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Engel im Abendkleid (1951)

The bailiff Engel is believed to be an heir to the millions via a fictitious newspaper advertisement. It is said to have a mink farm. Your debtors mean my nun that as a millionaire you can pay the debts. Some dowry hunters have seen it on them too. Paulche ...

Tiger's Claw (1951)

Jonny Wilken is an ageing lion trainer in a circus. He is in love with his younger colleague Jutta Sarris. On her wedding day, Jutta's favorite Bengal tiger attacks her out of jealousy and kills her. Jonny, full of pain and out of revenge, enters the cage ...

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. ...

Finale (1948)

The fate of a pianist who returns from the Second World War with a wound to his right hand. ...

Der Mann, dem man den Namen stahl (1945)

During his trip to the city, a naïve man from the countryside falls victim to a thief who steals his wallet. Since all his personal documents were in it, he not only looses his money but also his identity. The thief turns out to be a cunning con man, who ...

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 ...

Sommernächte (1944)

Träumerei (1944)

A musical film based on biographical facts about Clara Wieck's love for composer Robert Schumann (1810-1856), her marriage against her will, Schumann's triumph, and his tragic end due to mental illness. The film is beautiful and entertaining, full of noble ...

Johann (1943)

Johann, the trusted valet of Count Zirndorf, has an affair with chambermaid Marie, but this liaison ends, as does the count's marriage. Years later trouble ensues when the count's daughter falls for young Hans who might be her brother. ...

Kollege kommt gleich (1943)

Robert is almost the epitome of a head waiter: Politely and courteously, he informs guests about the goings on in the stock market as well as what's going on in politics, the world of culture, and the economy. Now, Robert is in love with Lilo, the daught ...

The Two Sisters (1943)

Berlin, the end of the 19th Century: The pretty sisters Gabriele and Ulrike Wilkens have both completed their ballet training with honors. But only Gabriele is really dedicated to the art; Ulrike, on the other hand, is more the domestic type. She dreams ...

Fritze Bollmann wollte angeln (1943)

Brandenburg an der Havel, 2nd half of the 19th Century: the barber Fritz Bollmann is running his old-fashion barbershop and is well known, while another barber Jean Blank is more modern and haute-couture, who sees him as a huge competitor. When Bollmann wa ...

Nacht ohne Abschied (1943)

The Old Boss (1942)

A horse trader from Berlin, once a farmer in Southwest Africa, manages to drive his children out of the house and anger his wife. After serious complications with his heart, which he tried to hide at first, he realizes how much he needs the love and suppo ...

The Great Love (1942)

The attractive Oberleutnant Paul Wendlandt is stationed in North Africa as a fighter pilot. While in Berlin to deliver a report he is given a day's leave, and on the stage of the cabaret theatre "Skala" sees the popular Danish singer Hanna Holberg. For Pau ...

Her Other Self (1941)

By coincidence Magdalena gets hired for two jobs in the same company (one day, one night shift) and "invents" a sister to "explain" the situation to an engineer who falls for one of the "sisters" while hating the other. ...

The Comedians (1941)

Although she is known as a patron of the arts, a graceful duchess nevertheless refuses her nephew to marry an enterprising actress in this German melodrama starring Kathe Dorsch and silent screen legend Henny Porten. When Philine (Hilde Krahl), the troupe' ...

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. ...

The Heart of a Queen (1940)

As the title "The Queen's Heart" suggests, this early German black and white version of Mary Queen of Scott's eventful reign and death focuses on her emotional perception rather lyrically, with some songs, mainly by her. ...

Clothes Make the Man (1940)

The daydreaming tailor Wenzel is fired from his job, because the fancy frock he was supposed to cut for the mayor, he instead made for himself. He is allowed, however, to take the frock, which he appropriated for himself and he puts it on as he leaves the ...

The Three Codonas (1940)

Biography of the life of the circus performer Alfredo Codona. ...

The Lucky Seven (1940)

Bernd Flor, an aging, but still very attractive, actor feels most at home playing the role of the tireless Don Juan in his private life. He's already been married six times and had left all six women, although the marriages were in no way unhappy. On the ...

Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes (1939)

Country Dr. Robert Koch is desperate: a tuberculosis epidemic is decimating the children in his district and no one is able to do anything about it. Every fourth child is already sick and the parents must helplessly watch as their young ones die. Now Ko ...

Opera Ball (1939)

After the operetta of the same name of Richard Heuberger in 1890-1914 all kinds of situation comic from happy-go-lucky Vienna of the turn of the century, the time of the first cars and the absurd bath costumes: Husbands in the Chambre Separee, her little d ...

Das Gewehr über (1939)

Der Stammbaum des Dr. Pistorius (1939)

Kitty and the World Conference (1939)

The setting is Lugano (Switzerland), where an apparently very important world conference takes place. The film tells the story of the young Kitty (Hannelore Schroth), who works as a manicurist at the Eden Hotel, and who in the course of events gets to kno ...

It Was a Gay Ballnight (1939)

1865. Katharina goes to a ball in Moscow. There she meets again Tchaikowsky, her first and only love. The young, who is now married to wealthy Michael Iwanowitsch Murakin, a man she does not love, has not forgotten Piotr Illich, the (not yet) famous compos ...

The Leghorn Hat (1939)

Der Florentiner Hut (The Leghorn Hat), a 1939 German film directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner ...

Die Hochzeitsreise (1939)

1939 German film by Karl Ritter. ...

Napoleon Is to Blame for Everything (1938)

English Lord Arthur Cavershoot is a passionate Napoleon scholar who badly neglects his wife Josephine for his obsession with the French emperor. When the cranky historian travels to a Napoleon conference in Paris, his smart spouse secretly follows him. Unn ...

Scheidungsreise (1938)

On their wedding night, the very night Dr. Delius and his wife Marianne had been so eagerly anticipating, a heated argument erupted between the newlyweds. Marianne's loyal dachshund took its protective instincts a little too seriously, constantly thwarting ...

You and I (1938)

Melodrama about an entrepreneur and his family. ...

Homeland (1938)

In 1885, famous New York Metropolitan Opera singer Maddalena dall' Orto is scheduled to perform at a festival in the German residence of Ilmingen. It soon becomes obvious that she is non other than Magda von Schwartze, who left the town eight years ago aga ...

The Impossible Mr. Pitt (1938)

The Impossible Mister Pitt is a 1938 German adventure crime film directed by and starring Harry Piel. It also features Willi Schur, Leopold von Ledebur and Hilde Weissner. It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin and on location off the coast of Spl ...

Yvette (1938)

Yvette is the daughter of a courtesan who serves men of wealth and status. She is unaware of how her mother makes money and why they are always in the presence of princes, dukes and barons. Only when Yvette goes away on a holiday she realizes that the Bank ...

Die Umwege des schönen Karl (1938)

Karl Kramer is a waiter in a beach hotel on the Baltic Sea. But he has completely different plans in mind for the future. Before he marries Grete Wernicke, the daughter of the hotel manager, he wants to have enough money himself. ...

Hahn im Korb (1937)

a movie by Heinz Paul ...

Der Mustergatte (1937)

Heinz Rühmann plays the "model husband" who, when his bored wife threatens to leave him, embarks on an adventurous night. ...

Versprich mir nichts! (1937)

Maler Pratt, an artist, refuses to sell his paintings as he thinks that they still need improvement before being publicly exhibited, but his wife Monika thinks differently and sells them because she thinks they are good...and they need the money. As he onl ...

Fridericus (1937)

In 18th century Europe, King Friedrich II of Prussia leads his army through the seven-years-war with neighboring states, and after numerous near defeats, eventually brings a victorious army back to Berlin. ...

Ball at the Metropol (1937)

At a ball at the Metropol, the married Margit gives a harmless kiss to a one-time friend from her childhood and cousin, Eberhard. The two notice, however, that Margit's ill and jealous husband observed them from a distance, because he recognized the coat s ...

The Higher Command (1935)

A Prussian commander disobeys orders and goes to find a British envoy who can negotiate a pact with Austria to help fight off Napoleon in 1806. ...

Alte Kameraden (1934)

Musik im Blut (1934)

In Dresden's classical music world, female students learn from an opinionated conductor and a pompous dance instructor.When their work isn't appreciated, a teacher consoles them, saying Bruckner, Schubert and Wagner were also criticized. ...

Gretl Wins First Prize (1933)

A modest young woman, who dreams of a radio career, forges a lottery ticket so that she can win the prize. ...

A Trip to the Country (1933)

A banker goes bankrupt and flees to the countryside where a family of peasants cheers him up. ...

Es war einmal ein Musikus (1933)

Frederica (1932)

Based on Franz Lehar's operetta, about the first woman whom the great German writer Goethe fell in love with. ...

Aus einer kleinen Residenz (1932)

The handsomest man in the state (1932)

Secret Agent (1932)

We Need No Money (1931)

In this German comedy, an enterprising American uncle comes from Chicago goes to the tiny town of Groditzkirchen to make a fortune on credit even though he only has $10 to his name. To do so, he enlists the aide of a bank clerk and begins posing as a milli ...

The High Tourist (1931)

Romantic exploits in Germany's White Mountains. ...

Love's Command (1931)

During the Austro Hungarian empire, a girl substitutes for her brother in a military academy. ...

His reason for divorce (1931)

Shadows of the Underworld (1931)

Menschen im Feuer (1931)

Harry Peltzer, who is passionate about his job as a firefighter, and his superior, fire chief Paul Körner, are the best of friends. This changes the day they both meet Nelly, a young, blonde cashier at a vending machine buffet, on whom both men immediatel ...

Sunday of Life (1931)

Ellen Hobart is a gold-digging manicurist who sights her sights on David Stone, a wealthy young man. After they marry, Hobart is persuaded to accept $50,000 to give her husband up. She willingly goes along with this arrangement, only to realize she's genui ...