Screenplay: Karl May
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Karl May. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Apache Gold (Winnetou I)
1963 · Movie · 101 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Harald Reinl
Cast Lex Barker · Pierre Brice · Marie Versini · Mario Adorf
Plot When violent conflict breaks out between greedy railroaders and a tribe of Mescalero Apaches, only two men, destined to be blood brothers, can prevent all-out war: chief's son Winnetou and...
5.2
124 votes
5.2
124 votes
Winnetou: The Desperado Trail
1965 · Movie · 93 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Harald Reinl
Cast Lex Barker · Pierre Brice · Rik Battaglia · Ralf Wolter
Plot After the Civil War, desperadoes led by a renegade named Rollins, following the settlers moving westward, try to drive a wedge in the friendship between the whites and the Indians....
5.1
28 votes
5.1
28 votes
Winnetou: The Red Gentleman
1964 · Movie · 94 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Harald Reinl
Cast Lex Barker · Pierre Brice · Anthony Steel · Karin Dor
5.1
115 votes
5.1
115 votes
In the Valley of Death
1968 · Movie · 89 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Harald Reinl
Cast Lex Barker · Pierre Brice · Ralf Wolter · Karin Dor
4.9
90 votes
4.9
90 votes
Half-Breed
1966 · Movie · 90 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Harald Philipp
Cast Lex Barker · Pierre Brice · Götz · Uschi Glas
4.8
46 votes
4.8
46 votes
Flaming Frontier
1965 · Movie · 90 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Alfred Vohrer
Cast Stewart Granger · Pierre Brice · Larry Pennell · Leticia Roman
4.8
98 votes
4.8
98 votes
Frontier Hellcat
1964 · Movie · 98 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Alfred Vohrer
Cast Stewart Granger · Pierre Brice · Elke Sommer · Renato Baldini
Plot Old Surehand and Winnetou investigate the murders of a mother and daughter. The surviving husband believes that his wife and daughter were murdered by Indians, but Old Surehand suspects that...
4.8
84 votes
4.8
84 votes
The Treasure of the Silver Lake
1962 · Movie · 111 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Harald Reinl
Cast Lex Barker · Herbert Lom · Pierre Brice · Götz
Plot In their first cinematic adventure, Apache chief Winnetou and mountain man Old Shatterhand pursue a gang of murderous outlaws who will stop at nothing to find the legendary treasure of...
4.7
92 votes
4.7
92 votes
Old Shatterhand
1964 · Movie · 122 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Hugo Fregonese
Cast Lex Barker · Guy Madison · Pierre Brice · Daliah Lavi
Plot Renegades trying to get the army to abandon their fort get the Indians addicted to whiskey, then convince them to attack and drive out the soldiers.
4.5
74 votes
4.5
74 votes
Rampage at Apache Wells
1965 · Movie · 89 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Harald Philipp
Cast Stewart Granger · Pierre Brice · Harald Leipnitz · Macha Méril
Plot 'The Oilprince' is an unscrupulous businessman. He looks forward to a lucrative deal with the "Western Arizona Bank'. He sells the bank oil wells at Shelly Lake that do actually...
4.3
47 votes
4.3
47 votes
Der Löwe von Babylon
1959 · Movie · 120 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Johannes Kai · Ramón Torrado
Cast Fernando Sancho · Georg Thomalla · Helmuth Schneider · Mara Cruz
Plot A band of smugglers lives in the ruins of Bis Nim Rub, in Babylon. Kara Ben Nemsi arrives there with his faithful friend. One night, when camping, they surprise three...
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Wild Kurdistan
1965 · Movie · 122 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Franz Josef Gottlieb
Cast Lex Barker · Marie Versini · Ralf Wolter · Djordje Nenadovic
Plot After dealing with the Shut in the Balkans, Kara Ben-Nemsi ('Karl the German') receives a firman (precious passport) from the padishah (Ottoman sultan) before he continues his travels through Kurdistan....
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Winnetou & Old Shatterhand
2016 · Movie · 117 min. · Germany
Direction Philipp Stölzl
Cast Nik Xhelilaj · Wotan Wilke Möhring · Jürgen Vogel · Milan Peschel
Plot Apache chief Winnetou forms a friendship with a German immigrant named Old Shatterhand.
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Die Sklavenkarawane
1958 · Movie · 99 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Georg Marischka · Ramón Torrado
Cast Viktor Staal · Georg Thomalla · Theo Lingen · Fernando Sancho
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Winnetou - Der letzte Kampf
2016 · Movie · 123 min. · Germany
Direction Philipp Stölzl
Cast Nik Xhelilaj · Wotan Wilke Möhring · Iazua Larios · Milan Peschel
Plot Winnetou and Old Shatterhand are close to establish peace between settlers and natives, only to come across more obstacles. A dark secret lies beneath Apache land threatening its future.
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The Caravan of Death
1920 · Movie · min. · Germany
Direction Josef Stein
Cast Carl de Vogt · Meinhart Maur · Erwin Baron · Gustav Kirchberg
Plot Subtitled, “A film of the southern sun in six chapters”, the film featured Bela Lugosi playing an Arab Sheik pitted against European travellers in an adventure story set in the...
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Pyramid of the Sun God
1965 · Movie · 102 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Robert Siodmak
Cast Lex Barker · Gerard Barray · Rik Battaglia · Michèle Girardon
Plot Mexico, 1864. The country is divided by the struggle against the French occupation and emperor Maximilian. The German doctor Karl Sternau and his friend Andreas Hasenpfeffer come to love the...
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The Young Chief Winnetou
2022 · Movie · 103 min. · Germany
Direction Mike Marzuk
Cast Mika Ullritz · Milo Haaf · Lola Linnéa Padotzke · Mehmet Kurtulus
Plot Winnetou's tribe is in dire straits. There is a threat of famine as the all-important buffalo herds are now failing. As the headman's son, young Winnetou wants to prove to...
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Attack of the Kurds
1965 · Movie · 95 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Franz Josef Gottlieb
Cast Lex Barker · Marie Versini · Ralf Wolter · Dieter Borsche
Plot Kara Ben-Nemsi, friends and rescuees set out to free a young relative of the guardian of the treasure of the Chaldaeans 'Christian sect), who is captured for that fabulous ransom....
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Yellow Devil
1964 · Movie · 118 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Robert Siodmak
Cast Lex Barker · Marie Versini · Ralf Wolter · Rik Battaglia
Plot On his adventurous travels trough the Ottoman empire, Kara ben-Nemsi (the Turkish-Arabic name means 'black(bearded) German', so author Karl May, whose alter-ego he is, would consider shaved blond Lex Barker...
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