Drama, Crime, Romance, Music
Vera Meiners' life was sweet but unfortunately for her, it was not to last. Her husband, Jan, left her after she met a former lover in a harmless friendly meeting. Forced to resume her disrupted medical career, she worked in a Swiss clinic but, without the knowledge of the chief surgeon, Vera ordered a risky operation to be performed and was thereafter fired. Penniless, she then works in Spanish nightclubs in order to provide for herself and her child. After many years, she runs into her friend Frank again in one of these nightclubs...
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Divá Bára
Bicycle Thieves
The Blue Lagoon
The Life and Loves of Beethoven
Silent Barricade
Cover Up
The Queen's Lover
The Grapes of Wrath
Die Unbesiegbaren
Three Little Pigs
The Bridge
Gaslight
The Emperor of California
The Condemned Village
Our Daily Bread
Child of the Danube
Der Fuehrer's Face
Meet John Doe
It Started with Eve
The Adventures of Robin Hood
SIMILAR MOVIES
Divá Bára
IMDB 5.8 | Apr , 1949
This is a romantic story about a brave, self-made girl, despised daughter of a shepherd. She is not afraid of anything - neither night nor swimming. But the superstitious villagers are telling weird stories about her and about all sorts of strange things, even her conjunction with the powers of hell.Bicycle Thieves
IMDB 8.2 | Jul , 1948
Unemployed Antonio is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. However on his first day, his bicycle—essential to his work—gets stolen. His job is doomed unless he can find the thief. With the help of his son, Antonio combs the city, becoming desperate for justice.The Blue Lagoon
IMDB 6.1 | Jul , 1980
Two small children and a ship's cook survive a shipwreck and find safety on an idyllic tropical island. Soon, however, the cook dies and the young boy and girl are left on their own. Days become years and Emmeline and Richard make a home for themselves surrounded by exotic creatures and nature's beauty. But will they ever see civilization again?The Life and Loves of Beethoven
IMDB 6.7 | Jan , 1937
Lyrical biography of the classical composer, depicted as a romantic hero, an accursed artist.Silent Barricade
IMDB 7 | May , 1949
A fiction piece centered around the Czech resistance to the Nazis.Cover Up
IMDB 5.5 | Aug , 1983
A well-known business lawyer is shot dead in the courthouse. A commissioner of the Criminal Brigade is in charge of the investigation and is helped by a journalist.The Queen's Lover
IMDB 6.8 | Feb , 1948
Exiled from the court of Spain, Don Salluste, the chief of police, wants to take revenge on the Queen. One day he meets Ruy Blas, a young student who happens to be a lookalike of Don Cesar, his nephew. Salluste disguises Ruy Blas and presents him as Don Cesar. It doesn't take long before Ruy Blas, intelligent, virtuous and generous as he is becomes popular and the Queen, who has fallen in love with him, appoints him Prime Minister. All seems for the best in the best of worlds but Salluste has not forgotten his revenge, far from that ...The Grapes of Wrath
IMDB 7.8 | Mar , 1940
Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.Die Unbesiegbaren
IMDB 7 | Mar , 1953
The film "Die Unbesiegbaren" covers an episode in German history, in which the Bismarck government tried to mitigate the rise of the social-democrat movement.Three Little Pigs
IMDB 6.9 | May , 1933
The two pigs building houses of hay and sticks scoff at their brother, building the brick house. But when the wolf comes around and blows their houses down (after trickery like dressing as a foundling sheep fails), they run to their brother's house. And throughout, they sing the classic song, "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?".The Bridge
IMDB 5 | Jan , 1949
Factory workers in 1947 repair a bridge over Song Hua River so that Communist forces can use it.Gaslight
IMDB 7.5 | May , 1944
A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.The Emperor of California
IMDB 5.6 | Jul , 1936
The film follows the life story of Johann Augustus Suter, the owner of Sutter's Mill, famous as the birthplace of the great California Gold Rush of 1848.The Condemned Village
IMDB 0 | Feb , 1952
East German propaganda film about an American army base trying to take away land from a West German village.Our Daily Bread
IMDB 5 | Nov , 1949
A story about a family after the Second World War. The petty bourgeois cashier Karl Weber of Berlin observes from a distance how his son Ernst participates in the building of a new socialist society. Karl does not understand Ernst's visions, instead he confides in his other son Harry. However, Harry becomes involved in illicit business and Karl quickly realizes that it would be best to join his son Ernst in the citizen-owned factory.Child of the Danube
IMDB 5.5 | May , 1950
Marika is a cheerful girl who lives on the Danube aboard an old barge she inherited from her father. She works as a waitress in her aunt's inn, entertaining the guests with singing and dancing. Her greatest dream is to save enough money to repair the old barge and sail down the Danube. One day, she meets three young artists, Georg, Oskar, and Christoph, who all fall in love with her. Together, they put on an open-air revue and raise the necessary money. And with Georg, Marika is lucky in love.Der Fuehrer's Face
IMDB 6.9 | Jan , 1943
A marching band of Germans, Italians, and Japanese march through the streets of swastika-motif Nutziland, serenading "Der Fuehrer's Face." Donald Duck, not living in the region by choice, struggles to make do with disgusting Nazi food rations and then with his day of toil at a Nazi artillery factory. After a nervous breakdown, Donald awakens to find that his experience was in fact a nightmare.Meet John Doe
IMDB 7.3 | Mar , 1941
As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it's worth, until the made-up "John Doe" philosophy starts a whole political movement.It Started with Eve
IMDB 7.2 | Sep , 1941
A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to make his dying father's last moments happy. However, the old man's health takes a turn for the better and now his son doesn't know how to break the news that he's engaged to someone else, especially since his father is so taken with the impostor.The Adventures of Robin Hood
IMDB 7.5 | May , 1938
Robin Hood fights nobly for justice against the evil Sir Guy of Gisbourne while striving to win the hand of the beautiful Maid Marian.