Multi-Language Films
List activity
12 views
• 0 this weekCreate a new list
List your movie, TV & celebrity picks.
172 titles
- DirectorArnold FanckStarsGustav DiesslLeni RiefenstahlSepp RistAn expedition goes in search of a party lost the year before.
- DirectorTay GarnettStarsRod La RocqueLeni RiefenstahlSepp RistIn a departure from the trademark Alpine settings of Arnold Fanck's Bergfilme ("Mountain Films"), S.O.S. ICEBERG (S.O.S. EISBERG) takes place off the coast of Greenland, where an explorer, Karl Lorenz (Gustav Diessl), is stranded on a steadily-eroding iceberg. A rescue crew, led by the heroic Johannes Krafft (Sepp Rist), reaches Prof. Lorenz, but also becomes stranded, as does Mrs. Lorenz (Leni Riefenstahl), who crashes her plane while trying to land in the icy waters of the North Atlantic. Surrounded by polar bears on their shrinking iceberg, the explorer and his would-be rescuers battle the elements, and each other, while waiting for a miracle.
- DirectorEwald André DupontStarsFranklin DyallMadeleine CarrollJohn StuartOn its maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean.
- DirectorEwald André DupontStarsFritz KortnerElsa WagnerHeinrich SchrothThe transatlantic liner hits an iceberg and passengers realize that they are left only three hours to live.
- DirectorGeorge CroneRenaud HoffmanStarsEddie DowlingBetty CompsonFrankie DarroOn trial for the murder of Carl Hummel, Eddie Williams tells his story, which begins just before the World War: Eddie, a Broadway star, marries Helen and almost immediately goes to the front. Gassed while saving the life of a German soldier (Hummel), Eddie cannot find work when he returns. Helen finds a job, and Eddie grows more despondent. One day he finds Helen in Hummel's arms, and in his rage Eddie shoots the man. The trial proceeds with the revelation by Defense Attorney Burke, Eddie's wartime commander, of Helen's secret: she pretended to be single so as to get work; Hummel, who was searching for Eddie, really loved Helen and was ignorant of her relationship with Eddie. The jury finds Eddie not guilty.
- DirectorJames ParrottStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyJean De Briac
- DirectorJames ParrottStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyFrank AustinLaurel and Hardy Spanish language version of The Laurel and Hardy Murder Case and the film Berth Marks combined.
- DirectorLewis R. FosterStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyHarry BernardTaking the train to a show in Pottsville, musicians Stanley and Oliver run into trouble once settled in their sleeping car berth.
- DirectorJames ParrottStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyFrank Austin
- DirectorGeorge AbbottStarsCharles 'Buddy' RogersJean ArthurPaul LukasNick, the "swing" man in a trapeze troupe, loves Greta Nelson, the girl in the act; and Tony, the "flyer," incurs his enmity as Greta seems to favor him; thus Nick fails to catch Tony, and Tony is killed. Ned Lee, a novice, reports for the next engagement. Meanwhile, Greta discovers that Nick purposely dropped Tony, and, frightened, she seeks refuge with Ned, with whom she falls in love. Greta remains with the act to protect Ned, and when the jealous Nick plots to kill him in a similar manner, Ned swings past him and hangs by his feet. After the show, a fight results in Nick's dismissal and the reunion of the lovers.
- DirectorAdelqui MigliarStarsAmelia MuñozTony D'AlgyFélix de PomésGreta, Nick and Tony are trapeze artists at the Dixon Circus, but Nick, in love with Greta, is jealous of her friendship with Tony.
- DirectorRune CarlstenStellan WindrowStarsElisabeth FriskHaakon HjeldeEdvin AdolphsonMona is a girl in a group of three people performing trapeze stunts on a big circus near Chicago.
- DirectorLeo MittlerStarsCilly FeindtAribert MogSigurd Lohde
- DirectorLionel BarrymoreStarsJohn GilbertCatherine Dale OwenNance O'NeilIn a European kingdom, Princess Orsolini is to have a state wedding, arranged by her mother the Queen, but she is in love with Captain Kovacs of the horse guards. She is forced to break off their affair, but the Captain, outraged by this treatment, plots his revenge by convincing them he is actually a well known swindler and will expose his affair with the Princess, ruining her. To avoid scandal, the Queen agrees to his price; to let him spend a night alone with the Princess in his apartment.
- DirectorChester M. FranklinJuan de HomsStarsJosé CrespoMaria AlbaElvira MorlaSpanish version of the MGM romance, His Glorious Night: in the old Austro-Hungarian empire, a princess rejects her arranged marriage and loves, instead, a dashing cavalry captain.
- DirectorJacques FeyderStarsNora GregorTheo ShallJulia SerdaOne of three foreign language versions of the MGM romance, His Glorious Night: a princess in the court of the old Austro-Hungarian empire rejects her arranged marriage and loves, instead, a dashing cavalry captain.
- DirectorJacques FeyderStarsAndré LuguetFrançoise RosayTania FédorFrench version of MGM romance, His Glorious Night: A princess in the old Austro-Hungarian empire rejects her arranged marriage and falls, instead, for a dashing cavalry captain.
- DirectorFrank ReicherStarsPaul MorganBuster KeatonRamon NovarroAustrian reporter Paul visits the MGM Studio backlot and records his interviews with Buster Keaton, Joan Crawford etc. For a German radio program. Adolphe Menjou even rehearses and performs a lengthy sketch in German.
- DirectorCharles ReisnerChristy CabanneNorman HoustonStarsConrad NagelJack BennyJohn GilbertAn all-star revue featuring MGM contract players.
- DirectorRichard WallaceStarsMaurice ChevalierSylvia BeecherRussell SimpsonMaurice, a humble Parisian junk dealer who sells some of his wares at the Flea market, saves a boy from drowning. The boy's aunt Louise is grateful and wins Maurice's affections, but the lad's grandfather despises him. The jaunty junk man gets a great offer to sing in an important show and launch a theatrical career, but Louise is against it and at length, he must choose between the two.
- DirectorJean de LimurStarsJeanne EagelsReginald OwenHerbert MarshallJeanne Eagels plays the bored and restless Leslie Crosbie who turns to another man, Geoffrey Hammond (Herbert Marshall) for attention when neglected by her husband Robert (Reginald Owen). Robert decides to go out for the evening to pick up a new rifle. Leslie's calm vanishes as she awaits an answer to a letter she has written Hammond. He has found a new love - a beautiful unscrupulous native woman Li Ti (Lady Tsei Mei) and has discarded Leslie.
- DirectorDimitri BuchowetzkiStarsCharlotte AnderErnst Stahl-NachbaurErich PontoMarooned on a rubber plantation in the East Indies, Leslie turns to Geoffrey for the love and diversion that she does not find with her husband. Hammond falls in love with a Chinese woman, however, and Leslie shoots him dead.
- DirectorErnst LubitschStarsMaurice ChevalierJeanette MacDonaldLupino LaneThe queen of mythical Sylvania marries a courtier, who finds his new life unsatisfying.
- DirectorLionel BarrymoreStarsLewis StoneRuth ChattertonRaymond HackettA young lawyer unknowingly defends his mother who abandoned him when he was three.
- DirectorHanns SchwarzStarsDita ParloWilly FritschTihamér LázárA young maid from the country looses her job as maid in k.u.k. Budapest, when she stays out too long with her beau, a soldier, who's saving money to buy a horse to open a transport company. After being unemployed for quite a while and her rent is long overdue, the landlady offers her a better job in a nightclub. Meanwhile the soldiers family has decided that her son should marry the daughter of a rich farmer. The soldier finds out about his girl friends profession, and accepts after struggling with himself the match his parents have made. At the day of his engagement his girl friend comes to his hometown with enough money to buy a horse, which leads to a conflict between her, the fiancee, her family, himself and his parents.
- DirectorCarl FroelichHenry RousselStarsHans AlbersCharlotte AnderOtto WallburgDuring a test run for a large race in Sicily the racing car driver Bettina Bang gets into an accident and is saved by a secretive person unknown to her. It later turns out that the unknown man is the race car driver Harry Bredow.
- DirectorVictor SchertzingerStarsRichard DixHelen KaneLouis John BartelsA young man bets $10,000 that he can tell for 24 hour nothing but the truth.
- DirectorKarl AntonStarsJenny JugoOskar KarlweisTrude Hesterberg
- DirectorA. Edward SutherlandStarsWilliam PowellHelen KaneFay WrayBig-name musical performers experience everyday problems and disappointments during their offstage hours.
- DirectorArchie MayoStarsPauline FrederickWilliam CourtenayConrad NagelColonel Maurice Taylor of the Royal Flying Corps is hopelessly injured in an airplane crash immediately following his marriage to Stella. Maurice is non-functional in most of the physical areas of marriage that count, but Stella attends to his other needs faithfully for three years. Then his brother, Colin, shows up from South America, and he and Stella fall passionately in love and are making plans to run away together. Mother Taylor is aware of the romance, as is Nurse Weyland, who is secretly in love with Maurice, and now hates Stella for her careless attitude toward Maurice's patiently-borne sufferings. Maurice is also aware of the affair. He has a talk with his wife and brother. Complications arise.
- DirectorBayard VeillerStarsNorma ShearerLewis StoneH.B. WarnerBroadway showgirl Mary Dugan is charged with murder in the knifing death of her wealthy lover and goes on trial for her life. When her defense counsel appears to bungle his job, Mary's brother Jimmy, a newly-licensed attorney, jumps into the case to defend his sister. Jimmy's courtroom style is unconventional, but he seems to be holding his own against the prosecuting attorney--until a surprise testimony changes the course of the trial.
- DirectorLionel BarrymoreStarsErnest TorrenceRoland YoungDorothy SebastianWhen a rash of murders depletes their number, a billionaire's employees are brought together at an Englishman's estate.
- DirectorJacques FeyderStarsAndré LuguetJetta GoudalGeorges RenaventA group of people who knew each other years before discover that members of the group are being killed off one by one by someone who calls himself (or herself) The Green Ghost. The survivors gather at an old mansion to find out who is doing the killing and why, and discover that the murderer is a member of that very group.
- DirectorEdgar KennedyStarsCharley ChaseLinda LoredoEnrique Acosta
- DirectorEdgar KennedyStarsCharley ChaseGeorgette RhodesAlbert PolletWith all speaking French, Chase joins a golf club to win its president's daughter. The game descends into chaos when the other players conspire against him and he ends driving across the course.
- DirectorMonty BanksStarsClifford MollisonDodo WattsLamont DicksonMisunderstandings abound when a penniless young man lets his flat to an engaged couple.
- DirectorHarry LachmanStarsJean WeberJosseline GaëlJean Gobet
- DirectorClarence BrownStarsGreta GarboCharles BickfordGeorge F. MarionA young woman reunites with her estranged father and falls in love with a sailor, but struggles to tell them about her dark past.
- DirectorJacques FeyderStarsGreta GarboTheo ShallHans JunkermannA young woman reunites with her estranged father and falls in love with a sailor, but struggles to tell them about her dark past.
- DirectorLeslie S. HiscottStarsNorah BaringAustin TrevorRichard CooperJewel thieves kill a rich widow and frame a fake medium.
- DirectorClarence G. BadgerStarsWalter HustonDorothy RevierJames RennieFilm version of a play about a Mexican bandit.
- DirectorJohn DaumeryStarsGeymond VitalJeanne HelblingSuzy VernonLopez and his gang attack a ranch in which he finds a man who once saved his life.
- DirectorRobert F. McGowanStarsNorman 'Chubby' ChaneyJackie CooperDinahThe kids go on a camping trip, and run into some bootleggers.
- DirectorRobert MiltonDorothy ArznerHenry HathawayStarsHal SkellyWilliam PowellFay WrayGardoni, a down-on-his-luck vaudeville performer, is taken in by a fellow performer, a clown who has a bicycle riding act. Gardoni shows his appreciation by stealing the clown's act and his girlfriend, whom he marries.
- DirectorKarl AntonStarsSaint-GranierRobert BurnierRosine Deréan
- DirectorJames ParrottStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyBobby BurnsIn winter-time, the boys fail to earn any money by playing their musical instruments in a bad neighborhood but their luck seems to improve when they find a wallet full of money on the street.
- DirectorJames ParrottStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyEnrique AcostaSpanish version of Below Zero
- DirectorFrank TuttleStarsWilliam PowellWilliam 'Stage' BoydEugene PalletteA ruthless, crooked stockbroker is murdered at his luxurious country estate, and detective Philo Vance just happens to be there. He decides to find out who killed him.
- DirectorWalter LangStarsLola LaneRalph InceGuinn 'Big Boy' WilliamsBased on the David Belasco stage production of the Max Marcin play in which heavyweight-champion Jack Dempsey played the role of the fighter, Tiger: This "behind-the-scenes look of a heavyweight-championship fight" looks much like all of the other boxing films in which the Champ gets involved in a frame-up and is asked to take a dive.
- DirectorGeorge W. HillWard WingStarsChester MorrisWallace BeeryLewis StoneA convict falls in love with his new cellmate's sister, only to become embroiled in a planned break-out which is certain to have lethal consequences.
- DirectorEdgar NevilleWard WingStarsJosé CrespoJuan de LandaLuana AlcañizSpanish language version of the Big House. 3000 men crammed in a prison, tensions mount.
- DirectorPál FejösGeorge W. HillJacques FeyderStarsCharles BoyerAndré BerleyAndré BurgèreFrench-language version of "The Big House" (MGM, 1930), with Charles Boyer in Chester Morris's role, filmed by MGM parallel to the English-speaking version, at a time when good subtitles weren't yet in use.
- DirectorPál FejösStarsHeinrich GeorgeGustav DiesslEgon von JordanGerman-language version of "The Big House" (MGM, 1930), with Heinrich George in Wallace Beery's role, filmed by MGM parallel to the English-speaking version, at a time when good subtitles weren't yet in use.
- DirectorWarren DoaneStarsHarry LangdonEdgar KennedyJudith BarrettRevenuers have been chasing a gang of bootleggers for years. They're hot on the trail near a gas station operated by Harry, a seemingly slow witted fellow with a cheery and spunky girlfriend. A shootout between treasury agents and the gang - they transport the hooch in manikins seated in a touring car - takes place in front of Harry's filling station. While Harry's gal stays outside, Harry carries the liquor-filled dummies into the station. Will there be a reward for the heroics of Harry and his honey?
- DirectorHobart HenleyStarsMaurice ChevalierClaudette ColbertFrank LyonA tour guide in Venice romances a visiting American tourist whose father owns a chewing-gum factory back in the U.S. She sets out to convince her skeptical father to bring the tour guide to America and give him a job in the plant.
- DirectorRaoul WalshLouis R. LoefflerStarsJohn WayneMarguerite ChurchillEl BrendelBreck Coleman leads hundreds of settlers in covered wagons from the Mississippi River to their destiny out West.
- DirectorDavid HowardSamuel SchneiderRaoul WalshStarsGeorge J. LewisCarmen GuerreroRoberto E. GuzmánSpanish-language version of the early John Wayne film The Big Trail, filmed simultaneously. Raul Coleman (named Breck Coleman in the U.S. version) leads settlers in covered wagons westward across the great prairie and mountains.
- DirectorLewis SeilerRaoul WalshStarsTheo ShallMarion LessingUllrich HauptGerman-language version of John Wayne film The Big Trail. Bill Coleman (named Breck Coleman in the U.S. version) leads settlers in covered wagons Westward, across the prairie and mountains.
- DirectorJames ParrottStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyAnita GarvinStan fakes receiving a telegram so he can go to a club with Ollie and a bottle of his unsuspecting wife's liquor, but she overhears his plans.
- DirectorJames ParrottStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyLinda LoredoStan lies to his wife about going to a nightclub with Ollie but Mrs. Laurel overhears the plot and outsmarts them both.
- DirectorJames ParrottStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyGeorgette RhodesSpanish-language version of Blotto (1931).
- DirectorJosef von SternbergStarsEmil JanningsMarlene DietrichKurt GerronAn elderly professor's ordered life spins dangerously out of control when he falls for a nightclub singer.
- DirectorMalcolm St. ClairJohn M. StahlStarsBetty CompsonIan KeithMary DuncanA ladies' man flirts with the wives of other governments' officials.
- DirectorGeorge MelfordEnrique Tovar ÁvalosStarsMiguel Faust RochaCelia MontalvánLia ToráThe ambassador of a Ruritanian land charges his attache with cozying up to the wife of the war minister, to get her to make her husband change his mind on a treaty he opposes.Complications both political and romantic ensue.
- DirectorErnst L. FrankJohannes RiemannStarsJohannes RiemannTala BirellArnold KorffA young attaché becomes linked romantically to the wives of two ambassadors, one of whom is his boss.
- DirectorMarcel De SanoStarsIván PetrovichTania FédorArlette MarchalThe ambassador of a Ruritanian land charges his attache with cozying up to the wife of the war minister, to get her to change her husband's mind about a treaty he opposes.Complications both political and romantic ensue.
- DirectorJames ParrottStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyLaurel and Hardy's bid for a quiet evening of checkers and pool is constantly interrupted by their squabbling brats, little Ollie and little Stanley.
- DirectorJames ParrottStarsStan LaurelOliver Hardy
- DirectorHanns SchwarzStarsRalph Arthur RobertsLilian HarveyWilly FritschThe young wife of a rich old husband is prevented of a fling by a gentleman-burglar, who falls in love to her.
- DirectorHanns SchwarzGeorges TrévilleStarsBlanche MontelHenri GaratRalph Arthur RobertsSimultaneously made French version of "Einbrecher": A wealthy old husband looks for the successor for his young wife.A devious gentleman burglar is one possibility he toys with.
- DirectorCharles BrabinStarsRamon NovarroDorothy JordanErnest TorrenceJuan de Dios, from a poor working-class background, is a cantina performer in Seville, singing and dancing with his partner Lola. They have a contentious professional and personal relationship, her jealous self cannot tolerate his constant flirting. He really aspires to be a serious opera singer, under the tutelage of Estaban. Once the greatest impresario in Spain himself, Estaban lost everything because of the same reckless behavior that Juan now exhibits, behavior which Estaban is trying to quell in Juan. Estaban's plan is to get one of his old contacts in Madrid, an impresario, to manage Juan's career to get him serious singing gigs, leading to that fame and fortune Esteban once used to have. It's love at first sight when Juan meets Maria Consuelo Vargas. What he initially doesn't know is that their meeting was by no accident; she, a postulant at St. Agustín convent who just escaped from that life, had been mesmerized by him and his singing every time she saw him as she peered over the convent wall to the cantina. As she tells him that she has no home, he takes her in. When he learns that she used to be a nun in training, he has to decide whether to marry her or try to get her back to the convent. Factored into his decision: her brother, Army Captain Enrique Vargas, who believes she is destined to be married to God; jealous Lola; and his and Estaban's own aspirations for his singing career.
- DirectorRamon NovarroYvan NoéStarsRamon NovarroSuzy VernonPierrette CaillolRamon Novarro starred and directed this French remake of Call of the Flesh as he studios feared subtitles and dubbing techniques were primitive at the time. A student nun falls in love with a singer performing in the cafe next door to her convent.
- DirectorRupert JulianJohn WillardStarsHelen TwelvetreesRaymond HackettNeil HamiltonDisappearances and strange goings-on in a spooky old mansion.
- DirectorGeorge MelfordStarsAntonio MorenoLupita TovarAndrés de SegurolaStrange happenings and disappearances take place in an old dark house.
- DirectorHans SteinhoffStarsJenny JugoFritz SchulzAlexa Engström
- DirectorRené PujolHans SteinhoffStarsRenée HéribelAndré UrbanGaby BassetWhen the baroness surprises the baron with his mistress at the music hall, he passes off young Marcel, a clothing salesman, as an important customer.
- DirectorVictor FlemingStarsConstance BennettLew AyresTully MarshallYoung Ellen Neal gets work as a servant with the wealthy Fullerton family and falls in love with their handsome young son. But he leaves her with child, and when she attempts to gain recognition for her child, the Fullerton family treats her as a blackmailer. But a surprise awaits them all.
- DirectorDavid HowardStarsMona MarisJuan TorenaVincent PadulaA maid with a checkered past falls in love with the son in the posh household where she works, and gives him a baby.