Movies: Ralph Arthur Roberts

As a young man, mustard manufacturer Ludwig Klinke had an affair with a dancer, the “Spanish Fly”. The dancer had a son and Klinke has been secretly paying maintenance ever since. Wimmer and Tiedemeier also had a relationship with the dancer. With th...

Based on the play Der Erdgeist by Frank Wedekind....

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....

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Four-generation story-saga dealing with the decline of a middle-class Lübeck family. The first adaptation of a Thomas Mann book was also Gerhard Lamprecht’s first major film....

Simultaneously made French version of "Einbrecher": A wealthy old husband looks for the successor for his young wife.A devious gentleman burglar is one possibility he toys with....

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Remake of a silent Lubitsch: A country girl right out of high school graduates to a place in her aunt's Leipzig garment business, then to a more glamorous such store in Berlin, and finally into a palace....

When a travelling troupe threatens to unleash a saucy Berlin revue on the provincial town of Emilsburg, the local Morality Society, a band of sanctimonious middle-aged men, stages a protest. Meanwhile, the reigning monarch is concerned that his son a...

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The seamstresses Franzi and Mizzi have opened up a small shop in a suburb of Vienna. Mizzi is of the opinion, however, that her friend could have a much better life if only she'd marry Karl, the son of the landlord, who has been hot for her for quit...

Paris, 1830: Jean-Gaspard Debureau performs on the stage and delights his audience with song, wit and charm. He is, however, very unpopular with King Charles X, who is the target of much of Debureau's scornful jests. That would be a somewhat toler...

During a concert tour, famous tenor Riccardo Gatti meets Lixie at an Aida rehearsal and takes her for a ballet dancer. She is in fact trying to get a position for her boyfriend, so she accepts Gatti's date for supper. When she runs away he publishes ...

An elderly survivor of World War 1 is fed up with the situation in Germany so he tries to take it down. But he can't do it alone....

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The unemployed secretary Käte applies a job by mistake in the piano factory of the entrepreneur Helmut Hofert. He does not really have any need for an additional secretary at the moment, but Käte is very attractive....

The young wife of a rich old husband is prevented of a fling by a gentleman-burglar, who falls in love to her....

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

Adaptation of a French comedy, set in Paris, in which a lecherous man sets his sights on a beautiful married woman, whose husband is otherwise distracted....