Joe May, born Julius Otto Mandl, was a film director, screenwriter and producer. He was one of the pioneers of German cinema. In 1902 he married the actress Mia May, born Hermine Pfleger, and adapted her stage name as his. The same year their daughter Eva (1902-24) was born. In 1933 the family emigrated to USA.
Total trailers found: 85
26 July 1940
The Dead End Kids are out of the slums of New York's East Side and running around the sunny valleys of California looking for a way to make a quick buck.
23 March 1931
A woman accompanies her husband to a party. Both leave with other partners.
22 February 1917
A young married woman's attraction to a violinist sours as his behaviour grows more and more aggressive.
12 January 1940
The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.
20 February 1920
A lady-in-waiting is to become the companion of a young lady at the splendid estate Amönenhof.
30 January 1920
After the death of Alan Stanley, Maud Fergusson seeks revenge. On her behalf, the detective Hunt begins to investigate and proves that Murphy is responsible for the murder.
01 April 1915
Guy Walser killed the unscrupulous seducer of his sister Marguerite and had to spend several years as a Bagnos convict for this bloody deed .
30 June 1939
A detective goes undercover as a producer to investigate an actor's murder, which occurred during the performance of a play.
07 April 1944
In occupied France, a convicted thief and murderer escapes the guillotine when a bombing raid strikes the prison, but is quickly re-captured by the inspector of the Surete responsible for his original arrest.
28 August 1928
Following World War I, after a long imprisonment, two German prisoner-of-war soldiers escape from a Siberian lead-mine.
12 March 1929
Starring Betty Amann in her most famous leading role, Joe May's Asphalt is a luxuriously produced German Expressionist classic where tragic liaisons and fatal encounters are shaped alongside the constant roar of Berlin traffic.
08 March 1932
A young saleslady travels by car to the Riviera with a modest seeming young man who, it turns out, is really a wealthy nobleman.
13 December 1934
A songwriter's young daughter (June Lang) begins to dream of stardom when she's offered the lead role in a new operetta.
02 January 1919
"Truth Wins" - A history film that is particularly elaborate in terms of its features and that attempts to illustrate the perpetual victory of the truth about the lie in three epic episodes.
27 December 1940
Kitty Carroll, an attractive store model, volunteers to become a test subject for a machine that will make her invisible so that she can use her invisibility to exact revenge on her ex-boss.
31 August 1917
Hilde Warren, a famous actress, is impregnated by a convicted murderer and becomes plagued by visions of Death.
21 September 1923
The husband of Countess Manon Moreau is found murdered. André Rabatin, who belongs to the same club as Count Moreau, is the suspect.
26 December 1919
Through the plan hidden in Astarte's jewelry, Maud Gregaards, Kien-Lung and Consul Madsen get on the trail of the Queen of Sheba's treasure.
12 April 1940
In 1828, the bankrupt Pyncheon family fight over Seven Gables, the ancestral mansion. To obtain the house, Jaffrey Pyncheon obtains his brother Clifford's false conviction for murder.
19 August 1937
Vera Kowalska is put on trial for murdering concert pianist Michael Michailow. In court it is revealed that some years earlier Michael ruined Vera's life.
14 March 1930
Following the Battle of Jena in 1806 as the French armies commanded by Napoleon overrun Prussia, a small detachment of Prussian troops take up position in a windmill and resolve fight to the last man to hold them off for as long as possible.
26 November 1944
Love story and family-melodrama set during the Mexican War Of Independence, 1860s.
03 March 1937
Amusing 1937 musical short film produced by the weirdly-named "Educational Films Corporation of America".
03 June 1915
A black African avenges his father by murdering the inspector of a diamond mine.
20 March 1914
Installment in the popular Stuart Webbs detective series.
25 December 1920
When Irmgard becomes pregnant from Georg, a free-love disciple, she decides, for the sake of her child, to pretend they are married.
01 November 1931
Fred Leroy is a wealthy industrialist, part of a large family-owned corporation. Fred has fallen for Annette, a comely cabaret bartender.
16 January 1920
Thanks to the treasure of the Queen of Sheba, Maud, who now calls herself Fergusson, has become an immensely wealthy woman.
27 September 1918
The first appearance of Heinrich Schroth as Joe Deebs, a popular detective character in German silent cinema patterned after Sherlock Holmes.
01 March 1950
A New Orleans performer loves a pirate who robs only from the shipowner who ruined his father.
14 March 1913
Robert Lambard, son of a respected Parisian banker, seduces Marguerite Walser, the sister of Guy Walser, a diligent general manager employed by his father.
19 December 1919
Together with Kien-Lung and the Consul Madsen, Maud travels to Kuan-Fu to learn from the old rabbi where the treasures of the Queen of Sheba are hidden.
10 September 1943
Austrian actor Franz Huber, known for his impressions, is captured by the Gestapo and forced into plastic surgery to become Hitler's body double.
14 April 1933
During a concert tour, famous tenor Riccardo Gatti meets Lixie at an Aida rehearsal and takes her for a ballet dancer.
06 January 1933
The new bride of a young Viennese is so demanding about her career that she lets him go on the honeymoon solo so she can do an engagement.
22 October 1921
Ayan, Maharajah of Eschnapur, believes that his wife, Princess Savitri, has been unfaithful to him with officer Mac Allan.
10 May 1918
Maria, an accountant at a factory, falls for Rudolph, who has his eyes set on the factory owner's daughter.
05 December 1919
Maud Gregaards travels to China in search of a fabled treasure said to have belonged to the Queen of Sheba.
19 November 1921
Rowland falls sick with leprosy while Mac Allan is captured by the Maharajah, who offers Irene a deal: one night with him in exchange for letting Rowland to be cured.
07 July 1944
A young girl rents an apartment from a man who has recently enlisted in the Marines. The trouble is that he's given out keys to a half-dozen of his friends, and they all keep dropping in.
12 December 1919
Maud Gregaards tells her rescuer, the Chinese Dr. Kien-Lung, her life: Her father was an archivist in the Foreign Office who was run by the unscrupulous Dr.
23 January 1920
Billionaire Maud Fergusson lives happily with engineer Allan Stanley. Nothing stands in the way of their love wedding - except Maud's dark past.
