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5.5

♡ 6

Bernard L. Kowalski Director

Maximilian Schell as Captain Hanson

Brian Keith as Connerly

J.D. Cannon as Danzig

Geoffrey Holder as Sailor

A team of maritime salvage workers are about to embark on a recovery dive. However the 1883 Krakatoa Volcano eruption provides more pressing problems.

The Odessa File

1974

7.0

♡ 16

69%

64%

assassin

Ronald Neame Director

Peter Jeffrey as David Porath

Maximilian Schell as Eduard Roschmann

Jon Voight as Peter Miller

Mary Tamm as Sigi

Following the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, investigative journalist Peter Miller sets out to hunt down an SS Captain and former concentration camp commander. In doing so he discovers that, despite allegations of war crimes, the former commander has become a man of importance in industry in post-war Germany, protected from prosecution by a powerful organisation of former SS members called Odessa.

The Freshman

1990

6.5

♡ 25

94%

Andrew Bergman Director

Matthew Broderick as Clark Kellogg

Kenneth Welsh as Dwight Armstrong BD Wong

BD Wong as Edward

Maximilian Schell as Larry London

After a film student gets his belongings stolen, he meets a mobster bearing a startling resemblance to a certain cinematic godfather. Soon, he finds himself caught up in a caper involving endangered species and fine dining.

Cross of Iron

1977

world war ii russian front

7.4

♡ 30

71%

Sam Peckinpah Director

Maximilian Schell as Hauptmann

David Warner as Hauptmann

Heinz Engelmann as Oberst

James Coburn as Unteroffizier Feldwebel

It is 1943, and the German army—ravaged and demoralised—is hastily retreating from the Russian front. In the midst of the madness, conflict brews between the aristocratic yet ultimately pusillanimous Captain Stransky and the courageous Corporal Steiner. Stransky is the only man who believes that the Third Reich is still vastly superior to the Russian army. However, within his pompous persona lies a quivering coward who longs for the Iron Cross so that he can return to Berlin a hero. Steiner, on the other hand is cynical, defiantly non-conformist and more concerned with the safety of his own men rather than the horde of military decorations offered to him by his superiors.

The Man in the Glass Booth

1975

7.0

83%

Arthur Hiller Director

Maximilian Schell as Arthur Goldman

Norbert Schiller as Dr. Schmidt

Robert H. Harris as Dr. Weisburger

Luther Adler as Presiding Judge

Arthur Goldman is a rich Jewish industrialist, living in luxury in a Manhattan high-rise. He banters with his assistant Charlie, often shocking him with his outrageousness and irreverent musings on aspects of Jewish life. Nonetheless, Charlie is astonished one day when Israeli secret agents burst in and arrest Goldman for being a Nazi war criminal. Whisked to Israel for trial, Goldman forces his accusers to face, not only his presumed guilt, but their own.

Counterpoint

1967

6.4

♡ 3

Ralph Nelson Director

Maximilian Schell as Gen. Schiller

Linden Chiles as Lt. Long

Bill Erwin as Trumpet Player

Leslie Nielsen as Victor Rice

In December of 1944, Lionel Evans, an internationally renowned American conductor, is on a USO tour with his 70-piece symphony orchestra in newly-liberated Belgium. While fleeing from a German counterattack, Evans and his orchestra members are captured by a Panzer division and taken to an old chateau in Luxembourg. Despite orders to execute every prisoner, General Schiller, an avid music lover, commands Evans to give a private concert for him.

Sons, Mothers and a General

1955

German

6.8

♡ 1

Laslo Benedek Director

Hans Christian Blech as Feldwebel mit den Orden

Klaus Kinski as Leutnant, der nicht mehr lacht

Maximilian Schell as Soldat, der nicht mehr mitmacht

Til Kiwe as Werner

As Germany's fortunes in the latter part of World War II wane, several young boys, in their enthusiasm to do something "for the fatherland", volunteer to fight with the German army in the East. Horrified at the news that their children left for the Russian front, the boys' mothers begin a desperate effort to get their sons back.

The Chosen

1981

7.2

♡ 1

77%

79%

Drama

father son relationship

friendship

jewish culture

teenage boy

Jeremy Kagan Director

John Pankow as Bully

Richard Ziman as Bully

Maximilian Schell as Professor David Malter

Barry Miller as Reuven Malter

In a 1940s New York, two Jewish teenage boys are determined to remain friends despite the deep differences between their two families.

Little Odessa

1994

6.7

♡ 8

53%

69%

bratva (russian mafia)

James Gray Director

Tuesday Knight as Actress on Television

Maximilian Schell as Arkady Shapira

Tim Roth as Joshua Shapira

David Vadim as Sasha

Long separated from his family, hitman Joshua returns to Brighton Beach for a contract killing for the Russian Mafia. His abusive father, Arkady, banned him from returning after Joshua committed his first murder. He takes up residence in a hotel, and soon everyone knows he has returned. He goes home to visit his dying mother, Irina, and prepares for the assassination, getting drawn back into the criminal community he left behind.

Abraham

1993

7.0

♡ 17

Joseph Sargent Director

Richard Harris as Abraham 2 episodes, 1993

Francesco Carnelutti as Egyptian Priest 2 episodes, 1993

Christian Kohlund as Eshcol 2 episodes, 1993

Maximilian Schell as Pharaoh 2 episodes, 1993

Rather than choosing a great leader or king, God chooses Abraham, an elderly shepherd from Mesopotamia, as the way to establish his Covenant with mankind... A man of great faith, Abraham continues to believe in God even when He seems to have abandoned him.

A Far Off Place

1993

6.5

♡ 2

42%

Mikael Salomon Director

Maximilian Schell as Col. Mopani Theron

Patricia Kalember as Elizabeth Parker

Ethan Embry as Harry Winslow

Reese Witherspoon as Nonnie Parker

Thrown together under incredible circumstances, two strangers must discover courage and strength when they begin a journey across the treacherous African desert! Equipped only with their wits and the expertise of a native bushman who befriends them, they are determined to triumph over impossible odds and reach their destination. But along the way, the trio face a primitive desert wilderness.

Topkapi

1964

6.9

♡ 19

95%

68%

Adventure

smuggling (contraband)

theft

Thriller

Jules Dassin Director

Peter Ustinov as Arthur Simon Simpson

Robert Morley as Cedric Page

Melina Mercouri as Elizabeth Lipp

Maximilian Schell as Walter Harper

Arthur Simon Simpson is a small-time crook biding his time in Greece. One of his potential victims turns out to be a gentleman thief planning to steal the emerald-encrusted dagger of the Mehmed II from Istanbul's Topkapi Museum.

Judgment at Nuremberg

1961

8.3

♡ 62

93%

Stanley Kramer Director

Ed Nelson as Captain at Nightclub Announcing Call-up of Officers

Maximilian Schell as Hans Rolfe

Joseph Bernard as Maj. Abe Radnitz

Edward Binns as Sen. Burkette

In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity. Chief Justice Haywood hears evidence and testimony not only from lead defendant Ernst Janning and his defense attorney Hans Rolfe, but also from the widow of a Nazi general, an idealistic U.S. Army captain and reluctant witness Irene Wallner.

St. Ives

1976

6.2

♡ 12

36%

38%

J. Lee Thompson Director

Maximilian Schell as Dr. John Constable

Jeff Goldblum as Hood #3

Daniel J. Travanti as Johnny Parisi

Dana Elcar as Lt. Charles Blunt

A dabbler-in-crime and his assistant hire an ex-police reporter to recover some stolen papers.

End of the Game

1975

German

5.9

43%

32%

assassin

Maximilian Schell Director

Jacqueline Bisset as Anna Crawley

Norbert Schiller as Dr. Samuel Hungertobel

Maximilian Schell as Robert Schmied on Audiotape

Jon Voight as Walter Tschanz

Hans Baerlach is a Swiss police detective who has dedicated much of his career to pursuing powerful and allegedly murderous businessman Richard Gastmann. Though Baerlach's partner meets his demise while investigating Gastmann, his replacement, Walter Tschanz, is undaunted. Meanwhile, the lovely Anna Crawley becomes involved in the case, which proceeds to take many twists and turns.

Avalanche Express

1979

4.9

♡ 4

20%

16%

central intelligence agency (cia)

Monte Hellman Director

Maximilian Schell as Colonel Nikolai Bunin

Cyril Shaps as Sedov

Lee Marvin as Wargrave

Vladek Sheybal as Zannbin

CIA agent Harry Wargrave is sent to aid Gen. Marenkov, a senior Russian official, who is defecting to the west. Wargrave decides they should travel to safety on a train across Europe, the "Atlantic Express". During the journey, they must survive attacks by terrorists and an avalanche, all planned by Russian spy-catcher Nikolai Bunin.

The Young Lions

1958

7.1

♡ 21

75%

Edward Dmytryk Director

Gene Roth as Bavarian Café Manager

Maximilian Schell as Capt. Hardenberg

Michael Pataki as Pvt. Hagstrom

Robert Ellenstein as Rabbi Joseph Silverstein

The lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII.

A Bridge Too Far

1977

7.4

♡ 36

59%

based on a true story

Richard Attenborough Director

Colin Farrell as Corporal Hancock

Anthony Hopkins as Lieutenant Colonel Frost

Maximilian Schell as Lieutenant General Bittrich

Michael Caine as Lt. Col. J.O.E. Vandeleur

The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII to end the war quickly by securing three bridges in Holland allowing access over the Rhine into Germany. A combination of poor allied intelligence and the presence of two crack German panzer divisions meant that the final part of this operation (the bridge in Arnhem over the Rhine) was doomed to failure.

Return from the Ashes

1965