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Bellaria, So lange wir leben (2002)

The Bellaria cinema in Vienna is a small arthouse cinema on Museumsstraße, a side street behind the Vienna Volkstheater. The predominantly elderly audience watches old German films here and reminisces about their own youth. Both the regulars and the staff ...

Vino Santo – Es lebe die Liebe, es lebe der Wein (2001)

Half-Italian Gioia loves Max, but leaves her son's son to cheat her as a fiancé. When Mama invites the family to the Italian winery for Grandpa's 80th birthday, the feelings are on the table alongside pasta, pesto and vino, because Gioia happens to meet M ...

The Hairdresser and the Millionaire (1998)

Eleven-year-old Nick, son of a wealthy, single-parent architect, is being robbed by street children in Berlin. The blonde hairdresser Anna takes care of him. When Nick learns that she is looking for a partner, he brings his father into play ... ...

Rosamunde Pilcher: Die zweite Chance (1997)

For the young, ambitious journalist Julia, her job and "enjoying life" are currently the top priorities. There's no place for men – until the day young Miles comes into her life. ...

The Deep End (1997)

Una segunda oportunidad (1997)

Halali oder Der Schuß ins Brötchen (1995)

Schtonk! (1992)

Schtonk! is a farce of the actual events of 1983, when Germany's Stern magazine published, with great fanfare, 60 volumes of the alleged diaries of Adolf Hitler – which two weeks later turned out to be entirely fake. Fritz Knobel (based on real-life for ...

Die Kaffeehaus-Clique (1990)

Romeo mit grauen Schläfen (1988)

Höchste Eisenbahn (1987)

The storyline of this episodic film, made on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB), is a PR team's train journey through Austria. The professionals are to use the inspiring surroundings to develop a new advertising c ...

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. ...

Der Lord und das Kätzchen (1983)

Alte Liebe (1981)

Der Eisvogel (1980)

Jane (1979)

Die liebe Familie (1976)

Rosemary's Daughter (1976)

The murder of the well-known Frankfurt high-class prostitute Rosemarie Nitribitt kept the Federal Republic in suspense at the time, but the crime could never be solved. Although almost twenty years have now passed, the unpleasant matter for those involved ...

Seven Deaths by Prescription (1975)

Dr. Brézé and his sons, all surgeons with limited abilities fight any competition on their sector with all means. ...

Komtesse Mizzi (1975)

Die Kinder Edouards (1974)

Die Welt des Robert Stolz (1973)

Jules und die olympischen Geister (1972)

Der Herr Schmidt (1971)

Das haut den stärksten Zwilling um (1971)

Civil servant Peter Werner lives separated from his wife, fashion photographer Grit. Their twins also live separated from each other; Gaby grows up with their father in Munich; Ulli lives with their mother in London. ...

Die Frau ohne Kuß (1971)

Der Feldherrnhügel (1970)

The Camel Goes Through the Eye of the Needle (1970)

The focus of this comedy is a wealthy, somewhat degenerate Mr Wilhelm, junior manager of a large Prague trading company. A young factory worker Susi freed herself from business ties and prejudices, a sluggish self-drive-blank... ...

Wir hau'n die Pauker in die Pfanne (1970)

Principal Gottlieb Taft's twin brother Gotthold Taft partakes in the most recent prank by faking his death and promising a large inheritance to the Mommsen-Gymnasium and the principal. Of course, the inheritance is tied to many embarrassing conditions. ...

No Pawing, Darling (1970)

A man is thrown out by his girlfriend and moves in with a friend who is part of a group of terrorists plotting an assault on a department store. ...

Franciscan of Bourges (1968)

Albert is a Franciscan monk and a medical orderly at a monastery in France. Although he is German, the kindly monk helps hide French resistance members. Albert tries to maintain the delicate balance between the warring factions by helping out the afflicted ...

The Long Day of Inspector Blomfield (1968)

Inspector Blomfield catches a thief who has a fatal accident while trying to escape in his car. A short time later, his drug-addicted brother Johnny enters the police station while Blomfield is investigating a murder and threatens to blow himself and every ...

Man, Pride and Vengeance (1967)

A Spanish army officer, Don Jose, stationed in Seville, meets and begins a relationship with a mysterious gypsy, Carmen. After he discovers she has cheated on him with his Lieutenant, he kills the officer and flees the city with Carmen. He recovers from hi ...

Wenn Ludwig ins Manöver zieht (1967)

The Liar and the Nun (1967)

Paradies auf Erden (1967)

Das Attentat - Der Tod des Engelbert Dollfuß (1967)

Pechvogel - Ein Spectaculum für große und kleine Leute (1967)

Liebe für Liebe (1967)

Onkel Filser - Allerneueste Lausbubengeschichten (1966)

Schöne Geschichten mit Mama und Papa (1966)

Herr Kayser und die Nachtigall (1965)

Meine Nichte Susanne (1964)

Hilarious revelations from the love life of a Parisian woman. ...

Unartige Lieder (1964)

Maibritt, the Girl from the Islands (1964)

A German businessmen is sent to Stockholm by his boss to secure an important contract, in the face of foreign competition. He discovers that the intended client has gone sailing round the Swedish islands and follows him. He becomes mixed up with a mysterio ...

Die neue Mittelwelle (1964)

Ein Engel namens Schmitt (1964)

In 1950s Germany, tyrannical boss Gerlach spares affection for his secretary Tommy, until Tommy is misdiagnosed with a fatal illness. Believing he'll die, Tommy blossoms, wins the boss's daughter Gaby's love, and is named junior partner. When the truth sur ...

Das Pferd (1964)

Die beiden Klingsberg (1964)

Die Reise um die Erde (1964)

Mamselle Nitouche (1963)

Feuerwerk (1963)

Lady Frederick (1963)

Black-White-Red Four Poster (1962)

Germany during World War I. Young Jean falls in love with Germaine. To put an end to the affair, Father de Wehrt sends his son to the countryside. When the high school senior starts flirting with Gertrud there, he is sent to the army. ...

Wetter veränderlich (1962)

Bells Without Joy (1962)

In November 1942, American troops landed in Tunisia. German paratroopers were immediately launched and occupied Tunis. A French squadron of chasseurs d'Afrique was sent to Medjez-el Bab with the mission of occupying the bridge over the Medjerda. But the ca ...

Deutschland - deine Sternchen (1962)

The Dream of Lieschen Müller (1961)

Lieschen Müller is in her mid-20s, works a dull office job and fancies the handsome waiter from the diner down the street, wishing for a more exciting life. In a vivid, lucid dream she happens upon a gigantic fortune, allowing her to live out her wildest ...

Du holde Kunst - Szenen um Lieder von Franz Schubert (1961)

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 ...

Heute gehn wir bummeln (1961)

Operation Caviar (1961)

Bank accountant Thomas Lieven is forced to work as a triple agent for the British, the French and the Nazis. ...

Blond muß man sein auf Capri (1961)

Maria and Hannes are already looking forward to their vacation together when Hannes has to go away on business at short notice. Maria suspects that Hannes is having an affair with another woman and defiantly travels to Capri with her friends. ...

Biographie und Liebe (1961)

Froher Herbst des Lebens (1961)

Bei Pichler stimmt die Kasse nicht (1961)

Eine hübscher als die andere (1961)

A prettier than the other is a German Comedy by Axel von Ambesser from the year 1961. ...

Ein Tag im Leben von... (1961)

The Black Sheep (1960)

Father Brown starts solving crimes, much to the annoyance of his housekeeper, the police and especially his bishop, who is not amused by a priest playing detective. ...

Schlager-Raketen (1960)

"Festival of Hearts" is the name of the new pop music show by popular DJ Camillo. He came up with the idea by chance. Marcel, a young bank employee, almost hit a charming young girl with his car. Angry, she lent him her jack, but then disappeared forever. ...

Finden Sie, dass Constanze sich richtig verhält? (1960)

Die Liebe des Jahres (1959)

She Walks by Night (1959)

Based on an actual murder case in Frankfurt after the war, the film tells the story of the murder of Rosemarie, a prostitute, and how she ended up strangled in her apartment. ...

Amphitryon (1959)

Longing Has Seduced Me (1959)

Ursula and Hanne Brandner are bright twin sisters who couldn't be more different. Hanne is content to drive the family tractor and tend the fields, but Ursula wants to dance in the big city, which leads headlong towards tragedy. ...

Rosemary (1958)

West Germany in '50s is becoming an economic superpower. In such climate, Rosemarie is just one of many enterpreneurs who wants her piece of new fortune. She uses her charms to bring members of West German industrial elite to her bed. There she finds busin ...

Die unentschuldigte Stunde (1957)

Biggi is about to take her high school diploma. To avoid an impending chemistry exam, she fakes an illness. She obtains the necessary certificate from the handsome doctor Dr. Weiringk. She promptly falls in love with her savior and marries him. However, as ...

Das Abgründige in Herrn Gerstenberg (1957)

Die liebe Familie (1957)

Hurra - die Firma hat ein Kind (1956)

Through the Forests and Through the Trees (1956)

The composer Carl Maria von Weber is on his way to Prague with his bride Caroline Brandt when their carriage is attacked by bandits. Fortunately, Count Enzio von Schwarzenbrunn rushes to their aid and puts the villains to flight. However, the noble host wh ...

Ein tolles Hotel (1956)

Das Bad auf der Tenne (1956)

On his journey through the Flemish province, Don Fernando, the king's stadtholder, passes through the small, bourgeois community of Terbrügg. There, he meets Antje, the mayor's wife. To impress the beautiful lady, he gives her his bathtub. It's a sensatio ...

The Congress Dances (1955)

Congress of Vienna, 1815: In order to lure certain monarchs away from the conference, the Austrians instigate a ceaseless sequence of operas and balls. Indeed, Russian Czar Alexander is distracted when he falls for a beautiful salesgirl. ...

Ihr erstes Rendezvous (1955)

Secrets of the City (1955)

An industrial plant gets into difficulties. The factory owner then decides to sell the company and makes all the employees redundant. How do the dismissed employees deal with the new situation? ...

Fireworks (1954)

The quiet life of an extended family is shaken up when a circus comes into town. ...

Der Zigeunerbaron (1954)

Die Perle von Tokay (1954)

Rosen aus dem Süden (1954)

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The Charming Young Lady (1953)

Schlagerparade (1953)

Die Nacht ohne Moral (1953)

The burly Abruzzo, a good-natured fellow with the temperament of a butcher's dog, has no fun under his domineering wife Martha. One day he has had enough and leaves home to lead a completely new and, above all, different life as a bandit captain. Together ...

Muss man sich gleich scheiden lassen? (1953)

Everything seems perfect in the lives of Andreas and Garda. They have a happy marriage and up-and-coming talent Andreas is constantly striving to reach the top of his sport. But their happiness is suddenly clouded when the racing driver suffers a serious a ...

Lavendel (1953)

Die Fiakermilli (1953)

An incredibly popular stage performer unknowingly falls madly in love with the lone critic that savaged her performance in the press. ...

Fanfaren der Ehe (1953)

Wir tanzen auf dem Regenbogen (1952)

Die Försterchristl (1952)

Christl, the forester's daughter, apprehends a young hunter in the forest and only lets him go after he pays a small fine. But when Christl goes to the emperor shortly afterward to plead on behalf of her beloved—a Hungarian officer who has fallen out of ...

Ein ganz grosses Kind (1952)

Aging actor Hieronymus agrees to coach amateur Hans in his craft, but Hans doesn't live up to the demands of theater pros although he is supported by actress Ina who then helps him to break into the movies - but not as he expected. ...

Der keusche Lebemann (1951)

Taxi-Kitty (1950)

An unemployed musician proves her worth by working as a temporary employee in a canteen for taxi drivers, and thanks to the helpful drivers, she gets the chance to successfully showcase her artistic talent. ...

Die Nacht ohne Sünde (1950)

Sensation im Savoy (1950)

Der Mann, der sich selber sucht (1950)

My Niece Suzanne (1950)

A Parisian cocotte at the turn of the century plans to capture a very rich Peruvian for marriage and hires her servant as an uncle who is supposedly supposed to watch over her virtue. ...

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 ...

Ich mach Dich glücklich (1949)

Höllische Liebe (1949)

In hell, equipped with the latest technological advances, the devils watch the happiness of a Viennese revue singer and her sculptor fiancé on a television screen. Some representatives are sent to Earth to seduce the singer and thus undermine the couple's ...

Träum’ nicht, Annette! (1949)

French teacher Annette Müller has two ardent admirers who are constantly urging her to marry: diplomat Klaus and engineer Theo. But she can't make up her mind. Then a third one joins them, the pianist Hans. Sometimes she dreams of Klaus, sometimes of Theo ...

The Berliner (1948)

Otto, a feckless Everyman, tries to adjust to the postwar travails of his defeated nation. Stymied by black-market profiteers and government bureaucrats, Otto begins fantasizing about a happier life at the end of that ever-elusive rainbow. ...

Eine alltägliche Geschichte (1948)

Peter Voss, der Millionendieb (1946)

Polly Petterson is a major customer of the Van Geldern bank, which manages her assets to the tune of one million. When she wants to withdraw the entire amount, the bank, which has speculated, threatens to go bankrupt. The employee Peter Voss then steals th ...

Das Mädchen Juanita (1945)

Das Leben geht weiter (1945)

The Brothers Noltenius (1945)

Wolf Noltenius is a real globetrotter. Early on, this talented young man travelled far and wide, where he earned fame as a construction planner. He moved to Brazil; but one day, homesickness got the best of him. He spontaneously travelled back to his ho ...

Sag’ endlich ja (1945)

I Have Dreamed of You (1944)

After a successful concert, the singer Maria dreams about a man with a boquet of lilies, who follows her and kisses her. A short time later, she actually meets such a man: his name is Peter and he's on his way to his bride, Helene. In the afternoon, Mar ...

Der Verteidiger hat das Wort (1944)

Jordan, a famous criminal lawyer, will only represent clients, of whose innocence he is convinced (must be financially not-too-well-off). One day, his future son-in-law, the jeweler Fabian, is arrested on suspicion of murder on the day before his wedding. ...

Bravo Acrobat! (1943)

Charlie, a very gifted, young acrobat, cannot find employment. A dancer and colleague, whom he trained, has gotten him a job as a stagehand at a vaudeville theatre. After a number of chaotic events and some highs and lows - none of which ever discourage ...

Titanic (1943)

In 1912, the Titanic embarks on its inevitable collision course with history. In the wake of the over-spending required to build the largest luxury ship in the world, White Star Line executive Sir Bruce Ismay schemes to reverse the direction of his company ...

Die Wirtin zum weißen Röss'l (1943)

Up till now, Eri Bel and Heinz Marius were a happy couple only on the movie screen. Now, however, the successful film stars want to be a happy couple in real life. After the next film they star in together, the whole thing should be a reality. ...

Stimme des Herzens (1942)

In a small town in northern Germany at the turn of the century: The wealthy mayor's daughter Felizitas marries the much older owner of a trading house because her childhood friend and lover, an impoverished shipowner's son who has broken off his painting s ...

The Big Game (1942)

A player on a soccer team, where everyone matches together just perfectly, has fallen out of a championship tournament due to illness; which leads to a big problem: who would be the perfect man to replace him? Werner Fehling appears to be the perfect rep ...

Der Fall Rainer (1942)

Germany in the fall of 1918: Accompanied by the Archduke Karl Maria, Princess Henriette von Battenstein makes an inspection tour of hospitals. During these inspections, she meets Lieutenant Rainer, the former conductor of the State Opera. When she later ...

Die heimlichen Bräute (1942)

Uncle Ludwig's childless estate hinges on his nephews: Peter studies agriculture and is engaged to Inge, while Paul, a court assessor, loves Marianne, whose father disdains "judges." Both women secretly visit Bainingen, but Ludwig mistakes Inge for Mariann ...

Mistress Moon (1941)

Berlin's theatre crowd is excited about the new operetta "Frau Luna". But for the head of the city's vice police, who was invited to the dress rehearsal, the costumes for the ladies onstage are a bit too revealing. He demands the show be cancelled as offen ...

Der siebente Junge (1941)

The year is 1800. Leopold von Röckl and Ferdinand von Wangenheim, two extremely fun-loving guards lieutenants, before whom no coat is safe, leave the residence of the sovereign for a while - and for good reason: Leopold has begun an affair with Princess G ...

Bismarck (1940)

A biographical film of Otto von Bismarck, the Prime Minister of Prussia, and how he and his policies - including aggressive war - helped to unite Germany. ...

Aus erster Ehe (1940)

Movie based on the novel by Christel Broehl-Delhaes ...

Casanova heiratet (1940)

The actor Ralph Gregor plays "Casanova" on the stage and everyone expects, that he also lives out the role in real life. Johanna Brinkmann, known as "Joe", tries everything to make her husband jealous of Ralph. Ralph, however, is actually dating his collea ...

Dein Leben gehört mir (1939)

The Golden Mask (1939)

The gifted painter Alexander Poschinger receives a financial windfall. His friends Paul and Sepp, both painters, too, aren't in the slightest bit surprise by his success, since he only paints rich women. These women come to Alexander, because whomever he p ...

Fräulein (1939)

Miss Annemarie Tessmer is a clerk in the house of the manufacturer Herman Schilling and she is indispensable. She is exploited by all the family members and her own life is completely in the background. Herman Schilling wants his daughter Thea merry with t ...

Liebe streng verboten (1939)

In the eve of the war between Vienna and Berlin playing dear comedy with then popular occupation: The mother wants to marry her daughter to the lord of the manor, but the daughter prefers the elegant hoteliers. ...

Der Blaufuchs (1938)

Ilona, the bored wife of an easily distracted professor, falls in love with his friend Tibor, a world-traveler and ladykiller. Although she pursues him, he declines to take advantage of the situation, because she's married to his best friend. Only after ...

A Night in May (1938)

A reckless young woman has her driving license withdrawn, drives home anyway and gets involved in a traffic accident. Realizing this was a little over the top she decides that she has to flee the country. As fate has it, she misses her train and instead me ...

Anna Favetti (1938)

The daughter of a reclusive couple in the St. Moritz mountains tends to her brother, disabled from the Great War, though a handsome young architect who has just arrived waits for her attentions. ...

Gewitterflug zu Claudia (1937)

Lufthansa captain Hans Droste is friends with English pilot William Crossley, who saved his life during the war. Having just landed in Berlin, Hans receives a telegram from his friend urgently asking him to fly to London and check on his dying uncle, Sir R ...

Daphne and the Diplomat (1937)

Dance star Maria Arni is in love with Achim, the ballet répétiteur at the Municipal Opera. He, however, only has eyes for shy Else, a new girl at Maria's dance school. The girls are to accompany Maria on her new tour. The day before it begins, Else meets ...

Flowers from Nice (1936)

Maria, an astounding singer in a music school , is discovered by an impresario who engages her for a concert in Nizza. A nobleman wishing to leave his gambling debts behind accepts money to fake suicide for unrequited love, for publicity's sake. He heads f ...

The Girl Irene (1936)

A woman (Lil Dagover) who has lost her husband falls in love again, but is bitterly opposed by her daughters especially the title figure who can't stand the thought of seeing her mother going into a relationship with another man. Those who want to see if S ...