Ellen Frank

Herr Ober! (1992)

The former waiter Ernst Held believes himself to be called higher and seeks self-realization as a poet. When he recites poems to his wife's beautician in an ambiguous situation, his wife puts him out the door. Completely destitute, the thwarted poet must t ...

Versuchung (1982)

Der Heiligenschein (1977)

Der schwarze Storch (1976)

Lina Braake (1975)

After the death of the owner of the house Lina Braake is living in, the house is accrued to the bank. During the complete refurbishment of the building, the 81-year old woman is thrown out of her flat and is put in an old people′s home. There she meets 8 ...

Tod eines Mannequins (1974)

Sex Life in a Convent (1972)

120 schoolgirls live in a Catholic boarding school for girls together with nuns, who teach them, but secular teachers are also employed here. Behind the conservative façade of decency, discipline and order, there are unsuspected sexual abysses. ...

Gespensterquartett - Eine musikalische Spukgeschichte (1967)

Conan Doyle und der Fall Edalji (1966)

Kein Freibrief für Mord (1966)

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The Town Musicians of Bremen (1959)

An old donkey resolves to break away from the unbearable hardships of working for a fat miller. By and by, he recruits three more unsatisfied animals and convinces them to accompany him on his way to Bremen where they want to become musicians. ...

Ballerina (1956)

Bettina Sanden, a solo dancer at the opera, falls ill with polio. The chances of a cure look rather slim. ...

Waltz King (1955)

Little Red Riding Hood (1954)

Ever since a little girl received a red cap from her grandmother—which she loves to wear—everyone has called her "Little Red Riding Hood." Little Red Riding Hood lives with her mother and her five brothers in a little cottage on the edge of the forest. ...

Hansel and Gretel (1954)

A Brothers Grimm fairy tale involving siblings finding a gingerbread house in the middle of the forest owned by an evil witch who captures them and by fattening them, intends to have them for her meal. ...

Gold in New Frisco (1939)

In the small town of New Frisco in Alberta, Canada, a stranger named Norton arrives, checks into the most expensive hotel room, and begins courting a saleswoman named Doris. Without revealing anything further to the residents, he starts tinkering with a pi ...

Mädchen für alles (1937)

Under Blazing Heavens (1936)

In this exotic adventure, unscrupulous gun runners threaten a captain, and a ship is in danger of sinking. ...

Dissatisfied Woman (1936)

Lisa's marriage is all in all quite happy; unfortunately, her husband never listens to her when it comes to buying new things. To change this situation, she fakes a loss of memory and pretends not to know who her husband is. When he calls the young psychia ...

The Merry Wives (1936)

When Sir John Falstaff decides that he wants to have a little fun he writes two letters to a pair of Window wives: Mistress Ford and Mistress Page. When they put their heads together and compare missives, they plan a practical joke or two to teach the knig ...

The Girl from the Marsh Croft (1935)

A farm boy betrothed to a socialite falls in love with his maid - an impoverished girl from the marsh. ...

The Blonde Carmen (1935)

A singer tired of the stage retreats to a hotel in the country. There, she finds love and a way back into show business. ...

A Night of Change (1935)

Nacht der Verwandlung (A Night of Change) stars Gustav Froelich as a globe-circling aviator, a character clearly based on America's Wiley Post. While basking in his celebrity at a nighttime carnival, Froelich romances Rose Stradner, the unhappy wife of bru ...

Lockspitzel Asew (1935)

Lärm um Weidemann (1935)

Ein Mädel aus guter Familie (1935)

The Old and The Young King (1935)

The story of the stormy relationship between King Friedrich Wilhelm and his son, who later became known as King Frederick the Great of Prussia. ...

Peer Gynt (1934)

Fun-loving Peer Gynt lives carefree on his parents' farm. Only his mother is a fixed point of reference; he doesn't think much of regular work and an orderly life. His mother's death brings him closer to the young Solveig, but he leaves her and his homelan ...

Heinz in the Moon (1934)

A young man of property is engaged to two women at once. ...

Die Reise ins Glück (1934)

Herr Mahler in tausend Nöten (1934)

So ein Flegel (1934)

The great Dr. Pfeiffer plays the little Primaner Pfeiffer. As the successful playwright Dr. Hans Pfeiffer, he is planning a play about school. In order to gather material, he takes the place of his brother, who is a primary school pupil. The seasoned docto ...

Rakoczi March (1933)

Hungary, 1925. A young lieutenant of the Hungarian army Fröhlich falls in love with his captain's sister, Vilma Horn. While his superior agrees to the marriage, the girl's father has other plans, as the family estate is essentially bankrupt and can only b ...

An Invisible Man Goes Through the City (1933)

A taxi driver, (Piel), finds an odd contraption on the back seat that renders him invisible, but his friend steals the device to rob a bank. An inventive comedy. ...