Screenplay: Hans Szekely

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Hans Szekely. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Asphalt

1929 · Movie · 90 min. · Germany

Direction Joe May

Cast Albert Steinrück · Else Heller · Gustav Fröhlich · Betty Amann

Plot 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...

7.0

194 votes

7.0

194 votes

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

Arise, My Love

1940 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Mitchell Leisen

Cast Claudette Colbert · Ray Milland · Dennis O'Keefe · George Zucco

Plot In 1939, American Tom Martin, who fought in the Spanish Civil War, awaits execution at the hands of the Fascist victors when reporter Augusta 'Gusto' Nash, for a scoop, aids...

6.6

432 votes

6.6

432 votes

Mother Hummingbird

1929 · Movie · 75 min. · France

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Gloria

1931 · Movie · 85 min. · France

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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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Manolescu, the Prince of Adventures

1929 · Movie · 101 min. · Germany

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Hungarian Rhapsody

1928 · Movie · 97 min. · Germany

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The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrovna

1929 · Movie · 102 min. · Germany

Direction Hanns Schwarz

Cast Brigitte Helm · Francis Lederer · Warwick Ward · Lya Jan

Plot Helm, who was also great in Fritz Lang's Metropolis, goes from ice queen to awakened woman in love with fluidity.

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The Singing City

1930 · Movie · 98 min. · Germany

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Dramatic School

1938 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Robert B. Sinclair

Cast Luise Rainer · Paulette Goddard · Alan Marshal · Lana Turner

Plot Aspiring actress Louise Muban attends the prestigious Paris School of Drama during the day and works at a dreary factory assembling gas meters at night. She daydreams and "acts" her...

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Namenlose Helden (S)

1925 · Movie · 15 min. · Germany

Direction Curtis Bernhardt

Cast Marga Becker · Max Grünberg · Annemarie Hase · Heinz Hilpert

Plot A family suffers greatly during the First World War.

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Dagfin

1926 · Movie · min. · Germany

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I by Day, You by Night

1932 · Movie · 98 min. · Germany

Direction Ludwig Berger

Cast Käthe von Nagy · Willy Fritsch · Amanda Lindner · Julius Falkenstein

Plot A nightclub waiter and a manicurist share the same room, he sleeps there by day and she by night. They've never met , but they can't stand each other. Then...

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The Lie of Nina Petrovna

1937 · Movie · 81 min. · France

Direction Viktor Tourjansky

Cast Isa Miranda · Fernand Gravey · Aimé Clariond · Annie Vernay

Plot Nina Petrovna is a striking Russian beauty coming to Vienna as a mistress of Baron Engrem (Clariond), who is a wealthy and mature man. In Vienna she meets young and...

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Gloria

1931 · Movie · 90 min. · Germany

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Paris Calling

1941 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Edwin L. Marin

Cast Elisabeth Bergner · Randolph Scott · Basil Rathbone · Gale Sondergaard

Plot Marianne Jannetier, a well-to-do Parisian, engaged to Andre Benoit, a high-ranking government official, flees the city when the goose-stepping Nazi storm-troopers arrive. When her mother dies on the road to...

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