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Waxworks (1924) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB WikiData IMDb
Das Wachsfigurenkabinett
director: Leo Birinski / Paul Leni actor: Emil Jannings / Conrad Veidt
other title: Il gabinetto delle figure di cera / Das Wachsfigurenkabinett
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, the poet and the daughter of the owner, Eva, fantasize the fantastic stories and fall in love for each other.
M (1931) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB Douban IMDb WikiData
M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder
8.0 (8 ratings) director: Fritz Lang actor: Peter Lorre / Ellen Widmann
other title: M - Il mostro di Düsseldorf / Matou
In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seedy underworld network. With both cops and criminals in pursuit, the murderer soon realizes that people are on his trail, sending him into a tense, panicked attempt to escape justice.
Siegfried (1924) [Movie] TMDB WikiData NeoDB IMDb Douban
Die Nibelungen: Siegfried
director: Fritz Lang actor: Gertrud Arnold / Margarete Schön
other title: I Nibelunghi: Sigfrido / Os Nibelungos - A Morte de Siegfried
Siegfried, son of King Siegmund of Xanten, travels to Worms, capital of the Burgundian kingdom, to ask King Gunther for the hand of his sister, the beautiful Kriemhild.
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler
director: Fritz Lang actor: Rudolf Klein-Rogge / Aud Egede-Nissen
other title: Il dottor Mabuse / Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler
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 make huge profits on the stock exchange. Afterwards, Mabuse disguises himself and attends the Folies Bergères show, where Cara Carozza, the main attraction of the show, passes him information on Mabuse's next intended victim, the young millionaire Edgar Hull. Mabuse then uses psychic manipulation to lure Hull into a card game where he loses heavily. When Police Commissioner von Wenk begins an investigation of this mysterious crime spree, he has little to go on, and he needs to find someone who can help him.
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933) [Movie] TMDB IMDb NeoDB Douban WikiData
Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse
director: Fritz Lang actor: Rudolf Klein-Rogge / Oscar Beregi Sr.
other title: Il testamento del dottor Mabuse / Dr. Mabuses testamente
After a detective is assaulted by thugs and placed in an asylum run by Professor Baum, he observes the professor's preoccupation with another patient, the criminal genius Dr. Mabuse the hypnotist. When Mabuse's notes are found to be connected with a rash of recent crimes, Commissioner Lohmann must determine how Mabuse is communicating with the criminals, despite conflicting reports on the doctor's whereabouts, and capture him for good.
Destiny (1921) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Der müde Tod
director: Fritz Lang actor: Lil Dagover / Walter Janssen
other title: Destino / Der müde Tod
As a young couple stops and rests in a small village inn, the man is abducted by Death and is sequestered behind a huge doorless, windowless wall. The woman finds a mystic entrance and is met by Death, who tells her three separate stories set in exotic locales, all involving circumstances similar to hers.
F.P.1 Doesn't Answer (1932) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
F.P.1 antwortet nicht
director: Karl Hartl actor: Hans Albers / Sybille Schmitz
other title: F.P.1 antwortet nicht / I.F.1 ne répond plus
F.P.1 is a huge airplane landing dock in the Atlantic where pilots making the transatlantic flight can stop. Yet a saboteur tries to sink the technical wonder in this classic German science fiction film from 1932. The film was also created with English and French speaking actors at the same time.
Hilde Warren and Death (1917) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
Hilde Warren und der Tod
director: Joe May actor: Mia May / Georg John
other title: Hilde Warren und der Tod / Hilde Warren et la Mort
Hilde Warren, a famous actress, is impregnated by a convicted murderer and becomes plagued by visions of Death. Upon discovering her child is the image of its criminal father, Hilde must decide whether to allow it to live, or to kill it and risk the embrace of Death himself.
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.
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.
Volga in Flames (1934) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Volga en flammes
director: Viktor Tourjansky actor: Albert Préjean / Valéry Inkijinoff
other title: Wolga in Flammen / Volga en flammes
Lieutenant Orloff, a recently graduated Russian officier, is making his way across the snow-covered steppes to the garrison where he is to be stationed. He comes across a man who has lost his way in the blizzard and takes him to the safety of an inn. Arriving at the garrison, Orloff meets and falls immediately in love with Macha, the daughter of his commander. The town is suddenly attacked by a hoard of bandits who claims to be the true Tsar of Russia.
The Spiders: Part 1 - The Golden Sea (1919) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Die Spinnen, 1. Teil - Der Goldene See
director: Fritz Lang actor: Carl de Vogt / Ressel Orla
other title: I ragni: Il lago d'oro / Die Spinnen, 1. Teil - Der Goldene See
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 who has gone missing. The map tells of a lost Incan civilization that possesses an immense treasure. Hoog immediately plans an expedition to find it. But Lio Sha, the head of a criminal organization known as the Spiders, is determined to get the treasure for herself and plans a rival expedition.
The Spiders: Part 2 - The Diamond Ship (1920) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Die Spinnen, 2. Teil - Das Brillantenschiff
director: Fritz Lang actor: Carl de Vogt / Ressel Orla
other title: I ragni: La nave dei diamanti / Die Spinnen, 2. Teil - Das Brillantenschiff
When we last saw Kay Hoog (millionaire adventurer, courageous hunk), he’d been beset with tragedy. Having escaped an ancient Incan city by the skin of his gleaming teeth, Hoog looked forward to a few years of settled life with his (amicably) captured Incan lovely, Naela. But the past struck quickly. Hoog’s arch-nemesis, the homicidal femme Lio Sha, murdered Naela on the very grounds of Hoog’s estate, prompting him to swear revenge upon her and her criminal organization, the Spiders. Now he must find them, as the Spiders continue their global quest for the Buddha-head Diamond. The head, it’s said, has the power to restore Asia to world dominance.