(archive footage)
A documentary about the era of classic monster movies that were made at Universal Studios during the 1930s and 1940s.
(archive footage)
In this made-for-TV production, Vincent Price and his hunchback sidekick (Billy Van) host a pun-filled salute to the horror film genre from its earliest beginnings all the way up to The Exorcist. Featuring clips from classic horror films and interviews with genre greats like Frank Gorshin, John Carradine, John Astin and SFX legend Bill Tuttle, among others.
Hassert Seidel
Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe.
Major Heinrich Strasser
Оставивший родину американец Рик Блэйн, владелец игорного клуба в Касабланке, случайно встречается с покинувшей его несколько лет назад возлюбленной, Ильзой, которая приехала в город вместе со своим нынешним мужем, борцом антифашистского сопротивления Виктором Лазло. По их следу идут немцы, и Ильза пытается упросить Рика отдать принадлежащие ему важные документы, которые позволят Виктору бежать из Касабланки, чтобы продолжить свою борьбу.
Otto Becker / Baron Hugo von Detner
Humble stamp dealer Otto Becker has little to do with international politics, so when he receives a surprise visit from his estranged twin brother and Nazi spy, Baron Hugo von Detner, his world is thrown into turmoil. Threatening Becker with deportation, Hugo forces him to use his shop as a front for espionage.
Franz Ebbing
Гловс Донахью — нью-йоркский спортивный промоутер. В течение многих лет каждое его утро начинается с чизкейка, приготовленного в пекарне Миллера. Но однажды устоявшийся распорядок был нарушен: владельца пекарни, Миллера, убивают. Он видел, как певица из ночного клуба Леда Гамильтон покидает пекарню. По просьбе своей матери Гловс начинает своё расследование. А когда партнер босса певицы Марти Джо также оказывается убит, Леда и ее аккомпаниатор Пепи исчезают. Вскоре выясняется, что за убийством Миллера стоит крупная подпольная организация, в планах которой — захват страны. Так Гловс выходит на банду тайных нацистов.
Stanislas Rosing
Актриса цирка русского происхождения Лина Варсавина становится балериной. Скорее из благодарности, чем по любви, она выходит замуж за своего преподавателя. После его смерти её мужем становится американец-интеллектуал, который заставляет её оставить балет. Но она покидает мужа, чтобы вернуться к своей любимой профессии...
Joseph Jones
The operators of 'Silver Haven', a cultish group bilking gullible rich people out of money, is set to inherit a large sum after the deceased woman's heir also dies. Leader Joesph Jones decides to hurry the process along and kidnaps Wally Benton, his fiancé, and a friend, to further this goal. Wally, 'The Fox', is a radio sleuth who solves murders on the air. Jones wants him to devise a perfect murder, and isn't above killing others sloppily along the way to get his foolproof murder plot.
Torsten Barring
Главная героиня Анна Холм запрещает держать в доме зеркала. Лицо Анны изуродовано шрамом, однако ее потрясающая красота все еще отчетливо дает о себе знать. Ожесточенная женщина предстает перед нами безжалостной шантажисткой, которая не способна на человеческие чувства. Ситуация меняется, когда пластический хирург предлагает ей свою помощь…
Jaffar
В славном городе Багдаде, в великолепном дворце, в атмосфере роскоши и неги жил молодой король Ахмет, наследник, великого царя Гарун Аль Рашида. Был король Ахмет красив, и имел он 365 жен, но в душе короля не жила любовь. И не знал он проблем своего народа, потому что между королем и его подданными стоял великий визирь Джафар — колдун и интриган. Именно Джафар предложил скучающему правителю заманчивую идею переодеться бедняком и «инкогнито» совершить «познавательную» экскурсию по родному городу. А когда наивный Ахмет последовал совету своего «верного» визиря, коварный Джафар объявил короля сумасшедшим, приказал схватить его и бросить в темницу. В тюрьме Ахмет подружился с мелким воришкой Абу, и они вместе бежали в соседнее королевство. Там царственный изгнанник влюбился в юную принцессу, и принцесса ответила ему взаимностью… Но колдун Джафар решил помешать счастью влюбленных. Он наложил проклятье на Ахмета, ослепив юношу, а его товарища Абу превратил в собаку…
General Kurt von Kolb
An American goes to 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.
Self
This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes behind the scenes to look at how the sound portion of a talking picture is created.
Capt. Andersen
When a neutral Danish merchant ship is forced to put into port after trying to evade British wartime contraband control, its captain becomes involved in a beautiful British Naval Intelligent agent's efforts to capture a group of German spies operating from a London cinema.
Captain Ernst Hardt
A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.
Le baron de Kempelen
A toymaker in Poland specializes in building lifesize mechanical men. He builds a chess-playing "automaton" to hide a pretty young Polish activist who is being hunted by occupying Russian forces.
Erich Keith
An adventurer tries to seize oil deposits in Mongolia .
Baron Karl Von Marwitz
Во время Первой Мировой Войны Стокгольм представлял собой рассадник международного шпионажа. Мадлен - британский двойной агент, поставляющая ложную информацию от союзников по Антанте немецкому штабу в Париже. Но она еще, и прекрасная молодая женщина, а потому неожиданно влюбляется в учтивого барона, оказавшегося главой немецкой Секретной Службы.
Двум влюбленным, находящимся по разные стороны баррикад, предстоит испытать невероятной силы чувства и эмоции, а жизнь и честь их будет подвергаться нешуточным испытаниям с самого начала этой удивительной приключенческой истории, которая держит зрителя в напряжении до самого конца фильма.
Gil de Berault
Действие этого фильма происходит во Франции, в начале XVII-го века, в годы царствования Людовика XIII. Вся полнота власти принадлежала в то время кардиналу Ришелье, который беспощадно преследовал гугенотов — противников абсолютизма и католической церкви.
Convict 83
Revolt on a prison island is a parable of workers revolution. A cruel and repressive penal colony is the setting for a prison revolt with a special twist...the prisoners want to stay on and govern themselves in a humane and productive working community. Well that's the theory anyway but circumstances make their venture a lot more complicated than that.
The Stranger
The tenants of an old London boarding house spend their time in petty bickering and sniping until a mysterious stranger arrives at their door.
Mahmoud Baroudi
That old theatrical war-horse Bella Donna (previously filmed in America by Alla Nazimova) was resurrected by Britain's Twickenham Studios in 1934. Conrad Veidt stars as sinister Egyptian Mahmoud Baroundi, who even before the film gets under way has left a long trail of ruined women behind him. His latest victim is American girl Mona Chepstow (Mary Ellis), whom Baroundi treats like dirt and makes her like it. The plot centers around a murder by poison, as evidenced by the film's deliberately exotic title. Critics in 1934 praised newcomer Mary Ellis for underplaying her role, but many film fans preferred Nazimova's arm-waving histrionics in the earlier version.
Josef 'Jew Süss' Oppenheimer
A historical satire critical of the rising tide of Anti-Semitism in Germany. Based on the novel by Lionel Feuchtwanger, Jew Süss is the story of life in the 18th century Jewish ghetto of Württemberg. Süss (Veidt) works himself out of the ghetto and into a position of power himself with the help of an evil Duke.
Gessler
Matathias / The Unknown Knight / Dr Matteos Battadios
Old Jerusalem: Matathias, spiteful over his lover's illness, spits on Jesus along the road to Calvary, and is cursed to live endlessly until His return. The Crusades, 1150: Matathias, now an anonymous knight, competes for glory in combat and for the wife of a soldier. Palermo, 1290: Matteos Battadios witnesses the death of his young son, leading to conflict with his wife over whether to take comfort in Christianity. Seville, 1560: Dr Matteos Battadios dedicates himself to the treatment and comfort of the poor, but his life and work are endangered by the arrival of the Spanish Inquisition.
Commandant Oberaertz
During World War I, a young nurse in a hospital in German-occupied Belgium is secretly feeding military information to the British. Complicating matters is the guilt she feels when she has to treat the German casualties inflicted as a result of the information she's passed on, and the fact that the local German commandant is falling in love with her.
Maj. Ellissen
Urged by famous airman Ellissen the Lennartz Company puts into reality the project proposed by his friend Droste: F.P.1, a huge floating platform in the Atlantic that makes long-distance flights viable. Ellissen is in love with company heiress Claire, but when he returns from his adventures to save the endangered F.P.1 he finds out that he has lost her to Droste. English version of F.P.1 antwortet nicht with Conrad Veidt replacing Hans Albers as the jaded pilot Ellissen.
Marquis de Pontignac
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.
Zurta
The theft of a famous painting leads to murder and many suspects on a plush train speeding from Paris to Rome.
Captain Hansgeorg von Hochberg
In 1812, during the French period, large parts of Germany are occupied by the troops of Napoleon. Several paramilitary Freikorps units battle the French forces, among them the Black Brunswickers led by the 'Black Duke' Frederick William of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. After the War of the Fifth Coalition, the Black Hussars are pursued by Napoleon throughout the country, but frequently take refuge with the noble-minded German people.
Grigori Rasputin
The demonic Rasputin is poisoned but survives to continue seducing in evil ways, in this historical thriller.
Prince Metternich
In 1815, Tsar Alexander I romances a working-class glove seller, while his double takes his place at the Vienna Congress. English-language version of Der Kongreß tanzt.
Hauptmann Stanhope
The First World War. The young, English Lieutenant Raleigh is sent to the company of a disillusioned Captain Stanhope. Stanhope is secretly engaged to Raleigh's sister and is intent on protecting his image of an exemplary officer. An attack on the German lines, in which Raleigh also takes part, has turned into a bloody fiasco. Now Raleigh, too, knows the horrors of war, which have already taken their toll on Stanhope.
Fürst Metternich
Vienna glove-sales-lady Christel falls in love with Russian Czar Alexander. Austrian Prince Metternich tries to use this and other pleasant diversions to keep him out of the negotiation conferences of the 1815 Vienna Congress.
German language version of The Virtuous Sin (1930).
Oberst Marquis de Sévigné
The story is about Conrad Veidt as military attache in Turkey where he learns to know an English consul (Heinrich George) and his attractive wife who is treated badly. They begin an affair and soon the husband proves to be an obstacle that has to be disposed of.
Kingsley
This is the German-language version of the British film The Love Storm (1931).
Himself
During lunch break at the movie studio, the extras rush to the canteen Hans Adalbert Schlettow, Maria Paudler and Luis Trenker are chatting. Eva von Loe a beautiful young extra rushes past; she is looking for her fiancé, Paul Wessel, who is also an extra. She has to return to the set where the famous director Regisseur Hall is shooting a scen. He is dissatisfied with his star, Carla Marventa, who is wrong for the scene he must photograph. Hall notices Eva, but laughs at her desire to replace Marventa. At that moment Conrad Veidt comes on the scene and assumes that Eva is the star.
Hauptmann Burk
13 German soldiers have to fight off a French regiment.
Erik the Great
A middle-aged magician is in love with his beautiful young assistant. She, on the other hand, is in love with the magician's young protege, who turns out to be a bum and a thief.
German documentary about Hollywood
Gwynplaine
Не единственная, но наиболее известная, экранизация одноименного романа Виктора Гюго. Гуинплен обезображен в детстве по приказу короля. Его усыновляет бродячий артист Урсус. Благодаря своему уродству, мальчик становится очень популярен. За страшным обликом Гуинплена скрывается чуткая, самоотверженная и любящая душа. Он влюбляется в слепую девушку Дею. Король умирает, а его злобный шут начинает строить козни Гуинплену.
A documentary by Magnus Hirschfeld, which contains a shortened version of Different From the Others (1919).
Paul La Roche
A Man's Past (1927)
King Louis XI
François Villon, in his lifetime the most renowned poet in France, is also a prankster, an occasional criminal, and an ardent patriot.
Count di Nolli, Heinrich IV
Based on the play Henry IV by Luigi Pirandello. Conrad Veidt plays Count di Nolli, a nobleman who, after a head injury, imagines he is the medieval emperor. His friends and relatives choose to play along, dressing up as medieval courtiers, but is di Nolli truly mad, or just pretending? The art direction was by Hermann Warm. It was shot on location in Italy. 6 acts, 1856 meters.
Balduin, Student
For Balduin, going out to beer parties with his fellow students and fighting out disputes at the tip of the sword have lost their charms. He wants to find love; but how would he, a penniless student, ever dare looking up to any woman worth of loving? Absorbed in his dreary thoughts and indifferent to the advances of Lyduschka, Balduin is unexpectedly offered a fortune by the mysterious money-lender Scapinelli - but on a strange condition...
Paul Hartwig, Maler
Wenzel Schellenberg / Michael Schellenberg
Two brothers follow very different paths after an accident at the factory where they both work.
Renées Vater
Girl dressed up as a boy falls in love with a painter.
Der Staatsanwalt
Directed by Martin Berger.
Hellgum
"The Ingmar Inheritance". The story of a group of farmers who choose to leave their homes and follow the preacher Helgum to the Holy Land.
Comte Kostia
Der Liebhaber, ein Dichter
A wife, bored by her overweight slob of a husband, gives in to the temptation of a slickly seductive poet.
Ivan the Terrible
Хозяин музея восковых фигур нанимает писателя, чтобы тот написал рассказы о персонажах его экспозиции — Гаруне аль Рашиде, Иване Грозном и Джеке-потрошителе.
Paul Orlac
A world-famous pianist loses both hands in an accident. When new hands are grafted on, he is horrified to learn they once belonged to a murderer.
Himself
The only surviving excerpt of a documentary on film production in Weimar Germany, featuring the different personalities of several famous directors of the era at work on the set including Fritz Lang, Robert Wiene, and E.A. Dupont.
Don Carlos
Испанский король Карл V свергнут собственным сыном Филиппом. Поддержавшая его Инквизиция получает карт-бланш в жестоком преследовании еретиков. Прошли годы. Уже взрослый сын Филиппа Карлос примкнул к сторонникам независимости Фландрии, страдающей под испанским владычеством. Но есть ещё более значимая причина конфликта отца и сына - Филипп решает жениться на Елизавете Валуа, в которую давно влюблён дон Карлос... Как указано в начальных титрах, фильм снят по мотивам исторических хроник, но угадываются и мотивы трагедии Шиллера "Дон Карлос" и одноимённой оперы Верди. Не случайно эта картина сродни опере вообще, в ней сочетаются величественность и внимание к эмоциональным проявлениям персонажей. Большое внимание уделено костюмам и крупномасштабным декорациям. Главная звезда фильма, Конрад Фейдт в противовес своим привычным демоническим персонажам, показан здесь романтической, слабой личностью, тем самым демонстрируя широкий диапазон актёрских возможностей.
Hermann Gessler
William Tell (German: Wilhelm Tell) is a 1923 German silent adventure film directed by Rudolf Dworsky and Rudolf Walther-Fein and starring Hans Marr, Conrad Veidt and Erich Kaiser-Titz. The film portrays the story of the legendary Swiss national hero William Tell.
Niccolo Paganini
Historical film about Italian musician Niccolo Paganini.
Cesare Borgia
Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, has three adult children: Juan, who is virtuous and has a sweetheart who is a woman of the people, Lucrezia, who is virtuous and wants to marry Alfonso, and Cesare, who is wicked and lusts after Lucrezia, Juan's girlfriend, and probably others. Cesare has vowed to kill any suitor for Lucrezia's love, and he has three thugs to carry out his wishes. Bodies fall into the Tiber, into the Colosseum (with lions prowling), and onto the Vatican floors.
Ayan, Majarajah of Eschnapur
Rowland falls sick with leprosy while Mac Allan is captured by the Maharajah, who offers Irene a deal: one night with him in exchange for letting Rowland to be cured. She accepts, but tries to commit suicide.
Ayan, Majarajah of Eschnapur
Ayan, Maharajah of Eschnapur, believes that his wife, Princess Savitri, has been unfaithful to him with officer Mac Allan. He decides to bury her alive, so he sends the Yogi Ramigani to England to look for Herbert Rowland, an architect; but when he orders him to build a tomb, Rowland refuses.
Lord Nelson
The married Lady Emma Hamilton has an ill fated romance with Admiral Horatio Nelson.
Christian Wahnschaffe
Escape from the Golden Dungeon is the second part of the two-part silent movie Christian Wahnschaffe.
Hektor Dalmore
Jalenko
Ivan
Ivan, a poor Russian student, lives in Switzerland. He is unexpectedly invited to Russia by a distant relative, Princess Wirsky. To finance the journey, he works as a messenger for revolutionaries who want to depose Grand Duke Wirsky. In Moscow, he delivers the message and falls in love with Marja, the daughter of the revolutionary, but Marja's father loves Princess Wirsky and wants to betray the revolutionaries. The princess falls in love with Ivan, and jealously deports Marja to Siberia. In revenge, Ivan strangles the princess. He spends the rest of his life yearning for Marja, whom he has never kissed. When he receives the news of Marja's death, he commits suicide.
Der Maler
Dr. Egil Börne, an eminent physician, comes under the spell of an unscrupulous cabaret dancer and deserts his fiancée. The plot finds echoes throughout the Weimar period, including Sternberg’s The Blue Angel. Conrad Veidt appears in a supporting role as a sinister blind painter, whose entrance eerily presages Murnau’s Nosferatu. Der Gang in die Nacht, the earliest surviving film by F. W. Murnau, is also, paradoxically, the only Murnau film for which the original camera negative exists.
Tossi
Gabriela Farnese, a famous singer, visits Bombay to find her mysterious doppelganger, the dancer Concha.
Minister
Christian Wahnschaffe
Weltbrand is the first part of the two-part silent movie Christian Wahnschaffe.
Manolescu
Brilburn - Maud's brother
Cheston, a millionaire, is looking after Maud, a beautiful woman from the 'demimonde'. Her brother, Brilburn, forces her to ask her rich admirer for an expensive piece of jewelry. Cheston buys a precious pearl necklace.
Wilmos, sanatorium director
A doctor who cannot figure out what is wrong with his patient refers him to a detective, whom he hopes will be able to discern the cause of his mysterious illness.
Dr. Warren
Врач Уоррен попадает под влияние скульптурного изображения, одна сторона которого показывает изображение доброго бога, вторая — злобного демона. Эта ужасная скульптура меняет его сознание. Он находит эликсир, который позволяет разделить Доброе и Злое в человеке. Уоррен может теперь превращаться в своего «alter ego» ОКоннора и обратно. Но однажды превращение не срабатывает, он обречён вечно оставаться О`Коннором. Он пытается составить завещание на имя Уоррена, но это ему не удается. В конце концов, преследуемый полицией, Уоррен покончил с собой.
The devil
The Devil decides to go and visit Kurfürstendamm, where all his clients seem to come from. He settles at "Pension Elvira", where everybody cheats and deceives him. He comes to the conclusion, that Hell is a much better place.
Petre Karvan
Drama about street walker Elena who marries shop keeper Albert. When her former pimp Peter shows up, her life is ruined. She shoots him and poisons herself.
Cesare
Молодой человек по имени Фрэнсис рассказывает ужасную историю: его друг, он сам и их любимая девушка стали жертвами чудовищного эксперимента, задуманного и осуществленного неким доктором Калигари…
The clown
"Night people". Thomas Bezug, the richest man in the world, is a solitary, domineering and cruel cripple, who hardly can move on his crutches. He dwells a fanatical love for his son, whom he holds like a monkey in a cage. His servants are defaced dwarfs. His secretary is trying to steal Bezugs assets. These are the night people.
Der Tod / Various Other Roles
After the old-books shop closes, portraits of the Strumpet, Death, and the Devil come to life and amuse themselves by reading stories--about themselves.
Bankier Lorenzen
A banker, after a prophetic meeting with a Gypsy fortune teller, becomes delusional as he searches for a trunk which the seer has told him holds the key to either his happiness or his death. This film is considered lost.
Director
A banker, after a prophetic meeting with a Gypsy fortune teller, becomes delusional as he searches for a trunk which the seer has told him holds the key to either his happiness or his death. This film is considered lost.
Carl Kraker
The niece and nephew of an eccentric millionaire try to get a share of the now deceased millionaire's inheritance from his adopted son who delights in squandering it.
Alfred Werner
About a deceptive bourgeois couple that blends their acquaintances into their dubious business.
Paul Körner
В фильме рассказывается история знаменитого скрипача, ставшего жертвой клеветнических нападок из-за своей гомосексуальности.
Phineas Fogg
Wealthy Englishman Phileas Fogg bets his friends that he can travel around the world in 80 days.
Alfred Werner
Hedwig and Lola, two sisters of opposite temperaments, have their lives upended in when Lola decides to pursue prostitution and Hedwig is forced into it.
Dr. Richard Armstrong Jr.
In China, Professor Gesellius has completed his long research on the many uses of opium. When he is about to return home, he hears about a special variety that produces fabulous sensations because of the way it is made, but can also cause the total destruction of the mind and body of the person who consumes it.
Erik Norrensen
Dida Ibsen, daughter of impoverished farmers, has, according to her father's will, to marry the main creditor. But she refuses and decides to live with a married man as a mistress, till he gets his divorce. In the town she opens a restaurant with the money of her wealthy lover, from whom she soon gets pregnant, but their dreams of marriage fail, his wife refuses the divorce. After a while, she decides to marry one of the regular guests at her restaurant, van Galen, who spent quite some time in the tropics and because of this is at the brink of madness. Shortly after the marriage his condition worsens and life becomes hell for Dida.
Kramer
Dr. Julius
Satan
This film is believed to be lost.
Steinau
An Italian spy infiltrates a weapons factory in the German Empire.
Indian Priest
Граф, «коллекционер самых изящных произведений искусств», похищает священную статуэтку Будды из древнего индийского храма. Всемогущий служитель культа настигает героя уже в Европе. Нет, не быстрая и легкая смерть ждет свершившего страшное преступление, а справедливое возмездие, неумолимое и безжалостное как рок!
A countess decides to get rid of a nosy stranger by luring him into a castle dungeon.
