Willi Schur

The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes

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

Ihr Leibhusar

An easy-going hussar officer successfully vies for the love of a millionaire's daughter.

The Captain from Köpenick

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

Blood Brothers

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

Berlin-Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf

Franz Biberkopf has served four years in prison. His return to normal life is not successful.

A Tremendously Rich Man

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

Police Report

Director Burckhardt is found shot just after making the moves on Gisela Ostercamp, the wife of a business colle...

Geld fällt vom Himmel

Leopold Pasemann, owner of an auto parts factory, is looking for an heir. Since he has no children of his own,...

A Certain Mr. Gran

An Italian engineer who had made a strategically important invention to ward off enemy aircraft is killed in a...

Five from the Jazzband

By pure chance, Jessie and his four jazz musicians are hired to play at the cabaret theatre “Trocadero”. Unfort...

The Impossible Mr. Pitt

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

Irrtum des Herzens

On the afternoon of Christmas Eve, Sister Angelika bids her boss, Professor Reimers, farewell, for she has quit...

The Blonde Carmen

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

Herz ohne Heimat

Music student Verena finds herself torn between two stepbrothers: the carefree Alexander, with whom she is preg...

Salon Dora Green

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

Napoleon Is to Blame for Everything

English Lord Arthur Cavershoot is a passionate Napoleon scholar who badly neglects his wife Josephine for his o...

White Slaves

Russia, 1917. Revolution is in the air. The Sevastopol anchors In Saint Petersburg. The sailors are thirsty for...

Der Doppelgänger

Gold

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

The Grand Duke's Finances

The likeable and carefree Grand Duke of Abacco is in dire straits. There is no money left to service the State’...

Cat Walk

A son, in defending Prussia circa 1814 under the thumb of Napoleon, washes away the disgrace of his aristocrat...

Sacred Waters

For centuries, the water supply of a mountain village has depended on an endangered, wooden water pipe. The you...

Was wissen denn Männer

Die Banditen von Asnières

Who Takes Love Seriously?

Max Hansen and Willi Schur play two small-time criminals who steal dogs from their owners in the hope that they...

The Town Stands on Its Head

In the style of Gogol's Inspector General: When a traveling salesman arrives in the car of a government officia...

The Court Concert

Before he became cult director Douglas Sirk, Detlef Sierck cut his teeth on such lavish European star vehicles...

Miss Liselott

Aimless Bohemians are encouraged to find their salvation in Arbeit (Work) in this propagandistic Nazi era Germa...

Die Töchter ihrer Exzellenz

A young woman tries to hinder her sister from committing adultery - by wooing the man she thinks is the suitor...

The Mysterious Mister X

The eccentric owner of a chateau, Lord Wilford, is fond of everything that is connected with criminal cases. Hi...

Kennwort Machin

The cashier, Jürgen Borb, has already worked for 10 years at Dadag in Hamburg and is an example for customer se...

Rakoczi March

Hungary, 1925. A young lieutenant of the Hungarian army Fröhlich falls in love with his captain's sister, Vilma...

Money Governs the World

In this French set comedy, five million francs change hands one weekend between a man pretending to be a millio...

Menschen vom Varieté

In a cosmopolitan city vaudeville theatre, meeting place of the most successful artistes, the art shooter gets...

Der Stern von Valencia

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

Under Blazing Heavens

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