Giuseppe Becce

Thomas Holinka has returned home from war and captivity. In the absence of a suitable home, he finds himself in what seems to be an abandoned monastery. When the nuns return, a conflict is inevitable because Holinka is addicted to alcohol and gambling .

In Florence, at the time of Lorenzo de Medici, known also as Lorenzo the Magnificent, the aristocrat brothers Chiaramantesi rule with an iron fist the streets of the city. Ruthless and fierce, the two brothers have chosen as their special victim the innocent and harmless Giannetto. Even though determined to not react to the cruel pranks of the brothers, Giannetto is forced to take a stand when Ginevra, a beautiful girl that works in the Chiaramantesi household, is dragged into the game. To defend his honor and protect the girl, Giannetto works out a fiendish plot that will end in blood and madness.

Alois, Wendelin, Schani and Franz operate an auto repair shop in Vienna. One evening, Alois fishes the suicidal Hannerl out of the Danube and takes her to live with him. The timid and taciturn woman soon disappears however, and with her, a large amount of cash out of the shop's cash register. A disappointed Alois wishes to forget about her, but his three friends look for Hannerl and the money. As it turns out, she's married to the smuggler Kerrylis, who forces her to take part in his business; that's why she tried to kill herself. When Kerrylis is found dead, Alois is suspected of being the murderer.

Henkel ad by Pinschewer.

A drama film directed by Gerhard Lamprecht.

The film follows the life story of Johann Augustus Suter, the owner of Sutter's Mill, famous as the birthplace of the great California Gold Rush of 1848.

A young German boy meets his hero, a famous flying ace, and dreams of becoming a pilot. However, his mother--whose husband was a fighter pilot killed in battle during World War I--does not want to lose her son, too, and tries to persuade him to abandon his dreams of flying.

Story of the trials and tribulations of a German who emigrates to the US during the Great Depression.

Impresario Adler is imprisoned for insulting an official and therefore unable to negotiate an important concert tour with opera singer Lauri Volpi. In his place, he convinces Friedel, a pretty music student, to travel to Venice to meet the famous tenor. In her travels, Friedel sends postcards written by Adler to his wife to prevent her from knowing his real whereabouts. When Friedel meets Volpi’s attorney, she mistakes him for the singer, and they spend days together in a romantic, picturesque Italy without him revealing his true identity. After his release from prison, Adler realizes two things: firstly, Friedel has been negotiating with the wrong man, and secondly, his wife has discovered the trick with the postcards, traveled to Italy, and started a storm of her own. But when the storm has cleared and the confusions are clarified, nothing holds them back from a happy ending.

George Simon, un exitoso abogado judío de Manhattan, tiene que enfrentarse de repente a la infidelidad de su mujer y a su propio pasado.

Eva se acaba de casar con un señor mayor, pero descubre que está obsesionado con el orden en su vida y que no tiene mucho espacio para la pasión. Ella se desanima y lo abandona, volviendo a la casa de su padre. Un día, mientras se baña en el lago, conoce a un joven y se enamoran. El marido se ha afligido por la pérdida de su joven esposa, y el destino lo une al joven amante que le ha arrebatado a Eva.

Eva se acaba de casar con un señor mayor, pero descubre que está obsesionado con el orden en su vida y que no tiene mucho espacio para la pasión. Ella se desanima y lo abandona, volviendo a la casa de su padre. Un día, mientras se baña en el lago, conoce a un joven y se enamoran. El marido se ha afligido por la pérdida de su joven esposa, y el destino lo une al joven amante que le ha arrebatado a Eva.

A young medical student returns to his Tyrolean home to find out that Napoleon's troops have taken over the area and that his mother and sister have been murdered.

Lilian, a rich young girl, is to marry Baron de Plessis, captain of the bobsleigh team. However, Lilian is interested in Tressac, the captain of the opposing team. When everyone discovers that the baron is a burglar, Lilian can marry her lover.

Junta es una chica que vive sola en un monte en cuya cumbre brilla una luz azul por las noches. Los habitantes del pueblo, temerosos de esa luz, rechazan a Junta y la tachan de bruja. Sólo un visitante no hace caso de los supersticiosos y decide acercarse a la joven; los dos se sienten mutuamente atraídos.

Tres caballeros van en busca de un terrible dragón que guarda el secreto para aliviar el dolor de cabeza de la princesa.

Two of Germany's best and busiest directors collaborated on Berge in Flammen (Mountain in Flames). The storyline should be of interest to pro-ecologists, inasmuch as the directors take to task the warmongers of the world for despoiling the natural beauties of the European mountain ranges with their shell-fire. The final outrage occurs during a battle between the Austrians and the Italians in the Dolomites, culminating with the destruction of an entire mountain (hence the film's title). The harrowing images on screen were complemented perfectly by the musical score of Giuseppe Beece. Also known as The Doomed Batallion, Berge in Flammen was filmed in three different languages -- German, English, French -- for a total cost of $150,000.

Italian-language version of the Germany-made DER TEUFELSBRUDER (FRA DIAVOLO), with different supporting cast and some scenes. Based on the Auber opera, but with generally original music by Dr. Giuseppe Becce.

El guía de montaña e instructor de esquí Hans Turri ha sido contratado por el turista Gregory Milacz para realizar una ruta en las montañas. Ambos se ven atrapados por una tormenta, por lo que mientras Milacz queda a la espera en la cabaña Concordia, Turri vuelve de nuevo al valle. A la vuelta, Milacz ha desaparecido. Las sospechas se vuelven contra Turri como sospechoso de asesinato por los celos que pudiera tener por la bella Mary Dulac. Para librarse de la acusación de asesinato, Turri se lanza a la búsqueda de Milacs. Versión francesa de la película 'Der sohn der weissen berge', rodada el mismo año por el mismo equipo pero con diferentes actores.

La esquiadora francesa Mary Dulac cae frente a los pies de los tres esquiadores alemanes Turri, Koste y Morel durante el entrenamiento para los campeonatos europeos de esquí en Zermatt en el Matterhorn. La hija pasa las vacaciones de invierno en las montañas con su padre adinerado e invita a sus nuevos conocidos a un baile en su elegante hotel por la noche, para disgusto de su admirador Gregor Milacz.

An engaged woman discovers her fiancé has a four year old son. Pretending to take a cure she travels to the boy's foster-parents to make his acquaintance.

Un joven se enfrenta al musculoso Emil en un combate de boxeo por la bolsa, valorada en 1.000 dólares, y la mano de la señorita Arabella.

After a chance meeting at a train station, Henry and Stascha, unhappy with their circumstances, are determined to leave and be together.

A silent adventure based on the classic novel by Stendhal "The Red and the Black".

Because she has fallen in love with an unknown man, young princess Antoinette has fled to Berlin before her planned marriage with a prince. Incognito, she works for the fashion house Pappenheim, where salesman Egon Fürst falls for the young girl. Antoinette′s rigid uncle is sent to bring the royal runaway home, but he mistakes another mannequin for his niece, therefore taking the wrong girl to his castle in Baden-Baden. The whole Pappenheim company, including the princess, also goes to Baden-Baden for a fashion show, which means even more excitement and confusion.

La película se centra en una familia dividida por la política. Mientras que el hijo, un prusiano acérrimo, está horrorizado por el traicionero apoyo de su padre a los franceses, también condena el espíritu de venganza sin sentido de los patriotas locales.

Un hombre afila su navaja de afeitar, se dirige al tocador donde se encuentra su esposa y, al proceder a afeitarle el pelo de la nuca le hace un corte accidentalmente al escuchar los gritos procedentes del vecindario.

A taxi driver in Berlin refuses to give up his horse and switch to motor transport.

Fábula moral basada en la famosa comedia de Moliere sobre la hipocresía de un hombre que quiere adueñarse de una gran fortuna.

The perfect body as an object of cult worship. Based on the mass sports and body worship movement of the 1920s, the film propagates physical training and shows in stylized documentary scenes aspects of physical hygiene, gymnastics, sports and dancing as well as scenes in which supposed sportsmen of antiquity pose naked.

Un portero de un lujoso hotel, es bruscamente degradado a mozo de los lavabos. Privado de su antiguo trabajo y del uniforme que le identifica, intenta ocultar su nueva condición, pero su vida se desintegra lentamente.

A Saracen sultan's disguised son loves an amnesiac Moslem princess.

Four-generation story-saga dealing with the decline of a middle-class Lübeck family. The first adaptation of a Thomas Mann book was also Gerhard Lamprecht’s first major film.

Variety star Kaja falls in love with fisherman Peter. But he in a unfortunate situation kills a man and is sentenced to ten years imprisonment. Kaja promises to wait for him, but things go badly for her.

"The Bear Joseph", so named because of a fight with a bear, is rescued by Wally, a farmer's daughter, from a dangerous situation in a vulture's nest. He then calls her "Geierwally". They fall in love. Wally's father disapproves of this romance. He has other plans for Wally.

Scherben is about the everyday lives of a railway trackman, his wife and daughter in a remote, isolated house in a winter landscape, Mayer and Pick introduce increasingly stronger disturbances into their daily routines.

En algún lugar del sur de Baviera, Xaver quiere casarse con Gretel, pero el padre de ésta, Kohlhiesel, quiere que su hija mayor, Liesel, se case primero, como mandaba la tradición en ese lugar. El problema es que nadie quiere casarse con Liesel, porque es demasiado brusca. Xaver sugiere que primero se casará con Liesel y luego se deshará de ella, para más tarde volver a casarse con Gretel. (Eddie Constanti)

Sentado en un banco de un parque, Francis anima a su compañero Alan para que vayan a Holstenwall, una ciudad del norte de Alemania, a ver el espectáculo ambulante del doctor Caligari. Un empleado municipal que le niega al doctor el permiso para actuar, aparece asesinado al día siguiente. Francis y Alan acuden a ver al doctor Caligari y a Cesare, su ayudante sonámbulo, que le anuncia a Alan su porvenir: vivirá hasta el amanecer.

An adaptation of the Gerhart Hauptmann play of the same name. A young farmer's daughter is used and abused by the men in her life.

A doctor's marriage to a single mother comes unravelled.

Henny Porten plays the dual role of a rather indecorous Countess and her kitchen maid Karoline Blum, an amateur actress.

a silent movie by Robert Wiene

a silent movie by Robert Wiene

a silent movie by Robert Wiene

a silent movie by Robert Wiene

a silent movie by Robert Wiene

a silent movie by Robert Wiene

The story of the great German composer, from his childhood through his great triumphs in orchestral and operatic music.