Acting

Manfred Spies

Born 1938-02-23

Acting credits

14 and Under poster
5.4

This episodic film is a close relative of Wolf Hartwig's schoolgirl report movies, made by the same people, in a similar style, around similar topics. However, this one specifically focuses on the coming-of-age aspects, to an extent that it also touches on delicate issues such as paedophilia.

14 and Under

1973

The Passenger poster
7.2

David Locke is a world-weary American journalist who has been sent to cover a conflict in northern Africa, but he makes little progress with the story. When he discovers the body of a stranger who looks similar to him, Locke assumes the dead man's identity. However, he soon finds out that the man was an arms dealer, leading Locke into dangerous situations. Aided by a beautiful woman, Locke attempts to avoid both the police and criminals out to get him.

The Passenger

1975

Julia poster
4.5

German boarding school student Pauli hopes to lose his virginity while visiting his father in Italy.

Julia

1974

Helga und die Männer - Die sexuelle Revolution poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Helga und die Männer - Die sexuelle Revolution

1969

Teenage Playmates poster
4.5

In Part 7, the filmmakers explore what’s lacking in modern German schoolgirls.

Teenage Playmates

1974

Prostitution heute poster
3.6

Pseudo-documentary in the style of "Schulmädchen-Report" (Schoolgirl Report), portraying the lively activities of high-class prostitutes, pimps, and clients in various cities across Germany.

Prostitution heute

1970

Schoolgirl Report Part 5: What All Parents Should Know poster
5.2

Seven more first-hand accounts of sexual awakening amongst school girls in the early Seventies.

Schoolgirl Report Part 5: What All Parents Should Know

1973

Sex Clinic '74 poster
5.8

A bunch of high school graduates practice love with their classmates who have a lot of experience, because they spend their free time as escort ladies and therefore earn a lot of money.

Sex Clinic '74

1973

The Curse poster
5.6

When a young family, father, mother and their daughter, is on a trip in the mountains, they lose orientation and have to stay there for the night. The daughter finds a dead young girl who does exactly look like herself. When they check for mountain rescue service they suddenly find themselves deeply involved in an local myth about a prophecy which seems to be fulfilling now. The mountains are bearing an old curse.

The Curse

1988

Angels Who Burn Their Wings poster
6.4

Munich at night: Robert Susmeit, a 16-year-old teenager who is jealously obsessed with his mother Hilde, traces her and her latest lover at a mundane apartment building where he kills the man in the heat of the moment at a swimming pool. His fatal outburst is secretly witnessed by Moni Dingeldey, a girl of the same age as his. Fascinated by the shaken and devastated strange boy who she hopes to be a soul-mate, she hides Robert in her mother's apartment. Meanwhile, a crowd of policemen and reporters frantically comb through the building in search a murderer whose identity is known only to Robert's parents who are searching as well...

Angels Who Burn Their Wings

1970

Full Hearts and Empty Pockets poster
6.0

A young German comes to Rome on vacation and is not slow to win female hearts. When the game become dangerous due to a possible marriage, the young man returns to his homeland.

Full Hearts and Empty Pockets

1964

Das Stunden-Hotel von St. Pauli poster
5.4

A murder has taken place in the “Ostend” hotel in St. Pauli and Inspector Canisius is called to the crime scene. Mentally shaken, Canisius takes up the investigation. A wide variety of guests and couples were at the hotel that night, and anyone could be the perpetrator. Canisius experiences his most difficult case, in constant fear for his son.

Das Stunden-Hotel von St. Pauli

1970