Erich Ponto
Also Known As: Эрих Понто, Erich Johannes Bruno Ponto
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Adult: No
Birthday: December 14, 1884
Age: 140 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: February 04, 1957
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The Punch Bowl
Overview: Writer Johannes Pfeiffer who goes undercover as a student in a high school after his friends told him that he missed out on a great life experience since he was home schooled.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1944-01-28
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The Third Man
Overview: In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he has died. Martins develops a conspiracy theory after learning of a "third man" present at the time of Harry's death, running into interference from British officer Major Calloway, and falling head-over-heels for Harry's grief-stricken lover, Anna.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-31
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Das verlorene Gesicht
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1948-11-19
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Tobias Knopp, Adventure of a Bachelor
Overview: The wealthy man Tobias Knopp becomes ever more lonely and quirky over the years. He had let himself go, his girth increased significantly, and his hair fell out. Over that, he waited too long for the right woman and stayed a bachelor involuntarily. But now, he wants to try again one more time and wants to get married after all. But first of all, the right woman for this has to be found, and thus Knopp embarks on a journey to look for a wife all through the German lands. During that, he visits his friends who are already married for a long time and gets all kinds of advice from them on how to get to know a woman and to conquer her heart. On his journey, Knopp then learns much about the different facets of married life. After countless adventures, he, however, doesn’t find an adequate partner and returns home frustrated. But perhaps, his housekeeper might be able to help out?
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1953-02-08
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The Zurich Engagement
Overview: Juliane Thomas is an ambitious but unemployed young writer. After breaking up with her lover she works at a dentist friend to make ends meet. One day she instantly falls in love with one of the patients (Jean Berner) and promptly writes a movie script about the encounter in which she projects her own fantasies about how things will turn out eventually. By coincidence this movie script is picked up by a film director who happens to be Berner's closest friend and from then on things become very complicated...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-04-16
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Wenn wir alle Engel wären
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-09-20
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The Final Chord
Overview: After her husband dies, a German woman who gave up her infant for adoption to emigrate to America returns to Germany, discovering that her child is being raised by a married orchestra conductor.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-06-26
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Hokuspokus
Overview: A murder trial becomes a farce when a widow tries to convince the district attorney that she didn't drown her husband, with the help of an eccentric lawyer.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1953-08-31
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Sky Without Stars
Overview: Anna is a factory worker in East Germany. Her five-year-old son Jochen lives with his grandparents in the West and Anna wants him to live with her, so she abducts him. Along the way she meets Carl who helps her with her son and they fall in love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1955-10-14
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The Girl and the Legend
Overview: London, in 1730. Charly, Jim and Ben work hard, with the brave Maud, in a cotton mill to earn a few shillings. They all dream of the wonderful island told by Daniel Defoe. The latter lives in a miserable room. He is disgraced and rejected by his son Tom, a scoundrel who blames his father for losing his position at the Court ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-02-07
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The Angel and the Lyre
Overview: Achim and Vera are friends and live an uncomplicated and happy life .... that is, until they get into their first serious argument on how they should spend New Year's Eve. Vera wants to celebrate with friends, while Achim wants to go off to a lonely mountain hut. And so, he goes off alone into the mountains. In the hut, he meets the student Susanne, with whom he spends New Years' Eve; gets to know well; and falls in love with. Unfortunately, through misfortune, they lose sight of each other afterwards...
Genres: Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1944-12-19
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The Flying Classroom
Overview: The third form of a boarding school and the students of a neighboring school do not get along. Each side dreams up the craziest pranks to defeat the other. And when one day the high school students go as far as stealing the Gymnasium students’ essays and even burning them, daily school life really gets out of hand.
Genres: Family Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1954-09-02
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Film Without Title
Overview: A screenwriter comes up with a story about an affair between a maid and her employer.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1948-01-23
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Der Feuerteufel
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1940-03-05
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Frauenarzt Dr. Prätorius
Overview: In the face of two world wars, Professor Prätorius, a philanthropist and a surgeon, wants to exterminate the one danger to mankind, the microbe of stupidity, as he states in a spontaneous lecture to his male and female students. When he tries to help a pregnant girl he gets involved more and more in her life and is forced to marry her.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1950-01-15
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Love '47
Overview: A young man and woman meet on a bridge, both about to commit suicide by jumping into the river, and recount to each other their experiences.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1949-11-25
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Der große Schatten
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1942-09-25
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Hans im Glück
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Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1949-12-18
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Joan of Arc
Overview: France in the 15th Century: The country is marked by the wars with England and internal power struggles. King Charles sees himself powerless against the state. As emerges from the people suddenly a young woman named Johanna, who claimed that the Archangel Gabriel to be appointed, to save France. First of all doubt the king in their words, but he remembers that the people through this "help of God" is gaining new courage. With the slogan "God and the Virgin!" pulls the revivified victorious army into battle against the English-Burgundian alliance. After Johanna King Charles is crowned at Reims, there breaks the plague over the country in. Now Johanna all the blame on the disaster: God would punish believe in the country for that a heretic; if Johanna were actual a holy, she would deal also with the plague. The waning faith weakens France, England is again on the rise. But Johanna is executed as a witch. Only years later annulled the verdict of the Holy and Johanna explained.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1935-04-26
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Die große Versuchung
Overview: A young man practices medicine without a licence.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1952-12-18
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Hallo Janine
Overview: The French ballet girl Janine, a gifted tap-dancer, dreams of a musical career in Paris. But first she wants to take revenge on Count René who stood up her best friend Charlotte. Janine wants him to fall in love with her and disappoint him afterwards. At a masked ball at which Janine pretends to be a Marquise they have their first meeting. Janine is very disappointed in the "good gentleman", but she does not suspect that this gentleman also makes a pretence. The man whom she holds to be count René is Pierre, a composer and pianist.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1939-06-30
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Haus des Lebens
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1952-09-11
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No Greater Love
Overview: Directed by Harald Braun and told from the perspective of Bertha von Suttner, the first female to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, The Alfred Nobel Story - No Greater Love chronicles the life of scientist, inventor, and businessman Alfred Nobel. Nobel built a massive fortune throughout his life, and while much if it was amassed by his inventions--dynamite being perhaps the most notable--he was also revered for his discoveries within the fields of science and economics. Upon his death, Nobel decided that his fortune was simply too great to continue in the form of an inheritance or single charitable donation, opting instead to use the money as reward for the greatest contributors to physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and, of course, peace.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1952-02-29
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The Heart of a Queen
Overview: As the title "The Queen's Heart" suggests, this early German black and white version of Mary Queen of Scott's eventful reign and death focuses on her emotional perception rather lyrically, with some songs, mainly by her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1940-11-01
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Philharmoniker
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1944-12-04
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Primanerinnen
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1951-11-30
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The Life of Surgeon Sauerbruch
Overview: Young Olga Ahrendt almost succeeded in attempting suicide. She had thrown herself in front of a tram out of desperation about her miserable life, a desperation she shared with many in the post-war period. Fortunately, Privy Councillor Sauerbruch is at the scene of the incident, ordering her to be admitted to his clinic after a brief examination. Sauerbruch works both as a university lecturer and as a surgeon, a famous doctor who not only helps his patients physically but also gives them spiritual comfort. After he has taken Olga Ahrendt to his hospital, he discovers during an examination that her suicide attempt is due to a serious physical illness. He intensively takes care of her without forgetting about his other patients, to whom he can give a new will to live, even if only through a small story. And he will also treat Olga Ahrendt successfully...
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1954-07-12
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Overview: Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson look into reports that a huge, vicious hound has killed Lord Charles Baskerville and that Lord Henry Baskerville is the next to be killed.
Genres: Crime Mystery Horror
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-01-12
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Diesel
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1943-02-09
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The Rothschilds
Overview: Biopic about the Rothschilds, a Jewish family whose members rose to the top of the European banking community during the Napoleonic era.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1940-07-17
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Schneider Wibbel
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1939-08-17
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The Golden Plague
Overview: At the end of the war a disillusioned German exile returns home only to fall into the dark world of black market goods and drug trafficking.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1954-12-30
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The Night in Venice
Overview: The marriage of the celebrated operetta diva Vilma and the chamber singer Peter has come to an end. Peter, however, is intent on winning back his now ex-wife. So he’s come up with the idea of a guest performance in Venice, where the two will both appear. Vilma, however, has already found a new man – Niki. He’s a salesman and she wants to marry him. With the help of Annemarie, a friend, who has won a trip to Venice, Peter succeeds in diverting Niki, for he falls in love with Annemarie. Now the way is free for Peter to win back the ex-wife, who couldn’t care if he lived in a hole six feet underground.
Genres: Family Music Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1942-04-02
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Achtung! Feind hört mit!
Overview: This is the war and everybody in Germany should beware : the enemy is listening. One family in particular had better be even more careful than the average citizen of the Reich : the Kettwigs. Indeed they own an armament factory and their engineers, technicians, workers and of course themselves belong to a highly sensitive sector. They are under the constant scrutiny of those who want to get hold of the secret weapons devised in the plant, notably of a wire which, when attached to a balloon, may become the most effective anti-aircraft ever. For sure, they should distrust everybody. Isn't Nolte, the waiter, an enemy agent? Should young Bernd Kettwig allow himself to be seduced by this pretty woman ? As for Bernd's secretary, is she right when she lets this handsome man woo her?
Genres: War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1940-01-02
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Attack on Baku
Overview: Azerbaijan, 1919. The British hope to secure control of the vast oil fields around Baku by launching a series of terrorist attacks on them. Hans Romberg, a German who is working as a security officer, battles with the British chief agent Captain Forbes and his associates. (Description from Wikipedia)
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1942-08-25
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Ein glücklicher Mensch
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1943-10-14
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Between Yesterday and Tomorrow
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1947-12-11
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Der weißblaue Löwe
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1952-11-18
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Clothes Make the Man
Overview: The daydreaming tailor Wenzel is fired from his job, because the fancy frock he was supposed to cut for the mayor, he instead made for himself. He is allowed, however, to take the frock, which he appropriated for himself and he puts it on as he leaves the shop. A puppeteer picks him up in his coach and addresses Wenzel as "Count". So is he received in Goldach, where people think he is Count Stroganoff, the ambassador to the Czar of Russia.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1940-09-16
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Blutsbrüderschaft
Overview: On November 11, 1918, the last day of the First World War , Lieutenant Colonel Klaus Olden desperately tried to hold a lost post with his unit. The rescue appears in the form of pilot Jochen Wendler, who shows up with his plane and drops ammunition. When Jochen's machine is shot down immediately, Klaus manages to pull him out of the wreck at the last second. Both are injured and taken to the hospital , where they are cared for by the attractive nurse Barbara, a childhood friend of Jochen. The two men form a blood brotherhood and drive together with Barbara to East Prussia , where they want to visit relatives of Jochen on their estate . But the relatives' yard was destroyed in the war. The post-war period turns out to be an economic disaster.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1941-01-03
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Mönche, Mädchen und Panduren
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1952-10-01
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In the Evening After the Opera
Overview: A wealthy man murders his wife, then marries a young woman who becomes suspicious of him.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1945-08-31
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Am seidenen Faden
Overview: A WWI veteran comes home and with a scientist's help opens an artificial silk factory later used for clothing. Crooked international profiteers ,a lawyer and a banker, threaten the profitability of the concern and the workers' jobs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-09-22
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Das Geheimnis um Betty Bonn
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-01-04
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Schicksal aus zweiter Hand
Overview: A man's life breaks down in pursuit of material success.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1949-10-05
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Wie konntest Du, Veronika!
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1940-08-29
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Palace Scandal
Overview: During the Biedermeier era, a young singer searches for her missing father. Remake of "Das Hofkonzert", 1936.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1949-04-15
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Das Fräulein von Barnhelm
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1940-10-22
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Die beiden Schwestern
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1943-10-26
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Das andere Ich
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1941-11-21
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Der Meisterdetektiv
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1944-07-10
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The Molander Case
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1945-01-01
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In letzter Minute
Overview: A retired rail official and his wife Amalie purchase a disused railroad wagon to convert it into a villa in the countryside. One day, Amalie discovers 25,000 Marks hidden behind a picture in the rail car. The money was put there by a Dutch couple, who tried to smuggle the money across the border during the train’s last journey. Sorely tempted to keep the money, Amalie turns it over to the authorities. The smugglers, who finally find the rail car after a long search, will be turned over to the cops, too.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1939-09-07
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Geliebter Lügner
Overview: The young fashion illustrator Jeanette meets the chief engineer Rudolf Siebert at an artists' festival in Schwabing, but thinks he is the talented but poor painter Braubach, whom she admires and would like to support. The spoiled Siebert is happy to put up with this. This is a completely new life for him. He wants to continue playing this role, and so Braubach has to play the chief engineer in his place. But then the unsuspecting Jeanette learns the truth. She feels betrayed and is deeply hurt. Now Rudolf Siebert has to convince them that he started the game with the best of intentions and that he wants to bring it to a happy end with their help. Will she believe him?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1950-01-13
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Der Scheiterhaufen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1945-01-01
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The Man Who Committed the Murder
Overview: The story is about Conrad Veidt as military attache in Turkey where he learns to know an English consul (Heinrich George) and his attractive wife who is treated badly. They begin an affair and soon the husband proves to be an obstacle that has to be disposed of.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-01-23
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Verspieltes Leben
Overview: Germany, 1914: The bourgeois austerity of the small, northern German town in which Ulyssa lives conflicts sharply with her desire to flirt with and be ensnared by charming, young men. That she's married is irrelevant; it's a marriage which exists only on paper. Among all the men Ulyssa flirts with, there is one for which she has genuine affection: Stefen Marbach, an upright and sincere man, far superior to her other men. And, indeed, the two are honest with one another about their feelings, but the outbreak of the First World War separates them. Sometime later, Ulyssa finds out that not only her husband, but Stefan, too, has fallen in battle. The news of this disaster leads her to reconsider and eventually give in to the constant urgings of the Viennese merchant Reindl. Ulyssa joins Reindl in Vienna and lives a life of wealth and comfort, until one day, Stefan shows up.
Genres: War Romance Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1949-02-27
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The Four Companions
Overview: Four graduates of an industrial design school team up and form a small business. The protagonist is so excited by the venture that she turns down the proposal of her dashing instructor. Time passes and her three partners lose interest in the business for different reasons. This leaves the heroine who has a change of heart and decides to forgo the business and marry the instructor after all.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-10-01
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I Accuse
Overview: In this film, the wife of a renowned doctor becomes ill with multiple sclerosis. Trying to spare her beloved husband the ordeal, the woman turns to a family friend, Dr. Lang, to help end her life. When this doctor declines to help with the assisted suicide, however, she is forced to turn to her husband. After much soul-searching, Dr. Heyt, her husband, assists in her suicide. The act, however, is witnessed by a chambermaid, who reports him to the police. Dr. Heyt is put on trial for murder and, at first, Dr. Lang testifies against him in court. Soon, however, Dr. Lang is faced with a similar case in his professional practice and this, along with Dr. Heyt’s impassioned performance in court, convinces Dr. Lang that, in some instances, mercy killing may be the right thing to do.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1941-08-29
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Was das Herz befiehlt
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1951-09-12
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Ballerina
Overview: Bettina Sanden, a solo dancer at the opera, falls ill with polio. The chances of a cure look rather slim.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-03-28
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Aus erster Ehe
Overview: Movie based on the novel by Christel Broehl-Delhaes
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1940-07-23
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Dreizehn Mann und eine Kanone
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Genres: War Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-12-22
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Keine Angst vor großen Tieren
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1953-07-30
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Zwischen Herz und Gewissen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1951-03-16
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Keine Angst vor Schwiegermüttern
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1954-10-14
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Leichte Muse
Overview: A composer finds commercial success but has to confront difficulties in his private life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1941-10-10
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Der Stern von Afrika
Overview: Biographic Movie of the German fighter ace, who was killed in a plane crash after over 150 kills in North Africa.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-08-13
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Made in Germany – Ein Leben für Zeiss
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-01-24
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Der Fall Rainer
Overview: Germany in the fall of 1918: Accompanied by the Archduke Karl Maria, Princess Henriette von Battenstein makes an inspection tour of hospitals. During these inspections, she meets Lieutenant Rainer, the former conductor of the State Opera. When she later makes music with him in the Archduke's castle, she becomes the unwilling witness to a secret cease fire negotiation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1942-05-12
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...und ewig bleibt die Liebe
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1954-08-12
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Love, Death and the Devil
Overview: In a harbor bazaar of the Pacific town of Kona, the young sailor Kiwe is offered a mysterious bottle, which supposedly gives her owner power and wealth and should fulfill all his wishes. The required return is however high. From now on, the soul of the new owner belongs to the devil.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1934-12-21
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Woman in the Jungle
Overview: Marooned on a rubber plantation in the East Indies, Leslie turns to Geoffrey for the love and diversion that she does not find with her husband.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-01-08
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Die kupferne Hochzeit
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1948-12-15
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