The Black Hole (1979)
Action | Sci-Fi
A research vessel finds a missing ship, commanded by a mysterious scientist, on the edge of a black hole.
Starring: Maximilian Schell, Anthony Perkins, Robert Forster, Joseph Bottoms, Yvette Mimieux, Ernest Borgnine
Director: Gary Nelson
The Deadly Affair (1966)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
A British agent sets out to uncover the hidden facts behind a British government employee's suicide.
Starring: James Mason, Maximilian Schell, Harriet Andersson, Harry Andrews, Simone Signoret, Kenneth Haigh
Director: Sidney Lumet
Deep Impact (1998)
Action | Drama | Romance | Sci-Fi | Thriller
MSNBC reporter Jenny Lerner, while investigating a high-level scandal in Washington, stumbles upon the story that a comet is on a collision course with Earth. A year earlier, amateur teenage astronomer Leo Biederman discovered a new comet that is the one now certified to hit within the year. U.S. President Beck announces to the world that a spaceship called the Messiah will blast off in two months to plant nuclear bombs in the comet in hope of blowing it to bits. This plan fails, splitting the comet into two sections. The smaller will hit off the east coast creating a tital wave that will destroy New York and Washinton while the larger portion will land in Canada causing an ELE, or Extinction Level Event, complete with Earth-enshrouding clouds of dust that will wipe out all life. Declaring martial law, President Beck reveals that a network of caves is being built to accommodate 1 million citizens, most to be chosen by a national lottery.
Starring: Robert Duvall, Téa Leoni, Elijah Wood, Vanessa Redgrave, Morgan Freeman, Maximilian Schell
Director: Mimi Leder
Avalanche Express (1979)
Action | Thriller
When a senior Russian official, Gen. Marenkov, decides to defect to the west, CIA agent Harry Wargrave is sent to lead the team to get him out. Malenkov reveals that the Russians are trying to develop biological weapons. Wargrave decides that Malenkov should travel across Europe by train, on the "Atlantic Express", in an attempt to try and lure the Russians into attacking the train so that they can discover who the Russian secret agents in Europe are. During the journey they must survive terrorist attack and an avalanche, all planned by Russian spy-catcher Nikolai Bunin.
Starring: Lee Marvin, Robert Shaw, Linda Evans, Maximilian Schell, Mike Connors
Director: Mark Robson
A Far Off Place (1993)
Adventure | Drama | Family | Romance
Thrown together under incredible circumstances, two strangers must discover courage and strength when they begin a journey across the treacherous African desert.
Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Ethan Embry, Jack Thompson, Maximilian Schell
Director: Mikael Salomon
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Drama | History | War
In 1948, an American court in occupied Germany tries four Nazi judges for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, Maximilian Schell
Director: Stanley Kramer
Topkapi (1964)
Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
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 screenplay written by ex-Ealing stalwart Monja Danischewsky, 'Topkapi' is one of the great comic-exotic heist movies.
Starring: Melina Mercouri, Peter Ustinov, Maximilian Schell, Robert Morley, Jess Hahn, Akim Tamiroff
Director: Jules Dassin
Vampires / John Carpenter's Vampires (1998)
Action | Horror | Thriller
The church has long known that vampires exist. However, it is discovered that a group of vampires are searching for a powerful doom for mankind. The Vatican then secretly enlists a team of vampire-hunters, led by Jack Crow, to hunt down and destroy the vampires before they find the crucifix.
Starring: James Woods, Daniel Baldwin, Sheryl Lee, Thomas Ian Griffith, Maximilian Schell
Director: John Carpenter
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The Odessa File / Der Fall Odessa (1974)
Drama | Thriller
After reading the diary of an elderly Jewish man who committed suicide, freelance journalist Peter Miller begins to inquire into the alleged sighting of a former SS Captain who commanded a concentration camp during World War II. Miller eventually finds himself investigating the shadowy but powerful organization of former SS members known as ODESSA, a subject of great interest to the Israeli secret service.
Starring: Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell, Maria Schell
Director: Ronald Neame
Cross of Iron (1977)
Action | Drama | War
In 1943, in the Russian front, the decorated leader Rolf Steiner is promoted to Sergeant after another successful mission. Meanwhile the upper-class and arrogant Prussian Captain Hauptmann Stransky is assigned as the new commander of his squad. After a bloody battle of Steiner's squad against the Russian troops led by the brave Lieutenant Meyer that dies in the combat, the coward Stransky claims that he led his squad against the Russian and requests to be awarded with the Iron of Cross to satisfy his personal ambition together with his aristocratic family. Stransky gives the names of Steiner and of the homosexual Lieutenant Triebig as witnesses of his accomplishment, but Steiner, who has problems with the chain of command in the army and with the arrogance of Stransky, refuses to participate in the fraud. When Colonel Brandt gives the order to leave the position in the front, Stransky does not retransmit the order to Steiner's squad, and they are left alone surrounded by the enemy and having to fight to survive.
Starring: James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason, David Warner, Klaus Löwitsch, Vadim Glowna, Roger Fritz
Director: Sam Peckinpah
