Ruth Leuwerik

Goodnight Mommy (2015)

In the heat of the summer lays a lonesome house in the countryside where nine year old twin brothers await their mother's return. When she comes home, bandaged after cosmetic surgery, nothing is like before and the children start to doubt whether this wom ...

Ruth Leuwerik erzählt... (2009)

The German actress talks about her life. ...

Filmlegenden. Deutsch (2005)

A parade of well-known actors and directors from Germany ...

A Whispering in the Mountain of Things (1997)

Dominik Graf, now a leading filmmaker, revisits his late father Robert Graf's acting career (1956–1966), during which Robert appeared in 20 features and 25 TV dramas by directors like Hoffmann, Staudte, Siodmak, Sturges, and Comencini. Through archival c ...

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 ...

Meine beste Freundin (1976)

And Jimmy Went to the Rainbow's Foot (1971)

The son of an Argentine chemist travels to Vienna, to solve the murder of his father. Step by step, he realizes that his father was internationally entangled in secret service machinations and chemical weapon sales, and ends up in mortal danger himself. Me ...

Das weite Land (1970)

Hofreiter, who has a relationship with Natter's wife Adele, confronts Natter after the latter launches a newspaper advertisement linking the suicide of an admirer of Hofreiter's wife to Hofreiter himself. In his tried and tested manner, Hofreiter challenge ...

Ninotschka (1965)

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An Alibi for Death (1963)

Lawyer Maria Rohn takes on the case of Martin Siebeck. The truck driver allegedly ran over a man on the highway. Siebeck denies the crime and states that two people threw the victim in front of his truck at full speed. The more Maria Rohn looks into the ca ...

Hedda Gabler (1963)

The House in Montevideo (1963)

A respectable professor inherits a house and money in Montevideo from his wild sister, on the condition that he himself behaves in a disreputable way. ...

Elf Jahre und ein Tag (1963)

Redhead (1962)

Bored with her marriage, Franziska decides to travel to Venice. ...

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 ...

Die Stunde, die du glücklich bist (1961)

Auf Engel schießt man nicht (1960)

Eine Frau fürs ganze Leben (1960)

Sweetheart of the Gods (1960)

Biography of the famous German actress Renate Müller, who died in 1937 under unsettled circumstances; While doing her first movie for the UFA in Berlin, she meets the elderly secretary-general Dr. Simon and is impressed by his charm. Although her Nazi-fri ...

Ein Tag, der nie zu Ende geht (1959)

The Ideal Woman (1959)

A woman as mayor is quite unusual in Germany in the 1950s, but Dr. Fanny Becker is a lawyer with experience in local politics, which is why she gets elected mayor of Rosenburg. ...

Dorothea Angermann (1959)

Dorothea Angermann the daughter of a clergyman is accused of the murder of her husband, a brutal man that she was obliged to marry because she was pregnant and he was the father of the baby. ...

The Trapp Family in America (1958)

The von Trapp family are struggling to survive in America, where their performances of European church music are not popular with the audiences. Only when they start performing more upbeat Austrian folk songs and even some American numbers do they become a ...

Taiga (1958)

A German doctor who is a prisoner of war inspires her compatriots in a Siberian labor camp to regain their courage and confidence in life. ...

Immer wenn der Tag beginnt (1957)

Dr. Hanna Burkhardt is a teacher by vocation: she is not only interested in teaching the pupils the subject matter, she also wants to be a human support and help them when necessary. The school authorities don't like this at all; in their eyes, she has fai ...

Goodbye, Francesca! (1957)

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Königin Luise (1957)

The Trapp Family (1956)

A true story based on the popular novel by the Baroness Von Trapp of Austria. The film was made in 1956, some years before the other film based on the Trapp Family's life was released - a little movie named "The Sound of Music". ...

Die goldene Brücke (1956)

Rosen im Herbst (1955)

Prussia in the late 19th century: Eighteen-year-old Effi Briest, the daughter of a middle-class family, marries District Administrator Geert von Innstetten. But her marriage to this much older, highly dutiful man does not make her happy. In the small town ...

Geliebte Feindin (1955)

The wife of the English consul in British-occupied Egypt at the turn of the century falls in love with a French foreign legionnaire, and her husband takes advantage of this to spy on secret plans for an uprising instigated by the French. An action by the F ...

Ludwig II (1955)

Life and death of King Ludwig II of Bavaria. ...

Portrait of an Unknown Woman (1954)

Keller, a painter, while at the ballet is impressed with the beauty of Nicole and sketches her head on the body of a nude model. When it is shown, it causes embarrassment to Nicole's husband, Walter, a diplomat whose career is threatened. ...

Königliche Hoheit (1953)

An American heiress in Europe falls in love with a German prince, but he is required to marry someone else for reasons of state convenience. ...

Geliebtes Leben (1953)

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 ...

Ein Herz spielt falsch (1953)

A man, in need of money and too lazy to work for a living, marries a plain but rich girl in the knowledge that she is ill and has not long to live. ...

Die große Versuchung (1952)

A young man practices medicine without a licence. ...

Vater braucht eine Frau (1952)

A widowed father advertises for a new maid, but his children secretly seek a woman to be his new wife. ...

Dreizehn unter einem Hut (1950)

A girl from a wealthy industrial family falls in love with a car mechanic. He is not interested in her, so she follows him and his friends on a group tour and goes to great lengths to finally win his affections. ...