Adrian Hoven

Acting

Adrian Hoven

Born — Died

1922-05-18 — 1981-04-28

Place of birth

Wöllersdorf, Austria

Known for

Acting

Credits

89 titles

Adrian Hoven (18 May 1922 – 8 April 1981) was an Austrian actor, producer and film director. He appeared in 100 films between 1947 and 1981. He is best known for his collaborations with filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Known for

Scene of the Crime poster
6.2

Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.

Scene of the Crime

1970

Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre poster
6.9

Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre [French title: Le comte Yoster a bien l'honneur] is a TV series which followed the adventures of the title’s amateur gentleman detective. It was a success in particular in Germany and in France. Originally the show was a German production in black-and-white but it evolved into a European co-production in colour.

Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre

1967

Berlin Alexanderplatz poster
7.5

In late 1920s Berlin, Franz Biberkopf is released from prison and vows to go straight. However, he soon finds himself embroiled in the city’s criminal underworld.

Berlin Alexanderplatz

1980

Hamburg Transit poster
8.0

Hamburg Transit was a German crime television series that first aired in 1970. It ran for 52 episodes over four series until 1974. It depicts the officers of the Hamburg CID. It was a successor to the show Polizeifunk ruft which ran between 1966 and 1970.

Hamburg Transit

1970

Lili Marleen poster
6.5

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”.

Lili Marleen

1981

World on a Wire poster
7.3

In the future, Simulacron, a computer project simulating reality, encounters strange occurrences after its leader's death. Dr. Stiller questions the sudden disappearance of a friend and wonders if Simulacron holds the answers.

World on a Wire

1973

Film credits

1980s · 2 titles

1970s · 13 titles

Fox and His Friends poster
7.2

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. He enters an abusive relationship with wealthy industrialist Eugen in an attempt to climb the social ladder. His desperation for love and affection soon spirals into tragedy.

Fox and His Friends

1975

Mark of the Devil poster
6.1

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.

Mark of the Devil

1970

Inside Out poster
6.7

An American ex-WW II POW returns to Germany 30 years after the war. He teams up with the former commander of his prison camp. Together they spring a Nazi war criminal from jail. He's the only one left who knows where a secret wartime cache of gold is hidden.

Inside Out

1975

Satan’s Brew poster
6.4

A famous poet who hasn't written a word in two years unconsciously plagiarizes the work of Stefan George, while dealing with several mistresses, his dimwitted brother, and a murder investigation.

Satan’s Brew

1976

Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven poster
7.7

Frau Emma Küsters prepares dinner late one seemingly-ordinary afternoon in her seemingly-ordinary Frankfurt kitchen. She wants to add canned sausages to the stew; her irritating daughter-in-law thinks otherwise. But the point is moot: Ernst Küsters has not only murdered the personnel director at the soap factory where he's employed but succeeded that by committing suicide.

Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven

1975

Mark of the Devil Part II poster
4.9

A tribunal interrogates, tortures and murders "witches" and "heretics" during the Inquisition.

Mark of the Devil Part II

1973

The Long Swift Sword of Siegfried poster
3.8

An "adults only" retelling of the legend of Siegfried.

The Long Swift Sword of Siegfried

1971

Fear of Fear poster
6.3

After having her second child, a German housewife suffers from postpartum depression before inexplicably falling into a continually misdiagnosed mental state, befuddling her relatives.

Fear of Fear

1976

Martha poster
7.0

After the death of her abusive father, lonely librarian Martha finds herself caught up in a strange, sadomasochistic relationship with a monstrous husband whom she begins to suspect may be trying to murder her.

Martha

1974

Despair poster
6.5

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.

Despair

1978

Shadow of Angels poster
4.4

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.

Shadow of Angels

1976

La pente douce poster
10.0

A married woman visits an old house with a real estate agent. This event sends her into a world of obsession, and she ends up losing her mind.

La pente douce

1972

Götz von Berlichingen mit der eisernen Hand poster
6.0

During the time of the Peasants' Wars, the free knight Götz von Berlichingen gets into all kinds of private and political entanglements when he defends the Bishop of Bamberg. He is declared an enemy of the empire and ostracized as a robber. Insurgent peasants, of whom he becomes the leader, also betray him by attacking a town against the condition that no violence be used.

Götz von Berlichingen mit der eisernen Hand

1979

1960s · 23 titles

Succubus poster
5.4

Lorna Green is a performer at a Lisbon nightclub who performs fictionalized acts that involve erotically charged sadomasochistic murders. As she begins to suffer violent, surreal nightmares, she starts to believe that she may be under mind control by a man who may be Satan incarnate.

Succubus

1968

The Secret of the Red Orchid poster
5.8

Rival gangsters from Chicago move to London and attempt to extort money from rich Britons.

The Secret of the Red Orchid

1962

To Skin a Spy poster
5.8

A French secret agent gets a license to kill when he is sent to Vienna to plug a security leak in this routine spy saga. He is caught in the crossfire of international enemy agents trying to eliminate the French.

To Skin a Spy

1966

I Aim at the Stars poster
6.5

The life story of the famed rocket scientist Dr. Werner von Braun, one of the most brilliant and controversial figures of the space age. Dr. von Braun literally pioneered man's adventure into space through his rocket experiments; his was the brain behind the V-2 rockets which blasted London in World War II; his was also the brain which led America into the development and the launching of space satellites.

I Aim at the Stars

1960

Case 33: Antwerp poster
8.5

British detective Tim Frazer hunts a myserious murderer who kills smugglers in the city of Antwerpen.

Case 33: Antwerp

1964

Jesse James' Kid poster
NR

Bill James is still a child when his father, Jesse James, is killed by his cousin Bob. Twenty years later, now with his father's image, his face causes him much trouble, because nobody can forgive him for looking like the man who, for so many years, had been the terror of the whole countryside.

Jesse James' Kid

1965

Death on a Rainy Day poster
6.5

Two French agents fight a Chinese sect that aims to control the American Secretary of Defence via high-tech medicine, so that he would start a world war.

Death on a Rainy Day

1967

The White Horse Inn poster
6.7

Leopold, head waiter at the "Weißen Rössl" (White Horse Inn), is secretly in love with the owner of the restaurant, Josepha. But she's only interested in the lawyer Dr. Siedler. Jealous, Leopold comes up with a plan to gain Josepha's attention.

The White Horse Inn

1960

Foxhole in Cairo poster
6.6

A German spy in Cairo must report back to Rommel with information on British positions.

Foxhole in Cairo

1960

Kiss Me Monster poster
4.7

On an island somewhere in the Caribbean a professor is experimenting with mankind. Meanwhile, The Red Lips are moonlighting on a striptease world tour, but as soon as they hit the stage, the girls are up to their pasties in stiffs, Satanists and Sapphic sadists, all after the professor's secret formula for human clones!

Kiss Me Monster

1969

Island of the Amazons poster
6.5

Seven women take off on a cargo boat for a cruise, after graduating from an exclusive boarding school in Switzerland. They party with the ship's crew, but in port they meet up with Manuel, who runs a meteorological station with his father on a remote Amazon island. While out there, Manuel's father has found a crashed airplane carrying gold ingots. Manuel goes to the mainland to tell of his father's finding and is overheard by a gangster. The gangsters head over to the island and shoot Manuel's father, but Manuel escapes. Murdok captures some of the girls, who must fight off some of the gang members' evil intentions. Eventually the rest of the girls and Manuel arrive to the rescue, but Murdok gets away only in time to be shot by the police.

Island of the Amazons

1960

Castle of the Creeping Flesh poster
4.5

In an ancient castle, a mad scientist is trying to revive his dead daughter by an operation, but there are certain body parts he needs that he can't get. His problem is solved when a group of drunken party-goers stumble into his castle.

Castle of the Creeping Flesh

1968

Cave of the Living Dead poster
5.2

The German police cannot solve the mystery of the seven murders which have alarmed the local villagers. They call in Inspector Doren of Interpol, and the only clue the Chief Constable can give the detective is the fact that, each time a murder was committed, the electric lights in the whole neighborhood went out. The locals believe that the killings of the young girls are linked to the vague shadows in the caves under the local castle and to the mysterious Curse of the Green Eyes.

Cave of the Living Dead

1964

Die blonde Frau des Maharadscha poster
8.0

Maharaj Gowan is in love with the blonde circus rider Yrida. However, the son of the Maharaj also have strong feelings for her.

Die blonde Frau des Maharadscha

1962

Two Undercover Angels poster
5.0

"Red Lips" are two female detectives trying to find missing models and dancers. A pop artist called Klaus Thriller and his werewolf-like assistant, Morpho, are the main suspects for the murderers.

Two Undercover Angels

1969

The Murderer with the Silk Scarf poster
7.3

The Murderer with the Silk Scarf

The Murderer with the Silk Scarf

1966

Das Rätsel der grünen Spinne poster
5.5

At the cabaret "The Green Spider", a stranger shoot the singer. Since the murder happens during a trumpet solo nobody hears the shot.

Das Rätsel der grünen Spinne

1960

Ach Egon! poster
6.3

Pediatrician Waldemar Weber is at his wits' end. Of all days, his adopted son Egon—from his first marriage, whom Waldemar has always kept a secret from his young wife Henny—has announced he’s coming to visit on their first wedding anniversary. Waldemar must stop Egon at all costs. When Egon finally shows up at the door, he turns out to be a monkey trainer.

Ach Egon!

1961

Liane, Daughter of the Jungle poster
5.3

A German expedition is in the African jungles on an unidentified misson. During this mission one of the German explorers, Thoren, is attacked and captured by the local natives called the Botos.

Liane, Daughter of the Jungle

1961

So liebt und küsst man in Tirol poster
4.5

A music comedy by Franz Marischka.

So liebt und küsst man in Tirol

1961

Allotria in Zell am See poster
6.4

Playboy Mark Fürberg lands in Zell am See with his drunken friend Pit Tanner.

Allotria in Zell am See

1963

Die Post geht ab poster
5.3

Life is full of surprises. One hopes for an even million and inherits an old bus. Willy, a trumpet player in a jazz band, tries to make the best of it and travels to the sunny south with a few musicians. Barbi and Petra are also part of the party, but they set off on their journey without their father's blessing. The fathers hurry after their disobedient daughters in a fast road cruiser...

Die Post geht ab

1962

Seven Hours of Gunfire poster
5.8

When he was 12 years old, Bill Cody, later knew as Buffalo Bill, is rider for "pony express" carrying the mail through the wilds of America. It becomes later caravans guide. When driving one of them meets Luisa, the niece of a priest who tried to evangelize the savage tribes accompanied by a converted Indian. It is a dangerous time because, before the advancing white man, the Sioux tribes are buying weapons from unscrupulous dealers...

Seven Hours of Gunfire

1965

1950s · 21 titles

The Beautiful Legs of Sabrina poster
8.3

Sabrina is a beautiful thief, one who happens to have seven moles on her thigh, forming the constellation Ursa Minor; this is the only clue German police have to solve a recent robbery. Teo is a photographer looking for a pair of beautiful legs to participate in a photo contest. When he secretly takes a photo of Sabrina's legs, including the telltale moles, Sabrina has to get it back at any cost, something which brings her into dangerous proximity with the smitten Teo. Romance and assorted hijinx ensue.

The Beautiful Legs of Sabrina

1958

Canaris poster
6.7

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.

Canaris

1954

Dr. Holl poster
9.0

A doctor marries his seemingly incurable patient to fulfill her last wish. A serum he develops saves her, and the union born of compassion develops into a loving marriage.

Dr. Holl

1951

The Story of Vickie poster
6.9

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

The Story of Vickie

1954

Jungle Girl and the Slaver poster
3.8

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

Jungle Girl and the Slaver

1957

Epilogue poster
6.0

The reporter Peter Zabel stumbles upon the sinking of the luxury yacht Orplid in Hamburg on August 14, 1949. The ship went down with a wedding party run by artists on a pleasure trip from Hamburg to Scotland . In spite of good weather and no technical problems. Out of personal curiosity, Zabel starts researching. Could the sinking of Orplid have political reasons? A German political thriller and film noir inspired by Carol Reed's "The Third Man".

Epilogue

1950

Good Evening Paris poster
10.0

A foreign pianist who comes to visit Paris is ripped off by a young man and his sister. But he soon falls in love with this one.

Good Evening Paris

1956

Lilli, a Girl from the Big City poster
7.0

The frenzied reporter Lilli is just great: she shoots with both hands and lays her opponents with Jiu-Jitsu while the guys fall to the ground with just one look from her! Now she is to attend a missionary convention in Sicily. Nothing special? The apparently routine job develops into a murder case.

Lilli, a Girl from the Big City

1958

Heimatland poster
6.0

Somewhere in the Salzburg mountains, young poacher Hans tries to conquer the heart of pretty schoolteacher Helga but is overthrown by forest warden Thomas. Krambambuli, the dog he once saved from being drowned, indirectly causes his death.

Heimatland

1955

No artwork available
6.4

No synopsis available yet.

Lügen haben hübsche Beine

1956

Ihr erstes Rendezvous poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ihr erstes Rendezvous

1955

Stars Over Colombo poster
10.0

Adventure film in an exotic setting based on the “Indian Tomb”: While visiting a circus in Germany, the Indian maharajah Gowan sees the rider Yrida, who comes from Swedish nobility. The maharajah falls in love with the circus rider and quickly sends the entire circus to Ceylon, where he courts Yrida. But Yrida loves someone else: the student Gowaran, who she does not know is the maharajah's son. In order to get Yrida completely under his control, the maharaja has her drugged and abducted to his castle in India.

Stars Over Colombo

1953

Hannerl: Ich tanze mit Dir in den Himmel hinein poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Hannerl: Ich tanze mit Dir in den Himmel hinein

1953

Der Dorfmonarch poster
7.0

Alois Wimpflinger is the mayor of a village located in the Bavarian Alps. This grumpy but kind-hearted man is happily married to Wally and the happy father of Stefan, himself happily engaged to a charming village girl. All this sounds too idyllic to last and it doesn't! Put the blame on Christine, an unexpected visitor, who happens to be both a beautiful young woman and a talented dancer. All the men go off their heads and all the women lose their temper as soon as they see her. A cute pink little brassiere lost will be the final straw...

Der Dorfmonarch

1950

Rommel ruft Kairo poster
4.5

In 1942 the Germans devised an operation to introduce in Egypt spies to provoke a rebellion against the British.

Rommel ruft Kairo

1959

Ehe für eine Nacht poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ehe für eine Nacht

1953

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

I Can't Marry Everyone

1952

Föhn poster
5.3

The aging Dr. Johannes Jensen still cannot come to terms with the fact that his wife died in an avalanche during a mountain hike they took together twenty years ago. When a young couple plans to climb the same mountain, Jensen fears that the incident might repeat itself. He tries in vain to dissuade them from their plan. When they get into trouble, Jensen manages to save them, sacrificing his own life in the process.

Föhn

1950

Circus Girl poster
8.0

Sequel to “Stars above Columbo”: Yrida, a circus rider who has been abducted to India, wakes up in the maharajah's palace, where the court physician convinces her that she has only dreamed all the terrible events. The maharaja tries to win her love. At the same time, assassins are planning to overthrow the maharaja. The maharaja's son, Gowaran, falls under suspicion. His innocence is only proven when the temple dancer and lover of the maharaja chooses suicide. The maharaja abdicates and appoints his son as his successor. Now Yrida gets the man she really loves.

Circus Girl

1954

Three from the Gasoline Station poster
7.0

Robert, Peter and Fritz are the best of friends ... and hopelessly broke. But they don't let that stop them and in short order, they end up renting a deserted gas station. With just a little bit of wit and some elan, they'll bring the old girl back to life and all will look rosy ... until all three of them fall in love with the same dame: Gabi, the daughter of the director of a large gasoline firm. Thanks to her, their eternal friendship is really going to be put to the test.

Three from the Gasoline Station

1955

Vienna, City of My Dreams poster
7.0

In the made-up country of Alanien, King Alexander I has been overthrown while abroad. Now, he's in Vienna with his daughter, the city of his fondest memories since studying there as a boy. It doesn't take long for the charm of Vienna to work its magic on the former king: he quickly comes to terms with the new situation and is able to enjoy the Austrian capital sans all the ceremony and trappings which would otherwise accompany him on a state visit. The princess is content with preparing herself for a career as a pianist concert, while the former king takes a job as a chauffeur in the embassy of the country he once ruled. The revolutionaries are shocked; and his days in Vienna are numbered.

Vienna, City of My Dreams

1957

Series credits

Scene of the Crime poster
6.2

Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.

Scene of the Crime

1970

Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre poster
6.9

Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre [French title: Le comte Yoster a bien l'honneur] is a TV series which followed the adventures of the title’s amateur gentleman detective. It was a success in particular in Germany and in France. Originally the show was a German production in black-and-white but it evolved into a European co-production in colour.

Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre

1967

Berlin Alexanderplatz poster
7.5

In late 1920s Berlin, Franz Biberkopf is released from prison and vows to go straight. However, he soon finds himself embroiled in the city’s criminal underworld.

Berlin Alexanderplatz

1980

Hamburg Transit poster
8.0

Hamburg Transit was a German crime television series that first aired in 1970. It ran for 52 episodes over four series until 1974. It depicts the officers of the Hamburg CID. It was a successor to the show Polizeifunk ruft which ran between 1966 and 1970.

Hamburg Transit

1970

World on a Wire poster
7.3

In the future, Simulacron, a computer project simulating reality, encounters strange occurrences after its leader's death. Dr. Stiller questions the sudden disappearance of a friend and wonders if Simulacron holds the answers.

World on a Wire

1973

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Okay S.I.R.

1973

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Jörg Preda berichtet

1966

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Das Fernsehgericht tagt

1961

Bitte keine Polizei poster
8.5

No synopsis available yet.

Bitte keine Polizei

1975

Alarm für Dora X poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Alarm für Dora X

1962

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Das Haus der Schlangen

1964

Das Ding poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Das Ding

1979

Behind the camera

Mark of the Devil poster
6.1

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.

Mark of the Devil

1970

Mark of the Devil poster
6.1

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.

Mark of the Devil

1970

Succubus poster
5.4

Lorna Green is a performer at a Lisbon nightclub who performs fictionalized acts that involve erotically charged sadomasochistic murders. As she begins to suffer violent, surreal nightmares, she starts to believe that she may be under mind control by a man who may be Satan incarnate.

Succubus

1968

Mark of the Devil Part II poster
4.9

A tribunal interrogates, tortures and murders "witches" and "heretics" during the Inquisition.

Mark of the Devil Part II

1973

Mark of the Devil Part II poster
4.9

A tribunal interrogates, tortures and murders "witches" and "heretics" during the Inquisition.

Mark of the Devil Part II

1973

Mark of the Devil Part II poster
4.9

A tribunal interrogates, tortures and murders "witches" and "heretics" during the Inquisition.

Mark of the Devil Part II

1973

The Long Swift Sword of Siegfried poster
3.8

An "adults only" retelling of the legend of Siegfried.

The Long Swift Sword of Siegfried

1971

Kiss Me Monster poster
4.7

On an island somewhere in the Caribbean a professor is experimenting with mankind. Meanwhile, The Red Lips are moonlighting on a striptease world tour, but as soon as they hit the stage, the girls are up to their pasties in stiffs, Satanists and Sapphic sadists, all after the professor's secret formula for human clones!

Kiss Me Monster

1969

Castle of the Creeping Flesh poster
4.5

In an ancient castle, a mad scientist is trying to revive his dead daughter by an operation, but there are certain body parts he needs that he can't get. His problem is solved when a group of drunken party-goers stumble into his castle.

Castle of the Creeping Flesh

1968

Castle of the Creeping Flesh poster
4.5

In an ancient castle, a mad scientist is trying to revive his dead daughter by an operation, but there are certain body parts he needs that he can't get. His problem is solved when a group of drunken party-goers stumble into his castle.

Castle of the Creeping Flesh

1968

Castle of the Creeping Flesh poster
4.5

In an ancient castle, a mad scientist is trying to revive his dead daughter by an operation, but there are certain body parts he needs that he can't get. His problem is solved when a group of drunken party-goers stumble into his castle.

Castle of the Creeping Flesh

1968

Die Mädchen aus der Peep Show poster
4.7

The most revealing report about the girls from the peep show. The girls from the peep show can't get enough of their power of seduction even after work. They never miss an opportunity to drop their covers...

Die Mädchen aus der Peep Show

1983

Two Undercover Angels poster
5.0

"Red Lips" are two female detectives trying to find missing models and dancers. A pop artist called Klaus Thriller and his werewolf-like assistant, Morpho, are the main suspects for the murderers.

Two Undercover Angels

1969

The Murderer with the Silk Scarf poster
7.3

The Murderer with the Silk Scarf

The Murderer with the Silk Scarf

1966

The Murderer with the Silk Scarf poster
7.3

The Murderer with the Silk Scarf

The Murderer with the Silk Scarf

1966

The Murderer with the Silk Scarf poster
7.3

The Murderer with the Silk Scarf

The Murderer with the Silk Scarf

1966

Dandelions poster
4.5

Rick (Rutger Hauer), a disaffected sailor turned hard drinking womanizer, returns home from six months at sea to find his wife (Corrigan), whom he was deeply in love, has unexpectedly left him and is now a junkie whore. Devastated, he tries to ease his pain with booze and cheap thrills. His wife's best friend (Dagmar Lassander) makes a move on him, and when he spurns her (after scewing her first, naturally) she plots her revenge. She does so in an ingenious way, by exploiting a fantasy woman of his, but her plan backfires with tragic consequences.

Dandelions

1974