Lya Lys
Actor · 1908 – 1986 · Berlin, Germany
Lya Lys (born Nathalie Margoulis; May 18, 1908 – June 2, 1986) was a German actress.
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Movie6.8RomanceComedyThe film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by the Church and bourgeois society in general.
L'Âge d'or
1930 · 352 votes
Movie6.7ComedyMusicA prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.
The Merry Widow
1934 · 69 votes
Movie6.6AdventureDramaIn the Northwest Frontier of India, the 41st Bengal Lancers led by the harsh Colonel Tom Stone are having trouble with the rebellious leader Mohammed Khan. Surly McGregor and wry, blue-blooded Forsythe are officers in charge of newcomer Lieutenant Stone, the commanding officer’s inexperienced son. Motivated by a grudge toward his father, Lt. Stone allows himself to be captured by the enemy.
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
1935 · 56 votes
Movie6.1DramaWarFBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
1939 · 34 votes
Movie4.7DramaRomanceA neglected Baroness falls in love with her oldest son's military officer friend, their adulterous romance leading the two to flee to Algeria.
Movie6.0Science FictionHorrorWhen news reporter Walter Garrett arrives at the hotel room of bombshell actress Angela Merrova to conduct an interview, he finds her dead from multiple stab wounds. He returns with the police to find the hotel empty and the body vanished. Garrett writes about the incident but is fired when Merrova, alive and well, goes to the paper to complain. Now his only chance to get his job back is to find the truth, which involves the grisly scheme of a madman.
The Return of Doctor X
1939 · 64 votes
Movie6.6ComedyA family of confidence tricksters sets their sights on a very rich, very lonely old lady named Miss Fortune.
The Young in Heart
1938 · 32 votes
Movie7.5MysteryA millionaire is found murdered in his apartment. Suspicion falls on a variety of suspects, including his fiancée and her parents, the butler, and a professional mentalist known as The Great Gambini.
The Great Gambini
1937 · 2 votes
Movie6.3ComedyDramaA young woman inherits a newspaper whose editor refuses to hire lady reporters.
My Dear Miss Aldrich
1937 · 6 votes
Movie7.2DramaComedyJosephine Spiggins is thinking of marrying John Spear, the stuffed-shirt son of a department store owner. When John's free-spirit brother Tony returns from touring the South Seas in his boat, the "Vagabond Lady," Jo is attracted to him instead.
Vagabond Lady
1935 · 6 votes
Movie5.1ActionThrillerEnemy agents are everywhere and they are sabotaging all important war deliveries. The body of a hobo found in a train wreck had a money belt with $50,000 and a tattoo of a circle and arrow. This is a tattoo for saboteurs for hire and Brass must impersonate the dead man to find out what his orders are. As Steve Coe, he meets with the band of enemy agents in California and everything goes well until the wife of the dead 'Hobo' shows up. Luckily, Gabby is able to save Brass and Brass learns what is his assignment. He is to board the USN airship 'Mason', which is testing the super secret Inertia Projector, and destroy the airship.
Murder in the Air
1940 · 7 votes
Movie6.7ComedyCrimeBuckley is an unethical reporter who manipulates the news for his own benefit as much as he reports it. When he is in Paris to get a medal for being rescued from his alleged kidnappers, he finds that his boss, Stevens, at the Chicago Globe is going with his old gal Dolly. When Stevens learns that Dolly is staying with Buckley in Moscow, he fires Buckley. To get his job back, Buckley and Lefty stage a great news story about the shooting of the last Romanoff, but the plan backfires and they are now in line to be shot by the Commissar.
Clear All Wires!
1933 · 3 votes
Movie7.0RomanceComedyA Broadway producer discovers new talent in a small Georgia town and brings them to New York for his new show.
George White's 1935 Scandals
1935 · 2 votes
- Movie9.0Drama
This is the French-language version produced by MGM of Let Us Be Gay (1930))
Movie4.8ComedyJimmy is a wiseguy press agent whose efforts to promote a meat-packing firm come to naught. Our hero is fired from his job, whereupon his sweetheart Sally steps in, immediately succeeding where Jimmy had failed.
Jimmy and Sally
1933 · 4 votes
Movie8.0DramaA small-town barber finds himself short of stature but a giant in the world of stock promotion. As his bank account grows, Stone's ethics diminish, and soon he's playing fast and loose with other people's money. Disgruntled investor Fay Wray is the one who finally blows the whistle on the prevaricating hair-snipper.
The Big Brain
1933 · 1 votes
Movie6.7ComedyJeffrey wants to marry Virginia, who refuses to marry unless her older sister, the hard-to-please Angelica, gets married first. This is the German language version of Buster Keaton's comedy "Parlor, Bedroom and Bath" (1931).
Movie8.0ComedyThis is the French-language version of Buster Keaton's 1931 comedy Parlor, Bedroom and Bath (1931). This film is presumed to be lost.
Buster se marie
1931 · 1 votes
Movie10.0DramaRomanceBerlin, the center of pleasures and kingdom of small virtues. From all over Germany, young night owls come to burn themselves cheerfully in its lights, to drown in its champagne and fill its boxes and restaurants until dawn.