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1. The Third Man (1949)
Approved | 93 min | Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller
Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.
Director: Carol Reed | Stars: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard
Votes: 182,215 | Gross: $0.45M
2. 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
3. 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: 1,669
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: 6,620
5. Der Stern von Afrika (1957)
88 min | Drama, War
Biographic Movie of the German fighter ace, who was killed in a plane crash after over 150 kills in North Africa.
Director: Alfred Weidenmann | Stars: Joachim Hansen, Marianne Koch, Hansjörg Felmy, Horst Frank
Votes: 350
6. Der Fall Molander (1945)
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Stars: Paul Wegener, Irene von Meyendorff, Werner Hinz, Erich Ponto
7. 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: 251
8. Achtung! Feind hört mit! (1940)
102 min | Drama, History, Romance
Spies Karl and Lilly target the German Kettwig company, trying to secure data about an innovative tearproof wire. Bernd Kettwig is wooed by Lilly while his assistant Inge falls for Karl, and two other employees are coerced into treason.
Director: Arthur Maria Rabenalt | Stars: René Deltgen, Kirsten Heiberg, Lotte Koch, Michael Bohnen
Votes: 44
9. Flying Classroom (1954)
92 min | Drama, Comedy, Family
All is not really well between the boys of Gymnasium and the boys of the six-form High School: sparks fly when they get within 100m of each other. The continuous feud between the pupils is ... See full summary »
Director: Kurt Hoffmann | Stars: Paul Dahlke, Heliane Bei, Paul Klinger, Erich Ponto
Votes: 617
10. Wie konntest Du, Veronika! (1940)
100 min
Director: Milo Harbich | Stars: Gusti Huber, Wolf Albach-Retty, Ralph Arthur Roberts, Grethe Weiser
Votes: 10
11. 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
12. Philharmoniker (1944)
79 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Eugen Klöpfer, Will Quadflieg, Malte Jaeger, Theodor Loos
Votes: 25
13. The Zurich Engagement (1957)
106 min | Comedy
Juliane Thomas is an ambitious but unemployed young writer. After breaking up with her lover she works at a dentist friend's to make ends meet. One day she instantly falls in love with one ... See full summary »
Director: Helmut Käutner | Stars: Liselotte Pulver, Paul Hubschmid, Bernhard Wicki, Wolfgang Lukschy
Votes: 506
14. The Four Companions (1938)
96 min | Drama, Romance
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. ... See full summary »
Director: Carl Froelich | Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Carsta Löck, Sabine Peters, Ursula Herking
Votes: 187
15. The Girl and the Legend (1957)
90 min | Drama
London, 1730. Daniel Defoe, author of Robinson Crusoe, lives in poverty. When his son Tom steals the original text of Robinsons's forbidden book, the youth of London, led by Maud (Romy Schneider), revolt.
Director: Josef von Báky | Stars: Romy Schneider, Horst Buchholz, Erich Ponto, Mathias Wieman
Votes: 217
16. 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: 271
17. Die große Versuchung (1952)
97 min | Drama
A man leads a bizarre double life, and the pressure of keeping his two identities going puts him under severe pressure. Eventually he has to make a decision.
Director: Rolf Hansen | Stars: Dieter Borsche, Ruth Leuwerik, Renate Mannhardt, Carl Wery
Votes: 24
18. 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: 201
19. Tango Notturno (1937)
88 min | Drama
A famed composer has to prove his innocence, when his wife who has mysteriously disappeared is shot one day on the street.
Director: Fritz Kirchhoff | Stars: Pola Negri, Albrecht Schoenhals, Waldemar Leitgeb, Elisabeth Flickenschildt
Votes: 25
20. Sky Without Stars (1955)
105 min | Drama, Romance
A border police officer helps a woman cross between West and East Germany with her son. Despite being increasingly united by love, the distance between them increases as border security tightens.
Director: Helmut Käutner | Stars: Erik Schumann, Eva Kotthaus, Georg Thomalla, Gustav Knuth
Votes: 302
21. Film Without a Name (1948)
79 min | Comedy, Romance
A screenwriter comes up with a story about an affair between a maid and her employer
Director: Rudolf Jugert | Stars: Hans Söhnker, Hildegard Knef, Irene von Meyendorff, Erich Ponto
Votes: 221
22. 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: 37
23. Made in Germany - Die dramatische Geschichte des Hauses Zeiss (1957)
97 min | Biography, Drama
Director: Wolfgang Schleif | Stars: Winnie Markus, Carl Raddatz, Margit Saad, Werner Hinz
Votes: 21
24. The Hound of the Baskervilles (1937)
82 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
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.
Director: Karel Lamac | Stars: Peter Voß, Friedrich Kayßler, Alice Brandt, Bruno Güttner
Votes: 171
25. 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
26. Der große Schatten (1942)
95 min | Drama
During the rehearsals for their new play, Robert Jürgensen (Will Quadflieg) and his wife Gisela Ahrens (Heidemarie Hatheyer) recognize their former theater manager Conrad Schroeter (... See full summary »
Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Heinrich George, Heidemarie Hatheyer, Will Quadflieg, Marina von Ditmar
Votes: 25
27. Die goldene Pest (1954)
95 min | Drama
Director: John Brahm | Stars: Ivan Desny, Karlheinz Böhm, Gertrud Kückelmann, Wilfried Seyferth
Votes: 20
28. Schicksal aus zweiter Hand (1949)
110 min | Drama
Director: Wolfgang Staudte | Stars: Erich Ponto, Heinz Klevenow, Marianne Hoppe, Wilhelm Borchert
Votes: 34
29. 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
30. Der Mann, der den Mord beging (1931)
93 min | Drama
The Marquis de Sévigné is put in a difficult position when he falls for the lovely Lady Falkland, a married woman whose husband, the strict Lord Falkland, subjects her to constant abuse.
Director: Curtis Bernhardt | Stars: Conrad Veidt, Trude von Molo, Heinrich George, Friedl Haerlin
Votes: 57
31. Liebe '47 (1949)
118 min | Drama, Romance
A young man and a woman about to commit suicide by jumping into a river, recount to each other their experiences of the Second World War and the struggles of the immediate post-war situation.
Director: Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Stars: Dieter Horn, Hilde Krahl, Sylvia Schwarz, Karl John
Votes: 107
32. Frauenarzt Dr. Prätorius (1950)
95 min | Comedy, Drama
The friendly Dr. Prätorius is very popular among his patients and his students. His misanthropic colleague Speiter is determined to tarnish Prätorius' impeccable reputation.
Directors: Karl Peter Gillmann, Curt Goetz | Stars: Curt Goetz, Valerie von Martens, Erich Ponto, Bruno Hübner
Votes: 119
33. Keine Angst vor großen Tieren (1953)
85 min | Comedy
Emil is a coward. When he falls in love with a woman who wants a real man, he has to find the courage beyond his jolly demeanor.
Director: Ulrich Erfurth | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Ingeborg Körner, Gustav Knuth, Maria Paudler
Votes: 113
34. Die verschwundene Miniatur (1954)
83 min | Comedy, Crime
Oscar Kuelz, butcher from Hamburg, meets a young lady in a café in Copenhagen. He volunteers to take a miniature with him in the train to Hamburg. He doesn't notice how nervous she is, or that she's observed by two guys in trench-coats.
Director: Carl-Heinz Schroth | Stars: Paola Loew, Ralph Lothar, Paul Westermeier, Paul Bildt
Votes: 21
35. Der Meisterdetektiv (1944)
74 min | Comedy
A detective is hired to protect the prize-winning pig of a country house owner.
Director: Hubert Marischka | Stars: Georg Alexander, Hermann Brix, Will Dohm, Fritz Kampers
Votes: 20
36. Aus erster Ehe (1940)
89 min
Barbara rejects womanizer Dr. Deinert and marries Prof. Walter Helmerding who has two children from a first marriage. When Deinert flirts with Walter's teenage daughter Barbara tries to thwart what she perceives as his revenge mission.
Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Franziska Kinz, Ferdinand Marian, Maria Landrock, Klaus Detlef Sierck
Votes: 12
37. Der Feuerteufel (1940)
94 min | Action, War
An Austrian farmhand raises an army of rebels against the French invaders in the early 19th century and even tries to assassinate Napoleon himself, in Vienna.
Director: Luis Trenker | Stars: Luis Trenker, Judith Holzmeister, Bertl Schultes, I. Inni
Votes: 18
38. Am seidenen Faden (1938)
92 min
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.
Director: Robert A. Stemmle | Stars: Willy Fritsch, Carl Kuhlmann, Käthe von Nagy, Stella David
Votes: 10
39. Geliebter Lügner (1950)
87 min | Comedy, Romance
Director: Hans Schweikart | Stars: Elfie Mayerhofer, Hans Söhnker, Gustav Knuth, Erich Ponto
Votes: 13
40. Das Fräulein von Barnhelm (1940)
86 min | Comedy
Director: Hans Schweikart | Stars: Käthe Gold, Ewald Balser, Fita Benkhoff, Theo Lingen
Votes: 18
41. Primanerinnen (1951)
95 min | Drama, Romance
The story of a first love will always be tainted with all the wishes and errors of being young, it will always begin with a gentle encounter, an unexpected timid happiness and will end with a disappointing experience.
Director: Rolf Thiele | Stars: Ingrid Andree, Walter Giller, Christiane Jansen, Jochen Meyn
Votes: 9
42. 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
43. Hocuspocus (1953)
90 min | Comedy, Crime
Director: Kurt Hoffmann | Stars: Curt Goetz, Valerie von Martens, Hans Nielsen, Ernst Waldow
Votes: 186
44. Das Geheimnis um Betty Bonn (1938)
94 min | Adventure, Crime
Director: Robert A. Stemmle | Stars: Maria Andergast, Theodor Loos, Hans Nielsen, Erich Ponto
Votes: 13
45. Diesel (1942)
109 min | Biography, History
Director: Gerhard Lamprecht | Stars: Willy Birgel, Hilde Weissner, Paul Wegener, Josef Sieber
Votes: 36
46. Haus des Lebens (1952)
104 min | Drama
Director: Karl Hartl | Stars: Gustav Fröhlich, Cornell Borchers, Edith Mill, Viktor Staal
Votes: 24
47. Tobias Knopp, Abenteuer eines Junggesellen (1953)
76 min | Animation
Director: Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Stars: René Deltgen, Werner Finck, Albert Florath, Otto Gebühr
Votes: 19
48. Anschlag auf Baku (1942)
91 min
Competition between the British and the Germans to help the Russians with oil fields around Baku, after the Great War.
Director: Fritz Kirchhoff | Stars: Boris Alekin, Günther Ballier, Paul Bildt, Otto Braml
Votes: 15
49. Sauerbruch - Das war mein Leben (1954)
104 min | Biography, Drama
Director: Rolf Hansen | Stars: Ewald Balser, Heidemarie Hatheyer, Maria Wimmer, Lina Carstens
Votes: 130
50. Wenn wir alle Engel wären (1956)
98 min | Comedy
Director: Günther Lüders | Stars: Dieter Borsche, Marianne Koch, Hans Söhnker, Carla Hagen
Votes: 49