Maria Forescu
Actor · 1875 – 1947 · Czernowitz, Bukovina, Austria-Hungary [now Chernivtsi, Ukraine]
Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian opera singer and film actress. Killed in the Holocaust.
Movies23
Movie7.0ThrillerThirteen wealthy American daughters visiting Europe are secretly abducted in Berlin by a dubious guide and governess. Stenographer Eddie, who missed their arrival, discovers a plea for help from one girl and pursues the kidnappers across the countryside. After capture and escape, he ultimately tracks them down, rescues the young women, wins their gratitude, and secures his dream job as a reporter.
Der Teufelsreporter
1929 · 1 votes
Movie7.3DramaGerhard Lamprecht sketches a cross-section of Germany's new post-war society, with its winners, social climbers, and losers, represented by the social microcosm of an apartment building. The gossip-mad Frau Mierig from the rear building gives the newly-arrived Frau Kaminski, the janitor's wife, a lively initiation into the tenants and their peculiarities.
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Movie5.7AdventureDramaAyan, Maharajah of Eschnapur, believes that his wife, Princess Savitri, has been unfaithful to him with officer Mac Allan. He decides to bury her alive, so he sends the Yogi Ramigani to England to look for Herbert Rowland, an architect; but when he orders him to build a tomb, Rowland refuses.
Das indische Grabmal, erster Teil: Die Sendung des Yoghi
The Indian Tomb, Part I: The Mission of the Yoghi
1921 · 15 votes
MovieDramaColomba
1918
Movie9.0DramaA young woman in Berlin is offered a job at a night club in Budapest. There she is abducted and brought to a brothel in Athens.
Movie5.6DramaRomanceA wife, bored by her overweight slob of a husband, gives in to the temptation of a slickly seductive poet.
Movie8.0DramaComedyIn the very old-fashioned town of Ostend suddenly 13 suitcases are delivered to the Grand Hotel, with a note, that O.F. will be here soon and needs 6 rooms. This event, probably the biggest in 300 years, starts a small wave of modernisation, yet everybody is wondering who O.F. is.
Movie7.0CrimeThrillerA banker who had fallen out with his family stipulated in his will that his fortune should only pass to the person in possession of the five keys he distributed to his relatives during his lifetime 80 years after his death. Only with all five keys can the cassette in the vault of a bank be opened, granting access to the deceased's assets. 75 years after the banker's death, the fugitive crook Murphy comes into possession of one of the keys, together with a list of the names of the owners of the four remaining keys. Over the next five years, he manages to obtain two more keys by criminal means. Now he just has to get the fourth key from Carlo and the fifth key from the young, rich widow Maria. Any means will do. But the unscrupulous villain has not reckoned with Carlo's shrewdness, who initially falls under suspicion himself, but then takes up the pursuit of the criminal.
Im Kampf mit der Unterwelt
1930 · 1 votes
Movie9.0CrimeDramaAn unknown guest checks into an obscure hotel. He is a burly but well-dressed gentleman carrying an umbrella and a tree frog in a glass. This man spends most of his time wandering the hallways and staircases of the inn, ostensibly to hunt for flies to feed his pet. But quite obviously, there is more to it than that: the man also listens at doors and peeks through their keyholes.
Der Mann mit dem Laubfrosch
1929 · 1 votes
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MovieDramaDida 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 gets his divorce. In the town she opens a restaurant with the money of her wealthy lover, from whom she soon gets pregnant, but their dreams of marriage fail, his wife refuses the divorce. After a while, she decides to marry one of the regular guests at her restaurant, van Galen, who spent quite some time in the tropics and because of this is at the brink of madness. Shortly after the marriage his condition worsens and life becomes hell for Dida.
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Bummellotte
1922 · 1 votes
Movie9.0DramaCrimeDer Liebe Lust und Leid
1926 · 1 votes
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Das Abenteuer der Sybille Brant
1925 · 1 votes
Movie9.0Tanja, die Frau an der Kette
1922 · 1 votes
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Captain Bryde, who is a guest of young Percy, Duke of Glauburne, rescues the artist Maud and her bear Jimmy, the only survivors of a shipwreck. Maud and her bear find shelter in the Duke's castle, but immediately arouse the jealousy of Percy's girlfriend Ethel
Jimmy, ein Schicksal von Mensch und Tier
1923 · 1 votes
Movie9.0Drama
Movie8.0ComedyWer wird denn weinen, wenn man auseinandergeht?
1929 · 1 votes
Movie4.9DramaIt was not just the children who were treated badly by the wealthy Weimar republic. Robert Kramer is released from prison but struggles to adjust to civilian life. His father disowns him, his wife has left him for another man. There is no work. He eventually arrives in a shelter for the homeless, and seeks salvation through Emma, a prostitute.
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Der Sieg der Jugend
1927 · 1 votes
Movie7.0ComedyMusicSusanne Braun is keen to meet her father who she has never seen, but who supports her financially. She visits the Berlin lawyer who oversees the monthly maintenance payments, but he sets her on completely the wrong track. Consequently she encounters several potential fathers.