Albert Bessler
Also Known As: Albert Ressler
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hamburg, Germany
Adult: No
Birthday: February 15, 1905
Age: 120 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: October 03, 1975
Popularity:
Known For:
Creature with the Blue Hand
Overview: Scotland Yard is after a homicidal maniac called The Blue Hand, which is what he uses to kill his victims.
Genres: Crime Horror
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-04-28
Popularity:
Majesty on a Detour
Overview: The new-rich mother of a film child who became famous overnight is trying to bring her little son together with the twelve-year-old king of a Balkan country, who is currently in Brussels, for validity and advertising reasons. The children actually get to know each other and run away with an 'Liftboy' to Antwerp for adventure.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-12-17
Popularity:
Confess, Dr. Corda
Overview: A doctor goes to meet a beautiful girl at a park bench near a wooded area. When he arrives, he finds her battered body lying next to a stream! He then finds himself to be the prime suspect. Who's the killer?
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-05-22
Popularity:
Brainwashed
Overview: Werner von Basil, a Austrian intellectual, was captured by the Nazis in 1938. They 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-09-02
Popularity:
The Avenger
Overview: A maniac is loose in London, decapitating his victims and sending the heads to Scotland Yard.
Genres: Crime Horror
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-08-05
Popularity:
The Blue Swords
Overview: The story of Johann Friedrich Böttger, an apothecary’s apprentice and alchemist’s assistant. Fleeing from the Prussian King, he goes to Saxony, where King Frederick August the Strong takes him to a fortress and demands that he create gold. Böttger is equipped with everything he would need for the task, but he has known for a while that actual gold production is a myth and instead experiments with porcelain—white porcelain, as the Chinese are said to possess. In 1709, he finally succeeds in surprising the King with the "white gold," the first white porcelain made in Europe, he hopes for freedom.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1949-12-30
Popularity:
Ship of the Dead
Overview: After a line of mischief Philip Gale, an American sailor, is lured into hiring on the "Yorikke", a tramp cargo, by Lawski, a stoker from Poland. Still, the two become friends within the motley crew of losers from all nations. Gale and his new companion soon are more than disillusioned: the "Yorikke" is far from seaworthy and more of a coffin than a ship, work is close to slavery, and treatment by the officers and their subalterns is harsh and cynical. One day they make an alarming discovery in a tin of plum butter they have procured from the ship's cargo... Written by Anonymous
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-10-01
Popularity:
The Restless Night
Overview:
Genres: History War Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-10-29
Popularity:
Sweetheart of the Gods
Overview: Biography of the famous German actress Renate Müller, who died in 1937 under unsettled circumstances; While doing her first movie for the UFA in Berlin, she meets the elderly secretary-general Dr. Simon and is impressed by his charm. Although her Nazi-friend Volker discourages her to befriend a Jew, they start dating. While she ascends to one of the most famous German actresses of her time, Simon is suffering more and more under the Nazi regime.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-04-11
Popularity:
Frozen Alive
Overview: A scientist experimenting with suspended animation decides to use himself as a test subject. Before he is frozen, his wife is killed, and he is suspected of her murder. a murder suspect.
Genres: Mystery Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-12-01
Popularity:
The Squeaker
Overview: Scotland Yard investigates a series of murders where the victims have died by snake venom poisoning.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-04-26
Popularity:
Die Stimme im Glas
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-08-06
Popularity:
Again the Ringer
Overview: Arthur Milton aka Der Hexer (The Magician/Ringer) must return to London after his calling card was left at the scene of a murder he did not commit.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-06-04
Popularity:
Dr. Mabuse vs. Scotland Yard
Overview: The spirit of the evil Dr. Mabuse takes over the body of a famous professor. The professor/Dr. Mabuse then begins a new crime wave that terrorizes the city.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-09-20
Popularity:
The Hunchback of Soho
Overview: A woman is kidnapped and her identity is stolen by criminals attempting to collect her inheritance.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-09-06
Popularity:
Jerry Cotton: Death and Diamonds
Overview: Sixth part of Jerry Cotton movies. Agent Jerry Cotton infiltrates a big crime syndicate that is planning a major diamond heist.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-02-23
Popularity:
You Are Free, Dr. Korczak
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-04-09
Popularity:
General Oster – Verräter oder Patriot?
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-08-27
Popularity:
Long Legs, Long Fingers
Overview: Baron Holberg, who looks back with pride on a long family tradition as hotel thieves, is horrified when his daughter Doris falls in love with the lawyer Robert Hammond, of all people, rather than choosing the art thief Sammy, as he would wish. Under the pretext that they are being pursued by the police, he lures his daughter away from the lawyer, but when he confesses the deception to her, Doris immediately sets off for Hammond's country estate near London. However, Hammond's father is not too fond of the connection either...
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-08-26
Popularity:
The Strange Countess
Overview: Strange fortune hunters are behind a girl's murder in this Edgar Wallace tale.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-11-08
Popularity:
The Tragedy of Silence
Overview: Cautionary drama, with vigorous attack on Germany's laws governing abortion.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-01-12
Popularity:
The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle
Overview: A strangler is loose on a British estate, and he not only strangles his victims but brands an "M" onto their foreheads before he decapitates them.
Genres: Crime Thriller Horror
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-06-21
Popularity:
Romulus der Große
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-06-04
Popularity:
Sunscorched
Overview: A group of four outlaws led by Abel Dragna Fraserville decide to settle in a small, civilized and peaceful town of 1,200 inhabitants in which even the sheriff, does not carry weapons. Soon the gunmen begin to make all kinds of misdeeds against the impassive gaze of the sheriff whose attitude is misunderstood by their neighbors.
Genres: Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-04-27
Popularity:
The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
Overview: A reporter is murdered while driving to his job. The Police are contacted by a clairvoyant who saw the death in a vision, but some dark force is preventing him from seeing the man behind the crime...
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-09-13
Popularity:
The Young Sinner
Overview:
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-10-19
Popularity:
Notes from a Gynecologist's Diary
Overview: After a carnival celebration, young Erika Hansen is offered a lift by two young men in a car. The men become abusive. Erika rushes out of the car and is seriously injured. She is brought to a gynecoligal clinic for an acute operation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-03-24
Popularity:
The Last Witness
Overview: Director Wolfgang Staudte who left East Germany in 1953 to make movies in West Germany, takes a few swipes at the West German judicial system in this fairly effective courtroom drama about the murder of a four-month-old baby. Police almost immediately arrest the mother Ingrid who is the mistress of the father, a rich business VIP married to another woman. His position and wealth keep him insulated from suspicion. A hot-shot lawyer has to overcome the unaccountably biased perceptions of the police, the judge, the prosecutor and almost everyone else in the judicial system. The defence lawyer, driven to an extreme, knows he has to find the real killer or his client will be convicted.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-12-30
Popularity:
The Return of Dr. Mabuse
Overview: The supposedly dead and buried Mabuse returns to his criminal activities, as his longtime foe Police Inspector Lohmann, a dauntless girl reporter, and an American - who may be an FBI agent, or maybe a Chicago mobster - investigate a series of gruesome murders connected to a maximum security prison and involving a minister who has written a book called "The Anatomy Of The Devil".
Genres: Crime Thriller Science Fiction Mystery
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-01-01
Popularity:
Eheinstitut Aurora
Overview: Murder mystery
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-01-18
Popularity:
The Terror of Doctor Mabuse
Overview: Dr. Mabuse has been locked away for years in an insane asylum. Suddenly crimes start occurring and no one knows the culprit. A detective goes to visit the Doctor to find some sort of clues to the robberies.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-09-06
Popularity:
The Mad Executioners
Overview: A group of hooded vigilantes hang wrong-doers with a rope stolen from Scotland Yard's Black Museum.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-11-22
Popularity:
Piccadilly Zero Hour 12
Overview:
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-12-31
Popularity:
Madame Bovary
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-04-14
Popularity:
Waterloo
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-10-08
Popularity:
Altersheim
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-04-04
Popularity:
Gneisenau – Die politische Auflehnung eines Soldaten
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-06-11
Popularity:
The Secret of the Black Trunk
Overview: A series of knife murders have an odd feature about them; the victims find that their luggage has been packed for them just before their deaths. Scotland Yard investigates, and discover that the murders are linked to an addictive drug called Mescadrine.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-02-23
Popularity:
The Monster of London City
Overview: Then the spirit of Jack the Ripper seems to be very much alive in 1960s London as a series of brutal slayings by the Monster of London City has Scotland Yard baffled. In a macabre coincidence, a new play about the famous murderer is about to become a major West End hit... and the leading man is rapidly becoming the prime suspect!
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-07-02
Popularity:
The High Life
Overview: Doris Putzke is fond of dating men in her quest to find the perfect one. In her brief relationships, she goes from one disillusionment to another, constantly deluding herself about the intentions of her lovers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-02-16
Popularity:
Carnival Confession
Overview: During the 1913 carnival, a man is stabbed to death in the confessional of Mainz Cathedral: Ferdinand Dörfler was the illegitimate son of the businessman Panezza, who never confessed to him. Ferdinand's brother Clemens is accused of fratricide by his own mother. The young Viola, who had come to Mainz from Italy, makes a confession: she loved Ferdinand and had been abandoned by him. Lolfo, who was unconditionally devoted to her, pursued Ferdinand and killed him. Lolfo commits suicide.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-09-14
Popularity:
Blind Justice
Overview: A man is accused of murdering his wife. The state prosecutor assumes he did the deed to spend more time with his lover. But the woman in question says that his wife committed suicide in her presence and that the accused is innocent. Despite the objections of the prosecutor, the accused is set free and is found dead shortly thereafter. The prosecutor decides to pursue the case and comes upon a band of criminals, who sell German state secrets. Shortly before the investigation comes to a close, a woman is murdered. When a witness asserts to have seen him near the woman's dead body, the prosecutor himself ends up in court and must now prove his innocence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-10-05
Popularity:
The Berliner
Overview: Otto, a feckless Everyman, tries to adjust to the postwar travails of his defeated nation. Stymied by black-market profiteers and government bureaucrats, Otto begins fantasizing about a happier life at the end of that ever-elusive rainbow.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1948-12-31
Popularity: