Cast: Ilka Grüning

Direction Georg Wilhelm Pabst

Cast Greta Garbo · Werner Krauss · Asta Nielsen · Agnes Esterhazy

Synopsis Vienna in the biggest depression, directly after WWI. In a slum, Lila Leid, the wife of lawyer Leid is murdered, Egon, secretary of one of Leid's clients is arrested. He was with her, and had her necklace, because he needed...

Direction F.W. Murnau

Cast Alfred Abel · Grete Berger · Lil Dagover · Lya De Putti

Synopsis The story revolves around a man obsessed with an unattainable woman, and his attempts to substitute for his unfulfilled desires.

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast Steve Brodie · Audrey Long · Raymond Burr · Douglas Fowley

Synopsis When mobster Walt Radak tries to trick independent trucker Steve Randall into transporting stolen furs, Steve alerts the police, and Walt's young brother Al is caught and held for a cop-killing. When ruthless Radak tries to extort Steve's help in...

Direction Georg Wilhelm Pabst

Cast Werner Krauss · Ruth Weyher · Ilka Grüning · Jack Trevor

Direction Alfred L. Werker

Cast Louis Hayward · Joan Leslie · Virginia Field · Tom Conway

Synopsis Sheila kills her husband at the start of the film with a smoking gun. We don't know how or why. All we know is men are banging on her door and she escapes. Great dialogue as she makes her way...

Direction Georg Wilhelm Pabst

Cast Albert Steinrück · Lucie Mannheim · Ilka Grüning · Hans Brausewetter

Synopsis In and around a bell maker near Marburg (today Slovenia) people tell the story of a treasure that was hidden during the Turki invasion of 1683, the year the Turkish Army was besieging Vienna. Everybody think it's nonsense except for...

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Errol Flynn · Ronald Reagan · Nancy Coleman · Raymond Massey

Synopsis When Flight Lt Forbes and his crew are shot down after bombing their target, they discover valuable information, about a hidden German aircraft factory, that must get back to England. In their way across Germany, they try and cause as...

Direction F.W. Murnau

Cast Alfred Abel · Mady Christians · Adolphe Engers · Julius Falkenstein

Synopsis 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...

Direction Norman Taurog

Cast Judy Garland · Mickey Rooney · June Allyson · Gene Kelly

Synopsis The plot is a hokey whitewash of the careers of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, with characters talking in stilted phrases ("Gee, Larry, that's marvelous, really and truly") and complexities reduced to ground zero. But Rodgers and Hart comprised one...

Direction Lewis R. Foster

Cast John Payne · Dennis O'Keefe · Arleen Whelan · Frank Faylen

Synopsis In 1863, having escaped from a rock-quarry prison in Salt Lake, six inmates led by convicted murderer Pete Black take over a small wagon train headed by preacher Jacob Karns. Tensions and hardships grow as the travelers continue to trek...

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Charles Winninger · Charles Ruggles · James Craig · Nancy Kelly

Synopsis During World War I, two German men friends who emigrated to the US and become millionaires agree on most things, with one major difference: one has taken the US side against Germany regarding the war, while the other stays stubbornly...

Direction Paul L. Stein

Cast Lil Dagover · Ilka Grüning · Arnold Korff · Theodor Loos

Direction Curt Goetz

Cast Theodor Loos · Hermann Vallentin · Isabel Heermann · Max Pategg

Synopsis Despite his wish to become a pastor, Friedrich Schiller is ordered to join a military school. There, he begins to write poetry...

Direction Richard Oswald

Cast Liane Haid · Conrad Veidt · Werner Krauss · Reinhold Schünzel

Direction Franz W. Koebner

Cast Fern Andra · Albert Steinrück · Carola Toelle · Hans Junkermann

Synopsis A couple, Hasia and Otto, are brought together by their loss of wealth and status as the imperial era ends, but torn apart by an unusual offer from a wealthy man. The man wishes Otto to marry his daughter, as...

Direction F.W. Murnau

Cast Carl Goetz · Ilka Grüning · Eugen Klöpfer · Aud Egede Nissen

Direction Lewis R. Foster

Cast John Payne · Gail Russell · Jeffrey Lynn · Lon Chaney Jr.

Synopsis Charles Chinnough, aka Captain China, washed ashore off his ship during a storm, is later rescued, but is relieved of duty when his former first mate, Brendensen (who thought he was dead), and two aides, testify falsely against him in...

Direction James P. Hogan

Cast Ludwig Donath · Gale Sondergaard · George Dolenz · Fritz Kortner

Synopsis A man who does a good Hitler impression is made to look like Hitler as a decoy for assassination attempts.

Direction Paul L. Stein

Cast Mady Christians · Hans Heinrich von Twardowski · Olga Belajeff · William Dieterle

Direction Alfred Halm

Cast Henny Porten · Alexander Wirth · Emil Jannings · Paul Bildt

Synopsis Rose Bernd is a 1919 German silent drama film directed by Alfred Halm and starring Henny Porten and Emil Jannings. It is based on the play of the same name by Gerhart Hauptmann. Porten won critical acclaim for her role...