Acting
Albert Bassermann
Born September 6, 1867 · Mannheim, Germany
Died May 15, 1952 · aged 84
Albert Bassermann (7 September 1867 – 15 May 1952) was a German stage and screen actor. He was considered to be one of the greatest German-speaking actors of his generation and received the famous Iffland-Ring. He was married to Elsa Schiff with whom he frequently performed.
Known For
The Red Shoes · 1948The Red Shoes
★ 8.01948
MovieDramaRomance
A fledgling ballerina falls in love with a brilliant composer, but the jealous head of the ballet company plots to drive them apart.
Foreign Correspondent · 1940Foreign Correspondent
★ 7.01940
MovieThrillerMystery
American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a beautiful politician’s daughter and an urbane English journalist to uncover the truth.
Knute Rockne All American · 1940Knute Rockne All American
★ 6.21940
MovieDrama
The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.
A Woman's Face · 1941A Woman's Face
★ 6.81941
MovieDramaThriller
A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.
Madame Curie · 1943Madame Curie
★ 7.21943
MovieDramaRomance
Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concerning her abilities, but is eventually offered a research placement in Pierre Curie's lab. The scientists soon fall in love and embark on a shared quest to extract, from a particular type of rock, a new chemical element they have named radium. However, their research puts them on the brink of professional failure.
Reunion in France · 1942Reunion in France
★ 6.41942
MovieDramaRomance
Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get him safely out of the country.
A Dispatch from Reuters · 1940A Dispatch from Reuters
★ 6.31940
MovieDramaHistory
German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.
Invisible Agent · 1942Invisible Agent
★ 5.81942
MovieHorrorScience Fiction
The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany.
Movies
The Red Shoes · 1948The Red Shoes
★ 8.01948
MovieDramaRomance
A fledgling ballerina falls in love with a brilliant composer, but the jealous head of the ballet company plots to drive them apart.
Foreign Correspondent · 1940Foreign Correspondent
★ 7.01940
MovieThrillerMystery
American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a beautiful politician’s daughter and an urbane English journalist to uncover the truth.
Knute Rockne All American · 1940Knute Rockne All American
★ 6.21940
MovieDrama
The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.
A Woman's Face · 1941A Woman's Face
★ 6.81941
MovieDramaThriller
A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.
Madame Curie · 1943Madame Curie
★ 7.21943
MovieDramaRomance
Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concerning her abilities, but is eventually offered a research placement in Pierre Curie's lab. The scientists soon fall in love and embark on a shared quest to extract, from a particular type of rock, a new chemical element they have named radium. However, their research puts them on the brink of professional failure.
Reunion in France · 1942Reunion in France
★ 6.41942
MovieDramaRomance
Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get him safely out of the country.
A Dispatch from Reuters · 1940A Dispatch from Reuters
★ 6.31940
MovieDramaHistory
German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.
Invisible Agent · 1942Invisible Agent
★ 5.81942
MovieHorrorScience Fiction
The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany.
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet · 1940Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
★ 6.51940
MovieDrama
True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphilis.
Since You Went Away · 1944Since You Went Away
★ 6.61944
MovieDramaRomance
In 1943, several people enter, re-enter, and exit the difficult life of a Midwestern family whose patriarch has been called up to war, leaving behind his wife and two teen daughters.
Helen of Troy · 1924Helen of Troy
★ 6.41924
MovieHistoryAction
Helena is a 1924 German silent drama film directed by Manfred Noa and starring Edy Darclea, Vladimir Gajdarov and Albert Steinrück. The film was based on the poem the Iliad by Homer. It was released in two separate parts: The Rape of Helen and The Fall of Troy. It was produced by Bavaria Film at the Emelka Studios in Munich. The film was made on an epic scale with thousands of extras, and large sets which rivalled those of the larger Berlin-based UFA.
Du sollst keine anderen Götter haben · 1917Du sollst keine anderen Götter haben
★ 9.01917
Movie
Fräulein Else · 1929Fräulein Else
★ 6.91929
MovieDrama
While staying with her aunt at a fashionable spa, Else receives an unexpected telegram from her mother, begging her to save her father from debtor’s jail. The only way out, it seems, is to approach an elderly acquaintance in order to borrow money from him. Through this telegram, Else is forced into the reality of a world entirely at odds with her romantic imagination – with horrific consequences.
Desperate Journey · 1942Desperate Journey
★ 6.11942
MovieWarAdventure
A British bomber crew, including Australian (Flynn) and American (Reagan), is shot down over Germany during a bombing run. The five make their way across a perilous Germany, intent on reaching the UK with the war secrets they have learned, battling Nazis along the way.
Escape Me Never · 1947Escape Me Never
★ 4.81947
MovieDramaRomance
A penniless composer marries a young widow with a baby—even though he is in love with his brother's fiancée.
Dr. Schotte · 1918Dr. Schotte
★ 9.01918
MovieDrama
A doctor's marriage to a single mother comes unravelled.
Der Andere · 1913Der Andere
★ 4.61913
MovieDrama
A man has an accident while out riding his horse and soon discovers that he now has a split personality, and that his alternate is helping a criminal to rob his house.
The Moon and Sixpence · 1942The Moon and Sixpence
★ 6.31942
MovieDrama
Loosely inspired from Gauguin's life, the story of Charles Strickland, a middle-aged stockbrocker who abandons his middle-classed life, his family, his duties to start painting, what he has always wanted to do. He is from now on a awful human being, wholly devoted to his ideal: beauty.
Once Upon a Honeymoon · 1942Once Upon a Honeymoon
★ 6.31942
MovieComedyRomance
A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami · 1947The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
★ 6.21947
MovieDrama
A self-serving journalist uses influential women in late-1800s Paris and denies the one who truly loves him.
Fly By Night · 1942Fly By Night
★ 6.71942
MovieThrillerComedy
Young intern Jeff Burton, impulsively offers a lift to an odd-looking gentlemen. It soon turns out that Jeff's passenger is an inventor has just escaped from a shady sanitarium, where he has been held prisoner by Nazi spies.
The Shanghai Gesture · 1941The Shanghai Gesture
★ 6.21941
MovieDrama
A gambling queen uses blackmail to stop a British financier from closing her Chinese clip joint.
Escape · 1940Escape
★ 7.51940
MovieDramaThriller
An American goes to pre-war Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration camp. With the help of an American-born widowed countess he seeks to engineer her escape.
Rhapsody in Blue · 1945Rhapsody in Blue
★ 6.61945
MovieMusicRomance
Fictionalized biography of George Gershwin and his fight to bring serious music to Broadway.