Valy Arnheim

Historical drama portraying the life of German baroque architect Andreas Schlüter.

Rather coarse, pre-War comedy about a Markgraf -- Heinrich XXVI -- who bathes in the springs of the Ammendorf to strengthen his potency. The town and its springs are especially well known for the many couples with lots of children, who, for tax reasons, live there unmarried. The town smithy and bully provides his vitality to ensure the countess has an heir for the throne.

Séraphine and her mother arrive in Paris to visit the 1867 World Exhibition. In an overcrowded city they must be accommodated in separate hotels. During the night the mother, who wasn't feeling very well, gets suddenly worse. When next morning Séraphine goes to meet her every trace of her presence has disappeared and everybody denies having ever met her. The bewildered young woman must find someone who believes her. Previous version of So Long at the Fair (1950).

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Moritz Stiefel faces expulsion due to poor marks. When he is caught with an essay titled “Shame and Lust”, he is indeed kicked out – instead of classmate Melchior Gabor, who actually penned it. Gabor was drawing on his experiences with neighbourhood girl Wendla. Then Wendla turns up pregnant. Stiefel descends into despair ... Exploitation between Eros and Thanatos in this “sexual tragedy of youth” based on Frank Wedekind’s play. Setting the film in the 1920s provided a chance to explore “modern” youth culture, complete with cigarettes, jazz music, the gramophone, and a goodly bit of alcohol. Richard Oswald, a master of films of manners and young sex beginning in the 1910s, fully explores the temptations of the youthful body, even early childhood flirtatiousness. At the same time, with his target audience in mind, the film laments the bigotry and double standards of the adult world.

Story of German medical missionaries helping the natives in Africa.

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A pretty girl helps a popular Berlin policeman solve the murders of a woman he knew and the crooked banker the victim worked for.

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Nazi historical drama about Duke Karl Alexander of Württemberg and his treasurer Süß Oppenheimer.

After the events of Der Tiger von Eschnapur, Maharadscha Chandra is ready to execute his well-planned vengeance, in which German architect Peter Fürbringer, his fiancée Irene and his assistant will have to fight for their lives amidst a revolt fueled by traitor Prinz Ramigani.

Legendary, immortal nobleman Baron Munchausen regales a lovestruck woman with tales of his amazing adventures.

One of the last of the silent Sherlock films.

Otto, a feckless Everyman, tries to adjust to the postwar travails of his defeated nation. Stymied by black-market profiteers and government bureaucrats, Otto begins fantasizing about a happier life at the end of that ever-elusive rainbow.

It's a movie about the story of The Brave Little Tailor

Shortly after the outbreak of World War I August 1914, Eastern Front. The Russian surprise attack on the northeasternmost part of the country causes serious problems for the German defenders.

Because his future wife abandoned him shortly before the wedding, an old baron has decided that he doesn't want any women near him anymore. The daughter of the flaky woman decides to take it upon herself to get the baron and her mother back together again and dresses up as a gypsy boy to use music from "his" violin to soften the baron's heart ...

The film portrays the life of the Heidelberg-born Elizabeth Charlotte, Princess Palatine, who married into the French royal family during the reign of Louis XIV.

About how the British broke the Brazilian monopoly on natural rubber. The storyline suggests a complex relation between adventure, military conquest and imperialism.

The daughter of a wealthy art dealer is blackmailed, and then his former wife is found dead in a Paris hotel.One of the four suspects turns out to be actually a police detective.

Based on a 1932 novel City of Anatol by Bernhard Kellermann. The film is set in a small city in the Balkans, where the discovery of oil leads to a major boom.

In an imaginary Scandinavian country, an ambitious radical buys an indebted estate in order to become a member of parliament as a local resident, which he ultimately succeeds in doing. Salvation in the party turmoil comes in the form of a military dictatorship under the determined Governor General Werkonen. The new member of parliament arranges for an assassination attempt on the general. However, the general is only slightly injured in the attack. The hired assassin now feels betrayed by his client and takes revenge by murdering him...

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Harry Hill auf Welle 1000 (Harry Hill on Wave 1000) is the title of a silent crime drama from the “Harry Hill” series, which Valy Arnheim produced in 1926 based on a script by Curt J. Braun in his own production company, “Valy Arnheim-Film Richard Spelling,” with himself in the lead role of the energetic detective. The title is formulated in reference to the station announcements common in the early days of radio, such as “Berlin auf Welle 400” (Berlin on Wave 400).

Harry Hill auf Welle 1000 (Harry Hill on Wave 1000) is the title of a silent crime drama from the “Harry Hill” series, which Valy Arnheim produced in 1926 based on a script by Curt J. Braun in his own production company, “Valy Arnheim-Film Richard Spelling,” with himself in the lead role of the energetic detective. The title is formulated in reference to the station announcements common in the early days of radio, such as “Berlin auf Welle 400” (Berlin on Wave 400).