Paul Westermeier

Sein bester Freund (1962)

Wir Kellerkinder (1960)

During the Third Reich, Macke played the drums for the Hitler Youth, but also had a "dangerous" penchant for jazz. After the war, he came under ideological fire in the Soviet zone. Finally in West Germany, he ends up in an institution. ...

Drillinge an Bord (1959)

Househusband Heinz lives with his two brothers Otto and Eduard. When Heinz wins a luxury cruise in a pop song contest, Otto and Eduard don't want to stay at home. The two decide to secretly go along as stowaways... ...

Eine Reise ins Glück (1958)

Together with her uncle and waiter Otto, young Renate runs a guesthouse high above the Rhine, which hardly any guests ever visit. When she suddenly inherits a vineyard in Tuscany one day, the three of them set off full of hope on the arduous journey south. ...

Mein Schatz ist aus Tirol (1958)

The enterprising but chronically indebted factory owner Gustav Mummelmann meets the supposedly wealthy Tyrolean innkeeper Mariele through a marriage advertisement. To fund the trip, he once again takes advantage of his nephew, the record producer Peter Wei ...

Mikosch, der Stolz der Kompanie (1958)

Almenrausch und Edelweiß (1957)

Friedl Meier, owner of a country hotel, inherits a large sum of money in dollars – but the problem is that the inheritance certificate is issued in the name Meyer with a "y," the surname of Friedl's former fiancé Ferdinand, who later made a career for h ...

Der Bauerndoktor von Bayrischzell (1957)

In spite of his blustering manner and his refusal to listen to what the patients have to say, Dr. Doppelsieder is highly respected in the Upper Bavarian town of Bayrischzell, because he (almost) always has the right remedy and effective advice ready for th ...

Lemkes sel. Witwe (1957)

Kleiner Mann - ganz groß (1957)

His grandpa gives the orphan boy Robbie a foal that they call "little brother". The boy loves the animal and wants to train it as a racing horse - but then his grandpa dies. Robbie's sister isn't old enough to care for themselves, so they get a guardian wh ...

IIA in Berlin (1956)

Ein tolles Hotel (1956)

Symphonie in Gold (1956)

Revue film on ice. An excellent figure skater did not qualify for the European Championships, but as a participant in show programs he became known as "Mr. X." Funds from an unknown benefactor began to arrive at the small club in the town where he trained. ...

IA in Oberbayern (1956)

Her father urges Greta to marry the noble lawyer Dr. Hans von Spoerling. But her former boyfriend Fred Roland is informed of the planned engagement and arrives from America just in time. Put under pressure from both parties, Greta leaves and hits the road. ...

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. ...

Vatertag (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 ...

Die verschwundene Miniatur (1954)

Master butcher Külz from Hanover meets the young and beautiful Irene Trübner, private secretary to the wealthy art collector Steinhövel, in Copenhagen. She asks him to help her transport a miniature recently acquired by her employer at an auction in Cop ...

Keine Angst vor Schwiegermüttern (1954)

Die schöne Müllerin (1954)

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Columbus Discovers Kraehwinkel (1954)

Two GIs haven fallen in love with "Fräuleins", decide to stay in Germany and open a typically American drugstore in the center of the small town where their girlfriends live. ...

Geld aus der Luft (1954)

After three months of secret marriage to his wife Helga, Stefan Gregor, propagandist for a record company, is already back in front of the divorce judge. His profession is to blame, as it has brought him into disrepute with his wife. It is the nightly nego ...

Hurra - ein Junge! (1953)

Die Blume von Hawaii (1953)

Der Vetter aus Dingsda (1953)

Das singende Hotel (1953)

Kaiserwalzer (1953)

Tante Jutta aus Kalkutta (1953)

Von Liebe reden wir später (1953)

The beautician Angela Bell, a well-off middle-aged lady, and the respected fashion doctor Prof. Christian Hollmann would like to get married, but there is a catch: Hollmann is still married to his somewhat annoying wife Margot. Angela, however, has to get ...

The White Horse Inn (1952)

Head waiter Leopold has been secretly in love with the hostess Josepha for a long time, but she only has eyes for Dr. Siedler, a guest in the White Horse Inn. Leopold tries to get Dr. Siedler interested in the daughter of Industrialist Giesecke, who would ...

Torreani (1951)

Acrobat assumes identity of jailed fellow-artist to take over a theatre which had been bequeathed to him. He is suspected of murdering the acrobat but is cleared in the end. ...

Königin einer Nacht (1951)

Duke Ferdinand of Novara-Liechtenstein flees the duchy to avoid an arranged marriage with princess Anna Silvana of Este-Parma. He loses his papers on the flight and is treated as an imposter at the inn where he stays. The princess is hot on his heels, and ...

The Women of Mr. S. (1951)

The action is relocated to occupied Athens after the Peloponnesian War (404 BC), where Mr. S. (= Socrates, played by Paul Hörbiger) proposes double marriage for men to the Athenian parliament and the four occupying powers for hidden personal reasons. Outw ...

Hilfe, ich bin unsichtbar (1951)

Herzen im Sturm (1951)

Professor Nachtfalter (1951)

Through Thick and Thin (1951)

Theo Müller and his family inherit a vintage car that turns out to have a wayward mind of its own, fixing the family troubles and some romances with a series of guardian angel and/or matchmaking shenanigans. ...

Die Treppe (1950)

A movie by Wolfgang Staudte ...

Insolent and in Love (1950)

Penniless Peter Schild looks for work when arrived in Germany. Working as a private eye he has to observe a young lady who is willing to marry an unemployed actor against the will of her parents. ...

The Man in the Saddle (1945)

After a bad losing streak, Lisa Freyberg wants to sell her inherited horse stall. Trainer Roberts, however, is successful in making the stall profitable again. Lisa's new passion for horses, however, is proving to be a losing streak for her engagement to ...

Die Schenke zur ewigen Liebe (1945)

Junge Herzen (1944)

1944 German film. ...

Marriage of Affection (1944)

A continuation of the film "Familie Buchholz": To Wilhelmine Buchholz, the concept of a marriage based on love is somewhat scary, although she hears again and again that this is the "modern" method to a happy marriage. Her daughter Betti seems to agree, as ...

The Buchholz Family (1944)

Based on an 1884 novel by Julius Stinde, it is a family chronicle set in late nineteenth century Berlin. ...

Diesel (1943)

A German wartime biography of Rudolf Diesel, inventor of the Diesel engine. The movie links the importance of the engine to the war by starting the movie with newsreel clips of German Navy U-boats in action. ...

Andreas Schlüter (1942)

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

Jakko (1941)

In this Nazi propaganda film, a troubled young boy joins the Hitler Naval Youth, where he finds meaning and purpose in his life. ...

You Only You (1941)

The two stars of an upcoming operetta performance quarrel constantly. but they also fall in love with each other. ...

Krach im Vorderhaus (1941)

It can hardly be said that things are peaceful in the Berlin apartment building where the film's story takes place. There are constant clashes between the residents – and sometimes that's quite literal: for example, when the widow Bock hid some explosive ...

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 ...

Unser kleiner Junge (1941)

The printing worker Lena suffers a lot from the teasing of her colleagues, because no one really knows who the child she expects is from. The alleged father, sailor Ole Thomsen, is on his way. When he comes back, doubts also prevail over him, and he sits d ...

The Sky-blue Evening Dress (1941)

As the son of a fashion house owner in Zurich, Hans Haberland apparently can offer his lovers any article of clothing, for which they're willing to sell themselves. His current girl-toy Lizzie wants this fantastic, sky blue dress -- but it's that dress exa ...

Blutsbrüderschaft (1941)

On November 11, 1918, the last day of the First World War , Lieutenant Colonel Klaus Olden desperately tried to hold a lost post with his unit. The rescue appears in the form of pilot Jochen Wendler, who shows up with his plane and drops ammunition. When J ...

Der Herr im Haus (1940)

Für die Katz' (1940)

He who loves, torments himself: This turn of phrase works for the big farmer Gerd Tapken and his landlady Katrin Geerken. For more than 30 years, the two have fought at every opportunity, although they secretly love one another. But things seem to have ...

The Rothschilds (1940)

Biopic about the Rothschilds, a Jewish family whose members rose to the top of the European banking community during the Napoleonic era. ...

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 ...

Twilight (1940)

Walter Gruber once belonged to a group of unscrupulous, money-grubbing poachers. Now released from prison, he is determined never to touch a gun again. He was imprisoned for poaching, but they couldn't prove he fired the shot that wounded forester Kuhnert. ...

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 ...

Rote Mühle (1940)

A respectable woman in her 50s inherits a local night club from her husband in a divorce settlement, provided that she shows up there every night at 10:00pm for a month. In spite of eny and provocation, she manages to meet the terms. ...

The Journey to Tilsit (1939)

A villager is tempted by a sophisticated city woman and almost kills his wife in a boating accident. ...

Gold in New Frisco (1939)

In the small town of New Frisco in Alberta, Canada, a stranger named Norton arrives, checks into the most expensive hotel room, and begins courting a saleswoman named Doris. Without revealing anything further to the residents, he starts tinkering with a pi ...

Who's Kissing Madeleine? (1939)

Pierre Pasqual has just about everything his heart desires: in his career as a commercial pilot, he is well known and successful; he has wealth and a beautiful wife. The only thing is, that because of his career, Pierre is frequently away and the thought ...

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. ...

Aufruhr in Damaskus (1939)

Der grüne Kaiser (1939)

A pilot is suspected of murdering a fraudulent banker who vanished without a trace and is subsequently convicted. After his release, he tracks down the man he was accused of killing, who is living in Brazil under a different identity, and kills him in self ...

Secret Mission (1938)

The good-natured helmsman Jan Jenssen somehow ends up being a part of some international intrigue, when he agrees to take a briefcase to Genoa on behalf of a certain Mr. Branting. It is there, that he gets to know the attractive Ruth Martens, who asserts, ...

Nanon (1938)

An operetta directed by Herbert Maisch. ...

Liebelei und Liebe (1938)

Gunther and Elizabeth have felt bonded to each other since their childhood. When Gunther finishes up his engineer studies, he finds a position at a large concern, which is, however, located in another city. Elizabeth lets him withdraw, although she is pr ...

Freight from Baltimore (1938)

Sabine Heitmann, the young boss for the shipping company Heitmann, has become friends with Michael, the First Officer and Helmsman of the ship, the "Sabine Heitmann". He only knows Sabine by her first name and doesn't know that she's the boss. When he disc ...

Our Little Wife (1938)

When a young woman becomes aware of her husband's wandering attentions, she plots his comeuppance. ...

Red Orchids (1938)

In a made-up country somewhere in northern Europe: In the armaments factory F.N.G., an important drawing is copied and passed on to the enemy. Suspicion falls on the chief engineer Alexander Nica and his assistant Laurenz. Both are placed before the cou ...

Die Frau am Scheidewege (1938)

Following the breakdown of her marriage to an artist, a female doctor goes back to her position at a hospital. ...

Skandal um den Hahn (1938)

An entire neighborhood is in an uproar because the Maier family is keeping their prize-winning rooster, Otto, on the balcony of their apartment. And now, every morning, the rooster is waking up the entire street with its dawn greeting. Thus, the neighbor ...

Das Mädchen von gestern Nacht (1938)

Der nackte Spatz (1938)

Albert and his sister Lene live with their aunt. One day, they discover that the street car line will open a new track, which will go through the land, on which their aunt has a house. In expectation of a high buying price for her property, the aunt goes o ...

Rätsel um Beate (1938)

After her husband suddenly dies, a small town woman becomes the target of gossip, as to whether he had been having an affair and whether she is connected to his demise. ...

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. ...

Under Sealed Orders (1938)

In a Near East land, a German company building waterworks and mining copper is threatened by foreign interests.When the chief engineer is framed for a murder, the nephew of the ambassador makes a heroic sacrifice. ...

Das große Abenteuer (1938)

Cat Walk (1937)

A son, in defending Prussia circa 1814 under the thumb of Napoleon, washes away the disgrace of his aristocrat father who had collaborated with the French and caused the deaths of countrymen. ...

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 ...

Der Unwiderstehliche (1937)

Autobus S (1937)

Bus driver Jonny wants to marry Grete, but she is jealous, and when he wrecks his bus, gets robbed by burglars and is implicated in an insurance fraud he decides to leave town and sign up on a ship as a sailor. ...

Fremdenheim Filoda (1937)

Assistant PI Bulli is hired to find Marie Banse. He does, she is married to Thomas, they have a pretty daughter, Lore. Bulli falls for her, delivers their heritage of 5000 Marks and tries to find out who the unknown benefactor is. ...

Heimweh (1937)

Christof Peleikis is a seasoned sailor who once served as a helmsman on many ships. Since having a wife and child, he works as a fisherman and lives in a small village. When a ship gets into trouble off the coast one day, Christof rushes to its aid. He man ...

Alarm in Peking (1937)

Set against the backdrop of the 1900 Boxer Rebellion... ...

Die göttliche Jette (1937)

Cheeky Jette is a typical Berlin girl. Together with her mother, she performs couplets in a Berlin suburb theatre every night. Then, a young Austrian baron, who is worshipping Jette, enables her to audition for Königstädtisches Theater. Although she at f ...

His Best Friend (1937)

Remake of a 1929 German film by the same title about a man and a police dog. ...

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. ...

Die Leute mit dem Sonnenstich (1936)

Michael Lutz and his fiancée Barbara want to spend their vacation on a quiet island in the Danube, hoping to finally have some time to themselves. And who do they run into there? None other than Mr. Bruckmann, Barbara's boss. He hadn't planned on ending u ...

Violet of Potsdam Square (1936)

In a poor Berlin neighborhood, a horse used in the WWI cavalry is threatened with slaughter so two sinister types can make some money .But a flower seller, her grandfather, and some other nice people try to save the honorable steed. ...

Hummel - Hummel (1936)

The maid of a paintbrush manufacturer gives birth to twins. The father is first suspected to be the master of the house and then his son-in-law. ...

Onkel Bräsig (1936)

The clever Zacharias Bräsig is a good friend to all and tries to help out, where he can. Bräsig also meddles in the relationships of young people, so that by the end of the film, there's a double marriage. ...

Das Hermännchen. Nee, nee, was es nich' alles gibt (1936)

Hans, Karl and Rudi haven't had much luck in their lives so far. One day, Hans receives a letter from his aunt Gudula. She demands that he reanimate her little theatre "Euterpia" in Büllesheim and threatens to disinherit him if he doesn't manage to outco ...

Savoy-Hotel 217 (1936)

A Moscow hotel waiter, found at the scene of a murder, tries to locate the real killer among a series of suspects. ...

Angels with Minor Faults (1936)

Mary arrives in Berlin from Canada to visit her nephew Max and meet his twin daughters that she has been amply supporting financially. But Max has cheated: There is only one daughter Inge who has to enact both girls to cover up the mess. ...

Tired Theodore (1936)

A fast-paced comedy revolving around secrets and mix-ups. Theodor is a husband who helps his expulsed niece with her careers as a singer. His wife mustn't know this so he secretly takes a job as maître d' at a big hotel. This doesn't just lead to him alwa ...

Paul und Pauline (1936)

a movie by Heinz Paul ...

Der Raub der Sabinerinnen (1936)

Mädchenräuber (1936)

Pat and Patachon stage a kidnapping in hopes of uniting their friend Erik with his love interest Lissy. ...

Carnival in Flanders (1936)

Flanders, Hispanic Monarchy, 1616. The inhabitants of the small town of Boom are busy organizing the annual local festivities when the arrival of the Duke of Olivares, who rules the country on behalf of the King Philip III of Spain, is announced. While the ...

April, April! (1935)

Businessman and shameless social climber, Julius Lampe, is subjected to a cruel April Fools' Day prank when he is led to believe a noble prince intends to personally inspect his pasta factory. ...

The Valiant Navigator (1935)

A young man plans to emigrate to the United States with his fiancee but becomes extremely fearful about the ocean crossing due to a local superstition. Eventually he decides to stay at home and marry his girl. ...

Lärm um Weidemann (1935)

Ein falscher Fuffziger (1935)

Warum lügt Fräulein Käthe? (1935)

The pleasure boat "Milwaukee" has a wide variety of guests on board: Frau Deiters, who is determined to get her daughter married off; Herr Krueger, who won a free ticket to travel onboard; Herr Dr. Bornemann, a completely introverted man, who has dedicate ...

Ich sehne mich nach dir (1934)

The Two Seals (1934)

The mustached ruler of a mythical principality, learning that his people dislike his spending so much time going hunting, allows his twin brother to take his place. ...

Love and the First Railroad (1934)

'Love and the First Railway' is what this movie's title would mean in English. This is one of those films that depicts fictional characters participating in an historic incident. The actual first railway was built in England, of course. But according to th ...

Decoy (1934)

Viktor Schott, daredevil and womanizer, is charged by his father, a jeweler, to go to Istanbul and purchase a valuable emerald necklace from a rich Persian and to bring it back by ship to Marseille. A pair of criminals are watching him and attractive Deli ...

Der Herr Senator (1934)

A senator from Hamburg, frozen in old-fashioned gentility, attempts to consolidate his cigarette factory by marrying off his daughter to the son of his competition. His eccentric, nosy old sister, with no life of her own back in southern Germany, sends hi ...

Miss Liselott (1934)

Aimless Bohemians are encouraged to find their salvation in Arbeit (Work) in this propagandistic Nazi era German production. ...

The Sporck Battalion (1934)

A fisherman's daughter assumes the blame, to save the honor of a battalion one of whose officers is obsessed with poaching, in this rural melodrama. ...

What Am I Without You (1934)

A struggling composer gets one of his pieces into a film program and his wife captures the lead part in the production as well. ...

Die vier Musketiere (1934)

If I Were King (1934)

Mother and Child (1934)

Consul Petersen and his wife are desperate, because they lost their only child and can't have another. At the same time, the maid Anna is expecting a child, whose father, Jurgen, works in a sawmill. When both of them lose their jobs, they fear they won't ...

Inge and the Millions (1933)

A well scripted and captivating thriller about the owners of a small private bank in Berlin, squeezing money out of honest business firms, causing their bankruptcies, and then trying to smuggle the cash into Switzerland. ...

The Castle in the South (1933)

Another fine film from the master of stylish early German comedies, Geza von Bolvary. This may not be among Bolvary's major works, but the story of a prince (Victor de Kowa) who substitutes for an actor playing a prince in a film without anyone knowing tha ...

Der Stern von Valencia (1933)

White slave traders kidnap a cabaret singer aboard a ship headed for South America,but they have not counted on her husband aboard a nearby coast guard cutter. ...

Crook's Honor (1933)

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 ...

F.P.1 Doesn't Answer (1932)

F.P.1 is a huge airplane landing dock in the Atlantic where pilots making the transatlantic flight can stop. Yet a saboteur tries to sink the technical wonder in this classic German science fiction film from 1932. The film was also created with English and ...

How Shall I Tell My Husband? (1932)

The film starts in the fashionable seaside resort on the Baltic, Heringsdorf, where Renate Müller spends a secret weekend away from her husband with her bosom friend Ida Wüst. The husband meanwhile has a flirtation while traveling by night train from Fra ...

The Two from South Express (1932)

A story of friendship, love, betrayal and jealousy, which the locomotive driver Karl and his coalman Hans experience. They're both let down by the same girl and their old friendship, which soon almost develops into hate, blooms anew in the end. ...

Strafsache van Geldern (1932)

Paulus van Geldern is a lawyer who has made a name for himself as a criminal defense attorney, but is notoriously short of funds due to his unbridled passion for gambling. His gambling causes problems with his marriage to Martha who is thriving. ...

Quick (1932)

Lilian Harvey plays Eva, a young girl taking some time in a health spa and spending her evenings in the town's vaudeville theatre enamoured by a heavily made-up clown called Quick. Quick takes a shine to her and tries to woo her without make-up and masquer ...

Hasenklein can't help it (1932)

Aus einer kleinen Residenz (1932)

Things Are Getting Better Already (1932)

The fast-driving daughter of a car manufacturer keeps Berlin's most pricey lawyer busy as she keeps getting into scrapes. ...

Zu Befehl, Herr Unteroffizier (1932)

This comedy pokes fun at the military exercises Germans were fond of doing in the lead up to the Great War. ...

The Spanish Fly (1931)

As a young man, mustard manufacturer Ludwig Klinke had an affair with a dancer, the "Spanish Fly". The dancer had a son and Klinke has been secretly paying maintenance ever since. Wimmer and Tiedemeier also had a relationship with the dancer. With the appe ...

The Love Branch (1931)

A Crafty Youth (1931)

The plot centers on Ignaz Fischbein, a bullied employee at Strohbach's fashion house, who encounters misfortune at a fairground where he quarrels with Mizzi, who is awaiting her fiancé. A hypnotist named Brahmaputra, played by Albert Paulig, places the pa ...

Weekend in Paradise (1931)

Berlin-Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf (1931)

Franz Biberkopf has served four years in prison. His return to normal life is not successful. ...

Everyone Asks for Erika (1931)

The Soaring Maiden (1931)

In this theatrical adaptation, a well meaning eccentric tries to patch up a rift between his niece and her fiancé. ...

Kyritz - Pyritz (1931)

Errant Husbands (German: Kyritz - Pyritz) is a 1931 German comedy film directed by Carl Heinz Wolff and starring Max Adalbert, Hansi Arnstaedt and Henry Bender. ...

The Little Escapade (1931)

A wife believes her husband has been deceiving her and decides to have some fun at his expense. After a bit of mischief, her husband, a lawyer who is preparing a divorce for a client, decides to start divorce proceedings himself. The wife then realises she ...

The Mystery of the Red Cat (1931)

"The Red Cat" is a seedy dive. The rich American, Jefferson, who shows up there one day with his family and who recently became the proud owner of the famous Halifax emerald, particularly attracts the attention of the patrons of the "Cat". One of them appr ...

The Beggar Student (1931)

First of several filmed versions of a popular period operetta, in which an early 18th century noblewoman in Poland falls in love with a revolutionary student activist. ...