G.W. Pabst — Director (22)
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Street of Shadows (1937)
Mademoiselle Docteur IMDb TMDB
Georg Wilhelm Pabst actor: Louis Jouvet / Dita Parlo …
other title: Salonicco, nido di spie / Spione in Saloniki …
A slippery femme fatale, a spy for Germany during the Great War, is sent to Thessaloniki in Greece and becomes involved with a man on the other side, a French military officer.
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A Modern Hero (1934)
A Modern Hero WikiData IMDb TMDB
G.W. Pabst actor: Richard Barthelmess / Jean Muir …
other title: El secreto de una noche / Un héros moderne
A 1920s circus performer uses every means at his disposal to achieve fame and fortune at the expense of others.
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It Happened on July 20th (1955)
Es geschah am 20. Juli WikiData IMDb TMDB
G.W. Pabst actor: Bernhard Wicki / Karl Ludwig Diehl …
other title: Es geschah am 20. Juli / C'est arrivé le 20 juillet …
A dramatic reconstruction of the July 1944 attempt by German Army Officers to assassinate Hitler with a bomb and end the war before Germany was totally destroyed.
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Through the Forests and Through the Trees (1956)
Durch die Wälder durch die Auen WikiData IMDb TMDB
G.W. Pabst actor: Eva Bartok / Peter Arens …
other title: Durch die Wälder durch die Auen / La Merveilleuse Aventure …
The composer Carl Maria von Weber is on his way to Prague with his bride Caroline Brandt when their carriage is attacked by bandits. Fortunately, Count Enzio von Schwarzenbrunn rushes to their aid and puts the villains to flight. However, the noble host who invites them to his castle is nowhere near as noble as he suspects, having staged the robbery himself in order to bring the enchanting Caroline to his aristocratic residence in this clever way and get to know her better in this luxurious setting.
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Voice of Silence (1953)
La Maison du silence WikiData IMDb TMDB
G.W. Pabst actor: Terence Hill / Jean Marais …
other title: La voce del silenzio / Männer ohne Tränen …
The film follows men from all walks of life, seeking to give meaning to their lives and rediscover their inner peace during a retreat in the “House of Silence”. For three days, they meditate on their lives.
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The White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929)
Die weiße Hölle vom Piz Palü WikiData IMDb TMDB
Arnold Fanck / G.W. Pabst actor: Gustav Diessl / Leni Riefenstahl …
other title: La tragedia di Pizzo Palù / Die weiße Hölle vom Piz Palü …
Dr. Johannes Krafft climbs a 12,000-foot mountain over and over again to search for his wife, who was lost on their honeymoon. Another couple makes the dangerous climb with him.
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The Devious Path (1928)
Abwege WikiData IMDb TMDB
G.W. Pabst actor: Gustav Diessl / Brigitte Helm …
other title: Crisi / Abwege …
Neglected by her husband, an ambitious lawyer, Irene seeks variety in Berlin's nightlife-- An evening of dancing, dolls, cocaine and immoral passion. Irene takes the "devious path" as she seeks to make her husband jealous.
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Queen of Atlantis (1932)
Die Herrin von Atlantis WikiData IMDb TMDB
G.W. Pabst actor: Brigitte Helm / Heinz Klingenberg …
other title: Die Herrin von Atlantis / L'Atlantide …
Two young officers, Saint-Avit and Morhange, get lost in the desert and find themselves prisoners of the beautiful Antinéa, queen of the city of Atlantis. Saint-Avit, blinded by his love for her, obeys her when she orders him to kill his comrade...
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Don Quixote (1933)
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G.W. Pabst actor: Feodor Chaliapin Sr. / Dorville …
other title: Don Chisciotte / Don Quichotte …
Inflamed by his readings of chivalric novels, Don Quixote, a knight with a sad face, accompanied by Sancho Panza, a peasant steeped in common sense, decides to set off across the world in search of improbable adventures.
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Comradeship (1931)
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G.W. Pabst actor: Alexander Granach / Fritz Kampers …
other title: La tragedia della miniera / Kameradschaft …
At a mine on the shared edge of France and Germany, an underground explosion leads to the entrapment of a group of French miners. In an effort to save the trapped Frenchmen, German miners Wittkopp and Kasper take it upon themselves to traverse a crumbling war tunnel leading down into the mines. Yet, though the workers harbor no political biases against one another, their callous, less tolerant bosses hope to halt this cross-cultural rescue mission.
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The Mistress of Atlantis (1932)
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G.W. Pabst actor: Brigitte Helm / Pierre Blanchar …
other title: L'Atlantide
Antinea, the Queen of Atlantis, rules her secret kingdom hidden beneath the Sahara Desert. One day two lost explorers stumble into her kingdom, and soon realize that they haven't really been saved — Antinea has a habit of taking men as lovers, then when she's done with them, she kills them and keeps them mummified.
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The Last Act (1955)
Der letzte Akt WikiData IMDb TMDB
G.W. Pabst actor: Albin Skoda / Oskar Werner …
other title: L'ultimo atto / Der letzte Akt …
Albin Skoda embodies a frantic Adolf Hitler in his last days, scrambling to keep the Third Reich alive as morale within the bunker wanes and Berlin is encircled by enemy troops. Based on Michael A. Musmanno's book Ten Days to Die, Oscar Werner costars as fictional Nazi Hauptmann Wüst, a disillusioned middleman.
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The Shanghai Drama (1938)
Le Drame de Shanghaï WikiData IMDb Douban
G.W. Pabst actor: Louis Jouvet / Raymond Rouleau …
other title: Le Drame de Shanghaï / El drama de Shanghai …
A Russian emigrant sings in a Shanghai nightclub under the assumed name of Kay Murphy. All she dreams of is a peaceful life with her daughter Vera. But this is only a pipe dream as she has been forced by her former lover Ivan to work for a secret criminal organization, "The Black Dragon". Vera, who studies in a Hong Kong boarding-school, knows nothing about her mother's past. When Ivan, who is also Vera's father, resurfaces and blackmails Kay, the young woman is determined to fight back...
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The Love of Jeanne Ney (1927)
Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney
G.W. Pabst actor: Édith Jéhanne / Uno Henning …
other title: Il giglio delle tenebre / Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney …
In the Crimea, the Reds and the Whites aren't done fighting, and Jeanne discovers that the man she loves is a Bolshevik (when he kills her father). Penniless, she returns to Paris where she works for her uncle. Soon after, her lover Andreas is in France to organize the sailors in Toulon. So also is a thief, traitor, and libertine, Khalibiev, who wants to seduce Jeanne. His schemes, Jeanne and Andreas's naivete, and a lost diamond bring the lovers to the brink of tragedy.
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Secrets of a Soul (1927)
Geheimnisse einer Seele WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Georg Wilhelm Pabst actor: Werner Krauß / Ruth Weyher …
other title: Il mistero dell'anima / Mistérios de Uma Alma …
Scientist Martin Fellmann is tormented by an irrational fear of knives and the irresistible compulsion to murder his wife. Driven to the brink of madness by fantastic nightmares, he encounters a psychoanalyst who offers to treat the perplexing malady.
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Joyless Street (1925)
Die freudlose Gasse WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
G.W. Pabst actor: Werner Krauss / Jaro Fürth …
other title: La via senza gioia / Die freudlose Gasse …
In 1921, we follow two women - Marie and Grete - from the same poor Viennese neighborhood, as they try to better the lives of themselves and their families during the period of Austrian postwar hyperinflation.
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Westfront 1918 (1930)
Westfront 1918: Vier von der Infanterie IMDb TMDB Douban
G.W. Pabst actor: Fritz Kampers / Gustav Diessl …
other title: Westfront / Westfront 1918: Vier von der Infanterie …
A group of German infantrymen of the First World War live out their lives in the trenches of France. They find brief entertainment and relief in a village behind the lines, but primarily terror fills their lives as the attacks on and from the French army ebb and flow. One of the men, Karl, goes home on leave only to discover the degradation forced on his family by wartime poverty. He returns to the lines in time to face an enormous attack by French tanks.
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Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)
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Georg Wilhelm Pabst actor: Louise Brooks / André Roanne …
other title: Diario di una donna perduta / Diário de Uma Perdida …
Thymian Henning, an innocent young girl, is raped by the clerk of her father's pharmacy. She becomes pregnant, is rejected by her family, and must fend for herself in a harsh, cruel world.
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Pandora's Box (1929)
Die Büchse der Pandora
G.W. Pabst actor: Louise Brooks / Fritz Kortner …
other title: Il vaso di Pandora / A Caixa de Pandora …
The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.