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Wealthy, heavily-insured men are being murdered at an alarming rate. Scotland Yard investigates and finds clues that lead to a ring of blind men, led by a mysterious "reverend."

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 he doesn't get a pass; and without a pass, he doesn't get a job. He gets into the net of Prussian bureaucracy, and can't see a solution. Until he enters a small Second-Hand Shop, and sees a Prussian Uniform that fits him like a second skin...

During WW2, German general Harry Harras is a test pilot and chief engineer for the Luftwaffe but his contempt for the Nazis and sabotage at the aircraft plant land him in hot water with the Gestapo.

An English businessman comes home to London, only to find visitors to his home being killed by arrows from "the Green Archer."

Confessions of impostor Felix Krull.

First part of two of the saga of the troubled Buddenbrook family and their business in mid-19th-century Germany.

A ring of counterfeiters is flooding the country with phony money, and suspicion falls upon a wealthy playboy who may--or may not--have amnesia.

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 of the patients (Jean Berner) and promptly writes a movie script about the encounter in which she projects her own fantasies about how things will turn out eventually. By coincidence this movie script is picked up by a film director who happens to be Berner's closest friend. From then on things become very complicated.

In Hamburg, the ex-captain Jonny Jensen runs the bar "Das Herz von St. Pauli". Business is not going well. Jensen is forced to enroll the shade "Jabo" Jabowski as a business partner. Jabo brings in contraband and store it in the cellar, he renovates the bar area and turns into a nightclub with young girls performing.

Anny arrives in Munich to start a career as an actress, but soon ends up without money and job, sleeping on a park bench. When the police picks her up, she pretends to have amnesia and is taken to the police station. There she's surprised to get presented her alleged parents. Not knowing yet what kind of game they play, she goes home with them and lets the rich couple coddle her.

Helga is a young single lady who has a baby with a much older married man.

A simple girl becomes a famous singer.

Carefully chronicling in great detail the early years of Hitler s life and the events that shaped him into the zealous leader of Germany. This documentary offers a critical insight into the stealthy rise of the Nazi party and how it s racist vision of the world slowly took hold in a disillusioned Germany.

The pediatrician Waldemar Weber is in despair: his adoptive son Egon from his first marriage has announced he will be visiting, of all things, on his first wedding anniversary, although Waldemar has always kept it a secret from his young wife Henny. Waldemar absolutely has to intercept Egon. When Egon is at the door after all, he also turns out to be a monkey trainer. He also brought his chimpanzees Kiki, Koko and Kaka. Waldemar has his hands full explaining Egon's existence and hiding the chimpanzees from his suspicious wife. But is the bedroom closet really the right hiding place?

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

Dr. Danwitz (Karlheinz Böhm) and Dr. Hauser are assistant doctors at a hospital and they are not getting paid for their work, like it was usual in the Fifties of post-war Germany. While Dr. Danwitz' wife Edith (Marianne Koch) is working part- time as a model to bring home some money, Dr. Hauser has to drive a taxi at night for his living. When Edith' superior Mrs. Hambach (Heidemarie Hatheyer) finds out that she is pregnant, she doesn't want to have the child, because her husband is stepping out on her for so many times. After all Edith finds out that she is pregnant herself and she tells Mrs. Hambach that she can't go on working as a model, although there won't be any income for the Danwitzes anymore. Mrs. Hambach, very desperate, takes the chance and offers Dr. Danwitz and Dr. Hauser a very large amount of money for giving her an illegal abortion. But then something terrible happens.

Adapted from a stage play by Curt J. Braun, the film takes place in a mid-sized German industrial town. When the local factory closes its doors, the townsfolk are thrown into confusion and dismay. The story concentrates on a dozen laid-off workers, relating their individual life stories and detailing their hopes, aspiration and fears.

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.

Trophy wife Carola loves to spend her husband Bernhard's money until he puts an end to it. She leaves him to prove that she can earn her own living. Star author Tex hires her as his chauffeur - not because of her skills but her looks.

The poor ghost of Sir Simon Canterville has been roaming his castle searching in vain for a brave descendant who will release him from the Canterville curse by performing a brave deed. An American family moves in and finds the ghost amusing, but a young girl in the family can release him - if she dares.