Artur Brauner

Crescendo (2020)

When world-famous conductor Eduard Sporck accepts the job to create an Israeli-Palestinian youth orchestra, he is quickly drawn into a tempest of sheer unsolvable problems. ...

Die 1000 Glotzböbbel vom Dr. Mabuse (2018)

Wunderkinder (2011)

Three musically talented children look to the future, but their hopes crumble when Germany and Russia enter into war. ...

The Last Train (2006)

A group of people are imprisoned in a rail car bound from Berlin to a concentration camp in 1945. ...

Babiy Yar (2003)

Autumn 1941. The Soviet army flees Kyiv, chaos reigns, soldiers attempt to trade their uniforms for civilian clothes in order to escape unnoticed. The war and pending capture of Kyiv by the Germans is the only topic of discussion. Everyone has heard of the ...

The Devil Who Called Himself God (2002)

Rebecca comes from a good home, but still sees little sense in life. She feels left out from her father's new family, she's had an abortion, she's tried to commit suicide, and she hates life in the city. In this condition, she meets Lukas, a gentle, but at ...

Lady of Kazakhstan (2000)

Berlin's Danny Bach, single and lead singer of a garage band, actually has something better to do than take care of his orphaned 14-year-old cousin from Kazakhstan. But the smart, charming Ekaterina will soon be part of the family. And it hits Danny hard w ...

From Hell to Hell (1997)

Focuses on the lives of two married Polish couples (one Jewish, one Catholic) and the personal and social devastation wrought by the Holocaust and its aftermath. ...

The Wolves (1996)

When Blackie Blacavov and his sister Barbara inherit 50,000 acres of Alaskan wilderness, he tries to live a more harmonious, natural existence on the land. But Barbara, without informing Blackie, gives mining exploration rights to King, a businessman with ...

The Mirage (1992)

An old woman who is unaware that she is near death, falls in love with her son's young American tutor. ...

Europa Europa (1990)

A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a 'war hero' and eventually becomes a Hitler Youth. ...

The Rose Garden (1989)

In Germany, an old man attacks another old man and is arrested. The attacker refuses to speak. A female lawyer is appointed to him. She discovers that the attacker has numbers tattooed on his arm and the attacked man was a German officer. ...

Hanussen (1988)

A man's story parallels Hitler's rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in the care of Dr. Emil Bettleheim. Bettleheim discovers that Schneider possesses powers of empathy and of clairvoyance, such that could aid suicidal patients ...

Death Stone (1987)

Kumar Cunningham loses his fiancee in Sri Lanka during a festival, only to discover her dead from a drugs overdose. Mad with grief, he kills the two dealers and is arrested for murder. He manages to escape and is bent on revenge. ...

AIDS: Love in Danger (1985)

Frank, a young taxi driver from Berlin, falls in love with Jessica, a model. But the calls for help from his brother Ritchie bring him back to a tragic reality. For like Frank, he once was a dope fiend. Ritchie, as for him, is still deep in the hell of dru ...

Angry Harvest (1985)

In the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separated in the woods, and Leon, a local peasant who's now a farmer of some wealth, discovers the woman, Rosa, and hides her in his cellar. Leon's a middle-aged C ...

Annas Mutter (1984)

Based on the actual case of Marianne Bachmeier from 1981, the film tells the story of a mother who in a calm and determined manner shoots the murderer of her daughter seven times in the court room.The man dies at the crime scene. The media jumps at this tr ...

A Love in Germany (1983)

In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that he left 40 years before. He wants to discover what happened then, the truth about an affair his mother had with a young Polish prisoner of war, how the auth ...

Plem, Plem – Die Schule brennt (1983)

The Prinz-Eugen-Gymnasium is in a crisis, which is not least due to the insolent students who lack any respect for the staff and the chaotic principal. Three new teachers are supposed to bring discipline and order, but due to a mix-up they are exchanged fo ...

S.A.S. San Salvador (1983)

Enrique Chacon kills Oscar Romero, a Catholic archbishop in San Salvador. The CIA calls a special agent, Malko Linge, a ruined prince who lives with an expensive woman - Countess Alexandra - to get rid of this nuisance of a man. He does, with many encounte ...

The White Rose (1982)

During the Second World War, a small group of students at Munich University begin to question the decisions and sanity of Germany's Nazi government. The students form a resistance cell which they name the "White Rose" after a newsletter that is secretly di ...

The Passerby (1982)

Max Baumstein is a reputable businessman who founded an international organization fighting against violations of human rights. Why would he commit an act that apparently negates the principles he has striven for so long to uphold? As he is tried for first ...

After Midnight (1981)

The Political drama shows the denunciation and persecution of the 19-year-old Sanne in the Nazi state. After she falls in love with her cousin, Sanne is betrayed by her jealous aunt to the Gestapo. ...

Charlotte (1981)

In 1939, Charlotte Salomon leaves Berlin to seek refuge at her grandparents' villa in the south of France. A little later, war breaks out, and Charlotte must, besides forgetting all she left behind, deal with her grandmother's depression, and her mother's ...

New Wave Lovers (1981)

Freddy wants to be a star. He writes and performs his own songs, but has no record contract yet. He has an idea to form a group of back-up vocalists and recruits four beautiful girls who also happen to be his former lovers. They name themselves "THE FOUR P ...

Speed Driver (1980)

Rudi is forced into racing for a kingpin drug dealer, but after the murder of his brother he swears revenge. ...

Heiße Kartoffeln (1980)

Thanks to some misunderstandings, an art student gets into the role of a gynecologist. And as a gynecologist he makes the ladies happy. ...

Kreuzberger Liebesnächte (1980)

A young pair of lovers record on tape their sexual activities. The only problem: the neighbors in the apartment building can receive the erotic recordings with their TV sets due to an antenna fault. ...

Die Totenschmecker (1979)

Hell breaks lose in a remote farm in the Bavarian alps where the family of a ruthless patriarch goes on a killing spree when their mentally challanged brother accidently murders a gypsy girl. ...

Rings of Fear (1978)

Angela Russo, a sixteen-year-old girl, is found dead in a river, having been fatally violated with a large blunt instrument. Inspector Di Salvo is assigned to the case and focuses his investigations on St. Theresa's, the exclusive school where Angela boar ...

Boarding School (1978)

This film tells the story about a group of girls at an exclusive German girls boarding school. Across the lake is an exclusive boys boarding school... ...

Shattered Dreams (1976)

A young Viennese policeman can not free himself from his mistress and is also extorted over his illegal arms business. ...

Nea (1976)

In Genève, bookseller and publisher Axel Thorpe catches willful, rich 16-year-old Sibylle Ashby shoplifting. She brags about her writing, so he challenges her to produce a book. She writes an erotic novel that Thorpe publishes anonymously, and it becomes ...

The Twist (1976)

Claire de La Tour Picquet shares her life between her husband, the successful novelist William Brandeis, and her lover, Jacques Lalouet, William's publisher. Then she discovers that her lover has a mistress, Charlie, who is also that of her husband... ...

The Three Superguys (1975)

The sale of a religious statue will help the nuns of a convent to build a hospital. A bandit wants to take over the statue, but two loafers confront him, managing to retreat after the usual adventures. ...

You Are Free, Dr. Korczak (1975)

Based on the biography of the Polish doctor and educator Janusz Korczak, the film retells the last phase of his life. Korczak, director of the Jewish orphanage in Warsaw and a Jew himself, was forced to move to the ghetto with all the orphans living in the ...

The First Circle (1973)

The story of the life of a political prisoner in a Russian gulag. ...

Die Gräfin von Rathenow (1973)

The Vengeance of Dr. Mabuse (1972)

Dr. Mabuse and his accomplices steal all kinds of attributes from a National Research Institute (including female staff members) in order to complete his own evil mind-control ray. Dr. Mabuse has this impressive and horribly scarred man-monster that kills ...

The Call of the Wild (1972)

John Thornton, is a fearless man who's after more than gold; he wants to do what's right. Thornton works for the U.S. mail and is the only person daring and smart enough to figure out how to travel the deadly 600 miles from Skagway to Dawson, Alaska in the ...

Lilli - die Braut der Kompanie (1972)

Lilli, the attractive niece of a general, disguises herself as a man in order to sneak into a German army barracks for research purposes. However, it is only a matter of time before her cover is blown. ...

The Corpse Packs His Bags (1972)

A London slasher pack the suitcases of his victims before stabbing them to death in this adaptation of Edgar Wallace's 'Secret of the Black Suitcases. ...

Treasure Island (1972)

Young Jim Hawkins finds himself serving with pirate captain Long John Silver in search of a buccaneer's treasure, in this short adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale. ...

Robinson and His Tempestuous Slaves (1972)

Robinson, a down-on-his-luck pharmacist who's pestered by his nagging wife and overbearing mother-in-law, dreams of seclusion on a remote island with the girl of his fantasies. Finally fed up, he decides to leave and make his dream a reality. But beware! t ...

Sex After Six (1972)

The members of a wedding party play a game whereby each describes the events of their own wedding night. ...

The Dead Are Alive (1972)

A photographer on an archaeological expedition digging up Etruscan ruins in Italy begins to suspect that not all the Etruscans buried there are actually dead. ...

The Sex Olimpics (1972)

In Greece at the time of antiquity. In the year 600 before Christ, the 45th Olympic Games are held, which are all in the sign of the old city-renown Sparta-Athens. ...

Lonely Wives (1972)

An oft-naked male reporter decides to do an expose on "sexual widows", housewives who are neglected by their busy husbands. - This cheaper sex film is disguised as a report about green widows. ...

Virgin Report (1972)

Part documentary, part mockumentary, part sexploitation, all Franco. Starting in the Garden of Eden we are taken on a voyage around the world that covers various rites of passage and cultures deflowering of the virgin. ...

She Killed in Ecstasy (1971)

A vengeful widow seduces and murders the men and women responsible for her husband's suicide. ...

X312 - Flight to Hell (1971)

A plane leaving the turmoil of a South American country in the midst of a revolution crash-lands in the Amazon jungle in Brazil. Among the passengers are a corrupt banker who is smuggling diamonds out of the country, a reporter, a mysterious beauty and a s ...

Vampyros Lesbos (1971)

An erotic horror tale about a vixen vampiress seducing and killing women to appease her insatiable thirst for female blood. ...

Kassensturz (1971)

The Devil Came from Akasava (1971)

A mineral is discovered which can turn metal to gold or humans into zombies. When the mineral is stolen, secret agents are sent in to get the mineral back! ...

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970)

In 1930s Italy, a wealthy Jewish family tries to maintain their privileged lifestyle, hosting friends for tennis and parties at their villa. As anti-Semitism intensifies under Fascism, they must ultimately face the horrors of the Holocaust. ...

Strogoff (1970)

A captain in the Czar's army encounters danger and romance while carrying a secret message across 19th-century Russia. ...

Death Occurred Last Night (1970)

A chief police inspector investigates the disappearance of a 25-year-old woman, the daughter of a lonely widower. ...

Wind from the East (1970)

A politically oriented film in which images suggestive of a mock western are accompanied by an attack on all cinematic conventions to date and a debate on the nature and possibility of revolutionary cinema. ...

The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)

An American writer living in Rome witnesses an attempted murder that is connected to an ongoing killing spree in the city and conducts his own investigation, despite he and his girlfriend being targeted by the killer. ...

Lovemaker (1969)

A drama directed by Ugo Liberatore. ...

Love Birds (1969)

Two couples live their erotic fantasies out until one of the women is murdered. ...

De Sade (1969)

The 18th-century French marquis recalls his sadomasochistic experiments and goes to jail for lewd behavior. ...

Should a Schoolgirl Tell? (1969)

Schoolgirl Josefine learns from an early age to use sex to gain advantages. The school's gym teacher is arrested and accused of indecent behavior but the court dismisses the case when Josefine uses her female charm on the jurors. ...

The Unnaturals (1969)

During a thunderstorm, a group of members of London's high society seek refuge in a remote mansion in the countryside. They are received by Uriat and his mother, who appears to be able to communicate with the dead. The guests engage in a séance, but it wi ...

The Fight for Rome II - The Betrayal (1969)

The devious general Cethegus plays the Byzantine and Gothic forces against each other for his own gain. ...

Ankle Bone (1968)

While escaping from prison to be with her lesbian friend, a 19-year-old girl breaks her ankle and is picked up by an ex-con, with whom she begins a passionate affair. She finally turns to prostitution and robbery to support herself. ...

The Fight for Rome (1968)

A Roman noble, Cethegus, tries to start a war, setting the Ostrogoths and their Queen, Amalasuntha, against the Byzantine Emperor Justinian; Cethegus wants to swoop in after they have destroyed each other and create a new Roman Empire from their combined k ...

The Valley of Death (1968)

An army gold shipment and its escort vanish in the Ozarks, prompting accusations of theft and desertion but frontiersman Old Shatterhand and Apache chief Winnetou help solve the mystery of the missing army gold. ...

Commandos (1968)

Sgt. Sullivan puts together a group of Italian-Americans into disguise as Italian soldiers in order to infiltrate a North African camp held by the Italians. After the soldiers have knifed the Italians in their beds, they find a hooker living at the camp. S ...

The Column (1968)

The end of Trajan's Dacian Wars (106 AD), when south western Dacia was transformed into a Roman province: Roman Dacia. ...

Shalako (1968)

Sean Connery is Shalako, a guide in the old West who has to rescue an aristocratic British hunting party from Indians and bandits. ...

Straßenbekanntschaften auf St. Pauli (1968)

In order to bring a police commissioner under control, the criminal group that controls a notorious club that specializes in underage strippers, targets the young teenage daughter of the commissioner who is attempting to become independent by going out at ...

Naked and Free... The New Life Style (1968)

Walter Bergman is a boring old travel agent. One day while away on a business trip, he starts hanging out with a group of young swingers. ...

Rheinsberg (1967)

Kurt Hoffmann's film adaptation of Tucholsky's eponymous novella is situated in 1910s Berlin: The aspiring editor Wolf runs into Claire by chance. Both are attracted to one another, yet they are not entirely certain about their feelings. They embark on a t ...

Glorious Times in the Spessart (1967)

The countess is married, and the ghosts are still in the Spessart. Her husband becomes an astronaut and the story involved time travelling and space travelling starts. ...

Orgel und Rakete (1967)

A TV movie. ...

Die Brücke von Remagen (1967)

Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy 2 (1967)

Now Brunhild knows by which treason she was won for king Gunther of Burgund by Siegfried of Xanthen, and has been revenged by his foul murder by Hagen, more bloody revenge is inevitable. Hagen steals the Nibelungen-treasure to sink it in the stream and man ...

The Corrupt Ones (1967)

Freelance photographer Cliff Wilder (Robert Stack) finds himself the target of various colorful villains in this quest for an ancient Chinese treasure when he accidentally acquires the key to its location, the Peking medallion. ...

Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy (1966)

Siegfried of Xanten snatches the Nibelung treasure from the king of the underworld and slays the dragon Fafnir, whose blood makes him invulnerable. Siegfried falls in love with Kriemhild, the sister of the Burgundian king. But only if Siegfried helps Gunth ...

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 Doctor Speaks Out (1966)

A serious Swiss melodrama/documentary about abortion, marketed as a sexy exploitation movie in the US. The film contains real medical footage. ...

Who Killed Johnny R.? (1966)

An assumed-dead gangster wants to implicate a completely innocent man to pay for his crimes so he can give the slip to his avengers and persecutors. ...

Spätsommer (1966)

Kingdom of the Silver Lion (1965)

Kara Ben-Nemsi, friends and rescuers set out to free a young relative of the guardian of the treasure of the Chaldaeans (Christian sect), who is captured for that fabulous ransom. ...

The Wild Men of Kurdistan (1965)

After dealing with the Shut in the Balkans, Kara Ben-Nemsi ('Karl the German') receives a firman (precious passport) from the padishah (Ottoman sultan) before he continues his travels through Kurdistan. Achmed El Corda, the son of Halef's Hadedhin Beduin t ...

Mädchen hinter Gittern (1965)

The inmates of a reformatory for underage girls have had turbulent pasts: prostitution, crime, violence, and drugs dominated their lives. One of these young women is the rebellious Karin, who lets no one get close to her. Only the young pastor Johannes man ...

A Place Called Glory (1965)

Two celebrated gunfighters are separately hired to come to a small Canadian town in Manitoba named "Glory" for a showdown at high noon. But before they can do that, they join forces and take on a bandit gang that dominates the area. ...

Double Game (1965)

Pyramid of the Sun God (1965)

Mexico, 1864. The country is divided by the struggle against the French occupation and emperor Maximilian. The German doctor Karl Sternau and his friend Andreas Hasenpfeffer come to love the country and support the cause of the proud Mexicans. ...

Genghis Khan (1965)

This is the story of the shy Mongol boy Temujin who,during the 13th century, becomes the fearless Mongol leader Genghis Khan that unites all Mongol tribes and conquers India,China,Persia,Korea and parts of Rusia,Europe and Middle-East. ...

Mercenaries of the Rio Grande (1965)

Dr. Karl Sternau, the personal physician of the count Bismarck, who spent much of his youth in Mexico, is sent back to that country during the occupation by French troops in the service of the Austrian 'Emperor' Maximilian, to carry an encouraging letter f ...

Frozen Alive (1964)

A scientist experimenting with suspended animation decides to use himself as a test subject. Before he is frozen, his wife is killed, and he is suspected of her murder. a murder suspect. ...

The Racetrack Murders (1964)

The son of a British racehorse owner conspires with a bookie to ruin the odds of his father's thoroughbred winning an important event. ...

Fanny Hill (1964)

Young, pretty and innocent, Fanny Hill has lost her parents and must find her way in life amidst the perils of turbulent 18th-century London. She's fortunate enough to rapidly find a place as chambermaid of the effusive Mrs. Brown, who lives in a large hou ...

The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse (1964)

The evil Dr. Mabuse develops a death ray with which he threatens the world. ...

In the Wild West (1964)

When Black Bill's father is murdered and his uncle kidnapped, he sets out in pursuit of the perpetrators. ...

Yellow Devil (1964)

When a villain named "Der Schut" terrorizes the constituents of Albanian country, which he rules, heroic Kara Ben Nemsi and his sidekick are the only ones who can stop him. ...

The Monster of London City (1964)

Then the spirit of Jack the Ripper seems to be very much alive in 1960s London as a series of brutal slayings by the Monster of London City has Scotland Yard baffled. In a macabre coincidence, a new play about the famous murderer is about to become a major ...

Old Shatterhand (1964)

Renegades trying to get the army to abandon their fort get the Indians addicted to whiskey, then convince them to attack and drive out the soldiers. ...

The Phantom of Soho (1964)

A masked killer is stalking and killing Londoners outside a nightclub. ...

The Mad Executioners (1963)

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

Scotland Yard Hunts Dr. Mabuse (1963)

The spirit of the evil Dr. Mabuse takes over the body of a famous professor. The professor/Dr. Mabuse then begins a new crime wave that terrorizes the city. ...

The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle (1963)

A strangler is loose on a British estate, and he not only strangles his victims but brands an "M" onto their foreheads before he decapitates them. ...

Der Fall Rohrbach (1963)

No overview found. ...

Breakfast in Bed (1963)

Henry and Liane Clausen's marriage is not going well. Henry is an ambitious publisher who is very focused on his career and neglects his wife Liane. In order to shake her husband out of his indifference, Liane Clausen begins an affair with Victor Armstrong ...

The Curse of the Yellow Snake (1963)

A Chinese cult bent on taking over the world uses an idol called The Golden Reptile that they believe can give them the power to achieve their goal. ...

Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace (1962)

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson embark on a search for Cleopatra's ancient necklace, which has been stolen. ...

Story of San Michele (1962)

A biographical drama is based on the 1929 autobiography of Swedish doctor Axel Martin Fredrik, The Story of San Michele. It follows the physician, psychiatrist, and adventurer as he travels the distances from Lapland to his Villa San Michele on Capri, with ...

The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1962)

Dr. Mabuse has been locked away for years in an insane asylum. Suddenly crimes start occurring and no one knows the culprit. A detective goes to visit the Doctor to find some sort of clues to the robberies. ...

The Devil's Agent (1962)

Droste, a mild-mannered businessman, was an intelligence expert during World War II. When Droste runs into his old friend Baron Von Straub, the two rekindle a friendship that was interrupted by the war. However, when Von Straub asks Droste to deliver a sma ...

Dr. Sibelius (1962)

Dr. Georg Sibelius is a noble head doctor who is there for his female patients day and night. His beautiful young wife is unable to have children of her own and is therefore pathologically jealous, a condition that is exacerbated when the head doctor's chi ...

The Invisible Dr. Mabuse (1962)

Strange things happen in a revue theatre. The dancer Maria seems to be hunted by an invisible admirer. When the body of a probable FBI agent is found in a trunk the police asks FBI man Joe Como for help. Como gets interested in the revue theatre and an omi ...

The Secret of the Black Trunk (1962)

A series of knife murders have an odd feature about them; the victims find that their luggage has been packed for them just before their deaths. Scotland Yard investigates, and discover that the murders are linked to an addictive drug called Mescadrine. ...

Auf Wiedersehen (1961)

This Time it Must Be Caviar (1961)

Thomas Lieven is a German secret agent trying to leave that profession, to live a peaceful life. Adventure is too strong an appeal, he starts working again, and soon it's difficult to say if he is doing his job, or turned out as double agent for England, F ...

Operation Caviar (1961)

Bank accountant Thomas Lieven is forced to work as a triple agent for the British, the French and the Nazis. ...

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 ...

Blind Justice (1961)

A man is accused of murdering his wife. The state prosecutor assumes he did the deed to spend more time with his lover. But the woman in question says that his wife committed suicide in her presence and that the accused is innocent. Despite the objections ...

Adieu, Lebewohl, Goodbye (1961)

The dance troupe 'Tiller Girls' travels to Rome for a guest performance and has some adventures there. ...

Das Riesenrad (1961)

The story of a marriage over time, based on a play by Jan de Hartog. Maria Schell and O. W. Fischer play an aristocratic Austrian couple who meet during the imperial era and experience the first five decades of the 20th century together: temptations and tr ...

Via Mala (1961)

A godless sawmill owner makes his family's life so hellish that he has to be killed. ...

The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi (1961)

Florestan Mississippi, a public prosecutor by profession, visits a lady named Anastasia and, while drinking coffee with her, convicts her of poisoning her husband. At the same time, he asks for her hand in marriage, as he too has killed his wife with poiso ...

Eichmann and the Third Reich (1961)

Released during the trial of Adolf Eichmann, this documentary uses archival footage and contemporary interviews to examine the crimes of the Third Reich and the bureaucratic machinery behind the Holocaust. Directed by Erwin Leiser, the film situates Eichma ...

Zu jung für die Liebe?! (1961)

Two minors are expecting a child and want to get married. Katja is 16, an orphan under the guardianship of child welfare services; Klaus is 17, a high school student and the son of wealthy parents. They persistently pursue their goal despite opposition fro ...

Ordered to Love (1961)

Revealing story about the mysterious Nazi organization "Lebensborn," which was intended to serve the SS in pursuing population policy and racial hygiene goals by systematically producing "hereditarily valuable" children. The film depicts an anti-Hitler Kni ...

Und sowas nennt sich Leben (1961)

A large German city at the beginning of the 1960s. This is where the well-to-do Berger family lives. Outwardly a bourgeois idyll, but behind the scenes the family is in turmoil. The relationship between father and son in particular is extremely tense. Mart ...

The Salonika Terrorists (1961)

The story of a famous group of Macedonian terrorists that opposed Ottoman repression at the beginning of 20th century. ...

Sabine und die hundert Männer (1960)

Marina (1960)

Several young music enthusiasts find a helpful supporter of their passion—singing and making music—in the endearing, friendly elderly gentleman Mr. Herzlieb, who works as a night watchman at a pawnshop specializing in musical instruments. Using a short ...

Bis dass das Geld euch scheidet… (1960)

Germany at the time of the economic miracle: the boorish and equally rude Jupp Grapsch has made a small fortune through his bustling activities. His wife Lisbeth, on the other hand, does not feel comfortable with this, but silently accepts the circumstance ...

Der brave Soldat Schwejk (1960)

When the First World War breaks out in 1914, Josef Schwejk, a naive dog dealer in Prague, joins the Imperial Army. ...

The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960)

A reporter is murdered while driving to his job. The Police are contacted by a clairvoyant who saw the death in a vision, but some dark force is preventing him from seeing the man behind the crime... ...

Scheidungsgrund: Liebe (1960)

Mistress of the World - Part II (1960)

Karin is now continuing her father's research and is also caught in the cross hairs of the mysterious opponents. Johanson himself retreats to a Cambodian monastery in order to escape the gangsters' shots and recover. Meanwhile, the international criminals ...

Mistress of the World - Part I (1960)

Professor Johansson has made a huge scientific breakthrough; a device that will create a huge magnetic pulse that knocks out all electricity over a continent-wide area. The military applications are already being thought of when Dr. Johansson is kidnapped ...

Sweetheart of the Gods (1960)

Biography of the famous German actress Renate Müller, who died in 1937 under unsettled circumstances; While doing her first movie for the UFA in Berlin, she meets the elderly secretary-general Dr. Simon and is impressed by his charm. Although her Nazi-fri ...

Kein Engel ist so rein (1960)

Dr. Zilinsky and his cunning gang want to rob a bank. But they haven't reckoned with Konrad Stroloff, the bank manager's son, and the pretty singer Therese. ...

O sole Mio (1960)

The Witch Beneath the Sea (1959)

A novelist comes under the spell of a beautiful woman who is rumored to be a legendary Amazon who lures men to their doom. ...

Marili (1959)

Robert Orban, a successful playwright, working on his country house on a new piece ...

The Day the Rains Came (1959)

A motorcycle gang in post-war Germany wreaks havok on a town, until one of their members begins to have second thoughts after a run-in with the police. ...

Rebel Flight to Cuba (1959)

Peter escapes a firing squad and leaves the island of San Quinto on a commercial flight to Bermuda. The plane is hijacked by a Nazi and San Quinto's Ex-General Cordobas who shoot pilot Pink and damage the landing gear of the plane. ...

Du bist wunderbar (1959)

The Black Chapel (1959)

1933 in Germany. The rise of Nazism fears war and some officers, concerned the fate that hostilities would reserve to their country, organize an anti-Nazi group. They send a reporter, Golder, to communicate the plan of the German offensive allies. ...

Melodie und Rhythmus (1959)

Father and son have the same taste in women, but different tastes in music: both love the beautiful Linda, but while the father leads a successful dance band, the son wants to be a rock star. After an argument, the son leaves his father and performs first ...

An Angel on Wheels (1959)

Heralded racing driver Pierre Chaillot has never noticed the pretty young flight attendant who dotes on him adoringly. But when his fiancée's infidelity drives him to the brink of suicide, Pierre's guardian angel takes the form of this stewardess to urge ...

And That on Monday Morning (1959)

Intended as a light farce this comedy by Luigi Commencini is a little plodding in its story about a bank manager who has had it with his buttoned-down, boring job. One Monday he can no longer face the tedium of both his work and his life and so he stays ho ...

Peter schießt den Vogel ab (1959)

Peter schießt den Vogel ab is a German film comedy first released in 1959. ...

Lockvogel der Nacht (1959)

The unscrupulous Klaus Petzold has developed a very special business model: with his company, which outwardly presents itself as a normal detective agency, he is the logical consequence and at the same time the counterpoint to the institution of marriage a ...

Notes from a Gynecologist's Diary (1959)

After a carnival celebration, young Erika Hansen is offered a lift by two young men in a car. The men become abusive. Erika rushes out of the car and is seriously injured. She is brought to a gynecoligal clinic for an acute operation. ...

The Indian Tomb (1959)

Seetha and Harold Berger are rescued from the desert by a caravan and brought to a small village. However, the greedy owner of the house where they are lodged betrays the law of hospitality and reveals their location to Prince Ramigani. The couple tries to ...

Was eine Frau im Frühling träumt (1959)

Twenty years after their wedding, the well-to-do Elisabeth sets off for Konstanz to meet her husband and finally take their honeymoon. There she runs into her childhood friend Pierre Bonvant. While old memories and feelings are stirred up in Elisabeth, her ...

The Tiger of Eschnapur (1959)

In Eschnapur, a German architect saves the life of the Maharajah's favorite temple dancer and becomes Maharajah's friend but their friendship is tested when the architect and the dancer fall in-love, triggering the Maharajah's vengeful ire. ...

Polikuschka (1958)

Forbidden Paradise (1958)

Combining documentary elements with a playful narrative, the film explores the evolution of bathing culture and social morals in Germany. Set in a summer resort where traditional values clash with more liberal attitudes, it humorously reflects on changing ...

Wehe, wenn sie losgelassen (1958)

Peter wants to practice for an upcoming jazz competition with his friends Willi, Oskar, and Jupp. But his uncle Tobias, on whose farm Peter lives, must not find out about it. ...

Ihr 106. Geburtstag (1958)

The Man in the Stream (1958)

61-year-old Paul Hinrichs impersonates being 10 year younger in order to get a job as diver once again. ...

Münchhausen in Afrika (1958)

The adventures of Baron Münchhausen jr. in Africa. ...

Girls in Uniform (1958)

A new student, Manuela, enters a strict girls' boarding school after her mother's death, where she finds comfort in a kind teacher, stirring complex emotions within her. ...

It Happened in Broad Daylight (1958)

The search for a child murderer drags a once-respected detective into an all-consuming obsession. ...

Confess, Dr. Corda (1958)

A doctor goes to meet a beautiful girl at a park bench near a wooded area. When he arrives, he finds her battered body lying next to a stream! He then finds himself to be the prime suspect. Who's the killer? ...

The Italians They Are Crazy (1958)

In a German prison camp, some Italian prisoners bet with the commander that they will be able to build a church in two hours. ...

Voyage to Italy, Complete with Love (1958)

The Count of Luxemburg (1957)

And Lead Us Not Into Temptation (1957)

A unlucky village railroader causes a trainwreck by accident. In court he is exculpated by a woman who first becomes his lover, later on his wife. But in the end, his guilt is too strong and he faces his due punishment. ...

Liebe, Jazz und Übermut (1957)

Die Frühreifen (1957)

Inge works in a department store as a saleswoman in the women's fashion department. She suffers from the cramped conditions in her parents' house, where they save money because her choleric father, a miner, dreams of owning his own house in the country. Sh ...

Goodbye, Francesca! (1957)

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Einmal eine große Dame sein (1957)

Being a leading lady is just what young Jeanette has always dreamed. To reach her goal she takes part in a film company's talent competition. When things don't go as planned, Jeanette and her feisty Aunt Elly resort to drastic measures. ...

Siebenmal in der Woche (1957)

The famous singer Roberto Ricci wants to save himself from his overly intrusive female fans with a fake marriage. Mr. Praxl from the marriage institute Eros finds him his own granddaughter Gertie, who works as a waitress and wants to finance her own singin ...

Kindermädchen für Papa gesucht (1957)

The Last Ones Shall Be First (1957)

The brother of a high ranking lawyer has killed the husband of a Polish woman, with whom he is having an affair. Can the counsel help his brother without getting himself involved in scandal? ...

Die Unschuld vom Lande (1957)

Theater director Werner Sturm was amazed when he arrived in the Bavarian market town of Oberwinkel on a vacation and came across all kinds of disguised characters: knights and maids, squires and heralds were running around, and children were shooting arrow ...

The Night of the Storm (1957)

Despised by her husband and son after an affair, Marianne moves in with her lover, an unsuccessful painter, until she is purified. ...

Supreme Confession (1956)

The wife of a conductor with a stormy past agrees to meet a blackmailer in a small hotel. ...

Teenage Wolfpack (1956)

The drama of a youthful triangle among gang leader Freddy, his brother Jan, and bad girl Cissy, in one of the first considerations of juvenile delinquency in post-war West Germany. ...

Anastasia: the Czar's Last Daughter (1956)

In 1920, an unknown 24-year-old woman was fished out of Berlin's Landwehr kanal after a suicide attempt. Since she has no papers and no answers to any questions, they soon assign them to the insane asylum Dallendorf. A co-patient believes she recognizes th ...

Liebe (1956)

Anna falls madly in love with an Italian violinist, who instead marries her sister Monika. ...

Mein Vater, der Schauspieler (1956)

Because Diva Christine believes that her husband is cheating on her, she hurtles away and dies. Only the little son prevents the widower from committing suicide. ...

Before Sundown (1956)

Based on a play by Gerhardt Hauptmann, the film details a bittersweet May-December romance between ageing Mathias Clausen and young, beautiful Inken Peters. ...

Der erste Frühlingstag (1956)

Musikparade (1956)

Greta Lund leads her own jazz band with charm and flair, but she's not interested in romantic entanglements with her musicians. Then the popular trumpeter and singer Peter joins her band and falls in love with her. He tries in creative ways to convince her ...

Das Bad auf der Tenne (1956)

On his journey through the Flemish province, Don Fernando, the king's stadtholder, passes through the small, bourgeois community of Terbrügg. There, he meets Antje, the mayor's wife. To impress the beautiful lady, he gives her his bathtub. It's a sensatio ...

Studentin Helene Willfüer (1956)

Student Helene moves to Berlin to write her doctoral thesis. In the laboratory of her doctoral supervisor, the renowned Professor Matthias, she meets the charming Dr. Stefan Rainer. Helene falls in love with him, unaware that Stefan is already having an af ...

Love, Dance, and 1000 Songs (1955)

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Du mein stilles Tal (1955)

Elisabeth, wife of a landowner, has kept from her husband for twenty years that their daughter is not his. Rather, she is the result of an affair with a musician she was dating shortly before their marriage. Now this man, by now a famous concert pianist, e ...

Hotel Adlon (1955)

The Rats (1955)

Soon after World War II, a pregnant Polish refugee, Pauline, wanders Berlin looking for the boyfriend who abandoned her. She has no option but to sell her child to another woman, Anna. After the birth, Pauline decides she wants the baby back. ...

The Plot to Assassinate Hitler (1955)

A disillusioned Wehrmacht officer named Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg and his co-conspirators attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler on 20 July 1944. ...

Adventure in Rio (1955)

A remake of the 1940 film of the same title. It was shot on location in Brazil with separate German and Italian versions. ...

Liebe ohne Illusion (1955)

Roman eines Frauenarztes (1954)

Große Starparade (1954)

The Little Czar (1954)

Sonja, a little ballerina at the Grand Theater, is secretly in love with the handsome tenor Luis Mariano. One night, she hurts her feet while dancing and under the influence of a sedative falls asleep and starts dreaming. She is Sonja Ilyanova now, a young ...

My Sister and I (1954)

After an accident, Princess Maria Christine ends up stranded in Rothenburg, where she falls in love with engineer Rudi Becker, but pretends to be a shoe saleswoman. Misunderstandings, mix-ups and intrigues lead to turmoil surrounding her planned wedding to ...

Theft of the Sabines (1954)

Adventure in Berlin (1952)

The plot revolves around a gang of criminals, mostly former guards of Auschwitz, who print and distribute counterfeit U.S. currency in Berlin after World War II. ...

Sündige Grenze (1951)

Film about young smugglers. ...

Epilogue (1950)

The reporter Peter Zabel stumbles upon the sinking of the luxury yacht Orplid in Hamburg on August 14, 1949. The ship went down with a wedding party run by artists on a pleasure trip from Hamburg to Scotland . In spite of good weather and no technical prob ...

Maharadscha wider Willen (1950)

City in the Fog (1950)

In the Danish port city of Belgesund, the caretaker of a private high school has fallen victim to murder. Detective Thomsen takes on the case and finds that behind the clean facade there are abysses. He has five suspects in mind: the teacher Berling, who i ...

Girls Behind Bars (1949)

Due to complicity in a robbery raid the young Ursula comes to a detention center, in which the education is hard since she is considered a serious offender. In a joint outbreak, she gains the respect of the other girls. ...

Morituri (1948)

As the end of the Second World War approaches and the Soviet Red Army is advancing, a group of concentration camp inmates is helped to escape by a Polish doctor. They hide in a wood where they meet other fugitives, who have been there for months, constantl ...

Herzkönig (1947)

After drinking too much alcohol, King Michael XXXVII promptly forgets his own wedding date! To avoid a scandal, his police minister asks the writer Peter Petroni, who looks deceptively like the king, to stand in for the alcoholic Michael at the ceremony. T ...

Marina, Mabuse und Morituri (2017)

The history of Germany's oldest independent family-owned film studio, now run by Brauner's daughter, Dr. Alice Brauner. The film traces the life of Brauner, who was born in Poland, shaped by German history, survived the Holocaust as a Jew, and became the m ...

Artur Brauner erzählt... (2017)

Artur Brauner talks about his career. ...

Open Wounds – A Journey through German Genre Films (2017)

A documentary about German cinema from 1960 to 1990. It follows "Verfluchte Liebe deutscher Film. ...

Doomed Love: A Journey Through German Genre Films (2016)

An alternative history of the not-so-well-known West German genre cinema of the 1960s and 1970s. ...

Filmrestaurierung der Orient-Filme (2012)

Featurette about the restauration of Der Schut and Durchs Wilde Kurdistan ...

Karl May's Orient-Filme: Making-of (2012)

Featurette about the filming of Durchs wilde Kurdistan and Der Schut ...

Babyn Yar - The Forgotten Massacre (2012)

It was the largest mass shooting of the Second World War, and yet few people are aware of the Babyn Yar massacre. In September 1941, Germans shot 33,771 Jews on the edge of a ravine in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv. ...

René Deltgen – Der sanfte Rebell (2008)

Making of: Das Geheimnis der schwarzen Koffer (2005)

Crew and cast members talk about the making of the 1962 film 'Das Geheimnis der schwarzen Koffer'. ...

Filmlegenden. Deutsch (2005)

A parade of well-known actors and directors from Germany ...

Fritz Lang, le cercle du destin - Les films allemands (2004)

Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor (2000)

Klaus Kinski is one of the few German actors who has achieved international fame. He made headlines. And disappeared behind them. Kinski lived his parts 24/7. This film tells the story of a man who no longer could understand the difference or distinguish b ...

Lady of Kazakhstan (2000)

Berlin's Danny Bach, single and lead singer of a garage band, actually has something better to do than take care of his orphaned 14-year-old cousin from Kazakhstan. But the smart, charming Ekaterina will soon be part of the family. And it hits Danny hard w ...

Photographer (1998)

In 1987, colour slides were found in a second hand book store in Vienna which turned out to be a collections of photographs taken in the Lodz ghetto by the Nazis' chief accountant. Walter Genewein boosted productivity in the ghetto while keeping costs down ...

Kleiner Mann ganz groß (1994)

Documentary feature about German actor Heinz Rühmann made shortly before his death in 1994. ...

...Geist und ein wenig Glück (1965)

Documentary about the current state of German cinema. Produced for German television. ...

Hollywood in Deliblatska Pescara (1965)

Short documentary on the making of Henry Levin's Genghis Khan, which filmed on location in Yugoslavia. The final film's epic battle scenes are contrasted with the mundane reality of life on a film set. ...