Movies and TvShows featuring "american-character-played-by-european-actor" theme.

Even Angels Eat Beans is a 1973 action comedy film about two men who join an Italian-American mob family and discover their unexpected talents. Set in 1920s Chicago, the film follows the adventures of two blackmailed men who become part of a mob war, using their wit and odd-couple dynamic to navigate the dangerous world of crime. Along the way, they encounter car chases, fistfights, comedic situations, and even a wrestling match. With slapstick comedy and a touch of romance, Even Angels Eat Beans is an entertaining film that combines action, comedy, and crime.

Comedy inspired by paperback crime novels tells the story of an adventurous search for a mysterious murderer who just after the end of the First World War has begun a rampage in Wilson City, a jerkwater town somewhere in Eastern Europe. The investigation is being led by an inhomogeneous pair of detectives - a greenhorn and local police cadet named Eisner and an experienced FBI officer Food, who has been sent to Europe by US President Woodrow Wilson himself.

In The Spider Labyrinth, a professor delves into the dark underworld of Budapest, uncovering a secret cult and supernatural powers. As he uncovers the truth, he must confront his own fears and arachnophobia.

After a line of mischief Philip Gale, an American sailor, is lured into hiring on the "Yorikke", a tramp cargo, by Lawski, a stoker from Poland. Still, the two become friends within the motley crew of losers from all nations. Gale and his new companion soon are more than disillusioned: the "Yorikke" is far from seaworthy and more of a coffin than a ship, work is close to slavery, and treatment by the officers and their subalterns is harsh and cynical. One day they make an alarming discovery in a tin of plum butter they have procured from the ship's cargo... Written by Anonymous

The fact that the man succumbed one morning to an irresistible urge to sit down at the piano and play the entire Chopin Sonata in B Minor would not have been so strange if it had not been for the fact that he had never played the piano in his life and he himself had no idea that he could.

The Portorican prime minister asks British detective Sherlock Holmes to find a twin for King Fernando XXIII, a weak and frightened man who fears anarchists and does not want to show himself in public. Holmes finds in the Czech newspapers a photo of the perfect double, František Lelíček, a daring bon vivant drowned in debt, so when Holmes offers him money, Lelíček decides to travel to Portorico and play the role.