
Acting
Maria Perschy
Born — Died
1938-09-23 — 2004-12-03
Place of birth
Eisenstadt, Burgenland, Austria
Known for
Acting
Credits
71 titles
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Maria Perschy (September 23, 1938 – December 3, 2004) was an Austrian actress. Perschy was born in Eisenstadt, Burgenland, Austria and moved to Vienna at the age of 17 to study acting. After completing her education, she moved to Germany for more training, leading to a movie career. Her first major success came with Nasser Asphalt where she played together with Horst Buchholz. Her acting career would eventually take her — by way of France, Italy, and Great Britain — to Hollywood. Perschy played in a number of American films, her most notable roles being in the 1962 biopic Freud and the 1964 Rock Hudson comedy, Man's Favorite Sport?. Perschy's career i…
Known for
7.2Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. Jack Lord portrayed Detective Lieutenant Steve McGarrett, the head of a special state police task force which was based on an actual unit that existed under martial law in the 1940s. The theme music composed by Morton Stevens became especially popular. Many episodes would end with McGarrett instructing his subordinate to "Book 'em, Danno!", sometimes specifying a charge such as "murder one".
Hawaii Five-O
1969
9.3No synopsis available yet.
Dalli Dalli
1971
No synopsis available yet.
Zum blauen Bock
1957
7.2Paul Temple is a British-German television series . It features Francis Matthews as Paul Temple, the fictional detective created by Francis Durbridge, who solves crimes with the assistance of his wife Steve. Paul Temple used overseas locations in France, Malta, Germany and elsewhere.
Paul Temple
1969
6.5No synopsis available yet.
Eurocops
1988
6.5No synopsis available yet.
Auf eigene Gefahr
1993
Film credits
1990s · 5 titles
3.4Philipp Meinhold, smart and womanizing architect, is in a dilemma between well-behaved wife Susanne and furious girlfriend Birgit. He secretly goes on vacation to Thailand with his friend Fritz. But he can't enjoy the palm trees and sunshine in his vacation paradise for long, because the storm is already approaching in the form of a feminine double hit: wife and lover arrive in the sunny Thai state. And soon the ex-crush is seen wandering the beaches, lonely and jealous ...
Liebling, ich muß auf Geschäftsreise
1995
7.5No synopsis available yet.
Die Nacht der Nächte
1997
4.7A quiet, offbeat German dramedy about self-reinvention and the messy ways we try to escape ourselves. When a middle-aged woman decides to shed her old life and adopt the name “Harry,” her transformation unsettles family, friends, and lovers who can’t quite keep up. Blurring gender identity, midlife crisis, and dark humour, the film plays like a bittersweet character study — deadpan, gently absurd, and tinged with melancholy.
Harry and Harriet
1990
A private detective is hired in the USA to locate the heiress to a fortune worth millions. When he discovers that she has died of a heroin overdose, he passes off an accomplice as the person he is looking for. But suddenly others also come forward to claim the inheritance.
Mörderisches Erbe - Tausch mit einer Toten
1998
7.3No synopsis available yet.
Rosamunde Pilcher: Melodie der Herzen
1998
1980s · 2 titles
4.5A dying wealthy patriarch, Ramon summons his relatives to his bedside, setting the tone for intriguing suspense when a bizarre set of murders occurs. The terror begins with the arrival of the old man's sister and her lover. Blood and gore are a regular state of affairs. The first suspect is Carl who, despite his protests of his innocence, is hounded by the local detective. But the morbid killings continue... so is he the murderer, or isn't he?
Vultures
1983
One of the main theses of the Marienthal study was that prolonged unemployment leads to a state of apathy in which the victims do not utilize any longer even the few opportunities left to them. The vicious cycle between reduced opportunities and reduced level of aspiration has remained the focus of all subsequent discussions.
Marienthal: The Sociography of an Unemployed Community
1988
1970s · 17 titles
6.0A hunchback working in a morgue falls in love with a sick woman. He goes berserk when she dies and seeks help from a scientist to bring her back from the dead.
Hunchback of the Morgue
1973
5.2In Paris, in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Cesar Charron owns a theater at the Rue Morgue where he performs the play "Murders in the Rue Morgue" with his wife Madeleine Charron, who has dreadful nightmares. When there are several murders by acid of people connected to Cesar, the prime suspect of Inspector Vidocq would be Cesar's former partner Rene Marot. But Marot murdered Madeleine's mother many years ago and committed suicide immediately after.
Murders in the Rue Morgue
1971
5.8An ex-convict, troubled by dreams that he strangles women, is hired as the caretaker on an estate owned by three very strange sisters. Soon after his arrival, a serial killer begins slaughtering blonde, blue-eyed women - and leaving their eyeballs in a bowl of water.
Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll
1974
4.9A group of rich businessmen and military officers who are partying in an old castle are spared when a nuclear war ravages the earth. When they venture out into the nearest town to search for food and supplies, they find most of the residents blinded, and soon they discover the existence of a sinister group called The People Who Own The Dark.
The People Who Own the Dark
1976
4.9After a pair of models go missing from a boat, a rescue party discover an empty galleon carrying the coffins of the long dead Knights Templar. The rescue party board the galleon and then discover their own boat has vanished. The survivors struggle to fight off the spectral knights with what little knowledge they have of them.
The Ghost Galleon
1974
5.7The action begins in black and white, like a memory. Klaus is a Nazi military who has just failed an attempt on Hitler. Desperate, Klaus shoots and kills his children and then shoots at his pregnant wife and leaves her badly injured. Finally, attempts suicide, but at the last moment does not have the courage to pull the trigger, and flees on a motorcycle, having an accident ... The action continues in France. Jean-Claude is a handsome young man self-conscious about a malformation in his face. Jean-Claude lives with his parents, Jacques Bergé, an amnesiac man, self-enclosed and obsessed with Egyptian art, and Concepcion, a woman also closed in herself and obsessed with flowers from her garden, and apparently , suffering from paranoia.
Say it with Flowers
1974
4.8A young woman participates (unknowingly) in a satanic ceremony and gets possessed by the spirit of her late father.
Exorcismo
1975
4.2During the final days of the First World War, Officer Menis does his duty in defending the battle flag of the defeated Austro-Hungarian empire, while his fellow troops, a motley gang recruited from several different countries not loyal to the royal family, simply try to survive by any means possible.
The Standard
1977
4.6Maria Preston, Iberia stewardess, lives with her friend and companion Elena O'Hara. She finds out that is followed by a mysterious character. He is Charly, an airport employee, U.S. Vietnam veteran, unhinged and with sexual disorders due to the infidelity of his wife.
The Specter of Terror
1973
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Los fríos senderos del crimen
1974
5.7A shy girl named Ana is sent to an English boarding school. After a period of adjustment, she travels to London with two of her more world weary classmates and becomes the target for a trio of men who take illicit photographs of young girls to be published in 'Estimulation' Magazine.
The Adolescents
1975
10.0Manuela and Juan, a young couple who has been married for four years, likes to practice sexual games. As part of that games they want to include Juan's secretary, an old nun, secretly in love with Manuela.
El límite del amor
1976
7.0A policeman infiltrates in a gang of forgers. He and their leader fought together in Vietnam, where he saved his life. The policeman arrives to the gang headquarters, a mansion in the Californian coast, and thinks everything is under control, until some unexpected visitors, a gang of deranged hippies, show him he is wrong.
The Night of Fury
1974
5.5The war in Europe is ending, but the American troops have to find a scientist on the run who is also chased by some surviving SS forces.
The Last Day of the War
1970
4.7Ignazio is a depressed businessman after he suffers heavy losses in the financial markets. His wife Helena soon finds distraction elsewhere. Germano lives a double life. Leandro, the gamekeeper of the rich and powerful, soon uses his knowledge of the masters to dominate them - and their wives.
Fox Hunt
1976
3.7No synopsis available yet.
De profesión: polígamo
1975
8.0A young girl who survives a plane crash in the jungle grows to adulthood and becomes "Kilma," a feared protector of the jungle who wields a bullwhip.
Kilma, Queen of the Jungle
1975
1960s · 27 titles
6.2When Norwegian resistance leader Lieutenant Erik Bergman reports the location of a German V-2 rocket fuel plant, the Royal Air Force's 633 Squadron is assigned the mission to destroy it. The plant is in a seemingly-impregnable location beneath an overhanging cliff at the end of a long, narrow fjord lined with anti-aircraft guns. The only way to destroy the plant is by collapsing the cliff on top of it.
633 Squadron
1964
6.5An examination of Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud's career when he began to treat patients diagnosed with hysteria, using the radical technique of hypnosis.
Freud: The Secret Passion
1962
7.0Roger Willoughby is a renowned fishing expert, who, unbeknownst to his friends, co-workers, or boss, has never cast a line in his life. One day, he crosses paths with Abigail Paige, a sweetly annoying girl who has just badgered his boss into signing Roger up for an annual fishing tournament.
Man's Favorite Sport?
1964
3.6The evil mastermind Fu Manchu plots his latest scheme to basically freeze over the Earth's oceans with his diabolical new device. Opposing him is his arch-nemesis, Interpol's very British Nayland Smith.
The Castle of Fu Manchu
1969
7.6Seven women are the only survivors of an Apache attack on a wagon train. They must cross the desert on foot to escape the Indians who are hunting them.
The Tall Women
1966
5.2While travelling through Hong Kong, Bob Mitchell accidentally stumbles into the middle of criminal negotiations between a mean gang, the Five Golden Dragons and the local mobsters.
Five Golden Dragons
1967
6.5Sergeant-Major Charles Coward, a brave British soldier is captured by German forces during World War II. When he's thrown into a prisoner of war camp, he immediately plans his escape. Masquerading as a wounded German soldier, he makes it as far as the medical tent, where the deceived enemy forces award him the Iron Cross. Though he is ultimately discovered, he goes on to courageously pursue his freedom with a whimsical and undying audacity.
The Password Is Courage
1962
3.0Behind the facade of a fashionable Milanese home, headed by Arabella, lies an efficient ring of high prostitution.
I piaceri del sabato notte
1960
6.3A group of hooded vigilantes hang wrong-doers with a rope stolen from Scotland Yard's Black Museum.
The Mad Executioners
1963
5.5A young impoverished aristocrat and struggling writer falls for the charms of an aspiring starlet, whose amoral nature and hungry curiosity drives her from one adventure to another.
Love in Rome
1960
6.4Tony and Brad investigate the murders of politicians and scientists. They soon face off against a team of super hit women with their usual flair.
Kiss Kiss, Kill Kill
1966
8.2A suave gangster tries to get away from his boss with a suitcase full of heroin. Two pilots and lots of beautiful women get involved in the affair. Soon blood begins to flow.
Operation Hong Kong
1964
8.0In 1941, two Polish brothers escape a Soviet gulag. Their only escape route is through the impossible mountains of Afghanistan and the KGB is on their tail.
The Desperate Ones
1967
6.4Millionaire Baretti pays a gang to rob an atomic bomb from an American silo, and then blackmails the American Government for a huge amount of money. German secret service (BND) agent 'Dynamite' will use his fists, guns and more to try to stop them.
Spy Today, Die Tomorrow
1967
3.6Revealing story about the mysterious Nazi organization "Lebensborn," which was intended to serve the SS in pursuing population policy and racial hygiene goals by systematically producing "hereditarily valuable" children. The film depicts an anti-Hitler Knight's Cross recipient with false papers who becomes a witness and victim of relevant events in a Lebensborn home, where 30 enthusiastic BDM girls and a number of SS hooligans and frontline soldiers have just moved in to "give the Führer a child."
Ordered to Love
1961
7.0Shot on location in Egypt, the story unfurls like an Italian Giallo as a group of people meet under strange circumstances, and one by one they are murdered. Gold is missing so you suspect a thief is trying to cover up his crime but that might be too obvious.
Secret of the Sphinx
1964
5.3A flirtatious sorcerous fancies a handsome human professor. Cross time antics arise when she attempts to bring the hapless professor into her alternate dimension.
A Witch Without a Broom
1967
7.0Dr. Fabian is the good soul at the University Surgical Clinic. Nicknamed "Paulchen" by his famous boss, Professor Spalke, the demigod in white brings joy to the lives of his patients with his cheerful disposition and is also tireless in his support and advice for his students. It's no wonder that women would love to get their hands on this dream man. But Dr. Fabian remains steadfast - until he meets the attractive anaesthetist Inge.
Dr. med. Fabian - Lachen ist die beste Medizin
1969
5.8During the Mexican Revolution, Pancho Villa is wounded and left his large treasure in gold back in the city of Colón. He is forced to establish an alliance with General Urbina, leader, and he asks seven of his faithful guerrillas to take back the gold that he has hidden in a farm, near the New Mexico border, and which will allow him to pay for a new army and guns.
The Vengeance of Pancho Villa
1967
7.0Aliens attempt to take over the Earth by taking over the bodies of humans at the moment of their death, and using them as tools for their invasion plans.
No Survivors, Please
1964
6.5No synopsis available yet.
Melody of Hate
1962
10.0Three female schoolteachers head down to a small village which has a small army detail. The village is raided for by bandits and the teachers are taken along to the bandits' camp.
The Bandits of the Rio Grande
1965
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Sette donne per una strage
1967
No synopsis available yet.
Wenn beide schuldig werden
1962
Finally, vacation! Marianne, Franziska, and Bernhard Kleinschmidt are spending their holidays together with their friends Oliver and Petra Martens at their parents' vacation home. The young people have every reason to be in a good mood, but something is gnawing at the two young men—Oliver and Bernhard are in love.
Der Held meiner Träume
1960
7.0Three anthological segments about sexcapades and erotic fantasies in middle-class Italy.
Extraconiugale
1964
7.0The sky lights up and the desert comes alive on this desperate search for hidden millions.
African Gold
1965
1950s · 9 titles
6.4The newly appointed head of a censorship board uses his uncompromising stance against everything "immoral" – from nudity in movies to nightclubs – to hide a rather unseemly double life.
The Moralist
1959
6.0In Berlin, when the journalist Greg Bachmann is released from prison six months before the end of his sentence, there is a driver named Jupp waiting for him. Soon he learns that the famous journalist Cesar Boyd was the responsible for the shorter sentence. Cesar offers a position of his assistant to Greg; in return, Boyd would write his story about his interviews to war criminals and Greg would help him in other matters. Meanwhile Boyd welcomes the daughter of a deceased friend, Bettina, and he becomes her guardian.
Wet Asphalt
1958
6.2Through a cleverly deceptive maneuver, a theater ensemble attempts to prevent the sale of its small theater to a shady profiteer. Numerous misunderstandings and mix-ups arise, culminating in a fake wedding night...
Roter Mohn
1956
No synopsis available yet.
Nichts als Ärger mit der Liebe
1956
No synopsis available yet.
Die Liebe des Jahres
1959
6.0Michael Kirchner, nicknamed "The Black Lightning", is a passionate alpine skier. Now he must eliminate the tough opponent Herbert Tanner to be the representative of the national team.
Der schwarze Blitz
1958
6.2Eberhard Dobermann is a widower and a policeman who loves to control the roads and let people pay fines. Even with his neighbour and friend Jutta Schmalbach he has no pity. Thus he cannot understand why his daughter Karin just falls in love with a racing pilot called Walter. But it gets even worse when Eberhard wins a VW-Kaefer at the annual police party. So he has to learn to drive and thus even brings his teacher close to a heart attack.
Natürlich die Autofahrer
1959
8.0A German village gets a new doctor, but the conservative folk have trouble accepting a female for the job.
Lady Country Doctor
1958
No synopsis available yet.
Fanny
1958
Series credits
7.2Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. Jack Lord portrayed Detective Lieutenant Steve McGarrett, the head of a special state police task force which was based on an actual unit that existed under martial law in the 1940s. The theme music composed by Morton Stevens became especially popular. Many episodes would end with McGarrett instructing his subordinate to "Book 'em, Danno!", sometimes specifying a charge such as "murder one".
Hawaii Five-O
1969
9.3No synopsis available yet.
Dalli Dalli
1971
9.3No synopsis available yet.
Dalli Dalli
1971
No synopsis available yet.
Zum blauen Bock
1957
7.2Paul Temple is a British-German television series . It features Francis Matthews as Paul Temple, the fictional detective created by Francis Durbridge, who solves crimes with the assistance of his wife Steve. Paul Temple used overseas locations in France, Malta, Germany and elsewhere.
Paul Temple
1969
6.5No synopsis available yet.
Eurocops
1988
6.5No synopsis available yet.
Auf eigene Gefahr
1993
8.0Die fünfte Kolonne is a German television series.
Die fünfte Kolonne
1963
5.5No synopsis available yet.
Zwei Brüder
1994
No synopsis available yet.
Sergeant Berry
1974
No synopsis available yet.
Le dessous du ciel
1974
