List of the best Helmut Käutner movies: The Captain From Koepenick(1956), Sky Without Stars(1955), The Rest Is Silence(1959), The Affairs of Julie(1958), The Girl From Flanders(1956), Devil's General(1955), The Rest Is Silence(1959) ... ...
Comedy, Drama
West Germany
1956
93 Minutes
Director
Heinz Ruehmann Hannelore Schroth Martin Held Willy A. Kleinau Leonard Steckel Friedrich Domin Erich Schellow Walter Giller
cobbler soldier government official townsperson mother ex-convict playful spirited striking germany town shop pub city hall social customs imperialism impersonation theft militarism bureaucracy
A young shoemaker is arrested for stealing a small amount of money, and is released after being jailed for 15 years. He wants to have a pass to get a job and start anew, but without a job ... See full summary »
Drama, Romance
West Germany
1955
105 Minutes
Director
Eva Kotthaus Erik Schumann Horst Buchholz Georg Thomalla Gustav Knuth Camilla Spira Erich Ponto Lucie Höflich Siegfried Lowitz Otto Wernicke Wolfgang Neuss
german woman son border patrol officer love interest great-grandmother emotional melodramatic engaging heartwarming passionate charming east germany germany west germany border mother/son relationship east/west clash family relationships father/son relationship
A border police officer helps a woman cross between West and East Germany with her son. Despite being increasingly united by love, the distance between them increases as border security tightens.
Crime, Drama
West Germany
1959
106 Minutes
Director
Hardy Kruger Peter Van Eyck Ingrid Andree Adelheid Seeck Rudolf Forster Boy Gobert Rainer Penkert Heinz Drache Charles Régnier Siegfried Schürenberg Richard Allan
professor mother uncle industrialist father bleak tense brooding germany factory murder family suspicion postwar germany remarriage investigation quest revenge 1950s
An interpretation of Hamlet finds the heir Claudius Steel Works struggling with his mother's to uncle Van Eyk in a sterile industrial post-WW2 West Germany.
Comedy
West Germany
1958
90 Minutes
Director
Liselotte Pulver Paul Hubschmid Bernhard Wicki Wolfgang Lukschy Rudolf Platte Werner Finck
assistant dentist director physician writer touching amusing positive inspiring dentist's office party mountain town film set switzerland engagement courtship epic journey new love following your heart
Juliane Thomas is an ambitious but unemployed young writer. After breaking up with her lover she works at a dentist friend to make ends meet. One day she instantly falls in love with one of... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1956
105 Minutes
Director
Dodie dreams of marrying a millionaire so that she can live 'the life'. Buzz, her boyfriend, however is not rich as he is a salesman for a housing development. He proposes and Dodie accepts... See full summary »
War, Drama
1955
117 Minutes
Director
Curt Jurgens Marianne Koch Viktor de Kowa Karl John Eva Ingeborg Scholz Harry Meyen Bum Krüger Paul Westermeier Camilla Spira Albert Lieven Karl Ludwig Diehl
general nazi soldier gripping intense shocking berlin prison world war ii morality nazism torture fall underdog rivalry 1940s
A World War II flying ace re-examines his loyalties to the Nazi effort and the concept of war in general.
Crime, Drama
West Germany
1959
106 Minutes
Director
Hardy Kruger Peter Van Eyck Ingrid Andree Adelheid Seeck Rudolf Forster Boy Gobert Rainer Penkert Heinz Drache Charles Régnier Siegfried Schürenberg Richard Allan
professor mother uncle industrialist father bleak tense brooding germany factory murder family suspicion postwar germany remarriage investigation quest revenge 1950s
An interpretation of Hamlet finds the heir Claudius Steel Works struggling with his mother's to uncle Van Eyk in a sterile industrial post-WW2 West Germany.