Alex Benno
Director · 1873 – 1952
Movies14
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
- Movie
The story of Theodoor, a hunchbacked child. He grows up in poor circumstances. His alcoholic father dies as a result of suffocation caused by alcohol. After this, he spends his days wandering the streets, becomes involved in the fairground life, and is present in a tent where a fire breaks out. Better times then arrive. He becomes a famous violinist and marries the daughter of a wealthy man.
Krates
1913
- Movie5.7
The adventures of two girls from Zeeland in Zandvoort.
Movie1.0DramaHistoryKoningin Elisabeth's Dochter
1915 · 2 votes
Movie8.0CrimeDramaYoung poacher Hendrik van Norden has seriously wounded a game-keeper, who has not recognized him. There was, however, one witness: captain Van Oort, but he promises to keep silent. Five years later Hendrik has become a lighthouse-keeper and is courting Annie. Van Oort is also trying to win Annie's affections, and in his jealousy he decides to remind Hendrik of what he knows about his past...
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.
Movie5.5ComedyDramaWhen his granddaughter is born, debt-ridden Colonel von Zwenken misses out on Aunt Roselaar's allowance of 20,000 guilders. Anxious to keep the money, his son-in-law telegraphs the aunt that a son was born, Frans, and the girl is brought up as a boy. Based on the novel by Anna L.G. Bosboom-Toussaint.
Movie10.0ComedyDutch silent comedy film where a bunch of women cause havoc wherever they go.
- Movie8.0Western
Raymond is a painter who is very successful in his career. One day, he walks into a saloon and his eyes fall on the beautiful Jennie. She poses for one of his paintings and later runs off with all his money. When they meet again, they fall head over heels in love and get married. She is forced by Apaches to steal from him again, but Jennie refuses. In revenge, they lock her up and go after Raymond themselves. They attack him and lock him up as a living mummy in a sarcophagus. He is eventually rescued and reunited with Jennie, while the Apaches themselves are locked up.
Liefde waakt
1914 · 1 votes
Movie4.8DramaRomanceAnnie falls in love with a circus clown, but her circus-hating father forbids their romance. Until a fire breaks out...
- MovieDrama
The wealthy Alice Stanton is saved from drowning by Jack, a fisherman who sees her in the water. They get to know each other and begin a romantic relationship. This comes to an end when Jack realizes that the people will never approve of their relationship. He fears that their difference in social status will cause a scandal. He ends their relationship and breaks off contact. Six months later, Annie marries someone else. Meanwhile, Jack spends all his time at sea and is involved in a shipwreck. He is seriously injured and, just before he dies, he has a vision of Alice.
Luchtkasteelen
1914
- Movie8.0Drama
The story revolves around extortion and blackmail, with a notorious con artist making life impossible for everyone else.
Ontmaskerd
1915 · 1 votes
Movie5.0DramaAn orthodox Jewish man refuses to accept the marriage of his daughter to a Christian man.
Movie8.0DramaRomanceMavis Keeves is the daughter of a man who is ruined and dies as a result of reckless speculation, encouraged by Sir Harry Winderbank.