Cinematography: Theodor Sparkuhl

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast Ray Milland · Barbara Britton · Walter Slezak · Lucile Watson

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Gary Cooper · Ray Milland · Robert Preston · Brian Donlevy

Synopsis BEAU GESTE begins with a framed scene of a mounted column approaching Fort Zinderneuf in the desert of French Morocco. No one answers Colonel de Beaujolais's signal. Someone fires shots at his feet. When he points out that the troopers...

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Michel Simon · Janie Marèse · Georges Flamant · Roger Gaillard

Synopsis Cashier Maurice Legrand is married to Adele, a terror. By chance, he meets Lucienne, "Lulu", and make her his mistress. He thinks he finally met love, but Lulu is nothing but a streetwalker, in love with Dede, her pimp. She...

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Ossi Oswalda · Hermann Thimig · Victor Janson · Gerhard Ritterband

Synopsis Presaging such playful sex comedies as Lubitsch's Trouble in Paradise and Design for Living, THE DOLL follows the misadventures of an effete young man who must get married in order to inherit a fortune. He opts to purchase a remarkably...

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Victor Janson · Ossi Oswalda · Harry Liedtke · Julius Falkenstein

Synopsis Ossi, daughter of oyster-king Quaker wants to marry a real prince, after the daughter of a shoe-polish manufacturer has married a count. The marriage arranger finds prince Nucki, who sends his friend and secretary to the Quaker's mansion. Ossi is...

Direction Georg Wilhelm Pabst

Cast Gustav Diessl · Brigitte Helm · Hertha von Walther · Jack Trevor

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Pola Negri · Emil Jannings · Harry Liedtke · Eduard von Winterstein

Synopsis The story of Madame DuBarry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution.

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Pola Negri · Victor Janson · Paul Heidemann · Wilhelm Diegelmann

Synopsis The daughter of the leader of a gang of mountain bandits falls in love with the head of the military outfit in charge of arresting her father. Lubitsch proceeds to create a plot constantly satirizing militarism and war, leading to...

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Emil Jannings · Hedwig Pauly-Winterstein · Hilde Müller · Ludwig Hartau

Synopsis Sumptuous historical recreation qualified as 'the greatest film of all times'. A robust, brutal and cruel Henry VIII played by Emil Jannings contrasts with the innocence of Henny Porten's Anne Boleyn. Two architects directed construction of the replicas of the...

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Ronald Colman · Walter Huston · Muriel Angelus · Ida Lupino

Synopsis Dick Heldar, a London artist, is gradually losing his sight. He struggles to complete his masterpiece, the portrait of Bessie Broke, a cockney girl, before his eyesight fails him.

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Jakob Tiedtke · Henny Porten · Emil Jannings · Gustav von Wangenheim

Synopsis Somewhere in Southern Bavaria Xaver wants to marry Gretel, but her father Kohlhiesel wants his elder daughter Liesel to marry first. The problem is, nobody wants to marry her, because she's too brutal. Seppel suggests, that he should marry Liesel...

Direction Stuart Heisler

Cast Brian Donlevy · Veronica Lake · Alan Ladd · Bonita Granville

Synopsis Dashiel Hammett's The Glass Key, a tale of big-city political corruption, was first filmed in 1935, with Edward Arnold as a duplicitous political boss and George Raft as his loyal lieutenant. This 1942 remake improves on the original, especially in...

Direction Frank Lloyd

Cast Ronald Colman · Basil Rathbone · Frances Dee · Ellen Drew

Synopsis In 1463, Paris is besieged by the Duke of Burgundy, arch-rival of the king, who is content to sit tight while the poor starve. But there are traitors in Paris, and King Louis goes undercover to find one, thereby meeting...

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

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

Synopsis 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 Europe, with an impressive reconstruction of the pyramids, temples, deserts...

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Lotte Neumann · Gustav von Wangenheim · Jakob Tiedtke · Ernst Rückert

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Ossi Oswalda · Curt Goetz · Ferry Sikla · Margarete Kupfer

Direction Mitchell Leisen

Cast Richard Barthelmess · Joe Morrison · Gertrude Michael · Helen Mack

Synopsis A detective who has "four hours to kill" before delivering his prisoner, an escaped killer, spends the time in the lobby of a Broadway theater where a musical is playing.

Direction Alfred Santell

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Joel McCrea · Lloyd Nolan · Stanley Ridges

Synopsis In a fantastically art-deco hospital, young Dr. Kildare treats and falls for impoverished Janet Healy, widow of a bank robber, who's been in prison and can't find her baby. Later she helps Kildare sew up gangster Hanlon in a tavern...

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Pola Negri · Jenny Hasselqvist · Aud Egede Nissen · Margarete Kupfer

Synopsis Yeggar, a hunchbacked clown and travelling carnival manager, falls in love with one of his dancers. Although she gives in to his desires, she is also unfaithful to him. Based on a theatre pantomime created by Max Reinhardt, this is...

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Michel Simon · Jacques Louvigny · Marguerite Pierry · Fernandel