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The Indian Tomb: Part II, the Tiger of Bengal AKA Das indische Grabmal zweiter Teil – Der Tiger von Eschnapur (1921) Joe May, Olaf Fønss, Mia May, Conrad Veidt
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Homecoming AKA Heimkehr (1928) Joe May, Lars Hanson, Dita Parlo, Gustav Fröhlich
Following World War I, after a long imprisonment, two German prisoner-of-war soldiers Read More »
The Indian Tomb: Part I, the Mission of the Yogi AKA Das indische Grabmal erster Teil – Die Sendung des Yoghi (1921) Joe May, Olaf Fønss, Mia May, Conrad Veidt
First part of a serial spectacle, in which the unfaithful wife of a cruel Indian prince attempts to escape from his domination. Read More »
Society Smugglers (1939) Joe May, Preston Foster, Irene Hervey, Walter Woolf King
The Treasury Department plants a female agent in the office of a luggage company that is suspected of smuggling diamonds. Read More »
The House of the Seven Gables (1940) Joe May, George Sanders, Margaret Lindsay, Vincent Price
In 1828, the bankrupt Pyncheon family fight over Seven Gables, the ancestral mansion. Read More »
Music in the Air (1934) Joe May, Gloria Swanson, John Boles, Douglass Montgomery
Constantly quarreling couple decide to try the jealousy angle when a naive young couple comes along. Read More »
Ihre Majestät die Liebe / Her Majesty Love (1931) Joe May, Käthe von Nagy, Francis Lederer, Otto Wallburg, Comedy
Fred von Wellingen is a wealthy industrialist, part of a large family-owned corporation. Fred has fallen for Lia, a comely bartender in the Berlin Cabaret. Read More »
The House of Fear (1939) Joe May, William Gargan, Irene Hervey, Dorothy Arnold, Crime, Thriller, Drama, Mystery
A detective goes undercover as a producer to investigate an actor’s murder, which occurred during the performance of a play. Read More »
Asphalt (1929) Joe May, Albert Steinrück, Else Heller, Gustav Fröhlich, Drama
Joe May’s sensual drama of life in the Berlin underworld is in many ways the perfect summation of German filmmaking in the silent era: a dazzling visual style, a psychological approach to its characters, and the ability to take a simple and essentially melodramatic story and turn it into something more complex and inherently cinematic.
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Confession (1937) Joe May, Kay Francis, Basil Rathbone, Ian Hunter, Crime, Drama, Romance
Lisa (Jane Bryan) finds herself being forcefully wooed by Michael Michailow (Basil Rathbone), a concert pianist many years her senior. In a nightclub, she finally succumbs to a kiss, and the sight causes the cabaret singer, Vera Kowalska (Kay Francis), to faint. As Michael attempts to beat a hasty retreat, Vera shoots him. When Vera has her day in court, she initially refuses to testify. But eventually her reason for pulling the trigger – and the mystery of Michael’s identity – is revealed.
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