Direction: Lothar Mendes

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


The Man Who Could Work Miracles

1936 · Movie · 82 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lothar Mendes

Cast Roland Young · Ralph Richardson · Edward Chapman · Ernest Thesiger

Plot As a result of a discussion between a trio of gods over the true worthiness of Earth, a retiring British shop assistant is granted miraculous powers. His new powers are...

6.4

242 votes

6.4

242 votes

6.3

33 votes

Flight for Freedom

1943 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Lothar Mendes

Cast Rosalind Russell · Fred MacMurray · Herbert Marshall · Eduardo Ciannelli

Plot Fictionalized biography of Amelia Earhart (here called Tonie Carter). First, a flagwaving preface about air warfare in the Pacific; then flashing back to her first solo flight in 1932; whirlwind...

5.3

24 votes

5.3

24 votes

S.O.S. Die Insel der Tränen

1923 · Movie · min. · Germany

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Payment Deferred

1932 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Lothar Mendes

Cast Charles Laughton · Maureen O'Sullivan · Dorothy Peterson · Verree Teasdale

Plot Bank clerk William Marble is desperate for money to pay his family's bills. When his wealthy nephew visits, Marble asks him for a loan, but the young man refuses. Marble...

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Jew Süss

1934 · Movie · 108 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lothar Mendes

Cast Conrad Veidt · Benita Hume · Cedric Hardwicke · Frank Vosper

Plot A Jew seeks political power in order that he may use it to benefit the status of Jewry in an anti-Semitic order of society. Unlike the 1940 version, the 1934...

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Strangers in Love

1932 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

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The Walls Came Tumbling Down

1946 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Lothar Mendes

Cast Lee Bowman · Marguerite Chapman · Edgar Buchanan · George Macready

Plot Gilbert Archer, a Broadway gossip-columnist for a newspaper, learns that his best friend,a priest, has been murdered and one of the suspects is a pretty girl, Patricia Foster. In one...

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Tampico

1944 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Lothar Mendes

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Lynn Bari · Victor McLaglen · Robert Bailey

Plot Oil-tanker Captain Manson rescues Kathie Hall after her ship is sunk by a U-boat. He marries her. When his ship is sunk and she is suspected because she has no...

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The Marriage Playground

1929 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Lothar Mendes

Cast Mary Brian · Fredric March · Lilyan Tashman · Huntley Gordon

Plot Martin Boyne (Fredric March), a man in his forties, comes to Europe after 5 years, to meet Rose Sellers with who he has been distantly in love for years, exchanging...

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International Squadron

1941 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Seiler · Lothar Mendes

Cast Ronald Reagan · Olympe Bradna · James Stephenson · William Lundigan

Plot In 1941, an American flyer volunteers for the British RAF but must learn to be an obedient team-player rather than a risky thrill-seeking individualist.

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Dangerous Curves

1929 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Lothar Mendes

Cast Clara Bow · Richard Arlen · Kay Francis · David Newell

Plot A young bareback rider in a circus is in love with a trapeze artist, but he has two problems: he drinks too much and he's fallen under the spell of...

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Ladies' Man

1931 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Lothar Mendes

Cast William Powell · Kay Francis · Carole Lombard · Gilbert Emery

Plot A society gigolo goes after a rich mother and her daughter, but tries to find true happiness with his girlfriend, who is neither rich nor in "society."

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Luxury Liner

1933 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Lothar Mendes

Cast George Brent · Zita Johann · Vivienne Osborne · Alice White

Plot A multifaceted, Robert Altman-esque look into the various classes of cruise liner society. Alice White, of Employees Entrance, puts in a worthy showing, as does George Brent as a jilted...

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Street of Sin

1928 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Mauritz Stiller · Ludwig Berger · Lothar Mendes · Josef von Sternberg

Cast Emil Jannings · Fay Wray · Olga Baclanova · Ernest W. Johnson

Plot The story is set in the seamy Soho section of London, where burglar Basher Bill shares bed and board with his sluttish girlfriend Annie. As wicked as they come, Bill...

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Paramount on Parade

1930 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Dorothy Arzner · Otto Brower · Edmund Goulding · Victor Heerman

Cast Maurice Chevalier · Richard Arlen · Jean Arthur · George Bancroft

Plot A musical revue that basically has Paramount stars and contract-players doing things some had never done on screen, and wouldn't again; such as Ruth Chatteron , in a French-café setting...

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Interference

1928 · Movie · min. · United States

Direction Lothar Mendes · Roy Pomeroy

Cast Evelyn Brent · Clive Brook · William Powell · Brandon Hurst

Plot Paramount's 1st ALL TALKIE Reported killed in action, Philip Voaze(William Powell) lives under an assumed name in London. Deborah Kane(Evelyn Brent) a former love, discovers him and tries to blackmail...

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