
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
6.2Tatort 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
6.9Graf 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
7.5In 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
8.0Hamburg 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
6.5The 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
7.3In 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
6.5The 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
6.8When designer Robert Meering returns from vacation, he discovers the company he worked for unexpectedly went bankrupt so he decides to visit his old boss. His former employer Banninger liquidated the company and claims that all designs of Robert are his. When Robert's Porsche gets stolen by two thieves, he manages to track them down. When they tell him about 40 Porsche's in a dealer shop garage owned by Banninger things change and suddenly get very interesting.
Carnapping - Ordered, Stolen and Sold
1980
1970s · 13 titles
7.2Fox, 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
6.1In 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
6.7An 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
6.4A 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
7.7Frau 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
4.9A tribunal interrogates, tortures and murders "witches" and "heretics" during the Inquisition.
Mark of the Devil Part II
1973
3.8An "adults only" retelling of the legend of Siegfried.
The Long Swift Sword of Siegfried
1971
6.3After 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
7.0After 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
6.5Berlin, 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
4.4Beautiful, 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
10.0A 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
6.0During 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
5.4Lorna 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
5.8Rival gangsters from Chicago move to London and attempt to extort money from rich Britons.
The Secret of the Red Orchid
1962
5.8A 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
6.5The 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
8.5British detective Tim Frazer hunts a myserious murderer who kills smugglers in the city of Antwerpen.
Case 33: Antwerp
1964
NRBill 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
6.5Two 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
6.7Leopold, 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
6.6A German spy in Cairo must report back to Rommel with information on British positions.
Foxhole in Cairo
1960
4.7On 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
6.5Seven 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
4.5In 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
5.2The 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
8.0Maharaj 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
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
7.3The Murderer with the Silk Scarf
The Murderer with the Silk Scarf
1966
5.5At 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
6.3Pediatrician 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
5.3A 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
4.5A music comedy by Franz Marischka.
So liebt und küsst man in Tirol
1961
6.4Playboy Mark Fürberg lands in Zell am See with his drunken friend Pit Tanner.
Allotria in Zell am See
1963
5.3Life 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
5.8When 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
8.3Sabrina 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
6.7Admiral 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
9.0A 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
6.9Vickie, 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
3.8The 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
6.0The 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
10.0A 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
7.0The 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
6.0Somewhere 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 synopsis available yet.
Lügen haben hübsche Beine
1956
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Ihr erstes Rendezvous
1955
10.0Adventure 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
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Hannerl: Ich tanze mit Dir in den Himmel hinein
1953
7.0Alois 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
4.5In 1942 the Germans devised an operation to introduce in Egypt spies to provoke a rebellion against the British.
Rommel ruft Kairo
1959
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Ehe für eine Nacht
1953
No synopsis available yet.
I Can't Marry Everyone
1952
5.3The 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
8.0Sequel 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
7.0Robert, 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
7.0In 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
6.2Tatort 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
6.9Graf 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
7.5In 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
8.0Hamburg 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
7.3In 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 synopsis available yet.
Okay S.I.R.
1973
No synopsis available yet.
Jörg Preda berichtet
1966
No synopsis available yet.
Das Fernsehgericht tagt
1961
8.5No synopsis available yet.
Bitte keine Polizei
1975
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Alarm für Dora X
1962
No synopsis available yet.
Das Haus der Schlangen
1964
6.5No synopsis available yet.
Das Ding
1979
Behind the camera
6.1In 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
6.1In 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
5.4Lorna 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
4.9A tribunal interrogates, tortures and murders "witches" and "heretics" during the Inquisition.
Mark of the Devil Part II
1973
4.9A tribunal interrogates, tortures and murders "witches" and "heretics" during the Inquisition.
Mark of the Devil Part II
1973
4.9A tribunal interrogates, tortures and murders "witches" and "heretics" during the Inquisition.
Mark of the Devil Part II
1973
3.8An "adults only" retelling of the legend of Siegfried.
The Long Swift Sword of Siegfried
1971
4.7On 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
4.5In 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
4.5In 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
4.5In 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
4.7The 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
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
7.3The Murderer with the Silk Scarf
The Murderer with the Silk Scarf
1966
7.3The Murderer with the Silk Scarf
The Murderer with the Silk Scarf
1966
7.3The Murderer with the Silk Scarf
The Murderer with the Silk Scarf
1966
4.5Rick (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

