Cinematography: Karl Freund

Direction F.W. Murnau

Cast Emil Jannings · Maly Delschaft · Max Hiller · Emilie Kurz

Synopsis It tells the story of an elderly hotel doorman whose world crumbles when he is demoted to lavatory attendant. He is embarrassed by his new position so he tries to hide it, although his life keeps disintegrating anyway.

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Gustav Fröhlich · Brigitte Helm · Alfred Abel · Rudolf Klein-Rogge

Synopsis In Metropolis, society is divided in two classes: the rich, who have all the power and all kinds of luxuries and the workers, doomed to work and confined to live in poor conditions. One day, Freder (Alfred Abel), the son...

Direction John Huston

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Edward G. Robinson · Lauren Bacall · Lionel Barrymore

Synopsis Frank McCloud is an embittered war veteran who travels to Key Largo in Florida in order to meet Nora Temple, the wife of a friend of his who died in the war. He plans to stay at a hotel run...

Direction Walter Ruttmann

Synopsis A train speeds through the country on its way to Berlin, then gradually slows down as it pulls into the station. It is very early in the morning, about 5:00 AM, and the great city is mostly quiet. But before...

Direction George Cukor

Cast Greta Garbo · Robert Taylor · Lionel Barrymore · Elizabeth Allan

Synopsis Marguerite is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his hope of a career and position by marrying Armand, she acquiesces and...

Direction Ewald André Dupont

Cast Emil Jannings · Maly Delschaft · Lya De Putti · Warwick Ward

Synopsis The murderer "Boss" Huller - after having spent ten years in prison - breaks his silence to tell the warden his story. "Boss", a former trapeze artist, and his wife own a cheap side-show that displays ''erotic sensations''. But he...

Direction Sidney Franklin

Cast Paul Muni · Luise Rainer · Walter Connolly · Charley Grapewin

Synopsis The story of a farmer in China: a story of humility and bravery. His father gives Wang Lung a freed slave as wife. By diligence and frugality the two manage to enlarge their property. But then a famine forces them...

Direction John M. Stahl

Cast Irene Dunne · John Boles · June Clyde · George Meeker

Synopsis A woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets" of his life.

Direction F.W. Murnau

Cast Emil Jannings · Werner Krauss · Lil Dagover · Hermann Picha

Synopsis In Tartuffe, Murnau revisits Moliére's fable of religious hypocrisy, in which a faithful wife (Lil Dagover) tries to convince her husband (Werner Krauss) that their morally superior guest, Tartuffe (Emil Jannings), is in fact a lecherous hypocrite with a taste...

Direction Paul Wegener · Carl Boese

Cast Paul Wegener · Albert Steinrück · Lyda Salmonova · Ernst Deutsch

Synopsis In this version of the golem legend, the golem, a clay statue brought to life by Rabbi Loew in 16th century Prague to save the Jews from the ongoing brutal persecution by the city's rulers, is found in the rubble...

Direction Fred Zinnemann

Cast Spencer Tracy · Signe Hasso · Hume Cronyn · Jessica Tandy

Synopsis In Nazi Germany in 1936 seven men escape from a concentration camp. The camp commander puts up seven crosses and, as the Gestapo returns each escapee he is put to death on a cross. The seventh cross is still empty...

Direction Tod Browning

Cast Bela Lugosi · Helen Chandler · David Manners · Dwight Frye

Synopsis After a harrowing ride through the Carpathian mountains in eastern Europe, Renfield enters castle Dracula to finalize the transferral of Carfax Abbey in London to Count Dracula, who is in actuality a vampire. Renfield is drugged by the eerily hypnotic...

Direction Carl Theodor Dreyer

Cast Walter Slezak · Max Auzinger · Nora Gregor · Robert Garrison

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Gary Cooper · Lauren Bacall · Patricia Neal · Jack Carson

Direction Robert Z. Leonard

Cast Greer Garson · Laurence Olivier · Mary Boland · Edna May Oliver

Synopsis Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have five unmarried daughters, and Mrs. Bennet is especially eager to find suitable husbands for them. When the rich single gentlemen Mr. Bingley and Mr. Darcy come to live nearby, the Bennets have high hopes. But...

Direction F.W. Murnau

Cast Eugen Klöpfer · Vladimir Gajdarov · Werner Krauss · Eduard von Winterstein

Synopsis When farmer Rog dies, his son Peter stays, but Johannes can not be satisfied with such a condition (and servant Maria's love) and finds a job as old Count Rudenberg's secretary. His ambition leads him to charm Gerda, the Count's...

Direction Robert Z. Leonard

Cast William Powell · Myrna Loy · Luise Rainer · Frank Morgan

Synopsis At the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, sideshow barker Flo Ziegfeld turns the tables on his more successful neighbor Billings, and steals his girlfriend to boot. This pattern is repeated throughout their lives, as Ziegfeld makes and loses many fortunes putting...

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Katharine Hepburn · Robert Taylor · Robert Mitchum · Edmund Gwenn

Synopsis Young bride Ann Hamilton soon begins to suspect that her charming husband is really a psychotic who plans to murder her.

Direction Clarence Brown · Gustav Machatý

Cast Greta Garbo · Charles Boyer · Reginald Owen · Alan Marshal

Synopsis A polish countess becomes Napoleon Bonaparte's mistress at the urging of Polish leaders, who feel she might influence him to make Poland independent.

Direction William Asher · James V. Kern · Ralph Levy · Marc Daniels

Cast Lucille Ball · Desi Arnaz · Vivian Vance · William Frawley

Synopsis TV Series (1951-1957). 6 Seasons. 181 Episodes. A daffy woman constantly strives to become a star along with her bandleader husband and gets herself in the strangest situations. Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would...