Direction: Berthold Viertel

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


The Passing of the Third Floor Back

1935 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Berthold Viertel

Cast Conrad Veidt · René Ray · Frank Cellier · Anna Lee

Plot In a London boarding house, a number of lives exist precariously on the edge of disaster or despair. Stasia, the housemaid, hungers for happiness but is treated like a drudge...

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Rhodes of Africa

1936 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

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The Man from Yesterday

1932 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Berthold Viertel

Cast Claudette Colbert · Clive Brook · Charles Boyer · Andy Devine

Plot A woman whose husband never came home from World War I finds herself in love with her doctor. She travels with him to Switzerland, and as they check into the...

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The Wiser Sex

1932 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Berthold Viertel · Victor Viertel

Cast Claudette Colbert · Melvyn Douglas · Lilyan Tashman · William Boyd

Plot What is worse for a defender of justice than to find oneself charged and tried for murder and condemned to be executed on the chair? Yet, this is what happens...

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Little Friend

1934 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Berthold Viertel

Cast Matheson Lang · Lydia Sherwood · Nova Pilbeam · Arthur Margetson

Plot A girl becomes an unwilling witness in her parents' scandalous divorce case.

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Man Trouble

1930 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Berthold Viertel

Cast Milton Sills · Dorothy Mackaill · Kenneth MacKenna · Sharon Lynn

Plot A hard-boiled nightclub owner saves a beautiful young girl from drowning. He promptly falls in love with her, but she prefers a younger, more-genteel lover.

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The Magnificent Lie

1931 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Berthold Viertel

Cast Ruth Chatterton · Ralph Bellamy · Stuart Erwin · Françoise Rosay

Plot A nightclub singer, taking pity on a blind soldier, pretends that she is the woman he once loved before he was wounded.

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