Cinematography: Werner Brandes

The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Werner Brandes. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.


Dreams That Money Can Buy

1947 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Hans Richter

Cast Jack Bittner · Libby Holman · Josh White · Norman Cazanjian

Plot Joe/Narcissus (Jack Bittner) is an ordinary man who has recently signed a complicated lease on a room. As he wonders how to pay the rent, he discovers that he can...

7.0

155 votes

7.0

155 votes

Piccadilly

1929 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ewald André Dupont

Cast Gilda Gray · Anna May Wong · Jameson Thomas · Charles Laughton

Plot The star attraction of the Piccadilly Club is the dancing team of Mabel and Vic. Victor is infatuated with Mabel, but she rejects his advances, since she is in love...

6.9

94 votes

6.9

94 votes

Moulin Rouge

1928 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ewald André Dupont

Cast Olga Tschechowa · Eve Gray · Jean Bradin · Georges Tréville

Plot Olga Tschechowa plays the star dancer of Paris' famed Moulin Rouge nightspot. Her daughter Eve Gray is in love with impressionable Jean Bradin. Alas, Jean adores another - Eve's own...

6.7

45 votes

6.7

45 votes

Emil und die Detektive

1931 · Movie · 75 min. · Germany

6.7

34 votes

6.7

34 votes

The Indian Tomb: Part II, the Tiger of Bengal

1921 · Movie · 100 min. · Germany

6.6

58 votes

6.6

58 votes

The Indian Tomb: Part I, the Mission of the Yogi

1921 · Movie · 120 min. · Germany

6.2

38 votes

6.2

38 votes

The Waltz Dream

1925 · Movie · 110 min. · Germany

Direction Ludwig Berger

Cast Willy Fritsch · Mady Christians · Xenia Desni · Lydia Potechina

Plot Silent film version of "A Waltz Dream" novel by Hans Müller and the Oscar Straus's operetta of same name.

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S.O.S. Die Insel der Tränen

1923 · Movie · min. · Germany

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His Late Excellency

1927 · Movie · 100 min. · Germany

Direction Adolf E. Licho · Wilhelm Thiele

Cast Willy Fritsch · Olga Tschechowa · Ernst Gronau · Max Gülstorff

Plot In the Ruritanian kingdom of Leuchtenstein, the old ruler has just died. His subjects are a bunch of intrigants, and his only real friend was the Baroness Windegg (Olga Tschechowa),...

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The Guilt of Lavinia Morland

1920 · Movie · 129 min. · Germany

Direction Joe May · Robert Wüllner

Cast Mia May · Albert Steinrück · Alfred Gerasch · Paul Bildt

Plot Lavinia Morland marries a rich banker in order to obtain money to care for a sick artist with whom she is in love. A woman tells the banker of this...

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Flight Around the World

1925 · Movie · 135 min. · Germany

Direction Willi Wolff

Cast Ellen Richter · Reinhold Schünzel · Bruno Kastner · Anton Pointner

Plot A spectacular action-adventure travelogue with stages in Genoa, Suez, Colombo, Singapore, Canton, Yokohama, Honolulu, San Francisco, New York and Brest.

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Zwischen Strom und Steppe

1939 · Movie · 85 min. · Germany

Direction Géza von Bolváry

Cast Attila Hörbiger · Heidemarie Hatheyer

Plot Everyone likes Silo, the tramp (Attila Hörbiger). He's sincere, faithful and clever, but there's nothing that can keep him in one place for long. One day, something terrible happens. Someone...

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The Ruler

1937 · Movie · 103 min. · Germany

Direction Veit Harlan

Cast Emil Jannings · Paul Wagner · Hannes Stelzer · Käthe Haack

Plot Matthias Clausen is the powerful leader of Clausen Works, an old and prosperous munitions firm. He falls in love with a secretary in the office, and his children conspire against...

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Le petit écart

1932 · Movie · 88 min. · Germany

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The Green Manuela

1923 · Movie · 135 min. · Germany

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The Informer

1929 · Movie · 83 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Arthur Robison

Cast Lya De Putti · Lars Hanson · Warwick Ward · Carl Harbord

Plot In Ireland, an IRA man betrays a killer to the police, thinking he is his mistress's lover.

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Once a Great Lady

1934 · Movie · 90 min. · Germany

Direction Gerhard Lamprecht

Cast Käthe von Nagy · Wolf Albach-Retty · Gretl Theimer · Werner Fuetterer

Plot A young woman working as a secretary for a Berlin car business tries to impress a rich Australian visitor by pretending she is a foreign countess.

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Musik für dich

1937 · Movie · 77 min. · Austria

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