Felix Basch

Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get him safely out of the country.

A mystery writer is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose dead body was found washed up on the shore in Istanbul. He decides to follow the career of Dimitrios around Europe, in order to learn more about the man. Along the way he is joined by the mysterious Mr. Peters, who has his own motivation.

Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe.

Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.

A British bomber crew, including Australian and American, is shot down over Germany during a bombing run. The five make their way across a perilous Germany, intent on reaching the UK with the war secrets they have learned, battling Nazis along the way.

A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.

In occupied France, a convicted thief and murderer escapes the guillotine when a bombing raid strikes the prison, but is quickly re-captured by the inspector of the Surete responsible for his original arrest. Fearing the guillotine more than his actual death, the convict inveigles the inspector to help him with a plan to rescue 100 Frenchmen taken by the Gestapo following an act of sabotage: he will confess to being the saboteur and allow himself to be executed by firing squad, the Gestapo's method of execution, thus freeing the 100 men.

Women in Bondage is a 1943 World War II film about conditions for women under Hitler's regime. The plot involves two women imprisoned for speaking out against the government. It was directed by Steve Sekely and starred Gail Patrick and Nancy Kelly.

Subtitled The Fighting Guerillas, Chetniks tells the story of Serbian guerilla fighter General Dragoljub "Draža" Mihailović. Based on the General's own memoirs, the film depicts Mihailovitch (played here by Philip Dorn) as a selfless idealist, leading his resistance troops, known as the Chetniks, on one raid after another against the Germans during WW II.

Two industrialists disappear from an airplane while the plane is in the air. Also missing is $100,000. The Falcon investigates and discovers a plot against the government.

Through flashbacks going as far back as the end of WW1, the story of a Nazi war criminal is exposed during his trial.

The "war of nerves" which gripped the European continent in 1938, is the background for this war thriller starring George Sanders.

Foreign spies and police pursue an attractive Dutch spy throughout Peking.

A code expert working for Naval Intelligence is assigned to decode enemy messages despite his desire for active duty.

A team of ex-con bounty hunters go to Germany in search of Hitler. If they can find him, a million dollar reward is to be paid to them.

Two young men serving at the front. One comes from a good family, the other's family is poor. But the sister of the middle-class son falls in love with his poor comrade when he returns home for Christmas.

Max Allan, a visionary engineer persuades investors to fund building an undersea railway connecting France to the United States. But there are powerful forces who wants to stop his futuristic dream.

No synopsis available yet.

Film by Paul Leni and Felix Basch

No synopsis available yet.

No synopsis available yet.

No synopsis available yet.

No synopsis available yet.

No synopsis available yet.

No synopsis available yet.

No synopsis available yet.

The Girl on a Swing is a 1926 German silent film directed by Felix Basch and starring Ossi Oswalda, Harry Liedtke, and Lotte Lorring.

No synopsis available yet.

Opera style film in which a crook offers to change ties with a waiter, so he can escape. The waiter ends up getting involved with a rich American lady who takes him to Florida.

A loose adaptation of August Strindberg's Miss Julie. The daughter of a count witnesses her mother's increasing mental instability after being spurned by a lover.

Mia Verhag loses her job as a chorus singer when she rejects the advances of the theatre director. While she is in the grips of despair, she encounters the millionaire Roswolsky, who takes her to his luxurious house and gives her a key to the garden gate, allowing her to visit the surrounding park whenever she pleases. This chance meeting sends rumours flying everywhere, and soon Mia appears on the front pages of all the newspapers as Roswolsky’s mistress. The city’s merchants and creditors compete to lend her money, and she lands the leading role in the theatre’s new production. There, she falls in love with Count Albich – but, believing the rumours, he avoids her. Mia follows him to Monte Carlo, while Roswolsky himself falls genuinely in love with her and plots to take Albich out of the running. A grand drama is set to unfold.

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.

German adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”.

No synopsis available yet.

A stonemason who killed his landlord faces hardship trying to reintegrate into society after being released from prison.

No synopsis available yet.

A young married woman's attraction to a violinist sours as his behaviour grows more and more aggressive.

A tragedy of artistic life in Berlin.

Bruce Wilton, middle-aged, rich and famous, as a producer, has been rejected by Ada von Ruyt, a revue star. Finding an affection is developing between her and Longard, now down and out, he arranges to send the man to South America with a touring company. But again rejected by the woman he loves, he causes her to be supplanted by a rival, and in a passion dismisses his secretary, her old friend. The man, who has suffered much, shoots him. Longard, thinking Ada has fired the shot, attempts to take the blame, but the murderer commits suicide.

Film by Paul Leni and Felix Basch

No synopsis available yet.

No synopsis available yet.

A young woman marries a wealthy count she does not love, after she learns of her beau's flirtations with another woman.

No synopsis available yet.