Ernst Legal

Charley Wyckham and Jack Chesney pressure fellow student Fancourt Babberly to pose as Charley's Brazilian Aunt Donna Lucia. Their purpose is to have...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fritz Rasp

A 19th-century London cabaret singer is deported to prison in Australia. Her crime? Taking the blame when her lover bounces checks.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Zarah Leander

Karl Kramer is a waiter in a beach hotel on the Baltic Sea. But he has completely different plans in mind for the future. Before he marries Grete...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Heinz Rühmann

The Italian mountaineer Carel wants to be the first man to stand on the top of the Matterhorn. Since the climb is very difficult, he agrees to try it...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Luis Trenker

Melodrama set during wartime.

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Cast: Dieter Borsche

Shortly after WWII, the DEFA Studios produced a series of operas and operettas which belonged to the classical German musical heritage. This...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Angelika Hauff

Genre: Drama

Cast: Inge von Wangenheim

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Cast: Albrecht Schoenhals

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marianne Hoppe

William MacPhab loses seven-pounds in the stock market and decides to slap the man who was responsible for the stock manipulation that caused him to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lilian Harvey

Cheeky Jette is a typical Berlin girl. Together with her mother, she performs couplets in a Berlin suburb theatre every night. Then, a young Austrian...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Grethe Weiser

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paul Hörbiger

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Werner Peters

A poet is hired by the owner of a wax museum in a circus to write tales about Harun al Raschid, Ivan the Terrible and Jack the Ripper. While writing,...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Emil Jannings

This film is a fascinating showcase for Emil Janning's theatrical play. He's a gentle school teacher who believes in his boys and is easily fooled...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emil Jannings

Genre: Drama

Cast: Imperio Argentina

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bruni Löbel

Heinz Rühmann plays the "model husband" who, when his bored wife threatens to leave him, embarks on an adventurous night.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Heinz Rühmann

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gustaf Gründgens

A man and a woman struggle to stifle their love for each other, even after he moves away to travel the world and she marries a suitor.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kristina Söderbaum

Anna Jobst is the daughter of a rich, conservative farmer. Living on the bank of the Moldau, she wishes nothing more than follow the river to Prague,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kristina Söderbaum

Two out-of-work private detectives disguise themselves as Holmes and Watson to gain attention and end up chasing counterfeiters and stolen stamps.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hans Albers

An actress and her lawyer husband are so busy that their maid becomes the real mother to their six year old boy and at one point causes consternation...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hilde Körber

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hans Brausewetter

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mady Rahl

Penniless Peter Schild looks for work when arrived in Germany. Working as a private eye he has to observe a young lady who is willing to marry an...

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Cast: Johannes Heesters

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lotte Koch

Remake of a 1929 German film by the same title about a man and a police dog.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Harry Piel

"The Man with the Paw" is what people call the very successful banker Wiegant, who is desperately in love with Lena Kroning, the wife of the lawyer...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Paul Wegener

Genre: Family

Cast: Renée Stobrawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michael Bohnen

Der Florentiner Hut (The Leghorn Hat), a 1939 German film directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Heinz Rühmann

Historical drama portraying the life of German baroque architect Andreas Schlüter.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Heinrich George

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ernst Legal

A grieving husband tries to uncover the truth behind his wife's suicide, leading him to discover a tragic tale of infidelity and redemption.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marianne Hoppe

The underage Rosemarie is still too young to run her inherited farm by herself; but she's more than aware that her foster father and the farm's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eugen Klöpfer

After the death of Napoleon, colonel Montaner plots to restore the Empire, but falls in love with Lise, a beautiful dancer.

Genre: History

Cast: Gaby Morlay

In his film version, Curt Goetz shifts the focus away from the poetic output towards the young Friedrich Schiller himself: on the misery of his soul...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Theodor Loos

A villager is tempted by a sophisticated city woman and almost kills his wife in a boating accident.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kristina Söderbaum

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Heli Finkenzeller