Hans May
Nacimiento : 1886-07-11, Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
Muerte : 1958-12-31
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Hans May (11 July 1886 – 31 December 1958) was an Austrian-born film composer who went into exile in Britain after the Nazis came to power in his homeland, being of Jewish descent. May composed over a hundred film scores. He wrote a musical Wedding in Paris in 1954.
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Biopic of singer and film actor Joseph Schmidt (1904-1942).
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Durante una feria, Paul Deverill (Keith Michell) conocerá a la gitana Belle (Melina Mercouri) de la cual quedará tan prendado que, en contra de un compromiso ya establecido, a la primera oportunidad la convertirá en su amante. Para ella, él no será más que la ocasión de conseguir todo lo que la vida le ha denegado y junto a su enamorado Jess (Patrick McGoohan), hará cuanto pueda para conseguirlo.
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Stanley Baker enacts the classic Edgar Allan Poe story in this chilling short film, only recently rediscovered after being lost for 50 years.
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Tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial, un corresponsal americano en Moscú se casa con una bailarina de ballet. Posteriormente es expulsado del país y no tiene más remedio que abandonarla. Hará todo lo que esté en su mano para recuperarla.
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Anthology film with three shorts each featuring a famous detective: Monsieur Wens, Lemmy Caution and Maigret.
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A family is torn apart when their eldest son is hanged for the murder of a young girl.
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A family is torn apart when their eldest son is hanged for the murder of a young girl.
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An Englishman has been working in the US so long he now speaks with an American accent. He is drafted into the British Army during WWII but is injured and loses his memory. Because he talks like an American, the doctors repatriate him to the States where he is housed with a New York family. After the war they all travel throughout Europe, searching for the women he still remembers in the hope of restoring his lost memory
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During the eighteenth century the Empress of Russia sends her lover to kidnap her rival for the throne.
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The story evolves around a radio panel game show "Twenty Questions." The panel is challenged with an anonymous question. The answer leads to a series of murders in which the killer uses the program to name his victims in advance. Two reporters spot a link between them and enlist the aid of the panel in trapping the guilty party.
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Featuring an early role for accomplished French actress Anne Vernon alongside Mary Poppins star David Tomlinson, this effervescent comedy charts the romantic adventures of a young woman who swaps her strict convent school for the heady pleasures of high society.
Seventeen-year-old Renee slips away from her convent school, joins her fashionable mother and launches herself into Society with one aim: to conquer the hearts of all the men she encounters. Setting her sights on Max, a bridegroom-to-be, her expert scheming and manipulative behaviour soon ensures that he falls under her spell... but his fiancee isn't giving up without a fight
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A group of children are evacuated during world war two into the care of an alcoholic woman.
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Private eye Slim Callaghan is summoned to the country home of a Colonel Stenhurst, but the latter is murdered before he can talk to the detective. Was one of the Colonel's three daughters responsible?
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Private eye Slim Callaghan is summoned to the country home of a Colonel Stenhurst, but the latter is murdered before he can talk to the detective. Was one of the Colonel's three daughters responsible?
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Three older sisters live on their family estate in Wales. This household once proudly reigned over a mining town, but the mines dried up and the estate and the town have fallen on hard times. When the land crumbles and a number of homes in the town are destroyed the sisters promise to rebuild the homes.
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Jonathan Dakers' early ambition was to become a great surgeon and to marry Edie Martyn. But, on the death of his father, he is obliged to start work as a partner in a poor general practice in the Black Country. Edie falls in love with Jonathan's brother, Harold, who is killed in the Great War, and Jonathan marries her as planned. It is only afterwards that he realises he now loves another.
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Pinkie Brown (Richard Attenborough) es un gangster que lidera una pandilla de degenerados malvivientes. Después de cometer un asesinato, intenta manipular a una amiga suya para que le suministre una coartada. Filme basado en una novela de Graham Greene.
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Pinkie Brown (Richard Attenborough) es un gangster que lidera una pandilla de degenerados malvivientes. Después de cometer un asesinato, intenta manipular a una amiga suya para que le suministre una coartada. Filme basado en una novela de Graham Greene.
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An escaped World War 2 Nazi doctor impersonates a murdered English doctor so he can work on a vaccination to protect the Germans in their planned germ warfare.
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The tangled affairs of George, Prince of Wales, leading to his illegal marriage to commoner Mrs. Fitzherbert. Also portrayed is the conflict between the future George IV and his father George III.
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The ghosts of two stupid 18th-century officers are doomed to haunt a Berkeley Square mansion until the unlikely event of a reigning monarch paying the house a visit. It will take more than 200 years... Based on the novel "No Nightingales" by Caryl Brahms and S.J. Simon.
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A fisherman begins studying to be an osteopath. Although he isn't finished with medical school, he begins treating his landlady's daughter who is believed to have a chronic illness. He seems to cure her, and the case draws a lot of attention, some of it negative because he was unlicensed when he treated her. He still does not have a degree when he marries the daughter and begins practising osteopathy.
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A musical set during the French Revolution.
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Bedelia Carrington is living happily, it appears, in Monte Carlo with her husband Charlie Carrington. But a cultivated young artist, Ben Chaney, begins probing into her past with curious concern. Chaney, who is really a detective, learns that Bedelia's obsession for money has led her, in the past, to husband-poisoning for the insurance money.
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Bedelia Carrington is living happily, it appears, in Monte Carlo with her husband Charlie Carrington. But a cultivated young artist, Ben Chaney, begins probing into her past with curious concern. Chaney, who is really a detective, learns that Bedelia's obsession for money has led her, in the past, to husband-poisoning for the insurance money.
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A musical cabaret singer meets a British agent and goes with him to Nazi occupied France to save an atomic scientist.
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Small-time jewel thief Leo Martin is deserted by his partners-in-crime, club owner Gus Loman and driver Hatchett, when the robbery they are committing goes wrong. After serving his prison sentence, Leo emerges with an intricate plan for revenge. Leo implicates Loman, as well as his amoral boss, Gregory Lang, for murder -- but Inspector Rogers suspects Leo.
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Opposing ends of a pantomime horse where the 'head' dates a society lady while the 'tail' is unhappily married.
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La bella y ambiciosa Barbara Worth, una aventurera del siglo XVII, comienza su carrera de bandido robándole el novio a Caroline, su mejor amiga. Pero pronto descubre que la existencia junto a él, de nombre, Ralph Skelton, es demasiado aburrida y decide comenzar una nueva y emocionante vida ocultándose tras una máscara y lanzándose a los caminos para asaltar a los viajeros.
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Tom Masterick, a dock worker, is wrongfully convicted of a murder charge. His death sentence is commuted to a long prison term. When released as an old man, he vows to find the real killer.
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Tom Masterick, a dock worker, is wrongfully convicted of a murder charge. His death sentence is commuted to a long prison term. When released as an old man, he vows to find the real killer.
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Waltz Time is a 1945 British musical film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Carol Raye, Peter Graves and Patricia Medina. In Imperial Vienna a young Grand Duchess is prevented from marrying the man she loves.
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When a British pilot is hospitalized after a plane crash, the woman he loves sits by his bedside and remembers, in flashbacks, key episodes from their life together.
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During the Second World War, three downed English airmen hide out with women's internment camp in France.
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An accountant who has to take a second job working at a racetrack, soon becomes mixed up with a shady crowd.
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David Charleston, once a world renowned journalist, now lives alone maintaining the Thunder Rock lighthouse in Lake Michigan. He doesn't cash his paychecks and has no contact other than the monthly inspector's visit. When alone, he imagines conversations with those who died when a 19th century packet ship with some 60 passengers sank. He imagines their lives, their problems, their fears and their hopes. In one of these conversations, he recalls his own efforts in the 1930s when he desperately tried to convince first his editors, and later the public, of the dangers of fascism and the inevitability of war. Few would listen. One of the passengers, a spinster, tells her story of seeking independence from a world dominated by men. There's also the case of a doctor who is banished for using unacceptable methods. David has given up on life, but the imaginary passengers give him hope for the future.
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Jilted by his fiancee, Arthur Pilbeam gets a job as far away from women as possible. Alone in a lighthouse, he soon finds that 12 other people end up living on the tiny island. Thirteen is an unlucky number; and one-by-one they disappear ...
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This film is based on the true story of Pastor Martin Neimuller, who was sent to Dachau concentration camp for criticising the Nazi party. The small German village of Altdorf in the 1930's has to come to terms with Chancellor Hitler and the arrival of a platoon of Stormtroopers (preceded by a flock of sheep). The Stormtrooper go about teaching and enforcing 'The New Order' but Pastor Hall is a kind and gentle man who won't be cowed. Some villagers join the Nazi party avidly, some just go along with things, hoping for a quiet life but Pastor Hall takes his convictions to the pulpit.
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The Stars Look Down is based on A. J. Cronin's 1935 novel of the same name, about injustices in a mining community in North East England. While the novel follows the development of three young men in the small mining town, the film focuses on just one of them; the smart David Fenwick who gets a scholarship to university, meets a girl who only marries him because her former boyfriend has abandoned her, and eventually returns to the mine town as a teacher and takes part in a futile rescue effort when the mine is flooded, trapping both his father and his younger brother.
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Scotland Yard Detective Inspector Davidson is trying to determine who murdered the much-hated Count Matton. The dilemma isn't that the Detective is suffering from a lack of witnesses but that four different people have come forth to confess to the killing, each of them with plenty of motive and opportunity.
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An opera singer pretends to be poor in order to romantically win over a composer.
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A musical comedy of false identities.
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Two twin brothers working in a Vienna fair and who are both gifted for singing meet different luck both in love and their careers.
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Film sobre la vida del archiduque Rodolfo, hijo de Francisco José de Austria, y del romance que vivió cuando tenía 17 años con la baronesa Maria Vetsera.
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Diary fragments tell of the arrival of Belgian refugees across the Dutch border in winter 1915. Reserve lieutenant Berkhage returns from the Belgian border with a refugee child. Named "Big" by the company the kid soon becomes the regimental darling.
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Joseph Reiner, a talented music student, tries to get a contract from a film and music producer, aided by Annerl, the girl he loves, and his music school fellows. When famous screen tenor Lincoln gets suddenly indisposed he will have a chance, yet not exactly the one he expected.
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Set in Venice, the touching and sometimes comic story of a diminutive tenor who falls in love whilst striving for success. Also filmed in German as Ein Lied geht um die Welt.
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A love triangle set in Lisbon between German singer Nina, bullfighter Garrido and local girl Branca.
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Based on a play by Pierre Wolff, about a wronged husband’s revenge on his wife and her lover, La belle de nuit is a major find, a work of uninhibited stylistic imagination that ranges from Sirkian stylization (an elaborate play of mirrors and doubles) to brutal realism (a tour of the bordellos of Marseille suggests the contemporary photographs of Brassaï).
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A Song Goes Round the World is a 1933 German drama film directed by Richard Oswald and starring Joseph Schmidt, Viktor de Kowa and Charlotte Ander.
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Diplomat Fürst Windischberg is known for spending too much time with women, receiving frequent reprimands and even a threat to be sent to Afrika. In Berlin he meets chorus girl Hella, who tells her companions she is his current flirt.
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The adventures of smart soldier Gustav Diestelbeck include managing his superior officer, competing for the canteneer's daughter, evading punishment for discipline faults and hosting Prinz Willibald during his visit to the regiment.
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A comedy film directed by Richard Eichberg
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Early British thriller about a master criminal named 'Flash Jack', who heads a gang of top-hatted thieves that rob the wealthy. A detective tracks the crimes to a posh night club.
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Steffi is in love with the unemployed musician Pepi. Still, her father the musical instrument retailer, Ignaz Korn, wants her to marry one of his card playing buddies, the butcher Burgstaller. When the typesetter, Cäsar Grün, purposely misprints a winning lottery number in the newspaper, Korn and Burgstaller, thinking they have won, pay the drinks for everybody in the Bock Café and then give away their businesses.
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In Russia, a Chinese dancer gives herself to a duke to save her brother's life.
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Jeanne es una joven francesa que se encuentra en una pequeña ciudad de Crimea durante la Revolución Rusa. Andreas, un oficial zarista que ha abrazado la causa bolchevique, se enamora de Jeanne. Tras una serie de peripecias ella vuelve a Francia. Poco después llegan por separado Andreas, para organizar a los marineros de Toulon, y Kalibiev, un espía. Después de numerosos problemas, Jeanne y Andreas pueden estar juntos.
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An international gang of thieves and swindlers decide to move their criminal operation to the Teutonic city of Cologne, but Tom Wilkens, one of the best agents of the international police, is not far behind and leads an investigation to unmask the criminals.
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Children's Souls Accuse You is a 1927 German silent drama film directed by Curtis Bernhardt and starring Albert Steinrück, Nathalie Lissenko and Walter Rilla. It was made with an anti-abortion theme.
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Movie by Arthur Bergen starring Mary Nolan (Imogene Robertson).
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