Lissy Arna

Acting

Lissy Arna

Born — Died

1904-12-20 — 1964-01-23

Place of birth

Berlin, Germany

Known for

Acting

Credits

46 titles

Lissy Arna, born Elisabeth Arndt, was a German actress. She was often portrayed in roles as a modern femme fatale.

Known for

Film credits

1930s · 22 titles

The Yellow Flag poster
8.5

An adventurer, Peter Diercksen, travels to South America to guide an expedition into the jungle. However, when the ship is quarantined he believes he has a serious disease. He does not accompany the trip, which runs into major problems.

The Yellow Flag

1937

To New Shores poster
6.8

A 19th-century London cabaret singer is deported to prison in Australia. Her crime? Taking the blame when her lover bounces checks.

To New Shores

1937

An Invisible Man Goes Through the City poster
9.0

A taxi driver, (Piel), finds an odd contraption on the back seat that renders him invisible, but his friend steals the device to rob a bank. An inventive comedy.

An Invisible Man Goes Through the City

1933

The Squeeker poster
5.6

No synopsis available yet.

The Squeeker

1931

Morgen werde ich verhaftet poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Morgen werde ich verhaftet

1939

Mountains on Fire poster
6.5

Two of Germany's best and busiest directors collaborated on Berge in Flammen (Mountain in Flames). The storyline should be of interest to pro-ecologists, inasmuch as the directors take to task the warmongers of the world for despoiling the natural beauties of the European mountain ranges with their shell-fire. The final outrage occurs during a battle between the Austrians and the Italians in the Dolomites, culminating with the destruction of an entire mountain (hence the film's title). The harrowing images on screen were complemented perfectly by the musical score of Giuseppe Beece. Also known as The Doomed Batallion, Berge in Flammen was filmed in three different languages -- German, English, French -- for a total cost of $150,000.

Mountains on Fire

1931

Demon of the Sea poster
10.0

Ahab pursues a whale that chewed off a leg when his brother, vying with him for the hand of a minister's daughter, pushed him overboard. When he has caught the monstrous whale he will then deal with his brother.

Demon of the Sea

1931

No artwork available
5.0

A struggling composer gets one of his pieces into a film program and his wife captures the lead part in the production as well.

What Am I Without You

1934

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Vater geht auf Reisen

1932

Beyond Victory poster
9.0

Four battle-weary American soldiers under fire reflect on the women they left behind.

Beyond Victory

1931

No artwork available
9.0

This is the German-language version of 1930's "Those Who Dance", shot by Warner Bros. in Hollywood with a German-speaking cast.

The dance goes on

1930

Inge and the Millions poster
9.0

A well scripted and captivating thriller about the owners of a small private bank in Berlin, squeezing money out of honest business firms, causing their bankruptcies, and then trying to smuggle the cash into Switzerland.

Inge and the Millions

1933

Tonight with Me poster
9.0

A very naive Viennese vinyl records saleswoman falls in love with a well-mannered young man. Due to a combination of circumstances, she was involved in the endless series of accidents, intrigues and piquant situations perfectly emphasized by the morals of those times, a subtle satire on the bourgeoisie and an atmosphere of innocent romance.

Tonight with Me

1934

Menschen ohne Vaterland poster
6.0

In Latvia at the end of the First World War, a group of Freikorps battle against an attempted takeover of the Baltic States by Communist forces.

Menschen ohne Vaterland

1937

Hochzeit mit Hindernissen poster
6.5

A wealthy uncle from America has named the widowed shoemaker Emil Rogge as his sole heir and bequeathed him a chest containing his entire fortune. However, the will includes a clause stipulating that the chest may only be opened after a three-month period, and Rogge will only inherit the fortune if he fulfills two conditions within that time: he must abstain from alcohol at work, and he must find and marry a wife. A con man then tries to seduce Rogge and arrange for his accomplice, the sophisticated Olga, to marry him. But in the end, Rogge not only finds the right woman but also experiences a major surprise.

Hochzeit mit Hindernissen

1939

Child, I'm Happy on Your Coming poster
10.0

Portrait photographer Lu Tiemann owns a white wire-haired terrier named "Stork." For Lu, the charming dog has a very specific purpose: to either jump into parked cars with men at the wheel, thereby attracting their attention, or to hide inside the car and emerge while it's moving – with the same result. When the driver then wants to get a closer look at the "crazy" dog, the following inscription can be read on his collar: "My name is Stork, owned by Lu Tiemann, Regentenstrasse 17." Many well-to-do gentlemen fall for this approach, such as a portly consul or a factory owner and privy councillor, next to whom "Stork" brazenly positions himself on the passenger seat.

Child, I'm Happy on Your Coming

1933

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

His girlfriend Annette

1931

The Soaring Maiden poster
10.0

In this theatrical adaptation, a well meaning eccentric tries to patch up a rift between his niece and her fiancé.

The Soaring Maiden

1931

Sensationsprozess Casilla poster
6.5

They meet on the plane from Dakar to Casablanca: the well-known American defense lawyer Vandegrift, his daughter Jessie and the arrested Peter Roland, who allegedly kidnapped and murdered the famous film child Binnie Casilla in Stockford in 1928. Vandegrift, convinced of Roland's innocence, decides to represent the man at his upcoming sensational trial. But just as public opinion is increasingly questioning Roland's guilt, he testifies under pressure from prosecutor Adams. Now only Binnie herself can save the young man, but the search for her has so far been in vain...

Sensationsprozess Casilla

1939

His Best Friend poster
6.5

Remake of a 1929 German film by the same title about a man and a police dog.

His Best Friend

1937

Theodor Körner poster
5.8

No synopsis available yet.

Theodor Körner

1932

No artwork available
9.0

This is the German-language version of 1930's "The Way of All Men", shot by Warner Bros. in Hollywood with a German-speaking cast.

The Costume Falls

1931

1920s · 22 titles

Harbour Drift poster
7.0

A sordid tale of poverty and greed set within a quayside milieu of crime and prostitution, the narrative centres on the quest for a sparkling pearl necklace stolen by a beggar under the gaze of a prostitute, who persuades her unemployed friend to steal it back, with tragic consequences. The story unfolds in flashback, without irony or a hint of redemption: life simply goes on.

Harbour Drift

1929

Triumph of the Heart poster
6.8

In a small mine town north of the circle, Torsten lives, working with his sister Eva and comrade Lars, who is engaged to Eva. The town's bat-owner has a daughter, Märta, who, after trying out the big city life, has returned to the village for a while, and begins to flirt openly with Torsten, but also with Lars. Märta hears of an old gold treasure that will be hidden somewhere in the mountains, trying to seduce both of them and seek both friends to find out the treasure. Neither Lars nor Torsten knows the plans or swarms of others, but Eva notices how Märta attracts Lars away from her.

Triumph of the Heart

1929

Die berühmte Frau poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die berühmte Frau

1927

Girls for Sale! poster
7.0

White slavers lure young girls to Rio de Janeiro by promising them jobs as showgirls and nightclub singers, then force them into prostitution.

Girls for Sale!

1927

Under the Lantern poster
7.0

Else Riedel (Lissy Arna), locked out by her authoritarian father, seeks refuge with her boyfriend Hans. Complications threaten when Hans's roommate Max falls in love with her, but the situation is resolved: the three remain friends, and decide to form a music hall act. They want to ascend, but how? A way out beckons when a theatrical agent named Nevin enters Else’s life. He is played by Hubert von Meyerinck as a slick and oily villain, who oozes refinement; his experience behind bars is waved away with a silk scarf. He is cunning to the point of perfidiousness, but is not completely unsympathetic. He also embodies a new type - the scrounger.

Under the Lantern

1928

Die Villa im Tiergarten poster
7.0

The owner of a Berlin villa invites 4 friends to stay with him and hires a baroness to supervise their affairs. Meanwhile an ex boxer released from prison becomes involved with the villa when he is arrested for a burglary there.

Die Villa im Tiergarten

1927

The Eleven Devils poster
6.5

Die elf Teufel / The Eleven Devils was made in Berlin in the summer of 1927, in the last throes of the silent movie era. But Die elf Teufel strikes one today as a prophetic film. One of its early captions is "Football, the sport of the century ". We are shown a ball bathed in light like some sacred relic, and observe how, even in those early days, fans on the terraces wouldn't shy away from using their fists.

The Eleven Devils

1927

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die Frau ohne Geld

1925

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Schinderhannes

1928

Gegen Hohe Belohnung Abzugeben poster
NR

A marriageable and wealthy young woman receives a proposal for her hand from a down-and-out nobleman, but she has other suitors.

Gegen Hohe Belohnung Abzugeben

1921

Adventure of a night poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Adventure of a night

1923

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die Königin des Weltbades

1926

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Eva in Seide

1928

The Cat's Bridge poster
8.0

In 1807 Prussia, Napoleon supporter Baron von Schranden forces his maid Regine to lead the French enemy across “Cat’s Bridge”, up behind a corps of Prussian volunteers who the French then decimate. In retaliation for this betrayal, the people of Schranden set the lord’s castle on fire. When the baron’s son Boleslav returns to the village a Prussian war hero in 1813, he is faced with a self-righteous village community that has denied his late father a decent burial. Regine is Boleslav’s only ally, and Boleslav is Regine’s only ally. The conflict escalates, and the villagers set up an ambush for him at Cat’s Bridge …

The Cat's Bridge

1927

Prisoner Number Seven poster
6.5

A young woman, a prisoner who was set up to steal by her lover, is in jail. She would like to see her sweetheart. One night she succeeds in persuading the doctor of the prison who also is a woman, to be released. She finds the man, a waiter in an elegant hotel, behaving as a cynical Don Juan. He was preparing to rob the safe of the hotel and go away with his new lover, a dancer.

Prisoner Number Seven

1929

Gern hab' ich die Frauen geküßt poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Gern hab' ich die Frauen geküßt

1926

Lemkes sel. Witwe poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Lemkes sel. Witwe

1928

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Schatz, mach' Kasse

1926

Giftgas poster
6.3

Arnold Horn, a young idealistic chemist, discovers a compound that can be used for the production of an effective deadly poisonous gas. Against his will the chemical factory starts production of the poison gas to increase the value of their shares.

Giftgas

1929

No artwork available
7.0

Paul and Peter share a garret flat. Paul is smitten with Anni, but her father forbids their match. Then Paul inherits a fortune—on one condition: he mustn’t marry “a girl.” Desperate, they scheme a sham marriage: Peter weds Anni so she’s no longer “a girl,” allowing Paul to claim his inheritance. Jealous at first, Paul watches as Peter and Anni wed, until, after their quick divorce, Paul finally wins Anni’s hand for real.

Eins + Eins = Drei

1927

Weekend Magic poster
8.0

Heinz Sattorius leads an extraordinarily life wining, dining with lots of women. His uncle is the provider of the funds for his lifestyle. When his uncle grows tired of Heinz wild behavior all his friends disappears overnight.

Weekend Magic

1927

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Abenteuer im Nachtexpreß

1925