Screenplay: Robert A. Stemmle

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Robert A. Stemmle. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Desire

1936 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast Marlene Dietrich · Gary Cooper · John Halliday · William Frawley

Plot Madeleine steals a string of pearls in Paris and uses US engineer Tom, who is driving on his vacation to spain, to get the pearls out of France, but getting...

7.0

758 votes

7.0

758 votes

Almost Angels

1962 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Steve Previn

Cast Vincent Winter · Sean Scully · Peter Weck · Hans Holt

Plot Supported avidly by his mother and more reluctantly at first by his father, a working-class Austrian boy joins the Vienna Choirboys, where he proves to be unusually talented.

6.8

23 votes

6.8

23 votes

The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes

1937 · Movie · 80 min. · Germany

Direction Karl Hartl

Cast Hans Albers · Heinz Rühmann · Marieluise Claudius · Hansi Knoteck

Plot The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes (German:Der Mann, Der Sherlock Holmes War) is a German mystery comedy of 1937, directed by Karl Hartl. Hans Albers plays the detective Morris Flynn,...

5.9

28 votes

5.9

28 votes

The Strange Countess

1961 · Movie · 95 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

5.4

40 votes

5.4

40 votes

Old Shatterhand

1964 · Movie · 122 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Hugo Fregonese

Cast Lex Barker · Guy Madison · Pierre Brice · Daliah Lavi

Plot Renegades trying to get the army to abandon their fort get the Indians addicted to whiskey, then convince them to attack and drive out the soldiers.

4.5

74 votes

4.5

74 votes

The Monster of London City

1964 · Movie · 90 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Edwin Zbonek

Cast Hansjörg Felmy · Marianne Koch · Dietmar Schönherr · Hans Nielsen

Plot Then the spirit of Jack the Ripper seems to be very much alive in 1960s London as a series of brutal slayings by the Monster of London City has Scotland...

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Affaire Blum

1948 · Movie · 100 min. · Germany

Direction Erich Engel

Cast Hans Christian Blech · Ernst Waldow · Paul Bildt · Helmuth Rudolph

Plot Dr. Blum, a Jewish manufacturer living in Germany, is falsely accused of killing his booker. Even when the real killer's identity becomes evident, the state prosecutor refuses to accept Blum's...

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The Border of Sin

1951 · Movie · 87 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Robert A. Stemmle

Cast Dieter Borsche · Inge Egger · Peter Mosbacher · Jan Hendriks

Plot Die Suendige Glenze (Border of Sin) is set in a shabby, poverty-stricken German border town. Facing starvation, a group of schoolchildren participate in a profitable smuggling operation. The village's new...

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Abbiamo vinto!

1951 · Movie · 84 min. · Italy

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Unter den tausend Laternen

1952 · Movie · 94 min. · France

Direction Erich Engel

Cast Michel Auclair · Gisela Trowe · Hanna Rucker · Inge Meisel

Plot This German drama tells the story of a musician who is killed and leaves his work unfinished. His apprentice is cleared of the murder and turns out to be the...

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The Big Game

1942 · Movie · 85 min. · Germany

Direction Robert A. Stemmle

Cast René Deltgen · Gustav Knuth · Heinz Engelmann · Maria Andergast

Plot Werner Fehling is an excellent center forward. As a substitute for a sick player, he presents himself as the promising soccer club Gloria 03, as he is called. But it...

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Das kunstseidene Mädchen

1960 · Movie · 98 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Julien Duvivier

Cast Giulietta Masina · Gustav Knuth · Gert Fröbe · Agnes Fink

Plot Doris Putzke is fond of dating men in her quest for finding the perfect one. In her brief relationships, she goes from one disillusionment to another, constantly deluding herself about...

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Die schönen Tage von Aranjuez

1933 · Movie · 101 min. · Germany

Direction Johannes Meyer

Cast Brigitte Helm · Gustaf Gründgens · Wolfgang Liebeneiner · Kurt Vespermann

Plot The impostor Olga is passing herself off as the Countes of Beaumont and steals a valuable pearl necklace. She wants to meet her accomplice Alexander in Spain, but the police...

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So ein Flegel

1934 · Movie · 84 min. · Germany

Direction Robert A. Stemmle

Cast Heinz Rühmann · Ellen Frank · Inge Conradi · Annemarie Sörensen

Plot The famous writer Hans Pfeiffer has problems in directing his latest play about a high-school class. He's told the reason is that he never attended a regular school, so he...

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Jons und Erdme

1959 · Movie · 112 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

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Lucky Kids

1936 · Movie · 93 min. · Germany

Direction Paul Martin

Cast Lilian Harvey · Willy Fritsch · Paul Kemp · Oskar Sima

Plot Journalist Gil Taylor has to write a report about the night court, when Ann Gardens case is heard. The young lady seems to be homeless. Gil tries to help her....

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Pyramid of the Sun God

1965 · Movie · 102 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Robert Siodmak

Cast Lex Barker · Gerard Barray · Rik Battaglia · Michèle Girardon

Plot Mexico, 1864. The country is divided by the struggle against the French occupation and emperor Maximilian. The German doctor Karl Sternau and his friend Andreas Hasenpfeffer come to love the...

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Der Rebell

1932 · Movie · 82 min. · Germany

Direction Curtis Bernhardt · Edwin H. Knopf · Luis Trenker

Cast Luis Trenker · Luise Ullrich · Victor Varconi · Ludwig Stössel

Plot A young medical student returns to his Tyrolean home to find out that Napoleon's troops have taken over the area and that his mother and sister have been murdered.

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The Mad Executioners

1963 · Movie · 94 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

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Curse of the Hidden Vault

1964 · Movie · 90 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Franz Josef Gottlieb

Cast Harald Leipnitz · Judith Dornys · Rudolf Forster · Werner Peters

Plot Mobsters conspire to loot another criminal's treasure secured in an enormous booby-trapped vault.

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