Douglas Sirk

Douglas Sirk

April 26, 1897 · 129 years old

Douglas Sirk (born Hans Detlef Sierck; April 26, 1897 – January 14, 1987) was a German film director best known for his work in Hollywood melodramas in the 1950s.

Known For

14 titles
1
Imitation of Life

Imitation of Life

1959 · 2h 5m · Movie

An aspiring white actress takes in an African American widow whose mixed-race daughter is desperate to be seen as white.

7.8
2
All That Heaven Allows

All That Heaven Allows

1955 · 1h 29m · Movie

An upper-class widow falls in love with a much younger, down-to-earth nurseryman, much to the disapproval of her children and criticism of her country club peers.

7.6
3
Magnificent Obsession

Magnificent Obsession

1954 · 1h 48m · Movie

A rich playboy whose recklessness inadvertently causes the death of a prominent doctor tries to make amends to his widow, and falls for her in the process.

7.0
4
Lured

Lured

1947 · 1h 42m · Movie

British police are after a serial killer who lures his female victims through newspaper personal ads and sends cryptic poem clues to the cops.

7.0
5
A Time to Love and a Time to Die

A Time to Love and a Time to Die

1958 · 2h 12m · Movie

On the Russian front in 1944, German private Ernst Graeber receives a leave and visits his family in Germany but Germany isn't the same country he left behind.

7.6
6
Shockproof

Shockproof

1949 · 1h 19m · Movie

A parole officer falls in love with his client, a ravishing blonde who served time for murder, and he's determined to help her go straight despite her interfering criminal boyfriend.

6.5
7
Has Anybody Seen My Gal

Has Anybody Seen My Gal

1952 · 1h 29m · Movie

An aging heir-less millionaire wants to leave his fortune to the unsuspecting family of his first love but not before testing his prospective heirs by living with them under the guise of a poor boarder.

7.1
8
A Scandal in Paris

A Scandal in Paris

1946 · 1h 40m · Movie

Born in a French prison in 1775, François Eugène Vidocq becomes a professional thief and is later appointed chief of Parisian police.

6.6
9
Captain Lightfoot

Captain Lightfoot

1955 · 1h 32m · Movie

A pair of Irish rebels have swashbuckling adventures in 1815.

6.2
10
Never Say Goodbye

Never Say Goodbye

1956 · 1h 36m · Movie

In 1945 Vienna, an American doctor marries an Austrian girl, who later disappears in the Soviet Control Zone during a visit there, forcing everyone to presume her dead.

6.1
11
Sign of the Pagan

Sign of the Pagan

1954 · 1h 32m · Movie

With the Roman Empire divided, Attila the Hun hopes to conquer. In his way are a brave centurion, a beautiful princess...and Christianity.

5.9
12
Interlude

Interlude

1957 · 1h 30m · Movie

A young American woman travels to Munich and falls in love with a famous German conductor, only to learn he has a mentally ill wife.

6.2
13
The Final Chord

The Final Chord

1936 · 1h 40m · Movie

A young, impoverished German woman named Hanna (Maria von Tasnady) gives her infant up for adoption and emigrates to American to live with her husband. When her husband commits suicide, Hanna returns to Germany and works her way i...

6.7
14
The Girl from the Marsh Croft

The Girl from the Marsh Croft

1935 · 1h 22m · Movie

In this rural film drama, an unwed mother, shunned by her conservative community, goes to court to try to salvage her reputation.

6.8
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