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A spectacular action-adventure travelogue with stages in Genoa, Suez, Colombo, Singapore, Canton, Yokohama, Honolulu, San Francisco, New York and Brest.
A young painter in the academy hires as a model the daughter of a rich soap manufacturer and has her pose for a work based on the biblical Susannah and the Elders, which almost causes a scandal.
A German mechanic considers emigrating to the United States, but changes his mind when he falls in love with a local woman.
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On her way to work at a department store, the pretty cashier Grete encounters a man in a car who offers her a ride. Grete has no idea that he is not a chauffeur, as she initially believes, but Dr. Fred Werder, the co-owner of *Zeitspiegel*. The two meet again by chance when Grete enters a contest in the "Zeitspiegel."
Major industrialist Rimay fights a ruthless economic rivalry with competitor de Jong. The villainous Rimay tries to steal de Jong's Moroccan mines by inciting local Rif kabyles to rebel. Ellen Richter stars as Zoraja, navigating the high-stakes corporate and international conflict.
Hartwig gets by a strange coincidence confused by a prince with a certain Josef Döllinger in a luxurious restaurant. Hartwig is overjoyed, as he gets to know the dancer Garda Maro.
A scientist, Professor Jakob ten Brinken, interested in the laws of heredity, impregnates a prostitute in a laboratory with the semen of a hanged murderer. The prostitute conceives a female child who has no concept of love, whom the professor adopts. The girl, Alraune, suffers from obsessive sexuality and perverse relationships throughout her life. She learns of her unnatural origins and she avenges herself against the professor.
In Cairo, a quest for a coveted antiquity draws the heroine into a clandestine cult devoted to Osiris. What begins as intrigue turns perilous—abductions, conspiracies, and night-time chases through temples and tombs—until she fights to escape the sect’s grip.
The life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, during the years leading up to and during the French Revolution in which she was executed.
Dancing, sports and erotic pursuits are the main ingredients in this drama about the fate of this scorned and abandoned woman, Josefine, who falls for the selfish Fennhofer. This film is considered lost.
The film portrays the Imperial German Navy during the First World War, particularly the Battle of Jutland and is based on a novel by Helmut Lorenz.
One of the popular Weimar-era musical comedies not released in the US until after the Nazi takeover, this one has a Cinderella-type plot.
After the death of Alan Stanley, Maud Fergusson seeks revenge. On her behalf, the detective Hunt begins to investigate and proves that Murphy is responsible for the murder. Maud's revenge plan involves launching a newspaper campaign against Murphy, defaming and embarrassing him.
A tourist guide in Naples is taken on by a Viennese woman impressed by his singing, and who regards him as her protege. This film was released as a German version and English Version known as "The City of Song". Brigitte Helm once portrays a beautiful femme fatale who displays her affection and lust for her tourist guide which is paralleled with the main bodied theme of the early romanticist songs played throughout.
An unemployed man who plays a concertina gets involved with a band of crooks and tries to frustrate a kidnapping, in this farcical caper.
Fred Holme is looking for candidates for the beauty contest in his London newspaper. In Rome he discovered the most beautiful woman in the world, the young arts and craftswoman Lucia Sarlo.
This 'musical burlesque' tells about a stylish young gentleman who works as a so-called 'Festredner', a person who makes speeches at important events like marriages etc. for people who don't feel able to do it themselves. Willi lends his voice to a speech-impaired professor, but the baroness who falls in love with Hörbiger only does so because of Willi's voice, and this leads to all sorts of complications…
The Sweet Girl (German: Das Süße Mädel) is a 1926 German silent film directed by Manfred Noa.
Only You is a 1930 musical by Hermann Feiner and Willi Wolff starring Fritz Schulz and Walter Janssen.
This comedy pokes fun at the military exercises Germans were fond of doing in the lead up to the Great War.
A young student, Stephan, inherits shares in a coal mine from his father. The mine is no longer profitable, and Stephan needs money to finance his studies, so he takes up work in the mine.
Based on the play of the same name by Oskar Blumenthal and Gustav Kadelburg.
When an attractive maid in a garrison town becomes pregnant, she reveals that one of three soldiers stationed there who had been chasing after her, is responsible.
The film tells the story of an ambitious young man, Tom, who loves Grete, daughter of the manager of the national railroads; but Grete's father prefers Lund, an upright and uptight army officer. To prove his worth, Tom organizes a daring robbery of the nightly Bergen Express in the hopes of outwitting his rival, who's been assigned to track down the thieves.
As a young man, mustard manufacturer Ludwig Klinke had an affair with a dancer, the “Spanish Fly”. The dancer had a son and Klinke has been secretly paying maintenance ever since. Wimmer and Tiedemeier also had a relationship with the dancer. With the appearance of the dancer's supposed son, Heinrich Meisel, chaos breaks out.
King Nicolo through hit egoism and slackness has lost his fame and power is now deposed, completely alone and walks through his former empire, unrecognized, in constant fear of people whom are foreign to him.
Policemen singing a song.
