William Dieterle Movies

Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. The...

Biopic of the famous French writer Emile Zola and his involvement in the Dreyfus Affair.

God and Satan war over earth; to settle things, they wager on the soul of Faust, a learned and prayerful alchemist.

Farmer Jabez Stone, about to lose his land, agrees to sell his soul to the devil, known as Mr. Scratch, who gives Jabez seven years to enjoy the...

Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other...

A mysterious girl inspires a struggling artist.

When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Snap and fashion designer Lynn Mason to provide...

Gamblers who "took" an out-of-town sucker in a crooked poker game feel shadowy vengeance closing in on them.

At a convention, medical researcher Michel Touzac goes with colleagues to see stage caricaturist Targel, whose assistant Florence recognizes...

Four young people escape Athens to a forest where the king and queen of the fairies are quarreling, while meanwhile, a troupe of amateur actors...

A true story about Louis Pasteur, who revolutionized medicine by proving that much disease is caused by microbes, that sanitation is paramount and...

Mary Marshall, serving a six year term for accidental manslaughter, is given a Christmas furlough from prison to visit her closest relatives, her...

True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphilis.

Special prosecutor John Conroy hopes to combat organized crime in his city and appoints his cop father Matt as chief investigator. John doesn't...

When a man asks another man more facile with words to do his wooing for him, there are always complications. The man with no talent for writing...

Herman Brandt, a handsome but overly conceited actor, lives in the same apartment building in Vienna as Carola and John Pointer and their 18-year-old...

A poet is hired by the owner of a wax museum in a circus to write tales about Harun al Raschid, Ivan the Terrible and Jack the Ripper. While writing,...

Linda Gault is a luxury loving wife who casually seduces other men while getting investment tips from one of her lovers.

In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief.

A prim psychology professor fights to hide a murder she committed in self-defense.