Horst Tappert

Le Passeur immobile (2021)

Le Passeur immobile, which covers the year 1987, is a Booklet filmed stuck between The Days and the Nights (1986) and The Artifice and the Fake (1988). These Notebooks have been punctuating my activity as a filmmaker for about fifteen years. They are like ...

Kulenkampff's Shoes (2018)

Essay film about German family life in the postwar decades, refracted through TV quiz shows and their hosts' biographies. ...

Derrick - Die Pflicht ruft! (2004)

Inspector Stephan Derrick has made it: the crime rate in Munich has fallen to the 0% mark. His prestige is high, and he even has his own elevator with a body-friendly entrance. However, the elimination competitions for the "European Song Contest" force an ...

The Uncrowned Heart (2003)

This comedy is set in the tiny and fictitious state of Sachenia, located close to the Alps. The sleepy and provincial region has magnificent landscape and beautiful old buildings, and is one of Central Europe's best kept secrets. The hero of this cheerful ...

Der Kardinal - Der Preis der Liebe (2000)

Horst Tappert plays a high-ranking dignitary in the Vatican who will soon be made a cardinal. But shortly before this goal, a young woman confronts him in the confessional and accuses him of hypocrisy. She reveals that she is his daughter, whose existence ...

Derrick contre Superman (1992)

Derrick and his deputy, Harry Klein, back from holidays, discover that french TV channel 5 is dead. They'll have to build a plan to create a new "new 5 channel". They'll be helped by Starsky & Hutch, Matt Houston, Captain Kirk or french inspector Navarro, ...

Hard Women (1975)

Rough-and-ready vice detective Perrak has to follow a 1000 leads during the investigation of a trans murder case. In a profoundly mysterious massage parlor he meets industrialist wife Claire Imhoff, who knows more about the crime than she wants to admit. ...

Treffpunkt Herz (1975)

Auch ich war nur ein mittelmäßiger Schüler (1974)

Pitt and Felix, two friends from school, meet again by chance in hospital years later. Both are looking forward to fatherhood. In order to shorten the grueling wait until the baby is born, they exchange lively memories of their school days. Some embarrassm ...

Plus minus null (1974)

Fall nicht in den Schwanensee (1973)

Gabriel (1973)

The archangel Gabriel is sent to earth to announce the end of the decaying human race with his trumpet. But even angels have feelings... ...

The Corpse Packs His Bags (1972)

A London slasher pack the suitcases of his victims before stabbing them to death in this adaptation of Edgar Wallace's 'Secret of the Black Suitcases. ...

Blüten der Gesellschaft (1972)

Hoopers letzte Jagd (1971)

After Chief Superintendent James Hooper was able to arrest the legendary Gentlemen mail robbery gang, he is only missing the head of the gang. But the extremely shrewd Michael Richy Richardson plays a cat-and-mouse game with the man from Scotland Yard, who ...

She Killed in Ecstasy (1971)

A vengeful widow seduces and murders the men and women responsible for her husband's suicide. ...

Der Kapitän (1971)

Captain Ebbs is an older, experienced seaman who has, however, only sailed on freighters. While his current old barge, the Martin Luther, has to go into the shipyard for an overhaul, the shipping company gives him command of the elegant cruise ship Julia t ...

The Love Keys (1971)

The 17-year-old student Rosy (Heidi Hansen) wants to improve her pocket money: For a pledge of at least a hundred marks, she hands over a key to older men and allegedly her address. Lots of love-goers fall in on the trick. - Fluent comedy. ...

Yester - der Name stimmt doch? (1971)

Somewhere in the American countryside, reporter Ellis Yester and his wife Paula live in a tranquil country house. When one day Yolande and Edmund Clenz move into the neighborhood, the lives of both couples change abruptly. The unemployed journalist and the ...

And Jimmy Went to the Rainbow's Foot (1971)

The son of an Argentine chemist travels to Vienna, to solve the murder of his father. Step by step, he realizes that his father was internationally entangled in secret service machinations and chemical weapon sales, and ends up in mortal danger himself. Me ...

The Devil Came from Akasava (1971)

A mineral is discovered which can turn metal to gold or humans into zombies. When the mineral is stolen, secret agents are sent in to get the mineral back! ...

Industrielandschaft mit Einzelhändlern (1970)

In the fight against the impending bankruptcy of his business, a Hamburg chemist relies on total adaptation to the prevailing circumstances. ...

August der Starke - Ein ganzes Volk nennt ihn Papa (1970)

Transplantation (1969)

Das schönste Fest der Welt (1969)

School of Fear (1969)

A teenager named Kurrat mysteriously disappears from a German boys' school. Then a teacher is found dead; the mystery grows. ...

The Man with the Glass Eye (1969)

A man is found dead in a London hotel. The knife is still firmly stuck in the victim's chest, and Inspector Perkins strangely finds a glass eye in his jacket pocket. Kurt after that a second, mysterious murder happens: A city-famous dancer of the Las Vegas ...

Gorilla Gang (1968)

When another dead elderly gentleman is fished out of the Thames, Inspector David Perkins is convinced that the gorilla gang is active again. On a doll found with the body, characters of an African language are discovered. Together with Sergeant Pepper and ...

The Horror of Blackwood Castle (1968)

Scotland Yard must discover why people are being murdered by a monstrous dog at Blackwood Castle. ...

Naked and Free... The New Life Style (1968)

Walter Bergman is a boring old travel agent. One day while away on a business trip, he starts hanging out with a group of young swingers. ...

Ist er gut? - Ist er böse? (1967)

Die Kollektion (1967)

Der Panamaskandal (1967)

Liebe für Liebe (1967)

Ein Riß im Eis (1967)

Four Queens for an Ace (1966)

Hakim Gregory escapes from prison by killing a number of guards, and returns to his hide-out abroad, to lead again his gang of drug trafficking and contract murders. Layton of the Secret Service must discover, and arrest him. The difficult mission almost b ...

Jerry Cotton: Tip Not Included (1966)

An elaborate bank robbery takes place and the gangsters succeed although the FBI had been warned. Jerry Cotton, who is considered accountable for this major failure, loses his badge over this. Being the man he is, Cotton doesn't let the evil-doers forget t ...

Der Mann aus Melbourne (1966)

Das ganz große Ding (1966)

After serving his prison sentence, Dickie Gray wants to leave his life as a petty criminal behind for good. However, he didn't count on his old partner Marty: Marty has spotted a jeweler in London who looks exactly like Dickie and immediately starts planni ...

Der Kinderdieb (1966)

Der schwarze Freitag (1966)

Der Spielverderber - Das kurze, verstörte Leben des Kaspar Hauser (1965)

In 1828 a man called Kaspar Hauser appears in Nuremberg, barely able to speak and walk. He is admitted to the house of a professor, who among other things explores Kaspar's unusual characteristics and deals with his education. ...

Judith (1965)

Die Reise (1965)

Leonce und Lena (1964)

Sechs Personen suchen einen Autor (1964)

Der trojanische Krieg findet nicht statt (1964)

Der Aussichtsturm (1964)

Elektra (1964)

Zwei Whisky und ein Sofa (1963)

Beate Dehn and Klaus Hartmann are two ambitious young architects locked in a fierce professional rivalry. When both enter the same high-stakes design competition, their battle of wits turns personal—and seductive. Charming and manipulative, Klaus has a r ...

Das tödliche Patent (1963)

Charles, a talented but poor chemist, has become a wealthy man overnight. The industry is all about his new invention. But the next day, his wife suddenly dies. Nobody suspects anything bad at first, but then Detective Inspector Morland shows up and begins ...

Snow White and the Seven Jugglers (1962)

Norbert Lang inherits a hotel and has to deal with a multitude of problems at the end of the year. There's the pushy singer who wants to get closer to him than he'd like. The staff quickly takes off after arguments. When the heating starts acting up, he ha ...

Er kann's nicht lassen (1962)

Father Brown is only too happy to interfere with the work of the police in solving tricky criminal cases, usually with resounding success. That's why the clergyman is transferred to a sleepy island called Abbott's Rock. At first, nothing happens there, but ...

Die Rache (1962)

TV-Movie by Rainer Erler ...

Der Abstecher (1962)

Amphitryon (1961)

Nora (1961)

Einladung ins Schloß (1961)

So ist es - ist es so? (1960)

Spanische Legende (1959)

Ruf ohne Echo (1959)

Beautiful Adventure (1959)

The teacher Dorothee Durand, young and single, travels from England to the picturesque south of France to find the remaining remnants of her family. Her search takes her to Nimes, where she meets the likewise single Marius, a hotelier, who immediately fall ...

Jacqueline (1959)

Der Engel, der seine Harfe versetzte (1959)

One day, an exceptionally beautiful girl shows up at Josua Webmann's pawnshop to pawn a golden harp. Josua's apprentice, Klaas, immediately sees her as an angel. That evening, she meets him again and dances with him, causing even the previously indifferent ...

Arms and the Man (1958)

1865: Swiss captain Bluntschli fights as mercenary in the war between Bulgaria and Serbia. When his group's attacked by a few Bulgarian troopers, he learns that he's got the wrong ammunition for his cannon and has to flee. His flight leads him right into t ...

Aren't We Wonderful (1958)

Kurt Hoffmann′s satire concerning Germany′s development during the first half of the 20th century tells the story of two schoolmates - Hans and Bruno. They could not be more different. While Hans is ambitious and must always work hard for his career, i ...

The Trapp Family in America (1958)

The von Trapp family are struggling to survive in America, where their performances of European church music are not popular with the audiences. Only when they start performing more upbeat Austrian folk songs and even some American numbers do they become a ...

Die Abwerbung (1958)

Der öffentliche Ankläger (1958)

Schwester Bonaventura (1958)

Inspector Welling, the warden Miss Pierce and the convicted murderess Sarat Carn are on their way back to Norwich from London. They are returning from a court hearing at which Carn's appeal against the death sentence imposed on her was rejected... ...

Augsburger Puppenkiste - Cenodoxus – Der Doktor von Paris (1958)

Die Alkestiade (1958)

Soledad (1957)

Die Tochter des Brunnenmachers (1956)