Joseph Offenbach

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 ...

Kein Geldschrank geht von selber auf. Die Eddie Chapman Story (1971)

Christoph Kolumbus oder Die Entdeckung Amerikas (1970)

Christopher Columbus's crazy idea of traveling to India can only be realized because the Spanish treasury is empty and Queen Isabella, who rules the country, is charmed by the charming, profit-seeking son of a poor weaver. With the ulterior motive of becom ...

Unter den Dächern von St. Pauli (1970)

Rival gangs are fighting for control of Hamburg's notorious harbor district, spreading fear and terror in the process. In the streets, houses and clubs, the thriller shows the lives of a handful of people whose fates will be decided within 24 hours. ...

Bleibe lasse (1969)

Tag für Tag (1969)

Jungfrau aus zweiter Hand (1967)

Two young Italian guest workers in Germany find a beautiful dead woman one morning on the way to their job. The Kripo quickly determines that the dark-haired, young woman is the well-known sexworker Elena Rossano. The short, brutal and intense life of the ...

Ein Duft von Blumen (1967)

Der Revisor (1967)

4 Schlüssel (1966)

Bank director Ernst Rose, owner of the Hamburg bank Traven & Co., is asked to go to the airport earlier than expected to pick up his daughter Silvia. When he arrives, he realizes too late that he has walked into a trap. He is overpowered by kidnappers and ...

Der Raub der Sabinerinnen (1965)

Der Kandidat (1965)

Ankunft bei Nacht (1965)

Freddy, Tiere, Sensationen (1964)

The successful circus performer Freddy hears about the troubles of his parents' circus Baldoni and returns from the USA. At home, he has to deal with his half-brother Raoul, who has stolen a sensational trapeze act from his father. ...

Condemned to Sin (1964)

After World War II, a lot of people, who lived in the eastern parts of the Third Reich had to be relocated. One of them is Hugo Starosta (Martin Held) with his family. They live in a fortress. Hugo is unemployed, his children don't seem to like school, but ...

Don Gil von den grünen Hosen (1964)

The Breakthrough (1963)

An East German machinist, disenchanted by the building of the Wall, plans to use a train to cross the border with family members and other disaffected citizens. ...

Die Belagerung der Josephine (1963)

Homesick for St. Paul (1963)

A pop singer who has been successful on Broadway, is homesick and returns. ...

Die erste Lehre (1963)

Heute kündigt mir mein Mann (1963)

Der Datterich (1962)

The Liar (1961)

When the wife of Sebastian Schumann left her family, he told his little daughter that her mother has died, because he thought that this was the easiest way for her to accept that her mother is now gone. But this was only the beginning of a lot of lies he t ...

Freddy and the Millionaire (1961)

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Nerz ist in der kleinesten Hütte (1961)

Two Among Millions (1961)

Just before the Berlin Wall is built, a young East German worker tries his personal and professional luck as a barkeep in West Berlin. A realistic love story set during Germany's post-war economic miracle, which here does not fulfil its bright promises. ...

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. ...

Via Mala (1961)

A godless sawmill owner makes his family's life so hellish that he has to be killed. ...

Bei Pichler stimmt die Kasse nicht (1961)

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. ...

Der Teufel ist los (1961)

Der Geizige (1960)

Hauptmann - deine Sterne (1960)

Scammers in Bundeswehr uniforms fool a future garrison town. ...

The Ambassadress (1960)

Instinkt ist alles (1960)

The third case for Inspector Pink. ...

Himmel, Amor und Zwirn (1960)

A young father has been left by his wife, and has to go on military service with his baby. ...

Mit 17 weint man nicht (1960)

Horst, the 18-year-old son of a factory owner, and 17-year-old Karin dream up their future together in the most beautiful colors. Newly married, however, they don't float on cloud nine as they had hoped, but sink into the dreary everyday life of marriage. ...

Buddenbrooks - 1. Teil (1959)

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

Das letzte Aufgebot (1959)

The Voice from the Hat (1959)

Some gangsters try to con local bookies, but Inspector Pink spoils their fun. ...

Der zerbrochene Krug (1959)

The Young Go Wild (1959)

High school student Fabian König is kicked out of school and starts a gang that specializes in theft. He falls in love with the orphan girl Ulla, but she rejects him when she finds out how he spends his time. When the pimp Horst tries to rape Ulla, she is ...

Der Schinderhannes (1958)

1802: The adventurous life story of Hans Bückler, known as "Schinderhannes", who fights against the French occupying forces and large landowners who exploit poor farmers in the Hunsrück region during the Napoleonic Wars. ...

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 Restless Night (1958)

1958: during the Russian campaign, a military priest is called upon to assist Private Baranowski, who has been sentenced to death for desertion, on his last night. It is also the last night before the departure for Stalingrad, which the soldiers know means ...

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. ...

Der Dank der Unterwelt (1958)

Immer wenn der Tag beginnt (1957)

Dr. Hanna Burkhardt is a teacher by vocation: she is not only interested in teaching the pupils the subject matter, she also wants to be a human support and help them when necessary. The school authorities don't like this at all; in their eyes, she has fai ...

At the Green Cockatoo by Night (1957)

The inhibited, uptight Irene Wagner must take over running the seedy dance club the Green Cockatoo or lose her classic dance studio to creditors. ...

All Roads Lead Home (1957)

The wealthy widow Tilla Haidt lives on her estate in Schleswig-Holstein. She mourns her missing son Michael. One day, a young man suddenly appears at her door and changes her whole life. He is also called Michael, is an orphan, and is looking for shelter w ...

Monpti (1957)

A poor Hungarian artist falls in love with a wealthy mysterious Parisian girl. ...

Der müde Theodor (1957)

Minna von Barnhelm (1957)

Königin Luise (1957)

The Girl and the Legend (1957)

London, in 1730. Charly, Jim and Ben work hard, with the brave Maud, in a cotton mill to earn a few shillings. They all dream of the wonderful island told by Daniel Defoe. The latter lives in a miserable room. He is disgraced and rejected by his son Tom, a ...

Zwei Bayern in St. Pauli (1956)

The local council of the Bavarian village of Mooskirchen has ambitious plans for the small town. Mooskirchen is to become a tourist destination, but this requires money, because at the moment there is not even an access road to the highway, let alone such ...

The Perjured Farmer (1956)

Mathias Ferner commits perjury and is thus able to secure the farm of his stepbrother Jakob as soon as he dies. In doing so, he deprives Paula Roth and the children of their inheritance. However, there is a letter incriminating Mathias Ferner. Years later, ...

The Trapp Family (1956)

A true story based on the popular novel by the Baroness Von Trapp of Austria. The film was made in 1956, some years before the other film based on the Trapp Family's life was released - a little movie named "The Sound of Music". ...

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 ...

The Captain from Kopenick (1956)

A young shoemaker is arrested for stealing a small amount of money, and is jailed for fifteen years. Upon his release, he wants to get a permit to get a job and start anew, but finds that without a job he can't get a permit, and without a permit he can't g ...

Mädchen mit schwachem Gedächtnis (1956)

Anny arrives in Munich to start a career as an actress, but soon ends up without money and job, sleeping on a park bench. When the police picks her up, she pretends to have amnesia and is taken to the police station. There she's surprised to get presented ...

Nacht der Entscheidung (1956)

A Belgian industrial magnate returns home after spending ten years in Siberia. There he learns that he has since been declared dead and that his wife has remarried. ...

Sky Without Stars (1955)

Anna is a factory worker in East Germany, but her five-year-old son Jochen lives with his grandparents in the West. Anna wants him to live with her, so she abducts him. Along the way she meets Carl, who helps her cross the border, and they fall in love. ...

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. ...

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. ...

Die Toteninsel (1955)

Based on a graphic novel, this story follows the lives of people with leprosy from around the world who live on a South Sea island, including a divorced man who has returned from Korea, a singer who has lost her voice, a church builder, and a priest. ...

Oh, These Dear Relatives (1955)

As a prank and out of curiosity, a childless landowner fakes his death. The greedy relatives who rush to the castle find themselves faced with an original will clause. It provides for an election act from which the testator's illegitimate daughter emerges ...

The Double Husband (1955)

Grethe Koblanck and her husband own a successful fur fashion house in Munich. She suspects him of flirting with younger women, including the South American Dolores. She employs a hidden camera to keep an eye on him. Upon discovering this, he gets a doppelg ...

Der falsche Adam (1955)

Der kleine Napoleon (1955)

The Devil's General (1955)

The adaptation of the eponymous play by Carl Zuckmayer tells the story of renegade general Harras of the German Luftwaffe, who during WWII openly criticizes the Nazi regime. As a consequence, he is put under surveillance, and even imprisoned for a brief pe ...

Ingrid - The Story of a Fashion Model (1955)

The romantic conflicts of a runaway young woman who works as a model and is courted by two journalists... ...

Canaris (1954)

Admiral Canaris is chief of the intelligence service of Nazi Germany. His department is quite successful and Hitler grants him all the money he wants for new developments. Still he's a thorn in the side of the Nazi chiefs, since he's not as unscrupulous as ...

Tanz in der Sonne (1954)

Zum Freispruch verurteilt (1954)

Geld aus der Luft (1954)

After three months of secret marriage to his wife Helga, Stefan Gregor, propagandist for a record company, is already back in front of the divorce judge. His profession is to blame, as it has brought him into disrepute with his wife. It is the nightly nego ...

Der König mit dem Regenschirm (1954)

Die Blume von Hawaii (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 ...

I'm Waiting for You (1952)

A teenage girl is stranded by a storm on a small North Sea island, where she and a young teacher fall in love and conceive a child. Back on the mainland, with help from her aunt and a family doctor, she gives birth and returns to finish school, unaware tha ...

Tanzende Sterne (1952)

Under the Thousand Lanterns (1952)

This German drama tells the story of a musician who is killed and leaves his work unfinished. His apprentice is cleared of the murder and turns out to be the real composer. ...

Sensation in San Remo (1951)

Hilfe, ich bin unsichtbar (1951)

Weh dem, der liebt! (1951)

Schön muß man sein (1951)

Chased by the Devil (1950)

A doctor discovers a new medical cure with dangerous side effects, and takes the drug himself to test its limitations. ...

Das Mädchen aus der Südsee (1950)

Hamburg student Richard Kirbach indulges in an unusual hobby: he plays chess via shortwave with Arnold Pieper, an old German coconut planter in the South Seas. The men, who are so different, become so close that one day Pieper asks the young man for a big ...

Der Mann, der zweimal leben wollte (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. ...

Hafenmelodie (1950)

A gang of thieves plan a hit on a warehouse filled with precious stuff. ...

Des Lebens Überfluß (1950)

Two young students, a man and a woman, rent the same appartment without knowing it. They have to arrange with their upcoming feelings, strange neighbours and poverty. ...

The Blue Straw Hat (1949)

Pretty hat-saleswoman Lola wants nothing more than to become an operetta singer. Unfortunately, it isn't so easy to make it in the music business. Operetta diva Isabella, on the other hand, is sick and tired of performing and leaves the stage, despite the ...

Kätchen für alles (1949)

A young actress, dismissed as untalented by a famous and admired mime, takes revenge for the insult by playing so many roles for him in his house - from maid to abused wife and tender mother to vamp - that in the end he discovers not only her talent but al ...

Schicksal aus zweiter Hand (1949)

A man's life breaks down in pursuit of material success. ...

Derby (1949)

A young horse lover falls in love with the handsome vet who looks after a special racehorse. But before the two can be happy together, there are a lot of obstacles in their way. ...

Der Bagnosträfling (1949)

The Other (1949)

Comedy Times Three (1949)

Art student Ulla lies to her older sister Ilse, claiming to be posing for sculptor Professor Viktor Arnim. To confront him, Ilse visits him that very evening. In her excitement, she forgets her handbag, which the professor immediately notices. Ilse clearly ...

The Last Night (1949)

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

The Millionaire (1947)

Leopold Habernal, lives a quiet, modest life as a postman. When he unexpectedly inherits a large sum of money, he suddenly becomes an object of desire for several unmarried woman in the town, leading also to resentment amongst his former male friends. Ulti ...

Where Is Mr. Belling? (1945)

Orient Express (1944)

The emergency braking of the Orient Express causes chaos. When the lights are switched back on, lawyer Branko is found murdered in his compartment. The Rarna Criminal Investigation Department starts investigating immediately. There are several suspects: Ba ...

I Need You (1944)

The actress Julia Bach is married to the famous director, Professor Paulus Allmann; however, no one is to know about the marriage. Julia doesn't want a career simply because she has a famous spouse. For that reason, Paulus always has to go on his concert ...

Der Täter ist unter uns (1944)

A badly lit street; a car driving too fast; squealing tires .... a car crashes into a construction site. When the police arrive on the scene, the driver is gone. In the vehicle, however, the cops find film with photos of the almost worthless stock of the c ...

Es lebe die Liebe (1944)

A romantic skirmish between an intrusive operetta tenor from the Berlin Theater and a revue diva in Barcelona, who later encounters him, initially unrecognized, as a ballet dancer and, after they marry, plays the role of a housewife to cure him of his arro ...

Die keusche Sünderin (1944)

Xaver Bimshofer is the richest peasant in the village; and therefore, his only daughter Lenerl should marry a guy, who is diligent enough to keep the exemplary farm running. But Bimshofer doesn't know, that Lenerl has long been a couple with the servant S ...

Journey into the Past (1943)

With her daughter Anita, a young singer, the widow Marianne von der Halden undertakes a journey into the past. She wants to see her former admirers again. One of them is the chamber singer Paul Schneider, who only remembers his childhood sweetheart with ir ...

Peterle (1943)

Josef Brandlmeier is a true Munich original. He is a beer delivery man, a stately figure, not so young anymore and often a little grumpy. He is not married, but he harbors a secret love for the widow Therese Enzinger, who reciprocates his feelings. ...

The Endless Road (1943)

The life story of Friedrich List, an influential 19th century German political economist who developed the liberal nationalist theory of political economy in both Europe and the United States. ...

Tonelli (1943)

Circus performer Tonio Tonelli discovers his wife Maja having an affair with his colleague Tino. Tonio goes away, and slowly rebuilds his career before meeting tightrope walker Nelly. The two become a popular sensation, which leads his estranged wife to tr ...

Der Hochtourist (1942)

Einmal der liebe Herrgott sein (1942)

Karl Geschwandtner, a porter in a large hotel, has only one wish: one day, he'd like to be the lord and master, as the saying goes: to be the porter and 'ruler' in the hotel. And luck helps him to temporarily fulfill his dream. But Karl doesn't just ta ...