Screenplay: Erich Kästner
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Erich Kästner. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Emil und die Detektive
1931 · Movie · 75 min. · Germany
Direction Gerhard Lamprecht
Cast Käthe Haack · Rolf Wenkhaus · Fritz Rasp · Rudolf Biebrach
6.7
34 votes
6.7
34 votes
The Adventures of Baron Münchhausen
1943 · Movie · 105 min. · Germany
Direction Josef von Báky
Cast Hans Albers · Wilhelm Bendow · Brigitte Horney · Michael Bohnen
Plot The story follows the life of Baron Hieronymus von Münchhausen who was granted immortality by a sorcerer some 200 years previously. Here he recounts to a group of friends tales...
6.5
575 votes
6.5
575 votes
Annaluise & Anton
1999 · Movie · 107 min. · Germany
Direction Caroline Link
Cast Elea Geissler · Max Felder · Juliane Köhler · August Zirner
Plot Pünktchen and Anton are closest of friends. Being the daughter of a wealthy surgeon, young Pünktchen lives in a great house. Her mother, who always travels through the world more...
5.6
40 votes
5.6
40 votes
Emil and the Detectives
1964 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Peter Tewksbury
Cast Walter Slezak · Bryan Russell · Roger Mobley · Heinz Schubert
Plot When Emil travels by bus to Berlin to visit his grandmother and his cousin, his money is stolen by a crook who specializes in digging tunnels. Emil must get the...
5.5
31 votes
5.5
31 votes
The Parent Trap
1961 · Movie · 124 min. · United States
Direction David Swift
Cast Hayley Mills · Maureen O'Hara · Brian Keith · Charles Ruggles
Plot Hayley Mills plays twins who, unknown to their divorced parents, meet at a summer camp. Products of single parent households, they switch places (surprise!) so as to meet the parent...
5.5
7K votes
5.5
7K votes
Emil and the Detectives
2001 · Movie · 111 min. · Germany
Direction Franziska Buch
Cast Tobias Retzlaff · Anja Sommavilla · Jürgen Vogel · Maria Schrader
5.2
32 votes
5.2
32 votes
The Parent Trap
1998 · Movie · 123 min. · United States
Direction Nancy Meyers
Cast Lindsay Lohan · Dennis Quaid · Natasha Richardson · Lisa Ann Walter
4.5
18K votes
4.5
18K votes
Animals United
2010 · Movie · 93 min. · Germany
Direction Reinhard Klooss · Holger Tappe
Plot A group of animals waiting for the annual flood they rely on for food and water discover that the humans, who have been destroying their habitats have built a dam...
4.5
907 votes
4.5
907 votes
Parent Trap III (TV)
1989 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction Mollie Miller
Cast Hayley Mills · Barry Bostwick · Ray Baker · Patricia Richardson
Plot When Jeff plans to marry again, his triplet daughters Megan, Lisa and Jessie try to bring him together with Susan.
3.8
39 votes
3.8
39 votes
Parent Trap: Hawaiian Honeymoon (TV)
1989 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Mollie Miller
Cast Hayley Mills · Barry Bostwick · Joy Creel · Leanna Creel
Plot Inheriting a family resort in Hawaii, the Wyatts find it in such a run-down condition that they decide to sell it after trying to fix it up. Amidst confusing goings-on...
3.3
30 votes
3.3
30 votes
Toscanito y los detectives
1950 · Movie · 76 min. · Argentina
Direction Antonio Momplet
Cast Andrés Poggio (Toscanito) · Paride Grandi · Roberto Bordoni · Hugo Lanzilotta
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Hibari no komoriuta
1951 · Movie · 81 min. · Japan
Direction Koji Shima
Cast Satsuki Arakawa · Hikaru Hoshi · Shinsho Kokontei · Hibari Misora
Plot In summer camps, Hibari meets a girl, Sumire, who looks like her like a drop of water to another. They soon discover that they are twins, but that each one...
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Stackars miljonärer
1936 · Movie · 99 min. · Sweden
Direction Ragnar Arvedson · Tancred Ibsen
Cast Adolf Jahr · Anna Olin · Ernst Eklund · Eleonor de Floer
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Fabian
1980 · Movie · 110 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Wolf Gremm
Cast Hans Peter Hallwachs · Hermann Lause · Silvia Janisch · Mijanou Van Baarzel
Plot Novel-based story of Jacob Fabian, a somewhat liberal Berlin advertising copywriter who witnesses the collapse of the prewar German society during the 1930s.
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Drei Männer im Schnee
1955 · Movie · 93 min. · Austria
Direction Kurt Hoffmann
Cast Paul Dahlke · Günther Lüders · Claus Biederstaedt · Nicole Heesters
Plot A rich man wins a vacation at a hotel but takes it in the disguise of a poor man under the supervision of his butler. The hotel manager gets tipped...
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Das doppelte Lottchen (TV)
2017 · Movie · 89 min. · Germany
Direction Lancelot von Naso
Cast Florian Stetter · Alwara Höfels · Oliver Wnuk · Mina Tander
Plot Erich Kästner's "Das doppelte Lottchen" is the classic story of swapping roles - and now also the basis for a dramatic, yet cheerful family film on Das Erste. Amidst a...
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Charlie & Louise
1994 · Movie · 98 min. · Germany
Direction Joseph Vilsmaier
Cast Fritzi Eichhorn · Floriane Eichhorn · Heiner Lauterbach · Corinna Harfouch
Plot Ten years ago Wolf and Sabine Palfy got divorced. Since then their daughter Charlie grew up with her father and her twin sister Louise lived with her mother. They never...
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Flying Classroom
1954 · Movie · 92 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Kurt Hoffmann
Cast Paul Dahlke · Heliane Bei · Paul Klinger · Erich Ponto
Plot All is not really well between the boys of Gymnasium and the boys of the six-form High School: sparks fly when they get within 100m of each other! The continuous...
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The Flying Classroom
2023 · Movie · 89 min. · Germany
Direction Carolina Hellsgård
Cast David Bredin · Lovena Börschmann · Leni Deschner · Anna Ewelina
Plot It tells the story of Martina. She takes up a scholarship at the Johann-Sigismund Gymnasium boarding school. She increasingly finds herself caught between the rivalry between the boarders and the...
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Dann schon lieber Lebertran (S)
1931 · Movie · 24 min. · Germany
Direction Max Ophüls
Cast Käthe Haack · Max Gülstorff · Alfred Braun · Paul Kemp
Plot Each evening, before saying their prayers, some children swallow their cod liver oil. One evening, the youngest child makes a daring request in his prayer. "Why must it always be...
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