Lya De Putti
Actor · 1897 – 1931
Lya De Putti, born Amália Putti, was an Hungarian film actress of the silent era, noted for her portrayal of vamp characters. She began her stage career on the Hungarian Vaudeville circuit. She soon progressed to Berlin, where after performing in the ballet, she made her screen debut in 1918. During her short film career, 1918 - 1929, she appears in 35 feature films.
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Movie6.9DramaRomanceLorenz Lubota is a city clerk with no direction in life. One day on his way to work he is run over by a woman driving a chariot and he is immediately infatuated with her.
Phantom
1922 · 54 votes
Movie6.5DramaComedyA couple are at the theatre with a playwright friend. At the end of the play the jealous husband strangles his wife to death. When the play ends, the man talks to his friend about such a nonsensical finale, telling the author that no man with any sense ever gets jealous enough to choke his wife in these modern times. The playwright decides to test this supposedly perfect couple about their happy feelings for each other.
Movie10.0ComedyWarPvt. Smith, an American soldier stationed in a German town during the occupation of Germany after World War I, falls in love with the daughter of the town's leading citizen. The problem is that his sworn enemy, Sgt. Butts, also has designs on the girl. Butts comes up with a plan to get rid of his competition and get the girl for himself, but things don't go quite the way he planned.
Buck Privates
1928 · 1 votes
Movie6.8DramaBased on Shakespeare's play: The treacherous Iago plans to ruin the life of Othello by provoking him to jealousy.
Othello
1922 · 14 votes
Movie5.9DramaA French adventurer fights to save a woman in the life of prostitution.
Manon Lescaut
1926 · 8 votes
Movie7.2DramaRomanceGeoffrey Tempest is desperately in love with aspiring writer Mavis Claire, a tenant of his boardinghouse. Unable to marry her due to his poverty, in his anger, he curses God for abandoning him. Soon, Geoffrey meets Prince Lucio de Rimanez, a wealthy, urbane gentleman who informs Geoffrey that he's inherited a fortune, but that he must place himself in the Prince's hands in order to enjoy the fruits of his inheritance. What Geoffrey doesn't know is that Prince Lucio is actually Satan.
The Sorrows of Satan
1926 · 13 votes
Movie10.0MusicDie Fledermaus
1923 · 1 votes
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
Movie6.0AdventureDramaRowland falls sick with leprosy while Mac Allan is captured by the Maharajah, who offers Irene a deal: one night with him in exchange for letting Rowland to be cured. She accepts, but tries to commit suicide.
Das indische Grabmal, zweiter Teil: Der Tiger von Eschnapur
The Indian Tomb, Part II: The Tiger of Eschnapur
1921 · 14 votes
Movie9.0DramaMalva
1924 · 1 votes
Movie10.0DramaJunges Blut
1926 · 1 votes
Movie6.7DramaCrimeMurderer “Boss” Huller—after having spent ten years in prison—breaks his silence to tell the warden his story.
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Claire
1924 · 1 votes
Movie9.0DramaThe story of medical student Sonja Smirnow and her family.
Movie10.0ComedyCharlott etwas verrückt
1928 · 1 votes
Movie6.3DramaA man betrays his best friend, a member of a terrorist organisation, to the authorities and is then pursued by the other members of the organisation.
The Informer
1929 · 15 votes
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Thamar, das Kind der Berge
1924 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaThe film follows Lya, a woman seeking refuge from Cossack soldiers, who finds herself at the palace of Prince Nicholas. She becomes his majordomo and they fall in love, but their relationship is disrupted when Nicholas learns of her past with a Bolshevik leader. Lya is expelled, becomes a terrorist, and later encounters Nicholas again, now disguised as a servant. When Nicholas is sentenced to death, she rescues him and they escape together.
The Scarlet Lady
1928 · 4 votes
Movie6.3DramaWhen farmer Rog dies, his eldest Peter takes over the farm while his youngest Johannes is determined for a better life: he becomes secretary to Count Rudenberg and starts courting his daughter Gerda. When he learns that the Count, who is terminally ill, has bequeathed a piece of land under which lies a petroleum field to his second wife, he courts her instead.
Movie9.0DramaRomanceFrancis, the result of a clandestine marriage between the Duke of Chatsfield and a peasant girl, after being raised in a monastery following his parents death assumes his title but falls victim to a pair of schemers leading to much heartache before all is set aright before the fadeout.
The Prince of Tempters
1926 · 1 votes
Movie9.0DramaThe story concerns the misadventures of sailor Steve Doren, who tries his best to support his wife Mary on his piddling income. But like seafaring men everywhere, Steve is constitutionally unreliable, especially when hip-swinging temptress Cassie Lang sashays into view.
God Gave Me Twenty Cents
1926 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaDie Liebschaften des Hektor Dalmore
1921 · 2 votes
Movie10.0ThrillerMarie, the daughter of a miner, is pregnant and has been abandoned by the father of her child. Taken in and married by a fellow miner, she sees her former lover suddenly reappear and assert his rights over her. A violent altercation then breaks out between the two men in the mine shaft. A gas leak triggers an explosion that buries them. Luciano Albertini performed sensational stunts at dizzying heights, filmed on the cliffs of the Elbe Sandstone Mountains or on imposing railway bridges. The tragic and sensational film culminates in a spectacular climb, a fall, and a rescue operation on the cliffs.
Movie8.0Drama