The best Kurt Gerron’s drama movies
We present our ranking of the best Kurt Gerron’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Kurt Gerron.
The Blue Angel
7.7/10
Prim professor Immanuel Rath finds some of his students ogling racy photos of cabaret performer Lola Lola and visits a local club, The Blue Angel, in an attempt to catch them there. Seeing Lola perform, the teacher is filled with lust, eventually resigning his position at the school to marry the young woman. However, his marriage to a coquette -- whose job is to entice men -- proves to be more difficult than Rath imagined.
Diary of a Lost Girl
7.8/10
Thymian Henning, an innocent young girl, is raped by the clerk of her father's pharmacy. She becomes pregnant, is rejected by her family, and must fend for herself in a harsh, cruel world.
People on Sunday
7.3/10
A semi-documentary experimental 1930 German silent film created by amateurs with a small budget. With authentic scenes of the metropolis city of Berlin, it's the first film from the later famous screenwriters/directors Billy Wilder and Fred Zinnemann.
Das Frauenhaus von Rio
6.4/10
"Girls for Sale!" - White slavers lure young girls to Rio de Janeiro by promising them jobs as showgirls and nightclub singers, then force them into prostitution.
The Alley Cat
6.8/10
"The Alley Cat" - A man who thinks he killed a millionaire is cared for by a Cockney girl and becomes a composer.
Variety
7.4/10
The murderer “Boss” Huller – after having spent ten years in prison – breaks his silence to tell the warden his story.
Trapeze
6.8/10
Robby and Jim are two friends working in a circus. When Marina, a new acrobat, enters the show, both men will compete for her love. She needs a partner for a flying number, and one of them will be elected. Then accidents will happen.
Der Liebe Lust und Leid
White Hell of Pitz Palu
7.2/10
A man climbs a 12,000-foot mountain to search for his wife, who was lost on their honeymoon. Another couple makes the dangerous climb with him.
The Three from the Filling Station
6.5/10
Die Drei von der Tankstelle, meaning The Three from the Gas Station, was advertised as a German operetta when release and with it’s star studded cast would become the forerunner of Musical films. Even today the soundtrack of the comic harmonists is popular in Germany.
Bombs Over Monte Carlo
5.7/10
The captain of a battleship of a small Balkan country is fed up with following strange orders from the country's queen.
O alte Burschenherrlichkeit
The Golden Butterfly
4.8/10
A restaurant cashier, who has a mutual attraction to the restauranteur, has a secret passion for dance. As soon as she finishes work she is off down to the dance studio for a practice. She has a chance meeting with a handsome impresario, who promises to make her into the greatest dancer the world has ever known. (IMDb)
Love in the Ring
6.6/10
Accident
6.8/10
A tense vignette about the fate of an unlucky man in poverty-stricken Weimar-era Germany.
Benno Stehkragen
Die weiße Spinne
Eine Nacht im Grandhotel
7/10
Fritz is in love with artist Glay, who stays at the Grand Hotel. In spite of not having any money he gets to know her, invites her to supper and after dancing a tango even hires the royal suite. How will he get out of this is a mystery even to himself.
