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- DirectorGeorg HurdalekStarsHeinz RühmannLucie MannheimErnst SchröderGustav Hartmann is in trouble. Because of the new taxis he doesn't get many passengers in his horse-drawn carriage. To prove what he and his horse are capable of, he starts a trip from Berlin to Paris.
- DirectorKurt MeiselStarsHeinz RühmannMarianne KochHans LeibeltLutz Ventura is a writer in a small town. There he lives an idyllic life with his fiancée Margot. When his widowed sister suddenly dies, he takes in her two children Traudl and Rudi. This inevitably leads to complications.
- DirectorGéza von BolváryStarsHeli FinkenzellerFita BenkhoffMarte HarellAfter Richard Heuberger's operetta of the same name, Géza von Bolváry staged a high-spirited confusion about infidelity and amusing entanglements in Vienna at the turn of the century.
- DirectorFritz LangStarsPeter LorreEllen WidmannInge LandgutWhen the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.
- DirectorFritz LangStarsBrigitte HelmAlfred AbelGustav FröhlichIn a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
- DirectorHelmut KäutnerStarsHans AlbersIlse WernerHans SöhnkerThe film tells the story of the blond "singing sailor" Hannes Kröger who works in a St. Pauli club on the Große Freiheit 7, and falls in love with a girl. But she prefers his rival Willem and Hannes returns to the sea.
- DirectorJosef von BákyStarsHans AlbersWilhelm BendowMichael BohnenThis lavish, impudent, adult fairy tale takes the viewer from 18th-century Braunschweig to St. Petersburg, Constantinople, Venice, and then to the moon using ingenious special effects, stunning location shooting.
- DirectorAxel von AmbesserStarsHeinz RühmannPeter PartenGrit BoettcherFather Brown brings back a stolen painting. Later he examines the mysterious death of a castle owner.
- DirectorE.W. EmoStarsHeinz RühmannHans MoserInge ListRabe travels to Vienna in hope of a great inheritance from his aunt. But there are only 13 chairs waiting for him, which he sells. Then he finds a letter from the aunt announcing that she has hidden her money in one of the chairs.
- DirectorEduard von BorsodyStarsHedwig BleibtreuJoachim BrenneckeHeinz GoedeckeAt the Olympic games in Berlin 1936 Inge Wagner falls in love with Luftwaffenleutnant (Airforce Lieutenant) Herbert Koch. They want to marry, but he receives orders to go to Spain - incognito, without permission for any contacts to his friends and relatives. Inge is still waiting for him. After the beginning of WW II, German radio starts broadcasting the "Wunschkonzert für die Wehrmacht" - a program made of wishes from the soldiers. He hears the song, he wanted to hear, and so does Inge. A friend of Inge, who hopes she is willing to marry him, comes to the same squadron where Koch flies. Koch and Inge arrange a date at a Hamburg restaurant, but he and Ilse's friend are shot down the day before. In the hospital Koch finds out, that he and his friend love the same girl. He thinks they are already engaged and is willing to give her up.
- DirectorKurt HoffmannStarsHeinz RühmannJosef SieberHans BrausewetterMarriage license official Hugo gets his second divorce, and his new landlady is trying to lure him into his third marriage, but with the help of his wartime buddies he escapes this danger. Due to the fact, that all of them had bad luck with women, they decide to rent an apartment together and they promise each other to give up women, but Hugo falls for their landlady again and is breaking the promise. To get his two buddies to break the promise also, he sets up a "trap" for them, with the help of his two ex-wives....
- DirectorTheo LingenStarsHeinz RühmannHertha FeilerIda Wüst
- DirectorJosef von SternbergStarsEmil JanningsMarlene DietrichKurt GerronAn elderly professor's ordered life spins dangerously out of control when he falls for a nightclub singer.
- DirectorF.W. MurnauStarsGösta EkmanEmil JanningsCamilla HornThe demon Mephisto wagers with God that he can corrupt a mortal man's soul.
- DirectorPaul WegenerCarl BoeseStarsPaul WegenerAlbert SteinrückErnst DeutschIn 16th-century Prague, a rabbi creates the Golem - a giant creature made of clay. Using sorcery, he brings the creature to life in order to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution.
- DirectorKurt HoffmannStarsLiselotte PulverGunnar MöllerWera FrydtbergAndreas, a young German student, comes to Hungary on an exchange programme. In the Hungarian village he falls in love with the stationmaster's daughter Piroschka and spends much of his time with her. They have an enchanting summer until Andreas gets an invitation to join another young woman at a nearby resort. Piroschka is jealous and follows him there, causing trouble. It takes a long time for Andreas and Piroschka to even talk to each other again. When Andreas must leave Hungary at the end of his holiday, he is determined to return someday.
- DirectorMax OphülsStarsWolfgang LiebeneinerCarl EsmondMagda SchneiderVienna in the beginning of the twentieth century. Cavalry Lieutenant Fritz Lobheimer is about to end his affair with Baroness Eggerdorff when he meets the young Christine, the daughter of an opera violinist. Baron Eggerdorff however soon hears of his past misfortune...
- DirectorCarl BoeseStarsLuise UllrichPaul HörbigerHeinz RühmannAfter a burn-out Karl spends time in his home region, the Black Forest. His car gets lost and is picked up by penniless magician Amadori who enjoys posing as wealthy entrepreneur Karl while Karl reunites with the love of his youth, Liesl.
- DirectorGeorg JacobyStarsEddie ConstantineMarion MichaelGunther PhilippIn Monte Carlo, a captain tries to raise the money to pay his crew at the gaming table, and meets and falls in love with a queen.
- DirectorHanns SchwarzStarsHans AlbersAnna StenHeinz RühmannThe captain of a battleship of a small Balkan country is fed up with following strange orders from the country's queen.
- DirectorHelmut KäutnerStarsHeinz RühmannMartin HeldHannelore SchrothA 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 he doesn't get a pass; and without a pass, he doesn't get a job. He gets into the net of Prussian bureaucracy, and can't see a solution. Until he enters a small Second-Hand Shop, and sees a Prussian Uniform that fits him like a second skin...
- DirectorHelmut KäutnerStarsCurd JürgensMaria SchellChristian WolffThe movie reports the historical story of Schinderhannes, based on a play by Carl Zuckmayr. Johannes Bückler, this his real name, led a band of brigands in the Hunsrück mountains during Napoleonic times.