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Das gefährliche Alter
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The gorgeous 40-year-old Elsie Lindtner lives in a beautiful house, and is married to a respectable university professor. And yet, there’s something that nags her. She’s about to reach “the dangerous age”, when beauty begins to fade and boredom kicks in. She falls in love with a younger man and divorces her husband, but ends up hiding away in a country house where she can age in secret. (Stumfilm.dk)
Drama
Hoffmanns Erzählungen
5.2
This movie, directed by Richard Oswald, is based on the operetta "Les contes de Hoffmann" by Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880), which is a genial musical potpourri from various short stories and novels by the Prussian writer, composer, painter, lawyer and judge E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822). While Hoffmann's literary work was longtime considered to be merely fantastical, it was finally researched, in the last years, according to its metaphysical background. Characteristic for Hoffmann's work is his life-long fight against rationalism and for the revelation of nature morte, culminating mostly in carnival-like scenes anticipating literary techniques only described in the works of Bachtin and Bachelard.
Fantasy
Arme Lena
4.5

Arme Lena

Nov 22, 1918
The dancer Lena Schmidt wins ten thousand mark at the lottery. With the money she leaves for a fashionable resort. Lena meets there the penniless painter Gustav Lindner, who is looking for a rich wife.
Drama
Der Stolz der Firma
6.5

Der Stolz der Firma

Apr 30, 1914
Der Stolz der Firma, meaning The Pride of the Business, is a classic German silent film from 1914. The film tells the story of a shrewd apprentice and is filmed in the comical style of director Lubitsch. This is one of the few Lubitsch films from World War I that wasn’t lost.
Comedy
La Métisse
1

La Métisse

Apr 03, 1919
Une métisse - qui n'a hérité que des vices de sa double origine - prostituée et toxico, qu'un homme épouse malgré la mise en garde de son ami : « On peut prendre une métisse pour maîtresse, jamais pour épouse. » Elle a surpris ces mots, et pour se venger de cette humiliation, détruit les deux hommes : l'un se retrouve en prison, l'autre à l'asile des fous.
Drama