Walter Steinbeck

By pure chance, Jessie and his four jazz musicians are hired to play at the cabaret theatre “Trocadero”. Unfortunately, she knows nothing about...

Lothar von Pütz and Roswitha von Krakow fall in love and only then discover that their fathers are bitter enemies. When Lothar's father dies, a...

Though "blessed" with a complex title, which translates as Marriage with Limited Liability, this German comedy was adapted from the more simply...

The wintry mountainscapes of Bavaria provide the backdrop for this airy German comedy. The story is set in motion when young clerk Boenecke (Richard...

Weimar era screwball comedy about a floor model who is required to go out evenings to escort VIPs while her boyfriend has to wait at home.

During a spectacular break-in at the villa of film star Marion Milner, the jewel thieves fortunately only manage to get their hands on imitations of...

A man swallows a diamond - and suddenly all people around him change their attitude towards him.

In this three part recreation of the life of Queen Louise of Prussia specific historical moments ,such as her meeting her future spouse, are...

In her last years, Louise is truly the Queen of Sorrows as she presides over a humiliating armistice with the French invaders.

French revolutionaries had swept into Prussia to wreak havoc, and now Napoleon marches in to inflict sad defeats on the Queen's troops, in the...

The adventures of smart soldier Gustav Diestelbeck include managing his superior officer, competing for the canteneer's daughter, evading punishment...

A professor is mistaken for a comedian and ends up in a vaudeville show.

An operetta directed by Herbert Maisch.

A deranged woman artist falls in love with a young sculptor. The impossible love ends tragically.

A woman steals money from her banker husband but her lover, a baron, is jailed.He escapes and under a new identity is a circus daredevil but she...

A wrecked car is found on the Reichsautobahn between Hamburg and Bremen. Inside is a murdered woman. It soon becomes clear that the woman is the...

The young, forward-thinking doctor Dr. Maerker arrives in a small factory town and is appalled by the prevailing social conditions. The working-class...

A retired rail official and his wife Amalie purchase a disused railroad wagon to convert it into a villa in the countryside. One day, Amalie...

The stenotypist Margit is supposed to take 3,000 Marks to the bank for her boss, Mr. Plaumann, but she lazes away the time window-shopping, and...

Young Jan Bergwall visits his grandmother, the so-called centenary, at Woyland Castle. There he meets his cousin Andrea, who everyone calls...

It is the dream of the fitter Heinrich Berger to be lord king … the general director of the auto plant where he works; and, in fact, he is put into...

A young woman leaves behind her job, home and family to try to make it in the movie business. Features cameos from about three dozen German film...

Fred von Wellingen is a wealthy industrialist, part of a large family-owned corporation. Fred has fallen for Lia, a comely bartender in the Berlin...

Remake of the silent film of 1921: The lord of a castle disappears after the return of two feuding brothers from a noble family. Suspicion falls on...

This film is a fascinating showcase for Emil Janning's theatrical play. He's a gentle school teacher who believes in his boys and is easily fooled...

a movie by Heinz Paul

A celebration of strong Prussian leadership during the reign of Frederick the Great.

a movie by Heinz Paul

Using an atomic reactor, two scientists try to create gold.

The film depicts the composer Franz Liszt and takes its name from his 1850 piano work of the same title.

Dolly Haas is employed as a (supposedly male) servant at a Hotel.

Young Percy Averhoff returns to Hamburg after a five-year stay abroad and finds that his parents have already found a bride for him. The young man...

A man comes into money unexpectatly. That's when the trouble starts.

In 1912, the Titanic embarks on its inevitable collision course with history. In the wake of the over-spending required to build the largest luxury...

During WWI a German agent receives an order to find out when the Russian army will carry out its expected attack against the German lines.

The athletic young widow Antoinette Peterson gets into financial troubles when a business venture backfires and has to sell her car and her villa. On...

Out of unlikely circumstances an underground ticket vending girl and a mail pilot fall in love.

Consul Petersen and his wife are desperate, because they lost their only child and can’t have another. At the same time, the maid Anna is...

A young actress in love ensnares the director she admires by successfully playing the role of his ideal woman—the homemaker.

Melodrama about an actress falling in love with a man who wants her to give up her job.

Vienna in the beginning of the twentieth century. Cavalry Lieutenant Fritz Lobheimer is about to end his affair with Baroness Eggerdorff when he...

Comedy about the love life of the Russian emperor.

Paulus van Geldern is a lawyer who has made a name for himself as a criminal defense attorney, but is notoriously short of funds due to his unbridled...

A taxi driver, (Piel), finds an odd contraption on the back seat that renders him invisible, but his friend steals the device to rob a bank. An...

Opera style film in which a crook offers to change ties with a waiter, so he can escape. The waiter ends up getting involved with a rich American...

Shots fall at night at Gussersee Hotel. Hermann Brenken, general manager of a large company, is attacked. Newspapers hype up the case and offer a...

After the tragic death from malaria of her beloved husband his rich widow Helga Vanroh travels restlessly around various Mediterranean countries. In...

A cabaret dancer loves a German engineer and helps save his vital drawings of ship designs from falling into the hands of foreign plotters.

Director Burckhardt is found shot just after making the moves on Gisela Ostercamp, the wife of a business colleague. When the criminal investigator...

The mustached ruler of a mythical principality, learning that his people dislike his spending so much time going hunting, allows his twin brother to...

"The Man with the Paw" is what people call the very successful banker Wiegant, who is desperately in love with Lena Kroning, the wife of the lawyer...

The death of the Prime Minister causes a stir in the society of a small ducal residence. While Lord Chamberlain von Gillzing hopes to become the...

Zlarin is a small fishing village on the Dalmatian coast. Every inhabitant has to work hard, as the once-high coral prices have plummeted. Vukovich,...

A pretty girl helps a popular Berlin policeman solve the murders of a woman he knew and the crooked banker the victim worked for.

The pleasure boat “Milwaukee” has a wide variety of guests on board: Frau Deiters, who is determined to get her daughter married off; Herr...

A dancing girl succeeds in getting Napoleon, in 1808, to pardon her lover, a German artist who has drawn an unflattering caricature of the French...

The double standards of a social class, which pontificates with big words what is proper and improper in the world of morality, while in its heart...

A stressed American millionaire is advised by his doctor to take some downtime and rest in the German countryside. The tycoon is so impressed that he...

Michael Lutz and his fiancée Barbara want to spend their vacation on a quiet island in the Danube, hoping to finally have some time to themselves....

Sabine Heitmann, the young boss for the shipping company Heitmann, has become friends with Michael, the First Officer and Helmsman of the ship, the...

Monika (German: Eine Mutter kämpft um ihr Kind, lit. 'A Mother Fights for Her Child') is a 1938 German melodrama film directed and written by Heinz...

The famous actress Paula Corvey loves the young racer Werner Bruck. One day, Paula's 18-year old daughter returns unexpectedly to her mother. She was...

In a transport museum, the items on display begin to tell their stories. Most interesting is the history of the Pullman car. In the beginning, it...

Olga, a woman of the demimonde, is shot in her apartment. The bullet was deflected by something, otherwise it would have killed Olga. Witnesses heard...

As the son of a fashion house owner in Zurich, Hans Haberland apparently can offer his lovers any article of clothing, for which they're willing to...

The marriage of the celebrated operetta diva Vilma and the chamber singer Peter has come to an end. Peter, however, is intent on winning back his...

Despite the way her businessman husband treats her like a slave, a woman abandons a brief flirtation with a young Austrian aristocrat, to show the...

In a made-up country somewhere in northern Europe: In the armaments factory F.N.G., an important drawing is copied and passed on to the enemy. ...

Womanizer Conny and his less successful brother Fred make a lucrative real estate deal on the Côte d′Azur and receive a cheque for 100,000 francs...

A wealthy uncle from America has named the widowed shoemaker Emil Rogge as his sole heir and bequeathed him a chest containing his entire fortune....

An honest German cashier gets stuck with a fake note, part of a scheme by two crooks to pass bad money.