
Birthday:
01-22-1893
Deathday:
04-03-1943 (50 years)
Birthplace:
Berlin, Germany
Biography
Hans Walter Conrad Veidt (22 January 1893 – 3 April 1943) was a German actor best remembered for his roles in films such as Different from the Others (1919), The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), and The Man Who Laughs (1928). After a successful career in German silent film, where he was one of the best-paid stars of Ufa, he was forced to leave Germany in 1933 with his new Jewish wife after the Nazis came to power. They settled in Britain, where he participated in a number of films, including The Thief of Bagdad (1940), before emigrating to the United States around 1941, which lead to him having a supporting role in Casablanca (1942).
From 1916 until his death, Veidt appeared in more than 100 films. One of his earliest performances was as the murderous somnambulist Cesare in director Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), a classic of German Expressionist cinema, with Werner Krauss and Lil Dagover. His starring role in The Man Who Laughs (1928), as a disfigured circus performer whose face is cut into a permanent grin, provided the (visual) inspiration for the Batman villain the Joker, created in 1940 by Bill Finger. Veidt also starred in other silent horror films such as The Hands of Orlac (1924), another film directed by Robert Wiene, The Student of Prague (1926) and Waxworks (1924) where he played Ivan the Terrible.
Veidt also appeared in Magnus Hirschfeld's film Anders als die Andern (Different from the Others, 1919), one of the first films to sympathetically portray homosexuality, although the characters in it do not end up happily. He had a leading role in Germany's first talking picture, Das Land ohne Frauen (Land Without Women, 1929).
He moved to Hollywood in the late 1920s and made a few films, but the advent of talking pictures and his difficulty with speaking English led him to return to Germany. During this period he lent his expertise to tutoring aspiring performers, one of whom was the later American character actress Lisa Golm.
From 1916 until his death, Veidt appeared in more than 100 films. One of his earliest performances was as the murderous somnambulist Cesare in director Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), a classic of German Expressionist cinema, with Werner Krauss and Lil Dagover. His starring role in The Man Who Laughs (1928), as a disfigured circus performer whose face is cut into a permanent grin, provided the (visual) inspiration for the Batman villain the Joker, created in 1940 by Bill Finger. Veidt also starred in other silent horror films such as The Hands of Orlac (1924), another film directed by Robert Wiene, The Student of Prague (1926) and Waxworks (1924) where he played Ivan the Terrible.
Veidt also appeared in Magnus Hirschfeld's film Anders als die Andern (Different from the Others, 1919), one of the first films to sympathetically portray homosexuality, although the characters in it do not end up happily. He had a leading role in Germany's first talking picture, Das Land ohne Frauen (Land Without Women, 1929).
He moved to Hollywood in the late 1920s and made a few films, but the advent of talking pictures and his difficulty with speaking English led him to return to Germany. During this period he lent his expertise to tutoring aspiring performers, one of whom was the later American character actress Lisa Golm.
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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Act like Cesare
event1920 star_border 7.9
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Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recently went through. Francis and his friend Alan visit The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, an exhibit where the mysterious doctor shows the somnambulist Cesare, and awakens him for some moments from his death-like sleep.
Casablanca
Act like Major Heinrich Strasser
event1943 star_border 8.2
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In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
The Head of Janus
Act like Dr. Warren
event1920
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Two opposing characters are hidden in the person of the inconspicuous London gentleman Dr. Warren and Janus. Lost film.
Wenn Tote sprechen
Act like Richard von Worth
event1917
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After finding her sister dead, Maria tries to find out who or what is to blame.
The Hands of Orlac
Act like Paul Orlac
event1924 star_border 6.8
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A world-famous pianist loses both hands in an accident. When new hands are grafted on, he is horrified to learn they once belonged to a murderer.
Desire: The Tragedy of a Dancer
Act like Ivan
event1921
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A young Russian dancer in Geneva returns to Russia, where he falls in love with a grand duchess. He is arrested but manages to escape. Lost film.
The Thief of Bagdad
Act like Jaffar
event1940 star_border 7.1
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When Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces with the scrappy thief Abu to win back his royal place, as well as the heart of a beautiful princess.
Above Suspicion
Act like Hassert Seidel
event1943 star_border 6.5
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Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe.
The Man Who Laughs
Act like Gwynplaine / Lord Clancharlie
event1928 star_border 7.3
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Gwynplaine, son of Lord Clancharlie, has a permanent smile carved on his face by the King, in revenge for Gwynplaine's father's treachery. Gwynplaine is adopted by a travelling showman and becomes a popular idol. He falls in love with the blind Dea. The king dies, and his evil jester tries to destroy or corrupt Gwynplaine.
Wahnsinn
Act like Bankier Lorenzen
event1919
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A banker, after a prophetic meeting with a Gypsy fortune teller, becomes delusional as he searches for a trunk which the seer has told him holds the key to either his happiness or his death. This film is considered lost.
The Student of Prague
Act like Balduin, Student
event1926 star_border 6.6
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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; but how would he, a penniless student, ever dare looking up to any woman worth of loving? Absorbed in his dreary thoughts and indifferent to the advances of Lyduschka, Balduin is unexpectedly offered a fortune by the mysterious money-lender Scapinelli - but on a strange condition...
Waxworks
Act like Ivan the Terrible
event1924 star_border 6.4
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A poet is hired by the owner of a wax museum in a circus to write tales about Harun al Raschid, Ivan the Terrible and Jack the Ripper. While writing, the poet and the daughter of the owner, Eva, fantasize the fantastic stories and fall in love for each other.
A Woman's Face
Act like Torsten Barring
event1941 star_border 6.9
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A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.
Eerie Tales
Act like Der Tod / Various Other Roles
event1919 star_border 5.5
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A demon, a reaper, and the ghost of a prostitute read gothic short stories and act them out.
All Through the Night
Act like Franz Ebbing
event1942 star_border 7
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Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship.
The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute
Act like Self (archive footage)
event1974 star_border 7.7
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In this made-for-TV production, Vincent Price and his hunchback sidekick (Billy Van) host a pun-filled salute to the horror film genre from its earliest beginnings all the way up to The Exorcist. Featuring clips from classic horror films and interviews with genre greats like Frank Gorshin, John Carradine, John Astin and SFX legend Bill Tuttle, among others.
Nazi Agent
Act like Otto Becker / Baron Hugo von Detner
event1942 star_border 6.6
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Humble stamp dealer Otto Becker has little to do with international politics, so when he receives a surprise visit from his estranged twin brother and Nazi spy, Baron Hugo von Detner, his world is thrown into turmoil. Threatening Becker with deportation, Hugo forces him to use his shop as a front for espionage.
Whistling in the Dark
Act like Joseph Jones
event1941 star_border 5.8
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Radio crime show host 'The Fox' along with his fiancée and ex-girlfriend are kidnapped by a larcenous cult who demand that he help them plan a perfect murder.
Dark Journey
Act like Baron Karl Von Marwitz
event1937 star_border 6.4
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Madeline Goddard, is a British double agent who meets and falls in love with a German spy Baron Karl Von Marwitz during World War I. This tale of espionage blends high adventure and romance making perfect order from wartime chaos and growing in faith from despair.
The Spy in Black
Act like Captain Ernst Hardt
event1939 star_border 6.4
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A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.
The Last Performance
Act like Erik the Great
event1929 star_border 6.2
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A middle-aged magician is in love with his beautiful young assistant. She, on the other hand, is in love with the magician's young protege, who turns out to be a bum and a thief.
The Night of the Decision
event1931
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German language version of The Virtuous Sin (1930).
Contraband
Act like Capt. Andersen
event1940 star_border 6.9
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When a neutral Danish merchant ship is forced to put into port after trying to evade British wartime contraband control, its captain becomes involved in a beautiful British Naval Intelligent agent's efforts to capture a group of German spies operating from a London cinema.
The Beloved Rogue
Act like King Louis XI
event1927 star_border 7
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François Villon, in his lifetime the most renowned poet in France, is also a prankster, an occasional criminal, and an ardent patriot.
The Passing of the Third Floor Back
Act like The Stranger
event1935 star_border 7.6
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The tenants of an old London boarding house spend their time in petty bickering and sniping until a mysterious stranger arrives at their door.
Escape
Act like General Kurt von Kolb
event1940 star_border 7.4
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An American goes to pre-war Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration camp. With the help of an American-born widowed countess he seeks to engineer her escape.
The Many Faces of Dracula
Act like Self (archive footage)
event2000 star_border 5
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Hosted by Christopher Lee, this documentary examines the different actors who have portrayed Dracula over the years.
Under the Red Robe
Act like Gil de Berault
event1937 star_border 6
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In 1620s France, dreaded swordsman Gil de Berault returns from carrying out a mission for Cardinal Richelieu, and finds the Cardinal worried about growing opposition from the Huguenots in the south. The Cardinal also warns de Berault that dueling has been outlawed, and will henceforth be punishable by death. Gil, however, promptly disobeys the law and is indeed sentenced to death. The Cardinal offers to cancel the sentence if de Berault is able to capture the duke who is organizing plans for an uprising. Gil travels to the duke's castle and is allowed to stay as a guest, but the duke's wife and sister immediately suspect that he is a spy. He and his servant still make good progress, until he falls in love with the duke's sister, which complicates everything.
Rome Express
Act like Zurta
event1932 star_border 6.2
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The theft of a famous painting leads to murder and many suspects on a plush train speeding from Paris to Rome.
The Wandering Jew
Act like Matathias / The Unknown Knight / Dr Matteos Battadios
event1933 star_border 7.6
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Old Jerusalem: Matathias, spiteful over his lover's illness, spits on Jesus along the road to Calvary, and is cursed to live endlessly until His return. The Crusades, 1150: Matathias, now an anonymous knight, competes for glory in combat and for the wife of a soldier. Palermo, 1290: Matteos Battadios witnesses the death of his young son, leading to conflict with his wife over whether to take comfort in Christianity. Seville, 1560: Dr Matteos Battadios dedicates himself to the treatment and comfort of the poor, but his life and work are endangered by the arrival of the Spanish Inquisition.
Jew Süss
Act like Josef 'Jew Süss' Oppenheimer
event1934 star_border 5
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A historical satire critical of the rising tide of Anti-Semitism in Germany. Based on the novel by Lionel Feuchtwanger, Jew Süss is the story of life in the 18th century Jewish ghetto of Württemberg. Süss (Veidt) works himself out of the ghetto and into a position of power with the help of an evil Duke.
The Ingmar Inheritance
Act like Hellgum
event1925 star_border 7.2
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When his ancestors seem to appear in the clouds during a storm of biblical proportions, young Ingmar decides to give up his career as the village teacher and to reclaim the land and farm of his fathers. The same stormy night, the charismatic preacher Helgum arrives in the village to spread the word about the promises of the Holy Land, which turns parents and children, men and wives, brothers and sisters, against one another. Ingmar is torn between his love for the headmaster’s daughter Gertrud who is under the preacher’s spell, and the prospects of marrying the judge’s daughter Barbro in order to keep the farm.
Husbands or Lovers
Act like Der Liebhaber, ein Dichter
event1924 star_border 5.3
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A wife, bored by her overweight slob of a husband, gives in to the temptation of a slickly seductive poet.
Fear
Act like Indian Priest
event1917 star_border 5.4
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A millionaire steals an ancient idol causing some natives call upon him a terrible curse.
The Indian Tomb, Part I: The Mission of the Yoghi
Act like Ayan, Majarajah of Eschnapur
event1921 star_border 5.5
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Ayan, Maharajah of Eschnapur, believes that his wife, Princess Savitri, has been unfaithful to him with officer Mac Allan. He decides to bury her alive, so he sends the Yogi Ramigani to England to look for Herbert Rowland, an architect; but when he orders him to build a tomb, Rowland refuses.
The Indian Tomb, Part II: The Tiger of Eschnapur
Act like Ayan, Majarajah of Eschnapur
event1921 star_border 5.9
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Rowland falls sick with leprosy while Mac Allan is captured by the Maharajah, who offers Irene a deal: one night with him in exchange for letting Rowland to be cured. She accepts, but tries to commit suicide.
Journey into the Night
Act like Der Maler
event1921 star_border 5.9
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Dr. Egil Börne, an eminent physician, comes under the spell of an unscrupulous cabaret dancer and deserts his fiancée. The plot finds echoes throughout the Weimar period, including Sternberg’s The Blue Angel. Conrad Veidt appears in a supporting role as a sinister blind painter, whose entrance eerily presages Murnau’s Nosferatu. Der Gang in die Nacht, the earliest surviving film by F. W. Murnau, is also, paradoxically, the only Murnau film for which the original camera negative exists.
Wilhelm Tell
Act like Hermann Gessler
event1923 star_border 5.2
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William Tell (German: Wilhelm Tell) is a 1923 German silent adventure film directed by Rudolf Dworsky and Rudolf Walther-Fein and starring Hans Marr, Conrad Veidt and Erich Kaiser-Titz. The film portrays the story of the legendary Swiss national hero William Tell.
I Was a Spy
Act like Commandant Oberaertz
event1933 star_border 5.5
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During World War I, a young nurse in a hospital in German-occupied Belgium is secretly feeding military information to the British. Complicating matters is the guilt she feels when she has to treat the German casualties inflicted as a result of the information she's passed on, and the fact that the local German commandant is falling in love with her.
The Flight in the Night
Act like Count di Nolli, Heinrich IV
event1926
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Based on the play Henry IV by Luigi Pirandello. Conrad Veidt plays Count di Nolli, a nobleman who, after a head injury, imagines he is the medieval emperor. His friends and relatives choose to play along, dressing up as medieval courtiers, but is di Nolli truly mad, or just pretending? The art direction was by Hermann Warm. It was shot on location in Italy. 6 acts, 1856 meters.
The Only Girl
Act like Marquis de Pontignac
event1933 star_border 6
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A dashing marquis bends from his horse when he discovers a lost garter in the woods and falls. During his delirium he is serenaded by a little hairdresser. She is the person who lost the garter to begin with and has only come to get it back having borrowed it from her employer--the empress of France. The marquis mistakenly thinks he was nursed by the empress, herself, and decides to woo her.
The Chess Player
Act like Le baron de Kempelen
event1938 star_border 4.7
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A toymaker in Poland specializes in building lifesize mechanical men. He builds a chess-playing "automaton" to hide a pretty young Polish activist who is being hunted by occupying Russian forces.
Different from the Others
Act like Paul Körner
event1919 star_border 6.9
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Conrad Veidt plays a famous musician who is blackmailed for being gay. Eventually he stands trial and is convicted. At the end the film pleads for the abolition of §175 (the paragraph which punishes homosexuality).
The Congress Dances
Act like Fürst Metternich
event1931 star_border 7.2
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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.
The Black Hussar
Act like Captain Hansgeorg von Hochberg
event1932 star_border 6.5
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In 1812, during the French period, large parts of Germany are occupied by the troops of Napoleon. Several paramilitary Freikorps units battle the French forces, among them the Black Brunswickers led by the 'Black Duke' Frederick William of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. After the War of the Fifth Coalition, the Black Hussars are pursued by Napoleon throughout the country, but frequently take refuge with the noble-minded German people.
Lucrezia Borgia
Act like Cesare Borgia
event1922 star_border 4.4
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Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, has three adult children: Juan, who is virtuous and has a sweetheart who is a woman of the people, Lucrezia, who is virtuous and wants to marry Alfonso, and Cesare, who is wicked and lusts after Lucrezia, Juan's girlfriend, and probably others. Cesare has vowed to kill any suitor for Lucrezia's love, and he has three thugs to carry out his wishes. Bodies fall into the Tiber, into the Colosseum (with lions prowling), and onto the Vatican floors.
Should We Be Silent?
Act like Paul Hartwig, Maler
event1926 star_border 5
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A melodrama about a painter who is infected with syphilis, refuses treatment, turns to the use instead of narcotics, and withers away.
The Love Storm
Act like Kingsley
event1930
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This is the German-language version of the British film The Love Storm (1931).
Patience
Act like Sir Percy Parker
event1920
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Film by Paul Leni and Felix Basch
F.P.1
Act like Maj. Ellissen
event1933 star_border 6.4
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Urged by famous airman Ellissen the Lennartz Company puts into reality the project proposed by his friend Droste: F.P.1, a huge floating platform in the Atlantic that makes long-distance flights viable. Ellissen is in love with company heiress Claire, but when he returns from his adventures to save the endangered F.P.1 he finds out that he has lost her to Droste. English version of F.P.1 antwortet nicht with Conrad Veidt replacing Hans Albers as the jaded pilot Ellissen.
The Merry-Go-Round
Act like Petre Karvan
event1920 star_border 5
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Drama about street walker Elena who marries shop keeper Albert. When her former pimp Peter shows up, her life is ruined. She shoots him and poisons herself.
King of the Damned
Act like Convict 83
event1935 star_border 6
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Revolt on a prison island is a parable of workers revolution. A cruel and repressive penal colony is the setting for a prison revolt with a special twist...the prisoners want to stay on and govern themselves in a humane and productive working community. Well that's the theory anyway but circumstances make their venture a lot more complicated than that.
Not of the Woman Born
Act like Satan
event1918
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This film is believed to be lost.
Visual Effects: The Thief of Bagdad
Act like Jaffar (archival footage)
event2008 star_border 7
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Documentary about the technical achievements of the 1940 film classic The Thief of Bagdad.
Congress Dances
Act like Prince Metternich
event1931
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In 1815, Tsar Alexander I romances a working-class glove seller, while his double takes his place at the Vienna Congress. English-language version of Der Kongreß tanzt.
Prostitution
Act like Alfred Werner
event1919
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Hedwig and Lola, two sisters of opposite temperaments, have their lives upended in when Lola decides to pursue prostitution and Hedwig is forced into it.
The Great Passion
Act like Himself
event1930 star_border 6.5
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This is a real curiosity; at best a reasonable film, but also a charming little gem. There is a story (in the line of "A Star is Born"), but this merely serves as an excuse, as it is more importantly a kind of moving encyclopedia of about 35 stars making their debut in a talkie (although some of them had already made one talkie), of the technical sound possibilities and of film making. Besides all that, it is entertaining and sometimes hilarious and it has fine one-liners that split my side. The film is also remarkable for making mock of typical German film genres (like the overly sweet romances involving the military), of too heavy acting and of film making in general. I have to mention this one: a short, hysterically funny parody of "Der blaue Engel". What this film in fact says is: do not take any film too seriously. (J. Steed)
Two Brothers
Act like Wenzel Schellenberg / Michael Schellenberg
event1926 star_border 4.7
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Two brothers follow very different paths after an accident at the factory where they both work.
Rasputin, Demon of the Women
Act like Grigori Rasputin
event1932 star_border 7.5
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The demonic Rasputin is poisoned but survives to continue seducing in evil ways, in this historical thriller.
Landstraße und Großstadt
Act like Raphael, der Geiger
event1921
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Two poor musicians rise from rags to riches. Money, fame and their love for the same woman begin to crumble their friendship, revealing the true natures of both men--one noble and kind, the other a greedy, ruthless beast.
The Last Company
Act like Hauptmann Burk
event1930 star_border 6
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Following the Battle of Jena in 1806 as the French armies commanded by Napoleon overrun Prussia, a small detachment of Prussian troops take up position in a windmill and resolve fight to the last man to hold them off for as long as possible. Meanwhile, the windmill owner's daughter chooses to stay and fight alongside them.
The Man Who Committed the Murder
Act like Oberst Marquis de Sévigné
event1931 star_border 5.2
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The story is about Conrad Veidt as military attache in Turkey where he learns to know an English consul (Heinrich George) and his attractive wife who is treated badly. They begin an affair and soon the husband proves to be an obstacle that has to be disposed of.
Die Japanerin
event1919
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A detective falls for a Japanese girl living with her uncle and cousin. When the girl's uncle is murdered, the detective must find out who killed him.
Opfer der Gesellschaft
event1919
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A prosecutor, keen on punishing those he deems undesirable, convicts a woman of murder. It is only after the conviction that he learns of the circumstances that lead to the crime.
Tempête sur l'Asie
Act like Erich Keith
event1938
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An adventurer tries to seize oil deposits in Mongolia .
The Men in Her Life
Act like Stanislas Rosing
event1941 star_border 6
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A circus performer becomes a ballerina and then begins her life of a career versus marriage and a home-life. She marries her first husband, her mentor and instructor, primarily out of gratitude. After his death, she marries an American thinking that can be her escape from the world of ballet. But she leaves him to return the dancing. She has a child but does not tell her husband. When her daughter is two-years-old, the husband finds out and takes the child to America. The ballerina continues to dance until her best dancing days have gone by.
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
Act like Self
event1940 star_border 6.7
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This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes behind the scenes to look at how the sound portion of a talking picture is created.
The Other Side
Act like Hauptmann Stanhope
event1931 star_border 7
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The First World War. The young, English Lieutenant Raleigh is sent to the company of a disillusioned Captain Stanhope. Stanhope is secretly engaged to Raleigh's sister and is intent on protecting his image of an exemplary officer. An attack on the German lines, in which Raleigh also takes part, has turned into a bloody fiasco. Now Raleigh, too, knows the horrors of war, which have already taken their toll on Stanhope.
Napoleon
Act like Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade
event1927 star_border 7.8
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A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant invasion of Italy in 1797.
Lady Hamilton
Act like Lord Nelson
event1921 star_border 5.8
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The married Lady Emma Hamilton has an ill fated romance with Admiral Horatio Nelson.
Figures of the Night
Act like The clown
event1920
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"Night people". Thomas Bezug, the richest man in the world, is a solitary, domineering and cruel cripple, who hardly can move on his crutches. He dwells a fanatical love for his son, whom he holds like a monkey in a cage. His servants are defaced dwarfs. His secretary is trying to steal Bezugs assets. These are the night people.
Der Spion
Act like Steinau
event1917
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An Italian spy infiltrates a weapons factory in Germany.
Kurfürstendamm
Act like The devil
event1920
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The Devil decides to go and visit Kurfürstendamm, where all his clients seem to come from. He settles at "Pension Elvira", where everybody cheats and deceives him. He comes to the conclusion, that Hell is a much better place.
Impetuous Youth
Act like Renées Vater
event1926 star_border 6.7
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Girl dressed up as a boy falls in love with a painter.
Prostitution II
Act like Alfred Werner
event1919
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About a deceptive bourgeois couple that blends their acquaintances into their dubious business.
Around the World in 80 Days
Act like Phineas Fogg
event1919 star_border 5.5
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Wealthy Englishman Phileas Fogg bets his friends that he can travel around the world in 80 days.
Bella Donna
Act like Mahmoud Baroudi
event1934 star_border 3.5
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That old theatrical war-horse Bella Donna (previously filmed in America by Alla Nazimova) was resurrected by Britain's Twickenham Studios in 1934. Conrad Veidt stars as sinister Egyptian Mahmoud Baroundi, who even before the film gets under way has left a long trail of ruined women behind him. His latest victim is American girl Mona Chepstow (Mary Ellis), whom Baroundi treats like dirt and makes her like it. The plot centers around a murder by poison, as evidenced by the film's deliberately exotic title. Critics in 1934 praised newcomer Mary Ellis for underplaying her role, but many film fans preferred Nazimova's arm-waving histrionics in the earlier version.
Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand
Act like Christian Wahnschaffe
event1920
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Weltbrand is the first part of the two-part silent movie Christian Wahnschaffe.
Christian Wahnschaffe II: Escape from the Golden Dungeon
Act like Christian Wahnschaffe
event1921
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Escape from the Golden Dungeon is the second part of the two-part silent movie Christian Wahnschaffe.
Opium
Act like Dr. Richard Armstrong Jr.
event1919 star_border 6.2
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In China, Professor Gesellius has completed his long research on the many uses of opium. When he is about to return home, he hears about a special variety that produces fabulous sensations because of the way it is made, but can also cause the total destruction of the mind and body of the person who consumes it.
Don Carlos und Elisabeth
Act like Don Carlos
event1924 star_border 6
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Don Carlos, heir to the Spanish throne, and Princess Elisabeth of Valois are deeply in love but King Philip, Carlos's father, wants Elisabeth for himself.
Paganini
Act like Niccolo Paganini
event1923
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Historical film about Italian musician Niccolo Paganini.
A Man's Past
Act like Paul La Roche
event1927 star_border 6
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Imprisoned at the French garrison on the Isle of St. Noir for putting to death a patient suffering from an incurable illness, Dr. Paul La Roche escapes to the mainland, where he meets Dr. Henry Fontaine, his boyhood friend, and Fontaine's beautiful sister, Yvonne. As Fontaine is going blind, La Roche performs several operations for him, attracting the attention of Dr. Renaud, in Algiers, who offers him a position. La Roche, practicing as Fontaine, reveals his love for Yvonne during an excursion to a Bedouin camp. Then, Lieutenant Destin, from the prison, arrives and threatens La Roche with exposure unless he surrenders the hand of Yvonne.
The Film in the Film
Act like Himself
event1924 star_border 7.5
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The only surviving excerpt of a documentary on film production in Weimar Germany, featuring the different personalities of several famous directors of the era at work on the set including Fritz Lang, Robert Wiene, and E.A. Dupont.
The Story of Dida Ibsen
Act like Erik Norrensen
event1918
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Dida Ibsen, daughter of impoverished farmers, has, according to her father's will, to marry the main creditor. But she refuses and decides to live with a married man as a mistress, till he gets his divorce. In the town she opens a restaurant with the money of her wealthy lover, from whom she soon gets pregnant, but their dreams of marriage fail, his wife refuses the divorce. After a while, she decides to marry one of the regular guests at her restaurant, van Galen, who spent quite some time in the tropics and because of this is at the brink of madness. Shortly after the marriage his condition worsens and life becomes hell for Dida.
The Count of Cagliostro
Act like Minister
event1920
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About a lurid tale of magic and secret societies during the reign of Luis XVI, focused on the figure of the Italian occultist Giuseppe Balsamo, known under his alias of Count Alessandro di Cagliostro.
Prinz Kuckuck
Act like Carl Kraker
event1919
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The niece and nephew of an eccentric millionaire try to get a share of the now deceased millionaire's inheritance from his adopted son who delights in squandering it. Considered lost.
Das Geheimnis von Bombay
Act like Tossi
event1921
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Gabriela Farnese, a famous singer, visits Bombay to find her mysterious doppelganger, the dancer Concha.
Moriturus
Act like Wilmos, sanatorium director
event1920
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A doctor who cannot figure out what is wrong with his patient refers him to a detective, whom he hopes will be able to discern the cause of his mysterious illness.
Das Land ohne Frauen
Act like Dick Ashton
event1929
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A group of 413 women answer an ad looking for British women to sail to and marry miners in Australia. One does not survive the voyage, and conflict arises over who will have to remain unmarried.
Laws of Love: Innocently Outlawed!
event1927 star_border 5.4
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A documentary by Magnus Hirschfeld, which contains a shortened version of Different From the Others (1919).
Der Weg des Todes
event1917
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A countess decides to get rid of a nosy stranger by luring him into a castle dungeon.
Jettchen Geberts Geschichte. 1. Jettchen Gebert
Act like Doktor Köstling
event1918
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A young Jewish woman is pressured to marry a wealthy man even though she is in love with someone else.
Evening – Night – Morning
Act like Brilburn - Maud's brother
event1920
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Cheston, a millionaire, is looking after Maud, a beautiful woman from the 'demimonde'. Her brother, Brilburn, forces her to ask her rich admirer for an expensive piece of jewelry. Cheston buys a precious pearl necklace. Lost film.
The Movie City of Hollywood
Act like Self
event1928 star_border 6
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German documentary about Hollywood
Universal Horror
Act like (archive footage)
event1998 star_border 7.2
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A documentary about the era of classic monster movies that were made at Universal Studios during the 1930s and 1940s.
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