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- 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.
- Gerte Winter, a young Berliner mechanic, marries an English rich nobleman who promises to send for her. Time goes on, and tired of waiting Gerte heads off to England. After some new acquaintances she finds herself in front of a big fenced property.
- This Nazi propaganda film focuses on the plight of a German unit in World War I that finds itself surrounded by British and French forces.
- Rosé and his opera troupe travel by ship to Monte Carlo. Mario Delmonti, the tenor, finds Carla hidden in his cabin, and helps her returning to Europe. Arriving in Monte Carlo they find the opera director hard to convince. Confident in Mario's exceptional voice they don't give up, even if they have to perform a parallel Tosca in front of the Opera house. First film Martha Eggerth and husband-to-be Jan Kiepura made together.
- A lawyer passes himself off as a famous tenor, and makes the conquest of the secretary of a theatrical impresario who is in jail.
- When the North Sea breaks through the Friesland coast, the mysterious rider of a white horse saves people's land from the disaster.
- A handsome but penniless young man takes a summer job as a swimming instructor in a picturesque Alpine lake resort. He falls in love with a young heiress who is staying there with her father, but he also grabs the attention of tomboyish Puck who lives on the other side of the lake and who saves him from drowning one foggy night. Further havoc is caused by the arrival of Eric's old sweetheart whose husband is wanted by the police.
- Story of the trials and tribulations of a German who emigrates to the US during the Great Depression.
- After his colleague and a mentor, Prof. Achenbach dies in a set-up accident, while trying to produce gold from the lead, Werner Holk seeks revenge. Meanwhile, a British millionaire suggests that Holk work on him on a similar project.
- The film tells the story of Amy Dorrit, who spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father, who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in London. Amy and her family's world is transformed when her boss's son, Arthur Clennam, returns from overseas to solve his family's mysterious legacy and discovers that their lives are interlinked.
- This Nazi propaganda film tells about the "freikorps" movement in post-World War I Germany. Freikorps were armed extreme-right-wing paramilitary groups, often composed of street thugs, ex-convicts and unemployed veterans, who engaged in street battles and assassinations of political opponents, usually leftist or Communist groups. Many of these "freikorps" were absorbed into the S.A. (Storm Troopers) and, later, the SS after Adolf Hitler came to power.
- A German scientist designs and builds a machine that will do dangerous work instead of placing humans in jeopardy. But the machine itself turns out to have disastrous effects on the people involved.
- Warsaw 1831: The young music student Frédéric Chopin falls in love with the singer Constantia. When his professor learns that Polish revolutionaries want to persuade Chopin to take part in their uprising, he and Constantia hatch a plan to keep Chopin away from the revolution: Constantia pretends that she no longer loves him, so that Chopin accepts an offer to go to a concert in Paris. There, however, he meets the famous writer George Sand and falls in love with her. With her help, he breaks through as a composer in Paris and becomes a famous man overnight. Now Constantia may have lost him, but the world of music has won him.
- An espionage case set in higher society. In order to save the prestige of his country, a diplomat finally voluntarily departs from life.
- An investigator uncovers sinister sabotage in the death of a scientist who was on the verge of producing an artificial version of mankind's most precious metal..Simultaneously filmed French version of the German film, Gold.
- German version of Marcel Pagnol's play, Fanny, in which Emil Jennings has the role of the powerful father figure, Cesar.
- A young woman working as a secretary for a Berlin car business tries to impress a rich Australian visitor by pretending she is a foreign countess.
- Elisabeth is subject of a girl's boarding school run by the nuns. The village idiot Michele adores her and is particularly drawn to her organ playing. In his madness, he kills the girl's father and tries to lay the blame on the organist.
- 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 about a high-school class. He's told the reason is that he never attended a regular school, so he decides to swap roles with his younger brother Erich, who's a never-graduating, always kidding senior in a small-town high-school. When Erich aka Hans suddenly turns from class clown into the role model of a pupil, everyone believes it's just another prank. So Hans is practically forced to take over Erich's standard... and enjoys it.
- A Nazi-era German reimagining of Ibsen's classic, as an adventure type vehicle for the popular heartthrob Hans Albers.
- A 19th century period drama about a village character who is a sort of Jekyll and Hyde.After he dies in a fall, his neighbors wonder if he committed suicide to make amends for his selfish and abusive behavior.
- The age old legend of a Chinese princess whose suitors are beheaded if they fail to answer a tricky riddle she has deliberately chosen so as to avoid getting married.
- A country postmaster and stagecoach operator in 1838 is wary about his daughter's involvement with a construction foreman building the first German railroad there.
- August Pipin is a very reliable and loyal cashier who is always level-headed, no matter which trouble faces him. One day that suddenly changes and a fiasco breaks loose.
- On the eve of the Great War, an expatriate German working in Latin America learns that the Fatherland is in peril, and risks various obstacles to get back to Europe to join the ranks of fighting men.
- Ruritanian power struggle with opera singing.
- When the Fatherland is threatened during the Great War, colonists in Germany's African territory burn down their farms and return to serve on the battlefield.
- When an exiled Russian prince, living on the Riviera, becomes sick, he asks a friend who resembles him to pretend he is the prince, in order to protect his inheritance from vultures.
- Delia Donovan is the decoy and works for a pair of jewel thieves. Her job is to seduce Viktor, who has in his possession a necklace of priceless emeralds, which he is bringing from Turkey to Marseille for his father. The criminals plan to steal the jewels on the boat with the collaboration of the crooked captain. Viktor's girl friend Sybil sees through the devious Delia and when there is an explosion on board and much confusion, she is the one to come to Viktor's rescue.
- A boxing instructor for the Berlin police has a side gig as a singer, which leaves little time for his wife, in this operetta.
- A story in which a monstrous figure steals all of the musical instruments from a small town in order to rid them of their happiness, only to find that music has a power of its own.
- The German heir to a Munich auto plant is held in Chicago on a murder rap and is only able to uncover the real killer by escaping from American justice ,and returning to his Fatherland.
- Operetta adaptation : in nineteenth century Saint Petersburg, villains threaten the true love of a heartfelt couple.
- The businessman Bernhard Fredersen, who has been blinded by an eye disease, shuts down his long-established company in Hamburg and moves to Pretoria to spend his retirement years with his wife Agnes. While on the journey, Agnes is seen by the treacherous Eugen Schliebach, who knows, that she once had an affair with his late boss. Schliebach wants to blackmail Agnes to become his mistress and when she refuses to do so, he goes to Fredersen tells him everything.
- The story of Hannele, an unhappy girl who is beaten by her stepfather and tries to commit suicide.
- In this Cinderella style romance, a working class blonde introduces samples of a new perfume her father has made, to the rich and powerful at a fancy Baden Baden hotel, by pretending she is a socialite.
- Therèse Krones is a young maiden who works as laundress but yearns for singing and acting. She admires Ferdinand Raimund, who will give her her first opportunity. Musical score by Franz Grothe, loosely based on the Austrian actress life.
- A dramatization of the exploits of a German cruiser "Emden" during the Great War and of its captain, Von Mueller.
- A satire on the Nazi admired outdoor and mountain genre, about a movie company shooting a production in the Arctic, this film was not popular in Germany.
- In Dresden's classical music world, female students learn from an opinionated conductor and a pompous dance instructor.When their work isn't appreciated, a teacher consoles them, saying Bruckner, Schubert and Wagner were also criticized.
- An inventor works on coming up with a radio-television device, but can't get it to work properly. A slick con artist sees a chance to fleece gullible people with this device and encourages the inventor to keep working at it. One day in the lab, a freak accident results in the machine being able to look through any object and project that object on a TV screen. Unfortunately, some crooks hear about it and determine to get their hands on it. Complications ensue.