    Sign up
  • Joan Of Arc (1999)
    Starring: Olympia Dukakis,  Leelee Sobieski,  Neil Patrick Harris
    Director: Christian Duguay
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: Unavailable
    This epic production stars LeeLee Sobieski as the fifteenth-century peasant girl whose faith united the French nation. Guided by spiritual 'voices', Joan won over the trust of the king and led the French into battle against the English, only to be betrayed and tried for heresy. Also starring Peter ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 366 members
    Currently unavailable
    Sign up
  • Deep Impact - Blu-ray (1998)
    Starring: Elijah Wood,  Morgan Freeman,  Robert Duvall
    Director: Mimi Leder
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    A year after a comet is discovered by 14-year-old amateur astronomer Leo Biederman (Elijah Wood), it is announced that the object's trajectory is leading it on a collision course with Earth. American President Tom Beck (Morgan Freeman) calls for calm while experienced astronaut Spurgeon Tanner (..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 891 members
    Sign up
  • Deep Impact on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Elijah Wood,  Morgan Freeman,  Robert Duvall
    Director: Mimi Leder
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    A year after a comet is discovered by 14-year-old amateur astronomer Leo Biederman (Elijah Wood), it is announced that the object's trajectory is leading it on a collision course with Earth. American President Tom Beck (Morgan Freeman) calls for calm while experienced astronaut Spurgeon Tanner (..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 9,328 members
    Sign up
  • Little Odessa (1994)
    Starring: Tim Roth,  Moira Kelly,  Maximilian Schell
    Director: James Gray
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Joshua (Tim Roth) works as a hitman for the Russian mafia, and has cut all ties with his past. However, when he is ordered to assassinate an Iranian jeweller in his hometown of Brighton Beach, New York, he is forced to return to his forgotten roots. Reluctantly, he becomes entangled with the family ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 49 members
    Currently unavailable
    Sign up
  • Marlene on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Marlene Dietrich
    Director: Maximilian Schell
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    The fifth directorial effort of German film star Maximillian Schell, Marlene is an unorthodox documentary of the legendary Marlene Dietrich. After years of resisting Schell's entreaties, Dietrich finally agreed to participate in this project-but refused to appear on camera. Thus, a tape recording ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 77 members
    Sign up
  • The Chosen (1981)
    Starring: Maximilian Schell,  Rod Steiger,  Robby Benson
    Director: Jeremy Kagan
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 8 members
    Currently unavailable
    Sign up
  • The Black Hole on DVD (1979)
    Starring: Robert Forster,  Tom McLoughlin,  Joseph Bottoms
    Director: Gary Nelson
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Deep in space, a research craft encounters a near-deserted spaceship perched on the edge of a black hole, a dense patch of matter which is one of the Universe's great mysteries. On board the ship is a long-lost scientist who has a desire to see what lies on the other side of the black hole - and ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 2,395 members
    Sign up
  • Cross Of Iron - Blu-ray (1977)
    Starring: James Coburn,  David Warner,  Klaus Lowitsch
    Director: Sam Peckinpah
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Sam Peckinpah's only war film follows the story of a doomed German platoon facing annihilation at the hands of the Russians in 1943. Non-Nazi German soldier Steiner (James Coburn) resents the arrival of arrogant Prussian Stransky (Maximillian Schell) as his new commanding officer. Stransky is ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 322 members
    Sign up
  • Cross Of Iron on DVD (1977)
    Starring: James Coburn,  David Warner,  Klaus Lowitsch
    Director: Sam Peckinpah
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 3,833 members
    Sign up
  • The Odessa File on DVD (1974)
    Starring: Maria Schell,  Derek Jacobi,  Jon Voight
    Director: Ronald Neame
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
    Germany, the early 1960s. Investigative journalist Peter Miller (Jon Voight) has obtained a diary detailing crimes committed by SS Captain Eduard Roschmann (Maximilian Schell) when he was a WWII concentration camp commandant. Miller sets out to bring Roschmann to justice, but encounters trouble ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 1,580 member
    Sign up Watch now (With package)
  • Krakatoa - East Of Java on DVD (1968)
    Starring: John Leyton,  Barbara Werle,  Sal Mineo
    Director: Bernard L. Kowalski
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In 1883, Captain Chris Hanson and his passengers depart from Singapore to search for lost treasure. They eventually arrive at the island of Krakatoa, but their expedition is thrown into turmoil by a combination of a rebellion from the thirty prisoners aboard the ship and the eruption of a local volcano.
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 144 members
    Sign up
  • Heidi on DVD (1968)
    Starring: Michael Redgrave,  Maximilian Schell,  Jennifer Edwards
    Director: Delbert Mann
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Children's adventure based on the classic book by Johanna Spyri. Young Heidi (Emma Bolger) is sent to live with her bad-tempered grandfather (Max von Sydow) in the mountains, and before long she has managed to cheer him up. But when Heidi is forced to become a companion to a young invalid girl, she ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 36 members
    Sign up
  • The Deadly Affair on DVD (1966)
    Starring: Simone Signoret,  Lynn Redgrave,  Harry Andrews
    Director: Sidney Lumet
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Sidney Lumet directs this brooding spy drama, based on the novel `Call for the Dead' by John le Carre. James Mason stars as Charles Dobbs, a British intelligence officer who is sent to investigate an anonymous letter sent to the foreign secretary accusing a key officer, Robert Flemyng (Samuel ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 510 members
    Sign up
  • Topkapi on DVD (1964)
    Starring: Peter Ustinov,  Robert Morley,  Melina Mercouri
    Director: Jules Dassin
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Thought by many to be the inspiration for the TV series 'Mission: Impossible', Jules Dassin's comedy-thriller follows a group of art thieves as they plot and plan to rob a jewelled dagger from the fortress-like Topkapi Palace museum in sun-soaked Istanbul. With an international cast and a ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 506 members
    Sign up
  • Judgement At Nuremberg on DVD (1961)
    Starring: Burt Lancaster,  Spencer Tracy,  Montgomery Clift
    Director: Stanley Kramer
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    "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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 1,227 member
    Sign up

Maximilian Schell facts

5 most recent films

The Brothers Bloom - 3.0 stars
The Brothers Bloom - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
House of the Sleeping Beauties - 1.5 stars
Coast To Coast - 2.5 stars
Joan Of Arc - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Judgement At Nuremberg - 3.5 stars
The Odessa File - 3.5 stars
Cross Of Iron - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Cross Of Iron - 3.5 stars
Marlene - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

House of the Sleeping Beauties - 1.5 stars
Eighteenth Angel - 2.0 stars
The Chosen - 2.5 stars
Heidi - 3.0 stars
Phantom Of The Opera - 2.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Vanessa Redgrave - 4 times - show films
Robert Loggia - 3 times - show films
Robbie Coltrane - 3 times - show films
Rachel Weisz - 3 times - show films
Rinko Kikuchi - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Christian Duguay - 3 times - show films
Rian Johnson - 3 times - show films
Sam Peckinpah - 2 times - show films
Ronald Neame - 2 times - show films
Sidney Hayers - 2 times - show films