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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A Nazi-era German reimagining of Ibsen's classic, as an adventure type vehicle for the popular heartthrob Hans Albers.
- Young sailor Kiwe buys a mysterious bottle which fulfills all his wishes for material wealth. The down side: From now on his soul belongs to the devil. Kiwe soon realizes his predicament and desperately tries to resell the bottle.
- 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 young woman tries to hinder her sister from committing adultery - by wooing the suitor herself.
- On their honeymoon in St. Moritz,a new husband who is much older than his young bride is driven to despair when he thinks she prefers to spend her time with a younger man there, an actor.
- A feisty young German woman cuts her hair and dons black armor to help the resistance of Braunschweig in 1809 against occupying Napoleonic troops.
- 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.
- Carmen seduces a soldier. She takes him home to the Gypsy camp, and while he sleeps, she steals his clothes and weapons. She trades them for an elegant dress, but even with fine clothes, she can't get the time of day from the toreador. She goes to the bullfight, where the soldier tries to come after her with a dagger. She gets into the ring and manages to seduce the bull, who takes a rose from her mouth. She rides off on the bull with her man.
- Sylva Varescu is an operetta singer performing Kálmán's Die Czardasfürstin through Europe with great success. Before going to Vienna she meets handsome Prinz Weylerstein and they fall in love. Offered a contract for America, she doubts until she finds out that he is already engaged to a countess.
- Ruritanian power struggle with opera singing.
- Nazi propaganda film extolling the virtues of "Erbhofgesetz", a law that decreed that the oldest son in a farming family would always inherit the farm.
- When the North Sea breaks through the Friesland coast, the mysterious rider of a white horse saves people's land from the disaster.
- 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.
- Jenny confronts her cousin Harry: Did he embezzle her fortune? No. But he escapes with married lover Germaine only to return quickly because her husband pursues them. Jenny is convinced Harry is his own double and arrests him at gunpoint.
- 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.
- Adaptation of the Schiller play, about a Swiss rebel against the tyranny of Austria in the early 14th century.
- Spring is in the air. Simple-minded and good-spirited Marika travels from her Hungarian hamlet to Vienna, where she gets a job at her aunt's bakery, selling Salzbröthchen to the Emperor. She meets a very nice soldier who is composing a march, yet she is expecting the wealthy man a fortune-teller did promise. Anyway, to help him she puts the march in the Emperor's brötchen. The military Spring parade (Frühjahrsparade) is approaching.
- The story of Hannele, an unhappy girl who is beaten by her stepfather and tries to commit suicide.
- Sprinkled with music and dances, and dealing with financial and romantic difficulties, a young Grand Duke falls in love with a wealthy Russian princess, without knowing her true identity.
- 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.
- 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.
- German version of Marcel Pagnol's play, Fanny, in which Emil Jennings has the role of the powerful father figure, Cesar.
- 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.
- Operetta adaptation : in nineteenth century Saint Petersburg, villains threaten the true love of a heartfelt couple.
- 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.
- Capricious Lady Virginia has an unexpected double in a girl who works at a fair and wishes for a beauty salon. When the first one's eccentricities lead to her arrest, the second is paid for going to prison. There she meets Charles, Virginia's suitor. When out of jail she will have to fight not only for him but for going through with the leading role in a skating show.
- A lawyer passes himself off as a famous tenor, and makes the conquest of the secretary of a theatrical impresario who is in jail.
- Hotel tycoon Paulsen re-meets an old flame who mistakes him for a waiter. Paulsen's daughter Toni likes hotelier Reno and accepts to work for him as a waitress and chambermaid because she wants to be loved for herself, not her money.
- A Prokurist in a bank is suspected of murdering her boss and refuses to take the stand in her defense, because she believes she has to cover for the boss' nephew.
- Confirmation Day - a father and son celebrate the son's confirmation in a fancy restaurant.
- A vehicle for the popular German actress Henny Porten, about the love between a mother and her child.
- Johann Strauss helps the business of a Viennese wine merchant and his daughter by showing up to conduct the orchestra at a party.
- The daughter of a landowner helps save an aristocratic neighbor from ruin, in this operetta adaptation.
- The marriage of director Willy Hofmann and his wife Eva is troubling. Both rely on their closest friends for advice on how to restore family happiness.
- 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.