The best Eric Pohlmann’s drama movies

Eric Pohlmann

Eric Pohlmann

18/07/1913- 25/07/1979
Today we present the best Eric Pohlmann’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Eric Pohlmann’s movies.
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Ashanti

Ashanti
5.4/10
Dr. Anansa Linderby is kidnapped in a medical mission in Africa by a slave trader. From this moment, her husband will do anything to recover her and to punish the bad guys, but that will be not an easy task.

Lust for Life

Lust for Life
7.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 15/09/1956
  • Character: Colbert
An intense and imaginative artist, revered Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh possesses undeniable talent, but he is plagued by mental problems and frustrations with failure. Supported by his brother, Theo, the tormented Van Gogh eventually leaves Holland for France, where he meets volatile fellow painter Paul Gauguin and struggles to find greater inspiration.

Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow

Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow
7.3/10
This Disney drama, originally broadcast as a three-part TV episode, tells the story of a vicar's double life. Outwardly, he is the model of upstanding citizenship and loyalty to an oppressive British government. But he is also a notorious smuggler who uses his ill-gotten gains to benefit his impoverished village.

State Secret

State Secret
7/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 11/09/1950
  • Character: Cable Car Conductor
Visiting in England, an American surgeon Doctor John Marlowe is decoyed to a middle European country, and discovers the operation he is to perform is on the Vosnian dictator. When the latter dies, he is replaced by a look-alike, but Marlowe then becomes the object of a shoot-to-kill, vicious pursuit by the secret police of Vosnia since it is vital to Vosnia that the dictator's death does not become known. Fleeing, he seeks help from an actress, Lisa Robinson, and the two are harried across the countryside.

Mogambo

Mogambo
6.6/10
Victor Marswell runs a big game trapping company in Kenya. Eloise Kelly is ditched there, and an immediate attraction happens between them. Then Mr. and Mrs. Nordley show up for their gorilla documenting safari. Mrs. Nordley is not infatuated with her husband any more, and takes a liking to Marswell. The two men and two women have some difficulty arranging these emotions to their mutual satisfaction, but eventually succeed.

I Accuse!

I Accuse!
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 05/03/1958
  • Character: Bertillon
Alfred Dreyfus, a German-Jewish captain serving in the French Army, is falsely accused of treason and made a scapegoat for military espionage in an act of institutional anti-Semitism. Sent to prison, he becomes a cause célèbre for the novelist Émile Zola, who dubs it the "Dreyfus Affair." Eventually, Dreyfus is pardoned when the military cover-up is made public, and he returns to France. But his name is forever tarnished by the accusations of treason.

Interpol

Interpol
6.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 02/04/1957
  • Character: Etienne Fayala
Spurred on by the death of his drug-addicted sister at the hands of ruthless narcotics kingpin Frank McNally, U.S. drug enforcement agent Charles Sturgis embarks on an investigation that takes him from New York to London, Lisbon, Rome, Naples and finally Athens in pursuit of McNally's shapely associate, Gina Broger.

Reach for the Sky

Reach for the Sky
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaHistoryWar
  • Release: 05/07/1956
  • Character: Adjutant of Prison Camp
The true story of airman Douglas Bader who overcame the loss of both legs in a 1931 flying accident to become a successful fighter pilot and wing leader during World War II.

The Clouded Yellow

The Clouded Yellow
6.9/10
After leaving the British Secret Service, David Somers (played by Trevor Howard) finds work cataloging butterflies at the country house of Nicholas and Jess Fenton. After the murder of a local gamekeeper, suspicion (wrongfully) falls on their niece, Sophie Malraux (Jean Simmons). Somers helps Sophie to escape arrest and they go on the run together. After a cross-country chase they arrive at a coastal city with the intention of leaving the country by ship. All's well that ends well after the true identity of the murderer is revealed.

A Tale of Two Cities

A Tale of Two Cities
7.1/10
British barrister Sydney Carton lives an insubstantial and unhappy life. He falls under the spell of Lucie Manette, but Lucie marries Charles Darnay. When Darnay goes to Paris to rescue an imprisoned family retainer, he becomes entangled in the snares of the brutal French Revolution and is himself jailed and condemned to the guillotine. But Sydney Carton, in love with a woman he cannot have, comes up with a daring plan to save her husband.

The Man Who Watched Trains Go By

The Man Who Watched Trains Go By
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/12/1952
  • Character: Goin
A meek teller thinks he's killed his boss. He flees with a box of cash hoping for a new life with his younger mistress.

The Horsemen

The Horsemen
6.2/10
In the poor, desolate northern provinces of the mountainous feudal Sunni kingdom of Afghanistan (before the Soviet-engineered republican revolutions), the status of the proud men and their clans is determined less by wealth or even military power (both rare) then by victories in the ancient, though game of buskashi, a vicious form of polo dating back to Genghis Khan, in which the chapendaz (participating horsemen) use their horse-whips on both mounts and rivals in a ruthless fight for a heavy 'ball', a dead calf, which must be carried a long way, almost impossible with all the others mercilessly assailing. Tursen, a former champion, now holds the status of village notable thanks to his position as stable-keeper of the regional lord Osman Bey, and has finally bred a horse without equal, the white stallion Jahil, in time for the royal tournament on the plain of Bagrami, just outside the capital Kabul...

The Singer Not the Song

The Singer Not the Song
6.2/10
  • Genre: DramaWestern
  • Release: 05/01/1961
  • Character: Presidente
A Roman Catholic priest defies a Mexican bandit whose gang kills villagers in alphabetical order.

The Woman's Angle

The Woman's Angle
5.8/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 12/02/1952
  • Character: Steffano
The organising force of a family of musical prodigies, Robert Mansell is a frustrated composer in seach of one thing personal happiness. This search, however, has landed him in the divorce courts and the judge's summary does not paint him in a favourable light.

The Long Dark Hall

The Long Dark Hall
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 06/02/1951
  • Character: Mr Polaris
A devoted family man tries to help a beautiful alcoholic showgirl with her life, and becomes the the only suspect when someone else murders her.

The Man Inside

The Man Inside
5.8/10
A detective tracking a stolen gem begins to suspect there's more to the case than just theft.

House of Secrets

House of Secrets
6.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 23/10/1956
  • Character: Gratz
Police in Paris recruit an English ship's officer (Michael Craig) to help trap counterfeiters by joining them.

Fire Down Below

Fire Down Below
6/10
Tony and Felix own a tramp boat, and sail around the Caribbean doing odd jobs and drinking a lot. They agree to ferry the beautiful but passportless Irena to another island. They both fall for her, leading to betrayal and a break-up of their partnership. Tony takes a job on a cargo ship. After a collision he finds himself trapped below deck with time running out (the ship is aflame), and only Felix, whom he hates and has sworn to kill, left to save him.

A Prize of Gold

A Prize of Gold
6/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 14/10/1955
  • Character: Hans Fischer
A U.S. sergeant (Richard Widmark), a British sergeant and a British pilot (Nigel Patrick) hijack gold for a German refugee's (Mai Zetterling) war orphans.

Chance of a Lifetime

Chance of a Lifetime
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 24/04/1950
  • Character: Xenobian
The workers in a small plough factory take over the firm, but when a large order falls through, the old management come back to help out.

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