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1. Ein Blick zurück (1944)
87 min
Overworked lawyer Eugen is busy mending other people's marriages and business problems. Though he is aware that his wife Valentine plans to leave him for a pianist he can't help it. The crisis escalates when their son falls seriously ill.
Director: Gerhard Menzel | Stars: Rudolf Forster, Hilde Weissner, Thea Weis, Gustav Diessl
Votes: 11
2. 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
3. Hundstage (1944)
89 min | Comedy
Peter and Paul are old friends who happen to meet again. Both are dentists and both want to get married the next day.
Director: Géza von Cziffra | Stars: Wolf Albach-Retty, Rolf Wanka, Maria Holst, Olly Holzmann
Votes: 14
4. Serenade (1937)
110 min | Drama
Director: Willi Forst | Stars: Hilde Krahl, Albert Matterstock, Igo Sym, Walter Janssen
Votes: 22
5. Unfinished Symphony (1934)
84 min | Biography, Drama, Musical
Composer Franz Schubert--broke, struggling and unhappy--gets a break when a wealthy friend wangles him an invitation to a command performance in front of a princess of the royal family. ... See full summary »
Directors: Anthony Asquith, Willi Forst | Stars: Mártha Eggerth, Helen Chandler, Hans Jaray, Eliot Makeham
Votes: 36
6. The Darling of Vienna (1930)
92 min | Comedy, Musical
A stylish young man shows up as a substitute at events when officials and other important people are too busy to attend,and sometimes imitates their voices.
Director: Géza von Bolváry | Stars: Willi Forst, Paul Hörbiger, Trude Lieske, Else Elster
Votes: 45
7. Escapade (1935)
92 min | Comedy, Romance
Escapade is a 1935 romantic comedy film starring William Powell and Luise Rainer. It is a remake of Maskerade (1934).
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: William Powell, Luise Rainer, Frank Morgan, Virginia Bruce
Votes: 91
8. Ein Burschenlied aus Heidelberg (1930)
79 min | Musical, Romance
Director: Karl Hartl | Stars: Hans Brausewetter, Betty Bird, Willi Forst, Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur
Votes: 34
9. 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
10. The Song Is Ended (1930)
102 min | Musical, Romance
An officer embarrasses a singer by walking away during one of her performances. He later apologizes and the two become closer, eventually falling in love.
Director: Géza von Bolváry | Stars: Liane Haid, Willi Forst, Margarete Schlegel, Otto Wallburg
Votes: 73
11. Der Sträfling aus Stambul (1929)
Director: Gustav Ucicky | Stars: Heinrich George, Betty Amann, Paul Hörbiger, Willi Forst
Votes: 22
12. Die lustigen Weiber von Wien (1931)
109 min | Comedy
A dance teacher helps his ten well-bred student sisters when they leave home as a protest against their father's intended wedding. They form a café group called Die lustigen Weiber aus Wien (The merry Viennese girls).
Director: Géza von Bolváry | Stars: Willi Forst, Lee Parry, Paul Hörbiger, Irene Eisinger
Votes: 21
13. Die blaue Maus (1928)
Director: Johannes Guter | Stars: Jenny Jugo, Harry Halm, Brita Appelgren, Julius Falkenstein
Votes: 6
14. Mazurka (1935)
91 min | Drama
A female cabaret singer is put on trial for murdering a predatory musician.
Director: Willi Forst | Stars: Pola Negri, Albrecht Schoenhals, Ingeborg Theek, Franziska Kinz
Votes: 197
15. I Am Sebastian Ott (1939)
101 min
Directors: Viktor Becker, Willi Forst | Stars: Willi Forst, Gustav Diessl, Trude Marlen, Paul Hörbiger
Votes: 23
16. Ich kenn' dich nicht und liebe dich (1934)
96 min | Romance
A composer, inspired by a magazine photo of a young woman, lands a job as a butler in her family's Riviera villa to find out more.
Director: Géza von Bolváry | Stars: Magda Schneider, Willi Forst, Max Gülstorff, Olga Limburg
Votes: 15
17. Der Prinz von Arkadien (1932)
89 min | Drama
Both the King and his son have been deposed by popular demand. The now Prinz of Arkadia certainly enjoys his new role, which without much changing his lifestyle leaves him free to ... See full summary »
Director: Karl Hartl | Stars: Willi Forst, Liane Haid, Hedwig Bleibtreu, Ingeborg Grahn
Votes: 39
18. Young Girls of Vienna (1949)
109 min | Biography, Drama, Musical
Carl Michael Ziehrer is a young composer who tries to make his way in a Strauss devoted Vienna. When his first opportunity arrives he is encouraged by Mitzi and two of her sisters. He in ... See full summary »
Director: Willi Forst | Stars: Willi Forst, Anton Edthofer, Judith Holzmeister, Dora Komar
Votes: 96
19. A Girl You Don't Forget (1932)
92 min | Musical, Comedy, Romance
Actors who are out of work eventually get their break in a show that has been under preparation for a while.
Director: Fritz Kortner | Stars: Willi Forst, Dolly Haas, Oskar Sima, Max Gülstorff
Votes: 41
20. Katharina Knie (1929)
Director: Karl Grune | Stars: Eugen Klöpfer, Carmen Boni, Adele Sandrock, Fritz Kampers
Votes: 10
21. Peter Voss Who Stole Millions (1932)
104 min | Comedy
Director: Ewald André Dupont | Stars: Willi Forst, Alice Treff, Paul Hörbiger, Ida Wüst
Votes: 33
22. Leise flehen meine Lieder (1933)
85 min | Biography, Drama, Music
Franz Schubert works as school teacher, yet his mind and soul are in music. When he is engaged as a pianist for an aristocratic soirée he doesn't suspect how this will change his life forever and even determine his unfinished symphony.
Director: Willi Forst | Stars: Mártha Eggerth, Luise Ullrich, Hans Jaray, Hans Moser
Votes: 137
23. Burg Theatre (1936)
122 min | Drama
Friedrich Mitterer is the eccentric and basically socio-phobic star of the Viennese Burg Theater. His prompter takes care of his social interactions. When Mitterer meets the young Leni he relies on the prompter to establish contact.
Director: Willi Forst | Stars: Werner Krauss, Hortense Raky, Olga Tschechowa, Hans Moser
Votes: 86
24. 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
25. Der Hofrat Geiger (1947)
93 min | Comedy
Franz Geiger discovers that he has a daughter, Mariandl, the result of a love affair in Spitz eighteen years earlier.
Director: Hans Wolff | Stars: Paul Hörbiger, Maria Andergast, Hans Moser, Joseph Egger
Votes: 123
26. So endete eine Liebe (1934)
94 min | Romance
the political advisor to the French emperor Napoleon, and the Austrian emperor Franz I, arrange a marriage between Napoleon and the Austrian archduchess Marie-Luise in order to prevent another war.
Director: Karl Hartl | Stars: Paula Wessely, Willi Forst, Gustaf Gründgens, Franz Herterich
Votes: 45
27. Zwei Herzen im Dreiviertel-Takt (1930)
96 min | Musical
Toni Hofer and brothers Vicki and Nicki Mahler are working on a new operetta. Toni's reputation with women equals his fame as composer, so they keep their sister Hedi away from him. Wanting... See full summary »
Director: Géza von Bolváry | Stars: Walter Janssen, Oskar Karlweis, Willi Forst, Gretl Theimer
Votes: 56
28. The Sinner (1951)
83 min | Drama, Romance
Marina passes from a dysfunctional family to love with an unsuccessful artist. But he is going blind due to a brain tumor.
Director: Willi Forst | Stars: Hildegard Knef, Gustav Fröhlich, Änne Bruck, Robert Meyn
Votes: 387
29. Frauen sind keine Engel (1943)
80 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Director Richard Anden and his screenwriter take a cruise on a luxury liner, avoiding all feminine attempts to get a movie contract, including the ship singer. When he unexpectedly ... See full summary »
Director: Willi Forst | Stars: Marte Harell, Axel von Ambesser, Margot Hielscher, Curd Jürgens
Votes: 56
30. Bel Ami (1939)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama
Shortly after being demobilized, Georges Duroy becomes aware of his power over women in the arms of Rachel, a young singer. Thanks to his good looks and his charming manners and his ... See full summary »
Director: Willi Forst | Stars: Willi Forst, Olga Tschechowa, Johannes Riemann, Ilse Werner
Votes: 139
31. 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
32. 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
33. Love in Stunt Flying (1937)
86 min | Comedy
The famous pilot Mabel Atkinson does not like reporters, and the famous reporter Jack Warren does not like famous women. He is looking for a nice, pretty, totally uninteresting girl.
Director: Gustaf Gründgens | Stars: Marianne Hoppe, Gustaf Gründgens, Fita Benkhoff, Maria Bard
Votes: 47
34. The Three from the Filling Station (1956)
The Road to Paradise is a 1956 German-French romantic comedy about three young men working at a gas station who fall in love with the same woman.
Directors: Willi Forst, Hans Wolff | Stars: Georges Guétary, Christine Carère, Claude Farell, Willy Fritsch
Votes: 9
35. Die elf Teufel (1927)
98 min | Drama
A professional football players' club tries to get a goalscorer out of the small workers club. With the help of a large contract and a woman, he stays in the end with his club and beats the big club in the decisive game for the city cup.
Directors: Zoltan Korda, Carl Boese | Stars: Gustav Fröhlich, Evelyn Holt, Lissy Arna, Fritz Alberti
Votes: 92
36. Atlantik (1929)
114 min | Drama, History
The transatlantic liner hits an iceberg and passengers realize that they are left only three hours to live.
Director: Ewald André Dupont | Stars: Fritz Kortner, Elsa Wagner, Heinrich Schroth, Julia Serda
Votes: 51
37. The Theft of the Mona Lisa (1931)
89 min | Drama
A painter working at the Louvre is struck by the Mona Lisa. When he meets a girl who he thinks resembles the painting and she wants him to become famous he has the idea of robbing the painting. Based on the 1911 real robbery.
Director: Géza von Bolváry | Stars: Willi Forst, Trude von Molo, Gustaf Gründgens, Max Gülstorff
Votes: 81
38. Nights of Love (1930)
80 min | Comedy
During a railway journey, Baron van Geldern meets an attractive young woman Evelyne in the same carriage. After the train is derailed, they spend a night together at a hotel, and he falls ... See full summary »
Director: Fred Sauer | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Willi Forst, Albert Hörrmann, Otto Kronburger
Votes: 53
39. Sein Liebeslied (1930)
102 min | Musical
Mady Smith, a young girl, raves about the famous jazz singer Maxim Merblanc and one evening sneaks out of the boarding school where she lives to finally meet her idol in the "Tivoli Cabaret".
Director: Géza von Bolváry | Stars: Willi Forst, Fay Wall, Paul Otto, Oskar Karlweis
Votes: 16
40. Weg in die Vergangenheit (1954)
90 min | Drama
Director: Karl Hartl | Stars: Paula Wessely, Attila Hörbiger, Josef Meinrad, Willi Forst
Votes: 15
41. Cabaret (1954)
85 min | Drama
Director: Willi Forst | Stars: Paul Henreid, Eva Kerbler, Fritz Schulz, Dorit Kreysler
Votes: 16
42. Die unentschuldigte Stunde (1957)
94 min | Comedy
When a school student fakes sickness to skip a test, she falls in love with the handsome doctor. The partnership takes a serious turn soon, and puts her Abitur in jeopardy.
Directors: Willi Forst, Rolf Kutschera | Stars: Adrian Hoven, Erika Remberg, Hans Moser, Rudolf Forster
Votes: 44
43. The Stars Shine (1938)
80 min | Musical
A young secretary quits her job and goes to Berlin to try to be a film star. She enters Gloria Films as an extra, there many German and foreign film stars appear as pictures in process are ... See full summary »
Director: Hans H. Zerlett | Stars: La Jana, Vera Bergman, Carla Rust, Ernst Fritz Fürbringer
Votes: 63
44. Café Elektric (1927)
91 min | Drama
A dance-hall girl falls for a pickpocket.
Director: Gustav Ucicky | Stars: Willi Forst, Marlene Dietrich, Fritz Alberti, Anny Coty
Votes: 172
45. A Blonde Dream (1932)
98 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A penniless artiste is distracted from her dreams of Hollywood stardom by two hard-up but high-spirited window cleaners, both called Willy.
Director: Paul Martin | Stars: Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch, Willi Forst, Paul Hörbiger
Votes: 275
46. The Burning Secret (1933)
92 min | Drama
A boy and his mother stay in a hotel near a lake where they meet a fascinating man.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Alfred Abel, Hilde Wagener, Hans Joachim Schaufuß, Lucie Höflich
Votes: 130
47. Im Weissen Rössl (1952)
95 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Leopold, the new head waiter at the 'Weißen Rößl' is in love with the landlady Josefa. He sends her red roses every day. But Josefa believes they are a gift from her regular guest Dr. Otto Siedler, with whom Josefa is in love.
Director: Willi Forst | Stars: Johanna Matz, Johannes Heesters, Walter Müller, Rudolf Forster
Votes: 94
48. Sodom and Gomorrah (1922)
150 min | Drama
When the old multimillionaire Jackson Harber wants to marry the young model Mary, she hesitates, but her mother convinces her that this is her chance to lead a life in luxury and leisure. ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Georg Reimers, Victor Varconi, Lucy Doraine, Erika Wagner
Votes: 243
49. Bei Dir war es immer so schön (1954)
90 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
While working as accountant in his uncle's factory, talented young pianist Peter dreams of becoming a famous composer. When he shows his work to a producer, he manages to convince him to ... See full summary »
Director: Hans Wolff | Stars: Heinz Drache, Georg Thomalla, Ingrid Stenn, Grethe Weiser
Votes: 38
50. Die Drei von der Tankstelle (1955)
93 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Three friends buy a gas station together and work separate shifts. They all fall in love with a customer, not realizing it's the same woman.
Director: Hans Wolff | Stars: Germaine Damar, Adrian Hoven, Walter Müller, Walter Giller
Votes: 92