Charly Berger

The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes

Two dubious characters disguise themselves as Holmes and Watson to gain attention and end up chasing counterfei...

The Great Sacrifice

Äls, a young woman from Sweden living in Hamburg in the summer months attracts a newly married explorer, Albrec...

Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes

Country Dr. Robert Koch is desperate: a tuberculosis epidemic is decimating the children in his district and no...

Menschen im Feuer

Harry Peltzer, who is passionate about his job as a firefighter, and his superior, fire chief Paul Körner, are...

Fritze Bollmann wollte angeln

Brandenburg an der Havel, 2nd half of the 19th Century: the barber Fritz Bollmann is running his old-fashion ba...

The Suffragette

Nelly's mother is a suffragette and persuades her daughter to join the good cause. Placing a bomb under Lord Wi...

Bravo Acrobat!

Charlie, a very gifted, young acrobat, cannot find employment. A dancer and colleague, whom he trained, has got...

The Two Sisters

Berlin, the end of the 19th Century: The pretty sisters Gabriele and Ulrike Wilkens have both completed their b...

Mrs. Sylvelin

Despite the way her businessman husband treats her like a slave, a woman abandons a brief flirtation with a you...

Heimaterde

A widowed landlady in East Prussia, who, despite his acquittal by the court, believes the forester to have murd...

Kollege kommt gleich

Robert is almost the epitome of a head waiter: Politely and courteously, he informs guests about the goings on...

Annemarie. Die Geschichte einer jungen Liebe

In Annemarie Brinkmann's small German village all the young men are recruited to the front in WWI. When her boy...

An Invisible Man Goes Through the City

A taxi driver, (Piel), finds an odd contraption on the back seat that renders him invisible, but his friend ste...

Dream Music

The young opera singer Carla is in love with the talented young composer Michele, who wants to make it big with...

The Coral Princess

Zlarin is a small fishing village on the Dalmatian coast. Every inhabitant has to work hard, as the once-high c...

When Women Keep Silent

Curt serenades his wife Charlott from the garden without her recognizing him. When she later doesn't refer to t...

The Governor

In an imaginary Scandinavian country, an ambitious radical buys an indebted estate in order to become a member...

The Impossible Mr. Pitt

The Impossible Mister Pitt is a 1938 German adventure crime film directed by and starring Harry Piel. It also f...

Love, Death and the Devil

In a harbor bazaar of the Pacific town of Kona, the young sailor Kiwe is offered a mysterious bottle, which sup...

Artisten

A Harry Piel adventure in the circus milieu: the famous artist Harry trains with the young Hella Stoll, whom he...

Salonwagen E 417

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

The World Without a Mask

An inventor works on coming up with a radio-television device, but can't get it to work properly. A slick con a...

Ein Mann auf Abwegen

Swedish industrial magnate Percival, known as Percy Patterson, has suddenly disappeared after a business meetin...

Homeland

In 1885, famous New York Metropolitan Opera singer Maddalena dall' Orto is scheduled to perform at a festival i...

The Last Round

In New York, boxer Eddie Steele has a promising career ahead of him. But this makes him reckless, and he prefer...

Rivals

Using his marauding robot and other futuristic weapons, power-crazed scientist Professor Ravello carries out va...

Docks of Hamburg

When Hamburg ship's mate Klaus Brandt catches a thief one night at the port, his downfall is pre-ordained. For...

Strong Hearts in the Storm

On the eve of the Russian Revolution, a performance of "Tosca" is taking place at the opera house. The artists...

The Bat

The delightful Johann Strauss comic opera Die Fledermaus was mercilessly lampooned in this truly bizarre produc...

Der letzte Kampf

The industrialist's daughter has been kidnapped by the mad inventor Ravello, but Harry Peel stays hot on their...

The Secret Lie

The stand-alone opera singer Carmen Casini dare not admit to her adult son, the spoiled race car driver Cecil,...

The Man Who Can't Say No

This 1938 film by Mario Camerini is the German version of a previously-made film by the same director. However,...

S1

The general's daughter spies on her fiancé to achieve information.

Der schwarze Pierrot

Fräulein

Miss Annemarie Tessmer is a clerk in the house of the manufacturer Herman Schilling and she is indispensable. S...

Tolle Nacht

The niece of a wealthy manufacturing aunt has secretly married. Her husband has lost his way during the night i...