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Howard Vernon (15 July 1908 – 25 July 1996), born Mario Walter Lippert, was a German-Swiss stage and film actor who appeared in films by Jean-Pierre Melville, Sacha Guitry, Fritz Lang, Roger Vadim, Jean-Luc Godard and Jesús Franco.
Vernon was born Mario Lippert in Baden-Baden, Germany, to a Swiss father and a German mother. Originally a stage and radio actor, he played Nazi officers, gangsters and psychopaths in French and American films after World War II. In the 1960s, he became a favourite actor of Spanish film director Jesús Franco, starring in many low-budget horror and erotic films produced in Spain and France. He died in Issy-les-Moulineaux, France, 10 days after his 88th birthday.
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01 January 1982
A journalist sets out to report on a minor earthquake in the Australian outback, and finds that the tremor was a result of a small nuclear explosion - part of an extortion threat that has the government fearing nuclear blackmail.
13 June 1956
The inhabitants of a small provincial town are requisitioned to take part in the French army's major maneuvers.
01 January 1972
Part documentary, part mockumentary, part sexploitation, all Franco. Starting in the Garden of Eden we are taken on a voyage around the world that covers various rites of passage and cultures deflowering of the virgin.
20 May 1966
A special United Nations bureau organises a campaign to trace a drug-smuggling ring across Europe to its source on the Afghanistan-Iran border.
01 January 1994
An actor and poet falls in love with a former mortuary photographer turned waitress. They find themselves caught up way over their heads in a dirty political and financial affair, an art smuggling case that touches them merely for the fact that it may separate them, be it through death or exile.
13 March 1946
June 1944, a French town towards the end of the occupation. Following several attacks perpetrated by the resistance, the inhabitants who listen to English radio are rounded up by the Germans in a prison and considered as hostages.
03 June 1949
A chronicle of the life of Bertrand du Guesclin, grand officer of the French army in the 14th century.
16 May 1973
An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin’s trail.
15 May 1974
According to legend, a group of women escaped from Atlantis just before the destruction of the continent.
16 October 1974
The story opens with Celestine eluding arrest with a friend as the police raid a brothel. While hiding out in the hayloft of the Count de la Braquette's estate, she meets the hayseed handyman Sébastien and the butler Malou, who reward her favors with the offer of employment.
03 April 1969
Without a family, penniless and separated from her sister, a beautiful chaste woman will have to cope with an endless parade of villains, perverts and degenerates who will claim not only her treasured virtue but also her life.
09 December 1966
Safecracker Eddie Chapman is languishing in prison on the island of Jersey when the Nazis arrive. An adept manipulator of situations, Chapman convinces the Germans to use him to spy on the British.
29 January 1967
A German intelligence officer investigates a prostitute's killing in Warsaw during World War II. He lands on three major Nazi generals as suspects, two of whom are also involved in a plot to kill Adolf Hitler.
20 February 1958
Double murderer Dr. Crippen is using every means possible to search for a manuscript that he suspects is in the possession of the daughter of the man who was executed in his place.
20 March 1947
The Marquis de Montauran was appointed to command the Chouans whose first two revolts were crushed. An aristocrat, Marie-Nathalie de Verneuil, is sent by Joseph Fouché to seduce and capture him.
27 January 1982
Christian, an art critic, must write a study on the painter René Dimanche in order to understand why he did not produce anything for eight years.
05 May 1965
Lemmy Caution is on a mission to eliminate Professor Von Braun, the creator of a malevolent computer that rules the city of Alphaville.
26 May 1953
FBI Agent Lemmy Caution is sent after a missing two million in Casablanca while mob boss mistress Carlotta plays both sides of the law.
10 March 1959
A man who was injured in an accident has a visitor in his hospital. The visitor suggests a strange deal.
04 November 1959
Murderous foreign agents are after a scientist who has invented an atomic engine that could change the future of rocketry.
20 August 1971
A plane leaving the turmoil of a South American country in the midst of a revolution crash-lands in the Amazon jungle in Brazil.
31 October 1968
Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria clashes with his father, Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, over implementing progressive policies for their country.
19 November 1964
The habits and customs of a strange association, "La Sociéte des Gentlemen Redempteurs", which has turned assassination into a veritable art form.
24 September 1964
As the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, German Colonel Von Waldheim is desperate to take all of France's greatest paintings to Germany.
23 March 1983
Upon arriving at the dilapidated estate of his mentor, Dr. Harker finds his former professor, Dr. Usher, radically changed.
19 July 1961
Commissaire Masson tells a young journalist about the only failure of his career: the wife of a Canadian secret agent, pursued by speculators, tried to deceive them.
11 July 1948
The film is a 125-minute, black-and-white biography of French priest and diplomat Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754–1838), who served for 50 years under five different French regimes: the Absolute Monarchy, the Revolution, the Consulate, the Empire, and the Constitutional Monarchy.
01 August 1966
A woman seeks to avenge her father's death using a local dancer, with long poisonous fingernails, to do her bidding.
17 March 1978
A group of female freedom-fighters led by Karine Levere is caught by the warden of a women's prison, located somwhere in the South American jungle.
10 June 1975
In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleon.
05 February 1970
In 1685 England, an overzealous Lord Chancellor condemns various rebels and "witches" to satisfy his political whims, ignorant of the true consequences of his actions.
17 April 1991
In a post-apocalyptic world, the residents of an apartment above the butcher shop receive an occasional delicacy of meat, something that is in low supply.
29 November 1973
Al Pereira arrives at the "House of Vice" and receives orders to spy on a crime ring called the Quadriumvirate, who deal in prostitution and drugs.
15 March 1967
An hour-long discussion between Fritz Lang and Jean-Luc Godard in which they discuss a variety of art forms, the role of the cinema, their collaboration together, and much more.
25 June 1962
Don Jose disguises himself as Zorro, the masked freedom fighter, who tries to protect his people from the wrath of an evil military officer who is using his position to his own advantage.
22 September 1961
Barny, although a Marxist, is intrigued by the mysteries of religion. In confession, she teases a priest, Léon Morin, but he is a young and intelligent man and ready to discuss anything.
15 July 1946
The novelist Suzanne Delmont creates a character, "The Uncatcable Frédéric", a sort of Arsène Lupin.
08 June 1988
Forgotten Straub-Huillet film that shows outtakes from "Der Tod des Empedokles".
05 February 1973
A group of nuns become possessed by demons and are then tortured in a dungeon of horrors during the Inquisition.
05 August 1963
Carlos, a reckless card player burdened by debt, becomes involved in a shady affair when an old flame asks him to return a necklace he has pawned.
19 March 1985
After the death of her little boy, Anita wants to take her own life.
16 April 1946
A resistance leader is wounded when the Germans raid his underground print shop. He escapes to the home of a German-friendly Parisian and is helped by her son and daughter.
10 December 1975
Two rich aristocrats lure a virgin to a remote Spanish island for a night of sex, death and cannibalism.
22 June 1965
A playboy who refuses to give up his hedonistic lifestyle to settle down and marry his true love seeks help from a demented psychoanalyst who is having romantic problems of his own.
04 October 1967
A doctor invites his relatives to his castle, all the while planning to murder them when they arrive.
01 July 1947
A society heiress and a resistance fighter are tragically killed at the same moment and meet in the afterlife.
02 September 1966
Claude Brasseur plays a villain on the run from both the police and the mob. Good atmosphere in the Paris by Night, including deserted factory, Les Halles market and an empty theatre.
15 June 1962
In the eerie village of Holfen, a series of gruesome murders sparks rumors of a centuries-old curse, with a noble heir caught between suspicion and his own dark urges.
01 March 1963
1944 : Occupied France. Juliette (Vice) is Wehrmacht General Bamberg's mistress and enjoys a privileged life.
24 August 1964
Early Spanish western. Ramon Torrado’s westerns remain among the most obscure ones. Of his four westerns, all shot around 1964.
22 December 1962
A battle between revolutionary Mexicans and the U.S. cavalry brings Zorro onto the scene to enact vengeance for violent acts incurred by the cavalry Sergeant.
23 July 1985
A Jewish commando unit hunting Nazi war criminals tracks down the infamous Dr. Mengele in the jungle, and find that he is torturing nubile young virgins and performing horrible medical experiments on the locals.
15 March 1979
In 1939, at a Paris café, six friends of various nationalities vow to meet again at the same spot after the end of WW2.
20 July 1951
A couple of dancers performs in a night club. The man is jealous of Gina, his partner,and keeps making scenes to her, going as far as bullying her on the stage during their act.
23 October 1953
In the early 16th century, Italy is ruled by the powerful Borgia family, led by César Borgia and his sister Lucrèce.
25 August 1948
In his younger days, a dashing officer, Colonel Durand, compromised Madame De Monthieux, who entered a convent.
18 December 1974
Twenty years after seducing a businessman, a demonic temptress lays claim to the man's daughter.
