Conrad Veidt
Biography: Hans Walter Conrad Veidt (22 January 1893 – 3 April 1943) was a German actor best remembered for his roles in films such as Different from the Others (1919), The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), and The Man Who Laughs (1928). After a successful career in German silent film, where he was one of the best-paid stars of Ufa, he was forced to leave Germany in 1933 with his new Jewish wife after the Nazis came to power. They settled in Britain, where he participated in a number of films, including The Thief of Bagdad (1940), before emigrating to the United States around 1941, which lead to him having a supporting role in Casablanca (1942). From 1916 until his death, Veidt appeared in more than 100 films. One of his earliest performances was as the murderous somnambulist Cesare in director Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), a classic of German Expressionist cinema, with Werner Krauss and Lil Dagover. His starring role in The Man Who Laughs (1928), as a disfigured circus performer whose face is cut into a permanent grin, provided the (visual) inspiration for the Batman villain the Joker, created in 1940 by Bill Finger. Veidt also starred in other silent horror films such as The Hands of Orlac (1924), another film directed by Robert Wiene, The Student of Prague (1926) and Waxworks (1924) where he played Ivan the Terrible. Veidt also appeared in Magnus Hirschfeld's film Anders als die Andern (Different from the Others, 1919), one of the first films to sympathetically portray homosexuality, although the characters in it do not end up happily. He had a leading role in Germany's first talking picture, Das Land ohne Frauen (Land Without Women, 1929). He moved to Hollywood in the late 1920s and made a few films, but the advent of talking pictures and his difficulty with speaking English led him to return to Germany. During this period he lent his expertise to tutoring aspiring performers, one of whom was the later American character actress Lisa Golm.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 22, 1893
Deathday: April 03, 1943
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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
1920-02-27
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Overview: Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recently went through. Francis and his friend Alan visit The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, an exhibit where the mysterious doctor shows the somnambulist Cesare, and awakens him for some moments from his death-like sleep.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-02-27
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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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The Head of Janus
1920-08-26
The Head of Janus
Overview: Two opposing characters are hidden in the person of the inconspicuous London gentleman Dr. Warren and Janus. Lost film.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-08-26
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Wenn Tote sprechen
1917-07-27
Wenn Tote sprechen
Overview: After finding her sister dead, Maria tries to find out who or what is to blame.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1917-07-27
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The Hands of Orlac
1924-09-24
The Hands of Orlac
Overview: A world-famous pianist loses both hands in an accident. When new hands are grafted on, he is horrified to learn they once belonged to a murderer.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1924-09-24
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Desire: The Tragedy of a Dancer
1921-01-01
Desire: The Tragedy of a Dancer
Overview: A young Russian dancer in Geneva returns to Russia, where he falls in love with a grand duchess. He is arrested but manages to escape. Lost film.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-01-01
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The Thief of Bagdad
1940-02-19
The Thief of Bagdad
Overview: When Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces with the scrappy thief Abu to win back his royal place, as well as the heart of a beautiful princess.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-19
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Above Suspicion
1943-05-31
Above Suspicion
Overview: Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-31
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The Man Who Laughs
1928-04-27
The Man Who Laughs
Overview: Gwynplaine, son of Lord Clancharlie, has a permanent smile carved on his face by the King, in revenge for Gwynplaine's father's treachery. Gwynplaine is adopted by a travelling showman and becomes a popular idol. He falls in love with the blind Dea. The king dies, and his evil jester tries to destroy or corrupt Gwynplaine.
Genres: Drama Romance Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-04-27
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Wahnsinn
1919-10-14
Wahnsinn
Overview: A banker, after a prophetic meeting with a Gypsy fortune teller, becomes delusional as he searches for a trunk which the seer has told him holds the key to either his happiness or his death. This film is considered lost.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-10-14
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The Student of Prague
1926-10-19
The Student of Prague
Overview: For Balduin, going out to beer parties with his fellow students and fighting out disputes at the tip of the sword have lost their charms. He wants to find love; but how would he, a penniless student, ever dare looking up to any woman worth of loving? Absorbed in his dreary thoughts and indifferent to the advances of Lyduschka, Balduin is unexpectedly offered a fortune by the mysterious money-lender Scapinelli - but on a strange condition...
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-10-19
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Waxworks
1924-11-13
Waxworks
Overview: A poet is hired by the owner of a wax museum in a circus to write tales about Harun al Raschid, Ivan the Terrible and Jack the Ripper. While writing, the poet and the daughter of the owner, Eva, fantasize the fantastic stories and fall in love for each other.
Genres: Fantasy Horror
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1924-11-13
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A Woman's Face
1941-05-09
A Woman's Face
Overview: A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-09
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Eerie Tales
1919-11-05
Eerie Tales
Overview: A demon, a reaper, and the ghost of a prostitute read gothic short stories and act them out.
Genres: Fantasy Horror Mystery
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-11-05
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All Through the Night
1942-01-10
All Through the Night
Overview: Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship.
Genres: Comedy Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-10
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The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute
1974-02-20
The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute
Overview: In this made-for-TV production, Vincent Price and his hunchback sidekick (Billy Van) host a pun-filled salute to the horror film genre from its earliest beginnings all the way up to The Exorcist. Featuring clips from classic horror films and interviews with genre greats like Frank Gorshin, John Carradine, John Astin and SFX legend Bill Tuttle, among others.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-02-20
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Nazi Agent
1942-03-01
Nazi Agent
Overview: Humble stamp dealer Otto Becker has little to do with international politics, so when he receives a surprise visit from his estranged twin brother and Nazi spy, Baron Hugo von Detner, his world is thrown into turmoil. Threatening Becker with deportation, Hugo forces him to use his shop as a front for espionage.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-01
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Schicksal
1925-02-12
Schicksal
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1925-02-12
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Whistling in the Dark
1941-08-08
Whistling in the Dark
Overview: Radio crime show host 'The Fox' along with his fiancée and ex-girlfriend are kidnapped by a larcenous cult who demand that he help them plan a perfect murder.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-08
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Dark Journey
1937-07-02
Dark Journey
Overview: Madeline Goddard, is a British double agent who meets and falls in love with a German spy Baron Karl Von Marwitz during World War I. This tale of espionage blends high adventure and romance making perfect order from wartime chaos and growing in faith from despair.
Genres: Thriller War Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-02
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The Spy in Black
1939-08-03
The Spy in Black
Overview: A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.
Genres: War Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-03
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Liebe macht blind
1926-08-16
Liebe macht blind
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-08-16
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The Last Performance
1929-10-13
The Last Performance
Overview: A middle-aged magician is in love with his beautiful young assistant. She, on the other hand, is in love with the magician's young protege, who turns out to be a bum and a thief.
Genres: Drama Horror Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-10-13
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The Night of the Decision
1931-09-17
The Night of the Decision
Overview: German language version of The Virtuous Sin (1930).
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-09-17
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Contraband
1940-05-11
Contraband
Overview: When a neutral Danish merchant ship is forced to put into port after trying to evade British wartime contraband control, its captain becomes involved in a beautiful British Naval Intelligent agent's efforts to capture a group of German spies operating from a London cinema.
Genres: Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-11
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The Beloved Rogue
1927-03-12
The Beloved Rogue
Overview: François Villon, in his lifetime the most renowned poet in France, is also a prankster, an occasional criminal, and an ardent patriot.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-12
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The Passing of the Third Floor Back
1935-09-01
The Passing of the Third Floor Back
Overview: The tenants of an old London boarding house spend their time in petty bickering and sniping until a mysterious stranger arrives at their door.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-01
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Escape
1940-11-01
Escape
Overview: An American goes to pre-war Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration camp. With the help of an American-born widowed countess he seeks to engineer her escape.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-01
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The Many Faces of Dracula
2000-01-01
The Many Faces of Dracula
Overview: Hosted by Christopher Lee, this documentary examines the different actors who have portrayed Dracula over the years.
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Under the Red Robe
1937-05-31
Under the Red Robe
Overview: In 1620s France, dreaded swordsman Gil de Berault returns from carrying out a mission for Cardinal Richelieu, and finds the Cardinal worried about growing opposition from the Huguenots in the south. The Cardinal also warns de Berault that dueling has been outlawed, and will henceforth be punishable by death. Gil, however, promptly disobeys the law and is indeed sentenced to death. The Cardinal offers to cancel the sentence if de Berault is able to capture the duke who is organizing plans for an uprising. Gil travels to the duke's castle and is allowed to stay as a guest, but the duke's wife and sister immediately suspect that he is a spy. He and his servant still make good progress, until he falls in love with the duke's sister, which complicates everything.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-31
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Rome Express
1932-10-31
Rome Express
Overview: The theft of a famous painting leads to murder and many suspects on a plush train speeding from Paris to Rome.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-31
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The Wandering Jew
1933-11-15
The Wandering Jew
Overview: Old Jerusalem: Matathias, spiteful over his lover's illness, spits on Jesus along the road to Calvary, and is cursed to live endlessly until His return. The Crusades, 1150: Matathias, now an anonymous knight, competes for glory in combat and for the wife of a soldier. Palermo, 1290: Matteos Battadios witnesses the death of his young son, leading to conflict with his wife over whether to take comfort in Christianity. Seville, 1560: Dr Matteos Battadios dedicates himself to the treatment and comfort of the poor, but his life and work are endangered by the arrival of the Spanish Inquisition.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-15
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Jew Süss
1934-10-13
Jew Süss
Overview: A historical satire critical of the rising tide of Anti-Semitism in Germany. Based on the novel by Lionel Feuchtwanger, Jew Süss is the story of life in the 18th century Jewish ghetto of Württemberg. Süss (Veidt) works himself out of the ghetto and into a position of power with the help of an evil Duke.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-13
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The Ingmar Inheritance
1925-12-26
The Ingmar Inheritance
Overview: When his ancestors seem to appear in the clouds during a storm of biblical proportions, young Ingmar decides to give up his career as the village teacher and to reclaim the land and farm of his fathers. The same stormy night, the charismatic preacher Helgum arrives in the village to spread the word about the promises of the Holy Land, which turns parents and children, men and wives, brothers and sisters, against one another. Ingmar is torn between his love for the headmaster’s daughter Gertrud who is under the preacher’s spell, and the prospects of marrying the judge’s daughter Barbro in order to keep the farm.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1925-12-26
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Husbands or Lovers
1924-11-21
Husbands or Lovers
Overview: A wife, bored by her overweight slob of a husband, gives in to the temptation of a slickly seductive poet.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1924-11-21
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Fear
1917-09-21
Fear
Overview: A millionaire steals an ancient idol causing some natives call upon him a terrible curse.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1917-09-21
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The Indian Tomb, Part I: The Mission of the Yoghi
1921-10-22
The Indian Tomb, Part I: The Mission of the Yoghi
Overview: Ayan, Maharajah of Eschnapur, believes that his wife, Princess Savitri, has been unfaithful to him with officer Mac Allan. He decides to bury her alive, so he sends the Yogi Ramigani to England to look for Herbert Rowland, an architect; but when he orders him to build a tomb, Rowland refuses.
Genres: Adventure Drama Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-10-22
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The Indian Tomb, Part II: The Tiger of Eschnapur
1921-11-19
The Indian Tomb, Part II: The Tiger of Eschnapur
Overview: Rowland falls sick with leprosy while Mac Allan is captured by the Maharajah, who offers Irene a deal: one night with him in exchange for letting Rowland to be cured. She accepts, but tries to commit suicide.
Genres: Adventure Drama Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-11-19
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Journey into the Night
1921-01-21
Journey into the Night
Overview: Dr. Egil Börne, an eminent physician, comes under the spell of an unscrupulous cabaret dancer and deserts his fiancée. The plot finds echoes throughout the Weimar period, including Sternberg’s The Blue Angel. Conrad Veidt appears in a supporting role as a sinister blind painter, whose entrance eerily presages Murnau’s Nosferatu. Der Gang in die Nacht, the earliest surviving film by F. W. Murnau, is also, paradoxically, the only Murnau film for which the original camera negative exists.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-01-21
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Wilhelm Tell
1923-08-22
Wilhelm Tell
Overview: William Tell (German: Wilhelm Tell) is a 1923 German silent adventure film directed by Rudolf Dworsky and Rudolf Walther-Fein and starring Hans Marr, Conrad Veidt and Erich Kaiser-Titz. The film portrays the story of the legendary Swiss national hero William Tell.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1923-08-22
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I Was a Spy
1933-09-04
I Was a Spy
Overview: During World War I, a young nurse in a hospital in German-occupied Belgium is secretly feeding military information to the British. Complicating matters is the guilt she feels when she has to treat the German casualties inflicted as a result of the information she's passed on, and the fact that the local German commandant is falling in love with her.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-04
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The Flight in the Night
1926-12-13
The Flight in the Night
Overview: Based on the play Henry IV by Luigi Pirandello. Conrad Veidt plays Count di Nolli, a nobleman who, after a head injury, imagines he is the medieval emperor. His friends and relatives choose to play along, dressing up as medieval courtiers, but is di Nolli truly mad, or just pretending? The art direction was by Hermann Warm. It was shot on location in Italy. 6 acts, 1856 meters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-12-13
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The Only Girl
1933-02-22
The Only Girl
Overview: A dashing marquis bends from his horse when he discovers a lost garter in the woods and falls. During his delirium he is serenaded by a little hairdresser. She is the person who lost the garter to begin with and has only come to get it back having borrowed it from her employer--the empress of France. The marquis mistakenly thinks he was nursed by the empress, herself, and decides to woo her.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-02-22
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The Chess Player
1938-11-25
The Chess Player
Overview: A toymaker in Poland specializes in building lifesize mechanical men. He builds a chess-playing "automaton" to hide a pretty young Polish activist who is being hunted by occupying Russian forces.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-11-25
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Different from the Others
1919-05-28
Different from the Others
Overview: Conrad Veidt plays a famous musician who is blackmailed for being gay. Eventually he stands trial and is convicted. At the end the film pleads for the abolition of §175 (the paragraph which punishes homosexuality).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-05-28
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The Congress Dances
1931-09-29
The Congress Dances
Overview: Vienna glove-sales-lady Christel falls in love with Russian Czar Alexander. Austrian Prince Metternich tries to use this and other pleasant diversions to keep him out of the negotiation conferences of the 1815 Vienna Congress.
Genres: History Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-09-29
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The Black Hussar
1932-10-12
The Black Hussar
Overview: In 1812, during the French period, large parts of Germany are occupied by the troops of Napoleon. Several paramilitary Freikorps units battle the French forces, among them the Black Brunswickers led by the 'Black Duke' Frederick William of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. After the War of the Fifth Coalition, the Black Hussars are pursued by Napoleon throughout the country, but frequently take refuge with the noble-minded German people.
Genres: Drama Romance Adventure History Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-10-12
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Lucrezia Borgia
1922-10-20
Lucrezia Borgia
Overview: Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, has three adult children: Juan, who is virtuous and has a sweetheart who is a woman of the people, Lucrezia, who is virtuous and wants to marry Alfonso, and Cesare, who is wicked and lusts after Lucrezia, Juan's girlfriend, and probably others. Cesare has vowed to kill any suitor for Lucrezia's love, and he has three thugs to carry out his wishes. Bodies fall into the Tiber, into the Colosseum (with lions prowling), and onto the Vatican floors.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1922-10-20
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Should We Be Silent?
1926-04-05
Should We Be Silent?
Overview: A melodrama about a painter who is infected with syphilis, refuses treatment, turns to the use instead of narcotics, and withers away.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-04-05
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The Wife's Crusade
1926-01-02
The Wife's Crusade
Overview: Directed by Martin Berger.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-01-02
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Wilhelm Tell
1934-01-12
Wilhelm Tell
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1934-01-12
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Menschen im Rausch
1921-01-06
Menschen im Rausch
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-01-06
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The Love Storm
1930-11-21
The Love Storm
Overview: This is the German-language version of the British film The Love Storm (1931).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-11-21
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Patience
1920-04-16
Patience
Overview: Film by Paul Leni and Felix Basch
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-04-16
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F.P.1
1933-04-02
F.P.1
Overview: Urged by famous airman Ellissen the Lennartz Company puts into reality the project proposed by his friend Droste: F.P.1, a huge floating platform in the Atlantic that makes long-distance flights viable. Ellissen is in love with company heiress Claire, but when he returns from his adventures to save the endangered F.P.1 he finds out that he has lost her to Droste. English version of F.P.1 antwortet nicht with Conrad Veidt replacing Hans Albers as the jaded pilot Ellissen.
Genres: Science Fiction Fantasy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-02
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The Merry-Go-Round
1920-02-27
The Merry-Go-Round
Overview: Drama about street walker Elena who marries shop keeper Albert. When her former pimp Peter shows up, her life is ruined. She shoots him and poisons herself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-02-27
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King of the Damned
1935-12-31
King of the Damned
Overview: Revolt on a prison island is a parable of workers revolution. A cruel and repressive penal colony is the setting for a prison revolt with a special twist...the prisoners want to stay on and govern themselves in a humane and productive working community. Well that's the theory anyway but circumstances make their venture a lot more complicated than that.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-31
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Not of the Woman Born
1918-10-01
Not of the Woman Born
Overview: This film is believed to be lost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1918-10-01
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Visual Effects: The Thief of Bagdad
2008-05-27
Visual Effects: The Thief of Bagdad
Overview: Documentary about the technical achievements of the 1940 film classic The Thief of Bagdad.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-05-27
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Congress Dances
1931-12-03
Congress Dances
Overview: In 1815, Tsar Alexander I romances a working-class glove seller, while his double takes his place at the Vienna Congress. English-language version of Der Kongreß tanzt.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-03
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Prostitution
1919-03-19
Prostitution
Overview: Hedwig and Lola, two sisters of opposite temperaments, have their lives upended in when Lola decides to pursue prostitution and Hedwig is forced into it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-03-19
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The Great Longing
1930-08-24
The Great Longing
Overview: During lunch break at the movie studio, the extras rush to the canteen Hans Adalbert Schlettow, Maria Paudler and Luis Trenker are chatting. Eva von Loe a beautiful young extra rushes past; she is looking for her fiancé, Paul Wessel, who is also an extra. She has to return to the set where the famous director Regisseur Hall is shooting a scen. He is dissatisfied with his star, Carla Marventa, who is wrong for the scene he must photograph. Hall notices Eva, but laughs at her desire to replace Marventa. At that moment Conrad Veidt comes on the scene and assumes that Eva is the star.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-08-24
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Two Brothers
1926-03-22
Two Brothers
Overview: Two brothers follow very different paths after an accident at the factory where they both work.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-03-22
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Rasputin, Demon of the Women
1932-02-19
Rasputin, Demon of the Women
Overview: The demonic Rasputin is poisoned but survives to continue seducing in evil ways, in this historical thriller.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-02-19
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Landstraße und Großstadt
1921-04-22
Landstraße und Großstadt
Overview: Two poor musicians rise from rags to riches. Money, fame and their love for the same woman begin to crumble their friendship, revealing the true natures of both men--one noble and kind, the other a greedy, ruthless beast.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-04-22
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The Last Company
1930-03-14
The Last Company
Overview: Following the Battle of Jena in 1806 as the French armies commanded by Napoleon overrun Prussia, a small detachment of Prussian troops take up position in a windmill and resolve fight to the last man to hold them off for as long as possible. Meanwhile, the windmill owner's daughter chooses to stay and fight alongside them.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-03-14
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The Man Who Committed the Murder
1931-01-23
The Man Who Committed the Murder
Overview: The story is about Conrad Veidt as military attache in Turkey where he learns to know an English consul (Heinrich George) and his attractive wife who is treated badly. They begin an affair and soon the husband proves to be an obstacle that has to be disposed of.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-01-23
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Peer Gynt - 2. Teil: Peer Gynts Wanderjahre und Tod
1919-04-06
Peer Gynt - 2. Teil: Peer Gynts Wanderjahre und Tod
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-04-06
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Nocturno der Liebe
1919-01-01
Nocturno der Liebe
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-01-01
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Die Japanerin
1919-01-24
Die Japanerin
Overview: A detective falls for a Japanese girl living with her uncle and cousin. When the girl's uncle is murdered, the detective must find out who killed him.
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-01-24
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Die Mexikanerin
1919-01-01
Die Mexikanerin
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-01-01
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Opfer der Gesellschaft
1919-01-01
Opfer der Gesellschaft
Overview: A prosecutor, keen on punishing those he deems undesirable, convicts a woman of murder. It is only after the conviction that he learns of the circumstances that lead to the crime.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-01-01
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Tempête sur l'Asie
1938-04-20
Tempête sur l'Asie
Overview: An adventurer tries to seize oil deposits in Mongolia .
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-04-20
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The Men in Her Life
1941-10-30
The Men in Her Life
Overview: A circus performer becomes a ballerina and then begins her life of a career versus marriage and a home-life. She marries her first husband, her mentor and instructor, primarily out of gratitude. After his death, she marries an American thinking that can be her escape from the world of ballet. But she leaves him to return the dancing. She has a child but does not tell her husband. When her daughter is two-years-old, the husband finds out and takes the child to America. The ballerina continues to dance until her best dancing days have gone by.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-30
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A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
1940-10-24
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
Overview: This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes behind the scenes to look at how the sound portion of a talking picture is created.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-24
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The Other Side
1931-10-29
The Other Side
Overview: The First World War. The young, English Lieutenant Raleigh is sent to the company of a disillusioned Captain Stanhope. Stanhope is secretly engaged to Raleigh's sister and is intent on protecting his image of an exemplary officer. An attack on the German lines, in which Raleigh also takes part, has turned into a bloody fiasco. Now Raleigh, too, knows the horrors of war, which have already taken their toll on Stanhope.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-10-29
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Napoleon
1927-01-10
Napoleon
Overview: A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant invasion of Italy in 1797.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1927-01-10
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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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Figures of the Night
1920-01-09
Figures of the Night
Overview: "Night people". Thomas Bezug, the richest man in the world, is a solitary, domineering and cruel cripple, who hardly can move on his crutches. He dwells a fanatical love for his son, whom he holds like a monkey in a cage. His servants are defaced dwarfs. His secretary is trying to steal Bezugs assets. These are the night people.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-01-09
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Der Spion
1917-08-31
Der Spion
Overview: An Italian spy infiltrates a weapons factory in Germany.
Genres: Adventure War
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1917-08-31
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Kurfürstendamm
1920-07-29
Kurfürstendamm
Overview: The Devil decides to go and visit Kurfürstendamm, where all his clients seem to come from. He settles at "Pension Elvira", where everybody cheats and deceives him. He comes to the conclusion, that Hell is a much better place.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-07-29
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Impetuous Youth
1926-03-10
Impetuous Youth
Overview: Girl dressed up as a boy falls in love with a painter.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-03-10
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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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Around the World in 80 Days
1919-03-20
Around the World in 80 Days
Overview: Wealthy Englishman Phileas Fogg bets his friends that he can travel around the world in 80 days.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-03-20
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Bella Donna
1934-12-11
Bella Donna
Overview: That old theatrical war-horse Bella Donna (previously filmed in America by Alla Nazimova) was resurrected by Britain's Twickenham Studios in 1934. Conrad Veidt stars as sinister Egyptian Mahmoud Baroundi, who even before the film gets under way has left a long trail of ruined women behind him. His latest victim is American girl Mona Chepstow (Mary Ellis), whom Baroundi treats like dirt and makes her like it. The plot centers around a murder by poison, as evidenced by the film's deliberately exotic title. Critics in 1934 praised newcomer Mary Ellis for underplaying her role, but many film fans preferred Nazimova's arm-waving histrionics in the earlier version.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-11
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Manolescu's Memoirs
1920-09-30
Manolescu's Memoirs
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-09-30
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Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand
1920-11-12
Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand
Overview: Weltbrand is the first part of the two-part silent movie Christian Wahnschaffe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1920-11-12
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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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Opium
1919-01-07
Opium
Overview: In China, Professor Gesellius has completed his long research on the many uses of opium. When he is about to return home, he hears about a special variety that produces fabulous sensations because of the way it is made, but can also cause the total destruction of the mind and body of the person who consumes it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-01-07
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Don Carlos und Elisabeth
1924-02-24
Don Carlos und Elisabeth
Overview: Don Carlos, heir to the Spanish throne, and Princess Elisabeth of Valois are deeply in love but King Philip, Carlos's father, wants Elisabeth for himself.
Genres: History Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1924-02-24
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Paganini
1923-03-31
Paganini
Overview: Historical film about Italian musician Niccolo Paganini.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1923-03-31
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A Man's Past
1927-10-01
A Man's Past
Overview: Imprisoned at the French garrison on the Isle of St. Noir for putting to death a patient suffering from an incurable illness, Dr. Paul La Roche escapes to the mainland, where he meets Dr. Henry Fontaine, his boyhood friend, and Fontaine's beautiful sister, Yvonne. As Fontaine is going blind, La Roche performs several operations for him, attracting the attention of Dr. Renaud, in Algiers, who offers him a position. La Roche, practicing as Fontaine, reveals his love for Yvonne during an excursion to a Bedouin camp. Then, Lieutenant Destin, from the prison, arrives and threatens La Roche with exposure unless he surrenders the hand of Yvonne.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-01
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The Film in the Film
1924-06-26
The Film in the Film
Overview: The only surviving excerpt of a documentary on film production in Weimar Germany, featuring the different personalities of several famous directors of the era at work on the set including Fritz Lang, Robert Wiene, and E.A. Dupont.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1924-06-26
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Diary of a Lost Woman
1918-10-29
Diary of a Lost Woman
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1918-10-29
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The Story of Dida Ibsen
1918-12-12
The Story of Dida Ibsen
Overview: Dida Ibsen, daughter of impoverished farmers, has, according to her father's will, to marry the main creditor. But she refuses and decides to live with a married man as a mistress, till he gets his divorce. In the town she opens a restaurant with the money of her wealthy lover, from whom she soon gets pregnant, but their dreams of marriage fail, his wife refuses the divorce. After a while, she decides to marry one of the regular guests at her restaurant, van Galen, who spent quite some time in the tropics and because of this is at the brink of madness. Shortly after the marriage his condition worsens and life becomes hell for Dida.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1918-12-12
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Der Leidensweg der Inge Krafft
1921-03-11
Der Leidensweg der Inge Krafft
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-03-11
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Colomba
1918-11-08
Colomba
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1918-11-08
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Liebestaumel
1921-02-01
Liebestaumel
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-02-01
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The Count of Cagliostro
1920-12-21
The Count of Cagliostro
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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Prinz Kuckuck
1919-09-24
Prinz Kuckuck
Overview: The niece and nephew of an eccentric millionaire try to get a share of the now deceased millionaire's inheritance from his adopted son who delights in squandering it. Considered lost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-09-24
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Das Geheimnis von Bombay
1921-01-06
Das Geheimnis von Bombay
Overview: Gabriela Farnese, a famous singer, visits Bombay to find her mysterious doppelganger, the dancer Concha.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-01-06
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Moriturus
1920-09-23
Moriturus
Overview: A doctor who cannot figure out what is wrong with his patient refers him to a detective, whom he hopes will be able to discern the cause of his mysterious illness.
Genres: Drama Mystery Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-09-23
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Das Land ohne Frauen
1929-09-30
Das Land ohne Frauen
Overview: A group of 413 women answer an ad looking for British women to sail to and marry miners in Australia. One does not survive the voyage, and conflict arises over who will have to remain unmarried.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-09-30
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Le Comte Kostia
1925-05-29
Le Comte Kostia
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1925-05-29
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Laws of Love: Innocently Outlawed!
1927-11-16
Laws of Love: Innocently Outlawed!
Overview: A documentary by Magnus Hirschfeld, which contains a shortened version of Different From the Others (1919).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-11-16
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Die Liebschaften des Hektor Dalmore
1921-02-22
Die Liebschaften des Hektor Dalmore
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-02-22
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Der Weg des Todes
1917-02-01
Der Weg des Todes
Overview: A countess decides to get rid of a nosy stranger by luring him into a castle dungeon.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1917-02-01
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Jettchen Geberts Geschichte. 1. Jettchen Gebert
1918-11-08
Jettchen Geberts Geschichte. 1. Jettchen Gebert
Overview: A young Jewish woman is pressured to marry a wealthy man even though she is in love with someone else.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1918-11-08
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Jettchen Geberts Geschichte. 2. Henriette Jacoby
1918-12-13
Jettchen Geberts Geschichte. 2. Henriette Jacoby
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1918-12-13
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Evening – Night – Morning
1920-09-24
Evening – Night – Morning
Overview: Cheston, a millionaire, is looking after Maud, a beautiful woman from the 'demimonde'. Her brother, Brilburn, forces her to ask her rich admirer for an expensive piece of jewelry. Cheston buys a precious pearl necklace. Lost film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-09-24
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Das Dreimäderlhaus
1918-09-22
Das Dreimäderlhaus
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1918-09-22
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Es werde Licht! 4. Teil: Sündige Mütter
1918-11-22
Es werde Licht! 4. Teil: Sündige Mütter
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1918-11-22
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Das Rätsel von Bangalor
1918-01-11
Das Rätsel von Bangalor
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1918-01-11
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The Movie City of Hollywood
1928-11-18
The Movie City of Hollywood
Overview: German documentary about Hollywood
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-11-18
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Universal Horror
1998-10-08
Universal Horror
Overview: A documentary about the era of classic monster movies that were made at Universal Studios during the 1930s and 1940s.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-08
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Die Okarina
1919-08-08
Die Okarina
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-08-08
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Glanz gegen Glück
1923-01-01
Glanz gegen Glück
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1923-01-01
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Künstlerlaunen
1920-07-30
Künstlerlaunen
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-07-30
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Die Augen der Welt
1920-07-23
Die Augen der Welt
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-07-23
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Die Nacht auf Goldenhall
1920-04-16
Die Nacht auf Goldenhall
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-04-16
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