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- Siegfried, son of King Siegmund of Xanten, sets off on a treacherous journey to the Kingdom of Burgundy to ask King Gunther for the hand of his sister, the beautiful Princess Kriemhild.
- Aspiring singer Susanne takes over for ham actor Viktor at a small cabaret in Berlin where he works a woman impersonator and per chance she's discovered by an agent, who thinks that she really is a man. She becomes famous, but her situation becomes troublesome when she falls in love with Robert.
- A tenacious scientist blasts off for the moon in hopes of riches that may be found there.
- Princess Kriemhild vows to avenge her husband's murder but must overcome her brothers who swore allegiance to Hagen. She marries Etzel, King of the Huns, and persuades his army to attack Hagen, but she loses more than she bargained for.
- In 1846 the actress Gloria Vane is performing at the Adelphi Theatre, London. She is in love with the destitute nobleman Albert Finsbury, who is shortly departing to Australia to become an officer in the Queen's regiment. He is supposed to pay his debts before leaving and uses an altered cheque to do so. After Finsbury has left, the forgery is discovered. To protect him, Gloria claims responsibility and is sentenced to 7 years in the notorious Paramatta prison, Sydney. From prison she sends a note to him asking for help, but he does not reply. An Aussie seller falls in love with her and asks her to marry him - she agrees, but only so she can get out of prison. When she finds out Finsbury is planning to marry the Governor's daughter, she is heartbroken. Finsbury finally finds her, but she no longer loves him.
- A scientist with an interest in genetics impregnates a sex worker with the seed of a hanged murderer. The sex worker gives birth to a child who has no concept of love, whom the scientist adopts.
- In the depths of the Great Depression and in the waning days of the crumbling Weimar Republic, a poor Berlin youth is torn between loyalty to his unemployed Communist father and his ever-growing fascination of the Hitler Youth movement.
- Willy, Kurt and Hans are broke, so they sell their car and open a filling station. Then they all fall in love with the same girl.
- Joe May's sensual drama of life in the Berlin underworld is in many ways the perfect summation of German filmmaking in the silent era: a dazzling visual style, a psychological approach to its characters, and the ability to take a simple and essentially melodramatic story and turn it into something more complex and inherently cinematic.
- A young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière's Tartuffe, in order to expose the old man's hypocritical governess who covets his own inheritance.
- Emil goes to Berlin to see his grandmother with a large amount of money and is offered sweets by a strange man that make him sleep. He wakes up at his stop with no money. It is up to him and a group of children to save the day.
- After his colleague and a mentor, Prof. Achenbach dies in a set-up accident, while trying to produce gold from the lead, Werner Holk seeks revenge. Meanwhile, a British millionaire suggests that Holk work on him on a similar project.
- In the Crimea, the Reds and the Whites aren't done fighting, and Jeanne discovers that the man she loves is a Bolshevik (when he kills her father). Penniless, she returns to Paris where she works for her uncle. Soon after, her lover Andreas is in France to organize the sailors in Toulon. So also is a thief, traitor, and libertine, Khalibiev, who wants to seduce Jeanne. His schemes, Jeanne and Andreas's naivete, and a lost diamond bring the lovers to the brink of tragedy.
- A scientist, Professor Jakob ten Brinken, interested in the laws of heredity, impregnates a prostitute in a laboratory with the semen of a hanged murderer. The prostitute conceives a female child who has no concept of love, whom the professor adopts. The girl, Alraune, suffers from obsessive sexuality and perverse relationships throughout her life. She learns of her unnatural origins and she avenges herself against the professor.
- A young, impoverished German woman named Hanna (Maria von Tasnady) gives her infant up for adoption and emigrates to American to live with her husband. When her husband commits suicide, Hanna returns to Germany and works her way into becoming the live-in maid and nurse to her child being raised by an orchestra conductor and his wife.
- Berlin, 1918. During six hours' leave, German soldiers see their (un)faithful wives, meet their teachers, experience first love, and two of them are confronted with the leftist revolutionary movement. Will they return and do their duty?
- Hans Albers and Heinz Rühmann play two confidence tricksters. They manage to stop a night train for nefarious purposes, and impersonate Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. Romantic involvement with two young British female travelers ensues, but the plot deepens into the disappearance of rare Mauritius postage stamps which they undertake to recover, in their role as Holmes and Watson..
- The recount of the 17-year-old peasant girl Joan of Arc of the 15th century tinted to the presence of the National Socialist ideology.
- The young country doctor Dr. Robert Koch is desperate seeking a cure for a tuberculosis epidemic costing many children in his district life.
- Journalist Gil Taylor has to write a report about the night court, when Ann Gardens case is heard. The young lady seems to be homeless. Gil tries to help her. Thats when trouble starts.
- Foreign spies infiltrate: a German airplane factory testing a new bomber, a metal works, and a bank, in this propagandistic warning to guard your tongues when talking to strangers.
- Hitler's greatest military victory - the conquest of Holland, Belgium and France in the spring of 1940 - is graphically documented in this special Nazi feature.
- Séraphine and her mother arrive in Paris for the 1867 World Exhibition. As their reservation was lost they must be accommodated in separate hotels. The next day the mother has disappeared and everybody denies having ever met her.
- The first blitzkrieg, Hitler's invasion of Poland, is traced in this original Nazi propaganda film from 1940.
- A young salesman may inherit a wine-estate on one condition: he can't drink a drop of alcohol for at least a month.
- Mathias Clausen is a self-made businessman who is forced to do a great deal of soul-searching when his wife unexpectedly dies.
- A scientist is tormented by an irrational fear of knives and the irresistible compulsion to murder his wife.
- The prosperity and career of a Norwegian ship builder who has founded the town's hospital are revealed by an innocent wanderer to have been based on deceit and corruption, in this theatrical adaptation.
- Back in India after what happened at first part Der Tiger von Eschnapur, Maharadscha Chandra is ready to carry on his well-planned vengeance, in which German architect Peter Fürbringer, his fiancée Irene and his assistant will get involuntarily involved having to fight for their lives amidst a revolt fueled by traitor Prinz Ramigani.
- 1885. For the opera festival it has organized, the small town of Imlingen has invited a famous singer, Maddalena Dall'Orto, who will not only sing at the local opera but will also perform the part of Bach's St. Matthew's Passion at church. The lady is welcomed by an enthusiastic welcome committee comprising the Prince of Imlingen himself. After a while Maddalena, who has come with her friend Rohrmoser, reveals that they are both of German origin. In fact, Maddalena is Magda von Schwartze, a citizen of Ilmingen who has left home in anger a few years before...
- 1865. Katharina goes to a ball in Moscow. There she meets again Tchaikowsky, her first and only love. The young, who is now married to wealthy Michael Iwanowitsch Murakin, a man she does not love, has not forgotten Piotr Illich, the (not yet) famous composer. Both are still in love with each other but Piotr is engaged to Nastassia, a dancer, while for her part Katharina cannot leave her husband. Tchaikowky's first love then decides to sacrifice her happiness to the success of the composer, sponsoring him in secret. Something Piotr will learn only years after. When Katharina finds herself free at last it is too late: Tchaikowsky is dying of cholera and she only has time to close his eyes.
- The man who broke the jug, the judge, is trying a case who determine who broke the jug. Long before the evidence becomes conclusive against the suspects, it becomes apparent that the blustering and bullying - and naive - village judge is the guilty one.
- Prince Klemens von Metternich (Paul Hoffmann orders Friedrich Gentz (Willy Birger', one of his aides, to keep the Duke of Reichstadt---Napoleon Francois Joseph Charles(Bonaparte)---son of Napoleon and heir to the French throne, from thinking about French politics. Gentz enlists the help of ballerina Fanny Elsser (Lilian Harvey), all the rage in several European capitals, to keep the Duke distracted. But the Duke and Fanny fall in love. She helps him in escaping from Austria and he goes to Paris in an effort to claim the throne. He fails and is returned to Austria as a prisoner. Fanny is exiled and the Duke dies alone.
- The story about musical rivalry between Joseph Länner and Johan Strauss and their respective waltz orchestras during Quenn Victoria's reign is finally set on a public trial. With pieces by both composers.
- About how the British broke the Brazilian monopoly on natural rubber. The storyline suggests a complex relation between adventure, military conquest and imperialism.
- A young maid from the country looses her job as maid in k.u.k. Budapest, when she stays out too long with her beau, a soldier, who's saving money to buy a horse to open a transport company. After being unemployed for quite a while and her rent is long overdue, the landlady offers her a better job in a nightclub. Meanwhile the soldiers family has decided that her son should marry the daughter of a rich farmer. The soldier finds out about his girl friends profession, and accepts after struggling with himself the match his parents have made. At the day of his engagement his girl friend comes to his hometown with enough money to buy a horse, which leads to a conflict between her, the fiancee, her family, himself and his parents.
- Propaganda film detailing the plight of ethnic Germans, known as "Volga Germans", in the Soviet province of Manchuria.
- A very young girl is married to a older Baron, the commissioner of the county. With the duty clashing with love, he can't give her the attention she needs. A retired Major, as old as her husband, is ready to give company. When the husband comes to know, the call of honor demands a duel, with tragic consequences.
- Militaristic drama set in the Tyrol in 1915, when Italy suddenly attacks Austria.Youth are signed up for the Home Guard on the mountain front, including a student who gets the Germans to come to their aid.
- This Nazi propaganda film chronicles the rise of the German Air Force ("Luftwaffe") from World War I until Adolf Hitler took power in 1933.
- After explosion in factory, the two brothers Wenzel and Michael start a new life. Wenzel gets rich on the stock market, Michael builds a settlement colony for the unemployed. Tragedy begins when Wenzel chooses the wrong woman.
- Nazi era depiction of decadent British aristocracy: A madcap country heiress was betrothed to a Lord but runs off with a young inventor after she is found in a compromising position, to avoid a scandal.
- The prefect of the town wants his son to marry a rich countess, but he is in love with a dancer, and the countess falls in love with a mysterious stranger.
- A meek Austrian civil servant, wrongfully accused of treason, is reunited with his Russian spy lover in the famous Hotel Sacher on the eve of World War I.
- Rivalry in a Bavarian town over a woman culminates in the unselfish rescue of one of the two men, in danger scaling a mountain peak, by the other.
- A Saracen sultan's disguised son loves an amnesiac Moslem princess.
- Renate Brinkmann is a German lady on a railway journey in Africa. She is wooed by two very different men. One is a hard drinking, cocky French aviator, the other a sensitive German gentleman.
- Young sailor Kiwe buys a mysterious bottle which fulfills all his wishes for material wealth. The down side: From now on his soul belongs to the devil. Kiwe soon realizes his predicament and desperately tries to resell the bottle.
- Parisians Josette and Pierre are a happy couple, but also a completely broke one. An absurd chain of events leads them to Professor Trouhadec, who is in a predicament.
- The story of the rise to power of King Frederick II (aka Frederick the Great) of Prussia and his military campaigns to make Prussia a major power in Europe.