Martin Held

Was zu beweisen war (1986)

A crime comedy directed by Peter Weck. ...

Berlin zur Kaiserzeit - Glanz und Schatten einer Epoche (1986)

This film deals with the contrasts of the Wilhelminian era in Berlin: the splendor of the monarchy, the economic and intellectual vitality of the up-and-coming imperial capital on the one hand, and the misery of the proletarians in the tenements on the oth ...

Einmal Moskau und zurück (1983)

Niemandsland (1981)

Kortnergeschichten (1980)

Documentary about director Fritz Korner ...

Der Pfingstausflug (1978)

A melancholic enjoyable journey by an old couple who escape the dreary everyday life of a Berlin retirement home for a day: at Pentecost, Margarete and Heinrich come up with the idea of visiting their nephew, whom they believe to have invited them to dinne ...

Der große Karpfen Ferdinand (1978)

Niemandsland (1978)

Heinrich Zille (1977)

Unordnung und frühes Leid (1977)

After the First World War, history professor Abel Cornelius wants to distance himself from his previously published political views. This could go well, were it not for the student Max Hergesell, who provokes the professor to such an extent that he has to ...

Strychnin und saure Drops (1974)

The Serpent (1973)

Vlassov is a Soviet spy who defects in France. He is whisked to the U.S, where Allan Davies takes over the case. After polygraph tests and cross-examinations, Vlassov names several Western European agents who are also spying for the Soviets. Davies wants t ...

Frohe Ostern (1972)

Hauptsache Ferien (1972)

On the last day of school, teachers and students have only one thing on their minds: finally, vacation. Corinna, the daughter of a prefabricated house manufacturer, has failed to pass her exams despite all her father's attempts to bribe her. With a little ...

Flint (1972)

Yvonne, Prinzessin von Burgund (1971)

Gentlemen in White Vests (1970)

Bruno Stiegler, a boxing promoter with a disreputable past, returns from America to Berlin to make some big things again with his friends. Fatally, he is always preceded by some gentlemen from better circles who are developing amazing criminal activity in ...

Dr. med. Fabian - Lachen ist die beste Medizin (1969)

Dr. Fabian is the good soul at the University Surgical Clinic. Nicknamed "Paulchen" by his famous boss, Professor Spalke, the demigod in white brings joy to the lives of his patients with his cheerful disposition and is also tireless in his support and adv ...

Almost a Hero (1967)

Towards the end of World War II, the fictitious French mountain village of Molinette is occupied by German troops. Because of sleep aid, served by his French girlfriend Hélène, the German corporal Karl Küppers misses the departure of his company to Russ ...

The Oldest Profession (1967)

A collection of sketches that tells the story of prostitution through the ages. ...

Die Mission (1967)

Summer 1938: renowned Viennese surgeon Professor von Benda is summoned by Gauleiter Seyss-Inquart to attend the Evian Conference on Jewish refugees. Disguised as a loyal Nazi physician, von Benda's "mission" is to propose that participating nations purchas ...

Long Legs, Long Fingers (1966)

Baron Holberg, who looks back with pride on a long family tradition as hotel thieves, is horrified when his daughter Doris falls in love with the lawyer Robert Hammond, of all people, rather than choosing the art thief Sammy, as he would wish. Under the pr ...

Gespenster (1966)

Spätsommer (1966)

Michael Kramer (1965)

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 ...

And So to Bed (1963)

Twelve different episodes of erotic relationships are described as examples of modern love substitute. ...

An Almost Decent Girl (1963)

An almost decent girl is a German-Spanish Romance of Ladislao Vajda from 1963. In Spain he was entitled Una chica casi formal on. ...

Liebe will gelernt sein (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. ...

90 Minuten nach Mitternacht (1962)

Frau Cheneys Ende (1962)

Der Walzer der Toreros (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 ...

The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi (1961)

Florestan Mississippi, a public prosecutor by profession, visits a lady named Anastasia and, while drinking coffee with her, convicts her of poisoning her husband. At the same time, he asks for her hand in marriage, as he too has killed his wife with poiso ...

The Last Witness (1960)

Director Wolfgang Staudte who left East Germany in 1953 to make movies in West Germany, takes a few swipes at the West German judicial system in this fairly effective courtroom drama about the murder of a four-month-old baby. Police almost immediately arre ...

Bumerang (1960)

The paths of three men cross for a short time in post-war Berlin. Robert and Willy are unattached and unemployed, Georg has joined them from Hamburg, he has a family and occasionally does something crooked. That's what the three of them are up to together: ...

Roses for the Prosecutor (1959)

April 1945. Because he stole two bars of chocolate, the soldier Rudi is sentenced to death by the court-martial judge Dr. Schramm. Rudi manages to escape from the firing squad at the last minute, and since the end of the war has been making a meager living ...

Meine Tochter Patricia (1959)

Wet Asphalt (1958)

In Berlin, when the journalist Greg Bachmann is released from prison six months before the end of his sentence, there is a driver named Jupp waiting for him. Soon he learns that the famous journalist Cesar Boyd was the responsible for the shorter sentence. ...

Bank Vault 713 (1958)

A man is unable to find a job. In his desperation, he plans to rob a bank together with a friend who works in a petrol station and feels tempted by the possibility of getting rich. Two different motivations drive these two good men into an immoral situatio ...

The Flute and the Arrow (1957)

Arne Sucksdorff's ethnographic feature documents the life and rituals of the Muria people in the Bastar jungle of central India, focusing on their traditions, music, and relationship to the natural environment. Presented with Sucksdorff's lyrical visual st ...

The Fox of Paris (1957)

Paris, 1944. With France under Nazi occupation, General Quade entrusts an important mission to Furstenwerth, the commander of the Wermacht: to secretly transmit secret documents to the Allies. While carrying out this mission, the commander falls under the ...

Spy for Germany (1956)

The true story of a German agent sent to the USA in 1944 in order to stop the development of the atomic bomb. ...

Friederike von Barring (1956)

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 ...

Before Sundown (1956)

Based on a play by Gerhardt Hauptmann, the film details a bittersweet May-December romance between ageing Mathias Clausen and young, beautiful Inken Peters. ...

Alibi (1955)

An industrialist's wife was killed and now her lover is accused of murder. ...

Die Schule der Väter (1955)

Der Biberpelz (1955)

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 ...

Homesick for You (1952)

Five musicians form in pre-war Berlin a dance band, which is largely successful thanks to the singer Marion. When love rivalries break out among the musicians and the Second World War begins, they are scattered in all directions. After the war, a coinciden ...

Dark Eyes (1951)

Violin virtuoso Fedor Varany meets on the train from Nice to Vienna Helene Samboni, the lover of the Chamber of Commerce President Alexander Grabner and still-wife of the artist Samboni. Fedor falls in love with her without betraying his identity. ...