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Peter Baumgartner, Filmkameramann (2014)

Peter Baumgartner talks about his life and work as a DoP for Erwin C. Dietrich and Jess Franco. ...

Die unheimlichen Briefe (2002)

Strange, rhymed advertisements in the TIMES unsettle three London gangsters - and rightly so, because soon the first of them are killed. The mysterious killer also catches a shady lawyer. Higgins and Lane find out that the key to the crimes is an unsolved ...

Ein lasterhaftes Pärchen (2000)

Widow Käthe Mühlmann is a little eccentric. Every day she confides her worries to the photo of her husband Hubert, who has been dead for ten years but is still closer to her than her two friends Arabella and Brigitte. Käthe does indeed have reason to wo ...

Warten ist der Tod (1999)

Die Spesenritter (1999)

Die drei Mädels von der Tankstelle (1997)

Wigald, a spoiled offspring, is no good with women. He finds solace with a psychiatrist and love with his poodle. When his mother dies, he is only allowed to claim his inheritance if he manages to get a run-down petrol station back on its feet. However, he ...

Happy Birthday, Türke! (1992)

Kemal Kayankaya, a private detective, was hired by a Turkish women, Ilter, to search for his husband, Amend, who has been missing since the death of her father, Vassif. Unknownst to him, he was about to unravel the secrets of his client's family, as well a ...

Bride of the Orient (1989)

After the death of his mother, a lonely farmer in rural Switzerland considers finally starting a family of his own. Eventually he pays for a bride from Thailand. The couple don't share a language, but being to know each other. However the village neighbors ...

Tapetenwechsel (1984)

Munich with a housing shortage. Mona is given notice to leave the apartment: personal use. The landlady's son, a new "doctor", is to move in. Without an apartment, Mona's boyfriend Thomas feels unable to continue the relationship. After all, he knows a "ni ...

Geheimsender 1212 (1983)

Alte Liebe (1981)

Lili Marleen (1981)

The story of a German singer named Willie, who while working in Switzerland, falls in love with a Jewish composer named Robert, whose family is helping people to flee from the Nazis. Robert's family is skeptical of Willie, thinking she could be a Nazi as s ...

Kolportage (1980)

Der Durchdreher (1979)

The chaotic journalist Maximilian Glanz is working on his big book that will never be finished, answers letters to the editor of a tabloid newspaper and dreams of escaping to an island and leaving everything behind. His marriage is in crisis. And on the da ...

Satan’s Brew (1976)

A famous poet who hasn't written a word in two years unconsciously plagiarizes the work of Stefan George, while dealing with several mistresses, his dimwitted brother, and a murder investigation. ...

Preussenkorso Nr. 17 (1974)

Wagner, the owner of the secondhand shop, hires student Tißmann to clear out an apartment at Preußenkorso 17 in Berlin. ...

Dream City (1973)

A married couple of artists move to a utopian town known for its absolute freedom, but behind the surface perversion and violence are spreading. ...

Cabaret (1972)

Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound the clarion call to decadent fun, while outside a certain political party grows into a brutal force. ...

Mancher lernt's nie (1972)

Jürgen Roland’s St. Pauli-Report (1971)

It is about brawls, prostitution, a prison escapee, murder and manslaughter. The film wants to be documentary, the director himself appears as moderator and interviewer. ...

The Resort Girls (1971)

Workers of a journey company state about guys and females who pass their vacation time just by sexual enjoyment, which is shown overly thorough and commented on. ...

Swinging Wives (1971)

Sex comedy about lonely housewives and their activities while the husband is away. It's a series of vignettes connected by documentary-style interviews with people on the street. The eroticism relies completely on nudity, not altogether different from Brit ...

Die Zeit schreit nach Satire (1971)

The Fire Tongs Bowl (1970)

A successful author, who was educated by private teachers in his home instead of being sent to school with other boys, realizes he missed out on a lot fun in his younger years. He decides to make up for this and attends school classes disguised as a pupil. ...

Was ist denn bloß mit Willi los? (1970)

Willi Winzig is a small tax officer with a big heart. He sometimes lets the tax files of his insolvent fellow citizens disappear into the air shaft. But shortly before his retirement, the shaft is so full that Willi has to dispose of the file of a penniles ...

Schwabing so, so - oder so? (1970)

Should a Schoolgirl Tell? (1969)

Schoolgirl Josefine learns from an early age to use sex to gain advantages. The school's gym teacher is arrested and accused of indecent behavior but the court dismisses the case when Josefine uses her female charm on the jurors. ...

The Sweet Pussycats (1969)

An officer and a count who live in opposite ends of the same castle bet each other who will be the first to bed their respective new 'virgin' maid. The winner will get ownership of the castle. In order to attain his goal, the officer ignores his lusty fian ...

Die Benachrichtigung (1968)

Caustic satire on the state of mind and soul of the Czech bureaucracy. ...

Sexy and Not Yet 16 (1968)

Rosy, a 15 year old, escapes the protectory and finds shelter at Helens, a singer. But Helen's care is just temporary and soon new troubles find her. ...

Treibgut der Großstadt (1967)

A young woman works in a Berlin hotel while her husband, a commercial art student, drives a cab. They are 3600 DM in debt. In order to pay the rates, the woman agrees to work as an entertainer in a bar against her husband's wishes... ...

Spätere Heirat erwünscht oder Pallü ist ein Spiel (1966)

Ganovenehre (1966)

In the crazy twenties, safecracker Orje is released from prison and, through the mediation of his friend Nelly, finds a job at the "Sparverein Biene". The honorable gentlemen train him as a pimp, but because he is bored, he starts an affair with Olga. Soon ...

Liebe nicht ausgeschlossen (1965)

Ein Tag im Leben von.. (1965)

Der Schmied seines Glücks (1965)

Games of Desire (1964)

The wife of the Swedish Ambassador of Greece becomes involved in a romantic triangle, but the man who comes between husband and wife has a preference for the husband. ...

Es war mir ein Vergnügen (1963)

Sein Meisterstück (1963)

Robert und Bertram (1961)

Der Hochtourist (1961)

About a Cologne sparkling wine manufacturer who is pretending to be passionate about mountaineering in order to be able to devote himself to his real passion, theater. ...

Die Gejagten (1961)

In the forest of Hablikon, the administrator Reichle is found shot dead. He had gone hunting with three other respected citizens of the community. Detective Sergeant Müller takes charge of the investigation. The first suspect is the nephew of one of the h ...

Du bist wunderbar (1959)

Alle lieben Peter (1959)

Liebe auf krummen Beinen (1959)

The unsuccessful composer Daniel Mogge meets the photographer Eva through his runaway dog Blasius. He falls in love with her and a romance begins between the two. The envious neighbor Grusius, who is feverishly waiting for submissions for musical works, fi ...

Schwarzwälder Kirsch (1958)

Heimatlos (1958)

A young country girl breaks up the engagement with her fiancé and moves to the city to live with her lover. The new man will give her some unpleasant surprises. ...

Rosemary (1958)

West Germany in '50s is becoming an economic superpower. In such climate, Rosemarie is just one of many enterpreneurs who wants her piece of new fortune. She uses her charms to bring members of West German industrial elite to her bed. There she finds busin ...

Frauenarzt Dr. Bertram (1957)

Kein Auskommen mit dem Einkommen (1957)

To supplement their pension, the eccentric couple August and Ida Bodendiek rent a room to young Klaus. His father wants to remarry, so Klaus moved out of his parents' house and now works the night shift as a truck driver. This gives the Bodendieks the oppo ...

Egon der Frauenheld (1957)

Ferien auf Immenhof (1957)

The pony hotel has just been opened, but so far no guests have arrived. Dick gets Ralf to design a brochure about the hotel. The girls and Ethelbert then lead the village children on horseback to Lübeck, where they all distribute the brochure - not knowin ...

Das einfache Mädchen (1957)

The newcomer actress Caterina Bastiani, there is the Chance of your life, as you are the leading role in a Musical get offered. But the author of the novel has, in this respect concerns: first, he wants his material was not as musical Revue prepared to see ...

Bonjour jeunesse (1957)

After her mother's death, Liselotte is taken in by an old sculptor, but some distant cousins, brutal farmers, obtain guardianship of the young girl. Unhappy, she flees and finds refuge with a young shepherd living on alms. ...

S'Waisechind vo Engelberg (1956)

The sculptor Andreas promised his seriously ill childhood friend before her death that he would take care of her daughter Heidemarie. While his application for custody is going through the authorities, the young girl comes to her uncle and his wife. Both t ...

Kirschen in Nachbars Garten (1956)

Ein tolles Hotel (1956)

Hello Kathrin (1956)

Kathrin, Sylvio, and Pierre are music students in Paris. Due to their financial difficulties, the bailiff Fogar is even forced to seize their musical instruments. However, he allows them to continue practicing with them in his warehouse. There, the trio me ...

Dany, bitte schreiben Sie (1956)

08/15 at Home (1955)

The third part of Paul May′s "08/15" trilogy based on the novel by Hans Hellmut Kirst takes place shortly before the end of World War II: In the spring of 1945, the German troops are practically defeated, and the battalion of Kowalski, major general von ...

Furlough on Word of Honor (1955)

Two Blue Eyes (1955)

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 ...

Der Pfarrer von Kirchfeld (1955)

Squirrel (1955)

Beer under palm trees (1955)

Der fröhliche Wanderer (1955)

08/15 (1954)

Life in the barracks, drill, harassment, and private Asch′s pranks are the ingredients of Hans Hellmut Kirst′s successful novel "08/15" (the number of an Army regulation). Shortly before the outbreak of World War II: Private Asch and gunner Vierbein be ...

The Little Town will go to Sleep (1954)

In a small town a bag with delicate letters disappears. Many of the residents are worried about their written messages. A clever sculptor uses the opportunity to play a prank. ...

Liebe und Trompetenblasen (1954)

In a small residential town, the two soldiers Peter and Nicky try to win the affections of the artist Ninon from the court theater. Their admiration clashes with their duties as soldiers and they are grounded. Nevertheless, they look at their Ninon in the ...

They Call It Love (1953)

Palace Hotel (1952)

The paths of guests and employees cross at the Palace Hotel in St. Moritz: A chambermaid experiences financial difficulties. A guest has been robbed. A thief is caught. An assistant cook is promoted to waiter. And there's no shortage of love in this small ...

The Ghost of Allenwil (1951)

Schaggi Streuli was not his real name. Born Emil Kägi, he had little luck in the first 30 years of his life. As the sixth child of an alcoholic and also a divorce goof, it wasn't easy for Schaggi Streuli. After that he tried unsuccessfully as a pickle in ...

Torrents (1947)

Sigrid and Yann are cousins, and in love with each other. A medical student, Jean marries Léna, who gives him a child, but he dies accidentally. Desperate, Yann finds Sigrid in their childhood home in Savoy. Afraid of seeing their passion revive, he decid ...