Adelqui Migliar
Actor · 1891 – 1956 · Concepción City, Concepción, Biobío, Chile
From Wikipedia Adelqui Migliar (5 August 1891 – 6 August 1956), also known as Adelqui Millar, was a Chilean film actor, director, writer and producer. He appeared in 31 silent films between 1916 and 1928. He also directed 24 films between 1922 and 1954. He was born in Concepción, Chile, and lived and worked in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Argentina. He died in Santiago, Chile.
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Movie8.0DramaRomanceA Lady adopts a runaway slum girl who resembles her own dead daughter.
London
1927 · 1 votes
- MovieRomanceComedy
Beppie, Margie and Lola, the three talented daughters of American millionaire James Brown, set course to Amsterdam with their art teacher ms. Polly Dewar. There all three of them fall for the charms of attractive tenor Adelqui, the boyfriend of famous diva Anny.
Movie6.0RomanceA young woman, with her naive lies, causes some troubles marrying into an aristocratic family. At the end, good-heartedness wins over snobbishness and class barriers.
Movie6.8DramaA Jewish slave girl falls in love with the Pharaoh's son during the Exodus.
MovieDramaRomanceJess Newton falls in love with Bruce Ravenhurst, but her father does not approve of the marriage. Bruce leaves for Africa to take part in an expedition, overcome with grief. Jess and her father also leave for Africa. There, Bruce and Jess's father become friends. Meanwhile, Bruce's cousin Hubert, who expects Bruce not to return, marries under Bruce's name in order to claim his inheritance. During an attack, Bruce goes missing and is presumed dead, and Jess returns to England, where Bruce is accused of bigamy. Fortunately, Bruce, who managed to escape despite being wounded, also returns, so that everything can be cleared up. The film has largely been lost – only a single fragment has survived.
Movie6.0DramaOn the verge of getting married to Marijke, young and insecure detective Jozef is assigned the case of a murdered factory girl. His relationship is threatened when he becomes madly infatuated with Carmen, the alluring prime suspect.
- Movie8.0Drama
Het verborgen leven
1920 · 1 votes
Movie10.0DramaCrimeA usurer cancels a woman's debt in return for wresting a financial secret from a minister's wife.
John Heriot's Wife
1920 · 1 votes
- Movie8.0Drama
De leugen van Pierrot
1922 · 1 votes
- Movie10.0MysteryCrime
A séance proves a ghost compelled a spiritualist to kill his rich father.
Movie10.0CrimeDramaBohemian drama. A woman falls in love with a struggling artist, who later becomes famous and decides to leave Venice for a lucrative career in Paris.
Laughter and Tears
1921 · 1 votes
Movie10.0WarDramaThe wealthy De Roquevilles, the family of alcoholic veteran Jean Laurent, and that of farmer Godard; all have to deal with the outbreak of the Great War. To complicate things even more, Godard's daughter Anny falls in love with young Mario Laurent, who turns out to have inherited some of his father's vices. First part of Maurits Binger's epic silent trilogy.
Oorlog en Vrede: 1914
1918 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaDucrot and Ninette accuse Mario and Anny of owing their wealth to the murderous effects of Mario's bombs. Anny leaves for the front to care for the wounded. Third part of Maurits Binger's epic silent trilogy. Most of the film is considered lost – a single fragment remains.
Movie5.0DramaCrimeVan Duylen, representative of a diamond syndicate, brings to Amsterdam the Koh-I-Noor II , the largest diamond ever found. In one of the city's oldest diamond-cutting establishments it is cleft and the nine small stones are polished. Escorted by detectives, Van Duylen takes the stones home and puts them in his burglar-proof safe. He tells his wife that its doors are electrically charged and that anyone opening them in the wrong way will immediately be electrocuted. Two suspicious persons, Jack the Acrobat and the lion-tamer Feenstra, prowl around Van Duylen's villa, inspecting the doors and windows.
Movie7.0DramaWarAnny helps Mario escape from prison after his attempted murder of Gaston de Roqueville, who is now married to Ninette. Banker Sorga, an enemy spy, attempts to steal Mario's latest invention: a powerful explosive that could alter the course of the war. Second part of Maurits Binger's epic trilogy, now considered lost.
Oorlog en Vrede: 1916
1918 · 1 votes
Movie8.0CrimeIn the Night
1920 · 1 votes
Movie9.0DramaThe happy life of Sylvia and Pieter is disrupted when Sylvia loses her sight and her sister Lyda falls in love with her husband.
Movie7.0Dolores gets a marriage proposal from the promising young doctor Lucas, but on the day of their marriage, she leaves him in the lurch and takes off with the South American dancer and adventurer Hugo Amadis. But Hugo treats her badly. Dolores leaves Hugo and begins a career as a dancer to make ends meet for her and her son. One day, the son gets sick, and the doctor who helps the child through the crisis is Doctor Lucas. Lucas and Delores decide to start over.
Fate's Plaything
1920 · 1 votes
- Movie9.0Crime
Blood Money
1921 · 1 votes
Movie10.0RomanceDramaIn Paris an Apache dancer weds his ex-fiancée's sister for revenge but learns to love.
The Apache
1925 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaWhen self-made businessman Pancras Duif decides to marry his much younger housekeeper, his entire family protests; eager to protect the family capital, sons Henk, Jan and Toon enlist a psychiatrist for help. The film is considered lost.
Movie5.5DramaLife
1929 · 2 votes