Direction: Joe May
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Joe May. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Titles found: 40
Confession
1937 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Joe May
Cast Kay Francis · Ian Hunter · Basil Rathbone · Jane Bryan
7.2
35 votes
7.2
35 votes
Direction Joe May
Cast Albert Steinrück · Else Heller · Gustav Fröhlich · Betty Amann
Synopsis Asphalt is set in Berlin. A well-dressed woman (Betty Amann) steals a precious stone from a jewellery shop. She tries to seduce the policeman (Gustav Fröhlich) who catches her, and he gradually succumbs to her charms.
7.0
194 votes
7.0
194 votes
Homecoming
1928 · Movie · 120 min. · Germany
Direction Joe May
Cast Lars Hanson · Dita Parlo · Gustav Fröhlich · Theodor Loos
Synopsis Following World War I, after a long imprisonment, two German prisoner-of-war soldiers escape from a Siberian lead-mine. Karl manages to reach Germany before Richard, and is sheltered by Anna, wife of Richard. While Richard is still on his homeward trek,...
6.8
34 votes
6.8
34 votes
The Indian Tomb: Part II, the Tiger of Bengal
1921 · Movie · 100 min. · Germany
Direction Joe May
Cast Olaf Fønss · Mia May · Conrad Veidt · Erna Morena
6.6
58 votes
6.6
58 votes
The House of the Seven Gables
1940 · Movie · 89 min. · United States
Direction Joe May
Cast George Sanders · Margaret Lindsay · Vincent Price · Dick Foran
Synopsis In 1828, the bankrupt Pyncheon family fight over Seven Gables, the ancestral mansion. To obtain the house, Jaffrey Pyncheon obtains his brother Clifford's false conviction for murder. Hepzibah, Clifford's sweet fiancée, patiently waits twenty years for his release, whereupon Clifford...
6.2
74 votes
6.2
74 votes
The Indian Tomb: Part I, the Mission of the Yogi
1921 · Movie · 120 min. · Germany
Direction Joe May
Cast Olaf Fønss · Mia May · Conrad Veidt · Erna Morena
6.2
38 votes
6.2
38 votes
The Invisible Man Returns
1940 · Movie · 81 min. · United States
Direction Joe May
Cast Cedric Hardwicke · Vincent Price · Nan Grey · John Sutton
Synopsis Framed for the murder of his brother, Geoffrey Radcliffe is scheduled to hang. After a visit from his friend Dr. Frank Griffin, he vanishes mysteriously from prison. Police inspector Sampson realizes that Griffin is the brother of the original Invisible...
5.8
315 votes
5.8
315 votes
Hilde Warren and Death
1917 · Movie · 80 min. · Germany
Direction Joe May
Cast Mia May · Bruno Kastner · Georg John · Hans Mierendorff
5.0
21 votes
5.0
21 votes
Hochzeitsreise zu dritt
1932 · Movie · 92 min. · Austria
Direction Erich Schmidt · Joe May
Cast Brigitte Helm · Oscar Karlweis · Susi Lanner · Oskar Sima
Synopsis The new bride of a Viennese youth is so demanding about her career that she lets him go solo on the honeymoon so she can do an engagement.Left on his own, he finds an unpretentious young lady better suited to...
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Dactylo se marie
1934 · Movie · 85 min. · France
Direction Joe May · René Pujol
Cast Marie Glory · Jean Murat · Armand Bernard · Mady Berry
Synopsis A former typist at a bank ,having married her elegant young boss and gone on a honeymoon, needs to return to work when the bank runs into trouble, and is separated for a while from her new husband.
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Society Smugglers
1939 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Joe May
Cast Preston Foster · Irene Hervey · Walter Woolf King · Frank Jenks
Synopsis The Treasury Department plants a female agent in the office of a luggage company that is suspected of smuggling diamonds.
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Tout pour l'amour
1933 · Movie · 93 min. · France
Direction H.G. Clouzot · Joe May
Cast Jan Kiepura · Claudie Clèves · Charles Dechamps · Lucien Baroux
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That's All That Matters
1931 · Movie · 88 min. · Germany
Direction Joe May
Cast Nora Gregor · Harry Liedtke · Ursula Grabley · Robert Thoeren
Synopsis A husband takes his wife to a nightclub in Berlin. While there he breaks the news to her that he thinks they should divorce, and leaves her with a young girl on his arm.
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Ein Lied für dich
1933 · Movie · 89 min. · Germany
Direction Joe May
Cast Jan Kiepura · Jenny Jugo · Paul Kemp · Ida Wüst
Synopsis During a concert tour, famous tenor Riccardo Gatti meets Lixie at an Aida rehearsal and takes her for a ballet dancer.
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The Man in the Cellar
1914 · Movie · 64 min. · Germany
Direction Joe May
Cast Ernst Reicher · Max Landa · Olga Engl · Alice Hechy
Synopsis Installment in the popular Stuart Webbs detective series. Directed by Joe May.
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Two Hearts in Waltz Time
1934 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Carmine Gallone · Joe May
Cast Carl Brisson · Frances Day · Bert Coote · Oscar Asche
Synopsis A composer at work on an operetta falls in love with a girl, without realizing that she is the star of the opera company.
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Son altesse l'amour
1931 · Movie · 91 min. · Germany
Direction Robert Péguy · Erich Schmidt · Joe May
Cast Annabella · André Alerme · Roger Tréville · André Lefaur
Synopsis Fred Leroy is a wealthy industrialist, part of a large family-owned corporation. Fred has fallen for Annette, a comely cabaret bartender. He proposes to her, much to the horror of his family, which considers Annette and her unsophisticated father far...
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The Immortal Vagabond
1930 · Movie · 97 min. · Germany
Direction Gustav Ucicky · Joe May
Cast Liane Haid · Gustav Fröhlich · Hans Adalbert Schlettow · Karl Gerhardt
Synopsis Prevented from wedding a postman's daughter( (her father prefers she marry a farmer) a Tyrol schoolteacher succeeds instead in having an opera of his accepted in Vienna.But this isn't the happiness he wanted, he becomes a hobo.
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Hit the Road
1941 · Movie · 61 min. · United States
Direction Joe May
Cast Gladys George · Barton MacLane · Billy Halop · Huntz Hall
Synopsis Kids look to get revenge when their fathers are all killed in a mob war.
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Die Silhouette des Teufels
1917 · Movie · 73 min. · Germany
Direction Felix Basch · Joe May
Cast Bruno Decarli · Max Gülstorff · Mia May · Heinrich Schroth
Synopsis Mia Hauer's father is fatally injured in a mining accident. The boss of the mine takes care of Mia. Some years later they marry. But when Mia meets with the violin virtuoso Carlos Valdez she is spellbound.
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