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- DirectorReinhold SchünzelStarsRenate MüllerHermann ThimigHilde HildebrandAspiring singer Susanne takes over for ham actor Viktor at a small cabaret in Berlin where he works a woman impersonator and per chance she's discovered by an agent, who thinks that she really is a man. She becomes famous, but her situation becomes troublesome when she falls in love with Robert.
- DirectorFrank WisbarStarsDorothea WieckHertha ThieleMathias WiemanAnna a young girl is thought of having the ability to heal people mysteriously. Elisabeth a middle aged aristocratic woman, is disabled and puts all her hopes in meeting Anna and having her disability heal by her.
- DirectorGéza von BolváryStarsNora GregorGustav FröhlichOtto WallburgA pretty young singer is addicted to the thrill of stealing until she finds the thrill of love.
- DirectorMax OphülsStarsWolfgang LiebeneinerCarl EsmondMagda SchneiderVienna in the beginning of the twentieth century. Cavalry Lieutenant Fritz Lobheimer is about to end his affair with Baroness Eggerdorff when he meets the young Christine, the daughter of an opera violinist. Baron Eggerdorff however soon hears of his past misfortune...
- DirectorHeinrich GeorgeWerner HochbaumStarsHeinrich GeorgeBerta DrewsJoachim StreubelHeinrich George plays Henner who lives with his wife and child on a tugboat, going on the river to Berlin. There he meets the attractive Gescha (Betty Amann), and a story of love, betrayal and sadness ensues.Austrian movie
- DirectorKarel LamacStarsAnny OndraAnton WalbrookAlbert PauligBaby, a count's daughter, longs for a stage career, while her best friend, a chorus girl, longs for an education. When Baby's parents find out she has cheated them, they decide to send her to an English boarding school. Her friend's company travel on the same boat. Both girls agree to change identities and follow their dreams.
- DirectorAdolf TrotzStarsConrad VeidtPaul OttoHermine SterlerThe demonic Rasputin is poisoned but survives to continue seducing in evil ways, in this historical thriller.
- DirectorKarl HartlStarsWilli ForstLiane HaidHedwig BleibtreuBoth the King and his son have been deposed by popular demand. The now Prinz of Arkadia certainly enjoys his new role, which without much changing his lifestyle leaves him free to concentrate on his main interest -women. Including an actress who once wrote a mocking song about him -a song that he likes to sing.
- DirectorWerner HochbaumStarsGina FalckenbergFriedrich GnaßWolfgang ZilzerIllustrates both the powerlessness of the ordinary worker as well as an intimate portrait of the joys and sorrows of a small group of people in the harbor section of Hamburg.
- DirectorRobert SiodmakStarsEmil JanningsAnna StenTrude HesterbergAfter a petty crook is freed, he gets right back into trouble, first by stealing a fur for his former girlfriend and then by getting in fights with two different men who have tried to take his place with her, one of whom lands up drowning.
- DirectorLeni RiefenstahlBéla BalázsStarsLeni RiefenstahlMathias WiemanBeni FührerWhen the moon is full, young men die attempting to reach the mysterious blue light in the mountains.
- DirectorConrad WieneStarsGeorg AlexanderLien DeyersTrude BerlinerPrincess Melanie wants to examine her future husband and pretends to be his maid. His Highness plays the secretary. While a goofy servant mimics the baron, he himself takes time to flirt with the alleged maid.
- DirectorCarl FroelichStarsGitta AlparGustav FröhlichPaul KempHungarian peasant Julika is discovered by an impresario in a hamlet, soon gaining fame as dancer and gifted singer. In Berlin she leaves the train to escape his attentions, meets a young composer and his friends and tries to help him.
- DirectorCarl FroelichStarsGitta AlparMax HansenFerdinand von AltenThe ruler of a Ruritanian kingdom falls in love, in this Weimar era operetta.
- DirectorLouis RalphStarsLouis RalphRenée StobrawaHans SchlenckStory of the Kreuzer (cruiser) Emden and his men during WWI, garnished with a love Story, rivalry and heroism.
- DirectorKarel LamacMartin FricStarsPaul RichterMaria MatrayCarl Walther MeyerA shifty lawyer is threatened with death within two days by a criminal who supposedly died in Australia.
- DirectorMax OphülsStarsMax NadlerJarmila NovotnaOtto WernickeBohemia in the 19th century, stage-coach driver Hans, loves the mayor's daughter Marie, but she is promised Wenzel, the son of another wealthy farmer. Marie refuses to marry Wenzel because of Hans, but the marriage arranger tries to "buy" Marie from Hans. But when Wenzel tells Hans, that he doesn't want to marry Marie, either, because he loves circus director Brummel's daughter, Hans decides to accept the offer of money for not interferring in the relations of Hans and Marie. But when Marie hears about this, she doesn't want to see Hans again.
- DirectorVictor JansonStarsMártha EggerthHermann ThimigFritz KampersAnni happily starts working as underground ticket seller. A passenger in a rush leaves owing part of the ticket. He happens to be a postal service night pilot. He pays his debt and they start dating, in spite of their opposite schedules.
- DirectorGeorg Wilhelm PabstStarsBrigitte HelmHeinz KlingenbergTela TchaïTwo French Foreign Legionnaires are lost amid the shifting sands of the Sahara Desert when they stumble across the entrance to an underground world. Searching this new found subterranean passage, our heroes are surprised to find the lost city of Atlantis. Ruling over this fantastic underworld realm, an evil queen sets her sights upon these strangers to her kingdom.
- DirectorMax NeufeldStarsMagda SchneiderFritz SchulzLuise RainerA musical comedy set in Vienna. The title refers to the name of a perfume. Two young women reply to newspaper advertisements but their replies are confused. The two young directors of the perfume company initially have different intentions towards the girls but it all gets sorted out in the end.
- DirectorHeinz PaulStarsHans StüweKäthe HaackJutta SauerA depiction of strong leadership, in the Prussian General Hindenburg who celebrated a victory over Czarist Russia in 1914, during the Great War.
- DirectorCurtis BernhardtEdwin H. KnopfLuis TrenkerStarsLuis TrenkerLuise UllrichVictor VarconiA young medical student returns to his Tyrolean home to find out that Napoleon's troops have taken over the area and that his mother and sister have been murdered.
- DirectorRichard OswaldStarsPaul WegenerMaria KoppenhöferBlandine EbingerA crazed scientist murders his wife, walls her up, then flees. A reporter sets out to track him down.
- DirectorFritz LangStarsPeter LorreEllen WidmannInge LandgutWhen the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.
- DirectorGustav UcickyStarsWerner KraussGrete MosheimRudolf ForsterThe story of General Yorck von Wartenburg, a commander in the army of Prussian King Wilhelm, who defied the king's orders for the Prussian army to join Napoleon in his invason of Russia.
- DirectorLeontine SaganCarl FroelichStarsDorothea WieckHertha ThieleEmilia UndaAt an all-girls boarding school, Manuela falls in love with a teacher, to terrific consequences.
- DirectorErik CharellStarsLilian HarveyWilly FritschOtto WallburgVienna glove-sales-lady Christl falls in love to Czar Alexander. Metternich tries to use this to keep him out of the conferences of the Vienna Congress from 1815.
- DirectorAnatole LitvakStarsLilian HarveyHarry LiedtkeFelix BressartAn American millionaire, who had always bad luck with women, bets that he can live without them for five years. But after four and a half years travling around on his yacht, he rescues a lady from drowning in the English Channel.
- DirectorGeorg Wilhelm PabstStarsAlexander GranachFritz KampersErnst BuschPlea against war and for friendship between peoples, through the story of French miners rescued by German colleagues after a firedamp explosion.
- DirectorErich EngelFyodor OtsepStarsFritz KortnerAnna StenFritz RaspSuspicion surrounds a lieutenant for killing his father.
- DirectorGeorg Wilhelm PabstStarsRudolf ForsterLotte LenyaCarola NeherThe Gangster Macheath secretly marries the daughter of beggar king Peachum. When Peachum finds out, he instructs the police chief Brown to arrest and hang Macheath. If not, all the beggars of Soho will disturb the upcoming coronation.
- DirectorGerhard LamprechtStarsRolf WenkhausKäthe HaackFritz RaspEmil goes to Berlin to see his grandmother with a large amount of money and is offered sweets by a strange man that make him sleep. He wakes up at his stop with no money. It is up to him and a group of children to save the day.
- DirectorHanns SchwarzStarsKäthe von NagyWilly FritschReinhold SchünzelA pretty young princess, incognito, has a romance with a handsome young lieutenant who is pretending to be a clerk in a delicatessen.
- DirectorHeinz HilpertStarsHans AlbersKäthe DorschTrude Berliner
- DirectorKarl HartlLuis TrenkerStarsLuis TrenkerLissy ArnaClaus ClausenShortly before the First World War, an Italian and an Austrian take part in a mountaineering expedition together. Not long afterwards they find themselves fighting on different sides. The plot also features references to the Mines on the Italian Front (World War I).
- DirectorPaul CzinnerStarsElisabeth BergnerRudolf ForsterAnnemarie SteinsieckAn innocent Russian student in Paris has her first affair, with a mature man who comes to realize he truly loves her and it is not just one of his brief flings.
- DirectorGéza von BolváryStarsWilli ForstTrude von MoloGustaf GründgensA painter working at the Louvre is struck by the Mona Lisa. When he meets a girl who he thinks resembles the painting and she wants him to become famous he has the idea of robbing the painting. Based on the 1911 real robbery.
- DirectorRichard OswaldStarsMax AdalbertErnst DernburgWilli SchurA poor cobbler named Wilhelm Voigt purchased the second-hand uniform of a Prussian infantry captain. Wearing this, he traveled to the borough of Köpenick and ordered a troop of guardsmen to place themselves under his command. He then declared the town hall to be under military law, ordering the arrest of the mayor and treasurer and confiscating all the funds in the bank.
- DirectorErich EngelStarsMax HansenJenny JugoOtto WallburgA small time crook keeps trying to reunite with a woman who briefly sheltered him while he was on the run from the law.
- DirectorAlexis GranowskyStarsAribert MogMargot FerraElsa WagnerHow can we lead more authentic lives? This daring surrealist sound film centers on a young woman who rejects marriage to a wealthy baron.
- DirectorGéza von BolváryStarsDolly HaasGustav FröhlichLivio PavanelliDuring the Austro Hungarian empire, a girl substitutes for her brother in a military academy.
- DirectorPhil JutziStarsHeinrich GeorgeMaria BardMargarete SchlegelFranz Biberkopf has served four years in prison. His return to normal life is not successful.
- DirectorCurtis BernhardtStarsConrad VeidtTrude von MoloHeinrich GeorgeThe Marquis de Sévigné is put in a difficult position when he falls for the lovely Lady Falkland, a married woman whose husband, the strict Lord Falkland, subjects her to constant abuse.
- DirectorHanns SchwarzMax de VaucorbeilStarsLilian HarveyHenri GaratJean MercantonSimultaneously made French version of "Ihre Hoheit Befiehlt" : An officer, posing as a deli clerk, and a princess, posing as a manicurist, meet at a ball. The court especially the prime minister oppose a marriage,for political reasons.
- DirectorHarry PielStarsHarry PielDary HolmElisabeth Pinajeff
- DirectorHans BehrendtStarsFritz KortnerLucie MannheimGustaf GründgensAt the height of the French Revolution, the fanatic Robespierre brings the popular but more moderate leader Danton to trial and demands his execution.
- DirectorRobert LandStarsHenny PortenWalter RillaFriedrich KayßlerAfter the tragic death from malaria of her beloved husband his rich widow Helga Vanroh travels restlessly around various Mediterranean countries. In the luxurious surroundings of a hotel in Monte Carlo Mrs. Vanroh keeps apart from society, until one evening she decides to visit the casino. There a young man attracts her curiosity and compassion. Sascha Lonay has again lost a fortune at the roulette-tables. In his desperation he ponders on taking his life, but Mrs. Vanroh is able to dissuade him by offering him a hotelroom, money to pay his debts - and her love. They spent the night together. The following day the couple travel to the mountains, where Sascha - overwhelmed by the beauty of life and her generosity - promises her to refrain from gambling and to take the next ship sailing from Marseille and look for an honest job. He begs her to accompany him to Marseille in the evening, but Mrs. Vanroh is too afraid of commitment. Alone again, she makes a final visit to the casino. Her efforts seem to have been useless: Like a madman Sascha has taken to the roulette-tables again.
- DirectorVictor TrivasGeorge ShdanoffStarsErnst BuschVladimir SokoloffRenée StobrawaDuring World War I, five soldiers from different nations end up together in some ruins in no man's land and decide to stick together.
- DirectorAlexis GranowskyStarsAlfred AbelPeter LorreHarald PaulsenIn the very oldfashioned town of Ostend suddenly 13 suitcases are delivered to the hotel, with a note, that O.F. will be here soon and needs 6 rooms (the hotel just has five). This event, probably the biggest in 300 years, starts a small wave of modernisation, yet everybody is wondering who O.F. is. Journalist Stix and architect Stark have an idea how to use this event. They proclaim, that O.F. is a former citizen of the town, who became a millionaire abroad. They tell their fellow citizens that the town still needs modernisation, like better hotels, nightclubs, shops, etc. And soon, Ostend is a boomtown, then a capital. The architect, responsible for the new buildings is finaly allowed to marry the mayor's daughter, while Stix marries the cabaret star and the widowed mayor his new secretary. The only problem is, O.F. hasn't shown up, while finance experts from all over the world are trying to solve the depression problem, that is non-existant in Ostend, this soon lets the people forget about O.F.
- DirectorCarl FroelichStarsHenny PortenGustaf GründgensEkkehard ArendtVehicle for one of Weimar era 's most beloved actresses: as the popular Prussian queen in 1806-1807,she presides over the humiliating Peace of Tilsit which Napoleon forces on the defeated Germans.
- DirectorRobert WieneStarsOlga TschechowaHans RehmannFerdinand HartChicago gangsters use cunning and a series of false identities in a violent battle for dominance, all while attempting to dodge the police.
- DirectorRichard EichbergStarsHans AlbersSigurd LohdeErnst Stahl-NachbaurHarbour policeman Hans and his companion rescue a young woman from water during their night watch, to find out she is connected with a jewel robbery in which a gangster now owner of an hippodrome, an out jailed one and his mistress now mixed up with an American millionaire weave some obscure plans.
- DirectorAdolf TrotzStarsLil DagoverPaul OttoMaria MatrayThe life and times of famous empress Elisabeth of Austria aka "Sissi" ,from her quarrels with her aunt to the Mayerling tragedy to her death in Genève in 1898.
- DirectorMax ReichmannStarsRichard TauberMara LoseffHans MierendorffDas Land des Lächelns operetta is performed at a diplomat's mansion. Lisa hosts an exotic guest from India, paralleling the stage story of prince SouChong(Tauber)and Viennese Countess Lisel(Margit Suchy)in a tale of East meets West.
- DirectorGustav UcickyStarsOscar HomolkaGustaf GründgensOtto WallburgKitty Kellermann, widow of Paul Kellermann an unsuccessful artist, appears in court charged with drowning her husband during a boat ride. Then, the fact emerges that she is three months pregnant... even though her husband died five months earlier.
- DirectorGeorg Wilhelm PabstStarsFritz KampersGustav DiesslHans-Joachim MöbisA group of German solders fight on the front line in France at the end of World War I.
- DirectorJosef von SternbergStarsEmil JanningsMarlene DietrichKurt GerronAn elderly professor's ordered life spins dangerously out of control when he falls for a nightclub singer.
- DirectorGéza von BolváryStarsWalter JanssenOskar KarlweisWilli ForstToni Hofer and brothers Vicki and Nicki Mahler are working on a new operetta. Toni's reputation with women equals his fame as composer, so they keep their sister Hedi away from him. Wanting to know him, she calls at his house in the middle of the night not revealing her identity, helps him write the main waltz theme and disappears, leaving him incapable of remembering his greatest melody. Music by Robert Stolz.
- DirectorKarl HartlStarsHans BrausewetterBetty BirdWilli Forst
- DirectorGéza von BolváryStarsWilli ForstPaul HörbigerTrude LieskeA stylish young man shows up as a substitute at events when officials and other important people are too busy to attend,and sometimes imitates their voices.
- DirectorAlexandre VolkoffStarsIvan MozzhukhinLil DagoverBetty AmannHis son and mother in peril at the hands of his enemies, a banished Caucasian warrior is forced to make an alliance with the Russians.
- DirectorKarel LamacStarsVlasta BurianRoda-RodaHarry Frank
- DirectorWilhelm ThieleStarsWilly FritschLilian HarveyHeinz RühmannWilly, Kurt and Hans are broke, so they sell their car and open a filling station. Then they all fall in love with the same girl.
- DirectorGustav UcickyStarsOtto GebührRenate MüllerHans RehmannThe story of the rise to power of King Frederick II (aka Frederick the Great) of Prussia and his military campaigns to make Prussia a major power in Europe.
- DirectorMarie HarderStarsHermann VallentinAnna StenIvan Koval-SamborskyIn this realistic, unsentimental portrait of Germany's dire economic situation, a middle-aged payroll clerk loses his job due to technological advances and, unable to find another, descends into despair.
- DirectorHanns SchwarzStarsRalph Arthur RobertsLilian HarveyWilly FritschThe young wife of a rich old husband is prevented of a fling by a gentleman-burglar, who falls in love to her.
- DirectorGeorg Wilhelm PabstStarsHenny PortenOskar SimaLudwig StösselAn engaged woman discovers her fiancé has a four year old son. Pretending to take a cure she travels to the boy's foster-parents to make his acquaintance.
- DirectorHans TintnerStarsGrete MosheimNico TuroffClaus ClausenA fervid drama forcefully illustrates the catastrophic consequences of keeping abortion illegal.
- DirectorMario BonnardLuis TrenkerStarsLuis TrenkerMaria MatrayRenate MüllerAn Alpine adventure-romance.
- DirectorGéza von BolváryStarsLiane HaidWilli ForstMargarete SchlegelAn officer embarrasses a singer by walking away during one of her performances. He later apologizes and the two become closer, eventually falling in love.
- DirectorCarl FroelichStarsAlexa EngströmGustav FröhlichGustaf GründgensA young singer in the Opera finds out who really loves her, when the theater catches fire on the opening night of the performance.
- DirectorRobert SiodmakStarsBrigitte HorneyAribert MogEmilia UndaPeter Winkler's new job offer is about to take him away from his lover Hella, but he has been keeping it a secret from her. Mutual lack of trust and vicious gossip threatens their relationship as they plan to make their farewells.
- DirectorJacques FeyderStarsNora GregorTheo ShallJulia SerdaOne of three foreign language versions of the MGM romance, His Glorious Night: a princess in the court of the old Austro-Hungarian empire rejects her arranged marriage and loves, instead, a dashing cavalry captain.
- DirectorCurtis BernhardtStarsConrad VeidtKarin EvansErwin KalserA band of Prussian soldiers fighting Napoleon garrison themselves in a country windmill, the miller's daughter insists on staying with them.
- DirectorErich WaschneckStarsCharlotte SusaGustav FröhlichFriedrich KayßlerA man in the Tylorean Alps gives up his sweetheart and becomes a priest, after his fanatic mother has died trying to convince him to sacrifice his life for God.
- DirectorRobert LandStarsErnst Stahl-NachbaurLil DagoverRolf von GothA film about the pupils of a posh Berlin gymnasium in their final term and their class teacher teaching them about humanism and tolerance, a lesson that would be badly needed three years later.
- DirectorRichard OswaldStarsBrigitte HelmAlbert BassermannHarald PaulsenA scientist, Professor Jakob ten Brinken, interested in the laws of heredity, impregnates a prostitute in a laboratory with the semen of a hanged murderer. The prostitute conceives a female child who has no concept of love, whom the professor adopts. The girl, Alraune, suffers from obsessive sexuality and perverse relationships throughout her life. She learns of her unnatural origins and she avenges herself against the professor.
- DirectorHanns SchwarzStarsDita ParloWilly FritschTihamér LázárA young maid from the country looses her job as maid in k.u.k. Budapest, when she stays out too long with her beau, a soldier, who's saving money to buy a horse to open a transport company. After being unemployed for quite a while and her rent is long overdue, the landlady offers her a better job in a nightclub. Meanwhile the soldiers family has decided that her son should marry the daughter of a rich farmer. The soldier finds out about his girl friends profession, and accepts after struggling with himself the match his parents have made. At the day of his engagement his girl friend comes to his hometown with enough money to buy a horse, which leads to a conflict between her, the fiancee, her family, himself and his parents.
- DirectorArnold FanckGeorg Wilhelm PabstStarsGustav DiesslLeni RiefenstahlErnst PetersenA man climbs a 12,000-foot mountain to search for his wife, who was lost on their honeymoon. Another couple makes the dangerous climb with him.
- DirectorKarl LeiterStarsHarry HalmIris ArlanMary Kid
- DirectorWilhelm ThieleStarsIgo SymMarietta MillnerLilian Harvey
- DirectorRobert SiodmakEdgar G. UlmerRochus GlieseStarsErwin SplettstößerBrigitte BorchertWolfgang von WaltershausenTwo men and two women enjoy a pleasant Sunday at the beach amid the unending toil of the working week.Silent
- DirectorWilliam DieterleStarsWilliam DieterleTheodor LoosEugen BurgSecond of two German silents about the life of Bavarian king Ludwig II, a character who would much later also be the center of a film by Luchino Visconti.Silent
- DirectorGeorg Wilhelm PabstStarsLouise BrooksJosef RovenskýFritz RaspAfter falling pregnant by a pharmacist and refusing to marry, a young woman is ejected from her home and sent to a strict girls' reform school.
- DirectorHanns SchwarzStarsBrigitte HelmFrancis LedererWarwick WardNina Petrovna, the mistress of a wealthy Cossack, falls in love with a young cadet. Their happiness is short-lived.
- DirectorJoe MayStarsAlbert SteinrückElse HellerGustav FröhlichJoe May's sensual drama of life in the Berlin underworld is in many ways the perfect summation of German filmmaking in the silent era: a dazzling visual style, a psychological approach to its characters, and the ability to take a simple and essentially melodramatic story and turn it into something more complex and inherently cinematic.
- DirectorFritz LangStarsWilly FritschGerda MaurusKlaus PohlA tenacious scientist blasts off for the moon in hopes of riches that may be found there.
- DirectorViktor TourjanskyStarsIvan MozzhukhinBrigitte HelmHeinrich GeorgeA Parisian playboy living beyond his means falls in love with a beautiful society woman fleeing her husband. He turns to robbing and swindling the wealthy to pay for their lavish lifestyle but his past finally catches up with him.
- DirectorRobert LandStarsKäthe von NagyMaly DelschaftMizzi ZwerenzVeronika is a candid teenager who lives with her parents in an idyllic mountain village in the Austrian Tyrol. As they are poor, her aunt pays her the expenses to do the Christian Confirmation and invites her to the vibrant city of Vienna. But nobody knows that her aunt really works in a brothel.
- DirectorPhil JutziStarsAlexandra SchmittHolmes ZimmermannIlse TrautscholdMutter Krause and her children live in the poorer section of Berlin's Wedding district. The film depicts the cruelty of poverty and communism as a rescuing force that reaches Mutter Krause and the child too late.
- DirectorLupu PickStarsWerner KraussHanna RalphAlbert BassermannNapoleon is sentenced to exile on the prison island.
- DirectorPaul CzinnerStarsElisabeth BergnerAlbert BassermannAlbert SteinrückA young woman reluctantly decides to compromise her values in order to save her family from bankruptcy and disgrace.
- DirectorGeorg Wilhelm PabstStarsLouise BrooksFritz KortnerFrancis LedererThe rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.
- DirectorCurtis BernhardtStarsMarlene DietrichFritz KortnerFrida RichardOn his honeymoon with a bride he has wed for business reasons, a man falls for a woman who is in the clutches of a sinister character.After this woman begs him to help her escape, he plots to do so using the opportunity of a masked ball.
- DirectorLeo MittlerStarsLissy ArnaPaul RehkopfFritz GenschowThe quest for a sparkling pearl necklace stolen by a beggar under the gaze of a prostitute, who persuades her unemployed friend to steal it back, with tragic consequences.