Eugen Rex

Acting

Eugen Rex

Born — Died

1884-07-08 — 1943-02-21

Place of birth

Berlin, Germany

Known for

Acting

Credits

62 titles

Known for

No artwork available
NR

Anthropologist and prehistorian Prof. Dr. Crusius, accompanied by his assistant Karl Mill, is tracing the footsteps of early humans. He aims to prove the existence of a human being from a hundred thousand years ago. Furthermore, he is convinced that an animal soul resides within every human being. He faces hostility because of his theory and receives anonymous threatening letters. He delivers a major lecture before the anthropological society. Ultimately, the professor is even forced to fight a duel with an adversary over his hypothesis.

Homo sum

1919

Congress Dances poster
7.2

An Austrian prince hatches a plan to keep his rival, the Russian czar, busy by keeping him surrounded by beautiful women and away from the negotiating table. The Czar, however, has his own plan—he hires a man who is his exact double to impersonate him and confuse the Austrians by appearing to be everywhere at once. In addition, both the Czar and his double fall for the same woman.

Congress Dances

1931

Schwarzwaldmädel poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Schwarzwaldmädel

1933

The High Tourist poster
10.0

Romantic exploits in Germany's White Mountains.

The High Tourist

1931

The Old and The Young King poster
6.0

The story of the stormy relationship between King Friedrich Wilhelm and his son, who later became known as King Frederick the Great of Prussia.

The Old and The Young King

1935

The Burning Soil poster
6.3

When 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.

The Burning Soil

1922

Film credits

1940s · 4 titles

1930s · 35 titles

Congress Dances poster
7.2

An Austrian prince hatches a plan to keep his rival, the Russian czar, busy by keeping him surrounded by beautiful women and away from the negotiating table. The Czar, however, has his own plan—he hires a man who is his exact double to impersonate him and confuse the Austrians by appearing to be everywhere at once. In addition, both the Czar and his double fall for the same woman.

Congress Dances

1931

Schwarzwaldmädel poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Schwarzwaldmädel

1933

The High Tourist poster
10.0

Romantic exploits in Germany's White Mountains.

The High Tourist

1931

The Old and The Young King poster
6.0

The story of the stormy relationship between King Friedrich Wilhelm and his son, who later became known as King Frederick the Great of Prussia.

The Old and The Young King

1935

Love's Arithmetic poster
8.0

Identities are changed in the Austrian countryside. A simple woman does this to test the affections of a store manager, he too changes character several times and there are other locals who do this as well.

Love's Arithmetic

1935

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

Mädchenräuber poster
9.0

Pat and Patachon stage a kidnapping in hopes of uniting their friend Erik with his love interest Lissy.

Mädchenräuber

1936

Ursula Under Suspicion poster
9.0

The sawmill owner Ramin disappears from one day to the next. Concerned, his family learns from the bank that he wrote a check to an agent named Frisch. He supposedly wanted to use it to buy a good. However, that did not happen. When Ramin's body is found, the police stumble upon Ursula von Tweel, who knew the dead man.

Ursula Under Suspicion

1939

Die letzte Fahrt der Santa Margareta poster
7.0

A captain from Hamburg takes over the command of a yacht, unaware that it's smuggling liquor. The action revolves around love, attacks on customs guards, a storm on the high seas, a capsized speedboat and a brave rescue operation.

Die letzte Fahrt der Santa Margareta

1936

Freut Euch des Lebens poster
5.0

A Bavarian comedy centered around Gusti, the lovely waitress of the restaurant „Bratwurstglockl“, who is adored by all the men. When the spoiled snob Carl Maria complains to the manager about the restaurant, Gusti is summarily dismissed and accepts the invitation of the poor chamber singer Gottlieb Bumm to accompany him on a three-day trip to the Zugspitze he won in a contests. While there, they both live well above their means and Gusti runs into Carl Maria again.

Freut Euch des Lebens

1934

Marion, That's Not Nice poster
10.0

A young painter in the academy hires as a model the daughter of a rich soap manufacturer and has her pose for a work based on the biblical Susannah and the Elders, which almost causes a scandal.

Marion, That's Not Nice

1933

Incognito poster
6.0

The bored heir to a soap factory is able through pure chance to work incognito in the 153rd branch of the business. While doing so, he falls in love with a beautiful customer, gets into a rivalry with a jealous worker and helps to expose a dishonest boss.

Incognito

1936

Kleines Mädel, großes Glück poster
9.0

A hilarious comedy of errors starring Dolly Haas: Annie, the locksmith's daughter, and Georg, a car salesman, meet at the fair but quickly lose touch. Later, Annie is tasked by her father with delivering new locks to a countess's castle. At the train station, she is mistaken for the countess's niece, whose arrival is imminent. She is taken to the castle in a magnificent carriage and encounters Georg again, who is out for an unauthorized joyride in a stylish car. Each now believes the other to be extremely wealthy. When the real countess arrives at the castle, she enjoys playing along with the charade and poses as her own companion, with whom Count Egon falls in love. After the confusion is resolved, there are two happy couples.

Kleines Mädel, großes Glück

1933

The Only Girl poster
6.2

A dashing marquis bends from his horse when he discovers a lost garter in the woods and falls. During his delirium he is serenaded by a little hairdresser. She is the person who lost the garter to begin with and has only come to get it back having borrowed it from her employer--the empress of France. The marquis mistakenly thinks he was nursed by the empress, herself, and decides to woo her.

The Only Girl

1933

No artwork available
8.0

An entire neighborhood is in an uproar because the Maier family is keeping their prize-winning rooster, Otto, on the balcony of their apartment. And now, every morning, the rooster is waking up the entire street with its dawn greeting. Thus, the neighborhood comes up with a plan to convince the Maiers to find a new place for the rooster to live (preferably amidst a bed of potatoes and onions). The Maiers, however, aren't so enthusiastic about this plan and strictly refuse to take the rooster off the balcony. Is it thus any surprise that the next morning, Otto is found dead in his cage ... and has apparently been *gasp* murdered?!?

Skandal um den Hahn

1938

Bock Beer Fest poster
7.0

Underwear manufacturer Livius Heintze is a vehement anti-alcoholic and thus is very much against the marriage of his daughter Hedwig to the brewery owner Raumert. Heintze's second, illegitimate daughter Emmi also wants to give her father a heart attack by marrying the hops merchant Seidl.

Bock Beer Fest

1930

The love doctor poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The love doctor

1931

Don't Lose Heart, Suzanne! poster
7.0

In the depression era unemployed Susanne tries to break into movies by working as an extra. She is ‚hired' to be kidnapped in a PR stunt that is supposed to hush over a suicide scandal. This soon gets her a real role in an artistic film.

Don't Lose Heart, Suzanne!

1935

No artwork available
10.0

A detective inspector dismantles a smuggling organization by infiltrating the gang. Not a particularly exciting crime film.

Schüsse an der Grenze

1933

Road to Rio poster
6.0

A young woman causes a fatal accident. She flees the country, only to get caught in the net of Brasilian traffickers.

Road to Rio

1931

Stärker als die Liebe poster
10.0

In this blood and soil melodrama, the daughter of the chief forester is torn between love for a reprobate painter and the duty to wed the assistant forester, a widower with a boy.

Stärker als die Liebe

1938

I by Day, You by Night poster
6.7

A nightclub waiter and a manicurist share the same room, she sleeps there by night and he by day. They've never meet , but they can't stand each other. Then they meet by chance, not knowing who's who and fall in love.

I by Day, You by Night

1932

No artwork available
8.0

The artist Hansen and his wife have separated due to professional stubbornness, even though they love each other. The animals behave more sensibly: Hansen’s trained monkeys bring the couple back together. People and animals work together to create a sensation.

Humans, Animals, Sensations

1938

No artwork available
8.0

The eccentric owner of a chateau, Lord Wilford, is fond of everything that is connected with criminal cases. His passion takes up so much time that even his secretary hardly has time to see her fiance. When mysterious letters arrive, announcing that a certain Mister X wants to steal a valuable statuette, the Lord is very enthusiastic. Apparently he himself will now experience a real criminal case! His secretary persuades him to hire a famous detective from London - none other than her fiance. But he is far from being a talented detective, and when a valuable pearl necklace disappears, the fiance falls under suspicion to be the thief.

The Mysterious Mister X

1936

Between Night and Dawn poster
9.0

An aging prostitute develops a motherly affection for a kind young man, but her pimp does not approve.

Between Night and Dawn

1931

Spione im Savoy-Hotel poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Spione im Savoy-Hotel

1932

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Kabarett-Programm Nr. 2

1931

Hans in Luck poster
8.0

Brothers Grimm adaptation. The story follows Hans, who, after seven years of service, is rewarded with a large lump of gold. As he travels home, he trades the gold for a horse, the horse for a cow, then a pig, a goose, and finally a grindstone. Despite losing the immense value of his initial payment, Hans feels increasingly free and happy, ultimately dropping the heavy stone into a well and rejoicing in having no burdens.

Hans in Luck

1936

Once I Loved a Girl in Vienna poster
8.0

A musical about love that spans the period before and after the Great War in the Austro-Hungarian empire.

Once I Loved a Girl in Vienna

1931

If I Were King poster
10.0

It is the dream of the fitter Heinrich Berger to be lord king … the general director of the auto plant where he works; and, in fact, he is put into that very position one day by the main shareholders of the company. With his invention of a new car engine, he manages to remove all the firm’s financial difficulties. In the end, the Lord King marries his secretary.

If I Were King

1934

The Office Manager poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Office Manager

1931

Love in Uniform poster
7.0

On the eve of the Great War, a cavalry captain who despises the opposite sex falls in love with a wealthy young lady.

Love in Uniform

1932

Girls For Sale! poster
9.0

A nightclub in Buenos Aires is advertising for blonde women for glamorous jobs.

Girls For Sale!

1931

Sacred Waters poster
10.0

For centuries, the water supply of a mountain village has depended on an endangered, wooden water pipe. The young engineer Josi blows a channel in the rock. After initial resistance, the villagers are excited about it. The film was based on a novel by Jakob Christoph Heer.

Sacred Waters

1932

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die Nacht im Forsthaus

1933

1920s · 17 titles

The Burning Soil poster
6.3

When 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.

The Burning Soil

1922

Warning Shadows poster
6.6

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 marriage by giving all the guests a vision what might happen tonight if the baron stays jealous and the suitors do not reduce their advances towards his beautiful wife. Or was it a vision?

Warning Shadows

1923

The Countess of Paris poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Countess of Paris

1923

Die Puppe vom Lunapark poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die Puppe vom Lunapark

1925

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Die Dame und ihr Friseur

1922

No artwork available
9.0

An overly trusting young man inherits the fortune of his great uncle and his scheming relatives plot to get their hands on the money.

Der Dummkopf

1921

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der Stolz der Kompagnie

1926

O alte Burschenherrlichkeit poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

O alte Burschenherrlichkeit

1925

The Tragedy of Love poster
7.0

The husband of Countess Manon Moreau is found murdered. André Rabatin, who belongs to the same club as Count Moreau, is the suspect. Rabatin, a old-school gentleman, affirms his innocence to the widow and claims that the death of the count must have been a tragic accident. Manon believes Rabatin and begins to fall in love with him. But Rabatin himself suspects that she has murdered her husband.

The Tragedy of Love

1923

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Aufstieg der kleinen Lilian

1925

Die Abenteuerin von Monte Carlo poster
7.0

Major industrialist Rimay fights a ruthless economic rivalry with competitor de Jong. The villainous Rimay tries to steal de Jong's Moroccan mines by inciting local Rif kabyles to rebel. Ellen Richter stars as Zoraja, navigating the high-stakes corporate and international conflict.

Die Abenteuerin von Monte Carlo

1921

The Story of a Maid poster
10.0

A young naive country girl moves to Berlin to become a maid for the dubious family of Baron von Birthal.

The Story of a Maid

1921

No artwork available
10.0

Weapons manufacturer Robert Cors was injured in an explosion at his factory: a piece of shrapnel lodged itself in his brain. After surgery and a long rehabilitation process, a "quirk" became apparent: Cors suddenly found himself unable to lie!

Die Welt will belogen sein

1926

No artwork available
8.0

a silent movie by Robert Wiene

The Doll Maker of Kiang-Ning

1923

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Die Dame aus Berlin

1925

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Wenn Du eine Tante hast

1925

Das Floß der Toten poster
7.0

Film by Carl Boese.

Das Floß der Toten

1921

1910s · 4 titles

Behind the camera