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  • 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 - Blu-ray (2008)
    Starring: Rinko Kikuchi,  Nora Zehetner,  Rachel Weisz
    Director: Rian Johnson
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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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 »
    3 stars out of 5 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: Certificate: 12
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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 »
    3 stars out of 5 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
    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 »
    2 stars out of 5 35% from 2 members
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  • Coast To Coast on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Richard Dreyfuss,  Judy Davis,  Selma Blair
    Director: Paul Mazursky
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 113 members
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  • Joan Of Arc (1999)
    Starring: Leelee Sobieski,  Jacqueline Bisset,  Powers Boothe
    Director: Christian Duguay
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 346 members
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  • John Carpenter's Vampires on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Maximilian Schell,  Tim Guinee,  Thomas Rosales
    Director: John Carpenter
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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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 »
    3 stars out of 5 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: Certificate: 12
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 768 members
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  • Deep Impact on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Robert Duvall,  Tea Leoni,  Vanessa Redgrave
    Director: Mimi Leder
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 9,026 members
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  • Little Odessa (1994)
    Starring: Tim Roth,  Edward Furlong,  Moira Kelly
    Director: James Gray
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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...
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 44 members
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  • Marlene on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Marlene Dietrich
    Director: Maximilian Schell
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    ‘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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 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: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    2 stars out of 5 41% from 196 members
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  • 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
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  • The Black Hole on DVD (1979)
    Starring: Maximilian Schell,  Anthony Perkins,  Robert Forster
    Director: Gary Nelson
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 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
    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 3,647 members
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  • Cross Of Iron - Blu-ray (1977)
    Starring: James Coburn,  James Mason,  David Warner
    Director: Sam Peckinpah
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    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.
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 233 members
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  • Heidi on DVD (1968)
    Starring: Michael Redgrave,  Jennifer Edwards,  Maximilian Schell
    Director: Delbert Mann
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 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
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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.
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 139 members
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  • The Deadly Affair on DVD (1966)
    Starring: James Mason,  Simone Signoret,  Harry Andrews
    Director: Sidney Lumet
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    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.....
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 447 members
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  • Topkapi on DVD (1964)
    Starring: Melina Mercouri,  Maximilian Schell,  Peter Ustinov
    Director: Jules Dassin
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 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: 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 1,113 member
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Maximilian Schell facts

5 most recent films

The Brothers Bloom - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
The Brothers Bloom - 3.0 stars
House of the Sleeping Beauties - 2.0 stars
Coast To Coast - 2.5 stars
Joan Of Arc - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

A Bridge Too Far - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Judgement At Nuremberg - 3.5 stars
A Bridge Too Far - 3.5 stars
The Odessa File - 3.5 stars
Cross Of Iron - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

House of the Sleeping Beauties - 2.0 stars
Eighteenth Angel - 2.0 stars
The Chosen - 2.5 stars
Little Odessa - 3.0 stars
Heidi - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Vanessa Redgrave - 4 times - show films
Noah Segan - 3 times - show films
Neil Patrick Harris - 3 times - show films
Mark Ruffalo - 3 times - show films
Powers Boothe - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Christian Duguay - 3 times - show films
Rian Johnson - 3 times - show films
Sidney Hayers - 2 times - show films
Richard Attenborough - 2 times - show films
Mimi Leder - 2 times - show films