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Kurfürstendamm

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Conrad Veidt, Asta Nielsen

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.

Gehetzte Frauen

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Asta Nielsen, Gustav Fröhlich

The aging singer Clarina receives a new engagement from a cabaret called the Maison Mouche and must evade the advances of several overbearing men. This film is considered lost.

Die Geschichte der stillen Mühle

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Alfred Abel, Ferdinand Bonn

Die Arche. 2. Teil: Die letzten Menschen

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Leo Connard, Eva Speyer

Lützows wilde verwegene Jagd

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Ernst Rückert, Arthur Wellin

Film by Richard Oswald.

Als ich wiederkam

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Liane Haid, Max Hansen

Das Dreimäderlhaus

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Julius Spielmann, Wilhelm Diegelmann

I Was a Criminal

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Albert Bassermann, Mary Brian

In Prussia shoemaker Voight needs a residence permit to get a job, but can only get a job if he already has a permit. He dons a captain's uniform to order a platoon of soldiers to Koepenick to take over the Town Hall to get his permit.

Gräfin Mariza

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Dorothea Wieck, Hubert Marischka

When Gräfin Mariza visits her country estate it is certainly an event. She gives a party to celebrate her engagement to a certain Koloman Zsupan, who unexpectedly shows up. Her authoritarian ways collide with Török, her manager. Based on Emerich Kálmán operetta.

Frühlings Erwachen

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Toni van Eyck, Ita Rina

Moritz Stiefel faces expulsion due to poor marks. When he is caught with an essay titled “Shame and Lust”, he is indeed kicked out – instead of classmate Melchior Gabor, who actually penned it. Gabor was drawing on his experiences with neighbourhood girl Wendla. Then Wendla turns up pregnant. Stiefel descends into despair ... Exploitation between Eros and Thanatos in this “sexual tragedy of youth” based on Frank Wedekind’s play. Setting the film in the 1920s provided a chance to explore “modern” youth culture, complete with cigarettes, jazz music, the gramophone, and a goodly bit of alcohol. Richard Oswald, a master of films of manners and young sex beginning in the 1910s, fully explores the temptations of the youthful body, even early childhood flirtatiousness. At the same time, with his target audience in mind, the film laments the bigotry and double standards of the adult world.

Fürst Lahory, der König der Diebe

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Conrad Veidt, Hedda Vernon

Die Liebschaften des Hektor Dalmore

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Conrad Veidt, Erna Morena

1914, die letzten Tage vor dem Weltbrand

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Albert Bassermann, Heinrich Schroth

The film focuses on the leadership of the Great Powers of Europe in the days leading up to the outbreak of the First World War.

Tempête sur l'Asie

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Conrad Veidt, Sessue Hayakawa

An adventurer tries to seize oil deposits in Mongolia .

Der Hauptmann von Köpenick

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Max Adalbert, Max Gülstorff

Based on the true story of a cobbler who bought a second-hand captain's uniform, assumed command of a troop of guardsmen, declared the town of Köpenick under military law, arrested the mayor and confiscated the town treasury.

Anders als die Andern

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Conrad Veidt, Anita Berber

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 abolition of §175 (the paragraph which punishes homosexuality).