Douglas Sirk Movies

Sandra Carpenter is a London-based dancer who is distraught to learn that her friend has disappeared. Soon after the disappearance, she's approached...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: George Sanders

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...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Cornel Wilde

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.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lana Turner

Reckless playboy Bob Merrick crashes his speedboat, requiring emergency attention from the town’s only resuscitator while a local hero, Dr....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jane Wyman

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,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jane Wyman

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fred MacMurray

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,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rock Hudson

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Barbara Stanwyck

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...

Genre: Western

Cast: Rock Hudson

Mitch Wayne is a geologist working for the Hadleys, an oil-rich Texas family. While the patriarch, Jasper, works hard to establish the family...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rock Hudson

When a 1920s millionaire tests the fiber of his Vermont family, a young lady and her boyfriend feel the repercussions.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charles Coburn

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: George Sanders

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: George Sanders

A woman wakes up in the middle of the night on board a train, but she can't remember how she got there. Danger and suspense ensue.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Claudette Colbert

A German soldier home on leave falls in love with a girl, then returns to World War II.

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Gavin

Dean Hess, who entered the ministry to atone for bombing a German orphanage, decides he’s a failure at preaching. Rejoined to train pilots...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rock Hudson

Encouraged by Fassbinder, with whom he became friendly after the then-enfant terrible of the German cinema visited him in Lugano, Sirk also did some...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Christian Berkel

Sister Mary presides over a convent where a convicted murderess, who is being escorted to Death Row, is stranded by bad weather. She is slowly...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Claudette Colbert

A 19th-century London cabaret singer is deported to prison in Australia. Her crime? Taking the blame when her lover bounces checks.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Zarah Leander

A 19th-century London cabaret singer is deported to prison in Australia. Her crime? Taking the blame when her lover bounces checks.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Zarah Leander

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Patricia Morison

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

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Rock Hudson

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hansi Knoteck

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...

Genre: Western

Cast: Ann Sheridan

A smooth-talking French thief wangles his way into an important position as prefect of police.

Genre: Crime

Cast: George Sanders

A young GI elopes to Las Vegas with his housekeeper’s daughter, but delays to their wedding night arise from illness, her manipulative mother,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tony Curtis

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: June Allyson

Roman centurion Marcian is captured by Attila the Hun en route to Constantinople, but escapes. On arrival, he finds the eastern Roman emperor...

Genre: History

Cast: Jeff Chandler

Two single parents shock their children by falling in love.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Van Heflin

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...

Genre: War

Cast: Macdonald Carey

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...

Genre: Music

Cast: Maria von Tasnady

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...

Genre: Music

Cast: Maria von Tasnady

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Zarah Leander

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Annemarie Düringer

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Annemarie Düringer

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dorothy Lamour

Douglas Sirk's first feature film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Erhard Siedel

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles Boyer

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles Boyer

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

Genre: Romance

Cast: Mártha Eggerth

Genre: Drama

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A man comes back from America after years to find his reputation ruined.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Heinrich George

Twelve year old 'Boefje' spends most of his time in the alleys, on rooftops and in the harbor of Rotterdam. A local clergyman takes pity on him and...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Annie van Ees

An early short film by Douglas Sirk (Detlef Sierck) which takes a satirical look at dubious business practices during the Weimar Republic. It was...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fritz Odemar

Encouraged by Fassbinder, with whom he became friendly after the then-enfant terrible of the German cinema visited him in Lugano, Sirk also did some...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Christian Berkel

A French-language remake of Douglas Sirk's "The Court Concert" (1936).

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mártha Eggerth

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...

Genre: Music

Cast: Dan Dailey

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Christian Quadflieg

The naive Evelyn Warren, elected school teacher of the year by Time Magazine, goes to Las Vegas, where she loses a lot of money. In order to pay her...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Linda Darnell

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: George Sanders

Melodrama written by Douglas Sirk.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lil Dagover

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

Genre: Romance

Cast: Käthe von Nagy

Short romantic comedy directed by Douglas Sirk.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Heinz Förster-Ludwig

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

Genre: Romance

Cast: Mártha Eggerth

In present-day U.S., Dr. Michael Parker, a prominent surgeon, unexpectedly runs into his German-born wife whom he thought was dead. Victor, an artist...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rock Hudson

A French-language remake of Douglas Sirk's "The Court Concert" (1936).

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mártha Eggerth

When Mister Vlasman gets promoted from baking bread to making macaroni, he and his wife want to enter high society. They could not be happier when a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jacques van Bijlevelt