Lucie Höflich

An anti-British propaganda film from Nazi Germany which depicts the life of the South African politician Paul Kruger and his eventual defeat by the...

Genre: History

Cast: Emil Jannings

A young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière's play "Tartuffe" in order to expose the old man's hypocritical...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emil Jannings

The movie follows two distinct plot lines until the two eventually merge: the first is that of the bored middle-aged man seeking a departure from...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anton Edthofer

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Cast: Irene von Meyendorff

Anna is a factory worker in East Germany. Her five-year-old son Jochen lives with his grandparents in the West and Anna wants him to live with her,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eva Kotthaus

The film focuses on the leadership of the Great Powers of Europe in the days leading up to the outbreak of the First World War.

Genre: War

Cast: Heinrich George

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Cast: Emil Jannings

In 1920, an unknown 24-year-old woman was fished out of Berlin's Landwehr kanal after a suicide attempt. Since she has no papers and no answers to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lilli Palmer

The Italian mountaineer Carel wants to be the first man to stand on the top of the Matterhorn. Since the climb is very difficult, he agrees to try it...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Luis Trenker

In 18th century Europe, King Friedrich II of Prussia leads his army through the seven-years-war with neighboring states, and after numerous near...

Genre: History

Cast: Otto Gebühr

A Czarist courier has to get across the Siberia frontier, threatened by Tartar invaders and a treacherous Russian helping them. Strogoff encounters...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Adolf Wohlbrück

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Cast: Hans Albers

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Max Gülstorff

Country Dr. Robert Koch is desperate: a tuberculosis epidemic is decimating the children in his district and no one is able to do anything about it....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emil Jannings

Based on a Victor Blüthgen's novel, the story tells the tragedy of Gendarm Mö­bius and his only daughter Stina. Having an affair with...

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Cast: Victor Colani

When Albers takes his drug-addicted opera star sister Gerda to a sanitarium, they both become targets of slimy dope peddler Peter Lorre, who fears...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hans Albers

One autumn, Edgar, a 12 year old boy, spends a holiday with his mother at a plush hotel in Switzerland. His father, a busy lawyer, remains at the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alfred Abel

Genre: Drama

Cast: Albert Matterstock

An English peace judge in an Irish district is married to an Irishwoman. She is a caring patriot. He is heavily indebted by a life of luxury, and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Olga Tschechowa

Austrian actress Mady Christians stars alongside German matinee idol Willy Fritsch in this adaptation of the Oscar Straus operetta about a Prince...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Willy Fritsch

Genre: Drama

Cast: Luise Ullrich

Genre: Crime

Cast: Henny Porten

Paulus van Geldern is a lawyer who has made a name for himself as a criminal defense attorney, but is notoriously short of funds due to his unbridled...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Paul Richter

A dramatization of the melodramatic story that inspired the popular opera, Pagliacci.German language version of a film simultaneously shot in an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paul Hörbiger

Considering Germany's own treatment of Poland in 1939, it is ironic in the extreme that the 1938 German film Um Freiheit und Liebe (For Freedom and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lucie Höflich

One of the first movies made about the fairy tale Cinderella. The film is part of the current German expressionism. Because of that the film ends up...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Helga Thomas

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maria Cebotari

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Cast: Harald Paulsen

Adaptation of Goethe's historical play "Götz von Berlichingen and the Iron Hand", set in the Holy Roman Empire.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Eugen Klöpfer

A player on a soccer team, where everyone matches together just perfectly, has fallen out of a championship tournament due to illness; which leads to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: René Deltgen

The gorgeous 40-year-old Elsie Lindtner lives in a beautiful house, and is married to a respectable university professor. And yet, there’s...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Asta Nielsen

Two brothers (Albert Matterstock and Attila Hoerbiger), who are trapeze artists, are getting along just fine until Hoerbiger runs off with his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Attila Hörbiger

Heinrich Zentler is a successful man, both on football and in his legal career.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Lil Dagover

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ilka Grüning

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ilka Grüning

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ralph Arthur Roberts

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Curd Jürgens

Movie adaptation of the Leoncavalo's famous opera. A troupe of traveling actors is being welcomed by villagers in Calabria in the summer of 1866.

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Cast: Beniamino Gigli

A Glass of Water (German: Ein Glas Wasser) is a 1923 German silent historical film directed by Ludwig Berger and starring Mady Christians, Lucie...

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Cast: Mady Christians

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eva May

The race car drivers Robert Wenck and Kurt Harder are good friends. They become rivals when it appears that Robert is married to Eva. Eva was the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Manfred von Brauchitsch

Adaptation of Ibsen's play Vildanden.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Werner Krauß

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Cast: Eduard von Winterstein

A psychological escapade when romance overwhelms.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fritz Alten

Jacques Lantier, the "human beast" of the title, has a hereditary madness and has several times in his life wanted to murder women. At the beginning...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ossip Runitsch

Die Ratten was produced by actress and singer Grete Ly. Her company, Grete Ly-Film, made five films between 1919 and 1921. Die Ratten, which is based...

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Cast: Emil Jannings

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raimondo Van Riel

The film was an epic portrayal of the life of Catherine the Great of Russia.

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Cast: Lucie Höflich