Ilka Grüning
Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: September 04, 1876
Deathday: November 14, 1964
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Known For
Catherine the Great
1920-10-22
Catherine the Great
Overview: The film was an epic portrayal of the life of Catherine the Great of Russia.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-10-22
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The Venus of Tivoli
1953-04-04
The Venus of Tivoli
Overview: Unemployed and homeless actors following the dream of finding the future in South America. The manager Osvaldo Curtis tricks the group of colorful and failed artists to apply for a special visa overseas.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1953-04-04
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Phantom
1922-11-13
Phantom
Overview: Lorenz Lubota is a city clerk with no direction in life. One day on his way to work he is run over by a woman driving a chariot and he is immediately infatuated with her.
Genres: Drama Romance Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1922-11-13
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Repeat Performance
1947-05-22
Repeat Performance
Overview: On New Year's Eve 1946, Sheila Page kills her husband Barney. She wishes that she could relive 1946 and avoid the mistakes that she made throughout the year. Her wish comes true but cheating fate proves more difficult than she anticipated.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-22
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Desperate
1947-06-20
Desperate
Overview: An innocent trucker takes it on the lam when he's accused of robbery.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-20
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Dangerously They Live
1941-12-24
Dangerously They Live
Overview: A doctor tries to rescue a young innocent from Nazi agents.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-24
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Kings Row
1942-02-02
Kings Row
Overview: Five young adults in a small American town face the revelations of secrets that threaten to ruin their hopes and dreams.
Genres: Romance Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-02
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Secrets of a Soul
1926-03-24
Secrets of a Soul
Overview: Werner Krauss, who had played the deranged Dr. Caligari six years earlier, stars as a scientist who is tormented by an irrational fear of knives and the irresistible compulsion to murder his wife. Driven to the brink of madness by fantastic nightmares (designed by Ernö Metzner and photographed by Guido Seeber in a brilliant mix of expressionism and surrealism), he encounters a psychoanalyst who offers to treat the perplexing malady.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-03-24
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Um den Sohn
1921-05-13
Um den Sohn
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-05-13
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Passage West
1951-10-01
Passage West
Overview: In 1863, having escaped from a rock-quarry prison in Salt Lake, six inmates led by convicted murderer Pete Black take over a small wagon train headed by preacher Jacob Karns. Tensions and hardships grow as the travelers continue to trek toward California across dry, desolate country.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-01
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A Foreign Affair
1948-08-20
A Foreign Affair
Overview: In occupied Berlin, a US Army Captain is torn between an ex-Nazi cafe singer and the US Congresswoman investigating her.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-08-20
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Desperate Journey
1942-09-26
Desperate Journey
Overview: During WWII, when an allied bomber is shot down over Germany, the five surviving crew are captured but cleverly escape detention after learning German secret information and knocking out a Nazi major. With the angry major in hot pursuit, aided by military personnel, Gestapo agents and Hitler-loyal citizens, the five wend their way across perilous Germany, intent on reaching the UK with the secrets they have learned.
Genres: War Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-26
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The Treasure
1923-02-23
The Treasure
Overview: On the surface a straightforward tale of the search for a buried treasure, the film is a textbook example of German expressionism, with the passions of the protagonists conveyed as much through symbolism as action.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1923-02-23
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Casablanca
1943-01-15
Casablanca
Overview: In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-15
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Hasenklein can't help it
1932-05-08
Hasenklein can't help it
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-05-08
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Raw Deal
1948-05-21
Raw Deal
Overview: Joe Sullivan is itching to get out of prison. He's taken the rap for his accomplice Rick, a sadistic mobster who owes him $50,000 from the job they pulled. Rick sets up an escape for Joe, assuming that Joe will be killed while fleeing. But with the help of his love-struck girl Pat and his sympathetic legal caseworker Ann, Joe gets further than Rick intended...
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-21
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Captain China
1950-02-02
Captain China
Overview: The title character, played by John Payne, is a ship's captain whose embittered behavior after losing his lady love seemingly leads to tragedy. Accused of deliberately scuttling his ship during a typhoon, Captain China hopes to clear himself by signing on as a common seaman on a vessel captain by his former first mate Brendensen. There's no love lost between the two men, and their mutual animosity is intensified when both fall in love with beautiful passenger.
Genres: Action Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-02
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Words and Music
1948-12-31
Words and Music
Overview: Encomium to Larry Hart (1895-1943), seen through the fictive eyes of his song-writing partner, Richard Rodgers (1902-1979): from their first meeting, through lean years and their breakthrough, to their successes on Broadway, London, and Hollywood. We see the fruits of Hart and Rodgers' collaboration - elaborately staged numbers from their plays, characters' visits to night clubs, and impromptu performances at parties. We also see Larry's scattered approach to life, his failed love with Peggy McNeil, his unhappiness, and Richard's successful wooing of Dorothy Feiner.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-31
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Hallo Caesar!
1927-05-05
Hallo Caesar!
Overview: Juggler and con-artist Caesar comes to Karlsbad, where he hopes to trick the renowned Vaudeville manager Willard into taking him to America. But when he actually meets Willard, Caesar mistakes him for a certain Mr. Lehmann. Willard / Lehmann is not amused, since Caesar constantly courts his daughter Eva. While fooling around, Caesar doesn’t notice that young Rosl, the daughter of innkeeper Mrs. Svoboda, has fallen in love with him. Finally, the romantic and comical confusion is resolved during a hotel fire.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-05-05
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Caught
1949-02-17
Caught
Overview: Wide-eyed and poor young Leonora weds an obsessive millionaire named Ohlrig, but the marriage is loveless. Even worse, Ohlrig seems to have manic, violent tendencies. Eventually, young Leonora escapes her unhappy life and begins working with New York City doctor Larry Quinada, who she soon falls for. Unfortunately, Ohlrig refuses to grant his wife a divorce, and things get even darker for Leonora when she realizes she's pregnant with his child.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-17
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The Expulsion
1923-10-23
The Expulsion
Overview: The extended Steyer family lives together in a cottage in the mountains. The younger Steyer's wife Ludmilla wants money, and doesn't care if she must ruin the lives of the Steyer family to get it. Lost film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1923-10-23
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Rose Bernd
1919-10-05
Rose Bernd
Overview: An adaptation of the Gerhart Hauptmann play of the same name. A young farmer's daughter is used and abused by the men in her life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-10-05
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Underground
1941-06-28
Underground
Overview: A World War II Hollywood propaganda film detailing the dark underside of Nazism and the Third Reich set between two brothers, Kurt and Erik Franken, whom are SS officers in the Nazi party. Kurt learns and exposes the evils of the system to Erik and tries to convince him of the immoral stance that marches under the symbol of the swastika.
Genres: Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-28
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The Great Sinner
1949-06-29
The Great Sinner
Overview: A young man succumbs to gambling fever.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-29
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Family Gathering in the House of Prellstein
1927-12-16
Family Gathering in the House of Prellstein
Overview: A feature-length jewish joke: The heavily indebted Sami Bambus fakes his death, so that his debts are taken over by the greedy heirs, led by the scrounger Prellstein. The putative heir also brings speculators to the scene, and the general confusion can ultimately only be reconciled by the summoned uncle Salomon and by Samis' return from the dead.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-12-16
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The Finances of the Grand Duke
1924-01-07
The Finances of the Grand Duke
Overview: The likeable and carefree Grand Duke of Abacco is in dire straits. There is no money left to service the State's debt; the main creditor is looking forward to expropriating the entire Duchy. The marriage with Olga, Grand Duchess of Russia, would solve everything, but a crucial letter of hers about the engagement has been stolen. Besides, a bunch of revolutionaries and a dubious businessman have other plans regarding the Grand Duke. With the intrusion of adventurer Philipp Collins into the Grand Duke's affairs, a series of frantic chases, plots and counter-plots begins.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1924-01-07
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Des Lebens Würfelspiel
1925-08-21
Des Lebens Würfelspiel
Overview: a silent movie by Heinz Paul
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1925-08-21
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Das schöne Mädel
1923-04-30
Das schöne Mädel
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1923-04-30
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Aus den Erinnerungen eines Frauenarztes - 2. Lüge und Wahrheit
1922-04-06
Aus den Erinnerungen eines Frauenarztes - 2. Lüge und Wahrheit
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1922-04-06
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The Joyless Street
1925-03-01
The Joyless Street
Overview: In 1921, we follow two women - Marie and Grete - from the same poor Viennese neighborhood, as they try to better the lives of themselves and their families during the period of Austrian postwar hyperinflation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1925-03-01
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Friedrich Schiller - Eine Dichterjugend
1923-03-26
Friedrich Schiller - Eine Dichterjugend
Overview: In his film version, Curt Goetz shifts the focus away from the poetic output towards the young Friedrich Schiller himself: on the misery of his soul whilst a pupil of the ducal military academy, his opposition to the strict physical drill and the narrow intellectual confines of the "Karlsschule", his juvenile passion for the works of Shakespeare, Klopstock and Lessing, his anger at unjust authorities, his devotion to women, and finally his inability to cope with financial matters
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1923-03-26
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The Crimson Circle
1929-03-25
The Crimson Circle
Overview: Police battle against a gang of blackmailers known as The Crimson Circle.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-03-25
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Soll und Haben
1924-10-09
Soll und Haben
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1924-10-09
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Die Verschwörung zu Genua
1921-02-25
Die Verschwörung zu Genua
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1921-02-25
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Melody of the Heart
1929-12-15
Melody of the Heart
Overview: A 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.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-12-15
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Prostitution II
1919-08-29
Prostitution II
Overview: About a deceptive bourgeois couple that blends their acquaintances into their dubious business.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-08-29
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Herbstzeit am Rhein
1928-04-17
Herbstzeit am Rhein
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-04-17
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Elegantes Pack
1925-08-27
Elegantes Pack
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1925-08-27
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Die Fledermaus
1923-04-12
Die Fledermaus
Overview:
Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1923-04-12
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Freund Ripp
1923-01-01
Freund Ripp
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1923-01-01
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Bigamie
1922-12-08
Bigamie
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1922-12-08
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Die Erbin von Tordis
1921-07-28
Die Erbin von Tordis
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-07-28
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Lotte Lore
1921-01-01
Lotte Lore
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-01-01
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Die Fremde aus der Elstergasse
1921-06-08
Die Fremde aus der Elstergasse
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-06-08
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Aus den Memoiren einer Filmschauspielerin
1921-09-22
Aus den Memoiren einer Filmschauspielerin
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-09-22
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Seefahrt ist Not!
1921-08-25
Seefahrt ist Not!
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-08-25
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Die große und die kleine Welt
1921-04-28
Die große und die kleine Welt
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-04-28
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Tiefland
1923-01-01
Tiefland
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1923-01-01
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Jugend
1922-10-01
Jugend
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1922-10-01
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Können Gedanken töten?
1920-03-31
Können Gedanken töten?
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-03-31
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Lady Hamilton
1921-10-19
Lady Hamilton
Overview: The married Lady Emma Hamilton has an ill fated romance with Admiral Horatio Nelson.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-10-19
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Die Dame und der Landstreicher
1922-02-02
Die Dame und der Landstreicher
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1922-02-02
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Das zweite Leben
1921-12-02
Das zweite Leben
Overview:
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-12-02
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Monika Vogelsang
1920-01-02
Monika Vogelsang
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-01-02
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Das Weib auf dem Panther
1923-03-25
Das Weib auf dem Panther
Overview: The daughter of a famous painter fleeing thieves who believe she knows where one of her father's original paintings is kept, flees and hides out at the residence of a pair of avowed women hating bachelors.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1923-03-25
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Christian Wahnschaffe II: Escape from the Golden Dungeon
1921-03-30
Christian Wahnschaffe II: Escape from the Golden Dungeon
Overview: Escape from the Golden Dungeon is the second part of the two-part silent movie Christian Wahnschaffe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1921-03-30
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Wem nie durch Liebe Leid geschah!
1922-01-01
Wem nie durch Liebe Leid geschah!
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1922-01-01
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Friendly Enemies
1942-06-21
Friendly Enemies
Overview: During World War I, two German men friends who emigrated to the US and become millionaires agree on most things, with one major difference: one has taken the US side against Germany regarding the war, while the other stays stubbornly loyal to "the old country". His stubbornness results in tragedy for his old friend and a lesson in the consequences of blind loyalty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-21
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Madame Curie
1943-12-16
Madame Curie
Overview: Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concerning her abilities, but is eventually offered a research placement in Pierre Curie's lab. The scientists soon fall in love and embark on a shared quest to extract, from a particular type of rock, a new chemical element they have named radium. However, their research puts them on the brink of professional failure.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-16
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Trix, der Roman einer Millionärin
1921-07-21
Trix, der Roman einer Millionärin
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-07-21
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Die Diktatur der Liebe. 2. Die Welt ohne Liebe
1921-03-26
Die Diktatur der Liebe. 2. Die Welt ohne Liebe
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-03-26
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Maria Magdalene
1920-02-12
Maria Magdalene
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-02-12
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Pogrom
1919-08-02
Pogrom
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-08-02
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Address Unknown
1944-06-01
Address Unknown
Overview: When a German art dealer living in the US returns to his native country he finds himself attracted to Nazi propaganda.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-01
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Convicted
1950-08-01
Convicted
Overview: A prison warden fights to prove one of his inmates was wrongly convicted.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-01
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Die Bestie im Menschen
1921-02-14
Die Bestie im Menschen
Overview: Jacques Lantier, the "human beast" of the title, has a hereditary madness and has several times in his life wanted to murder women. At the beginning of the story he is an engine driver, in control of his engine "La Lison". His relationship with "La Lison" is almost sexual and provides some degree of control over his mania.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-02-14
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Menschen
1920-01-01
Menschen
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-01-01
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Die Kreutzersonate
1922-01-01
Die Kreutzersonate
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1922-01-01
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Mr. Soft Touch
1949-07-28
Mr. Soft Touch
Overview: When he learns that a gangster has taken over his nightclub and murdered his partner, returning WWII hero Joe Miracle steals the money from the club's safe and hides in a settlement home, while the mob is on his tail.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-28
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Peer Gynt - 1. Teil: Peer Gynts Jugend
1919-04-06
Peer Gynt - 1. Teil: Peer Gynts Jugend
Overview: Based on Henrik Ibsen's play.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-04-06
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