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1. Die Fee (1969 TV Movie)
85 min | Comedy
Directors: Ettore Cella, Hans Jaray | Stars: Robert Tessen, Christiane Hörbiger, Gretl Schörg, Hannes Siegl
Votes: 10
2. Der Meteor (1968 TV Movie)
110 min | Drama
Director: Leopold Lindtberg | Stars: Leonard Steckel, Peter Brogle, Ellen Schwiers, Willy Birgel
Votes: 34
3. Der Majoratsherr (1943)
87 min
Director: Hans Deppe | Stars: Willy Birgel, Viktoria von Ballasko, Anneliese Uhlig, Ernst Sattler
Votes: 9
4. Großer Mann was nun? (1967–1968)
60 min
Stars: Gustav Knuth, Camilla Spira, Barbara Stanek, Günther Schramm
Votes: 55
5. Der Kreidegarten (1967 TV Movie)
105 min | Drama
Director: Edward Rothe | Stars: Elisabeth Flickenschildt, Robert Freitag, Elfriede Kuzmany, Christiane Schröder
Votes: 9
6. Andorra (1964 TV Movie)
125 min
Teacher Can claims that his foster son Andri is a Jew he once saved. When Andri is increasingly confronted with antisemitic remarks and even assaulted, Can has to admit that Andri is no Jew but his illegitimate son. But he can't save him.
Directors: Kurt Hirschfeld, Gert Westphal | Stars: Peter Brogle, Kathrin Schmid, Ernst Schröder, Angelika Arndts
Votes: 18
7. Der Gefangene der Botschaft (1964 TV Movie)
80 min | Drama
Director: Nicolas Gessner | Stars: Anne-Marie Blanc, Alfred Schlageter, Walter Kiesler, Wolfgang Stendar
Votes: 15
8. Die Drehscheibe (1964–1982)
40 min | Family, Music, News
Die Drehscheibe is a tabloid and country magazine on the television channel ZDF.
Stars: Rut Speer, Helge Philipp, Oldwig Jancke, Gerd Mausbach
Votes: 65
9. Der dunkle Tag (1943)
83 min | Drama
Wolf Burkhardt, who has acquired mining rights in Africa, returns home to get financing for his project. At the same time, he'd like to renew his youthful love for Georgia, but is ... See full summary »
Director: Géza von Bolváry | Stars: Marte Harell, Willy Birgel, Ewald Balser, Malte Jaeger
Votes: 14
10. Gut gefragt ist halb gewonnen (1964–1970)
Family, Game-Show
Stars: Hans Rosenthal, Heinrich Riethmüller, Monika Sundermann, Hans Bierbrauer
Votes: 67
11. Unsere Nachbarn heute abend: Familie Schölermann (1954– )
Stars: Willy Krüger, Lotte Rausch, Charles Brauer, Margaret Cargill
Votes: 24
12. Professor Sound und die Pille - Die unwahrscheinliche Geschichte einer Erfindung (1971 TV Movie)
75 min | Comedy
Walter Roderer embodies the quirky do-gooder Professor Sound with great fun in this musical comedy by Karl Suter.
Director: Karl Suter | Stars: Willy Birgel, Lil Dagover, Walter Roderer, Marion Jacob
Votes: 7
13. Kameraden (1941)
102 min | Drama, History
Director: Hans Schweikart | Stars: Willy Birgel, Peter Martin Urtel, Karin Hardt, Rudolf Fernau
Votes: 25
14. Blick zurück im Film (1963– )
Stars: Felix Knemöller, Rudolf Günther Wagner, Sylvia Springer, Hilde Weissner
Votes: 14
15. Was bin ich? (1955–1989)
Game-Show
What am I? Cheerful professions advise with Robert Lembke.
Stars: Robert Lembke, Jacky Lembke, Annette von Aretin, Guido Baumann
Votes: 84
16. 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
17. Mein Herz darfst du nicht fragen (1952)
100 min | Drama
In 1945, in the last days of WW II, while on the run, young Anna (Heidemarie Hatheyer) loses her two year old son. Three years later she gets a job as a female worker on the manor of the ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Martin | Stars: Willy Birgel, Heidemarie Hatheyer, Maria Holst, Ewald Balser
Votes: 8
18. Die Brüder Noltenius (1945)
87 min | Drama
Director: Gerhard Lamprecht | Stars: Willy Birgel, Karl Mathias, Hilde Weissner, Eugen Klöpfer
Votes: 15
19. 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: 200
20. Glückspilze (1971 TV Movie)
90 min | Comedy
Director: Thomas Engel | Stars: Heli Finkenzeller, Loni von Friedl, Agnes Windeck, Christian Wolff
Votes: 18
21. Love's Carnival (1955)
97 min | Drama, Romance
A love with class difference at the time of the First World War. Young Lieutenant Rudloff has just gotten engaged to someone else when he falls in love with the flower girl Anna, the ... See full summary »
Director: Willy Birgel | Stars: Ruth Niehaus, Dietmar Schönherr, Elma Karlowa, Willy Birgel
Votes: 16
22. Der Fall Deruga (1938)
105 min | Crime
Director: Fritz Peter Buch | Stars: Willy Birgel, Geraldine Katt, Dagny Servaes, Georg Alexander
Votes: 12
23. Verklungene Melodie (1938)
98 min | Drama
During an emergency landing in the middle of the desert, aspiring actress Barbara meets the industrialist Thomas. After their rescue they move in together in Berlin but soon their ways part again.
Director: Viktor Tourjansky | Stars: Brigitte Horney, Willy Birgel, Carl Raddatz, Vera von Langen
Votes: 13
24. Maria Ilona (1939)
94 min | Drama, History
The 1848 Hungarian revolution of Kossuth is suppressed by an Austrian prince and a baroness who sympathizes with the rebels but tries to bring them around.
Director: Géza von Bolváry | Stars: Paula Wessely, Willy Birgel, Paul Hörbiger, Hedwig Bleibtreu
Votes: 12
25. Ein Herz kehrt heim (1956)
90 min | Drama, Musical
A talented young musician for the first time meets his real father, a famous orchestra conductor, and finds he will have to make a decision where his future lies: in the business of his ... See full summary »
Director: Eugen York | Stars: Hans Nielsen, Erni Mangold, Maria Holst, Maximilian Schell
Votes: 34
26. Diesel (1942)
109 min | Biography, History
Director: Gerhard Lamprecht | Stars: Willy Birgel, Hilde Weissner, Paul Wegener, Josef Sieber
Votes: 36
27. Ride to Freedom (1937)
92 min | Drama, History
A Polish captain serving Alexander during the Czarist rule of Warsaw in 1830 gives up his love for a Russian lady and joins his compatriots in the liberation struggle.
Director: Karl Hartl | Stars: Willy Birgel, Viktor Staal, Hansi Knoteck, Ursula Grabley
Votes: 16
28. The Governor (1939)
99 min | Drama
Nazi propaganda drama about the failure of parliamentarism and the need to obey a strong leader.A high ranking military officer in an unnamed European land dissolves the government and his army takes over.
Director: Viktor Tourjansky | Stars: Brigitte Horney, Willy Birgel, Hannelore Schroth, Ernst von Klipstein
Votes: 17
29. Fanny Elssler (1937)
Approved | 80 min | Drama, History, Music
Prince Klemens von Metternich (Paul Hoffmann orders Friedrich Gentz (Willy Birger', one of his aides, to keep the Duke of Reichstadt---Napoleon Francois Joseph Charles(Bonaparte)---son of ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Martin | Stars: Lilian Harvey, Rolf Möbius, Willy Birgel, Paul Hoffmann
Votes: 22
30. Frauenarzt Dr. Bertram (1957)
88 min | Drama
After the war ,a doctor and his ex-fiancee's daughter pick up the pieces.
Director: Werner Klingler | Stars: Willy Birgel, Winnie Markus, Antje Geerk, Lucie Mannheim
Votes: 22
31. Ich brauche dich (1944)
82 min | Comedy
Director: Hans Schweikart | Stars: Marianne Hoppe, Willy Birgel, Paul Dahlke, Fita Benkhoff
Votes: 11
32. Le bellissime gambe di Sabrina (1958)
109 min | Comedy, Crime
Sabrina is beautiful, Sabrina has beautiful legs, Sabrina has seven moles on her thigh which form the constellation Ursa Minor, Sabrina is also a thief and the German police know only about... See full summary »
Director: Camillo Mastrocinque | Stars: Mamie Van Doren, Antonio Cifariello, Rossana Martini, Willy Birgel
Votes: 29
33. Arzt aus Leidenschaft (1959)
90 min | Drama
Director: Werner Klingler | Stars: Adrian Hoven, Willy Birgel, Klausjürgen Wussow, Antje Geerk
Votes: 34
34. Heidi (1952)
G | 97 min | Drama, Family
When Heidi, a little girl who leads an idyllic life with her grandfather in the Alps, is cruelly taken from the mountain retreat by a stern aunt, she adapts to life in the village below by bringing humor and goodwill to every situation.
Director: Luigi Comencini | Stars: Heinrich Gretler, Elsbeth Sigmund, Thomas Klameth, Willy Birgel
Votes: 445
35. 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
36. Schwarze Rosen (1935)
93 min | Drama
A Russian ballerina sacrifices her life for that of a Finnish sculptor who is fighting as a soldier to liberate his country from the Czar.
Director: Paul Martin | Stars: Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch, Willy Birgel, Gerhard Bienert
Votes: 26
37. The Final Chord (1936)
100 min | Music, Drama
A young, impoverished German woman named Hanna (Maria von Tasnady) gives her infant up for adoption and emigrates to American to live with her husband. When her husband commits suicide, ... See full summary »
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Willy Birgel, Lil Dagover, Mária Tasnádi Fekete, Maria Koppenhöfer
Votes: 250
38. To New Shores (1937)
106 min | Drama
In 1846 the actress Gloria Vane is performing at the Adelphi Theatre, London. She is in love with the destitute nobleman Albert Finsbury, who is shortly departing to Australia to become an ... See full summary »
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Zarah Leander, Willy Birgel, Edwin Jürgensen, Carola Höhn
Votes: 477
39. Kongo-Express (1939)
90 min | Romance, Adventure
Renate Brinkmann is a German lady on a railway journey in Africa. She is wooed by two very different men. One is a hard drinking, cocky French aviator, the other a sensitive German gentleman.
Director: Eduard von Borsody | Stars: Marianne Hoppe, Willy Birgel, René Deltgen, Hermann Speelmans
Votes: 31
40. Schonzeit für Füchse (1966)
92 min | Drama
A young man and his friend Viktor are two young men from a middle-class house. For their families and their society they have nothing left but contempt.
Director: Peter Schamoni | Stars: Helmut Förnbacher, Christian Doermer, Andrea Jonasson, Monika Peitsch
Votes: 55
41. Hotel Sacher (1939)
88 min | Drama
A meek Austrian civil servant, wrongfully accused of treason, is reunited with his Russian spy lover in the famous Hotel Sacher on the eve of World War I.
Director: Erich Engel | Stars: Sybille Schmitz, Willy Birgel, Wolf Albach-Retty, Elfriede Datzig
Votes: 70
42. Ballerina (1956)
95 min | Drama, Music
Kostja has created a ballet "The Bolero" (Ravel) for the famous ballet dancer Bettina, who is in love with him. But when Bettina gets polio, and lovely Irene should be her substitute,she is desperate. Will she ever dance and love again?
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Stars: Willy Birgel, Elisabeth Müller, Ivan Desny, Eva Kerbler
Votes: 35
43. The Traitor (1936)
92 min | Drama, War
Foreign spies infiltrate: a German airplane factory testing a new bomber, a metal works, and a bank, in this propagandistic warning to guard your tongues when talking to strangers.
Director: Karl Ritter | Stars: Willy Birgel, Lída Baarová, Irene von Meyendorff, Theodor Loos
Votes: 39
44. Enemies (1940)
91 min | Drama, Romance, War
Nazi propaganda film about a German laborer named Keith who works in a sawmill in Poland near the German border in 1939. When local anti-German sentiment leads to lynchings, lovely Anna hides Keith in her tavern.
Director: Viktor Tourjansky | Stars: Brigitte Horney, Willy Birgel, Reinhold Lütjohann, Karl-Heinz Peters
Votes: 18
45. One Too Many on Board (1935)
85 min | Drama
After a ship docks in Hamburg, a prosecutor and a commissioner investigate the disappearance of the skipper that happened during a storm.
Director: Gerhard Lamprecht | Stars: Lída Baarová, Albrecht Schoenhals, René Deltgen, Willy Birgel
Votes: 27
46. The Heart of a Queen (1940)
103 min | Biography, Drama
While awaiting her unjust execution at the hands of the treacherous Queen Elizabeth I, the tragic Mary Stuart reflects at the series of cruel political machinations that set up her path to the scaffold.
Director: Carl Froelich | Stars: Zarah Leander, Willy Birgel, Maria Koppenhöfer, Lotte Koch
Votes: 105
47. Heidi and Peter (1955)
G | 89 min | Drama, Family
Heidi lives with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps in the summer, and she and Peter play and tend the goats. In the winter, she stays with Peter's mother, and she and Peter attend school. ... See full summary »
Director: Franz Schnyder | Stars: Heinrich Gretler, Elsbeth Sigmund, Thomas Klameth, Emil Hegetschweiler
Votes: 211
48. Barcarole (1935)
81 min | Drama
Loosely taken from Tales of Hoffman: in decadent 1911 Venice, a gambler bets he can seduce the feisty wife of a jealous Mexican, an old fashioned duel follows.
Director: Gerhard Lamprecht | Stars: Lída Baarová, Willy Birgel, Gustav Fröhlich, Elsa Wagner
Votes: 24
49. Der Kaplan von San Lorenzo (1953)
97 min | Drama
Director: Gustav Ucicky | Stars: Willy Birgel, Dieter Borsche, Gertrud Kückelmann, Ilse Steppat
Votes: 14
50. Melody Beyond Love (1954)
95 min | Drama, Romance
Marlene Roedern is a student at the Salzburg Mozarteum, as is her boyfriend, Hans Hellmer, a promising conductor. Strothoff, a government cultural representative, engages Hans to conduct at... See full summary »
Director: Erich Engel | Stars: Willy Birgel, Inge Egger, Carl Wery, Erik Schumann
Votes: 14