Jürgen Prochnow
Jürgen Prochnow (born 10 June 1941) is a German-American actor. His international breakthrough was his portrayal of the good-hearted and sympathetic U-boat Commander "Der Alte" ("Old Man") in the 1981 war film Das Boot.
He is also known for his roles in The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (1975), Dune (1984), Beverly Hills Cop II (1987), In the Mouth of Madness (1994), The English Patient (1996), Air Force One (1997), The Da Vinci Code (2006), and played Sergei Bazhaev on the eighth season of 24 (2010). He is a Goldene Kamera, Bavarian Film Awards, and Bambi Award winner.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 7.022 |
| Birthday | 1941-06-10 |
| Place of Birth | Berlin, Germany |
| Also Known As |
1987
Beverly Hills Cop II
6.507/2512
Axel Foley returns to the land of sunshine and palm trees to investigate the near-fatal shooting of police Captain Andrew Bogomil. With the help of Sg...
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1981
Das Boot
8.1/2195
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1996
The English Patient
7.2/2168
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1981
Das Boot: Behind The Scenes
2/1
Comprehensive classic piece that looks at the process of creating the movie, told with a strong, well-constructed narrative that plays almost as a mov...
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2006
The Da Vinci Code
6.728/9247
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1993
Body of Evidence
5/301
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1984
Dune
6.2/3018
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2006
Schröders wunderbare Welt
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1995
In the Mouth of Madness
7.2/1645
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1999
Esther
6.8/30
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2007
Primeval
6.047/395
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1975
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
6.912/97
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2003
House of the Dead
3.133/384
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2008
La conjura de El Escorial
5/8
16th century ruler King Philip II of Spain maneuvers within a court of deceit and betrayal
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1988
The Seventh Sign
6/339
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2007
Ohne einander
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1977
The Consequence
6.4/26
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1998
The Replacement Killers
6.2/506
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1991
Robin Hood
5.716/159
The Swashbuckling legend of Robin Hood unfolds in the 12th century when the mighty Normans ruled England with an iron fist.
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Robin Hood
1989
A Dry White Season
6.6/102
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1995
Judge Dredd
5.8/2458
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1997
Air Force One
6.48/2919
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1990
Kill Cruise
3.8/13
Two British beauties go to Barbados with a yacht captain who does not know what he's in for.
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1983
The Keep
5.707/241
Nazis take over an ancient fortress that contains a mysterious entity that wreaks havoc and death upon them.
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The Keep
2006
Beerfest
5.866/536
During a trip to Germany to scatter their grandfather's ashes, German-American brothers Todd and Jan discover Beerfest, the secret Olympics of downing...
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Beerfest
2001
Ripper: Letter from Hell
4.5/54
A massacre survivor studies serial killers under a famous expert, but her classmates soon start dying at the hands of a Jack the Ripper copycat.
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Ripper: Letter from Hell
2006
Chain Reaction
4.9/44
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Chain Reaction
1992
Interceptor
5.9/21
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Interceptor
1977
Operation Ganymed
4/10
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Operation Ganymed
2008
Merlin and the War of the Dragons
4/40
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Merlin and the War of the Dragons
2010
Sinners and Saints
5.5/95
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Sinners and Saints
2004
Los Angeles Plays Itself
7.6/51
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1990
The Fourth War
5/36
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The Fourth War
1996
On Dangerous Ground
4.8/5
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2003
The Poet
4.1/5
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2000
The Last Stop
4.8/10
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The Last Stop
1997
DNA
4.1/53
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1987
Terminus
3.675/20
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Terminus
2010
Spear of Destiny
5.4/28
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Spear of Destiny
2003
Heart of America
4.8/24
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2001
The Elite
3.235/17
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The Elite
1998
Human Bomb
7/1
An unhappy male takes a classroom of children and their teacher (Patsy Kensit) hostage with a set of explosives strapped to his body.
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Human Bomb
2001
Last Run
3.7/7
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1973
Tenderness of the Wolves
5.702/42
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Tenderness of the Wolves
2014
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
6.6/107
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Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
1986
Killing Cars
3.2/5
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Killing Cars
2012
Die Schuld der Erben
2/1
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1997
The Cry of Love
4/4
The story The Cry of Love is about the love between two men. Lara brings her first boyfriend, the good-looking Yannis, to the barbecue party in the fa...
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The Cry of Love
2013
Company of Heroes
5.2/157
American soldiers lost behind enemy lines during the WWII make a horrific discovery: Hitler has a super bomb in development. Against all odds, they se...
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2005
See Arnold Run
4.5/6
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See Arnold Run
1974
One or the Other of Us
4.8/9
Psychological thriller that focuses on the intense conflict between a university professor and a blackmailer.
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One or the Other of Us
1994
Trigger Fast
2/4
A feisty woman struggles to keep her ranch from being stolen by a greedy and unscrupulous land-baron named Malick. A trio of young men comes to her ai...
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Trigger Fast
2001
Gunblast Vodka
3.5/8
Supermodel Everhart is kidnapped by bad guy Prochnow and rescued by good guy Otto in technopop action.
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Gunblast Vodka
1985
The Cop & the Girl
4.5/4
A tough cop but his life in ruins. His superiors are only looking for a reason to sack him. The girl is 17 years old and lives on the street. As the c...
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The Cop & the Girl
1994
Guns of Honor
3.125/4
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Guns of Honor
2005
Julie, chevalier de Maupin
4/6
Agnès Dormes, a famous opera singer, saves Julie, a baby girl who was about to be sacrificed during a black mass. Twenty years later, the baby has tur...
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Julie, chevalier de Maupin
2000
Poison
3/6
Traci is a devious teenage girl who befriends and kills anyone who comes between her and her mother, Dana, a failed movie actress who lies for and pro...
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Poison
2010
Amigo - Dead on Arrival
3.8/2
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Amigo - Dead on Arrival
1992
Hurricane Smith
3.8/12
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Hurricane Smith
2021
Das Boot Revisited: An Underwater Success Story
6.6/5
In 1981, a film about the misadventures of a German U-boat crew in 1941 becomes a worldwide hit almost four decades after the end of the World War II....
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Das Boot Revisited: An Underwater Success Story
1972
The Merchant of Four Seasons
6.7/70
Hans is a street fruit peddler and born-loser. His choice of career upsets his bourgeois family, causing him to turn to drinking and violence. After r...
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The Merchant of Four Seasons
1974
The Brutalization of Franz Blum
5.5/12
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The Brutalization of Franz Blum
1976
Shirin's Wedding
3.3/3
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Shirin's Wedding
1999
Der blonde Affe
3.5/2
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Der blonde Affe
1972
Zoff
5.25/2
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Zoff
2001
Dark Asylum
3.8/13
Asylum is a taut psychological thriller about a deranged fearsome killer running lose in an abandoned high security Asylum. Pitting the county psychia...
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Dark Asylum
2003
Baltic Storm
4.3/13
A journalist from Berlin, Germany, and a Swedish lawyer discover the truth behind the sinking of the "MS Estonia" in 1994, where more than 850 people...
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Baltic Storm
2015
Remember
7.344/708
With the aid of a fellow Auschwitz survivor and a hand-written letter, an elderly man with dementia goes in search of the person responsible for the d...
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Remember
1994
The Other Side of the Law
4/2
With two shots from a rifle, the life of a man and his young son are forever changed. Jurgen Prochnow stars in this chilling tale of a man who is forc...
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The Other Side of the Law
2002
Davon stirbt man nicht
3.5/5
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Davon stirbt man nicht
1995
Tödliche Wahl
2/1
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Tödliche Wahl
1985
Murder: By Reason of Insanity
3.5/2
A married couple from Poland emigrates to the U.S.,. but things don't turn out as well as they had imaged. The husband's business fails, while his wif...
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Murder: By Reason of Insanity
1993
Der Fall Lucona
5/4
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Der Fall Lucona
1999
The Millennium Disaster - Computer Crash 2000
4/5
A convicted murderer holds the world hostage with a year 2000 virus in all the world's major computer systems.
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The Millennium Disaster - Computer Crash 2000
2023
U-96, The True Story of 'Das Boot'
5.5/2
Today, 80 years after the events and 40 years after the film, these images and testimonies shed an unexpected light on the reality of the fiction film...
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U-96, The True Story of 'Das Boot'
1972
Auf Befehl erschossen
2/1
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Auf Befehl erschossen
1999
Heaven's Fire
4.1/7
Terrorists seize a building with intent to blow it up. However, one of the men trapped in the building is an ex-treasury agent, who just happens to be...
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Heaven's Fire
1985
Blitz
2/1
In a complex story of automotive intrigue, oil barons, corporate finance and international villainy, the inventors of an environmentally friendly car...
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Blitz
2009
Oko ve zdi
4.2/4
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Oko ve zdi
2013
Ein schmaler Grat
4/2
Psychothriller by facts. A lightly labile journalist (Felicitas Woll) wants to explore the motives of a women murderer (Heiner Lauterbach). When he wa...
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Ein schmaler Grat
1982
Krieg und Frieden
2/1
The third episodical film, after Deutschland im Herbst and Der Kandidat, in which notable German film makers reflect on the state of their country.
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Krieg und Frieden
2017
Damascus Cover
5.5/66
A spy navigates the precarious terrain of love and survival during an undercover mission in Syria.
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Damascus Cover
1983
Love is Forever
4.6/7
Michael Landon stars in this real life story about a journalist in Laos, and the extent to which he will go for his girlfriend.
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Love is Forever
2015
Hitman: Agent 47
5.862/3025
An assassin teams up with a woman to help her find her father and uncover the mysteries of her ancestry.
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Hitman: Agent 47
2016
The Dark Side of the Moon
5.735/83
A psychedelic mushroom trip turns a successful lawyer into a wanted man.
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The Dark Side of the Moon
1994
Lie Down with Lions
4.3/3
Doctor Peter Husak introduces the American Jack Carver to his friend, nurse Kate, and it's love on first sight. But when she learns, in a dramatic inc...
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Lie Down with Lions
1995
Fesseln
3/3
A couple travel to the mountains to talk about their marital crisis. When the wife falls during the hike and only survives seriously injured, she is a...
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Fesseln
2017
Old Agent Men
5.941/51
Four very retired, ex-GDR spies, or "Kundschafter des Friedens" as they were officially named, led by the once legendary Jochen Falk, are called on by...
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Old Agent Men
1993
Die Wildnis
0/0
The son of a farmer is bathed in his blood in front of an isolated mountain hut. There is no record of the attacker. Two investigators disappear witho...
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Die Wildnis
2013
Die Kinder meiner Tochter
4.7/5
Grim, recently retired 'iron judge' Ernst Blessing lives alone with his dog since his only daughter left angrily 18 years ago. Suddenly he's informed...
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Die Kinder meiner Tochter
1990
The Man Inside
2/1
Gunter Wallraff is a journalist seeking to expose the unethical journalism practiced by The Standard, a very popular and powerful German newspaper. He...
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The Man Inside
2013
Ohne Gnade
3.5/6
The crunchy sisters Biene and Püppi decide that there must finally be an end to the emotional and financial disaster of their mother Hilde. Therefore,...
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Ohne Gnade
1999
Wing Commander
4.8/248
The Hollywood version of the popular video game series "Wing Commander". Unlike other video games to feature film transitions, series creator Chris Ro...
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Wing Commander
2000
Final Ascent
2.8/5
A man leading an expedition into the Rocky Mountains becomes entangled with a deadly band of thieves in search of their lost loot.
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Final Ascent
2005
Rilke Projekt: Zwischen Tag Und Traum (Live 2005)
5.5/2
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Rilke Projekt: Zwischen Tag Und Traum (Live 2005)
1987
Devil's Paradise
3.5/2
At the start of the 20th century, a man lives in solitude on an island. One day on the mainland, he saves a young woman from some nasty folk and takes...
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Devil's Paradise
2019
A Hidden Life
7.1/680
Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis during World War II.
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A Hidden Life
2017
The Final Journey
6.8/26
A former German Army officer, accompanied by his granddaughter, journeys to the Ukraine to find the woman he once loved.
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The Final Journey
1992
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
7.4/1893
In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl. The...
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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
The Guardian Angel
0/0
In July 1944, with the Allies landed at Normandy but unable to push past German forces, a young German soldier is enlisted for a spy mission by a myst...
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The Guardian Angel
1979
Kotte
2/1
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Kotte
1998
From China with Love
2/1
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From China with Love
1980
So weit das Auge reicht
0/1
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So weit das Auge reicht
1972
Knast
2/1
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Knast
1995
Stallone's Law: The Making of 'Judge Dredd'
1.5/2
Documentary on the making of the 1995 film 'Judge Dredd.'
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Stallone's Law: The Making of 'Judge Dredd'
1999
The Fall
4/4
In Budapest, two Americans live together. Adam, a former Manhattan prosecutor at work on his first novel, and Lisa, a cool hard-working financier who...
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The Fall
1970
Unternehmer
2/1
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Unternehmer
2016
Interference
5/2
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Interference
1985
Forbidden
5/5
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Forbidden
1990
The Schoolmaster
2/1
In 1948 a new schoolmaster with a Polish background arrives in a small South-African town and is confronted with the Apartheid regime.
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The Schoolmaster
2006
The Celestine Prophecy
4.993/71
A spiritual adventure film chronicling the discovery of ancient scrolls in the rainforests of Peru. The prophecy and its nine key insights predict a w...
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The Celestine Prophecy
1993
The Last Border
4.2/13
One man's quest for revenge in a post-apocalyptic world
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The Last Border
2019
Real Men
5.8/4
An investigation into the myth of the screen hero and its importance to men, mainly in the Western world. How the professional image is built in Holly...
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Real Men
2020
A Handful of Water
4.5/4
Jürgen Prochnow (Das Boot, Dune) stars as Konrad, an old man still mourning his wife's death, living alone in a large house with little but a tropical...
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A Handful of Water
2020
The old Man and the Pain in the Neck
5/4
Shortly before his 75th birthday, Wilhelm Schürmann has no desire to adapt his lifestyle even a little to suit his age and his health problems. When,...
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The old Man and the Pain in the Neck
2023
The Last Rifleman
6.5/54
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The Last Rifleman
2014
Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces
7.281/208
Ninety minutes of deleted and alternate takes from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, assembled by David Lynch to continue the story of the final week of...
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Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces
1976
Hans in Luck
2/1
When Hans wakes up one morning, he realizes that he is longer than his bed, his feet sticking out over the edge of the bed. The young man remembers hi...
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Hans in Luck
2001
Jack the Dog
3/3
Jack is a dog. When he's not photographing women, as a profession, he's seducing them. Until now. Home from Paris, he feels empty and fed up with his...
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