Ellen Schwiers

3096 Days (2013)

A young Austrian girl is kidnapped and held in captivity for eight years. Based on the real-life case of Natascha Kampusch. ...

In den besten Jahren (2011)

40 years after her husband is shot and killed by a terrorist while on duty as a police officer during a routine traffic check, Erika Welves (Senta Berger), aided by a journalist (Felix Eitner) finds evidence leading to the murderer. For the killer has vani ...

Im Fluss des Lebens (2011)

On the day of her greatest honor, the well-known Berlin author Agnes Berg receives the shocking news of the accidental death of her daughter Johanna and her husband. The loss hits her particularly hard: Agnes has been at odds with Johanna since she followe ...

GG 19 – Deutschland in 19 Artikeln (2007)

Eine Liebe in Königsberg (2006)

Mein Vater und ich (2005)

An ageing physics professor finds himself in an old people's home against his will after suffering a stroke. ...

Mord am Meer (2004)

Hans Wolgast is executed with a shot in the head in the idyllic town of Husum to Mozart's Magic Flute. His half-brother, Inspector Anton Glauberg, immediately suspects that the shadows of the family past have caught up with him because Hans was a member of ...

Barbara Wood - Lockruf der Vergangenheit (2004)

Wasted Youth (2003)

The year is 1981, the German New Wave is at the peak. Harry, otherwise Sparkasse trainee, wants to make it big as a manager of the band of his friends, Apollo Schwabing. He has booked the band as the opening act for a concert where the group DAF are the he ...

Tanners letzte Chance (2002)

Meine grüne Freiheit - Ein Frühling in Irland (2000)

Dessine-moi un jouet (1999)

A french fantasy film with Christoph Waltz ...

Birkenhof & Lerchenau (1994)

Woman Doctors (1984)

Lydia Kowalenko is fired from the pharmaceutical company where she has worked for many years because she refused to help cover up the use of a dangerous chemical. Her daughter Katja, however, has no scruples and risks an operation which is more beneficial ...

Lucilla (1980)

In Victorian England in the 19th century, Lucilla, the daughter of a clergyman, falls in love with the young Oscar Dubourg while out walking. ...

Fedora (1978)

Down-on-his-luck Hollywood producer Barry 'Dutch' Detweiler attempts to lure Fedora, a famous but reclusive film actress, out of retirement, only to discover the horrifying truth behind her success. ...

Onkel Silas (1977)

1900 (1976)

The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides. ...

Intermezzo für fünf Hände (1976)

Kann ich noch ein bisschen bleiben? (1976)

Der Kreidegarten (1973)

Tod nach Mitternacht (1970)

Goya (1969)

Der Meteor (1968)

Lobby Doll und die Sitzstangenaffäre (1967)

Devil's Girls (1967)

Betty is in jail after a failed raid on a jewelry store while her accomplice Bob escaped. But by chance she finds Bob's hiding place and towers with four other girls. ...

Ballad of a Gunman (1967)

Instead of fighting over newly gained money from a coach-robbery, two gangster-brothers (El Bedoja and Chiuchi) decide to rob a bank together. But Martinez, a gangster-coward, is successfully questioned by Nigros (a clad-in-black gangster-killer who collec ...

Ein treuer Diener seines Herrn (1967)

Frank V. - Die Oper einer Privatbank (1967)

Das schwedische Zündholz (1967)

Strangler of the Tower (1966)

Five people have stolen a priceless, legendary emerald from a religious temple. One of them is slain by an unknown killer. ...

4 Schlüssel (1966)

Bank director Ernst Rose, owner of the Hamburg bank Traven & Co., is asked to go to the airport earlier than expected to pick up his daughter Silvia. When he arrives, he realizes too late that he has walked into a trap. He is overpowered by kidnappers and ...

God's Thunder (1965)

Veterinarian Léandre Brassac lives with his wife Marie on a remote estate. One day, he decides to shelter a young woman with no bearings. ...

Nju (1965)

Nju can no longer bear the monotony of her marriage. At a ball she meets a fascinating writer who she falls in love with. During a heated argument with her husband, Nju openly acknowledges her lover and leaves her husband. She moves into a hotel room with ...

The Bandits of the Rio Grande (1965)

Three female schoolteachers head down to a small village which has a small army detail. The village is raided for by bandits and the teachers are taken along to the bandits' camp. ...

Der Satan mit den roten Haaren (1964)

A drama directed by Alfons Stummer. ...

Tim Frazer Hunts the Mysterious Mr. X (1964)

British detective Tim Frazer hunts a myserious murderer who kills smugglers in the city of Antwerpen. ...

Ein Frauenarzt klagt an (1964)

The Invisible Terror (1963)

A scientist creates an invisibility formula, but it is stolen by a master criminal who uses it to commit even bigger crimes. ...

No Time To Kill (1963)

A vengeful ex-con, framed and sentenced to eight years on for arson, heads to Sweden to look for the real guilty party. ...

The Brain (1962)

After the mysterious crash of a millionaire's private plane, scientists secretly harvest the dying man's brain and keep it alive in a laboratory in order to communicate via telepathy. ...

Camp der Verdammten (1962)

Wenn beide schuldig werden (1962)

Everyman (1961)

Everyman (German: Jedermann) is a 1961 Austrian drama film directed by Gottfried Reinhardt, based on the play written by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. The film was selected as the Austrian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 34th Academy Awards, but w ...

Mann im Schatten (1961)

Crime Thriller with Helmut Qualtinger as Chief Inspector who investigates a Murder in 1961 Vienna. The murder is based on a real murder, the "bathub murder", which gained quite some media attraction in austria in the 1940's. ...

Frau Irene Besser (1961)

It was not until twelve years after the end of World War II that Irene Besser's husband, Martin Besser, long believed to be missing, returned from Soviet captivity. But the country and family have become unfamiliar to him. His wife Irene and her daughter L ...

Der Teufel ist los (1961)

The Last Witness (1960)

Director Wolfgang Staudte who left East Germany in 1953 to make movies in West Germany, takes a few swipes at the West German judicial system in this fairly effective courtroom drama about the murder of a four-month-old baby. Police almost immediately arre ...

Gustav Adolfs Page (1960)

Gustl Leubelfing, daughter of the mayor of Nuremberg adores the king of the Swedes. So she happily substitutes her brother as Gustav Adolf's page instead of marrying her fiancée Roland. Of course she has to hide that she's a woman, especially when they go ...

Sooo nicht, meine Herren (1960)

Heritage of Bjorndal (1960)

Peace has returned to Björndal. After his father's death, young Dag succeeds him and strives to build a good relationship with his neighbor von Gall. The young farmer is determined to return the Borgland farm, which his father acquired by secretly purchas ...

Crook and the Cross (1960)

With the help of God, the loveable safecracker Paul Wittkowski – aka "Cracker-Paulie" – manages to escape the clutches of the cops. He dresses up as a priest and ends up in a village, whose pastor is in dispute with an influential businessman. To hel ...

The Cow and I (1959)

In 1942, a French prisonner of war in Germany decide to escape to France using a cow hold by a lunge as a decoy. He cross all Germany in this way. ...

Entscheidung (1959)

When the Bells Sound Clearly (1959)

Austrian count von Warthenberg is a grumpy stud-farm-recluse since his wife's death. Ths summer, his old lover Susanne Weiden arrives, hoping for a 'fat' marriage and inheritance. But his daughter Hanna made other plan with secret lover Michael, teacher of ...

Passionate Doctor (1959)

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. ...

Nackt, wie Gott sie schuf (1958)

Adaptation of a novel by Johannes Mario Simmel. The story takes place in the Dolomites, where a conflict arises between the clergy of a monastery and the inhabitants of a shanty town for construction workers over the water supply. A young novice feels incr ...

Arms and the Man (1958)

1865: Swiss captain Bluntschli fights as mercenary in the war between Bulgaria and Serbia. When his group's attacked by a few Bulgarian troopers, he learns that he's got the wrong ammunition for his cannon and has to flee. His flight leads him right into t ...

Polikuschka (1958)

Der König der Bernina (1957)

Markus Paltram returns to his home village after ten years. There, he is shunned because his father is believed to be a murderer. Markus falls in love with Cilgia, the pastor's daughter. However, Pia, a Roma girl, wants to win Markus for herself at any cos ...

Die Schwestern (1957)

Between Time and Eternity (1956)

Between Time and Eternity ...

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 ...

Tierarzt Dr. Vlimmen (1956)

The young veterinarian Dr. Vlimmen settles in a small town on the North Sea coast. When he reports the conditions in the local slaughterhouse as cruelty to animals, he makes an enemy of the influential butcher van Heusden, who launches a smear campaign aga ...

Bandits of the Highway (1955)

The film is based on a true story, concerning a series of robberies on the highways of Germany. At the time of the actual events, there was a controversy over whether or not highway patrolmen should be given permission to use firearms against perpetrators. ...

08/15 Part 2 (1955)

Winter 1942: Like thousands of other German soldiers, Asch and Vierbein have ended up at the Eastern front. Although Vierbein finds a new friend in Kowalski, the squadron commander captain Witterer, a true army veteran, gives them a really hard time. Witte ...

Heimliches Rendezvous (1949)

A young teacher has to declare that she is unmarried in order to obtain a teaching license in the small town where her husband works as a teacher at the local grammar school. ...