Anastasia is adapted from the popular stage play by Marcelle Maurette. The scene is Paris in the early 1920s. Ingrid Bergman...
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1956
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Lilli Palmer stars in the German Teufel in Seide (Devil in Silk). Lilli plays Melanie, the new wife of famed concert pianist...
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1956
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1955
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O. W. Fischer stars as Ludwig II, the "mad king" of Bavaria. The film downplays some of Ludwig's most outrageous...
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Richard Wagner
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1955
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Sauerbruch is the true story of the famed German surgeon of the same name. Adapted from the title character's own memoirs,...
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Wendlandt
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1954
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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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In this German drama, a mediocre actress is quite happy to have a steady stream of bit movie roles. Unfortunately, an...
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1954
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1953
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1953
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This German slice-of-life drama is based on a very real postwar dilemma. At the time the film was made, there were over 3000...
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Grossvater Rose
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1952
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1950
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This drama is a German remake of a classic film. It tells the story of a German family struggling to survive after the war....
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1950
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Filmed on location in the bombed-out titular city, Somewhere in Berlin details the horrendous plight of postwar German...
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1949
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The German The Affair Blum is based on a true 1926 incident that helped sow the seeds of anti-Semitism that Hitler so...
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Judge Konrad
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1949
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In this drama, a German Jew is made to appear responsible for an accountant's death. Although the film is set between the...
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1948
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This postwar German crime drama was also released as Police Raid. Inspector Naumann (Paul Rildt) really has his hands full...
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1947
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1946
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In this German drama, a French military officer finds himself discriminated against during a trial because he is Jewish. ~...
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1940
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Der Gouverneur is based on The Flag, a play by Otto Emmerich Groh. German film favorite Brigitte Horney stars as Maria, the...
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1939
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1938
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1938
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Der Herrscher (The Sovereign) was based on Before Sunset, a play by Gerhart Hauptmann. The great Emil Jannings stars as...
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1937
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The English-language title of this German musical satire is The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes. That immensely popular German...
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1937
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The German La Habanera is set in "contemporary" Spain-and never mind that there's no evidence of the then-raging Spanish...
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1937
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In this romantic melodrama, a widowed Russian noblewoman finds her torn asunder by the 1917 revolution. Just before she is...
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1936
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1936
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The exotically titled Donogoo Tonka starts out in Paris, as hero Pierre (Viktor Staal) and heroine Josette (Anny Ondra) join...
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1936
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Magistrate Riederer
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1933
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1933
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In this costume drama, a courageous Tyrolean fights to keep Napoleon from conquering his German homeland. ~ Sandra Brennan,...
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1933
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Der Anders (The Other) was adapted from the stage play of the same name by Paul Lindau. Fritz Kortner dominates the...
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1930
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1930
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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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His Father
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1927
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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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1918
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1916
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