Lupu Pick

A prince makes a socialite think she spent the night in his room.  (more)

A man must choose between his mother and his wife as the rivalry ratchets up throughout New Year's Eve. Like Pick's previous films, New Year's Eve does not use intertitles.  (more)

Scherben is about the everyday lives of a railway trackman, his wife and daughter in a remote, isolated house in a winter landscape, Mayer and Pick introduce increasingly stronger disturbances into their daily routines.  (more)

A variation of the famous Oscar Wilde tale in which Dorian Gray's soul is manifested in a painting instead of his own body.  (more)

This movie, directed by Richard Oswald, is based on the operetta "Les contes de Hoffmann" by Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880), which is a genial musical potpourri from various short stories and novels by the Prussian writer, composer, painter, lawyer and judge E.T.A. ...  (more)

An extremely jealous artist slips into a monkey costume and kills all those men who come too close to his wife, another artist.  (more)

A taxi driver in Berlin refuses to give up his horse and switch to motor transport.  (more)

Napoleon at Saint Helena (German: Napoleon auf Sankt Helena) is a 1929 German silent historical film directed by Lupu Pick and starring Werner Krauss, Hanna Ralph and Albert Bassermann. The film depicts the final years of Napoleon between 1815 and 1821 during his ...  (more)

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Part of the artificial-creature series encompassing Der Golem (1914 and 1920), Alraune (1918, 1928, 1930) and Metropolis (1926), 'Homunculus' was the most popular serial in Germany during World War I even influencing the dress of fashionable Berlin. Foenss, a ...  (more)

The director and co-writer Lupu Pick plays musician Erik Paulsson, who loses his beloved son after a peaceful yet critical poetry reading is raided by the tsarist forces. Paulsson, beside himself with grief, kills the officer responsible and is sentenced to life, ...  (more)

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Directed by Lupu Pick, who died far too young, it was billed as a melodrama about a ring of counterfeiters on its first screening in New York City. Pick plays with the already well-established conventions of the detective genre for maximum effect and humor.  (more)

A painter with syphilis infects his brother's wife and the child born of their affair.  (more)

A medical officer decides to become a doctor, change his name and devote his life to research after the woman he loves marries his best friend.  (more)

Operette-like oriental fantasy about a forbidden love between en english boy and a chinese girl.  (more)

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A Dutch envoy falls for the wife of an English diplomat in Turkey.  (more)