Hans Leibelt

Writer Johannes Pfeiffer who goes undercover as a student in a high school after his friends told him that he missed out on a great life experience...

Max, a small time pick-pocket, has nothing to do with the ‘big’ crimes. But then he must find the murderer of Fred, his wife's brother.

A 1957 German musical comedy heimatfilm.

Otto Dernburg is forced by circumstances to dress up as a middle-aged woman.

Cafe owner Paul Perlacher is a real pig: not only are his daughter and sister Trude embarrassed constantly by his disgusting behavior, but his...

Kurt Hoffmann′s satire concerning Germany′s development during the first half of the 20th century tells the story of two schoolmates -...

The rich and jung American Susanne falls in love with the Student Hans-Joachim. Set in the romantic Heidelberg.

Margot is looking forward to moving into the old defense tower with her fiancé Lutz, a writer. Then the writer receives the news of his...

The absurd goings-on of a by no means ordinary hair salon, where men with great beards wait in vain for a shave while the barber takes a nap.

An extravagant comedy with Heinz Rühmann.

A man in bad sorts hires a burglar to later kill him, then changes his mind when his fortunes turn and must find the contracted murderer before it is...

Axel Roth is happy in his marriage and with his job. But his mother-in-law wants more for her daughter and manages to sow discord. When the two of...

Elisabeth, wife of a landowner, has kept from her husband for twenty years that their daughter is not his. Rather, she is the result of an affair...

Polly Petterson is a major customer of the Van Geldern bank, which manages her assets to the tune of one million. When she wants to withdraw the...

Post-war Germany 1945: Two rival gangs of uprooted boys fight each other in the ruins of Berlin, whose business is the black market out of necessity...

While Eva is in the hospital after an accident, her son, Peter, goes in search of his long-missing father. Learning he has died, Peter then prepares...

First part of two of the saga of the troubled Buddenbrook family and their business in mid 19th century Germany.

Relations between Huckebein, a humble tailor, and Greizinger, a wealthy farmer, become strained after Greizinger breaks off the romance between his...

Mabel is a successful pilot who hates sensational media, but falls in love with Jack, a womanizer journalist with conservative views on gender. When...

His grandpa gives the orphan boy Robbie a foal that they call "little brother". The boy loves the animal and wants to train it as a racing horse -...

A seductive dancer (Marika Rökk) helps her uncle to fight against the closing of his casino. Through her feminine charm she achieves diplomatic...

The young Schiller, whose heart and soul are writing and poetry, is forced into the military academy (the pride and joy of the Duke of...

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

Anny arrives in Munich to start a career as an actress, but soon ends up without money and job, sleeping on a park bench. When the police picks her...

Based on the true story of a cobbler who bought a second-hand captain's uniform, assumed command of a troop of guardsmen, declared the town of ...

A young man of property is engaged to two women at once.

Mr. Buchsbaum, third class taxes employee, lives a peaceful life until the new chief immediately criticizes his work. His only confort is his stamps...

On the eve of the Great War, an expatriate German working in Latin America learns that the Fatherland is in peril, and risks various obstacles to get...

In the midst of World War II, postman Ludwig Fuchs writes a letter to his former school friend Field Marshal Hermann Göring, urging him to work...

Secondary-school teacher Dr. Hermann Seidel is transferred from his sleepy, provincial grammar school to the big city. Here, he has to deal with a...

Writer Peter Voss is faking a bank robbery, to find the robber of a rare jewelery.

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...

Germany during World War I. Young Jean falls in love with Germaine. To put an end to the affair, Father de Wehrt sends his son to the countryside....

Around 1850, a young violin virtuoso steals a Stradivarius from the museum of a southern German royal residence in order to play for a famous master....

Brother Martin is a creative, unusual, and understanding member of the order. He loves using unusual methods to raise money for the poor. But not...

Four respectable men in Daxburg once footed child support for the same mysterious dancer. Twenty years later, the opening of a new local court...

Three men are planning a balloon ascent into the stratosphere. During the balloon flight, complications arise, the balloon is driven out to sea and...

Set during the rise of the Nazi regime, Elisabeth Maurer and Hans Wieland enjoy successful careers as actors in Berlin. Confident in her career,...

A GIRL YOU DON'T FORGET can be thought of as a backstage musical that treats the whole world as backstage. Melodies seem to be buzzing through the...

The reporter Peter Zabel stumbles upon the sinking of the luxury yacht Orplid in Hamburg on August 14, 1949. The ship went down with a wedding party...

Gottfried Jonathan, a small civil servant, lives as a lodger and is roommates with the blonde Käthe. Although she tries very hard, she...

Otto is pressured by his former girlfriend Mila to marry her. His friend and colleague Franz gets him a new job at Bernhard Münchow's remote...

A Prussian commander disobeys orders and goes to find a British envoy who can negotiate a pact with Austria to help fight off Napoleon in 1806.

German romantic comedy from Carl Boese.

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,...

Biopic about the Rothschilds, a Jewish family whose members rose to the top of the European banking community during the Napoleonic era.

The young emperor Joseph II of Austria and Hungary is not interested in romance and marriage, and every time his mother makes arrangements for him to...

Viktor Werneberg is a widowed swimming instructor with three children, who meets the sophisticated Irene Müller advice column in a newspaper....

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...

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...

A comedy about a white yacht and four attractive young women who want to impress a sailing club with their seaworthiness. A fifth "girl" turns out to...

Officials and royalty flock to a popular tavern on the Polish-Russian border,the lady owner scours the visitors for a prospect to marry off to her...

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...

National-Socialist propaganda film that serves to memorialize one of the early representatives of colonialism: the German philologist Carl Peters. He...

Herzensfreud-Herzensleid (literally translates to "Heartfelt Joy - Heartbreak"), the 1940 Hubert Marischka German family relationship romantic comedy...

The bored heir to a soap factory is able through pure chance to work incognito in the 153rd branch of the business. While doing so, he falls in love...

Lufthansa captain Hans Droste is friends with English pilot William Crossley, who saved his life during the war. Having just landed in Berlin, Hans...

Miss Annemarie Tessmer is a clerk in the house of the manufacturer Herman Schilling and she is indispensable. She is exploited by all the family...

With her daughter Anita, a young singer, the widow Marianne von der Halden undertakes a journey into the past. She wants to see her former admirers...

Nixi has a vivid imagination and she makes extensive use of it. After parting from her longtime fiancée after an argument, she tells her...

The composer Hans Helmer can really count his happy blessings: he is married to a wonderful woman, who also happens to be a celebrated operetta...

A professor inherits a fashion salon from a former lover. Since he doesn't want his wife to find out about his previous love life, he asks his...

The young fashion illustrator Jeanette meets the chief engineer Rudolf Siebert at an artists' festival in Schwabing, but thinks he is the talented...

After five years, the marriage of chemist Dr. Herbert has become so routine, that his wife Karin sees no other choice but to leave her husband, even...

The actor Ralph Gregor plays "Casanova" on the stage and everyone expects, that he also lives out the role in real life. Johanna Brinkmann, known as...

A clown and a merchant, who look so much alike they could be mistaken for one another, switch places because each would rather live the other’s...

Considering Germany's own treatment of Poland in 1939, it is ironic in the extreme that the 1938 German film Um Freiheit und Liebe (For Freedom and...

A love story based in Munich in 1852: An Austrian officer belonging to the nobility has the mission of ensuring the young Kaiser Franz Joseph...

An episodic film, telling four erotic tales: Angela isn't sexually satisfied by her husband, so she simulates sleep-walking to visit her neighbor...

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...

A singer tired of the stage retreats to a hotel in the country. There, she finds love and a way back into show business.

In the Danish port city of Belgesund, the caretaker of a private high school has fallen victim to murder. Detective Thomsen takes on the case and...

Intrigue and scheming at the court of Queen Anne of England between liberal Lord Bolingbroke and Lady Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough. German...

Paris, 1830: Jean-Gaspard Debureau performs on the stage and delights his audience with song, wit and charm. He is, however, very unpopular with...

Sylvia, the daughter of the pastor Kelvil, is lectrice to Lady Patricia and gets to know the young Lord Harford. They love one another, but their...

The playboy Peter Anders is financially bankrupt, so he puts up his villa for sale. But during this time, 3 harmless gangsters, Franz, August, and...

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...

When Bartos, the director of the Odeon variety theater, cancels an artist at short notice, he hires the Terrys out of necessity, whose parents were...

The two stars of an upcoming operetta performance quarrel constantly. but they also fall in love with each other.

The stand-alone opera singer Carmen Casini dare not admit to her adult son, the spoiled race car driver Cecil, that she ruined her voice on a stormy...

Paul Schleemueller is the town clerk of Schonbach, but secretly, he is counting on becoming the municipality's mayor one day. However, Paul's real...

Meant to be a diatribe against yellow journalism and current social ills, this weakly limned drama by Josef von Baky features a reporter who works...

The film The Green Domino is adapted from the 1933 stage play Der Fall Claasen by German dramatist Erich Ebermayer, whose works often examined...

After WWII, Berlin lies in ruins. For Gustav, Willi and their friends the rubble provides an adventurous, dangerous playground. Especially for...

The story of the stormy relationship between King Friedrich Wilhelm and his son, who later became known as King Frederick the Great of Prussia.

During the Seven Years' War, Prussian Major von Tellheim sacrifices his own fortune to save a Saxon estate from being plundered. After the war ends...

Musical comedy about a marriage registrar.

Father Brown starts solving crimes, much to the annoyance of his housekeeper, the police and especially his bishop, who is not amused by a priest...

After her husband suddenly dies, a small town woman becomes the target of gossip, as to whether he had been having an affair and whether she is...

Film by Heuberger.

When a research physician strays from his spouse for a suspicious journalist and is distracted from his work, the wife tries to take over his studies...

A pilot is suspected of murdering a fraudulent banker who vanished without a trace and is subsequently convicted. After his release, he tracks down...

Barbara's family is poor and she needs to come up with a way to pay the gas bill. At her job in a cinema she listens to the conversation of a...

1938 German film.

During the Biedermeier era, a young singer searches for her missing father. Remake of "Das Hofkonzert", 1936.

a silent movie by Heinz Paul

In this exotic adventure, unscrupulous gun runners threaten a captain, and a ship is in danger of sinking.

Up till now, Eri Bel and Heinz Marius were a happy couple only on the movie screen. Now, however, the successful film stars want to be a happy couple...

Whenever Pastor Piepenbrink gets his “deputatsrabbit”, there’s a frenzy in Pumpelshausen. For every time the rabbit is hung on the...

A lot has happened in Cecily Harrington's life. The young woman has not only won 10,000 pounds in the lottery, but has also unceremoniously dumped...

Prussia, at the time of Frederick the Great. In his service is Major General Dietrich Edler von Roedern, a renowned fortress builder who pursues his...

In 1914 a Hungarian officer inherits a Stradivarius which is believed to bring back luck to its owner. He and his Italian fiancée are...

In this love triangle, two comrades working at a Berlin auto repair place fall out over a waitress they both want. The only way Rudi can think of...

A Parisian cocotte at the turn of the century plans to capture a very rich Peruvian for marriage and hires her servant as an uncle who is supposedly...

Fritz Holl owns a plantation in Cameroon. He works hard and, with the help of his wife, Helene, also cares for his sister Anna, who became blind...

Maria Pretorius is the leader of a counseling office in a large factory. She is completely engrossed by her career and so gives the cold shoulder to...

A man supposed to be dead returns from the US to save his family land, resist a rival's attempt to frame him for a shooting, deal with an odious...

The story is set in Berlin at the beginning of the 20th century. The members of a singing group live in poor conditions in a dilapidated building....

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...

The race car drivers Robert Wenck and Kurt Harder are good friends. They become rivals when it appears that Robert is married to Eva. Eva was the...

Georgia Gale was a great poet, but then she stopped writing and started drinking heavily. Now, as a desperate last resort, she has traveled to...

Second part of two of the saga of the troubled Buddenbrook family and their business in 19th century Germany.

Ulfilas Löwe is an exceptionally talented writer, yet he's constantly strapped for cash – the bailiff is his most frequent visitor....

A bickering husband and wife decide to go to a lawyer to get divorced. When in the office, they present their sides of the same story, of which they...

A Moscow hotel waiter, found at the scene of a murder, tries to locate the real killer among a series of suspects.

A renowned actress rescues a small theater, which is on the verge of bankruptcy.

A case of espionage in high society: To save the reputation of his county, a diplomat voluntarily takes his own life.

The two stars of an upcoming operetta performance quarrel constantly. but they also fall in love with each other.