Movie

The Commander

★ 5.6(19)19881h 45m

The Commander is available to rent or buy on Apple TV Store in Germany. It isn't on a subscription streaming service there yet. Availability checked 14 June 2026.

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Director: Antonio Margheriti
Release date: 1988-04-28
Runtime: 1h 45m
Language: DE
Status: Released
Country: Germany
Studio: Ascot Film

The Commander — trailer

About The Commander

The Commander is a 1988 movie in the Action and War genres, directed by Antonio Margheriti, starring Lewis Collins, Lee Van Cleef and Donald Pleasence. It has a runtime of 1 hour 45 minutes. It holds an average rating of 5.6/10 from 19 viewers. Below you can see where to watch The Commander in Germany — across streaming, rental and purchase options — along with the full cast, trailer and viewer reviews.

Synopsis

Lewis Collins is back to leading mercenaries on the move in Southeast Asia. This time the cast is unusually good including Lee Van Cleef, Brett Halsey (Cop Game), Romano Puppo (Robowar), Mike Monty (Raiders of Atlantis), Bobby Rhodes (The Great Alligator), etc. Anyway, Van Cleef has Collins go on some random mission to locate a disc with all sorts of valuable crazy intelligence data on it. It just happens that Donald Pleasence, a random government official, hires another mercenary-for-hire Manfred Lehman to tag along and make sure the data ends up in the right hands. Van Cleef isn't taking any chances, and since he is crooked and murders Collins's other bosses quickly, he places Romano Puppo in the group as well to make sure the operation runs smoothly. Collins may not be too expressive but at least he seems to figure out quickly who's out to get him, so the mission continues with lots of double-crosses, twists and turns, and of course lots of explosions!