William Dieterle Movies

A shoemaker and his wife become the parents of a little girl, but they cannot find anyone willing to be the godfather of the newborn. The oppressive...

Former prostitute Maddalena, exiled to the island of her birth by the police, suffers ostracism by the locals, as she tries to defend her younger...

In New Orleans, young Kit Latimer, who loves and plays the African-American music of the city, moves to Chicago with her architect father, George....

Boots Malone is a jockey's agent and wheeler-dealer who went from living at the Ritz to in a room at the stables after his star jockey is killed in...

Brought to Versailles as the companion of courtier D'Aigullon, former street waif Jeanne Bécu, aka Madame du Barry, charms her way into the...

A mill situated on the border between two unnamed countries and the residents therein become pawns in a future war.

During the 1913 carnival, a man is stabbed to death in the confessional of Mainz Cathedral: Ferdinand Dörfler was the illegitimate son of the...

The life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, during the years leading up to and during the French Revolution in which she was executed.

Dr. Socrates gives up his brilliant surgical career at a prominent hospital following the death of his betrothed under his knife. He is now a...

Agnes Günther’s heart-rending fairy tale dazzled turn-of-the-century German audiences and sold hundreds of thousands of copies before...

During the Russian Revolution, a young nobleman and his peasant maid flee from their homeland to Constantinople where they marry and begin a...

Vladimir Dubrovsky returns from St. Petersburg to his family estate, where he finds his father dying and learns that all his lands and serfs have...

In New York City, Russian waiter Peter Stanislavsky becomes a national celebrity after he develops a 'system' for winning at contract bridge.

Follows the tumultuous presidency of the 19th President of the United States, Andrew Johnson, whose story begins with his boyhood and early life....

A forester's daughter arrests a poacher without knowing it is Emperor Franz Joseph. A lively game with a melancholic touch begins. Set in Austria,...