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Die Carmen von St. Pauli (1928)
Character: The Nipper
When Hamburg ship's mate Klaus Brandt catches a thief one night at the port, his downfall is pre-ordained. For the thief turns out to be a young, attractive woman and the otherwise upright sailor allows her to slip away. Jenny is the star of a local dive bar, with a side-line in smuggling.
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Evas Töchter (1928)
Character: N/A
An unmarried showgirl takes a handsome companion with her on a vacation, to the distress of others.
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Out of Darkness (1941)
Character: Leon Rochelle (uncredited)
This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short tells of the Nazis' efforts to shut down an underground resistance newspaper in occupied Belgium.
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Lohnbuchhalter Kremke (1930)
Character: Lenes Verlobter, Student
In this realistic, unsentimental portrait of Germany’s dire economic situation, a middle-aged payroll clerk loses his job due to technological advances and, unable to find another, descends into despair. The film’s director, Marie Harder, was one of only a few women directors of the time and was also the head of the German Social Democratic Film Office. She made only two known films before her accidental death in exile in Mexico in 1936.
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Mata Hari, die rote Tänzerin (1927)
Character: Erzherzog Oskar
Mata Hari, die rote Tänzerin (English: Mata Hari: The Red Dancer), often shortened on release to Mata Hari, is a 1927 German silent drama film directed by Friedrich Feher and starring Magda Sonja, Wolfgang Zilzer and Fritz Kortner. It depicts the life and death of the German World War I spy Mata Hari. It was the first feature-length portrayal of Hari.
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Primanerliebe (1927)
Character: Rolf Karsten
An exploration of the misery of youth. A student, his friends, and the girl he loves all suffer due to the harsh and unforgiving nature of the adults in their lives.
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The Devil with Hitler (1942)
Character: Otto Schultz (uncredited)
Adolf Hitler, Benito and Suki Yaki are placed in a series of Three-Stooges routines, with the premise that the Board of Directors of Hell has put the Devil on notice they intend to replace him with Adolf Hitler unless he can get Hitler to commit a good deed. The devil has his work cut out for him, and doesn't appear likely to escape being replaced by the German leader.
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Casanova wider Willen (1931)
Character: N/A
Jeffrey wants to marry Virginia, who refuses to marry unless her older sister, the hard-to-please Angelica, gets married first.
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Strafsache van Geldern (1932)
Character: N/A
Paulus van Geldern is a lawyer who has made a name for himself as a criminal defense attorney, but is notoriously short of funds due to his unbridled passion for gambling. His gambling causes problems with his marriage to Martha who is thriving.
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Geschminkte Jugend (1929)
Character: Walter
Based on the real life events of the 1927 Steglitzer Schülertragödie, in which several high school students planned murder-suicides.
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Bomber's Moon (1943)
Character: Nazi Doctor Treating Jeff
An American pilot swears to get revenge on the German ace who shot his brother in this war movie set in war-torn Europe. Montgomery is the pilot. After he sees his brother die while trying to parachute to safety, Montgomery's plane is shot down over Germany. He is placed in a POW camp. There he meets a Russian medic and a Czech. Together the trio escapes.
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Singing in the Dark (1956)
Character: Refugee
Leo, a holocaust survivor who suffers from total amnesia, comes to the U.S. and works as a hotel desk clerk. One night while a comedian who owns a bar in the hotel gives him a drink, he breaks out in song and discovers a great voice. Under a psychiatrist's treatment, and because of a blow to the head by some hoodlums, he realizes his name is David and that he was the son of a great Jewish Cantor, and gradually recovers his memory of losing his parents. He gives up a promising career singing in nightclubs to return to the synagogue.
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Three Faces West (1940)
Character: Dr. Rudolf Preussner
Viennese surgeon Dr. Braun and his daughter Leni come to a small town in North Dakota as refugees from Hitler. When the winds of the Dust Bowl threaten the town, John Phillips leads the townsfolk in moving to greener pastures in Oregon. He falls for Leni, but she is betrothed to the man who helped her and her father escape from the Third Reich. She must decide between the two men.
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Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)
Character: Book Salesman (uncredited)
American multi-millionaire Michael Brandon marries his eighth wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broke French Marquis. But she doesn't want to be only a number in the line of his ex-wives and undertakes her own strategy to tame him.
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To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Character: Man in Bookstore (uncredited)
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.
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Espionage Agent (1939)
Character: Heinrich
When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic service to go undercover to route out an espionage ring planning to destroy American industrial capability.
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So Ends Our Night (1941)
Character: Vogt (uncredited)
An anti-Nazi on the run and a young Jewish couple race across Europe trying to escape Hitler's ever powerful influence.
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Stairway to Light (1945)
Character: Dr. Philippe Pinel (uncredited)
This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short tells the story of 18th Century French physician Dr. Philippe Pinel, who initiated enlightened, humane treatment of the mentally ill.
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Walk East on Beacon (1952)
Character: August Helmuth
An FBI agent works with a refugee scientist and the Coast Guard to crack a Soviet spy ring in Boston.
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Margin for Error (1943)
Character: Bit Part
When police officer Moe Finkelstein and his colleague Officer Salomon are ordered to serve as bodyguards to German consul Karl Baumer by the mayor of New York City, Finkelstein turns in his badge, convinced he has to quit the service because the man is a Nazi.
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Television Spy (1939)
Character: Frome
A scientist invents a television device called the Iconoscope. Foreign agents hear about it and try to steal it.
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Takový je život (1930)
Character: Wooer
A story about domestic life in a typical working-class environment. Life and trials and how little situations have big consequences.
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Mädchen am Kreuz (1929)
Character: N/A
The young student Mary spends the beginning of her holiday with boat trips, visits to her wealthy groom, and gardening. In fast-paced, rhythmic cuts, Louise and Jakob Fleck draw their audience into a carefree, urban romantic comedy. With a single scene, however, it turns into a melodrama about sexual violence, shame and perpetrator-victim reversal.
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Ninotchka (1939)
Character: Taxi Driver (uncredited)
A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
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Enemy of Women (1944)
Character: Dr. Joseph Goebbels
Playwright Joseph Goebbels turns Nazi propagandist and loses his girlfriend to another man.
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Hitler: Beast of Berlin (1939)
Character: Kleswing
Hans Memling, a young intellectual, patriotic German, is secretly opposed to the Nazi regime. With the aid of Gustav Schultz, Father Pommer, Anna Wahl and others, he is gleaning accurate information from foreign radio broadcasts and distributing it through Germany with an underground-press operation.
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Invisible Agent (1942)
Character: Von Porten (uncredited)
The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany in this comedy-thriller.
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Thérèse Raquin (1928)
Character: Camille Raquin
A silent adaptation of the novel by French writer Émile Zola. Thérèse Raquin was shot in a German studio and featured Gina Manes in her greatest part. Zola’s sombre bourgeois tragedy was brought vividly to life. The details of the Raquin home, the human tensions, the unspoken words, and the looming shadows created an unforgettable effect.
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I'll Give a Million (1938)
Character: Citizen (uncredited)
After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that he will give a million dollars to anyone who is kind to a tramp.
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Mister Buddwing (1966)
Character: Man on the Street (uncredited)
An amnesiac wanders the streets of Manhattan, trying to solve the mystery of who he is.
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A Dispatch from Reuters (1940)
Character: Post Office Clerk (uncredited)
German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.
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Forbidden Passage (1941)
Character: Otto Kestler
This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short looks at the U.S. Department of Immigration's efforts to halt the smuggling of illegal aliens into the country. Desperate immigrants, tired of waiting for legal entry, pay exorbitant fees and risk a grisly death to enter by illegal means.
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The Diary of Anne Frank (1967)
Character: Kraler
During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.
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Counter-Attack (1945)
Character: Krafft
Two Russians fight to escape the seven Nazi soldiers trapped with them in a bombed building.
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Escape (1940)
Character: Pavillion Counter Clerk (uncredited)
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.
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Alraune (1928)
Character: Wölfchen
Hanns Heinz Ewers' grim science-fiction novel Alraune has already been filmed twice when this version was assembled in 1928. In another of his "mad doctor" roles, Paul Wegener plays Professor Brinken, sociopathic scientist who combines the genes of an executed murderer with those of a prostitute. The result is a beautiful young woman named Alraune (Brigitte Helm), who is incapable of feeling any real emotions -- least of all guilt or regret. Upon attaining adulthood, Alraune sets about to seduce and destroy every male who crosses her path. Ultimately, Professor Brinken is hoist on his own petard when he falls hopelessly in love with Alraune himself. Alraune was remade in 1930, with Brigitte Helm repeating her role, and again in 1951, with Hildegarde Knef as the "heroine" and Erich von Stroheim as her misguided mentor.
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Underground (1941)
Character: Hoffman
A World War II Hollywood propaganda film detailing the dark underside of Nazism and the Third Reich set between two brothers, Kurt and Erik Franken, whom are SS officers in the Nazi party. Kurt learns and exposes the evils of the system to Erik and tries to convince him of the immoral stance that marches under the symbol of the swastika.
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Das alte Gesetz (1923)
Character: Page
Baruch Mayer, son of an orthodox rabbi from a poor shtetl in Galizia, decides to break with the family tradition and leave the shtetl to become an actor.
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Lovesick (1983)
Character: Analyst
Sigmund Freud's ghost advises a married New York psychiatrist in love with a patient.
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Hotel Imperial (1939)
Character: Limping Tenor (uncredited)
It is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man's-land where the Russians and Austrians are fighting out one of the final campaigns of World War I, to be occupied one day by the Russians, the next by the Austrians, and the inhabitants soon acquire a complacent view of the changing allegiances. To the town comes Ann Warschaska, intent on avenging the suicide of her sister, who has killed herself after being betrayed by an Austrian officer. She knows no more about his identity than the number of his room at the "Hotel Imperial".
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Hitler's Madman (1943)
Character: N/A
In 1942, a young paratrooper in the RAF returns to Czechoslovakia to encourage his fellow countrymen to sabotage the German war effort.
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Casablanca (1943)
Character: Man with Expired Papers (uncredited)
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
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Hotel Berlin (1945)
Character: N/A
An assortment of diverse characters gather at the Hotel Berlin in World War II Germany as the Third Reich falls.
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Boykott (1930)
Character: Möller, Oberprimaner
A film about the pupils of a posh Berlin gymnasium in their final term, and their class teacher teaching them about humanism and tolerance, a lesson that would be badly needed three years later.
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Appointment in Berlin (1943)
Character: Cripple (uncredited)
The "war of nerves" which gripped the European continent in 1938, is the background for this war thriller starring George Sanders.
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Razzia in St. Pauli (1932)
Character: Musiker Leo
Illustrates both the powerlessness of the ordinary worker as well as an intimate portrait of the joys and sorrows of a small group of people in the harbor section of Hamburg.
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The Lady Has Plans (1942)
Character: German Clerk in Baron’s Office (uncredited)
Some dastardly criminals have stolen some top secret plans and tattoo them on the back of a woman so she can sell them to the highest bidder in Lisbon. This woman plans to take the place of a 'Sidney Royce', a legitimate traveler going to Lisbon as a reporter. Crossed signals allows the real Sidney to reach Portugal first, where she is pursued by those trying to obtain the plans and US government agents trying to prevent the sale.
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