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1. Different from the Others (1919)
Not Rated | 50 min | Crime, Drama, History
Two male musicians fall in love, but blackmail and scandal makes the affair take a tragic turn.
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: Conrad Veidt, Leo Connard, Ilse von Tasso-Lind, Alexandra Willegh
Votes: 1,498
2. Eerie Tales (1919)
112 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
A demon, a reaper, and the ghost of a prostitute read gothic short stories and act them out.
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: Anita Berber, Conrad Veidt, Reinhold Schünzel, Hugo Döblin
Votes: 665
3. Alraune (1929)
103 min | Sci-Fi
A scientist, Professor Jakob ten Brinken, interested in the laws of heredity, impregnates a prostitute in a laboratory with the semen of a hanged murderer. The prostitute conceives a female... See full summary »
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: Brigitte Helm, Albert Bassermann, Harald Paulsen, Adolf E. Licho
Votes: 120
4. Lucrezia Borgia (1922)
75 min | Drama, History, War
Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, has three adult children: Juan, who is virtuous and has a sweetheart who is a woman of the people, Lucrezia, who is virtuous and wants to marry Alfonso, ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: Conrad Veidt, Liane Haid, Albert Bassermann, Paul Wegener
Votes: 115
5. Der Hund von Baskerville (1914)
65 min | Crime, Mystery, Horror
In this early version the classic "Hound of the Baskervilles" mystery is not faithfully adapted, Watson's character is absent and there are two Holmes. Holmes' foe is called Stapleton and he menaces Holmes' client Lord Henry and his fiancée, Laura Lyons, masquerading himself as Holmes. Hidden passages, hand bombs and mechanical devices abound, reminding more of a serial than of a Conan Doyle ... See full summary »
Director: Rudolf Meinert | Stars: Alwin Neuß, Friedrich Kühne, Hanni Weisse, Erwin Fichtner
Votes: 150
6. Poor as a Church Mouse (1931)
101 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
General Director von Ulrich is determined to introduce the American working pace at his office. The first to get fired is his secretary; she's replaced by stenographer Sui Sachs. On a business trip to Paris, feelings evolve on both sides.
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: Grete Mosheim, Anton Edthofer, Hans Thimig, Paul Hörbiger
Votes: 28
7. Isle of Missing Men (1942)
Approved | 67 min | Drama, Romance
A penal colony governor invites a ravishing blond vagabond to join him for a week on his island prison grounds, unaware that she has manipulated their meeting for ulterior motives.
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: John Howard, Helen Gilbert, Gilbert Roland, Alan Mowbray
Votes: 180
8. Tempête sur l'Asie (1938)
95 min | Drama
An adventurer tries to seize oil deposits in Mongolia .
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: Conrad Veidt, Sessue Hayakawa, Madeleine Robinson, Lucas Gridoux
Votes: 10
9. The Living Dead (1932)
89 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi, Horror
A crazed scientist murders his wife, walls her up, then flees. A reporter sets out to track him down.
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: Paul Wegener, Maria Koppenhöfer, Blandine Ebinger, Eugen Klöpfer
Votes: 146
10. Earth Spirit (1923)
69 min
Dr. Schön marries a lower class girl, Lulu. Young and voluptuous she attracts the attention of the all the male gender, but the doctor will not let her go. After Lulu shoots the doctor, his son has to make a serious decision.
Director: Leopold Jessner | Stars: Asta Nielsen, Albert Bassermann, Carl Ebert, Gustav Rickelt
Votes: 92
11. I Was a Criminal (1945)
71 min | Drama
In Prussia shoemaker Voigt needs a residence permit to get a job, but can only get a job if he already has a permit. He dons a captain's uniform to order a platoon of soldiers to Koepenick to take over the Town Hall to get his permit.
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: Albert Bassermann, Mary Brian, Eric Blore, Herman Bing
Votes: 38
12. Heut' ist der schönste Tag in meinem Leben (1935)
84 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Two twin brothers working in a Vienna fair and who are both gifted for singing meet different luck both in love and their careers.
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: Joseph Schmidt, Felix Bressart, Otto Wallburg, Karl Forest
Votes: 17
13. The Lovable Cheat (1949)
75 min | Comedy
A businessman and his partner are about to go bankrupt when the partner gets an idea to sail away and somehow find the money they need. Meanwhile, the one left behind has to figure out how ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: Charles Ruggles, Peggy Ann Garner, Richard Ney, Alan Mowbray
Votes: 81
14. Around the World in 80 Days (1919)
121 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
In order to win a bet, British gentleman Phileas Fogg attempts to circle the globe in eighty days, along with his French servant, Passepartout. Fogg is wrongly suspected of having robbed the Bank of England and faces the risk of arrest.
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: Conrad Veidt, Anita Berber, Reinhold Schünzel, Eugen Rex
Votes: 17
15. Nachtgestalten (1920)
106 min | Horror
Thomas Bezug, the richest man in the world, is a solitary, domineering and cruel cripple who hardly can move on his crutches. He dwells a fanatical love for his son, whom he holds like a monkey in a cage.
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: Paul Wegener, Reinhold Schünzel, Erna Morena, Erik Charell
Votes: 22
16. Prostitution (1919)
121 min | Drama
A scholar defends prostitution before the World Court.
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: Fritz Beckmann, Anita Berber, Gussy Holl, Conrad Veidt
Votes: 16
17. Ein seltsamer Fall (1914)
50 min | Horror
An honorable Lord who is developing a drug with which he transforms himself into another, that is, dissociated from all social constraints. One of the first cinematic adaptation of the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde material.
Director: Max Mack | Stars: Hanni Weisse, Alwin Neuß, Lotte Neumann, Max Mack
Votes: 17
18. The Hound of the Baskervilles (1929)
65 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
After the mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville, Sherlock Holmes is called in to solve the mystery.
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: Carlyle Blackwell, Alexander Murski, Livio Pavanelli, Betty Bird
Votes: 304
19. Victoria and Her Hussar (1931)
96 min | Musical, Comedy
Viktoria loves captain Stefan who is reportedly killed in action in World War I. She marries John, US ambassador in Japan. But Stefan is alive, flees from Russia to Japan and claims his older rights to Viktoria's love.
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: Michael Bohnen, Friedel Schuster, Iván Petrovich, Willy Stettner
Votes: 21
20. Lady Hamilton (1921)
Drama, History
The dramatic story of Lady Hamilton's rise and fall in European society during the 1700s and early 1800s, including the romantic love story with Lord Nelson.
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: Liane Haid, Conrad Veidt, Werner Krauss, Reinhold Schünzel
Votes: 43
21. Hoffmanns Erzählungen (1916)
67 min | Fantasy
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
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: Kurt Wolowsky, Erich Kaiser-Titz, Max Ruhbeck, Paula Ronay
Votes: 58
22. Prostitution II (1919)
98 min
About a deceptive bourgeois couple that blends their acquaintances into their dubious business.
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: Conrad Veidt, Reinhold Schünzel, Gertrude Hoffman, Eduard von Winterstein
23. Henriette Jacoby (1918)
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: Mechthildis Thein, Conrad Veidt, Leo Connard, Martin Kettner
24. Die letzten Menschen (1919)
60 min
The ship's designer Walter Fahr has built a submarine , which is to go on maiden voyage under the leadership of Captain Donken. Astronomy professor Sotuma wants to come along, but this request is denied.
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: Eugen Klöpfer, Eva Speyer, Emil Lind, Oevid Molander
25. The Isolated House (1914)
Short, Drama, Horror
Under the assumed name of Stapleton, Roger of Baskerville is condemned to death for being instrumental in the death of a relative and probable heir to the Baskerville estates. After his ... See full summary »
Director: Rudolf Meinert | Stars: Erwin Fichtner, Friedrich Kühne, Alwin Neuß, Andreas Van Horn
Votes: 24
26. Paganini (1923)
90 min | Biography, Music
Director: Heinz Goldberg | Stars: Conrad Veidt, Eva May, Greta Schröder, Harry Hardt
Votes: 30
27. Countess Mariza (1932)
115 min
When Gräfin Mariza visits her country estate it is certainly an event. She gives a party to celebrate her engagement to a certain Koloman Zsupan, who unexpectedly shows up. Her ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: Dorothea Wieck, Hubert Marischka, Charlotte Ander, Ferdinand von Alten
Votes: 23
28. Dämon und Mensch (1915)
Drama
Philanthropist attempts to awaken in the good side in criminals.
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: Rudolph Schildkraut, Maria Orska, Richard Ludwig, Joseph Schildkraut
30. Jettchen Gebert's Story (1918)
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: Mechthildis Thein, Conrad Veidt, Leo Connard, Martin Kettner
31. Bleeke Bet (1934)
111 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
A greengrocer's shady dealings with a well-to-do margarine smuggler require that she interferes with her daughter's romance with a sailor.
Directors: Alex Benno, Richard Oswald | Stars: Aaf Bouber, Jopie Koopman, Johan Elsensohn, Fien de la Mar
Votes: 56
32. Die Rothausgasse (1928)
61 min
Milada grew up in a brothel on Rothausgasse, but has not yet become a whore herself. Resigned to fate, she has always followed her mother Katherina, an aging whore who was unable to escape ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: Grete Mosheim, Gustav Fröhlich, Marija Leiko, Else Heims
Votes: 23
33. The Arc (1919)
70 min
In 1949, Earth is struggling to rebuild after its civilisation has been destroyed.
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: Leo Connard, Eva Speyer, Georg H. Schnell, Oevid Molander
34. Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray (1917)
80 min | Fantasy, Thriller
A variation of the famous Oscar Wilde tale in which Dorian Gray's soul is manifested in a painting instead of his own body.
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: Bernd Aldor, Ernst Pittschau, Ernst Ludwig, Andreas Van Horn
Votes: 36
35. The Story of Dida Ibsen (1918)
Drama
Dida Ibsen, daughter of impoverished farmers, has, according to her father's will, to marry the main creditor. But she refuses and decides to live with a married man as a mistress, till he ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: Anita Berber, Conrad Veidt, Werner Krauss, Emil Lind
36. Wenn du jung bist, gehört dir die Welt (1934)
77 min
Carlo,gardener in a rich Italian villa with an extraordinary voice, has grown with their master's daughter Lisetta, and now he is in love with her. Before proposing he wants to succeed as ... See full summary »
Directors: Henry Oebels-Oebström, Richard Oswald | Stars: Joseph Schmidt, Otto Treßler, Lilliane Dietz, Ernst Arndt
Votes: 10
37. My Song Goes Round the World (1934)
68 min | Drama, Musical
Ricardo is a brilliant singer struggling for success in Venice. He gets a contract in a recording house and his voice becomes famous, but his short stature makes performances still elusive.... See full summary »
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: Joseph Schmidt, John Loder, Charlotte Ander, Jack Barty
Votes: 28
38. Nächte des Grauens (1917)
56 min | Drama, Horror
An extremely jealous artist slips into a monkey costume and kills all those men who come too close to his wife, another artist.
Directors: Richard Oswald, Arthur Robison | Stars: Emil Jannings, Werner Krauss, Lorenz Köhler, Hans Mierendorff
Votes: 25
39. Abenteuer am Lido (1933)
91 min | Comedy
The already successful tenor Mattei is discovered after he already retired into private life.
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: Alfred Piccaver, S.Z. Sakall, Nora Gregor, Walter Rilla
Votes: 13
40. Gesetze der Liebe (1927)
110 min
Running 100 minutes, Gesetze der Liebe is structured as a series of lectures from Hirschfeld explaining sex and the reproductive system in the natural world.
Directors: Magnus Hirschfeld, Richard Oswald | Stars: Leo Connard, Magnus Hirschfeld, Fritz Schulz, Reinhold Schünzel
Votes: 29
41. The Dreyfus Case (1930)
115 min | Biography, Drama, History
In late nineteenth century Alfred Dreyfus, a French army officer of Jewish heritage, is falsely accused of espionage. Found guilty of treason he is drummed out of the army and sent to prison on Devil's Island.
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: Fritz Kortner, Heinrich George, Albert Bassermann, Grete Mosheim
Votes: 67
42. Flower of Hawaii (1933)
86 min | Comedy
Suzanne, aspiring artist working in a Parisian night club, is hired by two foreigners to be partnerin for the main singer, on the condition that they must travel to Hawaii. When they arrive... See full summary »
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: Mártha Eggerth, Hans Fidesser, Iván Petrovich, Hans Junkermann
Votes: 24
43. The Captain from Köpenick (1931)
107 min | Comedy
A poor cobbler named Wilhelm Voigt purchased the second-hand uniform of a Prussian infantry captain. Wearing this, he traveled to the borough of Köpenick and ordered a troop of guardsmen to... See full summary »
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: Max Adalbert, Ernst Dernburg, Willi Schur, Paul Wagner
Votes: 122
44. A Crazy Night (1927)
70 min | Comedy
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: Ossi Oswalda, Harry Liedtke, Georg Berg, Mira Hildebrand
Votes: 53
45. Funkzauber (1927)
60 min | Comedy
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: Werner Krauss, Xenia Desni, Fern Andra, Alfred Braun
46. Frühlingserwachen (1929)
95 min | Drama
About the rebellion of the youth and the increasingly debated erotic exploratory experiments - a modern theme of the late 1920s.
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: Mathilde Sussin, Toni van Eyck, Paul Henckels, Carl Balhaus
Votes: 24
47. Feme (1927)
70 min | Crime
"Assassination" - A far-right political organization called "Fellowship Loyalty" seeks contact with an easily seducable man whom she finds in Joachim Burthe. The leader of this deeply ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: Eduard Rothauser, Mathilde Sussin, Hans Stüwe, Grete Mosheim
48. Lache Bajazzo (1915)
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: Rudolph Schildkraut, Alfred Abel, Ferdinand Bonn, Hanni Weisse
49. Der Hund von Baskerville, 4. Teil (1916)
Crime, Horror, Mystery
In this fourth Baskerville film, Lord Henry's tyrannical ancestor is seen to murder his wife and her faithful dog. The dog later returns to haunt his erstwhile master, involving Sherlock Holmes in the process. Subtitled "Die Sage von Hund"
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: Alwin Neuß, Friedrich Kühne, Erwin Fichtner, Hilde Borke
Votes: 41
50. Der Hund von Baskerville, 3. Teil - Das unheimliche Zimmer (1916)
Crime, Horror, Mystery
Sherlock Holmes' arch enemy Stapleton has escaped a watery death in the 1914 "Hound of the Baskervilles" and returns to torment Lord Henry and his fiancée. Subtitled "Das Unheimliche Zimmer"
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: Alwin Neuß, Friedrich Kühne, Erwin Fichtner, Andreas Van Horn
Votes: 39