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Silent film social drama
Director
Writer
Screenplay
Status
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Original Language
DE
Grete Gerson
Baronin Inge von Holten
Peter Lenz, Besitzer der Villa
In post-war Europe, a diverse group of passengers aboard a U.S. Army train to bombed-out Frankfurt becomes involved in a Nazi assassination plot.
Baron Etville
Rolf Sander
Theodor Timm
Karl Töns, seine Freunde
Häslein, Rolfs Freundin
Po Gri, Etvilles Freundin
Rosa, Haushälterin
Franz Orschewsky
In a small North German village a drama played out during and shortly after the Second World War about duty versus individual conscience and morality.
Truck driver Mike Lambert is a down-and-out mining engineer searching for a job. When his rig breaks down in a small town, he happens upon a venomous seductress. When her boyfriend robs a bank, they intend to frame Lambert.
A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.
An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.
Ensemble film revolving around characters living in Forest Gate, London. Over the course of a few days, six inter-linking stories explore issues of drug use, prostitution and urban poverty.
After two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic neo-Nazi group known as Phoenix, the suave agent Quiller is sent to Berlin to investigate.
Davey Gordon, a New York City boxer at the end of his career, falls for dancer Gloria Price. However, their budding relationship is interrupted by Gloria's violent boss, Vincent Rapallo, who has eyes for Gloria. The two decide to skip town, but before they can, Vincent and his thugs abduct Gloria, and Davey is forced to search for her among the most squalid corners of the city, with his enemy hiding in the shadows.
Agnes and her two sisters struggle through a day in a home overrun by gamblers, thieves, and johns.
Eddie Dodd is a burnt out former civil rights lawyer who now specializes in defending drug dealers. Roger Baron, newly graduated from law school, has followed Eddie's great cases and now wants to learn at his feet. With Roger's idealistic prodding, Eddie reluctantly takes on a case of a young Korean man who, according to his mother, has been in jail for eight years for a murder he didn't commit.
A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and ugly.
In Lagos, Nigeria, young, naive Nigerian journalist Òlòtūré goes undercover to expose the shady underworld of human trafficking. Unused to this brutal environment, crawling with ruthless traders and pimps, Òlòtūré finds warmth and friendship with Blessing, Linda and Beauty, the prostitutes she lives with. However, she gets drawn into their lifestyle and finds it difficult to cope. In her quest to uncover the truth, she pays the ultimate price - one that takes her to the verge of no return.
