Erik Ode

Schuld sind nur die Frauen (1982)

Die Geisterbehörde (1979)

Fernsehverweigerung (1973)

Die Flucht nach Holland (1967)

Der schwarze Freitag (1966)

Mrs. Cheney's End (1965)

Spätsommer (1964)

Wachet und singet (1964)

Der Kaiser vom Alexanderplatz (1964)

Wir Kellerkinder (1960)

During the Third Reich, Macke played the drums for the Hitler Youth, but also had a "dangerous" penchant for jazz. After the war, he came under ideological fire in the Soviet zone. Finally in West Germany, he ends up in an institution. ...

Liebe, Jazz und Übermut (1957)

Czardas der Herzen (1951)

Skandal in der Botschaft (1950)

The Berliner (1948)

Otto, a feckless Everyman, tries to adjust to the postwar travails of his defeated nation. Stymied by black-market profiteers and government bureaucrats, Otto begins fantasizing about a happier life at the end of that ever-elusive rainbow. ...

Wir sehn uns wieder (1945)

Eine kleine Sommermelodie (1944)

Tonelli (1943)

Circus performer Tonio Tonelli discovers his wife Maja having an affair with his colleague Tino. Tonio goes away, and slowly rebuilds his career before meeting tightrope walker Nelly. The two become a popular sensation, which leads his estranged wife to tr ...

The Little Residence (1942)

It's 1910 and we're in the duchy of Lauffenburg. Everybody is celebrating the 600th birthday of the local hero, Otto the Ironman, who in his time saved the duchy from annexation and beat the enemy so badly, that he fled ... well, that's what it says in th ...

Karlsbader Reise (1940)

Actors Liselotte Schaak and Erik Ode travel from Weimar to Karlsbad in an early version of the Volkswagen Beetle (KdF-Wagen der Nullserie). ...

We're Dancing Around the World (1939)

Alarm at Station III (1939)

During the Prohibition the US government has been just as successful at stopping drinking as they have been in the War on Drugs. Customs Officer Arne Kolk is determined to stop the alcohol smugglers at any price. ...

Modell Lu, der Lebensweg eines Hutes (1939)

I Refuse to Testify (1939)

Nora, the wife of the architect Heinz Ottendorf, feels neglected by her husband. He is getting more and more engrossed in his work, but Nora, apparently a stranger to hard work, suspects that the real reason for her husband's diverted attention must natur ...

A Hopeless Case (1939)

Das Leben kann so schön sein (1938)

The young marriage of the insurance agent Hannes and his wife Nora is being worn down by financial difficulties and overcrowded living conditions. Hannes is unable to sell enough policies and life becomes ever worse for the two. Nora attempts to earn som ...

Stärker als die Liebe (1938)

In this blood and soil melodrama, the daughter of the chief forester is torn between love for a reprobate painter and the duty to wed the assistant forester, a widower with a boy. ...

Großalarm (1938)

The newspaper delivery driver Paul falls in love with Lotte, who works in her mother's kiosk. One day, Paul helps a man in a black Mercedes, who's been in an accident. While helping him, a notebook has fallen out of the man's pocket, which Paul thinks is ...

Rätsel um Beate (1938)

After her husband suddenly dies, a small town woman becomes the target of gossip, as to whether he had been having an affair and whether she is connected to his demise. ...

Land of Love (1937)

The story is one of the classic operetta stories with a young princess destined to marry a king whom her mother tries to enforce while the young woman tries to escape her fate. ...

Unter Ausschluß der Öffentlichkeit (1937)

A small banking family is put to the test: Brigitte, the wife of the banker Sparrenberg, has a secret: she was once the lover of the fraudster Baron Gaffris, who once used her to get close to well-off businessmen. Now Gaffris is trying to use her to tric ...

Drei tolle Tage (1936)

A cheerful film about the Cologne carnival. ...

Der Abenteurer von Paris (1936)

Film by Martin. ...

Hot Blood (1936)

Baroness Marika von Korossy dresses up as a man, in order to compete in a horse race. Her victorious horse, Satan, will only allow her to ride him and throws everyone else off of him. That includes the dandy lieutenant Tibor von Denes, who immediately reco ...

The Empress's Favourite (1936)

Comedy about the love life of the Russian emperor. ...

Mädchenjahre einer Königin (1936)

After her Prime Minister Lord Melbourne arranges a marriage for her with the German Prince Albert, the young Queen Victoria decides to leave London and spend some time in Kent. While there she meets a handsome young German and falls in love, unaware that h ...

Vergiß mein nicht (1935)

Tenor Enzo Curti, a widower with a young child, falls in love with a secretary from New York. Liselotte has experienced disappointment in her first love, Helmut, an ocean liner officer. She marries Enzo Curti, but later, when she meets Helmut again, she ex ...

Hero for a Night (1935)

The tailor Florian Kerzl is immersed in the Middle Ages. When he spoils the celebrations for the 500th anniversary of the founding of the town of Zdislavice, he is banished from the town. So he moves in his armor to the nearby ruins of a medieval castle. W ...

Winter Night's Dream (1935)

The wintry mountainscapes of Bavaria provide the backdrop for this airy German comedy. The story is set in motion when young clerk Boenecke (Richard Romanowsky) accidentally delivers a check to the wrong bank. Boenecke's boss Schumann (Walter Steinbeck) su ...

Maiden vs. Monk (1934)

Mutz Hagedorn has just graduated from grammar school, much to the delight of her aunt Jenny, who cares for her like a mother. Then she learns from notary Strohbein that she has inherited the hotel "Zur Jungfrau" from her uncle, it is located on Lake Consta ...

The Sporck Battalion (1934)

A fisherman's daughter assumes the blame, to save the honor of a battalion one of whose officers is obsessed with poaching, in this rural melodrama. ...

Der kühne Schwimmer (1934)

Charley's Aunt (1934)

Charley Wyckham and Jack Chesney pressure fellow student Fancourt Babberly to pose as Charley's Brazilian Aunt Donna Lucia. Their purpose is to have a chaperone for their amorous visits with Amy and Kitty, niece and ward of crusty Stephen Spettigue. Compl ...

Gypsy Blood (1934)

Princess Stauffenstein has arranged a marriage for her grandnephew Poldi and orders him to meet his unknown bride Steffi. But he falls for alluring dancer Ilonka while his uncle Leopold, sent to reason with him, is enchanted by Steffi. ...

Ritter wider Willen (1934)

A man on the run from a bully ends up on a movie set. ...

The Castle in the South (1933)

Another fine film from the master of stylish early German comedies, Geza von Bolvary. This may not be among Bolvary's major works, but the story of a prince (Victor de Kowa) who substitutes for an actor playing a prince in a film without anyone knowing tha ...

Glück im Schloß (1933)

A Bavarian baron has invited his three illegitimate children to come on a visit. Suddenly, happiness can be seen in this house only recently cut off from the rest of the world. The baron is happy. When two of the children have to leave because of their ...

Cairo Season (1933)

Comedy with an Egyptian backdrop: Businessman Tobby and the Countess Stafanie wish to take all the fun away from their single parents and make them marry each other. Their parents have the same plan, too ... but with regards to their nosy kids. And so i ...

What Women Dream (1933)

In this pre-WWII German mystery-comedy, a lovely kleptomaniac with a taste for fine jewelry is unable to resist temptation. Strangely, every time she steals something, a mysterious man pays for it. A clumsy detective begins investigating and finds a crucia ...

F.P.1 Doesn't Answer (1932)

F.P.1 is a huge airplane landing dock in the Atlantic where pilots making the transatlantic flight can stop. Yet a saboteur tries to sink the technical wonder in this classic German science fiction film from 1932. The film was also created with English and ...

He Is Charming (1932)

A French musical comedy film, one of the many operetta films made in the 1930s. Rejected for the law after cheating with his fellow students, a frivolous youth gets a job as a notary in the provinces where he hires his girlfriend and they have a fine music ...

Cadets (1931)

The sensitive, music-loving son of a German general reluctantly attends a military academy and after warning a fellow officer to stay away from the cadet's attractive young stepmother, lands up being charged for murder. ...

The High Tourist (1931)

Romantic exploits in Germany's White Mountains. ...

His reason for divorce (1931)

Preussenkorso 45-48 (1977)

Keine Leiche ohne Lily (1967)

Crumbles letzte Chance (1967)

Mrs. Cheney's End (1965)

Wolken am Himmel (1965)

Der Kaiser vom Alexanderplatz (1964)

Feuerwerk (1963)

Theorie und Praxis (1962)

Bubusch (1962)

Heute gehn wir bummeln (1961)

Schlager-Raketen (1960)

"Festival of Hearts" is the name of the new pop music show by popular DJ Camillo. He came up with the idea by chance. Marcel, a young bank employee, almost hit a charming young girl with his car. Angry, she lent him her jack, but then disappeared forever. ...

Das Fenster zum Flur (1960)

Die Liebe des Jahres (1959)

Wenn das mein großer Bruder wüßte (1959)

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 ...

Scala – total verrückt (1958)

Ohne Mutter geht es nicht (1958)

...und abends in die Scala (1958)

The chorus girl Caterina Duval gets the chance of her life when hired as stand-in of a famous star. On the opening night Catarina is singing, dancing and stepping into the hearts of the audience. ...

Liebe, Jazz und Übermut (1957)

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. ...

Der Mustergatte (1956)

Bestseller (1956)

Lügen haben hübsche Beine (1956)

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Musik im Blut (1955)

Wunschkonzert (1955)

Accountant and would-be song-writer Willy inadvertently gets into a live TV game show and is tasked with finding, presenting and performing with a motley band of six amateur musicians within 90 minutes. ...

Heroism after Hours (1955)

"Heroism after Hours" (German: "Heldentum nach Ladenschluß") is a 1955 West German anthology comedy film. It is in four parts each portraying a different tale of German soldiers attempting to get home at the end of the Second World War. ...

Ten on Every Finger (1954)

"Ten on Every Finger" (German: "An jedem Finger zehn") is a 1954 West German musical comedy film directed by Erik Ode. The story centers on a revue dancer named Margit Rameau, played by Germaine Damar, who falls in love with composer Bert Martin, portrayed ...

Der erste Kuß (1954)

Schlagerparade (1953)

So ein Affentheater (1953)

Fight of the Tertia (1952)

Der Kampf der Tertia (Fight of the Tertia) is the story of a group of tough but sensitive German schoolboys. Upon learning that a local catskin dealer intends to buy up all the local felines, the boys organize a boycott against the man. It's a uphill climb ...

The Land of Smiles (1952)

An Austrian singer and an oriental prince who loves singing, fall in love in Vienna, get married and go to his country. She discovers how different the role for women is there, and he fights the old tradition refusing to marry a princess. ...

Skandal in der Botschaft (1950)

Wonderful Times (1950)

Compilation film about a very German first half of the 20th century. ...