Soundtrack: Willy Schmidt-Gentner

The best movies, series, and documentaries with a soundtrack by Willy Schmidt-Gentner. Enjoy the titles that feature an unforgettable music.


Masquerade in Vienna

1934 · Movie · 90 min. · Austria

Direction Willi Forst

Cast Paula Wessely · Anton Walbrook · Peter Petersen · Walter Janssen

Plot Vienna 1905: After a carnival party the famous painter Heidenick draws his otherwise engaged girlfriend Anita Helfer with very few clothes on, only blurs her face. The image makes it...

7.0

57 votes

7.0

57 votes

Homecoming

1928 · Movie · 120 min. · Germany

Direction Joe May

Cast Lars Hanson · Dita Parlo · Gustav Fröhlich · Theodor Loos

Plot Following World War I, after a long imprisonment, two German prisoner-of-war soldiers escape from a Siberian lead-mine. Karl manages to reach Germany before Richard, and is sheltered by Anna, wife...

6.8

34 votes

6.8

34 votes

The Man Who Cheated Life (The Student of Prague)

1926 · Movie · 134 min. · Germany

Direction Henrik Galeen

Cast Fritz Alberti · Agnes Esterhazy · Ferdinand von Alten · Conrad Veidt

Plot For Balduin, going out to beer parties with his fellow students and fighting out disputes at the tip of the sword have lost their charms. He wants to find love;...

6.6

149 votes

6.6

149 votes

The Stationmaster

1940 · Movie · 92 min. · Germany

Direction Gustav Ucicky

Cast Heinrich George · Hilde Krahl · Siegfried Breuer · Hans Holt

Plot When two russian captains of cavalry came to a German post station one of them recalls what happened long time ago. He begins to tell the story: Ten years ago...

6.5

21 votes

6.5

21 votes

Der Verlorene

1951 · Movie · 98 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Peter Lorre

Cast Peter Lorre · Karl John · Helmuth Rudolph · Johanna Hofer

Plot German scientist murders his fiancée during World War II when he learns that she has been selling the results of his secret research to the enemy.

6.4

298 votes

6.4

298 votes

Throw of the Dice

1929 · Movie · 74 min. · India

Direction Franz Osten

Cast Seeta Devi · Himansu Rai · Charu Roy · Modhu Bose

Plot A Throw of Dice (Prapancha Pash) is a 1929 silent film by German-born director, Franz Osten, based on an episode from the Indian epic The Mahabharata. Franz Osten made 19...

6.0

47 votes

6.0

47 votes

A Daughter of Destiny

1928 · Movie · 108 min. · Germany

5.5

38 votes

5.5

38 votes

Carnival Story

1954 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Kurt Neumann

Cast Anne Baxter · Steve Cochran · Lyle Bettger · George Nader

Plot In search of better business, a big American carnival opens in Munich, Germany. Joe the barker befriends attractive pickpocket Willie, finds her a job, and beds her. Then high diver...

5.3

43 votes

5.3

43 votes

Caprice de princesse

1934 · Movie · 85 min. · France

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Napoleon at St. Helena

1929 · Movie · 100 min. · Germany

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Die Weber

1927 · Movie · 93 min. · Germany

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That's All That Matters

1931 · Movie · 88 min. · Germany

Direction Joe May

Cast Nora Gregor · Harry Liedtke · Ursula Grabley · Robert Thoeren

Plot A husband takes his wife to a nightclub in Berlin. While there he breaks the news to her that he thinks they should divorce, and leaves her with a young...

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The Flute Concert of Sans-Souci

1930 · Movie · 88 min. · Germany

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Operetta

1940 · Movie · 107 min. · Germany

Direction Willi Forst · Karl Hartl

Cast Willi Forst · Maria Holst · Dora Komar · Paul Hörbiger

Plot A musician is offered a job in Vienna as stage director, but his disagreements with Maria, the aristocratic opera manager, end in abrupt firing in spite of a mutual attraction....

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Hurra! Ich lebe!

1928 · Movie · 77 min. · Germany

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Erzherzog Johanns große Liebe

1950 · Movie · 97 min. · Austria

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The Angel with the Trumpet

1948 · Movie · 138 min. · Austria

Direction Karl Hartl

Cast Paula Wessely · Helen Thimig · Hedwig Bleibtreu · Alma Seidler

Plot A long time-span of Austrian history (from the late 19th century to the years after world war II) is reflected in the ups and downs of a family of piano-makers...

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Circus of Love

1954 · Movie · 93 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Kurt Neumann

Cast Eva Bartok · Curd Jürgens · Bernhard Wicki · Robert Freitag

Plot Lilli is broke. Her friend Toni introduces her into the world of the circus, with which later goes on a trip. During the trip Lilli falls for the daring circus...

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Vienna Waltzes

1951 · Movie · 102 min. · Austria

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