Hand-Picked Alternatives Movies That Echo the Spirit of Die Maske: ...

Dir: Ewald André Dupont

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Ewald André Dupont

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Das Grand Hotel Babylon perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

An American millionaire and his daughter Nella are staying at the supremely exclusive Grand Babylon Hotel. When Nella asks for a steak and Bass beer for dinner the order is refused. To get her what she wants her father buys the entire hotel, for £400,000 "and a guinea". Now strange things begin to occur at the hotel.

Dir: Ewald André Dupont

A young Chinese woman working in the kitchen at a London dance club is given the chance to become the club's main act, which leads to a plot of betrayal, forbidden love, and murder.

Dir: Ewald André Dupont

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Piccadilly perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Attorney General Trevor's second wife is found stabbed to death in his safe. Due to a ring with the initials DG, which is also found in the safe, the suspicion initially falls on Donald Gordon, the fiancé of Trevor's daughter.

Dir: Ewald André Dupont

This is the German-language version of the British film The Love Storm (1931).

Dir: Ewald André Dupont

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Mitternacht perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Lord Cross is a respected and always very serious gentleman. In society he is therefore called "the man without a laugh". One evening, when he and his snobbish girlfriend from the British upper class visited the variety show "Zur Goldenen Kugel" in the somewhat disreputable London district of Whitechapel, in which its director Navratil tried to make the audience laugh with a comic buffo, the Lord's eyes fell immediately on a young gypsy girl. She is called Maryla and dances to the violin.

Dir: Ewald André Dupont

The transatlantic liner hits an iceberg and passengers realize that they are left only three hours to live.

Dir: Ewald André Dupont

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Love Storm perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Toni wants to become an opera-singer. Her mother was once simple chanteuse. Toni marries the brutal industrialist Liesegang. An Italian doctor falls in love with Toni. He want's to see Liesegang dead.

Dir: Ewald André Dupont

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Ewald André Dupont

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.