Douglas Sirk Movies

In 1910, a stage actress re-visits her husband and children she deserted ten years ago.

While vacationing in Puerto Rico, a young Swedish woman falls in love with and marries a powerful local landowner. Ten years later, their marriage...

In 1815, Michael Martin, member of an Irish revolutionary society, turns highwayman to support it, and soon becomes an outlaw. In Dublin, he meets...

A Catholic priest fights against his colleagues' immediate acceptance of an ambiguous “miracle”.

After her husband dies, a German woman who gave up her infant for adoption to emigrate to America returns to Germany, discovering that her child is...

When director Daniel Schmid grew up, his parents ran a hotel in the Alps, and this singular setting was to influence his film. Rather by coincidence...

Two single parents shock their children by falling in love.

In 1904, Doc Tilbee, medicine show huckster and champion tall-tale teller, gives a ride to a young boy escaped from an orphanage, where bad...

A film director, in bad standing with his studio, tries to turn a local carnival dancer into a "French" movie star and pass her off as his big new...

A farm boy betrothed to a socialite falls in love with his maid - an impoverished girl from the marsh.

In 1942, a young paratrooper in the RAF returns to Czechoslovakia to encourage his fellow countrymen to sabotage the German war effort.

Before he became cult director Douglas Sirk, Detlef Sierck cut his teeth on such lavish European star vehicles as Das Hofkonzert (The Court Concert)....

A young woman touring Germany is caught between a married symphony conductor and a doctor from back home.

A small-scale, bare room situation involving a Man and a Woman who are bound together in an endless cycle by their hopeless poverty. Major...

An adaptation of Tennessee Williams' "The Lady Larkspur Lotion" created by Douglas Sirk with the assistance of his film students and Rainer Werner...

A famous violinist enlists in a music school in order to woo one of the students.

Television documentary about German-born American director Douglas Sirk.

Douglas Sirk's first feature film.

The stars and director of 'Written on the Wind' and 'The Tarnished Angels' talk about director Douglas Sirk's techniques. Archival interviews...

A parade of well-known actors and directors from Germany