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Interview mit Herbert K. (1970)

Die Flucht nach Ägypten (1969)

Kellerassel (1969)

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 ...

Das Großstadtpony (1967)

Spätsommer (1966)

Die echten Sedemunds (1965)

Emil and the Detectives (1964)

When Emil travels by bus to Berlin to visit his family, his money is stolen by a crook who specializes in digging tunnels. While following the thief, Emil runs into Gustav, a young boy who gathers up all his friends to help Emil find the money. However, th ...

Randbezirk (1963)

Heute nacht in Samarkand (1961)

Waldhausstraße 20 (1960)

Der eiserne Gustav (1958)

Gustav Hartmann is in trouble. Because of the new taxis he doesn't get many passengers in his horse-drawn carriage. To prove what he and his horse are capable of, he starts a trip from Berlin to Paris. ...

Die Schleuse (1958)

Last Stop Love (1958)

Young factory worker Mecky Berger doesn't believe in "true love." For him, his female acquaintances are just a pastime. In his eyes and those of his friends, romance is something a man should be ashamed of. But then he meets Christa, who is so different fr ...

Mylord weiß sich zu helfen (1958)

Spy for Germany (1956)

The true story of a German agent sent to the USA in 1944 in order to stop the development of the atomic bomb. ...

Der Froschkönig (1954)

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 ...

Die Schenke zur ewigen Liebe (1945)

Between Heaven and Earth (1942)

Xanten am Rhein, 1870/1871. Roffer Rottwinkel has two sons. His favorite is Mathias, whom he prefers to Lonius, a quiet and introspective man. Lonius, for his part, is shyly revering Christine ... and his brother's in love with her, too. For this reaso ...

Die heimlichen Bräute (1942)

Uncle Ludwig's childless estate hinges on his nephews: Peter studies agriculture and is engaged to Inge, while Paul, a court assessor, loves Marianne, whose father disdains "judges." Both women secretly visit Bainingen, but Ludwig mistakes Inge for Mariann ...

Heimaterde (1941)

A widowed landlady in East Prussia, who, despite his acquittal by the court, believes the forester to have murdered her husband, opposes her son's marriage to the forester's daughter and even wants to sell the farm because of it. The exposure of a border s ...

Eine Stunde (1941)

Tobis studio short film by Peter Pewas that wasn't intended for theatrical release. ...

Friedrich Schiller – The Triumph of a Genius (1940)

The young Schiller, whose heart and soul are writing and poetry, is forced into the military academy (the pride and joy of the Duke of Württemberg). Schiller is disgusted by the everyday routine of the military, always back and forth between breeding and ...

Im Namen des Volkes (1939)

Tanz auf dem Vulkan (1938)

Paris, 1830: Jean-Gaspard Debureau performs on the stage and delights his audience with song, wit and charm. He is, however, very unpopular with King Charles X, who is the target of much of Debureau's scornful jests. That would be a somewhat tolerable s ...

The Girl with a Good Reputation (1938)

A travelling cinema arrives in a small, Italian town. The only place suitable for the screenings is the inn run by Mirandolina, a woman with an impeccable reputation. Tino, who works for the cinema, becomes enamoured of Mirandolina but finds his advances t ...

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 ...

Krach und Glück um Künnemann (1937)

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 ...

Under Blazing Heavens (1936)

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

Soldier Comrades (1936)

A rich,spoiled young man learns about military discipline after bonding with a more hard working comrade,and helping to rescue a child from a fire. ...

Joan of Arc (1935)

France in the 15th Century: The country is marked by the wars with England and internal power struggles. King Charles sees himself powerless against the state. As emerges from the people suddenly a young woman named Johanna, who claimed that the Archangel ...

Der Meisterboxer (1934)

Film by Fred Sauer. ...

The Black Whale (1934)

Adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's 1931 play Fanny. ...

Zwischen zwei Herzen (1934)

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. ...

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 ...

Dawn (1933)

Released three days after Adolf Hitler became Reichskanzler, it was the first film to have its screening in Nazi Germany. It became a symbol of the new times touted by the Nazi regime. The title (literally "morning-red") is the German term for the reddish ...

The Golden Angel Ball (1932)

The Tempest (1932)

Two inspiration sources appear clearly: contemporary American gangster movies and Alfred Döblin's novel Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929). ...

Congress Dances (1931)

An Austrian prince hatches a plan to keep his rival, the Russian czar, busy by keeping him surrounded by beautiful women and away from the negotiating table. The Czar, however, has his own plan—he hires a man who is his exact double to impersonate him an ...