Ernst Behmer

Youth (1938)

Germany, 1890: Having just gotten his high-school diploma, Hans leaves for Heidelberg to begin his university studies. But first, he wants to visit his uncle, Pastor Hoppe, in the small village of Rosenau. It's here that he again meets his cousin and ch ...

Einmal werd' ich Dir gefallen (1938)

The Marriage Swindler (1938)

A confidence trickster is released from prison and travels to a village where he blackmails and tricks women out of their savings. ...

Wie einst im Mai (1938)

1900: Much to the chagrin of Baron Uhlendorff in Schoneberg, the city of Berlin is expanding. But what is much worse is that his son George is in love with Traute, the daughter of the master carpenter Schradecke. So the son must leave for South America ...

Pension Elise Nottebohm (1937)

An unknown curiosity even for experts, this is a film from the late work of the director of the classic films Mother Krause's Journey to Happiness (1929) and Berlin, Alexanderplatz (1931). Although the communist Philipp Jutzi readily switched sides to the ...

Gasparone (1937)

In the fantasy state of Olivia, the robber chief Gasparone is up to all sorts of mischief. But Prefect Nasoni is not only worried about him, his son Sindulfo is also causing him headaches. He is supposed to marry Countess Ambrat, but loves Ita, the niece o ...

Fremdenheim Filoda (1937)

Assistant PI Bulli is hired to find Marie Banse. He does, she is married to Thomas, they have a pretty daughter, Lore. Bulli falls for her, delivers their heritage of 5000 Marks and tries to find out who the unknown benefactor is. ...

Love in Stunt Flying (1937)

Mabel is a successful pilot who hates sensational media, but falls in love with Jack, a womanizer journalist with conservative views on gender. When the two of them get married, they make a deal: Mabel will cease to fly as long as Jack doesn't interview an ...

Seven Slaps (1937)

William MacPhab loses seven-pounds in the stock market and decides to slap the man who was responsible for the stock manipulation that caused him to lose his money. Astor Terbanks, the stock-market manipulator is surprised the next day when he gets soundly ...

Husaren heraus (1937)

The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes (1937)

Two dubious characters disguise themselves as Holmes and Watson to gain attention and end up chasing counterfeiters and stolen stamps. ...

A Dangerous Game (1937)

The formerly wealthy Baron Carl Erich von Wenden is desperate. His debts are out of control and he is forced to give up everything he owns. Since he doesn't want to burden his daughter Rosy with all of this, he tells her he'll take a pleasure trip with h ...

Vor Liebe wird gewarnt (1937)

Watchmaker Furchtegott Palme has three beautiful daughters. The two oldest are as good as engaged. Only Anna doesn't seem to have a clue how to get acquainted with love. And who would be the right one for that? Her boss, Dr. Hartwig, who invited her to a ...

Woman's Love – Woman's Suffering (1937)

The famous American pianist, Hans Martenrood, is playing for the first time in Europe. A young boy is waiting for him in his hotel room after the concert with a letter from his mother, Marie, which explains, that Hans is the father of the boy and that she ...

Back in the Country (1936)

A man supposed to be dead returns from the US to save his family land, resist a rival's attempt to frame him for a shooting, deal with an odious banker, and make sure the heroine finds the right husband. ...

Annemarie. Die Geschichte einer jungen Liebe (1936)

In Annemarie Brinkmann's small German village all the young men are recruited to the front in WWI. When her boyfriend Klaus Renken gets the call they spend their last romantic night together. Time goes by but one day when the pastor announces the names of ...

Stadt Anatol (1936)

Based on a 1932 novel City of Anatol by Bernhard Kellermann. The film is set in a small city in the Balkans, where the discovery of oil leads to a major boom. ...

Moscow Shanghai (1936)

Spanning the years between the Bolshevik Revolution and 1930, this Negri vehicle focuses on an exiled Russian noblewoman who has lost track of her daughter and of a young officer she pined for.Until she finds them both again and together. ...

Men Before Marriage (1936)

German romantic comedy from Carl Boese. ...

The Beggar Student (1936)

To take a revenge on countess Laura, who slapped him at his proposal, the Governor of the occupied Poland gets her fall in love with a poor student, and exposes him during wedding banquet. ...

Hans in Luck (1936)

Brothers Grimm adaptation. The story follows Hans, who, after seven years of service, is rewarded with a large lump of gold. As he travels home, he trades the gold for a horse, the horse for a cow, then a pig, a goose, and finally a grindstone. Despite los ...

Die Drei um Christine (1936)

Flitterwochen (1936)

A woman discovers after she has just married him, that her husband is abusive, and she tries to get away. ...

Paul und Pauline (1936)

a movie by Heinz Paul ...

The Czar's Courier (1936)

A Czarist courier has to get across the Siberia frontier, threatened by Tartar invaders and a treacherous Russian helping them. Strogoff encounters several colorful characters along the way. German language version of the French film Michel Strogoff, adapt ...

Donogoo Tonka (1936)

Parisians Josette and Pierre are a happy couple, but also a completely broke one. An absurd chain of events leads them to Professor Trouhadec, who is in a predicament. ...

The Higher Command (1935)

A Prussian commander disobeys orders and goes to find a British envoy who can negotiate a pact with Austria to help fight off Napoleon in 1806. ...

The Young Count (1935)

A young woman poses as a boy to ingratiate herself better with her strict aristocratic grandfather and to get him to better accept the new freer ways of the younger generation. ...

The Valley of Love (1935)

Rather coarse, pre-War comedy about a Markgraf -- Heinrich XXVI -- who bathes in the springs of the Ammendorf to strengthen his potency. The town and its springs are especially well known for the many couples with lots of children, who, for tax reasons, l ...

Anschlag auf Schweda (1935)

The student Hans Kessler is suspected of having murdered the banker Hergotin, who has been found dead in his hotel in Zurich. When a search is launched for an unknown woman, who was seen in the hotel at the time of the murder, Hans suddenly confesses to t ...

Love's Arithmetic (1935)

Identities are changed in the Austrian countryside. A simple woman does this to test the affections of a store manager, he too changes character several times and there are other locals who do this as well. ...

The Grey Pikes Wharf (1935)

Otto is pressured by his former girlfriend Mila to marry her. His friend and colleague Franz gets him a new job at Bernhard Münchow's remote auto repair shop, where Otto is safe from Mila for the time being. But then he falls in love with Käthe, the daug ...

Ein falscher Fuffziger (1935)

Punks kommt aus Amerika (1935)

A German who has been away too long in America and has lost all of his money needs to prove himself to his fellow citizens,which he does by foiling the robbery of his uncle and then marrying his sweetheart. ...

Vacationing from Oneself (1934)

A stressed American millionaire is advised by his doctor to take some downtime and rest in the German countryside. The tycoon is so impressed that he buys an estate and turns it into a resort where other businessmen can take holidays from their stressful l ...

Alte Kameraden (1934)

Miss Liselott (1934)

Aimless Bohemians are encouraged to find their salvation in Arbeit (Work) in this propagandistic Nazi era German production. ...

The Cousin from Nowhere (1934)

In this operetta adaptation, a young woman waits for her lover in India, while her impatient uncle wants to marry her off without further ado to a rich merchant. ...

Bitte ein Autogramm! (1934)

What Am I Without You (1934)

A struggling composer gets one of his pieces into a film program and his wife captures the lead part in the production as well. ...

Der Schrecken vom Heidekrug (1934)

Master of the World (1934)

A German scientist designs and builds a machine that will do dangerous work instead of placing humans in jeopardy. But the machine itself turns out to have disastrous effects on the people involved. ...

Musik im Blut (1934)

In Dresden's classical music world, female students learn from an opinionated conductor and a pompous dance instructor.When their work isn't appreciated, a teacher consoles them, saying Bruckner, Schubert and Wagner were also criticized. ...

A Man Wants to Get to Germany (1934)

On the eve of the Great War, an expatriate German working in Latin America learns that the Fatherland is in peril, and risks various obstacles to get back to Europe to join the ranks of fighting men. ...

Die vier Musketiere (1934)

Pipin, der Kurze (1934)

August Pipin is a very reliable and loyal cashier who is always level-headed, no matter which trouble faces him. One day that suddenly changes and a fiasco breaks loose. ...

Gold (1934)

Using an atomic reactor, two scientists try to create gold. ...

Die Freundin eines großen Mannes (1934)

A renowned actress rescues a small theater, which is on the verge of bankruptcy. ...

The World Without a Mask (1934)

An inventor works on coming up with a radio-television device, but can't get it to work properly. A slick con artist sees a chance to fleece gullible people with this device and encourages the inventor to keep working at it. One day in the lab, a freak acc ...

Police Report (1934)

Director Burckhardt is found shot just after making the moves on Gisela Ostercamp, the wife of a business colleague. When the criminal investigator Haupt inspects items in the apartment of the dead man, he comes to the conclusiong that Gisela herself is t ...

Ritter wider Willen (1934)

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

Victor and Victoria (1933)

Aspiring singer Susanne takes over one night for her sick friend, a small-time female impersonator, and finds unexpected fame when everyone believes that she is actually a man. While touring London, complications arise as a local womanizer catches on to he ...

Inge and the Millions (1933)

A well scripted and captivating thriller about the owners of a small private bank in Berlin, squeezing money out of honest business firms, causing their bankruptcies, and then trying to smuggle the cash into Switzerland. ...

Die Goldgrube (1933)

Short film about an arrogant waiter. ...

Heideschulmeister Uwe Karsten (1933)

Das Tankmädel (1933)

Gutgehendes Geschäft zu verkaufen… (1933)

Short film about a fortune teller. ...

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. ...

Isn't My Husband Wonderful? (1933)

Trying to impress his wife, a newly-wed office clerk makes up a story about being promoted to manager of a record-company. ...

Love Must Be Understood (1933)

The stenotypist Margit is supposed to take 3,000 Marks to the bank for her boss, Mr. Plaumann, but she lazes away the time window-shopping, and eventually stands before a closed door. She follows Plaumann to Dresden, where he, believing the money is deposi ...

The Private Secretary Gets Married (1933)

An unattractive secretary is hired so the men in the office will focus on their work, but comic complications ensue. ...

Die Herren vom Maxim (1933)

The Blue from the Sky (1932)

Out of unlikely circumstances an underground ticket vending girl and a mail pilot fall in love. ...

The White Demon (1932)

When Albers takes his drug-addicted opera star sister Gerda to a sanitarium, they both become targets of slimy dope peddler Peter Lorre, who fears that Gerda will blow the whistle on him. Lorre kidnaps the woman, leading Albers on a frantic chase. ...

The Golden Angel Ball (1932)

Strafsache van Geldern (1932)

Paulus van Geldern is a lawyer who has made a name for himself as a criminal defense attorney, but is notoriously short of funds due to his unbridled passion for gambling. His gambling causes problems with his marriage to Martha who is thriving. ...

Quick (1932)

Lilian Harvey plays Eva, a young girl taking some time in a health spa and spending her evenings in the town's vaudeville theatre enamoured by a heavily made-up clown called Quick. Quick takes a shine to her and tries to woo her without make-up and masquer ...

A Shot at Dawn (1932)

A Berlin policeman tracks down a group of diamond thieves in the outskirts by posing as a gang member. ...

The Man Without a Name (1932)

Aus einer kleinen Residenz (1932)

The Cheeky Devil (1932)

Adaptation of a French comedy, set in Paris, in which a lecherous man sets his sights on a beautiful married woman, whose husband is otherwise distracted. ...

Two Hearts Beat as One (1932)

The handsomest man in the state (1932)

The Trunks of Mr. O.F. (1931)

In the very old-fashioned town of Ostend suddenly 13 suitcases are delivered to the Grand Hotel, with a note, that O.F. will be here soon and needs 6 rooms. This event, probably the biggest in 300 years, starts a small wave of modernisation, yet everybody ...

Duty Is Duty (1931)

Berlin-Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf (1931)

Franz Biberkopf has served four years in prison. His return to normal life is not successful. ...

Who Takes Love Seriously? (1931)

Max Hansen and Willi Schur play two small-time criminals who steal dogs from their owners in the hope that they will get a reward. When the police catches them at their 'work', Hansen flees and gets into the apartment of Jenny Jugo, who takes a liking to t ...

Between Night and Dawn (1931)

An aging prostitute develops a motherly affection for a kind young man, but her pimp does not approve. ...

Terror of the Garrison (1931)

Perpetrator Wanted (1931)

A dedicated editor, who is engaged to the daughter of a wealthy senator thrills her father with a lecture about convictions based on circumstantial evidence. When a corpse with a disfigured face is found in the house of the senator, evidence points to the ...

Menschen im Feuer (1931)

Harry Peltzer, who is passionate about his job as a firefighter, and his superior, fire chief Paul Körner, are the best of friends. This changes the day they both meet Nelly, a young, blonde cashier at a vending machine buffet, on whom both men immediatel ...