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1. M (1931)
Passed | 99 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut, Otto Wernicke
Votes: 168,952 | Gross: $0.03M
2. Titanic (1943)
TV-PG | 85 min | Action, Drama, History
Third Reich's Nazi propaganda epic about a heroic fictional German officer on board of the RMS Titanic. On its maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable ship hits an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean and starts to go down.
Directors: Herbert Selpin, Werner Klingler | Stars: Sybille Schmitz, Hans Nielsen, Kirsten Heiberg, Ernst Fritz Fürbringer
Votes: 1,815
3. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
Not Rated | 122 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A criminal mastermind uses hypnosis to rule the rackets after death.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Otto Wernicke, Thomy Bourdelle, Gustav Diessl
Votes: 13,631
4. Burning Hearts (1945)
111 min | Drama, History, Romance
During Napoleon's German campaign, the city of Kolberg is isolated from Prussian forces. Residents organize resistance against the French army besieging and bombarding the city, refusing to surrender.
Directors: Veit Harlan, Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Stars: Heinrich George, Kristina Söderbaum, Horst Caspar, Gustav Diessl
Votes: 759
5. The Captain from Köpenick (1956)
93 min | Comedy, Drama
A young shoemaker is arrested for stealing a small amount of money, and is released after being jailed for 15 years. He wants to have a pass to get a job and start anew, but without a job ... See full summary »
Director: Helmut Käutner | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Martin Held, Hannelore Schroth, Willy A. Kleinau
Votes: 1,917
6. Der Fall Molander (1945)
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Stars: Paul Wegener, Irene von Meyendorff, Werner Hinz, Erich Ponto
7. Ohm Krüger (1941)
124 min | Biography, War
Rousing biopic of Paul Kruger, the Boer guerilla fighter turned statesman and first president of South Africa.
Directors: Hans Steinhoff, Karl Anton, Herbert Maisch | Stars: Emil Jannings, Lucie Höflich, Werner Hinz, Ernst Schröder
Votes: 288
8. Der große König (1942)
118 min | Drama, History, War
A story of Prussian king (from 1740 to 1786) Frederick II the Great.
Director: Veit Harlan | Stars: Otto Gebühr, Kristina Söderbaum, Gustav Fröhlich, Hans Nielsen
Votes: 323
9. Der Herr der Welt (1934)
90 min | Sci-Fi
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.
Director: Harry Piel | Stars: Walter Janssen, Sybille Schmitz, Walter Franck, Aribert Wäscher
Votes: 49
10. S.A.-Mann Brand (1933)
94 min | Drama
This Nazi propaganda film tells the story of a young truck driver who is having trouble making ends meet until he is exposed to the teachings of Adolf Hitler, and he joins the S.A., aka ... See full summary »
Director: Franz Seitz | Stars: Heinz Klingenberg, Wera Liessem, Rolf Wenkhaus, Hedda Lembach
Votes: 122
11. Geheimzeichen LB 17 (1938)
91 min | Crime
A patriotic military man foils a plot by anarchists against the government of an unnamed country, in this Nazi era propaganda drama.
Director: Viktor Tourjansky | Stars: Willy Birgel, Hilde Weissner, Bernhard Minetti, Otto Wernicke
Votes: 22
12. Zwischen gestern und morgen (1947)
107 min | Drama, Romance, War
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.
Director: Harald Braun | Stars: Hildegard Knef, Winnie Markus, Sybille Schmitz, Willy Birgel
Votes: 202
13. Knockout - Ein junges Mädchen, ein junger Mann (1935)
83 min | Comedy, Drama
Marianne is an accountant, but since she is so pretty the employment agency sends her to the theater. There, Max's gaffer falls in love with Marianne and persuades her to stay at the ... See full summary »
Directors: Karel Lamac, Hans H. Zerlett | Stars: Anny Ondra, Max Schmeling, Hans Schönrath, Edith Meinhard
Votes: 37
14. Sky Without Stars (1955)
105 min | Drama, Romance
A border police officer helps a woman cross between West and East Germany with her son. Despite being increasingly united by love, the distance between them increases as border security tightens.
Director: Helmut Käutner | Stars: Erik Schumann, Eva Kotthaus, Georg Thomalla, Gustav Knuth
Votes: 302
15. Amore e sangue (1951)
86 min | Action, Drama
Period crime drama: The King in Rome sends an official to Naples to break up the Camorra, the powerful group running things behind the scenes, currently they are hunting the man who killed one of their members.
Director: Marino Girolami | Stars: Maria Montez, Massimo Serato, Hans Söhnker, Carlo Giustini
Votes: 32
16. Peer Gynt (1934)
119 min | Drama
A Nazi-era German reimagining of Ibsen's classic, as an adventure type vehicle for the popular heartthrob Hans Albers.
Director: Fritz Wendhausen | Stars: Hans Albers, Lucie Höflich, Marieluise Claudius, Ellen Frank
Votes: 32
17. Heimkehr (1941)
94 min | Drama
This Nazi propaganda film attempts to justify the invasion of Poland--and thus the start of World War II--by "showing" how the ethnic Germans in Poland were discriminated against and ... See full summary »
Director: Gustav Ucicky | Stars: Paula Wessely, Peter Petersen, Attila Hörbiger, Ruth Hellberg
Votes: 118
18. The Private's Job (1937)
82 min | Drama, War
During the Great War, German soldiers are persuaded to die heroically in order to take a French village held by the British.
Director: Karl Ritter | Stars: Heinrich George, Paul Otto, Mathias Wieman, Ernst Karchow
Votes: 50
19. Der Tunnel (1933)
72 min | Sci-Fi
An engineer is hired to plan and oversee the construction of a undersea tunnel between Europe and the US. However, certain interests don't want to see the tunnel built and use every means ... See full summary »
Director: Curtis Bernhardt | Stars: Paul Hartmann, Attila Hörbiger, Olly von Flint, Otto Wernicke
Votes: 81
20. Der Katzensteg (1937)
86 min | Drama
A son, in defending Prussia circa 1814 under the thumb of Napoleon, washes away the disgrace of his aristocrat father who had collaborated with the French and caused the deaths of countrymen.
Director: Fritz Peter Buch | Stars: Fritz Reiff, Hannes Stelzer, Willi Schur, Brigitte Horney
Votes: 8
21. Lang ist der Weg (1948)
77 min | Drama, War
Written by Israel Becker, this is the first feature film to represent the Holocaust from a Jewish perspective. Shot on location at Landsberg, the largest DP camp in U.S.-occupied Germany, ... See full summary »
Directors: Herbert B. Fredersdorf, Marek Goldstein | Stars: Israel Becker, Bettina Moissi, Berta Litwina, Jakob Fischer
Votes: 55
22. Immer die Mädchen (1959)
95 min | Comedy
When he hears a rumor about an affair between a teacher and one of his pupils at Baroness Siebenstein's boarding school for girls, journalist Dr. Clausen hopes for a good story and joins ... See full summary »
Director: Fritz Rémond Jr. | Stars: Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff, Christine Görner, Renate Ewert, Vivi Bach
Votes: 22
23. Schatten über Neapel (1951)
86 min | Crime, Drama
Period crime drama: The King in Rome sends an official to Naples to break up the Camorra, the powerful group running things behind the scenes, currently they are hunting the man who killed one of their members.
Director: Hans Wolff | Stars: Maria Montez, Massimo Serato, Hans Söhnker, Carlo Giustini
24. D III 88 (1939)
103 min | Action, Drama, War
Flashbacks portray the heroics of two German fighter pilots in WWI and then the two are shown heading out to attack the British navy at the start of WWII.
Directors: Herbert Maisch, Hans Bertram | Stars: Christian Kayßler, Otto Wernicke, Heinz Welzel, Hermann Braun
Votes: 54
25. Curd Jürgens erzählt... (1962– )
In the intro Jürgens (as himself) greets the audience and explains the setting of today's episode while putting on a wig or a false beard. Without a cut he then walks onto the studio set and plays the scene with the fellow cast members.
Stars: Curd Jürgens, Ingeborg Schöner, Sonja Ziemann, Camilla Spira
Votes: 19
26. Du bist nicht allein (1949)
100 min | Drama, Romance
Munich in the late 1940s. Marianne desperately waits every evening at the train station for her friend, who has been missing on the Eastern Front since 1944. She accidentally falls into the arms of a stranger and falls in love with him.
Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Carola Höhn, Peter Pasetti, Otto Wernicke, Theodor Danegger
Votes: 17
27. Studentin Helene Willfüer (1956)
98 min | Drama
Helene Willfuer is an ambitious student of medicine. She comes to the University of Berlin especially to write her doctoral thesis under Dr. Matthias. In his lab she meets young Dr. Rainer ... See full summary »
Director: Rudolf Jugert | Stars: Ruth Niehaus, Hans Söhnker, Elma Karlowa, Erik Schumann
Votes: 24
28. The Fugitive from Chicago (1934)
108 min | Comedy, Drama
The German heir to a Munich auto plant is held in Chicago on a murder rap and is only able to uncover the real killer by escaping from American justice ,and returning to his Fatherland.
Director: Johannes Meyer | Stars: Gustav Fröhlich, Hubert von Meyerinck, Luise Ullrich, Adele Sandrock
Votes: 14
29. Drei wunderschöne Tage (1939)
80 min
Director: Fritz Kirchhoff | Stars: Gustav Waldau, Gina Falckenberg, Hans Zesch-Ballot, Walter Janssen
Votes: 10
30. Das Sonntagskind (1956)
96 min | Comedy
Director: Kurt Meisel | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Hannelore Bollmann, Werner Peters, Günther Lüders
Votes: 82
31. Was wird hier gespielt? (1940)
90 min | Comedy, Crime
During the opening night of a new play actor Theo disappears from stage without a trace. A detective steps up and starts investigating the case that turns into a crime comedy with new twists and turns in rapid succession.
Director: Theo Lingen | Stars: Theo Lingen, Fita Benkhoff, Gertrud Meyen, Hannes Stelzer
Votes: 19
32. The Tempest (1932)
101 min | Crime, Drama
After a petty crook is freed, he gets right back into trouble, first by stealing a fur for his former girlfriend and then by getting in fights with two different men who have tried to take his place with her, one of whom lands up drowning.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Emil Jannings, Anna Sten, Trude Hesterberg, Franz Nicklisch
Votes: 47
33. Der Herr vom andern Stern (1948)
93 min | Sci-Fi
"Der Herr vom andern Stern" (The Man From Another Star) has the ability to travel the universe by concentration alone. But his concentration is disturbed as he passes earth. Once landed he ... See full summary »
Director: Heinz Hilpert | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Anneliese Römer, Hans Cossy, Hilde Hildebrand
Votes: 75
34. Die verkaufte Braut (1932)
77 min | Comedy, Music
Bohemia in the 19th century, stage-coach driver Hans, loves the mayor's daughter Marie, but she is promised Wenzel, the son of another wealthy farmer. Marie refuses to marry Wenzel because ... See full summary »
Director: Max Ophüls | Stars: Max Nadler, Jarmila Novotna, Otto Wernicke, Hermann Kner
Votes: 201
35. Liebesbriefe aus dem Engadin (1938)
95 min | Comedy
Women from around the world flock to a Swiss ski hotel after having received identical love letters from ski instructor Toni. Since he ignores all of the ladies Dorothy fakes an emergency on the mountain while he is on rescue duty.
Directors: Werner Klingler, Luis Trenker | Stars: Luis Trenker, Carla Rust, Erika von Thellmann, Charlott Daudert
Votes: 31
36. Das Schloß in Flandern (1936)
93 min | Drama, Romance
Officers stationed in a castle in Flandes during WWI are comforted by Gloria Delamare's recorded voice. One of them even writes her a letter that will never be sent. When the war is over ... See full summary »
Director: Géza von Bolváry | Stars: Mártha Eggerth, Paul Hartmann, Georg Alexander, Hilde Weissner
Votes: 23
37. Die feuerrote Baronesse (1959)
99 min | Action, Thriller
A British agent is sent in to infiltrate a German atomic laboratory and steal top secret documents. The daughter of a secret service officer aids him.
Director: Rudolf Jugert | Stars: Dawn Addams, Joachim Fuchsberger, Wera Frydtberg, Paul Dahlke
Votes: 42
38. Autobus S (1937)
85 min
Bus driver Jonny wants to marry Grete, but she is jealous, and when he wrecks his bus, gets robbed by burglars and is implicated in an insurance fraud he decides to leave town and sign up on a ship as a sailor.
Director: Heinz Hille | Stars: Hermann Speelmans, Carsta Löck, Günther Lüders, Paul Westermeier
Votes: 12
39. Mädchen, die man nicht heiratet (1923)
Director: Géza von Bolváry | Stars: Ellen Kürti, Albert Steinrück, Karl Beckersachs, Hans Mierendorff
40. Hangmen, Women and Soldiers (1935)
Drama, Romance, War
A German WWI aviator leaves what he sees as a decadent homeland and gets involved in Russia against the Communists.
Director: Johannes Meyer | Stars: Hans Albers, Charlotte Susa, Jack Trevor, Ernst Dumcke
Votes: 13
41. Wer fuhr den grauen Ford? (1950)
94 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Peter is a member of a gang of petty criminals, but would much rather live a normal, orderly life.
Director: Otto Wernicke | Stars: Otto Wernicke, Ruth Hambrock, Erich Scholz, Ursula Herking
Votes: 39
42. Die vertauschte Braut (1934)
86 min | Comedy
Capricious Lady Virginia has an unexpected double in a girl who works at a fair and wishes for a beauty salon. When the first one's eccentricities lead to her arrest, the second is paid for... See full summary »
Director: Karel Lamac | Stars: Anny Ondra, Anton Walbrook, Fritz Odemar, Otto Wernicke
Votes: 10
43. Vom Teufel gejagt (1950)
Crime, Drama
Featuring one of the era's most beloved male idols, Hans Albers, as the doctor losing control of his dark side, is Viktor Turzanskij's rarely-screened Jekyll-and-Hyde version Vom Teufel ... See full summary »
Director: Viktor Tourjansky | Stars: Hans Albers, Willy Birgel, Lil Dagover, Maria Holst
Votes: 43
44. Die blonde Christl (1933)
85 min
An escapist story, from a popular Heimat writer, about a girl who falls in love with a small town violin maker, to take viewers' minds off the Depression there are Bavarian songs and scenes of skiing and hunting in the Alps.
Director: Franz Seitz | Stars: Karin Hardt, Theodor Loos, Rolf von Goth, Otto Wernicke
Votes: 18
45. Dreizehn Mann und eine Kanone (1938)
98 min | Comedy, War
WWI thriller set on the Austro-Russian front. A long distance gun helps against the enemy,until a traitor, who needs to be found, gives signals to the whereabouts of the battery.
Director: Johannes Meyer | Stars: Alexander Golling, Otto Wernicke, Herbert Hübner, Erich Ponto
Votes: 21
46. Friedemann Bach (1941)
102 min | Drama, Music
During a house concert, the Bach family gets a visit by their son Wilhelm Friedemann, who has just given up his position in Dresden because he no longer could endure the reprisals of his superiors.
Directors: Traugott Müller, Gustaf Gründgens | Stars: Gustaf Gründgens, Leny Marenbach, Johannes Riemann, Camilla Horn
Votes: 107
47. Between Heaven and Earth (1934)
Drama
A 19th century period drama about a village character who is a sort of Jekyll and Hyde.After he dies in a fall, his neighbors wonder if he committed suicide to make amends for his selfish and abusive behavior.
Director: Franz Seitz | Stars: Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Heinz Klingenberg, Attila Hörbiger, Joe Stöckel
48. Heimweh (1937)
88 min
Director: Jürgen von Alten | Stars: Gustav Knuth, Carsta Löck, Bodo Kaatz, Walter Franck
49. A Regular Fellow (1935)
92 min | Comedy
Bavarian comedy about an enterprising worker who convinces a wealthy sausage maker to name him head of production, after there are complaints about the quality of the meat.
Director: Carl Boese | Stars: Hermann Speelmans, Lien Deyers, Joe Stöckel, Erika Glässner
50. Nordlicht (1938)
97 min | Adventure
Director: Herbert B. Fredersdorf | Stars: René Deltgen, Ferdinand Marian, Hilde Sessak, Otto Wernicke
Votes: 16