Herbert Weißbach

Up – Down (1994)

Comedy drama about one of life's perennial losers who finally strikes it lucky with a beautiful woman, but not before experiencing the usual seemingly endless pitfalls. ...

Die Senkrechtstarter (1989)

In the not too distant future, in the year 1999: In Germany, payment may only be made by credit card, which leads to many people purchasing things they cannot pay for. A nasty debt collector from the almighty central bank sends out employees to take back u ...

Year of the Turtle (1988)

The story of an impossible love between a 60 years old jobless bookkeeper and an unpredictable 40 years younger woman, who seems to be in big troubles. ...

Golden Boy (1988)

Boundaries of Time - Caspar David Friedrich (1986)

A study of German 19th Century Romantic art through the writings and paintings of Carl David Friedrich and his fellow artist, Carl Gustav Carus. ...

Otto - The Movie (1985)

East Friesian Otto moves to the big city Hamburg. There he gets into trouble with a loan shark and needs to find a way to impress his love interest Silvia. ...

Nonstop Trouble with the Family (1985)

A series of murders eliminates the poverty-stricken heirs to a 10 million-dollar fortune while Didi Dodel, the unsuspecting main heir, blithely escapes the attempts on his life. After a wealthy miser dies and leaves his fortune to Didi and five others, the ...

A Love in Germany (1983)

In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that he left 40 years before. He wants to discover what happened then, the truth about an affair his mother had with a young Polish prisoner of war, how the auth ...

Die Wildente (1981)

Bühne frei für Kolowitz (1980)

Warum die UFOs unseren Salat klauen (1980)

A biologist has succeeded in growing a particularly energy-rich lettuce and now the whole world wants to get hold of the product. ...

The Woman Across the Way (1978)

A middle-aged man's doubts about himself transform themselves into paranoia about his younger wife's behavior in this psychological thriller. The husband plants listening devices around their apartment and eventually drives the heretofore innocent woman in ...

Ein Mord am Lietzensee (1978)

Millowitsch-Theater – Der doppelte Moritz (1977)

Zero Hour (1977)

In July 1945, US troops are leaving Saxony and Thuringia while the Red Army takes control of the territories. In a small village near Leipzig, the inhabitants try to adjust to the new authority. ...

Ein Fall für Sie: Sonnenschein bis Mitternacht (1975)

Die preußische Heirat (1974)

At the court of Frederick William I of Prussia, highly political marriage plans are being forged. Princess Wilhelmine's parents want her to marry into the English or Austrian royal family so that she can become queen or even empress. But she is in love wit ...

Diamantenparty (1973)

Every year, rich people and celebrities gather for the race week in Baden-Baden - and with them the most valuable jewelry and the finest diamonds. This comes in handy for philanderer Konni. His extravagant wife Franziska has a lover and wants to divorce hi ...

Millowitsch - Theater: Week-End im Paradies (1973)

Robinson and His Tempestuous Slaves (1972)

Robinson, a down-on-his-luck pharmacist who's pestered by his nagging wife and overbearing mother-in-law, dreams of seclusion on a remote island with the girl of his fantasies. Finally fed up, he decides to leave and make his dream a reality. But beware! t ...

Sex After Six (1972)

The members of a wedding party play a game whereby each describes the events of their own wedding night. ...

Virgin Report (1972)

Part documentary, part mockumentary, part sexploitation, all Franco. Starting in the Garden of Eden we are taken on a voyage around the world that covers various rites of passage and cultures deflowering of the virgin. ...

Junge Leute wollen lieben (1971)

A teenage couple provides sexual information for their peers in words and pictures, combining their ideological criticism of the older generation with a call for sexual liberation. ...

Unser Willi ist der Beste (1971)

Retired tax official Willi Winzig spends his retirement happily and contentedly in his home. However, this changes when his sister Heidelinde, her daughter and his father want to move in with him, and as Willi is a good-natured man, he takes them in, but b ...

Kolibri (1971)

Nicht nur zur Weihnachtszeit (1970)

An elderly lady has a trauma and simply must celebrate Christmas every day of the year, to the dismay of her family and relatives. ...

Kemek (1970)

A wealthy, eccentric chemical company owner sends his woman to get an American writer to take a mind control drug, Kemek, to verify its potential. She accomplishes her mission, but falls totally in love with the writer. The chemical magnate, satisfied with ...

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. ...

Liebling, sei nicht albern! (1970)

Die spanische Fliege (1970)

We Two (1970)

After ten years, Hella Mayer and her boyhood friend Andreas meet again in Berlin on the street. Both know each other from common dance lessons times. ...

Löwe gesucht (1970)

Christoph Kolumbus oder Die Entdeckung Amerikas (1970)

Christopher Columbus's crazy idea of traveling to India can only be realized because the Spanish treasury is empty and Queen Isabella, who rules the country, is charmed by the charming, profit-seeking son of a poor weaver. With the ulterior motive of becom ...

De Sade (1969)

The 18th-century French marquis recalls his sadomasochistic experiments and goes to jail for lewd behavior. ...

The Swingin' Pussycats (1969)

An eighteen year-old girls wants to preserve her virginity, living in a family that manages the erotic arts. ...

Pistolen-Jenny (1969)

Charleys Onkel (1969)

Driving instructor Carola "Charley" can no longer stand the constant advances of her pupils and quits her job without further ado. To gain some distance, she takes the opportunity to look after her friend Lilo's dog, the two parrots and her apartment while ...

Spanking at School (1969)

Katja, a young journalist, tries to do her A-levels instead of her friend. But the class teacher falls in love with the supposed student. But before the happy ending, the class goes on strike and the chemistry lab is almost blown up. ...

Ein ehrenwerter Herr (1968)

Zur Hölle mit den Paukern (1968)

Pepe Nietnagel and his fellow students of the Mommsen school come up with all kinds of ideas to get out of doing any actual school work. This includes simulating suicides, setting off the air-raid sirens and abusing the school director's new broadcasting ...

When Love Was a Crime (1968)

A war drama showing the functioning of Hitler's "racial purity" law, forbidding foreign workers from any contact with Germany. Foreigners on forced labor in Nazi Germany. ...

Kollege Crampton (1967)

Der Revisor (1967)

Cat and Mouse (1967)

In 1966, a former gymnast returns to his hometown Danzig, which is now a part of Poland. He begins to reflect on one of his classmates, Joachim Mahlke, who disappeared during World War II. Mahlke was initially marked as an outsider due to his oversized Ada ...

Weiß gibt auf (1966)

Das Fahrrad (1965)

Ninotschka (1965)

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Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua (1964)

Der Doktor (1964)

Ein Frauenarzt klagt an (1964)

Karl Sand (1964)

Dead Woman from Beverly Hills (1964)

Detective C.G. begins to investigate the death of an attractive woman whose naked body was found in Beverly Hills. When he recovers her journal, he is taken into her past where he finds that she lead a sexually promiscuous life. Perhaps in the pages of the ...

Es war mir ein Vergnügen (1963)

Glashauskomödie (1963)

Die Mondvögel (1963)

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Das Mädchen und der Staatsanwalt (1962)

A mother is sentenced to one year in prison for matchmaking her underage daughter with her adult boyfriend. ...

The Liar (1961)

When the wife of Sebastian Schumann left her family, he told his little daughter that her mother has died, because he thought that this was the easiest way for her to accept that her mother is now gone. But this was only the beginning of a lot of lies he t ...

The Return of Dr. Mabuse (1961)

The supposedly dead and buried Mabuse returns to his criminal activities, as his longtime foe Police Inspector Lohmann, a dauntless girl reporter, and an American - who may be an FBI agent, or maybe a Chicago mobster - investigate a series of gruesome murd ...

Die Wildente (1961)

The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi (1961)

Florestan Mississippi, a public prosecutor by profession, visits a lady named Anastasia and, while drinking coffee with her, convicts her of poisoning her husband. At the same time, he asks for her hand in marriage, as he too has killed his wife with poiso ...

Küß mich Kätchen (1961)

Zu jung für die Liebe?! (1961)

Two minors are expecting a child and want to get married. Katja is 16, an orphan under the guardianship of child welfare services; Klaus is 17, a high school student and the son of wealthy parents. They persistently pursue their goal despite opposition fro ...

Der Geizige (1960)

Majestäten (1960)

Stefanie in Rio (1960)

A Glass of Water (1960)

Intrigue and scheming at the court of Queen Anne of England between liberal Lord Bolingbroke and Lady Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough. German comedy after the play of Eugène Scribe. ...

Freddy und die Melodie der Nacht (1960)

Das Haus voller Gäste (1960)

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. ...

The Day the Rains Came (1959)

A motorcycle gang in post-war Germany wreaks havok on a town, until one of their members begins to have second thoughts after a run-in with the police. ...

Macht der Finsternis (1959)

Herbert Engelmann (1959)

Peter schießt den Vogel ab (1959)

Peter schießt den Vogel ab is a German film comedy first released in 1959. ...

Mond über dem Fjord (1959)

The World's Craziest Army (1958)

A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958)

A German soldier home on leave falls in love with a girl, then returns to World War II. ...

Windhund und Seehund (1958)

Ein weißer Elefant (1958)

Jim und Jill (1958)

Der widerspenstigen Zähmung (1958)

The Count of Luxemburg (1957)

Schön ist die Welt (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 ...

Der tolle Bomberg (1957)

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Kopf oder Zahl (1957)

Der müde Theodor (1957)

Das haut hin (1957)

Und das am Montagmorgen (1957)

Kalle wird Bürgermeister (1957)

Du bist Musik (1956)

Fräulein Blaubart (1956)

Schwarzwaldmelodie (1956)

Secret Confession (1956)

Der Prozeß Mary Dugan (1956)

Ein Mann muß nicht immer schön sein (1956)

The Girl from Flanders (1956)

A love story between a German soldier and a young Flemish woman amidst World War I. ...

Furlough on Word of Honor (1955)

Three Girls from the Rhine (1955)

Therese Hübner, owner of the "Linde", is desperately trying to protect her long-established business from being taken over by the "Palasthotel". But the bank manager doesn't want to grant her the loan she urgently needs, as he is betting on the newly open ...

Roman einer Siebzehnjährigen (1955)

Ten years ago, at the end of WW2, 7-year-old Beate was separated from her parents while fleeing. A wealthy couple from Hamburg took her in. But now her less affluent parents have found their lost daughter and are bringing her back to Berlin. Beate doesn't ...

Sohn ohne Heimat (1955)

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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. ...

Ina, Peter und die Rasselbande (1955)

Große Starparade (1954)

Zwischenfall im Roxy (1954)

Red Roses, Red Lips, Red Wine (1953)

Art dealer Thormann asks for the hand of his beautiful secretary Nora, but Nora loves Captain Hans Westhoff. But while Westhoff is hiding in Italy to avoid jail time, his heroic death is reported in his homeland. ...

Knall und Fall als Detektive (1953)

Was nicht im Baedecker steht: Bitte, einsteigen zu Käses Rundfahrt! (1953)

Der Onkel aus Amerika (1953)

You Only Live Once (1952)

Remake of the 1931 film The Man in Search of His Murderer. ...

Postlagernd Turteltaube (1952)

Refugees from East Germany try to make a living in the west. ...

Der bunte Traum (1952)

The Heath Is Green (1951)

After the end of World War II Lüder Lüdersen, the former owner of a feudal estate in the East, and his daughter Helga arrive as refugees in the Lüneburg Heath. While living a seemingly happy life on the estate of his cousin, Lüdersen hides a dark secre ...

Verlobte Leute (1950)

Hans wins a prize for his painting of Bärbel, showing her in a slightly compromising way. To clear her good name they get engaged. Too bad that Hans is already engaged to Hanna, and both engagement parties proceed at the same time. ...

Alles aus Liebe (1949)

Our Daily Bread (1949)

A story about a family after the Second World War. The petty bourgeois cashier Karl Weber of Berlin observes from a distance how his son Ernst participates in the building of a new socialist society. Karl does not understand Ernst's visions, instead he con ...

The Cuckoos (1949)

Berlin, shortly after World War II. Five parentless siblings, led by the oldest sister Inge Kuckert, search for a place to stay and a basis of existence in the destroyed city. A bombed villa in the Grunewald seems to be the right "cuckoo's nest", but an al ...

Der große Mandarin (1949)

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. ...

Life Lies Ahead of Us (1948)

Captain Harms still suffers from the bomb attack on his ship. He can not put up with sitting on land, but is afraid of take to the sea. Slowly he is becoming more and more frustrated and gradually falls into alcohol addiction. ...

Beate (1948)

The Woman of My Dreams (1944)

Blonde goddess Marika Rökk plays Julia Koster, a ravishing red-headed musical revue star and her opening number, "At Night It Isn't Right To Be Alone", playing to a packed theater, is both an eye-popper and a jaw-dropper. ...

I Have Dreamed of You (1944)

After a successful concert, the singer Maria dreams about a man with a boquet of lilies, who follows her and kisses her. A short time later, she actually meets such a man: his name is Peter and he's on his way to his bride, Helene. In the afternoon, Mar ...

Leichtes Blut (1943)

Romance in a Minor Key (1943)

A grieving husband tries to uncover the truth behind his wife's suicide, leading him to discover a tragic tale of infidelity and redemption. ...

Make Love to Me (1942)

A showgirl aspiring to greater things endeavours to sort out her financial and romantic problems. ...

Tanz mit dem Kaiser (1941)

The young emperor Joseph II of Austria and Hungary is not interested in romance and marriage, and every time his mother makes arrangements for him to meet eligible young ladies, he escapes under some pretense. This time he is off on a 'tour of inspection' ...

Women Are Better Diplomats (1941)

A seductive dancer (Marika Rökk) helps her uncle to fight against the closing of his casino. Through her feminine charm she achieves diplomatic success. ...

Everything for Gloria (1941)

The ambitious female chief executive of a gramophone record company slowly finds herself falling in love with the company's head of production. ...

You Only You (1941)

The two stars of an upcoming operetta performance quarrel constantly. but they also fall in love with each other. ...

Mistress Moon (1941)

Berlin's theatre crowd is excited about the new operetta "Frau Luna". But for the head of the city's vice police, who was invited to the dress rehearsal, the costumes for the ladies onstage are a bit too revealing. He demands the show be cancelled as offen ...

U-Boat, Course West! (1941)

This Nazi propaganda film follows the exploits of a German submarine as it prowls the North Atlantic. ...

Bismarck (1940)

A biographical film of Otto von Bismarck, the Prime Minister of Prussia, and how he and his policies - including aggressive war - helped to unite Germany. ...

Between Hamburg and Haiti (1940)

A successful German overseas merchant with a plantation in Haiti is looking for a suitable wife in Hamburg and comes across a barmaid from the Reeperbahn with an illegitimate child. He wants to marry her, but she does not follow him out of nobility. In sea ...

Kora Terry (1940)

When Bartos, the director of the Odeon variety theater, cancels an artist at short notice, he hires the Terrys out of necessity, whose parents were successful variety artists, but who had not yet received an engagement themselves. Both are supported by Tob ...

Der dunkle Punkt (1940)

Eduard Winkelmann, the owner of an apartment building in Munich, never tires of making life difficult for his renters. One day, a young woman, Erika, shows up at his door. She is the illegitimate daughter of a long-past love affair. ...

Wie konntest Du, Veronika! (1940)

The Rothschilds (1940)

Biopic about the Rothschilds, a Jewish family whose members rose to the top of the European banking community during the Napoleonic era. ...

Angelika (1940)

Once a celebrated opera singer, who sacrificed her career for her husband. Now she strives to become a successful painter. One day, the husband suffers a fatal accident while out horse riding. A short time later, Angelika shoots the art dealer Immerzeel. T ...

Weltrekord im Seitensprung (1940)

It's bowling night again in Dingelfingen am Rhein. Hotel owner Kiesewitz has set a new record in bowling and is crowned the winner. Now he is to represent the club at the Oktoberfest in Munich. But at home he makes life difficult for everyone, especially h ...

Summer, Sunshine, Erica (1939)

Actually, Erika and Werner wanted to take a pleasant boat trip on the Isar. But who would have thought what could happen during such a simple outing?! Werner Merk, who works as an engineer for a large car company in Munich, finds out, that the head of th ...

Sensationsprozess Casilla (1939)

They meet on the plane from Dakar to Casablanca: the well-known American defense lawyer Vandegrift, his daughter Jessie and the arrested Peter Roland, who allegedly kidnapped and murdered the famous film child Binnie Casilla in Stockford in 1928. Vandegrif ...

Ursula Under Suspicion (1939)

The sawmill owner Ramin disappears from one day to the next. Concerned, his family learns from the bank that he wrote a check to an agent named Frisch. He supposedly wanted to use it to buy a good. However, that did not happen. When Ramin's body is found, ...

Fahrendes Volk (1938)

Fernand has escaped from prison and finds shelter in the traveling circus Barlay, where his former wife Flora works as a predator trainer. Their son, now grown up, Marcel is an art rider and does not know that Fernand is his father. Marcel loves Yvonne, th ...

Nanon (1938)

An operetta directed by Herbert Maisch. ...

You and I (1938)

Melodrama about an entrepreneur and his family. ...

Capriccio (1938)

Lilian Harvey plays a young heiress in long-ago France named Madelon who is raised by her grandfather as a boy in order to frighten away fortune hunters. But when the old man dies, her guardian Cesaire wants to marry her off to the rich prefect Barberousse ...

Ich liebe Dich (1938)

Percy, a young, rich American, is on vacation in Germany and thinks that every girl wants his sorry ass. He's far from right: There's the hugely admired Eve, whom he's decided will be the love of his life, but who isn't in the slightest bit impressed wit ...

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. ...

1A in Upper Bavaria (1937)

The contrast between city and country living. ...

Der lachende Dritte (1936)

In a remote village in Southern Bavaria, hostilities run rampant between a farmer and a luxury hotel proprietor. The former has a smelly dung heap and he hopes to force the hotelier into buying him out at a large profit. ...

Die letzte Fahrt der Santa Margareta (1936)

Film by Zoch. ...

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. ...

April, April! (1935)

Businessman and shameless social climber, Julius Lampe, is subjected to a cruel April Fools' Day prank when he is led to believe a noble prince intends to personally inspect his pasta factory. ...

Stradivari (1935)

In 1914 a Hungarian officer inherits a Stradivarius which is believed to bring back luck to its owner. He and his Italian fiancée are separated by the First World War, and he is badly wounded. ...

Amphitryon: Happiness from the Clouds (1935)

Lamenting Thebian women are waiting for the men to come back from war. God Jupiter is attracted to one of them: Alkmene. He goes to earth and tries to seduce her as himself: an old man. Failing in this, he disguises himself as Amphitryon (Alkemene's husban ...

Warum lügt Fräulein Käthe? (1935)

The pleasure boat "Milwaukee" has a wide variety of guests on board: Frau Deiters, who is determined to get her daughter married off; Herr Krueger, who won a free ticket to travel onboard; Herr Dr. Bornemann, a completely introverted man, who has dedicate ...