01 An invisible angel watching over divided Berlin longs to become human after falling in love with a mortal woman.
Curt Bois enjoyed one of cinema’s longest careers, spanning from German silent films to Hollywood’s golden age and finally to Wim Wenders’s art-house classics. In Wings of Desire (1987): An invisible angel watching over divided Berlin longs to become human after falling in love with a mortal woman. Another standout is The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939): A deformed bell-ringer risks everything to protect a persecuted gypsy woman from a corrupt magistrate.
01 An invisible angel watching over divided Berlin longs to become human after falling in love with a mortal woman.
02 A stranded European immigrant marries an unsuspecting American schoolteacher to gain entry into the United States.
03 A juror's acquittal of a woman accused of murder leads him to take her into his own household.
04 Two wildcatting oilmen's decades-long friendship and rivalry is complicated by fortune, failure, and the same woman.
05 A deformed bell-ringer risks everything to protect a persecuted gypsy woman from a corrupt magistrate.
06 A respected physician infiltrates a gang of jewel thieves to study the criminal mind, with dangerous results.