Karl John

Sorcerer (1977)

Four men from different parts of the globe, all hiding from their pasts in the same remote South American town, agree to risk their lives transporting several cases of dynamite (which is so old that it is dripping unstable nitroglycerin) across dangerous j ...

Entführung (1976)

Dandelions (1974)

Rick (Rutger Hauer), a disaffected sailor turned hard drinking womanizer, returns home from six months at sea to find his wife (Corrigan), whom he was deeply in love, has unexpectedly left him and is now a junkie whore. Devastated, he tries to ease his pai ...

Sabine (1974)

This German educational film about sexually transmitted diseases, through a mixture of medical imagery and love making scenes, makes the case for a timely medical treatment of gonorrhea and syphilis, and underpins this plea primarily with blatant clinical ...

Land (1972)

Peenemünde (1970)

So war Mama (1969)

Der spanische Bürgerkrieg (1969)

Die Flucht nach Holland (1967)

Wenn der junge Wein blüht (1967)

Verbotenes Land (1967)

Hinter diesen Mauern (1966)

Oberst Wennerström (1965)

Swedish military attaché Stig Wennerström comes into contact with the US secret service at a party. After a trip to Moscow, he provides the Americans with valuable information about Soviet jets. But Wennerström is playing a double game. Lieutenant Gener ...

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. ...

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 ...

Detective Story (1963)

The Longest Day (1962)

The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied ...

This Time it Must Be Caviar (1961)

Thomas Lieven is a German secret agent trying to leave that profession, to live a peaceful life. Adventure is too strong an appeal, he starts working again, and soon it's difficult to say if he is doing his job, or turned out as double agent for England, F ...

Hermann und Dorothea (1961)

Hoffnung ist ein Ding mit Federn (1961)

Fabrik der Offiziere (1960)

An army war school during the WWII: first Lieutenant Krafft has a strong sense of justice. This has often brought him into disrepute with his previous superiors and he has been transferred several times as a result. With his new position in an officer's sc ...

Sacred Waters (1960)

Water is a scarce and sometimes dangerous resource in the Swiss Mountain Village. Anytime the wooden pipe is damaged and the supply breaks, one man from the village is determined by "unlucky" draw to take on the life-threatening repairs. ...

Madame Sans-Gêne (1960)

Schatten der Helden (1960)

2 x Adam, 1 x Eva (1959)

Die gute Sieben (1959)

Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever? (1959)

In the winter of 1943, against the background of battle scenes, a young German Lieutenant who increasingly distrusts the inhuman Nazi ideology struggles with the concept of war. ...

Möwen über Sorrent (1956)

Schiff ohne Hafen (1956)

Furlough on Word of Honor (1955)

Das heilige Experiment (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 ...

Jeden die Seine (1954)

No Way Back (1954)

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

The Man Between (1953)

A British woman on a visit to post-war Berlin is caught up in an espionage ring smuggling secrets into and out of the Eastern Bloc. ...

Smuggler's Ball (1952)

Smuggler's Ball is the English-language title for this French-Belgian seriocomedy. The action takes place along the borders separating Belgium, Holland and France. It is here that the worldly Pierre (J. P. Kieran) carries on a profitable smuggling operatio ...

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. ...

Love '47 (1949)

A young man and woman meet on a bridge, both about to commit suicide by jumping into the river, and recount to each other their experiences. ...

The Last Night (1949)

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

Unser Mittwochabend (1948)

Berlin, early post-war period. Several friends meet every Wednesday evening to escape the gray monotony of the city and their lives. They are a diverse group of characters with very different destinies. There is, for example, young Grita, who is gradually ...

In Those Days (1947)

A car tells its story and the story of its seven owners during the years of the Third Reich. ...

Melody of a Great City (1943)

A young woman moves to Berlin to work as a press photographer. ...

Andreas Schlüter (1942)

Historical drama portraying the life of German baroque architect Andreas Schlüter. ...

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. ...

U-Boat, Course West! (1941)

This Nazi propaganda film follows the exploits of a German submarine as it prowls the North Atlantic. ...

The Way to Freedom (1941)

In Vienna, during the 1848 Revolution, opera singer Antonia Corvelli marries Detlev von Blossin, a rich landowner. But, as she refuses to give up her career, her infuriated husband returns to Pomerania without her. After falling into the clutches of the cr ...

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. ...

My Life for Ireland (1941)

A Nazi propaganda movie from 1941 directed by Max W. Kimmich, covering a story of Irish heroism and martyrdom over two generations under the occupation of the British. ...

Kora Terry (1940)

When Bartos, the director of the Odeon variety theater, cancels an artist at short notice, he hires the Terrys out of necessity, whose parents were successful variety artists, but who had not yet received an engagement themselves. Both are supported by Tob ...

Die unvollkommene Liebe (1940)

In Bremen, a ship is launched, which was built by Thomas Holk. That evening, he gets to know the middle-aged widow Ada Rasmus, who flirts heavily with him. The next day, Thomas travels to Hallbad on vacation and the two lose sign of each other. In this ...

Bal paré (1940)

At the turn of the century in Munich, a ballerina accepts the sponsorship of an older industrialist but also spends time with his son. ...

Fahrt ins Leben (1940)

The four sailing school cadets Gerhard, Fritz, Kurt, and Christian are close friends; there's hardly anything they don't do together. But when the charming Gerhard begins a romance with Charlotte, his comrade Christian's childhood sweetheart, a shadow fall ...

The Laugh Doctor (1937)

Because the soulful county doctor in a small spa town in the mountains has interfered with the business of selling "healing waters", he incurs the enmity of the local shopkeepers. And for that reason, his candidacy for the post of District Medical Officer ...

The Private's Job (1937)

During the Great War, German soldiers are persuaded to die heroically in order to take a French village held by the British. ...

White Slaves (1937)

Russia, 1917. Revolution is in the air. The Sevastopol anchors In Saint Petersburg. The sailors are thirsty for women and celebration. The ship becomes a dancehall. Bloodbath, pillage and kidnapping follows. A Nazi/Germany propaganda film. ...

When the Cock Crows (1936)

Early morning romantic excursions in a North German village under the thumb of a crusty old mayor. ...

Child, I'm Happy on Your Coming (1933)

Portrait photographer Lu Tiemann owns a white wire-haired terrier named "Stork." For Lu, the charming dog has a very specific purpose: to either jump into parked cars with men at the wheel, thereby attracting their attention, or to hide inside the car and ...

The White Demon (1932)

When Albers takes his drug-addicted opera star sister Gerda to a sanitarium, they both become targets of slimy dope peddler Peter Lorre, who fears that Gerda will blow the whistle on him. Lorre kidnaps the woman, leading Albers on a frantic chase. ...

Die Heirat (1965)