The best John Wengraf’s thriller movies

John Wengraf

John Wengraf

23/04/1897- 04/05/1974
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The Prize

The Prize
6.8/10
For some reason, this year's Nobel prize in literature has been awarded to the young author Andrew Craig, who seems to be more interested in women and drinking than writing. Another laureate is Dr. Max Stratman, the famous German-American physicist who comes to Stockholm with his young and beautiful niece Emily. The Foreign Department also gives him an assistant during his stay, Miss Andersson. Craig soon notices that Dr. Stratman is acting strangely. The second time they meet, Dr. Stratman does not even recognize him.

T-Men

T-Men
6.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeThriller
  • Release: 25/12/1947
  • Character: 'Shiv' Triano
Two U.S. Treasury ("T-men") agents go undercover in Detroit, and then Los Angeles, in an attempt to break a U.S. currency counterfeiting ring.

The Seventh Cross

The Seventh Cross
7.4/10
In Nazi Germany in 1936 seven men escape from a concentration camp. The camp commander puts up seven crosses and, as the Gestapo returns each escapee he is put to death on a cross. The seventh cross is still empty as George Heisler seeks freedom in Holland.

Gog

Gog
5.5/10
A mechanical brain is programmed to sabotage the government's secret lab while working on the first space station.

Night Train to Munich

Night Train to Munich
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaThrillerWar
  • Release: 31/08/1940
  • Character: KL Physician (uncredited)
Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach England; but those who need to put his knowledge at the service of the Nazi war machine, in order to carry out their evil plans of destruction, will stop at nothing to capture him.

5 Fingers

5 Fingers
7.6/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 22/02/1952
  • Character: Count Franz Von Papen
During WWII the valet to the British Ambassador to Ankara sells British secrets to the Germans while trying to romance a refugee Polish countess.

Portrait in Black

Portrait in Black
6.3/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 27/07/1960
  • Character: Dr. Kessler
A pair of lovers plot to kill the woman's rich husband.

Sofia

Sofia
6/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 03/09/1948
  • Character: Peter Goltzen
A former OSS agent is assigned to rescue two atomic scientists from the dastardly Russians and spirit them away from behind the Iron Curtain.

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