Mario Adorf

Mario Adorf

September 8, 1930 · 96 years old

Mario Adorf (born 8 September 1930) was an Italian-German film and stage actor, best known for his lead role in the 1978 film The Tin Drum.

Known For

32 titles
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The Tin Drum

The Tin Drum

1979 · 2h 22m · Movie

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.

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The Bird with the Crystal Plumage

The Bird with the Crystal Plumage

1970 · 1h 36m · Movie

An American writer vacationing in Rome attempts to unmask a serial killer he witnessed in the act of an attempted murder, and who is now hunting him and his girlfriend.

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Smilla's Sense of Snow

Smilla's Sense of Snow

1997 · 2h 1m · Movie

A 6 y.o. Inuit boy runs off a snowy roof in Copenhagen and dies. Smilla, a half Inuit who lives in the building and knows the boy, looks into it. What makes an acrophobic boy run up on the roof? The clues take her to Greenland.

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Major Dundee

Major Dundee

1965 · 2h 3m · Movie

In 1864, due to frequent Apache raids from Mexico into the U.S., a Union officer decides to illegally cross the border and destroy the Apache, using a mixed army of Union troops, Confederate POWs, civilian mercenaries, and scouts.

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Lola

Lola

1981 · 1h 55m · Movie

A seductive cabaret singer-prostitute pits a corrupt building contractor against the new straight-arrow building commissioner, launching an outrageous plan to elevate herself in a world where everything-and everyone-is for sale.

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Felidae

Felidae

1994 · 1h 22m · Movie

A cat must investigate brutal murders of other cats in a neighborhood he has moved into with his owner.

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Ten Little Indians

Ten Little Indians

1965 · 1h 31m · Movie

Ten people are invited to a luxury mountaintop mansion, only to find that an unseen person is killing them one by one. Could one of them be the killer?

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Apache Gold

Apache Gold

1963 · 1h 31m · Movie

When violent conflict breaks out between greedy railroaders and a tribe of Mescalero Apaches, only two men, destined to be blood brothers, can prevent all-out war: chief's son Winnetou and German engineer Old Shatterhand.

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Fedora

Fedora

1978 · 1h 54m · Movie

Down-on-his-luck Hollywood producer Barry 'Dutch' Detweiler attempts to lure Fedora, a famous but reclusive film actress, out of retirement only to discover the horrible truth behind her success.

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10
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum

1975 · 1h 46m · Movie

A young woman's life is scrutinized by police and tabloid press after she spends the night with a suspected terrorist.

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Caliber 9

Caliber 9

1972 · 1h 28m · Movie

A former gangster is forced to resume his old lifestyle when his violent, jealous ex-colleagues and the police believe that he knows the location of a stolen cache of $300,000.

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12
Short Night of Glass Dolls

Short Night of Glass Dolls

1971 · 1h 37m · Movie

An American journalist temporarily stationed in Central Europe searches for his new girlfriend, who has suddenly disappeared.

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13
The Holcroft Covenant

The Holcroft Covenant

1985 · 1h 52m · Movie

The son of a German General becomes part of a mysterious conspiracy to gain hidden Nazi funds.

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14
The Italian Connection

The Italian Connection

1972 · 1h 35m · Movie

A Milanese pimp is pursued by - and then pursues - a pair of New York hitmen and the gangsters who framed him for stealing a shipment of heroin.

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The Cave of the Golden Rose

The Cave of the Golden Rose

1991 · 3h 20m · Movie

During archery in a wood Princess Fantaghiro is discovered by the hostile king's son Romualdo. He is able to take a short look at her before she can escape and immediately falls in love ...

7.5
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The Treasure of San Gennaro

The Treasure of San Gennaro

1966 · 1h 44m · Movie

An American gangster in Italy enlists a local gang to help him steal the treasure of Naples' patron saint.

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17
Francesco

Francesco

1989 · 2h 37m · Movie

The life of St. Francis of Assisi from rich man's son to religious humanitarian.

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18
Deadlock

Deadlock

1970 · 1h 33m · Movie

In a deserted mining town in the middle of nowhere, three desperate men fight over a suitcase full of cash.

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The Devil Strikes at Night

The Devil Strikes at Night

1957 · 1h 37m · Movie

A serial killer strikes again during World War II in Germany. The wrong man is arrested and a detective hunts down the real killer, but justice in Nazi Germany is not so easily administered.

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20
Germany in Autumn

Germany in Autumn

1978 · 2h 3m · Movie

Germany in Autumn has no typical plot; it mixes documentary footage with standard movie scenes to present the mood of Germany during the late 1970s. The film covers 2 months in 1977 when a businessman was kidnapped and murdered by...

6.8
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The Specialists

The Specialists

1969 · 1h 44m · Movie

A gunfighter contends with a pacifist sheriff, a seductive banker, a one-armed bandit, corrupt businessmen and hippies while searching for the money allegedly stolen by his lynched brother.

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The Cave of the Golden Rose 2

The Cave of the Golden Rose 2

1992 · 3h 20m · Movie

Fantaghiro and Romualdo are preparing their marriage when the Black Queen disgusted by their deep love captures Fantaghiro's father. Romualdo and his soldiers go on their journey to free ...

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Execution Squad

Execution Squad

1972 · 1h 38m · Movie

An inspector pursues a secret society of former police officers who go beyond the law by killing notorious criminals without trial.

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24
Quiet Days in Clichy

Quiet Days in Clichy

1990 · 2h 0m · Movie

Expatriate Henry Miller indulges in a variety of sexual escapades while struggling to establish himself as a serious writer in Paris.

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Class Relations

Class Relations

1984 · 2h 6m · Movie

After making the domestic servant pregnant, a woman who doubles his age, a young man of only seventeen years from the German bourgeoisie is sent by his family to the United States in order to avoid a huge scandal.

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A cavallo della tigre

A cavallo della tigre

1961 · 1h 49m · Movie

An inept thief wants to escape prison and return to his family, but two of his prison mates also want out.

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27
Long Live Robin Hood

Long Live Robin Hood

1971 · 1h 43m · Movie

A fun film with stylish costumes that has Gemma as the heir to the Nottingham dukedom who is robbed of his heritage. He joins the already-established 'Merrie Men' and becomes their leader.

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La disubbidienza

La disubbidienza

1981 · 1h 38m · Movie

Northern Italy under fascist rule: Luca becomes a partisan, but after the war ends things are not as he had hoped for him and he decides to die. Then he meets women.

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La faille

La faille

1975 · 1h 50m · Movie

A quiet man in his forties is arrested for a minor reason and sent to prison.

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The Taste of Violence

The Taste of Violence

1961 · 1h 25m · Movie

This European "western" by Robert Hossein (screenwriter, director, and lead) is set in an unnamed Latin American country suffering under a dictator. A revolution is underway, or at least there is a strong guerrilla movement here. ...

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Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah

Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah

2005 · 1h 55m · Movie

The life and times of maverick filmmaker Sam Peckinpah (1925 - 1984)

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Taugenichts

Taugenichts

1978 · 1h 31m · Movie

A young man seeks freedom and eventually gets conformed. To escape society, he wanders south. After some adventures he returns to his lover, where he expects a civil career.

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