Maria Matray

Writing

Maria Matray

Born — Died

1907-07-14 — 1993-10-30

Place of birth

Niederschönhausen, German Empire [now Niederschönhausen, Berlin, Germany]

Known for

Writing

Credits

28 titles

German screenwriter, actress, and choreographer.

Known for

Film credits

1930s · 13 titles

The Ringer poster
5.1

A shifty lawyer is threatened with death within two days by a criminal who supposedly died in Australia.

The Ringer

1932

The High Tourist poster
10.0

Romantic exploits in Germany's White Mountains.

The High Tourist

1931

A Man with Heart poster
10.0

A story about a series of confusions, in which Paul Ritter, a bank employee, is unaware that the girl he's fallen in love with is the daughter of his boss. No one bothers to tell him and he gets jealous of the boss, who seems to have a very good relationship with the girl.

A Man with Heart

1932

Never Trust a Woman poster
9.0

A sailor falls for a music hall performer with marital problems, after having been at sea a long 12 years, only to learn the distressing news that she is his own sister.

Never Trust a Woman

1930

No artwork available
7.0

Simultaneously shot German version of Italian Terra Madre: A young aristocrat, planning to spend time in town, returns to sell his farmland to a modernizing new owner, thus threatening the welfare of the peasants who work for him.

Do you know the country

1931

The Son of the White Mountain poster
5.3

The mountain guide and ski instructor Hans Turri has been hired by the tourist Gregory Milacz to make a route in the mountains. Both are caught by a storm, so while Milacz is waiting at the Concordia Hut, Turri returns to the valley again. On the way back, Milacz has disappeared. Suspicions turn against Turri as a murder suspect for the jealousy he might have for the beautiful Mary Dulac. To get rid of the accusation of murder, Turri sets out to find Milacs. There is a French version of the film (Les chevaliers de la montagne), shot the same year by the same team but with different actors.

The Son of the White Mountain

1930

Stormy Night poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Stormy Night

1931

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

The Isle of Lies poster
9.0

A country girl, mistaken for the niece of an American millionaire, wins the prize in a toothpaste contest, a trip to the Baltic seashore.

The Isle of Lies

1932

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Aus einer kleinen Residenz

1932

No artwork available
8.0

Musical comedy set in the scenic Rhine country, in which dashing officers and enlisted men pursue various kinds of women.

Zapfenstreich am Rhein

1930

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Secret Agent

1932

Elisabeth of Austria poster
7.0

Elisabeth of Austria is a German movie with Lil Dagover as royalty Elisabeth who has many men to choose from.

Elisabeth of Austria

1931

1920s · 5 titles

Behind the camera

Die schöne Lügnerin poster
6.4

In 1815 Vienna, a corsetmaker falls in love with a valet.

Die schöne Lügnerin

1959

No artwork available
7.0

Harry Domela lives well, when he poses as a prince.

Der Fall Harry Domela

1965

Hotel Royal poster
8.3

No synopsis available yet.

Hotel Royal

1969

Mein Vater, der Schauspieler poster
7.0

Because Diva Christine believes that her husband is cheating on her, she hurtles away and dies. Only the little son prevents the widower from committing suicide.

Mein Vater, der Schauspieler

1956

Die Nacht vor der Premiere poster
5.7

Carola Lorm, a celebrated revue star from South America, is not thrilled that her daughter Barbara wants to marry a young man from Hamburg. The weather there is just as chilly as the father-in-law-to-be, who turns out to be a snooty Hanseatic fruit merchant. When Carola follows the runaway couple to Germany, she also gets caught up in an intrigue involving drug smugglers. But with the help of an amorous detective, she is able to put a stop to the scoundrels and trick the ossified father-in-law into changing his mind.

Die Nacht vor der Premiere

1959

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Farewell Performance

1955

No artwork available
9.0

The Thorwald family is well-off and contented when a tragedy strikes: the father is killed in an accident. Miss Thorwald takes over the raising of her children, four girls and two boys with the youngest already fifteen years old. She manages to keep them together in spite of the fact that their economic situation deteriorates after World War I. Never one to look too critically upon her brood, the woman undergoes a moving and gradual transformation as the adult activities of her children bring home the fact that none of them are what she had once imagined.

The Happy Years of the Thorwalds

1962

Der Mann, der sich Abel nannte poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der Mann, der sich Abel nannte

1966

The Night of the Storm poster
7.0

Despised by her husband and son after an affair, Marianne moves in with her lover, an unsuccessful painter, until she is purified.

The Night of the Storm

1957

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Der König mit dem Regenschirm

1954