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1941
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Das Maedchen von Gestern Nacht was released outside of Germany under the streamlined and somewhat colorless title of Midnight...
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1938
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1938
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The cumbersome title of this German comedy was streamlined as The Loser Wins for non-German consumption. Georg Alexander...
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Arnd Krusemark
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1937
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Though the witty, epigrammatic style of Oscar Wilde would seem best suited to the rhythms of the English language, a...
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Lord Goring
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1937
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Per its title, the plotline of this film is motivated by a counterfeit $50 bill. The funny money is passed to shopgirl...
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Georg ihr Enkel
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1937
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"Ist Mein Mann Nicht Fabelhaft?" ("Isn't My Husband Wonderful?") coos adoring wife Lu Brandt (Lien Deyers). Lu's hubby Victor...
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Victor Brandt
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1936
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The "Castle in Flanders" of the title is where six aristocratic British officers are billeted during WWI. To pass the time,...
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1936
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Girls in White is the English-language title of this German semi-musical. The title characters are students in an exclusive...
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Grand Duke Sergei
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1936
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A popular novel by Richard Henry Savage was the springboard for Seine Offizielle Frau (My Official Wife). The story is set in...
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1936
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Letzte Rose (The Last Rose) was adapted from Frederich von Flotow's opera Martha. Set in a very Teutonic-looking England, the...
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Lord Tristan
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1936
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The "Women's Paradise" of the title is the ironic nickname of a heavily-in-debt Vienna fashion salon. The business is taken...
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Muehldoerfer
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1936
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Alte und Junge Kaiser is "blood-and-honor" Nazi propaganda travelling under the guise of historical pageantry. The great Emil...
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1935
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Originally titled Tanzmusik, this Austrian tunefest is the story of Viennese composer Mario "Max" D'Almeida (Hermann Thimig)....
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1935
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Der Stoerfried (The Troublemaker) was adapted from a popular turn-of-the-century German stage play. The title character,...
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1935
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1933
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1932
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Though "blessed" with a complex title, which translates as Marriage with Limited Liability, this German comedy was adapted...
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1932
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Faced with revolution, Queen Alexandria (Mady Christians) abdicates and scurries towards the border. En route, she makes the...
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Prince Vicki
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1932
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Director/screenwriter Conrad Wiene (brother to The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari director Robert Wiene) takes the helm for this...
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1932
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1932
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The German playwrighting team of Arnold and Bach were the collective Neil Simon of their time, turning out one successful...
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1931
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Originally released as Liebesexpress, Acht Tage Gluck (Eight Days Happiness) gets under way when heroine Annie (Dina Gralia)...
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Kurt
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1931
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Set in provincial France sometime in the 1870s, Mam'zelle Nitouche is put in motion by Celestin-Floridor (Raimu), the music...
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1931
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Several European countries collaborated to create this drama. The story begins as a young British woman meets and falls in...
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1931
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Forced to work nights, a young Austrian bureaucrat is unable to escort his lovely wife to a masquerade ball. Unbeknownst to...
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Georg
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1931
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The German film industry seemed to have cornered the market in early-talkie military comedies, if Trara um Liebe (Trumpet...
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1931
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La Tendresse was adapted from a play by Henry Bataille. Jean Toulout plays Paul Barnac, an aging, highly respected French...
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1930
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1930
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1930
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1929
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Carnival of Crime was based on Ernest Klein's novel Die Dam Mat Dem Tigerfall (The Woman with the Tigerskin), which was also...
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1929
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1928
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Hoping to capitalize on the Hollywood success of Hungarian actress Vilma Banky, a fly-by-night distributor purchased the...
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Bobby Miller
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1927
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1925
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1925
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This epic German production was said to have had a cast of 100,000. Whether there was any truth to this claim is extremely...
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1921
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It took nerve to squeeze Arthur Wing Pinero's 3-act play The Second Mrs. Tanqueray into two reels of film (approximately 30...
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1916
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