Friedrich Gnaß

In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Peter Lorre

Illustrates both the powerlessness of the ordinary worker as well as an intimate portrait of the joys and sorrows of a small group of people in the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Gina Falckenberg

Mutter Krause, her daughter Erna and her son Paul live in a tenement in the poorer section of Berlin's Wedding district. Along with them lives "the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alexandra Schmitt

A pre-Depression slice of proletarian life from Weimar Germany, Harbour Drift is unusually interesting for its indifferent pessimism, rejecting even...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lissy Arna

A nightclub waiter and a manicurist share the same room, he sleeps there by night and she by day. They've never meet , but they can't stand each...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Käthe von Nagy

Actually, the Düsseldorf musician and composer Peter Weselin only wanted to spend his placid vacation with his uncle in the Vogtland village of...

Genre: Music

Cast: Horst Drinda

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Werner Hinz

Diederich Heßling is scared of everything and everyone. But as he grows up, he comes to realize that he has to offer his services to the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Werner Peters

F.P.1 is a huge airplane landing dock in the Atlantic where pilots making the transatlantic flight can stop. Yet a saboteur tries to sink the...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Hans Albers

The demonic Rasputin is poisoned but survives to continue seducing in evil ways, in this historical thriller.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Conrad Veidt

Genre: Adventure

Cast: René Deltgen

An enhanced and sentimentalized story of love, honor, rivalry, and retreat. The traditional laws of the patriarchal environment and severe conflicts...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Brigitte Horney

Lilian Harvey plays a young heiress in long-ago France named Madelon who is raised by her grandfather as a boy in order to frighten away fortune...

Genre: Music

Cast: Lilian Harvey

About how the British broke the Brazilian monopoly on natural rubber. The storyline suggests a complex relation between adventure, military conquest...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: René Deltgen

13-year old Thomas Berndorf, the son of the rich business man Alexander Berndorf, becomes friends with Hannes Wille, whose father works as foreman....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Willy A. Kleinau

Drama about an impoverished family, a widowed mother and her two sons, trying to get by.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Manja Behrens

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ulrich Thein

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Albert Garbe

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hermann Kiessner

An old man living in an oriental city tells the story of his life to a group of kids: He too was once a young boy by the name of Little Muck - much...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Thomas Schmidt

Genre: Drama

Cast: Günther Simon

On a barren and stormy island, fishing families eke out a meager existence on what they can catch during summer, and what washes ashore during...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leonhard Ritter

A young married couple - both of them actors - work in the divided city of Berlin. Agnes, the young woman, is on location in East Berlin, and Jochen,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yvonne Merin

East German propaganda film about an American army base trying to take away land from a West German village.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Helga Göring

Berlin 1952, seven years after WWII. Four women are looking for a good man and happiness in the divided city. Their destinies are loosely connected...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sonja Sutter

Genre: Drama

Cast: Erwin Geschonneck

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...

Genre: History

Cast: Camilla Spira

Released three days after Adolf Hitler became Reichskanzler, it was the first film to have its screening in Nazi Germany. It became a symbol of the...

Genre: War

Cast: Rudolf Forster

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Cast: Hans Adalbert Schlettow

This film is the first of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politician and anti-fascist Ernst Thälmann. In early...

Genre: History

Cast: Günther Simon

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paul Bildt

A sympathetic bandit chief supports the cause of freedom in Naples against the Bourbon King Ferdinand.

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Cast: Tino Pattiera

Genre: Drama

Cast: Helene Weigel

Genre: Drama

Cast: Helene Weigel