The best Kurt Katch’s drama movies

Kurt Katch

Kurt Katch

28/01/1896- 14/08/1958
Today we present the best Kurt Katch’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 Kurt Katch’s movies.
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Mission to Moscow

Mission to Moscow
5.4/10
  • Genre: DramaHistoryWar
  • Release: 29/04/1943
  • Character: Gen. Semen Timoshenko (uncredited)
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.

Edge of Darkness

Edge of Darkness
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 09/04/1943
  • Character: German Captain
The film pivots around the local doctor and his family. The doctor's wife (Ruth Gordon) wants to hold on to the pretence of gracious living and ignore the occupiers. The doctor, Martin Stensgard (Walter Huston), would also prefer to stay neutral, but is torn. His brother-in-law, the wealthy owner of the local fish cannery, collaborates with the Nazis. The doctor's daughter, Karen (Ann Sheridan), is involved with the resistance and with its leader Gunnar Brogge (Errol Flynn). The doctor's son, has just returned to town, having been sent down from the university, and is soon influenced by his Nazi-sympathizer uncle. Captain Koenig (Helmut Dantine), the young German commandant of the occupying garrison, whose fanatic determination to do everything by the book and spoutings about the invincibility of the Reich hides a growing fear of a local uprising.

Casino Royale

Casino Royale
5.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 21/10/1954
  • Character: Zoltan
American spy James Bond must outsmart card wiz and crime boss LeChiffre while monitoring his actions.

The Conspirators

The Conspirators
6.5/10
A guerilla leader falls in love with a mysterious woman in World War II Lisbon.

The Mask of Dimitrios

The Mask of Dimitrios
7.2/10
A meek novelist investigates the mysterious death of a notorious scoundrel.

Background to Danger

Background to Danger
6.4/10
An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.

Song of Love

Song of Love
6.7/10
Composer Robert Schumann struggles to compose his symphonies while his loving wife Clara offers her support. Also helping the Schumanns is their lifelong friend, composer Johannes Brahms.

The Girl In The Kremlin

The Girl In The Kremlin
5/10
  • Genre: DramaMystery
  • Release: 10/04/1957
  • Character: Commissar
In Moscow 1953, four terrified women prisoners are brought before Joseph Stalin, who chooses the beautiful Dasha. He punishes her by shaving off her long hair. Moments later, a plastic surgeon leads Stalin into the operating room and transforms his face so that he is unrecognizable. He vanishes, but OSS agent Steve Anderson searches for him in Europe.

Salome, Where She Danced

Salome, Where She Danced
5.4/10
During the Austrian-Prussian war, Anna Marie is a dancer who is forced to flee her country after she is accused of being a spy. She ends up in a lawless western town in Arizona, where she uses her charms and dancing skills to transform herself into "Salome" during her dance routines.

Quiet Please, Murder

Quiet Please, Murder
6.4/10
A forger steals and kills for a rare book from a library in order to make forgeries to sell to rich suckers.

Strange Journey

Strange Journey
6.2/10
Reformed racketeer "Lucky" Leeds flees from the police when he thinks they are about to arrest him for a murder he didn't commit. He and his wife Patti fly to his privately-owned remote island and have to crash land. Also on the island is a group of shipwrecked people, including a German professor, his daughter, an English journalist, a wealthy widow, a sailor and a Nazi Agent.

The Seventh Cross

The Seventh Cross
7.4/10
In Nazi Germany in 1936 seven men escape from a concentration camp. The camp commander puts up seven crosses and, as the Gestapo returns each escapee he is put to death on a cross. The seventh cross is still empty as George Heisler seeks freedom in Holland.

The People of the Vistula

The People of the Vistula
4.7/10
A look at the lives of people who work on the barges and boats flowing across the Vistula River.

They Came to Blow Up America

They Came to Blow Up America
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 07/05/1943
  • Character: Schonzeit
Based on a true incident that occurred in 1942 when nine Nazi saboteurs were put ashore on the coast of Long Island, New York, by submarine, with orders to blow up various defense installations.

The Beast of Budapest

The Beast of Budapest
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 23/02/1958
  • Character: Sgt. Geza
Archival footage combined with new footage re-creates the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. It is also a love story between a devout communist woman and the liberal son of a prominent professor. Because of their political differences, the two can never be together.

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