Nachts aut den Strassen (Detour) stars German film favorite Hans Albers as a middle-aged truck driver named Heinrich. Coming...
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1951
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1940
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Like its predecessors, this third cinema version of Sidney Hoiward's Pulitzer Prize-winning play They Knew What They Wanted...
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1940
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Alfred Hitchcock directed this disappointing misfire, memorable solely for the fact is that it is the final film from...
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1939
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Director, Producer
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1938
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After befriending talented dancer and pickpocket Libby (Vivien Leigh), street performer Charles (Charles Saggers) strikes up...
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Producer, Screenwriter
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1938
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Farewell Again is a multiplotted British comedy/drama about soldiers on leave and the people they've left. Given a six-hour...
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1937
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The war between England and Spain in the late 16th century serves as backdrop for the fictional machinations of Fire Over...
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1937
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1934
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1934
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In this musical the Empress' hairdresser finds herself mistaken for the Empress by a deranged aristocrat. Mayhem and music...
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1933
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This deluxe German/British production was originally released as simply F.P. 1. The story and characterizations take a back...
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1933
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F. P. 1 refers to "Floating Platform 1," a huge landing platform and refueling station being built in the middle of the...
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1933
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This musical tells the love story of a manicurist and a night waiter who discover that they are sharing the same apartment....
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1933
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1933
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In this British romance, a German duke falls passionately in love with the owner of a beautiful singing voice, even though...
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1933
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A choice early example of esoterica from the great Max Ophuls, On a Vole un Homme (Man Stolen) is a bit more lighthearted...
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1933
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1932
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1932
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In this musical, a frail artist is victimized by a con artist who cheats her out of her life savings. Two window washers...
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1932
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Though Lillian Harvey is the star of Quick, the title character is played by the versatile French character actor...
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1932
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Also known as Tempest and Storm of Passion, Stuerme der Leidenschaft was the first of Robert Siodmak's two directorial...
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Producer
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1932
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Despite its title, the German musical comedy Bomben auf Monte Carlo is not a war picture -- not in the traditional sense,...
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Director, Producer
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1931
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During the 1814 Congress in Vienna, the crowned heads of Europe gather together to decide the shape (and fate) of the...
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1931
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The directorial career of Robert Siodmak continue to gain momentum with his third solo effort, Voruntersuchung (Inquest) When...
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1931
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Marlene Dietrich became an immediate international star on the strength of her performance as the temptress Lola Frohlich in...
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1930
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1930
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1930
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Also known as Darling of the Gods, this was Emil Jannings' second talkie appearance. Jannings stars as famed operatic singer...
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Production Manager
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1930
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If a poll had ever been conducted amongst fans of international musical-comedy star Lillian Harvey, the actress's most...
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Associate Producer, Producer
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1930
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In this drama, an experimental researcher plays with gene splicing. In one experiment, he artificially inseminates a...
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Producer
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1930
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This German comedy contains the feature film debut of Sir Lawrence Olivier. He plays a modern artist who has not yet found an...
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1930
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Originally Ungarische Rhapsodie, this opulent Erich Pommer production stars Lil Dagover, Dita Parlo, and Willy Fritsch. The...
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1929
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Starring American expatriate Betty Amann, this still extant German silent film features a young citizen of Berlin, who,...
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1929
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Long before actress Dita Parlo was brought to Hollywood as "the new Garbo," she enjoyed a substantial film career in Europe....
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1929
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1928
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Most of the late silent films of German director Joe May exhibited what one cinema historian has described as "a synthesis of...
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Producer, Supervisor/Manager
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1928
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Spies (Spione) was the first independent production of German "thriller" director Fritz Lang. The years-ahead-of-its-time...
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1928
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After several collaborative efforts, Alfred Hitchcock made his solo directorial debut in the German-British co-production...
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1927
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The biggest-budgeted movie ever produced at Germany's UFA, Fritz Lang's gargantuan Metropolis consumed resources that would...
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1927
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How typical of the great German director F. W. Murnau that he used Moliere's scathing satirical comedy Tartuffe as a...
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1927
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One of the rare American films directed by Danish auteur Benjamin Christensen, Mockery stars Lon Chaney Sr. as a half-witted...
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1927
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1927
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Barbed Wire was based on The Woman of Knockaloe, an antiwar novel by Sir Hall Caine. The original novel dealt with the...
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1927
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Faust was the mammoth German production which won F. W. Murnau his contract with Hollywood's Fox Studios. Emil Jannings...
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1926
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Previously filmed in 1914, the Abbe Antoine-Françoise Prevost novel Manon Lescaut was brought to the screen for a second time...
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1926
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When American audiences were permitted to see German filmmaker E.A. Dupont's silent masterpiece Variety, it was the story of...
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1925
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1925
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The second portion of German director Fritz Lang's two-part silent epic Die Nibelungen (part one was 1924's Siegfried),...
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1924
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Filmed in 1924 by the brilliant Danish director Carl Theodore Dreyer, the German drama Michael (Mikael) was released in the...
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1924
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Director F.W. Murnau and scriptwriter Thea von Harbou both took a change of pace from their usual dramas with this satiric...
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Producer
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1924
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This lushly produced UFA production from Fritz Lang was adapted from the Norse sagas, and also from the Wagner operas...
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1924
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During the 1920s, it was a common occurrence for British filmmakers to lense their productions in Germany, and vice versa....
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Producer
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1924
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F.W. Murnau's German silent classic The Last Laugh (Der Letze Mann) stars Emil Jannings as the doorman of a posh Berlin...
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Producer
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1924
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At the Grey House was the English-language title of the 1925 German drama Zur Chronik von Greishuus. Advertised as "A Romance...
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1923
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Alfred Abel plays a store clerk who is nearly driven to insanity when he sees an apparition of a girl driving a team of white...
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1922
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Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler is the eight-reel version of Fritz Lang's twenty reeler, two-part silent thriller, Dr. Mabuse....
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1922
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Fritz Lang was a stickler for realism in his American films; not so his German silents, which were fanciful to the point of...
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1921
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The German The Haunted Castle (Schloss Vogelrod) has been described as director F.W. Murnau's "warm-up" for his subsequent...
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1921
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1919
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In one of the most influential films of the silent era, Werner Krauss plays the title character, a sinister hypnotist who...
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1919
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1919
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