Willi Rose

The Net (1975)

The aging writer Aurelio Morelli is disillusioned: although the critics like his books, they are barely read. He develops hatred on youth and their depraved moral. One night he goes with a callgirl - and kills her. The police doesn't have a clue, only the ...

Das Klavier (1972)

The Fire Tongs Bowl (1970)

A successful author, who was educated by private teachers in his home instead of being sent to school with other boys, realizes he missed out on a lot fun in his younger years. He decides to make up for this and attends school classes disguised as a pupil. ...

Heintje - Einmal wird die Sonne wieder scheinen (1970)

When the bank clerk Klaus Helwig is arrested on suspicion of embezzlement, his son Heintje, whose mother died at birth, comes to his grumpy grandfather's house. Heintje manages to win his heart and prove his father's innocence.. ...

Tag für Tag (1969)

Im Ballhaus wird geschwoft (1968)

Tamara (1968)

A journalist gets involved in a murder case in northern Germany. ...

Rheinsberg (1967)

Kurt Hoffmann's film adaptation of Tucholsky's eponymous novella is situated in 1910s Berlin: The aspiring editor Wolf runs into Claire by chance. Both are attracted to one another, yet they are not entirely certain about their feelings. They embark on a t ...

Im Ballhaus ist Musike (1967)

When Night Falls on the Reeperbahn (1967)

A crime reporter uncovers a lurid plot by a Hamburg gang to dose impressionable young girls with LSD in order to enslave them into prostitution. Featuring mad killers, psychedelic acid trips and ladies mud wrestling! ...

Stine (1967)

Pauline Pittelkow, a widow in her prime, lives in Berlin with her daughter Olga and her younger, still unmarried sister Stine. No one takes offense at the fact that the righteous woman has had an older count as a lover for years. For an evening together, t ...

Hochzeitsnacht (1967)

Dieser Mann und Deutschland (1967)

Fictionalized documentary about the first man killed at the border between East and West Germany. ...

Der dritte Handschuh (1967)

Das Millionending (1966)

In 1951, East Berlin's railroad transportation fund was robbed in a spectacular burglary. The vaults contained the West Marks that the East Berlin Reichsbahn administration collected through its services in the West sectors of Berlin. ...

Die rote Rosa (1966)

Bei Pfeiffers ist Ball (1966)

Pension Schöller (1965)

Tabula rasa (1965)

Meine Nichte Susanne (1964)

Hilarious revelations from the love life of a Parisian woman. ...

Frau Luna (1964)

Fritz Steppke and his friends Lämmermeier and Pannecke fly to the moon in a steerable balloon. Mrs. Pusebach has also joined the adventurous traveling party. She considers flying to the moon less dangerous than losing sight of her Pannecke. On the moon, t ...

Stunden der Angst (1964)

Glenn Gridffin, his brother Hank and Samuel Robish have escaped from prison. They choose Dan Hilliard's house, of all places, as a safe house. The reason: nobody would think of looking for the three gangsters in such a respectable house where middle-class ...

Der Hund des Generals (1964)

Der Feigling und die Tänzerin (1964)

Winterquartier (1963)

a tv-movie by Rainer Erler ...

Stiftungsfest der Fleißigen Biene (1963)

Der Beste (1963)

Lokalbericht (1962)

Der Biberpelz (1962)

Deutschland - deine Sternchen (1962)

So angelt man keinen Mann (1961)

Eine hübscher als die andere (1961)

A prettier than the other is a German Comedy by Axel von Ambesser from the year 1961. ...

Frau Irene Besser (1961)

It was not until twelve years after the end of World War II that Irene Besser's husband, Martin Besser, long believed to be missing, returned from Soviet captivity. But the country and family have become unfamiliar to him. His wife Irene and her daughter L ...

Die rote Hand (1960)

Freddy und die Melodie der Nacht (1960)

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. ...

Die gute Sieben (1959)

Court Martial (1959)

In this war drama, three Nazi survivors are rescued after their battleship sank. Initially they are given heroes' accolades for their courage, but then it becomes apparent that these men actually jumped ship three hours before the boat sank. The men are tr ...

The Scarlet Baroness (1959)

During the final days of the Second World War, British intelligence sends an agent to Berlin to try to discover the secrets of Nazi Germany's nuclear weapons program. ...

Wenn die Conny mit dem Peter (1958)

Musical comedy set in a high school. ...

Der eiserne Gustav (1958)

Gustav Hartmann is in trouble. Because of the new taxis he doesn't get many passengers in his horse-drawn carriage. To prove what he and his horse are capable of, he starts a trip from Berlin to Paris. ...

The World's Craziest Army (1958)

Der Mann, der nicht nein sagen konnte (1958)

A man takes in three a dog and three runaway girls. ...

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. ...

Zwei Herzen im Mai (1958)

The musician Peter Paul Müller (Dieter Borsche) lives for his job. So much so that he also forgets the circumstances of the Nazi dictatorship. In the years between 1930 and 1946 he was only allowed to perform in small clubs, but after he met the pretty si ...

The Big Chance (1957)

Heidelberg teenagers make jazz music. ...

Made in Germany – Ein Leben für Zeiss (1957)

Zu Befehl, Frau Feldwebel (1956)

IIA in Berlin (1956)

The Captain from Kopenick (1956)

A young shoemaker is arrested for stealing a small amount of money, and is jailed for fifteen years. Upon his release, he wants to get a permit to get a job and start anew, but finds that without a job he can't get a permit, and without a permit he can't g ...

The Girl from Flanders (1956)

A love story between a German soldier and a young Flemish woman amidst World War I. ...

Furlough on Word of Honor (1955)

Meine Kinder und ich (1955)

Erster Klasse (1955)

In Upper Bavaria, 6 different characters meet in a 1st class train compartment. ...

Unternehmen Schlafsack (1955)

During the closing stages of the Second World War, a bureaucratic mistake leads to a German officer being reassigned from the dangerous Eastern Front to Berlin and a new non-existent unit. ...

Drei Tage Mittelarrest (1955)

The mayor of a small garrison town is constantly at odds with the local battalion commander. This does not sit well with the mayor's wife at all, as she wants to marry her daughter off to a soldier. Things escalate when the mayor's cook becomes pregnant by ...

Heroism after Hours (1955)

"Heroism after Hours" (German: "Heldentum nach Ladenschluß") is a 1955 West German anthology comedy film. It is in four parts each portraying a different tale of German soldiers attempting to get home at the end of the Second World War. ...

Ihre große Prüfung (1954)

Circus of Love (1954)

Theft of the Sabines (1954)

Der weißblaue Löwe (1952)

Drei Tage Angst (1952)

Großstadtgeheimnis (1952)

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 ...

Die Dritte von rechts (1950)

The Rabanser Case (1950)

Editor Peter Rabanser is planning a series on the perfect cash heist, which he plans down to the last detail and actually begins to prepare: He befriends two cash couriers and lays the groundwork to lure them into an apartment he has rented. ...

Die Frau von gestern Nacht (1950)

12:15 AM, Room 9 (1950)

The young hotel manager Leutner runs for study purposes a transmitter in the hotel room of his fiancée Maria. Coincidentally he learns that a gang of counterfeiters want to get rid of a troublesome witness at 12:15 AM. Will Leutner be able to prevent this ...

Nach Regen scheint Sonne (1949)

Girls in Gingham (1949)

A moving saga focusing on the women in a family that spans three generations and almost 70 years of German history, from the Wilhelmine period through the end of WWII. This film shows that it takes a combination of hard work, political consciousness and fa ...

Und wieder 48 (1948)

In 1948, students from Berlin University take part in the filming of a movie about the 1848 revolution as extras. A dispute arises between Else and Heinz, who tends to dismiss the revolution as a comical affair. Two fiercely opposing camps form at the univ ...

Wozzeck (1947)

While an anatomy seminar prepares to examine the cadaver of Franz Wozzeck in the name of scientific progress, medical student Büchner excoriates humanity for having allowed Wozzeck's fate. The tragic story unfolds in flashbacks, as Büchner narrates. ...

And If We Should Meet Again (1947)

Students raised under Nazi ideology witness the disintegration of the Third Reich and the realization of those who indoctrinated them that they were wrong. ...

Freitag, der 13. (1945)

Mr. Rapp was close to selling Rauhenegg Castle when suddenly some young men turn up claiming that the place is haunted. The seller wants to prove the opposite and invites the men to spend a night in the building themselves. ...

The Silent Guest (1945)

Whodunit centered around a hostel. ...

Das seltsame Fräulein Sylvia (1945)

Wir beide liebten Katharina (1945)

Life Calls (1944)

For a long time, Paul Warkentin had heard nothing from his father. The rift had occurred when Paul, despite passing his exams at agricultural school, decided not to take over his father's farm in West Prussia, but instead to go to Berlin to work for a publ ...

Die schwarze Robe (1944)

1944 German film. ...

Der gebieterische Ruf (1944)

Harald Arrives at Nine (1944)

Edith Gedeye, the ward of Consul Schober, wants to meet and stay with Harald, her fiancee. On the morning of her intended departure from the house, the manservant Winkelmann finds the corpse of the consul. Suspicion quickly falls on both Edith and Harald, ...

Circus Renz (1943)

A circus film made as a deliberately escapist release at a time when the Second World War was starting to turn against Germany and its allies. ...

Liebesgeschichten (1943)

Du gehörst zu mir (1943)

Professor Dr. Burkhardt is a much celebrated surgeon. Obsessed with his career, he is always available when an unexpected operation comes up. That his personal life is suffering because of this obsession is something the successful doctor doesn't notice. ...

Fünftausend Mark Belohnung (1942)

A big explosion in a pulp mill causes a lot of damage. The police suspect a crime and put up a 5,000 Mark reward for information leading to the arrest of the perpetrator. Egged on by his wife Ursula, the insurance agent Rolf Kettner sees his chance to pr ...

Fronttheater (1942)

The very successful actress Lena Andres marries Dr. Paul Meinhardt. For his sake she gives up her acting career. ...

Geheimakte W.B. 1 (1942)

Nazi propaganda film showing the development of the German navy's submarine fleet. ...

Leichte Muse (1941)

A composer finds commercial success but has to confront difficulties in his private life. ...

....reitet für Deutschland (1941)

U-Boat, Course West! (1941)

This Nazi propaganda film follows the exploits of a German submarine as it prowls the North Atlantic. ...

Mädchen im Vorzimmer (1940)

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. ...

Alarm at Station III (1939)

During the Prohibition the US government has been just as successful at stopping drinking as they have been in the War on Drugs. Customs Officer Arne Kolk is determined to stop the alcohol smugglers at any price. ...

Sensationsprozess Casilla (1939)

They meet on the plane from Dakar to Casablanca: the well-known American defense lawyer Vandegrift, his daughter Jessie and the arrested Peter Roland, who allegedly kidnapped and murdered the famous film child Binnie Casilla in Stockford in 1928. Vandegrif ...

Aufruhr in Damaskus (1939)

Legion Condor (1939)

Pour le Mérite (1938)

This Nazi propaganda film chronicles the rise of the German Air Force ("Luftwaffe") from World War I until Adolf Hitler took power in 1933. ...

Ziel in den Wolken (1938)

The Four Companions (1938)

Four graduates of an industrial design school team up and form a small business. The protagonist is so excited by the venture that she turns down the proposal of her dashing instructor. Time passes and her three partners lose interest in the business for d ...

Großalarm (1938)

The newspaper delivery driver Paul falls in love with Lotte, who works in her mother's kiosk. One day, Paul helps a man in a black Mercedes, who's been in an accident. While helping him, a notebook has fallen out of the man's pocket, which Paul thinks is ...

Furlough on Parole (1938)

In 1918, a German regiment is granted five-hours leave in Berlin. ...

Patriots (1937)

The sole thing giving hope to a German flyer downed over France in the Great War, as he longs for his return home, is the love from a young woman. ...

The Traitor (1936)

This 1936 film tells the story of the doings of foreign agents in Germany and their allies among the German population. Having placed an ad in a local paper looking for "contact with bigwigs in German industry", enemy agents Morris and Geyer end up making ...