Friedrich Hollaender Movies

Two inspiration sources appear clearly: contemporary American gangster movies and Alfred Döblin’s novel Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929).

A man recovers on his death bed after his wife makes a mysterious pact with a strange woman. But is he really alive?

Greedy diamond mine owner Eli Snedeker, resentful that his ex-foreman John Gamble stopped him from taking over kindly, but drunken, mine owner Roger...

Aircraft workers during during World War II become involved in a love triangle.

Nora Shelley is a tax expert for the accounting company which is led by Paul Martin. She thinks she can find a suitable husband by inspecting their...

The young wife of a rich old husband is prevented of a fling by a gentleman-burglar, who falls in love to her.

Simultaneously made French version of "Einbrecher": A wealthy old husband looks for the successor for his young wife.A devious gentleman burglar is...

Henry Aldrich wants to win a trip to Alaska.

A dancer falls in love with a puppeteer, much to the consternation of her manipulative manager. The puppeteer himself seems more interested in his...

Carrie Snyder is a prostitute, who is forced out of the fictional southern town of Crebillon, after forming a friendship with a young boy named Paul,...

A young secretary falls in love with her boss, a middle-aged playwright. Complications ensue when her boss' son falls for her.

In London, August 1914, Austrian star Elsa Duranyi (Gertrude Michael) and English matinee idol Alan Barclay (Herbert Marshall) are in love and plan...

When the old University Professor discovers that some of his pupils often sneak into a speakeasy, The Blue Angel, to visit a dancer, Lola, he comes...

"Teddy" Connor, a woman recently orphaned, leaves her uncle's Midwestern farm for Chicago, where she meets "lumber king" John Meade. John takes her...

Heart Song(U.S. release in 1934.)

English-language version of Ich und die Kaiserin. 'Germany, 1890. Duke falls in love with voice which is not that of empress, but of hairdresser.'...

Fresh out of prison a small-time crook finds his girlfriend's dropped him, which sends him into a murderous rage.

This is a real curiosity; at best a reasonable film, but also a charming little gem. There is a story (in the line of "A Star is Born"), but this...

A bookish husband tries to win back the affections of his horse-breeding wife.

Showtime presented this pro-shot musical revue of the songs & lyrics of legendary film and Broadway composer Frank Loesser.