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Pumuckl und der Blaue Klabauter (1994)

Pumuckl meets the blue Klabauter to learn magic. But he has bad intentions for the little goblin. Nevertheless, Pumuckl still finds enough time for his funny pranks. Will he survive his new adventures? ...

In Zeiten wie diesen (1989)

Hugo und der liebe Gott (1989)

After his first day at school 6 year old Hugo doesn't want to continue to go to this "institution". He appeals to God to become a grown up, who fulfills his wish and lets him experience life as an adult in the body of his father, a police physician. When H ...

The Shadowed Mind (1988)

A patient at a private clinic for sufferers of sexual dysfunction begins a tentative affair with one of the other patients while a killer stalks the institution. ...

The Galoshes of Happiness (1987)

The Slippers of Happiness is another film made by the Slovak Film Production in co-production with West German companies based on classic world fairy tales. After Slovak folk tales [The Greatest Peck in the World, Salt Over Gold] and the works of German fa ...

Beule oder Wie man einen Tresor knackt (1987)

Heinz Borbet, also known as "Beule" because of his dented car, finds a red safe hidden in the dung heap of an allotment garden: the two thieves Bruno and Fred have stored it there for the time being because they couldn't get the safe open. The safe is almo ...

Wer einsam ist, der hat es gut weil keiner da, der Ihm was tut (1986)

Amelie, ich komme... (1986)

Mattress dealer Moses Köhler, plagued by customer complaints of insomnia, skips early to a Cologne fair to study sleep habits. Concluding that modern life itself causes sleeplessness, he conceives the "disposable bed," becoming the unlikely prophet of his ...

The Snowman (1985)

Dorn, a young adventurer and survivalist, is trying to sell 50,000 porn magazines in a flophouse in Malta when he is interrupted by the police. On the run, he finds a luggage storage ticket from Frankfurt Central Station. Together with his friend Lazlo, he ...

Concert for Alice (1985)

Even with good acting, pleasant music, and artistic photography, this "love-boat" story of romance is more like Alice in Wonderland rather than Alice on the streets of Zurich. The Zurich Alice is a flautist who plays for the passersby like many another str ...

A Man Like Eva (1984)

A bearded director named EVA, a fictive Rainer Werner Fassbinder, lives in a large house with his cast and crew as he films Dumas' Lady of the Camellias. His accountant informs him he has many unpaid bills and little cash on hand. EVA throws a fit and fire ...

The Train Killer (1983)

Based on a true story, this film is a dramatization of the events that led to the destruction of one of the most famous trains in history, the Orient Express. ...

The Mysterious Stranger (1982)

The film version of the same-titled book by Mark Twain. A young printer's apprentice imagines himself back in the days of Guttenberg, helping him to print the Bible. The next thing he knows he has conjured up a young spirit from the future who casts spells ...

The Man on the Wall (1982)

An East German man finds a way to cross the border between East and West Berlin. But when he succeeds in bringing his wife out as well, things are not quite as expected. ...

Die Momskys oder Nie wieder Sauerkraut (1981)

The Momskys are not only messy, they also need money. Cunningly, they plan to kidnap the son of a millionaire. But their scheme doesn't exactly go according to plan. ...

Der Wasserball von Schildershausen (1981)

Der Durchdreher (1979)

The chaotic journalist Maximilian Glanz is working on his big book that will never be finished, answers letters to the editor of a tabloid newspaper and dreams of escaping to an island and leaving everything behind. His marriage is in crisis. And on the da ...

Hiob (1978)

In war-torn Galicia, devout Jew Mendel Singer's family faces hardship: his eldest sons are conscripted - one flees to Austria, then America - while their frail newborn Menuchim is deemed unfit to emigrate. Torn between love and survival, Mendel must choose ...

LH 615 – Operation München (1975)

The Odessa File (1974)

Following the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, investigative journalist Peter Miller sets out to hunt down an SS Captain and former concentration camp commander. In doing so he discovers that, despite allegations of war crimes, the former commander has be ...

Karussells werden im Himmel gemacht (1973)

Carlos (1971)

In the Southwest of 1915 Carlos backs an intended uprising of the common countymen against his father Phillip, a despotic landowner who exploits the rural poors in his silver mines. But Carlos' indecision and his love for his young and beautiful stepmother ...

Der Fall Eleni Voulgari (1971)

Paul Esbeck (1971)