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In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the fo

Raid in St. Pauli

Illustrates both the powerlessness of the ordinary worker as well as an intimate portrait of the joy

Fra Diavolo

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

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

Harbour Drift

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

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. Th

The Beaver Coat

Mother Wolffen, a washerwoman, is a woman of principle: A poor man must do what he must to get throu

Once is Never

A musician seeks a peaceful vacation in a Vogtland village but is soon overwhelmed by requests for a

The Kaiser's Lackey

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

F.P.1 Doesn't Answer

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

Rasputin, Demon of the Women

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

Katzgraben

Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder

Nordlicht

Blood Brothers

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

Capriccio

Lilian Harvey plays a young heiress in long-ago France named Madelon who is raised by her grandfathe

Kautschuk

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

Die Schönste

13-year old Thomas Berndorf, the son of the rich business man Alexander Berndorf, becomes friends wi

Gejagt bis zum Morgen

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

The Track in the Night

The bricklayer Ulli has received a letter from his girlfriend Sabine asking him to come to her from

Der Fackelträger

Senior public prosecutor Sänger from West Berlin has only one goal in mind: to finally be appointed

Wer seine Frau lieb hat

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

Anna Susanna

The Beacon

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

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 onc

Destinies of Women

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

Story of a Young Couple

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

The Condemned Village

East German propaganda film about an American army base trying to take away land from a West German

Schatten über den Inseln

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

Girls in Gingham

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

Dawn

Released three days after Adolf Hitler became Reichskanzler, it was the first film to have its scree

Troika

Ernst Thälmann – Son of the Working Class

This film is the first of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politicia

Our Daily Bread

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

Escape from Sahara

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

Comradeship

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

Der Stern von Valencia

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