Josef Dahmen

Es gibt noch Haselnußsträucher (1983)

The story of François Perret-Latour, a formerly successful banker and member of Parisian high society. His exciting life is long gone, and despite having a large family, he now spends most of his time alone in his Paris apartment on Place Vendôme. But th ...

Die Geburtstagsfeier (1978)

Lehmanns letzter Lenz (1975)

Zinngeschrei (1974)

Nicht Lob - noch Furcht. Graf Galen, Bischof von Münster (1972)

Doppelspiel in Paris (1972)

Die Halsbandaffäre (1971)

Der Fall Sorge (1970)

Weh' dem, der erbt (1969)

"Take care of Merton Hall!" is the last wish of industrial magnate George Dunrich to cleaning lady Alice Thursday. A few days later, the executor of his will, Bridger, informs the respectable woman, who grew up on the same street as Dunrich, that the decea ...

Die Räuber (1969)

Nennen Sie mich Alex (1969)

Friedrich Ebert - Geburt einer Republik (1969)

Über den Gehorsam. Szenen aus Deutschland, wo die Unterwerfung des eigenen Willens unter einen Fremden als Tugend gilt (1968)

Die verlorenen Schuhe (1966)

Der Raub der Sabinerinnen (1965)

Der eingebildete Kranke (1964)

Wassa Schelesnowa (1963)

Wassa Schelesnowa, a manipulative matriarch who will stop at nothing to keep her business afloat and her family together. Infanticide, forgery, murder, blackmail, adultery, exile, and plain old-fashioned greed are the order of the day as Wassa's colorful c ...

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 ...

Der Biberpelz (1962)

Leben des Galilei (1962)

Nach all der Zeit (1960)

The Terrible People (1960)

The ghost of a hanged man returns to fulfill his promise. All of his accusers must die! ...

Buddenbrooks - 2. Teil (1959)

Second part of two of the saga of the troubled Buddenbrook family and their business in 19th century Germany. ...

The Swindlers (1959)

Mario is in Hannover to work as a miner but after losing his job he decides to go back to Italy. When Totonno steals his passport to avoid the police and later on he offers him a new job as "magliaro" (cloth seller), Mario changes his mind and decides to f ...

Die Caine war ihr Schicksal (1959)

Die Brüder (1958)

13 Little Donkeys and the Sun Court (1958)

Martha Krapp is amazed when her husband Josef suddenly appears at the door. He has rarely been seen in recent years, instead traveling the world and earning himself the nickname "Don Chaussee". In his absence, the bible-thumping Martha has been running the ...

The Girl from the Marsh Croft (1958)

Beautiful young Helga gets publicly shamed because a rich land owner seduced and impregnated her but refuses to take responsibility in a story of love and death in Sweden. ...

The Man in the Stream (1958)

61-year-old Paul Hinrichs impersonates being 10 year younger in order to get a job as diver once again. ...

Herz ohne Gnade (1958)

Die chinesische Mauer (1958)

Fanny (1958)

Das Herz von St. Pauli (1957)

Due to a lack of money, Hamburg pub owner Jonny Jensen brings two partners on board. As soon as the contract is finalized, the ex-sea bear is almost struck by a blow: the shady duo want to turn his quaint harbour bar "Herz von St. Pauli" into a demimonde p ...

Das unbewohnte Eiland (1957)

Call Girls (1957)

Eva Bernhardt leaves her home in Germany after an unhappy love affair and looks up a friend in Copenhagen. She has left Germany without papers and is in Denmark illegally. Actually, the store where her friend works is a cover for a vicious call-girl racket ...

Kolportage (1957)

Die Festung (1957)

So süß ist kein Tod (1956)

Tierarzt Dr. Vlimmen (1956)

The young veterinarian Dr. Vlimmen settles in a small town on the North Sea coast. When he reports the conditions in the local slaughterhouse as cruelty to animals, he makes an enemy of the influential butcher van Heusden, who launches a smear campaign aga ...

Schiff ohne Hafen (1956)

Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz (1956)

Dr. Danwitz is a dedicated physician. The assistant doctor works practically day and night on a research project, but without pay. His wife Edith earns the necessary extra money as a model. That's why her pregnancy is a financial disaster for the young cou ...

Two Blue Eyes (1955)

Unternehmen Schlafsack (1955)

During the closing stages of the Second World War, a bureaucratic mistake leads to a German officer being reassigned from the dangerous Eastern Front to Berlin and a new non-existent unit. ...

Wunschkonzert (1955)

Accountant and would-be song-writer Willy inadvertently gets into a live TV game show and is tasked with finding, presenting and performing with a motley band of six amateur musicians within 90 minutes. ...

Drei Väter (1955)

Encountered in the Balkan Express (1955)

Das heilige Experiment (1955)

Das Streichholz unterm Bett (1955)

Nora (1955)

They Were So Young (1954)

A model agency in Rio de Janeiro is actually a front for a white-slavery ring that kidnaps European women and sells them on the South American sex market. ...

Zum Freispruch verurteilt (1954)

Columbus Discovers Kraehwinkel (1954)

Two GIs haven fallen in love with "Fräuleins", decide to stay in Germany and open a typically American drugstore in the center of the small town where their girlfriends live. ...

Die verschlossene Tür (1953)

Im Banne der Guarneri (1953)

Not Afraid of Big Animals (1953)

Emil, a technical draftsman, is hardworking, always helpful, and somewhat shy. Because of these traits, he is often taken advantage of by those around him. Now Emil is set to inherit a supposedly large fortune. His landlady's brother wants to marry him off ...

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 ...

Kommen Sie am Ersten (1951)

The Lost One (1951)

A German scientist murders his fiancée during World War II when he learns that she has been selling the results of his secret research to the enemy. ...

Die Dritte von rechts (1950)

Der Schatten des Herrn Monitor (1950)

After years of silence, Thomas reunites with his great love, Petra, and is devastated: She has married his best friend, Christoph. Thomas remains friendly but secretly schemes to denigrate Christoph as a criminal and thus reclaim the woman he loves. ...

The Last Night (1949)

Set in German-occupied France in 1944 where a female resistance operative and a German army officer fall in love. ...

Der Erbförster (1945)

For many years, Ulrich, the hereditary forester, and Steinbach, the landowner, were the best of friends. But one day, this friendship is put to a severe test: Driven by financial need, Steinbach wants to have the forest cleared, which Ulrich condemns as br ...

Kolberg (1945)

During Napoleon's victorious campaign in Germany, the city of Kolberg gets isolated from the retreating Prussian forces. The population of Kolberg refuses to capitulate and organizes the resistance against the French army, which immediately submits the cit ...

Gefährlicher Frühling (1943)

The Crew of the Dora (1943)

German film about Luftwaffe pilots. It depicts a love triangle involving two of them being overcome by their participation in battle together. ...

Ein glücklicher Mensch (1943)

Professor Lorenz is nominated for the highest accolade of his profession, and he smiles about his sons' juvenile mismanagement of private funds. Then he learns that one of them has forged the professor's signature on several IOUs. ...

Diesel (1943)

A German wartime biography of Rudolf Diesel, inventor of the Diesel engine. The movie links the importance of the engine to the war by starting the movie with newsreel clips of German Navy U-boats in action. ...

Ein Windstoß (1942)

A gust of wind is a German movie from the year 1941 ...

Schicksal (1942)

Two in a Big City (1942)

A German soldier on leave in Berlin goes looking for his pen pal who he has never met called Gisela. He meets instead a woman with the same name and falls in love with her. ...

Stukas (1941)

This Nazi propaganda film details the exploits of a group of German Luftwaffe pilots flying Stukas--fighter-bombers--in the Battle of France in the early days of World War II. ...

Über alles in der Welt (1941)

Nazi propaganda film chronicling the plight of Germans caught by the outbreak of war in 1939 and their frantic attempts to return to the Fatherland to join the battle. ...

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 ...

Renata in the Quartet (1939)

When a female violinist joins an otherwise all-male musical quartet, the other members struggle to cope. ...

Salonwagen E 417 (1939)

In a transport museum, the items on display begin to tell their stories. Most interesting is the history of the Pullman car. In the beginning, it served as transport for a princely family; then became the headquarters car for the military high command; a ...

Silvesternacht am Alexanderplatz (1939)

New Year's Eve should be a time of joy for everyone. But Herr Reinhardt has decided to take his life on this evening. During his last conversation with his friend, Dr. Storp, the good doctor convinced him to wait until the following morning to kick the b ...

The Immortal Heart (1939)

Nuremberg durting the time of Albrecht Durer and the famous geographer Martin Behaim: the locksmith Peter Henlein is looking for a way to make bullets more accurate by designing a new form. Just as he welds together two round balls into an elongated shap ...

Legion Condor (1939)

Pour le Mérite (1938)

This Nazi propaganda film chronicles the rise of the German Air Force ("Luftwaffe") from World War I until Adolf Hitler took power in 1933. ...

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 ...

Großalarm (1938)

The newspaper delivery driver Paul falls in love with Lotte, who works in her mother's kiosk. One day, Paul helps a man in a black Mercedes, who's been in an accident. While helping him, a notebook has fallen out of the man's pocket, which Paul thinks is ...

Mother Song (1937)

A romance between two temperamental singing stars. Highlights include a lengthy selection from Faust, with Gigli making a most impressive Mephistopheles. The plot takes a melodramatic turn towards the climax, with the lives of the characters mirrored in th ...

Manege (1937)

My Son the Minister (1937)

Sylvia has succeeded in making her son Robert a minister in the French Republic. His old servent, Gabriel, interrupts the young man during an "erotic" conference with the singer Betty. She's there, because her politically inappropriate songs is about to ...

Under Blazing Heavens (1936)

In this exotic adventure, unscrupulous gun runners threaten a captain, and a ship is in danger of sinking. ...

The Traitor (1936)

This 1936 film tells the story of the doings of foreign agents in Germany and their allies among the German population. Having placed an ad in a local paper looking for "contact with bigwigs in German industry", enemy agents Morris and Geyer end up making ...

Tired Theodore (1936)

A fast-paced comedy revolving around secrets and mix-ups. Theodor is a husband who helps his expulsed niece with her careers as a singer. His wife mustn't know this so he secretly takes a job as maître d' at a big hotel. This doesn't just lead to him alwa ...

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 ...

Anschlag auf Schweda (1935)

The student Hans Kessler is suspected of having murdered the banker Hergotin, who has been found dead in his hotel in Zurich. When a search is launched for an unknown woman, who was seen in the hotel at the time of the murder, Hans suddenly confesses to t ...

The Blonde Carmen (1935)

A singer tired of the stage retreats to a hotel in the country. There, she finds love and a way back into show business. ...

Demon of the Himalayas (1935)

Movie about an expedition in search of a mythical demon in the Himalaya mountains. ...

Nur nicht weich werden, Susanne! (1935)

Love, Death and the Devil (1934)

In a harbor bazaar of the Pacific town of Kona, the young sailor Kiwe is offered a mysterious bottle, which supposedly gives her owner power and wealth and should fulfill all his wishes. The required return is however high. From now on, the soul of the new ...

La Paloma. Ein Lied der Kameradschaft (1934)

Returning after three years at sea, a young sailor finds his boyhood sweetheart is now engaged to his old friend::a challenge to their comradeship. ...

Decoy (1934)

Viktor Schott, daredevil and womanizer, is charged by his father, a jeweler, to go to Istanbul and purchase a valuable emerald necklace from a rich Persian and to bring it back by ship to Marseille. A pair of criminals are watching him and attractive Deli ...

Heinz in the Moon (1934)

A young man of property is engaged to two women at once. ...

Police File 909 (1934)

A Japanese doctor, on a secret mission to Paris for his country, becomes romantically involved with a cabaret singer at a Parisian nightclub. His entire mission is put at risk when he kills a rival for her love, a French journalist and blackmailer. (This f ...

Pappi (1934)

A circus drama in which the scheming relatives of an orphan girl are thwarted by her compassionate uncle, a liquor store clerk. ...

Refugees (1933)

Propaganda film detailing the plight of ethnic Germans, known as "Volga Germans", in the Soviet province of Manchuria. ...

The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)

After a detective is assaulted by thugs and placed in an asylum run by Professor Baum, he observes the professor's preoccupation with another patient, the criminal genius Dr. Mabuse the hypnotist. When Mabuse's notes are found to be connected with a rash o ...

The Sea Calls (1933)

The Baltic captain Terje Wiggen works as a pilot on the island of Muhu. When the mate of the ship "Carola" calls in sick, he jumps at the chance of reviving his life as a sailor. WWI breaks soon after the departure. By and by the ship's company gets worn d ...

The Anthem of Leuthen (1933)

The story of the rise to power of King Frederick II (aka "Frederick the Great") of Prussia of his military campaigns to make Prussia a major power in Europe. ...

A Tremendously Rich Man (1932)

A man swallows a diamond - and suddenly all people around him change their attitude towards him. ...