Reinhold Schünzel
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Reinhold Schünzel (7 November 1888 – 11 November 1954) was a German actor and director, active in both Germany and the United States. The son of a German father and a Jewish mother, he was born in St. Pauli, the poorest part of Hamburg. Despite his ancestry, Schünzel was allowed by the Nazis to continue making films for several years until he left in 1937 to live abroad.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Sankt Pauli, Hamburg, Germany
Birthday: November 07, 1888
Deathday: November 11, 1954
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Notorious
Overview: In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war criminal, as a spy. As they begin to fall for one another, Alicia is instructed to win the affections of Alexander Sebastian, a Nazi hiding out in Brazil. When Sebastian becomes serious about his relationship with Alicia, the stakes get higher, and Devlin must watch her slip further undercover.
Genres: Thriller Romance Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-21
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Catherine the Great
Overview: The film was an epic portrayal of the life of Catherine the Great of Russia.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-10-22
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Das Mädchen und die Männer
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-01-01
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Hangmen Also Die!
Overview: During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich, and is wounded in the process. In his attempt to escape, he is helped by history professor Stephen Novotny and his daughter Mascha.
Genres: Drama Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-15
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Die Liebschaften der Käthe Keller
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-01-01
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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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Berlin Express
Overview: In post-war Europe, a diverse group of passengers aboard a U.S. Army train to bombed-out Frankfurt becomes involved in a Nazi assassination plot.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-01
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The 3 Penny Opera
Overview: In London at the turn of the century, underworld kingpin Mack the Knife marries Polly Peachum without the knowledge of her father, the equally enterprising 'king of the beggars'.
Genres: Music Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-02-18
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The Vicious Circle
Overview: In Hungary, a rich baron discovers that there are extensive oil deposits underneath nearby properties owned by villagers. He manages to convince all the property owners to sell to him, except for a few properties owned by Jewish families. Infuriated at their refusal to sell to him, he attempts, with the help of some corrupt local police, to have the men charged with the murder of a local woman, who in reality actually committed suicide.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-07-21
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Aus dem Tagebuch eines Junggesellen
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-01-08
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Peter, der Matrose
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-05-14
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Adam und Eva
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-10-16
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Madame DuBarry
Overview: The story of Madame du Barry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-09-18
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Der chinesische Götze. Das unheimliche Haus. 3. Teil
Overview: All is not well in the Mollheim home. The elder Mollheim decides to marry off his daughter with an unusually large dowry, in exchange for a rare Chinese idol. The daughter of the house, being opposed to the idea, decides to hire a private detective to get to the bottom of it. The detective doesn't get far before the idol is stolen and its owner is murdered.
Genres: Crime Mystery Horror
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1916-10-27
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Freitag, der 13. Das unheimliche Haus. 2. Teil
Overview: Every Friday the 13th, a member of the Eulenstein family dies. The son of the most recent victim hires a detective to investigate.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1916-11-10
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Golden Earrings
Overview: A British colonel escapes from the Gestapo to the Black Forest and poses as a Gypsy's mate.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-27
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Hostages
Overview: After the mysterious disappearance of a German soldier from a Prague cafe, the staff and customers are held captive by the Nazis accused of murder and collusion with the Czech resistance.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-11
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The Man in Half Moon Street
Overview: A British doctor and painter must kill for the glands he needs to stop the aging process.
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-19
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All for Money
Overview: Rupp (Jannings) is a former butcher, made rich in the meat packing industry as a result of the reversal of fortunes brought on by WWI. He is crude, uncouth and uneducated. His son, Fred, is the apple of his father's eye and is an auto enthusiast. The widowed Rupp falls in love with a former aristocrat, Helen, now down on her luck and pawning her last heirloom. He proposes marriage and she accepts in order to save her ailing mother who needs a monetary influx to avoid death. Her former boyfriend, Platen, warns Helen against Rupp's intentions - he and Rupp are enemies, Rupp having caused his being fired for protecting a chorus girl against Rupp's unwanted advances. Meanwhile, Graf, a shyster, arranges purchase of a near bankrupt auto manufacturing firm, Phoenix, to Rupp's great advantage with practically no monetary recognition to Graf, who swears revenge. Rupp comes upon his son begging Helen not to marry his father but to return to Platen.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1923-11-04
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1914
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
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The Dancer Barberina
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-01-02
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Meines Vaters Pferde, 1. Teil: Lena und Nicoline
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1954-01-21
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Meines Vaters Pferde, 2. Teil: Seine dritte Frau
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1954-02-05
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Eine Liebesgeschichte
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1954-02-25
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Um Krone und Peitsche
Overview: Melodrama with the theme of class difference between a Count and the daughter of a ringmaster. They marry but their environment work against them in all kinds of fronts.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-01-23
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First Comes Courage
Overview: Merle Oberon plays a Norwegian resistance figure in a small town, married to a Nazi commandant. When his superiors begin to suspect her, the Allies land an assassin to kill him -- an assassin who happens to be her former lover.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-07-29
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Rags and Silk
Overview: At the center of this social satire is the wealthy and bored couple Irene and Erik. When Erik meets Hilde, who comes from a humble background, one evening in a chic club, he sees an opportunity for the couple to sexually spice up their worn-out relationship and to escape through a ménage à trois.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1925-01-09
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The Latest Star from Vaudeville
Overview: Stella Orlanda is a young variety artist who can stand her ground like the next man - and not only on the stage from where as a boxer she calls out the strongest men in the audience. - Annette Förster
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1917-01-01
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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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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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Dragonwyck
Overview: For Miranda Wells, moving to New York to live in Dragonwyck Manor with her rich cousin, Nicholas, seems like a dream. However, the situation gradually becomes nightmarish. She observes Nicholas' troubled relationship with his tenant farmers, as well as with his daughter, to whom Miranda serves as governess. Her relationship with Nicholas intensifies after his wife dies, but his mental imbalance threatens any hope of happiness.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-04-19
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Her Grace Commands
Overview: An emancipated Princess, who has just returned home to her court in the Balkans from England, goes in disguise to a servants’ bal and falls in love with an alleged caterer, who turns out next day to be a lieutenant of the guard. Without letting on to her masquerade, she makes sure he climbs the ranks quickly. At the same time, she tries to thwart her engagement to an unpopular prince.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-03-03
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Countess Kitchenmaid
Overview: Henny Porten plays the dual role of a rather indecorous Countess and her kitchen maid Karoline Blum, an amateur actress.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1918-01-18
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The Ballet Girl
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1918-06-06
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Heaven on Earth
Overview: Reinhold Schünzel plays the rigid representative Traugott Bellmann, who publicly condemns the low morals of the night life. Although Belmann's stance is supported by his wife, he is strongly opposed by his father-in-law, a champagne manufacturer. But when he inherits 500 000 Marks in cash and the infamous nightclub "Der Himmel auf Erden" ("Heaven on Earth") from his deceased brother, Bellmann really gets himself into trouble: In order to fulfil his brother's will - and to get hold of the money - , he has to be at the club every night at 9 pm.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-07-24
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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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In der Heimat, da gibt's ein Wiedersehn!
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-12-23
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Der Hahn im Korb
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1925-11-12
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Gustav Mond, Du gehst so stille
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-01-01
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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
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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Sündenbabel
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1925-04-29
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Herkules Maier
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-02-10
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Der Stolz der Kompagnie
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-02-25
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Der Schatz der Gesine Jakobsen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1923-04-24
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Das Liebesnest
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1922-12-31
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The Imaginary Baron
Overview: The film follows the comic (mis)adventures of a poor street musician, who is roped into posing as an eccentric nobleman. He and his antics are rapturously received by the members of a bourgeois family desperate to mingle with the aristocracy. The daughter of the family takes a fancy to the baron (in reality, merely a “joke baron”), assuming him to be immensely wealthy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-03-04
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Der dumme August des Zirkus Romanelli
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-05-12
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Bigamie
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1922-12-08
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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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Don Juan in der Mädchenschule
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-09-06
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The Story of a Maid
Overview: A young naive country girl moves to Berlin to become a maid for the dubious family of Baron von Birthal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-08-30
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Kolonne X
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-08-07
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Blonde Poison
Overview: Loni is a femme fatale who lives a depraved life with several lovers. She plunges her husband to ruin without any remorse. The film was banned shortly after the opening night.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-08-28
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The Salesgirl from the Fashion Store
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1925-01-01
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Diary of a Lost Woman
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1918-10-29
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Die drei Marien und der Herr von Marana
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1923-03-09
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Flight Around the World
Overview: A spectacular action-adventure travelogue with stages in Genoa, Suez, Colombo, Singapore, Canton, Yokohama, Honolulu, San Francisco, New York and Brest.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1925-03-06
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Die Pflicht zu leben
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-11-01
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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 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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Maria Magdalene
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-02-12
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Das Mädchen aus der Ackerstraße. 1. Teil
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-05-02
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Auf Probe gestellt
Overview: Countess Marlene, a young and impoverished widow, is set to marry an old and wealthy count when she falls for a painter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1918-03-15
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Die Banditen von Asnières
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-07-17
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Drei Nächte
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-07-01
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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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Lilli
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-11-18
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Battle of the Butterflies
Overview: Naive 16 year old Rosi paints butterfly pictures and day-dreams of a better world, abhorring the conducts of Else, Laura, Max and and an immoral cavalier. [16-minute segment survives.]
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1924-11-14
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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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The Ball
Overview: The daughter of a nouveau riche family, invited to an upper class ball meant to launch her in society, rejects the offer.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-09-10
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The Last Payment
Overview: A beautiful woman of the Latin Quarter, marries a rich cattle owner Pedro Maurez from South America to live in peace and happiness. The arrival of young Parisian Paul Durand wets her interest again in the old haunts of Paris. When her husband is slain in an uprising of laborers, she is again thrown on her own resources.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1919-07-07
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Der Weltspiegel
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Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1918-09-20
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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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Die Erzkokette
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1917-07-19
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Frühlingsstürme im Herbste des Lebens
Overview: After the death of her father, the young Comtesse von Hagen is taken in by her father's friend, who lives with his cousin and her son. The cousin is unhappy at this arrangement, and accuses the Comtesse of theft.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1918-08-22
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Schloss am See
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1918-05-01
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Heddas Rache
Overview: The brothel mother's illegitimate daughter takes revenge by luring her half-siblings into the brothel.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-01-01
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Lillis Ehe
Overview: Lilli marries Dr. Friese, but when she realizes that he was her mother's lover, tragedy ensues.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-11-18
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Der Gefangene - Sklaven des XX. Jahrhunderts
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-06-10
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