Ilka Grüning

A prison warden fights to prove one of his inmates was wrongly convicted.

The title character, played by John Payne, is a ship's captain whose embittered behavior after losing his lady love seemingly leads to tragedy. Accused of deliberately scuttling his ship during a typhoon, Captain China hopes to clear himself by signing on as a common seaman on a vessel captain by his former first mate Brendensen. There's no love lost between the two men, and their mutual animosity is intensified when both fall in love with beautiful passenger.

When he learns that a gangster has taken over his nightclub and murdered his partner, returning WWII hero Joe Miracle steals the money from the club's safe and hides in a settlement home, while the mob is on his tail.

Uma jovem e ambiciosa modelo de loja de departamentos de Los Angeles tem o sonho de se casar com um milionário, mas descobre que a vida na riqueza nem sempre é feliz. E o sonho de infância de Leonora Eames se torna realidade. Se casa com Smith Ohlrig, um homem que vale milhões. Mas seu sonho inocente torna-se um pesadelo, quando percebe a verdade sobre seu marido - ele é louco por poder e insano! Como ele não lhe dará o divórcio, ela deixa sua vida de luxo em Long Island e vai trabalhar como recepcionista em um pobre consultório médico no Lower East Side de Nova York. Depois que Smith a engana em uma reconciliação temporária, Leonora fica grávida. Quando ela percebe que está esperando, ela e um dos médicos, Larry Quinada (James Mason), se apaixonaram. Mas ela é novamente atraída para seu marido rico em busca de segurança financeira para seu filho. Seu marido sádico está empenhado em manter ela e seu filho prisioneiros. O que vai acontecer com Leonora? (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)

Encomium para Larry Hart (1895-1943), visto pelos olhos fictícios de seu parceiro de letras de canções, Richard Rodgers (1902-1979). Começa com sua primeira reunião, e vai através de anos de vacas magras até serem descobertos, com seus sucessos na Broadway, Londres, e Hollywood. Vemos os frutos da parceria de Hart e Rodgers - elaboradamente encenando números de suas peças de teatro, personagens, visitas a clubes noturnos e performances de improviso nas festas. Vemos também a abordagem dispersa de Larry para a vida, seu amor frustrado com Peggy McNeil, a sua infelicidade, e o sucesso de Richard em cortejar Dorothy Feiner.

Joe Sullivan escapa da prisão com a cumplicidade da namorada Pat Cameron. Durante a fuga, ele toma como refém Ann Martin, a jovem e bela assistente de seu advogado, e a história se complica quando os dois se apaixonam. Ao mesmo tempo, um ex-empregador que deve dinheiro a Sullivan planeja sua morte.

An innocent trucker takes it on the lam when he's accused of robbery.

Broadway star, Sheila Page, shoots Barney, her murderous husband on New Year's Eve. She flees her apartment and goes to her producer, John Friday. When she arrives, it is New Year's day, a year earlier. She has been given the chance to live life over and correct the errors of the past only to find that the end will be the same although the path will be different.

When a German art dealer living in the US returns to his native country he finds himself attracted to Nazi propaganda.

Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concerning her abilities, but is eventually offered a research placement in Pierre Curie's lab. The scientists soon fall in love and embark on a shared quest to extract, from a particular type of rock, a new chemical element they have named radium. However, their research puts them on the brink of professional failure.

Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, muitos fugitivos tentavam escapar dos nazistas por uma rota que passava pela cidade de Casablanca. O exilado americano Rick Blaine encontrou refúgio na cidade, dirigindo uma das principais casas noturnas da região. Clandestinamente, tentando despistar o Capitão Renault, ele ajuda refugiados, possibilitando que eles fujam para os Estados Unidos. Quando um casal pede sua ajuda para deixar o país, ele reencontra uma grande paixão do passado, a bela Ilsa. Este amor vai encontrar uma nova vida e eles vão lutar para fugir juntos.

During World War I, two German men friends who emigrated to the US and become millionaires agree on most things, with one major difference: one has taken the US side against Germany regarding the war, while the other stays stubbornly loyal to "the old country". His stubbornness results in tragedy for his old friend and a lesson in the consequences of blind loyalty.

Five young adults in a small American town face the revelations of secrets that threaten to ruin their hopes and dreams.

A doctor tries to rescue a young innocent from Nazi agents.

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.

A young maid from the country looses her job as maid in k.u.k. Budapest, when she stays out too long with her beau, a soldier, who's saving money to buy a horse to open a transport company. After being unemployed for quite a while and her rent is long overdue, the landlady offers her a better job in a nightclub. Meanwhile the soldiers family has decided that her son should marry the daughter of a rich farmer. The soldier finds out about his girl friends profession, and accepts after struggling with himself the match his parents have made. At the day of his engagement his girl friend comes to his hometown with enough money to buy a horse, which leads to a conflict between her, the fiancee, her family, himself and his parents.

Police battle against a gang of blackmailers known as The Crimson Circle.

A feature-length jewish joke: The heavily indebted Sami Bambus fakes his death, so that his debts are taken over by the greedy heirs, led by the scrounger Prellstein. The putative heir also brings speculators to the scene, and the general confusion can ultimately only be reconciled by the summoned uncle Salomon and by Samis' return from the dead.

O professor Mathias é atormentado por um irracional medo de facas e uma irresistivel compulsão em matar sua mulher. Com medo de ficar louco e tendo horriveis pesadelos, ele procura um psicanalista que se oferece para tratar do problema.

a silent movie by Heinz Paul

Viena, anos 1920. Duas mulheres nem imaginavam, mas teriam seus destinos completamente mudados por acasos do destino. Vivendo com dificuldade na tumultuada capital da Áustria afetada grandemente pela Primeira Guerra Mundial, uma delas acaba se tornando prostitua e a outra por sorte é salva pelo amor de um americano da Cruz Vermelha

The likeable and carefree Grand Duke of Abacco is in dire straits. There is no money left to service the State's debt; the main creditor is looking forward to expropriating the entire Duchy. The marriage with Olga, Grand Duchess of Russia, would solve everything, but a crucial letter of hers about the engagement has been stolen. Besides, a bunch of revolutionaries and a dubious businessman have other plans regarding the Grand Duke. With the intrusion of adventurer Philipp Collins into the Grand Duke's affairs, a series of frantic chases, plots and counter-plots begins.

A lost Murnau peasant-farm film.

In his film version, Curt Goetz shifts the focus away from the poetic output towards the young Friedrich Schiller himself: on the misery of his soul whilst a pupil of the ducal military academy, his opposition to the strict physical drill and the narrow intellectual confines of the "Karlsschule", his juvenile passion for the works of Shakespeare, Klopstock and Lessing, his anger at unjust authorities, his devotion to women, and finally his inability to cope with financial matters

The daughter of a famous painter fleeing thieves who believe she knows where one of her father's original paintings is kept, flees and hides out at the residence of a pair of avowed women hating bachelors.

On the surface a straightforward tale of the search for a buried treasure, the film is a textbook example of German expressionism, with the passions of the protagonists conveyed as much through symbolism as action.

Quando Lorenz Lubota é atropelado, ele fica obcecado por Veronika, a misteriosa e sensual passageira do veículo. Mais um clássico expressionista de F. W. Murnau, o filme era considerado perdido até 2003.

The married Lady Emma Hamilton has an ill fated romance with Admiral Horatio Nelson.

Escape from the Golden Dungeon is the second part of the two-part silent movie Christian Wahnschaffe.

Jacques Lantier, the "human beast" of the title, has a hereditary madness and has several times in his life wanted to murder women. At the beginning of the story he is an engine driver, in control of his engine "La Lison". His relationship with "La Lison" is almost sexual and provides some degree of control over his mania.

The film was an epic portrayal of the life of Catherine the Great of Russia.

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.

About a deceptive bourgeois couple that blends their acquaintances into their dubious business.

Based on Henrik Ibsen's play.