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Das Blut (1922)
Character: Susanne
The plot centers on the young mistress of the castle, Cornelia van Vestrum, who feels the blood of her ancestress, a kleptomaniac Roma, running through her veins. Like her ancestor, Cornelia must also steal. She is observed by the swindler Johannes van Gudry, who tries to blackmail her... In the meantime, Gudry has discovered a waitress who is the spitting image of Cornelia, who now resides as the mistress of the castle and whom he intends to marry. Of course, things turn out differently.
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Das süße Mädel (1926)
Character: N/A
The Sweet Girl (German: Das Süße Mädel) is a 1926 German silent film directed by Manfred Noa.
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Fiaker Nr. 13 (1926)
Character: Linotte
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 childbirth, but the baby survives. The washerwoman leaves the baby in a horsedrawn Parisian taxicab (No. 13). The paperwork of the birth is lost in a huge tome. Sixteen years pass. The tome is bought by a poor student. One day his bookshelf collapses, and the tome opens at the page where the paperwork has been hidden. The student realises that the paperwork relates to a millionaire who has spent the last sixteen years looking for his pregnant wife. The student traces the washerwoman, and he tricks her into confessing what she has done with the baby. Meanwhile, the baby has been adopted by the cab driver and his wife, and has grown into Lili Damita.
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Rausch (1919)
Character: Mutter Kathrin
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.
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Mach’ mir die Welt zum Paradies (1930)
Character: Frau Lanner
About a young ambitious mans dreams of the art of theatre and the magic path to conquer a life as an actor at the beginning of the 20th century.
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Die Pflicht zu schweigen (1928)
Character: Die Wirtschafterin
The Duty to Remain Silent (German: Die Pflicht zu schweigen) is a 1928 German silent drama film directed by Carl Wilhelm and starring Marcella Albani, Vivian Gibson, Angelo Ferrari. It was based on a novel by Friedrich Werner van Oestéren. The film's art direction was by Max Heilbronner.
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Dr. Bessels Verwandlung (1927)
Character: Frau Bessel
Alexander Bessel is a young man in a failing marriage. His wife cheats on him, and so the outbreak of WW1 comes in handy for a change. When young French soldier dies right in front of him Bessel seize the opportunity assuming his identity.
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Der Mensch am Wege (1923)
Character: Krämersfrau
A shoemaker and his wife become the parents of a little girl, but they cannot find anyone willing to be the godfather of the newborn. The oppressive landlord also refuses to accept the burden. Only Michael, a young traveler whom the cobbler picks up on the side of the road, agrees to become the girl's godfather. From then on, Michael lives and works with the cobbler's family. When the landowner dies suddenly as a result of a stroke, a rumor spreads that the cobbler poisoned him. But with Michael's help, his innocence is proven.
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Bobby, der Benzinjunge (1929)
Character: Emilie Weber
Five year old Bobby is an illegitimate child being raised by an innkeeper and his wife. His mother's fiance is excited to have Bobby come to live with them, but his mother is less enthusiastic.
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Das Mädchen ohne Heimat (1927)
Character: N/A
Eva Bennet, a young mysterious widow appears at Pension Sanssouci in Berlin during the Weimar era. She attracts a lot of attention from everybody, especially from Georg Raval.
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Der Tanzhusar (1931)
Character: N/A
In this comedy, a civilian singer of opera is obliged to fulfill his duty and perform six weeks of military service.
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Das Spreewaldmädel (1928)
Character: N/A
Rural comedy about a farmer's fiancée who becomes distracted by a handsome young officer staying with them in 1910s Germany.
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Die fünf Frankfurter (1922)
Character: Frau Schnapper
The history of the Rothschild family – from the rise of the Frankfurt patriarch Maier Amschel (Part 1) and his five sons Maier Amschel Jr., Salomon, Karl, Nathan, and Jacob (Part 2). It describes the development of the Frankfurt banking house and the commercial establishments in Vienna, Paris, Rome, and London, as well as the elevation of the House of Rothschild to the nobility.
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Amor am Steuer (1921)
Character: N/A
A millionaire daughter is to be married to a man unknown to her. To get to know him, she slips into men's clothes, sticks on a mustache and is hired as a chauffeur.
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Der Mord in der Greenstreet (1921)
Character: N/A
A little girl falls into the hands of a hypnotist the morning after the assassination of a jeweler. A visitor of the uncomfortable host confesses himself as the perpetrator, the girl can testify and delivers the two villains of the police.
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Das lockende Ziel (1930)
Character: Mutter Lechner
Toni Lechner, innkeeper at the small Tirolese village of Heiligenblut, sings in church and is happy with his mother and his girlfriend Leni. One day an impresario arrives after an auto failure and hears Toni sing, tempting him into an operatic career. Toni accepts but with time he misses his people, not knowing his jealous prima donna has kept them apart from him.
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Die Rache der Toten (1916)
Character: Margit
Ferenc life seems to be going great but after a dinner with his employer and his guest at which they discuss a unsolved murder case everything he has achieved begins to slip away from him. He plan to escape with his lover Czenczi but madness and an grisly end await them.
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Geschminkte Jugend (1929)
Character: Frau Müller
Based on the real life events of the 1927 Steglitzer Schülertragödie, in which several high school students planned murder-suicides.
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Auf Befehl der Pompadour (1924)
Character: N/A
The film takes place on two time levels: first in contemporary France and then in the time of Louis XV. in the 18th century. Lucienne is a young, dynamic woman who, although she loves the chief engineer of her uncle Abel Fernay’s car factory, is forced to marry an unloved man, a noble businessman.
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Brand in der Oper (1930)
Character: N/A
It begins with a Tannhäuser performance and ends with the premiere of The Tales of Hoffmann. In between a young ingénue cast in her first big role, the Hoffmann rehearsals, the theatre director and his stage director exchanging cynicisms, a budding love affair. Gründgens at his most repulsive, trying to woo both lovers. And a hair-raising finale. Add to this some snappy dialogue and "pre-code" scenes that make you sit up and stare.
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Mach mich glücklich (1935)
Character: Helma
Make Me Happy (German: Mach' mich glücklich) is a 1935 German musical comedy film directed by Arthur Robison and starring Julia Serda, Albert Lieven and Richard Romanowsky.
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Die Heilige und ihr Narr (1928)
Character: Tante Uli
Agnes Günther’s heart-rending fairy tale dazzled turn-of-the-century German audiences and sold hundreds of thousands of copies before being adapted into this tale of timeless passion, the beautiful The Saint and the Fool. The unapologetically sentimental classic was directed by Wilhelm Dieterle, who launched a successful career in Weimar cinema before becoming known for romantic, lush melodramas and technicolor extravaganzas, including 1945′s Marlene Dietrich unforgettable Love Letters. The dashing Dieterle himself plays Harrogate, Earl of Torstein, whose star-crossed love for the luminous Rosemarie of Brauneck (Lien Deyers, discovered by Fritz Lang) is further doomed by royal heroes and villains, the requisite evil stepmother, and fantastical elements that channel the intoxicating romance of Camille through the magic of the Brothers Grimm.
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Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray (1917)
Character: Sybil's Mother
A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.
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Anna Boleyn (1920)
Character: Nurse
The story of the ill-fated second wife of the English king Henry VIII, whose marriage to the Henry led to momentous political and religious turmoil in England.
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Carmen (1918)
Character: Don José's mother
The tragic story of Don Jose, a Spanish cavalryman, who falls under the spell of a gypsy girl, Carmen, who treats him with both love and contempt and leads him into temptation and thus damnation.
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