Nils Asther

Nils Asther

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Nils Anton Alfhild Asther (17 January 1897 - 13 October 1981) was a Danish-born Swedish actor active in Hollywood from 1926 to the mid 1950s, known for his beautiful face and often called "the male Greta Garbo". Between 1916 and 1963 he appeared in over 70 feature films, 16 done in the silent era. Description above from the Wikipedia article  Nils Anton Alfhild Asther, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Nils Asther
  • Popularity: 2.091
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1897-01-16
  • Place of Birth: Copenhagen, Denmark
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  • Also Known As: Nils Anton Alfhild Asther
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Nils Asther Movies

  • 1918
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    A Trip to Mars

    A Trip to Mars

    6.4 1918 HD

    The navy captain Avanti Planetaros is inspired by his astronomer-father to travel through outer space to reach other worlds. He becomes an aviator...

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  • 1929
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    Wild Orchids

    Wild Orchids

    6.6 1929 HD

    A prince in J... tries to seduce his visitor's wife, but he's discovered.

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  • 1924
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    Carl XII:s kurir

    Carl XII:s kurir

    1 1924 HD

    Adjutant general Axel Roos is selected by King Charles XII to deliver a message to the court from the army in Bender, current day Moldova. His ride...

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  • 1928
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    Laugh, Clown, Laugh

    Laugh, Clown, Laugh

    7.2 1928 HD

    A despairing clown suffering a broken heart and a self-indulgent count who uncontrollably laughs learn to help each other with their problems, but...

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  • 1927
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    Topsy and Eva

    Topsy and Eva

    1 1927 HD

    Topsy, a Black slave girl who "jes' growed" is auctioned but nobody will bid. A young girl named Eva purchases Topsy for a nickel.

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  • 1932
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    The Bitter Tea of General Yen

    The Bitter Tea of General Yen

    6.124 1932 HD

    An American missionary is gradually seduced by a courtly warlord holding her in Shanghai.

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  • 1944
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    Bluebeard

    Bluebeard

    5.6 1944 HD

    Young female models are being strangled. Will law enforcement be able to stop the crime wave before more women become victims?

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  • 1928
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    Our Dancing Daughters

    Our Dancing Daughters

    6.4 1928 HD

    A flapper who's secretly a good girl and a gold-digging floozy masquerading as an ingénue both vie for the hand of a millionaire.

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  • 1945
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    Jealousy

    Jealousy

    5.4 1945 HD

    A female cabbie is suspected of killing her drunken husband.

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  • 1934
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    The Crime Doctor

    The Crime Doctor

    3.5 1934 HD

    When he finds out that his wife is having an affair, a criminologist commits the perfect murder--and pins the crime on his wife's boyfriend so well...

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  • 1932
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    Screen Snapshots (Series 12, No. 2)

    Screen Snapshots (Series 12, No. 2)

    6 1932 HD

    A Columbia Pictures promotional short which explains how a movie is made.

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  • 1943
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    Submarine Alert

    Submarine Alert

    4.6 1943 HD

    Nazi spies use a stolen shortwave transmitter prototype to broadcast top secret shipping info to an offshore Japanese sub. To nab the spy ring, the...

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  • 1934
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    Love Time

    Love Time

    1 1934 HD

    Newly arrived in the nineteenth century court of Emperor Francis 1st of Austria Countess Valerie happens to overhear a young pianist and advises him...

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  • 1960
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    When Darkness Falls

    When Darkness Falls

    5.4 1960 HD

    Young Elisabeth comes to Västlinge to meet her old relative, the vicar and and his young daughter. She is going to spend the Christmas there in...

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  • 1941
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    Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day

    Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day

    6.5 1941 HD

    A variety of predicaments arise to distract Dr. Kildare from his wedding to Nurse Mary Lamont.

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  • 1948
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    The Feathered Serpent

    The Feathered Serpent

    5.8 1948 HD

    In order to learn the location of a fabled Aztec treasure, a professor kidnaps his colleague, the only man able to read the ancient Aztec script that...

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  • 1928
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    The Cardboard Lover

    The Cardboard Lover

    5.7 1928 HD

    A ditzy American girl visiting Monte Carlo is hired by a tennis champ to be his "cardboard lover"--to pretend to be in love with him so he can teach...

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  • 1941
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    The Night of January 16th

    The Night of January 16th

    5 1941 HD

    Accused of killing her employer, financier Bjorn Faulkner, Kit is championed by wisecracking sailor-on-leave Steve Van Ruyle, who has a vested...

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  • 1953
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    That Man from Tangier

    That Man from Tangier

    1 1953 HD

    Mary Ellen travels abroad and ends up marrying a Count while she is intoxicated. The Count disappears and with the aid of her father, George, she...

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  • 1929
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    The Single Standard

    The Single Standard

    6.2 1929 HD

    A bored socialite finds fleeting romance with an artist.

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  • 1942
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    Night Monster

    Night Monster

    6.2 1942 HD

    Kurt Ingston, a rich recluse, invites the doctors who left him a hopeless cripple to his desolate mansion in the swamps as one by one they meet...

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  • 1933
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    If I Were Free

    If I Were Free

    5 1933 HD

    A recently divorced interior decorator falls in love with a married barrister.

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  • 1943
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    Mystery Broadcast

    Mystery Broadcast

    6.2 1943 HD

    A radio detective sets out to solve an old murder case, with the help of her sound man and another radio detective. They manage to talk to the people...

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  • 1932
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    Letty Lynton

    Letty Lynton

    6.8 1932 HD

    Socialite Letty Lynton is returning to New York, abandoning one-time lover Emile Renaul in South America, when she strikes up a shipboard romance...

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  • 1933
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    By Candlelight

    By Candlelight

    5.8 1933 HD

    A beautiful woman mistakes a Prince's butler for the Prince.

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  • 1932
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    But the Flesh Is Weak

    But the Flesh Is Weak

    6 1932 HD

    A poor-but-charming father and son try to enter high society by marrying rich English widows.

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  • 2022
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    Prejudice and Pride: Swedish Film Queer

    Prejudice and Pride: Swedish Film Queer

    7 2022 HD

    A journey through Swedish queer film history.

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  • 1944
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    Alaska

    Alaska

    5 1944 HD

    A man who has been framed on a murder charge is placed in the custody of a crooked U.S. marshal, who is secretly running a murderous claim-jumping...

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  • 1928
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    The Cossacks

    The Cossacks

    7.3 1928 HD

    Stirring romance, hard riding, desperate fighting with the Cossacks playing their game of war and chivalry. A mighty picturization of Count Leo...

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  • 1930
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    The Sea Bat

    The Sea Bat

    4.6 1930 HD

    The sister of a sponge diver killed by a stingray loves an escaped convict posing as a priest.

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  • 1933
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    The Right To Romance

    The Right To Romance

    4.5 1933 HD

    Against her better judgment, a dedicated and hard-working plastic surgeon (Ann Harding) finds herself falling in love with a playboy (Robert Young)....

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  • 1945
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    The Man in Half Moon Street

    The Man in Half Moon Street

    5.4 1945 HD

    A British doctor and painter must kill for the glands he needs to stop the aging process.

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  • 1935
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    Abdul the Damned

    Abdul the Damned

    5.3 1935 HD

    In 1908, Sultan Abdul Hamid rules the Turkish Empire, but he is faced with the threat of revolt by the Young Turk party. He allows Hilmi Pasha, the...

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  • 1936
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    Guilty Melody

    Guilty Melody

    1 1936 HD

    A British spy falls in love with a singer whose husband is working for the enemy.

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  • 1936
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    The Marriage of Corbal

    The Marriage of Corbal

    5 1936 HD

    The film hinges on the love triangle between a young aristocratic lady on the run (Cleonie, played by Hazel Terry), the murderous Varennes,...

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  • 1920
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    The Gyurkovics Boys

    The Gyurkovics Boys

    4.2 1920 HD

    Mr. and Mrs. Gyurkovics have a dozen children the oldest of which, the twins Géza and Bandi, just preparing for their matriculation...

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  • 1932
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    The Washington Masquerade

    The Washington Masquerade

    6.5 1932 HD

    An honest, talented and well respected attorney defeats a corrupt incumbent U.S. Senator. After a very good start he has to face the subtle...

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  • 1942
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    Sweater Girl

    Sweater Girl

    4 1942 HD

    College students attempt to solve a series of murders on campus while also trying to put together the school's big show.

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  • 1917
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    Hittebarnet

    Hittebarnet

    1 1917 HD

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  • 1933
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    Storm at Daybreak

    Storm at Daybreak

    5.8 1933 HD

    Sarajevo June 28, 1914. Dushan, the Serbian mayor of a Hungarian town, has come to see the parade of Archduke Ferdinand. While there he runs into...

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  • 1944
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    The Hour Before the Dawn

    The Hour Before the Dawn

    5 1944 HD

    A beautiful Austrian refugee in England--who is also a Nazi agent--marries a scholarly English pacifist. He lives near a secret military base she...

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  • 1935
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    Do You Remember?

    Do You Remember?

    1 1935 HD

    Compilation film with scenes from different Swedish silent films, many of the films have since been lost and the only surviving fragments can be...

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  • 1928
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    The Blue Danube

    The Blue Danube

    1 1928 HD

    Marguerite, the beauty of an Austrian village, loves the poverty-stricken Baron Erich von Statzen, although her mother is opposed to the affair,...

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  • 1928
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    Dream of Love

    Dream of Love

    7 1928 HD

    A duke has deposed Prince Mauritz's father, so Mauritz spends his time in affairs with a countess, the duke's wife and a gypsy girl Adrienne. Years...

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  • 1937
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    Make-Up

    Make-Up

    1 1937 HD

    Make-Up is a 1937 British drama film directed by Alfred Zeisler and starring Nils Asther, June Clyde and Judy Kelly. It was a circus film made by an...

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  • 1941
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    Forced Landing

    Forced Landing

    4 1941 HD

    On faraway Mosaque, an American pilot finds that he is in a desperate struggle with a military officer intent on sabotaging a local fort.

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  • 1963
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    Gudrun

    Gudrun

    8 1963 HD

    Danish drama about a young woman's rites of passage in finding romance.

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  • 1945
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    Love, Honor and Goodbye

    Love, Honor and Goodbye

    4.5 1945 HD

    A lawyer's wife walks out on him, then poses as a French nurse to spy on him.

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  • 1926
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    The Golden Butterfly

    The Golden Butterfly

    1 1926 HD

    A restaurant cashier, who has a mutual attraction to the restauranteur, has a secret passion for dance. As soon as she finishes work she is off down...

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  • 1941
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    Flying Blind

    Flying Blind

    5 1941 HD

    A spy steals a secret military device, then hijacks an airliner to get away. The airliner crashes in the wilderness & the survivors are...

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  • 1927
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    Sorrell and Son

    Sorrell and Son

    5.5 1927 HD

    Stephen Sorrell, a decorated war hero, raises his son Kit alone after Kit's mother deserts husband and child in the boy's infancy. Sorrell loses a...

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  • 1928
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    Loves of an Actress

    Loves of an Actress

    1 1928 HD

    Rachel becomes the leading actress in the Comédie Française through the patronage of three influential men: Baron Hartman, the...

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  • 1942
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    The Night Before the Divorce

    The Night Before the Divorce

    5 1942 HD

    Marital comedy with a dash of murder.

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  • 1945
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    Son of Lassie

    Son of Lassie

    5.9 1945 HD

    Laddie (Son of Lassie) and his master are trapped in Norway during WW2 - has he inherited his mothers famous courage?

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  • 1934
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    Madame Spy

    Madame Spy

    6 1934 HD

    Maria is married to Captain Franck of German Intelligence. He does not know she is a Russian assigned to spy on him. When he is told to uncover a...

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  • 1916
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    The Wings

    The Wings

    5.2 1916 HD

    The story is that of a conniving countess coming between a gay sculptor, Claude Zoret, and his bisexual model and lover, Mikaël, ultimately...

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  • 1962
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    Lady in White

    Lady in White

    5.7 1962 HD

    A ghost called Vita Frun (White Lady) is accused of several murders. Detective Hillman is contacted to resolve the case.

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  • 1941
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    The Man Who Lost Himself

    The Man Who Lost Himself

    4 1941 HD

    John Evans encounters his lookalike, Malcolm Scott. When Scott is killed in an accident, Evans finds himself mistaken for Scott and decides to do...

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  • 1923
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    The Norrtull Gang

    The Norrtull Gang

    6.4 1923 HD

    A collective of office girls and their tribulations in the male world, female solidarity, the place of women in the labor and civil rights struggles...

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  • 1926
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    Wrath of the Seas

    Wrath of the Seas

    4 1926 HD

    The film portrays the Imperial German Navy during the First World War, particularly the Battle of Jutland and is based on a novel by Helmut Lorenz.

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  • 1927
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    Hotelratten

    Hotelratten

    1 1927 HD

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  • 1961
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    Svenska Floyd

    Svenska Floyd

    4 1961 HD

    The world-famous Swedish boxer Flosse travels to Italy to fight for the world boxing title. In Rome he meets the nightclub singer Lollo.

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  • 1926
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    Die drei Kuckucksuhren

    Die drei Kuckucksuhren

    1 1926 HD

    Lord Ernest Clifton lives with his beautiful wife, Gladys, at Easton Lodge. He has lost immense wealth in the lap of his uncle's death. One day Lord...

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  • 1927
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    Gauner im Frack

    Gauner im Frack

    1 1927 HD

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  • 1922
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    Love's Crucible

    Love's Crucible

    6.3 1922 HD

    At the end of the middle ages, Ursula is accused of having poisoned her own husband. She claims she is innocent, but to prove it, she must submit to...

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  • 1918
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    Retten sejrer

    Retten sejrer

    1 1918 HD

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