Rosa Valetti
Actor · 1878 – 1937 · Berlin, Germany
Movies22
Movie8.1DramaThrillerIn this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seedy underworld network. With both cops and criminals in pursuit, the murderer soon realizes that people are on his trail, sending him into a tense, panicked attempt to escape justice.
Movie7.3DramaPrim professor Immanuel Rath finds some of his students ogling racy photos of cabaret performer Lola Lola and visits a local club, The Blue Angel, in an attempt to catch them there. Seeing Lola perform, the teacher is filled with lust, eventually resigning his position at the school to marry the young woman. However, his marriage to a coquette -- whose job is to entice men -- proves to be more difficult than Rath imagined.
Movie9.0Comedy
Movie7.3DramaStarring Betty Amann in her most famous leading role, Joe May's Asphalt is a luxuriously produced German Expressionist classic where tragic liaisons and fatal encounters are shaped alongside the constant roar of Berlin traffic.
Asphalt
1929 · 52 votes
Movie7.2DramaComedyA young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière's play "Tartuffe" in order to expose the old man's hypocritical governess who covets the young man's inheritance.
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.
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Steuermann Holk
1920 · 1 votes
Movie4.7DocumentaryA Nazi propaganda film made to promote anti-Semitism among the German people. Newly-shot footage of Jewish neighborhoods in recently-conquered Poland is combined with preexisting film clips and stills to defame the religion and advance Hitler's slurs that its adherents were plotting to undermine European civilization.
MovieOthello
1918
Movie10.0DramaA safecracker and thief escapes from prison, founds a factory and becomes rich. After 20 years, his accomplice, released from prison, demands his share and gets it. But when he also demands the hand of the factory owner's daughter, the latter shoots him. However, the girl's groom is blamed for the murder. After two detectives and a female colleague have investigated, the guilt of the factory owner comes to light, who then dies.
Gaunerliebchen
1928 · 1 votes
Movie8.0DramaSteuerlos
1924 · 1 votes
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Early drama about alcoholism.
Das Laster
1915
Movie10.0DramaA German soldier lies wounded on the front line in the First World War. To avoid capture or death, he assumes the identity of a fallen French officer. As the German soldier happens to speak fluent French, nobody realizes the deception. The soldier begins a new life in Paris, yet remains in constant fear of being exposed as the ‘enemy’.
Movie7.0The House on the Moon
Movie8.0ComedyCrime“The Red Cat” is a seedy dive. The rich American, Jefferson, who shows up there one day with his family and who recently became the proud owner of the famous Halifax emerald, particularly attracts the attention of the patrons of the “Cat”. One of them approaches the Americans disguised as a marquis, but he has not reckoned with Jefferson’s daughter, Jessie.
MovieSchwiegermutter
1918
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An overly trusting young man inherits the fortune of his great uncle and his scheming relatives plot to get their hands on the money.
Der Dummkopf
1921 · 1 votes
Movie6.3DramaA painter working at the Louvre is struck by the Mona Lisa. When he meets a girl whom he believes bears a resemblance to the painting, and who wants him to become famous, he comes up with the idea of stealing the painting. Based on the real-life theft of 1911.
Movie7.5DramaA French violinist saves his beloved princess from the Russian revolution..
Movie5.5ComedyHistoryPrussian King Frederick II was keen to hire the dancer Barberina, who had already enjoyed great success in Italy and England, for the Berlin opera house.
Movie8.0DramaO alte Burschenherrlichkeit
1925 · 1 votes
Movie8.0DramaRomanceA young composer and inventor meets a poverty stricken singer.