Julius Falkenstein

Film by Boese.

English-language version of Ich und die Kaiserin. 'Germany, 1890. Duke falls in love with voice which is not that of empress, but of hairdresser.' (British Film Catalogue)

Film by Heuberger.

Film by Waschneck.

During a concert tour, famous tenor Riccardo Gatti meets Lixie at an Aida rehearsal and takes her for a ballet dancer. She is in fact trying to get a position for her boyfriend, so she accepts Gatti's date for supper. When she runs away he publishes a newspaper ad offering to give a concert anywhere she chooses if she shows up. She chooses a swimming pool hoping to discourage him, but he accepts.

The accounting department of an insurance company is looking for a new secretary. To prevent a repeat of the eternal love affairs between the employees, the head of personnel -- no doubt taking advantage of the not-yet-existent anti-discrimination laws -- is seeking the ugliest troll of a woman he can find to do the office typing. And he believes he's found her in the nondescript Lotte. But the bookkeeper Fritz is deeply offended by such mean, discriminatory practices. He decides he's going to correct the boss' disgusting behaviour by going one better: to prove that even ugly people deserve to reproduce, he's going to hit up on Lotte. And obviously, this leads to all sorts of problems and funny situations...

Tras la muerte de su tío, propietario de Champagne Bockelmann, Peter asiste a la lectura del testamento. Bockelmann, productor de agua mineral, está seguro que heredará el negocio, pero el negocio del alcohol le parece inmoral. La lectura del testamento será toda una sorpresa.

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.

Young French student Madeleine Duchanel wants to go to the theater and therefore pulls out of the well-protected environment of her school. In Paris she hopes to make a career, but in her naivety she ends up on the street.

A GIRL YOU DON'T FORGET can be thought of as a backstage musical that treats the whole world as backstage. Melodies seem to be buzzing through the air, available to anyone in the right state of mind. Willi Forst always is, and he is also an actor who can transform any space into a stage. Fritz Kortner, one of the defining personalities of the German theatre scene of the 1920s, makes the most of his star’s talent in an intricately constructed romantic comedy that believes in the truth of artifice. Forst plays Paul Hartwig, a wannabe actor who is reduced to selling books in the cold streets of Berlin. While pursuing his big break, he meets Lisa Brandes (Dolly Haas), another victim of the global financial crisis who has just learned a new trick: cheating horny old men out of their money by selling promises she does not intend to keep. Dedicated theatre man Paul decides to win her over by putting on an act, but a misplaced slap leads to unintended consequences. - Lukas Foerster

A nightclub waiter and a manicurist share the same room, he sleeps there by night and she by day. They've never meet , but they can't stand each other. Then they meet by chance, not knowing who's who and fall in love.

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.

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.

The cousin of an ugly duckling, during a search for missing documents, brings out her hidden charm and falls in love with her.

La estrella de la ópera Enrico Ferraro, cansado de su estresante agenda, cambia de tren para unas vacaciones en Suiza. Cuando se descubre su presencia en el tranquilo complejo junto al lago, cambia de lugar con un nuevo amigo que finge ser su secretario. Libre al fin, explora el país y conoce a una hermosa chica.

A count's son has a place to meet his poor Parisian girlfriend and they even make some money for a while with him singing and her playing piano.But the father offers him support to marry someone else.

Two inspiration sources appear clearly: contemporary American gangster movies and Alfred Döblin’s novel Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929).

The athletic young widow Antoinette Peterson gets into financial troubles when a business venture backfires and has to sell her car and her villa. On the road, she meets a stranger whose car she is able to repair and whom she later meets again as the buyer of her house. It is no one else than the venturer William P. Harrison to whom she lost her whole fortune in the first place. He offers her a bet: If she manages to stay for three months as his chauffeur and behaves accordingly, he would give her back her fortune. Although Harrison makes it as hard as possible for her, she keeps up. But they have already fallen in love with each other.

Slapstick comedy about a couple brought together by hypnosis.

Viktoria is a Hungarian countess who believes her Hussar captain husband was killed in World War I. She marries an American and resettles at the American consulate in Tokyo. Her first husband reappears, alive; and the American generously releases Viktoria from their union.

Viena, 1814. Después de las guerras napoleónicas se reúnen los gobernantes y estadistas de toda Europa para pactar un nuevo orden internacional. El astuto Príncipe de Metternich, ministro del emperador austríaco, actúa de anfitrión y hace lo posible para distraer a sus húespedes, con la taimada intención de que no asistan a las sesiones de la conferencia y le permitan hacer y deshacer el traje de Europa a la medida de sus intereses. Una joven ingenua se verá inmersa en estas intrigas, en lo que ella tomará como una aventura romántica con el poderoso y apuesto Zar de todas las Rusias.

Un millonario americano, harto de sus fracasos amorosos, apuesta 500.000 dólares con su mejor amigo a que es capaz de estar cinco años sin tener relaciones con una mujer. Para evitar caer en la tentación, se embarca en su yate con una tripulación que comparte sus mismos ideales, y a la que no le está permitido bajar a tierra bajo ningún concepto. Tras cuatro años y medio, todo va bien y la apuesta parece ganada, pero Lilian Harvey aparece en medio del mar para poner patas arriba el barco, y de paso, hacer mucho más interesante la historia.

When a prostitute is murdered in a cheap Berlin boarding house, an investigating judge suspects that the killer is her boyfriend, unaware that his own son and daughter are also mixed up in the case.

A woman accompanies her husband to a party. Both leave with other partners.

Remake of a silent Lubitsch: A country girl right out of high school graduates to a place in her aunt's Leipzig garment business, then to a more glamorous such store in Berlin, and finally into a palace.

Different kinds of Berliners, the well to do along with the ordinary shopkeepers, enjoy their weekends in the city's suburban garden colonies.

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.

Young Anny returns from school to her circus family, which runs a little venue at the town fair. When Anny suddenly has to fill in for one of the artists, her piano-playing not only enthrals the audience, but also theatre agent Hobbes. He casts the whole family for the Apollo theatre in Berlin, where Anny quickly raises to stardom and is offered an engagement from the US.

The Other (Der Andere) is a psychological drama based on the popular Jekyll and Hyde theme.

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.

During a test run for a large race in Sicily the racing car driver Bettina Bang gets into an accident and is saved by a secretive person unknown to her. It later turns out that the unknown man is the race car driver Harry Bredow.

Basada en una historia de Michel Linsky, la trama gira en torno a una muchacha llamada Mascotte (Harvey), que trata de ganarse la vida posando como modelo para la colonia artística parisina. Acuciada por una extrema necesidad de dinero para financiar el internamiento de una amiga en un centro sanitario, Mascotte se subasta a sí misma para servir como modelo del artista que más puje por ella por un período de 15 días. Mascotte es "comprada" por un novelista llamado Jean (Harry Halm), que sólo quiere dar una lección a su coqueta mujer. Aunque manteniendo las distancias, Mascotte convence a Jean de hacerse pasar por su amante para que su esposa sienta celos y vuelva a caer en sus brazos. Por supuesto, las cosas no salen según lo planeado, y en poco tiempo Jean y Mascotte se enamoran.

Directed by Alexandre Volkoff

A handsome barber in Sweden doesn't know he's actually the Crown Prince of a Balkan kingdom in this charming Swedish-German comedy that effortlessly weaves together multiple Ruritanian tropes.

Ninon d'Hauteville es una vedette que presenta un vodevil en el pueblo de Gerolstein titulado "El príncipe y la cortesana". Los miembros de la Sociedad de la Moralidad se sienten muy ofendidos porque en una escena el príncipe aparece bajo las faldas de Ninón. Así que, armados con silbatos y otros instrumentos ruidosos, se presentan en el teatro para boicotear la función.

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.

La muerte del primer ministro causa revuelo en la sociedad de un pequeño pueblo residencial. Mientras von Gillzing espera convertirse en el sucesor del difunto, Weber, su ex secretario, es transferido a un puesto insignificante como archivero. Y también la baronesa von Windegg, que tiempo atrás se consideraba la amante del primer ministro, teme perder el estatus social. Pero cuando la baronesa le da al archivero un grueso paquete que von Gillzing cree que contiene los diarios del difunto primer ministro, de repente la baronesa y el archivero tienen una gran demanda y todos en la ciudad tienen miedo de ser mencionados en el diario de manera comprometedora. (Eddie Constanti)

a silent movie by Heinz Paul

Austrian actress Mady Christians stars alongside German matinee idol Willy Fritsch in this adaptation of the Oscar Straus operetta about a Prince who, after falling for a Viennese girl, becomes obsessed with the city and its customs.

Cinta de intrigas 'palaciegas' ambientada en el diminuto ducado mediterráneo de Abacco.

a silent movie by Robert Wiene

A couple, Hasia and Otto, are brought together by their loss of wealth and status as the imperial era ends, but torn apart by an unusual offer from a wealthy man. The man wishes Otto to marry his daughter, as Otto bares a striking resemblance to his daughter's fiancee who was killed in WWI. In exchange, Otto will want for nothing.

Dr. Schön marries a lower class girl, Lulu. Young and voluptuous she attracts the attention of the all the male gender, but the doctor will not let her go.

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.

Mientras la policía intensifica su desconcertante búsqueda de la notoria banda de gánsteres del Dr. Mabuse, el engañoso y elusivo hipnotizador Mabuse comienza simultáneamente a encerrarse en sí mismo.

Doctor Mabuse is a criminal mastermind, doctor of psychology, and master of disguise, armed with the powers of hypnosis and mind control, who oversees the counterfeiting and gambling rackets of the Berlin underworld. He visits gambling dens by night under various guises and aliases, using the power of suggestion to win at cards and finance his plans.

La primera versión cinematográfica del Dr. Mabuse consta de dos partes: “El gran jugador” y “El infierno”. El doctor Mabuse es un villano que no se siente atraído por los bienes materiales, sino por el placer que le proporciona jugar con el destino de los hombres.

En el castillo Vogeloed, unos aristócratas están esperando a la baronesa Safferstatt, cuando, de repente, aparece el indeseable conde Oetsch, al que nadie había invitado. Todos están convencidos de que él asesinó a su hermano, el primer marido de la baronesa Safferstat. Sin embargo, Oetsch, pese a no ser bien recibido, se queda en el castillo, arguyendo que él no sólo no es el asesino, sino que además encontrará a quien mató a su hermano.

Los Montekugerl y los Capulethofer son llevados ante el juez para zanjar sus diferencias, y en vista de que éste no le da la razón a ninguna de las dos familias, ambas granjas comienzas una eterna rivalidad que se complicará cuando Julia, hija de los Capulethofer resulte enamorada de Romeo el hijo de los Montekugerl a quien está dispuesta a ver a toda costa, rompiendo su compromiso con Theobald. (FILM AFFINITY)

Directed by Carl Boese.

Quaker, el rey de las ostras, es tan rico que lo único que le sorprendería sería ver a su hija casarse con un príncipe. Hace una oferta al príncipe arruinado Nucki, quien manda a un amigo suyo para que le explique cómo es Ossi, la hija de Quaker. Sátira social en la que es para muchos -incluido el propio Lubitsch- la primera película en la que desarrolla su estilo personal; el que acabará conociéndose como el "toque Lubitsch".

Una joven es obligada por su padre a casarse con un hombre que no ama, pero huye antes de que se lleve a cabo el matrimonio. Se refugia en un pequeño pueblo donde se enamora de un joven.

Billionaire's daughter Ethel Vandergolt has rejected so many lovers that they set up a club to get revenge on her.

Ernst Lubitsch es el protagonista, con un doble papel, de esta comedia sobre un matrimonio amenazado por una suegra enredadora. Cuando la esposa pretende divorciarse, el marido finge un suicidio y reaparece como nuevo mayordomo de la casa.