Joe May

Directing

Joe May

Born — Died

1880-11-07 — 1954-04-29

Place of birth

Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]

Known for

Directing

Credits

41 titles

Joe May, born Julius Otto Mandl, was a film director, screenwriter and producer. He was one of the pioneers of German cinema. In 1902 he married the actress Mia May, born Hermine Pfleger, and adapted her stage name as his. The same year their daughter Eva (1902-24) was born. In 1933 the family emigrated to USA.

Known for

The Invisible Man Returns poster
6.3

The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.

The Invisible Man Returns

1940

Asphalt poster
7.3

Starring 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

Mother Hummingbird poster
4.7

A neglected Baroness falls in love with her oldest son's military officer friend, their adulterous romance leading the two to flee to Algeria.

Mother Hummingbird

1929

The Wandering Image poster
6.1

When Irmgard becomes pregnant from Georg, a free-love disciple, she decides, for the sake of her child, to pretend they are married. The secret plan is to wed his twin brother, John, who will pretend to be Georg in front of the priest. Soon after that happens, Georg disappears and is declared dead. Years later, Irmgard is trying to escape John, who is obsessed with her. In the mountains, she finds a stranger willing to protect her.

The Wandering Image

1920

The House of the Seven Gables poster
7.0

In 1828, the bankrupt Pyncheon family fight over Seven Gables, the ancestral mansion. To obtain the house, Jaffrey Pyncheon obtains his brother Clifford's false conviction for murder. Hepzibah, Clifford's sweet fiancée, patiently waits twenty years for his release, whereupon Clifford and his former cellmate, abolitionist Matthew, have a certain scheme in mind.

The House of the Seven Gables

1940

No artwork available
7.0

A lady-in-waiting is to become the companion of a young lady at the splendid estate Amönenhof.

Der Amönenhof

1920

Film credits

Behind the camera

The Invisible Man Returns poster
6.3

The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.

The Invisible Man Returns

1940

Asphalt poster
7.3

Starring 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

Asphalt poster
7.3

Starring 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

Mother Hummingbird poster
4.7

A neglected Baroness falls in love with her oldest son's military officer friend, their adulterous romance leading the two to flee to Algeria.

Mother Hummingbird

1929

The Wandering Image poster
6.1

When Irmgard becomes pregnant from Georg, a free-love disciple, she decides, for the sake of her child, to pretend they are married. The secret plan is to wed his twin brother, John, who will pretend to be Georg in front of the priest. Soon after that happens, Georg disappears and is declared dead. Years later, Irmgard is trying to escape John, who is obsessed with her. In the mountains, she finds a stranger willing to protect her.

The Wandering Image

1920

The House of the Seven Gables poster
7.0

In 1828, the bankrupt Pyncheon family fight over Seven Gables, the ancestral mansion. To obtain the house, Jaffrey Pyncheon obtains his brother Clifford's false conviction for murder. Hepzibah, Clifford's sweet fiancée, patiently waits twenty years for his release, whereupon Clifford and his former cellmate, abolitionist Matthew, have a certain scheme in mind.

The House of the Seven Gables

1940

No artwork available
7.0

A lady-in-waiting is to become the companion of a young lady at the splendid estate Amönenhof.

Der Amönenhof

1920

No artwork available
7.0

A lady-in-waiting is to become the companion of a young lady at the splendid estate Amönenhof.

Der Amönenhof

1920

Die Hochzeit im Excentricclub poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Die Hochzeit im Excentricclub

1917

Die Hochzeit im Excentricclub poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Die Hochzeit im Excentricclub

1917

No artwork available
8.0

A former typist at a bank ,having married her elegant young boss and gone on a honeymoon, needs to return to work when the bank runs into trouble, and is separated for a while from her new husband.

La dactylo se marie

1934

The House of Fear poster
7.7

A detective goes undercover as a producer to investigate an actor's murder, which occurred during the performance of a play...

The House of Fear

1939

The Indian Tomb, Part I: The Mission of the Yoghi poster
5.7

Ayan, 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.

The Indian Tomb, Part I: The Mission of the Yoghi

1921

The Indian Tomb, Part I: The Mission of the Yoghi poster
5.7

Ayan, 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.

The Indian Tomb, Part I: The Mission of the Yoghi

1921

Das Gesetz der Mine poster
10.0

A black African avenges his father by murdering the inspector of a diamond mine.

Das Gesetz der Mine

1915

Das Gesetz der Mine poster
10.0

A black African avenges his father by murdering the inspector of a diamond mine.

Das Gesetz der Mine

1915

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Rat

1918

Confession poster
6.3

Vera Kowalska is put on trial for murdering concert pianist Michael Michailow. In court it is revealed that some years earlier Michael ruined Vera's life.

Confession

1937

You're Not So Tough poster
5.0

The Dead End Kids are out of the slums of New York's East Side and running around the sunny valleys of California looking for a way to make a quick buck. The idea of working never enters their minds until Halop is egged on by Grey to show his capabilities. Before long, he and Hall are working on the ranch of Galli, an elderly Italian woman who treats her workers like human beings instead of animals. Galli's son disappeared as an infant, and Halop tries to convince her that he is that long lost son, thus possibly sharing in her wealth. Galli is such a good person that Halop is soon motivated by respect instead of greed, so he devises a plan to help her when truckers and a labor organization band together to keep her crops from making it to market.

You're Not So Tough

1940

Der Geheimsekretär poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der Geheimsekretär

1915

Der Geheimsekretär poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der Geheimsekretär

1915

Companion Wanted poster
9.0

Young love blossoms between a salesgirl and a handsome man on the French Riviera.

Companion Wanted

1932

The Rolling Hotel poster
10.0

The first appearance of Heinrich Schroth as Joe Deebs, a popular detective character in German silent cinema patterned after Sherlock Holmes.

The Rolling Hotel

1918

No artwork available
8.0

Billionaire Maud Fergusson lives happily with engineer Allan Stanley. Nothing stands in the way of their love wedding - except Maud's dark past. She has told Allan everything about herself, but he insists on knowing the name of her former seducer - otherwise he won't be able to marry her.

The Mistress of the World, Part VII: The Benefactress of Mankind

1920

Music in the Air poster
5.6

A songwriter's young daughter (June Lang) begins to dream of stardom when she's offered the lead role in a new operetta.

Music in the Air

1934

The Eye of the Idol poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Eye of the Idol

1919

All for Love poster
5.5

A famous tenor manages to charm away a lovely young lady who was just about to be married to the opera director.

All for Love

1933

The Indian Tomb, Part II: The Tiger of Eschnapur poster
6.0

Rowland 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.

The Indian Tomb, Part II: The Tiger of Eschnapur

1921

The Indian Tomb, Part II: The Tiger of Eschnapur poster
6.0

Rowland 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.

The Indian Tomb, Part II: The Tiger of Eschnapur

1921

The Beggar Countess poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Beggar Countess

1918

The Beggar Countess poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Beggar Countess

1918

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die Gespensteruhr

1916

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die Gespensteruhr

1916

Hungarian Rhapsody poster
8.0

On the plains of Hungary, Franz, a Hussard lieutenant, broods about his future; Born into an aristocratic family, his father drank away the family fortune and marriage seems an unlikely prospect. Impoverished Franz's love for effervescent and upright country girl Marika coincides with the tragic tale of lovelorn violinist Josef, all but ignored by royal beauty Camilla.

Hungarian Rhapsody

1928

Five Minutes Too Late poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Five Minutes Too Late

1918

Ein Ausgestoßener, 2. Teil: Der ewige Friede poster
8.5

Guy Walser killed the unscrupulous seducer of his sister Marguerite and had to spend several years as a Bagnos convict for this bloody deed . His past is like a brand on his social existence that he can never shake off. He married Lucienne and they had a lovely daughter, Lilly. Despite all the wealth that Guy has worked for, he remains an outcast who, as the title suggests, seeks nothing more than eternal peace for himself.

Ein Ausgestoßener, 2. Teil: Der ewige Friede

1915

Die Schuld der Lavinia Morland poster
9.0

Lavinia Morland marries a rich banker in order to obtain money to care for a sick artist with whom she is in love. A woman tells the banker of this state of affairs and he hires a disreputable and bogus count to compromise his wife so that he may obtain a divorce. She kills her husband when she finds he has trapped her, but her story told in court procures her release.

Die Schuld der Lavinia Morland

1921

Die Schuld der Lavinia Morland poster
9.0

Lavinia Morland marries a rich banker in order to obtain money to care for a sick artist with whom she is in love. A woman tells the banker of this state of affairs and he hires a disreputable and bogus count to compromise his wife so that he may obtain a divorce. She kills her husband when she finds he has trapped her, but her story told in court procures her release.

Die Schuld der Lavinia Morland

1921

No artwork available
8.0

A composer at work on an operetta falls in love with a girl, without realising that she is the star of the opera company.

Two Hearts in Waltz Time

1934

No artwork available
9.0

Robert Lambard, son of a respected Parisian banker, seduces Marguerite Walser, the sister of Guy Walser, a diligent general manager employed by his father. At these times, especially in the upper social class, such an act is of course not without social consequences, and so Guy, after learning about this relationship, demands Lambard junior to marry his sister in order to restore her "soiled" honor . But he just laughs about it and brusquely rejects this request. Since Monsieur Walser puts the family honor and that of his sister above everything else, a heated argument ensues, in which Guy summarily kills the "despoiler of Marguerite's honor". Now Guy's life is destroyed too, because he is put on trial for this bloody act. There will be a convictionmanslaughter for ten years behind bars. This punishment is connected with a deportation. For seven years, Walser spent the life of a Bagno convict in nowhere, he was an outcast.

Ein Ausgestoßener: 1. Teil

1913