Emil Jannings

Emil Jannings

Emil Jannings (1884–1950) was a German actor. He was the first actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor.

  • Title : Emil Jannings
  • Popularity : 4.789
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1884-07-22
  • Place of Birth : Rorschach, Switzerland
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  • Also Known As : Theodor Friedrich Emil Janenz
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Emil Jannings Movies

  • 1926
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    Faust

    Faust

    7.9 1926 HD

    God and Satan war over earth; to settle things, they wager on the soul of Faust, a learned and prayerful alchemist.

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  • 1921
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    Danton

    Danton

    5.7 1921 HD

    At the height of Reign of Terror Maximilien Robespierre orchestrates the trial and execution of several of his fellow leading French revolutionaries...

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  • 1918
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    Keimendes Leben. 2. Teil

    Keimendes Leben. 2. Teil

    1 1918 HD

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  • 1924
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    The Last Laugh

    The Last Laugh

    7.783 1924 HD

    An aging doorman, after being fired from his prestigious job at a luxurious hotel is forced to face the scorn of his friends, neighbours and society.

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  • 1924
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    Waxworks

    Waxworks

    6.4 1924 HD

    A poet is hired by the owner of a wax museum in a circus to write tales about Harun al Raschid, Ivan the Terrible and Jack the Ripper. While writing,...

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  • 1918
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    The Eyes of the Mummy

    The Eyes of the Mummy

    5.4 1918 HD

    Egyptians Radu and Ma milk British tourists out of their money by offering phony tours of a mummy's tomb-- Radu has the girl lend her eyes to the...

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  • 2017
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    Hitler's Hollywood

    Hitler's Hollywood

    6.4 2017 HD

    Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came into power, until 1945, when the Third Reich...

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  • 1917
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    The Merry Jail

    The Merry Jail

    6.4 1917 HD

    A neglected wife disguises herself in order to lure her wastrel husband into a compromising position.

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  • 1919
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    Madame DuBarry

    Madame DuBarry

    6.4 1919 HD

    The story of Madame du Barry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution.

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  • 1930
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    Darling of the Gods

    Darling of the Gods

    5.5 1930 HD

    Also known as Darling of the Gods, this was Emil Jannings' second talkie appearance. Jannings stars as famed operatic singer Albert Winkelmann, who...

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  • 1928
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    The Last Command

    The Last Command

    7.339 1928 HD

    A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.

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  • 1928
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    The Patriot

    The Patriot

    5 1928 HD

    In 18th-Century Russia, the Czar, Paul, is surrounded by murderous plots and trusts only Count Pahlen. Pahlen wishes to protect his friend, the mad...

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  • 1926
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    Tartuffe

    Tartuffe

    7.164 1926 HD

    A young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière's play "Tartuffe" in order to expose the old man's hypocritical...

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  • 1920
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    Anna Boleyn

    Anna Boleyn

    6.9 1920 HD

    The story of the ill-fated second wife of the English king Henry VIII, whose marriage to the Henry led to momentous political and religious turmoil...

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  • 1926
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    Liebe macht blind

    Liebe macht blind

    1 1926 HD

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  • 1927
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    The Way of All Flesh

    The Way of All Flesh

    6.9 1927 HD

    The story takes place in Milwaukee during the early 1900s with a bank clerk named August Schiller who is happy with both his job and his family. He...

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  • 1922
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    The Loves of Pharaoh

    The Loves of Pharaoh

    6.6 1922 HD

    The Ethiopian King offers his daughter to a powerful Pharaoh to secure peace between the two countries.

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  • 1925
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    Variety

    Variety

    6.8 1925 HD

    The murderer “Boss” Huller – after having spent ten years in prison – breaks his silence to tell the warden his story.

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  • 1942
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    The Dismissal

    The Dismissal

    5.4 1942 HD

    German chancellor Otto von Bismarck promises the dying emperor Wilhelm I. to be loyal to his grandson. But the gap between young Kaiser Wilhelm II....

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  • 1924
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    Quo Vadis?

    Quo Vadis?

    5.8 1924 HD

    "The Roman Banquet, the golden glories, the unrivaled luxuries, the wine, the dance, the song, the beautiful women, the sumptuous splendors that...

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  • 1924
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    Husbands or Lovers

    Husbands or Lovers

    5.3 1924 HD

    A wife, bored by her overweight slob of a husband, gives in to the temptation of a slickly seductive poet.

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  • 1920
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    Kohlhiesel's Daughters

    Kohlhiesel's Daughters

    5.9 1920 HD

    Somewhere in Southern Bavaria Xaver wants to marry Gretel, but her father Kohlhiesel wants his elder daughter Liesel to marry first. The problem is,...

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  • 1920
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    Algol: Tragedy of Power

    Algol: Tragedy of Power

    6.3 1920 HD

    An alien from the planet Algol gives a man a device that creates enough energy to power the entire world.

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  • 1939
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    Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes

    Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes

    5.8 1939 HD

    Country Dr. Robert Koch is desperate: a tuberculosis epidemic is decimating the children in his district and no one is able to do anything about it....

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  • 1923
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    All for Money

    All for Money

    1 1923 HD

    Rupp (Jannings) is a former butcher, made rich in the meat packing industry as a result of the reversal of fortunes brought on by WWI. He is crude,...

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  • 1937
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    The Broken Jug

    The Broken Jug

    7.2 1937 HD

    The man who broke the jug, the judge, is trying a case who determine who broke the jug. Long before the evidence becomes conclusive against the...

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  • 1943
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    Altes Herz wird wieder jung

    Altes Herz wird wieder jung

    1 1943 HD

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  • 1937
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    The Sovereign

    The Sovereign

    5 1937 HD

    Der Herrscher (The Sovereign) was based on Before Sunset, a play by Gerhart Hauptmann. The great Emil Jannings stars as Mathias Clausen, a self-made...

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  • 1945
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    Where Is Mr. Belling?

    Where Is Mr. Belling?

    1 1945 HD

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  • 1935
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    The Old and The Young King

    The Old and The Young King

    5.7 1935 HD

    The story of the stormy relationship between King Friedrich Wilhelm and his son, who later became known as King Frederick the Great of Prussia.

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  • 1936
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    Traumulus

    Traumulus

    6 1936 HD

    This film is a fascinating showcase for Emil Janning's theatrical play. He's a gentle school teacher who believes in his boys and is easily fooled...

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  • 1932
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    The Tempest

    The Tempest

    1 1932 HD

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

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  • 1941
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    Uncle Krüger

    Uncle Krüger

    7.5 1941 HD

    An anti-British propaganda film from Nazi Germany which depicts the life of the South African politician Paul Kruger and his eventual defeat by the...

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  • 1917
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    When Four Do the Same

    When Four Do the Same

    1 1917 HD

    Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Lubitsch plays a book shop employee who falls in love with Jannings' daughter.

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  • 1917
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    Lulu

    Lulu

    5 1917 HD

    The circus dancer Lulu is a thoroughly liberal being. Although she loves her former savior, the clown Alfredo, she begins a relationship with the...

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  • 1919
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    Die Tochter des Mehemed

    Die Tochter des Mehemed

    1 1919 HD

    An enslaved girl, Leila, is bought by Vaco Juan Riberda as a gift for his friend, Dr. Jan van Zuylen. van Zuylen is outraged, and refuses. Years...

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  • 2011
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    Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films

    Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films

    9 2011 HD

    Among the pieces featured in Fragments are the final reel of John Ford's The Village Blacksmith (1922) and a glimpse at Emil Jannings in The Way of...

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  • 1917
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    Stein unter Steinen

    Stein unter Steinen

    1 1917 HD

    A stonemason who killed his landlord faces hardship trying to reintegrate into society after being released from prison.

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  • 1917
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    Der 10. Pavillon der Zitadelle

    Der 10. Pavillon der Zitadelle

    1 1917 HD

    German silent film

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  • 1917
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    A Night of Horror

    A Night of Horror

    1 1917 HD

    An extremely jealous artist slips into a monkey costume and kills all those men who come too close to his wife, another artist.

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  • 1919
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    Rose Bernd

    Rose Bernd

    1 1919 HD

    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.

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  • 1920
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    Der Schädel der Pharaonentochter

    Der Schädel der Pharaonentochter

    1 1920 HD

    A pharaonic tragedy to the content that spans six different eras. In the first episode, the emergence and dramatic end of the love story between the...

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  • 2003
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    The Making of 'The Last Laugh'

    The Making of 'The Last Laugh'

    8 2003 HD

    This movie was featured on the DVD release of Der letzte Mann in 2004 in Germany.

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  • 1916
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    Life is a Dream

    Life is a Dream

    1 1916 HD

    A silent movie by Robert Wiene

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  • 1914
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    Dear Eva

    Dear Eva

    1 1914 HD

    a silent movie by Robert Wiene

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  • 1916
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    Frau Eva

    Frau Eva

    1 1916 HD

    An ambitious wife spends all of her husband's hard-earned money and then commits suicide out of remorse.

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  • 1916
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    Passionels Tagebuch

    Passionels Tagebuch

    1 1916 HD

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  • 1916
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    Der Morphinist

    Der Morphinist

    1 1916 HD

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  • 1922
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    Othello

    Othello

    6.9 1922 HD

    Even without the benefit of sound, the 1922 German adaptation of Othello seems more operatic than Shakespearean. This may be due to the casting of...

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  • 1918
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    Fuhrmann Henschel

    Fuhrmann Henschel

    1 1918 HD

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  • 2002
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    Los 5 Faust de F. W. Murnau

    Los 5 Faust de F. W. Murnau

    7 2002 HD

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  • 1918
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    Keimendes Leben

    Keimendes Leben

    1 1918 HD

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  • 1934
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    Der schwarze Walfisch

    Der schwarze Walfisch

    1 1934 HD

    Adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's 1931 play Fanny.

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  • 1940
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    Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

    Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

    6.5 1940 HD

    This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance...

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  • 1939
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    Der letzte Appell

    Der letzte Appell

    1 1939 HD

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  • 1923
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    The Tragedy of Love

    The Tragedy of Love

    1 1923 HD

    The husband of Countess Manon Moreau is found murdered. André Rabatin, who belongs to the same club as Count Moreau, is the suspect. Rabatin,...

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  • 1923
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    The Countess of Paris

    The Countess of Paris

    1 1923 HD

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  • 1922
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    Peter the Great

    Peter the Great

    1 1922 HD

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  • 1928
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    The Street of Sin

    The Street of Sin

    1 1928 HD

    "Basher Bill," a retired prizefighter turned criminal, pretends to reform by joining a Salvation Army shelter in London run by a pious wraith named...

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  • 1929
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    Betrayal

    Betrayal

    1 1929 HD

    André Frey, a bohemian artist, woos and wins a rustic Swiss maid, promising to return to her after a visit to the city. The girl, Vroni, finds...

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  • 1924
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    The Film in the Film

    The Film in the Film

    7.5 1924 HD

    The only surviving excerpt of a documentary on film production in Weimar Germany, featuring the different personalities of several famous directors...

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  • 1921
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    Die Brüder Karamasoff

    Die Brüder Karamasoff

    1 1921 HD

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  • 1920
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    The Great Light

    The Great Light

    6 1920 HD

    Lorenz Ferleitner has worked his way up from a poor but gifted farm boy to a recognized master builder. When a new cathedral is to be built, he is...

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  • 1930
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    The Blue Angel

    The Blue Angel

    7.341 1930 HD

    Prim professor Immanuel Rath finds some of his students ogling racy photos of cabaret performer Lola Lola and visits a local club, The Blue Angel, in...

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  • 1919
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    Vendetta

    Vendetta

    1 1919 HD

    In Corsica, Marianna Paoli's brother is killed by an Englishman whose identity is unknown to her. She swears vengeance and tracks the killer to Monte...

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  • 1921
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    The Rats

    The Rats

    1 1921 HD

    Die Ratten was produced by actress and singer Grete Ly. Her company, Grete Ly-Film, made five films between 1919 and 1921. Die Ratten, which is based...

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  • 2017
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    100 Years of the UFA

    100 Years of the UFA

    5 2017 HD

    The intricate history of UFA, a film production company founded in 1917 that has survived the Weimar Republic, the Nazi regime, the Adenauer era and...

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  • 1928
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    The Movie City of Hollywood

    The Movie City of Hollywood

    6 1928 HD

    German documentary about Hollywood

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  • 1928
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    Sins of the Fathers

    Sins of the Fathers

    6 1928 HD

    A married restaurant owner is persuaded to become a bootlegger by a beautiful young girl. When he starts making money at it, she steals it, then runs...

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  • 1917
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    Die Ehe der Luise Rohrbach

    Die Ehe der Luise Rohrbach

    1 1917 HD

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  • 2024
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    Cruel Images

    Cruel Images

    1 2024 HD

    An examination of the 1941 German blockbuster "Uncle Krüger", a film about the Boer War and the British concentration camps in south Africa,...

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  • 1920
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    Colombine - Die Braut des Apachen

    Colombine - Die Braut des Apachen

    1 1920 HD

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  • 1937
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    The Broken Jug

    The Broken Jug

    7.2 1937 HD

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  • 1941
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    Uncle Krüger

    Uncle Krüger

    7.5 1941 HD

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  • 1941
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    Uncle Krüger

    Uncle Krüger

    7.5 1941 HD

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  • 1942
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    The Dismissal

    The Dismissal

    5.4 1942 HD

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  • 1953
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    The Oscars

    The Oscars

    7 1953 HD

    An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a...

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