The Flight

When Dr. Schmith's proposal for international research on infant mortality is rejected, he decides t

Love's Confusion

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

Les Misérables

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

Five from the Jazzband

By pure chance, Jessie and his four jazz musicians are hired to play at the cabaret theatre “Trocade

Feind im Blut

The Living Dead

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

Denn ich sah eine neue Erde

Four-part television film about the theologian Thomas Müntzer, who became a revolutionary and oppone

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

Ich vertraue Dir meine Frau an

The Pride of Company Three

The adventures of smart soldier Gustav Diestelbeck include managing his superior officer, competing

Eine Stunde Aufenthalt

A disruption on the Berlin S-Bahn: passengers have an involuntary one-hour layover at Frankfurter Al

The Beggar Student

To take a revenge on countess Laura, who slapped him at his proposal, the Governor of the occupied P

Fleur Lafontaine

Berlin, 1948: Paralyzed and robbed of her memory, Fleur regains consciousness after a serious fall.

You and Nothing and Berlin

A story about Ulrike, a ten year old girl who is looking for a new father with energy and determinat

Flowers for the Man in the Moon

Adam, Evchen, and Manni are looking at the moon through their home-made telescope. Evchen isn't inte

The Man Without a Name

Much Ado About Nothing

Young lovers Hero and Claudio, soon to wed, conspire to get verbal sparring partners and confirmed s

Emilia Galotti

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

Ernst Thälmann – Son of the Working Class

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

Der Prozeß wird vertagt

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

Flucht ins Dunkel

Ich will Dich Liebe lehren

Die Unbesiegbaren

The film "Die Unbesiegbaren" covers an episode in German history, in which the Bismarck government t

Das Geheimnis des Ödipus

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

Wedding Night In The Drizzle

This comedic musical tells the story of Gabi, a young hairdresser from the Baltic coast who desperat

Crime Reporter Holm

At a hotel in a resort town in the Bavarian Alps, a retired district attorney from Chicago is shot d

Hallo, Taxi!

The story of a philanderer behind the wheel of a cab, who gets into a series of hilarious but also a

Pechmarie

Hangmen, Women, and Soldiers

Nazi propaganda film with Hans Albers starring in a dual role as a daring German airman and a Russia

Dawn

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

Ferryman Maria

A beautiful young drifter comes to a small village and battles Death itself to save the man she love

Berlin-Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf

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

M

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

Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World?

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

Mordsache Holm

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

The Captain from Köpenick

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

Thunder, Lightning and Sunshine

Relations between Huckebein, a humble tailor, and Greizinger, a wealthy farmer, become strained afte

The Indian Tomb

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

Inquest

When a prostitute is murdered in a cheap Berlin boarding house, an investigating judge suspects that

Sprung in den Abgrund

Trouble Backstairs

Pour le Mérite

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

Gold in New Frisco

The Heath Is Green

A forest ranger, after spending years tracking down a poacher, is taken aback to learn the man is th

Alarm

Uncle Krüger

An anti-British propaganda film from Nazi Germany which depicts the life of the South African politi

Reportage 57

The film centers on the story of newlyweds Inga and Heinz. Heinz works in the western sector of Berl

Mother Courage and Her Children

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

The Naked Man on the Sportsfield

In this film, Wolf and scriptwriter Wolfgang Kohlhaase explore the role of art and the artist in soc

Ein Mädchen von 16 ½

The young orphan Helga is raised by her aunt after WW II. At the age of sixteen, she turns her back

We Are Getting Divorced

Monika and Johannes are married. With increasing frequency, their son Manni becomes the focus of the

Alwin der Letzte

Alwin Schmieder, his brother August and friend Otto were the only ones in the village to refuse to j

Androcles and the Lion

Rome at the time of the persecution of Christians: Androclus, a poor tailor, frees a lion in the for

Die Millionen der Yvette

French milliner Yvette has a small fashion salon in Düsseldorf. The young gentlemen of society fall

Lissy

In 1930s Berlin, a woman’s life unravels as her unemployed husband succumbs to Nazi propaganda and j

Das Mädchen von Fanö

The two Danish fishermen Frerk and Ipke battle a severe storm off the coast of Fanø harbor. They fin

The Blum Affair

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

Klotz am Bein

The construction of five houses for a workers' housing cooperative has been delayed due to a shortag

Thomas Müntzer

In 1523, young Thomas Müntzer arrives with his wife Ottilie in the Thuringian village Allstedt to as

Die Schönste

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

Effi Briest

In the nineteenth century, seventeen year old Effi Briest is married to the older Baron von Instette

Ohne Paß in fremden Betten

Czech tourist Jelinek decides to take a ride on the "Ferris wheel" in Berlin, and as a result he lag

Black Roses

Erkki Collin is a hunted man. The Czar’s soldiers have been close on the heels of the leader of the

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 a

Musketier Meier III

Das Leben kann so schön sein

The young marriage of the insurance agent Hannes and his wife Nora is being worn down by financial d

Gewitterflug zu Claudia

Lufthansa captain Hans Droste is friends with English pilot William Crossley, who saved his life dur

Altes Herz geht auf die Reise

The underage Rosemarie is still too young to run her inherited farm by herself; but she's more than

Rasputin, Demon of the Women

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

Her Majesty Love

Fred von Wellingen is a wealthy industrialist, part of a large family-owned corporation. Fred has fa

The Man Who is Talked About

The Man Who is Talked About is the overly agreeable Toni Mathis (Heinz Ruhmann), a gent constitution

Ludwig II, King of Bavaria

In the last years of his life, Bavarian king Ludwig II (1845 – 1886) devotes himself to ambitious ar

Herbstzeit

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

The Testament of Dr. Mabuse

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

Panic in Chicago

Chicago gangsters use cunning and a series of false identities in a violent battle for dominance, al

Der Mann mit dem Laubfrosch

The Battle of Bademuende

Die heute über 40 sind

Film by Kurt Jung-Alsen.

Der kaukasische Kreidekreis

Aufruhr in Damaskus

Verwandte und Bekannte

Using the example of three generations of a Hamburg working class family, the rise of the working cl

Ein idealer Gatte

Vor Gott und den Menschen

Alles um eine Frau

Der Polizeibericht meldet

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

The Desert Song

When the famous singer Grace Collins got off the plane that had flown her a remote place in Northen

Familie Birnchen

Bird Waking Weather

Jette and Johannes have been living together for two years when Johannes suggests that they "legaliz

Polonia-Express

Railway employee Fritz Marr is not regarded well by his superiors. It is the year 1920, and trains r

Herr Kobin geht auf Abenteuer

Alwin auf der Landstraße

Ironically, at the beginning of the summer holidays, Alwins strict father has grounded him to get hi

Liebesleute

Baron von Goret is an impoverished landowner, whose estate is about to go into receivership. And so

Die beiden Seehunde

Checkmate

Dahinten in der Heide

Reserve hat Ruh

Susan, Dear Susan

Suse works as a truck driver on a major construction site. The young woman has a hard life behind he

Lockvogel

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

Gartenparty

Her Highness the Saleswoman

The Devil's Elixirs

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

Sabine Wulff

Sabine Wulff is almost 18 when she is released from the juvenile detention center. She doesn't want

The Sorrows of Young Werther

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

Hunted

A story of ten years old Karl who is living in Berlin in the beginning of thirties.

The Opportunists

The machinations of an ex-officer and a servant who want to get their hands on a fortune.

The Blue Angel

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

Das andere Ich

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

Ein Polterabend

Berlin 1849: The democrat Adolf Glasbrenner, known as Brennglas, publishes the political satire maga

Big and Little

Follows a woman, Lotte, who travels through Germany and seeks human connections, but is unsuccessful

Amphitryon: Happiness from the Clouds

Lamenting Thebian women are waiting for the men to come back from war. God Jupiter is attracted to o

Leuchtende Schatten

Comradeship

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