Direction: Joe May

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Joe May. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Confession

1937 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

7.2

35 votes

7.2

35 votes

Asphalt

1929 · Movie · 90 min. · Germany

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

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

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

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

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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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