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1. Metropolis (1927)
Not Rated | 153 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge
Votes: 186,024 | Gross: $1.24M
2. Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922)
Not Rated | 242 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Arch-criminal Dr. Mabuse sets out to make a fortune and run Berlin. Detective Wenk sets out to stop him.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Aud Egede-Nissen, Gertrude Welcker, Alfred Abel
Votes: 9,200
3. Mary (1931)
78 min | Mystery, Thriller
A juror in a murder trial, after voting to convict, has second thoughts and begins to investigate on his own before the execution.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Alfred Abel, Olga Tschechowa, Paul Graetz, Lotte Stein
Votes: 998
4. L'Argent (1928)
195 min | Drama, Romance
The business tycoon Nicolas Saccard is nearly ruined by his rival Gunderman, when he tries to raise capital for his company. To push up the price of his stock, Saccard plans a publicity ... See full summary »
Director: Marcel L'Herbier | Stars: Brigitte Helm, Marie Glory, Pierre Alcover, Yvette Guilbert
Votes: 1,158
5. Congress Dances (1931)
85 min | Comedy, History, Musical
Vienna glove-sales-lady Christl falls in love to Czar Alexander. Metternich tries to use this to keep him out of the conferences of the Vienna Congress from 1815.
Director: Erik Charell | Stars: Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch, Otto Wallburg, Conrad Veidt
Votes: 601
6. Finances of the Grand Duke (1924)
Not Rated | 80 min | Comedy
The likeable and carefree Grand Duke of Abacco is in dire straits. There is no money left to service the State's debt; the main creditor is looking forward to expropriating the entire Duchy... See full summary »
Director: F.W. Murnau | Stars: Harry Liedtke, Mady Christians, Robert Scholtz, Alfred Abel
Votes: 981
7. Phantom (1922)
Not Rated | 125 min | Drama, Romance
A shiftless young man becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman and yearns to find her again.
Director: F.W. Murnau | Stars: Alfred Abel, Frida Richard, Aud Egede-Nissen, Hans Heinrich von Twardowski
Votes: 1,960
8. The Burning Soil (1922)
98 min | Drama
When farmer Rog dies, his son Peter stays, but Johannes can not be satisfied with such a condition (and servant Maria's love) and finds a job as old Count Rudenberg's secretary. His ... See full summary »
Director: F.W. Murnau | Stars: Werner Krauss, Eugen Klöpfer, Vladimir Gajdarov, Eduard von Winterstein
Votes: 783
9. Die Koffer des Herrn O.F. (1931)
80 min | Comedy
In the very oldfashioned town of Ostend suddenly 13 suitcases are delivered to the hotel, with a note, that O.F. will be here soon and needs 6 rooms (the hotel just has five). This event, ... See full summary »
Director: Alexis Granowsky | Stars: Alfred Abel, Peter Lorre, Harald Paulsen, Ludwig Stössel
Votes: 130
10. Mad Love (1921)
82 min | Drama
Richard De La Croix has a brother, Andreas, who has been driven insane by a notorious vamp and socialite named Sappho. A man-about-town named Teddy takes Richard to the Odeon to meet her, ... See full summary »
Director: Dimitri Buchowetzki | Stars: Pola Negri, Johannes Riemann, Alfred Abel, Albert Steinrück
Votes: 161
11. Laster der Menschheit (1927)
Drama
Tamara becomes addicted to cocaine but hides from her daughter by moving in with the dealer Mangol. The father tells his daughter that her mother has died, but years later the daughter ... See full summary »
Director: Rudolf Meinert | Stars: Asta Nielsen, Werner Krauss, Alfred Abel, Elizza La Porta
Votes: 17
12. Dope (1932)
107 min | Drama
A man returns from South America to Germany and finds his sister has developed a cocaine habit. The drug is having adverse effects on her health, but he has to outsmart the drug pushers ... See full summary »
Director: Kurt Gerron | Stars: Hans Albers, Gerda Maurus, Peter Lorre, Lucie Höflich
Votes: 34
13. Die Buddenbrooks (1923)
84 min | Drama
Saga of the Buddenbrook family and their business, set in 19th century Germany.
Director: Gerhard Lamprecht | Stars: Peter Esser, Mady Christians, Alfred Abel, Hildegard Imhof
Votes: 25
14. Dolly macht Karriere (1930)
87 min | Musical
Musical vehicle for up and coming Dolly Haas, as a would be actress with a would be composer boyfriend. She sings,at one point, that she has the walk of (Lilian) Harvey, the mouth of Garbo and the legs of Dietrich.
Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Dolly Haas, Oskar Karlweis, Grete Natzler, Vicky Werckmeister
Votes: 16
15. Viennese Waltz (1932)
103 min
Director: Conrad Wiene | Stars: Michael Bohnen, Lee Parry, Paul Hörbiger, Gretl Theimer
Votes: 6
16. Narkose (1929)
Drama
Director: Alfred Abel | Stars: Renée Héribel, Jack Trevor, Alfred Abel, Fritz Alberti
Votes: 16
17. Intoxication (1919)
60 min | Drama
Gaston finally succeeds as a dramatist and decides to leave his wife and child for another woman. When the child dies, the finger is pointed at him and he winds up as a destitute before all is revealed.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Asta Nielsen, Alfred Abel, Grete Diercks, Rudolf Klein-Rhoden
Votes: 24
18. The Flame (1923)
43 min | Short, Drama
In 19th century Paris a hedonistic woman marries an aristocrat but has trouble keeping faithful to him.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Pola Negri, Hermann Thimig, Alfred Abel, Hilde Woerner
Votes: 55
19. 1914, die letzten Tage vor dem Weltbrand (1931)
112 min | Drama
Dramatization of the lead up to the First World War blames Czarist Russia rather than Wilhelmine Germany for precipitating "the burning of the world."
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: Albert Bassermann, Hermann Wlach, Wolfgang von Schwindt, Robert Hartberg
Votes: 41
20. The Burning Secret (1933)
92 min | Drama
A boy and his mother stay in a hotel near a lake where they meet a fascinating man.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Alfred Abel, Hilde Wagener, Hans Joachim Schaufuß, Lucie Höflich
Votes: 131
21. Cagliostro - Liebe und Leben eines großen Abenteurers (1929)
58 min | Horror, Thriller
Cagliostro, an Italian adventurer rises through the French aristocracy on account of his magical tricks, medical knowledge and ability to foretell the future. When he falls from grace after... See full summary »
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: Hans Stüwe, Renée Héribel, Alfred Abel, Ivan Koval-Samborsky
Votes: 143
22. A Modern Du Barry (1926)
Drama
Made in Germany, set in France and pitched to attract international markets, this frothy drama features Korda's first wife María Corda, star of the Austrian silent screen, as Toinette, a ... See full summary »
Director: Alexander Korda | Stars: María Corda, Alfred Abel, Friedrich Kayßler, Gyula Szöreghy
Votes: 25
23. Giftgas (1929)
87 min | Drama
An idealistic young chemist discovers a compound that can be used for the production of an effective deadly poisonous gas. Against his will a chemical factory begins production of the poison gas to increase the value of their shares.
Director: Mikhail Dubson | Stars: Hans Stüwe, Lissy Arna, Alfred Abel, Fritz Kortner
Votes: 18
24. Lola Montez (1918)
Drama
Dancer Lola Montez is the star of Madrid's theaters. All the important men are after her, among them the English ambassador. But the leader of the "Carlist - Movement", a gang of desperados... See full summary »
Director: Robert Heymann | Stars: Alfred Abel, Leopoldine Konstantin, Helga Lassen, Bodo Serp
25. Grausige Nächte (1921)
83 min
The young Evelyne lives with a man, her fiancee Frank, with whom she has a child. But her fiancee is a rundown drunk constantly hanging over the bottle. Evelyne wants to leave Frank.
Director: Lupu Pick | Stars: Edith Posca, Alfred Abel, Arnold Korff, Adele Sandrock
Votes: 12
26. Dancing Vienna (1927)
Passed | Fantasy, Music, Romance
A cabaret singer in Germany is in love with a young American boy, and must convince his disapproving father that she is worthy of his son.
Director: Frederic Zelnik | Stars: Lya Mara, Ben Lyon, Alfred Abel, Eugen Burg
27. Das Hofkonzert (1936)
85 min | Comedy, Romance
To Immendingen Principality travels Christine Holm, daughter of a singer, to find her unknown father. The Prince is awaiting a replacement singer for the annual concert. Chistine meets ... See full summary »
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Mártha Eggerth, Johannes Heesters, Kurt Meisel, Herbert Hübner
Votes: 238
28. My Wife, the Adventuress (1931)
91 min | Comedy
A mousy bank clerk is married to an ambitious woman.
Director: Kurt Gerron | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Käthe von Nagy, Fritz Grünbaum, Hermann Vallentin
Votes: 29
29. The Art of Love (1928)
70 min | Drama
Director: Robert Land | Stars: Hermann Böttcher, Walter Rilla, Georg Alexander, Carmen Boni
Votes: 20
30. Die Prinzessin Suwarin (1923)
Drama
Two passenger ships dock in the port of Hamburg. Aboard the one is the Russian princess Suwarin, who has fled from the Bolshevik homeland into German exile, while the millionaire Cyrus ... See full summary »
Director: Johannes Guter | Stars: Lil Dagover, Heinrich Schroth, Xenia Desni, Alfred Abel
31. Strauss, the Waltz King (1928)
Drama
The relationship between Austrian father and son composers: Johann Strauss I and Johann Strauss II.
Director: Conrad Wiene | Stars: Alfred Abel, Hermine Sterler, Imre Ráday, Willy Schmieder
32. Mann über Bord (1921)
Barker and Graham are competitors in a sailing regatta, but they are also competitors of the beautiful Ethel. She loves Barker, the gambler, but when he gambles away his fortune, she marries Graham, his creditor.
Director: Karl Grune | Stars: Alfred Abel, Grit Hegesa, Erich Kaiser-Titz, Guido Herzfeld
33. Maria, die Magd (1936)
88 min | Drama
An actress and her lawyer husband are so busy that their maid becomes the real mother to their six year old boy and at one point causes consternation by taking the child away to her home village.
Director: Veit Harlan | Stars: Hilde Körber, Hilde Hildebrand, Alfred Abel, Hans Schlenck
Votes: 8
34. Rasputins Liebesabenteuer (1928)
60 min | Drama, History
Portrays the deep intrigue and mystical fanaticism of the last days of the Romanoffs, when Rasputin, the mad monk had such a hold over them.
Director: Martin Berger | Stars: Nikolai Malikoff, Diana Karenne, Erwin Kalser, Alexander Murski
Votes: 28
35. Die Frau ohne Seele (1920)
Director: Léo Lasko | Stars: Alfred Abel, Kurt Ehrle, Werner Krauss, Marga Köhler
36. Es werde Licht! 4. Teil: Sündige Mütter (1918)
About unwanted pregnancies and abortions as a result of unprotected sexual intercourse.
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: Alfred Abel, Reinhold Schünzel, Conrad Veidt, Auguste Pünkösdy
37. Das Geheimnis von Bombay (1921)
Director: Artur Holz | Stars: Alfred Abel, Louis Brody, Hermann Böttcher, Lil Dagover
38. The Gala Performance (1932)
80 min | Comedy, Crime, Musical
Director: Frederic Zelnik | Stars: Alfred Abel, Reinhold Bernt, Leonard Steckel, Karl Harbacher
Votes: 44
39. Jonny stiehlt Europa (1932)
100 min | Comedy
Directors: Harry Piel, Andrew Marton | Stars: Harry Piel, Dary Holm, Alfred Abel, Margarete Sachse
Votes: 25
40. Menschen untereinander (1926)
108 min | Drama
The "people among us" are Berlin building tenants, a cross section of late 20s society.Among them: a government assessor and his wife,who gives birth while in prison, and a flighty landlady who is swindled by a diamond seller.
Director: Gerhard Lamprecht | Stars: Alfred Abel, Aud Egede-Nissen, Eduard Rothauser, Renate Brausewetter
Votes: 71
41. Everything for a Woman (1935)
Drama
A British industrialist offers a job to a German who kindly rescued him when they were pilots on opposite sides of the Great War, but his wife becomes attracted to the foreigner.Complications ensue.
Director: Alfred Abel | Stars: Gustav Diessl, Charlotte Susa, Harry Frank, Hans Kettler
Votes: 12
42. Der Herr Bürovorsteher (1931)
85 min | Comedy
Director: Hans Behrendt | Stars: Felix Bressart, Hermann Thimig, Maria Meissner, Julia Serda
43. Tragödie einer Ehe (1927)
Drama
A jealous husband leaves jail to find his wife loves his counsel.
Director: Maurice Elvey | Stars: Isobel Elsom, Alfred Abel, Paul Richter, Eduard von Winterstein
44. Die Frau im Feuer (1924)
Dancing, sports and erotic pursuits are the main ingredients in this drama about the fate of this scorned and abandoned woman, Josefine, who falls for the selfish Fennhofer.
Director: Carl Boese | Stars: Asta Nielsen, Alfred Abel, Gregori Chmara, Helene von Bolvary
45. Manolescu, der Fürst der Diebe (1933)
Comedy, Crime
Directors: Georg C. Klaren, Willi Wolff | Stars: Iván Petrovich, Alfred Abel, Ellen Richter, Mady Christians
46. Colomba (1918)
50 min | Drama
Colomba is an elegant femme fatale who keep the men surrounding her busy with expectations and romantic fantasies.
Director: Arzén von Cserépy | Stars: Erna Morena, Alfred Abel, Maria Forescu, Hilde Garden
47. Unter Ausschluß der Öffentlichkeit (1937)
96 min
Director: Paul Wegener | Stars: Olga Tschechowa, Iván Petrovich, Sabine Peters, Alfred Abel
Votes: 9
48. Die weißen Rosen (1916)
Drama. When Hedda is about to appear on stage in Ostende she borrows a piece of jewelry from her fiancé, de Rochord. When a gang of thieves steals it, he calls off the engagement, but Hedda... See full summary »
Director: Urban Gad | Stars: Asta Nielsen, Ernst Hofmann, Max Landa, Mary Scheller
Votes: 15
49. Das Opfer der Ellen Larsen (1921)
Director: Paul L. Stein | Stars: Alfred Abel, Willy Kaiser-Heyl, Arnold Korff, Marija Leiko
50. Der Bankkrach unter den Linden (1926)
Director: Paul Merzbach | Stars: Alfred Abel, Hans Albers, Oreste Bilancia, Ferdinand Bonn