Cast: Christine Kaufmann

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Christine Kaufmann. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Direction Werner Schroeter

Cast Magdalena Montezuma · Christine Kaufmann · Candy Darling · Manuela Riva

Synopsis A series of tableaux illustrating the life and death of a celebrated 19th century German opera singer. Each tableau has a different motif, and each comes across with a decadent romanticism that lies somewhere between the Pre-Raphaelites and a quick...

7.2

118 votes

7.2

118 votes

Town Without Pity

1961 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Gottfried Reinhardt

Cast Kirk Douglas · Barbara Rutting · Christine Kaufmann · E.G. Marshall

Synopsis Major Steve Garrett (Kirk Douglas) is given one of the biggest challenges of his career: defending four American GIs who gang raped a young German girl (Christine Kaufmann) while stationed in Neustadt during World War II. The only way he...

7.1

686 votes

7.1

686 votes

Bagdad Cafe

1987 · Movie · 91 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Percy Adlon

Cast Marianne Sägebrecht · Jack Palance · Christine Kaufmann · CCH Pounder

Synopsis A German woman, abandoned by her husband while traveling in the Nevada desert, forms an unlikely alliance with a black American woman. Out of Rosenheim (Bagdad Café) is a look into the minds and lives of some people most of...

7.0

5K votes

7.0

5K votes

Escape from East Berlin

1962 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Robert Siodmak

Cast Don Murray · Christine Kaufmann · Werner Klemperer · Ingrid van Bergen

Synopsis In January of 1962, 29 East Berliners escaped to West Berlin via a tunnel they had dug beneath the Berlin Wall, led by Erwin Becker, a chauffeur in the car pool of the East Germany Parliament, who served as technical...

6.6

256 votes

6.6

256 votes

Taras Bulba

1962 · Movie · 122 min. · United States

Direction J. Lee Thompson

Cast Tony Curtis · Yul Brynner · Christine Kaufmann · Sam Wanamaker

Synopsis In the 16th century, a fierce Cossack chieftain (Yul Brynner) who has vowed to fight 'til the death to regain his lands from Polish invaders is confronted by his headstrong son (Tony Curtis), who is in love with a Polish...

6.4

1K votes

6.4

1K votes

A Man Named Rocca

1961 · Movie · 102 min. · France

6.3

114 votes

6.3

114 votes

Direction Géza von Radványi

Cast Romy Schneider · Lilli Palmer · Thérèse Giehse · Margaret Jahnen

Synopsis “Girls in uniform” with Romy Schneider and Lilli Palmer was shot in 1958 by Géza von Radványi, it being the remake of a 1931 version of the same plot. This version was already based on a play by Christa Winsloe...

6.2

130 votes

6.2

130 votes

Day of the Idiots

1981 · Movie · 110 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Werner Schroeter

Cast Carole Bouquet · Ingrid Caven · Christine Kaufmann · Ida Di Benedetto

Synopsis Carol is a young woman dissatisfied and demanding with life. To prove herself, she pretends to be a terrorist. She is admitted and kept under observation in a residence, despite not being sick. The suicide of a patient will make...

5.9

27 votes

5.9

27 votes

Constantine the Great

1962 · Movie · 129 min. · Italy

Direction Lionello De Felice

Cast Cornel Wilde · Belinda Lee · Massimo Serato · Christine Kaufmann

Synopsis Somewhat fictionalized dramatic account of Late Roman Emperor Constantine, his rise to power, and his establishment of religious tolerance among Roman subjects. Constantine's adoption of Christianity allowed this small persecuted religion to sweep throughout Europe as the empire's power waned.

5.1

134 votes

5.1

134 votes

The Last Days of Pompeii

1959 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy

Direction Mario Bonnard

Cast Steve Reeves · Christine Kaufmann · Fernando Rey · Barbara Carroll

Synopsis Based on the Edward Bulwer-Lytton novel. Set in the shadows of Mt. Vesuvius just before its famous eruption, the film begins with Glaucus, a Roman legionnaire, returning to his home from far-off wars. Upon arriving, however, he discovers that his...

5.0

621 votes

5.0

621 votes

The Count of Monte Cristo (TV Miniseries)

1979 · Series · 350 min. · France

Direction Denys de La Patellière

Cast Jacques Weber · Carla Romanelli · Jean-François Poron · Christiane Krüger

Synopsis A TV mini-series adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While...

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Winter Holidays

1959 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy

Direction Camillo Mastrocinque · Giuliano Carnimeo

Cast Alberto Sordi · Michèle Morgan · Georges Marchal · Vittorio De Sica

Synopsis By the late 1950's Italy seems to have developed the custom of going to 'White week' holidays, that is week long skiing holidays, something very popular nowadays. Alberto Sordi & Co, always ready to make fun of the latest trends...

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Totò, Fabrizi e i giovani d'oggi

1960 · Movie · 87 min. · Italy

Direction Mario Mattoli

Cast Totò · Aldo Fabrizi · Christine Kaufmann · Geronimo Meynier

Synopsis Carlo is in love with Gabriella and he decides to marry her. She agrees but some problems begin when their parents meet. Giuseppe D'Amore and Antonio Cocuzza take at once a dislike to each other and begin fighting over everything....

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The Swing

1983 · Movie · 133 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Percy Adlon

Cast Anja Jaenicke · Lena Stolze · Joachim Bernhard · Susanne Herlet

Synopsis The Swing is the story of three sisters in a middle-class German family fallen on hard times, set just before the First World War.

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First Love

1959 · Movie · 102 min. · Italy

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Blackmail Chase

1976 · Movie · 82 min. · Austria

Direction Franz Antel

Cast Carroll Baker · Curd Jürgens · Arthur Kennedy · Vittorio Caprioli

Synopsis An ex-gangster retires to his native village in the Abruzzi mountains. He has kept some tapes which incriminate an American senator and his Mafia contacts. Various people try to get hold of the tapes - by fair means or foul.

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