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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.
Total trailers found: 59
14 February 1957
Dean Hess, who entered the ministry to atone for bombing a German orphanage, decides he’s a failure at preaching.
18 February 1948
A woman wakes up in the middle of the night on board a train, but she can't remember how she got there.
10 June 1943
In 1942, a young paratrooper in the RAF returns to Czechoslovakia to encourage his fellow countrymen to sabotage the German war effort.
14 July 1944
It's a tale of power and passions when a Russian siren, who wants the finer things in life, sinks her hooks into a judge, a decadent aristocrat and an estate superintendent, with surprising results.
25 January 1949
Jenny Marsh, recently released from prison for killing a man, finds herself under the watchful eye of her parole officer, Griff Marat, who helps her secure a job caring for his ailing mother.
01 December 1951
Two single parents shock their children by falling in love.
24 November 1954
Roman centurion Marcian is captured by Attila the Hun en route to Constantinople, but escapes. On arrival, he finds the eastern Roman emperor Theodosius plotting with Attila to look the other way while the latter marches against Rome.
26 June 1959
In 1940s New York, a white widow who dreams of being on Broadway has a chance encounter with a black single mother, who becomes her maid.
19 June 1953
Saloon entertainer Vermilion O'Toole and her former partner in crime Newt Cole escape from a train ride to prison and hide out in logging town Timberline.
01 December 1950
Posing as an ex-German medical officer, a U. S. Navy Intelligence Officer sets out to rescue a kidnapped scientist, and sink a Nazi submarine, hiding off the coast of South America.
10 March 1956
In present-day U.S., Dr. Michael Parker, a prominent surgeon, unexpectedly runs into his German-born wife whom he thought was dead.
25 June 1952
When a 1920s millionaire tests the fiber of his Vermont family, a young lady and her boyfriend feel the repercussions.
18 December 1937
While vacationing in Puerto Rico, a young Swedish woman falls in love with and marries a powerful local landowner.
20 June 2023
This timely exploration of Hollywood and LGBTQ+ identity examines the life of legendary actor Rock Hudson, from his public "ladies' man" persona to his private life as a gay man.
01 January 1953
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 conditions (the result of political graft) are being investigated by new appointee Zerelda Wing, who doesn't know that her fiancée is one of the politicians responsible.
28 August 1947
Sandra Carpenter is a London-based dancer who is distraught to learn that her friend has disappeared.
30 October 1957
A young woman touring Germany is caught between a married symphony conductor and a doctor from back home.
04 May 1951
A Catholic priest fights against his colleagues' immediate acceptance of an ambiguous “miracle”.
13 June 1952
A young GI elopes to Las Vegas with his housekeeper’s daughter, but delays to their wedding night arise from illness, her manipulative mother, and a house full of relatives.
17 October 1951
Sister Mary presides over a convent where a convicted murderess, who is being escorted to Death Row, is stranded by bad weather.
26 June 1936
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 being raised by a married orchestra conductor.
18 December 1936
Before he became cult director Douglas Sirk, Detlef Sierck cut his teeth on such lavish European star vehicles as Das Hofkonzert (The Court Concert).
04 October 1956
Mitch Wayne is a geologist working for the Hadleys, an oil-rich Texas family. While the patriarch, Jasper, works hard to establish the family business, his irresponsible son, Kyle, is an alcoholic playboy, and his daughter, Marylee, is the town tramp.
25 December 1955
Two different social classes collide when Cary Scott, a wealthy upper-class widow, falls in love with her much younger and down-to-earth gardener, prompting disapproval and criticism from her children and country club friends.
30 December 1938
A famous violinist enlists in a music school in order to woo one of the students.
30 August 1937
A 19th-century London cabaret singer is deported to prison in Australia. Her crime? Taking the blame when her lover bounces checks.
04 October 1951
The naive Evelyn Warren, elected school teacher of the year by Time Magazine, goes to Las Vegas, where she loses a lot of money.
19 July 1946
A smooth-talking French thief wangles his way into an important position as prefect of police.
21 December 1935
A man comes back from America after years to find his reputation ruined.
02 September 2010
When director Daniel Schmid grew up, his parents ran a hotel in the Alps, and this singular setting was to influence his film.
29 April 1980
Douglas speaks about some of the stars he has directed like Asta Nielsen, Lili Dagover, Zarah Leander, George Sanders, Signe Hasso, Barbara Stanwyck, Jane Wyman and many others.
21 November 1957
In the 1930s, once-great World War I pilot Roger Shumann performs as a daredevil barnstorming pilot at aerial stunt shows while his wife, LaVerne, works as a parachutist.
03 August 2022
An investigative portrait of the master of cinematic melodrama, Douglas Sirk. His life was the ultimate melodrama, from which all his films were inspired.
05 November 2008
The stars and director of 'Written on the Wind' and 'The Tarnished Angels' talk about director Douglas Sirk's techniques.
04 October 1939
Twelve year old 'Boefje' spends most of his time in the alleys, on rooftops and in the harbor of Rotterdam.
18 February 1954
Three years after the end of the Apache wars, peacemaking chief Cochise dies. His elder son Taza shares his ideas, but brother Naiche yearns for war.
07 August 1954
Reckless playboy Bob Merrick crashes his speedboat, requiring emergency attention from the town’s only resuscitator while a local hero, Dr.
21 May 1937
A French-language remake of Douglas Sirk's "The Court Concert" (1936).
26 March 1955
In 1815, Michael Martin, member of an Irish revolutionary society, turns highwayman to support it, and soon becomes an outlaw.
16 July 2008
This documentary brings together a collection of remarkable interview footage with Douglas Sirk filmed in 1982 for the French TV show 'Cinéma cinémas', as well as material from the finished programme.
01 January 1979
Television documentary about German-born American director Douglas Sirk.
07 June 1991
This 82-minute 1991 documentary by Eckhart Schmidt features a 1980 interview with Douglas Sirk in which he reflects on his career.
18 January 1987
Documentary about the shooting of BOURBON STREET BLUES.
03 December 2009
Douglas Sirk talks about his 1937 film 'Zu neuen Ufern'
02 February 1949
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 discovery.
09 July 1958
A German soldier home on leave falls in love with a girl, then returns to World War II.
27 March 1936
When Mister Vlasman gets promoted from baking bread to making macaroni, he and his wife want to enter high society.
01 January 1935
Adaptation of Molière's comedy "The Imaginary Invalid", about a hypochondriac, his doctor, his daughter and her lover.
08 January 1956
When a toy manufacturer feels ignored and unappreciated by his wife and children, he begins to rekindle a past love when a former employee comes back into his life.
23 October 1935
Businessman and shameless social climber, Julius Lampe, is subjected to a cruel April Fools’ Day prank when he is led to believe a noble prince intends to personally inspect his pasta factory.
03 July 1953
In 1910, a stage actress re-visits her husband and children she deserted ten years ago.
31 December 1978
A short film made by Sirk at the end of his life with one of his students. An adaptation of Schnitzler, with Hanna Schygulla: a night of New Year’s Eve, when the family meal is finished, Hanna is in a window while a young man entertains her and talks of the one he loves but can’t join at that time.
03 August 1934
A bickering husband and wife decide to go to a lawyer to get divorced. When in the office, they present their sides of the same story, of which they are wildly different.
22 February 1979
An adaptation of Tennessee Williams' "The Lady Larkspur Lotion" created by Douglas Sirk with the assistance of his film students and Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
30 October 1935
A farm boy betrothed to a socialite falls in love with his maid - an impoverished girl from the marsh.
24 October 1976
A small-scale, bare room situation involving a man and a woman who are bound together in an endless cycle by their hopeless poverty.
14 December 1934
An early short film by Douglas Sirk (Detlef Sierck) which takes a satirical look at dubious business practices during the Weimar Republic.
