Walter Rilla

Waffen für Amerika (1976)

Based on the play by Lion Feuchtwanger. ...

Malpertuis (1972)

A young sailor finds himself trapped in the labyrinthine mansion of his occultist uncle, along with a number of eccentric and mysterious relatives who all seem to be harboring a dark secret. ...

Auf neutralem Boden (1971)

The Devil Came from Akasava (1971)

A mineral is discovered which can turn metal to gold or humans into zombies. When the mineral is stolen, secret agents are sent in to get the mineral back! ...

Millionen nach Mass (1970)

Pepe, der Paukerschreck (1969)

Mommsen Gymnasium director Taft secretly places his nephew as a spy with the difficult class of Pepe Nietnagel. During the celebration for the 100th anniversary, a simulated fire forces the school to shut down for a week. The director's attempt to get a to ...

Detective (1969)

Andy and Sebastian want to make a lot of money in a quick and easy way. Inspired by the movies, they become private investigators. Their first case happens to be about a beautiful girl called Annabella. But being a private investigator is a more demanding ...

The Girl from Rio (1969)

Sumuru, the beautiful leader of the all-female kingdom of Femina, plans to use her women to take over the world. ...

Madame Legros (1968)

Die Reisegesellschaft (1968)

Day of Anger (1967)

A scruffy garbage boy becomes the pupil of famed gunfighter Talby, and the stage for confrontation is set when the gunman overruns the boy's town through violence and corruption. ...

Helm (1967)

Alles zum Guten (1967)

Der Befehl (1967)

Soldier Martin (1966)

A troupe of French actors on tour in Normandy become involved in the events of WWII. ...

Once a Greek (1966)

An extravagant comedy with Heinz Rühmann. ...

Jerry Cotton: Tip Not Included (1966)

An elaborate bank robbery takes place and the gangsters succeed although the FBI had been warned. Jerry Cotton, who is considered accountable for this major failure, loses his badge over this. Being the man he is, Cotton doesn't let the evil-doers forget t ...

Die venezianische Tür (1966)

4 Schlüssel (1966)

Bank director Ernst Rose, owner of the Hamburg bank Traven & Co., is asked to go to the airport earlier than expected to pick up his daughter Silvia. When he arrives, he realizes too late that he has walked into a trap. He is overpowered by kidnappers and ...

The Face of Fu Manchu (1965)

Grisly strangulations in London alert Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard to the possibility that fiendish Fu Manchu may not after all be dead, even though Smith witnessed his execution. A killer spray made from Tibetan berries seems to be involved and clues ke ...

Abends Kammermusik (1965)

Der Fall Klaus Fuchs (1965)

24 Hours in a Woman's Life (1965)

Frozen Alive (1964)

A scientist experimenting with suspended animation decides to use himself as a test subject. Before he is frozen, his wife is killed, and he is suspected of her murder. a murder suspect. ...

The Racetrack Murders (1964)

The son of a British racehorse owner conspires with a bookie to ruin the odds of his father's thoroughbred winning an important event. ...

The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse (1964)

The evil Dr. Mabuse develops a death ray with which he threatens the world. ...

Code 7, Victim 5 (1964)

The first victim is the butler of South African millionaire Wexler, who hires hard-hitting private eye Steve Martin for protection. Once at Wexler's palatial Cape Town estate, Martin meets the patriarch's family, close associates – and possible suspects. ...

Nachtzug D 106 (1964)

'Please help me!' the young GDR refugee begs the passengers of the interzonal train 'D 106'. He has just jumped on the night train during an unforeseen stop - to get to the west as quickly as possible. He can't go back, and in less than an hour they reach ...

The River Line (1964)

France 1944: American pilot Philip Sturgess is shot down but found by a resistance group. In the neighborhood Sturgess meets another American and shortly thereafter the British Major Barton, called "Reiher". He claims to have fled a German prison camp. Sho ...

Room 13 (1964)

A serial-killer is murdering the ladies of a night club. Detective Gray is seeking for the killer but can only find a lot of gangsters. And the killer is about to act again... ...

Death Drums Along the River (1963)

A British colonial policeman in Africa investigates a murder in a hospital up river. ...

The Twelve Jurors (1963)

Did an 18-year-old immigrant from the slums murder his father in cold blood? The twelve jurors must find a unanimous verdict. ...

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. ...

Cairo (1963)

An assortment of international criminals plans to steal priceless Egyptian artifacts from a Cairo museum. MGM remake of Asphalt Jungle set in Egypt. ...

Überfahrt (1963)

The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1962)

Dr. Mabuse has been locked away for years in an insane asylum. Suddenly crimes start occurring and no one knows the culprit. A detective goes to visit the Doctor to find some sort of clues to the robberies. ...

The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962)

The Grimm brothers Wilhelm and Jacob, known for their literary works in the nineteenth century, have their lives dramatized. Wilhelm fights to write something entertaining amongst the sea of dry, non-fiction books they write and he sets about collecting or ...

Unser Haus in Kamerun (1961)

A young man living in Africa is send to Hamburg by his parents to learn about business. There, he falls in love with the mistress of a friend. ...

Riviera-Story (1961)

Relations between middle-aged businessman Arthur Dahlberg and his young wife Anja are not at their best. So it occurred to them to leave their Hamburg home and go on vacation to the Côte d'Azur to revitalize their relationship. But Arthur Dahlberg, even o ...

The Forger of London (1961)

A ring of counterfeiters is flooding the country with phony money, and suspicion falls upon a wealthy playboy who may--or may not--have amnesia. ...

The Secret Ways (1961)

Vienna, 1956. After Soviet tanks crush the Hungarian uprising, soldier-of-fortune Michael Reynolds is hired to help a threatened Hungarian scientist escape from Budapest. ...

Song Without End (1960)

The romantic story of Hungarian pianist Franz Liszt, whose scandalous love affair forced him to abandon his adoring audiences. ...

Der liebe Augustin (1960)

Entscheidung (1959)

She Walks by Night (1959)

Based on an actual murder case in Frankfurt after the war, the film tells the story of the murder of Rosemarie, a prostitute, and how she ended up strangled in her apartment. ...

For the First Time (1959)

In this musical, a tempermental opera singer falls in love with a hearing-impaired young woman. ...

...und nichts als die Wahrheit (1958)

Dr. Stefan Donat, a doctor from Frankfurt, unexpectedly becomes the sole heir to his wife Agnes' estate after she dies of a terminal illness, even though they had been divorced for years. The change in the will in Stefan's favor was made on the day Agnes d ...

Scampolo (1958)

Scampolo is a young, poor girl who lives on the island of Ischia. She falls in love with a young architect who hopes to win a design competition. Scampolo intecedes on his behalf with the minister and helps him to make his dream come true. ...

Examen des Lebens (1958)

Confessions of Felix Krull (1957)

Thomas Mann's witty and intimate story of a irresistible scoundrel. ...

The Gamma People (1956)

An American reporter smells a story when he is stranded in an Iron Curtain country where the local dictator is using gamma rays to transform children into mutated henchmen. ...

Track the Man Down (1955)

A newspaper reporter finds himself drawn into the aftermath of a racetrack robbery. ...

The Green Buddha (1954)

Yankee charter pilot Morris inadvertently finds himself in the midst of thieves who have purloined a costly antique jade figure from an exhibit. He tracks the thieves to Battersea, where he rescues the fair Germaine from their unsavory clutches, and the Bu ...

Star of India (1954)

Squire Pierre St. Laurent returns from wars in India to 17th-century provincial France to find his estate confiscated by governor Narbonne, for back taxes, and resold to Katrina, a Dutch Countess. Katrina offers to return Pierre's property if he will help ...

Desperate Moment (1953)

Story of a Dutchman's flight across post-war Germany trying to locate the man who alone can clear him of a false murder charge. ...

Venetian Bird (1952)

Private eye Edward Mercer travels to Venice to locate a man due a reward for his aid in the war. Shortly after arriving, he becomes the prime suspect in the murder of his local contact. In his quest to clear his name, Mercer uncovers a conspiracy. Even the ...

I'll Get You for This (1951)

Nick, an American gambler, arrives in San Paolo and falls in love with Colleen, an American tourist, after she loses all of her money at the casino. Nick flees with Colleen after they are framed for murder and he tries to track down the real killer. ...

State Secret (1950)

While working in England, an American surgeon Dr. John Marlowe is invited to Vosnia (a fictitious East-European country) to receive an award and demonstrate his life-saving surgery. Unwittingly caught in the middle of a dangerous and corrupt series of poli ...

Shadow of the Eagle (1950)

During the eighteenth century the Empress of Russia sends her lover to kidnap her rival for the throne. ...

My Daughter Joy (1950)

A financier plots to become the richest man in the world by marrying off his daughter to the son of an Arab sheik. ...

Golden Salamander (1950)

An archaeologist stumbles into the territory of an evil crime syndicate and struggles to set things right. ...

Lisbon Story (1946)

A musical cabaret singer meets a British agent and goes with him to Nazi occupied France to save an atomic scientist. ...

Mr. Emmanuel (1944)

An elderly Jewish man from Manchester, travels to Nazi Germany to seek the mother of a young German refugee that has attempted suicide. In Germany, Mr. Emmanuel's efforts to seek out Hertha Rosenhein are greeted by a wall of silence from the scared Jewish ...

Candlelight in Algeria (1944)

Candlelight in Algeria is a 1944 British war film directed by George King and starring James Mason, Carla Lehmann and Raymond Lovell. This drama follows the exploits of Eisenhower's top aide, Mark Clark, and other important Allies as they journey to an imp ...

The Adventures of Tartu (1943)

British Captain Terence Stevenson accepts an assignment even more dangerous than his everyday job of defusing undetonated bombs. Fluent in Romanian and German and having studied chemical engineering, he's parachuted into Romania to assume the identity of C ...

At the Villa Rose (1940)

A gang of clever thieves kill a wealthy woman in hopes of stealing her gems. But the thieves aren't clever enough to ascertain the location of those gems, so they consult a phony spiritualist. Then they decide to dispose of the mystic by framing her for th ...

Hell's Cargo (1939)

Adventure film directed by Harold Huth. ...

Black Eyes (1939)

Ivan Petrov has one weakness in his life, and one love: his little black-eyed daughter, Tania. In fact, his entire career is devoted to her future happiness, though Tania remains ignorant as to his vocation. Done with cool deliberation, Petrov's all-consum ...

The Gang's All Here (1939)

John Forrest is anticipating a quiet retirement spent penning detective fiction when he learns that a priceless collection of jewels belonging to a foreign potentate, Prince Homouska, has just vanished from the safekeeping of the Stamford Assurance Company ...

Sixty Glorious Years (1938)

Continuing the story of 'Victoria the Great'. ...

Hatred (1938)

Captain Justin Mollenard works for a company that sells armaments to the Far East. After an eventful stay in Shanghai, where he and his cargo are the victim of a malicious attack, he returns to his hometown of Dunkirk. Mollenard receives a frosty welcome f ...

Victoria the Great (1937)

The film biography of Queen Victoria focusing initially on the early years of her reign with her marriage to Prince Albert and her subsequent rule after Albert's death in 1861. ...

The Accusing Song (1936)

The story of a famous chamber singer, who finds in life every humiliation and intrigue he sings about on stage. ...

Liebeserwachen (1936)

Lady Windermeres Fächer (1935)

Mrs. Erlynne, a mistress once expelled by London society, returns from America after years with the desire to regain a foothold in these circles. ...

Abdul the Damned (1935)

In 1908, Sultan Abdul Hamid rules the Turkish Empire, but he is faced with the threat of revolt by the Young Turk party. He allows Hilmi Pasha, the leader of the Young Turks, to return from exile and form the country's first constitutional government. With ...

The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)

18th century English aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney leads a double life. He appears to be merely the effete aristocrat, but in reality is part of an underground effort to free French nobles from Robespierre's Reign of Terror. ...

The Champion of Pontresina (1934)

Pontresina, Switzerland, at the beginning of the 20th century. A ski jumping competition is about to take place. ...

Der Jäger aus Kurpfalz (1933)

Adventure on the Lido (1933)

The already successful tenor Mattei is discovered after he already retired into private life. Der Wiener Staatsoper place a significant part in this musical comedy drama. ...

A Certain Mr. Gran (1933)

An Italian engineer who had made a strategically important invention to ward off enemy aircraft is killed in a robbery. As the plans have presumably fallen into the hands of spies, secret service captain Bergall is given the task of recovering the papers. ...

Un certain monsieur Grant (1933)

Hände aus dem Dunkel (1933)

Film by Waschneck. ...

The men around Lucie (1931)

24 Hours of a Woman's Life (1931)

After the tragic death from malaria of her beloved husband his rich widow Helga Vanroh travels restlessly around various Mediterranean countries. In the luxurious surroundings of a hotel in Monte Carlo Mrs. Vanroh keeps apart from society, until one evenin ...

Frivolous youth (1931)

Lydia is a spoiled young woman who thinks she can get anything for money. One day she causes an accident in which a motorcyclist is killed. At the trial she meets prosecutor Dan O'Bannon. She is sentenced to prison for manslaughter. ...

Checkmate (1931)

Circus Life (1931)

Circus themed films usually provides a thrilling drama. The relatively obscure "Schatten der Manege" provides just what you'd expect. Doing the trapeze act angle, combining it with romance and jealousy for a darker plot, it has a lot of the right the ingre ...

Zweierlei Moral (1931)

Das Vermächtnis (1969)

Der Tod des Sokrates (1967)

Der Heldenmantel (1967)

Die venezianische Tür (1966)

Platons Gastmahl (1965)

Ein Abschiedsgeschenk (1965)

Columbus - Bericht und Bildnis (1964)

Der Mann nebenan (1964)

Dumala (1963)

Überfahrt (1963)

Das lange Weihnachtsmahl (1962)

Kümmert euch nicht um Sokrates (1962)

Siegfrieds Tod (1961)

Das Rendezvous von Senlis (1961)

Behold the Man! (1951)

Behold the Man is the film of the Westminster Passion play produced each Easter by Catholic youth organizations with an amateur and anonymous cast. For the first time in Great Britain the censor has permitted the portrayal of Jesus on the screen, to be see ...