Alexander Engel

Two Undercover Angels (1969)

"Red Lips" are two female detectives trying to find missing models and dancers. A pop artist called Klaus Thriller and his werewolf-like assistant, Morpho, are the main suspects for the murderers. ...

Vom Teufel geholt (1969)

The Horror of Blackwood Castle (1968)

Scotland Yard must discover why people are being murdered by a monstrous dog at Blackwood Castle. ...

Die Rolle seines Lebens (1967)

Long Legs, Long Fingers (1966)

Baron Holberg, who looks back with pride on a long family tradition as hotel thieves, is horrified when his daughter Doris falls in love with the lawyer Robert Hammond, of all people, rather than choosing the art thief Sammy, as he would wish. Under the pr ...

The Mad Executioners (1963)

A group of hooded vigilantes hang wrong-doers with a rope stolen from Scotland Yard's Black Museum. ...

The Indian Scarf (1963)

When a wealthy man dies, his avaricious relatives look forward to inheriting all his money. However, he leaves a provision in his will that they all must spend a week together in his castle before they will be able to inherit anything. At the castle (which ...

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (1961)

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother remarrying the murderer, his uncle. ...

The Strange Countess (1961)

Strange fortune hunters are behind a girl's murder in this Edgar Wallace tale. ...

The Return of Dr. Mabuse (1961)

The supposedly dead and buried Mabuse returns to his criminal activities, as his longtime foe Police Inspector Lohmann, a dauntless girl reporter, and an American - who may be an FBI agent, or maybe a Chicago mobster - investigate a series of gruesome murd ...

A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958)

A German soldier home on leave falls in love with a girl, then returns to World War II. ...

Riot in Cockaigne (1957)

Once upon a time there was a king who had received a magic button from a fairy for his good deeds, which brought prosperity and wealth to the whole country. The times of worry and hunger were soon forgotten and the land of milk and honey lived in Saus and ...

Waldwinter (1956)

A noble family that fled Silesia during World War II sets out to build a new life in the Bavarian Forest, but their efforts are threatened by the heir's worldly ambitions—until he comes to realize his true calling and finds his true love. ...

The Lady of Scuderi (1955)

Several men have been murdered lately, mostly rich lovers on their way to meet their mistresses with gifts of fine jewelry. To fight this scourge, King Louis XIV decides to create a special court named "La chambre ardente", designed to find and punish the ...

Heart of Stone (1950)

Lavish adaptation of Wilhelm Hauff′s fairy tale: Young charburner Peter Munk dreams of joining the upper class. He makes a deal with the sinister Holländer-Michel, who offers to trade Peter′s human heart for one made of stone. Once he has the "cold he ...

The Merry Wives of Windsor (1950)

For the corpulent nobleman Sir John Falstaff, the inn in the small English town of Windsor is the best of all places. Here he can indulge in excessive dining and intemperate drinking, as well as swagger and boast about his adventures, particularly those of ...

The Blue Swords (1949)

The story of Johann Friedrich Böttger, an apothecary's apprentice and alchemist's assistant. Fleeing from the Prussian King, he goes to Saxony, where King Frederick August the Strong takes him to a fortress and demands that he create gold. Böttger is equ ...

… und wenn’s nur einer wär’ … (1949)

The young actress Bettina has angered the director of a West Berlin camp for troubled youth with a song that celebrates the adventurous lives of these "wayward youths." Hein Denecke invites her to get to know the real lives of these young people. ...

Sieben Briefe (1944)

Vom Schicksal verweht (1942)

The young doctor Dr. Virginia Larsen fights in vain against malaria on an island in the Antilles. She finally receives support from Dr. Dos Passos. The doctor persuades the rebellious natives to get vaccinated. They even help to dispel the suspicion of mur ...

Commissioner Eyck (1940)

A murder in a winter sports hotel jolts Inspector Eyck out of his cozy, relaxed holiday mood. He rushes to the scene, where he encounters crime writer Gorgas, who, as he says, conducts "crime scene studies." But this case isn't fiction, because a dead man ...

Fire on the Ocean (1939)

Tom Finberg and Nick Dorland, two highly competent divers working for the Caribbian Oil Company, have been the best friends in the world since the day they met. But this wonderful friendship is endangered by their falling in love with the same young woman, ...

Parkstrasse 13 (1939)

The beautiful Evelyne Schratt, who has many admirerers, and whose two husbands both died under mysterious circumstances, is giving a reception. When one of her admirers is found stabbed to death in a room upstairs, the police detains everyone in the house ...

The Fourth Did Not Show Up (1939)

Four school chums who meet yearly are missing their friend, who was working in a Stockholm bank and supposedly killed himself. But was it murder, instead? ...

Sergeant Berry (1938)

Sergeant Hans Albers, the terror of Chicago gangsters, is transferred South of the border to deal with bandidos. ...

After Midnight (1938)

Helene performs in a Paris nightclub run by White Russian exiles. When her husband, an engineer she believed had died in the Russian Civil War, reappears she tries to assist him. However, this opens her to blackmail by her dancing partner Fedor. ...

Schüsse in Kabine 7 (1938)

The Minerva Mines Company is interested in transporting two particularly valuable diamonds from Cape Town to Amsterdam. To confuse potential thieves, two detectives are sent on two different ships with steel suitcases and they have no clue whether they're ...

White Slaves (1937)

Russia, 1917. Revolution is in the air. The Sevastopol anchors In Saint Petersburg. The sailors are thirsty for women and celebration. The ship becomes a dancehall. Bloodbath, pillage and kidnapping follows. A Nazi/Germany propaganda film. ...

The Final Chord (1936)

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 being raised by a married orchestra conductor. ...

Savoy-Hotel 217 (1936)

A Moscow hotel waiter, found at the scene of a murder, tries to locate the real killer among a series of suspects. ...

One Too Many on Board (1935)

During a journey of the "Ceder", the Captain, von Moltmann, disappears. It looks like an accident, but it could also have been murder. Attorney Dr. Burger and superintendent Störensen discover quickly that two of the crewmen hated the Captain: Chief offic ...

A Prince's Young Love (1933)

Period romance set in Bismarck's Second Empire about a nobleman who wants to marry the daughter of a lowly pharmacist. ...

Mimmi från Möllevången (1981)

Bank manager Pankh has a habit of promoting the men who let him spend some time with their wives. Pelle Finkel doesn't want to subject his own wife to this so he decides to hire the prostitute Mimmi to pose as his wife. ...