Josef von Báky

Strange fortune hunters are behind a girl's murder in this Edgar Wallace tale.

Meant to be a diatribe against yellow journalism and current social ills, this weakly limned drama by Josef von Baky features a reporter who works for one of the tabloid papers. The reporter digs up dirt on the past life of a local hotel owner, and wanting to take full advantage of the muck, he strings out his revelations in a series of perjorative, damning articles on the man. The result of this campaign turns out to be much worse than simply ruining the hotel owner's reputation.

A doctor goes to meet a beautiful girl at a park bench near a wooded area. When he arrives, he finds her battered body lying next to a stream! He then finds himself to be the prime suspect. Who's the killer?

Главный герой — сам Даниэль Дефо, знаменитый путешественник и автор бессмертного романа «Приключения Робинзона Крузо». Оказавшись в немилости у короля Георга II, он доживает свой век в доме бедной вдовы Кэнтли. Поскольку старик потерял благосклонность двора, то и его сын Том начинает пренебрегать им. Заброшенный всеми, писатель находит сочувствие и поддержку у группы бедных ребятишек, которые с утра до вечера работают на текстильной фабрике. Собравшись ночью вокруг старика, они слушают его рассказы о далеком тропическом острове, о его герое Робинзоне…

A film comedy about two beautiful women, two marry-able girls and a man!

In South Tirol, shortly after ww-ii: Paul and Barbara Holzmann and their son Charlie own a small gasoline station. At their wedding anniversary, of all days, Barbara finds proof that Paul may again have cheated on her. At first she believes his explanations, but when she finds more proof later, she leaves and seeks comfort in the arms of her former friend Nicola in Italy. The story is told from the perspective of her diary.

Близнецы Луиза и Лотта разделяются в младенчестве из-за развода родителей. Луиза вырастает у отца, дирижера в Вене, Лотта у матери, редактора журнала в Мюнхене. Когда им исполняется 10, они встречаются в летнем лагере, узнают правду и меняются местами, чтобы помочь родителям снова воссоединиться.

Professor Mauthner, after many years of exile (having emigrated in 1933 to the USA), returns to Germany in 1948. He can in fact return to his teaching post, but the rejection and petty intrigues of his reactionary colleagues and students make his work almost unbearable.

Hans Albers plays returning war veteran Hans Richter who has trouble finding work. With nowhere else to turn, Richter gets involved with black market activities. This so disgusts Richter's son, blind ex-soldier Edwin (Paul Edwin Roth), that the boy literally disowns his father. Hans eventually mends his ways, but not before several other devastating setbacks.

In a mountain village a deranged alcoholic who routinely beats his wife and kids goes missing. Though everyone in the village is glad to see him gone, an investigation begins. Made at the end of the Nazi era and immediately shelved; not released until 1948.

Жизнь и удивительные приключения барона Иеронимуса Карла Фридриха фон Мюнхаузена, «всегда говорившего только правду», до сих пор будоражат умы любознательных читателей и серьезных исследователей. Популярность барона оправдана его редким талантом — никогда не терять присутствия духа и находить выход из самых ужасных ситуаций.

On New Year′s Eve 1871 Annelie is born – 15 minutes too late, since her parents had calculated her birth to be exactly at midnight. These 15 minutes will again and again become the girl′s fate.

A young country woman in Paris is temporarily drawn to her married, middle aged art teacher before she realizes she belongs instead with people her own age.

In a cosmopolitan city vaudeville theatre, meeting place of the most successful artistes, the art shooter gets in suspicion to have committed a murderous poster on his jealous partner. - Not particularly successful mixture of vaudeville theatre numbers, artiste's destiny and crime film tension, on an average produced and played. A production rotated in Budapest with the popular dancer La Jana.

Theatre Colosseum prepares for the closing performance of the month. The magician Keats wants to avoid having to perform with Jack Carey, the well-known marksman, as the latter has seduced his wife, the beautiful dancer, Silvia Castellani. It is only thanks to the persuasions of Alice McLean, the manager of the acrobat sisters, that he finally decides to do his show. Carey starts wooing the second of the McLean-sisters, Gloria.

Following the breakdown of her marriage to an artist, a female doctor goes back to her position at a hospital.

Das Lied ist Aus (The Song Is Ended) is a typical early-talkie German musical in every respect, save one. The story, concerning the lives and loves of show folk, ends unhappily -- and surprisingly so. The doleful denouement didn't seem to have much effect on the film's box-office appeal, since Das Lied ist Aus proved a major moneymaker.

Jimmy Bolt, a singer and dancer (and occasionally as a waiter) works at a varieté. The man may be talented, but he’s not exactly a big success, and things get complicated when a young orphan girl falls in love with the voice of another singer but then mistakes Bolt for him…

A 1929 British-Austrian romance film directed by Géza von Bolváry.