Movies directed by Douglas Sirk (22)
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Imitation of Life (1959) USAGenre: Drama Release: 1959 March, 17 An aspiring actress befriends a black widow, but trouble arises when the latter is rejected by her daughter, who tries to pass for white... IMDb: 7.8/10 (18 617) |
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The Tarnished Angels (1957) USA Genre: Drama Release: 1957 November, 21 In the 1930's, a First World War flying ace named Roger Schumann is reduced to making appearances on the crash-and-burn circuit of stunt aerobatics... IMDb: 7.1/10 (4 208) |
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Battle Hymn (1957) USA Genre: Biography / Drama / History / War Release: 1957 February, 14 Dean Hess, who entered the ministry to atone for bombing a German orphanage, decides he's a failure at preaching... IMDb: 6.3/10 (1 324) |
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Written on the Wind (1956) USA Genre: Drama Release: 1956 October, 4 On 24 October 1955, the hard-work geologist of the Hadley Oil Company Mitch Wayne meets the executive secretary Lucy Moore in the office of her boss Bill Ryan in New York and invites her to go to a conference with the alcoholic playboy and son of a tycoon Kyle Hadley... IMDb: 7.3/10 (13 740) |
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There's Always Tomorrow (1955) USA Genre: Drama / Romance Release: 1955 July, 11 Clifford Groves, toy manufacturer, is in full charge at the factory but feels left out and taken for granted by his wife and children at home... IMDb: 7.4/10 (3 744) |
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Magnificent Obsession (1954) USA Genre: Drama / Romance Release: 1954 June, 1 A rich playboy whose recklessness inadvertently causes the death of a prominent doctor tries to make amends to his widow, and falls for her in the process... IMDb: 7.0/10 (7 820) |
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Meet Me at the Fair (1953) USA Genre: Musical Release: 1953 January, 1 In 1904, Doc Tilbee, medicine show huckster and champion tall-tale teller, gives a ride to a young boy escaped from an orphanage, where bad conditions (the result of political graft) are being investigated by new appointee Zerelda Wing, who doesn't know that her fiancée is one of the politicians responsible... IMDb: 5.9/10 (152) |
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Take Me to Town (1953) USA Genre: Comedy / Western Release: 1953 June, 12 Saloon entertainer Vermilion O'Toole and her former partner in crime Newt Cole escape from a train ride to prison and hide out in logging town Timberline... IMDb: 6.3/10 (397) |
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All I Desire (1953) USA Genre: Drama Release: 1953 June, 25 In 1900, Naomi Murdoch deserted her small-town family to go on the stage... IMDb: 7.0/10 (2 476) |
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Has Anybody Seen My Gal (1952) USA Genre: Comedy Release: 1952 June, 25 Wealthy Samuel Fulton is getting older and has no family of his own... IMDb: 7.1/10 (1 860) |
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No Room for the Groom (1952) USA Genre: Comedy Release: 1952 April, 29 Alvah, a young GI who happens to own a vineyard, elopes to Las Vegas with Lee, his housekeeper's daughter... IMDb: 6.0/10 (556) |
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The Lady Pays Off (1951) USA Genre: Comedy / Drama Release: 1951 October, 1 The naive Evelyn Warren, elected shool-teacher of the year by Time Magazine, goes to Las Vegas, where she loses a lot of money... IMDb: 6.0/10 (165) |
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Thunder on the Hill (1951) USA Genre: Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Romance Release: 1951 August, 8 Convicted murderess Valerie Carns (Ann Blyth) is being transported to Norwich to be executed when a flood strands her and her guards at a convent hospital... IMDb: 6.8/10 (1 314) |
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Week-End with Father (1951) USA Genre: Comedy / Romance Release: 1951 December, 1 Single parents Jean Bowen and Brad Stubbs meet at the train station when they send their kids (his 2 girls, her 2 boys) off to camp... IMDb: 6.0/10 (280) |
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Shockproof (1949) USA Genre: Crime / Drama / Film-Noir Release: 1949 January, 14 Jenny Marsh, still dangerously attractive after 5 years in prison for killing a man in defense of her shady lover Harry, clashes at first with parole officer Griff Marat, who's determined to make Jenny go straight... IMDb: 6.5/10 (2 378) |
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The Strange Woman (1946) USA Genre: Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller Release: 1946 October, 25 Beautiful Jenny Hager finds she can always get what she wants from the men in the 1820's port of Bangor, Maine... IMDb: 6.5/10 (2 514) |
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A Scandal in Paris (1946) USA Genre: Adventure / Crime / Romance / Comedy Release: 1946 April, 22 The autobiography of elegant criminal, François Eugène Vidocq, from his birth in a French jail in 1775 to his appointment as chief of police of Paris where he intends to rob the city bank... IMDb: 6.6/10 (1 236) |
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Summer Storm (1944) USA Genre: Crime / Drama / Romance Release: 1944 July, 14 In this filmed Chekhov adaptation, Olga is an alluring peasant woman who lures cynical aristocrat Fedor away from his milquetoast fiancée, with tragic consequences... IMDb: 6.6/10 (699) |
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Hitler's Madman (1943) USA Genre: Drama / War Release: 1943 June, 10 Somewhat fictionalized account of the destruction of the village of Lidice in Czechoslovakia and the events leading up to it... IMDb: 6.5/10 (927) |
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Boefje (1939) NetherlandsGenre: Crime Release: 1939 October, 4 Twelve year old Jan Grovers spends more time in the alleys of Rotterdam than with his family (though he occasionally looks after his tree younger sisters, all of whom are called Mientje)... IMDb: 6.3/10 (102) |
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Das Hofkonzert (1936) GermanyGenre: Comedy / Romance Release: 1936 December, 18 IMDb: 5.6/10 (246) |
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Schlußakkord (1936) Germany Genre: Music / Drama Release: 1936 June, 27 A young, impoverished German woman named Hanna (Maria von Tasnady) gives her infant up for adoption and emigrates to American to live with her husband... IMDb: 6.7/10 (265) |
