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The attractive Oberleutnant Paul Wendlandt is stationed in North Africa as a fighter pilot. While in Berlin to deliver a report he is given a day's...
The Great Love
In his film version, Curt Goetz shifts the focus away from the poetic output towards the young Friedrich Schiller himself: on the misery of his soul...
Friedrich Schiller - Eine Dichterjugend
About a civilian who is press-ganged into a machine-gunner's squadron and transformed into the perfect soldier.
A Man's a Man
Sohn ohne Heimat
Two dubious characters disguise themselves as Holmes and Watson to gain attention and end up chasing counterfeiters and stolen stamps.
The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes
The sinister Count Oetsch scandalizes the aristocratic social gathering at Castle Vogelod as he announces his intention to "crash" the festivities....
The Haunted Castle
Lavish adaptation of Wilhelm Hauff′s fairy tale: Young charburner Peter Munk dreams of joining the upper class. He makes a deal with the...
Heart of Stone
Schicksal
Based on the records of the Nuremberg trial of the chemical giant IG Farben; a story about the collaboration between international corporations and...
Council of the Gods
Wunder der Schöpfung is an extraordinary, fascinating Kulturfilm trying to explain the whole human knowledge of the 1920s about the world and...
Our Heavenly Bodies
Deep in the forest lives the bitter Dr. Wislizenus, whose childhood sweetheart Maria committed suicide ten years ago. The visit of a childhood...
Dr. Wislizenus
This German slice-of-life drama is based on a very real postwar dilemma. At the time the film was made, there were over 3000 children living in...
Toxi
Life and death of King Ludwig II of Bavaria.
Ludwig II
Dr. Blum, a Jewish manufacturer, is falsely accused of a murder. Even when the real killer’s identity becomes evident, the state prosecutor...
The Blum Affair
If watching a fellow facing indifference/rejection in the slums of Berlin didn't convey enough pathos, Gerhard Lamprecht gathered much of the same...
Children of No Importance
In "Menschen Untereinander" ("The Folk Upstairs"), director Gerhard Lamprecht sketches a cross-section of Germany's new post-war society, with its...
The Folk Upstairs
Geheimnis eines alten Hauses
Paris, 1830: Jean-Gaspard Debureau performs on the stage and delights his audience with song, wit and charm. He is, however, very unpopular with...
Tanz auf dem Vulkan
Anna is a factory worker in East Germany. Her five-year-old son Jochen lives with his grandparents in the West and Anna wants him to live with her,...
Sky Without Stars
The film focuses on the leadership of the Great Powers of Europe in the days leading up to the outbreak of the First World War.
1914
A disillusioned Wehrmacht officer named Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg and his co-conspirators attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler on 20 July 1944.
The Plot to Assassinate Hitler
In 1920, an unknown 24-year-old woman was fished out of Berlin's Landwehr kanal after a suicide attempt. Since she has no papers and no answers to...
Anastasia: the Czar's Last Daughter
A psychological drama based on the popular Jekyll and Hyde theme involving a strict legal official. Based on the 1893 play "Der Andere" by Paul...
The Other
A love story between officer von Warp coming from a wealthy family and salesgirl Therese. When the social rules of the time would force the officer...
Die Geliebte
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.
Königliche Hoheit
Der Florentiner Hut (The Leghorn Hat), a 1939 German film directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner
The Leghorn Hat
Lady Windermeres Fächer
During a house concert, the Bach family gets a visit by their son Wilhelm Friedemann, who has just given up his position in Dresden because he no...
Friedemann Bach
France in the 15th Century: The country is marked by the wars with England and internal power struggles. King Charles sees himself powerless against...
Joan of Arc
After completing work on the British musical Invitation to the Waltz, Lillian Harvey returned to her adopted country of Germany to star in the...
Lucky Kids
A young man practices medicine without a licence.
Die große Versuchung
While vacationing in Puerto Rico, a young Swedish woman falls in love with and marries a powerful local landowner. Ten years later, their marriage...
La Habanera
Der Herrscher (The Sovereign) was based on Before Sunset, a play by Gerhart Hauptmann. The great Emil Jannings stars as Mathias Clausen, a self-made...
The Sovereign
Der Mann im Sattel
Directed by Harald Braun and told from the perspective of Bertha von Suttner, the first female to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, The Alfred Nobel...
No Greater Love
Ellinor Patton is so wealthy that her six unsuccessful marriages are considered befitting of her status. She is currently unhappily single again and...
Ein Herz voll Musik
Dr. Paul Venner, a headstrong young doctor, is working on the development of a serum to renew destroyed brain cells. He is watched with skepticism by...
Ich suche Dich
A drama film directed by Paul Wegener.
Moskau - Shanghai
Paradies der Junggesellen
Shortages in postwar Berlin have created a blooming black market, and the goods rounded up during a major police raid all seem to come from the same...
Raid
Country Dr. Robert Koch is desperate: a tuberculosis epidemic is decimating the children in his district and no one is able to do anything about it....
Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes
Young Olga Ahrendt almost succeeded in attempting suicide. She had thrown herself in front of a tram out of desperation about her miserable life, a...
The Life of Surgeon Sauerbruch
Germany under Napoleon. Johanna is travelling by stagecoach when one of its occupants, Major Korfes, is arrested by the French militia. Before...
Black Fighter Johanna
An actress used to playing only bit parts becomes the center of attention when a movie director buys her life story as a film project, she is now...
As Long as You're Near Me
Stadt Anatol
After leaving his overbearing wife for another woman, a composer is suspected of her murder when she is found dead.
Devil in Silk
Karl Kramer is a waiter in a beach hotel on the Baltic Sea. But he has completely different plans in mind for the future. Before he marries Grete...
Die Umwege des schönen Karl
Die verschwundene Miniatur
A story about a family after the Second World War. The petty bourgeois cashier Karl Weber of Berlin observes from a distance how his son Ernst...
Our Daily Bread
A Nordic revolutionary's plans to murder the president go awry when he falls in love with the man's daughter.
Der letzte Sommer
Und wieder 48
In late nineteenth century Alfred Dreyfus, a French army officer of Jewish heritage, is falsely accused of espionage. Found guilty of treason he is...
Dreyfus
Mother Wolffen, a washerwoman, is a woman of principle: A poor man must do what he must to get through life, only he mustn't get caught doing it. All...
The Beaver Coat
Parisians Josette and Pierre are a happy couple, but also a completely broke one. An absurd chain of events leads them to Professor Trouhadec, who is...
Donogoo Tonka
In Annemarie Brinkmann's small German village all the young men are recruited to the front in WWI. When her boyfriend Klaus Renken gets the call they...
Annemarie. Die Geschichte einer jungen Liebe
German chancellor Otto von Bismarck promises the dying emperor Wilhelm I. to be loyal to his grandson. But the gap between young Kaiser Wilhelm II....
The Dismissal
Der Engel mit dem Flammenschwert
Meines Vaters Pferde, 1. Teil: Lena und Nicoline
Das Mädchen von Fanö
A 19th-century London cabaret singer is deported to prison in Australia. Her crime? Taking the blame when her lover bounces checks.
To New Shores
The Kreutzer Sonata
A drama film directed by Gerhard Lamprecht.
Madame Bovary
The Gambler
Propaganda film telling the story of a German bomber crew taking part in the invasion of Poland and attacks on British shipping.
Battle Squadron Lützow
An anti-British propaganda film from Nazi Germany which depicts the life of the South African politician Paul Kruger and his eventual defeat by the...
Uncle Krüger
After WWII, Berlin lies in ruins. For Gustav, Willi and their friends the rubble provides an adventurous, dangerous playground. Especially for...
Somewhere in Berlin
Äls, a young woman from Sweden living in Hamburg in the summer months attracts a newly married explorer, Albrecht Froben who has just returned...
The Great Sacrifice
Ein glücklicher Mensch
A man comes into money unexpectatly. That's when the trouble starts.
Der Gasmann
Theodor Fontane's novel about a young girl who as a teenager marries a stiff bureaucrat, has a love affair out of boredom and loneliness and has to...
Der Schritt vom Wege
A widowed father advertises for a new maid, but his children secretly seek a woman to be his new wife.
Vater braucht eine Frau
Azerbaijan, 1919. The British hope to secure control of the vast oil fields around Baku by launching a series of terrorist attacks on them. Hans...
Attack on Baku
During Napoleon's victorious campaign in Germany, the city of Kolberg gets isolated from the retreating Prussian forces. The population of Kolberg...
Kolberg
Séraphine and her mother arrive in Paris to visit the 1867 World Exhibition. In an overcrowded city they must be accommodated in separate...
Covered Tracks
The physician Dr. Deruga is suspected of having poisoned his wife out of greed. She died after naming Deruga, poor and in debt, the sole heir in...
Der Fall Deruga
Professor Dr. Burkhardt is a much celebrated surgeon. Obsessed with his career, he is always available when an unexpected operation comes up. That...
Du gehörst zu mir
A modernist lady sculptor seeks a model for a statue to be put in front of a Berlin hospital, and finds him in the form of a London policeman-boxer....
Married by the Stork
A Moscow hotel waiter, found at the scene of a murder, tries to locate the real killer among a series of suspects.
Savoy-Hotel 217
Ein ganzer Kerl
The daughter of a reclusive couple in the St. Moritz mountains tends to her brother, disabled from the Great War, though a handsome young architect...
Anna Favetti
Wenn du noch eine Heimat hast
Herzensfreud-Herzensleid (literally translates to "Heartfelt Joy - Heartbreak"), the 1940 Hubert Marischka German family relationship romantic comedy...
Herzensfreud – Herzensleid
Kora Terry
Der dunkle Stern
Muss man sich gleich scheiden lassen?
Wer küßt Madeleine?
Unser Fräulein Doktor
Yvette is the daughter of a courtesan who serves men of wealth and status. She is unaware of how her mother makes money and why they are always in...
Yvette
Das schöne Fräulein Schragg
The stories' setup: a bunch of passive weaklings being dominated by two strong and ambitious women who fight for the same man.
Many Lies
It was not just the children who were treated badly by the wealthy Weimar republic. Robert Kramer is released from prison but struggles to adjust to...
In the Slums of Berlin
A stonemason who killed his landlord faces hardship trying to reintegrate into society after being released from prison.
Stein unter Steinen
The Italian mountaineer Carel wants to be the first man to stand on the top of the Matterhorn. Since the climb is very difficult, he agrees to try it...
The Mountain Calls
Das Haus in der Dragonergasse
An adaptation of the Gerhart Hauptmann play of the same name. A young farmer's daughter is used and abused by the men in her life.
Rose Bernd
Die unvollkommene Liebe
Across German screens at the outbreak of WWII streaks "DIII88: The New German Air Force Attacks", an aeronautic and maritime spectacle glorifying...
D III 88
Der Puppenspieler
A composer finds commercial success but has to confront difficulties in his private life.
Leichte Muse
The plot revolves around a gang of criminals, mostly former guards of Auschwitz, who print and distribute counterfeit U.S. currency in Berlin after...
Adventure in Berlin
Movie based on the novel by Christel Broehl-Delhaes
Aus erster Ehe
The Golden Plague
Schwester Veronica
Hanseaten
Mädchen im Vorzimmer
Zweimal zwei im Himmelbett
In geheimer Mission
Prison break. A murderer seeks refuge inside a barn.
The Highway
Die törichte Jungfrau
In 18th century Europe, King Friedrich II of Prussia leads his army through the seven-years-war with neighboring states, and after numerous near...
Fridericus
Toni wants to become an opera-singer. Her mother was once simple chanteuse. Toni marries the brutal industrialist Liesegang. An Italian doctor falls...
Der Demütige und die Tänzerin
"Night people". Thomas Bezug, the richest man in the world, is a solitary, domineering and cruel cripple, who hardly can move on his crutches. He...
Figures of the Night
Die heilige Lüge
Die Frau ohne Vergangenheit
Die Sonne von St. Moritz
Die Flammen lügen
Kollege kommt gleich
The married Lady Emma Hamilton has an ill fated romance with Admiral Horatio Nelson.
Lady Hamilton
Mit den Augen einer Frau
Zwölf Minuten nach zwölf
Regina Amstetten
Die Hotelratte
Der stählerne Strahl
Die Dame und ihr Friseur
Film by Richard Oswald.
Lützow's Wild Hunt
Adaptation of Theodor Fontane's novel Mathilde Möhring.
Mein Herz gehört Dir
Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant
Tobias Buntschuh
Die Nonne und der Harlekin
Melodrama about an entrepreneur and his family.
Du und ich
Das Mädchen mit den fünf Nullen
Die Schuld der Lavinia Morland
Ein Lebenskünstler
Sodoms Ende
Gefangene Seele
A medical officer decides to become a doctor, change his name and devote his life to research after the woman he loves marries his best friend.
Die Rothenburger
When architect Ernstein falls for secretary Paula, his wife makes sure, that she is fired and evicted from her apartment. When she finds herself...
Zu Tode Gehetzt
Billionaire's daughter Ethel Vandergolt has rejected so many lovers that they set up a club to get revenge on her.
Die Prinzessin von Neutralien