"La Venganza del Doctor Mabuse" actually is one of Franco's better films of that period with delightfully twisted characters, stunning locations, truly beautiful camera-work and a terrific musical score. The story is of minor importance but...
Strange things happen in a revue theatre. The dancer Maria seems to be hunted by an invisible admirer. When the body of a probable FBI agent is found in a trunk the police asks FBI man...
The evil Dr. Mabuse develops a death ray with which he threatens the world... sequel to the previous years, Scotland Yard jagt Dr. Mabuse. German language with optional English subtitles great looking 4:3 print.
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...
Myrna tells the police where they can arrest a few heroin dealers. Talking too much was a bad mistake, of course - she is shot shortly afterwards by the gangsters. But then her corpse disappears and...
Merely a few months after "Der Gorilla von Soho", Horst Tappert returned as Inspector Perkins in "Der Mann mit dem Glasauge". The second movie is clearly better scripted than the first and much more exciting. Perkins...
A woman is kidnapped and her identity is stolen by criminals attempting to collect her inheritance.
The story of "Der Hund von Blackwood Castle" revolves around this castle whose owner has just died. His daughter is asked to sell the castle, but she suspects too many men want to buy it for...
This 1968 color German-made feature was one of the last of the Edgar Wallace series, and like the later films it introduced horror and sex element.s It's grotesque, sleazy, and over-the-top. Scotland Yard goes after a...
A deranged teenage girl played by Desiree Nosbusch is obsessed with a bad German rock star named "R". She is alienated from her parents and seemingly has no friends, so she spends all her free time...
One of the better Edgar Wallace series from the 1960's concerns a series of murders where the victim is killed by a knife thrown from a great distance. The victim always has his bags packed by...
The plot of the film centers around a woman who's husband has died in a fiery car crash outside a gambling club. Broke from her husbands gambling debts and the cost of the funeral she tries...
Klaus Kinski plays the role of a drifter on a motorcycle who happens to be passing through town immediately after a young school girl has been run over and killed by an unknown person on a...
This is an above average Edgar Wallace thriller.Some creepy opening scenes set the pace. A hooded society passes judgement on criminals"beyond the reach of the law".They are hung and dumped into the Thames river...
A remake of the 1962 Krimi 'Secret of the Black Trunk'. This was one of the last German Edgar Wallace adaptions to be made and directed by good old Jess Franco.
Very early staring role for Kinski in this German thriller. Here he plays a psychotic escaped murderer!
After the success of "Der Hexer", this sequel was shot 9 months later by the same director with mostly the same cast - unfortunately Joachim Fuchsberger did not return...
A detective breaks up a drug smuggling ring and tries to find the "Daffodil Killer." The drug smugglers had devised the ingenious method of smuggling heroin from Hong Kong in the stems of daffodils
Low budget German crime flick staring Ulli (The Boogeyman) Lommel. No other info yet.
The spirit of the evil Dr. Mabuse takes over the body of a famous professor. The professor/Dr. Mabuse then begins a new crime wave that terrorizes the city
A Chinese cult bent on taking over the world uses an idol called The Golden Reptile that they believe can give them the power to achieve their goal.
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.
A businessman organises a caper to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. Another excellent Krimi, and this time directed by Freddie Francis.
Among the other German homemade-splatter videos, Ittenbach's BLACK PAST is one of the best: very well done, especially if you consider all the limits of the video technology at that time. The same can be said...