The best Wolfgang Zilzer’s drama movies

Wolfgang Zilzer

Wolfgang Zilzer

20/01/1901- 26/06/1991
Today we present the best Wolfgang Zilzer’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 Wolfgang Zilzer’s movies.
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Casablanca

Casablanca
8.5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 15/01/1943
  • Character: Man with Expired Papers (uncredited)
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

Escape

Escape
7/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 01/11/1940
  • Character: Pavillion Counter Clerk (uncredited)
An American goes to Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration camp. With the help of an American-born widowed countess he seeks to engineer her escape.

Mister Buddwing

Mister Buddwing
6/10
  • Genre: DramaMystery
  • Release: 15/07/1966
  • Character: Man on the Street (uncredited)
An amnesiac wanders the streets of Manhattan, trying to solve the mystery of who he is.

Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet

Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
7.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 23/02/1940
  • Character: Kellner
True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphillis.

Forbidden Passage

Forbidden Passage
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 08/02/1941
  • Character: Otto Kestler
This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short looks at the U.S. Department of Immigration's efforts to halt the smuggling of illegal aliens into the country. Desperate immigrants, tired of waiting for legal entry, pay exorbitant fees and risk a grisly death to enter by illegal means.

Underground

Underground
7.2/10
A World War II Hollywood propaganda film detailing the dark underside of Nazism and the Third Reich set between two brothers, Kurt and Erik Franken, whom are SS officers in the Nazi party. Kurt learns and exposes the evils of the system to Erik and tries to convince him of the immoral stance that marches under the symbol of the swastika.

Hotel Berlin

Hotel Berlin
6.8/10
An assortment of diverse characters gather at the Hotel Berlin in World War II Germany.

A Dispatch from Reuters

A Dispatch from Reuters
6.9/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 19/10/1940
  • Character: Post Office Clerk (uncredited)
German Julius Reuter (Edward G. Robinson) sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.

Counter-Attack

Counter-Attack
6.7/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 26/04/1945
  • Character: Krafft
Two Russians fight to escape the seven Nazi soldiers trapped with them in a bombed building.

Hotel Imperial

Hotel Imperial
7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 11/05/1939
  • Character: Limping Tenor (uncredited)
It is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man's-land where the Russians and Austrians are fighting out one of the final campaigns of World War I, to be occupied one day by the Russians, the next by the Austrians, and the inhabitants soon acquire a complacent view of the changing allegiances. To the town comes Ann Warschaska, intent on avenging the suicide of her sister, who has killed herself after being betrayed by an Austrian officer. She knows no more about his identity than the number of his room at the "Hotel Imperial".

Three Faces West

Three Faces West
6.1/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 03/07/1940
  • Character: Dr. Rudolf Preussner
Viennese surgeon Dr. Braun and his daughter Leni come to a small town in North Dakota as refugees from Hitler. When the winds of the Dust Bowl threaten the town, John Phillips leads the townsfolk in moving to greener pastures in Oregon. He falls for Leni, but she is betrothed to the man who helped her and her father escape from the Third Reich. She must decide between the two men.

Confessions of a Nazi Spy

Confessions of a Nazi Spy
6.7/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 06/05/1939
  • Character: Westphal
FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.

Hitler - Beast of Berlin

Hitler - Beast of Berlin
5.1/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 07/10/1939
  • Character: Kleswing
Hans Memling, a young intellectual, patriotic German, is secretly opposed to the Nazi regime. With the aid of Gustav Schultz, Father Pommer, Anna Wahl and others, he is gleaning accurate information from foreign radio broadcasts and distributing it through Germany with an underground-press operation. He convinces his brother-in-law Karl Bach, the brother of his wife Elsa, that Hitler is leading Germany toward a second world war. Karl, in love with Anna, joins the movement, determined to restore German culture and save the people from the brutality of the Storm Troopers and the Gestapo. The group has an inside link through Albert Stalhelm, a Storm Trooper and one of Hitler's Elite Guards. Albert is sickened by the brutalities he sees and wants to resign and flee Germany, but Hans persuades him to remain until they can find a replacement. He agrees, but warns the group that he is forced to join in the Nazi orgies and liquor loosens his tongue...

I'll Give a Million

I'll Give a Million
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 27/07/1938
  • Character: Citizen (uncredited)
After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that he will give a million dollars to anyone who is kind to a tramp.

Enemy of Women

Enemy of Women
5.1/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 10/11/1944
  • Character: Dr. Joseph Goebbels
Playwright Joseph Goebbels (Paul Andor) turns Nazi propagandist and loses his girlfriend (Claudia Drake) to another man (Donald Woods).

Behind the Rising Sun

Behind the Rising Sun
5.6/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 01/08/1943
  • Character: Max
A Japanese publisher urges his American-educated son to side with the Axis.

Margin for Error

Margin for Error
5.8/10
Margin for Error is a 1943 American drama film directed by Otto Preminger. The screenplay by Lillie Hayward and Samuel Fuller is based on the 1939 play of the same title by Clare Boothe Luce.

Espionage Agent

Espionage Agent
5.9/10
When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic service to go undercover to route out an espionage ring planning to destroy American industrial capability.

Everything Happens at Night

Everything Happens at Night
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 22/12/1939
  • Character: Thief at Dock
Two reporters compete to discover a scientist living in hiding and win his daughter.

A Daughter Of Destiny

A Daughter Of Destiny
6.2/10
Hanns Heinz Ewers' grim science-fiction novel Alraune has already been filmed twice when this version was assembled in 1928. In another of his "mad doctor" roles, Paul Wegener plays Professor Brinken, sociopathic scientist who combines the genes of an executed murderer with those of a prostitute. The result is a beautiful young woman named Alraune (Brigitte Helm), who is incapable of feeling any real emotions -- least of all guilt or regret. Upon attaining adulthood, Alraune sets about to seduce and destroy every male who crosses her path. Ultimately, Professor Brinken is hoist on his own petard when he falls hopelessly in love with Alraune himself. Alraune was remade in 1930, with Brigitte Helm repeating her role, and again in 1951, with Hildegarde Knef as the "heroine" and Erich von Stroheim as her misguided mentor.

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