Douglas Sirk — Director (33)
The Lady Pays Off (1951) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Lady Pays Off
director: Douglas Sirk actor: Linda Darnell / Stephen McNally
other title: 东山再起 / 小紅娘
The naive Evelyn Warren, elected school teacher of the year by Time Magazine, goes to Las Vegas, where she loses a lot of money. In order to pay her debts, casino manager Matt Braddock asks her to take care of his sad little daughter Diana.
Three Times Before (1934) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
3 x Ehe (Dreimal Ehe)
director: Douglas Sirk actor: Harald Paulsen / Hans Leibelt
other title: 3 x Ehe (Dreimal Ehe)
A bickering husband and wife decide to go to a lawyer to get divorced. When in the office, they present their sides of the same story, of which they are wildly different.
The Court Concert (1936) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Das Hofkonzert
other title: Das Hofkonzert / Du même titre
Before he became cult director Douglas Sirk, Detlef Sierck cut his teeth on such lavish European star vehicles as Das Hofkonzert (The Court Concert). Marta Eggerth is cast as Christine, a young singer who aspires to find out who her father was. Her odyssey brings her to the court of a mythical kingdom, where she is romanced by handsome lieutenant Walter (Johannes Heesters). He is warned not to lose his heart to a "commoner," but all turns out all right when King Serenissimus (Otto Tressler) turns out to be Christine's long-lost daddy. Hofkonzert was designed as a comeback for Marta Eggerth, whose star had eclipsed by the mid-1930s.
No Room for the Groom (1952) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
No Room for the Groom
director: Douglas Sirk actor: Tony Curtis / Piper Laurie
other title: 突然の花婿 / O Noivo Não Tem Quarto
A young GI elopes to Las Vegas with his housekeeper’s daughter, but delays to their wedding night arise from illness, her manipulative mother, and a house full of relatives.
The Final Chord (1936) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Schlußakkord
director: Douglas Sirk actor: Maria von Tasnady / Willy Birgel
other title: Schlußakkord / La Neuvième Symphonie
After her husband dies, a German woman who gave up her infant for adoption to emigrate to America returns to Germany, discovering that her child is being raised by a married orchestra conductor.
Sign of the Pagan (1954) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Sign of the Pagan
director: Douglas Sirk actor: Jeff Chandler / Jack Palance
other title: Attila, der Hunnenkönig / Le Signe du païen
Roman centurion Marcian is captured by Attila the Hun en route to Constantinople, but escapes. On arrival, he finds the eastern Roman emperor Theodosius plotting with Attila to look the other way while the latter marches against Rome. But Marcian gains the favor of Pulcheria, lovely sister of Theodosius, who favors a united Empire.
波旁街布鲁斯 (1979) [Movie] IMDb TMDB Douban
Bourbon Street Blues
director: 道格拉斯·塞克 / Hans Schönherr actor: 赖纳·维尔纳·法斯宾德 / 多丽丝·沙德
other title: Bourbon Street Blues
Bourbon Street Blues is made after Tennessee Williams' play The Lady Larkspur Lotion.
"In a rundown French Quarter boarding house, Mrs Hardwick-Moore, a faded beauty in an alcoholic tailspin, chooses to remain blanketed in her delusional dream world, despite its conflict with the reality presented to her by a brusque landlady. This brief, yet intensely evocative, character study is widely considered to be a preparatory sketch for Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire.”
哈巴涅拉 (1938) [Movie] Douban
La Habanera
director: 道格拉斯·塞克 actor: Zarah Leander / Ferdinand Marian
other title: La Habanera / 无哈巴涅拉舞
Don Pedro, the elegant landowner of Puerto Rico, is conquered by Astree, the rebellious travelling Swedish woman. They get married and have a child. Their relationship begins to change and Don holds Astree a prisoner. Homesicked, all Astree's pent-up hatred of her husband and his island breaks out when her childhood friend Dr. Sven appears to investigate the cause of a vicious fever to which the island has fallen prey. Don is determined at all costs to prevent the epidemic from becoming public knowledge in order to save his fruit export business.
Shockproof (1949) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Shockproof
director: 道格拉斯·塞克 actor: 柯纳·王尔德 / 帕特里夏·奈特
other title: 防震 / 쇼크프루프
Beauty contest winner Patricia Knight's one bid for screen stardom was Columbia's Shockproof. Knight plays Jenny Wright, a convicted murderess paroled in the care of probation officer Griff Marat (Cornel Wilde). What begins as an aloof professional relationship eventually blossoms into romance. The fly in the ointment is shady Harry Wesson (John Baragrey), the gambler who inveigled Jenny into committing murder. The girl is torn between creature comforts offered her by Wesson and the promise of a clean life offered by Griff. This early Douglas Sirk effort contains a smattering of the stylistic touches which distinguished his later work.The screenplay was written by famed director Samuel Fuller, known for his gritty realism and hard-boiled style.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
To New Shores (1937) [Movie] Douban
Zu neuen Ufern
director: 道格拉斯·塞克 actor: 札瑞·朗德尔 / 维利·比格尔
other title: 登陆新滩头 / Zu neuen Ufern
在维多利亚时代的伦敦,夜总会歌女格洛丽亚·文为她虚荣懦弱的上流社会情人~~~军官艾伯特·芬斯伯里爵士背负刑事责任,后者伪造了一张支票。格洛丽亚被判在澳大利亚的Parramatta监狱服刑七年,那里如同地狱一般。芬斯伯里同时也作为总督的副官被派往澳大利亚,并与总督女儿结婚......
Captain Lightfoot (1955) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Captain Lightfoot
director: 道格拉斯·塞克 actor: 罗克·赫德森 / 芭芭拉·拉什
other title: 爱尔兰英雄传 / Wenn die Ketten brechen
In 1815, Michael Martin, member of an Irish revolutionary society, turns highwayman to support it, and soon becomes an outlaw. In Dublin, he meets famous rebel "Captain Thunderbolt" and becomes his second-in-command, under the name "Lightfoot."
诉若雨声 (1976) [Movie] Douban
Sprich zu mir wie der Regen
director: 道格拉斯·塞克 / Hajo Gies actor: 克里斯蒂安·夸德弗利格 / Renate Reger
other title: Sprich zu mir wie der Regen
Sprich zu mir wie der Regen is made after Tennessee Williams' Talk To Me Like the Rain.
"There are two unnamed characters: Man and Woman. They live in a cold-water flat on the Lower East Side. He is a drunk. She is wasting away to nothing. There is intimacy between them – the intimacy of desperation. He woke up that morning in some random hotel in a bathtub full of ice cubes. No idea how he got there. He found his way home. Meanwhile, she has drunk nothing but water for 3 days. She stares out the window. She is wasting away. On purpose."
Taza, Son of Cochise (1954) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Taza, Son of Cochise
director: 道格拉斯·塞克 actor: 罗克·赫德森 / 芭芭拉·拉什
other title: 酋长之子塔赞 / 코치스의 아들 타자
Three years after the end of the Apache wars, peacemaking chief Cochise dies. His elder son Taza shares his ideas, but brother Naiche yearns for war...and for Taza's betrothed, Oona. Naiche loses no time in starting trouble which, thanks to a bigoted cavalry officer, ends with the proud Chiricahua Apaches on a reservation, where they are soon joined by the captured renegade Geronimo, who is all it takes to light the firecracker's fuse...
Thunder on the Hill (1951) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Thunder on the Hill
director: 道格拉斯·塞克 actor: 克劳黛·考尔白 / 安·布莱思
other title: 野寺情鸳 / 지상에 종이 울릴 때
Sister Mary presides over a convent where a convicted murderess, who is being escorted to Death Row, is stranded by bad weather. She is slowly becoming convinced that Valerie is innocent so Sister Mary sets about to clear the girl and bring the real killer to justice.
Hitler's Madman (1943) [Movie] Douban
Hitler's Madman
director: 道格拉斯·塞克 actor: 帕特里西亚·莫里森 / 约翰·卡拉丁
other title: 希特勒的疯子
Hitler's Madman is based on an all-too-real wartime atrocity. John Carradine portrays Heydrich, the vicious SS officer put in charge of Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. Heydrich is killed by the Czech underground, prompting the Nazis to plan a horrible retaliation. The Gestapo selects the Czech village of Lidice for annihilation: They kill all the male villagers, throw the women and children into concentration camps, and torch Lidice into nonexistence. The victims of Nazi tyranny become martyrs to the underground cause, ending the film on a note of triumph. Based on a narrative poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay, Hitler's Madman was produced by the "poverty row" PRC studio, but was sold to MGM and given a class-A presentation at choice theatres throughout the U.S.