Ivan Desny

Scheidung mit Hindernissen (2002)

The ambitious business newcomer Marc wants to marry the successful lawyer Sandra. On paper, he is still married to Katrin, from whom he lives separately. The divorce thus appears as a mere formality, but when Katrin says the wrong word in front of the judg ...

Mr. Boogie (2000)

A comedy directed by Vesna Jovanoska. ...

E-m@il an Gott (1999)

Beresina (1999)

A naive girl's love for Switzerland is put to the test in this satiric comedy. Irina is a woman from Russia who all her life has always been fascinated by Switzerland and longs to live there some day, though her notion of Swiss life has more to do with Hei ...

Der kleine Dachschaden (1998)

A wealthy couple in early retirement move into a bungalow in a park-like residential complex and are all set for a fulfilling retirement. Their happiness could be perfect if the workmen hadn't caused a tiny leak in the roof, which would require repeated re ...

Ein Schutzengel auf Reisen (1997)

The manufacturer Xaver Frey is forced into bankruptcy by his bank and decides to commit suicide in a sleeping car from Vienna to Venice. There he encounters the sleeping car attendant Horak, who is about to retire and who uses every legal and illegal means ...

The Ice Princess (1996)

This is another variation of the Cinderella story: the bright and beautiful Ella lives in the household of a lord since her mother died. She's unhappy because the lord's daughters treat her like their servant. The country is in problems, because the prince ...

A Girl Called Rosemarie (1996)

Katja Flint, Hannelore Elsner and Heiner Lauterbach star in this German film about a woman who climbs the social ladder by sleeping with those she encounters on her way to the top. When she's discovered dead in her apartment in 1957, the police try to piec ...

Zwei vom gleichen Schlag (1996)

Sünde einer Nacht (1996)

At a garden party at her future in-laws' house, Lena has a fling with waiter Roger. While she quickly forgets the wild one-night stand, Roger believes he has found the woman of his life. Blinded by love, he does everything he can to win Lena over... ...

Thieves (1996)

In the middle of the night, someone brings Ivan's body home to his wife and his young son. Flashbacks reveal the relationships among Ivan and his brother Alex, a cop with a cleanliness fetish; siblings Juliette and Jimmy, Ivan's partners in a seedy nightcl ...

Verliebte Feinde (1995)

The Ice Princess (1995)

Former Olympic skating champion Katerina Witt stars as Ella in this charming interpretation of the Cinderella story. Ella's shrewish stepmother and stepsisters make her life miserable by turning her into a servant in her own home. When the local prince (Ch ...

Weihnachtsfest mit Hindernissen (1994)

Musician Riccardo promised his son they would celebrate Christmas together in Turin. But a concert in Munich gets in the way. While Riccardo ventures to Turin, his son makes his way to the Bavarian capital. ...

I Don't Kiss (1991)

A good-looking but naive lad leaves his mountain village to try and make his way in Paris. He thinks maybe he will try acting but things don't go too well for him. Eventually he is forced to sell himself to men and though he meets an attractive girl she is ...

Zockerexpreß (1991)

The gambling-addicted and heavily indebted owner of a bar and three hostesses burns down his establishment to prevent it from falling into the hands of criminals. In doing so, he loses the women, his luck at gambling, and ultimately his life. ...

Mrs. Harris und der Heiratsschwindler (1991)

The Disenchanted (1990)

A worldly French teen is determined to escape from her current situation for a better life. ...

Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg (1990)

Swedish account of Raoul Wallenberg, the man responsible for the largest rescue of Jews during World War II. ...

Max Ophüls - Den schönen guten Waren (1990)

Employees remember the director Max Ophüls, who was forced to emigrate in 1933 - his fifth film "Liebelei" was a great success in cinemas. After an odyssey through France, Italy, the Netherlands and the USA, he returned to work in France and Germany in th ...

Die Kupferfalle (1990)

Quicker Than the Eye (1989)

An expert magician is hired to entertain world leaders at a peace summit. Unfortunately, he finds himself hopelessly entangled in an elaborate terrorist assassination plot. ...

Motten im Licht (1989)

Love of a Woman (1988)

Gabriella, a young twenty-five year old from Milan , is married to the lawyer Bernasconi, a middle-aged man, without scruples, who in the past had been the lover of Gabriella's mother. Gabriella falls in love with Franco, an airplane test pilot. Her husban ...

Der vierte Mann (1988)

Mrs. Harris fährt nach Moskau (1987)

Hôtel de France (1987)

A French family is shown as they go through the daily routines of life. Arguing, feasting, crying, and yearning for love are just some of the human emotions encountered. The mood wavers between excessive noise to silence while those not participating in th ...

Jimmy Allegretto (1987)

Auf den Tag genau (1986)

Le Caviar rouge (1986)

Russian spy boss in Geneva spends a night interrogating two spies to see who is a traitor. ...

The Future of Emily (1985)

Emily, a child, stays with her bourgeois grandparents during frequent periods when her mother makes films. Isabelle wraps a picture, flies to her childhood home to pick up Emily, and plans to leave for her place in France. Old wounds between Isabelle and h ...

Der Mörder (1984)

Das Gesicht auf der Wand (1983)

It is an eerie, cold evening, with the wind whistling through the trees. In a remote pub, a few people have gathered around a single candle and are telling each other scary stories. A man from the next table joins them and tells them about a mysterious app ...

The Roaring Fifties (1983)

The Second World War is over and now begins in post-war Germany, the reconstruction. Jakob Formann sees his chance here and begins a rapid rise as an entrepreneur. ...

Ein gutes Land (1982)

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 ...

Malou (1981)

Two life stories. That of Malou, a French woman, married to a German Jew, a refugee stranded in South America: a picture of the pre-war generation reflected in the unusual destiny of an individual woman. And that of Hannah, an alert, independent, modern wo ...

I Hate Blondes (1980)

There are two problems with Emilio and his career as a pulp writer. Emilio is a bumbling fellow who has absolutely nothing in common with the heroes he writes about. Second, Emilio can't seem to publish anything under his own name. ...

Die längste Sekunde (1980)

Fabian (1980)

The story of Jacob Fabian, a somewhat liberal Berlin advertising copywriter who witnesses the collapse of the prewar German society during the 1930s. ...

Carnapping - Ordered, Stolen and Sold (1980)

When designer Robert Meering returns from vacation, he discovers the company he worked for unexpectedly went bankrupt so he decides to visit his old boss. His former employer Banninger liquidated the company and claims that all designs of Robert are his. W ...

Kein Geld für einen Toten (1980)

Bloodline (1979)

A pampered heiress inherits her father's pharmaceutical empire when he dies in a suspicious accident, and soon finds herself surrounded by ruthless board members and grasping family members who will seemingly stop at nothing to profit. ...

The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)

Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. She must rely on her beauty and ambition to navigate the difficult post-war years alone. ...

Rings of Fear (1978)

Angela Russo, a sixteen-year-old girl, is found dead in a river, having been fatally violated with a large blunt instrument. Inspector Di Salvo is assigned to the case and focuses his investigations on St. Theresa's, the exclusive school where Angela boar ...

50/50 (1978)

Two men lose their jobs and have to start from scratch. They go their separate ways about it, but their paths sometimes cross. ...

Heinrich Heine (1978)

Die Eroberung der Zitadelle (1977)

While on an automobile tour of Italy with his mother, the German publisher in this story has an accident which results in her death. He decides to stay and look for work in Italy, rather than return to his responsibilities, and takes a job working on a con ...

The Sleeping Lion (1977)

The actions of the Russian and British embassies and the security forces of the central forces have made the people miserable. Mahmoud Khan, who is the secretary of the British Embassy, resigns from his job in the British Embassy and joins the people and i ...

Paper Tiger (1975)

A somewhat prim and proper Englishman is hired as the tutor to the son of the Japanese ambassador. His life changes when he and the boy are kidnapped by terrorists for political purposes. ...

Streng geheim (1975)

Wrong Move (1975)

Six days in the life of Wilhelm: a detached man without qualities. He wants to write, so his mother gives him a ticket to Bonn, telling him to live. On the train he meets an older man, an athlete in the 1936 Olympics, and his mute teen companion, Mignon. S ...

Touch Me Not (1974)

A psychopathic industrial spy terrorizes a secretary late at night in a darkened high-rise office building. ...

Who? (1974)

After an American scientist is severely injured and scarred in a car crash along the border with East Germany, he is captured by East German military. The scientists use metal implants to save him. Once he's back in the States, no one can tell if it's real ...

Die Kinder Edouards (1974)

Rückfahrt von Venedig (1973)

Sylvie (1973)

Fashion model Sylvie falls asleep drunk in the cab of Munich taxi driver Paul, and an impossible love affair beckons. ...

Der Vorgang (1973)

Little Mother (1973)

Marina Pinares, the wife of the president of a South American country, insists on being his vice-presidential running mate in the next election. She's no stranger to assassination to get what she wants, so some suspect she'll kill her own husband after the ...

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. ...

The Adventures of Gerard (1970)

Based on satirical short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about a vain, egotistical Etienne Gerard, a French brigadier serving during the Napoleonic Wars. He thinks he's the best soldier and lover that ever lived and intends to prove it. ...

Tanker (1970)

A young married couple, professional, intelligent and without inhibitions. Peter, an economist, Helga, a secretary at a financial broker. When Helga's boss is offered old tankers, the clever couple decides to get involved in the business. The plan is bound ...

Reiterattacke (1968)

Mayerling (1968)

Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria clashes with his father, Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, over implementing progressive policies for their country. Rudolf soon feels he is a man born at the wrong time in a country that doesn't realize the need for social ...

Appointment in Beirut (1968)

When an international casino crime ring is planning a big score at a fixed roulette game, the casino police enlists the help of Jeff Miller, an alcoholic croupier, to nab the bad guys. Jeff is attracted to Laura, a singer at the casino, but she prefers the ...

Spy Pit (1967)

Julien Saint Dominique, an agent of the French counter-espionage service in Berlin, investigates the kidnapping of a functionary taken by German communists into East Germany. ...

Liebesnächte in der Taiga (1967)

A US agent is supposed to find out details about a missile base in Siberia. The mission fails, although the American remains alive thanks to the help of a Russian woman. ...

I Killed Rasputin (1967)

Grigori Rasputin becomes a fixture of Russia's Imperial Court after saving the life of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, the haemophiliac heir to the throne. However as war breaks out, Rasputin's enemies see him as a cause and plot fatal revenge aga ...

Guns for San Sebastian (1967)

Leon Alastray is an outlaw who has been given sanctuary by Father John, whom he then escorts to the village of San Sebastian. The village is deserted, with its cowardly residents hiding in the hills from Indians, who regularly attack the village and steal ...

The Death of a Double (1967)

The submissive assistant of an abnormal jeweler becomes the victim of a doppelganger who plans the perfect crime. ...

The Beckett Affair (1966)

Rod Cooper, an American agent of the CIA, is sent to Paris to discover if colonel Segura, head of a clandestine organization which proclaims itself anti-Castroist, is playing a double game at the expense of the United States. He first tries to make contact ...

Die Flasche (1965)

Das Liebeskarussell (1965)

An episodic film, telling four erotic tales: Angela isn't sexually satisfied by her husband, so she simulates sleep-walking to visit her neighbor across the street every night; when his bathtub runs over, shy Peter gets to meet his sensuous neighbor Lolita ...

The Captain from Toledo (1965)

They're Too Much (1965)

Three crooks come out of jail on probation and, taking advantage of the economic boom in Germany, they continue their shady business quite legally this time. ...

Kidnapped to Mystery Island (1964)

Three year old Ada, daughter of the British captain McPherson, is captured by the Indian Tukh sect to represent the incarnation of Kali. Ever hidden in a vast underground system of caverns, she watches over human sacrifices, doubting her vocation. 15 years ...

Secret of the Sphinx (1964)

Shot on location in Egypt, the story unfurls like an Italian Giallo as a group of people meet under strange circumstances, and one by one they are murdered. Gold is missing so you suspect a thief is trying to cover up his crime but that might be too obviou ...

Die letzte Folge (1964)

A country house on a remote, lonely island: here TV author André has moved to write the last episode of his successful crime honor. But then the island is completely cut off by a flood from the outside world. And what is even more strange: everything Andr ...

Frühstück mit dem Tod (1964)

Ted Talbot is a prosecutor in Newtonville. In the course of his work, he accuses Jim Conley of robbing a bank and killing the cashier. Ted's wife Jane takes over Conley's defense. When the court sentences the defendant to death, she files for divorce. Beth ...

Jack and Jenny (1963)

Saleswoman Jenny is crazy about the painter Jack. But Jack does not want to marry, even though he loves Jenny passionately. So Jenny looks elsewhere to find the right man. She marries twice, but always ends up back with Jack and gives herself to him with ...

Ist Geraldine ein Engel? (1963)

Austrian sex comedy. ...

The Invisible Terror (1963)

A scientist creates an invisibility formula, but it is stolen by a master criminal who uses it to commit even bigger crimes. ...

Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace (1962)

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson embark on a search for Cleopatra's ancient necklace, which has been stolen. ...

Escapade in Florence (1962)

American students, Tommy and Annette, find themselves in a heap of trouble when they accidentally discover an art forgery ring in Florence, Italy. ...

Bon Voyage! (1962)

The Willards from Terre Haute, Indiana travels abroad for the once-in-a-lifetime vacation in Paris, France. ...

Number Six (1962)

An international criminal arrives in London, and a detective is anxious to pin something on him for some unprovable murders of former lovers. The villain starts to suspect servants and henchmen of being a police spy known as "Number Six". ...

White Slave Ship (1961)

The Albatross travels from England to the New World in 1675, with a number of passengers, a couple of political prisoners along with a dozen other women convicts, these to be sold into slavery on arrival. The woman activist frees the dozen of low-cast wome ...

The Magnificent Rebel (1961)

The life of the great composer, Ludwig Van Beethoven, dates back to his arrival in Vienna in 1792 as the composition of his Ninth Symphony. And we follow with passion the best moments of his life, as his rejection by the family of the only woman he loved d ...

Daniella by Night (1961)

Daniella, a fashion model, goes to Rome to replace a model who's been murdered. Once there, she meets two men, Count Castellani, whose clothes she'll model, and Karl Bauer, a reporter in the hotel room next to hers. Castellani gives Daniella the spotlight, ...

Confessions of a Sixteen-Year-Old (1961)

Love, the Italian Way (1960)

A group of passengers traveling around the Mediterranean on a luxury liner enjoy various adventures and become romantically involved with each other. ...

Song Without End (1960)

The romantic story of Hungarian pianist Franz Liszt, whose scandalous love affair forced him to abandon his adoring audiences. ...

Satan Tempts with Love (1960)

Escaped convict Carlos wants to flee on a ship with his lover Evelyn. The crew demands a large sum of money to keep quiet. Evelyn tries to seduce a rich man, but ends up falling in love with him. The two want to start a new life. Carlos loses his temper. ...

The Versailles Affair (1960)

Suzuki, a Japanese secret agent, is sent to Versailles to unmask a certain Klauss, who is to receive stolen documents from Saudi Arabia. ...

Heiße Ware (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 ...

Frauensee (1958)

Polikuschka (1958)

The Mirror Has Two Faces (1958)

A teacher runs an ad in the newspaper to find a wife. Afraid of beautiful ladies, he weds an ugly woman. After a car accident, he meets a doctor who offers to reveal his wife's beauty. ...

Life Together (1958)

The writer Pierre Carot became rich and famous with his book "Life as a Couple", which was based on the loving relationships of four couples. Now he's setting up his will and wants to leave his wealth to the couples among the four, which are still as deepl ...

End of Desire (1958)

Normandy, second half of the nineteenth century. Jeanne Dandieu lives in a manor house with her parents and their servant Rosalie. She gets to know Julien, a handsome man, whom she soon marries. Her happiness is short-lived as she finds out that not only h ...

Petersburg Nights (1958)

All the Sins of the Earth (1958)

Regine, a physician, loses her lover in a car crash and carries out an abortion; it's the beginning of her descent into hell. ...

Scandal in Bad Ischl (1957)

Dr. Franz Duhr, a fashionable doctor in the feudal Austro-Hungarian spa town of Bad Ischl, is said to have "helped" a pregnant girl after a suicide attempt. When he then also wants to establish a home for unmarried mothers, the scandal is complete. ...

Give Me My Chance (1957)

17 year-old small-town girl Nicole Noblet comes to Paris dreaming of becoming a world-famous actress. ...

Von allen geliebt (1957)

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. ...

Anastasia (1956)

Russian exiles in Paris plot to collect ten million pounds from the Bank of England by grooming a destitute, suicidal girl to pose as heir to the Russian throne. While Bounin is coaching her, he comes to believe that she is really Anastasia. In the end, th ...

Anastasia: the Czar's Last Daughter (1956)

In 1920, an unknown 24-year-old woman was fished out of Berlin's Landwehr kanal after a suicide attempt. Since she has no papers and no answers to any questions, they soon assign them to the insane asylum Dallendorf. A co-patient believes she recognizes th ...

Club of Women (1956)

A remake of a pre-war French film success, Club de femmes is a seriocomedy centralized in an all-female boarding house. Forced to band together because of a housing shortage, the film's heroines set up camp in a deserted structure, despite the tongue-cluck ...

Ballerina (1956)

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

Lola Montès (1955)

Lola Montes, previously a great adventuress, is reduced to being the attraction of a circus after having been the lover of various important men. ...

Mädchen ohne Grenzen (1955)

Helga, a stewardess, meet a passenger, Eric, during a flight to Athens. They fall in love, but he is married. Later Helga is involved in a flight crash. One of the severely injured passengers is Eric's wife Maria. ...

Dunja (1955)

André and Ursula (1955)

Frou-Frou (1955)

A story of the love of Frou-Frou - an actress and singer in the in the beginning of her career. ...

Master Over Life and Death (1955)

Barbara is married to Georg Bertram, a professor of medicine who once saved her father's life. Things go awry for the couple when she gives birth to a mentally defective child. For Georg, coldly clinical, euthanizing the infant is the only way out. He is a ...

The Golden Plague (1954)

At the end of the war a disillusioned German exile returns home only to fall into the dark world of black market goods and drug trafficking. ...

Confession Under Four Eyes (1954)

While perusing a police photo, Hilde - an investigative reporter - recognizes a bracelet that she once owned while living in her native Romania. She seeks out the current owner of the bracelet, hoping that he can provide information concerning her long-los ...

No Way Back (1954)

A Russian army officer is haunted by the memory of a girl he met during the war. ...

Good Lord Without Confession (1953)

Stuck in a loveless marriage, bourgeois industrialist Francois falls in love with Janine, another man's wife. Francois sets up Janine as his mistress, and she, mercenary soul that she is, likes the set-up so much that she continues the relationship even wh ...

The Lady Without Camelias (1953)

A Milanese shop assistant becomes an overnight film sensation when fate lands her the leading role in a prominent producer's romantic drama. ...

The Respectful Prostitute (1952)

Fred, the nephew of a senator,has murdered a Black man on a train. The two only witnesses are Lizzie McKay, a prostitute from New York, and Sidney, a colored man. Fred decides to seduce Lizzie in order to make her give false evidence according to which Sid ...

OSS 117 Is Not Dead (1952)

OSS 117 is asked for help by a female acquaintance Muriel Rousset. She beseeches him to retrieve secret documents which have been stolen from Sir Anthony Lead, the father of Anita and Marion. He complies with her wish and no obstacle or danger can hinder h ...

Madeleine (1950)

Madeleine's middle-class family cannot understand why she puts off marrying a respectable young man, as they know nothing about her long-term affair with a Frenchman. ...

Bonheur en location (1949)

Saint-Aignan needs a family. He hires people to act as his people to achieve his goal: to succeed in the business world. ...