Above Suspicion 1943  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Richard Thorpe
Cast: Joan Crawford, Fred MacMurray, Conrad Veidt, Basil Rathbone, Reginald Owen, Richard Ainley, Cecil Cunningham, Ann Shoemaker, Felix Bressart, Sara Haden
Newlyweds (Joan Crawford and Fred MacMurray) are honeymooning in Europe when World War II breaks out. The British Secret Service recruits them to find plans for a secret weapon, and as they become involved in espionage they travel from Paris to Salzburg on a trip filled with intrigue.
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All Through the Night 1942  N/R, 107 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Vincent Sherman
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Conrad Veidt, Kaaren Verne, Jane Darwell, William Demarest, Peter Lorre, Jackie Gleason, Frank McHugh, Phil Silvers, Barton MacLane
Gambler-turned-good-guy Gloves Donahue (Humphrey Bogart) uncovers a Nazi plot in this World War II era film.
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Beloved Rogue 1927  N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama / Romance
Director: Alan Crosland
Cast: John Barrymore, Conrad Veidt, Marceline Day, Lawson Butt, Henry Victor, Mack Swain, Slim Summerville, Angelo Rossitto, Nigel De Brulier, Lucy Beaumont, Otto Matieson, Jane Winton, Rose Dione, Bertram Grassby, Dick Sutherland
Poet Francois Villon (John Barrymore) is the hero in this story about political intrigue in 15th-century France. Villon is sent into exile by King Louis XI (Conrad Veidt) after Villon insults Duke Charles of Burgundy (Lawson Butt). While escaping the clutches of Charles, Villon falls in love with the king's ward, Charlotte (Marceline Day). Later, Charles' men kidnap Charlotte, but when their evil deeds are revealed, the king bestows his blessing on Charlotte and Villon.
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 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1920 N/R, 52 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama / Horror / Thriller
Director: Robert Wiene
Cast: Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Feher, Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, Lil Dagover, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Rudolf Lettinger, Hans Lanser-Rudolf, Ludwig Rex, Elsa Wagner, Henri Peters-Arnolds
This German Expressionist film tells the gruesome story of murder and terror set among black shadows painted across geometrically irregular streets and rooftops running zigzag among leaning chimneys. Dr. Caligari (Werner Krauss) is a hypnotist who travels with a carnival and displays a sleepwalker named Cesare (Conrad Veidt) as his attraction. While performing in a small, German town, murders take place, and when Francis' (Friedrich Feher) best friend Alan (Hans Heinrich von Twardowski) is killed, Francis connects the murder to Caligari. He accuses Caligari of committing the murders, but the police ignore him. When Francis performs his own investigation, he finds clues indicating that Caligari has ordered Cesare to commit the murders, and after a brutal confrontation with Caligari, Francis ensures that Caligari will be locked away in an asylum.
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 Casablanca 1942  N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Peter Lorre, Paul Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet, S.Z. Sakall, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, John Qualen, Leonid Kinskey, Madeleine LeBeau, Dooley Wilson, Joy Page, Curt Bois, Marcel Dalio
One of the best films ever, this Oscar winner for Best Picture stars Humphrey Bogart as Rick, the owner of a Moroccan bar during the German occupation of Northern Africa in WWII. When the love of his life, Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman), shows up in his joint one night, their old romance is rekindled; but Nazi politics make strange bedfellows. Rick: "Here's looking at you, kid." Another major Academy Award went to Michael Curtiz for his directing. The film also won for Best Writing, and had several nominations, including Best Actor (Bogart) and Supporting Actor (Claude Rains).
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Contraband 1940 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama / Romance
Director: Michael Powell
Cast: Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Hay Petrie, Joss Ambler, Raymond Lovell, Esmond Knight, Charles Victor, Phoebe Kershaw, Harold Warrender, John Longden, Eric Maturin, Leo Genn, Peter Bull
During the World War II blackout in London, Capt. Andersen's (Conrad Veidt) Danish freighter is delayed in port by British customs agents. Two passengers–Mrs. Sorensen (Valerie Hobson) and Mr. Pidgeon (Esmond Knight)–manage to sneak off the ship, and Andersen rows to shore in search of them. He roams through London's dark streets, finally finds them, and learns that they are both secret agents. Pidgeon escapes, but Andersen stays with Mrs. Sorensen and figures out that she is trying to uncover a Nazi spy ring operating out of a Soho nightclub basement. They are captured by the spies, but Andersen escapes–determined to recruit help and to return and perform a rescue while capturing the spies.
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Dark Journey 1937 N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Victor Saville
Cast: Conrad Veidt, Vivien Leigh, Joan Gardner, Anthony Bushell, Ursula Jeans, Robert Newton, William Dewhurst, Cecil Parker, Austin Trevor, Eliot Makeham
A meeting between spies–Von Marwitz (Conrad Veidt) and Madeleine (Vivien Leigh)–in Stockholm accelerates into a love affair, which complicates matters.
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Escape 1940 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: Norma Shearer, Robert Taylor, Conrad Veidt, Alla Nazimova, Felix Bressart, Albert Bassermann, Philip Dorn, Bonita Granville, Edgar Barrier, Blanche Yurka
This is Ethel Vance's bestseller brought to the screen. It is the story about a young man who uses the mistress of a Nazi general to sneak his mother out of a concentration camp.
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The Man Who Cheated Life 1926 N/R, 55 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: The Student of Prague
Director: Henrik Galeen
Cast: Conrad Veidt, Werner Krauss, Sylvia Torf, Ferdinand von Alten, Elizza La Porta, Agnes Esterhazy, Fritz Alberti, Marian Alma
One of Germany's early film masterpieces, this is the story of a student, Balduin (Conrad Veidt), who is not content with his life and longs for love and wealth. He gets more than he bargained for when he meets Scapinelli (Werner Krauss) who offers him a deal that's hard to refuse–but there are strings attached.
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 The Man Who Laughs 1928 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Paul Leni
Cast: Mary Philbin, Conrad Veidt, Olga Baclanova, Josephine Crowell, George Siegmann, Brandon Hurst, Cesare Gravina, Stuart Holmes, Sam De Grasse, Charles Puffy, Julius Molnar Jr.
Gwynplaine (Conrad Veidt) is doomed to life as a circus freak after his nobleman father offended the King–resulting in the father's death and Gwynplaine's mutilation by having a grin permanently carved on his face. He and a blind girl (Mary Philbin) had been taken in by an itinerant performer and grew up to love each other. But life takes a turn when the King dies and the Queen brings him back to the fold on advice of the King's evil jester. Based on Victor Hugo's book. One of the last great silent dramas.
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 The Thief of Bagdad 1940 N/R, 106 min.
Genre: Family / Adventure / Fantasy
Director: Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, Tim Whelan
Cast: Sabu, John Justin, June Duprez, Conrad Veidt, Rex Ingram, Miles Malleson, Mary Morris, Hay Petrie, Allan Jeayes, Morton Selten, Bruce Winston, Adelaide Hall, Roy Emerton
Abu (Sabu) is a young boy who is tossed into a Bagdad dungeon for stealing. He is joined by Prince Ahmad (John Justin) who the evil Grand Vizier Jaffar (Conrad Veidt) has deposed as ruler of the realm. Together, Abu and Ahmad manage to escape to Bazra where Ahmad falls in love with a beautiful princess (June Duprez). But, the wicked Jaffar appears on the scene with intentions of marrying the princess and sails off with her as his prisoner. Ahmad and Abu follow them, and along the way Ahmad opens a bottle containing a genie (Rex Ingram). Abu outwits the genie, but will his powers be enough to help Ahmad get to the magical Land of Legend where he can regain the crown?
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Waxworks 1923 N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Paul Leni
Cast: Emil Jannings, Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, William Dieterle, Olga Belajeff, John Gottowt, Georg John, Ernst Legal
In this silent film, a wax museum obtains three new figures–Harun al Raschid (Emil Jannings), Ivan the Terrible (Conrad Veidt), and Jack the Ripper (Werner Krauss)–and hires a writer (William Dieterle) to tell the stories of the three for the museum's visitors. The film tells the three stories as imagined by the writer.
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A Woman's Face 1941 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: George Cukor
Cast: Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas, Conrad Veidt, Osa Massen, Reginald Owen, Albert Bassermann, Marjorie Main, Donald Meek, George Zucco, Connie Gilchrist, Richard Nichols, Charles Quigley, Henry Kolker
A con artist, Anna Holm (Joan Crawford), has suffered from a scarred face since she was a child. When Anna meets Dr. Segert (Melvyn Douglas), he performs plastic surgery on her, and she experiences a change in her life. But, she isn't sure that a "good" life is better than the one she had, and her lover (Conrad Veidt) lures her back into the criminal world when she aids him in a kidnap and murder plot. There is a murder trial, but Anna is cleared, goes through a spiritual rebirth, and finds a new life with Dr. Segert who has finally realized that he loves her.
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| 1. Above Suspicion (1943)
2. All Through the Night (1942)
3. Beloved Rogue (1927)
4. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
5. Casablanca (1942)
6. Contraband (1940)
7. Dark Journey (1937)
8. Escape (1940)
9. The Man Who Cheated Life (1926)
aka: The Student of Prague
10. The Man Who Laughs (1928)
11. The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
12. Waxworks (1923)
13. A Woman's Face (1941)
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