List of the best Nils Asther movies: The Bitter Tea of General Yen(1933), The Cardboard Lover(1928), The Right to Romance(1933), Bluebeard(1944), Storm at Daybreak(1933), The Sea Bat(1930), Submarine Alert(1943), Flying Blind(1941), Our Dancing Daughters(1928), But the Flesh Is Weak(1932), Night Monster(1942), Son of Lassie(1945) ... ...
Drama
USA
1933
89 Minutes
Gen. Yen
Barbara Stanwyck Nils Asther Walter Connolly Gavin Gordon Toshia Mori Richard Loo Lucien Littlefield Clara Blandick
warlord missionary fiancé spy servant expatriate tense melodramatic spirited intricate china war zone orphanage war missionary work suicide interracial romance opposites attract honor escape
A Chinese warlord and an engaged Christian missionary fall in love.
Romance
USA
1928
50 Minutes
Andre
Marion Davies Jetta Goudal Nils Asther Andrés de Segurola Tenen Holtz Pepi Lederer
A ditzy American girl visiting Monte Carlo is hired by a tennis champ to be his "cardboard lover"--to pretend to be in love with him so he can teach his two-timing fiancé a lesson and win ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1933
67 Minutes
Dr. Helmuth "Heppie" Heppling
Ann Harding Robert Young Nils Asther Sari Maritza Irving Pichel Helen Freeman Stephen Chase Delmar Watson Louise Carter Bramwell Fletcher Patricia O'Brien
Dr "Peggy" Simmons, a successful and respected plastic surgeon, encounters job stress beyond her control. Lacking a social side to her harried life and desperately seeking romance, she ... See full summary »
Horror
USA
1944
73 Minutes
Inspector Jacques Lefevre
John Carradine Jean Parker Nils Asther Ludwig Stossel George Pembroke Teala Loring Sonia Sorel Iris Adrian Henry Kolker Emmett Lynn Patti McCarty
murderer artist seamstress inspector ex-lover dark creepy artist's studio funeral paris france murder case painting dangerous job wretched excess transformation love 19th century
In Paris, an artist hires portrait models, and after he finishes their portraits, he strangles them.
Drama
USA
1933
78 Minutes
Capt. Geza Petery
Kay Francis Walter Huston Nils Asther Phillips Holmes Eugene Pallette C. Henry Gordon Louise Closser Hale Jean Parker
mayor wife captain steward deserter commander intense melodramatic hungary village estate barn household river world war i hungarian history romantic dilemma desertion jealousy class conflict
Sarajevo June 28, 1914. Dushan, the Serbian mayor of a Hungarian town, has come to see the parade of Archduke Ferdinand. While there he runs into Geza, an old friend in the Hungarian Army ... See full summary »
Adventure
USA
1930
74 Minutes
Carl
Charles Bickford Raquel Torres Nils Asther George F. Marion John Miljan Boris Karloff Gibson Gowland Edmund Breese Mathilde Comont Mack Swain
The West Indies island of Portuga exists mainly for sponge diving. But the best area of collection is frequented by a very large manta ray. Nina loses her brother to the creature and is ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1943
66 Minutes
Dr. Arthur Huneker
Richard Arlen Wendy Barrie Nils Asther Roger Pryor Abner Biberman Marc Lawrence John Miljan Patsy Nash Ralph Sanford Dwight Frye Edward Earle
Nazi spies use a stolen shortwave transmitter prototype to broadcast top secret shipping info to an offshore Japanese sub. To nab the spy ring, the Government has the West Coast's top radio... See full summary »
Adventure
USA
1941
69 Minutes
Eric Karolek
Richard Arlen Jean Parker Nils Asther Marie Wilson Roger Pryor Eddie Quillan Dick Purcell Grady Sutton Kay Sutton
A spy steals a secret military device, then hijacks an airliner to get away. The airliner crashes in the wilderness & the survivors are threatened by a raging forest fire.
Drama
USA
1928
84 Minutes
Norman
Joan Crawford Johnny Mack Brown Dorothy Sebastian Nils Asther Anita Page Edward Nugent Dorothy Cumming Huntley Gordon Evelyn Hall Sam De Grasse
flapper mother wealthy man young woman lover wild amusing emotional melodramatic dance hall apartment party united states jazz age morality romance competition rivalry wretched excess love
A flapper who's secretly a good girl and a gold digging floozy masquerading as an ingénue both vie for the hand of a millionaire.
Comedy, Drama
1932
77 Minutes
Prince Paul
Robert Montgomery C. Aubrey Smith Nora Gregor Heather Thatcher Edward Everett Horton Nils Asther Frederick Kerr Eva Moore Forrester Harvey Desmond Roberts
A poor-but-charming father (C. Aubrey Smith) and son (Robert Montgomery) try to enter high society by marrying rich English widows.
Mystery & Thriller, Horror
USA
1942
73 Minutes
Agor Singh
Bela Lugosi Ralph Morgan Lionel Atwill Leif Erickson Irene Hervey Don Porter Nils Asther Fay Helm
Kurt Ingston, a rich recluse, invites the doctors who left him a hopeless cripple to his desolate mansion in the swamps as one by one they meet horrible deaths.
Adventure
USA
1945
102 Minutes
Olav
Peter Lawford Donald Crisp June Lockhart Nigel Bruce William Severn Leon Ames Donald Curtis Nils Asther Robert Lewis Fay Helm
dog nazi soldier pet owner pet prisoner of war heartwarming touching thrilling positive norway airplane training camp england countryside world war ii behind enemy lines injury human-animal friendship survival
Laddie (Son of Lassie !) and his master are trapped in Norway during WW2 - has he inherited his mothers famous courage ?
Drama
USA
1927
100 Minutes
H.B. Warner Anna Q. Nilsson Mickey McBan Carmel Myers Lionel Belmore Norman Trevor Betsy Ann Hisle Louis Wolheim Paul McAllister Alice Joyce Nils Asther
Stephen Sorrell, a decorated war hero, raises his son Kit alone after Kit's mother deserts husband and child in the boy's infancy. Sorrell loses a promising job offer and is forced to take ... See full summary »