|
|
|
Time Is Money (1923)
Character: Glanden
The neglected young wife of a workaholic businessman looks for love.
|
|
|
|
|
Gretchen Schubert (1926)
Character: N/A
A German NotoFilm system song film with a full score at the bottom of the screen only visible to live performers and musical accompaniment, allowing fully synchronized silent film music.
|
|
|
|
|
Der Flug um den Erdball (1925)
Character: N/A
A spectacular action-adventure travelogue with stages in Genoa, Suez, Colombo, Singapore, Canton, Yokohama, Honolulu, San Francisco, New York and Brest.
|
|
|
|
Rinaldo Rinaldini (1927)
Character: Polizeihauptmann
A gentleman trades place with a notorious gangster who's his dead ringer to prevent an evil baron to marry his fiancée.
|
|
|
Die Frau mit den Millionen (1923)
Character: Gospodar von Valona
Here Richter plays an Armenian princess whose father is being held prisoner by a despotic and corrupt pasha. A confrontation at the New Year’s Eve Ball at the Paris Opera leads to the princess being wrongly suspected of attempted assassination against the pasha. With the help of an English diplomat, she manages to flee Paris, but the pasha and his henchmen are hot on her heels. This marks the start of an extended, action-driven cat-and-mouse game that stretches to the outer regions of the Bosporus – and back again.
|
|
|
|
Das Rätsel der Sphinx (1921)
Character: Marquis d'Yssé
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.
|
|
|
Fiaker Nr. 13 (1926)
Character: Monsieur Coco
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.
|
|
|
Menschen untereinander (1926)
Character: N/A
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 from the rear building gives the newly-arrived Frau Kaminski, the janitor's wife, a lively initiation into the tenants and their peculiarities.
|
|
|
Mutter und Kind (1934)
Character: Rippe
Consul Petersen and his wife are desperate, because they lost their only child and can’t have another. At the same time, the maid Anna is expecting a child, whose father, Jurgen, works in a sawmill. When both of them lose their jobs, they fear they won’t be able to feed the newborn. Thus, they strike a deal with the Petersens, which works for both couples: Anna and Jurgen will receive a farm from the Petersens, free and clear; and the two will allow the Petersens to adopt the child. Anna and Jurgen marry and are quite happy; but when the child is finally born, Anna doesn’t wish to surrender him and flees with the child into the Wattenmeer.
|
|
|
|
|
Lola Montez, die Tänzerin des Königs (1922)
Character: N/A
Deviating from the historical facts, Lola is introduced as a young Spanish “Gypsy” who becomes involuntarily embroiled in an attempt to poison the Infante of Spain (a short but splendid cameo by Heinrich George). As a result, she has to flee the country, arriving first in Italy, where she is taught how to act like a lady. Later, in Paris, she is invited to dance at the city’s prestigious opera house, becoming a worldwide sensation. She then becomes secretly involved in a revolutionary plot by Louis Napoléon, the future emperor of France. When the plot fails, Lola is once again forced to flee, this time to Munich, where she captures the attention of Ludwig I. Their ensuing affair arouses a great deal of hatred among the people and the establishment, however. In the end, Lola has no choice but to leave again, and vanishes into the night mist.
|
|
|
Soll und Haben (1924)
Character: Signierer Pix
After the death of his parents, Anton pursues a career at the Schröter trading house in Breslau. He meets Sabine, the boss's sister, befriends Fritz, a rich merchant's son who is working as an intern, and associates with Baron von Rothsattel and his daughter Lenore, who are in financial difficulties and are further distressed by Anton's former schoolmate Veitel, who wants to get rich quick and joins forces with the unscrupulous lawyer Hippus. Fink decides to go to America, and Anton helps the Rothsattels, who retreat to an old estate in Poland and have to defend themselves against rebels there. Fink appears as a savior in distress and frees those who are trapped. Finally, Fink becomes engaged to Lenore, and Anton becomes a partner in the Schröter company and marries Sabine.
|
|
|
Dr. Bessels Verwandlung (1927)
Character: Buchhändler
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.
|
|
|
Die lustigen Musikanten (1930)
Character: Gustav Müller
Different kinds of Berliners, the well to do along with the ordinary shopkeepers, enjoy their weekends in the city's suburban garden colonies.
|
|
|
|
Casanova (1928)
Character: N/A
Seven episodes tell the story of the exciting life of legendary charmer Casanova.
|
|
|
Das Geheimnis des Abbe X (1927)
Character: Beppo
Wilhelm Dieterle’s strong and manly art and Marcella Albani’s suave charm intermingle here in a splendid natural setting, to depict a drama where love and duty, compassion and hate, purity and crime merge together in a very interesting story.
|
|
|
Svengali (1927)
Character: Caféhauswirt
The hypnotist Svengali makes an artist's model sing, but cannot force her love.
|
|
|
Der Meister von Nürnberg (1927)
Character: N/A
The clerk of Nuremberg wants to use his position to marry the young Evchen, but she does not love him and to avoid this marriage she asks the village shoemaker to ask for her hand in marriage. But everything becomes complicated when a nobleman of noble birth appears who has fled from his family castle.
|
|
|
|
Die Moral der Gasse (1925)
Character: Alter ehrlicher Schustermeister
Explores the ethics of a Berlin street during the Weimar era and the struggle for survival in a shady environment.
|
|
|
|
Die Stadt der Versuchung (1925)
Character: N/A
While a Russian refugee girl attempts to get work in Constantinople to support herself and her grandfather, a Turkish Bey attempts to make her his mistress.
|
|
|
Arabella (1924)
Character: N/A
A foal runs away from its native pasture, falls into a swamp and is rescued by the circus dancer Arabella. The stud owner, a young gentleman rider, names the animal after its rescuer Arabella. Arabella then becomes a celebrated racehorse, and when the circus performer and the gentleman rider meet again, they fall in love.
|
|
|
Ein steinreicher Mann (1932)
Character: N/A
A man swallows a diamond - and suddenly all people around him change their attitude towards him.
|
|
|
|
Drei von der Kavallerie (1932)
Character: Bürgermeister
A town's business begins to suffer, when a military outfit is confined to quarters for three weeks because they have been harassing the local women.
|
|
|
|
|
Paprika (1932)
Character: Portier
When Ilona visits her married friend Otti, she is just delighted to discover that the man she likes is not other than Otti's brother-in-law, Paul. As he is in need of a maid, she disguises herself as such to try to enamour him.
|
|
|
Die fidele Herrenpartie (1929)
Character: Peter Fistelhahn
Gentlemen Among Themselves (German: Die fidele Herrenpartie or Herren unter sich) is a 1929 German silent comedy film directed by Rudolf Walther-Fein and starring Hermann Picha, Lydia Potechina and Maria Paudler.
|
|
|
|
|
Kyritz - Pyritz (1931)
Character: Hausdiener
Errant Husbands (German: Kyritz - Pyritz) is a 1931 German comedy film directed by Carl Heinz Wolff and starring Max Adalbert, Hansi Arnstaedt and Henry Bender.
|
|
|
Der Juxbaron (1927)
Character: Landstreicher
The film follows the comic (mis)adventures of a poor street musician, who is roped into posing as an eccentric nobleman. He and his antics are rapturously received by the members of a bourgeois family desperate to mingle with the aristocracy. The daughter of the family takes a fancy to the baron (in reality, merely a “joke baron”), assuming him to be immensely wealthy.
|
|
|
Komödianten (1925)
Character: Direktors Garderobier
"Comedians" - Axel Swinborne is a celebrated stage star. Although much in demand, he now wants to recover and travel by train on vacation. He leans out of the window at full speed, as happens a momentous mishap: his jacket gets tangled on the window lever so unhappy that it ejects the suction force out of the window.
|
|
|
Im weißen Rößl (1926)
Character: Hinzelmann
Based on the play of the same name by Oskar Blumenthal and Gustav Kadelburg.
|
|
|
Der Bettelstudent (1931)
Character: Enterich
First of several filmed versions of a popular period operetta, in which an early 18th century noblewoman in Poland falls in love with a revolutionary student activist.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Das tanzende Wien (1927)
Character: Musiker
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.
|
|
|
Schatten der Manege (1931)
Character: Eduardo
Circus themed films usually provides a thrilling drama. The relatively obscure "Schatten der Manege" provides just what you'd expect. Doing the trapeze act angle, combining it with romance and jealousy for a darker plot, it has a lot of the right the ingredients. Does have moments where it spends too long of circus footage, which ruins some of the pacing, but otherwise a fine circus flick.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Herr Tartüff (1926)
Character: Der Greis
A young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière's play "Tartuffe" in order to expose the old man's hypocritical governess who covets the young man's inheritance.
|
|
|
Rasputins Liebesabenteuer (1928)
Character: Ein Spitzel
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.
|
|
|
Furcht (1917)
Character: The Minister
A millionaire steals an ancient idol causing some natives call upon him a terrible curse.
|
|
|
Die Weber (1927)
Character: Baumert
Die Weber (1927), a rousing German tale of the 1844 weavers’ revolution.
|
|
|
Romeo und Julia im Schnee (1920)
Character: Schreiber
The story of Romeo and Juliet, a tale as old as time-- Here, played as farcical lark: A goofy comedy of manners set in a snowy Bavarian village.
|
|
|
Dirnentragödie (1927)
Character: Kauzke - Pianist
Auguste is an aging prostitute who falls in love with Felix, a younger student. While Felix has strayed away from his parents, Auguste starts taking care of him and spends her life savings into a cake shop to move further away from prostitution, but trouble comes when another woman enters the picture.
|
|
|
Das indische Grabmal, erster Teil: Die Sendung des Yoghi (1921)
Character: Professor Leyden, an Orientalist
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.
|
|
|
Die Herrin der Welt 6. Teil - Die Frau mit den Millionarden (1920)
Character: Jonathan Fletcher
Thanks to the treasure of the Queen of Sheba, Maud, who now calls herself Fergusson, has become an immensely wealthy woman. The plane that rescued her and Allan Stanley from Ophir belongs to newspaper king Fletcher, who reports on the rescue operation on the front pages of his newspapers.
|
|
|
Manon Lescaut (1926)
Character: N/A
A French adventurer fights to save a woman in the life of prostitution.
|
|
|
Hilde Warren und der Tod (1917)
Character: N/A
Hilde Warren, a famous actress, is impregnated by a convicted murderer and becomes plagued by visions of Death. Upon discovering her child is the image of its criminal father, Hilde must decide whether to allow it to live, or to kill it and risk the embrace of Death himself.
|
|
|
Die Insel der Verschollenen (1921)
Character: Jess
A loose, unauthorized adaptation of the 1896 novel The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells. Somewhat illogical, the film has more emphasis on comedy and romance than horror, but offers "memorable glimpses of human-animal hybrids".
|
|
|
|
|
Der alte und der junge König (1935)
Character: N/A
The story of the stormy relationship between King Friedrich Wilhelm and his son, who later became known as King Frederick the Great of Prussia.
|
|
|
Der müde Tod (1921)
Character: Taylor
As a young couple stops and rests in a small village inn, the man is abducted by Death and is sequestered behind a huge doorless, windowless wall. The woman finds a mystic entrance and is met by Death, who tells her three separate stories set in exotic locales, all involving circumstances similar to hers.
|
|
|
Saxophon-Susi (1928)
Character: Piano Player
Silent version of a story later remade in French and German as Baby: A count's daughter wants a stage career, her show girl friend wants an education, so they change places.
|
|
