Hermann Thimig

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L'Opéra de quat'sous
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L'Opéra de quat'sous

Feb 18, 1931
Dans un quartier de Londres en proie aux guerres de gangs, une rivalité s'installe entre le roi des mendiants et le gangster que sa fille veut épouser.
Music
La Poupée
7.4

La Poupée

Dec 05, 1919
Le baron de Chanterelle, dépourvu de descendance, presse son neveu de se marier. Mais Lancelot, fuyant la horde des prétendantes convoquées par son oncle, se réfugie dans un monastère. Les moines voient dans le jeune homme un bon moyen de renflouer les caisses de la communauté : puisque son oncle lui promet une belle dot s'il prend femme, ils lui suggèrent un mariage fictif avec une poupée mécanique.
Comedy
Kleider machen Leute
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Kleider machen Leute

Oct 01, 1921
Early film adaptation of Gottfried Keller's well-known novella as a silent film. The plot revolves around a journeyman tailor who is thrown out by his master and, without his intervention, is forced into a lying role in which he takes on the role of a wealthy person.
Drama
Der Himmel auf Erden
6.2

Der Himmel auf Erden

Jan 01, 1935
A poor composer who should buy a property for his ambitious father-in-law finances with the money, nevertheless, an opera. Together with his friend who must play a husband to his strict rich aunt, he makes to himself a fun from the mistakes which cause her feints.
Comedy
La Chatte des montagnes
7.6
Muté dans une nouvelle caserne, le jeune lieutenant Alexis tombe en route sur un groupe de brigands. Parmi eux, il fait la connaissance de la belle Riskscha à qui il promet fidélité. Mais arrivé à la caserne, il est chargé de tuer leur chef…
Comedy
Alles für Geld
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Alles für Geld

Nov 04, 1923
Rupp (Jannings) is a former butcher, made rich in the meat packing industry as a result of the reversal of fortunes brought on by WWI. He is crude, uncouth and uneducated. His son, Fred, is the apple of his father's eye and is an auto enthusiast. The widowed Rupp falls in love with a former aristocrat, Helen, now down on her luck and pawning her last heirloom. He proposes marriage and she accepts in order to save her ailing mother who needs a monetary influx to avoid death. Her former boyfriend, Platen, warns Helen against Rupp's intentions - he and Rupp are enemies, Rupp having caused his being fired for protecting a chorus girl against Rupp's unwanted advances. Meanwhile, Graf, a shyster, arranges purchase of a near bankrupt auto manufacturing firm, Phoenix, to Rupp's great advantage with practically no monetary recognition to Graf, who swears revenge. Rupp comes upon his son begging Helen not to marry his father but to return to Platen.
Drama
Le Procès
6.2

Le Procès

Mar 05, 1948
Hongrie en 1882. Dans un village, Esther, une servante adolescente, disparaît. Personne ne sait qu'elle s'est enfuie parce que sa maîtresse la maltraite. La rumeur accuse bientôt les Juifs de sa disparition, qu'elle aurait été la victime d'un assassinat rituel. Un témoin affirme avoir vu Esther se réfugier chez le chef de la communauté juive, Peczely Scharf. C'était le jour de shabbat, où tout geste non religieux est interdit, or la fille chrétienne a pris un chandelier sur la table. Depuis, personne ne l'a revue.
Drama
La Flamme
5.8

La Flamme

Feb 02, 1923
Dans les années 1860, à Paris, Yvette va de bar en bar et rencontre un compositeur avec lequel elle se marie très vite, malgré les avertissements de son cousin Raoul.
Drama
Brüderlein fein
5.2

Brüderlein fein

Jan 29, 1942
A young Viennese actor is having much success on the stage; but intrigue and confusion in his love life are making his life a living Hell.
Comedy
Die goldene Fessel
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Die goldene Fessel

May 02, 1944
Herr von Lips is a wealthy landowner, surrounded by money and luxury. But what he lacks is a wife, who really loves him. So he comes up with the plan to mingle among the people in simple clothing to find the missing bride. Three fine friends --- "fine", that is, as long as the money doesn't run out --- wish to set him up with the egoistic hat maker Mathilde. Her employer, Kathi, who has no idea that von Lips is a rich man, falls in love with him for whom he is.
Comedy
Profondeurs mystérieuses
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Fiancée au professeur Ben Witich, Cornelia ne partage pas sa passion pour la chimie et la spéléologie. Négligée par Ben, qui la croit heureuse, elle succombe aux avances d'un riche industriel.
Drama
Der kleine Seitensprung
1
A wife believes her husband has been deceiving her and decides to have some fun at his expense. After a bit of mischief, her husband, a lawyer who is preparing a divorce for a client, decides to start divorce proceedings himself. The wife then realises she has gone too far.
Comedy
Im weißen Rößl
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Im weißen Rößl

Dec 06, 1935
Im weißen Rößl (English title: White Horse Inn or The White Horse Inn) is an operetta or musical comedy by Ralph Benatzky and Robert Stolz in collaboration with a number of other composers and writers, set in the picturesque Salzkammergut region of Upper Austria. It is about the head waiter of the White Horse Inn in St. Wolfgang who is desperately in love with the owner of the inn, a resolute young woman who at first only has eyes for one of her regular guests.
Mädchen zum Heiraten
5

Mädchen zum Heiraten

Apr 14, 1932
Three brothers lead the life of bachelors and their rent is overdue. The landlord who also happens to be a matchmaker tries to marry off the oldest brother to a rich girl.
Comedy
Frau Irene Besser
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Frau Irene Besser

Feb 15, 1961
It was not until twelve years after the end of World War II that Irene Besser's husband, Martin Besser, long believed to be missing, returned from Soviet captivity. But the country and family have become unfamiliar to him. His wife Irene and her daughter Lotte built a new life all by themselves in the tough times of the post-war turmoil in the still young Federal Republic of Germany. With a lot of commitment and dedication, she runs her own department store today and has become an extremely successful businesswoman. Not only as a consultant, the lawyer Dr. Heinz Werther stand her more and more aside. It is becoming increasingly impossible for Irene to do justice to both, men and lover alike. She hopes that even without her, Martin will slowly find his way back in his homeland and open up perspectives for him..
Drama
Napoleon auf St. Helena
4.833
Napoleon at Saint Helena (German: Napoleon auf Sankt Helena) is a 1929 German silent historical film directed by Lupu Pick and starring Werner Krauss, Hanna Ralph and Albert Bassermann. The film depicts the final years of Napoleon between 1815 and 1821 during his period of exile on the British Atlantic island of Saint Helena following his defeat at Waterloo.
Drama
Der geheimnisvolle Mister X
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The eccentric owner of a chateau, Lord Wilford, is fond of everything that is connected with criminal cases. His passion takes up so much time that even his secretary hardly has time to see her fiance. When mysterious letters arrive, announcing that a certain Mister X wants to steal a valuable statuette, the Lord is very enthusiastic. Apparently he himself will now experience a real criminal case! His secretary persuades him to hire a famous detective from London - none other than her fiance. But he is far from being a talented detective, and when a valuable pearl necklace disappears, the fiance falls under suspicion to be the thief.
Crime
Die Privatsekretärin
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Die Privatsekretärin

Jan 16, 1931
During hard times, a vivacious girl looks for an office job in the hope of landing a rich man. The director of the bank she works at flirts with her while not at first revealing his identity so she rejects him.
Comedy
Die Austernlilli
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Die Austernlilli

Oct 02, 1937
The Parisian restaurant "At the Oyster King's" is looking for a new waitress, whose job would be to crack open oysters with a newfangled oyster cracker (how exciting!). But who would have thought that this newfound invention would lead to so much turmoil (they're French, aren't they?)?! Through a mix-up, Lilli Dupont gets the job. But Lilli is no waitress, but rather a talented singer, waiting in vain for an engagement. She takes the job and soon every male visitor is laying at her feet. So that Lilli doesn't constantly have to fight off all the horny men, the cashier Aristide spreads the rumor that Lilli is actually the daughter of the millionaire van Muhlen, to whom the "Oyster King" belongs (daughter of a millionaire?!? Oh yes, of course: that will dissuade potential suitors!).
Comedy
Der verlorene Schuh
5.3

Der verlorene Schuh

Dec 05, 1923
One of the first movies made about the fairy tale Cinderella. The film is part of the current German expressionism. Because of that the film ends up being darker than the fairy tale itself.
Fantasy
Der unsterbliche Lump
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Der unsterbliche Lump

Feb 21, 1930
Prevented from wedding a postman's daughter (her father prefers she marry a farmer) a Tyrol schoolteacher succeeds instead in having an opera of his acceptance in Vienna. But this isn't the happiness he wanted, he becomes a hobo.
Drama
L'Opéra de quat'sous
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L'Opéra de quat'sous

Jun 08, 1931
Dans un quartier populaire de Soho, à Londres, deux hommes se livrent à une véritable guerre des gangs : Peachum, le roi des mendiants, et Macheath, un dangereux criminel surnommé Mackie-le-Surineur. Macheath courtise Polly, la propre fille de Peachum.
Music
Kiki
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Kiki

Sep 26, 1932
Kiki who has a walk-on part in a show, is in love with her director, who doesn't notice her at all. She settles into his home and causes him to break up with his lover, the star of the show; and finally manages to make him love her.
Drama
Das Weib auf dem Panther
1
The daughter of a famous painter fleeing thieves who believe she knows where one of her father's original paintings is kept, flees and hides out at the residence of a pair of avowed women hating bachelors.
Comedy
Eine Nacht im Paradies
1
One of the popular Weimar-era musical comedies not released in the US until after the Nazi takeover, this one has a Cinderella-type plot.
Music
Auf Probe gestellt
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Auf Probe gestellt

Mar 15, 1918
Countess Marlene, a young and impoverished widow, is set to marry an old and wealthy count when she falls for a painter.
Comedy
Freie Liebe
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Freie Liebe

Dec 03, 1919
A psychological escapade when romance overwhelms.
Drama
Viktor und Viktoria
6.8

Viktor und Viktoria

Dec 27, 1933
Aspiring singer Susanne takes over one night for her sick friend, a small-time female impersonator, and finds unexpected fame when everyone believes that she is actually a man. While touring London, complications arise as a local womanizer catches on to her game.
Music
Ihr Sport
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Ihr Sport

Apr 12, 1919
Her Sport is a 1919 German silent comedy film directed by Rudolf Biebrach and starring Henny Porten, Georg H. Schnell and Hermann Thimig. A man-hating young woman tries to break up her friend's new marriage, but while in the Alps she meets her own ideal man.