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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
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 »
 
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from 7,318 members
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The Brothers Bloom - Blu-ray
(2008)
Starring: zachary gordon, Nora Zehetner, Mark Ruffalo
Director: Rian Johnson
Certificate:
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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 »
62%
from 1,561 member
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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 »
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from 3 members
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Coast To Coast
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, Judy Davis, Saul Rubinek
Director: Paul Mazursky
Certificate: 
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 »
47%
from 115 members
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Joan Of Arc
(1999)
Starring: Olympia Dukakis, Leelee Sobieski, Neil Patrick Harris
Director: Christian Duguay
Certificate:
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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 »
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from 366 members
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Deep Impact - Blu-ray
(1998)
Starring: Elijah Wood, Morgan Freeman, Robert Duvall
Director: Mimi Leder
Certificate:
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 »
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from 891 members
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Deep Impact
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Elijah Wood, Morgan Freeman, Robert Duvall
Director: Mimi Leder
Certificate:
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 »
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from 9,328 members
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Little Odessa
(1994)
Starring: Tim Roth, Moira Kelly, Maximilian Schell
Director: James Gray
Certificate:
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 »
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from 49 members
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Marlene
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Marlene Dietrich
Director: Maximilian Schell
Certificate: 
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 »
69%
from 77 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
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The Black Hole
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Robert Forster, Tom McLoughlin, Joseph Bottoms
Director: Gary Nelson
Certificate: 
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 »
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from 2,395 members
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Cross Of Iron - Blu-ray
(1977)
Starring: James Coburn, David Warner, Klaus Lowitsch
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Certificate: 
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 »
70%
from 322 members
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Cross Of Iron
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: James Coburn, David Warner, Klaus Lowitsch
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 3,833 members
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The Man In The Glass Booth
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: Lois Nettleton, Lawrence Pressman, Luther Adler
Director: Arthur Hiller
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Part of the American Film Theatre Collection, in which classic American stage plays are transferred to the big screen, this play by actor-turned-playwright Robert Shaw is inspired by the real-life war crimes trial of Adolf Eichmann. Maximilian Schiel was nominated for an Oscar for his performance ..read more »
56%
from 118 members
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The Odessa File
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Maria Schell, Derek Jacobi, Jon Voight
Director: Ronald Neame
Certificate:
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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 »
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from 1,580 member
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Krakatoa - East Of Java
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: John Leyton, Barbara Werle, Sal Mineo
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski
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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.
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from 144 members
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Heidi
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Michael Redgrave, Maximilian Schell, Jennifer Edwards
Director: Delbert Mann
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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 »
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from 36 members
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The Deadly Affair
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Simone Signoret, Lynn Redgrave, Harry Andrews
Director: Sidney Lumet
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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 »
66%
from 510 members
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Topkapi
on DVD
(1964)
Starring: Peter Ustinov, Robert Morley, Melina Mercouri
Director: Jules Dassin
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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 »
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from 506 members
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Judgement At Nuremberg
on DVD
(1961)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Spencer Tracy, Montgomery Clift
Director: Stanley Kramer
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"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 1,227 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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