Cast: Albert Basserman

Direction Michael Powell · Emeric Pressburger

Cast Anton Walbrook · Moira Shearer · Marius Goring · Leonid Massine

Plot Under the authoritarian rule of charismatic ballet impressario Boris Lermontov, his proteges realize the full promise of their talents, but at a price: utter devotion to their art and complete...

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Ruth Gordon · Otto Kruger · Donald Crisp

Plot Dr. Paul Ehrlich was the German physician who developed the first synthetic antimicrobial drug, 606 or Salvarsan. The film describes how Ehrlich first became interested in the properties of the...

Direction George Cukor

Cast Joan Crawford · Melvyn Douglas · Conrad Veidt · Osa Massen

Plot Anna Holm is a blackmailer, who because of a facial scar, despises everyone she encounters. When a plastic surgeon performs an operation to correct this disfigurement, Anna becomes torn between...

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Joel McCrea · Laraine Day · Herbert Marshall · George Sanders

Plot Johnny Jones, an insubordinate city desk reporter, is sent to London as a foreign correspondent. There he interviews Van Meer, leader of a peace movement endorsed by Universal Peace Party...

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast Gene Tierney · Walter Huston · Victor Mature · Ona Munson

Plot Bored good girl Gene Tierney goes looking for thrills in Shanghai – and winds up in Mother Gin Sling’s gambling palace, a bizarre, alternate reality that could only exist in...

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Edna Best · Eddie Albert · Albert Basserman

Plot An entrepreneur builds an international news agency.

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Greer Garson · Walter Pidgeon · Henry Travers · Albert Basserman

Plot Young Polish physics student Marie marries Doctor Pierre Curie, in whose lab she had worked for a while. On their honeymoon they decide to find out what caused the strange...

Direction John Cromwell

Cast Claudette Colbert · Jennifer Jones · Joseph Cotten · Shirley Temple

Plot While husband Tim is away during World War II, Anne Hilton copes with problems on the homefront. Taking in a lodger, Colonel Smollett, to help make ends meet and dealing...

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Emil Jannings · Paul Biensfeldt · Friedrich Kühne · Albert Basserman

Plot Devotion to a beautiful sclave causes war between Pharoah Menes and the King of Ethiopia. But the girl loves Ramphis. This was the most spectacular film produced till then in...

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Norma Shearer · Robert Taylor · Conrad Veidt · Alla Nazimova

Plot An American goes to Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration camp. With the help of a German countess he engineers her escape.

Direction Irving Rapper

Cast Robert Alda · Joan Leslie · Alexis Smith · Charles Coburn

Plot Composer George Gershwin is driven by his need to succeed. Unfortunately his drive destroys his romantic relationships with singer Julie Adams, who is desperately in love with him, and aloof...

Direction Albert Lewin

Cast George Sanders · Herbert Marshall · Doris Dudley · Eric Blore

Plot Loosely inspired from Gauguin's life, the story of Charles Strickland, a middle-aged stockbrocker who abandons his middle-classed life, his family, his duties to start painting, what he has always wanted...

Direction Raoul Walsh

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

Plot 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....

Direction Jules Dassin

Cast Joan Crawford · John Wayne · Philip Dorn · Reginald Owen

Plot Better known as Reunion in France, this women's-magazine-style romantic melodrama was the first major production for director Jules Dassin -- who was promptly demoted back to the MGM "B" department...

Direction Leo McCarey

Cast Cary Grant · Ginger Rogers · Walter Slezak · Albert Dekker

Plot At the start of WWII, Katie O'Hara, an American burlesque girl intent on social climbing, marries Austrian Baron Von Luber. Pat O'Toole, an American radio reporter, sees this as a...

Direction Robert Siodmak

Cast Richard Carlson · Nancy Kelly · Albert Basserman · Miles Mander

Plot After being charged with the murder of a scientist, a young doctor must track down a Nazi spy ring to clear his name.

Direction Edwin L. Marin

Cast Ilona Massey · Jon Hall · Peter Lorre · Cedric Hardwicke

Plot Frank Raymond changed his name and took up a life as the owner of a printing shop in order to distance himself from his former identity: as the grandson of...

Direction Richard Oswald

Cast Conrad Veidt · Liane Haid · Albert Basserman · Paul Wegener

Plot Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, has three adult children: Juan, who is virtuous and has a sweetheart who is a woman of the people, Lucrezia, who is virtuous and wants...

Direction Lupu Pick

Cast Werner Krauss · Hanna Ralph · Albert Basserman · Philippe Hériat

Direction Alexander Korda

Cast Albert Basserman · Ursula Grabley · Mathias Wiedman · Jakob Tiedtke