Hermann Speelmans

Ballerina (1956)

Bettina Sanden, a solo dancer at the opera, falls ill with polio. The chances of a cure look rather slim. ...

Hanussen (1955)

In Germany during World War II, a well-known psychic decides to collaborate with the Nazis. ...

Bandits of the Highway (1955)

The film is based on a true story, concerning a series of robberies on the highways of Germany. At the time of the actual events, there was a controversy over whether or not highway patrolmen should be given permission to use firearms against perpetrators. ...

Ein Herz spielt falsch (1953)

A man, in need of money and too lazy to work for a living, marries a plain but rich girl in the knowledge that she is ill and has not long to live. ...

Gift im Zoo (1952)

Animals start to mysteriously die in a zoo in Hamburg. Is somebody poisoning the animals and with what purpose? ...

Lockende Sterne (1952)

A completely new life begins for railroad employee Werner Nordhaus when he meets the fascinating variety theater director Karena Rodde. She discovers that Werner is a great dancing talent and is determined to win him over for her theater. Karena wants Wern ...

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. ...

In the Temple of Venus (1948)

The complicated love story between a dancer and a sophisticated man, which is severely disrupted by a calculating little girl. An unbelievable social melodrama; shallowly and superficially staged. ...

In Those Days (1947)

A car tells its story and the story of its seven owners during the years of the Third Reich. ...

Wir sehn uns wieder (1945)

Meine vier Jungens (1944)

Anna Christiansen has not heard from her husband Klaus, a sailor, for twelve years. To provide a secure life for her three sons, Anna has taken over a sailors' home. Since then, she has led a modest but contented life. One day, Klaus suddenly appears at he ...

Drei tolle Mädels (1943)

Münchhausen (1943)

Legendary, immortal nobleman Baron Munchausen regales a lovestruck woman with tales of his amazing adventures. ...

Vom Schicksal verweht (1942)

The young doctor Dr. Virginia Larsen fights in vain against malaria on an island in the Antilles. She finally receives support from Dr. Dos Passos. The doctor persuades the rebellious natives to get vaccinated. They even help to dispel the suspicion of mur ...

Familienanschluß (1941)

Old captain Barkhahn keeps on going bankrupt with all his business endeavors. He's made for the sea and not for the land. His newest idea is a family-run bed and breakfast with "Familienanschluß," and so Captain Bräuer moves in and quickly shows interest ...

Goodbye, Franziska (1941)

The relationship between Franziska and her partner Michael, a globetrotting photojournalist, remains strained due to their constant separation, until tragedy strikes, forcing Michael to come home and to make a decision about their future. ...

Unser kleiner Junge (1941)

The printing worker Lena suffers a lot from the teasing of her colleagues, because no one really knows who the child she expects is from. The alleged father, sailor Ole Thomsen, is on his way. When he comes back, doubts also prevail over him, and he sits d ...

Kongo-Express (1939)

Renate Brinkmann is a German lady on a railway journey in Africa. She is wooed by two very different men. One is a hard drinking, cocky French aviator, the other a sensitive German gentleman. ...

Alarm at Station III (1939)

During the Prohibition the US government has been just as successful at stopping drinking as they have been in the War on Drugs. Customs Officer Arne Kolk is determined to stop the alcohol smugglers at any price. ...

Who's Kissing Madeleine? (1939)

Pierre Pasqual has just about everything his heart desires: in his career as a commercial pilot, he is well known and successful; he has wealth and a beautiful wife. The only thing is, that because of his career, Pierre is frequently away and the thought ...

Mann für Mann (1939)

Musketier Meier III (1938)

Schüsse in Kabine 7 (1938)

The Minerva Mines Company is interested in transporting two particularly valuable diamonds from Cape Town to Amsterdam. To confuse potential thieves, two detectives are sent on two different ships with steel suitcases and they have no clue whether they're ...

Autobus S (1937)

Bus driver Jonny wants to marry Grete, but she is jealous, and when he wrecks his bus, gets robbed by burglars and is implicated in an insurance fraud he decides to leave town and sign up on a ship as a sailor. ...

Sherlock Holmes: The Grey Lady (1937)

Jimmy Ward infiltrates a criminal gang, only to reveal at the last moment that he is, in fact, none other than an undercover Sherlock Holmes. ...

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. ...

A Strange Guest (1936)

The daughter of a wealthy art dealer is blackmailed, and then his former wife is found dead in a Paris hotel.One of the four suspects turns out to be actually a police detective. ...

The Last Four on Santa Cruz (1936)

An author, a businessman, a shipowner and a publisher form a business venture, which will supposedly exploit a huge find of lobsters on the island of Santa Cruz. After a report in the newspaper, the business' stocks do well. But the partners quarrel with o ...

Du kannst nicht treu sein (1936)

Film by Seitz. ...

Don't Fall in Love at Lake Constance (1935)

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 ganzer Kerl (1935)

Film by Boese. ...

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 ...

Herr Kobin geht auf Abenteuer (1934)

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)

A Prince's Young Love (1933)

Period romance set in Bismarck's Second Empire about a nobleman who wants to marry the daughter of a lowly pharmacist. ...

Hitler Youth Quex (1933)

Nazi propaganda film based on the life and death of Hitler Youth Herbert "Quex" Norkus – in the film, renamed Heini Völker – who was killed while distributing flyers in a Communist neighborhood. ...

A Certain Mr. Gran (1933)

An Italian engineer who had made a strategically important invention to ward off enemy aircraft is killed in a robbery. As the plans have presumably fallen into the hands of spies, secret service captain Bergall is given the task of recovering the papers. ...

Die Nacht im Forsthaus (1933)

A Door Opens (1933)

Detective Hans Braumüller is trying to untange the conspiracy behind a bank robbery. ...

F.P.1 Doesn't Answer (1932)

F.P.1 is a huge airplane landing dock in the Atlantic where pilots making the transatlantic flight can stop. Yet a saboteur tries to sink the technical wonder in this classic German science fiction film from 1932. The film was also created with English and ...

Strich durch die Rechnung (1932)

A Shot at Dawn (1932)

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

Crime Reporter Holm (1932)

At a hotel in a resort town in the Bavarian Alps, a retired district attorney from Chicago is shot dead. Crime reporter Peter Holm is on the spot and joins in the murder investigation. ...

Under False Flag (1932)

Zu Befehl, Herr Unteroffizier (1932)

This comedy pokes fun at the military exercises Germans were fond of doing in the lead up to the Great War. ...

The Captain from Köpenick (1931)

Based on the true story of a cobbler who bought a second-hand captain's uniform, assumed command of a troop of guardsmen, declared the town of Köpenick under military law, arrested the mayor and confiscated the town treasury. ...

Der Herr Finanzdirektor (1931)

The Battle of Bademuende (1931)

No More Love (1931)

An American millionaire, who had always bad luck with women, bets that he can live without them for five years. But after four and a half years traveling around on his yacht, he rescues a lady from drowning in the English Channel. ...

Children in court (1931)

Inquest (1931)

When a prostitute is murdered in a cheap Berlin boarding house, an investigating judge suspects that the killer is her boyfriend, unaware that his own son and daughter are also mixed up in the case. ...

The Man in Search of His Murderer (1931)

A man in bad sorts hires a burglar to later kill him, then changes his mind when his fortunes turn and must find the contracted murderer before it is too late. ...

Danton (1931)

This pre-WW II German costume drama chronicles the French Revolution with a particular focus upon Danton, Robespierre, and Marat. It depicts the dramatic downfall and execution of Georges Danton in 1794 at the hands of Maximilien Robespierre. The film also ...