Best West Germany TV shows – page 3
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Japan, West Germany, Austria
Duration: 23 min.
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Vicky is the only son of Halvar, the formidable viking chief. Vicky renounces violence but nevertheless he is able to convince the seasoned viking warriors to take him along on their voyages. In dangerous situations, where their bravery and force ...
Style:
anime, heroic, educational, folk tale, exciting ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly
Plot:
viking, problem solving, father son relationship, seafaring, children, strategy, druid, mentor, teamwork, community, island, coming of age ...
Time:
middle ages, 70s
Place:
europe
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Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, West Germany, France, Spain
Duration: 90 min.
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No overview found.
Style:
period piece, suspense, grim
Plot:
sahara desert, desert, french foreign legion, ufo, treasure hunt, archaeology, exploration, foreign legion, survival, ancient ruins, rescue mission, exotic locale ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
sahara
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Japan, Austria, West Germany, Netherlands, USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Maya the Bee is an anime television series produced by Zuiyo Enterprise in Japan. The series consisted of 52 episodes and was originally telecast across Japan from April 1975 to April 1976 on the TV Asahi network. Based on the classic ...
Style:
anime, retro, humorous, feel good, semi serious
Audience:
kids, toddlers, preschool
Plot:
insect, brother sister relationship, woods, save the day, escapades, adventurer, rebellion, heroes, danger, young heroes, youth, friendship ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Italy, France, West Germany, Switzerland, USA
Duration: 120 min.
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A compelling drama/documentary chronicling the life and death of Il Duce himself, from his days as a terrorist to his alliance with Hitler to the betrayal of his son-in-law and untimely demise.
Style:
thought provoking, bleak, disturbing, serious, realistic
Plot:
fascism, world war two, italian history, dictator, italian fascism, fictional history, totalitarian state, world war, intrigue, political unrest, injustice, family problems ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s
Place:
europe, italy
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy, France, West Germany, USA
Duration: 360 min.
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The epic mini-series tells the story of the legendary Italian-born explorer Diego de Geona Taino, later known as Christopher Columbus, from his birth in c.1450 Genoa, Italy, to his young adult years as an expert sailor and navigator who, with money ...
Style:
serious, exciting, realistic, captivating, factual ...
Plot:
expedition, conquistador, ocean, ambition, adventurer, inventions and discoveries, tragic hero, political intrigue, renaissance, medieval, new world, father son relationship ...
Time:
15th century
Place:
portugal, spain, europe, atlantic ocean, africa ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France, UK, West Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 384 min.
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Part 1 - PAOLA - Police Inspector Cattani fights a losing battle to save his loved daughter's sanity, after what she suffered (see "La Piovra", original mini-series). He loses her, and his only trusted magistrate in the fight against ...
Style:
poliziottesco
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Italy, France, West Germany, UK, Sweden
Duration: 70 min.
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Giuseppe Verdi was born in 1813 and lived until 1901, his life spanning nearly a century of political turmoil and considerable personal turmoil. This 1982 biographical television miniseries, as seen on PBS's Great Performances, dramatizes the ...
Style:
reflective, emotional, dramatic, melancholic, historical drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
composer, biopic, opera, musician, classical music, performer's life, ambition, creative process, legacy, nationalism, grief, cleaning ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s
Place:
italy, milan italy
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, West Germany, Austria
Duration: 600 min.
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A couple of years have passed since Corrado Cattani and Giulia Antinari broke up; during this time, Giulia died in an accident (that might or might not have been planned by Tano) and Corrado has lived alone in a place when he can be guarded 24/7. A ...
Style:
poliziottesco
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: West Germany, Romania, France
Duration: 93 min.
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The writer Humphrey van Weyden gets overboard in 1906 in a shipwreck in the fog in the Bay of San Francisco and is rescued by a seal catcher, the schooner Ghost under the brutal Captain Wolf Larsen.
Plot:
ocean, sea captain, strong man, tough guy, strength, brutality, ship, revenge, sadism, violence, sailboat, survival ...
Time:
1900s, 20th century
Place:
pacific ocean, san francisco
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, West Germany, Austria
Duration: 370 min.
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Part 1 - GOOD AND EVIL - After the mafia killed his family, and a number of people who trusted him, Cattani sees a couple of criminals condemned to light sentences only. A DEA team brings him back from the mountain retreat with good monks, to the ...
Style:
poliziottesco
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Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: Poland, West Germany
Duration: 29 min.
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Janna is a German-Polish collaboration television series.
Style:
sentimental, melancholic, period piece
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
horse, coming of age, family drama, village life, mother daughter relationship, heartwarming, magic realism, youth, domestic drama, countryside, self discovery, slice of life ...
Place:
poland
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Romance, Western
Country: Romania, France, West Germany
Duration: 360 min.
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Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn live in a small town on the Mississippi River above St. Louis. Tom is raised by his Aunt Polly, with whom he lives together with his brother Sid. Huckleberry, known as Huck, is homeless and does not go to school—his ...
Style:
realistic, serious, feel good, sentimental
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
coming of age, small town, homeless, stolen money, ship, young heroes, chases and races, youth, misfit, buddies, heroes, mischievous children ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
missouri, mississippi, usa, st. petersburg russia
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: France, West Germany, Hungary, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
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In 1867, at the time of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the adventures of the revolutionary count Mathias Sandorf who, having escaped an attack which cost the life of his wife, returns years later to take revenge on his political enemies.
Style:
heroic, suspense, period drama, political drama
Plot:
revenge, betrayal, vengeance, escape, politics, justice, assassination, political intrigue, revolution, conspiracy, rebel leader, espionage ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
hungary, transylvania, vienna, morocco
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan, West Germany, Austria, Switzerland, South Africa
Duration: 25 min.
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The Adventures of Piccolino is a 52 episode anime series by Nippon Animation first aired in 1976. The story is based on the novel "Pinocchio" by Italian author Carlo Collodi.
Style:
anime, semi serious, touching, sentimental, feel good
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
pinocchio, objects come to life, friends, family relations, young heroes, escapades, mischievous children, youth, on the road, parents and children, imaginary, male protagonist ...
Place:
italy, europe, tuscany
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany, Austria
Duration: 45 min.
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The country doctor.
Style:
family saga, medical drama, heartfelt, realistic, pastoral ...
Plot:
doctor, small town, community, village life, slice of life, empathy, tradition, healing, generation, neighborhood, female nudity, male female relationship ...
Time:
80s
Place:
germany
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 60 min.
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Stendhal's epic tale of a young French officer in the Napoleonic wars, and his aunt - a duchess of legendary beauty and resourcefulness.
Style:
historical drama, intense, poignant, emotional, art house ...
Plot:
napoleonic wars, aristocracy, european history, intrigue, adaptation, political intrigue, literary, duchess, passion, betrayal, seduction, forbidden love ...
Time:
19th century, 1810s
Place:
italy
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Austria, Switzerland, West Germany, Hungary, Italy, Belgium
Duration: 90 min.
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No overview found.
Style:
heroic, tension, suspense, period drama
Audience:
kids
Plot:
revenge, betrayal, traitor, dangerous mission, bravery, pursuit, military, imperial russia, treachery, threat, loyalty, courage ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s
Place:
siberia, russia, moscow russia
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Sweden, Austria, West Germany, Denmark
Duration: 383 min.
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A mini-series about the life of Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter, August Strindberg. He is portrayed as a misogynous, selfish and racial. And he loses everything, for the sake of the art.
Style:
psychological, intellectual, melancholic, realistic, intense ...
Plot:
biopic, painter, playwright, novelist, literary, character study, poet, ambition, obsession, isolation, misogyny, controversy ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
stockholm sweden
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Western
Country: Austria, France, West Germany, Romania
Duration: 370 min.
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America at the end of the 19th century: news spreads like wildfire that gold has been found in the Klondike. Half of America is in an uproar. Among the adventurers is the young lawyer Elam Harnish from San Francisco. Over the next few months, he ...
Style:
period drama
Audience:
adult
Plot:
gold rush, greed, determination, man versus nature, ambition, expedition, hardship, wilderness survival, survivalist, corruption, stock market, male protagonist ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
san francisco, alaska, switzerland, east germany
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Genre: Horror
Country: Spain, Portugal, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 90 min.
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Story:
Witchcraft film.
Style:
psychotronic
Plot:
animal cruelty, babysitter, swimming pool, lesbianism, waking up from a coma, death of boy, coma, supernatural, death of son, astronomy, marital separation, cruelty ...
Time:
80s
Place:
spain
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Genre: Adventure
Country: France, West Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy
Duration: 52 min.
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A young English navy lieutenant sets out to prove the quickest way to reach India from London is by way of the Mediterranean and Suez rather than the long sea route around Africa and the Cape of Good Hope, which takes six months. Together with his ...
Style:
period drama
Plot:
adventurer, travel, sea voyage, journey, exploration, mediterranean, rivalry, friendship, innovation, expedition, determination, competition ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s, 1820s
Place:
india, bombay india, london, saudi arabia, egypt
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy, West Germany, France, Austria, Norway
Duration: 91 min.
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A disastrous weapon was stolen from a governmental producing facility. Jack Clementi gets called by the insurer Lloyds to investigate the crime. They hope to prevent a mass panic or even worse. While investigating Jack Clementi gets away from ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, crime thriller, dark, noir
Plot:
investigation, suspicion, government conspiracy, moral ambiguity, cat and mouse, political intrigue, espionage, corruption, paranoia, urban, murder, military ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, West Germany, Italy, Sweden, Austria
Duration: 90 min.
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Plot:
stolen gold, flashback, murder, prison, betrayal, undercover, prison fight, insurance investigator, quicksand, armored truck, gold bar, prison escape ...
Place:
french riviera
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