Walter Rilla

Grisly strangulations in London alert Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard to the possibility that fiendish Fu Manchu may not after all be dead, even...

The son of a British racehorse owner conspires with a bookie to ruin the odds of his father's thoroughbred winning an important event.

An elaborate bank robbery takes place and the gangsters succeed although the FBI had been warned. Jerry Cotton, who is considered accountable for...

Based on an actual murder case in Frankfurt after the war, the film tells the story of the murder of Rosemarie, a prostitute, and how she ended up...

Mommsen Gymnasium director Taft secretly places his nephew as a spy with the difficult class of Pepe Nietnagel. During the celebration for the 100th...

A mineral is discovered which can turn metal to gold or humans into zombies. When the mineral is stolen, secret agents are sent in to get the mineral...

A ring of counterfeiters is flooding the country with phony money, and suspicion falls upon a wealthy playboy who may--or may not--have amnesia.

The first victim is the butler of South African millionaire Wexler, who hires hard-hitting private eye Steve Martin for protection. Once at...

Sumuru, the beautiful leader of the all-female kingdom of Femina, plans to use her women to take over the world.

An American reporter smells a story when he is stranded in an Iron Curtain country where the local dictator is using gamma rays to transform children...

Vienna, 1956. After Soviet tanks crush the Hungarian uprising, soldier-of-fortune Michael Reynolds is hired to help a threatened Hungarian scientist...

A young sailor finds himself trapped in the labyrinthine mansion of his occultist uncle, along with a number of eccentric and mysterious relatives...

Yankee charter pilot Morris inadvertently finds himself in the midst of thieves who have purloined a costly antique jade figure from an exhibit. He...

A serial-killer is murdering the ladies of a night club. Detective Gray is seeking for the killer but can only find a lot of gangsters. And the...

The evil Dr. Mabuse develops a death ray with which he threatens the world.

British Captain Terence Stevenson accepts an assignment even more dangerous than his everyday job of defusing undetonated bombs. Fluent in Romanian...

John Forrest is anticipating a quiet retirement spent penning detective fiction when he learns that a priceless collection of jewels belonging to a...

A scruffy garbage boy becomes the pupil of famed gunfighter Talby, and the stage for confrontation is set when the gunman overruns the boy's town...

Private eye Edward Mercer travels to Venice to locate a man due a reward for his aid in the war. Shortly after arriving, he becomes the prime suspect...

A British colonial policeman in Africa investigates a murder in a hospital up river.

An Italian engineer who had made a strategically important invention to ward off enemy aircraft is killed in a robbery. As the plans have presumably...

An archaeologist stumbles into the territory of an evil crime syndicate and struggles to set things right.

The romantic story of Hungarian pianist Franz Liszt, whose scandalous love affair forced him to abandon his adoring audiences.

An extravagant comedy with Heinz Rühmann.

A troupe of French actors on tour in Normandy become involved in the events of WWII.

A scientist experimenting with suspended animation decides to use himself as a test subject. Before he is frozen, his wife is killed, and he is...

A financier plots to become the richest man in the world by marrying off his daughter to the son of an Arab sheik.

Nick, an American gambler, arrives in San Paolo and falls in love with Colleen, an American tourist, after she loses all of her money at the casino....

Candlelight in Algeria is a 1944 British war film directed by George King and starring James Mason, Carla Lehmann and Raymond Lovell. This drama...

In this musical, a tempermental opera singer falls in love with a hearing-impaired young woman.

A newspaper reporter finds himself drawn into the aftermath of a racetrack robbery.

France 1944: American pilot Philip Sturgess is shot down but found by a resistance group. In the neighborhood Sturgess meets another American and...

An elderly Jewish man from Manchester, travels to Nazi Germany to seek the mother of a young German refugee that has attempted suicide. In Germany,...

Rupp (Jannings) is a former butcher, made rich in the meat packing industry as a result of the reversal of fortunes brought on by WWI. He is crude,...

Bank director Ernst Rose, owner of the Hamburg bank Traven & Co., is asked to go to the airport earlier than expected to pick up his daughter Silvia....

After the tragic death from malaria of her beloved husband his rich widow Helga Vanroh travels restlessly around various Mediterranean countries. In...

Thomas Mann's witty and intimate story of a irresistible scoundrel.

Mrs. Erlynne, a mistress once expelled by London society, returns from America after years with the desire to regain a foothold in these circles.

A young man living in Africa is send to Hamburg by his parents to learn about business. There, he falls in love with the mistress of a friend.

The Grimm brothers Wilhelm and Jacob, known for their literary works in the nineteenth century, have their lives dramatized. Wilhelm fights to write...

Dr. Mabuse has been locked away for years in an insane asylum. Suddenly crimes start occurring and no one knows the culprit. A detective goes to...

A melodrama about a painter who is infected with syphilis, refuses treatment, turns to the use instead of narcotics, and withers away.

The fate of a French aristocrat is revealed in this historical costume drama, who, in 1792, finds herself confronted with the choice of either...

The already successful tenor Mattei is discovered after he already retired into private life. Der Wiener Staatsoper place a significant part in this...

Andy and Sebastian want to make a lot of money in a quick and easy way. Inspired by the movies, they become private investigators. Their first case...

Lydia is a spoiled young woman who thinks she can get anything for money. One day she causes an accident in which a motorcyclist is killed. At the...

The story of a famous chamber singer, who finds in life every humiliation and intrigue he sings about on stage.

German silent film

Dr. Stefan Donat, a doctor from Frankfurt, unexpectedly becomes the sole heir to his wife Agnes' estate after she dies of a terminal illness, even...

In 1908, Sultan Abdul Hamid rules the Turkish Empire, but he is faced with the threat of revolt by the Young Turk party. He allows Hilmi Pasha, the...

The film starts with a woman on the run from her millionaire husband giving birth to a daughter in the home of a washerwoman. The woman dies in...

Captain Justin Mollenard works for a company that sells armaments to the Far East. After an eventful stay in Shanghai, where he and his cargo are the...

A musical-comedy directed by Carl Boese

Based on the play by Lion Feuchtwanger.

A young woman leaves behind her job, home and family to try to make it in the movie business. Features cameos from about three dozen German film...

The film biography of Queen Victoria focusing initially on the early years of her reign with her marriage to Prince Albert and her subsequent rule...

Pontresina, Switzerland, at the beginning of the 20th century. A ski jumping competition is about to take place.

Continuing the story of 'Victoria the Great'.

A French violinist saves his beloved princess from the Russian revolution..

Ivan Petrov has one weakness in his life, and one love: his little black-eyed daughter, Tania. In fact, his entire career is devoted to her future...

Adventure film directed by Harold Huth.

Relations between middle-aged businessman Arthur Dahlberg and his young wife Anja are not at their best. So it occurred to them to leave their...

The likeable and carefree Grand Duke of Abacco is in dire straits. There is no money left to service the State's debt; the main creditor is looking...

a movie by Heinz Paul

An unknown guest checks into an obscure hotel. He is a burly but well-dressed gentleman carrying an umbrella and a tree frog in a glass. This man...

Children's Souls Accuse You is a 1927 German silent drama film directed by Curtis Bernhardt and starring Albert Steinrück, Nathalie Lissenko and...

Squire Pierre St. Laurent returns from wars in India to 17th-century provincial France to find his estate confiscated by governor Narbonne, for back...

An assortment of international criminals plans to steal priceless Egyptian artifacts from a Cairo museum. MGM remake of Asphalt Jungle set in Egypt.

Did an 18-year-old immigrant from the slums murder his father in cold blood? The twelve jurors must find a unanimous verdict.

A gang of clever thieves kill a wealthy woman in hopes of stealing her gems. But the thieves aren't clever enough to ascertain the location of those...

Circus themed films usually provides a thrilling drama. The relatively obscure "Schatten der Manege" provides just what you'd expect. Doing the...

Scampolo is a young, poor girl who lives on the island of Ischia. She falls in love with a young architect who hopes to win a design competition....

Film by Waschneck.

Girl dressed up as a boy falls in love with a painter.

The spirit of the evil Dr. Mabuse takes over the body of a famous professor. The professor/Dr. Mabuse then begins a new crime wave that terrorizes...

During the eighteenth century the Empress of Russia sends her lover to kidnap her rival for the throne.

Gentlemen Among Themselves (German: Die fidele Herrenpartie or Herren unter sich) is a 1929 German silent comedy film directed by Rudolf Walther-Fein...

The gorgeous 40-year-old Elsie Lindtner lives in a beautiful house, and is married to a respectable university professor. And yet, there’s...

"How to Stay Young and Beautiful - Marital Secrets" is a German silent film from 1926, directed by Wolfgang Neff. The film, starring Hanni Weisse,...

In a small town, the dancer Inge Maria Torselli is very popular with the theater audience. Her father is a ballet master and trained her. Lieutenant...

A young intellectual falls in love with a circus performer and decides to cultivate her into a lady and marry her. Eventually however she decides to...

A young woman is abused or abandoned by the men in her life.

Weapons manufacturer Robert Cors was injured in an explosion at his factory: a piece of shrapnel lodged itself in his brain. After surgery and a long...

While working in England, an American surgeon Dr. John Marlowe is invited to Vosnia (a fictitious East-European country) to receive an award and...

"The Secret Power" - Hardly anyone who strays into the emigrant's restaurant "Strange Bird" would suspect that the porter once was a general, the...

A musical cabaret singer meets a British agent and goes with him to Nazi occupied France to save an atomic scientist.

18th century English aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney leads a double life. He appears to be merely the effete aristocrat, but in reality is part of an...

Martin Hollmann, a young gardener meets his significantly older wife's daughter from her first marriage. Liesbeth Kröger is from his generation and...

A Spanish nobleman raises his only daughter as a boy, similarly to Greta Garbo in Queen Christina (1933). In adulthood, Juana's upbringing causes...

The troubled situation of a provincial actor and his actress wife who come to the city. The actor is suspected of attacking another actor who admires...

'Please help me!' the young GDR refugee begs the passengers of the interzonal train 'D 106'. He has just jumped on the night train during an...

Story of a Dutchman's flight across post-war Germany trying to locate the man who alone can clear him of a false murder charge. (BFI Website)

German produced silent drama made by the German subsidiary of First National Pictures with sets designed by the art director Leopold Blonder.

After the First World War, history professor Abel Cornelius wants to distance himself from his previously published political views. This could go...