Albert Lieven

The title refers to the Feuerzangenbowle punch consumed by a group of gentlemen in the opening scene. While they exchange nostalgic stories about their schooldays, the successful young writer Dr. Johannes Pfeiffer realizes he missed out on something because he was taught at home and never attended school. He decides to make up for it by masquerading as a student at a small-town high school. At the school, he quickly gains a reputation as a prankster. Together with his classmates, he torments his professors Crey, Bömmel, and Headmaster Knauer with adolescent mischief. His girlfriend Marion unsuccessfully tries to persuade him to give up his foolish charade. Eventually, he falls in love with the headmaster's daughter and discloses his identity after provoking the teachers into expelling him from school.

In this German detective thriller, swindlers using a false charity as a front send a hit man around London to murder wealthy people whose deaths can benefit the organization. This film is one of a very large number of German Scotland-Yard thrillers based on the novels of Edgar Wallace.

The sky lights up and the desert comes alive on this desperate search for hidden millions.

A Canadian reporter gets mixed up in Cold-War politics, romance and espionage in Eastern Europe.

A businessman organises a caper to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.

A British colonial policeman in Africa investigates a murder in a hospital up river.

Фильм рассказывает о судьбах молодых американских солдат во второй мировой войне, их ратном труде, трусости и доблести, желании выжить и познать счастье даже в этих жестоких условиях существования. Действие фильма происходит на Сицилии, в Бельгии, Франции, Голландии.

A British convoy is trying to elude a group of German U-Boats.

A young woman commits suicide. Her sister is not ready to let the death go without someone answering a few questions. Namely, was it really suicide, and where is the large amount of money her sister withdrew from the bank the day before her death.

German actor Peter van Eyck stars as Droste, a mild-mannered businessman who was an intelligence expert during World War II. When Droste runs into his old friend Baron Von Straub (Christopher Lee), the two rekindle a friendship that was interrupted by the war. However, when Von Straub asks Droste to deliver a small package to a friend in West Germany, the befuddled Droste is set up for a series of complicated spy games.

Adaptation from Tolstoy's novel.

A Chinese detective breaks up a drug smuggling ring and tries to find the "Daffodil Killer". The drug smugglers had devised the ingenious method of smuggling heroin from Hong Kong in the stems of daffodils.

Греция. Эгейское море. 1943 год. Германия собирается совершить блицкриг на остров Керос. Две тысячи британских солдат оказались вловушке на этом крохотном островке. Им, измотанным и беспомощным, оставалось жить всего неделю. Эвакуация британских солдат была невозможна, ибо подходы к острову блокировали две немецких пушки с радарным наведением, расположенные на соседнем острове Наварон. Пушки настолько точные и дальнобойные, что любая попытка союзников провести спасательную операцию была обречена. Разведка союзников узнает о готовившемся блице всего за неделю до назначенной даты. Срочно была сформирована группа коммандос во главе с капитаном Киффом Мэллори, которая взялась за уничтожение немецкой батареи на острове. События следующих шести дней стали легендой острова Наварон…

It was not until twelve years after the end of World War II that Irene Besser's husband, Martin Besser, long believed to be missing, returned from Soviet captivity. But the country and family have become unfamiliar to him. His wife Irene and her daughter Lotte built a new life all by themselves in the tough times of the post-war turmoil in the still young Federal Republic of Germany. With a lot of commitment and dedication, she runs her own department store today and has become an extremely successful businesswoman. Not only as a consultant, the lawyer Dr. Heinz Werther stand her more and more aside. It is becoming increasingly impossible for Irene to do justice to both, men and lover alike. She hopes that even without her, Martin will slowly find his way back in his homeland and open up perspectives for him..

Werner von Basil (a Austrian intellectual) was captured by the Nazi in 1938. The want to break him to confess smuggling. Without any mental sustenance, the only thing left to keep his mind busy is an old tactics book for chess.

In wartime Italy nuns in a convent regularly smuggle Jewish children out of a nearby internment camp. The Italian army officer in charge suspects what may be going on but deliberately turns a blind eye. When the Germans take over the camp security the nuns' activities become far more dangerous.

A German spy in Cairo must report back to Rommel with information on British positions.

Berlin provides the backdrop for this crime drama that centers on a military doctor falsely accused of dealing illegal drugs. Determined to prove his innocence, he escapes from the MPs and ends up holing up in the apartment his wife rented. He doesn't know that she has sublet the flat to a nightclub singer. When he finds out, he begs the singer to assist him. She is attracted to him and agrees. The doctor believes that his wife is behind the black-market dealings, but in the end, they find the real culprit.

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.

The chorus girl Caterina Duval gets the chance of her life when hired as stand-in of a famous star. On the opening night Catarina is singing, dancing and stepping into the hearts of the audience.

Regine, a physician, loses her lover in a car crash and carries out an abortion; it's the beginning of her descent into hell.

Dreams, hopes and passions of the inhabitants of a populous and humble tenement in Madrid. Among them, an inventor who invents always what is already invented, a composer, a hostess, a locksmith, a delivery of a pastry ...

A radio operator for the British Army is captured in a Nazi-occupied Dutch city.

Bertrand, an accountant employed by a large London firm, is called to the office of the Managing Director, Dreuther, to explain a mistake in the accounts. Dreuther is highly impressed by the young accountant's skilful explanation of the error and, hearing that Bertrand is soon to marry his spirited young fiancée, tells him to spend the honeymoon not in Bournemouth, but Monte Carlo at the company s expense! However, events in the fabulous Mediterranean paradise do not work out quite as Bertrand had envisaged...

Действие фильма происходит в 1941 году. Нацистская Германия еще находилась в зените своих военных успехов, но все меньше людей верили в вечность и непогрешимость национал-социализма. К числу таких сомневающихся принадлежал и генерал Гарри Харрас, знаменитый немецкий ас, герой Первой мировой войны, занявший при Гитлере высокий пост в немецкой авиации. Харрас презирал выскочку ефрейтора, ненавидел созданный им преступный режим, однако служил ему верой и правдой. Но двойственность Харраса делает его позицию крайне уязвимой. Свободомыслие генерала выводит из себя адептов гитлеровского режима. Но и члены антифашистского подполья не доверяют ему, зная его как безотказного пособника национал-социализма. И в конечном итоге обе стороны подписывают Гарри Харрасу смертный приговор. Участившиеся акты саботажа на вверенных ему заводах окончательно компрометируют его в глазах гитлеровского режима. Загнанный в угол преследованиями гестапо, Харрас пытается найти спасение в бегстве.

Told in flashback, the film recounts the events leading up to the killing of good-for-nothing Curt Jurgens. Warned by her friends and relatives that Jurgens is a bad job, impulsive Ina Kahr marries him anyway. His ceaseless philandering and abuse wears away at Ina to the point that she contemplates poisoning her husband...

At the age of three, little Wolfgang has lost his parents. Since then his uncle Eduard raises the boy. As a former concertmaster Eduard has recognized how gifted his nephew is and the boy learns the hard way. The 6-year-old must practice daily 6 hours at the piano and already impresses at famous music parties. When Eduard Fabricius breaks a leg after a concert in Lucerne and must go to the hospital, he can be persuaded by a pediatrician to grant some carefree vacation weeks in a manor for Wolfgang. The manor belongs to the young widow Elisabeth who soon grows very fond of the little boy. Wolfgang makes friends with 11-year-old Heidi and Jöggi, a boy his age who first saw a rival in him...

Story of a Dutchman's flight across post-war Germany trying to locate the man who alone can clear him of a false murder charge. (BFI Website)

Отель "Сахара", расположенный в пустынном оазисе быстро пустеет, когда приходит сообщение, что итальянская армия начала боевые действия в Североафриканской компании. Владелец отеля Эмад так же хочет бежать, но его невеста Ясмин Паллас настаивает на том, чтобы он остался и попытался спасти отель, поскольку это единственная недвижимость, которой он владеет. Кроме них, в отеле остаются: мать Ясмин - мадам Паллас и мажордом Юсеф. Затем последовательно, один за другим, в отель прибывают военные патрули - итальянский, британский, немецкий. Оказавшись между воюющими армиями персоналу отеля приходится проявлять чудеса смекалки, чтобы сохранить движимое и недвижимое имущество...

The crew of a lighthouse rescues people they believe to be survivors of a shipwreck, only to find out that they are a gang of bank robbers on the run from the law.

The stories of several individuals who consult a marriage bureau, including a peer of the realm, his butler, a lonely school teacher, a French girl on the run from a violent boyfriend, a country vicar, and a newspaper reporter, sent by his editor, to do an undercover story.

Spies pursue a stolen diary aboard the Orient Express.

A young German girl marries an Englishman and moves into his family's household during the last days of World War II. The family and community have conflicting feelings about her presence in the community, and as a result, the family is forced to face their own moral code as they deal with their own prejudices and fears about the seemingly innocent German girl. The war ends, and she finally seems to be accepted into the family and community when her Nazi brother shows up to create havoc.

A paraplegic mistakes a man's pity for love.

В центре истории в прошлом прославленная пианистка Франческа Каннингем, которая находится на лечении в больнице и хочет покончить с собой. Доктор Ларсен пытается восстановить события, которые довели ее до такого состояния, прибегая к гипнозу…

While Lady Christabel Beauclark, a bird fancier, is scurrying about demanding certain territorial rights for British birds from other countries, Her Ladyship's niece is falling in love with the family butler, Tom Gilbey. The birds are forgotten when war breaks out, and Gilbey now finds himself in love with the niece whose love was previously unrequited. Written by Les Adams

A socialite poses as a Nazi spy to mask her activities as a British agent.

О жизни Клайва Кэнди, британского солдата. Она показана в эпизодах, начиная с 1902 года, когда он сделал блестящую карьеру молодого офицера в Бурской войне, до 1943 года, когда он скрипучим, старческим голосом рассказывает о времени бомбежки Лондона, размышляет о потерянной молодости и любви.

A new batch of Army recruits, from diverse backgrounds and with varying degrees of commitment, is shaped into an efficient fighting unit.

This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.

Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early years of the war.

Humorously using the arrogant and bumbling Mr. Proudfoot, this film serves a dual purpose of emphasizing the importance of obeying blackout hours, as well as easing the stress of the time period by encouraging laughter.

Based on Aimee Stuart's play. Little Scots girl decides to use her inheritance for a "grand tour" of the Continent.

A British merchant ship is torpedoed by a German U-Boat and takes shelter in a neutral port. The Captain then strikes back at the German enemy.

A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America and England during WWII.

осле захвата Гитлером Чехословакии Анна Бомаш арестована. Ее отец, Аксель, располагающий ценной и нужной нацистам технической информацией, бежал в Англию. Анна заключена в концлагерь. Там она знакомится с Карлом Марсеном, с которым ей удается бежать в Англию, а в Лондоне она вступает в контакт с исполнителем мьюзик-холла Гасом Беннеттом, якобы британским агентом, в надежде, что тот свяжет ее с отцом. Но и дочь, и отец обмануты Марсеном, он оказывается агентом гестапо, и попадают в Германию. Нацисты угрожают Анне расправой, чтобы добиться согласия отца на сотрудничество. Беннет следует за ними в Германию, где и узнает, что дочь и отец должны быть на ночном поезде в Мюнхен. Он садится на тот же поезд и освобождает отца и дочь. Вся троица бежит в Швейцарию. За ними гонятся Марсен и эсэсовцы.

События фильма разворачиваются в самом начале войны, когда угроза со стороны фашистской Германии перестает быть призрачной. Британским контрразведчикам удается получить ценные сведения о местоположении группы немецких шпионов. Где-то в норвежском Бергене расположилась опытная команда фашистов под прикрытием, изображающая джазовый оркестр. В срочном порядке готовится спецоперация по обезвреживанию противника. В какой-то момент план английской контрразведки отклоняется от заданной схемы, в результате чего в Норвегию отбывает не опытный агент, а чудаковатый музыкант небольшого джаз-бэнда Джордж Хепплуайт. В отсутствии других вариантов приходится уговорить паренька послужить на благо родине.

Made in 1940, this stirringly patriotic film cleverly combined new scenes with genuine newsreel footage. A newsreel journalist is on hand when the Giant German battleship Graf Spee flees into Montevideo Harbour after a punishing encounter with the British warships Exeter and Ajax. As events unfold in a very unexpected way, he is there with his camera to capture the dramatic end to the encounter.

During World War I, a British farmer is abducted by the Germans to take the place of a spy about to be executed whom he closely resembles.

The film biography of Queen Victoria focussing initially on the early years of her reign with her marriage to Prince Albert and her subsequent rule after Albert's death in 1861.

Flanders, Hispanic Monarchy, 1616. The inhabitants of the small town of Boom are busy organizing the annual local festivities when the arrival of the Duke of Olivares, who rules the country on behalf of the King Philip III of Spain, is announced. While the male citizens cowardly surrender to panic, the brave female citizens decide to become the best hosts the Spaniards can ever meet. (German version of the French film La Kermesse héroïque, 1935.)

The holidays are over and the students of the Schiller high school in Baldenburg. The new term will wake up with the chorale , my heart, and sing before Director Bartmann reads a deed of gift from Manfred Werner from Bahia in Brazil .

Aimless Bohemians are encouraged to find their salvation in Arbeit (Work) in this propagandistic Nazi era German production.

Walter is in love with the 17-year-old Erika, but she raves for older, experienced men. When Walter and Erika visit his parents' estate after passing their exams, Erika shows increasing interest in Walter's father, Werner von Schlettow.

Film by Stemmle.

A psychological study of three girls who enter a boys' school to prepare for their final examination.

A nightclub waiter and a manicurist share the same room, he sleeps there by night and she by day. They've never meet , but they can't stand each other. Then they meet by chance, not knowing who's who and fall in love.

A military comedy in which Annemarie is the center of attention.