The best Heinrich George’s movies

Heinrich George

Heinrich George

09/10/1893- 25/09/1946
Today we present the best Heinrich George’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 Heinrich George’s movies.
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Metropolis

Metropolis
8.3/10
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.

Jew Süss

Jew Süss
5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 24/09/1940
  • Character: Karl Alexander, Herzog von Württemberg
Produced by Terra Film at the behest of Joseph Goebbels, this costume melodrama was wildly successful in its day. A conniving, ambitious Jewish businessman, Süß Oppenheimer, snares a post as treasurer to the Duke of Wurttemburg by showering the corrupt duke with treasure and promises of even greater riches. Swayed by his silver-tongued treasurer, the Duke all but scuttles the constitution and alienates the assembly by lifting the local ban on Jews in Stuttgart. As Oppenheimer's schemes grow more elaborate and his actions more brazen, the dukedom nearly erupts into civil war.

Hitler Youth Quex

Hitler Youth Quex
5.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 10/09/1933
  • Character: Vater Völker
Nazi film based upon the life and death of Hitler Youth Heini Volker, killed while distributing flyers in a Communist neighborhood.

Kolberg

Kolberg
5.9/10
The fortified town of Kolberg, the last town in Pomerania still held by Prussian forces, holds out against a siege of French troops during the Napoleonic Wars. A Nazi propaganda piece intended to encourage Germans to resist the coming Allied forces.

Lucrezia Borgia

Lucrezia Borgia
6.7/10
  • Release: 20/10/1922
  • Character: Sebastiano
Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, has three adult children: Juan, who is virtuous and has a sweetheart who is a woman of the people, Lucrezia, who is virtuous and wants to marry Alfonso, and Cesare, who is wicked and lusts after Lucrezia, Juan's girlfriend, and probably others. Cesare has vowed to kill any suitor for Lucrezia's love, and he has three thugs to carry out his wishes. Bodies fall into the Tiber, into the Colosseum (with lions prowling), and onto the Vatican floors.

Dreyfus

Dreyfus
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 15/08/1930
  • Character: Émile Zola
In late nineteenth century Alfred Dreyfus, a French army officer of Jewish heritage, is falsely accused of espionage. Found guilty of treason he is drummed out of the army and sent to prison on Devil's Island.

Berlin Alexanderplatz

Berlin Alexanderplatz
6.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 07/10/1931
  • Character: Franz Biberkopf
Franz Biberkopf has served four years in prison. His return to normal life is not successful.

Der Biberpelz

Der Biberpelz
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 03/12/1937
  • Character: Amtsvorsteher Baron von Wehrhahn
In a district of a small, German principality, things are going haywire. And this, even though Baron von Wehrhahn, who is loyal to the prince, does everything possible to make “his Highness” popular. The only problem is, he’s always using his zeal on the wrong crowd. He always seems to see free-thinkers or revolutionaries in the harmless of citizens; but the really bad ones get to go on their way unmolested! For example, the old woman Wolff: she steals everything that isn’t nailed down, while her husband pursues unhampered poaching.

The Postmaster

The Postmaster
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 23/04/1940
  • Character: Der Postmeister
When two russian captains of cavalry came to a German post station one of them recalls what happened long time ago. He begins to tell the story: Ten years ago a comrade of them made a resting at the post station and fell in love with the station master's daughter. He promised everything to her and finally convinced her to come with him to St. Petersburg. When both arrived there she had to realize that her captain never had the intention to marry her.

Sensationsprozess Casilla

Sensationsprozess Casilla
6.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 21/09/1939
  • Character: M.Vandegrift, Rechtsanwalt

Ein Volksfeind

Ein Volksfeind
3.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 25/10/1937
  • Character: Dr. Hans Stockmann
Before the First World War, Dr. Hans Stockmann had a practice in a small town. His powerhungry brother is the mayor of Bad Trimburg, which has developed into a respectable resort. Dr. Stockmann is called in to become the town’s chief physician. He considers the sanitary conditions to be intolerable and insists on a clean-up. His ambitious brother and all those who, till now, have profited well from the corner cutting, are, of course, against that for financial reasons. The doctor is condemned from all sides and the conflict escalates.

Giorgio Moroder's Metropolis

Giorgio Moroder's Metropolis
  • Release: 10/08/1984
  • Character: Grot
In 1984, Academy Award winning composter Giorgio Moroder introduced Fritz Lang’s science fiction epic Metropolis to a new generation of moviegoers. Working in collaboration with film archives around the world, he supervised a special reconstruction of the film, with color tinting, fewer inter-titles, and newly restored footage. A pioneer in the field of digital music, Moroder backed this special edition with a throbbing new score, punctuated with pop songs from some of the biggest stars of the early MTV era: Freddie Mercury, Pat Benatar, Adam Ant, Bonnie Tyler, Loverboy and other.

Steuerlos

Steuerlos
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 13/04/1924

Homeland

Homeland
6.7/10
  • Release: 25/06/1938
  • Character: Leopold von Schwartze
In 1885, famous New York Metropolitan Opera singer Maddalena dall' Orto is scheduled to perform at a festival in the German residence of Ilmingen. It soon becomes obvious that she is non other than Magda von Schwartze, who left the town eight years ago against her father's wishes to become a singer.

Die Degenhardts

Die Degenhardts
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 11/08/1944
  • Character: Herr Degenhardt
A stuffy old civil servant is forced to retire during World War II, but when his son, a Navy submariner, is lost at sea and his city is heavily bombed by English bombers, his old patriotism is re-awakened and he determines to be of use to his country once again

The Stars Shine

The Stars Shine
6.3/10
  • Genre: Music
  • Release: 17/03/1938
  • Character: Gast
German all-star musical from 1938 that was a big commercial success.

Joan of Arc

Joan of Arc
6/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 26/04/1935
  • Character: Herzog von Burgund
France in the 15th Century: The country is marked by the wars with England and internal power struggles. King Charles sees himself powerless against the state. As emerges from the people suddenly a young woman named Johanna, who claimed that the Archangel Gabriel to be appointed, to save France. First of all doubt the king in their words, but he remembers that the people through this "help of God" is gaining new courage. With the slogan "God and the Virgin!" pulls the revivified victorious army into battle against the English-Burgundian alliance. After Johanna King Charles is crowned at Reims, there breaks the plague over the country in. Now Johanna all the blame on the disaster: God would punish believe in the country for that a heretic; if Johanna were actual a holy, she would deal also with the plague. The waning faith weakens France, England is again on the rise. But Johanna is executed as a witch. Only years later annulled the verdict of the Holy and Johanna explained.

Versprich mir nichts!

Versprich mir nichts!
6.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 20/08/1937
  • Character: Kunsthändler Felder

Lady Hamilton

Lady Hamilton
5.7/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 19/10/1921
  • Character: Kapitän

Soll und Haben

Soll und Haben
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 09/10/1924
  • Character: Hippus

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