Lil Dagover
A prominent German film actress born on 30 September 1887 at Madiven, Java, the daughter of a forest ranger in the service of the Dutch authorities. Sent at the age of ten to Baden-Baden to study, she later entered the cinema thanks to her marriage in 1917 to the actor Fritz Dagover who was 25 years her senior. They divorced in 1919 but not before he had introduced her to director Robert Wiene and other notables of German cinema. She made her screen debut in Fritz Lang's Harakiri (1919). Immediately after she appeared in Wiene's classic expressionist film, "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" (aka The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)). Apart from three trips -- one to Sweden in 1927, another to France in 1928-9 and one to Hollywood in 1931 -- most of Lil Dagover's career and fate was linked to that of the German cinema, where her role was usually that of the frail, menaced heroine. She continued to star in a great number of films during the Nazi era. Among her best performances were her roles in Congress Dances (1931), in Gerhard Lamprecht's The Higher Command (1935) and in Veit Harlan's The Kreutzer Sonata (1937). She also acted in the Deutsches Theatre Berlin, the Salzburg Festival, at forces shows and at war theaters. At one time, she was reported to have been a close friend of Adolf Hitler. In 1944, she received the War Merits Cross. Dagover continued her career in post-war Germany, playing many supporting parts until the late 1970s.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.7388 |
| Birthday | 1887-09-29 |
| Place of Birth | Madioen, Madioen, Dutch East Indies [now Madiun, East Java, Indonesia] |
| Also Known As | Лиль Даговер, Marie Antonia Siegelinde Martha Seubert, |
1920
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
7.931/1819
Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recently went through. Francis and his friend Alan visit...
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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
1929
Es flüstert die Nacht
9/1
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Es flüstert die Nacht
1922
Phantom
6.852/54
Lorenz Lubota is a city clerk with no direction in life. One day on his way to work he is run over by a woman driving a chariot and he is immediately...
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Phantom
1921
Destiny
7.399/179
As a young couple stops and rests in a small village inn, the man is abducted by Death and sequestered behind a huge doorless, windowless wall. The wo...
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Destiny
1973
The Pedestrian
7/6
When a German businessman causes a car accident with deadly consequences, the papers start digging into his past to find scandals. What they find caus...
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The Pedestrian
1961
The Strange Countess
6.6/22
Strange fortune hunters are behind a girl's murder in this Edgar Wallace tale.
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The Strange Countess
1919
The Spiders: Part 1 - The Golden Sea
6/42
In San Francisco, well-known sportsman Kay Hoog announces to a club that he has found a message in a bottle with a map drawn by a Harvard professor wh...
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The Spiders: Part 1 - The Golden Sea
1932
The Woman from Monte Carlo
6.333/3
On the eve of WW-I the French Navy ship Lafayette returns to its Toulon base for one night. There is no shore leave, although wives are permitted to c...
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The Woman from Monte Carlo
1926
Tartuffe
7.2/80
A young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière's play "Tartuffe" in order to expose the old man's hypocritical governess who co...
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Tartuffe
1926
Love Is Blind
10/1
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Love Is Blind
1929
Monte Cristo
6.9/11
Young sailor Edmond Dantès is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes, finds treasure, and reinvents himself as the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo to exact reve...
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Monte Cristo
1930
Boycott
7/7
A film about the pupils of a posh Berlin gymnasium in their final term, and their class teacher teaching them about humanism and tolerance, a lesson t...
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Boycott
1979
Tales from the Vienna Woods
6.125/8
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Tales from the Vienna Woods
1919
Spiritismus
7/1
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Spiritismus
1936
The Final Chord
6.313/8
After her husband dies, a German woman who gave up her infant for adoption to emigrate to America returns to Germany, discovering that her child is be...
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The Final Chord
1928
La Grande Passion
8/3
This is a love story, a story of rivalry and revenge but, above all, a story about sport. The great passion is about union rugby.
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La Grande Passion
1959
Buddenbrooks - 2. Teil
7.6/5
Second part of two of the saga of the troubled Buddenbrook family and their business in 19th century Germany.
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Buddenbrooks - 2. Teil
1955
Der Fischer vom Heiligensee
6/2
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Der Fischer vom Heiligensee
1959
Buddenbrooks - 1. Teil
5.833/9
First part of two of the saga of the troubled Buddenbrook family and their business in mid 19th century Germany.
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Buddenbrooks - 1. Teil
1950
Es kommt ein Tag
0/1
Melodrama set during wartime.
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Es kommt ein Tag
1931
Congress Dances
7.2/17
An Austrian prince hatches a plan to keep his rival, the Russian czar, busy by keeping him surrounded by beautiful women and away from the negotiating...
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Congress Dances
1953
Königliche Hoheit
8/2
An American heiress in Europe falls in love with a German prince, but he is required to marry someone else for reasons of state convenience.
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Königliche Hoheit
1935
Lady Windermeres Fächer
10/1
Mrs. Erlynne, a mistress once expelled by London society, returns from America after years with the desire to regain a foothold in these circles.
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Lady Windermeres Fächer
1937
Fridericus
5.6/5
In 18th century Europe, King Friedrich II of Prussia leads his army through the seven-years-war with neighboring states, and after numerous near defea...
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Fridericus
1940
Friedrich Schiller – The Triumph of a Genius
7.833/3
The young Schiller, whose heart and soul are writing and poetry, is forced into the military academy (the pride and joy of the Duke of Württemberg). S...
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Friedrich Schiller – The Triumph of a Genius
1969
Hotel Royal
8.333/3
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Hotel Royal
1954
Hubertus Castle
6/2
The count Egge is barely a visitor in his Alpine family castle Hubertus, being preoccupied with hunting. He's furious when his young adult sons miss a...
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Hubertus Castle
1955
Rosen im Herbst
6.25/4
Prussia in the late 19th century: Eighteen-year-old Effi Briest, the daughter of a middle-class family, marries District Administrator Geert von Innst...
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Rosen im Herbst
1953
Red Roses, Red Lips, Red Wine
5.2/5
Art dealer Thormann asks for the hand of his beautiful secretary Nora, but Nora loves Captain Hans Westhoff. But while Westhoff is hiding in Italy to...
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Red Roses, Red Lips, Red Wine
1977
The Standard
4.2/2
During the final days of the First World War, Officer Menis does his duty in defending the battle flag of the defeated Austro-Hungarian empire, while...
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The Standard
1957
Unter Palmen am blauen Meer
8/2
During the summer holidays, a teenage girl in love with pop star Tedy Reno visits her aunt, an aging countess, at her mansion in Italy, where both mus...
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Unter Palmen am blauen Meer
1950
Chased by the Devil
6.7/3
A doctor discovers a new medical cure with dangerous side effects, and takes the drug himself to test its limitations.
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Chased by the Devil
1940
Bismarck
5.875/8
A biographical film of Otto von Bismarck, the Prime Minister of Prussia, and how he and his policies - including aggressive war - helped to unite Germ...
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Bismarck
1935
The Higher Command
7.5/4
A Prussian commander disobeys orders and goes to find a British envoy who can negotiate a pact with Austria to help fight off Napoleon in 1806.
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The Higher Command
1928
Hungarian Rhapsody
8/2
On the plains of Hungary, Franz, a Hussard lieutenant, broods about his future; Born into an aristocratic family, his father drank away the family for...
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Hungarian Rhapsody
1942
The Little Residence
5.4/5
It’s 1910 and we’re in the duchy of Lauffenburg. Everybody is celebrating the 600th birthday of the local hero, Otto the Ironman, who in his time sav...
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The Little Residence
1934
A Woman Who Knows What She Wants
9/1
Woman concert singer seeks to connect with her adult daughter, by her former marriage to a staid industrialist who has kept the two apart since the da...
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A Woman Who Knows What She Wants
1938
Rätsel um Beate
9/1
After her husband suddenly dies, a small town woman becomes the target of gossip, as to whether he had been having an affair and whether she is connec...
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Rätsel um Beate
1955
Die Barrings
7/1
The landowner Fried von Barring marries the beautiful but extravagant Gerda von Eyff. Fried’s father, who was initially opposed to the marriage, seems...
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Die Barrings
1937
The Kreutzer Sonata
7/1
Adaptation of Tolstoy story in which a female pianist is the center of a struggle between her husband and his violinist cousin ,a struggle that leads...
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The Kreutzer Sonata
1968
Unwiederbringlich
8/1
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Unwiederbringlich
1930
The White Devil
7.25/4
Ivan Mozzhukhin is a "...hot-headed Caucasian mountaineer leader whose irrational behavior comes to the attention of the Czar . Hoping to use Hajji Mu...
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The White Devil
1940
Die Räuber
0/0
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Die Räuber
1977
Die Teufelsbraut
0/0
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Die Teufelsbraut
1939
Detours to Happiness
6.2/4
Hanna is deeply worried about her husband Thomas Bracht's fidelity because he had a rendezvous with the singer Jeannette Danieli. She leaves him and m...
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Detours to Happiness
1944
Musik in Salzburg
8/1
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Musik in Salzburg
1971
Professor Sound und die Pille
0/0
Great excitement in the Principality of Allegretto. Professor Sound, owner of a sanatorium for musical instruments, has come up with a sensational inv...
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Professor Sound und die Pille
1971
Glückspilze
6.5/2
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Glückspilze
1932
Married by the Stork
8/2
A modernist lady sculptor seeks a model for a statue to be put in front of a Berlin hospital, and finds him in the form of a London policeman-boxer. S...
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Married by the Stork
1955
Ich weiß, wofür ich lebe
8/1
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Ich weiß, wofür ich lebe
1932
Barbarina, the King's Dancer
5.5/4
Prussian King Frederick II was keen to hire the dancer Barberina, who had already enjoyed great success in Italy and England, for the Berlin opera hou...
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Barbarina, the King's Dancer
1934
Ich heirate meine Frau
10/1
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Ich heirate meine Frau
1935
The Bird Seller
7/1
The film is an adaptation of the 1891 operetta Der Vogelhändler by composer Carl Zeller, with libretto by Moritz West and Ludwig Held, though it incor...
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The Bird Seller
1943
Vienna 1910
5/5
Vienna 1910 is a 1943 German biographical film directed by Emerich Walter Emo and starring Rudolf Forster, Heinrich George and Lil Dagover. It is base...
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Vienna 1910
1948
Die Söhne des Herrn Gaspary
9/1
In 1933, a family is divided when the father and one son emigrate to democratic Switzerland while the mother and other son remain in Nazi Germany. The...
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Die Söhne des Herrn Gaspary
1949
Man spielt nicht mit der Liebe
8/1
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Man spielt nicht mit der Liebe
1956
Kronprinz Rudolfs letzte Liebe
6.375/4
The sensitive Austrian Crown Prince Rudolf is suffering from his marriage, dictated by his father, Emperor Franz Joseph, and the strict court etiquett...
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Kronprinz Rudolfs letzte Liebe
1963
Reisender ohne Gepäck
7/2
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Reisender ohne Gepäck
1934
The Fugitive from Chicago
5.833/3
Werner Dux, heir of the big car company "Dux-Werke", is a gambler who has just been arrested in Chicago for shooting a cardsharper. While in jail, he...
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The Fugitive from Chicago
1938
Maja zwischen zwei Ehen
8/1
After six years, a man shows up, whom his wife had declared dead. Her current husband is regarded by the son of the once-missing man as his father....
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Maja zwischen zwei Ehen
1930
Old Song
8/1
A romantic drama about a relationship between people of different social classes. The young baron, who is in love with a record shop saleswoman, is se...
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Old Song
1930
There is a woman who will never forget you
7/1
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There is a woman who will never forget you
1928
The Secret Courier
8/1
A silent adventure based on the classic novel by Stendhal "The Red and the Black".
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The Secret Courier
1938
Triad
8/1
A patriotic period melodrama in which a father and son are in love with the same lady.The son does not tell her that his father, an officer, has fough...
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Triad
1958
Trees die upright
9/1
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Trees die upright
1971
Paradies der alten Damen
0/0
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Paradies der alten Damen
1967
Lösegeld für Mylady
0/0
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Lösegeld für Mylady
1925
The Chronicles of the Gray House
6.5/10
Hinrich, the son of a feudal German landowner, falls in love with the beautiful daughter of one of his father's serfs despite opposition from both fam...
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The Chronicles of the Gray House
1921
The Death in the Greenstreet
8/1
A little girl falls into the hands of a hypnotist the morning after the assassination of a jeweler. A visitor of the uncomfortable host confesses hims...
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The Death in the Greenstreet
1920
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 2. Teil: Die verbotene Stadt
10/1
In Calcutta, McAllan meets the beautiful Indian woman Malatti, with whom he immediately falls in love. The engineer quickly neglects his professional...
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Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 2. Teil: Die verbotene Stadt
1921
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 3. Teil: Der Mann im Dunkel
9/1
The old man and McAllan then got into a physical altercation on the roof of a train that was moving at full speed, in which Malatti's father fell. McA...
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Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 3. Teil: Der Mann im Dunkel
1930
The Great Desire
7.7/3
A young woman leaves behind her job, home and family to try to make it in the movie business. Features cameos from about three dozen German film stars...
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The Great Desire
1936
The Girl Irene
7.6/5
A woman (Lil Dagover) who has lost her husband falls in love again, but is bitterly opposed by her daughters especially the title figure who can't sta...
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The Girl Irene
1926
Two Brothers
5.25/4
Two brothers follow very different paths after an accident at the factory where they both work.
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Two Brothers
1930
The Second Kiss
9/1
'Romantic story of a gallant adventurer at the Court of Maria Teresa.' (The Bioscope)
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The Second Kiss
1975
Memento Mori
9/1
The writer Charmain Colson entertains a circle of old friends. One day, when the group receive an anonymous message saying Memento Mori/Remember you m...
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Memento Mori
1931
Elisabeth of Austria
7/2
Elisabeth of Austria is a German movie with Lil Dagover as royalty Elisabeth who has many men to choose from.
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Elisabeth of Austria
1938
The Stars Shine
6.643/7
German all-star musical from 1938 that was a big commercial success.
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The Stars Shine
1919
Phantome des Lebens
7/1
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Phantome des Lebens
1928
The Maelstrom of Paris
7/1
Story of a woman who thinks she prefers a life of glory on stage in Paris to life with her Scottish lord of a husband in his castle.
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The Maelstrom of Paris
1924
Comedy of the Heart
8/1
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Comedy of the Heart
1975
End of the Game
5/25
Hans Baerlach is a Swiss police detective who has dedicated much of his career to pursuing powerful and allegedly murderous businessman Richard Gastma...
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End of the Game
1919
Harakiri
5.704/27
The daughter of a daimyo, one forced to commit harakiri to secure her a future to choose her own destiny, falls in love with and marries a European of...
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Harakiri
1925
Der Demütige und die Tänzerin
8/1
Toni wants to become an opera-singer. Her mother was once simple chanteuse. Toni marries the brutal industrialist Liesegang. An Italian doctor falls i...
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Der Demütige und die Tänzerin
1936
August der Starke
10/1
Intrigue and love affairs at the court of the Saxon King Augustus the Strong, who can bend a horseshoe with his bare hands and is fighting with the Sw...
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August der Starke
1927
Der Anwalt des Herzens
7/2
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Der Anwalt des Herzens
1933
Johannisnacht
7/2
Film by Reiber.
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Johannisnacht
1971
Kolibri
0/0
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Kolibri
1931
Madame Bluebeard
8/1
"The fate of a beautiful woman" tells a story of Erika Dankwarth that reflects herself in a multitude of men.
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Madame Bluebeard
1939
Streit um den Knaben Jo
8/1
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Streit um den Knaben Jo
1923
Tiefland
10/1
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Tiefland
1952
Das Geheimnis vom Bergsee
7/1
Pietro Ponz lives a happy life in the mountains on the Swiss-Italian border with his mother Lamberta. No one but his mother knows that Pietro is a gir...
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Das Geheimnis vom Bergsee
1927
Orientexpress
10/1
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Orientexpress
1926
Der Veilchenfresser
7/1
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Der Veilchenfresser
1926
Only a Dancing Girl
8/0
Heinrich Zentler is a successful man, both on football and in his legal career.
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Only a Dancing Girl
1923
Die Prinzessin Suwarin
9/1
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Die Prinzessin Suwarin
1956
Meine 16 Söhne
8/1
Film about a music competition.
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Meine 16 Söhne
1920
The Mayor of Zalamea
10/1
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The Mayor of Zalamea
1927
His English Wife
10/1
London socialite Cathleen Paget's adventures in love and misfortune a year after the death of her husband. Ivor Willington and Lionel Jesop play cards...
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His English Wife
1961
Der Mann von draußen
10/1
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Der Mann von draußen
1967
Siedlung Arkadien
0/0
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Siedlung Arkadien
1920
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 1. Teil
9/1
The American engineer McAllan is appointed site manager for a major project in Asia. He is to oversee the branch line of the railway line from Calcutt...
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Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 1. Teil
1918
Clown Charly
0/0
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Clown Charly
1920
Die Kwannon von Okadera
8/1
Harlander, a media mogul and war profiteer, has been told that he has six months before his sanity will leave him completely. He hires a young nurse,...
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Die Kwannon von Okadera
1921
Das Geheimnis von Bombay
7/1
Gabriela Farnese, a famous singer, visits Bombay to find her mysterious doppelganger, the dancer Concha.
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Das Geheimnis von Bombay
1930
The Ring of the Empress
7/1
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The Ring of the Empress
1918
Der Volontär
7/1
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Der Volontär
1920
Das Blut der Ahnen
10/1
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Das Blut der Ahnen
1920
Die Frau im Himmel
9/1
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Die Frau im Himmel
1922
Luise Millerin
7/1
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Luise Millerin
1929
Die Ehe
8/1
Marriage and sexuality is examined through the lens of screenwriter Dr. van de Velde, a Dutch gynocologist.
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Die Ehe
1923
His Wife, the Unknown
5.833/3
A war blind painter marries his nurse. But after he can see again through an operation, he does not recognize her. Then she decides to leave him in or...
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His Wife, the Unknown
1973
Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt
9/1
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Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt
1919
Der Tänzer
8/1
Andreas Rellnow decides to leave his troubled parents and pursue an artistic career. As a violin virtuoso, he quickly became popular and a first-class...
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Der Tänzer
1922
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
7.659/214
Dr. Mabuse and his organization of criminals are in the process of completing their latest scheme, a theft of information that will allow Mabuse to ma...
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Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
2017
100 Years of the UFA
4.5/2
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 t...
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100 Years of the UFA
1919
Die Rache ist mein
10/1
Revenge Is Mine (German: Die Rache ist mein) is a 1919 German silent film directed by Alwin Neuß and starring Paul Otto and Lil Dagover.
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Die Rache ist mein
1919
Bettler GmbH
0/0
Bettler GmbH is a 1919 German silent film directed by Alwin Neuß and starring Paul Otto and Lil Dagover
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Bettler GmbH
1931
The Case of Colonel Redl
8/2
Based on the short story "Der Fall des Generalstabschefs Redl" by Egon Erwin Kisch. Alfred Redl, a colonel on the Austrian General Staff, leads an ext...
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The Case of Colonel Redl
1930
Va Banque
7/1
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Va Banque
1921
Toteninsel
0/0
Henry and Jeanne are lovers. They are shocked to discover that Henry’s mother once had an affair with Jeanne’s father, which resulted in a child—meani...
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