The best Oskar Homolka’s drama movies

Oskar Homolka

Oskar Homolka

12/08/1898- 27/01/1978
Today we present the best Oskar Homolka’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 Oskar Homolka’s movies.
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Sabotage

Sabotage
7/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 08/01/1937
  • Character: Karl Verloc - Her Husband
Karl Anton Verloc and his wife own a small cinema in a quiet London suburb where they live seemingly happily. But Mrs. Verloc does not know that her husband has a secret that will affect their relationship and threaten her teenage brother's life.

Mission to Moscow

Mission to Moscow
5.4/10
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.

War and Peace

War and Peace
6.7/10
Napoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia including his disastrous 1812 invasion serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two aristocratic families.

Mr. Sardonicus

Mr. Sardonicus
6.6/10
A search for a winning lottery ticket in his dead father's grave causes Sardonicus' face to freeze in a horrible grimace, until he forces a doctor to treat his affliction--with even more grotesque results! The audience gets an opportunity to vote--via the "Punishment Poll"--for the penalty Sardonicus must pay for his deeds...

A Farewell to Arms

A Farewell to Arms
5.8/10
An English nurse and an American soldier on the Italian front during World War I fall in love, but the horrors surrounding them test their romance to the limit.

I Remember Mama

I Remember Mama
7.9/10
  • Genre: DramaFamily
  • Release: 09/03/1948
  • Character: Uncle Chris
Norwegian immigrant Marta Hanson keeps a firm but loving hand on her household of four children, a devoted husband and a highly-educated lodger who reads great literature to the family every evening. Through financial crises, illnesses and the small triumphs of everyday life, Marta maintains her optimism and sense of humor, traits she passes on to her aspiring-author daughter, Katrin.

The Tamarind Seed

The Tamarind Seed
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 11/07/1974
  • Character: General Golitsyn
During a Caribbean holiday, a British civil servant finds herself falling in love with a Russian agent.

The Long Ships

The Long Ships
6/10
Rolfe—a Viking leader with the cunning and devious mind of a pirate—tells other sailors of the mythical 'The Mother of Voices', a mammoth bell made of gold and as tall as three men, but he adds enough incorrect details to throw them off the proper trail. However, the leader of a group of ambitious Moors sees through Rolfe's story, and soon the two are in a breakneck race to be the first to find the precious bell.

Anna Lucasta

Anna Lucasta
6.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 11/07/1949
  • Character: Joe Lucasta
A prostitute is thrown out of her house by her alcoholic father, and her scheming brother-in-law tries to devise a plan to marry her off and make some money in the process.

The Key

The Key
6.7/10
In wartime England, circa 1941, poorly-armed tugs are sent into "U-Boat Alley" to rescue damaged Allied ships. An American named David Ross arrives to captain one of these tugs. He's given a key by a fellow tugboat-man -- a key to an apartment and its pretty female resident. Should something happen to the friend, Ross can use the key.

The Madwoman of Chaillot

The Madwoman of Chaillot
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 12/10/1969
  • Character: The Commissar
An eccentric Parisian woman's optimistic perception of life begins to sound more rational than the rather traditional beliefs of others.

Seven Sinners

Seven Sinners
6.5/10
Beautiful chanteuse 'Bijou' (Marlene Dietrich) cascades through Malaysia's ports of call eventually landing in a handsome lieutenant's lap. As Bijou 'drifts through the standards', the fleet's Admiral reckons the US Navy "already has enough destroyers". A Marlene classic with songs by Frederick Hollander and a young and promising John Wayne.

Dreyfus

Dreyfus
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 15/08/1930
  • Character: Major Ferdinand Walsin-Esterházy
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.

Assignment to Kill

Assignment to Kill
6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 15/08/1968
  • Character: Inspector Ruff
A private eye is hired by an insurance company to investigate a shipping magnate suspected of deliberately sinking his own ships for the insurance money. He finds himself involved in a web of deception, double-crossing and murder.

The Shop at Sly Corner

The Shop at Sly Corner
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 10/03/1947
  • Character: Desius Heiss
The French owner of an antique shop, Desius Heiss, (Oskar Homolka) has become disillusioned with society since his torture as a prisoner on Devil's island, since when he has allowed his shop to become a front for criminal activity, and he himself is a receiver of stolen goods.

In the Employ of the Secret Service

In the Employ of the Secret Service
8.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 13/08/1931
  • Character: Lanskoi
During WWI a German agent receives an order to find out when the Russian army will carry out its expected attack against the German lines.

Joy in the Morning

Joy in the Morning
5.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 05/05/1965
  • Character: Stan Pulaski
Carl Brown and Annie McGairy are in love. Their Irish immigrant parents knew each other in the old country - and Carl's parents want better for their son than Annie, who was raised in the slums. When Annie runs away to marry Carl while he's at college, they have many difficulties, including a college Dean that frowns upon married couples, Carl's angry parents, Carl's jealousy, and Annie's own problems with her sexuality.

Moral und Liebe

Moral und Liebe
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 03/02/1933
  • Character: Robert Keßler
Film by Georg Jacoby.

Heart of Darkness

Heart of Darkness
6.3/10
A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers the depth of evil in humanity's soul.

Song of Norway

Song of Norway
4.2/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 04/11/1970
  • Character: Engstrand
Like the play from which it derived, the film tells of the early struggles of composer Edvard Grieg and his attempts to develop an authentic Norwegian national music. It stars Toralv Maurstad as Grieg and features an international cast including Florence Henderson, Christina Schollin, Robert Morley, Harry Secombe, Oskar Homolka, Edward G. Robinson and Frank Porretta (as Rikard Nordraak). Filmed in Super Panavision 70 by Davis Boulton and presented in single-camera Cinerama in some countries, it was an attempt to capitalise on the success of The Sound of Music.

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