6 Best Curt Bois Movies

By Vlad Zakh · July 13, 2026

Curt Bois enjoyed one of cinema’s longest careers, spanning German silent films to Hollywood’s golden age and finally Wim Wenders’s art-house classics. Wings of Desire watches an invisible angel over divided Berlin who longs to become human, Hold Back the Dawn marries a stranded immigrant to a schoolteacher, The Lady in Question takes an acquitted woman into a juror’s home, and Boom Town follows two oilmen’s friendship and rivalry. The Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse round out the list.

Wings of Desire (1987)

TMDB ★ 7.8

An angel watching over divided Berlin falls for a mortal woman and considers giving up eternity.

Directed by Wim Wenders · 2h 08m · Rated PG-13

Where to watch

Stream: HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max · Rent or buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

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Hold Back the Dawn (1941)

TMDB ★ 6.7

A stranded European immigrant marries an unsuspecting American schoolteacher to gain entry to the United States.

Directed by Mitchell Leisen · 1h 56m · Rated NR

Where to watch

Rent or buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

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The Lady in Question (1940)

TMDB ★ 6.7

Curt Bois is in this drama about a juror whose acquittal of a woman accused of murder leads him to take her into his own household.

Directed by Charles Vidor · 1h 20m · Rated NR

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Boom Town (1940)

TMDB ★ 7.0

Two wildcatting oilmen's decades-long friendship and rivalry is complicated by fortune, failure and the same woman.

Directed by Jack Conway · 1h 59m · Rated NR

Where to watch

Rent or buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

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The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)

TMDB ★ 7.3

Alan Marshal appears as a deformed bell-ringer who risks everything to protect a persecuted gypsy woman.

Directed by William Dieterle · 1h 57m · Rated NR

Where to watch

Stream: FlixFling, TCM, Bloodstream · Rent or buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home, FlixFling

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The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)

TMDB ★ 7.0

Curt Bois is in this Edward G. Robinson film about a respected physician who infiltrates a gang of jewel thieves to study the criminal mind, with dangerous results.

Directed by Anatole Litvak · 1h 27m

Where to watch

Rent or buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

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Vlad Zakh

Founder, Movieix

Founder of Movieix. He started the site because most recommendation pages felt like noise. Here, lists are sorted by who's in the film, where it's from and what mood you're in tonight.

6 Best Curt Bois Movies

Wings of Desire (1987)

Hold Back the Dawn (1941)

The Lady in Question (1940)

Boom Town (1940)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)

The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)

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