Gerhard Bienert

Polizeiruf 110

Polizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode was broadcast 2...

M

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

Les Misérables

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman nam...

The Blue Angel

Prim professor Immanuel Rath finds some of his students ogling racy photos of cabaret performer Lola Lola and v...

The Testament of Dr. Mabuse

After a detective is assaulted by thugs and placed in an asylum run by Professor Baum, he observes the professo...

Kleiner Mann – was nun?

The love story of Emma and Johannes begins during the hard years of the Great Depression. Emma repeatedly tries...

Comradeship

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

Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World?

Kuhle Wampe takes place in early-1930s Berlin. The film begins with a montage of newspaper headlines describing...

The Flight

When Dr. Schmith's proposal for international research on infant mortality is rejected, he decides to leave Eas...

Geheimkommando Ciupaga

The Man in Search of His Murderer

A man in bad sorts hires a burglar to later kill him, then changes his mind when his fortunes turn and must fin...

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-...

The Indian Tomb

After the events of Der Tiger von Eschnapur, Maharadscha Chandra is ready to execute his well-planned vengeance...

The Sorrows of Young Werther

The young and rebellious Werther is passionately, but hopelessly, in love with Lotte. Although he knows that sh...

Hans Beimler, Kamerad

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...

Uncle Krüger

An anti-British propaganda film from Nazi Germany which depicts the life of the South African politician Paul K...

Ein Polterabend

Berlin 1849: The democrat Adolf Glasbrenner, known as Brennglas, publishes the political satire magazine "Phosp...

Pour le Mérite

This Nazi propaganda film chronicles the rise of the German Air Force ("Luftwaffe") from World War I until Adol...

Decoy

Viktor Schott, daredevil and womanizer, is charged by his father, a jeweler, to go to Istanbul and purchase a v...

The Devil's Elixirs

Young seminary student Franziskus has been ceremonially ordained. He wants to escape the harshness and injustic...

The Living Dead

A crazed scientist murders his wife, walls her up, then flees. A reporter sets out to track him down. Remake of...

Denn ich sah eine neue Erde

Four-part miniseries about the theologian Thomas Müntzer, who became a revolutionary and opponent of Luther dur...

Herbstzeit

A retired head cashier, lonely after the death of his wife, lives in the hope of being able to move in with his...

Der Prozeß wird vertagt

In 1955, Michael Vierkant, a Jew who had emigrated during the Nazi era, returns from abroad to the Federal Repu...

The Pride of Company Three

The adventures of smart soldier Gustav Diestelbeck include managing his superior officer, competing for the can...

Emilia Galotti

The Prince of Guastalla falls in love with the young citizen Emilia Galotti, who is soon to marry Count Appiani...

Gewitterflug zu Claudia

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

Das Geheimnis des Ödipus

July 1944: at a fascist front school in occupied Greece, Captain Weirauch, a civilian professor of classical Gr...

Love's Confusion

The film tells the love story of two young couples. According to their social ranks, construction worker Edy is...

Amphitryon: Happiness from the Clouds

Lamenting Thebian women are waiting for the men to come back from war. God Jupiter is attracted to one of them:...

The Blum Affair

Dr. Blum, a Jewish manufacturer, is falsely accused of a murder. Even when the real killer’s identity becomes e...

Mother Courage and Her Children

During the Thirty Years' War, the camp-follower Anna Fierling, called "Mother Courage", travels the length and...

Reserve hat Ruh

The Naked Man on the Sports Field

Kemmel, a sculptor with a troubled nature, wonders, as he approaches his fortieth birthday, whether he has crea...

Mordsache Holm

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