Cast: Eugenie Besserer

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Eugenie Besserer. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Flesh and the Devil

1926 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Clarence Brown

Cast Greta Garbo · John Gilbert · Lars Hanson · William Orlamond

Synopsis This silent film is a romantic melodrama about two childhood friends, Leo and Ulrich, who grow up to be soldiers in Germany. Leo becomes infatuated with Felicitas, the wife of a powerful count (a marriage about which Felicitas neglects to...

7.5

590 votes

7.5

590 votes

Thunderbolt

1929 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast George Bancroft · Fay Wray · Richard Arlen · Tully Marshall

Synopsis A criminal known as Thunderbolt is imprisoned and facing execution. Into the next cell is placed Bob Morgan, an innocent man who has been framed and who is in love with Thunderbolt's girl, without knowing of their relationship. Thunderbolt hopes...

6.3

30 votes

6.3

30 votes

The Jazz Singer

1927 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Alan Crosland

Cast Al Jolson · May McAvoy · Warner Oland · Eugenie Besserer

Synopsis Cantor Rabinowitz is concerned and upset because his son Jakie shows so little interest in carrying on the family's traditions and heritage. For five generations, men in the family have been Cantors in the synagogue, but Jakie is more interested...

6.2

1K votes

6.2

1K votes

The Circle

1925 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast Eleanor Boardman · Malcolm McGregor · Alec B. Francis · Eugenie Besserer

Synopsis This MGM film, directed by Frank Borzage (7th HEAVEN, STREET ANGEL, etc.), and adapted from a stage play by Somerset Maugham, is a prime example of the drawing-room drama. The sets are sumptuous, the actors beautiful, the set-up intriguing, but...

5.9

31 votes

5.9

31 votes

Drums of Love

1928 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Mary Philbin · Lionel Barrymore · Don Alvarado · Tully Marshall

Synopsis Princess Emmanuella agrees to marry the Duke of a neighboring kingdom in order to keep the peace between their two countries. However, when the duke's handsome brother arrives to escort her to her new husband, she finds herself attracted to...

5.9

21 votes

5.9

21 votes

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (S)

1910 · Movie · 13 min. · United States

Direction Otis Turner

Cast Bebe Daniels · Hobart Bosworth · Eugenie Besserer · Robert Z. Leonard

Synopsis Chased off by the antics of Hank the Mule, Dorothy ends up in her cornfield, where she realizes her family's Scarecrow is alive. She helps him down and he takes a tumble on the turnstyle. A cyclone soon arrives and...

5.6

354 votes

5.6

354 votes

To the Last Man

1933 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Randolph Scott · Esther Ralston · Jack La Rue · Buster Crabbe

Synopsis In Kentucky just after the Civil War, the Hayden-Colby feud leads to Jed Colby being sent to prison for 15 years for murder. The Haydens head for Nevada and when Colby gets out of prison he heads there also seeking...

5.4

37 votes

5.4

37 votes

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The Blacksmith's Love (S)

1911 · Movie · 16 min. · United States

Direction Francis Boggs

Cast Tom Santschi · Herbert Rawlinson · Frank Richardson · Frank Clark

Synopsis A melodrama about a blacksmith on a war battlefield who wrongly imagines his seriously injured friend to be dead. After the war, he marries the wife of this man, but to everyone's surprise this man returns a few years later....

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Scarlet Days

1919 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Richard Barthelmess · Eugenie Besserer · Carol Dempster · Clarine Seymour

Synopsis A romantic bandit named Alvarez, wanted for raids on the mining camps of the California gold rush in 1849, is reformed by the love of a good woman.

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Kindred of the Dust

1922 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Miriam Cooper · Ralph Graves · Lionel Belmore · Eugenie Besserer

Synopsis Discovering that her husband is a bigamist, Nan returns with her young child to her Puget Sound, Washington, logging town hoping to live with her father. Everyone treats her as an outcast until Donald McKaye, her childhood sweetheart and the...

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Captain Salvation

1927 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction John S. Robertson

Cast Lars Hanson · Marceline Day · Pauline Starke · George Fawcett

Synopsis A returning seminary student goes up against a small New England town when he comes to the aid of a prostitute who has been injured, despite the townspeople's calls for her to be run out of town. His stand endangers...

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Little Orphan Annie

1918 · Movie · 57 min. · United States

Direction Colin Campbell

Cast Colleen Moore · Tom Santschi · Harry Lonsdale · Eugenie Besserer

Synopsis Surrounded by a group of children, poet James Whitcomb Riley narrates the story of Little Orphant Annie, who loses her mother at an early age and is sent to an orphanage. Annie charms the other children with her stories of...

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In Gay Madrid

1930 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Robert Z. Leonard

Cast Ramon Novarro · Dorothy Jordan · Lottice Howell · Claude King

Synopsis Ricardo, a young law student in his home town of Madrid, is a carefree playboy who loves nightclubs and courting pretty girls. His father hopes to instill a more serious attitude in his son by transferring him to a school...

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Two Lovers

1928 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

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Speedway

1929 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Harry Beaumont

Cast William Haines · Anita Page · Ernest Torrence · Karl Dane

Synopsis Bill Whipple is a happy-go-lucky mechanic for MacDonald who thinks that he is the worlds greatest driver and lover. Mac has treated Bill like a son since he took him in. One day at the track, Bill sees Pat Bannon,...

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Lilac Time

1928 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction George Fitzmaurice

Cast Colleen Moore · Gary Cooper · Burr McIntosh · George Cooper

Synopsis All of those handsome young men in their flying machines are billeted in a field next to the Widow Berthelot's farmhouse in France. Her daughter Jeannine is curious about the young men fighting for England in World War I and...

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Winning the Futurity

1926 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction Scott R. Dunlap

Cast Cullen Landis · Clara Horton · Ernest Hilliard · Henry Kolker

Synopsis Chet Kildare, a war profiteer, seeks the hand of Colonel Barkley's daughter, Nelle, though she looks with disfavor upon his undiplomatic advances. Instead, she becomes attracted to Luke Allen, a carefree mountain boy whose strength and spirit impress her. Luke,...

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The Yellow Lily

1928 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Alexander Korda

Cast Billie Dove · Clive Brook · Gustav von Seyffertitz · Marc McDermott

Synopsis Archduke Alexander, a debauchee, falls in love with Judith Peredy, the sister of the doctor of the village near Alexander's hunting lodge. Although Judith loves Alexander, she spurns him because her brother Eugene has warned her off.

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