Ludwig Stössel

G.I. Blues (1960)

Stationed in West Germany, soldier Tulsa McLean hopes to open a nightclub once he's discharged. Although he may lack the capital for such a venture, a chance to raise the cash comes his way through a friendly wager. Local dancer Lili is a notorious ice que ...

The Blue Angel (1959)

Remake of Josef von Sternberg's 1930 classic. ...

From the Earth to the Moon (1958)

Set just after the American civil war, businessman and inventor Victor Barbicane invents a new source of power called Power X. He plans to use it to power rockets, and to show its potential he plans to send a projectile to the moon. Joining him for the tri ...

Me and the Colonel (1958)

Nazis are about to overrun France, and a Jewish man named Jacobowsky is stranded in Paris. He hitches a ride with reluctant Polish serviceman Colonel Prokoszny, who harbors a bias against Jews. They are soon joined by Prokoszny's bride-to-be, Suzanne, who ...

Tales of Frankenstein (1958)

In this pilot for a series that was never picked up, Dr. Frankenstein has just finished rebuilding his creation, but the monster is unresponsive. He needs to try something different to make it work, perhaps some new parts. ...

Deep in My Heart (1954)

Biographic movie about the American composer Sigmund Romberg. ...

With This Ring (1954)

Dramatised promotional film for the Miller Brewing Company. ...

Geraldine (1953)

Music manager Janey Edwards poses as a co-ed to get the rights to a song from one of the professors. ...

The Sun Shines Bright (1953)

With the election approaching, a judge in a Southern town at the turn of the 20th century is involved variously in revealing the real identity of a young woman, reliving his Civil War memories, and preventing the lynching of an African youth. ...

White Goddess (1953)

Not a feature film but episodes of the TV series "Ramar of the Jungle" edited together and released as a feature. ...

Call Me Madam (1953)

Washington hostess Sally Adams becomes a Truman-era US ambassador to a European grand duchy. ...

No Time for Flowers (1952)

A young girl's loyalty to the Communist Party is tested in Prague when she falls in love with an attache who has just arrived from the United States. ...

The Merry Widow (1952)

Marshovia, a small European kingdom, is on the brink of bankruptcy but the country may be saved if the wealthy American Crystal Radek, widow of a Marshovian, can be convinced to part with her money and marry the king's nephew count Danilo. Arriving to Mars ...

Too Young to Kiss (1951)

Eric Wainwright, a busy impresario, is besieged by hordes of wannabe concert stars, eager for their big break. One of them is Cynthia Potter, a talented pianist... but she can't get in to see him. When she learns that Wainwright is auditioning young musici ...

The Great Sinner (1949)

A young man succumbs to gambling fever. ...

A Song Is Born (1948)

The story of seven scholars in search of an expert to teach them about swing music. They seem to have found the perfect candidate in winsome nightclub singer Honey Swanson. But Honey's gangster boyfriend doesn't want to give her up. ...

Escape Me Never (1947)

A penniless composer marries a young widow with a baby—even though he is in love with his brother's fiancée. ...

This Time for Keeps (1947)

An ex-GI falls for a bathing beauty. ...

Song of Love (1947)

Composer Robert Schumann struggles to compose his symphonies while his loving wife Clara offers her support. Also helping the Schumanns is their lifelong friend, composer Johannes Brahms. ...

Temptation (1946)

After marrying an archaeologist, a Victorian-era woman with a sordid past realizes that she is not ready to settle down with one man. ...

Cloak and Dagger (1946)

Italian partisans help a professor sent by the OSS to find an atomic scientist held by Nazis. ...

Miss Susie Slagle's (1946)

A student nurse falls in love with a young intern in 1910 Baltimore, but tragedy ensues when he contracts a fatal disease. ...

Girl on the Spot (1946)

Eleven Gilbert & Sullivan numbers are melded within the murder-mystery plot of "Girl on the Spot", with a result that either G&S and/or the plot are always seemingly on stage-wait or in the wings awaiting a cue. Lois Collier is the girl-on-the-spot ...

House of Dracula (1945)

A scientist working on cures for rare afflictions, such as a bone softening agent made from molds to allow him to correct the spinal deformity of his nurse, finds the physical causes of lycanthropy in wolf-man Larry Talbot and of vampirism in Count Dracula ...

Yolanda and the Thief (1945)

Johnny Riggs, a con man on the lam, finds himself in a Latin-American country named Patria. There, he overhears a convent-bred rich girl praying to her guardian angel for help in managing her tangled business affairs. Riggs decides to materialize as the gi ...

Her Highness and the Bellboy (1945)

In a fictional European country, a beautiful princess meets a handsome American reporter and falls in love with him. On a trip to New York, she hopes to find him again. While staying at one of the city's finest hotels she meets a kind-hearted bellhop who m ...

Dillinger (1945)

The life of American public enemy number one who was shot by the police in 1934. ...

Bluebeard (1944)

Young female models are being strangled. Will law enforcement be able to stop the crime wave before more women become victims? ...

The Climax (1944)

Dr. Hohner, theatre physician at the Vienna Royal Theatre, murders his mistress, the star soprano when his jealousy drives him to the point of mad obsession. Ten years later, another young singer reminds Hohner of the late diva and his old mania kicks in. ...

The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler (1943)

Austrian actor Franz Huber, known for his impressions, is captured by the Gestapo and forced into plastic surgery to become Hitler's body double. Their plan is to poison Hitler and use Huber to take control of the Reich. Meanwhile, Huber's wife Anna sees h ...

Hers to Hold (1943)

Deanna Durbin is all grown up in Hers to Hold, the unofficial sequel to her "Three Smart Girls" films of the 1930s. Durbin plays Penelope Craig, the starry-eyed daughter of wealthy Judson and Dorothy Craig (Charles Winninger, Nella Walker). Developing a cr ...

Action in the North Atlantic (1943)

Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged with getting a supply vessel to Russian allies as part of a sea convoy. When the group of ships comes under attack from a German U-boat, Rossi and Jarvis navi ...

Hitler's Madman (1943)

In 1942, a young paratrooper in the RAF returns to Czechoslovakia to encourage his fellow countrymen to sabotage the German war effort. ...

Above Suspicion (1943)

Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe. ...

They Came to Blow Up America (1943)

Based on a true incident that occurred in 1942 when nine Nazi saboteurs were put ashore on the coast of Long Island, New York, by submarine, with orders to blow up various defense installations. ...

Casablanca (1943)

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications. ...

The Great Impersonation (1942)

An Englishman kills a German look-alike and poses as a Nazi spy in London. ...

Pittsburgh (1942)

Charles 'Pittsburgh' Markham rides roughshod over his friends, his lovers, and his ideals in his trek toward financial success in the Pittsburgh steel industry, only to find himself deserted and lonely at the top. When his crash comes, he finds that fate h ...

Who Done It? (1942)

Two dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio station, they end up in the middle of a real murder when the station owner is killed during a broadcast. ...

The Pride of the Yankees (1942)

The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig. ...

Woman of the Year (1942)

Rival reporters Sam Craig and Tess Harding fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle. ...

Kings Row (1942)

Five young adults in a small American town face the revelations of secrets that threaten to ruin their hopes and dreams. ...

All Through the Night (1942)

Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship. ...

Marry the Boss's Daughter (1941)

Young man from Kansas goes to New York to work for his tycoon-hero. His superiors won't listen to his ideas about business, but the boss and his daughter do. ...

Great Guns (1941)

Laurel and Hardy join the army. They are hardly soldiers, but they believe their employer, (Dick Nelson) will need them now he's drafted. ...

Down in San Diego (1941)

A group of neighborhood teenagers discover some suspicious goings-on near a naval base in San Diego, and suspect that a foreign espionage ring is at work trying to find out military secrets. ...

Underground (1941)

A World War II Hollywood propaganda film detailing the dark underside of Nazism and the Third Reich set between two brothers, Kurt and Erik Franken, whom are SS officers in the Nazi party. Kurt learns and exposes the evils of the system to Erik and tries t ...

Man Hunt (1941)

Shortly before the start of WW2, renowned British big-game hunter Alan Thorndike, vacationing in Bavaria, has Hitler in his gun sight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by Nazi agents and aided by a young ...

Back Street (1941)

In turn-of-the-century Cincinnati, vibrant shop girl Ray Smith falls in love with banker Walter Saxel, who is engaged to a socially prominent woman. Inadvertently prevented from running away with Walter, Ray remains single but reunites with him five years ...

Jennie (1940)

A happy girl marries into the family of a stern shoemaker and leads a mutiny. ...

The Flying Squad (1940)

Inspector Bradley of Scotland Yard is on the trail of the murderous ringleader of a smuggling organization in London. ...

Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)

Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career in burlesque. When the company disbands, Bubbles gives Judy a thankless job as her stooge. The two eventu ...

The Man I Married (1940)

An American vacations in Europe with her husband and watches him turn into a Nazi. ...

Four Sons (1940)

Four Sons is a 1940 film directed by Archie Mayo. It stars Don Ameche and Eugenie Leontovich. It is a remake of the 1928 film of the same name. ...

Dead Man's Shoes (1940)

An amnesia victim is a well liked and respected member of his community--until one day someone from his past shows up with evidence that in "the old days" he had been a notorious criminal, and threatens to expose him unless he pays off. ...

Return to Yesterday (1940)

Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England. ...

Der Pfarrer von Kirchfeld (1937)

The young pastor Peter Hell, kind and philanthropic, is the subject of gossip spread by the hateful Wurzelsepp, who was once refused marriage. ...

Nordpol - Ahoi! (1934)

Film by Andrew Marton. ...

A Night in Venice (1934)

A German-language film loosely based on the 1883 operetta Eine Nacht in Venedig (A Night in Venice) by Johann Strauss II. The film was also made into separate Hungarian-language version Egy éj Velencében based on the same screenplay. The two versions wer ...

Money Governs the World (1933)

In this French set comedy, five million francs change hands one weekend between a man pretending to be a millionaire and a woman pretending to be a Russian countess. ...

Johannisnacht (1933)

Film by Reiber. ...

Heimkehr ins Glück (1933)

After a burn-out Karl spends time in his home region, the Black Forest. His car gets lost and is picked up by penniless magician Amadori who enjoys posing as wealthy entrepreneur Karl while Karl reunites with the love of his youth, Liesl. ...

Hände aus dem Dunkel (1933)

Film by Waschneck. ...

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 ...

Der Läufer von Marathon (1933)

Focuses on a love triangle between three German athletes competing at the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. It was the last film Dupont made in Germany, before escaping into exile following the rise to power of the Nazis. ...

Dawn (1933)

Released three days after Adolf Hitler became Reichskanzler, it was the first film to have its screening in Nazi Germany. It became a symbol of the new times touted by the Nazi regime. The title (literally "morning-red") is the German term for the reddish ...

The Rebel (1932)

A young medical student returns to his Tyrolean home to find out that Napoleon's troops have taken over the area and that his mother and sister have been murdered. ...

Strich durch die Rechnung (1932)

The Countess of Monte Cristo (1932)

The two aspiring actresses Jeanette and Mimi are waiting for their big chance. But the real breakthrough is slow in coming. Jeanette especially desperately needs a big success, since her friend, the journalist Stephan, is about to lose his job. When the ...

Chauffeur Antoinette (1932)

The athletic young widow Antoinette Peterson gets into financial troubles when a business venture backfires and has to sell her car and her villa. On the road, she meets a stranger whose car she is able to repair and whom she later meets again as the buyer ...

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 Trunks of Mr. O.F. (1931)

In the very old-fashioned town of Ostend suddenly 13 suitcases are delivered to the Grand Hotel, with a note, that O.F. will be here soon and needs 6 rooms. This event, probably the biggest in 300 years, starts a small wave of modernisation, yet everybody ...

Help! Raid! (1931)

Opera Ball (1931)

The Opera Ball (German: Opernredoute) is a 1931 German musical comedy film directed by Max Neufeld and starring Iván Petrovich, Liane Haid and Georg Alexander. It was part of a large group of operetta films made during the decade, although the film is not ...

Elisabeth of Austria (1931)

Elisabeth of Austria is a German movie with Lil Dagover as royalty Elisabeth who has many men to choose from. ...

Once I Loved a Girl in Vienna (1931)

A musical about love that spans the period before and after the Great War in the Austro-Hungarian empire. ...

The Private Secretary (1931)

During hard times, a vivacious girl looks for an office job in the hope of landing a rich man. The director of the bank she works at flirts with her while not at first revealing his identity so she rejects him. ...