Brigitte Helm
Also Known As: Brigitte Eva Gisela Schittenhelm
Biography: Brigitte Helm (17 March 1906 – 11 June 1996) was a German actress, best-remembered for her dual role as Maria and her double, the Maschinenmensch, in Fritz Lang's 1927 silent film Metropolis. Description above from the Wikipedia article Brigitte Helm, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany
Birthday: March 17, 1906
Deathday: June 11, 1996
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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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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Queen of Atlantis
Overview: Antinea, the Queen of Atlantis, rules her secret kingdom hidden beneath the Sahara Desert. One day two lost explorers stumble into her kingdom, and soon realize that they haven’t really been saved—Antinea has a habit of taking men as lovers, then when she’s done with them, she kills them and keeps them mummified.
Genres: Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-06-28
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Alraune
Overview: A scientist, Professor Jakob ten Brinken, interested in the laws of heredity, impregnates a prostitute in a laboratory with the semen of a hanged murderer. The prostitute conceives a female child who has no concept of love, whom the professor adopts. The girl, Alraune, suffers from obsessive sexuality and perverse relationships throughout her life. She learns of her unnatural origins and she avenges herself against the professor.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-03-02
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A Daughter Of Destiny
Overview: Hanns Heinz Ewers' grim science-fiction novel Alraune has already been filmed twice when this version was assembled in 1928. In another of his "mad doctor" roles, Paul Wegener plays Professor Brinken, sociopathic scientist who combines the genes of an executed murderer with those of a prostitute. The result is a beautiful young woman named Alraune (Brigitte Helm), who is incapable of feeling any real emotions -- least of all guilt or regret. Upon attaining adulthood, Alraune sets about to seduce and destroy every male who crosses her path. Ultimately, Professor Brinken is hoist on his own petard when he falls hopelessly in love with Alraune himself. Alraune was remade in 1930, with Brigitte Helm repeating her role, and again in 1951, with Hildegarde Knef as the "heroine" and Erich von Stroheim as her misguided mentor.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-01-25
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Hitler's Hollywood
Overview: Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came into power, until 1945, when the Third Reich collapsed. (A sequel to From Caligari to Hitler, 2015.)
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2017-02-23
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Le secret des Woronzeff
Overview: Gravely ill, Prince Woronzeff asks a friend and look-alike, Franz von Naydeck, to replace him at the wedding of his daughter Nadia, whom he has just found, as the family covets the inheritance. Diane, who once loved the prince, doesn't betray the secret, because she now loves Franz and separates him from his pseudo-daughter, with whom he had begun to fall in love.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-02-01
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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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Vers l'abîme
Overview: The dramatic story of a military attaché, in a European embassy who will sign a fake check, in order to recover important secret documents that have been stolen from him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-07-13
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Autour de l'argent
Overview: A documentary about the making of L'argent, the epic silent film directed by Marcel L'Herbier. The film shows the details of many of the more complicated moving camera shots.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1929-06-15
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The Love of Jeanne Ney
Overview: In the Crimea, the Reds and the Whites aren't done fighting, and Jeanne discovers that the man she loves is a Bolshevik (when he kills her father). Penniless, she returns to Paris where she works for her uncle. Soon after, her lover Andreas is in France to organize the sailors in Toulon. So also is a thief, traitor, and libertine, Khalibiev, who wants to seduce Jeanne. His schemes, Jeanne and Andreas's naivete, and a lost diamond bring the lovers to the brink of tragedy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-12-06
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Gloria
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-10-30
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Adieu les beaux jours
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-09-03
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L'Étoile de Valencia
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-06-16
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The Mistress of Atlantis
Overview: In this mythical fantasy, the evil queen of Atlantis lives in a magnificent palace, the halls of which are filled with the mummified remains of former lovers.
Genres: Adventure Romance Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-25
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The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrovna
Overview: This silent-screen classic, like many others produced near the end of the silent era, was both a theatrical extravaganza boasting an original orchestral score and an item which languished in obscurity for many years. When Carlo Piccardi took what was left of the score by Maurice Jaubert and re-created it, the existing footage was restored and paired with a new orchestral performance which was shown in Paris in 1988. The film's story concerns the travails of a woman who has been living quite comfortably as the mistress of a colonel in the Tsar's army in Russia. However, she eventually encounters a penniless young lieutenant and falls madly in love with him, as he does with her. Despite her best intentions of remaining with the colonel, and his intention to avoid trouble with his fellow soldiers, they cannot forswear this relationship, and tragedy is the inevitable result. The title refers to a moving incident in the story, and translates as "the wonderful lie of Nina Petrovna."
Genres: History Romance Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-04-15
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Manolescu, the Prince of Adventures
Overview: George Manolescu (Ivan Mouskojine) plays a confidence man who works his way from Paris to New York, along the way during a train ride to Monte Carlo he meets the voluptuous as always Cleo (Bigitte Helm) where they have a whirl wind romance which becomes short lived after she flees from him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-04-30
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The Mistress of Atlantis
Overview: Antinea, the Queen of Atlantis, rules her secret kingdom hidden beneath the Sahara Desert. One day two lost explorers stumble into her kingdom, and soon realize that they haven't really been saved-- Antinea has a habit of taking men as lovers, then when she's done with them, she kills them and keeps them mummified.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-06-09
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The Singing City
Overview: A tourist guide in Naples is taken on by a Viennese woman impressed by his singing, and who regards him as her protege. This film was released as a German version and English Version known as "The City of Song". Brigitte Helm once portrays a beautiful femme fatale who displays her affection and lust for her tourist guide which is paralleled with the main bodied theme of the early romanticist songs played throughout.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-10-27
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Gold
Overview: Using an atomic reactor, two scientists try to create gold.
Genres: Crime Science Fiction
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1934-03-29
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The Devious Path
Overview: Neglected by her husband, an ambitious lawyer, Irene seeks variety in Berlin's nightlife-- An evening of dancing, dolls, cocaine and immoral passion. Irene takes the "devious path" as she seeks to make her husband jealous.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-08-10
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Yacht of the Seven Sins
Overview: The ship-owner Herr Reeder Roberts organizes a world trip on his luxury liner "Yoshiwara". Aboard are millionaires and famous artists, but also criminals. The manager of the ship-owner, Stefan Martini, has been murdered shortly before the departure in a mysterious way. Several persons are suspected and these are, precisely, the passengers of the "Yoshiwara".
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-08-05
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At the Edge of the World
Overview: A mill situated on the border between two unnamed countries and the residents therein become pawns in a future war.
Genres: War Romance Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-09-18
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Gloria
Overview: This is the German version of Gloria with Gustav Fröhlich & Brigitte Helm in the leads. A French version was filmed simultaneously with André Luguet & Brigitte Helm in the leads.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-09-29
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The Countess of Monte Cristo
Overview: The two aspiring actresses Jeanette and Mimi are waiting for their big chance. But the real breakthrough is slow in coming. Jeanette especially desperately needs a big success, since her friend, the journalist Stephan, is about to lose his job. When the two have their chance to take a ride in a posh car during a shooting, Jeanette slams on the throttle and the two friends take off. Their aimless journey takes them to a fashionable winter sports’ hotel, where Jeanette reserves a name under “The Countess of Monte Christo”. Everything’s going dandy; no one suspects a thing. That is, until two impostors, Rumowski and “The Baron” take residence in the same hotel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-04-21
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An Ideal Husband
Overview: Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful Government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert turns for help to his friend Lord Goring, an apparently idle philanderer and the despair of his father. Goring knows the lady of old, and, for him, takes the whole thing pretty seriously.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1935-09-05
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Inge and the Millions
Overview: A well scripted and captivating thriller about the owners of a small private bank in Berlin, squeezing money out of honest business firms, causing their bankruptcies, and then trying to smuggle the cash into Switzerland.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-12-22
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In the Employ of the Secret Service
Overview: During WWI a German agent receives an order to find out when the Russian army will carry out its expected attack against the German lines.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-08-13
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Gilgi: One of Us
Overview: A young woman born illegitimately comes to terms with the challenge of getting married.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-10-03
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Prince Woronzeff
Overview: Baron Franz von Naydek is constantly being mistaken for Prince Woronzeff, since both look identical. One day, Woronzeff decides that this similarity might come in handy. Since he is very ill and can no longer deal with the intrigues of his relatives, he begs his friend Naydek to play the role of prince for a while. Naydek agrees and everything seems to be going splendidly. Woronzeff’s ex-nag Diane sees through the game, however, but says nothing, since she’s fallen for Naydek. He, in turn, has the hots for Nadja, Woronzeff’s daughter, long thought lost and who has now reappeared. The prince’s relatives fear for their inheritance and so refuse to acknowledge Nadja’s existence. In the interim, Woronzeff dies. Now Naydek is obliged to play the role for a much longer time than he bargained for.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1934-10-01
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Die schönen Tage von Aranjuez
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-09-21
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Spione am Werk
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-03-30
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Hochzeitsreise zu dritt
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-01-17
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Die Insel
Overview: A case of espionage in high society: To save the reputation of his county, a diplomat voluntarily takes his own life.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1934-08-29
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The Blue Danube
Overview: In a Hungarian gypsy encampment, carefree Sandor lives with his beautiful sweetheart Yutka. Into their lives rides a blonde countess, with whom Sandor becomes infatuated. Yutka soon flees from her faithless lover. Sandor roams the country, searching for his lost love, but finds her too late. she now wears furs and has her own aristocratic love. Sandor returns heartbroken to his Romany encampment.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-11
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Der Läufer von Marathon
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Genres: Action
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-02-21
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Skandal in Baden-Baden
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-01-18
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Secrets of the Orient
Overview: Directed by Alexandre Volkoff
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-10-18
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Honeymoon Trip
Overview: The new bride of a young Viennese is so demanding about her career that she lets him go on the honeymoon solo so she can do an engagement.Left on his own,he finds an unpretentious young lady who suits him better.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-01-06
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L’or
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Genres: Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-06-01
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