Sabine Bethmann

Kaffeeklatsch (1990)

Rendezvous der Damen (1983)

Various interwoven stories about women of different ages and life situations, each dealing with encounters, relationships, and expectations of love and life paths. The focus is on female characters who, each in their own way, are at a crossroads in their l ...

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 ...

Zum Teufel mit der Penne (1968)

Pepe Notnagel (who inexplicably had his name changed from the first movie's Nietnagel) and his classmates scheme to get around doing any actual school work by cheating or sending their teachers to the sanatorium. A Swiss documentary film maker disguises hi ...

Erotik auf der Schulbank (1968)

Three episodes depict events that actually took place in the years before the film was made. Three true‐life dramas explore teacher–student taboos: 1. Monika: A young teacher's love for his pregnant 17‐year‐old student leads to his self‐incrimin ...

When Love Was a Crime (1968)

A war drama showing the functioning of Hitler's "racial purity" law, forbidding foreign workers from any contact with Germany. Foreigners on forced labor in Nazi Germany. ...

The Doctor Speaks Out (1966)

A serious Swiss melodrama/documentary about abortion, marketed as a sexy exploitation movie in the US. The film contains real medical footage. ...

Mädchen hinter Gittern (1965)

The inmates of a reformatory for underage girls have had turbulent pasts: prostitution, crime, violence, and drugs dominated their lives. One of these young women is the rebellious Karin, who lets no one get close to her. Only the young pastor Johannes man ...

The Man from Oklahoma (1965)

Edward, a powerful rancher, serves as a real chief of a town near the Mexican border. The arrival of Oklahoma John, new sheriff, not to your liking. The new lawman faces Jimmy, the son of the chief and his buddy. ...

Scotland Yard Hunts Dr. Mabuse (1963)

The spirit of the evil Dr. Mabuse takes over the body of a famous professor. The professor/Dr. Mabuse then begins a new crime wave that terrorizes the city. ...

Ist Geraldine ein Engel? (1963)

Austrian sex comedy. ...

Der Pastor mit der Jazztrompete (1962)

When the Lutheran pastor Roland retires, the young priest Roll shall replace him. He plays the trumpet, loves Jazz and his methods are unconventional: From the first day on he offends the village's notables, but he doesn't care so much since he especially ...

Dr. Sibelius (1962)

Dr. Georg Sibelius is a noble head doctor who is there for his female patients day and night. His beautiful young wife is unable to have children of her own and is therefore pathologically jealous, a condition that is exacerbated when the head doctor's chi ...

Journey to the Lost City (1960)

An exotic dancing girl of India inflames the passions of a traveling draftsman. ...

Juanito (1960)

In the middle of a revolution, the son of a president ends up in the hands of a German hunter who welcomes him into his home, not knowing his origin. ...

Der Czardas-König (1959)

Film biography about the youthful years of the composer Emmerich Kálmán. ...

The Songs of Your Home (1959)

Eva Wiegand cares for nine immigrant children in an SOS Children's Village. One day, she is walking with her charges through the blooming Lüneburg Heide when a white sports car speeds toward the small group, driven by the wealthy idler Paul. Paul is fasci ...

Morgen wirst Du um mich weinen (1959)

The Indian Tomb (1959)

Seetha and Harold Berger are rescued from the desert by a caravan and brought to a small village. However, the greedy owner of the house where they are lodged betrays the law of hospitality and reveals their location to Prince Ramigani. The couple tries to ...

The Tiger of Eschnapur (1959)

In Eschnapur, a German architect saves the life of the Maharajah's favorite temple dancer and becomes Maharajah's friend but their friendship is tested when the architect and the dancer fall in-love, triggering the Maharajah's vengeful ire. ...

Polikuschka (1958)

Vento di primavera (1958)

...And She Chose Hell (1957)

In Western Germany, two brothers and their organization help people escape to non-communist Germany. A policeman chasing them falls in love with the sister and feels divided between love and duty. ...

Heimweh... dort, wo die Blumen blüh'n (1957)

Sharks and Little Fish (1957)

Four young German naval cadets begin their military service in 1940; only one of them will survive. ...

The Song of the Don Cossacks (1956)

After the death of his Russian mother, nine-year-old orphan Peter lives with Professor Hartmann and his daughter Helga, who cares for him like a mother. Peter is very musical. He especially loves the melancholy songs of the Don Cossack Choir, which remind ...

Meine Tante, deine Tante (1956)

Die tödliche Lüge (1956)

Waldwinter (1956)

A noble family that fled Silesia during World War II sets out to build a new life in the Bavarian Forest, but their efforts are threatened by the heir's worldly ambitions—until he comes to realize his true calling and finds his true love. ...