La Découpé Epoque
Talkie movies not released in U.S.A. until 1945, preferably.
TTo found more like them see too :German Films: Early classics
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TTo found more like them see too :German Films: Early classics
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls077112994/
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- DirectorGéza von BolváryStarsBetty BalfourJack TrevorFritz GreinerJenny works in the kitchen of a luxurious hotel and is in love with Jean, the charming headwaiter. But the latter has his eyes on Lola, the hotel dancer, who is kept by a senile millionaire. Jenny manages to get Jean to come see her and stupidly steals a champagne bottle for the occasion. When someone rats her out, she escapes through the corridors aimlessly and ends up in the dining room where, through the whim of a rich foreigner, she has to perform a comedy act for the crowd. It is an instant success and brings her fortune. Jean will soon realize that he loved her all along.
- DirectorEdward H. GriffithStarsAnn HardingFredric MarchCarmelita GeraghtyPre-Code early-talkie film version of Philip Barry's Broadway hit chronicles the first five years of marriage between James and Mary Hutton, during which the two paramours they deserted wait patiently--and manipulatively--in the wings.
- DirectorHans SteinhoffStarsMabel PoultonJack TrevorClifford McLaglenA man who thinks he killed a millionaire is cared for by a Cockney girl and becomes a composer.
- DirectorFred SauerStarsCarlo AldiniEve GrayEberhard LeithoffBased on Agatha Christie's "The Secret Adversary," a young couple looking for adventure become involved in the mystery of a missing woman and an espionage ring.
- DirectorHarry LachmanStarsMarguerite AllanPeggie Robb-SmithJohn BattenA girl organist is blamed for ousting the village choir.
- DirectorAlfred AbelStarsRenée HéribelJack TrevorAlfred Abel
- DirectorHanns SchwarzStarsEmil JanningsRenate MüllerOlga TschechowaThe tenor Albert Winkelmann is a celebrated artist, admired for his singing and for his effect on women. He is a "Darling of the Gods". His wife Agathe sees the bohemian spouse's preference for the "weaker sex" with some concern.
- DirectorLudwig BergerStarsMaurice ChevalierFrances DeeO.P. HeggieWaiter Albert is incompetent is in conflict with the owner and his daughter. However a surprise inheritance means he must keep his job by day while escorting a glamorous socialite by night.
- DirectorFred SauerStarsMarlene DietrichWilli ForstAlbert HörrmannDuring a railway journey, Baron van Geldern meets an attractive young woman Evelyne in the same carriage. After the train is derailed, they spend a night together at a hotel, and he falls in love with her. Complications ensue when he discovers that she is engaged to his American friend.
- DirectorGustav UcickyStarsLilian HarveyLaurence OlivierAthole StewartA woman pretends her artist husband has died in a drowning accident, so that his paintings will finally find buyers.
- DirectorCarl FroelichStarsAlexa EngströmGustav FröhlichGustaf GründgensA young singer in the Opera finds out who really loves her, when the theater catches fire on the opening night of the performance.
- DirectorGéza von BolváryStarsWalter JanssenOskar KarlweisWilli ForstToni Hofer and brothers Vicki and Nicki Mahler are working on a new operetta. Toni's reputation with women equals his fame as composer, so they keep their sister Hedi away from him. Wanting to know him, she calls at his house in the middle of the night not revealing her identity, helps him write the main waltz theme and disappears, leaving him incapable of remembering his greatest melody. Music by Robert Stolz.
- DirectorCurtis BernhardtStarsConrad VeidtKarin EvansErwin KalserA band of Prussian soldiers fighting Napoleon garrison themselves in a country windmill, the miller's daughter insists on staying with them.
- DirectorKarl AntonStarsIta RinaVera BaranovskayaJosef RovenskýA prostitute in an act of pity is keeping chaste company with a condemned man through the night before he is to be hung.
- DirectorWilliam DieterleStarsWilliam DieterleTheodor LoosEugen BurgSecond of two German silents about the life of Bavarian king Ludwig II, a character who would much later also be the center of a film by Luchino Visconti.
- DirectorRené ClairStarsAlbert PréjeanPola IlléryEdmond T. GrévilleAlbert is smitten for Pola but ends up wrongly committed in jail, in the meantime her affections are sought after by his friend, and on his release both love and friendship must be tested.
- DirectorRichard EichbergStarsJameson ThomasJack RaineMuriel Angelus(1930) Jameson Thomas, Muriel Angelus, Jack Rain. Early British thriller about a master criminal named 'Flash Jack', who heads a gang of top-hatted thieves that rob the wealthy. A detective tracks the crimes to a posh night club.
- DirectorMario BonnardLuis TrenkerStarsLuis TrenkerMaria MatrayRenate MüllerAn Alpine adventure-romance.
- DirectorGéza von BolváryStarsWilli ForstPaul HörbigerTrude LieskeA stylish young man shows up as a substitute at events when officials and other important people are too busy to attend,and sometimes imitates their voices.
- DirectorGéza von BolváryStarsLiane HaidWilli ForstMargarete SchlegelAn officer embarrasses a singer by walking away during one of her performances. He later apologizes and the two become closer, eventually falling in love.
- DirectorGeorge SchnéevoigtStarsMona MårtensonPaul RichterAda KrammJack Norton is a careless gambler, until his father turns his back on him. Dead drunk he winds up on a boat going far up North, where he leaves the boat, only to be saved by Eskimos, where he soon falls in love.
- DirectorPaul MerzbachStarsGösta EkmanInga TidbladHåkan WestergrenA young theatre couple has marriage and financial problems.
- DirectorErich EngelFyodor OtsepStarsFritz KortnerAnna StenFritz RaspSuspicion surrounds a lieutenant for killing his father: Dimitri asks his father for his heritage. The father says he wants to marry young Grushenka. Dimitri tries to talk the girl out of that plan and is himself totally smitten with her.
- DirectorSteve SekelyStarsGerda MaurusOskar SimaPaul VincentiWhen both husband and wife find romance outside their marriage, it's a shock to everyone. Sims and Maurus break up to elope with their respective lovers, only to be thrown together again when they show up at the justice of the peace.