Damiel (Bruno Ganz) and Cassiel (Otto Sander) are angels who watch over the city of Berlin. They don't have harps or wings...
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Homer
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1988
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Two well-known German actors, Curt Bois (1901-1991) and Bernhard Minetti (b. 1905) reminisce about their work on the stage in...
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1983
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Based on fact, The Boat is Full is set during World War II. A group of Jewish refugees desperately attempt to escape to the...
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Lazar Ostrowskij
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1981
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This documentary includes extremely rare footage of 1953 rehearsals and performances by the Berliner Ensemble of productions...
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1970
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Paul (Gert Froebe) is a gangleader who gives the former safecracker Georg (Mario Adorf) a job as a pimp after he is released...
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Emil
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1966
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Der Stern von Afrika (Star of Africa) is the true story of German WWII hero Hans-Joachim Marseille. Joachim Hansen stars as...
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1957
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Puntila
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1955
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In Ham Fisher's original Joe Palooka comic strip, Joe's pal Humphrey Pennyworth was a blimp of a man. In Joe Palooka Meets...
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1950
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Though usually associated with westerns, Columbia producer Harry Joe Brown proved to be up to the challenge of producing a...
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1950
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Adapted from a play by Honore de Balzac, Lovable Cheat offers a veritable smorgasbord of Hollywood's top character actors....
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1949
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It doesn't take a nuclear scientist to figure out that Smith Ohrig, the character played by Robert Ryan in Caught, is a...
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Franzi
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1949
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Another of 20th Century-Fox's Technicolor musical biopics, Oh You Beautiful Doll is allegedly the life story of popular...
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1949
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A Kiss in the Dark opens with a shot of Jane Wyman in a two-piece bathing suit. Alas, the dictates of cinematic construction...
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1949
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Based loosely on the Dostoyevsky novel, The Gambler stars Gregory Peck as a sensitive 19th-century Russian author. His "great...
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1949
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In this crime drama the trouble begins when a murder occurs aboard a docked ship. Another murder occurs aboard an airplane...
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1948
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Sexual harassment can work both ways as can be seen in this romantic comedy when ad man endeavors to maneuver out of a...
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1948
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The Woman in White attempts to translate the archaic prose of 19th century gothic-mystery writer Wilkie Collins to the medium...
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1948
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1948
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Monogram's French Leave received an inordinate amount of press coverage because of its teaming of two former child stars....
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Marcel
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1948
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Based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque, Arch of Triumph is a complicated war romance directed by Lewis Milestone. Dr....
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Tattooed Waiter
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1948
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On February 17, 1947, two efforts from Paramount's Pine-Thomas productions were tradeshown in tandem. The first was...
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1947
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RKO Radio's first film in the three-color Technicolor process was the standard-issue swashbuckler The Spanish Main. Paul...
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1945
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1945
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MGM's notion of a "B" picture would be an "A" production at any other studio, and Blonde Fever is no exception. Philip Dorn...
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1944
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In this swashbuckler, a princess is raised by gypsies and becomes their queen. The trouble really begins when a count is...
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1944
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1944
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One of the most beloved American films, this captivating wartime adventure of romance and intrigue from director...
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1943
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Edward G. Robinson portrays a hard-driving, hard-nosed perfectionist who causes dissension aboard the WWII destroyer he...
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1943
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1943
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In most of his movie vehicles, bandleader Kay Kyser played a bandleader named Kay Kyser. In Swing Fever, however, Kyser is...
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1943
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This French Underground melodrama stars George Sanders as a seemingly apolitical Parisian doctor who is actually a resistance...
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1943
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A princess finds love with a regular American Joe in this patriotic romantic comedy. A European diplomat (Charles Coburn) is...
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1943
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When two young island-dwelling people fall for each other, their rival parents do not embrace the romance with welcomed arms...
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1942
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Pacific Rendezvous is a B-picture remake of the 1935 MGM A-picture Rendezvous, updated to accommodate WW2. Lee Bowman plays...
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1942
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A pregnant Alice Faye was forced to bow out of this colorful Fox musical, which instead went to Rita Hayworth, whom the...
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1942
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That Night in Rio is a musical remake of 1934's Folies Bergère. Don Ameche plays a dual role as a middle-aged Brazilian...
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1941
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Hold Back the Dawn begins with a shabby immigrant (Charles Boyer) wandering onto a Paramount sound stage and telling his life...
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1941
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The high batting average of 20th Century-Fox's Michael Shayne detective series remained intact with Blue, White and Perfect....
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1941
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It is perhaps unnecessary to point out that the MGM programmer Hullabaloo bears no relation to the 1960s rock-and-roll series...
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1940
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In this drama, set in Paris, a devout communist is slowly seduced into becoming a capitalist by a persuasively pretty young...
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1940
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Columbia's The Lady in Question is a remake of the French Gribouille, a Raimu vehicle from 1939. Brian Aherne plays Andre...
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1940
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Clark Gable is "Big John" and Spencer Tracy is "Square John"; both "Johns" seek their fortunes in the Texas oil fields. They...
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1940
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Previously filmed in 1933, Noel Coward's sentimental operetta Bitter Sweet was transformed by MGM seven years later into a...
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1940
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1939
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In this drama, a vengeful woman searches for the man she blames for her sister's suicide. To get at him, the woman...
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1939
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Once a staple of summer stock and community theatres, Bella and Samuel Spewack's Broadway farce Boy Meets Girl dates rather...
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1938
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Herman Bahr's German play The Yellow Nightingale from 1907 became Paramount's 1938 entry in the then-popular operetta cycle....
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1938
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The Great Waltz was the first of two films bearing the same title which told the life story of Austrian "Waltz King" Johann...
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Kienzl
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1938
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Edward G. Robinson shines in a fine comic role as Dr. Clitterhouse, a brilliant psychiatrist doing research into the criminal...
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1938
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The last and least of Warner Bros.' Gold Diggers musicals, Gold Diggers in Paris at least has the novelty of a Gallic...
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1938
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1938
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In this lighthearted musical comedy from legendary director Busby Berkeley, Henry Bowers (Dick Powell) is a saxophonist in a...
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1937
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Two members of the Russian monarchy pose as French servants while hiding the Czar's fortune. This unlikely plot is at the...
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1937
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The title translates as A Tremendously Rich Man, which indeed describes the financial condition of hero Curt Bois. Actually,...
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1932
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Celebrated German comedienne Henny Porten is top-billed in Wehe Wenn sie Losgelassen (Take Care When She Gets Started). The...
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1926
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1919
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