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1. Imitation of Life (1959)
Not Rated | 125 min | Drama
An aspiring white actress takes in an African American widow whose mixed-race daughter is desperate to be seen as white.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Lana Turner, John Gavin, Sandra Dee, Susan Kohner
Votes: 18,220 | Gross: $13.99M
2. All That Heaven Allows (1955)
Passed | 89 min | Drama, Romance
An upper-class widow falls in love with a much younger, down-to-earth nurseryman, much to the disapproval of her children and criticism of her country club peers.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead, Conrad Nagel
Votes: 16,627
3. A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958)
Approved | 132 min | Drama, Romance, War
On the Russian front in 1944, German private Ernst Graeber receives a leave and visits his family in Germany but Germany isn't the same country he left behind.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: John Gavin, Liselotte Pulver, Jock Mahoney, Don DeFore
Votes: 3,715
4. Written on the Wind (1956)
Not Rated | 99 min | Drama
Alcoholic playboy Kyle Hadley marries the woman secretly loved by his poor but hard-working best friend, who in turn is pursued by Kyle's nymphomaniac sister.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone
Votes: 13,421
5. There's Always Tomorrow (1956)
Approved | 84 min | Drama, Romance
When a toy manufacturer feels ignored and unappreciated by his wife and children, he begins to rekindle a past love when a former employee comes back into his life.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Joan Bennett, William Reynolds
Votes: 3,592
6. The Tarnished Angels (1957)
Passed | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Story of the fraught friendship between an eccentric journalist and a team of daredevil flying acrobats.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Rock Hudson, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, Jack Carson
Votes: 4,093
7. Has Anybody Seen My Gal (1952)
Approved | 88 min | Comedy, Musical
An aging heir-less millionaire wants to leave his fortune to the unsuspecting family of his first love but not before testing his prospective heirs by living with them under the guise of a poor boarder.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Piper Laurie, Rock Hudson, Charles Coburn, Gigi Perreau
Votes: 1,818
8. Lured (1947)
Approved | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
British police are after a serial killer who lures his female victims through newspaper personal ads and sends cryptic poem clues to the cops.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: George Sanders, Lucille Ball, Charles Coburn, Boris Karloff
Votes: 4,830
9. Magnificent Obsession (1954)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama, Romance
A rich playboy whose recklessness inadvertently causes the death of a prominent doctor tries to make amends to his widow, and falls for her in the process.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead, Otto Kruger
Votes: 7,617
10. All I Desire (1953)
Approved | 80 min | Drama, Romance
In 1910, a wayward mother re-visits the family she deserted.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Richard Carlson, Lyle Bettger, Marcia Henderson
Votes: 2,446
11. Sleep, My Love (1948)
Passed | 97 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
Chronic sleepwalker Alison Courtland thinks that a mysterious man wearing horned-rimmed eye glasses is out to kill her but her husband blames her tired imagination.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Robert Cummings, Don Ameche, Rita Johnson
Votes: 2,188 | Gross: $1.80M
12. Thunder on the Hill (1951)
Passed | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Convicted murderess Valerie Carns (Ann Blyth) is being transported to Norwich to be executed when a flood strands her and her guards at a convent hospital. Nurse Sister Mary (Claudette ... See full summary »
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Ann Blyth, Robert Douglas, Anne Crawford
Votes: 1,287
13. The Girl from the Marsh Croft (1935)
82 min | Drama
In this rural film drama, an unwed mother, shunned by her conservative community, goes to court to try to salvage her reputation.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Hansi Knoteck, Ellen Frank, Friedrich Kayßler, Theodor Loos
Votes: 200
14. The Final Chord (1936)
100 min | Music, Drama
A young, impoverished German woman named Hanna (Maria von Tasnady) gives her infant up for adoption and emigrates to American to live with her husband. When her husband commits suicide, ... See full summary »
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Willy Birgel, Lil Dagover, Mária Tasnádi Fekete, Maria Koppenhöfer
Votes: 248
15. To New Shores (1937)
106 min | Drama
In 1846 the actress Gloria Vane is performing at the Adelphi Theatre, London. She is in love with the destitute nobleman Albert Finsbury, who is shortly departing to Australia to become an ... See full summary »
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Zarah Leander, Willy Birgel, Edwin Jürgensen, Carola Höhn
Votes: 476
16. A Scandal in Paris (1946)
Passed | 100 min | Adventure, Crime, Romance
Born in a French prison in 1775, François Eugène Vidocq becomes a professional thief and is later appointed chief of Parisian police.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: George Sanders, Signe Hasso, Carole Landis, Akim Tamiroff
Votes: 1,209
17. Summer Storm (1944)
Passed | 106 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
In this filmed Chekhov adaptation, Olga is an alluring peasant woman who lures cynical aristocrat Fedor away from his milquetoast fiancée, with tragic consequences.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Linda Darnell, George Sanders, Anna Lee, Edward Everett Horton
Votes: 676
18. Pillars of Society (1935)
85 min | Drama
The prosperity and career of a Norwegian ship builder who has founded the town's hospital are revealed by an innocent wanderer to have been based on deceit and corruption, in this theatrical adaptation.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Heinrich George, Maria Krahn, Horst Teetzmann, Albrecht Schoenhals
Votes: 144
19. The Strange Woman (1946)
Approved | 100 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
In 1820s New England beautiful but poor and manipulative Jenny Hager marries rich old man Isaiah Poster but also seduces his son and his company foreman.
Directors: Edgar G. Ulmer, Douglas Sirk | Stars: Hedy Lamarr, George Sanders, Louis Hayward, Gene Lockhart
Votes: 2,455
20. Hitler's Madman (1943)
Passed | 84 min | Drama, History, War
Story of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi SS commander, by Czech partisans and the reprisals inflicted by the Nazis on the Czechs.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Patricia Morison, John Carradine, Alan Curtis, Howard Freeman
Votes: 918
21. Shockproof (1949)
Approved | 79 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A parole officer falls in love with his client, a ravishing blonde who served time for murder, and he's determined to help her go straight despite her interfering criminal boyfriend.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Cornel Wilde, Patricia Knight, John Baragrey, Esther Minciotti
Votes: 2,292
22. The First Legion (1951)
Approved | 86 min | Drama
Father Fulton prepares to abandon his vocation despite pleas from Father Arnoux. Then a series of seemingly miracles occur including to the young Terri. Fulton has his doubts and wonders about the role of Dr. Morrell.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Charles Boyer, William Demarest, Lyle Bettger, Barbara Rush
Votes: 222
23. April, April! (1935)
82 min | Comedy
Simultaneously filmed in German and Dutch versions, about a baker who is able to take over a company that manufactures products used in baking.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Erhard Siedel, Lina Carstens, Charlott Daudert, Werner Finck
Votes: 84
24. Take Me to Town (1953)
Approved | 81 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
A pretty saloon entertainer escapes the marshal's custody and hides in a small town where she unexpectedly becomes surrogate mother to three motherless boys who wish to see their father re-married.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Ann Sheridan, Sterling Hayden, Phillip Reed, Lee Patrick
Votes: 384
25. Battle Hymn (1957)
Passed | 108 min | Biography, Drama, History
A remorseful bomber pilot-turned-minister rejoins for the Korean War.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Rock Hudson, Martha Hyer, Dan Duryea, Don DeFore
Votes: 1,307
26. Slightly French (1949)
Passed | 81 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A cinema director who is in an emotional and professional crisis thinks that he has discovered a French star when he meets an ordinary dancer.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Dorothy Lamour, Don Ameche, Janis Carter, Willard Parker
Votes: 371
27. Captain Lightfoot (1955)
Approved | 92 min | Adventure, Drama, History
A pair of Irish rebels have swashbuckling adventures in 1815.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Rock Hudson, Barbara Rush, Jeff Morrow, Kathleen Ryan
Votes: 889
28. Interlude (1957)
Approved | 90 min | Drama, Romance
A young American woman travels to Munich and falls in love with a famous German conductor, only to learn he has a mentally ill wife.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: June Allyson, Rossano Brazzi, Marianne Koch, Françoise Rosay
Votes: 556
29. Boefje (1939)
94 min | Crime
Twelve year old Jan Grovers spends more time in the alleys of Rotterdam than with his family (though he occasionally looks after his tree younger sisters, all of whom are called Mientje). ... See full summary »
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Annie van Ees, Albert van Dalsum, Enny Snijders, Piet Bron
Votes: 96
30. Never Say Goodbye (1956)
Approved | 96 min | Drama, Romance
In 1945 Vienna, an American doctor marries an Austrian girl, who later disappears in the Soviet Control Zone during a visit there, forcing everyone to presume her dead.
Directors: Jerry Hopper, Douglas Sirk | Stars: Rock Hudson, Cornell Borchers, George Sanders, Shelley Fabares
Votes: 735
31. Week-End with Father (1951)
Approved | 83 min | Comedy, Romance
Single parents Jean Bowen and Brad Stubbs meet at the train station when they send their kids (his two girls, her two boys) off to camp. Love inevitably blooms. But there are complications:... See full summary »
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Van Heflin, Patricia Neal, Gigi Perreau, Virginia Field
Votes: 277
32. Accord final (1938)
73 min | Music, Romance
A young American violinist is betting with his European organisor that he will marry the tenth girl he meets the next day within 2 months. If he fails, he looses his Stradivari, if he wins ... See full summary »
Directors: Ignacy Rosenkranz, Douglas Sirk | Stars: Käthe von Nagy, Jules Berry, Jorge Rigaud, André Alerme
Votes: 53
33. La Habanera (1937)
98 min | Drama
Trapped in Puerto Rico, a beautiful young Swede is torn between her passionate, but mildly abusive Caribbean oligarch husband and her longing for her European homeland.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Zarah Leander, Julia Serda, Ferdinand Marian, Karl Martell
Votes: 635
34. The Lady Pays Off (1951)
Approved | 80 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The naive Evelyn Warren, elected shool-teacher of the year by Time Magazine, goes to Las Vegas, where she loses a lot of money. In order to pay her debts, casino-manager Matt Braddock asks her to take care of his sad little daughter Diana.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Linda Darnell, Stephen McNally, Gigi Perreau, Virginia Field
Votes: 159
35. No Room for the Groom (1952)
Approved | 82 min | Comedy
Alvah, a young GI who happens to own a vineyard, elopes to Las Vegas with Lee, his housekeeper's daughter. But Alvah's chicken pox postpone the wedding night. The rest revolves around more ... See full summary »
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Tony Curtis, Piper Laurie, Don DeFore, Spring Byington
Votes: 544
36. Sign of the Pagan (1954)
Approved | 92 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
With the Roman Empire divided, Attila the Hun hopes to conquer. In his way are a brave centurion, a beautiful princess...and Christianity.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Jeff Chandler, Jack Palance, Ludmilla Tchérina, Rita Gam
Votes: 766
37. Meet Me at the Fair (1953)
Approved | 87 min | Musical
In 1904, Doc Tilbee, medicine show huckster and champion tall-tale teller, gives a ride to a young boy escaped from an orphanage, where bad conditions (the result of political graft) are ... See full summary »
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Dan Dailey, Diana Lynn, Chet Allen, Scatman Crothers
Votes: 146
38. Mystery Submarine (1950)
Approved | 78 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Posing as an ex-German medical officer, a U.S. Navy intelligence officer sets out to rescue a kidnapped scientist and sink a German submarine hiding off the coast of South America.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Macdonald Carey, Märta Torén, Robert Douglas, Carl Esmond
Votes: 191
39. Taza, Son of Cochise (1954)
Approved | 79 min | War, Western
When peacemaking Apache chief Cochise dies, the Chiricahua Apaches are torn between following Cochise's peace loving son Taza and following the warlike renegade Apache warrior Geronimo.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Rock Hudson, Barbara Rush, Gregg Palmer, Rex Reason
Votes: 1,059
40. Das Hofkonzert (1936)
85 min | Comedy, Romance
To Immendingen Principality travels Christine Holm, daughter of a singer, to find her unknown father. The Prince is awaiting a replacement singer for the annual concert. Chistine meets ... See full summary »
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Mártha Eggerth, Johannes Heesters, Kurt Meisel, Herbert Hübner
Votes: 236
41. 't was een april (1936)
78 min | Comedy
Simultaneously filmed Dutch version of a German film about a baker, who manages to take over a factory that makes products used in baking.
Directors: Douglas Sirk, Jacques van Tol | Stars: Jacques Van Bijlevelt, Tilly Perin-Bouwmeester, Jopie Koopman, Rob Milton
42. La chanson du souvenir (1937)
95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Directors: Serge de Poligny, Douglas Sirk | Stars: Mártha Eggerth, Max Michel, Colette Darfeuil, Pierre Magnier