Marianne (Birgit Doll) is driven from her father's home when she is impregnated by Alfred (Hanno Poeschi), a vagabond loafer...
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1979
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Toward the end of 1918, soldiers in the Austrian army were well aware that things were not going well. In this story, an...
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1977
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1975
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The Pedestrian (Der Fussganger) was the second filmed directorial effort of German actor Maximillian Schell. Billed third...
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1974
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Karl May chronicles the life of the extremely popular 19th-century German novelist who lived from 1842 to 1912. Karl May's...
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1974
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In this mystery, a young countess almost loses her life. Investigators soon discover that the attempt is linked to a murder...
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1961
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This drama provides an account of an honorable German soldier during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. A German soldier is...
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1960
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Thomas Mann's sprawling German novel Buddenbrooks could hardly be confined to a "conventional" film length, thus it's no...
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1959
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1957
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1957
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1956
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1955
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Koenigliche Hoheit (His Royal Highness) was adapted from a novel by Thomas Mann -- who, according to all reports, was pleased...
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1954
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1950
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1950
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1949
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1942
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1942
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The remarkable story of how one man unified the many states of Germany into one nation under the rule of the Kaiser between...
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1940
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1940
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Hans H. Zerlett was pretty near the whole show in the German Es Leuchten die Sterne (The Stars are Shining): producer,...
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1938
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Ratsel um Beate (Beate's Mystery) was adapted from a play by Alfred Moller and Hanz Lorenz, which originally starred Dorothy...
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Beate Kaiserling
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1938
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Lil Dagover, appointed Germany's "Actress of the State" in 1937, upholds her lofty title in the romantic melodrama Dreiklang....
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Cornelia Contarini
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1938
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With a plot that twists like a plumber's snake, this is more a story of family secrets than anything else, in which the...
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1937
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1937
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Set during the Napoleonic era, Der Hoehre Befehl (Higher Command) nonetheless manages to accommodate huge heaping helpings of...
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Madame Martin
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1936
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Schlussakkord (released in the U.S. as Final Accord) is the melancholy tale of a young mother who leaves her child behind in...
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1936
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Graefin Koenigsmark
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1936
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The titular "fugitive from Chicago" is Michael Nissen (Gustav Froelich), who arrives in Germany to take charge of an...
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1936
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In this drama, a poor mother gives her child up for adoption and travels to America with her spouse. The child is taken in...
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1936
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The popular stage drama Das Maedchen Irene (This Girl Irene) was adapted for the screen by director Reinhold Schuenzel....
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Jennifer Lawrence
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1936
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The Seven Years' War against Austria produced the many escapades of King Friedrich the Great as related in this epic drama....
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Marquise de Pompadour
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1936
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Manon
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1934
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1933
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1932
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In this WW II drama, the commander of the French cruiser Lafayette is sunk by a German U-boat. Following the rescue of the...
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Lottie Corlaix
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1932
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Otto Gebuehr stars as Prussian ruler Frederick the Great in this German historical drama. Lucky in war, Frederick is unlucky...
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Barberina Campanini
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1932
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1932
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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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The Countess
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1931
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The "great yearning" of the title refers to the desire of heroine Camilla Horn to become a famous movie star. Fortunately,...
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1931
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Based on the best-selling book by Egon Erwin Kisch, this Czechoslovakian production tells the true story of one of the most...
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1931
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Outside of Emperor Franz Joseph, there was no member of the Hapsburg dynasty who showed up in films as often as Empress...
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Elisabeth of Austria
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1931
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Filmed silent, Hungarian Nights was released in the U.S. in mid-1930, giving at least a few days' work to the leftover...
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1930
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The great Russian actor Ivan Mozzhukhin co-stars with popular German leading lady Lil Dagover in this cinemadaptation of Leo...
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Nelidowa
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1930
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Contess Eggedy
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1930
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Der Gunstling von Schonbrunn was the original title of this well-received German period picture. The story, a familiar one to...
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1929
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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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Camilla
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1929
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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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1928
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1928
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Love Makes Us Blind was the English-language title of the "all star" German romantic drama Liebe Macht Blind. Emil Jannings,...
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1928
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Ester
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1928
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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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Elmire
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1927
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1927
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Cathleen Paget
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1927
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1923
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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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Barbara
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1923
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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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1922
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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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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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Fiametta,Junge Maedchen,Tiaotsien,Zobeide
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1921
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1921
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1921
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1920
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1920
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O-Take-San (Lil Dagover) is a beautiful young woman pursued by an evil Buddhist monk (Georg John) who wants to make her one...
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O-Take-San
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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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Jane
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1919
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A film buff's dream, Spiders is comprised of two episodes from an unfinished silent serial from Fritz Lang. Filled with...
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1919
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