
Reinhold Schünzel
Actor · 1888 – 1954 · Hamburg, Germany
Reinhold Schünzel (7 November 1888 – 11 November 1954) was a German actor and director, active in both Germany and the United States. The son of a German father and a Jewish mother, he was born in St. Pauli, the poorest part of Hamburg. Despite his ancestry, Schünzel was allowed by the Nazis to continue making films for several years until he left in 1937 to live abroad.
Movies24
Movie7.7DramaCrimeIn order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war criminal, as a spy. As they begin to fall for one another, Alicia is instructed to win the affections of Alexander Sebastian, a Nazi hiding out in Brazil. When Sebastian becomes serious about his relationship with Alicia, the stakes get higher, and Devlin must watch her slip further undercover.
Notorious
1946 · 1.8K votes
Movie6.6DramaRomanceA simple Connecticut farm girl is recruited by a distant relative, an aristocratic patroon, to be governess to his young daughter in his Hudson Valley mansion.
Dragonwyck
1946 · 126 votes
Movie6.9DramaThrillerDuring the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich, and is wounded in the process. In his attempt to escape, he is helped by history professor Stephen Novotny and his daughter Mascha.
Hangmen Also Die!
1943 · 143 votes
Movie9.0ComedyHenny Porten plays the dual role of a rather indecorous Countess and her kitchen maid Karoline Blum, an amateur actress.
Movie6.3ThrillerCrimeIn post-war Europe, a diverse group of passengers aboard a U.S. Army train to bombed-out Frankfurt becomes involved in a Nazi assassination plot.
Berlin Express
1948 · 68 votes
Movie7.0ComedyJuggler and con-artist Caesar comes to Karlsbad, where he hopes to trick the renowned Vaudeville manager Willard into taking him to America. But when he actually meets Willard, Caesar mistakes him for a certain Mr. Lehmann. Willard / Lehmann is not amused, since Caesar constantly courts his daughter Eva. While fooling around, Caesar doesn’t notice that young Rosl, the daughter of innkeeper Mrs. Svoboda, has fallen in love with him. Finally, the romantic and comical confusion is resolved during a hotel fire.
- Movie10.0Drama
Lilli marries Dr. Friese, but when she realizes that he was her mother's lover, tragedy ensues.
Lillis Ehe
1919 · 1 votes
Movie5.9DramaHistoryThe married Lady Emma Hamilton has an ill fated romance with Admiral Horatio Nelson.
Lady Hamilton
1921 · 5 votes
Movie6.2AdventureRomanceA British colonel escapes from the Gestapo to the Black Forest and poses as a Gypsy's mate.
Golden Earrings
1947 · 12 votes
Movie7.1MusicCrimeIn London at the turn of the century, underworld kingpin Mack the Knife marries Polly Peachum without the knowledge of her father, the equally enterprising 'king of the beggars'.
Movie5.5FantasyHorrorA demon, a reaper, and the ghost of a prostitute read gothic short stories and act them out.
Movie10.0DramaHorrorThomas Bezug, the richest man in the world, is a solitary, domineering and cruel cripple, who hardly can move on his crutches. He dwells a fanatical love for his son, whom he holds like a monkey in a cage. His servants are defaced dwarfs. His secretary is trying to steal Bezugs assets. These are the night people.
- Movie10.0Romance
Das Liebesnest
1922 · 1 votes
Movie7.1DramaConrad Veidt plays a famous musician who is blackmailed for being gay. Eventually he stands trial and is convicted. At the end the film pleads for the abolition of §175 (the law that punishes homosexuality).
Movie10.0Drei Nächte
1920 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaMysteryA doctor who cannot figure out what is wrong with his patient refers him to a detective, whom he hopes will be able to discern the cause of his mysterious illness.
Moriturus
1920 · 1 votes
Movie6.3AdventureA spectacular action-adventure travelogue with stages in Genoa, Suez, Colombo, Singapore, Canton, Yokohama, Honolulu, San Francisco, New York and Brest.
Movie5.9DramaThrillerA British doctor and painter must kill for the glands he needs to stop the aging process.
The Man in Half Moon Street
1945 · 5 votes
Movie10.0Lilli
1919 · 1 votes
- Movie7.0Drama
Bigamie
1922 · 1 votes
Movie6.5DramaHistoryThe story of Madame DuBarry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution.
Madame DuBarry
1919 · 29 votes
- Movie8.0Thriller
The brothel mother's illegitimate daughter takes revenge by luring her half-siblings into the brothel.
Heddas Rache
1919 · 1 votes
- Movie10.0HorrorDrama
A banker, after a prophetic meeting with a Gypsy fortune teller, becomes delusional as he searches for a trunk which the seer has told him holds the key to either his happiness or his death. This film is considered lost.
Wahnsinn
1919 · 1 votes
Movie6.3DramaWarThe Hitler Gang adopts the style of a gangster film as it charts Adolf Hitler’s rise from small-time politico to dictator of Germany.
The Hitler Gang
1944 · 10 votes
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TV9.0DocumentaryBased on extensive interviews, shot on 16mm in a series of static long takes, Filmemigration aus Nazideutschland, is one of the most fascinating examples of "Film history on film" ever produced. Straschek devoted years to researching the topic and accumulating both film and non-film materials. Apart from some radio features and articles, however, this 290-minute TV programme remains the only published trace of Straschek's lifelong work on the emigration of film personnel. He had intended to publish a three-volume book, encompassing all available data about 3,000 emigrants originating from the centre and peripheries of film production, but the book never materialised.