Conrad Veidt — Actor (28)
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Congress Dances (1931) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Der Kongress tanzt
director: Erik Charell actor: Lilian Harvey / Willy Fritsch …
other title: Il congresso si diverte / Der Kongress tanzt …
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 table. The Czar, however, has his own plan—he hires a man who is his exact double to impersonate him and confuse the Austrians by appearing to be everywhere at once. In addition, both the Czar and his double fall for the same woman.
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The Head of Janus (1920) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Der Janus-Kopf
director: F. W. Murnau actor: Conrad Veidt / Magnus Stifter …
other title: Der Janus-Kopf / La cabeza de Jano …
Two opposing characters are hidden in the person of the inconspicuous London gentleman Dr. Warren and Janus. Lost film.
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Prostitution (1919) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Die Prostitution, 1. Teil - Das gelbe Haus
director: Richard Oswald actor: Fritz Beckmann / Anita Berber …
other title: Die Prostitution, 1. Teil - Das gelbe Haus / Die Prostitution
Hedwig and Lola, two sisters of opposite temperaments, have their lives upended in when Lola decides to pursue prostitution and Hedwig is forced into it.
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The Film in the Film (1924) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Der Film im Film
director: Friedrich Porges actor: Ernst Deutsch / E.A. Dupont …
other title: Der Film im Film
The only surviving excerpt of a documentary on film production in Weimar Germany, featuring the different personalities of several famous directors of the era at work on the set including Fritz Lang, Robert Wiene, and E.A. Dupont.
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The Chess Player (1938) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Le Joueur d'échecs
director: Jean Dréville actor: Françoise Rosay / Conrad Veidt …
other title: Le Joueur d'échecs / Scacco alla regina
A toymaker in Poland specializes in building lifesize mechanical men. He builds a chess-playing "automaton" to hide a pretty young Polish activist who is being hunted by occupying Russian forces.
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The Beloved Rogue (1927) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Beloved Rogue
director: Alan Crosland actor: John Barrymore / Conrad Veidt …
other title: Il poeta vagabondo / Der Bettelpoet …
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 Last Performance (1929) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Last Performance
director: Pál Fejős actor: Conrad Veidt / Mary Philbin …
other title: Erik le mystérieux / Illusion …
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 out to be a bum and a thief.
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The Indian Tomb, Part I: The Mission of the Yoghi (1921) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Das indische Grabmal, erster Teil: Die Sendung des Yoghi
director: Joe May actor: Olaf Fønss / Mia May …
other title: Das indische Grabmal, erster Teil: Die Sendung des Yoghi / La Mission du Yogi …
Ayan, Maharajah of Eschnapur, believes that his wife, Princess Savitri, has been unfaithful to him with officer Mac Allan. He decides to bury her alive, so he sends the Yogi Ramigani to England to look for Herbert Rowland, an architect; but when he orders him to build a tomb, Rowland refuses.
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Figures of the Night (1920) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Nachtgestalten
director: Richard Oswald actor: Paul Wegener / Erik Charell …
other title: Nachtgestalten
"Night people". 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 love for his son, whom he holds like a monkey in a cage. His servants are defaced dwarfs. His secretary is trying to steal Bezugs assets. These are the night people.
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Eerie Tales (1919) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Unheimliche Geschichten
director: Richard Oswald actor: Anita Berber / Conrad Veidt …
other title: Un affare misterioso / Unheimliche Geschichten …
A demon, a reaper, and the ghost of a prostitute read gothic short stories and act them out.
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The Ingmar Inheritance (1925) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Ingmarsarvet
director: Gustaf Molander actor: Conrad Veidt / Ivan Hedqvist …
other title: Ingmarsarvet / Ingmar's Inheritance …
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 teacher and to reclaim the land and farm of his fathers. The same stormy night, the charismatic preacher Helgum arrives in the village to spread the word about the promises of the Holy Land, which turns parents and children, men and wives, brothers and sisters, against one another. Ingmar is torn between his love for the headmaster’s daughter Gertrud who is under the preacher’s spell, and the prospects of marrying the judge’s daughter Barbro in order to keep the farm.
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A Woman's Face (1941) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
A Woman's Face
director: George Cukor actor: Joan Crawford / Melvyn Douglas …
other title: Volto di donna / Erpressung …
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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Different from the Others (1919) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Anders als die Andern
director: Richard Oswald actor: Conrad Veidt / Anita Berber …
other title: Diverso dagli altri / Diferente dos Outros …
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 law that punishes homosexuality).
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The Student of Prague (1926) [Movie] IMDb WikiData NeoDB Douban TMDB
Der Student von Prag
director: Henrik Galeen actor: Conrad Veidt / Elizza La Porta …
other title: Der Student von Prag / L'étudiant de Prague …
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 find love; but how would he, a penniless student, ever dare looking up to any woman worth of loving? Absorbed in his dreary thoughts and indifferent to the advances of Lyduschka, Balduin is unexpectedly offered a fortune by the mysterious money-lender Scapinelli - but on a strange condition...