Alfred Abel
Also Known As: Alfred Peter Abel
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Alfred Peter Abel (12 March 1879 – 12 December 1937) was a German film actor, director, and producer. He appeared in more than 140 silent and sound films between 1913 and 1938. His best-known performance was as Joh Fredersen in Fritz Lang's 1927 film, Metropolis.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Leipzig, Germany
Adult: No
Birthday: March 11, 1879
Age: 146 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: December 12, 1937
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Metropolis
Overview: In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind meets a prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-02-06
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Giorgio Moroder's Metropolis
Overview: In 1984, Academy Award winning composer Giorgio Moroder introduced Fritz Lang’s science fiction epic Metropolis to a new generation of filmgoers. Working in collaboration with film archivists globally, Moroder supervised a special reconstruction, with color tinting, fewer intertitles and newly restored footage. A pioneer in the field of digital music, Moroder backed this special edition with a throbbing new score, punctuated with pop songs from some of the biggest stars of the early MTV era: Freddie Mercury, Pat Benatar, Adam Ant, Bonnie Tyler, Loverboy and others.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1984-08-10
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Das Spiel der Liebe
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1924-01-01
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The Scoundrel
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-06-05
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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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Mann über Bord
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-05-19
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L'Argent
Overview: Adapted from the novel L'Argent by Émile Zola, the film portrays the world of banking and the stock market in Paris in the 1920s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1928-12-25
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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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The Burning Soil
Overview: The film follows tells the story of a struggle over a plot of petroleum-rich land.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1922-03-03
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Mary
Overview: A juror in a murder trial, after voting to convict, has second thoughts and begins to investigate on his own before the execution. German version of "Murder."
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-03-02
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The Burning Secret
Overview: One autumn, Edgar, a 12 year old boy, spends a holiday with his mother at a plush hotel in Switzerland. His father, a busy lawyer, remains at the family home in Vienna. When he sees a stylish motorcar pull up at the hotel, Edgar wastes no time befriending its owner, an amiable dandy. The latter pays more attention to the boy’s mother than to the boy himself, and decides to use Edgar to wheedle his way into her affections. When Edgar realises he has been used, he is far from happy...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-03-20
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People Among Us
Overview: In "Menschen Untereinander" ("The Folk Upstairs"), director Gerhard Lamprecht sketches a cross-section of Germany's new post-war society, with its winners, social climbers, and losers, represented by the social microcosm of an apartment building. The gossip-mad Frau Mierig (Lydia Potechina) from the rear building gives the newly-arrived Frau Kaminski (Käthe Haack), the janitor's wife, a lively initiation into the tenants and their peculiarities.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-04-03
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A Modern Dubarry
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-01-24
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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 Thirteen Trunks of Mr. O.F.
Overview: In the very old-fashioned town of Ostend suddenly 13 suitcases are delivered to the hotel, with a note, that O.F. will be here soon and needs 6 rooms (the hotel just has five). This event, probably the biggest in 300 years, starts a small wave of modernisation, yet everybody is wondering who O.F. is. Journalist Stix and architect Stark have an idea how to use this event. They proclaim, that O.F. is a former citizen of the town, who became a millionaire abroad. They tell their fellow citizens that the town still needs modernisation, like better hotels, nightclubs, shops, etc. And soon, Ostend is a boomtown, then a capital. The architect, responsible for the new buildings is finaly allowed to marry the mayor's daughter, while Stix marries the cabaret star and the widowed mayor his new secretary. The only problem is, O.F. hasn't shown up, while finance experts from all over the world are trying to solve the depression problem.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-12-02
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Maria, die Magd
Overview: An actress and her lawyer husband are so busy that their maid becomes the real mother to their six year old boy and at one point causes consternation by taking the child away to her home village.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-10-01
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Spiel an Bord
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-11-03
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Und du mein Schatz fährst mit
Overview: Opera singer Maria Seydlitz has just left her fiancé because he put her between the choice of husband or profession when she receives a telegram from New York: an unknown person hires her for a large fee at the theater Maria accepts the offer... The film is based on the novel of the same name by Hans Rudolf Berndorff. The film was shot from July to September 1936 on the Neubabelsberg outdoor area and on the passenger ship "Bremen“. He experienced on the 15th. Its premiere in January 1937 in Berlin's Gloria-Palast.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-01-15
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A Venetian Night
Overview: The young Anselmus Aselmeyer fulfilled a long cherished dream: He travels to Venice, the city of his dreams. Once there, the porter Pipistrello directs him immediately to the hotel of his boss, and Anselmus lands in the middle of a wedding party. Mestre Mangiabene, a wealthy oilman, marries the beautiful but completely depleted Marchesina dei Bisognosi. But the secretly loves an officer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1914-04-15
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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 Court Concert
Overview: Before he became cult director Douglas Sirk, Detlef Sierck cut his teeth on such lavish European star vehicles as Das Hofkonzert (The Court Concert). Marta Eggerth is cast as Christine, a young singer who aspires to find out who her father was. Her odyssey brings her to the court of a mythical kingdom, where she is romanced by handsome lieutenant Walter (Johannes Heesters). He is warned not to lose his heart to a "commoner," but all turns out all right when King Serenissimus (Otto Tressler) turns out to be Christine's long-lost daddy. Hofkonzert was designed as a comeback for Marta Eggerth, whose star had eclipsed by the mid-1930s.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-12-18
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Die Flamme
Overview: In 19th century Paris a hedonistic woman marries an aristocrat but has trouble keeping faithful to him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1923-02-02
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Spione im Savoy-Hotel
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Genres: Comedy Crime Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-11-04
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Seven Slaps
Overview: William MacPhab loses seven-pounds in the stock market and decides to slap the man who was responsible for the stock manipulation that caused him to lose his money. Astor Terbanks, the stock-market manipulator is surprised the next day when he gets soundly slapped by MacPhab, and the latter promises to deliver one more a day for the next six days. Terbank's daughter, Daisy, is amused by the procedure and is attracted to MacPhab.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-08-02
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The Office Manager
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-11-19
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The Duke of Reichstadt
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Genres: History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-11-13
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The White Demon
Overview: When Albers takes his drug-addicted opera star sister Gerda to a sanitarium, they both become targets of slimy dope peddler Peter Lorre, who fears that Gerda will blow the whistle on him. Lorre kidnaps the woman, leading Albers on a frantic chase.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-11-19
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Manolescu, der Fürst der Diebe
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Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-03-17
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Jonny Steals Europe
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-07-14
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My Wife, the Adventuress
Overview: A mousy bank clerk is married to an ambitious woman.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-09-17
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Ein seltsamer Gast
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-04-07
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Unter Ausschluß der Öffentlichkeit
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-01-01
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Millionäre
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-11-25
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Montparnasse Girl
Overview: A count's son has a place to meet his poor Parisian girlfriend and they even make some money for a while with him singing and her playing piano.But the father offers him support to marry someone else.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-04-08
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Dolly is making a career
Overview: Musical vehicle for up and coming Dolly Haas, as a would be actress with a would be composer boyfriend. She sings,at one point, that she has the walk of (Lilian) Harvey, the mouth of Garbo and the legs of Dietrich.
Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-09-29
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Die Liebe siegt
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1934-11-22
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The Beautiful Adventure
Overview: Helene has agreed to marry a man that she isn't in love with. On the day of her wedding her cousin arrives just in time to rescue her and they run away together. They stay with her aged grandmother who assumes the young man (whom she doesn't know) to be the new husband and has prepared a bridal bed for them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-08-17
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Mad Love
Overview: Richard de la Croix's brother, Andreas, has been driven insane by a notorious vamp and socialite named Sappho. A friend takes Richard to the Odeon to meet her, but when Sappho actually meets him, he is unaware that she is the woman who drove Andreas to be institutionalised. Sappho genuinely falls in love with Richard, and decides to leave her vampy ways and her older lover behind her so that she can have him.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-09-09
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Giftgas
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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Kater Lampe
Overview: In the central mountains, an American lady trying to manufacture snowshoes assists a struggling German toy maker,whose cat becomes a symbol for what binds together the lives of such village folk.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-02-19
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Cagliostro
Overview: Paris, France, 1784. After living many tribulations, Joseph Balsamo, known as Count Cagliostro, an infamous adventurer, enigmatic magician and necromancer, experienced physician and ruthless swordsman, triumphs among the members of the decadent French aristocracy. But a bold foretelling about a very prominent noblewoman causes his fall in disgrace… (Partially lost film.)
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-04-08
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Lache, Bajazzo!
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1915-01-07
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Ehe in Not
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-12-06
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Sei gegrüßt, Du mein schönes Sorrent
Overview: Drama by Romano Mengon
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-06-11
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Human Law
Overview: A jealous husband leaves jail to find his wife loves his lawyer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-02-28
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Skandal um die Fledermaus
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-06-03
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Eine Siebzehnjährige
Overview: Walter is in love with the 17-year-old Erika, but she raves for older, experienced men. When Walter and Erika visit his parents' estate after passing their exams, Erika shows increasing interest in Walter's father, Werner von Schlettow.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1934-08-29
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Millionenerbschaft
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-03-03
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The Guardsman
Overview: a silent movie by Robert Wiene
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-01-15
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Nur ein Schmetterling
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1918-07-01
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Intoxication
Overview: Gaston finally succeeds as a dramatist and decides to leave his wife and child for another woman. When the child dies, the finger is pointed at him and he winds up as a destitute before all is revealed. This film is considered lost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-08-01
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Die Buddenbrooks
Overview: Four-generation story-saga dealing with the decline of a middle-class Lübeck family. The first adaptation of a Thomas Mann book was also Gerhard Lamprecht’s first major film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1923-08-30
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The House of Molitor
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1922-04-01
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Die kleine Schwindlerin
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-04-02
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Jahrmarkt des Lebens
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-02-16
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Mensch gegen Mensch
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1924-12-02
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Ein Tag der Rosen im August..
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-08-12
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Wege zur guten Ehe
Overview: Film by Trotz.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-06-13
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Strauss, the Waltz King
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-09-25
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Frau Sylvelin
Overview: Film by Herbert Maisch.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-02-02
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Der Bankkrach unter den Linden
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-01-08
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Das Spiel mit dem Schicksal
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1924-01-01
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Die große und die kleine Welt
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-04-28
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Bigamie
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1922-12-08
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Lotte Lore
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-01-01
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Die Dame, der Teufel und die Probiermamsell
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1918-12-16
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Viennese Waltz
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-08-11
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The Fate of Renate Langen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-02-11
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Rasputins Liebesabenteuer
Overview: Portrays the deep intrigue and mystical fanaticism of the last days of the Romanoffs, when Rasputin, the mad monk had such a hold over them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-09-25
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Das tanzende Wien
Overview: A cabaret singer in Germany is in love with a young American boy, and must convince his disapproving father that she is worthy of his son.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-10-01
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Die lachende Grille
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-12-01
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Mein Herz ist eine Jazzband
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Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-01-28
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Die Prinzessin Suwarin
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1923-04-11
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Die Geschichte des grauen Hauses
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-12-31
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Wandering Souls
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-11-28
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Kampf
Overview: The race car drivers Robert Wenck and Kurt Harder are good friends. They become rivals when it appears that Robert is married to Eva. Eva was the former lover of Kurt Harder. Complications will follow.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-12-20
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The Woman in Flames
Overview: Dancing, sports and erotic pursuits are the main ingredients in this drama about the fate of this scorned and abandoned woman, Josefine, who falls for the selfish Fennhofer. This film is considered lost.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1924-12-28
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Nights of Terror
Overview: The young Evelyne lives with a man, her fiancee Frank, with whom she has a child. But her fiancee is a rundown drunk constantly hanging over the bottle. Evelyne wants to leave Frank.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-08-25
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The Silent Mill
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1914-12-15
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Ernst ist das Leben
Overview: Fany, an up and coming dancer, is saved by a sculptor during a theatre fire. The two bond, distressing Fany's fiancee.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1916-10-27
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Colomba
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1918-11-08
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Die Frau ohne Seele
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-05-13
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Die Intriguen der Madame de la Pommeraye
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1922-01-20
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Das Laster
Overview: Early drama about alcoholism.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1915-03-12
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Dudu, a Human Destiny
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1924-01-22
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Kameraden
Overview: Axel and Bertha are a modern, emancipated artist couple in Paris. He is feminine and vain. She is financially independent, member of the women's association "Married's Women's right of ownership" and uses male nude models.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-10-01
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Lola Montez
Overview: Dancer Lola Montez is the star of Madrid's theaters. All the important men are after her, among them the English ambassador. But the leader of the "Carlist - Movement", a gang of desperados, kidnaps her, she falls for him and he proposes. But the English ambassador is trying to improve the Spanish-English relations and sent his spies after her, getting the information about her future groom, and the Spanish government is very interested in getting ahead.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1918-01-01
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Die Tragödie eines Verlorenen
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-02-10
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Die Frau im Himmel
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-08-23
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The Vice of Humanity
Overview: Tamara becomes addicted to cocaine but hides from her daughter by moving in with the dealer Mangol. The father tells his daughter that her mother has died, but years later the daughter rediscovers her mother appearing on stage. Mangol pursues the daughter, but Tamara intervenes before dying amongst family members.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-04-05
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Sodoms Ende
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1913-01-01
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Narkose
Overview: Young Angélique has a crush on the famous writer René Vernon. One night she follows him, sleeps with him and becomes pregnant. Years later, she meets Vernon again, but he doesn't recognize her...
Genres: Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-09-09
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Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
Overview: Dr. Mabuse and his organization of criminals are in the process of completing their latest scheme, a theft of information that will allow Mabuse to make huge profits on the stock exchange. Afterwards, Mabuse disguises himself and attends the Folies Bergères show, where Cara Carozza, the main attraction of the show, passes him information on Mabuse's next intended victim, the young millionaire Edgar Hull. Mabuse then uses psychic manipulation to lure Hull into a card game where he loses heavily. When Police Commissioner von Wenk begins an investigation of this mysterious crime spree, he has little to go on, and he needs to find someone who can help him.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1922-04-27
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Wenn Menschen reif zur Liebe werden
Overview: A young woman becomes pregnant and is abandoned by her lover, just as her mother had been.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1916-12-22
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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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Der Seele Saiten schwingen nicht
Overview: A middle class woman's marriage to a nobleman quickly becomes an unhappy one.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1917-03-02
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Die nach Glück und Liebe suchen
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1918-01-01
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Drohende Wolken am Firmament
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1918-07-19
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Das Geheimnis von Genf
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-01-04
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Ein Blatt im Sturm...doch das Schicksal hat es verweht
Overview: The relationship between a painter and his lover fractures after the painter finds out she did not acquire a sum of money by selling his paintings, as she had claimed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1917-07-20
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The White Roses
Overview: The actress Thilda Wardier is courted by the wealthy Adam de Rochord, who presents her with a large bouquet of white roses every time they see each other. When Thilda is brought on board by a prestigious theatre in Ostend and wants to look suitably refined for the occasion, she borrows an expensive piece of family jewellery from Adam. However, a criminal gang staying in the same hotel as Adam and Thilda gets wind of the jewellery, and they cleverly manage to steal it and replace the real stones with fake ones. The precious loot now proceeds to pass through many different bouquets of white roses before ending up in the right hands again.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1916-10-23
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Das Opfer der Ellen Larsen
Overview: Ellen, the secretary to General Manager Rasmussen, marries her fiancé Norbert Larsen, who also works at the steelworks. They have a happy marriage until Norbert falls ill: Only a trip to the south can save him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-04-22
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