George Tabori's farcical stage play detailing Adolph Hitler's early years as a failed artist is adapted for the screen by...
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Schlomo Hirzl
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2009
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2002
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A would-be ad man starts talking his way to the top, only to discover he has a shortage of usable ideas in this satiric...
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2001
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While a number of American and European films have examined the horrible legacy of the Third Reich and the Holocaust, Du...
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Co-producer, Heinz Baumgarten/Josef Mengele
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1999
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A burnt-out Berlin cop investigating his 652nd case slowly loses the ability to discern the differences between the grim...
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Bernhard Kominka
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1998
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Hermine Huntgeburth wrote and directed this German comedy-drama about a trio of travelers who veer their caravan toward...
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Zobel
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1998
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Densely plotted and featuring a large ensemble cast, this German drama offers a smorgasbord of lush visuals, intrigue, sex,...
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1997
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This taut, well-wrought German drama was originally made for television in 1995 but was such a critical success that it was...
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1996
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Writer-director Romuald Karmaker made a stunning impact with this riveting and gruesome historical drama based on the case of...
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1995
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In this slapstick satire, Fritz is a life-long forger of Nazi memorabilia. He got his start as a boy, selling items of...
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Hermann Willi'e
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1992
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Evoking the complexities of life in 1946 postwar Berlin, this detective drama focuses on the efforts of a small group of...
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1989
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In this suspense story, the main character, Johann Neudorff (Gotz George), immigrated to Argentina from Germany after World...
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Johann Neudorff
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1989
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Most American filmmakers would be praised to the skies for setting their films in exotic locales like Bavaria, Munich,...
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Probek
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1988
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Gotz George portrays the unscrupulous police commissioner Schimanski in this grim crime drama. With his partner Thanner...
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Kommissar Horst Schimanski
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1986
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Adapted from his successful German TV series about a cop named Schimanski (Gotz George), director Hajo Gies has this Polish...
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Schimanski
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1985
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A stuck elevator is used as an allegory for modern German society in this provocative drama. Within the motionless box are...
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Jörg
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1984
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This historical drama is the story of Jacob Paul von Grundling (Wolfgang Kieling) and his fluctuating, turbulent relationship...
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Friedrich Wilhelm
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1981
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This is a fast-paced, well-acted, gripping drama about a man (Goetz George) especially singled out for physical abuse in a...
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1980
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Franz Lang (Gotz George) was one of the commandants of the Auschwitz concentration camps. He was also a man whose honor...
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1977
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Noted French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard makes another foray into Marxist film in this poorly-wrought attempt at a political...
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1969
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A combined force of Italian and American commandos are ordered to attack and take over an air base in North Africa with only...
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1968
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1968
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A Nazi man chases his brother, a German pacifist, who escaped from a concentration camp. ~ Rovi...
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1966
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1966
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1966
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Hypnosis is a psychological thriller reminiscent of themes found in Magic and Dead of Night. Erik (Jean Sorel) is the...
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1966
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The Man Called Gringo (Sie Nannten ihn Gringo) is a German western, with the Alps standing in for the Rockies. Crooked lawyer...
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1966
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Frontier Hellcat was the fourth in a series of 1960s European westerns based on Karl May's "Winnetou" character....
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Martin Baumann
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1965
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1965
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1965
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While on tour in Yugoslavia, members of a German men's choir find themselves stranded when their bus runs out of petroleum....
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Herbert Hacklaender
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1964
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Don Micklem
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1964
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1964
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1963
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This implausible story has two German brothers on opposite sides of the Nazi cause. One is a Nazi guard at a concentration...
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Franz Kohler
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1963
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1963
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Adapted from a successful stage play, ~Window to the Hall~, this standard comedy centers on the gradual disillusionment of...
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1962
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Although filmed by a joint German-Yugoslav crew, this European western is set in the Southern United States and involves an...
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Fred Engel
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1962
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A cold-blooded serial killer who murders only blonde women captures dramatic interest right at the beginning of this...
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Kersten
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1962
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In this murder mystery, a man is killed during the carnival before Ash Wednesday right in front of a cathedral. Now a...
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1962
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Apparently based on real people, this story of Germans in a Russian POW camp still makes the altruistic, tolerant attitudes...
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Peter Joost
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1961
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1961
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This drama chronicles the heroic endeavors of POWs trapped within a Russian prison camp in 1950 and their attempts to...
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1960
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A gripping, evocative wartime story set in Germany with anti-Nazi sentiments, this compelling drama is based on an actual...
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Robert Mertens
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1960
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1959
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1956
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