The best Adrian Hoven’s drama movies

Adrian Hoven

Adrian Hoven

18/05/1922- 28/04/1981
We present our ranking of the best Adrian Hoven’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Adrian Hoven.
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Lili Marleen

Lili Marleen
7.1/10
The story of a German singer named Willie who while working in Switzerland falls in love with a Jewish composer named Robert whose family is helping people to flee from the Nazis. Robert's family is skeptical of Willie, thinking she could be a Nazi as she becomes famous for singing the song "Lili Marleen."

Fox and His Friends

Fox and His Friends
7.6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 06/06/1975
  • Character: Wolf Thiess, Eugen's Vater
Fox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and things that he has always wanted. While he wants to climb up the social ladder, it isn't without turmoil, and being torn between his old working class roots, and the shiny new facade of middle class consciousness.

The Story of Vickie

The Story of Vickie
6.4/10
Vickie, short for Victoria, is crowned Queen of England and as such needs to learn the responsibilities of her new post.

Mark of the Devil

Mark of the Devil
6.1/10
In 1700s Austria, a witch-hunter's apprentice has doubts about the righteousness of witch-hunting when he witnesses the brutality, the injustice, the falsehood, the torture and the arbitrary killing that go with the job.

Despair

Despair
6.9/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 20/09/1978
  • Character: Inspector Schelling
Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufacturer, married to the capricious Lydia, loses his temper more and more every day when dealing with his workers and other businessmen; until he meets Felix, a vagrant, who seems to be physically identical to him; a disconcerting fact that leads Hermann Hermann to plot a particular way out of a fake world he actually hates.

Martha

Martha
7.5/10
After the death of her abusive father, the lonely librarian Martha marries an equally vile businessman - Helmut.

Satan's Brew

Satan's Brew
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 07/10/1976
  • Character: Arzt
This fast-paced black comedy by wunderkind director Rainer Werner Fassbinder follows the frantic efforts of a starving and confused writer, Walter Kranz to beg, borrow or steal enough money to survive on, and at the same time make some sense of his confusing life. Unable to write enough to keep his publisher's royalty advances coming, he seeks out a woman he imagines is a prostitute and interviews her for material. He is also inspired to utter some poetry, which his brassy, outspoken wife identifies as coming from the famous homosexuality-advocating mystical German poet, Stefan George. This inspires Walter to take a closer look at the gay scene, and he quickly becomes a sort of celebrity there.

World on a Wire

World on a Wire
7.7/10
Cybernetics engineer Fred Stiller uncovers a massive corporate conspiracy involving a virtual reality computer project.

Canaris

Canaris
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 29/12/1954
  • Character: Oberleutnant Althoff
Admiral Canaris is chief of the intelligence service of Nazi Germany. His department is quite successful and Hitler grants him all the money he wants for new developments. Still he's a thorn in the side of the Nazi chiefs, since he's not as unscrupulous as they want him and is known to criticize their ideology.

Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven

Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
7.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/07/1975
  • Character: Redacteur - in - chief Linke (uncredited)
After her husband kills his boss and himself, Mother Kusters becomes drawn into the activities of the German Communist party and then a group of anarchists.

Schattenboxer

Schattenboxer
5.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 11/02/1977

Foxhole in Cairo

Foxhole in Cairo
5.8/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 09/03/1960
  • Character: John Eppler
A German spy in Cairo must report back to Rommel with information on British positions.

Waldrausch

Waldrausch
3.5/10
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50/50

50/50
8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 18/12/1977
  • Character: Bettler
Two men lose their jobs and have to start from scratch. They go their separate ways about it, but their paths sometimes cross.

Looping

Looping
5.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 05/01/1981
  • Character: Capone
A small carnival is in dire financial straits. Their show is attracting fewer and fewer paying customers, as their "attractions" are ageing, out of shape and beset by internal feuds and bickering. One day a beautiful young woman shows up and suggests a way of attracting customers: put on a strip show, with her as the main attraction. Her act attracts customers in droves, but it turns out that the girl has her own agenda, and it isn't to help out the carnival.

Jungle Girl and the Slaver

Jungle Girl and the Slaver
4.1/10
The sequel to 1956's "Liane, Jungle Goddess" finds the title character still a jungle goddess, but captured by slave traders.

Heimatland

Heimatland
5.1/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 23/08/1955
  • Character: Hans Bachinger

Dr. Holl

Dr. Holl
7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 23/03/1951
  • Character: Tonio, Gärtner

Tromba

Tromba
3.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/07/1949
  • Character: Rudy Walheim, Sportstudent

Shadow of Angels

Shadow of Angels
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 31/01/1976
  • Character: Herr Müller
Beautiful, detached, laconic, consumptive Lily Brest is a streetwalker with few clients. She loves her idle boyfriend Raoul who gambles away what little she earns. The town's power broker, called the rich Jew, discovers she is a good listener, so she's soon busy. Raoul imagines grotesque sex scenes between Lily and the Jew; he leaves her for a man. Her parents, a bitter Fascist who is a cabaret singer in drag and her wheelchair-bound mother, offer no refuge. Even though all have a philosophical bent, the other whores reject Lily because she tolerates everyone, including men. She tires of her lonely life and looks for a way out. Even that act serves the local corrupt powers.

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