Alfred Abel
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Known For:Acting
Birthday:1879-03-11
Place of Birth:Leipzig, Germany
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Also Known As:Alfred Peter Abel

Metropolis (1927)
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind meets a prophet who predicts the coming of a...

Giorgio Moroder's Metropolis (1984)
In 1984, Academy Award winning composer Giorgio Moroder introduced Fritz Lang’s science fiction epic Metropolis to a new generation of...

Phantom (1922)
Lorenz Lubota is a city clerk with no direction in life. One day on his way to work he is run over by a woman driving a chariot and he is immediately...

L'Argent (1928)
Adapted from the novel L'Argent by Émile Zola, the film portrays the world of banking and the stock market in Paris in the 1920s.

The Finances of the Grand Duke (1924)
The likeable and carefree Grand Duke of Abacco is in dire straits. There is no money left to service the State's debt; the main creditor is looking...

The Burning Soil (1922)
The film follows tells the story of a struggle over a plot of petroleum-rich land.

Mary (1931)
A juror in a murder trial, after voting to convict, has second thoughts and begins to investigate on his own before the execution. German version of...

The Burning Secret (1933)
One autumn, Edgar, a 12 year old boy, spends a holiday with his mother at a plush hotel in Switzerland. His father, a busy lawyer, remains at the...

The Folk Upstairs (1926)
In "Menschen Untereinander" ("The Folk Upstairs"), director Gerhard Lamprecht sketches a cross-section of Germany's new post-war society, with its...

The Congress Dances (1931)
Vienna glove-sales-lady Christel falls in love with Russian Czar Alexander. Austrian Prince Metternich tries to use this and other pleasant...

The Thirteen Trunks of Mr. O.F. (1931)
In the very old-fashioned town of Ostend suddenly 13 suitcases are delivered to the hotel, with a note, that O.F. will be here soon and needs 6 rooms...

Maria, die Magd (1936)
An actress and her lawyer husband are so busy that their maid becomes the real mother to their six year old boy and at one point causes consternation...

Und du mein Schatz fährst mit (1937)
Opera singer Maria Seydlitz has just left her fiancé because he put her between the choice of husband or profession when she receives a...

A Venetian Night (1914)
The young Anselmus Aselmeyer fulfilled a long cherished dream: He travels to Venice, the city of his dreams. Once there, the porter Pipistrello...

1914 (1931)
The film focuses on the leadership of the Great Powers of Europe in the days leading up to the outbreak of the First World War.

The Court Concert (1936)
Before he became cult director Douglas Sirk, Detlef Sierck cut his teeth on such lavish European star vehicles as Das Hofkonzert (The Court Concert)....

Die Flamme (1923)
In 19th century Paris a hedonistic woman marries an aristocrat but has trouble keeping faithful to him.

Seven Slaps (1937)
William MacPhab loses seven-pounds in the stock market and decides to slap the man who was responsible for the stock manipulation that caused him to...

The White Demon (1932)
When Albers takes his drug-addicted opera star sister Gerda to a sanitarium, they both become targets of slimy dope peddler Peter Lorre, who fears...

My Wife, the Adventuress (1931)
A mousy bank clerk is married to an ambitious woman.

Montparnasse Girl (1932)
A count's son has a place to meet his poor Parisian girlfriend and they even make some money for a while with him singing and her playing piano.But...

Dolly is making a career (1930)
Musical vehicle for up and coming Dolly Haas, as a would be actress with a would be composer boyfriend. She sings,at one point, that she has the walk...

The Beautiful Adventure (1932)
Helene has agreed to marry a man that she isn't in love with. On the day of her wedding her cousin arrives just in time to rescue her and they run...

Mad Love (1921)
Richard de la Croix's brother, Andreas, has been driven insane by a notorious vamp and socialite named Sappho. A friend takes Richard to the Odeon to...

Giftgas (1929)
Arnold Horn, a young idealistic chemist, discovers a compound that can be used for the production of an effective deadly poisonous gas. Against his...

Kater Lampe (1936)
In the central mountains, an American lady trying to manufacture snowshoes assists a struggling German toy maker,whose cat becomes a symbol for what...

Cagliostro (1929)
Paris, France, 1784. After living many tribulations, Joseph Balsamo, known as Count Cagliostro, an infamous adventurer, enigmatic magician and...

Sei gegrüßt, Du mein schönes Sorrent (1930)
Drama by Romano Mengon

Human Law (1927)
A jealous husband leaves jail to find his wife loves his lawyer.

Eine Siebzehnjährige (1934)
Walter is in love with the 17-year-old Erika, but she raves for older, experienced men. When Walter and Erika visit his parents' estate after passing...

The Guardsman (1926)
a silent movie by Robert Wiene

Intoxication (1919)
Gaston finally succeeds as a dramatist and decides to leave his wife and child for another woman. When the child dies, the finger is pointed at him...

Die Buddenbrooks (1923)
Four-generation story-saga dealing with the decline of a middle-class Lübeck family. The first adaptation of a Thomas Mann book was also...

Die Dame, der Teufel und die Probiermamsell (1918)

Rasputins Liebesabenteuer (1928)
Portrays the deep intrigue and mystical fanaticism of the last days of the Romanoffs, when Rasputin, the mad monk had such a hold over them.

Das tanzende Wien (1927)
A cabaret singer in Germany is in love with a young American boy, and must convince his disapproving father that she is worthy of his son.

Kampf (1932)
The race car drivers Robert Wenck and Kurt Harder are good friends. They become rivals when it appears that Robert is married to Eva. Eva was the...

The Woman in Flames (1924)
Dancing, sports and erotic pursuits are the main ingredients in this drama about the fate of this scorned and abandoned woman, Josefine, who falls...

Nights of Terror (1921)
The young Evelyne lives with a man, her fiancee Frank, with whom she has a child. But her fiancee is a rundown drunk constantly hanging over the...

Ernst ist das Leben (1916)
Fany, an up and coming dancer, is saved by a sculptor during a theatre fire. The two bond, distressing Fany's fiancee.

Die Intriguen der Madame de la Pommeraye (1922)

Das Laster (1915)
Early drama about alcoholism.

Kameraden (1919)
Axel and Bertha are a modern, emancipated artist couple in Paris. He is feminine and vain. She is financially independent, member of the women's...

Lola Montez (1918)
Dancer Lola Montez is the star of Madrid's theaters. All the important men are after her, among them the English ambassador. But the leader of the...

The Vice of Humanity (1927)
Tamara becomes addicted to cocaine but hides from her daughter by moving in with the dealer Mangol. The father tells his daughter that her mother has...

Narkose (1929)
Young Angélique has a crush on the famous writer René Vernon. One night she follows him, sleeps with him and becomes pregnant. Years...

Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922)
Dr. Mabuse and his organization of criminals are in the process of completing their latest scheme, a theft of information that will allow Mabuse to...

Wenn Menschen reif zur Liebe werden (1916)
A young woman becomes pregnant and is abandoned by her lover, just as her mother had been.

Es werde Licht! 4. Teil: Sündige Mütter (1918)

Der Seele Saiten schwingen nicht (1917)
A middle class woman's marriage to a nobleman quickly becomes an unhappy one.

Ein Blatt im Sturm...doch das Schicksal hat es verweht (1917)
The relationship between a painter and his lover fractures after the painter finds out she did not acquire a sum of money by selling his paintings,...

The White Roses (1916)
The actress Thilda Wardier is courted by the wealthy Adam de Rochord, who presents her with a large bouquet of white roses every time they see each...