Akim Tamiroff

All Movies of Akim Tamiroff

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 Year

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  6.7
  Don Quixote
  Beginning in 1957 and continuing on-and-off for the next 15 years, Welles self-financed and directed an audacious film version of Cervantes' Don Quixote that brought the legendary knight and his rotund aide Sancho Panza out of 16t...
  Character: Sancho Panza (archive footage)

   1992

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  5.0
  100 Rifles
  Reynolds plays Yaqui Joe, an Indian who robs a bank in order to buy guns for his people who are being savagely repressed by the government. Set in turn of the century Mexico, it tells the story of his flight into Mexico and his pu...
   1969

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  Justine
  A woman named Justine is (willingly) used and abused by all manner of perverts, freaks and sexual deviants.
   1969

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  Great Catherine
   1968

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  The Girl Who Couldn't Say No
   1968

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  The Vulture
  A mad scientist turns himself into a half-man, half-bird monster to avenge the death of his ancestor.
   1967

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  5.8
  After the Fox
  Peter Sellers plays Aldo Vanucci (aka the Fox), one of the greatest criminals of the world, and master of disguise. After Aldo escapes from the Italian prison he was held in, he meets again with his friends, and plans to retrieve ...
  Character: Okra

   1966

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  Un gangster venuto da Brooklyn
  Character: Joe Montano

   1966

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  Crime on a Summer Morning
  Francis and his sister Monique are a pair of swindlers operating in the French Riviera. Tired of their present situation, they decide to pull off one last job that will allow them to retire in comfort. They plan to kidnap Zelda, ...
  Character: Frank Kramer

   1965

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  The Doll that Took the Town
  Four different facets of love Italian-style provide the basis of this episodic film. The vignettes are "The Phone," about a woman so busy talking on the phone that she fails to notice that her husband is having sex with ...
   1965

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  6.0
  Blue Panther
  On a train bound for Switzerland, a secret agent, Bruno Kerrien, steals a precious jewel destined for the ruthless Dr Kha and passes it on to a wealthy traveller, Marie-Chantal, for safe keeping. Believing that he still has the j...
   1965

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  10.0
  Alphaville
  Lemmy Caution, an American private-eye, arrives in Alphaville, a futuristic city on another planet. His very American character is at odds with the city's ruler, an evil scientist named Von Braun, who has outlawed love and self-ex
   1965

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  8.0
  Lord Jim
  After distinguishing himself as a midshipman in the British merchant marine, Jim rapidly rises to the rank of second in command of a ship. But because of a broken foot he ends in the Patna, a rusty tub manned by a third-rate crew ...
   1965

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  6.5
  The Black Tulip
  In 1789, when the Revolution went on, a bandit named "Black Tulip" held the surroundings of village Roussillon in fear. The poor people respected him as Robin Hood, who declare himself a revolutioner but Count Guillaume ...
   1964

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  Panic Button
  A businessman plans to solve his tax problems by financing a film version of "Romeo and Juliet". He hires Maurice Chevalier and Jayne Mansfield to play the title roles, and Akim Tamiroff to direct. The finished film is s...
   1964

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  6.8
  Topkapi
  A small-time con-man with passport problems gets mixed up with a gang of world-class jewelry thieves plotting to rob the Topkapi museum in Istanbul. Turkish intelligence, suspecting arms smuggling, gets involved, and under pressur...
  Character: Gerven - the Cook

   1964

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  6.3
  The Reluctant Saint
  The Reluctant Saint is based on the life of Saint Joseph of Cupertino. When young Giuseppe Diesa (Maximilian Schell) is sent to work at a monastery circa 17th century Italy -- his parents believed he was mentally challenged -- he ...
  Character: Bishop Durso

   1962

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  The Trial
  Josef K wakes up in the morning and finds the police in his room. They tell him that he is on trial but nobody tells him what he is accused of. In order to find out about the reason of this accusation and to protest his innocence,...
   1962

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  4.0
  Bondage Gladiator Sexy
   1961

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  Romanoff and Juliet
  Yes it's the Romeo & Juliet story updated to during the cold war and moved to a mittel european country ruled by writer/director/star Peter Ustinov. The General arranges for the children of the US and Russian ambassadors to fa...
   1961

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  6.0
  The Last Judgment
  One morning, over the heavens of Naples, a mysterious voice announces that the God's Last Judgement will arrive that evening, and then the story follows various denizens as they struggle to absorb it.
  Character: Play director

   1961

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  6.5
  Ocean's Eleven
  Character: Spyros Acebos

   1960

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  Me and the Colonel
  During the invasion of France by Nazi Germany, a shy, intelligent Jewish refugee tries to flee from the Nazis with the aid of an anti-Semitic, autocratic, brave Polish Colonel who is trying to smuggle papers to England. Their dysf...
  Character: Szabuniewicz

   1958

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  8.7
  Touch of Evil
  An unseen man sets the timer on an explosive device. The clock starts ticking down as soon as he stashes it in the boot of a fancy-looking car. Immediately afterwards, a well-heeled businessman motors off with his cheap-looking gi...
   1958

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  6.0
  The Black Sleep
  England, 1872. The night before he is to be hanged for a murder he did not commit, young Dr. Gordon Ramsey is visited in his cell by his old mentor, eminent surgeon Sir Joel Cadmund. Cadmund offers to see that Ramsey gets a proper...
  Character: Odo

   1956

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  6.9
  Anastasia
  Russian exiles in Paris plot to collect ten million pounds from the Bank of England by grooming a destitute, suicidal girl to pose as heir to the Russian throne. While Bounin is coaching her he comes to believe she is really Anast...
  Character: Boris Adreivich Chernov

   1956

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  The Widow
  The young race car driver Vittorio is undecided whether to marry the rich widow Diana or the innocent young girl Adriana. Vittorio indecision brings suffering to Diana and Adriana until he is killed in an automobile accident.
   1955

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  You Know What Sailors Are
  A fun frolic involving a fake secret weapon (accidentally created during a drinking bout), naval bureaucracy, political maneuvering and the hareem and palace of the exotic eastern country of Agraria.
   1954

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  6.0
  Black Magic
  Hypnotist uses his powers for revenge against King Louis XV's court.
   1949

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  9.0
  Fiesta
  Character: Chato Vasquez

   1947

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  7.0
  A Scandal in Paris
  The autobiography of elegant criminal, François Eugène Vidocq, from his birth in a French jail in 1775 to his appointment as chief of police of Paris where he intends to rob the city bank. Along the way, he escapes from jail wit...
   1946

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  8.0
  The Bridge of San Luis Rey
  An ancient Inca rope bridge spanning a chasm in the Peruvian Andes collapses, sending five travelers to their deaths in the gorge below. A monk who was nearby, Father Juniper, decides to investigate the lives of those who died in ...
  Character: Uncle Pio

   1944

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  6.7
  Dragon Seed
  A heroic young Chinese woman leads her fellow villagers in an uprising against Japanese invaders. The use of caucasian actors and actresses in oriental roles significantly detracts from the film's realism.
  Character: Wu Lien

   1944

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  Can't Help Singing
  With the California Gold Rush beginning, Senator Frost's singing daughter Caroline loves a young army officer; the Senator can't stand him, and has him sent to California. Headstrong Caroline follows him by train, riverboat, and c...
  Character: Gregory

   1944

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  7.8
  The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
  Preston Sturges directs THE MIRACLE OF MORGAN'S CREEK, about Trudy Kockenlocker (Betty Hutton) a party girl who wakes up one morning to find she's married and pregnant, but she cannot remember who, of six possible American soldier
  Character: The Boss

   1944

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  7.1
  Five Graves to Cairo
  June, 1942. The British Army, retreating ahead of victorious Rommel, leaves a lone survivor on the Egyptian border--Corporal John Bramble, who finds refuge at a remote desert hotel...soon to be German HQ. To survive, Bramble assum...
  Character: Farid

   1943

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  6.8
  For Whom the Bell Tolls
  This respectful adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's novel of the Spanish Civil War was one of the most sensational and popular films to come out of wartime Hollywood. Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman were Hemingway's personal choices f...
  Character: Pablo

   1943

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  7.0
  His Butler's Sister
  A young girl visits New York for two reasons: to see her half-brother, and to try to start a musical career.
  Character: Popoff

   1943

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  6.5
  Tortilla Flat
  Danny inherits two houses so Pilon and his lazy, impoverished friends move in. One of them, Pirate, is saving money which Pilon hopes to steal till he learns it is being saved to buy a gold candlestick for St. Francis. When one of...
  Character: Pablo

   1942

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  New York Town
  Victor Ballard (Fred MacMurray) is a poor but happy-go-lucky New York sidewalk photographer who shares a studio apartment with a painter from Poland, Stefan Janowski (Akim Tamiroff). When Victor shoots a photo of Alexandra Curtis ...
   1941

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  7.0
  The Corsican Brothers
  Douglas Fairbanks jr plays Siamese twins, separated by a good doctor [scalpel hemostat sutures quickly!!] after their parents are killed by Vendetta, personified by Akim Tamiroff in bolero suits. One goes to Paris, one to the Cors...
   1941

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  6.2
  North West Mounted Police
  In 1885, three mismatched frontiersmen (teacher Riel, whiskey trader Corbeau, and trapper Duroc) foment rebellion in central Canada; only the local Mounties stand in their way. Constable Ronnie Logan loves Corbeau's savage daughte...
  Character: Dan Duroc

   1940

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  8.0
  The Great McGinty
  Writer-director Preston Sturges first film tells of the rise and fall of Dan McGinty which begins when he endears himself to the political machine by voting 37 times in a single election: his spectacular career ends as a bartender...
   1940

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  Untamed
  Dr. Bill Crawford, on a hunting trip to Canada, is attacked by a bear and his guide, Joe Easter, saves his life and takes the badly-mauled Crawford to his cabin home, where he lives with his beautiful young wife, Alverna. Leaning ...
   1940

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  7.7
  Union Pacific
  This is Cecil B. De Mille's version of the trouble and hardships involved in the building of the famous transcontinental railroad. Jeff Butler is hired to insure that the Union Pacific is completed and arrives at its destination i...
   1939

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  Disputed Passage
  A doctor's medical studies are threatened by his infatuation with a Chinese girl. The girl returns to China, but complications ensue when she runs into him in Nanking during a Japanese bombing raid.
   1939

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  Spawn of the North
   1938

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  7.5
  The Buccaneer
  During the War of 1812 against Britain: General Andrew Jackson has only 1,200 men left to defend New Orleans when he learns that a British fleet will arrive with 60 ships and 16,000 men to take the city. In this situation an islan...
   1938

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  6.5
  Dangerous to Know
  Racketeer Steve Recka, art patron and political power-maker, rules his town and Madame Lan Ying, his beautiful Oriental friend and hostess (read: mistress), with an iron hand. He meets Margaret Van Kase, a socialite not impressed ...
  Character: Stephan Recka

   1938

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  This Way Please
  A famous singer and matinée idol helps a pretty young theater usher in her dreams of becoming a singer, but when her career begins to take off and she becomes engaged to a wealthy young man, he realizes he's fallen for her and pl...
   1937

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  6.3
  The Soldier and the Lady
   1937

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  6.0
  The General Died at Dawn
   1936

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  6.7
  Anthony Adverse
  In late 18th century Italy, a beautiful young woman finds herself married to a rich but cruel older man. However, she is in love with another, younger man. When the husband finds out, he kills the lover in a swordfight, and takes ...
   1936

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  7.1
  The Jungle Princess
  Character: Karen Neg

   1936

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  Paris in Spring
  Afraid of marriage, Simone (Mary Ellis) breaks off her long term engagement with her fiancé Paul de Lille (Tullio Carminati). Paul heads to the top of The Eiffel Tower with thoughts of suicide. In another part of Paris and also a...
   1935

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  7.0
  Naughty Marietta
   1935

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  7.0
  The Story of Louis Pasteur
  In 1860, having helped France solve the problem of sour wine, chemist Louis Pasteur turns to the dangers of childbirth: 20,000 Paris women were dying annually. His germ theory and recommendation that doctors wash their hands and s...
   1935

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  The Gay Deception
   1935

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  Rumba
  A bored society girl sets her sights on a dancer in a Broadway show.
   1935

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  Ladies Love Danger
  A mystery-comedy with multiple backgrounds set in a back-stage and penthouse backgrounds finds actress Rita Witherspoom mistakenly entering the apartment of Ricardo Souchet, a rich bachelor. He immediately suspects her of a murder...
   1935

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  7.0
  The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
  Sweeping adventure set in India of a gallant trio ordered into border warfare with Afghans and guerillas.
  Character: Emir

   1935

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  8.0
  The Scarlet Empress
  In this re-imagining of Catherine the Great’s life story, filmmaker Josef von Sternberg and star Marlene Dietrich supply some of the most eye-popping images and outrageously decadent antics in early twentieth century cinema. Die...
   1934

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  8.0
  The Merry Widow
  Sonia is an immensely wealthy widow from Marshovia, a small country where she controls half the wealth. The country depends on her spending her money there and when she moves to Paris in the quest to find a husband, the King sends...
   1934

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  The Great Flirtation
  Adolphe Menjou is the greatest actor in Budapest. He falls in love with Elissa Landi, whose acting he considers second-rate. Together, they decide to take New York by storm, as a married couple, but she is a hit with the producers...
   1934

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  The Devil's in Love
  Unjustly convicted of murdering the major who transferred him to another outpost, a doctor makes good his escape then sets out to prove his innocence using another identity.
   1933

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  Queen Christina
  Young Christina ascends to the Swedish throne at age 5. While she is queen, Sweden becomes a dominant European power at the end of the Thirty Years War. Like England's Elizabeth I, Christina (Greta Garbo) is pressured into a polit...
   1933