Vladimir Sokoloff — Actor (18)

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Darling of the Gods (1930) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Liebling der Götter
director: Hanns Schwarz actor: Emil Jannings / Renate Müller …
other title: Liebling der Götter / El predilecto de los dioses …
Also known as Darling of the Gods, this was Emil Jannings' second talkie appearance. Jannings stars as famed operatic singer Albert Winkelmann, who is greeted with cheers, applause and romantic propositions whenever he performs in his native Vienna. But when he embarks on a tour of South America, tragedy strikes. The sweltering climate causes Winkelmann to lose his voice on stage, a disaster met with hoots and cat-calls. Dispirited he returns to Europe, where he soon learns that no one is aware of what happened in South America. Intending to retire so as not to be exposed to further humiliation, Winkelmann is goaded back on stage -- where, miraculously, his gorgeous voice returns.

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Till We Meet Again (1944) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Till We Meet Again
director: Frank Borzage actor: Ray Milland / Barbara Britton …
other title: Voyage sans retour / 緣訂來生 …
An American pilot is shot down over Nazi-occupied France and is taken to a convent by the Resistance. The young novice nun Clothilde is interested in him and is willing to help him escape to England, but the pilot must continue his mission undercover by posing as the husband of a different woman.

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Expensive Husbands (1937) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Expensive Husbands
Unable to get work in her home country, Laurine Lynne (Beverly Roberts) travels to Vienna where her press agent, Joe Craig (Allyn Joslyn), convinces her to marry royalty. The lucky fellow is Prince Rupert (Patric Knowles), an impoverished nobleman now working as a waiter. Do the two of them fall in love despite this marriage of convenience?

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Paris Underground (1945) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Paris Underground
other title: 地下巴黎 / Paris--Underground …
Constance Bennett both produced and starred in the espionager Paris Underground. Bennett and Gracie Fields play, respectively, an American and an English citizen trapped in Paris when the Nazis invade. The women team up to help Allied aviators escape from the occupied city into Free French territory. The screenplay was based on the true wartime activities of Etta Shiber, who engineered the escape of nearly 300 Allied pilots. British fans of comedienne Gracie Fields were put off by the scenes in which she is tortured by the Gestapo, while Constance Bennett's following had been rapidly dwindling since the 1930s; as a result, the heartfelt but tiresome Paris Underground failed to make a dent at the box-office. It would be Constance Bennett's last starring film--and Gracie Fields' last film, period.

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The Mistress of Atlantis (1932) IMDb TMDB
L'Atlantide
director: G.W. Pabst actor: Brigitte Helm / Pierre Blanchar …
other title: L'Atlantide
Antinea, the Queen of Atlantis, rules her secret kingdom hidden beneath the Sahara Desert. One day two lost explorers stumble into her kingdom, and soon realize that they haven't really been saved-- Antinea has a habit of taking men as lovers, then when she's done with them, she kills them and keeps them mummified.

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Queen of Atlantis (1932) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Die Herrin von Atlantis
director: G.W. Pabst actor: Brigitte Helm / Heinz Klingenberg …
other title: Die Herrin von Atlantis / L'Atlantide …
Two young officers, Saint-Avit and Morhange, get lost in the desert and find themselves prisoners of the beautiful Antinéa, queen of the city of Atlantis. Saint-Avit, blinded by his love for her, obeys her when she orders him to kill his comrade... With L’Atlantide, Pabst offers a psychoanalytic reading of Benoit’s novel, with a dominant female figure who enslaves her lovers before destroying them. The film’s fantasy dimension is disturbing, L’Atlantide bathes in a humid nightmare atmosphere, between the desperate search for a missing friend and the apparitions of an underworld lost in the desert. A long, discursive flashback suggests the Parisian origins of Antinéa, born from the marriage between Clémentine, a pretty, light-thighed French Cancan dancer, and an Arab prince seduced during a theatrical performance. But again, it's impossible to know whether these are the ramblings of an old alcoholic or the strange truth.

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Don Quixote (1933) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Don Quichotte
director: G.W. Pabst actor: Feodor Chaliapin Sr. / Dorville …
other title: ドン・キホーテ / Don Quichotte …
Inflamed by his readings of chivalric novels, Don Quixote, a knight with a sad face, accompanied by Sancho Panza, a peasant steeped in common sense, decides to set off across the world in search of improbable adventures.

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Beyond the Time Barrier (1960) WikiData IMDb TMDB Eggplant.place
Beyond the Time Barrier
director: Edgar G. Ulmer actor: Robert Clarke / Darlene Tompkins …
other title: Le Voyageur de l'espace / Más allá de la barrera del tiempo …
In 1960, a pilot testing an experimental rocket powered aircraft accidentally flies into the future and finds himself in a sealed city whose people suspect he is a spy from outside their walls, but who want to keep him to procreate with the ruler's daughter because the majority of the inhabitants are sterile.

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Nina Simone: The Legend (1992) Douban
Nina Simone: La légende
director: Frank Lords actor: 妮娜·西蒙 / Edney Whiteside …
other title: 妮娜·西蒙:传奇 / Nina Simone: La légende
The documentary Nina Simone: La Legende (The Legend) was made in the '90s by French filmmakers. It was based on her autobiography I Put A Spell On You and features live footage from different periods of her career, interviews with friends and family, various interviews with Simone herself while she was living in the Netherlands, and on a trip to her birthplace. A significant amount of footage from The Legend was taken from an earlier 26-minute biographical documentary by Peter Rodis, released in 1969 and titled simply Nina.

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Mr. Lucky (1943) IMDb Douban
Mr. Lucky
director: H. C. Potter actor: Cary Grant / Laraine Day …
Cary Grant plays gambler, Joe Adams, who takes on the identity of a dead gangster in order to avoid the draft. Adams plans to use a war relief charity to get his gambling operation up and running, until he falls in love with Lorraine Day and has a change of heart.

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For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
For Whom the Bell Tolls
director: 山姆·伍德 actor: 加里·库珀 / 英格丽·褒曼 …
other title: 战地钟声 / 丧钟为谁而鸣 …
Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war going on and Jordan—who has joined up on the side that appeals most to idealists of that era—has been given a high-risk assignment up in the mountains. He awaits the right time to blow up a crucial bridge in order to halt the enemy's progress.