Topic: Krimi

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Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Dawn Addams · Peter van Eyck · Gert Fröbe · Wolfgang Preiss

Synopsis Lang's last film. Reporter Peter Barter gets murdered while driving to his tv station. Commisioner Kras gets a phone call from clairvoyant Cornelius who saw Barters death in a vision. But a dark force prevents Cornelius from seeing the man...

7.2

1K votes

7.2

1K votes

The Ringer

1964 · Movie · 82 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Alfred Vohrer

Cast Joachim Fuchsberger · Heinz Drache · Sophie Hardy · Eddi Arent

Synopsis A supposedly respectable man is forced to murder his lovely secretary when she finds out too much about his real business, which is white slavery (forcing women into prostitution). The girl's brother comes from Australia to find out what happened...

5.9

63 votes

5.9

63 votes

Direction Alfred Vohrer

Cast Heinz Drache · Barbara Rutting · Brigitte Horney · Eddi Arent

Synopsis The puzzling murder of Lord Curtain, one of London's richest men, is the prelude to a series of murders, in which the heirs of his stately fortune are killed. Since the "The Ringer's" business card is left at inexplicable crime...

5.8

37 votes

5.8

37 votes

Direction Alfred Vohrer

Cast Heinz Drache · Gisela Uhlen · Sabine Sesselmann · Hans Nielsen

Synopsis This West German production is the second film based on the Edgar Wallace novel of the same name (the first was the 1940 Chamber of Horrors). The story -- which owes a great deal to The Cat and the Canary...

5.8

99 votes

5.8

99 votes

Hypnosis

1962 · Movie · 86 min. · Italy

5.7

155 votes

5.7

155 votes

Direction Terence Fisher · Frank Winterstein

Cast Christopher Lee · Hans Söhnker · Senta Berger · Thorley Walters

Synopsis Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson try to solve the case of the stealing of Cleopatra's necklace, found by archaeologists in Egypt. They soon discover that the evil professor Moriarty is behind it all.

5.7

316 votes

5.7

316 votes

The Sinister Monk

1965 · Movie · 87 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Harald Reinl

Cast Karin Dor · Harald Leipnitz · Siegfried Lowitz · Siegfried Schürenberg

Synopsis Disaster lies over Castle Darkwood. While the castle owner is still fighting his imminent death, the family is already fighting over his heir. Shortly before his death, he changes his will to the benefit of his daughter, who should continue...

5.6

50 votes

5.6

50 votes

Direction Harald Reinl

Cast Siegfried Lowitz · Karin Dor · Hellmut Lange · Walter Rilla

Synopsis A ring of counterfeiters is flooding the country with phony money, and suspicion falls upon a wealthy playboy who may, or may not, have amnesia.

5.6

65 votes

5.6

65 votes

The Crimson Circle

1960 · Movie · 92 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Jürgen Roland

Cast Renate Ewert · Klausjürgen Wussow · Karl-Georg Saebisch · Thomas Alder

Synopsis A brutal gang, which calls itself "Crimson Circle", blackmails the high-society of London. Whoever does not follow their demands is murdered. Unsuccessful Superintendent Parr (Karl George Saebisch) remains without a clue, so the famous detective Derrick Yale (Klaus Juergen Wussow)...

5.6

79 votes

5.6

79 votes

Room 13

1964 · Movie · 89 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Harald Reinl

Cast Joachim Fuchsberger · Karin Dor · Richard Häussler · Walter Rilla

Synopsis A serial-killer is murdering the ladies of a night club. Detective Gray is seeking for the killer but can only find a lot of gangsters. And the killer is about to act again...

5.6

35 votes

5.6

35 votes

The Squeaker

1963 · Movie · 89 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Alfred Vohrer

Cast Heinz Drache · Barbara Rutting · Günter Pfitzmann · Eddi Arent

Synopsis The German The Squeaker is the third film version of the Edgar Wallace mystery novel of the same name. The title character is an omnipotent "fence" who has cornered the diamond-smuggling racket. The fence travels in polite society under the...

5.4

67 votes

5.4

67 votes

Direction Helmut Ashley

Cast Christopher Lee · Adrian Hoven · Marisa Mell · Klaus Kinski

Synopsis Two rivalling American gangster gangs appear in London and blackmail wealthy Englishmen. These incidents trigger one of Londons bloodiest crime events and Scottland Yard is in constant pursuit of the two most ruthless gangs ever to hit the city by...

5.4

43 votes

5.4

43 votes

Direction Armando Crispino

Cast Alex Cord · Samantha Eggar · John Marley · Nadja Tiller

Synopsis A photographer on an archaeological expedition digging up Etruscan ruins in Italy begins to suspect that not all the Etruscans buried there are actually dead.

5.1

36 votes

5.1

36 votes

The Trygon Factor

1966 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Cyril Frankel

Cast Stewart Granger · Susan Hampshire · Robert Morley · Cathleen Nesbitt

Synopsis A Scotland Yard detective is investigating a string of robberies and a murder, and the information he uncovers leads him to the estate of a wealthy but strange English family, who share their mansion with a group of nuns. The...

5.0

25 votes

5.0

25 votes