Ulli Lommel

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Ulli Lommel (December 21, 1944 – December 2, 2017), was a German actor and director, noted for his many horror films, and for his career as an actor on Rainer Werner Fassbinder's films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ulli Lommel, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

21-12-1944

Birthday

Sagittarius

Zodiac Sign

Genres

Total Films

Max Bolt, Patricia Devereaux, Patrick Devereaux, Pat Devereaux

Also known as (male)

Zielenzig, Brandenburg, Germany [now Sulecin, Lubuskie, Poland]

Place of Birth

21-12-1944

Birthday

Sagittarius

Zodiac Sign

Genres

Total Films

Damin Bessinger, Max Bolt, Patricia Devereaux, Patrick Devereaux

Also Known As (male)

Zielenzig, Brandenburg, Germany [now Sulecin, Lubuskie, Poland]

Place of Birth

Popular works

Media

Creative career

actor

75 Works

producer

29 Works

director

175 Works

writer

60 Works

other

28 Works

Good Old Friends

Three good old friends reunite in Berlin for a party reminiscent of their studies. It quickly becomes apparent how much their lives have changed in just 5 short years. A harmless prank ends in murder and the other two are left scrambling for a plan to dispose of their friend's body. An uncertain journey through the night of Berlin puts what's left of their friendship to the test.

7.0

Year:

2021

Queen of Rio

A spoiled rich gay man is confronted with financial disaster that force him and his posse to leave their life of comfort at a luxury hotel in Rio and resort to a Favela, learning that true love is worth more than a billion bucks.

0.0

Year:

2018

Morbid Montage

Short film directed by Marian Dora. Cut together from the unreleased short "Hänsel & Gretel" and Lommel's Boogeyman: Reincarnation.

0.0

Year:

2018

America: Land of the Freeks

Ulli Lommel was an obsessive and productive filmmaker of the Fassbinder era. He died in December 2017 leaving behind his 64th film, an angry but not entirely gloomy satire about the state of his adopted country, the USA.

0.0

Year:

2018

Factory Cowboys: Working with Warhol

Docu-fiction hybrid about Ulli Lommel and Andy Warhol.

0.0

Year:

2018

Julia 17

A story about abandonment, inner turmoil and self-recognition.

0.0

Year:

2017

Boogeyman: Reincarnation

0.0

Year:

2016

The Tender Wolf

Interview with the director on the Arrow Video Blu-Ray release

0.0

Year:

2015

Carcinoma

The trials and tribulations of a man diagnosed with colorectal cancer who refuses treatment and establishes a carnal fixation on the tumor that slowly siphons the life out of him.

6.0

Year:

2014

My Throat, My Air

Set in Munich's petty-bourgeois Westend, film documents life at home with former Fassbinder actor, Warhol collaborator, and horror movie director Ulli Lommel. Rather than a straight documentary portrait of this bohemian household, the camera prefers to follow the narrative impulses of the family members. Lost in serious play, the kids improvise hypnotic death scenes while their mother claims to come from a planet where everything is "ethereal and incorporeal." As parent-child relations are unscripted and re-scripted on the fly, the dilated time of a collective daydream is punctuated by the ordinary sounds of an electric toothbrush, vacuum cleaner, and piano.

7.0

Year:

2014

Debris Documentar

The film, released on DVD in 2014 as part of a boxset also containitng Melancholie der Engel (2009) and Reise nach Agatis (2010), deals with the everyday life of a man, Carsten , who works on the set of the 2004 Ulli Lommel film Zombie Nation. At the same time, he is planning to realize his own film, a task he finds extremely difficult.

5.2

Year:

2012

D.C. Sniper

A mysterious shooter randomly kills innocent citizens in public; one after the other in broad daylight. All murders happen not far from the White House; not far from the President.

2.5

Year:

2010

The Angels’ Melancholia

A dark secret connects middle-aged Katze and Brauth. The former has the clue that his end is near. The two meet again after years to share their last days in the old house of their past. With three women they met on their way, the atmosphere begins to recur a second time. When artist Heinrich decides to attend, the friends have their last chance to renew and cut with the history and to settle an old score. In the melancholy of the near end, Katze passes again all the situations in his life. In the hour of death, he is not alone anymore. His body is gone and his soul stays back in the same place where his destiny and fulfillment occurred.

4.1

Year:

2009

Absolute Evil

Southern Texas. Savannah and Cooper, a young couple in love, drive through the desert in a black 70s Cadillac convertible. Unaware that they are being followed, they check into a motel at the Mexican border. When Savannah leaves to buy food, a cop sneaks into the room, pulls his gun on Cooper, accuses him of murder and tries to arrest him. But Savannah, who had become suspicious, manages to turn the tables:

6.0

Year:

2009

Son Of Sam

This chilling tale recounts the late 70s in New York City, when a serial killer on the loose dubbed "Son of Sam" creates havoc. When arrested, "Son of Sam" tells police he was influenced by a satanic cult. New York would never be the same.

1.9

Year:

2008

Dungeon Girl

A shocking story of captivity and survival inspired by actual events.

2.9

Year:

2008

Black Dahlia

A young rookie cop and his team discover dismembered female bodies in L.A. similar to the Black Dahlia cold case from 1947. A serial killer seems to be copying the brutal massacre of 1940s Hollywood starlet Betty Short. Ultimately his investigation leads him to a frightening lair of death and torture, all part of a terrifying fantasy that the killer is trying to bring to life.

3.3

Year:

2006

Green River Killer

Over the course of 20 years, deranged serial killer Gary Ridgway murders dozens of prostitutes and dumps their bodies in a river.

3.2

Year:

2005

B.T.K. Killer

Veteran Boogey Man and Zodiac Killer director Ulli Lommel continues his long tradition of delivering tense thrills with this relentless look at the life of the elusive, Kansas-based serial killer known to authorities only as "B.T.K." before his arrest...

3.7

Year:

2005

Zodiac Killer

A young man who works at a nursing home uses the legendary Zodiac killer's M.O. to kill people who neglect their elderly relatives.

2.4

Year:

2005

Zombie Nation

A psycho cop has a habit for pulling over random women and taking them to an abandoned warehouse, where he tortures and kills them. He gets what's coming to him when a pack of zombie women rise from their graves in order to get proper revenge.

2.7

Year:

2004

My Life is Magic

With the brand-new songs "My Life Is Magic", "Skin I'm In" and "Man In The Moon" - each with video clips from the cinema film "Daniel, the Magician" - Daniel Küblböck presents current new releases on DVD for the first time.

0.0

Year:

2004

Daniel, the Wizard

Evil teenager assassins Rike & Tom want to kill and film the execution of the rock star Daniel Küblböck [or Lana Kaiser to be correct], who is spiritually supported by his dead grandfather Johnny, with the support of the mysterious Baltazar! Will our well-intentioned wizard succeed to survive this Christmas related mess and learn to forgive the others while beign kidnapped and almost executed, even if that means stickin' his finger in cakes, rollin' in tha snow like a cat or having psychedelic music dreams? (and singin' some bangers in the meanwhile!)

1.4

Year:

2004

Das Stargeschäft- Hinter den Kulissen des schnellen Ruhmes

A documentary about Big Brother S2 inhabitant "the nominator" Christian Möllmann and about DSDS contestant Daniel Küblböck. The highs and lows of short-lived stardom.

0.0

Year:

2004

Fassbinder in Hollywood

Though he never actually worked in Hollywood, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who died in 1982 at the age of 36, was influenced greatly by Amercian studio films of the 1950s and the convention of melodrama (the link most often mentioned is Douglas Sirk).

5.9

Year:

2002

September Song

The German composer Valentin Reiner receives a letter from his ex-wife Anna, who now lives in Los Angeles with their 18-year-old son Stefan. In her letter, Anna asks Valentin to come and help her with their son. Stefan is engaged to Leila, a young Muslim woman from Palestine, who is three months pregnant with his baby. They live with Anna and Judge Boccia, who hates black Muslims. Stefan and Leila hate Jews. Together with his buddy Riff Mason, Stefan terrorizes the Jewish community with home invasions, where they paint swastikas on the houses and leave fake anthrax letters. Reiner is determined to expose the fascist group and regain the trust of his son.

0.0

Year:

2001

Bloodsuckers

Teenagers join a Vampire Club only to be taught the lessons by the Boogeyman who poses as an impostor.

6.4

Year:

1997

Lethal Orbit

A group of recently trained astronauts are sent into space to probe a new experiment, only to be stranded and face an eternity in space unless successful contact can be established from earth. In between flashes of the story, a court is in process determining the cause of the accident.

5.0

Year:

1996

Sex Crimes

A businessman gets shot while he is enjoying covering his prostitute girlfriend with shaving cream. His wife decides to hire a private detective to track down the killers.

3.0

Year:

1992

Off Season

The formerly great Swiss hotel which Valentin’s family owned when he was a boy has been emptied and is about to be torn down. He revisits the magical site’s empty halls and ballrooms.

4.4

Year:

1992

Revenge of the Stolen Stars

Klaus kinski plays the ghost of Duncan McBride, murdered owner of a plantation and ruby mine on the island of Sunanow, in the South China sea. The mine, and the Curse which killed his uncle, are inherited by the inept Gene who comes from San Francisco to look for the Six Stars, (missing rubies) accompanied by the lovely Kelly Scanlon and persued by the villanous Alex and Lupe. Written by Michael Crew

3.4

Year:

1986

Strangers in Paradise

Mesmerist Jonathan Sage escapes Nazi Germany via a cryogenic tube. In the 1980s, a group of Fascist Americans thaw him out, hoping to use him as a way to rid their community of homosexuals, free-thinkers, and other "radicals."

5.0

Year:

1984

Boogeyman II

Lacey, the shaken survivor of a bloody supernatural rampage in the countryside, is flown to Los Angeles where a slick movie producer plans to cash in on her story. At a decadent Hollywood party, plans for the beginning of a new horror movie franchise are torn asunder when a fragment of the original haunted mirror turns these hotshot movers and shakers into screamers and quakers!

3.0

Year:

1983

Olivia

Nightmares of the past haunt the beautiful, mysterious Olivia, a London resident who begins a passionate affair with American businessman Mike. Trapped in a loveless marriage and traumatized by memories of her mother's brutal murder, Olivia hopes her lover will offer a chance at a new life. However, ghostly voices and brutal murders ignite a fiendish, twist-filled story of double identities, deception, and erotic terror.

5.2

Year:

1983

Blank Generation

Nada, a beautiful French journalist on assignment in New York, records the life and work of an up and coming punk rock star, Billy. Soon she enters into a volatile relationship with him and must decide whether to continue with it, or return to her lover, a fellow journalist trying to track down the elusive Andy Warhol.

5.4

Year:

1980

Ausgerechnet Bananen

A ringmaster, his son Max, and a monkey named Johnny are trying hard to make the business bring in money, but it does not work. In the south of France they will meet the neat Natascha. One day when Johnny almost exposes Natasha's breasts, the director comes up with an idea: a whole new form of striptease. Success returns, but Max becomes more and more jealous of the primate.

4.0

Year:

1978

This Is America

Inspired by shock-documentaries like Mondo Cane, this film looks at the wilder side of life in America. Starting off with the bloodier side of the American car culture by showing a series of crashes at race events, the film then goes on to lesser-known sexual practices. Included among these is a porno movie award show, a nude beauty contest, a sex therapy session, and a detailed explanation of where dildos come from.

4.8

Year:

1977

Adolf and Marlene

When Hitler watches Marlene Dietrich in a movie, he falls in love with her. He persuades her to come back to Germany to be with him, but upon her arrival she constantly insults and provokes him until he eventually, on her command, bites the carpet to bits.

6.0

Year:

1977

Chinese Roulette

A husband and wife lie to each other about their weekend travel plans, only to both show up at the family's country house with their lovers.

7.2

Year:

1977

Satan’s Brew

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 dim-witted brother, and a murder investigation.

6.4

Year:

1976

Shadow of Angels

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.

4.0

Year:

1976

With Music Elsewhere

A German musician on vacation in Spain is mistaken for a jewel smuggler.

0.0

Year:

1975

Jodeln is ka Sünd

Two young prostitutes decide to settle on a farm in the outskirts of an idyllic Bavarian mountain village. Initially, this is a pain in the neck for the village council and the local clergy, but the moral guardians soon reveal themselves to be lacking in steadfast ideals.

2.0

Year:

1974

Effi Briest

When 17-year-old Effi Briest marries the elderly Baron von Instetten, she moves to a small, isolated Baltic town and a house that she fears is haunted. Starved for companionship, Effi begins a friendship with Major Crampas, a charismatic womanizer.

6.7

Year:

1974

Nora Helmer

A childish wife reveals surprising strength when faced with blackmail. Based on A Doll's House by Ibsen, this is a video recording made for German television.

7.3

Year:

1974

Tenderness of the Wolves

A German serial killer preys on boys and young men during the so-called years of crisis between the wars. Based on the true story of Fritz Haarmann, aka the Butcher of Hanover and the Vampire of Hanover.

5.7

Year:

1973

Du stirbst nicht allein - Ein deutscher Kriegspfarrer in Paris

0.0

Year:

1973

The Sensuous Three

While out on the town in Berlin, Raymond sees and falls for Harlis, a star of a troupe of lesbian cabaret strippers. Attracted to a man for the first time, Harlis leaves her long time girlfriend and dance partner. Overwhelmed by jealousy and anger, his brother (Peter) and his ex-fiancee (Ria) are determined to sabotage this budding romance.

5.3

Year:

1972

Bremen Freedom

A very stylized TV version of the Fassbinder play. The set consists of a few pieces of furniture in front of a large screen on which coastal scenery is back projected. Geesche is a nineteenth century woman who wants to have a mind of her own. She defies convention and will do anything to achieve her freedom from oppression by her family and friends. (synopsis written by Will Gilbert)

6.0

Year:

1972

The Italian Connection

When a shipment of heroin disappears between Italy and New York, a small-time pimp in Milan is framed for the theft. Two professional hitmen are dispatched from New York to find him, but the real thieves want to get rid of him before the New York killers get to him to eliminate any chance of them finding out he's the wrong man.

7.1

Year:

1972

The Ancestress

0.0

Year:

1971

Dreht euch nicht um – der Golem geht rum

5.0

Year:

1971

Beware of a Holy Whore

Tensions between members of a film crew build while they wait for the arrival of the director and star to arrive on location.

6.4

Year:

1971

Whity

"Whity" is the mulatto butler of the dysfunctional Nicholson family in the American southwest in 1878. The father, Ben Nicholson, has an attractive young wife Katherine, and two sons by a previous marriage; the homosexual Frank, and the retarded Davy. Whity tries to carry out all their orders, however demeaning, until various of the family members ask him to kill some of the others.

5.2

Year:

1971

Pioneers in Ingolstadt

Berta, a naive young maid, searches for love when the army engineers come to town to build a bridge.

5.3

Year:

1971

Pioneers in Ingolstadt

Berta, a naive young maid, searches for love when the army engineers come to town to build a bridge.

5.3

Year:

1971

Rio das Mortes

Michel and Guenther, working in dead-end jobs, are obsessed with going to Peru to find buried treasure, using a map of the Rio das Mortes. Michel's girlfriend, Hanna, humors their plan, but really just wants to get married.

5.4

Year:

1971

Haytabo

A biochemistry professor finds an old manuscript with structure and formula of immortality drug.

6.2

Year:

1971

Zwei ganze Tage

0.0

Year:

1970

The American Soldier

Ricky returns to Munich from Vietnam and is promptly hired as a contract killer.

6.4

Year:

1970

Auktion bei Gwendoline

0.0

Year:

1970

Love Is Colder Than Death

Small-time pimp Franz is torn between his mistress and Bruno, the gangster sent after him by a shady crime syndicate he's refused to join.

6.2

Year:

1970

Your Caresses

Brother and sister meet again after 15 years and fall in love with each other.

4.6

Year:

1969

Tonys Freunde

0.0

Year:

1969

Detective

Andy and Sebastian want to make a lot of money in a quick and easy way. Inspired by the movies, they become private investigators. Their first case happens to be about a beautiful girl called Annabella. But being a private investigator is a more demanding job then Andy and Sebastian had initially thought. Their female acquaintances Annabella, Christa, and Micky also have their share in Andy′s and Sebastian′s problems. The two wannabe detectives become more and more entangled in things that prove to be too much for them.

5.4

Year:

1969

Der Auswanderer

0.0

Year:

1967

Enter Inspector Maigret

After the theft of a priceless Van Gogh from a Parisian museum, Maigret follows his chief suspect to Lausanne where the suspect is found murdered.

7.5

Year:

1966

Jan Himp und die kleine Brise

0.0

Year:

1966

Maigret Plays Dirty

Murder mystery featuring Maigret.

0.0

Year:

1966

Nächstes Jahr in Jerusalem

0.0

Year:

1965

Fanny Hill

In 18th century London, a vivacious young woman becomes a chambermaid for a brothel madam.

4.1

Year:

1964

Legende einer Liebe

0.0

Year:

1964

And So to Bed

Twelve different episodes of erotic relationships are described as examples of modern love substitute.

5.7

Year:

1963

Only a Woman

A psychotherapist's love life is a disaster because of her own fears and neuroses. Involving herself in her patients love life add more complications.

0.0

Year:

1962

Der Marquis von Keith

Munich in the summer of 1899. In his insatiable greed for money, influence and enjoyment of life, the Marquis von Keith defies any moral law. Two women are obedient to him.

0.0

Year:

1962