Top-Tier Alternatives In the Shadow of Liebe im Schnee: Cult Guide

Dir: Max Obal

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Max Obal

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

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Max Obal

Remake of a silent Murnau classic: a young man returning to his castle is suspected of murdering his brother, who had married the man's old sweetheart in his absence.

Dir: Max Obal

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

After the US takes a French village which Germans occupied in late WWI,two German soldiers both in love with the same French girl disguise as Yanks and try to convince the gullible, cowardly new occupiers that Germans are returning .

Dir: Max Obal

Period literary adaptation about a hunter who tries to provide meat to a mountain monastery and his love for a blonde peasant .

Dir: Max Obal

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

Hans Steinherr will one day inherit the family steel-mill but prefers a living as a musician. He ends his relationship with ingenue peasant's daughter Hanne and ventures into the big city where he meets a famous singer.

Dir: Max Obal

Simultaneously filmed German version of a comedy also made in Czech: a wealthy young lady takes a job in a department store, part of a huge company she's inherited, to learn about the lower classes; she falls in love with a shipping clerk.

Dir: Max Obal

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Monastery's Hunter perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Max Obal

The Italian escape artist Silvio Spaventa and his partner Rina Pera perform a bold and dangerous act at a circus. Watching the deed of Spaventa one night, a jeweler and a criminologist make a bet that he can't break into a very solid safe. When Spaventa succeed in opening the safe a gang of crooks get to hear about this and make new plans for Spaventa.

Dir: Max Obal

In this Cinderella style romance, a working class blonde introduces samples of a new perfume her father has made, to the rich and powerful at a fancy Baden Baden hotel, by pretending she is a socialite.