Johannes Heesters
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Amersfoort, Netherlands
Adult: No
Deathday: December 24, 2011
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Große Klappe, großes Herz
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2018-04-20
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Junge Leute brauchen Liebe
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-05-17
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Clear the stage for Marika
Overview: A dance and music film tailored completely for Marika Rokk: After her divorce, the wife of a composer uses her wit and charm to engage Marika as a singer and dancer on the stage. This manages to give life once again to the extinguished love between her and her former husband.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-08-14
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Viktor und Viktoria
Overview: Aspiring singer Susanne takes over for ham actor Viktor at a small cabaret in Berlin where he works a woman impersonator and per chance she's discovered by an agent, who thinks, that she really is a man. She becomes famous, but her situation becomes troublesome, when she falls in love with Robert.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-04-16
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1½ Ritter - Auf der Suche nach der hinreißenden Herzelinde
Overview: The story of Lanze who is in love with the princess. One day the princess is kidnapped by the Dark Knight and Lanze starts his journey to rescue her. But he is not alone because Erdal, a turk, joins him on his journey.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-12-17
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Bel Ami
Overview: In the 1880s, Georges Duroy, back from the Colonies, arrives in Paris with the firm intention of conquering the capital through his power of seduction, his selfishness and cynicism. Entering into journalism through the back door he will soon rise to the top with the support of several women: Madeleine Forestier, the wife of his journalist friend Charles; Clothilde de Marelle, his first mistress; Virginie Walter, the wife of a newspaper owner; Suzanne Walter, her daughter who eventually marries Duroy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1955-03-20
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Everything for the Company
Overview: Familial disputes surrounding a traditional business. Grandfather Sonndorfer allies himself with his grandson Otto, in order to bring his arrogant son Max on the right path. Between the fronts is Emmerich Liebling, the intriguing messenger.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1935-04-04
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Treffpunkt Herz
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Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-10-04
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Visit Out of the Blue
Overview: The multi-millionaire John Underhower travels from New York to Bavaria, where he’s bought a castle. The reason? He wants to prove there’s ghosts in the old building. John represents himself as a poor circus performer to his unsuspecting cousin Hyronimus, who works as a tour guide at the fortress. And Hyronimus has no shame in pretending to John, that he’s the proud owner of the castle. This little game soon leads to a lot of complications.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-02-05
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Heute heiratet mein Mann
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-08-30
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Ten - Sin for Salvation
Overview: A short directed by Stefan Hering.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-11-30
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The White Horse Inn
Overview: Head waiter Leopold has been secretly in love with the hostess Josepha for a long time, but she only has eyes for Dr. Siedler, a guest in the White Horse Inn. Leopold tries to get Dr. Siedler interested in the daughter of Industrialist Giesecke, who would rather see his daughter married to Sigismund.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1952-12-19
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Rosen in Tirol
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1940-12-05
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The Csardas Princess
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1951-12-20
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Bevor der letzte Vorhang fällt
Overview: A documentary about the life of the 93 years old actor Johannes Heesters who doesn't want to leave the stage.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-02
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Gestatten, mein Name ist Cox
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Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1955-03-08
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The Beggar Student
Overview: To take a revenge on countess Laura, who slapped him at his proposal, the Governor of the occupied Poland gets her fall in love with a poor student, and exposes him during wedding banquet.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-08-06
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Jenny und der Herr im Frack
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Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1941-11-25
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Karneval der Liebe
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Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1943-04-01
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Es lebe die Liebe
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1944-12-11
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Die Fledermaus
Overview: Produced in 1944, finished and released in 1946.
Genres: Music Romance Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1946-08-16
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Frech und verliebt
Overview: Penniless Peter Schild looks for work when arrived in Germany. Working as a private eye he has to observe a young lady who is willing to marry an unemployed actor against the will of her parents.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1950-03-30
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Gasparone
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Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-12-17
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Melody of a Great City
Overview: A young woman moves to Berlin to work as a press photographer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1943-10-04
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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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Nanon
Overview: An operetta directed by Herbert Maisch.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-11-15
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The Court Concert
Overview: Before he became cult director Douglas Sirk, Detlef Sierck cut his teeth on such lavish European star vehicles as Das Hofkonzert (The Court Concert). Marta Eggerth is cast as Christine, a young singer who aspires to find out who her father was. Her odyssey brings her to the court of a mythical kingdom, where she is romanced by handsome lieutenant Walter (Johannes Heesters). He is warned not to lose his heart to a "commoner," but all turns out all right when King Serenissimus (Otto Tressler) turns out to be Christine's long-lost daddy. Hofkonzert was designed as a comeback for Marta Eggerth, whose star had eclipsed by the mid-1930s.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-12-18
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Illusion
Overview: Melodrama about an actress falling in love with a man who wants her to give up her job.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1941-12-30
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Otto - The Movie
Overview: East Friesian Otto moves to the big city Hamburg. There he gets into trouble with a loan shark and needs to find a way to impress his love interest Silvia.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1985-07-19
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Paganini
Overview: Operetta concerning the love affair of Niccolò Paganini, the violinist, and Élisa Bonaparte, the younger sister of Napoleon.
Genres: History Music Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-01-04
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Professor Nachtfalter
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1951-02-23
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Frau im besten Mannesalter
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-01-29
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Liebe bleibt nicht ohne Schmerzen
Overview: TV-film by Alfred Vohrer
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-11-23
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Von allen geliebt
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-10-16
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Meine Tante – deine Tante
Overview: Because his future wife abandoned him shortly before the wedding, an old baron has decided that he doesn't want any women near him anymore. The daughter of the flaky woman decides to take it upon herself to get the baron and her mother back together again and dresses up as a gypsy boy to use music from "his" violin to soften the baron's heart ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1939-12-28
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Immer nur Du
Overview: The two stars of an upcoming operetta performance quarrel constantly. but they also fall in love with each other.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1941-08-22
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Opernball
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-08-29
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.. und wer küsst mich?
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-03-30
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Wiener Melodien
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Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1948-11-19
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Liebe Freundin
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1949-03-23
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Hab’ ich nur Deine Liebe
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Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1953-12-17
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Tanz ins Glück
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1951-10-19
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The Divorcée
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Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1953-09-16
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Die Alten kommen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-01-27
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Hochzeitsnacht im Paradies
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Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1950-10-23
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Nocturno im Grand Hotel
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-09-09
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Liebeskrieg nach Noten
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1953-08-17
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Die unvollkommene Ehe
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-09-03
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Liebesschule
Overview: A young woman works for two different men, both of whom fall in love with her. In the mornings she is secretary for a popular author and in the afternoons for a singer. Which of them will she settle for?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1940-05-03
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Ein gesegnetes Alter
Overview: TV version of Curth Flatow's stage play starring Johannes Heesters and his wife Simone Rethel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1998-05-01
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It All Started So Gaily
Overview: Clemens and Bobi, two legation secretaries, are sent on a delicate mission by their minister: it concerns a red portfolio with secret papers, which the minister stuck under a bed mattress and forgot about when he met someone on a rendezvous. And to make things more difficult, the horny minister can't remember which room he left it in. After several incidents in different hotel rooms, neither secretary has found a thing. There's not a trace of the portfolio; but Clemens is more interested in Annette, the young lady in one of the hotel beds, than in the portfolio. He forgets his mission and can think only of her. Boni, in the meantime, has found his way into a room, where Olivia is staying and sees a red, leather folder there. But the woman throws him out in short order.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1944-08-28
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Die lustigen Vagabunden
Overview: On account of a bet, the painter Menzinger and his friend Schratt decide to travel the country as unemployed bums (no doubt, because there were so few unemployed and homeless people in Germany just a few years earlier). For two weeks, they wander around Germany; then they're confused with some robbers and they land in jail. How does it feel to imitate the homeless now, guys?
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1940-09-20
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Wenn die kleinen Veilchen blüh'n
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-11-10
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Das Abenteuer geht weiter
Overview: A popular stage tenor can't stay away from his female admirers until his wife threatens to divorce him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1939-02-24
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Die Leuchter des Kaisers
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-02-14
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Er soll dein Herr sein
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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Wenn Frauen schweigen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-09-09
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Glück bei Frauen
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1944-07-11
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Wenn eine Frau liebt
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1950-08-30
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The Girl on The Roof
Overview: A comedy of manners, the film centers on virtuous actress Patty O'Neill, who meets playboy architect Donald Gresham on the observation deck of the Empire State Building and accepts his invitation to join him for drinks and dinner in his apartment. There she meets Donald's upstairs neighbors, his ex-fiancée Cynthia and her father, roguish David Slader. Both men are determined to bed the young woman, but they quickly discover Patty is more interested in engaging in spirited discussions about the pressing moral and sexual issues of the day than surrendering her virginity to either one of them. After resisting their amorous advances throughout the night, Patty leaves and returns to the Empire State Building, where Donald finds her and proposes marriage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1953-12-16
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Adventure in Rio
Overview: A remake of the 1940 film of the same title. It was shot on location in Brazil with separate German and Italian versions.
Genres: Romance Adventure Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1955-04-08
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Hochzeitsnacht im Paradies
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-10-23
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Sonny Boys
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-12-12
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Die schöne Wilhelmine
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1984-09-06
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Altes Herz wird nochmal jung
Overview: A movie with three episodes starring Johannes Heesters.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1991-11-28
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The Dutch Circus
Overview: After years of touring abroad with his "Cirque Hollandais", Hendrik van Dalen returns to Holland, hoping that his brother will lend him financial support. Since the death of his wife, things have gone from bad to worse with Hendrik, who drowns his sorrow in drink. Moreover, he has set his heart on the circus-equestrienne, who pretends to love him but is having an affair with the company's wrestler. By encouraging Hendrik to drink, they hope to get their hands on his possessions. Hendrik's daughter sees through their designs and, with the aid of the clown Louisot, tries to foil their plans.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1924-10-17
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Gastspiele
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-12-26
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Ich knüpfte manche zarte Bande
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Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1985-12-08
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Johannes Heesters: Eine Legende wird 100
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Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2003-12-05
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Axel an der Himmelstür
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Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1944-01-01
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The Moon Is Blue
Overview: Two aging playboys are both after the same attractive young woman, but she fends them off by claiming that she plans to remain a virgin until her wedding night. Both men determine to find a way around her objections.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-08
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Renee XIV
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1946-01-01
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Bleeke Bet
Overview: In 1930s Amsterdam, greengrocer Bet is involved in illicit affairs with businessman Van Santen. To tighten bonds even further, Bet arranges a marriage between her handsome daughter Jans and the businessman's wacky son Hannes. Jans, however, is in love with tough sailor Ko. Based on the succesful Dutch stage musical by Herman Bouber.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1934-09-06
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Leider lauter Lügen
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Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-04-07
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Nicht zuhören, meine Damen!
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-08-13
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Die Welt des Robert Stolz
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Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-05-08
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Schlagerparade
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1953-11-03
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Memories of Berlin: The Twilight of Weimar Culture
Overview: The film tells the cultural story of Berlin during the Weimar Republic through interviews with a number of persons who were involved in literature, film, art, and music during the period. It includes interviews with Christopher Isherwood, Louise Brooks, Lotte Eisner, Elisabeth Bergner, Francis Lederer, Carl Zuckmayer, Gregor Piatigorsky, Claudio Arrau, Rudolf Kolisch, Mischa Spoliansky, Herbert Bayer, Mrs. Walter Gropius, and Arthur Koestler.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-07
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Die schönsten Geschichten mit Johannes Heesters
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1995-03-01
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Mein Bruder Jacques
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-11-11
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The Four Müllers
Overview: Several generations of Mullers go to war with each other over their family business, the main branch of which is about to go belly-up.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1935-03-29
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