Direction: Richard Oswald

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


Eerie Tales

1919 · Movie · 112 min. · Germany

Direction Richard Oswald

Cast Anita Berber · Conrad Veidt · Reinhold Schünzel · Hugo Döblin

Synopsis After the old-books shop closes, portraits of the Strumpet, Death, and the Devil come to life and amuse themselves by reading stories--about themselves, of course, in various guises and eras. Four of the stories are literary horror stories (one by...

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Lucretia Borgia

1922 · Movie · 75 min. · Germany

Direction Richard Oswald

Cast Conrad Veidt · Liane Haid · Albert Basserman · Paul Wegener

Synopsis Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, has three adult children: Juan, who is virtuous and has a sweetheart who is a woman of the people, Lucrezia, who is virtuous and wants to marry Alfonso, and Cesare, who is wicked and lusts...

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Tempête sur l'Asie

1938 · Movie · 95 min. · France

Direction Richard Oswald

Cast Conrad Veidt · Sessue Hayakawa · Madeleine Robinson · Lucas Gridoux

Synopsis An adventurer tries to seize oil deposits in Mongolia.

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Flower of Hawaii

1933 · Movie · 86 min. · Germany

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Daughter of Evil

1930 · Movie · 103 min. · Germany

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The Merry-Go-Round

1920 · Movie · 65 min. · Germany

Direction Richard Oswald

Cast Asta Nielsen · Conrad Veidt · Eduard von Winterstein · Irmgard Bern

Synopsis Drama about street walker Elena who marries shop keeper Albert. When her former pimp Peter shows up, her life is ruined. She shoots him and poisons herself.

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A Crazy Night

1927 · Movie · 70 min. · Germany

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A Night of Horror

1916 · Movie · 56 min. · Germany

Direction Richard Oswald · Arthur Robison

Cast Emil Jannings · Werner Krauss · Laurence Köhler · Hans Mierendorff

Synopsis An extremely jealous artist slips into a monkey costume and kills all those men who come too close to his wife, another artist.

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Tales of the Uncanny

1932 · Movie · 89 min. · Germany

Direction Richard Oswald

Cast Paul Wegener · Maria Koppenhöfer · Blandine Ebinger · Eugen Klöpfer

Synopsis A crazed scientist murders his wife, walls her up, then flees. A reporter sets out to track him down.

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The Uncanny House

1916 · Movie · 40 min. · Germany

Direction Richard Oswald

Cast Werner Krauss · Alfred Breiderhoff · Lupu Pick · Kathe Oswald

Synopsis A young unemployed man gets a job as a private secretary by chance. A good salary, a first-class apartment - but things are not going right in his new residence. Notes warn him, a beautiful woman appears in the mirror,...

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Die Rothausgasse

1928 · Movie · 61 min. · Germany

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The Lovable Cheat

1949 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Richard Oswald

Cast Charles Ruggles · Peggy Ann Garner · Richard Ney · Alan Mowbray

Synopsis A businessman and his partner are about to go bankrupt when the partner gets an idea to sail away and somehow find the money they need. Meanwhile, the one left behind has to figure out how to put off all...

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Vienna, City of Song

1930 · Movie · 111 min. · Germany

Direction Richard Oswald

Cast Charlotte Ander · Paul Morgan · Igo Sym · Max Hansen

Synopsis Steffi is in love with the unemployed musician Pepi. Still, her father the musical instrument retailer, Ignaz Korn, wants her to marry one of his card playing buddies, the butcher Burgstaller. When the typesetter, Cäsar Grün, purposely misprints a winning...

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Laws of Love

1927 · Documentary · 110 min. · Germany

Direction Magnus Hirschfeld · Richard Oswald

Cast Leo Connard · Magnus Hirschfeld · Fritz Schuz · Reinhold Schünzel

Synopsis A documentary by Magnus Hirschfeld, which contains a shortened version of Different From the Others (1919).

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