Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: April 10, 1862
Deathday: August 15, 1932
Popularity:
1929-01-30
Overview: Lulu is a young woman so beautiful and alluring that few can resist her siren charms. The men drawn into her web include respectable newspaper publisher Dr. Ludwig Schön, his musical producer son Alwa, circus performer Rodrigo Quast, and seedy old Schigolch. When Lulu's charms inevitably lead to tragedy, the downward spiral encompasses them all.
Genres: Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-01-30
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1931-12-21
Overview: Ten years after the end of World War I, Austrian soldier Franz leaves Russia and returns to his village, where he is reunited with Frieda, a woman who believes he is her long-lost son. She seeks him out and greets him with such loving joy, that Franz doesn't have the heart to tell her the truth. He stays with her and when he gets to know his new girlfriend Annie, he begs her to hide his true identity from Annie. Annie, for her part, has seen through this charade already, but chooses to say nothing and to continue to care for Franz.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-12-21
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1932-07-12
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-07-12
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1927-01-07
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-01-07
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1921-01-14
Overview: The happy and miserable life of Mozart has always of artistic interest for silent film directors. Such an example is "Mozarts Leben, Lieben Und Leiden" (1921) by Otto Kreisler (the first silent length feature depicting the loves and sufferings of the famous Salzburg composing genius).
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-14
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1931-04-26
Overview:
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-04-26
Popularity:
1931-01-20
Overview: The film focuses on the leadership of the Great Powers of Europe in the days leading up to the outbreak of the First World War.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-01-20
Popularity:
1930-12-19
Overview: In 1756, a masked ball was officially celebrated in the Dresden Palais of the Saxon Minister Heinrich von Brühl. Unofficially, however, talks are taking place with the envoys of Austria, Russia and France with the aim of conspiring against the Prussian King Frederick II. The Prussian envoy, Major von Lindeneck, succeeded in bringing a copy of the concluded secret treaty to the Prussian king. Friedrich consults with his generals, who urge caution. Friedrich is stunned by the reaction and now develops a counter-plan. To do this, he sends von Lindeneck back to Dresden. However, the latter is not very enthusiastic about this, as he thinks he has reason to doubt his wife Blanche's marital fidelity, and he now has to leave her alone.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-12-19
Popularity:
1929-11-13
Overview: Arnold Horn, a young idealistic chemist, discovers a compound that can be used for the production of an effective deadly poisonous gas. Against his will the chemical factory starts production of the poison gas to increase the value of their shares.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-11-13
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1929-12-06
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-12-06
Popularity:
1923-10-23
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
Popularity:
1920-06-18
Overview: The sculptor Peter Starling shot himself in the museum. When the museum director examined the body, he found a diary from whose entries he could deduce the reason for the suicide: Starling had once come across a mummy and a papyrus scroll on a trip to Egypt and had given both artifacts to the museum upon his return. Starling was able to deduce from the papyrus scroll with the cuneiform writing that the mummy, once a king's daughter, would one day awaken and then live as long as the mummy wanted.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-06-18
Popularity:
1928-10-24
Overview: A young man is convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to a term in prison. There he forms a close relationship with his cellmate. Upon his release his wife is concerned as to how prison has changed the man she married.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-10-24
Popularity:
1921-02-22
Overview: The film is about a woman who experiences frightening visions after visiting an insane asylum where one of the inmates claims to be Count Dracula (here following the Hungarian spelling Drakula). She has trouble determining whether the inmate's visions are real or merely nightmares.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1921-02-22
Popularity:
1913-09-17
Overview: Prison break. A murderer seeks refuge inside a barn.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1913-09-17
Popularity:
1918-11-22
Overview: In Vienna, the director of a sanatorium is telling writer Kristinus the story of a strange case. The very rich and dandy-esque Baron von Stroom had fallen in love with an actress but could not conquer her. One day he acquired a Chinese clay figure of a Mandarin, a talisman whose possessor is said to be able to seduce any woman he desires. As promised, all women's hearts fall to Baron von Stroom. The first is the actress, followed by the wife of the railway king, and then a Princess. Every time the Baron calls out “Man-da-riiiin”, the statue becomes alive ready to make another woman fall in love with his master. But von Stroom soon begins to feel nostalgic for the times when he would conquer the women he desired. However, his attempts to seduce women without the help of his ghostly servant become utterly unsuccessful. Unable to get rid of his devilish servant... Produced one year before The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Mandarin is a predecessor of German expressionism.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1918-11-22
Popularity:
1930-10-27
Overview: A tourist guide in Naples is taken on by a Viennese woman impressed by his singing, and who regards him as her protege. This film was released as a German version and English Version known as "The City of Song". Brigitte Helm once portrays a beautiful femme fatale who displays her affection and lust for her tourist guide which is paralleled with the main bodied theme of the early romanticist songs played throughout.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-10-27
Popularity:
1938-01-01
Overview: An inventor, Bubi, creates a female android he calls "Wera." Unfortunately, a gang of robbers finds out about Wera, steals her, and uses her to commit a series of crimes in Prague. (io9.com)
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-01-01
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1926-01-08
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-01-08
Popularity:
1929-11-08
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-11-08
Popularity:
1929-01-28
Overview:
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-01-28
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1922-10-09
Overview: German film by Franz Seitz.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1922-10-09
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1917-04-15
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1917-04-15
Popularity:
1920-12-21
Overview: About a lurid tale of magic and secret societies during the reign of Luis XVI, focused on the figure of the Italian occultist Giuseppe Balsamo, known under his alias of Count Alessandro di Cagliostro.
Genres: Horror History Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-12-21
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1927-03-25
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-03-25
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1924-10-26
Overview: A period drama set in a Volhynian village.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1924-10-26
Popularity:
1924-03-21
Overview: A 35 mm access print is held by Filmarchiv Austria.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1924-03-21
Popularity:
1917-12-10
Overview: Silent version of the Twain tale, filmed in Pleasanton, California. A Missouri boy (Jack Pickford) encounters his first love (Clara Horton) and bucks responsibilities to find adventure with his friend, Huck Finn (Robert Gordon).
Genres: Comedy Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-12-10
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