Fritz Kortner Movies

The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Louise Brooks

Adaptation of A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen.

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Cast: Olga Tschechowa

Mrs. Elizabeth Bright Murdock hires Marlowe to find an old rare coin, the Brasher Doubloon, that belonged in her deceased husband's collection....

Genre: Mystery

Cast: George Montgomery

The film was an epic portrayal of the life of Catherine the Great of Russia.

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Cast: Lucie Höflich

A world-famous pianist loses both hands in an accident. When new hands are grafted on, he is horrified to learn they once belonged to a murderer.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Conrad Veidt

In 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.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Merle Oberon

In Hungary, a rich baron discovers that there are extensive oil deposits underneath nearby properties owned by villagers. He manages to convince all...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Conrad Nagel

Genre: Drama

Cast: Theodor Loos

Genre: History

Cast: Liane Haid

An adventurous young man goes off to find himself and loses his socialite fiancée in the process. But when he returns 10 years later, she will...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tyrone Power

During a dinner given by a wealthy baron and his wife, attended by four of her suitors in a 19th century German manor, a shadow-player rescues the...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Alexander Granach

Deep in the forest lives the bitter Dr. Wislizenus, whose childhood sweetheart Maria committed suicide ten years ago. The visit of a childhood...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charlotte Ander

After a chance meeting at a train station, Henry and Stascha, unhappy with their circumstances, are determined to leave and be together.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Oskar Sima

In a poor neighborhood of a big city, a crippled mailman is in love with a maid who lives in his building. However, she is in love with a wealthy and...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Henny Porten

Musical retelling of the "Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves" Arabian Nights tale.

Genre: Music

Cast: Anna May Wong

A young doctor gets stuck on a ship after treating an injured first mate. Later, he rescues a woman from plane wreckage, and with the help of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marlene Dietrich

In 1908, Sultan Abdul Hamid rules the Turkish Empire, but he is faced with the threat of revolt by the Young Turk party. He allows Hilmi Pasha, the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fritz Kortner

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Cast: Niddy Impekoven

What Belongs to Darkness (German: Die Finsternis und ihr Eigentum) is a 1922 German silent drama film directed by Martin Hartwig and starring Karl...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Karl Etlinger

Austrian actor Franz Huber, known for his impressions, is captured by the Gestapo and forced into plastic surgery to become Hitler's body double....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ludwig Donath

The House on the Moon

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Cast: Leontine Kühnberg

When a reporter is killed under mysterious circumstances, the political cartoonist on his paper begins to investigate on his own. He finds that a...

Genre: War

Cast: Charles Farrell

A keen chronicle of the unlikely rise to power of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and a dissection of the Third Reich (1933-1945), but also an analysis of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Gert Westphal

George Taylor returns from WWII with amnesia. Back home in Los Angeles, while trying to track down his old identity, he stumbles onto a three year...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: John Hodiak

A psychological drama based on the popular Jekyll and Hyde theme involving a strict legal official. Based on the 1893 play "Der Andere" by Paul...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Fritz Kortner

This pre-WW II German costume drama chronicles the French Revolution with a particular focus upon Danton, Robespierre, and Marat. It depicts the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fritz Kortner

In late nineteenth century Alfred Dreyfus, a French army officer of Jewish heritage, is falsely accused of espionage. Found guilty of treason he is...

Genre: History

Cast: Fritz Kortner

Suspicion surrounds a lieutenant for killing his father; based on Dostoevsky's novel.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Fritz Kortner

The film depicts the marriage between the mad Charles VI of France and his wife Queen Isabeau.

Genre: History

Cast: Fern Andra

Professor Mauthner, after many years of exile (having emigrated in 1933 to the USA), returns to Germany in 1948. He can in fact return to his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fritz Kortner

The reporter Peter Zabel stumbles upon the sinking of the luxury yacht Orplid in Hamburg on August 14, 1949. The ship went down with a wedding party...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Horst Caspar

A melodrama about a painter who is infected with syphilis, refuses treatment, turns to the use instead of narcotics, and withers away.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Conrad Veidt

The fate of a French aristocrat is revealed in this historical costume drama, who, in 1792, finds herself confronted with the choice of either...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Diomira Jacobini

This is the German-language version of the British film The Love Storm (1931).

Genre: Drama

Cast: Conrad Veidt

Loosely based on the story of the singer Nellie Melba...

Genre: War

Cast: Evelyn Laye

Arnold Horn, a young idealistic chemist, discovers a compound that can be used for the production of an effective deadly poisonous gas. Against his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hans Stüwe

A girl becomes an unwilling witness in her parents' scandalous divorce case.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Matheson Lang

Documentary about director Fritz Korner

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Hans Christian Blech

A professor discovers a way to separate the soul from the body.

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Raoul Aslan

This is a real curiosity; at best a reasonable film, but also a charming little gem. There is a story (in the line of "A Star is Born"), but this...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Camilla Horn

Two poor musicians rise from rags to riches. Money, fame and their love for the same woman begin to crumble their friendship, revealing the true...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Conrad Veidt

A Nazi propaganda film made to promote anti-Semitism among the German people. Newly-shot footage of Jewish neighborhoods in recently-conquered Poland...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mona Maris

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fritz Kortner

German expatriate Fritz Kortner plays the largest role, as an anti-Nazi schoolmaster who helps a downed American flyer (John Archer) reached Allied...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Archer

A pharaonic tragedy to the content that spans six different eras. In the first episode, the emergence and dramatic end of the love story between the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emil Jannings

In 1915 during the First World War, a British secret agent is killed while stealing secret Turkish plans for the Gallipoli Campaign but manages to...

Genre: War

Cast: Fritz Kortner

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lucy Doraine

Mata Hari, die rote Tänzerin (English: Mata Hari: The Red Dancer), often shortened on release to Mata Hari, is a 1927 German silent drama film...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Magda Sonja

The young, dissolute Mathias, in conflict with his father, doesn't hesitate to set fire to his father's forge. When he returns to the farm after many...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Poldi Müller

The film traces the individual stages in the life of Ludwig van Beethoven.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fritz Kortner

Genre: Drama

Cast: Wilhelm Diegelmann

Young peasant Paul's life is one of poverty and hardship from an early age. His lifelong struggle as he is forced to take on the responsibility of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mary Carr

An exploration of the misery of youth. A student, his friends, and the girl he loves all suffer due to the harsh and unforgiving nature of the adults...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fritz Kortner

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tilla Durieux

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tilla Durieux

Weltbrand is the first part of the two-part silent movie Christian Wahnschaffe.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Conrad Veidt

This documentation of a Kortner stage rehearsal shows in detail and fascinatingly how Kortner developed psychological tensions with meticulous...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Fritz Kortner

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Cast: Evi Eva

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Cast: Charlotte Ander

In this sequel to the original story, Monte Cristo count Edmund Dantes (Martin Kosleck) returns to Paris to get revenge but soon finds himself...

Genre: Romance

Cast: John Loder

Fritz Kortner performs a monologue.

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Cast: Fritz Kortner

A man is found dead on the small German island of Sylt. There is speculation that it may have been a murder, motivated by romantic jealousy. The man...

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Genre: Drama

Cast: Fritz Kortner

The Maharaja of Odhapur goes on a trip to Europe and meet the young dancer Ellen Esmond. In her London accommodation, the Savoy Hotel, the Indian...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gunnar Tolnæs

The Earl of Essex, a person favourite of the Queen, is in jeopardy of losing his relationship with the monarch after secretly marrying one of the...

Genre: History

Cast: Eugen Klöpfer

A three-part historical film: the first episode takes place in ancient Egypt, the second is based on the Hugo novel La Fin de Satan, and the third...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fritz Kortner

Peter the Great, having become Tsar of Russia, using his shipbuilding knowledge acquired in a foreign country to establish a navy, and being able to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emil Jannings

Originally named "The Clairvoyant" presenting the many talents of parapsychologist Elsbeth Günther-Geffers. First banned, later extensively...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Fritz Kortner

Genre: Drama

Cast: Magda Sonja

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Cast: Fritz Kortner

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Cast: Magda Sonja

German-language version. "Atlantic" is a drama film based on the sinking of the RMS "Titanic" and set aboard a fictional ship, called the "Atlantic"....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fritz Kortner

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Cast: S. Polonsky

Filmed in Austria for the hundredth anniversary of Beethoven's death, this 1927 silent film tells the story of the German genius' eventful emotional...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fritz Kortner

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fritz Kortner

When Professor Horski learns that his wife has published a volume of novellas under his name entitled "Wife" he feels compromised and is angered at...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Józef Węgrzyn

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aud Egede-Nissen

Two couples arrived to the village where an old legend of a ghost with the deadly kiss circulates in.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fritz Kortner

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Cast: Rudolph Schildkraut

The Hitler Gang adopts the style of a gangster film as it charts Adolf Hitler’s rise from small-time politico to dictator of Germany.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bobby Watson

A man tries to find the true culprit when his friend is accused of murdering a moneylender.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Josef Reithofer

At the height of Reign of Terror Maximilien Robespierre orchestrates the trial and execution of several of his fellow leading French revolutionaries...

Genre: History

Cast: Emil Jannings

"Bluebeard" (German: "Blaubart") is a 1951 black comedy film directed by Christian-Jaque and starring Hans Albers, Cécile Aubry and Fritz...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Hans Albers