Walter Rilla

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. The marriage with Olga, Grand Duchess of Russia, would solve everything, but a crucial letter of hers about the engagement has been stolen... (imdb)

Amiable, unassertive Scott Mary picks up the trash, cleans the toilets, sweeps the floors in the town of Clifton. Then a gunfighter comes to town. He offers advice and guidance to Scott who quickly begins to toughen and mature, thus upsetting the balance of power in the town.

Leslie Howard plays Sir Percy Blakeney, an 18th century English aristocrat who leads a double life. He appears to be merely the effete aristocrat, but in reality is part of an underground effort to free French nobles from Robespierre's Reign of Terror. Based on the novel by Baroness Orczy. (imdb)

Back in England it is increasingly apparent that Fu Manchu is still operating. Smith is quick to detect that the execution he witnessed was that of a double, an actor hypnotised into taking Fu Manchu's place. The villain is back in London, working from a secret base underneath the River Thames. He has kidnapped the esteemed Professor Muller, who holds the key to a potentially deadly solution from the seeds of a rare Tibetan flower. (wikipedia)

Malpertuis is a labyrinth where characters issued from the Greek mythology are made prisoners by Cassavius (Orson Welles). He manages to keep them (as well as his nephew and niece) as prisoners even after his death, through a binding testament. As the nephew (played by Mathieu Carrière) unravels the mystery, we find out he cannot escape the house because Malpertuis is far more significant than we were led to believe. (imdb)

A ring of counterfeiters is flooding the country with phony money, and suspicion falls upon a wealthy playboy who may--or may not--have amnesia. (imdb)

A serial-killer is murdering the ladies of a night club. Detective Gray is seeking for the killer but can only find a lot of gangsters. And the killer is about to act again... (imdb)

A British colonial policeman in Africa investigates a murder in a hospital up river. (imdb)

A mineral is discovered which can turn metal to gold or humans into zombies. When the mineral is stolen, secret agents are sent in to get the mineral back! (imdb)

A British spy risks his life in Nazi occupied Algeria to retrieve a vital piece of film with details of a secret allied meeting.

Stevenson, a British soldier fluent in Rumanian and German, goes undercover to sabotage a German poison-gas factory. He turns himself into Jan Tartu, a member of the Rumanian Iron Guard. But when his contacts are destroyed, his cover may get him killed by the very underground he needs to succeed. (imdb)

A man is torn between tackling a sinister crime syndicate or turning a blind eye to the suffering it creates. (imdb)

A man called Major is in Cairo after being released from a German Prison. He is there to proceed with his plan to steal the jewelry from the King Tutankhamen exhibit at the national gallery. This plan has been on hold since he was jailed. He enlists the help of Willy, Ali, Nicodemos, Kerim and Kuchuk to carry out his detailed 'foolproof' plan... (imdb)

Color remake of "Victoria the Great", from the previous year. A biopic about the life of Britain's Queen Victoria.

A biopic about the life of Queen Victoria of Britain.

A scientist experimenting with suspended animation decides to use himself as a test subject. While he is frozen, his wife is murdered, and he becomes the primary suspect. (imdb)

American gambler Nick Cain arrives at the Mediterranean town of San Paola, and befriends an orphan Italian shoe-shine boy named Toni. He is puzzled by the reception and welcome he receives from the management of the casino until he finds he has been framed on a charge of murdering a U.S. Treasury Agent. He escapes with Kay Wonderly and they flee to a deserted village where he leaves Kay to hide out. (imdb)

Vienna, 1956. After Soviet tanks crush the Hungarian uprising, soldier-of-fortune Mike Reynolds is hired to help a threatened Hungarian scientist (Prof. Jansci) escape from Budapest. He and Julia, the professor's daughter, cross the boulder posing as journalists, but they encounter a problem. The staunch freedom fighter doesn't want to go! (imdb)

Dr. John Marlowe, an American surgeon, is contacted by the authorities of Vosnia, an Eastern European country. They ask him to operate on General Niva, the president dictator. The physician accepts the deal and performs the operation. Unfortunately Niva dies and the government, unwilling to let the people know about it, replaces Niva by a lookalike. Marlowe has now become a man who knows too much (Guy Bellinger)

Private detective Edward Mercer is hired to find a war-time Italian partisan in Venice and reward him for aiding the escape of am American during the war. The war hero is not what he seems, however. (BFI)

Buchanan plays John Forrest, top investigator for the Stamford Insurance Company. Retiring from the firm, Forrest intends to devote the rest of his life to writing detective fiction, but this plan goes out the window when his former employers are robbed of $1,000,000 in jewels belonging to foreign potentate Prince Homouska (Walter Rilla). (allmovie.com)

Rupp (Jannings) is a former butcher, made rich in the meat packing industry as a result of the reversal of fortunes brought on by WWI. He is crude, uncouth and uneducated. His son, Fred, is the apple of his father's eye and is an auto enthusiast. The widowed Rupp falls in love with a former aristocrat, Helen, now down on her luck and pawning her last heirloom. He proposes marriage and she accepts in order to save her ailing mother who needs a monetary influx to avoid death. (imdb)

A musical caberet singer meets a British agent and goes with him to Nazi Germany to save an atomic scientist. (imdb)

A German version of Sophus Michaëlis' play "Revolutionshochzeit" directed by Danish A. W. Sandberg.

Most of the story takes place on a cargo ship, slowly inching its way through treacherous waters with a cargo consisting of a top-secret poison gas. When the ship's intoxicated doctor reveals the nature of the cargo to a good-time girl in a foreign port, chaos ensues, culminating in the death of the treacherous doctor at the hands of the ship's three commanding officers: Englishman Falcon (Kim Peacock), Frenchman Lestallieur (Walter Rilla), and Russian Tomasov (Robert Newton). (allmovie.com)

The film starts with a woman on the run from her millionaire husband giving birth to a daughter in the home of a washerwoman. The woman dies in childbirth, but the baby survives. The washerwoman leaves the baby in a horsedrawn Parisian taxicab (No. 13). The paperwork of the birth is lost in a huge tome. Sixteen years pass. The tome is bought by a poor student. One day his bookshelf collapses, and the tome opens at the page where the paperwork has been hidden. (imdb)

A waiter in Moscow, pre-1914, leads his daughter into thinking he is prosperous businessman. (imdb)

An actor disguises himself as a soldier during the Second World War, but is mistaken for a soldier and becomes a war hero during the Allied Liberation of France in 1944.

An elderly executive and his young wife travel to the Riviera, where she will meet a young man and fall in love with him.

A French violinist saves his beloved princess from the Russian Revolution, of which his former tutor is the leader. (imdb)

Inspired by the life and death of Rosemarie Nitribitt, a famous German call girl whose death caused a large scandal in the press. (imdb)

A girl escapes from her strict Swiss school and heads for Florence.

An elderly Jew travels from Britain to pre-war Nazi Germany to find out what's really going on.

Count Orlof, one of Catherine of Russia's many overnight favourites, travels to Venice on her behalf to abduct Elizabeth Tarakanova, who has been laying claim to the throne from the Crimea. Once there, he finds the local charms of the Princess hard to resist.

Towards the end of the century an unusual boy grows up in the small wine-growing town of Etlville: he is Felix Krull, the son of a German vintner who prefers French champagne to his own product. As a women's favorite, he is driven toward a life of "bon vivant" rather than adapting to the social narrowness of a provincial city. Felix begins to experience his talents with his parents, his teachers, his godfather, Schimmelpreester, and finally, with his nanny Genoveva. (Filmaffinity)

A story of the Resistance during the Second World War. (imdb)

The troubled situation of a provincial actor and his actress wife who come to the city. The actor is suspected of attacking another actor who admires the actress.

A business tycoon spoils his young daughter, but his relationship with his wife leaves much to be desired.

Reaching 40, Elsie is watching her girl friends one by one taking a lover. She happens to meet young student Jörgen who is dazzled by her cosmopolitan air. Elsie wants to divorce her husband, but the age gap between Elsie and the student becomes an issue.

The mysterious Mrs. Erlynne is working hard to be introduced to London's high society. Lady Windermere is baffled when her husband invites the notorious woman, and in turn decides to elope with a suitor, Lord Darlington.