Cast: Lil Dagover

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Lil Dagover. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

1920 · Movie · 77 min. · Germany

Direction Robert Wiene

Cast Werner Krauss · Conrad Veidt · Friedrich Feher · Lil Dagover

Synopsis The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) is a German Expressionist silent film that follows Francis as he recounts a haunting tale. In a small German town, the mysterious Dr. Caligari arrives with a somnambulist named Cesare, who awakens only under...

8.1

19K votes

8.1

19K votes

Destiny

1921 · Movie · 105 min. · Germany

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Lil Dagover · Walter Janssen · Bernhard Goetzke · Rudolf Klein-Rogge

Synopsis As a young couple stops and rests in a small village inn, the man is abducted by Death and is sequestered behind a huge doorless, windowless wall. The woman finds a mystic entrance and is met by Death, who tells...

7.8

3K votes

7.8

3K votes

Tartuffe

1925 · Movie · 64 min. · Germany

Direction F.W. Murnau

Cast Emil Jannings · Werner Krauss · Lil Dagover · Hermann Picha

Synopsis In Tartuffe, Murnau revisits Moliére's fable of religious hypocrisy, in which a faithful wife (Lil Dagover) tries to convince her husband (Werner Krauss) that their morally superior guest, Tartuffe (Emil Jannings), is in fact a lecherous hypocrite with a taste...

7.2

946 votes

7.2

946 votes

Phantom

1922 · Movie · 125 min. · Germany

Direction F.W. Murnau

Cast Alfred Abel · Grete Berger · Lil Dagover · Lya De Putti

Synopsis The story revolves around a man obsessed with an unattainable woman, and his attempts to substitute for his unfulfilled desires.

6.8

336 votes

6.8

336 votes

Final Chord

1936 · Movie · 100 min. · Germany

Direction Douglas Sirk

Cast Willy Birgel · Lil Dagover · Mária Tasnádi Fekete · Maria Koppenhöfer

Synopsis A young, impoverished German woman named Hanna (Maria von Tasnady) gives her infant up for adoption and emigrates to American to live with her husband. When her husband commits suicide, Hanna returns to Germany and works her way into becoming...

6.7

39 votes

6.7

39 votes

6.3

241 votes

Congress Dances

1931 · Movie · 85 min. · Germany

Direction Erik Charell

Cast Lilian Harvey · Conrad Veidt · Willy Fritsch · Lil Dagover

Synopsis An ambitious glove saleswoman sees the potential for financial and romantic opportunity the congress provides and subsequently creates havoc in her efforts to make contact with the nobility in this light comedy/operetta.

6.3

84 votes

6.3

84 votes

5.8

210 votes

Harakiri

1919 · Movie · 87 min. · Germany

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Paul Biensfeldt · Lil Dagover · Georg John · Meinhart Maur

Synopsis The Buddah priest wants the Daughter of the Daimyo to become a priest at the Forbidden Garden. The Daimyo thinks, if he was in Europe, that his daughter should decide on her own, but he is denuciated and has to...

5.5

149 votes

5.5

149 votes

Direction Wolfgang Liebeneiner

Cast Paul Hartmann · Friedrich Kayßler · Lil Dagover · Käthe Haack

Synopsis A biographical film of Otto von Bismarck, the Prime Minister of Prussia, and how he and his policies - including aggressive war - helped to unite Germany.

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The Adventure of Thea Roland

1932 · Movie · 89 min. · Germany

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Madame Bluebeard

1931 · Movie · 70 min. · Austria

Direction Conrad Wiene

Cast Lil Dagover · Harry Frank · Otto Hartmann · Vera Schmiterlöw

Synopsis "The fate of a beautiful woman" tells a story of Erika Dankwarth that reflects herself in a multitude of men.

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Direction Maximilian Schell

Cast Birgit Doll · Hanno Pöschl · Helmut Qualtinger · Jane Tilden

Synopsis In Vienna, in 1930, a young woman falls in love with a gambler and leaves her fiancé, a common butcher. They become a couple and have a baby, but he gets bored and leaves them. Without means to support herself,...

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His English Wife

1927 · Movie · 150 min. · Germany

Direction Gustaf Molander

Cast Lil Dagover · Gösta Ekman · Karin Swanström · Håkan Westergren

Synopsis Two English gentlemen of the upper class, Ivor Willington and Lionel Jessop, play a card game about who will get the young beautiful widow Cathleen Paget and her fortune after her grieving year is over.

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