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Giorgio Moroder's Metropolis
In 1984, Academy Award winning composer Giorgio Moroder introduced Fritz Lang’s science fiction epic Metropolis to a new generation of filmgoers. Working in collaboration with film archivists globally, Moroder supervised a special reconstruction, with color tinting, fewer intertitles and newly restored footage. A pioneer in the field of digital music, Moroder backed this special edition with a throbbing new score, punctuated with pop songs from some of the biggest stars of the early MTV era: Freddie Mercury, Pat Benatar, Adam Ant, Bonnie Tyler, Loverboy and others.8.0
Year:
1984
Frau Sylvelin
Film by Herbert Maisch.0.0
Year:
1938
Millionäre
0.0
Year:
1937
Seven Slaps
William MacPhab loses seven-pounds in the stock market and decides to slap the man who was responsible for the stock manipulation that caused him to lose his money. Astor Terbanks, the stock-market manipulator is surprised the next day when he gets soundly slapped by MacPhab, and the latter promises to deliver one more a day for the next six days. Terbank's daughter, Daisy, is amused by the procedure and is attracted to MacPhab.6.3
Year:
1937
Millionenerbschaft
0.0
Year:
1937
Und du mein Schatz fährst mit
Opera singer Maria Seydlitz has just left her fiancé because he put her between the choice of husband or profession when she receives a telegram from New York: an unknown person hires her for a large fee at the theater Maria accepts the offer... The film is based on the novel of the same name by Hans Rudolf Berndorff. The film was shot from July to September 1936 on the Neubabelsberg outdoor area and on the passenger ship "Bremen“. He experienced on the 15th. Its premiere in January 1937 in Berlin's Gloria-Palast.0.0
Year:
1937
Unter Ausschluß der Öffentlichkeit
0.0
Year:
1937
The Court Concert
Before he became cult director Douglas Sirk, Detlef Sierck cut his teeth on such lavish European star vehicles as Das Hofkonzert (The Court Concert). Marta Eggerth is cast as Christine, a young singer who aspires to find out who her father was. Her odyssey brings her to the court of a mythical kingdom, where she is romanced by handsome lieutenant Walter (Johannes Heesters). He is warned not to lose his heart to a "commoner," but all turns out all right when King Serenissimus (Otto Tressler) turns out to be Christine's long-lost daddy. Hofkonzert was designed as a comeback for Marta Eggerth, whose star had eclipsed by the mid-1930s.4.6
Year:
1936
Spiel an Bord
0.0
Year:
1936
Maria, die Magd
An actress and her lawyer husband are so busy that their maid becomes the real mother to their six year old boy and at one point causes consternation by taking the child away to her home village.5.0
Year:
1936
Skandal um die Fledermaus
0.0
Year:
1936
Ein seltsamer Gast
5.0
Year:
1936
Kater Lampe
In the central mountains, an American lady trying to manufacture snowshoes assists a struggling German toy maker,whose cat becomes a symbol for what binds together the lives of such village folk.5.4
Year:
1936
Die Liebe siegt
0.0
Year:
1934
Eine Siebzehnjährige
Walter is in love with the 17-year-old Erika, but she raves for older, experienced men. When Walter and Erika visit his parents' estate after passing their exams, Erika shows increasing interest in Walter's father, Werner von Schlettow.0.0
Year:
1934
Wege zur guten Ehe
Film by Trotz.0.0
Year:
1933
Die kleine Schwindlerin
0.0
Year:
1933
The Burning Secret
One autumn, Edgar, a 12 year old boy, spends a holiday with his mother at a plush hotel in Switzerland. His father, a busy lawyer, remains at the family home in Vienna. When he sees a stylish motorcar pull up at the hotel, Edgar wastes no time befriending its owner, an amiable dandy. The latter pays more attention to the boy’s mother than to the boy himself, and decides to use Edgar to wheedle his way into her affections. When Edgar realises he has been used, he is far from happy...5.2
Year:
1933
Manolescu, der Fürst der Diebe
6.0
Year:
1933
Kampf
The race car drivers Robert Wenck and Kurt Harder are good friends. They become rivals when it appears that Robert is married to Eva. Eva was the former lover of Kurt Harder. Complications will follow.0.0
Year:
1932
The White Demon
When Albers takes his drug-addicted opera star sister Gerda to a sanitarium, they both become targets of slimy dope peddler Peter Lorre, who fears that Gerda will blow the whistle on him. Lorre kidnaps the woman, leading Albers on a frantic chase.0.0
Year:
1932
Spione im Savoy-Hotel
5.0
Year:
1932
The Beautiful Adventure
Helene has agreed to marry a man that she isn't in love with. On the day of her wedding her cousin arrives just in time to rescue her and they run away together. They stay with her aged grandmother who assumes the young man (whom she doesn't know) to be the new husband and has prepared a bridal bed for them.0.0
Year:
1932
Viennese Waltz
8.5
Year:
1932
Jonny Steals Europe
0.0
Year:
1932
Montparnasse Girl
A count's son has a place to meet his poor Parisian girlfriend and they even make some money for a while with him singing and her playing piano.But the father offers him support to marry someone else.0.0
Year:
1932
The Thirteen Trunks of Mr. O.F.
In the very old-fashioned town of Ostend suddenly 13 suitcases are delivered to the hotel, with a note, that O.F. will be here soon and needs 6 rooms (the hotel just has five). This event, probably the biggest in 300 years, starts a small wave of modernisation, yet everybody is wondering who O.F. is. Journalist Stix and architect Stark have an idea how to use this event. They proclaim, that O.F. is a former citizen of the town, who became a millionaire abroad. They tell their fellow citizens that the town still needs modernisation, like better hotels, nightclubs, shops, etc. And soon, Ostend is a boomtown, then a capital. The architect, responsible for the new buildings is finaly allowed to marry the mayor's daughter, while Stix marries the cabaret star and the widowed mayor his new secretary. The only problem is, O.F. hasn't shown up, while finance experts from all over the world are trying to solve the depression problem.0.0
Year:
1931
The Office Manager
0.0
Year:
1931
The Duke of Reichstadt
0.0
Year:
1931
The Congress Dances
Vienna glove-sales-lady Christel falls in love with Russian Czar Alexander. Austrian Prince Metternich tries to use this and other pleasant diversions to keep him out of the negotiation conferences of the 1815 Vienna Congress.7.2
Year:
1931
My Wife, the Adventuress
A mousy bank clerk is married to an ambitious woman.0.0
Year:
1931
The Scoundrel
0.0
Year:
1931
Mary
A juror in a murder trial, after voting to convict, has second thoughts and begins to investigate on his own before the execution. German version of "Murder."5.6
Year:
1931
The Fate of Renate Langen
0.0
Year:
1931
1914
The film focuses on the leadership of the Great Powers of Europe in the days leading up to the outbreak of the First World War.0.0
Year:
1931
Dolly is making a career
Musical vehicle for up and coming Dolly Haas, as a would be actress with a would be composer boyfriend. She sings,at one point, that she has the walk of (Lilian) Harvey, the mouth of Garbo and the legs of Dietrich.0.0
Year:
1930
Sei gegrüßt, Du mein schönes Sorrent
Drama by Romano Mengon0.0
Year:
1930
Ehe in Not
0.0
Year:
1929
Giftgas
Arnold Horn, a young idealistic chemist, discovers a compound that can be used for the production of an effective deadly poisonous gas. Against his will the chemical factory starts production of the poison gas to increase the value of their shares.6.0
Year:
1929
Narkose
Young Angélique has a crush on the famous writer René Vernon. One night she follows him, sleeps with him and becomes pregnant. Years later, she meets Vernon again, but he doesn't recognize her...0.0
Year:
1929
Cagliostro
Paris, France, 1784. After living many tribulations, Joseph Balsamo, known as Count Cagliostro, an infamous adventurer, enigmatic magician and necromancer, experienced physician and ruthless swordsman, triumphs among the members of the decadent French aristocracy. But a bold foretelling about a very prominent noblewoman causes his fall in disgrace… (Partially lost film.)5.2
Year:
1929
Mein Herz ist eine Jazzband
0.0
Year:
1929
L'Argent
Adapted from the novel L'Argent by Émile Zola, the film portrays the world of banking and the stock market in Paris in the 1920s.6.9
Year:
1928
Rasputins Liebesabenteuer
Portrays the deep intrigue and mystical fanaticism of the last days of the Romanoffs, when Rasputin, the mad monk had such a hold over them.3.0
Year:
1928
Strauss, the Waltz King
0.0
Year:
1928
Jahrmarkt des Lebens
0.0
Year:
1928
Das Geheimnis von Genf
0.0
Year:
1928
Das tanzende Wien
A cabaret singer in Germany is in love with a young American boy, and must convince his disapproving father that she is worthy of his son.0.0
Year:
1927
Ein Tag der Rosen im August..
0.0
Year:
1927
The Vice of Humanity
Tamara becomes addicted to cocaine but hides from her daughter by moving in with the dealer Mangol. The father tells his daughter that her mother has died, but years later the daughter rediscovers her mother appearing on stage. Mangol pursues the daughter, but Tamara intervenes before dying amongst family members.0.0
Year:
1927
Human Law
A jealous husband leaves jail to find his wife loves his lawyer.0.0
Year:
1927
Die Tragödie eines Verlorenen
0.0
Year:
1927
Metropolis
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind meets a prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.8.1
Year:
1927
A Modern Dubarry
0.0
Year:
1927
Die lachende Grille
0.0
Year:
1926
The Folk Upstairs
In "Menschen Untereinander" ("The Folk Upstairs"), director Gerhard Lamprecht sketches a cross-section of Germany's new post-war society, with its winners, social climbers, and losers, represented by the social microcosm of an apartment building. The gossip-mad Frau Mierig (Lydia Potechina) from the rear building gives the newly-arrived Frau Kaminski (Käthe Haack), the janitor's wife, a lively initiation into the tenants and their peculiarities.7.5
Year:
1926
The Guardsman
a silent movie by Robert Wiene0.0
Year:
1926
Der Bankkrach unter den Linden
0.0
Year:
1926
The Woman in Flames
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.0.0
Year:
1924
Mensch gegen Mensch
0.0
Year:
1924
Dudu, a Human Destiny
0.0
Year:
1924
The Finances of the Grand Duke
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 forward to expropriating the entire Duchy. The marriage with Olga, Grand Duchess of Russia, would solve everything, but a crucial letter of hers about the engagement has been stolen. Besides, a bunch of revolutionaries and a dubious businessman have other plans regarding the Grand Duke. With the intrusion of adventurer Philipp Collins into the Grand Duke's affairs, a series of frantic chases, plots and counter-plots begins.6.6
Year:
1924
Das Spiel mit dem Schicksal
0.0
Year:
1924
Das Spiel der Liebe
0.0
Year:
1924
Die Buddenbrooks
Four-generation story-saga dealing with the decline of a middle-class Lübeck family. The first adaptation of a Thomas Mann book was also Gerhard Lamprecht’s first major film.5.0
Year:
1923
Die Prinzessin Suwarin
0.0
Year:
1923
Die Flamme
In 19th century Paris a hedonistic woman marries an aristocrat but has trouble keeping faithful to him.5.8
Year:
1923
Bigamie
0.0
Year:
1922
Phantom
Lorenz Lubota is a city clerk with no direction in life. One day on his way to work he is run over by a woman driving a chariot and he is immediately infatuated with her.6.8
Year:
1922
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
Dr. Mabuse and his organization of criminals are in the process of completing their latest scheme, a theft of information that will allow Mabuse to make huge profits on the stock exchange. Afterwards, Mabuse disguises himself and attends the Folies Bergères show, where Cara Carozza, the main attraction of the show, passes him information on Mabuse's next intended victim, the young millionaire Edgar Hull. Mabuse then uses psychic manipulation to lure Hull into a card game where he loses heavily. When Police Commissioner von Wenk begins an investigation of this mysterious crime spree, he has little to go on, and he needs to find someone who can help him.7.7
Year:
1922
The House of Molitor
0.0
Year:
1922
The Burning Soil
The film follows tells the story of a struggle over a plot of petroleum-rich land.6.2
Year:
1922
Die Intriguen der Madame de la Pommeraye
0.0
Year:
1922
Die Geschichte des grauen Hauses
0.0
Year:
1921
Wandering Souls
0.0
Year:
1921
Mad Love
Richard de la Croix's brother, Andreas, has been driven insane by a notorious vamp and socialite named Sappho. A friend takes Richard to the Odeon to meet her, but when Sappho actually meets him, he is unaware that she is the woman who drove Andreas to be institutionalised. Sappho genuinely falls in love with Richard, and decides to leave her vampy ways and her older lover behind her so that she can have him.7.3
Year:
1921
Nights of Terror
The young Evelyne lives with a man, her fiancee Frank, with whom she has a child. But her fiancee is a rundown drunk constantly hanging over the bottle. Evelyne wants to leave Frank.6.0
Year:
1921
Mann über Bord
0.0
Year:
1921
Die große und die kleine Welt
0.0
Year:
1921
Lotte Lore
0.0
Year:
1921
Die Frau im Himmel
0.0
Year:
1920
Die Frau ohne Seele
0.0
Year:
1920
Kameraden
Axel and Bertha are a modern, emancipated artist couple in Paris. He is feminine and vain. She is financially independent, member of the women's association "Married's Women's right of ownership" and uses male nude models.0.0
Year:
1919
Intoxication
Gaston finally succeeds as a dramatist and decides to leave his wife and child for another woman. When the child dies, the finger is pointed at him and he winds up as a destitute before all is revealed. This film is considered lost.0.0
Year:
1919
Die Dame, der Teufel und die Probiermamsell
0.0
Year:
1918
Es werde Licht! 4. Teil: Sündige Mütter
0.0
Year:
1918
Colomba
0.0
Year:
1918
Drohende Wolken am Firmament
0.0
Year:
1918
Nur ein Schmetterling
0.0
Year:
1918
Die nach Glück und Liebe suchen
0.0
Year:
1918
Lola Montez
Dancer Lola Montez is the star of Madrid's theaters. All the important men are after her, among them the English ambassador. But the leader of the "Carlist - Movement", a gang of desperados, kidnaps her, she falls for him and he proposes. But the English ambassador is trying to improve the Spanish-English relations and sent his spies after her, getting the information about her future groom, and the Spanish government is very interested in getting ahead.0.0
Year:
1918
Ein Blatt im Sturm...doch das Schicksal hat es verweht
The relationship between a painter and his lover fractures after the painter finds out she did not acquire a sum of money by selling his paintings, as she had claimed.0.0
Year:
1917
Der Seele Saiten schwingen nicht
A middle class woman's marriage to a nobleman quickly becomes an unhappy one.0.0
Year:
1917
Wenn Menschen reif zur Liebe werden
A young woman becomes pregnant and is abandoned by her lover, just as her mother had been.0.0
Year:
1916
Ernst ist das Leben
Fany, an up and coming dancer, is saved by a sculptor during a theatre fire. The two bond, distressing Fany's fiancee.0.0
Year:
1916
The White Roses
The actress Thilda Wardier is courted by the wealthy Adam de Rochord, who presents her with a large bouquet of white roses every time they see each other. When Thilda is brought on board by a prestigious theatre in Ostend and wants to look suitably refined for the occasion, she borrows an expensive piece of family jewellery from Adam. However, a criminal gang staying in the same hotel as Adam and Thilda gets wind of the jewellery, and they cleverly manage to steal it and replace the real stones with fake ones. The precious loot now proceeds to pass through many different bouquets of white roses before ending up in the right hands again.0.0
Year:
1916
Das Laster
Early drama about alcoholism.0.0
Year:
1915
Lache, Bajazzo!
0.0
Year:
1915
The Silent Mill
0.0
Year:
1914
A Venetian Night
The young Anselmus Aselmeyer fulfilled a long cherished dream: He travels to Venice, the city of his dreams. Once there, the porter Pipistrello directs him immediately to the hotel of his boss, and Anselmus lands in the middle of a wedding party. Mestre Mangiabene, a wealthy oilman, marries the beautiful but completely depleted Marchesina dei Bisognosi. But the secretly loves an officer.6.0
Year:
1914
Sodoms Ende
1.0
Year:
1913