Douglas Sirk Movies

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

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...

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...

Douglas speaks about some of the stars he has directed, like Asta Nielsen, Lili Dagover, Zarah Leander, George Sanders, Signe Hasso, Barbara...

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

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...

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

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

Television documentary about German-born American director Douglas Sirk.

Documentary about the shooting of BOURBON STREET BLUES.

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

An investigative portrait of the master of cinematic melodrama, Douglas Sirk. His life was the ultimate melodrama, from which all his films were...

Adaptation of Molière's comedy "The Imaginary Invalid", about a hypochondriac, his doctor, his daughter and her lover.

Portrait of filmmaker Douglas Sirk.

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

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

Douglas Sirk talks about his 1937 film 'Zu neuen Ufern'

A patriotic period melodrama in which a father and son are in love with the same lady.The son does not tell her that his father, an officer, has...

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...