Friedrich Gnaß

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In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a ma...

Ernst Thälmann – Son of the Working Class

This film is the first of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politician and anti-...

Comradeship

At a mine on the shared edge of France and Germany, an underground explosion leads to the entrapment of a group...

Wer seine Frau lieb hat

The Berlin Volkseigene Betrieb (VEB) Komet is planning a company outing. Willi Redlich, member of the party com...

Escape from Sahara

Three Foreign Legionnaires - Luigi, Pat and Kurt - desert during the Algerian war because they have had enough...

Rasputin, Demon of the Women

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

Mother Krause's Journey to Happiness

Mutter Krause, her daughter Erna and her son Paul live in a tenement in the poorer section of Berlin's Wedding...

Dawn

Released three days after Adolf Hitler became Reichskanzler, it was the first film to have its screening in Naz...

Destinies of Women

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

The Story of Little Mook

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 b...

Capriccio

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

The Kaiser's Lackey

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

Girls in Gingham

A moving saga focusing on the women in a family that spans three generations and almost 70 years of German hist...

Katzgraben

F.P.1 Doesn't Answer

F.P.1 is a huge airplane landing dock in the Atlantic where pilots making the transatlantic flight can stop. Ye...

Harbour Drift

A sordid tale of poverty and greed set within a quayside milieu of crime and prostitution, the narrative centre...

The Beacon

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

Story of a Young Couple

A young married couple - both of them actors - work in the divided city of Berlin. Agnes, the young woman, is o...

Blood Brothers

An enhanced and sentimentalized story of love, honor, rivalry, and retreat. The traditional laws of the patriar...

Fahrendes Volk

Fernand has escaped from prison and finds shelter in the traveling circus Barlay, where his former wife Flora w...

Our Daily Bread

A story about a family after the Second World War. The petty bourgeois cashier Karl Weber of Berlin observes fr...

Nordlicht

Anna Susanna

Kautschuk

About how the British broke the Brazilian monopoly on natural rubber. The storyline suggests a complex relation...

Gejagt bis zum Morgen

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

The Beaver Coat

Mother Wolffen, a washerwoman, is a woman of principle: A poor man must do what he must to get through life, on...

Schatten über den Inseln

On the Faroe Islands, people eke out a meagre existence by catching birds. Merchant Brause pays them little and...

Raid in St. Pauli

Illustrates both the powerlessness of the ordinary worker as well as an intimate portrait of the joys and sorro...

I by Day, You by Night

A nightclub waiter and a manicurist share the same room, she sleeps there by night and he by day. They've never...

Troika

Fra Diavolo

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

Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder

Der Stern von Valencia

White slave traders kidnap a cabaret singer aboard a ship headed for South America,but they have not counted on...

Hangmen, Women, and Soldiers

Nazi propaganda film with Hans Albers starring in a dual role as a daring German airman and a Russian general,...

Sergeant Berry

Sergeant Hans Albers, the terror of Chicago gangsters, is transferred South of the border to deal with bandidos.

Die Schönste

13-year old Thomas Berndorf, the son of the rich business man Alexander Berndorf, becomes friends with Hannes W...