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

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,

Not rated

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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...

Not rated

Not rated

Ein Lied geht um die Welt

1933 · Movie · 96 min. · Germany

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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...

Not rated

Not rated

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...

Not rated

Not rated

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...

Not rated

Not rated

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.

Not rated

Not rated

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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Not rated

The Beggar from Cologne Cathedral

1927 · Movie · 101 min. · Germany

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Spring Song

1946 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom

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Not rated

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...

Not rated

Not rated