Perhaps the finest American film from the famed European director Max Ophüls, the film stars Joan Fontaine as a young woman...
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Frau Berndle
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1948
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Kate Keller
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1948
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A plot revealed through the correspondence between German-American businessman and his Jewish partner, Lukas, the...
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Elsa Schultz
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1944
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A bit treacly at times, Tender Comrade is nonetheless a fascinating distillation of the American mindset during WW2. Ginger...
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Manya
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1943
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This romantic tearjerker was the second film based on the popular 1922 stage play. James Stewart stars as Chico, a lowly...
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1937
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Johanna Spyri's perennial children's favorite Heidi was retailored to the talents of Shirley Temple, resulting in one of her...
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1937
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Director Anatole Litvak's first Hollywood film was a remake of his French success L'Equipage, itself based on a novel by...
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1937
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Set in the woodlands of Wisconsin, Come and Get It stars Edward Arnold as a logger-turned-lumber tycoon. In his rise to the...
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1936
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In this musical, a coal stoker for a ship finds himself turned into a singing sensation when someone hears him lustily...
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Countess Boranoff
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1935
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Set in the Washington of World War I, Escapade stars William Powell as a newspaper editor eager to sign up for an overseas...
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1935
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Helen Hayes reportedly turned down the opportunity to play the title role in this dreary melodrama about self-sacrificing...
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Naomi Trice
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1934
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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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When jewel thief and womanizer Petrovich is caught and imprisoned he manages to escape to the Riviera where he takes up his...
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1933
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In this drama, a recently convicted criminal boards a train bound for the prison where he will be hanged. His wife rides...
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1933
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Friederike
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1933
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Marie Luise
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1933
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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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Empress
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1933
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Vera Moretti
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1933
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1933
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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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Queen Alexandria
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1932
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1930
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Das Brennende Herz (The Burning Heart) is motivated by the romance between young composer Georg Wittig (Gustav Froelich) and...
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Dorothy Claudius
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1930
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Because I Loved You was the first German-made talking picture to obtain a widespread release in the U.S. Mady Christians...
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Inge Lund
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1930
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Princess Priscilla has been promised in matrimony to the prince of Savona, but she is not of the mind to go through with a...
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1929
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1928
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Gerald Lamprecht's impressionistic 1925 character study Die Verrufenen was released in the U.S. in 1927 as The Slums of...
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1927
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This UFA silent, based on an old operetta, is far more light-hearted and spirited than the moody, heavy-handed fare that...
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Princess Alix
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1926
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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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Olga
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1924
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While he was working in his native Germany, Ernst Lubitsch directed a number of historical pictures -- although this one is...
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1922
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Pauline Frederick plays Audrey in this five-reel adaptation of the novel by Mary Johnston. In a true change of pace for the...
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1916
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