Heinz Rühmann Films

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1. Murder for Sale (1930)

102 min | Comedy, Musical

The young wife of a rich old husband is prevented of a fling by a gentleman-burglar, who falls in love to her.

Director: Hanns Schwarz | Stars: Ralph Arthur Roberts, Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch, Heinz Rühmann

Votes: 109

2. Bombs Over Monte Carlo (1931)

111 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

The captain of a battleship of a small Balkan country is fed up with following strange orders from the country's queen.

Director: Hanns Schwarz | Stars: Hans Albers, Anna Sten, Heinz Rühmann, Ida Wüst

Votes: 168

3. The Upright Sinner (1931)

78 min | Comedy

A small town bank official, entrusted with taking money to Vienna, spends some of it.On his return to admit his guilt he learns that his boss,the director, has run off with even more.

Director: Fritz Kortner | Stars: Max Pallenberg, Heinz Rühmann, Dolly Haas, Josefine Dora

Votes: 64

4. The Man in Search of His Murderer (1931)

97 min | Comedy, Film-Noir

A man in bad sorts hires a burglar to later kill him, then changes his mind when his fortunes turn and must find the contracted murderer before it is too late.

Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Lien Deyers, Raimund Janitschek, Hans Leibelt

Votes: 243

5. Three Bluejackets and a Blonde (1933)

88 min | Comedy

While on land, three sailors get entangled with the same woman - very much aided by her little brother.

Director: Carl Boese | Stars: Charlotte Ander, Heinz Rühmann, Friedrich Benfer, Fritz Kampers

Votes: 35

6. Man braucht kein Geld (1931)

92 min | Comedy

Family Brandt has lost its fortune in oil speculation, and they have great debts at the local bank. This one is threatened with its own crash due to lack of money. The only hope is Brandt's... See full summary »

Director: Carl Boese | Stars: Hedy Lamarr, Heinz Rühmann, Hans Moser, Ida Wüst

Votes: 137

7. 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

8. Laughing Heirs (1933)

76 min | Comedy, Romance

A young salesman may inherit a wine-estate on one condition: he can't drink a drop of alcohol for at least a month.

Director: Max Ophüls | Stars: Lien Deyers, Heinz Rühmann, Ida Wüst, Max Adalbert

Votes: 254

9. Frasquita (1934)

84 min | Musical

The groom-to-be in an arranged marriage falls in love with a Gypsy singer en route to his wedding, while his best man is mistaken for him by his bride-to-be, who has never laid eyes on him.

Director: Karel Lamac | Stars: Jarmila Novotna, Hans Heinz Bollmann, Heinz Rühmann, Charlott Daudert

Votes: 36

10. So ein Flegel (1934)

84 min | Comedy

This is an earlier, much less successful version of the The Punch Bowl (1944), but the story is basically the same: The famous writer Hans Pfeiffer has problems in directing his latest play... See full summary »

Director: Robert A. Stemmle | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Ellen Frank, Inge Conradi, Annemarie Sörensen

Votes: 211

11. Eva, the Factory Girl (1935)

90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Eva is employed in a porcelain factory owned by Georg von Hochheim's grandmother, who asks him to take over the company and try to put it back into profitability. He takes on the project in... See full summary »

Director: Johannes Riemann | Stars: Magda Schneider, Heinz Rühmann, Hans Söhnker, Adele Sandrock

Votes: 50

12. 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

13. Lumpaci the Vagabond (1936)

90 min | Comedy

Fortuna and Amorosa, the protector of true love, make a bet with the devilish spirit Lumpacivagabundus that should finally bring the devil down.

Director: Géza von Bolváry | Stars: Paul Hörbiger, Heinz Rühmann, Hans Holt, Hilde Krahl

Votes: 89

14. Five Millions Seek an Heir (1938)

85 min | Comedy

According to his last will, the rich American uncle of vacuum cleaner salesman Peter Pett only leaves his 5 million dollars to Peter if he is married happily. Otherwise the five million will fall to Peter's Scottish cousin Patrick.

Director: Carl Boese | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Leny Marenbach, Vera von Langen, Oskar Sima

Votes: 112

15. Model Husband (1937)

95 min | Comedy, Romance

When a bland British banker fails to please his wife, he pretends to be interested in other women so she will become jealous and care more for him.

Director: Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Leny Marenbach, Hans Söhnker, Heli Finkenzeller

Votes: 113

16. 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

17. Die Umwege des schönen Karl (1938)

101 min | Comedy

Karl Kramer is a waiter in a beach hotel on the Baltic Sea. But he has completely different plans in mind for the future. Before he marries Grete Wernicke, the daughter of the hotel manager, he wants to have enough money himself.

Director: Carl Froelich | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Karin Hardt, Sybille Schmitz, Ernst Legal

Votes: 52

18. So You Don't Know Korff Yet? (1938)

95 min | Crime, Comedy

A writer who is an amateur detective recovers a painting stolen from an Amsterdam patron by three bumbling foreign crooks.

Director: Fritz Holl | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Victor Janson, Franz Schafheitlin, Fritz Rasp

Votes: 113

19. The Leghorn Hat (1939)

91 min | Comedy

Nazi version of a play more famously done as the French silent, An Italian Straw Hat: en route to his wedding, the groom's horse eats the chapeau of a baroness whose husband would be suspicious if she returned without it.

Director: Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Herti Kirchner, Christl Mardayn, Paul Henckels

Votes: 118

20. Hurrah! I'm a Papa (1939)

80 min | Comedy

A dissolute man ignores his father's attempts to reform. However, one morning he returns home to find a small boy (Walter Schuller) in his room with a letter informing him that he is the boy's father; he is forced to change his ways.

Director: Kurt Hoffmann | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Albert Florath, Walter Schuller, Carola Höhn

Votes: 66

21. Bachelor's Paradise (1939)

91 min | Comedy

Marriage license official Hugo gets his second divorce, and his new landlady is trying to lure him into his third marriage, but with the help of his wartime buddies he escapes this danger. ... See full summary »

Director: Kurt Hoffmann | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Josef Sieber, Hans Brausewetter, Trude Marlen

Votes: 62

22. 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

23. Request Concert (1940)

103 min | Musical, Romance, War

At the Olympic games in Berlin 1936 Inge Wagner falls in love with Luftwaffenleutnant (Airforce Lieutenant) Herbert Koch. They want to marry, but he receives orders to go to Spain - ... See full summary »

Director: Eduard von Borsody | Stars: Hedwig Bleibtreu, Joachim Brennecke, Heinz Goedecke, Paul Hörbiger

Votes: 175

26. Fronttheater (1942)

95 min | Drama, War

The very successful actress Lena Andres marries Dr. Paul Meinhardt. For his sake she gives up her acting career.

Director: Arthur Maria Rabenalt | Stars: Heli Finkenzeller, René Deltgen, Lothar Firmans, Wilhelm Strienz

Votes: 27

28. 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: 6,609

29. 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

31. The Ballad of Berlin (1948)

Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Musical

After he has luckily survived the war, Otto tries to build up his new life in the remains of Berlin.

Director: Robert A. Stemmle | Stars: Gert Fröbe, Tatjana Sais, Ute Sielisch, Aribert Wäscher

Votes: 226

35. 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

36. Auf der Reeperbahn nachts um halb eins (1954)

111 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

After many years on the oceans, sailor Hannes Wedderkamp has finally returned to Hamburg. On St. Pauli, Hannes sings songs from the sea in the hippodrome of his best friend Pitter Breuer on... See full summary »

Director: Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Stars: Hans Albers, Heinz Rühmann, Fita Benkhoff, Erwin Strahl

Votes: 247

37. Charleys Tante (1956)

89 min | Comedy, Romance

Two seducers, who have invited two charming Swedish women to their home, ask the brother of one of them to dress up as a woman and play the chaperons.

Director: Hans Quest | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Hertha Feiler, Claus Biederstaedt, Walter Giller

Votes: 364

38. Wenn der Vater mit dem Sohne (1955)

95 min | Drama, Comedy

After Clown Teddy lost his son, he lost his gift for laughter. He opened a joke shop and lives above the shop. His landlady has had a foster son since birth, and Teddy decides to raise the ... See full summary »

Director: Hans Quest | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Oliver Grimm, Waltraut Haas, Robert Freitag

Votes: 461

39. The Captain from Köpenick (1956)

93 min | Comedy, Drama

A young shoemaker is arrested for stealing a small amount of money, and is released after being jailed for 15 years. He wants to have a pass to get a job and start anew, but without a job ... See full summary »

Director: Helmut Käutner | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Martin Held, Hannelore Schroth, Willy A. Kleinau

Votes: 1,904

40. Vater sein dagegen sehr (1957)

95 min | Drama

Lutz Ventura is a writer in a small town. There he lives an idyllic life with his fiancée Margot. When his widowed sister suddenly dies, he takes in her two children Traudl and Rudi. This inevitably leads to complications.

Director: Kurt Meisel | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Marianne Koch, Hans Leibelt, Paul Esser

Votes: 214

41. Der eiserne Gustav (1958)

102 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

Gustav Hartmann is in trouble. Because of the new taxis he doesn't get many passengers in his horse-drawn carriage. To prove what he and his horse are capable of, he starts a trip from Berlin to Paris.

Director: Georg Hurdalek | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Lucie Mannheim, Ernst Schröder, Karin Baal

Votes: 218

42. Max, der Taschendieb (1962)

91 min | Comedy, Crime

Max, a small time pick-pocket, has nothing to do with the "big" crimes. But then he must find the murderer of Fred, his wife's brother.

Director: Imo Moszkowicz | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Elfie Pertramer, Hans Clarin, Ruth Stephan

Votes: 295

43. Der Lügner (1961)

90 min | Comedy, Drama

Mr. Schumann tells his little daughter a lot of lies about himself, so she can be proud of her father.

Director: Ladislao Vajda | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Giulia Follina, Annemarie Düringer, Blandine Ebinger

Votes: 129

44. Das Haus in Montevideo (1963)

123 min | Comedy

A stiff German professor inherits a house in Montevideo, Uruguay.

Director: Helmut Käutner | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Ruth Leuwerik, Paul Dahlke, Hanne Wieder

Votes: 255

45. Mein Schulfreund (1960)

94 min | Drama, Comedy

Theatrical adaptation: In the 3rd Reich a mailman writes Goering,an old school chum, to end the war. To avoid a death sentence, Goering has the man declared insane.Which causes complications years later.

Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Loni von Friedl, Ernst Schröder, Hertha Feiler

Votes: 217

47. The Good Soldier Schweik (1960)

98 min | Comedy, Drama, War

During World War I, Schweik (played by Heinz Rühmann) is drafted into the Austro-Hungarian Army as soldier, where he is assigned to be an assistent to Lt. Lukas.

Director: Axel von Ambesser | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Ernst Stankovski, Franz Muxeneder, Ursula von Borsody

Votes: 647

48. Der Pauker (1958)

91 min | Comedy, Drama

Dr. Hermann Seidel is an authoritarian teacher at a small town high school.After the dislocation to a big town school, he sees himself and his concept of education, put to a severe test.

Director: Axel von Ambesser | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Wera Frydtberg, Gert Fröbe, Bruni Löbel

Votes: 396

49. Grand Hotel (1959)

106 min | Drama

People staying at or working in a luxurious hotel undergo a variety of crises in their personal lives.

Director: Gottfried Reinhardt | Stars: O.W. Fischer, Michèle Morgan, Heinz Rühmann, Sonja Ziemann

Votes: 106

50. It Happened in Broad Daylight (1958)

97 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Having doubts about the guilt of the obvious suspect in the murder of an eight year old girl, a police detective decides to investigate the case on his own.

Director: Ladislao Vajda | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Sigfrit Steiner, Siegfried Lowitz, Michel Simon

Votes: 5,578

51. Meine Tochter und ich (1963)

90 min | Comedy

Widower Robert Stegemann and his daughter are living happily together. But what Robert doesn't know is that Brigitte only lacks the courage to tell her loving father she's getting married. ... See full summary »

Director: Thomas Engel | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Gustav Knuth, Gertraud Jesserer, Eckart Dux

Votes: 85

53. Das Liebeskarussell (1965)

86 min | Comedy

An episodic film, telling four erotic tales: Angela isn't sexually satisfied by her husband, so she simulates sleep-walking to visit her neighbor across the street every night; when his ... See full summary »

Directors: Rolf Thiele, Axel von Ambesser, Alfred Weidenmann | Stars: Curd Jürgens, Nadja Tiller, Ivan Desny, Letícia Román

Votes: 141

54. Ship of Fools (1965)

Not Rated | 149 min | Drama, Romance, War

A varied group of passengers boarding a ship bound for pre-WWII Germany represents a microcosm of early 1930s society.

Director: Stanley Kramer | Stars: Vivien Leigh, Simone Signoret, José Ferrer, Lee Marvin

Votes: 6,952

55. Dr. med. Hiob Prätorius (1965)

92 min | Comedy

Dr. med. Hiob Prätorius.

Director: Kurt Hoffmann | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Liselotte Pulver, Fritz Tillmann, Fritz Rasp

Votes: 145

56. Die Ente klingelt um halb acht (1968)

88 min | Comedy

German Italian parody of spy comedies in American dress. Punctuality and roasting taps are the focal point of this fast-paced history with Heinz Rühmann.

Director: Rolf Thiele | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Hertha Feiler, Graziella Granata, Charles Regnier

Votes: 136

57. Der Kapitän (1971)

93 min | Comedy

After Wilhelm Ebbs promotes to a cruise captain his longed for dream turns into a nightmare.

Director: Kurt Hoffmann | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Johanna Matz, Horst Tappert, Ernst Stankovski

Votes: 156

60. Operazione San Pietro (1967)

G | 100 min | Comedy, Crime

Small time crook Napoleone falls into an unlikely gang made up of a gangster, called The Baron, and his two cohorts, Agonia and The Captain, where Napoleone takes them to Rome where they ... See full summary »

Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Lando Buzzanca, Jean-Claude Brialy, Heinz Rühmann, Christine Barclay

Votes: 291

61. Hokuspokus oder: Wie lasse ich meinen Mann verschwinden...? (1966)

100 min | Comedy

Hocus-pocus or: How do I make my husband disappear ...?

Director: Kurt Hoffmann | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Liselotte Pulver, Fritz Tillmann, Richard Münch

Votes: 174

62. Der Tod des Handlungsreisenden (1968 TV Movie)

125 min | Drama

Willy Loman is an over-the-hill salesman who faces a personal turning point when he loses his job and attempts to make peace with his family: Willy's long-suffering wife Linda, and Biff and Happy, his troubled sons and his life.

Director: Gerhard Klingenberg | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Käthe Gold, Christoph Bantzer, Peter Thom

Votes: 31

65. Das chinesische Wunder (1977)

90 min | Drama

The young surgeon Kristian Keller is an idealistic doctor. He has long been disgusted by the greed of many colleagues who are no longer driven by the will to help sick people.

Director: Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Senta Berger, Peter Pasetti, Harald Leipnitz

Votes: 32

67. Faraway, So Close! (1993)

PG-13 | 140 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

61 Metascore

A group of angels in the German capital look longingly upon the life of humans.

Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Otto Sander, Bruno Ganz, Peter Falk, Horst Buchholz

Votes: 9,095 | Gross: $0.81M

68. Gefundenes Fressen (1977)

95 min | Comedy, Drama

The homeless Alfred lives on the streets, sleeps under a bridge. Since years he has a dream for which he puts by: a vacation in the South, possibly Mallorca. One day he meets police ... See full summary »

Director: Michael Verhoeven | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Mario Adorf, Elisabeth Volkmann, René Deltgen

Votes: 93

69. Diener und andere Herren (1978 TV Movie)

57 min | Comedy

In this anthology film adaptation of Irish stories Heinz Rühmann assumes the roles of a sacristan falling from grace, a homeless accountant and an unhappily married ornithologist.

Director: Wolfgang Glück | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Bruni Löbel, Werner Eichhorn, Christian Reiner

Votes: 14

71. Ein Mann geht durch die Wand (1959)

99 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

Story of a man who out of frustration discovers that he has the ability to walk through walls.

Director: Ladislao Vajda | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Rudolf Vogel, Hubert von Meyerinck, Peter Vogel

Votes: 331

72. Noch 'ne Oper (1979 TV Movie)

65 min | Comedy, Music

Another opera.

Director: Claus Peter Witt | Stars: Heinz Erhardt, Margit Schramm, Benno Kusche, Rudolf Schock

Votes: 26

73. Kein Abend wie jeder andere (1976 TV Movie)

75 min | Comedy

Two competing antique dealers have their shops opposite each other in a small shopping street. The distinguished Roeder deals in valuable art objects, while the owner of Billy's Art Shop offers cheap imported goods from Hong Kong.

Director: Hermann Leitner | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Peter Ustinov, Ilsemarie Schnering, Eva Maria Bauer

Votes: 25

74. Enter Inspector Maigret (1966)

89 min | Crime, Drama

After the theft of a priceless Van Gogh from a Parisian museum, Maigret follows his chief suspect to Lausanne where the suspect is found murdered.

Director: Alfred Weidenmann | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Françoise Prévost, Günther Stoll, Günter Strack

Votes: 196

75. Paradies 505. Ein Niederbayernkrimi (2013 TV Movie)

89 min | Crime

Die Polizisten Schorsch, Erwin und Richi hören von einer in der Erde vergrabenen weiblichen Leiche.

Director: Max Färberböck | Stars: Johanna Bittenbinder, Florian Karlheim, Stefan Betz, Tim Seyfi

Votes: 67

76. Seegrund. Ein Kluftingerkrimi (2013 TV Movie)

89 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Police Inspector Kluftinger finds an apparently dead diver in a blood-red puddle by the shore of a lake. When he investigates the matter, he finds that the diver is not dead and he comes ... See full summary »

Director: Rainer Kaufmann | Stars: Herbert Knaup, Johannes Allmayer, Jockel Tschiersch, Hubert Mulzer

Votes: 124



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