Paul Rudolf Parsifal "Percy" Adlon was a German director, screenwriter, and producer. He is best known for his film Bagdad Cafe. He is associated with the New German Cinema movement, and is known for his strong female characters and surrealist tendencies.
Smack bang in the middle of nowhere (or was it somewhere on the legendary Route 66?) two women are thrown together by chance. Stranded tourist Jasmin stumbles out of her unhappy marriage and finds herself at Brenda’s remote cafe and motel. Ordinarily, no one would choose to stay at the Bagdad Cafe but in the dust and isolation, unexpected and extraordinary friendships begin to blossom. The lost are found as individuals transform into an eclectic community bound by music, magic and some very strong coffee.
Release Date: 2021-08-25
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Release Date: 2019-02-17
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Alma Mahler's affair with the young architect Walter Gropius sets in motion a marital drama that forces her husband Gustav Mahler to seek advice from Sigmund Freud.
Release Date: 2010-06-24
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 14
The German director Percy Adlon talks about his career.
Release Date: 2010-05-29
Character: Self
Release Date: 2006-01-14
Character: Self
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 1
Documentary about the Maximilianstraße in Munich.
Release Date: 2004-01-01
Character: Self
Release Date: 2002-04-09
Character: Self
Episode Count: 1
Adlon recounts the making of the sculpture, "Kugelkaryatide" the sphere that stood in the center of Tobin Plaza between the two towers of the World Trade Center. The film follows the sculpture from its creation as the largest bronze sculpture of recent times to the aftermath, where it now stands, heavily scarred, in Battery Park.
Release Date: 2002-01-01
Department: Directing
Job: Director
A romantic drama/detective story about big-time copyright fraud and a bigger-time crush. A complicated love triangle plays out to a dramatic climax, taking us from a strip mall somewhere in the glaring dust of Los Angeles County to a dark forest in Germany.
Release Date: 2001-12-06
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 1
Ekchart Schmidt examines the machinery behind the dream factory; the Hollywood myth is unmasked. How does the studio industry work? What role does marketing and the hype surrounding the stars play?
Release Date: 1998-01-01
Character: Self
Vote Count: 1
The documentary tells the story of the Berlin luxury hotel, which was built by the director's great-grandfather and fell victim to a fire shortly after the end of the Second World War.
Release Date: 1997-01-02
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Character: Louis Adlon sen.
A womanizer gets his own cooking show and, ironically, the females who call in end up airing their relationship problems to him.
Release Date: 1997-01-01
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 4
Documentary by Eckhart Schmidt.
Release Date: 1996-03-26
Character: Self
Release Date: 1994-12-27
Character: Self
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 1
The eccentric owner of a Los Angeles self-storage company finds his world come crashing down when his long-suffering wife dies, only to return as a beautiful ghost.
Release Date: 1993-10-01
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 14
A young orphaned woman named Kotzebue is trying to find out who her parents are in the icy landscapes of Alaska. Kotzebue is helped by an East German librarian, whose husband was killed while fleeing from the GDR. Although both women could not be more different from each other, a fragile relationship forms.
Release Date: 1991-10-31
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 13
Release Date: 1991-08-06
Character: Self
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 1
This music special is dedicated to dispelling the prejudices associated with the HIV infection and raising money for AIDS research and relief. Some of today's most celebrated recording artists performing their interpretations of the classic songs of Cole Porter.
Release Date: 1990-12-01
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Bagdad Cafe is an American television sitcom starring Whoopi Goldberg and Jean Stapleton. The series premiered March 30, 1990 on CBS. The show is based on the 1987 Percy Adlon film Bagdad Cafe.
Release Date: 1990-03-30
Department: Creator
Job: Creator
Vote Count: 4
Rosalie loves to shop too much to let a little thing like no money stop her. When the local shopkeepers no longer take her bad checks or bad credit cards, she's finds herself out of ways to please her consumerist tendencies… until she discovers The Internet! Master shopper becomes master hacker, and Rosalie is back on top.
Release Date: 1989-11-09
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 40
Grace is an overweight mortuary cosmetician who falls in love with Rob, a handsome subway train conductor who doesn't even know she exists. When she finally devises a way to meet him, they discover that although they are physically different, they have a lot more in common than they think.
Release Date: 1989-02-14
Department: Writing
Job: Original Film Writer
Vote Count: 38
Release Date: 1989-01-01
Character: Self
Episode Count: 1
A German woman named Jasmin stumbles upon a dilapidated motel/diner in the middle of nowhere. Her unusual appearance and demeanor are at first suspicious to Brenda, the exasperated owner who has difficulty making ends meet. But when an unlikely magic sparks between the two women, this lonely desert outpost is transformed into a thriving and popular oasis.
Release Date: 1987-11-12
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 386
Film by Percy Adlon.
Release Date: 1986-12-25
Department: Directing
Job: Director
A plump Munich mortuary worker tracks down and seduces a married subway conductor.
Release Date: 1985-06-28
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 20
Garden parties, music and dancing characterize the lives of a family of German aristocrats in the days leading to World War I.
Release Date: 1983-10-14
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 4
At Gestapo head quarters a young woman establishes a relationship with another inmate. This young woman is Sophie Scholl who tells the story of her life and of her resistance movement′s courageous fight against Hitler′s Nazi regime.
Release Date: 1982-10-16
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 2
The Guldbagge Awards is an official and annual Swedish film awards ceremony honoring achievements in the Swedish film industry. Winners are awarded a statuette depicting a rose chafer, better known by the name Guldbaggen. The awards, first presented in 1964 at the Grand Hôtel in Stockholm, are overseen by the Swedish Film Institute. It is described as the Swedish equivalent of the Academy Awards. The awards ceremony was first televised in 1981.
Release Date: 1981-10-30
Character: Self - Best Foreign Language Film winner
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 2
In 1914, with men gone to war, Marcel Proust hired Céleste Albaret as his attendant. More than eight years later, she was at his side when he died. During this entire time, she only entered his room when he rang for her, sleeping from 9 AM to 3 PM to wait during the night while he wrote. Marcel uses her as more than a servant: she is his muse, telling stories of her childhood to stir his remembrance of things past; she's in cahoots with him as he manipulates those he wants to draw on for his writing; she listens appalled to his descriptions of the underside of Paris. Hers is a life of love and sweet devotion as he races time to finish his work before death.
Release Date: 1981-09-18
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 6
Release Date: 1979-12-01
Character: Self
Episode Count: 2
About the life of writer Robert Walser.
Release Date: 1978-04-04
Department: Directing
Job: Director
A documentary about dancer Heinz Bosl who died in 1975 - aged 28.
Release Date: 1976-01-01
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Release Date: 1974-11-19
Character: Self
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 4
Release Date: 1973-01-01
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Release Date: 1964-01-16
Character: Self
Episode Count: 1
Release Date: 1951-01-01
Character: Self
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 1