Soundtrack: Hans May
The best movies, series, and documentaries with a soundtrack by Hans May. Enjoy the titles that feature an unforgettable music.
The Love of Jeanne Ney
1927 · Movie · 100 min. · Germany
Direction Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Cast Édith Jéhanne · Uno Henning · Fritz Rasp · Brigitte Helm
Plot In the Crimea, the Reds and the Whites aren't done fighting, and Jeanne discovers that the man she loves is a Bolshevik (when he kills her father). Penniless, she returns...
7.2
114 votes
7.2
114 votes
Brighton Rock
1947 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Boulting
Cast Richard Attenborough · Carol Marsh · Hermione Baddeley · William Hartnell
Plot Pinkie Brown is a small-town hoodlum whose gang runs a protection racket based at Brighton race course. When Pinkie orders the murder of a rival, Fred, the police believe it...
6.5
338 votes
6.5
338 votes
The Stars Look Down
1940 · Movie · 110 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Carol Reed
Cast Michael Redgrave · Margaret Lockwood · Emlyn Williams · Nancy Price
Plot Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls in love with Jenny who gets...
6.4
56 votes
6.4
56 votes
Mayerling
1936 · Movie · 96 min. · France
Direction Anatole Litvak
Cast Charles Boyer · Danielle Darrieux · Marthe Régnier · Yolande Laffon
Plot Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, is fettered on all sides. He's bored; his father, the emperor, is domineering; his politics are more liberal than his father's, but he knows his...
6.2
34 votes
6.2
34 votes
The Wicked Lady
1945 · Movie · 104 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Leslie Arliss
Cast Margaret Lockwood · James Mason · Patricia Roc · Griffith Jones
Plot 17th-century beauty Barbara Worth starts her career of crime by stealing her best friend's bridegroom. Her next exploit is to recover gambling losses by donning mask and cloak and taking...
6.0
122 votes
6.0
122 votes
Madonna of the Seven Moons
1945 · Movie · 110 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Arthur Crabtree
Cast Phyllis Calvert · Stewart Granger · Patricia Roc · Peter Glenville
Plot In the early part of this century, Maddelena a teenage Italian girl, is attacked whilst walking in the woods. The attack leaves her mentally scarred and our story flashes forward...
5.9
47 votes
5.9
47 votes
Never Let Me Go
1953 · Movie · 94 min. · United States
Direction Delmer Daves
Cast Clark Gable · Gene Tierney · Bernard Miles · Richard Haydn
Plot Philip Sutherland is an American news writer stationed in Moscow since the war; while there he falls for a Russian ballet dancer, Marya Lamarkins, who, he finds out, learned English...
5.9
142 votes
5.9
142 votes
Rough Shoot
1953 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Robert Parrish
Cast Joel McCrea · Evelyn Keyes · Herbert Lom · Roland Culver
Plot U.S. Army Lt. Colonel Robert Taine and his wife Cecily live in a village in England. While hunting on some land he has recently purchased, he shoots a load of...
5.8
24 votes
5.8
24 votes
The Gypsy and the Gentleman
1958 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Joseph Losey
Cast Melina Mercouri · Keith Michell · Flora Robson · Patrick McGoohan
5.6
28 votes
5.6
28 votes
The Ghosts of Berkeley Square
1947 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Vernon Sewell
Cast Robert Morley · Felix Aylmer · Yvonne Arnaud · Claude Hulbert
Plot Ghosts are condemned to haunt a house until it is visited by a reigning monarch,
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Murder in Reverse
1945 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Montgomery Tully
Cast William Hartnell · Jimmy Hanley · Chili Bouchier · Brefni O'Rorke
Plot Tom Masterick, a dock worker, is wrongfully convicted of a murder charge. His death sentence is commuted to a long prison term. When released as an old man, he vows...
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Ein Lied geht um die Welt
1933 · Movie · 96 min. · Germany
Direction Richard Oswald
Cast Joseph Schmidt · Viktor de Kowa · Charlotte Ander · Carl de Vogt
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Uncensored
1942 · Movie · 83 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Anthony Asquith
Cast Eric Portman · Phyllis Calvert · Griffith Jones · Raymond Lovell
Plot During the Nazi occupation of Belgium during World War II, a Belgian resistance group revives the newspaper "La Libre Belgique" to expose and counter Nazi propaganda efforts to deceive the...
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Paradise Lost
1940 · Movie · 103 min. · France
Direction Abel Gance
Cast Fernand Gravey · Elvire Popesco · André Alerme · Monique Rolland
Plot In pre-World Ward I in Paris, a budding artist, Pierre LeBlanc, falls in love and marries Janine, a dressmaker's assistant. Pierre has a flair for designing clothes, and he and...
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A Tale of Five Cities
1951 · Movie · 86 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Romolo Marcellini · Emil E. Reinert · Wolfgang Staudte · Montgomery Tully
Cast Bonar Colleano · Barbara Kelly · Anne Vernon · Karin Himboldt
Plot An Englishman has been working in the US so long he now speaks with an American accent. He is drafted into the British Army during WWII but is injured and...
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The 20 Questions Murder Mystery
1950 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Paul L. Stein
Cast Robert Beatty · Rona Anderson · Clifford Evans · Stewart MacPherson
Plot BBC Radio's 20 Questions receives anonymous clues that connect to a series of murders. Reporters try and break the code before more deaths come to pass.
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Hell Is Sold Out
1951 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Michael Anderson
Cast Richard Attenborough · Mai Zetterling · Herbert Lom · Hermione Baddeley
Plot A book is sent to the publishers under the name of "Lom", a popular writer, long believed to be dead. The real "Lom" turns up & meets the new authoress...
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The Beggar from Cologne Cathedral
1927 · Movie · 101 min. · Germany
Direction Rolf Randolf
Cast Henry Stuart · Elza Temary · Carl de Vogt · Hanni Weisse
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Spring Song
1946 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Montgomery Tully
Cast Peter Graves · Carol Raye · Lawrence O'Madden · Leni Lynn
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Thunder Rock
1942 · Movie · 112 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Roy Boulting
Cast Michael Redgrave · Barbara Mullen · James Mason · Lilli Palmer
Plot David Charleston, once a world renowned journalist, now lives alone maintaining the Thunder Rock lighthouse in Lake Michigan. He doesn't cash is paychecks and has no contact other than the...
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