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Georg Tressler

Born January 25, 1917 · Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]

Died January 6, 2007 · aged 89

Georg Tressler (born January 25, 1917, in Vienna – died January 6, 2007, in Belgern, Germany) was an Austrian film director known for bringing social realism to postwar German cinema. After early work as an assistant and documentary filmmaker, he achieved major success with Die Halbstarken (1956), which helped launch the career of Horst Buchholz and marked a break from conventional 1950s German fi…

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2069: A Sex Odyssey2069: A Sex Odyssey · 1974
2069: A Sex Odyssey
★ 4.21974
MovieComedyScience Fiction
Five vixens from Venus are sent to Earth to bring back sperm samples to their planet, which is dying out because there are no men left on it. After they land, they find that it's not all that difficult persuading Earthmen to help them in their quest.
Mrs. Harris - Freund mit Rolls RoyceMrs. Harris - Freund mit Rolls Royce · 1984
Mrs. Harris - Freund mit Rolls Royce
★ 7.01984
Movie
SukkubusSukkubus · 1989
Sukkubus
★ 5.61989
MovieDramaHorror
Sometime during the 19th century in Switzerland: After a delirious night of drinking, three herdsmen who are all alone in the alps with their kettle, create a female doll from cloth and a strangely formed wooden root. When their creation comes to life in form of an evil and beautiful female demon, they have to fear for their lives...
Teenage WolfpackTeenage Wolfpack · 1956
Teenage Wolfpack
★ 6.21956
MovieDramaThriller
The drama of a youthful triangle among gang leader Freddy, his brother Jan, and bad girl Cissy, in one of the first considerations of juvenile delinquency in post-war West Germany.
Ship of the DeadShip of the Dead · 1959
Ship of the Dead
★ 6.61959
MovieAdventureDrama
After a line of mischief Philip Gale, an American sailor, is lured into hiring on the "Yorikke", a tramp cargo, by Lawski, a stoker from Poland. Still, the two become friends within the motley crew of losers from all nations. Gale and his new companion soon are more than disillusioned: the "Yorikke" is far from seaworthy and more of a coffin than a ship, work is close to slavery, and treatment by the officers and their subalterns is harsh and cynical. One day they make an alarming discovery in a tin of plum butter they have procured from the ship's cargo... Written by Anonymous
The Magnificent RebelThe Magnificent Rebel · 1961
The Magnificent Rebel
★ 8.31961
MovieDrama
The life of the great composer, Ludwig Van Beethoven, dates back to his arrival in Vienna in 1792 as the composition of his Ninth Symphony. And we follow with passion the best moments of his life, as his rejection by the family of the only woman he loved deeply, or the beginning of his deafness that prevented him from hearing to ...
Last Stop LoveLast Stop Love · 1958
Last Stop Love
★ 6.01958
MovieDrama
Young factory worker Mecky Berger doesn't believe in "true love." For him, his female acquaintances are just a pastime. In his eyes and those of his friends, romance is something a man should be ashamed of. But then he meets Christa, who is so different from the women he has had affairs with in the past. His feelings for her are also of a previously unknown, confusing intensity—Mecky has fallen in love. But he first has to learn how to deal with this feeling...
Die lustigen Weiber von WindsorDie lustigen Weiber von Windsor · 1965
Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor
★ 10.01965
MovieTV MovieComedy
When Sir John Falstaff decides that he wants to have a little fun he writes two letters to a pair of Window wives: Mistress Ford and Mistress Page. When they put their heads together and compare missives, they plan a practical joke or two to teach the knight a lesson. But Mistress Ford's husband is a very jealous man and is pumping Falstaff for information of the affair. Meanwhile the Pages' daughter Anne is besieged by suitors.

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Children of the MountainsChildren of the Mountains · 1958
Children of the Mountains
★ 10.01958
MovieDrama
Josef Rainer is a road worker in a mountain village in Liechtenstein. His wife Marianne works as a waitress in a restaurant to improve the meager housekeeping money. Some people ask themselves why she has married that poor devil since she could have married into money. But she stays to the keen wood carver. He works out fantastic objects of tree roots, but villagers jeer at him. The family dreams to get a cow of their own to be more independent. One day Josef scrapes together all savings and goes to the cattle market. Due to lack of money, a clever farmer palms a skinny, sick cow off on him. The children Hansli and his friend Ludmila take the cow to their heart. Ludmila even lends her name to the animal. Some time later Josef falls from a mountain and is unable to work for a long time. So a decision is made that cow Ludmila which produces no milk has to be slaughtered.

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