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There's No Place Like Home (2023)

The film "Den, der lever stille" is an adaptation of the bestselling book by Leonora Christina Skov. The story is based on the author's own life and touches on a number of taboos and highly topical themes such as sexuality, guilt and loneliness. The novel ...

Rex Gildo: The Last Dance (2022)

Rex Gildo's songs and musicals made him very popular. His best-known song was "Fiesta Mexicana" from 1972. Rosa von Praunheim tells the story of his life in the context of the gay pride movement, the normative pressures of the Schlager music industry, and ...

Die Schlagerstory (2021)

Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story (2021)

Oleg Vidov — one of the Soviet Union's most beloved actors — was persecuted, blacklisted and pushed to the breaking point before escaping to the West and achieving the American dream. ...

Schlagerland (2017)

Schlager is the stalwart of German pop culture and emerges stronger from every modernization crisis. But what are the stories behind the flawless backdrop of the German Schlager world? What makes Schlager stars true artists and German songs a perennial com ...

Tour d'Eurovision (2005)

Documentary about the first five decades of the Eurovision Song Contest ...

Baltic Storm (2003)

A journalist from Berlin, Germany, and a Swedish lawyer discover the truth behind the sinking of the "MS Estonia" in 1994, where more than 850 people drowned. ...

Another Opera (1979)

In this hilarious opera parody, Loriot delivers a comedic take on the pretentiousness of the operatic world. The plot revolves around a fictional opera production that spirals into absurdity as egos clash, misunderstandings abound, and everything goes hila ...

Unser Herr Diener (1967)

The Red Mantle (1967)

Seeking revenge against the rival clan responsible for the killing of his father, Hagbard calms down long enough to establish a truce. During a peaceful interlude, he falls in love with Signe, the daughter of the king of the rival clan. However, Hildegisl, ...

The Pipes (1966)

This three-part Austrian/Czech comedy stretches the boundaries of what is considered to be humorous. Part one finds a silent film actor upset because of a rival actor's attention to the former's wife. When he kills his rival, it is only when he is strapped ...

Towarisch (1966)

... und sowas muß um 8 ins Bett (1965)

The kind-hearted but slightly awkward Dr. Eduard Frank is transferred to a girls' boarding school in Carinthia. He soon finds out that his upper class consists of a bunch of cheeky rebels led by the bright Princess Margret. With their pranks, the girls bri ...

Liebesgrüße aus Tirol (1964)

Dr. Stefan Burger wants to take over the management of a home for children. Together with Rena he gets involved in a small scam. ...

Jetzt dreht die Welt sich nur um dich (1964)

Lilian Andreesen is the music loving daughter of a Danish newspaper empire and falls in love with Rex Gildo. ...

Deutsche Schlagerfestspiele 1964 (1964)

Han, hun, Dirch og Dario (1962)

Director Paul Borg (Ebbe Langberg) neglects his young, beautiful wife Marianne (Ghita Nørby). He even forget their wedding day, in favor of a new fast sports car, a beautiful silver-gray Jaguar. During his drive, he runs out of gas. A young lady Laura Lub ...

Prinsesse for en dag (1962)

17 -year-old May will by crook career on " the boards " - she will show that she can sing and have talent - and in its endeavors sticking her " a spoke in the wheel" for many. Several are the hardships she exposes its surroundings , to reach his goal. Alth ...

Ullabella (1961)

Ullabella is a dreamy teenager who is in love with her teacher. But one day, when she refuses to do as he says, he slaps her. Ullabella tells her family about it, and then the case begins. Ullabella's mother and uncle, who is a politician, take the case al ...

Schlagerparade 1960 (1960)

Den kloge mand (1956)

In the small idyllic town Randrup, lives on nature-loving and friendly thatcher Rasmus Thomsen (Oswald Helmuth). In addition to refurbish people's roofs, he runs a small "geschæft" that "The wise man". Son Ulf (Frits Helmuth), which reads the doctor's hom ...

12 pairs of gloves (1956)

Musical comedy sketch based on an old custom, according to which women are allowed to propose marriage to a man on leap day, February 24. If the man says no, he must give the woman 12 pairs of gloves. ...