Conrad Veidt
Hans Walter Conrad Veidt (22 January 1893 – 3 April 1943) was a German actor best remembered for his roles in films such as Different from the Others (1919), The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), and The Man Who Laughs (1928). After a successful career in German silent film, where he was one of the best-paid stars of Ufa, he was forced to leave Germany in 1933 with his new Jewish wife after the Nazis came to power. They settled in Britain, where he participated in a number of films, including The Thief of Bagdad (1940), before emigrating to the United States around 1941, which lead to him having a supporting role in Casablanca (1942).
From 1916 until his death, Veidt appeared in more than 100 films. One of his earliest performances was as the murderous somnambulist Cesare in director Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), a classic of German Expressionist cinema, with Werner Krauss and Lil Dagover. His starring role in The Man Who Laughs (1928), as a disfigured circus performer whose face is cut into a permanent grin, provided the (visual) inspiration for the Batman villain the Joker, created in 1940 by Bill Finger. Veidt also starred in other silent horror films such as The Hands of Orlac (1924), another film directed by Robert Wiene, The Student of Prague (1926) and Waxworks (1924) where he played Ivan the Terrible.
Veidt also appeared in Magnus Hirschfeld's film Anders als die Andern (Different from the Others, 1919), one of the first films to sympathetically portray homosexuality, although the characters in it do not end up happily. He had a leading role in Germany's first talking picture, Das Land ohne Frauen (Land Without Women, 1929).
He moved to Hollywood in the late 1920s and made a few films, but the advent of talking pictures and his difficulty with speaking English led him to return to Germany. During this period he lent his expertise to tutoring aspiring performers, one of whom was the later American character actress Lisa Golm.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.5383 |
| Birthday | 1893-01-22 |
| Place of Birth | Berlin, Germany |
| Also Known As | Hans Walter Conrad Veidt, |
1920
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
7.929/1754
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
1943
Casablanca
8.142/6009
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
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Casablanca
1920
The Head of Janus
9/1
Two opposing characters are hidden in the person of the inconspicuous London gentleman Dr. Warren and Janus. Lost film.
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The Head of Janus
1917
Wenn Tote sprechen
0/0
After finding her sister dead, Maria tries to find out who or what is to blame.
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Wenn Tote sprechen
1924
The Hands of Orlac
6.888/112
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.
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The Hands of Orlac
1921
Desire: The Tragedy of a Dancer
8/1
A young Russian dancer in Geneva returns to Russia, where he falls in love with a grand duchess. He is arrested but manages to escape. Lost film.
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Desire: The Tragedy of a Dancer
1940
The Thief of Bagdad
7.136/295
When Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces with the scrappy thief Abu to win back his royal place, a...
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The Thief of Bagdad
1943
Above Suspicion
6.192/39
Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe.
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Above Suspicion
1928
The Man Who Laughs
7.316/220
When a proud noble refuses to kiss the hand of the despotic King James in 1690, he is cruelly executed and his son surgically disfigured.
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The Man Who Laughs
1926
The Student of Prague
6.574/27
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...
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The Student of Prague
1919
Wahnsinn
10/1
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 k...
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Wahnsinn
1924
Waxworks
6.43/71
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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Waxworks
1941
A Woman's Face
6.788/73
A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.
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A Woman's Face
1919
Eerie Tales
5.54/25
A demon, a reaper, and the ghost of a prostitute read gothic short stories and act them out.
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Eerie Tales
1942
All Through the Night
6.697/71
Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship.
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All Through the Night
1974
The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute
7.7/3
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 earlie...
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The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute
1942
Nazi Agent
6.679/14
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Nazi Agent
1925
Schicksal
10/1
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Schicksal
1941
Whistling in the Dark
5.9/15
Radio crime show host 'The Fox' along with his fiancée and ex-girlfriend are kidnapped by a larcenous cult who demand that he help them plan a perfect...
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Whistling in the Dark
1937
Dark Journey
6.419/31
Madeline Goddard, is a British double agent who meets and falls in love with a German spy Baron Karl Von Marwitz during World War I. This tale of espi...
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Dark Journey
1939
The Spy in Black
6.452/63
A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.
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The Spy in Black
1926
Love is Blind
10/1
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Love is Blind
1929
The Last Performance
6.5/13
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...
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The Last Performance
1931
The Night of the Decision
7/1
German language version of The Virtuous Sin (1930).
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The Night of the Decision
1940
Contraband
7.136/22
During early World War II, a Danish sea captain, delayed in a British port, tangles with German spies.
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Contraband
1927
The Beloved Rogue
6.844/16
François Villon, in his lifetime the most renowned poet in France, is also a prankster, an occasional criminal, and an ardent patriot.
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The Beloved Rogue
1935
The Passing of the Third Floor Back
7.818/11
The tenants of an old London boarding house spend their time in petty bickering and sniping until a mysterious stranger arrives at their door.
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The Passing of the Third Floor Back
1940
Escape
7.469/16
An American goes to pre-war Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration camp. With the help of an American-born widowed countess h...
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Escape
2000
The Many Faces of Dracula
3.5/2
Hosted by Christopher Lee, this documentary examines the different actors who have portrayed Dracula over the years.
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The Many Faces of Dracula
1937
Under the Red Robe
6.75/8
In 1620s France, dreaded swordsman Gil de Berault returns from carrying out a mission for Cardinal Richelieu, and finds the Cardinal worried about gro...
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Under the Red Robe
1932
Rome Express
6.063/24
The theft of a famous painting leads to murder and many suspects on a plush train speeding from Paris to Rome.
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Rome Express
1933
The Wandering Jew
7.429/7
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 retur...
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The Wandering Jew
1934
Jew Süss
5.714/7
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...
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Jew Süss
1925
The Ingmar Inheritance
7.125/4
When his ancestors seem to appear in the clouds during a storm of biblical proportions, young Ingmar decides to give up his career as the village teac...
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The Ingmar Inheritance
1924
Husbands or Lovers
5.6/10
A wife, bored by her overweight slob of a husband, gives in to the temptation of a slickly seductive poet.
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Husbands or Lovers
1917
Fear
5.4/11
A millionaire steals an ancient idol causing some natives call upon him a terrible curse.
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Fear
1921
Journey into the Night
6.114/22
Dr. Egil Börne, an eminent physician, comes under the spell of an unscrupulous cabaret dancer and deserts his fiancée. The plot finds echoes throughou...
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Journey into the Night
1921
The Indian Tomb, Part I: The Mission of the Yoghi
5.733/15
Ayan, Maharajah of Eschnapur, believes that his wife, Princess Savitri, has been unfaithful to him with officer Mac Allan. He decides to bury her aliv...
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The Indian Tomb, Part I: The Mission of the Yoghi
1921
The Indian Tomb, Part II: The Tiger of Eschnapur
6/14
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 Rowl...
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The Indian Tomb, Part II: The Tiger of Eschnapur
1923
Wilhelm Tell
5.8/5
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Wilhelm Tell
1933
I Was a Spy
6.4/5
During World War I, a young nurse in a hospital in German-occupied Belgium is secretly feeding military information to the British. Complicating matte...
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I Was a Spy
1926
The Flight in the Night
0/1
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 em...
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The Flight in the Night
1933
The Only Girl
6.2/5
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 hairdre...
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The Only Girl
1938
The Chess Player
5.3/5
A toymaker in Poland specializes in building lifesize mechanical men. He builds a chess-playing "automaton" to hide a pretty young Polish activist who...
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The Chess Player
1919
Different from the Others
7.085/52
Conrad Veidt plays a famous musician who is blackmailed for being gay. Eventually he stands trial and is convicted. At the end the film pleads for the...
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Different from the Others
1931
Congress Dances
7.206/17
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
1932
The Black Hussar
6.667/3
In 1812, during the French period, large parts of Germany are occupied by the troops of Napoleon. Several paramilitary Freikorps units battle the Fren...
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The Black Hussar
1922
Lucrezia Borgia
5.125/8
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...
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Lucrezia Borgia
1926
Should We Be Silent?
6/2
A melodrama about a painter who is infected with syphilis, refuses treatment, turns to the use instead of narcotics, and withers away.
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Should We Be Silent?
1926
The Wife's Crusade
7/1
A working-class couple with four children live in extreme poverty in a rear building. When the woman becomes pregnant again, she goes to a young docto...
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The Wife's Crusade
1934
Wilhelm Tell
6/4
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Wilhelm Tell
1921
People in Ecstasy
8/1
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People in Ecstasy
1930
The Love Storm
10/1
This is the German-language version of the British film The Love Storm (1931).
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The Love Storm
1920
Patience
8/1
Film by Paul Leni and Felix Basch
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Patience
1933
F.P.1
6.6/10
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 t...
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F.P.1
1920
The Merry-Go-Round
7/2
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 he...
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The Merry-Go-Round
1935
King of the Damned
7/4
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 tw...
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King of the Damned
1918
Not of the Woman Born
0/0
This film is believed to be lost.
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Not of the Woman Born
2008
Visual Effects: The Thief of Bagdad
7/1
Documentary about the technical achievements of the 1940 film classic The Thief of Bagdad.
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Visual Effects: The Thief of Bagdad
1919
Prostitution
8/1
Hedwig and Lola, two sisters of opposite temperaments, have their lives upended in when Lola decides to pursue prostitution and Hedwig is forced into...
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Prostitution
1930
The Great Passion
7.667/3
This is a real curiosity; at best a reasonable film, but also a charming little gem. There is a story (in the line of "A Star is Born"), but this mere...
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The Great Passion
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
1932
Rasputin, Demon of the Women
8.333/3
The demonic Rasputin is poisoned but survives to continue seducing in evil ways, in this historical thriller.
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Rasputin, Demon of the Women
1921
Landstraße und Großstadt
7/1
Two poor musicians rise from rags to riches. Money, fame and their love for the same woman begin to crumble their friendship, revealing the true natur...
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Landstraße und Großstadt
1930
The Last Company
6.8/5
Following the Battle of Jena in 1806 as the French armies commanded by Napoleon overrun Prussia, a small detachment of Prussian troops take up positio...
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The Last Company
1931
The Man Who Committed the Murder
5.8/5
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...
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The Man Who Committed the Murder
1919
Peer Gynt - 2. Teil: Peer Gynts Wanderjahre und Tod
0/0
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Peer Gynt - 2. Teil: Peer Gynts Wanderjahre und Tod
1919
The Mexican
8/1
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The Mexican
1919
The Japanese Woman
8/1
A detective falls for a Japanese girl living with her uncle and cousin. When the girl's uncle is murdered, the detective must find out who killed him.
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The Japanese Woman
1919
Nocturno der Liebe
0/0
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Nocturno der Liebe
1919
Opfer der Gesellschaft
0/0
A prosecutor, keen on punishing those he deems undesirable, convicts a woman of murder. It is only after the conviction that he learns of the circumst...
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Opfer der Gesellschaft
1938
Tempête sur l'Asie
9/1
An adventurer tries to seize oil deposits in Mongolia .
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Tempête sur l'Asie
1941
The Men in Her Life
6.714/7
A circus performer becomes a ballerina and then begins her life of a career versus marriage and a home-life. She marries her first husband, her mentor...
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The Men in Her Life
1940
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
6.857/7
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 tal...
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A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
1931
The Other Side
7/3
The First World War. The young, English Lieutenant Raleigh is sent to the company of a disillusioned Captain Stanhope. Stanhope is secretly engaged to...
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The Other Side
1927
Napoleon
7.806/217
A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his f...
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Napoleon
1921
Lady Hamilton
6.875/4
The married Lady Emma Hamilton has an ill fated romance with Admiral Horatio Nelson.
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Lady Hamilton
1920
Figures of the Night
10/1
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 l...
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Figures of the Night
1917
Der Spion
8/1
An Italian spy infiltrates a weapons factory in Germany.
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Der Spion
1920
Kurfürstendamm
10/1
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...
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Kurfürstendamm
1926
Impetuous Youth
6.75/4
Girl dressed up as a boy falls in love with a painter.
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Impetuous Youth
1919
Prostitution II
7/1
About a deceptive bourgeois couple that blends their acquaintances into their dubious business.
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Prostitution II
1919
Around the World in 80 Days
6.333/3
Wealthy Englishman Phileas Fogg bets his friends that he can travel around the world in 80 days.
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Around the World in 80 Days
1934
Bella Donna
3.75/4
That old theatrical war-horse Bella Donna (previously filmed in America by Alla Nazimova) was resurrected by Britain's Twickenham Studios in 1934. Con...
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Bella Donna
1920
Manolescu's Memoirs
9/1
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Manolescu's Memoirs
1920
Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand
10/1
Weltbrand is the first part of the two-part silent movie Christian Wahnschaffe.
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Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand
1921
Christian Wahnschaffe II: Escape from the Golden Dungeon
7/1
Escape from the Golden Dungeon is the second part of the two-part silent movie Christian Wahnschaffe.
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Christian Wahnschaffe II: Escape from the Golden Dungeon
1919
Opium
6.688/8
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 var...
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Opium
1924
Don Carlos und Elisabeth
8/2
Don Carlos, heir to the Spanish throne, and Princess Elisabeth of Valois are deeply in love but King Philip, Carlos's father, wants Elisabeth for hims...
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Don Carlos und Elisabeth
1923
Paganini
7/1
Historical film about Italian musician Niccolo Paganini.
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Paganini
1927
A Man's Past
6.5/2
Imprisoned at the French garrison on the Isle of St. Noir for putting to death a patient suffering from an incurable illness, Dr. Paul La Roche escape...
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A Man's Past
1924
The Film in the Film
7.25/2
The only surviving excerpt of a documentary on film production in Weimar Germany, featuring the different personalities of several famous directors of...
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The Film in the Film
1918
Diary of a Lost Woman
6/1
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Diary of a Lost Woman
1918
The Story of Dida Ibsen
0/0
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 wit...
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The Story of Dida Ibsen
1921
Der Leidensweg der Inge Krafft
10/1
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Der Leidensweg der Inge Krafft
1918
Colomba
0/0
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Colomba
1921
Liebestaumel
5.5/2
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Liebestaumel
1920
The Count of Cagliostro
8/1
About a lurid tale of magic and secret societies during the reign of Luis XVI, focused on the figure of the Italian occultist Giuseppe Balsamo, known...
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The Count of Cagliostro
1919
Prinz Kuckuck
9/1
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...
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Prinz Kuckuck
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
1920
Moriturus
7/1
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 myster...
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Moriturus
1929
Das Land ohne Frauen
10/1
A group of 413 women answer an ad looking for British women to sail to and marry miners in Australia. One does not survive the voyage, and conflict ar...
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Das Land ohne Frauen
1925
Le Comte Kostia
9/1
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Le Comte Kostia
1927
Laws of Love: Innocently Outlawed!
5.833/6
A documentary by Magnus Hirschfeld, which contains a shortened version of Different From the Others (1919).
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Laws of Love: Innocently Outlawed!
1921
Die Liebschaften des Hektor Dalmore
7/2
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Die Liebschaften des Hektor Dalmore
1917
Der Weg des Todes
0/0
A countess decides to get rid of a nosy stranger by luring him into a castle dungeon.
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Der Weg des Todes
1918
Jettchen Geberts Geschichte. 1. Jettchen Gebert
0/0
A young Jewish woman is pressured to marry a wealthy man even though she is in love with someone else.
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Jettchen Geberts Geschichte. 1. Jettchen Gebert
1918
Jettchen Geberts Geschichte. 2. Henriette Jacoby
0/0
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Jettchen Geberts Geschichte. 2. Henriette Jacoby
1920
Evening – Night – Morning
10/1
Cheston, a millionaire, is looking after Maud, a beautiful woman from the 'demimonde'. Her brother, Brilburn, forces her to ask her rich admirer for a...
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Evening – Night – Morning
1918
Das Dreimäderlhaus
0/0
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Das Dreimäderlhaus
1918
Es werde Licht! 4. Teil: Sündige Mütter
10/1
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Es werde Licht! 4. Teil: Sündige Mütter
1918
The Mystery of Bangalore
0/0
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The Mystery of Bangalore
1928
The Movie City of Hollywood
7/2
German documentary about Hollywood
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The Movie City of Hollywood
1998
Universal Horror
7.095/21
A documentary about the era of classic monster movies that were made at Universal Studios during the 1930s and 1940s.
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Universal Horror
1919
Die Okarina
10/1
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Die Okarina
1923
Glanz gegen Glück
8/1
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Glanz gegen Glück
1920
Künstlerlaunen
9/1
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Künstlerlaunen
1920
Die Augen der Welt
9/1
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Die Augen der Welt
1920
Die Nacht auf Goldenhall
9/1
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Die Nacht auf Goldenhall
1921
Danton
6.5/4
At the height of Reign of Terror Maximilien Robespierre orchestrates the trial and execution of several of his fellow leading French revolutionaries i...
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