William Dieterle Movies

The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juárez and democracy.

God and Satan war over earth; to settle things, they wager on the soul of Faust, a learned and prayerful alchemist.

When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Snap and fashion designer Lynn Mason to provide...

A Russian waiter in New York City becomes a national celebrity after he develops a "system" for winning at contract bridge.

Idealistic attorney Anton Adam makes headlines when he successfully prosecutes a prominent New York racketeer named Gilmurry. Adam's sudden renown...

Two sisters fall in love with the same man. After the wedding, the new husband realizes he may have married the wrong sister.

Colonial tea planter John Wiley (Peter Finch), visiting England at the end of World War II, wins and weds lovely English rose Ruth (Dame Elizabeth...

A gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron's wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of a jeweller's shop.

A true story about Louis Pasteur, who revolutionized medicine by proving that much disease is caused by microbes, that sanitation is paramount and...

Mary Marshall, serving a six year term for accidental manslaughter, is given a Christmas furlough from prison to visit her closest relatives, her...

Herman Brandt, a handsome but overly conceited actor, lives in the same apartment building in Vienna as Carola and John Pointer and their 18-year-old...

Story of a South African diamond mine watched over by a sadistic policeman tasked with looking out for smugglers.

German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.

Hafiz, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the...

In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief.

A female editor of a magazine falls in love with her male secretary.

An industrialist and a pianist meet on a trip and fall in love. Through a quirk of fate, they are reported dead in a crash though they weren't on the...

When a man asks another man more facile with words to do his wooing for him, there are always complications. The man with no talent for writing...

In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurses when it was considered a disreputable...

At a convention, medical researcher Michel Touzac goes with colleagues to see stage caricaturist Targel, whose assistant Florence recognizes...