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1. Nosferatu (1922)
Not Rated | 94 min | Fantasy, Horror
Vampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife.
Director: F.W. Murnau | Stars: Max Schreck, Alexander Granach, Gustav von Wangenheim, Greta Schröder
Votes: 105,414
2. Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Passed | 120 min | Action, Romance, Thriller
On the eve of World War II, a young American reporter tries to expose enemy agents in London.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, George Sanders
Votes: 23,714 | Gross: $3.48M
3. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
Passed | 116 min | Drama, Romance
In 15th-century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Cedric Hardwicke, Thomas Mitchell
Votes: 12,278 | Gross: $3.27M
4. Ninotchka (1939)
Not Rated | 110 min | Comedy, Romance
A stern Soviet woman sent to Paris to supervise the sale of jewels seized from Russian nobles finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire, Bela Lugosi
Votes: 22,887 | Gross: $1.19M
5. For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
Passed | 170 min | Adventure, Drama, History
During the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge.
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff, Arturo de Córdova
Votes: 10,226 | Gross: $17.80M
6. The Seventh Cross (1944)
Passed | 112 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
In 1936, seven prisoners escape from a concentration camp. The Nazis put up seven crosses for demonstrative executions. This story about one of the fugitives, who relies on own courage and compassion of people to avoid the seventh cross.
Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Signe Hasso, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy
Votes: 2,986
7. Hangmen Also Die! (1943)
Passed | 134 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
After the German administrator of Czechoslovakia is shot, his assassin tries to elude the Gestapo and struggles with his impulse to give himself up as hostages are executed.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Anna Lee, Gene Lockhart
Votes: 6,388
8. It Started with Eve (1941)
Passed | 90 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
In order to please his dying father, a man convinces a hat-check girl to impersonate his fiancée, but complications arise when the father's health suddenly improves.
Director: Henry Koster | Stars: Deanna Durbin, Charles Laughton, Robert Cummings, Guy Kibbee
Votes: 1,833
9. Mission to Moscow (1943)
Approved | 124 min | Drama, History, War
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Walter Huston, Ann Harding, Oscar Homolka, George Tobias
Votes: 1,018
10. The Hitler Gang (1944)
101 min | Biography, Drama, History
The film depicts the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi movement from a small radical political adventurer and cell to the dictatorial regime of Germany in the genre of a gangster film. The ... See full summary »
Director: John Farrow | Stars: Bobby Watson, Roman Bohnen, Martin Kosleck, Victor Varconi
Votes: 169
11. Comradeship (1931)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama
Plea against war and for friendship between peoples, through the story of French miners rescued by German colleagues after a firedamp explosion.
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Stars: Alexander Granach, Fritz Kampers, Ernst Busch, Elisabeth Wendt
Votes: 1,745
12. A Man Betrayed (1941)
Passed | 82 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A small-town attorney comes to the city to investigate the murder of a friend and falls in love with the daughter of the head of the crime ring he hopes to expose.
Director: John H. Auer | Stars: John Wayne, Frances Dee, Edward Ellis, Wallace Ford
Votes: 625
13. Joan of Paris (1942)
Passed | 91 min | Drama, Romance, War
An RAF squadron is brought down over occupied France. The flyers reach Paris in spite of the fact that the youngest is injured; his wounds need treating and he must stay hidden. The Gestapo has already issued orders for their arrest.
Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Michèle Morgan, Paul Henreid, Thomas Mitchell, Laird Cregar
Votes: 930
14. Warning Shadows (1923)
Unrated | 90 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A wealthy man invites the local wealthy bachelors over for a puppet show about men who covet another man's wife. The puppeteer is actually a witch and gives the men nightmares about what could happen if they date the lady of the house.
Director: Arthur Robison | Stars: Fritz Kortner, Ruth Weyher, Gustav von Wangenheim, Eugen Rex
Votes: 1,127
15. So Ends Our Night (1941)
TV-PG | 117 min | Drama, War
Story about three German refugees during World War II who are always hiding, always in fear of deportation.
Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Fredric March, Margaret Sullavan, Frances Dee, Glenn Ford
Votes: 650
16. Voice in the Wind (1944)
Approved | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A concert pianist has lost his memory, the result of his being arrested and tortured by the Germans during the war for playing a banned song. He journeys to the island of Guadelupe to try to regain his memory and his health.
Director: Arthur Ripley | Stars: Francis Lederer, Sigrid Gurie, J. Edward Bromberg, J. Carrol Naish
Votes: 279
17. Three Russian Girls (1943)
81 min | Comedy, War
The Soviet Union, just after the German invasion in 1941. Natasha is a Red Cross volunteer who is dispatched to a field hospital located in an old pre-revolution mansion. The American test ... See full summary »
Directors: Henry S. Kesler, Fyodor Otsep | Stars: Anna Sten, Kent Smith, Mimi Forsythe, Alexander Granach
Votes: 43
18. Special Collector's Edition (2010–2015)
9 min | Comedy, History
A Special Collector's Edition.
Stars: David Díaz, Luis Rodrigo, Gabriel Fernández-Gil, Daniel Retuerta
Votes: 106
19. City Butterfly (1929)
102 min | Drama
Hai-Tang (Anna May Wong) is a dancer in the French Riviera who, after her act takes a deadly turn, finds refuge in the arms of a young painter.
Director: Richard Eichberg | Stars: Anna May Wong, Alexander Granach, Nien Soen Ling, Elwood Fleet Bostwick
Votes: 70
20. Crown of Thorns (1923)
102 min | Drama
By the director of Cabinet of Dr.Caligari, this is the Passion embedded in a contemporary story. An anarchist jailed for an attempted assassination is told the Passion story by the prison ... See full synopsis »
Director: Robert Wiene | Stars: Gregori Chmara, Henny Porten, Asta Nielsen, Werner Krauss
Votes: 98
21. 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
22. Die letzte Kompagnie (1930)
79 min | Drama
A band of Prussian soldiers fighting Napoleon garrison themselves in a country windmill, the miller's daughter insists on staying with them.
Director: Curtis Bernhardt | Stars: Conrad Veidt, Karin Evans, Erwin Kalser, Else Heller
Votes: 31
23. The Theft of the Mona Lisa (1931)
89 min | Drama
A painter working at the Louvre is struck by the Mona Lisa. When he meets a girl who he thinks resembles the painting and she wants him to become famous he has the idea of robbing the painting. Based on the 1911 real robbery.
Director: Géza von Bolváry | Stars: Willi Forst, Trude von Molo, Gustaf Gründgens, Max Gülstorff
Votes: 81
24. 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
25. Der Adjutant des Zaren (1929)
91 min
The romance between a Czarist officer and a passport-less girl obliged to share a sleeper compartment on a train in early twentieth century Russia.
Director: Vladimir Strizhevsky | Stars: Ivan Mozzhukhin, Carmen Boni, Eugen Burg, George Seroff
Votes: 27
26. Joan of Ozark (1942)
Approved | 82 min | Comedy, War
During World War II, a yodeling hillbilly singer goes undercover to expose a ring of Nazi spies operating in the United States.
Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: Judy Canova, Joe E. Brown, Eddie Foy Jr., Jerome Cowan
Votes: 56
27. Halfway to Shanghai (1942)
Passed | 62 min | Adventure, Mystery
A murder occurs on a train bound for Shanghai during World War II.
Director: John Rawlins | Stars: Kent Taylor, Irene Hervey, Henry Stephenson, J. Edward Bromberg
Votes: 74
28. Wrecking Crew (1942)
Approved | 73 min | Drama
Follows a crew as they work under a deadline set by their boss to complete the demolition of a building. Touches on the lives of several of the crew in their lives away from the job and ... See full summary »
Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Richard Arlen, Chester Morris, Jean Parker, Joe Sawyer
Votes: 93
29. 1914, die letzten Tage vor dem Weltbrand (1931)
112 min | Drama
Dramatization of the lead up to the First World War blames Czarist Russia rather than Wilhelmine Germany for precipitating "the burning of the world."
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: Albert Bassermann, Hermann Wlach, Wolfgang von Schwindt, Robert Hartberg
Votes: 40
30. Marry the Boss's Daughter (1941)
Approved | 60 min | Comedy, Romance
A young man from Kansas goes to New York to work for his tycoon-hero. His superiors won't listen to his ideas about business, but the boss and his daughter do.
Director: Thornton Freeland | Stars: Brenda Joyce, Bruce Edwards, George Barbier, Hardie Albright
Votes: 36
31. Man by the Roadside (1923)
60 min | Drama
Schuster, regarded as the village idiot, offers a lost, wandering stranger food and shelter for the night. The stranger leaves without thanking him. Schuster's luck changes. He is no longer... See full summary »
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Alexander Granach, Emilia Unda, William Dieterle, Heinrich George
Votes: 29
32. Northwest Rangers (1942)
Passed | 65 min | Drama, Western
Boyhood friends grow up into different professions, one a dedicated Royal Canadian Mountie, the other a notorious if well liked gambler.
Director: Joseph M. Newman | Stars: James Craig, William Lundigan, Patricia Dane, John Carradine
Votes: 191
33. A Man's a Man (1931)
52 min | Drama
About a civilian who is press-ganged into a machine-gunner's squadron and transformed into the perfect soldier.
Directors: Bertolt Brecht, Carl Koch | Stars: Paul Bildt, Alexander Granach, Wolfgang Heinz, Theo Lingen
Votes: 44
34. The Struggle (1936)
75 min | Drama
1933 year, Germany. The mother of worker kill nazis organizes pure resistance against political tyranny reigning in a country.
Director: Gustav von Wangenheim | Stars: Lotte Loebinger, Bruno Schmidtsdorf, Gregor Gog, Inge von Wangenheim
Votes: 36
35. Die berühmte Frau (1927)
Gerald, the head of a vaudeville troupe, has made a famous revue star out of the little dancer Sonja Litowskaja. Wherever she performs, the audience cheers her. The old Duke of Olivarez, ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Wiene | Stars: Lili Damita, Fred Solm, Warwick Ward, Lissy Arna
Votes: 12
36. Überfall (1928)
21 min | Short, Crime, Drama
A coin found on the street turns out to be unlucky for those who attempt to possess it.
Director: Ernö Metzner | Stars: Heinrich Gotho, Eva Schmid-Kayser, Sybille Schmitz, Alfred Loretto
Votes: 424
37. Paganini (1923)
90 min | Biography, Music
Director: Heinz Goldberg | Stars: Conrad Veidt, Eva May, Greta Schröder, Harry Hardt
Votes: 30
38. Danton (1931)
92 min | Drama
At the height of the French Revolution, the fanatic Robespierre brings the popular but more moderate leader Danton to trial and demands his execution.
Director: Hans Behrendt | Stars: Fritz Kortner, Lucie Mannheim, Gustaf Gründgens, Alexander Granach
Votes: 70
39. Gypsies (1936)
85 min | Drama
Roma camp is seized with turmoil: old leader has a rival, who avidly supports the idea of settling down.
Directors: Moisei Goldblat, Yevgeni Shneider | Stars: Alexander Granach, Nikolai Mordvinov, Mariya Sinelnikova, Lyalya Chyornaya
Votes: 18
40. Svengali (1927)
Drama
Remake of the famous novel, "Trilby"
Director: Gennaro Righelli | Stars: Paul Biensfeldt, Teddy Bill, Hans Brausewetter, Anita Dorris
41. My Buddy (1944)
Approved | 67 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Republic, never a company to not try getting ahead of the curve and with writers who could remember the 1930's social conscience WW I vets-returning-home films, made this in mid-1944 (a ... See full summary »
Director: Steve Sekely | Stars: Don 'Red' Barry, Ruth Terry, Lynne Roberts, Alexander Granach
Votes: 50
42. The Last Fort (1929)
Drama
Four adventurers fight against the French in Africa, the daughter of the French major tries to free him when he is captured and the enemy lieutenant falls for her for a while.
Director: Curtis Bernhardt | Stars: Rolla Norman, Maria Paudler, Albert Steinrück, Fritz Odemar
43. Qualen der Nacht (1926)
Director: Curtis Bernhardt | Stars: Claire Rommer, Ernö Verebes, William Dieterle, Fritz Rasp
45. Flucht in die Fremdenlegion (1929)
Director: Louis Ralph | Stars: Hans Stüwe, Alexander Murski, Eva von Berne, Harry Hardt
46. Ein Sommernachtstraum (1925)
80 min | Fantasy
Mistaken identity, unrequited love, and the supernatural are combined in Shakespeare's classic set in the woods of Greece on a moonlit night.
Director: Hans Neumann | Stars: Hans Albers, Charlotte Ander, Theodor Becker, Hans Behrendt
Votes: 10
47. Fridericus Rex - 4. Teil: Schicksalswende (1923)
Part 4 of a four part series of biographical films about the Friedrich II of Prussia shows the king as the man who leads the Prussian army to the ultimate victory in the seven-years-war.
Director: Arzén von Cserépy | Stars: Otto Gebühr, Lothar Müthel, Eduard von Winterstein, Wolfgang von Schwindt
48. Die Tänzerin Navarro (1922)
Carmencita marries planter Marcellus. A series of events results in his death. Carmencita gets involved with a spy, but is saved from execution in the final hour.
Director: Ludwig Wolff | Stars: Alexander Granach, Asta Nielsen, Iván Petrovich, Adele Sandrock
49. Fridericus Rex - 3. Teil: Sanssouci (1923)
Drama
Part 3 of a four part of biographical films about Friedrich II of Prussia. Friedrich befriends the French philosopher Voltaire and he realizes a long held dream by building the castle of Sanssouci.
Director: Arzén von Cserépy | Stars: Otto Gebühr, Erna Morena, Gertrud de Lalsky, Anton Edthofer
50. Die Liebe vom Zigeuner stammt... (1920)
Director: Hans Staufen | Stars: Max Brod, Carmen Cartellieri, Edgar Flatau, Thea Gothen