Hans-Martin Lamparter (archive footage)
William Baxter
An Australian woman arrives in London to search for her sister who she finds is involved with a heroin smuggling gang. The gang itself is under attack from an unknown rival, who is methodically assassinating them with a shot to the head.
Heinz-Fritz Bottke
Rough-and-ready vice detective Perrak has to follow a 1000 leads during the investigation of a trans murder case. In a profoundly mysterious massage parlor he meets industrialist wife Claire Imhoff, who knows more about the crime than she wants to admit.
Antique Dealer
Sam Dalmas, un joven escritor americano, está a punto de marcharse de Roma para volver a Estados Unidos. La noche antes de su marcha asiste a la agresión de Monica Ranieri: alguien la apuñala y desaparece en la oscuridad. El comisario Morosini es encargado de la investigación e informa a Sam de la posible presencia de un asesino en serie en la ciudad: la misma persona que ya ha matado con arma blanca a tres chicas podría haber intentado apuñalar a Monica. Sam decide aplazar su marcha e investigar por su cuenta...
Hausach
Charly Hollmann
Mientras busca un collar de diamantes robado, el detective privado Martin se topa con un inteligente asesino en serie.
Teddy Surkoff
William Blore
Dr. Lenz
An art dealer on a special mission is pulled into dangerous intrigue while railway detective Cheval tries to help and pursues criminals on the Istanbul Express.
Runge
Guardino
Shrewd and evasive ex-Nazi and top assassin Oscar Snell is determined to rub out the King of Kafiristan. Snell's sole weakness is his sweet tooth; he leaves candy wrappers at the scene of his every crime. It's up to no-nonsense CIA agent Mark Stone to find Snell and stop him before it's too late.
Maj. von Steignitz
Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), un soldado experto en evasiones es ascendido temporalmente a general para que rescate a cinco generales americanos que han caído en manos de los alemanes.
Kramer
Philip Scott, the boss of a toy company, is secretly also the chief of a British spy organization. Scott's cover is destroyed when enemy agents kidnap his girlfriend to force him to reveal the identities of his fellow spies.
Bardieff
A thief gets hold of some top secret papers and is chased around Europe by the sinister Organisation.
Von Walden
Leah Weiss, a Polish Jew, was first forced into prostitution at Auschwitz. Afterwards, she was victimized in medical experiments. Now, twenty years later, German war crimes prosecutors hope she will be their star witness. But can she stand up to the shame, the publicity, and the reliving of those experiences?
Charlie Lee
Pinto
Un espía norteamericano se halla en Hong Kong, cuando se apodera de un medallón antiguo y descubre que es el objetivo de varios grupos misteriosos.
Elm
Compilation of the show Blue Light.
Dr. Freddie Vorbeck
Samson Shillitoe es un poeta misógino, cuyo trabajo se ve constantemente interrumpido por las mujeres que entran y salen de su vida. Esta situación lo hunde en una depresión nerviosa, de la que intenta salir buscando ayuda médica, pero el remedio acaba siendo peor que la enfermedad. (FILMAFFINITY)
Gen. Kohler
Diciembre de 1944. Cinco meses después del Día D, la mayoría de los soldados estadounidenses piensan que el ejército alemán está acabado. Los alemanes no comparten esta opinión. En un intento de ganar tiempo para llenar el cielo con sus invencibles nuevos aviones, lanzan una rápida, última y furiosa ofensiva: la batalla de las Ardenas.
Mütesselin
After dealing with the Shut in the Balkans, Kara Ben-Nemsi ('Karl the German') receives a firman (precious passport) from the padishah (Ottoman sultan) before he continues his travels through Kurdistan. Achmed El Corda, the son of Halef's Hadedhin Beduin tribe's sheik Mohammed Emin, has been captured by the machredsh (Turkish governor) of Mossul for resisting water seizure by his Turkish troops. Kara takes charge of the rescue.
Commander Stevens
Morton
Con el fin de apoderarse de unas tierras, un ranchero provoca la discordia entre blancos e indios, por lo que el jefe de éstos´, Águila Negra, se dispone a volver a la guerra. Dos hombres intentarán poner fin a las intrigas... (FILMAFFINITY)
Otto Schack
Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). En vísperas del desembarco de Normandía, los alemanes capturan a un oficial de los servicios de inteligencia americanos y lo someten a un lavado de cerebro: le hacen creer que la guerra ha terminado hace años para obtener información sobre los planes de los aliados.
Mysteriöser Partygast
The son of a British racehorse owner conspires with a bookie to ruin the odds of his father's thoroughbred winning an important event.
Peter Weimer
Gerhard is a young technical in Düsseldorf who works in a factory of security devices for banks. In agreement with Nicola, Mario and Hans, they prepare and carry out a robbery which, however, will have consequences for all of them.
Jannis, Xenia's Butler
Tres ladrones roban un envío de dinero usado que es devuelto a los EE.UU. Tras haber tomado un rehén, emprenden la huida y van a parar a una isla, en la que hay un hotel que funciona como centro de salud mental.
Spedding
Mobsters conspire to loot another criminal's treasure secured in an enormous booby-trapped vault.
Dr. Dalmar
A masked killer is stalking and killing Londoners outside a nightclub.
William Osbourne
Someone is killing people related to a South American expedition. The means of murder are poison darts with rubber spiders attached to them. A writer and some police detectives investigate.
Inspektor Vulpius
The spirit of the evil Dr. Mabuse takes over the body of a famous professor. The professor/Dr. Mabuse then begins a new crime wave that terrorizes the city.
Fabian Gilder
Several employees on a nobleman's estate show up at a former abbey, reputed to be haunted, to search for a hidden treasure. Howver, a mysterious hooded figure begins killing off those who may have figured out where the treasure is hidden.
Herbert
Una espesa niebla cierra durante horas el aeropuerto de Berlín. Varias de las personas retenidas por la meteorología ven sus vidas afectadas por este contratiempo.
Sergeant Meals
After an automobile accident, in which a man is unrecognizably burnt to a crisp, his wife's only able to confirm the corpse's identity by his talisman: a small, white spider. However, soon, there are more corpses walking around than at a comic con convention and every single one of them was a white spider sitting on or nearby the body.
Trittel
Stephan Narth
A Chinese cult bent on taking over the world uses an idol called The Golden Reptile that they believe can give them the power to achieve their goal.
Detective Superintendent
Un boxeador aficionado es sorprendido por un famoso ventrílocuo robando en su camerino y surge la pelea. Un traicionero amigo del ventrílocuo aprovecha la ocasión para asesinarlo y quedarse con su prometida para montar juntos un espectáculo y culpar al boxeador del asesinato. Cuando sus planes parecen que se cumplen, una serie de hechos sobrenaturales atormentarán al susodicho personaje y empezará a vivir una pesadilla.
Crayton
En Londres son cometidos varios crímenes por el mismo procedimiento: una intoxicación a través de las emanaciones de un misterioso veneno de origen hindú y por las cuales han sido eliminados, sucesivamente, un joven perteneciente al servicio de contraespionaje, un rico propietario apellidado Milner y su abogado Crayton. Un inspector de policía recibe la orden de investigar el caso y detener al culpable.
Kriminalkommissar Escherich
Bertram Cody
En la estación londinense de Waterloo un hombre muere sin causa aparente, y un desconocido intenta sin éxito apoderarse de la llave que el fallecido lleva en el cuello. Con él, son ya dos cadáveres en los que se han encontrado una llave similiar, lo que lleva al inspector Martin a sospechar un nexo común. Sus investigaciones le llevan al despacho del abogado Haveloc, albacea de la familia Selford, quien le cuenta que el anciano Selford, repartió 7 llaves entre amigos de confianza, con el encargo en que el día en que su hijo y heredero llegue a la mayoría de edad, deben reunirse y abrir con las 7 llaves una puerta tras la cual se encuentra la herencia.
Bruno Ulrich
Alemania, II Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Eric Erickson, un importador de petróleo sueco, pero oriundo de los Estados Unidos, es contratado por el servicio secreto británico para espiar refinerías y otras instalaciones nazis. Debido a su actitud colaboracionista va perdiendo a todos sus amigos, pero obtiene una información muy valiosa de las fábricas alemanas. En cualquier caso su misión es muy peligrosa y tendrá que huir antes de ser descubierto.
Martin Droste, aka Bobo the Clown
Strange things happen in a revue theatre. The dancer Maria seems to be hunted by an invisible admirer. When the body of a probable FBI agent is found in a trunk the police asks FBI man Joe Como for help. Como gets interested in the revue theatre and an ominous transport firm soon. When he is receiving mysterious threatening letters he is sure that Dr. Mabuse has risen again. But what is going on at "Enterprise X" so that both the goverment and the mad genius in crime are interested in it?
Paul Blümel
Zumbusch
En este drama de espionaje, un respetable trabajador de un banco se ve envuelto en un círculo de espionaje internacional.
François Lacroix
Vigulla
Böhmler
The supposedly dead and buried Mabuse returns to his criminal activities, as his longtime foe Police Inspector Lohmann, a dauntless girl reporter, and an American - who may be an FBI agent, or maybe a Chicago mobster - investigate a series of gruesome murders connected to a maximum security prison and involving a minister who has written a book called "The Anatomy Of The Devil".
Obermüller
Willi Sommer, Autogroßhändler
Hieronymus B. Mistelzweig
El asesinato del reportero de televisión Peter Berg no es un hecho aislado. El clarividente Cornelius ha tenido una visión del crimen, pero por alguna extraña razón no ha podido ver al asesino. Como el hotel Luxor parece estar relacionado con los asesinatos, la policía intensifica la investigación en sus alrededores. Una terrible sospecha empieza a cobrar forma: el doctor Mabuse, un genio del crimen que pretendía dominar el mundo y a quien todos habían dado por muerto, quizá no lo esté.
Hauptfeldwebel Krüll
The film focuses on life in a World War II German penal battalion camp somewhere in Russia. The convicts include a heroic doctor unjustly convicted of avoiding military service, an officer who retreated against orders, and common criminals. It shows their life in the camp, clearing mines, living in trenches on the front line.
Van laan
Unscrupulous girl traders transport unsuspecting blonde girls from a nightclub in Amsterdam to a brothel in Havana. The young journalist Verena Linkmann wants to expose the slave trade, disguises herself as an available dancer.
Alfred Kopetzsky
Heinrich Himmler
1933 in Germany. The rise of Nazism fears war and some officers, concerned the fate that hostilities would reserve to their country, organize an anti-Nazi group. They send a reporter, Golder, to communicate the plan of the German offensive allies.
Otto Kugler
April 1945. Because he stole two bars of chocolate, the soldier Rudi is sentenced to death by the court-martial judge Dr. Schramm. Rudi manages to escape from the firing squad at the last minute, and since the end of the war has been making a meager living as a street peddler. Years later, Dr. Schramm is now a respected public prosecutor. By chance, he runs into Rudi one day on the street. Afraid that Rudi will blow the whistle on him, Dr. Schramm wants to scare him out of town. He has Rudi arrested and bullied by the police.
Sydows Prokurist
Brenner, Kriegsgerichtsrat
In this war drama, three Nazi survivors are rescued after their battleship sank. Initially they are given heroes' accolades for their courage, but then it becomes apparent that these men actually jumped ship three hours before the boat sank. The men are tried and subsequently executed.
Paul Schmidt
Adaptation of Hermann Sudermann's novel about the troubled relationship between the strong willed Erdme and her irascible husband Jons in the Lithunian moors.
During the final days of the Second World War, British intelligence sends an agent to Berlin to try to discover the secrets of Nazi Germany's nuclear weapons program.
Reeder Papas Leonidas
Oberlehrer Karsten
Durante la campaña bélica de Rusia y en vísperas del ataque a Stalingrado, el soldado alemán Fedor Baranowski, hastiado de la guerra, trata de escapar del horror que se vive en el frente y escapar con su amante ucraniana Liuba. Aprovechando la confusión de un ataque enemigo, Fedor huye del vagón de tren en que viaja su unidad y se reúne con Liuba, pero los amantes son arrestados en casa de la joven. Como a los más de 200.000 soldados que desertaron del ejército alemán, a Fedor le espera el pelotón de fusilamiento. La última noche la pasa con el sacerdote militar Brunner que trata de llevar algo de paz espiritual al condenado. De ese modo Brunner también deja el terreno libre al oficial von Armin para que pase la noche con su mujer ya que Brunner sospecha que después del ataque a Stalingrado nadie vivirá para contarlo...
Kommissar Bergmann
Stabsarzt im Wehrkreiskommando
During WWII The German 'Wehrmacht' is heavily under fire after the invasion of Normandy. There are also a lot of women participating in the war, working at the front line as couriers for the air force. In this war, everyday, they put their lives on the line.
Kunsthändler Bogolla
Eugen Machon, Buchmacher
Murder mystery about the disappearance of a boy who has leukaemia following the murder of his mother, which he witnessed.
Kalweit
Nakonski
West Germany in '50s is becoming an economic superpower. In such climate, Rosemarie is just one of many enterpreneurs who wants her piece of new fortune. She uses her charms to bring members of West German industrial elite to her bed. There she finds business secrets and later sells them to French competition. However, when scandal errupts, Rosemarie would find that she can't beat the system.
Mücke
Otto Friedrich Dennert is a celebrated veteran of the Essen police force. While investigating a series of killings of women he reaches retirement age. The case is taken over by a new team, including Dennert's son Harry. Convinced that they have arrested the wrong person, Dennert begins investigating by himself with assistance from the criminal underworld.
Pastor Klinker
The frenzied reporter Lilli is just great: She shoots with both hands and lays her opponents with Jiu-Jitsu while the guys fall to the ground with just one look from her! Now she is to attend a missionary convention in Sicily. Nothing special? The apparently routine job develops into a murder case...
Kleinschmidt
Brouillard
Tanne
Willi Keun
Hamburgo, Alemania, 1944, durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Un asesino en serie aterroriza la ciudad. Cuando parece claro que la policía local es incapaz de atraparlo, fuerzas tan oscuras y terribles como el propio criminal se hacen cargo del caso.
Gefängiswärter Jonny
The true story of a German agent sent to the USA in 1944 in order to stop the development of the atomic bomb.
Manager Pannecke
In 1920, an unknown 24-year-old woman was fished out of Berlin's Landwehr kanal after a suicide attempt. Since she has no papers and no answers to any questions, they soon assign them to the insane asylum Dallendorf. A co-patient believes she recognizes the Czar's daughter Anastasia Romanowa - who apparently was the only one who survived the murder of the tsar's family in 1918.
Mölfes
Quadde
This film is the second of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politician and anti-fascist Ernst Thälmann. Autumn, 1918: Somewhere on Germany’s western front, Ernst Thälmann, age twenty-four, is calling on his fellow soldiers to put down their guns and join him in the communist struggle at home. When Hamburg’s Police Commissioner blocks a much-needed food shipment to the workers of Petrograd, Ernst battles to see it allowed through. Until his murder on August 18, 1944, Ernst remained true to his political convictions in the face of many setbacks.
Anton Mechala
Franz Blume / Günther Kolmin
Kulikowski
Adolf Glasbrenner
Oberstleutnant H.
A disillusioned Wehrmacht officer named Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg and his co-conspirators attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler on 20 July 1944.
Schulze Bangebös
This film is set in a medieval mill town in the Harz mountains. The greedy and brutal millman and his accomplices, the castle steward and the mayor, set fire to a forest mill that the farmers used for processing their grain. Without their mill, the farmers must now rely on the millman's services. When the farmhand Anna uncovers the millman’s crimes, he swiftly detains her and a young miller, Jörg. The forest spirits have a different plan, however, and they free the young couple with the charge to rebuild the ruined forest mill and turn things around for the villagers.
Narrator (voice)
Five cameramen of the DEFA travel with the trawler ROS 206 to its fishing grounds in the Arctic Ocean. The journey to the grounds takes 5,5 days. Day and night the nets are thrown out and pulled aboard again when they are full. After three weeks of hard work the trawler returns to its home port. Here the fish are loaded into refrigerator cars, and the sailors enjoy some days of wll-earned rest.
Hauptmann Quadde
This film is the first of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politician and anti-fascist Ernst Thälmann. In early November 1918, Ernst Thälmann is an unwilling soldier serving on the western front. As the revolutionary movement at home is threatened by the betrayal of the Social Democrats and fissures in the working class, Thälmann calls on his fellow soldiers to put down their weapons and unite with the workers in the communist struggle at home. Thälmann’s qualms about which side he is fighting on continue, but when the local police attempt to prevent a shipment of provisions and supplies from reaching the people in Petrograd, he intervenes and the ship is unloaded. With this moment of clarity, Thälmann continues to follow his political convictions and joins the workers at the Hamburg uprising in October 1923.
Unterster Ramudschin
Un anciano llamado Muck, que vive en una ciudad oriental, cuenta la historia de su vida a un grupo de niños: también fue una vez tan joven como ellos. Después de haber perdido a su padre a una edad temprana, Muck es expulsado de la casa por sus parientes codiciosos. Intenta cruzar el desierto con la esperanza de encontrar el comerciante que vende la buena fortuna. En medio de las dunas se encuentra con una pequeña casa, propiedad de una mala mujer y sus muchos gatos. Ella quiere hacer de Muck su sirviente, pero l se las arregla para escapar robando un par de zapatos m gicos que le permiten correr m s r pido que cualquier otro hombre en el pa s.
Köppke
The film "Die Unbesiegbaren" covers an episode in German history, in which the Bismarck government tried to mitigate the rise of the social-democrat movement.
Kuddel
Der junge Taillefer
Diederich Heßling
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 powers-that-be if he wants to wield power himself. His life motto now runs: bow to those at the top and tread on those below. In this way, he always succeeds: as a student in a duel-fighting student fraternity and as a businessman in a paper factory. He cajoles the obese district administrative president Von Wulkow and wins his favor. He slanders his financial rivals and hatches a plot with the social democrats in the town council. On his honeymoon with his rich wife Guste, he finally finds a chance to do his beloved Kaiser a favor. And when a memorial to the Kaiser is unveiled in the town where Diederich lives and works, he delivers the address. He stands behind the lectern in the pouring rain, saluting his Kaiser. The crowd is dispersed. Everything is laid in ruins...
Hans Obermann
The friends Jochen and Gerd both work at the fashion boutique "Saxonia", which has only recently designed a new collection. Therefore, Jochen and Gerd are shocked when they meet two young ladies during their well-deserved holiday who are already dressed in two of the new pieces. And as if that was not enough, they pass the creations off as their own, even though they are employed at the competing company "Berolina". Naturally, the two men refuse to let the matter rest, although they do not actually want to raise a quarrel with the pretty ladies. After some turbulent entanglements they become aware of the foolishness of their squabbling and, eventually, the four of them present the disputed designs as a co-production at the fashion fair in Leipzig.
Hugo
Eberhard Schulz
Mother Wolffen, a washerwoman, is a woman of principle: A poor man must do what he must to get through life, only he mustn't get caught doing it. All sorts of crooked deals contribute to the improvement of the daily menu and the increase of household funds. When everyone is searching for pensioner Krueger's missing beaverskin coat, Mother Wolffen and her family are calmly enjoying fresh roast venison.
Udo Schulze
The mechanic Behnke wants to join the Nazi party to secure a good living. However, after his Jewish neighbors have been taken away, he changes his views. Trying to remain "a non-political man," he withdraws from reality and becomes a Nazis laborer.
Oberleutnant von der Lohe
A moving saga focusing on the women in a family that spans three generations and almost 70 years of German history, from the Wilhelmine period through the end of WWII. This film shows that it takes a combination of hard work, political consciousness and family work in tandem to face the tragedies of war, economic hardship and death.
Egon Konrad
Dr. Blum, a Jewish manufacturer, is falsely accused of a murder. Even when the real killer’s identity becomes evident, the state prosecutor refuses to accept Blum’s innocence.
A group of people gathers back in the post-war ruins of a luxurious Munich hotel they inhabited at one point or another years before; each trying to cope with the tragic consequences of the war and their own actions.