Connection
Alraune is a film of genre Drama directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt released in USA on 1 january 1957 with Hildegard Knef
Alraune (1952)
If you like this film, let us know!
- Infos
- Casting
- Technical infos
- Photos
- Videos
- Film quotes
- Characters
- Music
- Awards
Add to a movie listAlraune (also known as Unnatural) is a 1952 West German science fiction horror film directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt and starring Hildegard Knef in which a scientist creates a woman who is beautiful and yet soulless, lacking any sense of morality. It is based upon the German myth of Alraune in which a woman is impregnated by a mandrake root. It is the fifth and as of 2007 the final movie to be based upon this myth.
The film was produced by Carlton Films and Deutsche Styria Film GmbH. and distributed by Gloria Film in Germany and Distributors Corporation of America (DCA) in the United States in 1958 in a version dubbed into English.
Synopsis
Un scientifique crée une meurtrière lorsqu'il insémine artificiellement une prostituée avec la semence d'un tueur exécuté.Actors
Hildegard Knef
(Alraune)
Erich von Stroheim
(Jacob ten Brinken)
Karlheinz Böhm
(Frank Braun)
Harry Meyen
(Count Geroldingen)
Harry Halm
(Doctor Mohn)
Comments
Leave comment :
Suggestions of similar film to Alraune
There are 115 films with the same actors, 11 films with the same director, 77253 with the same cinematographic genres (including 36 with exactly the same 4 genres than Alraune), 7308 films with the same themes (including 2665 films with the same 2 themes than Alraune), to have finally 70 suggestions of similar films.If you liked Alraune, you will probably like those similar films :
Sunderin (1951)
Directed by Willi Forst
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about euthanasia, Films about sexuality, Films about suicide, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors Hildegard Knef, Gustav Fröhlich, Wera Frydtberg
Rating67%
Marina est une prostituée dont la vie est assez difficile. Son beau-père est arrêté par la Gestapo, sa mère trompe son mari et elle-même tombe sous le charme de son demi-frère. Par la suite elle assiste à l'assassinat de sa meilleure amie. Elle tombe alors amoureuse d'un peintre qui, malheureusement, est gravement malade : il a une tumeur au cerveau. Pour financer les frais de l'opération, Marina se voit contrainte de reprendre son ancien « travail ». Les deux amoureux partent alors pour l'Italie, où ils trouvent de quoi se divertir et se détendre. Finalement l'opération a lieu mais n'apportera pas de guérison définitive. Ils retournent en Autriche et passent quelques jours à Vienne. Marine aidera ensuite son ami, devenu aveugle, à mourir à l'aide de somnifères, car ses souffrances sont telles qu'il ne peut plus les supporter. Après cela, elle se suicide à son tour.
Behind the Facade (1939)
, 1h25Directed by Georges Lacombe, Yves Mirande
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors Erich von Stroheim, Michel Simon, Lucien Baroux, Jules Berry, Jacques Baumer, Gaby Morlay
Rating65%
M Mathieu, propriétaire d'un vaste immeuble parisien, est assassinée. Le commissaire du quartier et un enquêteur de la Sûreté sont dépêchés sur place. Ils parcourent escaliers et couloirs pour résoudre l'énigme. Leur rivalité bourrue leur permet de se compléter pour découvrir le coupable parmi une galerie de personnages, humbles ou riches, du meilleur pittoresque.
Fox and His Friends (1975)
, 2h3Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Karlheinz Böhm, Peter Chatel, Kurt Raab, El Hedi ben Salem, Adrian Hoven
Rating75%
Franz Bieberkopf is a sweet and unsophisticated working-class homosexual who works in a carnival as "Fox, the Talking Head". He finds himself without a job when his
Socket (2007)
, 1h30Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Horror, Romance, Erotic thriller
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, Erotic thriller films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Matthew Montgomery, Alex Billings
Rating43%
Socket is a dark sexual tale of a gay man being drawn into a cult of electricity addicts after being struck by lightning. It is reportedly the first gay sci-fi thriller. However, it is also unique in that it is a film where the sexuality of the four lead characters is inconsequential to the plot.
Kaboom (2010)
, 1h26Directed by Gregg Araki
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Fantastic, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Horror, Crime, Romance, Comic science fiction
Themes Films about families, Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, Comedy science fiction films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Thomas Dekker, Juno Temple, Haley Bennett, Roxane Mesquida, Brennan Alexander Mejia, James Duval
Rating56%
Smith is an 18-year-old film student who identifies sexually as "undeclared". He has been having strange dreams. He is going to college with his best friend, Stella, whom he has known since junior high. Smith finds a note saying that he is the "chosen son". He has a roommate, Thor, whom he lusts after, regretting that Thor is straight. Stella goes to a party with Smith, but hooks up with another girl, Lorelei. He recognizes Lorelei as one of the people in his dream. Smith notices a guy, but is distracted when a red-haired girl from his dream vomits on his shoe. The guy vanishes, but Smith gets picked up by London, a British student. They have sex, but to Smith's regret she does not want to be with him except during the sex.
, 1h34Directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt
Origin German
Genres Romantic comedy
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Karlheinz Böhm, Antje Geerk, Georg Thomalla, Annie Rosar, Hans Nielsen, Gerhard Frickhöffer
Rating56%
Le marin Peter Hille avait hâte de passer ses vacances de Noël avec son épouse Hanna depuis longtemps. Mais lorsqu'il débarque à Copenhague, il est déçu qu'elle ne l'attende pas. Heureusement, il y a une place disponible à la capitainerie. Cependant, il doit partager sa chambre avec le chauffeur Valdemar Olsen. Il est en train de gagner sa vie en tant que chanteur, mais il vit principalement de la contrebande de cigarettes.
Crimes of Passion (1984)
, 1h47Directed by Ken Russell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime, Romance, Erotic thriller
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors Kathleen Turner, Anthony Perkins, Bruce Davison, John Laughlin, Annie Potts, Norman Burton
Rating63%
Bobby Grady (Laughlin) is an ordinary middle-class electronics store owner who occasionally moonlights doing surveillance work. He attends a group therapy session because his wife, Amy (Potts), has lost interest in sex and he fears their marriage is in trouble.
The Beguiled (1971)
, 1h45Directed by Don Siegel
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Horror, Romance, Erotic thriller, Western
Themes Films about families, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Bisexuality-related films, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, Films about disabilities, Political films, Erotic thriller films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page, Elizabeth Hartman, Jo Ann Harris, Darlene Carr, Darleen Carr
Rating71%
Close to the end of the American Civil War, injured Yankee soldier John McBurney is rescued from the verge of death by a twelve-year-old girl from an all-girl boarding school in Louisiana. At first the all-female staff and pupils are scared, but as John starts to recover, he charms them one by one and the sexually repressed atmosphere becomes filled with jealousy and deceit, with the two teachers and some of the girls clearly attracted to him.
, 1h14Directed by Masaru Konuma
Genres Drama, Horror, Romance, Pornographic
Themes Seafaring films, Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Erotic films, Sexploitation films
Actors Luna Takamura, Kumi Taguchi
Rating50%
Young Runa/Luna entered a convent after losing her boyfriend to her sister Kumi. Her dream of a tranquil life at the convent is shattered when she is raped by the abbot and introduced to a life of torture and abuse. Leaving the convent she returns to her sister and former boyfriend to exact revenge by snaring them in a bogus financial scheme to promote Christianity in Japan and then departing with their money and a lesbian lover from the convent.
The Hunger (1983)
, 1h37Directed by Tony Scott
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Erotic, Thriller, Fantastic, Horror, Romance, Erotic thriller
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, Vampires in film, Erotic thriller films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, Susan Sarandon, Cliff De Young, Dan Hedaya, Bessie Love
Rating66%
Miriam Blaylock (Catherine Deneuve) is a beautiful and dangerous immortal vampire, promising specially chosen humans eternal life as her vampire lovers. As the film begins, her vampire companion is John (David Bowie), a talented cellist whom she married in 18th century France. The film opens in a night club in New York, to a live performance from Bauhaus. There they connect with another young couple who are brought home and fed upon by slashing their throats with a bladed Ankh pendant. The bodies are disposed of by an incinerator in the basement of John and Miriam's elegant New York townhouse, where they pose as a wealthy couple who teach classical music. The only student shown is a young tomboy violinist named Alice Cavender (Beth Ehlers).