Harry Frank
Actor · 1896 – 1947 · Berlin, Germany
Movies24
Movie6.5RomanceMusicFour girls seeks happiness on the dance floor among the handsome and rich gentlemen.
Movie6.5DramaThis film is a fascinating showcase for Emil Janning's theatrical play. He's a gentle school teacher who believes in his boys and is easily fooled about all things, while the other town officials want him dismissed. Curiously it's very hard to see what the film is exactly aiming for. Disaster strikes and the lax prof proves to be too far removed of the real problems of the world, on the other hand his enemies are shown in the most unsympathetic, satirical way denouncing the militaristic, bourgeois ideology of the Kaiserreich.
Traumulus
1936 · 6 votes
Movie6.0AdventureCrimeIn San Francisco, well-known sportsman Kay Hoog announces to a club that he has found a message in a bottle with a map drawn by a Harvard professor who has gone missing. The map tells of a lost Incan civilization that possesses an immense treasure. Hoog immediately plans an expedition to find it. But Lio Sha, the head of a criminal organization known as the Spiders, is determined to get the treasure for herself and plans a rival expedition.
Movie5.6HistoryDramaIn 18th century Europe, King Friedrich II of Prussia leads his army through the seven-years-war with neighboring states, and after numerous near defeats, eventually brings a victorious army back to Berlin.
Fridericus
1937 · 5 votes
Movie5.9CrimeA dedicated editor, who is engaged to the daughter of a wealthy senator thrills her father with a lecture about convictions based on circumstantial evidence. When a corpse with a disfigured face is found in the house of the senator, evidence points to the editor. An entertaining thriller with a fairly intricate plot and some critical comments on the practice of the law. Based on the novel "Der geschlossene Ring" by Frank Arnau.
Movie6.2ThrillerCrimeDuring the shooting of a jealousy scene on a soundstage, one actress is murdered. Due to the fact that the male star of the movie had a relation with the victim and the female star is now his fiance, he is suspected by the police.
Movie6.7DramaAdventureAfter a passionate affair in Paris, adventurer Sascha Demidoff can no longer forget Sitha, the beautiful Maharani of Eshanpur. He travels through the wilderness of India to the maharaja's palace, where Sitha still returns his passion. But when his connection to her becomes apparent, he finds himself exposed to the revenge of the deceived maharaja. It is only with Sitha's help that he narrowly escapes from a ravenous tiger in the predator courtyard and flees with her from the palace to Berlin. Meanwhile, the architect Fürbringer is waiting for a message from Eschnapur, where he has been promised the construction of several large buildings. However, Fürbringer's friend and first draughtsman Sperling returns from India without having achieved anything. When Fürbringer's fiancée, Irene Traven, discovers that the maharajah is in Berlin incognito, she gains access to him and manages to get the prince to award her fiancé the building contract...
Movie7.7ComedyA young woman leaves behind her job, home and family to try to make it in the movie business. Features cameos from about three dozen German film stars of the era.
Movie6.1MysteryCrimeMysterious murders committed by a criminal have kept the public on their toes and the police have mistakenly accused an imposter of the crimes.
- Movie8.0Drama
A British industrialist offers a job to a German who kindly rescued him when they were pilots on opposite sides of the Great War, but his wife becomes attracted to the foreigner. Complications ensue.
Movie10.0ComedyA dancing girl succeeds in getting Napoleon, in 1808, to pardon her lover, a German artist who has drawn an unflattering caricature of the French emperor during his Erfurt conference with the Czar and several local princes.
Movie10.0DramaThe composer Hans Helmer can really count his happy blessings: he is married to a wonderful woman, who also happens to be a celebrated operetta star. But Hans is suffering from the success of his wife and is constantly in her shadow. He also doesn't want to profit from her reputation when he tries to get his play, "Husband of the Famous Singer" published. Hans wants to be recognized for his own achievements. So he decides to submit his latest composition under the name of his best friend, the painter Willi Kenter. The director is thrilled with the work, but there are some unforseen complications. Hans' wife Maria hears about the operetta and is likewise very impressed; but also sees through her husband's little deception. She tells him that she is determined to play a part in the performance of the work. That's something Hans wants to prevent at any price.
Movie6.0DramaHarry Yquem buys his beloved wife some jewelry in a place where underworld middlemen trade in fake and stolen goods. By chance, he spots a man with whom his wife had an affair in the past.
Movie7.0AdventureLe Tigre du Bengale
1938 · 2 votes
- Movie5.0MusicComedy
A struggling composer gets one of his pieces into a film program and his wife captures the lead part in the production as well.
Movie5.8DramaAll men are under lovely Maritza's spell.Tired of working for the old woman Yelina, who forces her to cajole customs officials to help the smugglers, she flees and finds work at Mrs. Avricolos' farm. Mostly lost, one reel survives.
Movie10.0ComedyA renowned actress rescues a small theater, which is on the verge of bankruptcy.
Die Freundin eines großen Mannes
1934 · 1 votes
- Movie10.0Documentary
Film by Biebrach and Rikli.
Am Rande der Sahara
1930 · 1 votes
Movie9.0DramaCrimeA nightclub in Buenos Aires is advertising for blonde women for glamorous jobs.
Movie7.2HistoryDramaThe story of the rise to power of King Frederick II (aka "Frederick the Great") of Prussia of his military campaigns to make Prussia a major power in Europe.
Movie6.1DramaRomanceWhen Irmgard becomes pregnant from Georg, a free-love disciple, she decides, for the sake of her child, to pretend they are married. The secret plan is to wed his twin brother, John, who will pretend to be Georg in front of the priest. Soon after that happens, Georg disappears and is declared dead. Years later, Irmgard is trying to escape John, who is obsessed with her. In the mountains, she finds a stranger willing to protect her.
- Movie8.0Drama
Eva Bennet, a young mysterious widow appears at Pension Sanssouci in Berlin during the Weimar era. She attracts a lot of attention from everybody, especially from Georg Raval.
Das Mädchen ohne Heimat
1927 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaComedyIn the depression era unemployed Susanne tries to break into movies by working as an extra. She is ‚hired' to be kidnapped in a PR stunt that is supposed to hush over a suicide scandal. This soon gets her a real role in an artistic film.
Movie5.4DramaCrimeShortages in postwar Berlin have created a blooming black market, and the goods rounded up during a major police raid all seem to come from the same source. The trail leads Commissioner Naumann to the Alibaba Cabarett, but he is unable to find conclusive evidence to convict its owner Goll.