Horst Wendlandt

Whiteface (2002)

After a long time, a circus is back in the area of Tidal Basin and already the strange phantom has reappeared: the white clown! He robbed banks and stores without a system and disappeared without a trace. Lane and Higgins, together with the worn-out journa ...

Das Haus der toten Augen (2002)

Is a home for the blind hiding a murderer's nest? Shortly before his myste-rious death, millionaire Stuart changed his will and disinherited the local home for the blind. Inspector Higgins suspects that something is not right there. ...

Die vier Gerechten (2002)

Lord Paddington, an honorable member of society, is blown up with a small tennis ball. "Die vier Gerechten" are not of this opinion, however: "Sentenced to death and executed for countless crimes" they leave at the scene. More honorable personalities must ...

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 ...

Das Schloss des Grauens (2002)

There is good reason for Sir Douglas Wonderly to summon the family and a lawyer to his stately home. He wants to announce a change in his will. At the same time, a dangerous mental patient escapes from a nearby psychiatric ward. Higgins and Lane are put on ...

Otto - The Disaster Movie (2000)

A man from Ostfriesland travels to Hamburg and sets course for America on a steamship to conquer this New World as well. What he leaves behind is a swath of devastation, a breach of confusion, a Milky Way full of music, a dead end full of mad jokes and per ...

Gnadenlos - Zur Prostitution gezwungen (1996)

A Czech woman is kidnapped in Berlin and forced into prostitution. The man behind the kidnapping is a respected businessman. He is on the wanted list, but so far nothing has been proven against him. This changes when a young female detective becomes involv ...

Der Blinde (1996)

An encounter with a blind man ends unexpectedly for Susan Howard. The supposedly helpless man stuns and kidnaps her. The case is handed over by the Home Secretary to Sir John, the head of Scotland Yard. He entrusts Chief Inspector Higgins and Superintenden ...

Kein Pardon (1993)

Since childhood Peter Schlönzke dreams of a career as a TV presenter. His great role model is Heinz Wäscher, who is always looking for talented young entertainers for his popular show. Peters mother announces her shy boy for an audition, which, although ...

Otto - The Romance Film (1992)

Cupid, the God of love, gets the order to unite two people. On Earth, Otto fails as a street musician because his guitar breaks. While buying a new string, his hand gets stuck in the purse of Tina, who works at the Dr. Bayerle beauty farm. When she enters ...

Pappa ante Portas (1991)

Heinrich Lohse, a strict and highly efficient purchasing manager at a company bulk-orders 40 tons of mustard and enough typewriting paper for 40 years just to get discount. Heinrich's boss decides it's time for him to retire early. ...

Otto – The Alien from East Frisia (1989)

Otto is the only one who is able to save his Frisian fatherland; but he needs the help of his brother, who is abroad. But his brother does not want to fulfill what he has sworn as a child. So it takes Otto a while to convince him while time is running low ...

Ödipussi (1988)

Paul Winkelmann is the CEO of a successful business in Hamburg that he took over after the death of his father eight years ago. But he is still strongly dominated by his 78 year old mother who cares for him as a child, and who cannot understand why he took ...

Otto – The New Movie (1987)

Otto is Friesland's answer to Rambo and stands between two worlds, two women and two animals. While he's trying to cure a dog with bite inhibition and a cat with suicidal tendencies, the dream of his sleepless nights crosses his path: Gaby. Otto falls inst ...

Momo (1986)

Momo is a young orphan girl who lives in the ruins of an old Roman amphitheater and becomes friends with everybody in the neighborhood. But when a powerful international corporation starts stealing everybody's time, nobody has any time left for her, let al ...

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. ...

First Desires (1983)

Three teenage girls decide to visit a romantic island and find love. They get shipwrecked and end up on different sides of the island. Each girl begins her own romantic adventure either with a man, a boy or even another girl. ...

Ace of Aces (1982)

In this action comedy the French boxer Jo Cavalier is charmed on the train to Berlin for the Olympics in Hitler's Germany by the little boy Simon Rosenblum who asks his autograph; when it turns out his adorable young fan is a Jewish orphan in danger of per ...

Veronika Voss (1982)

In Munich 1955, German film star Veronika Voss becomes a drug addict at the mercy of corrupt Dr. Marianne Katz, who keeps her supplied with morphine. After meeting sports writer Robert Krohn, Veronika begins to dream of a return to stardom. As the couple's ...

Lola (1981)

Germany in the autumn of 1957: Lola, a seductive cabaret singer-prostitute exults in her power as a temptress of men, but she wants out—she wants money, property, and love. Pitting a corrupt building contractor against the new straight-arrow building com ...

Buddy Goes West (1981)

Outlaw drifter Buddy is mistaken for a doctor after his Indian companion inadvertently steals a bag of surgical instruments. ...

From the Life of the Marionettes (1980)

An account of the events before and after a murder committed by a disturbed businessman in a strained marriage, and what led him to perform such a shocking act. ...

A Simple Story (1978)

A middle-aged woman leaves her partner and drifts back to her ex-husband, while the lives of her middle class friends intersect with her own. ...

They Called Him Bulldozer (1978)

The "Bulldozer", a former football star, is now working as a fisherman. As a group of street-people arranges a football match against the local Armybase, he is asked to be their trainer. His boat was damaged by a submarine and he currently has no work, so ...

The Serpent's Egg (1977)

In 1923 Berlin, following the suicide of his brother, an American acrobat struggles to survive while facing unemployment, depression, alcoholism, and the social decay of Germany during the Weimar Republic. ...

Hauptsache Ferien (1972)

On the last day of school, teachers and students have only one thing on their minds: finally, vacation. Corinna, the daughter of a prefabricated house manufacturer, has failed to pass her exams despite all her father's attempts to bribe her. With a little ...

What Have You Done to Solange? (1972)

After several Catholic school pupils are murdered, a teacher who is having an affair with one of his students becomes a suspect. When other gruesome murders start occurring shortly thereafter, the teacher suspects that he may be the cause of them. ...

Willi wird das Kind schon schaukeln (1972)

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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 ...

Angels of Terror (1971)

An Australian woman arrives in London to search for her sister who she finds is involved with a heroin smuggling gang. The gang itself is under attack from an unknown rival, who is methodically assassinating them with a shot to the head. ...

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 ...

Gentlemen in White Vests (1970)

Bruno Stiegler, a boxing promoter with a disreputable past, returns from America to Berlin to make some big things again with his friends. Fatally, he is always preceded by some gentlemen from better circles who are developing amazing criminal activity in ...

How Did a Nice Girl Like You Get Into This Business? (1970)

Playboy magazine darling (and one-time playmate of Hugh Hefner) Barbi Benton is Naughty Cheerleader Lynne Keefe, a small-town, small-brained babe who gets caught up big-time in the sex business. As a high school cheerleader who can really twirl a baton bac ...

Every Night of the Week (1969)

A romance directed by Franz Josef Gottlieb. It follows "The Perfect Marriage". ...

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 ...

Zum Teufel mit der Penne (1968)

Pepe Notnagel (who inexplicably had his name changed from the first movie's Nietnagel) and his classmates scheme to get around doing any actual school work by cheating or sending their teachers to the sanatorium. A Swiss documentary film maker disguises hi ...

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 ...

Van de Velde: The Perfect Marriage (1968)

The first of two erotic dramas based on a 1926 book of the same name. It was followed by "Every Night of the Week". ...

The Zombie Walks (1968)

A serial killer who calls himself "The Laughing Corpse" dresses up in a skeleton costume and kills his victims with a poison-filled scorpion-shaped ring. ...

The Horror of Blackwood Castle (1968)

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

The College Girl Murders (1967)

Police try to track down a hooded serial killer who murders his victims with a combination of acid and poison gas. ...

Creature with the Blue Hand (1967)

Scotland Yard is after a homicidal maniac called The Blue Hand, which is what he uses to kill his victims. ...

The Oldest Profession (1967)

A collection of sketches that tells the story of prostitution through the ages. ...

The Trygon Factor (1966)

A Scotland Yard detective is investigating a string of robberies and a murder, and the information he uncovers leads him to the estate of a wealthy but strange English family, who share their mansion with a group of nuns. The detective comes to suspect tha ...

Thunder at the Border (1966)

Firehand and his Apache friend Winnetou are determined to get justice for the murder of four young braves. They set off to track down the gang responsible for the horrendous act. ...

The Hunchback of Soho (1966)

A woman is kidnapped and her identity is stolen by criminals attempting to collect her inheritance. ...

Winnetou and the Crossbreed (1966)

On her b-day, settler's daughter Apanatschi receives her father's secret gold mine but greedy neighboring prospectors resort to murder and kidnapping in order to get the gold, forcing the girl and her brother to seek Winnetou's protection. ...

The Sinister Monk (1965)

A hooded serial killer finds a novel way to murder his victims--he lashes them to death with a whip. The police try to track him down before any more murders occur. ...

Flaming Frontier (1965)

Old Surehand and his faithful old friend Old Wabble are on the trail of a cold-blooded killer with the nickname 'The General'. The brother of Old Surehand was murdered by him. On the way Old Surehand and Old Wabble are involved in the running conflict betw ...

The Desperado Trail (1965)

Rollins' gang wants to grab land by inciting the settlers in a war against the Indians but Winnetou and Old Shatterhand try to keep the peace, until Rollins frames Winnetou up for the murder of Jicarilla Chief's son. ...

Rampage at Apache Wells (1965)

'The Oilprince' is an unscrupulous businessman. He looks forward to a lucrative deal with the "Western Arizona Bank'. He sells the bank oil wells at Shelly Lake that do actually not exist. The Oilprince learns that the colonists would like to settle at She ...

Again the Ringer (1965)

Arthur Milton aka Der Hexer (The Magician/Ringer) must return to London after his calling card was left at the scene of a murder he did not commit. ...

Traitor's Gate (1964)

A wealthy businessman schemes to steal the valuable Crown Jewels from the heavily guarded Tower of London, but many tricky factors await, including a doppelgänger and a vessel escape on the Thames. ...

Frontier Hellcat (1964)

Outlaws disguised as Indians commit crimes against settlers but Winnetou and Old Surehand are determined to unmask the bandits and keep the peace. ...

Last of the Renegades (1964)

Forester, a ruthless oil baron, wants to create a war between the native American tribes and the white men. Old Shatterhand, Winnetou and their sidekick Castlepool try to prevent this. ...

The Mysterious Magician (1964)

The sister of a famous, but as yet uncaught, criminal named "The Hexer" is murdered. Inspector Higgins of Scotland Yard believes that "The Hexer" will surface to take his revenge on his sister's killers, and plans to set a trap to finally capture him. Howe ...

The Curse of the Hidden Vault (1964)

Mobsters conspire to loot another criminal's treasure secured in an enormous booby-trapped vault. ...

Mark of the Tortoise (1964)

English millionaire Sir Cyrus Bradley is being blackmailed by "The Tortoise" Crime Syndicate. He is to pay £ 100,000.00 Pounds to stay alive and not be murdered. After his refusal to pay the money, he is quickly killed. ...

Room 13 (1964)

A serial-killer is murdering the ladies of a night club. Detective Gray is seeking for the killer but can only find a lot of gangsters. And the killer is about to act again... ...

Apache Gold (1963)

The construction of the Great Western Railroad creates heavy conflict between the railway company and neighboring Indian tribes. Worse, criminal gang leader Santer sets his eyes on a gold mine located on holy Indian land and influences the construction sup ...

The Indian Scarf (1963)

When a wealthy man dies, his avaricious relatives look forward to inheriting all his money. However, he leaves a provision in his will that they all must spend a week together in his castle before they will be able to inherit anything. At the castle (which ...

The Black Abbot (1963)

Several employees on a nobleman's estate show up at a former abbey, reputed to be haunted, to search for a hidden treasure. Howver, a mysterious hooded figure begins killing off those who may have figured out where the treasure is hidden. ...

The Squeaker (1963)

Scotland Yard investigates a series of murders where the victims have died by snake venom poisoning. ...

Treasure of Silver Lake (1962)

Fred Engel's father is murdered by Colonel Brinkley in order to acquire a treasure map, however the Colonel only acquires half of it, the other half as held by Mrs. Butler. Discovering the scene of the crime, Old Shatterhand and Winnetou help Fred bring hi ...

Only a Woman (1962)

A psychotherapist's love life is a disaster because of her own fears and neuroses. Involving herself in her patients love life add more complications. ...

The Inn on the River (1962)

A serial killer named The Shark is terrorizing London by killing his victims with a speargun and then, dressed in a scruba-diver's wetsuit, using the city's sewer tunnels to make his getaway. ...

The Door with Seven Locks (1962)

A rich man bequeaths seven keys to seven of his friends, but only one will unlock the door to untold wealth. ...

Secret of the Red Orchid (1962)

Rival gangsters from Chicago move to London and attempt to extort money from rich Britons. ...

Unser Haus in Kamerun (1961)

A young man living in Africa is send to Hamburg by his parents to learn about business. There, he falls in love with the mistress of a friend. ...

The Strange Countess (1961)

Strange fortune hunters are behind a girl's murder in this Edgar Wallace tale. ...

The Forger of London (1961)

A ring of counterfeiters is flooding the country with phony money, and suspicion falls upon a wealthy playboy who may--or may not--have amnesia. ...

The Devil's Daffodil (1961)

A Chinese detective breaks up a drug smuggling ring and tries to find the "Daffodil Killer". The drug smugglers had devised the ingenious method of smuggling heroin from Hong Kong in the stems of daffodils. ...

Dead Eyes of London (1961)

A disfigured killer with glazed-over white eyes is doing the dirty work so that an insurance agent-doctor can get the victims' insurance money. ...

The Green Archer (1961)

The country estate of American emigre Abel Bellamy is haunted by the ghost of the Green Archer, a 14th century Robin Hood type figure who terrorised the former lords of the manor. Now, with the gangster coming home on vaguely defined business and his niece ...

Und sowas nennt sich Leben (1961)

A large German city at the beginning of the 1960s. This is where the well-to-do Berger family lives. Outwardly a bourgeois idyll, but behind the scenes the family is in turmoil. The relationship between father and son in particular is extremely tense. Mart ...

Scheidungsgrund: Liebe (1960)

O sole Mio (1960)

Du bist wunderbar (1959)

Peter schießt den Vogel ab (1959)

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

Was eine Frau im Frühling träumt (1959)

Twenty years after their wedding, the well-to-do Elisabeth sets off for Konstanz to meet her husband and finally take their honeymoon. There she runs into her childhood friend Pierre Bonvant. While old memories and feelings are stirred up in Elisabeth, her ...

Wehe, wenn sie losgelassen (1958)

Peter wants to practice for an upcoming jazz competition with his friends Willi, Oskar, and Jupp. But his uncle Tobias, on whose farm Peter lives, must not find out about it. ...

Ihr 106. Geburtstag (1958)

Confess, Dr. Corda (1958)

A doctor goes to meet a beautiful girl at a park bench near a wooded area. When he arrives, he finds her battered body lying next to a stream! He then finds himself to be the prime suspect. Who's the killer? ...

Liebe, Jazz und Übermut (1957)

Die Frühreifen (1957)

Inge works in a department store as a saleswoman in the women's fashion department. She suffers from the cramped conditions in her parents' house, where they save money because her choleric father, a miner, dreams of owning his own house in the country. Sh ...

Die Unschuld vom Lande (1957)

Theater director Werner Sturm was amazed when he arrived in the Bavarian market town of Oberwinkel on a vacation and came across all kinds of disguised characters: knights and maids, squires and heralds were running around, and children were shooting arrow ...

The Night of the Storm (1957)

Despised by her husband and son after an affair, Marianne moves in with her lover, an unsuccessful painter, until she is purified. ...

Liebe (1956)

Anna falls madly in love with an Italian violinist, who instead marries her sister Monika. ...

Der erste Frühlingstag (1956)

Lex Barker - Westernheld und Playboy (2023)

He is the most sought-after man in Europe in the 1960s. Lex Barker embodies the flawless hero in his films and, as Old Shatterhand, becomes a role model for generations of fans. Revered in Europe, misunderstood and almost forgotten in his native America. B ...

Ein Produzent hat Seele oder er hat keine (2002)

Horst Wendlandt tells the story of his cinematic work since the sixties. The dialogue between the "old and the young filmmaker" creates a fascinating spectrum of German film of the recent past. ...

Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor (2000)

Klaus Kinski is one of the few German actors who has achieved international fame. He made headlines. And disappeared behind them. Kinski lived his parts 24/7. This film tells the story of a man who no longer could understand the difference or distinguish b ...

Loriots 75th Birthday (1998)

Birthday celebration for Loriot ...

Loriots Ödipussi: Beobachtungen bei Dreharbeiten (1988)

Harald Reinl - Kino ohne Probleme (1985)

Documentary about German director Harald Reinl ...

How Did a Nice Girl Like You Get Into This Business? (1970)

Playboy magazine darling (and one-time playmate of Hugh Hefner) Barbi Benton is Naughty Cheerleader Lynne Keefe, a small-town, small-brained babe who gets caught up big-time in the sex business. As a high school cheerleader who can really twirl a baton bac ...