Gustaf Gründgens Movies

In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Peter Lorre

The engineer MacAllan designs a tunnel, which will join America and Europe together on the seabed. A group of American billionaires are financing...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Paul Hartmann

Vienna in the beginning of the twentieth century. Cavalry Lieutenant Fritz Lobheimer is about to end his affair with Baroness Eggerdorff when he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paul Hörbiger

The two aspiring actresses Jeanette and Mimi are waiting for their big chance. But the real breakthrough is slow in coming. Jeanette especially...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Brigitte Helm

Paris, 1830: Jean-Gaspard Debureau performs on the stage and delights his audience with song, wit and charm. He is, however, very unpopular with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gustaf Gründgens

This pre-WW II German costume drama chronicles the French Revolution with a particular focus upon Danton, Robespierre, and Marat. It depicts the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fritz Kortner

In 1957 Gustaf Gründgens staged a new production of Goethe's Faust in which he once again played Mephisto, a part he had played since 1932. The...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Will Quadflieg

During a house concert, the Bach family gets a visit by their son Wilhelm Friedemann, who has just given up his position in Dresden because he no...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gustaf Gründgens

Hokuspokus is a 1930 German comedy film directed by Gustav Ucicky and starring Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch and Oskar Homolka. It was an adaptation...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lilian Harvey

Mabel is a successful pilot who hates sensational media, but falls in love with Jack, a womanizer journalist with conservative views on gender. When...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gustaf Gründgens

France in the 15th Century: The country is marked by the wars with England and internal power struggles. King Charles sees himself powerless against...

Genre: History

Cast: Angela Salloker

This German crime drama was based on a true story. Willy Forst stars as a poverty-stricken Italian glazier who falls in love with French hotel maid...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Trude von Molo

Germany under Napoleon. Johanna is travelling by stagecoach when one of its occupants, Major Korfes, is arrested by the French militia. Before...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marianne Hoppe

Intrigue and scheming at the court of Queen Anne of England between liberal Lord Bolingbroke and Lady Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough. German...

Genre: Music

Cast: Gustaf Gründgens

The story of General Yorck von Wartenburg, a commander in the army of Prussian King Wilhelm, who defied the king's orders for the Prussian army to...

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Cast: Werner Krauß

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jenny Jugo

The British Empire sees its interests in South Africa threatened by the Boers from Holland and engages them in battle. The Boer leader Ohm...

Genre: History

Cast: Emil Jannings

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dorothea Wieck

Sylvia, the daughter of the pastor Kelvil, is lectrice to Lady Patricia and gets to know the young Lord Harford. They love one another, but their...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gustaf Gründgens

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Brigitte Helm

The political advisor to the French emperor Napoleon, and the Austrian emperor Franz I, arrange a marriage between Napoleon and the Austrian...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paula Wessely

Vehicle for one of the Weimar era's most beloved actresses: as the popular Prussian queen in 1806-1807, she presides over the humiliating Peace of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Henny Porten

A sailor falls for a music hall performer with marital problems, after having been at sea a long 12 years, only to learn the distressing news that...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Richard Tauber

An engineer is hired to plan and oversee the construction of a undersea tunnel between Europe and the US. However, certain interests don't want to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean Gabin

Genre: History

Cast: Werner Krauß

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paul Hartmann

A young German officer's (Wolfgang Liebeneiner) life is turned upside when he tries to end his affair with a married baroness (Olga Tschechowa) after...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Magda Schneider

It begins with a Tannhäuser performance and ends with the premiere of The Tales of Hoffmann. In between a young ingénue cast in her first...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gustav Fröhlich

This documentary traces the "physical history" of Fritz Lang’s M, from its production and original distribution to the digital restoration used...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Peter Lorre

Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came into power, until 1945, when the Third Reich...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Rüdiger Suchsland