Cast: Walter Werner

Direction Karl Hartl

Cast Hans Albers · Heinz Rühmann · Marieluise Claudius · Hansi Knoteck

Synopsis The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes (German:Der Mann, Der Sherlock Holmes War) is a German mystery comedy of 1937, directed by Karl Hartl. Hans Albers plays the detective Morris Flynn, who likes to pretend to be Sherlock Holmes, while Flynn's...

Direction Veit Harlan

Cast Ferdinand Marian · Werner Krauss · Heinrich George · Kristina Söderbaum

Synopsis The Nazi version of the story begins with the coronation of Karl Alexander, Duke of Württemberg (Heinrich George), a man much beloved by his people, who swears an oath to obey the laws of the dukedom. Unfortunately, the duke does...

Direction Kurt Maetzig

Cast Paul Klinger · Ilse Steppat · Alfred Balthoff · Claus Holm

Synopsis Set during the rise of the Nazi regime, Marriage in the Shadows is modeled after the tragic true story of Meta and Joachim Gottschalk. In the film, Elisabeth Maurer and Hans Wieland enjoy successful careers as actors in Berlin; Elisabeth...

Direction Heinz Rühmann

Cast Hertha Feiler · Hans Söhnker · Hans Nielsen · Susanne von Almassy

Synopsis A man meets a girl in an Alpine Lodge and decide to make the relation permanent, but they lose each other, each thinking the other to be disloyal. When the meet again, both are engaged, to others, and she is...

Direction Paul Czinner

Cast Elisabeth Bergner · Emil Jannings · Conrad Veidt · Maria Bard

Direction Alfred Weidenmann

Cast O.E. Hasse · Gisela von Collande · Martin Held · Almut Rothweiler

Synopsis An industrialist's wife was killed and now her lover is accused of murder.

Direction Gustav Ucicky · Emil Jannings

Cast Emil Jannings · Friedrich Kayßler · Max Gülstorff · Lina Carstens

Synopsis The blank verse does not work all that well in subtitles, but the film works even for those who don't understand German. The man who broke the jug, the judge, is trying a case who determine who broke the jug....

Direction Fritz Peter Buch

Cast Martin Affelt · Franz Berghaus · Günther Clemm · Inge Cupel

Synopsis In this Nazi propaganda film, a troubled young boy joins the Hitler Naval Youth, where he finds meaning and purpose in his life.

Direction Veit Harlan

Cast Lil Dagover · Peter Petersen · Albrecht Schönhals · Hilde Körber

Synopsis Set in Tsarist Russia. A happily married woman falls in love with her husband's cousin through their mutual love of music. She decides to stay with her husband, but he has become jealous and murders her. He is acquitted but...

Direction Jürgen von Alten

Cast Heinrich George · Ida Wüst · Rotraut Richter · Sabine Peters

Direction Hans Hinrich

Cast Lil Dagover · Paul Hartmann · Rolf Möbius · Karl Günther

Synopsis A patriotic period melodrama in which a father and son are in love with the same lady. The son does not tell her that his father, an officer, has fought in a duel over her, but lies that he has...

Direction Georg C. Klaren

Cast Karl Paryla · Käthe Braun · Angelika Hauff · Herbert Hübner

Direction Paul Verhoeven II

Cast Ewald Balser · Viktor de Kowa · Maria Landrock · Gustav Knuth

Synopsis Professor Lorenz is nominated for the highest accolade of his profession, and he smiles about his sons' juvenile mismanagement of private funds. Then he learns that one of them has forged the professor's signature on several IOUs.

Direction Josef von Báky

Cast Jenny Jugo · Gustav Fröhlich · Rudi Godden · Maria Koppenhöfer

Direction Paul Martin

Cast Lilian Harvey · Rolf Möbius · Willy Birgel · Paul Hoffmann

Synopsis Prince Klemens von Metternich orders Friedrich Gentz, one of his aides, to keep the Duke of Reichstadt—Napoleon Francois Joseph Charles—son of Napoleon and heir to the French throne, from thinking about French politics. Gentz enlists the help of ballerina Fanny...