Sybille Schmitz

A documentary of the life of German actress Sybille Schmitz (1909–1955) who rose to prominence in the German cinema of the 1930s and whose final years were used as the basis for Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1982 film 'Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss'.

The story takes place in a town on Adriatic coast. Mother wants to marry her daughter to a wealthy doctor, but her plan proves to be challenging as they're both seduced by a handsome smuggler.

As foreign troops occupy the country, the government commissions a jeweler to bring the crown jewels to safety.

Set in German-occupied France in 1944 where a female resistance operative and a German army officer fall in love.

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.

A fake countess falls in love with an honest man.

This little-known German film retells the true story of the British ocean liner that met a tragic fate. Ernst Fritz Fürbringer plays the president of the White Star Line, who unwisely pressed the Titanic's captain (Otto Wernicke) to make the swiftest possible crossing to New York.

Film about the fictitious adventures of Franz Freiherr von Trenck, who lived during the times of empress Maria Theresia of Austria garnished with espionage and twisted love affairs.

Vienna is celebrating New Year’s Eve 1913/14. It is the year, which will see the outbreak of the First World War. In Hotel Sacher, the mood is excellent; and although the political atmosphere is charged, there’s an undercurrent of hate and intolerance in the air. It is with this background that Nadja, a Russian spy, meets the Austrian civil servant Stefan. He loves her, but comes under suspicion of being an agent because of this love.

Paris, 1830: Jean-Gaspard Debureau performs on the stage and delights his audience with song, wit and charm. He is, however, very unpopular with King Charles X, who is the target of much of Debureau's scornful jests. That would be a somewhat tolerable situation if it weren't for the fact that Debureau has fallen for a countess, who happens to be the King's mistress.

German all-star musical from 1938 that was a big commercial success.

The body of an unknown beautiful woman is fished out of the river and leaves the policemen wondering what drove the girl to such a grisly fate. The film then flashes back to months before, showing the torrid love affair between a young cabaret singer and a rich playboy that ultimately results in tragedy for the girl.

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

The jealous star conductor Montemayor knows that his beautiful younger wife, Winifred, is cheating on him with an American named Jack Mortimer. After the concert rehearsal, he takes a taxi to the train station, sees Mortimer and shoots him at an intersection from the backseat of his taxi. The shot is not heard during the traffic noise. The taxi driver, Sponer, sitting in his car with the now-dead Mortimer, goes into a panic.

Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful Government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert turns for help to his friend Lord Goring, an apparently idle philanderer and the despair of his father. Goring knows the lady of old, and, for him, takes the whole thing pretty seriously.

A German scientist designs and builds a machine that will do dangerous work instead of placing humans in jeopardy. But the machine itself turns out to have disastrous effects on the people involved.

F.P.1 is a huge airplane landing dock in the Atlantic where pilots making the transatlantic flight can stop. Yet a saboteur tries to sink the technical wonder in this classic German science fiction film from 1932. The film was also created with English and French speaking actors at the same time.

여행 중이던 데이비드 그레이는 어느 여인숙에 머물게 된다. 여인숙 집안의 딸이 쇠약해져 있는 모습을 본 그는 집안의 불길한 기운에 불안을 느낀다. 경찰의 그림자는 그에게서 멀어져가고 배가 오기를 기다리던 농부는 돌연 낫을 휘두르는 죽음의 신이 된다. 이러한 악몽 같은 일들을 겪은 후 그레이는 그 여인숙을 운영하는 늙은 여자가 고대의 뱀파이어이며 자신이 위험에 처해있다는 것을 깨닫는다. 칼 테오도르 드레이어 최초의 유성 영화로 촬영을 맡은 루돌프 마테의 꿈인지 현실인지 불확실한 몽롱한 영상이 공포를 더욱 가중시킨다.

약사인 헤닝의 딸 튀미앙의 생일날, 가정부인 엘리자베스가 집에서 쫓겨나는 일이 생긴다. 이로 인해 튀미앙의 생일 분위기는 어두워진다. 튀미앙은 친척 아주머니로부터 일기장을 생일선물로 받는다. 그녀의 집에는 엘리자베스 대신 메타라는 새로운 가정부가 들어오게 된다. 튀미앙은 우연히 아버지가 새로 들어온 가정부 메타와 다정하게 앉아 있는 것을 발견한다. 고용 약사로 일하는 마이네르트는 엘리자베스의 비밀을 이야기해 주겠다며 튀미앙을 약국으로 불러낸다. 튀미앙에게 이야기를 하던 중 마이네르트는 그녀에게 매력을 느끼고, 이야기를 듣다가 실신한 튀미앙과 마이네르트는 그날 밤을 같이 보내게 된다. 이로 인해 튀미앙은 아이를 갖게 되지만 튀미앙은 아이의 아버지를 밝히려고 하지 않는다. 이때 메타가 튀미앙의 일기장을 들고 와서 아이의 아버지가 누구인지를 밝히는데...

The struggels of the German proletariat over the course of several centuries. Propaganda film by the Social Democratic Party.

A tense vignette about the fate of an unlucky man in poverty-stricken Weimar-era Germany.