UFA Pictures (1933-1945)
by quietgiant2 | created - 05 Jan 2011 | updated - 2 weeks ago | PublicBetween 1933-45,
UFA was not the only German producer,
but was in control of the distribution.
Because that circumstance, we have included films from
other German producers, made at the same period.
Extra: Orient yourself!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_German_films_of_1933%E2%80%9345 .
We noticed the need to create a page Four. On this last page, alongside art films, there are films with controversial ideological content
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Films produced while the WW2 and released after its end are not present in the list. Quax in Afrika (1947) or Das dumme Gänslein (1945? ) are good examples.
Movies not available are now retired to the list:
Der Fall Molander(1945) Tierparadies Südamerika (1940)
Tischlein deck Dich, Esel streck Dich, Knüppel aus dem Sack (1938)
Die Nacht der Entscheidung(1938)
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1. Life Goes On (1945)
Drama, War
Director: Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Stars: Gustav Knuth, Hilde Krahl, Lina Lossen, Marianne Hoppe
Votes: 31
by Tobis
2. Burning Hearts (1945)
111 min | Drama, History, Romance
During Napoleon's German campaign, the city of Kolberg is isolated from Prussian forces. Residents organize resistance against the French army besieging and bombarding the city, refusing to surrender.
Directors: Veit Harlan, Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Stars: Heinrich George, Kristina Söderbaum, Horst Caspar, Gustav Diessl
Votes: 756
3. Der Engel mit dem Saitenspiel (1944)
101 min | Romance
A man meets a girl in an Alpine Lodge and decide to make the relation permanent, but they lose each other, each thinking the other to be disloyal. When the meet again, both are engaged, to others, and she is mother of his child.
Director: Heinz Rühmann | Stars: Hertha Feiler, Hans Söhnker, Hans Nielsen, Susanne von Almassy
Votes: 91
4. The Punch Bowl (1944)
97 min | Comedy, Family
A successful writer, home-schooled in his youth, masquerades as a student at a secondary school to experience all the fun and pranks he missed out on.
Director: Helmut Weiss | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Karin Himboldt, Hilde Sessak, Erich Ponto
Votes: 6,613
by Terra-Filmkunst
5. Träumerei (1944)
110 min | Biography, Drama, Musical
A movie about Clara Schumann, wife of Robert Schumann. Originally Zarah Leander should have played the lead role!
Director: Harald Braun | Stars: Hilde Krahl, Mathias Wieman, Friedrich Kayßler, Elly Burgmer
Votes: 63
6. Great Freedom No. 7 (1944)
111 min | Drama, Music, Romance
The 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.
Director: Helmut Käutner | Stars: Hans Albers, Ilse Werner, Hans Söhnker, Hilde Hildebrand
Votes: 1,042
by Terra
7. Opfergang (1944)
98 min | Drama
Idle intellectuals Albrecht, Octavia and Äls, are given to quoting and emulating their philosopher hero, Nietzsche. Albrecht later contracts typhus bringing the foster child gravely ill Äls out of an infected area.
Director: Veit Harlan | Stars: Carl Raddatz, Kristina Söderbaum, Irene von Meyendorff, Franz Schafheitlin
Votes: 750
8. Es lebe die Liebe (1944)
88 min | Comedy
Director: Erich Engel | Stars: Lizzi Waldmüller, Johannes Heesters, Will Dohm, Hilde Seipp
Votes: 41
9. Philharmoniker (1944)
79 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Eugen Klöpfer, Will Quadflieg, Malte Jaeger, Theodor Loos
Votes: 25
10. Der kleine Muck (1944)
80 min | Family, Fantasy
Princess Mareile and her brother have been kidnapped. Guided by Mr. Moon Little Muck uncovers the plot of a witch, steals her miraculous running shoes and frees the captive children from the lair of evil giant Bumbo.
Director: Franz Fiedler | Stars: Gustav Waldau, Ernst Martens, Christa Caporrici, Christa Berndl
Votes: 41
11. Orient-Express (1944)
84 min | Crime
A crime comedy around a murder on the Orient-Express with lots of twists around the investigation and love affairs. One of the last entertainment comedies of the declining Nazi-regime.
Director: Viktor Tourjansky | Stars: Siegfried Breuer, Gusti Wolf, Rudolf Prack, Lisa Siebel
Votes: 54
12. Romanze in Moll (1943)
98 min | Drama, Romance
A grieving husband tries to uncover the truth behind his wife's suicide, leading him to discover a tragic tale of infidelity and redemption.
Director: Helmut Käutner | Stars: Marianne Hoppe, Paul Dahlke, Ferdinand Marian, Siegfried Breuer
Votes: 380
by Tobis
13. Titanic (1943)
TV-PG | 85 min | Action, Drama, History
Third Reich's Nazi propaganda epic about a heroic fictional German officer on board of the RMS Titanic. On its maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable ship hits an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean and starts to go down.
Directors: Herbert Selpin, Werner Klingler | Stars: Sybille Schmitz, Hans Nielsen, Kirsten Heiberg, Ernst Fritz Fürbringer
Votes: 1,800
14. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1943)
Not Rated | 110 min | Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy
This 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.
Director: Josef von Báky | Stars: Hans Albers, Wilhelm Bendow, Michael Bohnen, Hans Brausewetter
Votes: 2,182
15. Besatzung Dora (1943)
91 min | Drama, History, War
Luftwaffe pilots Joachim and Franz both love Marianne - their jealousy threatens to compromise the vital teamwork aboard their recon plane. Sergeant Otto, a farm boy, loses his love Mathilde when she discovers she hates agricultural work.
Director: Karl Ritter | Stars: Hannes Stelzer, Hubert Kiurina, Josef Dahmen, Georg Thomalla
Votes: 61
16. Akrobat Schööön! (1943)
85 min | Comedy
Director: Wolfgang Staudte | Stars: Charlie Rivel, Clara Tabody, Karl Schönböck, Käthe Dyckhoff
Votes: 50
17. Paracelsus (1943)
104 min | Biography, Drama
Paracelsus is the story of the Renaissance era Swiss physician/alchemist/astrologer Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim.
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Stars: Werner Krauss, Harry Langewisch, Annelies Reinhold, Mathias Wieman
Votes: 242
by Bavaria
18. Die goldene Spinne (1943)
88 min | Drama, War
Soviet spies try to discover the secrets of a new German tank.
Director: Erich Engels | Stars: Franz Arzdorf, Wilhelm Bendow, Traute Bengen, Hermann Brix
Votes: 29
19. Kohlhiesels Töchter (1943)
90 min | Comedy
Remake of an Ernst Lubitsch silent comedy, about a farm boy who is fond of two sisters, one of them beautiful, and the other, not so much.
Director: Kurt Hoffmann | Stars: Eduard Köck, Heli Finkenzeller, Oskar Sima, Erika von Thellmann
Votes: 19
20. Immensee - Ein deutsches Volkslied (1943)
89 min | Drama
Elisabeth and Reinhart were childhood sweethearts, but Reinhart never returned to marry Elisabeth and she marries another. Years later, Reinhart vacations with the couple and Elisabeth must choose between love and duty.
Director: Veit Harlan | Stars: Kristina Söderbaum, Carl Raddatz, Paul Klinger, Carola Toelle
Votes: 210
21. Wen die Götter lieben (1942)
112 min | Biography, Drama, History
A film relating to the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. [This is from the US copyright record, which is public domain.]
Director: Karl Hartl | Stars: Hans Holt, Irene von Meyendorff, Winnie Markus, Doris Hild
Votes: 87
22. Andreas Schlüter (1942)
111 min | Drama, History
Director: Herbert Maisch | Stars: Valy Arnheim, Paul Dahlke, Peter Elsholtz, Ernst Fritz Fürbringer
Votes: 27
23. Steibruch (1942)
99 min | Drama
Director: Sigfrit Steiner | Stars: Heinrich Gretler, Adolf Manz, Maria Schell, Gertrud Maria Müller
Votes: 32
24. Hab mich lieb (1942)
100 min
A funny classic German picture of the Nazi period, but with no propaganda and with contemporary swing music.
Director: Harald Braun | Stars: Marika Rökk, Viktor Staal, Hans Brausewetter, Mady Rahl
Votes: 50
25. Die Entlassung (1942)
110 min | Drama, History
A sequel to 1940's "Bismarck", Bismarck is dismissed by an under-pressure Wilhelm II. Then the treaty with Russia is in peril as the leader is left with the dilemma of who could complete Bismarck's work.
Director: Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Stars: Emil Jannings, Margarete Schön, Christian Kayßler, Theodor Loos
Votes: 106
26. Der große König (1942)
118 min | Drama, History, War
A story of Prussian king (from 1740 to 1786) Frederick II the Great.
Director: Veit Harlan | Stars: Otto Gebühr, Kristina Söderbaum, Gustav Fröhlich, Hans Nielsen
Votes: 321
by Tobis
27. Wir machen Musik (1942)
95 min | Comedy, Musical
Caught at the window just before an air-raid warning (WWII) composer Paul tells how he met his wive Anni, a revue star and song writer, how he handled the courtship and the early years of ... See full summary »
Director: Helmut Käutner | Stars: Ilse Werner, Viktor de Kowa, Edith Oß, Grethe Weiser
Votes: 185
aka We Make Music by Terra-Filmkunst
28. Einmal der liebe Herrgott sein (1942)
93 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
Director: Hans H. Zerlett | Stars: Hans Moser, Irene von Meyendorff, Lotte Lang, Fritz Odemar
Votes: 86
29. Vienna Blood (1942)
106 min | Comedy, Music
Count Wolkersheim attends the 1815 Vienna Congress to negotiate,to the Countess joy. Political concerns and music mix in a waltzing city, their apparently opposite attitudes testing their love. Will she behave or will he learn to waltz?
Director: Willi Forst | Stars: Willy Fritsch, Maria Holst, Hans Moser, Theo Lingen
Votes: 167
by Deutsche Forst and Wien-Film
30. Zwei in einer großen Stadt (1942)
80 min | Comedy
Director: Volker von Collande | Stars: Claude Farell, Karl John, Marianne Simson, Hansi Wendler
Votes: 51
31. Die goldene Stadt (1942)
110 min | Drama
Anna Jobst is the daughter of a rich, conservative farmer. Living on the bank of the Moldau, she wishes nothing more than follow the river to Prague, the "Golden City".
Director: Veit Harlan | Stars: Kristina Söderbaum, Eugen Klöpfer, Annie Rosar, Dagny Servaes
Votes: 260
32. Immer nur Du (1941)
98 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
The singer Loni Carell is on stage for the first time with the film tenor Will Hollers. Both are successful artists, they like each other, But they are competitors, because each is soliciting for the public's favor.
Director: Karl Anton | Stars: Johannes Heesters, Dora Komar, Fita Benkhoff, Paul Kemp
Votes: 33
33. Über alles in der Welt (1941)
85 min | Drama
It was made as a propaganda film designed to promote Nazi Germany's war aims in the Second World War. Following the outbreak of war, Germans abroad face persecution from the British and French authorities.
Director: Karl Ritter | Stars: Paul Hartmann, Hannes Stelzer, Fritz Kampers, Carl Raddatz
Votes: 42
aka Above All Else in the World
34. Kampfgeschwader Lützow (1941)
97 min | War
German propaganda film, telling a story of a bomber crew, taking part in invasion on Poland and attacks on the British shipping.
Director: Hans Bertram | Stars: Christian Kayßler, Hermann Braun, Heinz Welzel, Hannes Keppler
Votes: 39
35. Annelie (1941)
92 min | Comedy, Drama, History
A Berlin woman grows up in the wake of Prussia's victory over France in 1870 and lives to see her grandchildren participating in the military successes of Germany under Hitler.
Director: Josef von Báky | Stars: Luise Ullrich, Werner Krauss, Käthe Haack, Karl Ludwig Diehl
Votes: 45
36. Tanz mit dem Kaiser (1941)
102 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Emperor Joseph II escapes the intrigues of his court. In Transylvania Baroness Christine mistakes his adjutant Kleber for the emperor and falls for him. Her love letter leads to her being summoned as a suitable bride for the real emperor.
Director: Georg Jacoby | Stars: Marika Rökk, Wolf Albach-Retty, Maria Eis, Axel von Ambesser
Votes: 35
37. Ohm Krüger (1941)
124 min | Biography, War
Rousing biopic of Paul Kruger, the Boer guerilla fighter turned statesman and first president of South Africa.
Directors: Hans Steinhoff, Karl Anton, Herbert Maisch | Stars: Emil Jannings, Lucie Höflich, Werner Hinz, Ernst Schröder
Votes: 285
by Tobis Filmkunst
38. I accuse (1941)
110 min | Drama
In this pro-euthanasia melodrama, a successful doctor is forced to make a heart-wrenching decision after his beautiful young wife is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
Director: Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Stars: Heidemarie Hatheyer, Paul Hartmann, Mathias Wieman, Margarete Haagen
Votes: 184
by Tobis Filmkunst
39. Operette (1940)
107 min | Musical
A musician is offered a job in Vienna as stage director, but his disagreements with Maria, the aristocratic opera manager, end in abrupt firing in spite of a mutual attraction. He is ... See full summary »
Directors: Willi Forst, Karl Hartl | Stars: Willi Forst, Maria Holst, Dora Komar, Paul Hörbiger
Votes: 66
by Wien-Film
40. Frau nach Maß (1940)
94 min | Comedy
An actress breaks her engagement to a theater director who wants her to give up her career.But, still attracted to him, she masquerades as her twin sister to win him that way.
Director: Helmut Käutner | Stars: Hans Söhnker, Leny Marenbach, Dorit Kreysler, Fritz Odemar
Votes: 25
41. Katakomby (1940)
80 min | Comedy
The old clerk, Official Borman, holds office in the basement offices of the Land Office along with other officials and actuaries. Among his colleagues is the young and handsome Dr. Marek, ... See full summary »
Director: Martin Fric | Stars: Vlasta Burian, Jaroslav Marvan, Cenek Slégl, Theodor Pistek
Votes: 135
42. Friedrich Schiller - Der Triumph eines Genies (1940)
102 min | Drama
Friedrich Schiller - The triumph of a genius.
Director: Herbert Maisch | Stars: Heinrich George, Lil Dagover, Horst Caspar, Friedrich Kayßler
Votes: 88
43. Kampf um Norwegen - Feldzug 1940 (1940)
80 min | Documentary, War
Describes the sequence of events leading up to the invasion of Norway, especially the Anschluss of Austria, the division of Czechoslovakia after the Munich agreement and finally the invasion of Poland in September, 1939.
Directors: Werner Buhre, Martin Rikli
Votes: 126
44. 7 Jahre Pech (1940)
90 min | Comedy, Romance
After breaking a mirror, a writer is convinced he will have seven years' bad luck. This complicates his romantic aspirations.
Director: Ernst Marischka | Stars: Hans Moser, Wolf Albach-Retty, Theo Lingen, Oskar Sima
Votes: 84
45. Der Postmeister (1940)
92 min | Drama
A troubled father, working as a postmaster in province, worries about his daughter taken to the capital by a rich officer.
Director: Gustav Ucicky | Stars: Heinrich George, Hilde Krahl, Siegfried Breuer, Hans Holt
Votes: 216
46. Jud Süß (1940)
98 min | Drama
Infamous anti-Semitic Nazi propaganda historical drama about Duke Karl Alexander of Württemberg and his treasurer Süß Oppenheimer.
Director: Veit Harlan | Stars: Ferdinand Marian, Kristina Söderbaum, Heinrich George, Werner Krauss
Votes: 3,367
47. Die Rothschilds (1940)
97 min | Biography, Drama
Anti-semitic Nazi propaganda "biography" of the Rothschilds, a German Jewish family whose members rose to the top of the European banking community during the Napoleonic era.
Director: Erich Waschneck | Stars: Erich Ponto, Carl Kuhlmann, Albert Lippert, Ludwig Linkmann
Votes: 1,668
48. Bismarck (1940)
118 min | Biography, Drama
A biographical film of Otto von Bismarck, the Prime Minister of Prussia, and how he and his policies - including aggressive war - helped to unite Germany.
Director: Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Stars: Paul Hartmann, Friedrich Kayßler, Lil Dagover, Käthe Haack
Votes: 238
49. Kleider machen Leute (1940)
91 min | Comedy, Drama
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, ... See full summary »
Director: Helmut Käutner | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Hertha Feiler, Hilde Sessak, Hans Sternberg
Votes: 270
by Terra
50. 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
51. Donauschiffer (1940)
90 min | Adventure, Romance
Director: Robert A. Stemmle | Stars: Hilde Krahl, Attila Hörbiger, Pál Jávor, Oskar Sima
Votes: 28
by Wien
52. Die Geierwally (1940)
104 min | Drama, Romance
Wally is the daughter and only child to Fender, a rich, widowed mountain farmer in the Ötztal valley in the Tyrolian Alps. She is young, beautiful, intrepid and, most of all, strong-minded.... See full summary »
Director: Hans Steinhoff | Stars: Heidemarie Hatheyer, Sepp Rist, Eduard Köck, Winnie Markus
Votes: 120
53. Ein Mann auf Abwegen (1940)
88 min | Adventure, Comedy
Director: Herbert Selpin | Stars: Hans Albers, Charlotte Thiele, Hilde Weissner, Gustav Waldau
Votes: 55
54. Schneider Wibbel (1939)
75 min | Comedy
Director: Viktor de Kowa | Stars: Erich Ponto, Fita Benkhoff, Irene von Meyendorff, Friedrich Benfer
Votes: 17
aka Wibbel the Tailor
55. Die Geliebte (1939)
98 min
Lieutenant von Warp falls head over heels for Terese. He wants to marry her and is willing to give up his career in the Imperial Army to be with her. After he gets to know about a past ... See full summary »
Director: Gerhard Lamprecht | Stars: Willy Fritsch, Viktoria von Ballasko, Karl Martell, Grethe Weiser
Votes: 18
56. Hallo Janine (1939)
93 min | Musical
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Carl Boese | Stars: Marika Rökk, Johannes Heesters, Rudi Godden, Mady Rahl
Votes: 107
57. The Immortal Heart (1939)
107 min | Drama, History
Biography of Paul Henlein, the man who invented the pocket watch.
Director: Veit Harlan | Stars: Heinrich George, Kristina Söderbaum, Paul Wegener, Raimund Schelcher
Votes: 72
58. 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
59. It Was a Gay Ballnight (1939)
94 min | Drama
1865. Katharina goes to a ball in Moscow. There she meets again Tchaikowsky, her first and only love. The young, who is now married to wealthy Michael Iwanowitsch Murakin, a man she does ... See full summary »
Director: Carl Froelich | Stars: Zarah Leander, Aribert Wäscher, Hans Stüwe, Marika Rökk
Votes: 154
The Life and Loves of Tschaikovsky
60. Linen for Ireland (1939)
98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Anti-Semitic Nazi propaganda film that "shows" how Jewish textile company owners are sabotaging the German linen industry by buying linen from Ireland instead of having it produced in "the Fatherland".
Director: Heinz Helbig | Stars: Otto Treßler, Irene von Meyendorff, Friedl Haerlin, Oskar Sima
Votes: 43
lesser famous than_ Mein Leben für Irland (1941)
61. Silvesternacht am Alexanderplatz (1939)
86 min
Young and old couples, elated, lonely and jealous hearts, hope and despair, crooked and honest souls, drunks and dutiful medics, a hit-and-run driver and the first baby of the year all converge on the first-aid station in downtown Berlin.
Director: Richard Schneider-Edenkoben | Stars: Hannes Stelzer, Carl Raddatz, Jutta Freybe, Karl Martell
Votes: 12
62. Das Ekel (1939)
75 min | Comedy
An Austrian petty tyrant is brought to his senses by having to spend some time in jail.
Director: Hans Deppe | Stars: Hans Moser, Josefine Dora, Herma Relin, Josi Kleinpeter
Votes: 75
aka The Scoundrel
63. 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
64. Furlough on Parole (1938)
87 min | Drama, War
Berlin, 1918. During six hours' leave, German soldiers see their (un)faithful wives, meet their teachers, experience first love, and two of them are confronted with the leftist revolutionary movement. Will they return and do their duty?
Director: Karl Ritter | Stars: Ingeborg Theek, Iwa Wanja, Rolf Möbius, Fritz Kampers
Votes: 56
65. Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations (1938)
Not Rated | 111 min | Documentary, Sport
The document of the 1936 Olympics at Berlin.
Director: Leni Riefenstahl | Stars: David Albritton, Arvo Askola, Jack Beresford, Erwin Blask
Votes: 5,239
by Tobis
66. Michelangelo: Life of a Titan (1938)
94 min | Documentary
The life and works of Michelangelo are presented by German actor Mathias Wieman, in the the historical context of the High Renaissance era.
Director: Curt Oertel | Star: Mathias Wieman
Votes: 12
67. 13 Stühle (1938)
92 min | Comedy
Rabe 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.
Director: E.W. Emo | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Hans Moser, Inge List, Clementia Egies
Votes: 203
by Terra
68. S.O.S. Sahara (1938)
78 min | Drama
At a North Africa desert outpost threatened by Arabs, the French commander has added trouble when his wife visits and is captivated by a younger officer.
Director: Jacques de Baroncelli | Stars: Charles Vanel, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Marta Labarr, Raymond Cordy
Votes: 11
69. Tanz auf dem Vulkan (1938)
86 min | Drama, History
Paris 1830. The story of the actor Debureau who with his art of acting and his mocking-songs on the hated King Karl X. enthuses the masses.
Director: Hans Steinhoff | Stars: Gustaf Gründgens, Sybille Schmitz, Ralph Arthur Roberts, Theo Lingen
Votes: 111
by Majestic
70. The Broken Jug (1935)
Passed | 86 min | Comedy
The man who broke the jug, the judge, is trying a case who determine who broke the jug. Long before the evidence becomes conclusive against the suspects, it becomes apparent that the ... See full summary »
Directors: Gustav Ucicky, Emil Jannings | Stars: Emil Jannings, Friedrich Kayßler, Max Gülstorff, Lina Carstens
Votes: 232
71. Two Merry Adventurers (1937)
Passed | 116 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
Hans Albers and Heinz Rühmann play two confidence tricksters. They manage to stop a night train for nefarious purposes, and impersonate Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. Romantic involvement ... See full summary »
Director: Karl Hartl | Stars: Hans Albers, Heinz Rühmann, Marieluise Claudius, Hansi Knoteck
Votes: 951
72. 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: 476
aka To New Shores
73. The Divine Jetta (1937)
97 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A Berlin songwriter and showman wins away a popular music hall star from an undeserving country nobleman.
Director: Erich Waschneck | Stars: Grethe Weiser, Viktor de Kowa, Hansi Arnstaedt, Wilhelm Bendow
Votes: 40
by Fanal
74. La Habanera (1937)
98 min | Drama
Trapped in Puerto Rico, a beautiful young Swede is torn between her passionate, but mildly abusive Caribbean oligarch husband and her longing for her European homeland.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Zarah Leander, Julia Serda, Ferdinand Marian, Karl Martell
Votes: 635
75. Giovanni de Medici: The Leader (I) (1937)
88 min | War, Adventure
A lavish historical pageant about a Renaissance leader trying to unite a still feudal Italy.His band of black shirts anticipates the Fascists of a later Italy when the film was made.
Directors: Luis Trenker, Werner Klingler | Stars: Luis Trenker, August Eichhorn, Waltraut Klein, Ethel Maggi
Votes: 34
76. Die letzten Vier von Santa Cruz (1936)
80 min | Drama
An author, a businessman, a shipowner and a publisher form a business venture, which will supposedly exploit a huge find of lobsters on the island of Santa Cruz. After a report in the ... See full summary »
Director: Werner Klingler | Stars: Hermann Speelmans, Irene von Meyendorff, Valéry Inkijinoff, Françoise Rosay
Votes: 23
77. The Girl Irene (1936)
95 min | Drama
Director: Reinhold Schünzel | Stars: Lil Dagover, Sabine Peters, Geraldine Katt, Hedwig Bleibtreu
Votes: 25
78. Allotria (1936)
94 min | Comedy
"Ménage à cinq" with lots of turbulences comes to a happy-end with six.
Director: Willi Forst | Stars: Renate Müller, Jenny Jugo, Anton Walbrook, Heinz Rühmann
Votes: 149
aka Tomfoolery
79. 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: 248
80. Der Bettelstudent (1936)
90 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
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.
Director: Georg Jacoby | Stars: Fritz Kampers, Harry Hardt, Ida Wüst, Carola Höhn
Votes: 74
81. Militiaman Bruggler (1936)
89 min | Drama, War
Militaristic drama set in the Tyrol in 1915, when Italy suddenly attacks Austria.Youth are signed up for the Home Guard on the mountain front, including a student who gets the Germans to come to their aid.
Director: Werner Klingler | Stars: Ludwig Kerscher, Franziska Kinz, Rolf Pinegger, Eduard Köck
Votes: 35
82. Donogoo Tonka (1936)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
Parisians Josette and Pierre are a happy couple, but also a completely broke one. An absurd chain of events leads them to Professor Trouhadec, who is in a predicament.
Director: Reinhold Schünzel | Stars: Anny Ondra, Viktor Staal, Will Dohm, Heinz Salfner
Votes: 26
83. Stradivari (1935)
97 min | Drama
A Hungarian officer falls in love with an Italian girl, but a violin seems to put a curse on his prospects.
Director: Géza von Bolváry | Stars: Gustav Fröhlich, Sybille Schmitz, Harald Paulsen, Hilde Krüger
Votes: 15
84. The Steel Animal (1935)
75 min | Documentary, Comedy, Drama
In present day Germany, by 6:30 a.m., the railway workers are waiting the opening of the factory's door to start a new day of hard work. Inside, Engineer Klaassen is still awake, as all ... See full summary »
Director: Willy Zielke | Stars: Aribert Mog, Sophia Hagen
Votes: 71
85. Triumph of the Will (1935)
Not Rated | 110 min | Documentary, History
The infamous propaganda film of the 1934 Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg, Germany.
Director: Leni Riefenstahl | Stars: Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring, Max Amann, Martin Bormann
Votes: 18,318
by Reichspropaganda
86. Amphitryon (1935)
105 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Lamenting Thebian women are waiting for the men to come back from war. God Jupiter is attracted to one of them: Alkmene. He goes to earth and tries to seduce her as himself: an old man. ... See full summary »
Director: Reinhold Schünzel | Stars: Willy Fritsch, Paul Kemp, Käthe Gold, Fita Benkhoff
Votes: 182
87. Pillars of Society (1935)
85 min | Drama
The prosperity and career of a Norwegian ship builder who has founded the town's hospital are revealed by an innocent wanderer to have been based on deceit and corruption, in this theatrical adaptation.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Heinrich George, Maria Krahn, Horst Teetzmann, Albrecht Schoenhals
Votes: 144
88. Ich liebe alle Frauen (1935)
89 min | Comedy
Famous 1930's tenor Jan Kiepura doubles as a singing shop-assistant who stands in for a famous but lazy singer, mixing up each others love-lives in the process.
Director: Karel Lamac | Stars: Jan Kiepura, Theo Lingen, Lien Deyers, Adele Sandrock
Votes: 31
by Cine-Allianz Tonfilmproduktions GmbH by UFA
89. Königswalzer (1935)
83 min | Musical
An operetta of easy going court life in Munich in 1852: Elizabeth of Bavaria marries Franz Joseph of Austria, Count Tettenbach the Elder falls for a confectioner's daughter, his nephew for a commoner.
Director: Herbert Maisch | Stars: Paul Hörbiger, Curd Jürgens, Carola Höhn, Anton Pointner
Votes: 18
90. The Girl from the Marsh Croft (1935)
82 min | Drama
In this rural film drama, an unwed mother, shunned by her conservative community, goes to court to try to salvage her reputation.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Hansi Knoteck, Ellen Frank, Friedrich Kayßler, Theodor Loos
Votes: 199
91. Das Mädchen Johanna (1935)
87 min | Biography, Drama, History
The recount of the 17-year-old peasant girl Joan of Arc of the 15th century tinted to the presence of the National Socialist ideology.
Director: Gustav Ucicky | Stars: Angela Salloker, Gustaf Gründgens, Heinrich George, René Deltgen
Votes: 105
92. Peer Gynt (1934)
119 min | Drama
A Nazi-era German reimagining of Ibsen's classic, as an adventure type vehicle for the popular heartthrob Hans Albers.
Director: Fritz Wendhausen | Stars: Hans Albers, Lucie Höflich, Marieluise Claudius, Ellen Frank
Votes: 31
93. Masquerade in Vienna (1934)
90 min | Comedy, Romance
Vienna 1905: A risque drawing is published and threatens to compromise the model, a doctor's wife. Artist Heideneck protects her and invents a name. But the name exists, and this respectable lady is drawn into the artist's shady affairs.
Director: Willi Forst | Stars: Paula Wessely, Anton Walbrook, Olga Tschechowa, Hans Moser
Votes: 393
94. The Csardas Princess (1934)
95 min | Musical, Romance
Sylva Varescu is an operetta singer performing Kálmán's Die Czardasfürstin through Europe with great success. Before going to Vienna she meets handsome Prinz Weylerstein and they fall in ... See full summary »
Director: Georg Jacoby | Stars: Mártha Eggerth, Hans Söhnker, Paul Kemp, Inge List
Votes: 31
95. Ray of Sunshine (1933)
87 min | Drama
Vienna, at the height of the Great Depression. Like so many others, Hans has no work, no money, nowhere to live. Having lost his livelihood as a taxi driver, he decides that the only ... See full summary »
Director: Pál Fejös | Stars: Annabella, Gustav Fröhlich, Paul Otto, Hans Marr
Votes: 189
96. Waltz War (1933)
93 min | Comedy, Music, Musical
The story about musical rivalry between Joseph Länner and Johan Strauss and their respective waltz orchestras during Quenn Victoria's reign is finally set on a public trial. With pieces by both composers.
Director: Ludwig Berger | Stars: Renate Müller, Willy Fritsch, Paul Hörbiger, Anton Walbrook
Votes: 62
97. Anna and Elizabeth (1933)
74 min | Drama
Anna a young girl is thought of having the ability to heal people mysteriously. Elisabeth a middle aged aristocratic woman, is disabled and puts all her hopes in meeting Anna and having her disability heal by her.
Director: Frank Wisbar | Stars: Dorothea Wieck, Hertha Thiele, Mathias Wieman, Maria Wanck
Votes: 112
98. Dawn (1933)
75 min | Drama, War
In 1915, Captain Liers, commander of a submarine is leaving his hometown, where he, his 2nd officer and the radio-operator, who is married there, spend their shore leave. Liers two brothers... See full summary »
Director: Gustav Ucicky | Stars: Rudolf Forster, Fritz Genschow, Adele Sandrock, Camilla Spira
Votes: 163
99. High and Low (1933)
79 min | Comedy
The intersecting lives of neighbors in a courtyard apartment building in Vienna,including a football player related to the concierge,a new blonde maid hired by the wife of a baron,whom both... See full summary »
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Stars: Jean Gabin, Janine Crispin, Micheline Bernard, Pauline Carton
Votes: 96
100. Ich und die Kaiserin (1933)
82 min | Comedy
When the Marquis de Pontignac falls off his horse; he is seemingly brought back from death by the voice of a mysterious woman. He believes that his savior is the Empress of France when it is truly her hairdresser Juliette.
Director: Friedrich Hollaender | Stars: Lilian Harvey, Mady Christians, Conrad Veidt, Heinz Rühmann
Votes: 117
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