German Films: Early classics
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German Films after 1945
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UFA Pictures (1933-1945)
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15 movies of Karl Valentin
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La Découpé Epoque http://www.imdb.com/list/ls000181027/
Earlier European sounding movies-including Austrian
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1. Victor and Victoria (1933)
84 min | Comedy, Musical
Aspiring singer Susanne takes over for ham actor Viktor at a small cabaret in Berlin where he works a woman impersonator and per chance she's discovered by an agent, who thinks that she ... See full summary »
Director: Reinhold Schünzel | Stars: Renate Müller, Hermann Thimig, Hilde Hildebrand, Friedel Pisetta
Votes: 589
2. Anna and Elizabeth (1933)
74 min | Drama
Anna a young girl is thought of having the ability to heal people mysteriously. Elisabeth a middle aged aristocratic woman, is disabled and puts all her hopes in meeting Anna and having her disability heal by her.
Director: Frank Wisbar | Stars: Dorothea Wieck, Hertha Thiele, Mathias Wieman, Maria Wanck
Votes: 112
3. Was Frauen träumen (1933)
90 min | Comedy, Crime, Musical
A pretty young singer is addicted to the thrill of stealing until she finds the thrill of love.
Director: Géza von Bolváry | Stars: Nora Gregor, Gustav Fröhlich, Otto Wallburg, Peter Lorre
Votes: 107
4. Playing at Love (1933)
Not Rated | 88 min | Drama, Romance
Vienna in the beginning of the twentieth century. Cavalry Lieutenant Fritz Lobheimer is about to end his affair with Baroness Eggerdorff when he meets the young Christine, the daughter of ... See full summary »
Director: Max Ophüls | Stars: Wolfgang Liebeneiner, Carl Esmond, Magda Schneider, Luise Ullrich
Votes: 1,540
5. Tugboat M 17 (1933)
78 min | Drama
Heinrich George plays Henner who lives with his wife and child on a tugboat, going on the river to Berlin. There he meets the attractive Gescha (Betty Amann), and a story of love, betrayal and sadness ensues.
Directors: Heinrich George, Werner Hochbaum | Stars: Heinrich George, Berta Drews, Joachim Streubel, Betty Amann
Votes: 47
Austrian movie
6. Baby (1932)
82 min | Comedy, Musical
Baby, a count's daughter, longs for a stage career, while her best friend, a chorus girl, longs for an education. When Baby's parents find out she has cheated them, they decide to send her ... See full summary »
Director: Karel Lamac | Stars: Anny Ondra, Anton Walbrook, Albert Paulig, Lotte Spira
Votes: 32
7. An heiligen Wassern (1932)
84 min | Drama
Director: Erich Waschneck | Stars: Karin Hardt, Eduard von Winterstein, Hans Adalbert Schlettow, Carl Balhaus
Votes: 22
8. Rasputin, Demon with Women (1932)
82 min | Drama
The demonic Rasputin is poisoned but survives to continue seducing in evil ways, in this historical thriller.
Director: Adolf Trotz | Stars: Conrad Veidt, Paul Otto, Hermine Sterler, Kenneth Rive
Votes: 48
9. Der Prinz von Arkadien (1932)
89 min | Drama
Both the King and his son have been deposed by popular demand. The now Prinz of Arkadia certainly enjoys his new role, which without much changing his lifestyle leaves him free to ... See full summary »
Director: Karl Hartl | Stars: Willi Forst, Liane Haid, Hedwig Bleibtreu, Ingeborg Grahn
Votes: 39
10. Razzia in St. Pauli (1932)
74 min | Crime, Drama
Illustrates both the powerlessness of the ordinary worker as well as an intimate portrait of the joys and sorrows of a small group of people in the harbor section of Hamburg.
Director: Werner Hochbaum | Stars: Gina Falckenberg, Friedrich Gnaß, Wolfgang Zilzer, Charly Wittong
Votes: 91
11. The Tempest (1932)
101 min | Crime, Drama
After a petty crook is freed, he gets right back into trouble, first by stealing a fur for his former girlfriend and then by getting in fights with two different men who have tried to take his place with her, one of whom lands up drowning.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Emil Jannings, Anna Sten, Trude Hesterberg, Franz Nicklisch
Votes: 46
12. The Blue Light (1932)
85 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
When the moon is full, young men die attempting to reach the mysterious blue light in the mountains.
Directors: Leni Riefenstahl, Béla Balázs | Stars: Leni Riefenstahl, Mathias Wieman, Beni Führer, Max Holzboer
Votes: 1,386
13. Durchlaucht amüsiert sich (1932)
75 min
Princess Melanie wants to examine her future husband and pretends to be his maid. His Highness plays the secretary. While a goofy servant mimics the baron, he himself takes time to flirt with the alleged maid.
Director: Conrad Wiene | Stars: Georg Alexander, Lien Deyers, Trude Berliner, Tibor Halmay
Votes: 20
14. Gitta entdeckt ihr Herz (1932)
95 min | Musical
Hungarian peasant Julika is discovered by an impresario in a hamlet, soon gaining fame as dancer and gifted singer. In Berlin she leaves the train to escape his attentions, meets a young composer and his friends and tries to help him.
Director: Carl Froelich | Stars: Gitta Alpar, Gustav Fröhlich, Paul Kemp, Tibor Halmay
Votes: 18
15. She, or Nobody (1932)
91 min | Musical
The ruler of a Ruritanian kingdom falls in love, in this Weimar era operetta.
Director: Carl Froelich | Stars: Gitta Alpar, Max Hansen, Ferdinand von Alten, Paul Otto
Votes: 25
16. Kreuzer Emden (1932)
85 min | Drama, War
Story of the Kreuzer (cruiser) Emden and his men during WWI, garnished with a love Story, rivalry and heroism.
Director: Louis Ralph | Stars: Louis Ralph, Renée Stobrawa, Hans Schlenck, Toni Forster-Larrinaga
Votes: 31
17. The Ringer (1932)
88 min | Drama, Mystery
A shifty lawyer is threatened with death within two days by a criminal who supposedly died in Australia.
Directors: Karel Lamac, Martin Fric | Stars: Paul Richter, Maria Matray, Carl Walther Meyer, Wera Engels
Votes: 56
18. Die verkaufte Braut (1932)
77 min | Comedy, Music
Bohemia in the 19th century, stage-coach driver Hans, loves the mayor's daughter Marie, but she is promised Wenzel, the son of another wealthy farmer. Marie refuses to marry Wenzel because ... See full summary »
Director: Max Ophüls | Stars: Max Nadler, Jarmila Novotna, Otto Wernicke, Hermann Kner
Votes: 199
19. Melo (1932)
95 min | Drama
Director: Paul Czinner | Stars: Elisabeth Bergner, Rudolf Forster, Anton Edthofer, Margarethe Hruby
Votes: 27
20. The Blue from the Sky (1932)
77 min | Musical, Romance
Anni happily starts working as underground ticket seller. A passenger in a rush leaves owing part of the ticket. He happens to be a postal service night pilot. He pays his debt and they start dating, in spite of their opposite schedules.
Director: Victor Janson | Stars: Mártha Eggerth, Hermann Thimig, Fritz Kampers, Margarete Schlegel
Votes: 42
21. Die Herrin von Atlantis (1932)
87 min | Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Two French Foreign Legionnaires are lost amid the shifting sands of the Sahara Desert when they stumble across the entrance to an underground world. Searching this new found subterranean ... See full summary »
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Stars: Brigitte Helm, Heinz Klingenberg, Tela Tchaï, Gustav Diessl
Votes: 592
22. Sehnsucht 202 (1932)
79 min | Comedy, Musical
A musical comedy set in Vienna. The title refers to the name of a perfume. Two young women reply to newspaper advertisements but their replies are confused. The two young directors of the ... See full summary »
Director: Max Neufeld | Stars: Magda Schneider, Fritz Schulz, Luise Rainer, Rolf von Goth
Votes: 39
23. Tannenberg (1932)
100 min | Drama, History, War
A depiction of strong leadership, in the Prussian General Hindenburg who celebrated a victory over Czarist Russia in 1914, during the Great War.
Director: Heinz Paul | Stars: Hans Stüwe, Käthe Haack, Jutta Sauer, Hertha von Walther
Votes: 27
24. Der Rebell (1932)
65 min | Drama
A young medical student returns to his Tyrolean home to find out that Napoleon's troops have taken over the area and that his mother and sister have been murdered.
Directors: Curtis Bernhardt, Edwin H. Knopf, Luis Trenker | Stars: Luis Trenker, Luise Ullrich, Victor Varconi, Ludwig Stössel
Votes: 88
25. The Living Dead (1932)
89 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi, Horror
A crazed scientist murders his wife, walls her up, then flees. A reporter sets out to track him down.
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: Paul Wegener, Maria Koppenhöfer, Blandine Ebinger, Eugen Klöpfer
Votes: 145
26. M (1931)
Passed | 99 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut, Otto Wernicke
Votes: 168,254 | Gross: $0.03M
27. Yorck (1931)
102 min | Biography, Drama, War
The story of General Yorck von Wartenburg, a commander in the army of Prussian King Wilhelm, who defied the king's orders for the Prussian army to join Napoleon in his invason of Russia.
Director: Gustav Ucicky | Stars: Werner Krauss, Grete Mosheim, Rudolf Forster, Gustaf Gründgens
Votes: 20
28. Mädchen in Uniform (1931)
Passed | 87 min | Drama, Romance
At an all-girls boarding school, Manuela falls in love with a teacher, to terrific consequences.
Directors: Leontine Sagan, Carl Froelich | Stars: Dorothea Wieck, Hertha Thiele, Emilia Unda, Hedy Krilla
Votes: 3,729
29. Congress Dances (1931)
85 min | Comedy, History, Musical
Vienna glove-sales-lady Christl falls in love to Czar Alexander. Metternich tries to use this to keep him out of the conferences of the Vienna Congress from 1815.
Director: Erik Charell | Stars: Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch, Otto Wallburg, Conrad Veidt
Votes: 597
30. The Wrong Husband (1931)
85 min | Comedy
Director: Johannes Guter | Stars: Johannes Riemann, Maria Paudler, Gustav Waldau, Jessie Vihrog
Votes: 31
31. Nie wieder Liebe! (1931)
TV-PG | 88 min | Comedy, Musical
An American millionaire, who had always bad luck with women, bets that he can live without them for five years. But after four and a half years travling around on his yacht, he rescues a ... See full summary »
Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Lilian Harvey, Harry Liedtke, Felix Bressart, Margo Lion
Votes: 45
32. Comradeship (1931)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama
Plea against war and for friendship between peoples, through the story of French miners rescued by German colleagues after a firedamp explosion.
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Stars: Alexander Granach, Fritz Kampers, Ernst Busch, Elisabeth Wendt
Votes: 1,743
33. Der Mörder Dimitri Karamasoff (1931)
93 min | Drama
Suspicion surrounds a lieutenant for killing his father.
Directors: Erich Engel, Fyodor Otsep | Stars: Fritz Kortner, Anna Sten, Fritz Rasp, Bernhard Minetti
Votes: 230
34. The Threepenny Opera (1931)
Not Rated | 104 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
The Gangster Macheath secretly marries the daughter of beggar king Peachum. When Peachum finds out, he instructs the police chief Brown to arrest and hang Macheath. If not, all the beggars of Soho will disturb the upcoming coronation.
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Stars: Rudolf Forster, Lotte Lenya, Carola Neher, Reinhold Schünzel
Votes: 2,536
35. Emil and the Detectives (1931)
75 min | Adventure, Family, Drama
Emil goes to Berlin to see his grandmother with a large amount of money and is offered sweets by a strange man that make him sleep. He wakes up at his stop with no money. It is up to him and a group of children to save the day.
Director: Gerhard Lamprecht | Stars: Rolf Wenkhaus, Käthe Haack, Fritz Rasp, Rudolf Biebrach
Votes: 715
36. Her Grace Commands (1931)
96 min | Comedy
A pretty young princess, incognito, has a romance with a handsome young lieutenant who is pretending to be a clerk in a delicatessen.
Director: Hanns Schwarz | Stars: Käthe von Nagy, Willy Fritsch, Reinhold Schünzel, Paul Hörbiger
Votes: 57
37. Drei Tage Liebe (1931)
101 min | Drama
Director: Heinz Hilpert | Stars: Hans Albers, Käthe Dorsch, Trude Berliner, Paul Samson-Körner
Votes: 16
38. Berge in Flammen (1931)
98 min | Drama, War
Shortly before the First World War, an Italian and an Austrian take part in a mountaineering expedition together. Not long afterwards they find themselves fighting on different sides. The ... See full summary »
Directors: Karl Hartl, Luis Trenker | Stars: Luis Trenker, Lissy Arna, Claus Clausen, Luigi Serventi
Votes: 153
39. Ariane (1931)
85 min | Drama, Romance
An innocent Russian student in Paris has her first affair, with a mature man who comes to realize he truly loves her and it is not just one of his brief flings.
Director: Paul Czinner | Stars: Elisabeth Bergner, Rudolf Forster, Annemarie Steinsieck, Hertha Guthmar
Votes: 83
40. The Theft of the Mona Lisa (1931)
89 min | Drama
A painter working at the Louvre is struck by the Mona Lisa. When he meets a girl who he thinks resembles the painting and she wants him to become famous he has the idea of robbing the painting. Based on the 1911 real robbery.
Director: Géza von Bolváry | Stars: Willi Forst, Trude von Molo, Gustaf Gründgens, Max Gülstorff
Votes: 81
41. The Captain from Köpenick (1931)
107 min | Comedy
A poor cobbler named Wilhelm Voigt purchased the second-hand uniform of a Prussian infantry captain. Wearing this, he traveled to the borough of Köpenick and ordered a troop of guardsmen to... See full summary »
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: Max Adalbert, Ernst Dernburg, Willi Schur, Paul Wagner
Votes: 118
42. Wer nimmt die Liebe ernst...? (1931)
91 min | Comedy, Romance
A small time crook keeps trying to reunite with a woman who briefly sheltered him while he was on the run from the law.
Director: Erich Engel | Stars: Max Hansen, Jenny Jugo, Otto Wallburg, Willi Schur
Votes: 57
43. Das Lied vom Leben (1931)
Unrated | 54 min | Drama
How can we lead more authentic lives? This daring surrealist sound film centers on a young woman who rejects marriage to a wealthy baron.
Director: Alexis Granowsky | Stars: Aribert Mog, Margot Ferra, Elsa Wagner, Ernst Busch
Votes: 38
44. Liebeskommando (1931)
101 min | Comedy, Musical
During the Austro Hungarian empire, a girl substitutes for her brother in a military academy.
Director: Géza von Bolváry | Stars: Dolly Haas, Gustav Fröhlich, Livio Pavanelli, Walter Edthofer
Votes: 21
45. Berlin-Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf (1931)
90 min | Crime, Drama
Franz Biberkopf has served four years in prison. His return to normal life is not successful.
Director: Phil Jutzi | Stars: Heinrich George, Maria Bard, Margarete Schlegel, Bernhard Minetti
Votes: 782
46. Der Mann, der den Mord beging (1931)
93 min | Drama
The Marquis de Sévigné is put in a difficult position when he falls for the lovely Lady Falkland, a married woman whose husband, the strict Lord Falkland, subjects her to constant abuse.
Director: Curtis Bernhardt | Stars: Conrad Veidt, Trude von Molo, Heinrich George, Friedl Haerlin
Votes: 57
47. Princesse, à vos ordres! (1931)
82 min | Comedy
Simultaneously made French version of "Ihre Hoheit Befiehlt" : An officer, posing as a deli clerk, and a princess, posing as a manicurist, meet at a ball. The court especially the prime minister oppose a marriage,for political reasons.
Directors: Hanns Schwarz, Max de Vaucorbeil | Stars: Lilian Harvey, Henri Garat, Jean Mercanton, Marcel Vibert
Votes: 29
48. Schatten der Unterwelt (1931)
95 min | Action, Crime
Director: Harry Piel | Stars: Harry Piel, Dary Holm, Elisabeth Pinajeff, Hans Junkermann
Votes: 17
49. Danton (1931)
92 min | Drama
At the height of the French Revolution, the fanatic Robespierre brings the popular but more moderate leader Danton to trial and demands his execution.
Director: Hans Behrendt | Stars: Fritz Kortner, Lucie Mannheim, Gustaf Gründgens, Alexander Granach
Votes: 70
50. 24 Stunden aus dem Leben einer Frau (1931)
73 min | Drama
After the tragic death from malaria of her beloved husband his rich widow Helga Vanroh travels restlessly around various Mediterranean countries. In the luxurious surroundings of a hotel in... See full summary »
Director: Robert Land | Stars: Henny Porten, Walter Rilla, Friedrich Kayßler, Margo Lion
Votes: 34
51. Hell on Earth (1931)
93 min | Drama, War
During World War I, five soldiers from different nations end up together in some ruins in no man's land and decide to stick together.
Directors: Victor Trivas, George Shdanoff | Stars: Ernst Busch, Vladimir Sokoloff, Renée Stobrawa, Elisabeth Lennartz
Votes: 145
52. Die Koffer des Herrn O.F. (1931)
80 min | Comedy
In the very oldfashioned 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, ... See full summary »
Director: Alexis Granowsky | Stars: Alfred Abel, Peter Lorre, Harald Paulsen, Ludwig Stössel
Votes: 129
53. Luise, Königin von Preußen (1931)
115 min | Drama
Vehicle for one of Weimar era 's most beloved actresses: as the popular Prussian queen in 1806-1807,she presides over the humiliating Peace of Tilsit which Napoleon forces on the defeated Germans.
Director: Carl Froelich | Stars: Henny Porten, Gustaf Gründgens, Ekkehard Arendt, Vladimir Gajdarov
Votes: 25
54. Panic in Chicago (1931)
77 min | Drama
Chicago gangsters use cunning and a series of false identities in a violent battle for dominance, all while attempting to dodge the police.
Director: Robert Wiene | Stars: Olga Tschechowa, Hans Rehmann, Ferdinand Hart, Hilde Hildebrand
Votes: 27
55. Der Draufgänger (1931)
92 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Harbour policeman Hans and his companion rescue a young woman from water during their night watch, to find out she is connected with a jewel robbery in which a gangster now owner of an ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Eichberg | Stars: Hans Albers, Sigurd Lohde, Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur, Gerda Maurus
Votes: 43
56. Elisabeth von Österreich (1931)
84 min | Drama
The life and times of famous empress Elisabeth of Austria aka "Sissi" ,from her quarrels with her aunt to the Mayerling tragedy to her death in Genève in 1898.
Director: Adolf Trotz | Stars: Lil Dagover, Paul Otto, Maria Matray, Charlotte Ander
Votes: 37
57. Das Land des Lächelns (1930)
102 min | Musical
Das Land des Lächelns operetta is performed at a diplomat's mansion. Lisa hosts an exotic guest from India, paralleling the stage story of prince SouChong(Tauber)and Viennese Countess Lisel(Margit Suchy)in a tale of East meets West.
Director: Max Reichmann | Stars: Richard Tauber, Mara Loseff, Hans Mierendorff, Bruno Kastner
Votes: 25
58. Hokuspokus (1930)
83 min | Comedy, Crime
Kitty Kellermann, widow of Paul Kellermann an unsuccessful artist, appears in court charged with drowning her husband during a boat ride. Then, the fact emerges that she is three months ... See full summary »
Director: Gustav Ucicky | Stars: Oscar Homolka, Gustaf Gründgens, Otto Wallburg, Ferdinand von Alten
Votes: 49
59. Westfront 1918 (1930)
Not Rated | 75 min | Drama, Romance, War
A group of German solders fight on the front line in France at the end of World War I.
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Stars: Fritz Kampers, Gustav Diessl, Hans-Joachim Möbis, Claus Clausen
Votes: 2,415
60. Der blaue Engel (1930)
Passed | 104 min | Drama, Music, Romance
An elderly professor's ordered life spins dangerously out of control when he falls for a nightclub singer.
Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Emil Jannings, Marlene Dietrich, Kurt Gerron, Rosa Valetti
Votes: 16,282 | Gross: $0.08M
61. Zwei Herzen im Dreiviertel-Takt (1930)
96 min | Musical
Toni Hofer and brothers Vicki and Nicki Mahler are working on a new operetta. Toni's reputation with women equals his fame as composer, so they keep their sister Hedi away from him. Wanting... See full summary »
Director: Géza von Bolváry | Stars: Walter Janssen, Oskar Karlweis, Willi Forst, Gretl Theimer
Votes: 56
62. Ein Burschenlied aus Heidelberg (1930)
79 min | Musical, Romance
Director: Karl Hartl | Stars: Hans Brausewetter, Betty Bird, Willi Forst, Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur
Votes: 34
63. The Darling of Vienna (1930)
92 min | Comedy, Musical
A stylish young man shows up as a substitute at events when officials and other important people are too busy to attend,and sometimes imitates their voices.
Director: Géza von Bolváry | Stars: Willi Forst, Paul Hörbiger, Trude Lieske, Else Elster
Votes: 45
64. Der weiße Teufel (1930)
110 min | Drama
His son and mother in peril at the hands of his enemies, a banished Caucasian warrior is forced to make an alliance with the Russians.
Director: Alexandre Volkoff | Stars: Ivan Mozzhukhin, Lil Dagover, Betty Amann, Fritz Alberti
Votes: 108
65. Der falsche Feldmarschall (1930)
86 min | Comedy
Director: Karel Lamac | Stars: Vlasta Burian, Roda-Roda, Harry Frank, Karl Forest
Votes: 22
66. Three from the Filling Station (1930)
99 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Willy, Kurt and Hans are broke, so they sell their car and open a filling station. Then they all fall in love with the same girl.
Director: Wilhelm Thiele | Stars: Willy Fritsch, Lilian Harvey, Heinz Rühmann, Oskar Karlweis
Votes: 877
67. The Flute Concert of Sans-Souci (1930)
88 min | Drama, History
The story of the rise to power of King Frederick II (aka Frederick the Great) of Prussia and his military campaigns to make Prussia a major power in Europe.
Director: Gustav Ucicky | Stars: Otto Gebühr, Renate Müller, Hans Rehmann, Walter Janssen
Votes: 52
68. Bookkeeper Kremke (1930)
67 min | Drama
In this realistic, unsentimental portrait of Germany's dire economic situation, a middle-aged payroll clerk loses his job due to technological advances and, unable to find another, descends into despair.
Director: Marie Harder | Stars: Hermann Vallentin, Anna Sten, Ivan Koval-Samborsky, Else Heller
Votes: 33
69. Murder for Sale (1930)
102 min | Comedy, Musical
The young wife of a rich old husband is prevented of a fling by a gentleman-burglar, who falls in love to her.
Director: Hanns Schwarz | Stars: Ralph Arthur Roberts, Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch, Heinz Rühmann
Votes: 109
70. Skandal um Eva (1930)
96 min | Comedy
An engaged woman discovers her fiancé has a four year old son. Pretending to take a cure she travels to the boy's foster-parents to make his acquaintance.
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Stars: Henny Porten, Oskar Sima, Ludwig Stössel, Paul Henckels
Votes: 41
71. Cyankali (1930)
89 min | Drama
A fervid drama forcefully illustrates the catastrophic consequences of keeping abortion illegal.
Director: Hans Tintner | Stars: Grete Mosheim, Nico Turoff, Claus Clausen, Herma Ford
Votes: 34
72. The Son of the White Mountain (1930)
65 min | Mystery, Romance
An Alpine adventure-romance.
Directors: Mario Bonnard, Luis Trenker | Stars: Luis Trenker, Maria Matray, Renate Müller, Michael von Newlinsky
Votes: 48
73. The Song Is Ended (1930)
102 min | Musical, Romance
An officer embarrasses a singer by walking away during one of her performances. He later apologizes and the two become closer, eventually falling in love.
Director: Géza von Bolváry | Stars: Liane Haid, Willi Forst, Margarete Schlegel, Otto Wallburg
Votes: 73
74. Brand in der Oper (1930)
104 min | Drama
A young singer in the Opera finds out who really loves her, when the theater catches fire on the opening night of the performance.
Director: Carl Froelich | Stars: Alexa Engström, Gustav Fröhlich, Gustaf Gründgens, Gertrud Arnold
Votes: 32
75. Abschied (1930)
73 min | Comedy, Drama
Peter Winkler's new job offer is about to take him away from his lover Hella, but he has been keeping it a secret from her. Mutual lack of trust and vicious gossip threatens their relationship as they plan to make their farewells.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Brigitte Horney, Aribert Mog, Emilia Unda, Konstantin Mic
Votes: 198
76. Olympia (1930)
80 min | Drama, Romance
One of three foreign language versions of the MGM romance, His Glorious Night: a princess in the court of the old Austro-Hungarian empire rejects her arranged marriage and loves, instead, a dashing cavalry captain.
Director: Jacques Feyder | Stars: Nora Gregor, Theo Shall, Julia Serda, Karl Etlinger
Votes: 32
77. Die letzte Kompagnie (1930)
79 min | Drama
A band of Prussian soldiers fighting Napoleon garrison themselves in a country windmill, the miller's daughter insists on staying with them.
Director: Curtis Bernhardt | Stars: Conrad Veidt, Karin Evans, Erwin Kalser, Else Heller
Votes: 31
78. Zwei Menschen (1930)
108 min | Drama
A man in the Tylorean Alps gives up his sweetheart and becomes a priest, after his fanatic mother has died trying to convince him to sacrifice his life for God.
Director: Erich Waschneck | Stars: Charlotte Susa, Gustav Fröhlich, Friedrich Kayßler, Fritz Alberti
Votes: 12
79. Boykott (1930)
75 min
A film about the pupils of a posh Berlin gymnasium in their final term and their class teacher teaching them about humanism and tolerance, a lesson that would be badly needed three years later.
Director: Robert Land | Stars: Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur, Lil Dagover, Rolf von Goth, Theodor Loos
Votes: 22
80. Liebeswalzer (1930)
90 min | Musical
Director: Wilhelm Thiele | Stars: Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch, Georg Alexander, Julia Serda
Votes: 13
81. Alraune (1929)
103 min | Sci-Fi
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... See full summary »
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: Brigitte Helm, Albert Bassermann, Harald Paulsen, Adolf E. Licho
Votes: 119
82. Melody of the Heart (1929)
88 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
A young maid from the country looses her job as maid in k.u.k. Budapest, when she stays out too long with her beau, a soldier, who's saving money to buy a horse to open a transport company.... See full summary »
Director: Hanns Schwarz | Stars: Dita Parlo, Willy Fritsch, Tihamér Lázár, Gerö Mály
Votes: 26
83. The White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929)
75 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A man climbs a 12,000-foot mountain to search for his wife, who was lost on their honeymoon. Another couple makes the dangerous climb with him.
Directors: Arnold Fanck, Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Stars: Gustav Diessl, Leni Riefenstahl, Ernst Petersen, Ernst Udet
Votes: 1,107
84. Die verschwundene Frau (1929)
Comedy
Director: Karl Leiter | Stars: Harry Halm, Iris Arlan, Mary Kid, Peter C. Leska
Votes: 16
85. Adieu, Mascotte (1929)
85 min
Director: Wilhelm Thiele | Stars: Igo Sym, Marietta Millner, Lilian Harvey, Harry Halm
Votes: 28
86. People on Sunday (1930)
Not Rated | 73 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Two men and two women enjoy a pleasant Sunday at the beach amid the unending toil of the working week.
Directors: Robert Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer, Rochus Gliese, Curt Siodmak, Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Erwin Splettstößer, Brigitte Borchert, Wolfgang von Waltershausen, Christl Ehlers
Votes: 3,540
Silent
87. Ludwig der Zweite, König von Bayern (1930)
117 min | Biography, Drama, History
Second of two German silents about the life of Bavarian king Ludwig II, a character who would much later also be the center of a film by Luchino Visconti.
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: William Dieterle, Theodor Loos, Eugen Burg, Ferdinand von Alten
Votes: 60
Silent
88. Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)
Not Rated | 79 min | Drama
After falling pregnant by a pharmacist and refusing to marry, a young woman is ejected from her home and sent to a strict girls' reform school.
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Stars: Louise Brooks, Josef Rovenský, Fritz Rasp, Edith Meinhard
Votes: 4,815
89. The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrovna (1929)
80 min | Drama
Nina Petrovna, the mistress of a wealthy Cossack, falls in love with a young cadet. Their happiness is short-lived.
Director: Hanns Schwarz | Stars: Brigitte Helm, Francis Lederer, Warwick Ward, Lya Jan
Votes: 281
90. Asphalt (1929)
Not Rated | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Joe May's sensual drama of life in the Berlin underworld is in many ways the perfect summation of German filmmaking in the silent era: a dazzling visual style, a psychological approach to ... See full summary »
Director: Joe May | Stars: Albert Steinrück, Else Heller, Gustav Fröhlich, Betty Amann
Votes: 1,686
91. Woman in the Moon (1929)
Not Rated | 95 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A tenacious scientist blasts off for the moon in hopes of riches that may be found there.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Willy Fritsch, Gerda Maurus, Klaus Pohl, Fritz Rasp
Votes: 3,852
92. Der Kampf der Tertia (1929)
Director: Max Mack | Stars: Karl Hoffmann, Fritz Draeger, August Wilhelm Keese, Gustl Gstettenbaur
Votes: 12
93. Manolescu - Der König der Hochstapler (1929)
124 min | Drama
A Parisian playboy living beyond his means falls in love with a beautiful society woman fleeing her husband. He turns to robbing and swindling the wealthy to pay for their lavish lifestyle but his past finally catches up with him.
Director: Viktor Tourjansky | Stars: Ivan Mozzhukhin, Brigitte Helm, Heinrich George, Dita Parlo
Votes: 63
94. Die kleine Veronika (1929)
70 min | Romance
Veronika is a candid teenager who lives with her parents in an idyllic mountain village in the Austrian Tyrol. As they are poor, her aunt pays her the expenses to do the Christian ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Land | Stars: Käthe von Nagy, Maly Delschaft, Mizzi Zwerenz, Harry Hardt
Votes: 27
95. Mutter Krausens Fahrt ins Glück (1929)
121 min | Drama
Mutter Krause and her children live in the poorer section of Berlin's Wedding district. The film depicts the cruelty of poverty and communism as a rescuing force that reaches Mutter Krause and the child too late.
Director: Phil Jutzi | Stars: Alexandra Schmitt, Holmes Zimmermann, Ilse Trautschold, Gerhard Bienert
Votes: 321
96. Napoleon auf St. Helena (1929)
100 min | Drama, History
Napoleon is sentenced to exile on the prison island.
Director: Lupu Pick | Stars: Werner Krauss, Hanna Ralph, Albert Bassermann, Philippe Hériat
Votes: 45
97. Fräulein Else (1929)
90 min | Drama
A young woman reluctantly decides to compromise her values in order to save her family from bankruptcy and disgrace.
Director: Paul Czinner | Stars: Elisabeth Bergner, Albert Bassermann, Albert Steinrück, Adele Sandrock
Votes: 176
98. Pandora's Box (1929)
Not Rated | 109 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Stars: Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Francis Lederer, Carl Goetz
Votes: 11,842 | Gross: $0.01M
99. Three Loves (1929)
76 min | Drama
On his honeymoon with a bride he has wed for business reasons, a man falls for a woman who is in the clutches of a sinister character.After this woman begs him to help her escape, he plots to do so using the opportunity of a masked ball.
Director: Curtis Bernhardt | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Fritz Kortner, Frida Richard, Oskar Sima
Votes: 298
100. Harbor Drift (1929)
54 min | Drama
The quest for a sparkling pearl necklace stolen by a beggar under the gaze of a prostitute, who persuades her unemployed friend to steal it back, with tragic consequences.
Director: Leo Mittler | Stars: Lissy Arna, Paul Rehkopf, Fritz Genschow, Sig Arno
Votes: 146
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