Cinematography: Helmut Ashley

The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Helmut Ashley. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.


Direction Frank Wisbar

Cast Joachim Hansen · Ernst Wilhelm Borchert · Wolfgang Preiss · Carl Lange

Synopsis In the winter of 1943, against the background of battle scenes, a young German Lieutenant who increasingly distrusts the inhuman Nazi ideology struggles with the concept of war.

6.6

374 votes

6.6

374 votes

Stolen Identity

1953 · Movie · 81 min. · Austria

Direction Gunther von Fritsch

Cast Donald Buka · Joan Camden · Francis Lederer · Adrienne Gessner

Synopsis When an American businessman gets murdered while hailing his taxi, Viennese cab driver Toni (Donald Buka) steals the dead man’s passport and identity in the hopes of escaping Austria and getting to the United States. But soon, Toni finds himself...

6.6

22 votes

6.6

22 votes

The Star of Africa

1957 · Movie · 99 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Alfred Weidenmann

Cast Joachim Hansen · Marianne Koch · Hansjörg Felmy · Horst Frank

Synopsis Biographic Movie of the German fighter ace, who was killed in a plane crash after over 150 kills in North Africa.

5.9

78 votes

5.9

78 votes

Escale à Orly

1955 · Movie · 105 min. · France

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Direction Alfred Weidenmann

Cast Romy Schneider · Karlheinz Böhm · O.E. Hasse · Ernst Schröder

Synopsis Conference city Geneva: Conference city Geneva: Once again, the great figures of European political life are meeting in this hectic city. All of that, however, means nothing to Kitty Dupont. Contritely, she's standing before her boss, Monsieur Jeannot, the premier...

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Direction Rudolf Jugert

Cast O.W. Fischer · Ruth Leuwerik · Carl Wery · Gertrud Kückelmann

Synopsis A man, in need of money and too lazy to work for a living, marries a plain but rich girl in the knowledge that she is ill and has not long to live. Once he is married to her, he...

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Nina

1956 · Movie · 89 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Rudolf Jugert

Cast Anouk Aimée · Karlheinz Böhm · Peter Carsten · Werner Hinz

Synopsis Love story of a girl, secretary to a Russian news agency, and an American journalist, thwarted by a wall of difficulties that has been erected by the girl's superior, a Russian major.

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Direction Frantisek Cáp

Cast Gordon Howard · Irina Garden · Kurt Meisel · Hans Nielsen

Synopsis It portrays a gang of counterfeiters with links to the former Nazi regime.

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Alibi

1955 · Movie · 103 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

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.

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White Shadows

1951 · Movie · 83 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Helmut Käutner

Cast Hilde Krahl · Hans Söhnker · Claude Farell · Hugo Gottschlich

Synopsis An isolated man living in a cottage in the mountains one day discovers a mysterious unconscious woman and takes her in.

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Bank Vault 713

1957 · Movie · 86 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Werner Klingler

Cast Martin Held · Hardy Krüger · Nadja Tiller · Hildegard Grethe

Synopsis A tragedy set in post-war Germany. A man is unable to find a job. In his desperation, he plans to rob a bank together with a friend (Hardy Kruger as Klaus) who works in a petrol station and feels tempted...

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The Trial

1948 · Movie · 108 min. · Austria

Direction Georg Wilhelm Pabst

Cast Ewald Balser · Marianne Schönauer · Ernst Deutsch · Rega Hafenbrödl

Synopsis In 1882 a country girl disappears from a small Hungarian village. The inhabitants suggest that she was murdered by the Jews. Everything is done to accuse them before the trial. A study in stubbornness, racism and intolerance and how to...

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Regine

1956 · Movie · 105 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Harald Braun

Cast Johanna Matz · Erik Schumann · Horst Buchholz · Viktor Staal

Synopsis Martin Lundt, heir to his family’s industrial business, falls for and, against his family’s wishes, weds the family maid, Régine. Soon thereafter, rumors begin to circulate about Régine’s faithfulness and being to haunt Martin.

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Direction Robert A. Stemmle

Cast Heidemarie Hatheyer · Ernst Wilhelm Borchert · Werner Hinz · Ingrid Andree

Synopsis Haldor lives in a Nordic fishermen's village surrounded by the raging sea. His marriage with the proud Salvör is impending, but while on the sea in a storm, he is cast upon an island. There he falls in love with...

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Wet Asphalt

1958 · Movie · 90 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Frank Wisbar

Cast Horst Buchholz · Martin Held · Maria Perschy · Gert Fröbe

Synopsis Just released from prison, Greg Bachmann, a young journalist, is being offered the chance to work for well established and revered star reporter Cesar Boyd.

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