6.2
The Rothschilds
IMDb: 6.2 1940 97 min
Nazi biography of the Rothschilds, a Jewish family whose members rose to the top of the European banking community during the Napoleonic era. ...
6.4
The Heart of a Queen
IMDb: 6.4 1940 112 min
As the title “The Queen’s Heart” suggests, this early German black and white version of Mary Queen of Scott’s eventful ...
6.8
Damals
IMDb: 6.8 1943
The doctor, Vera Meiners, lives with her small daughter, Brigitte. Her former husband, Jan, left her after she met a former lover in a harmless ...
6.5
Girls in Gingham
IMDb: 6.5 1949 100 min
A moving saga focusing on the women in a family that spans three generations and almost 70 years of German history, from the Wilhelmine period ...
6
Women Are Better Diplomats
IMDb: 6 1941 93 min
A seductive dancer (Marika Rökk) helps her uncle to fight against the closing of his casino. Through her feminine charm she achieves diplomatic ...
6.4
The Spessart Inn
IMDb: 6.4 1958 99 min
Countess Franziska is “kidnapped” by a band of robbers. However, her father is not willing to pay the ransom, so Franziska changes ...
6.7
Giovanni de Medici: The Leader
IMDb: 6.7 1937 88 min
Returned from exile where he accompanied his mother Caterina Sforza, Giovanni de ‘Medici (1498-1526), becomes, under the name of Giovanni ...
6.9
Ein Stern fällt vom Himmel
IMDb: 6.9 1934 88 min
Joseph Reiner, a talented music student, tries to get a contract from a film and music producer, aided by Annerl, the girl he loves, and his ...
7.8
The Blum Affair
IMDb: 7.8 1948 109 min
This early postwar suspense story, based on a well-known 1926 murder trial with Dreyfus-loke overtones also represents an East German reflection ...
0
Paracelsus
1943 104 min
A 1943 German drama film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst based on the life of Philippus von Hohenheim (Paracelsus). The film is one of several ...
5.3
The Court Concert
IMDb: 5.3 1936 85 min
Before he became cult director Douglas Sirk, Detlef Sierck cut his teeth on such lavish European star vehicles as Das Hofkonzert (The Court ...
6.9
Ludwig II
IMDb: 6.9 1955 115 min
King Ludwig II of Bavaria is frustrated, having to accept parliament’s will to join Bismarck, rather he his cultured Habsburg friends, in ...
5.7
The Sovereign
IMDb: 5.7 1937 103 min
Der Herrscher (The Sovereign) was based on Before Sunset, a play by Gerhart Hauptmann. The great Emil Jannings stars as Mathias Clausen, a ...
7.1
The Berliner
IMDb: 7.1 1948 89 min
Long before he played the corpulent Goldfinger, German actor Gert Froebe was a scarecrow-skinny comedian. In Berliner Ballade, Froebe makes his ...