Hans Albers

The Blue Angel deals with the humiliation and breakdown an inhibited, overbearing, sexually-repressed instructor at a boys' prep school... (imdb)

Asphalt is set in Berlin. A well-dressed woman (Betty Amann) steals a precious stone from a jewellery shop. She tries to seduce the policeman (Gustav Fröhlich) who catches her, and he gradually succumbs to her charms. (imdb)

1940's descendant (Hans Albers) of an eccentric German Baron recounts some of his ancestor's enhanced, exaggerated, and grandly unrealistic stories as he searches the world for the secret of eternal life. This feature is in pastel colors and is a bit grainy. It is spoken German, but is available subtitled. (imdb)

The four-mast boat, the Padua, sails into Hamburg's harbor. Jens, Fiete and Karl go on land to visit their friend Hannes, one of the their former colleagues aboard the Padua. Hannes now works as a singer at the famous Hamburg Hippodrom. Just as the four friends are celebrating their reunion, Hannes receives a call that his brother is in the hostipal dying. Feeling a sense of obligation, Hannes takes over the responsibility for looking after his brother's ex-girlfriend Gisa. (german-films.de)

An escaped convict arrives seeks refuge at a circus where his lover and son work.

Urged by famous airman Ellissen the Lennartz Company puts into reality the project proposed by his friend Droste: F.P.1, a huge floating platform in the Atlantic that makes long-distance flights viable. Ellissen is in love with company heiress Claire, but when he returns from his adventures to save the endangered F.P.1 he finds out that he has lost her to Droste. Three versions of this movie were made simultaneously. This is the German Language version. (imdb)

Using an atomic reactor, Two scientists try to create gold.

Propaganda film detailing the plight of ethnic Germans, known as "Volga Germans", in the Soviet province of Manchuria. (imdb)

The captain of a battleship of a small Balkan country is fed up with following strange orders from the country's queen, who wants to make a cruise to the Med inspite of the fact that the country is broke and the crew didn't get its salary. So he decides to disobey orders and commands his ship to Monte Carlo, but the queen decides to go there too. He loses his money there at the casino, but the queen falls in love with him. (imdb)

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. (imdb)

Social comedy-drama. Aristocrat's boredom in marriage of convenience and sacrif ice of self on behalf of wife's lover.

Melodrama about alleged adultery, jealousy and honor.

An aging truck driver finds smuggled money and becomes involved with a hijacking crowd. (imdb)

This is the story of the unhappy maid Lena, who falls in love with the furniture mover Franz. But Franz' former girlfriend Karla is jealous of Lena and starts an intrigue against the couple, suggesting that Franz would leave Lena because of her poverty and shabby clothes. So Lena steals a ring and brings it to the pawnshop in order to get some money to buy something more attractive. However, when Franz finds out he throws her out, and Lena only sees one way to end her misery....

"Raffke" was a war profiteer, shifter, the white-collar criminal, who came to wealth with not very clean methods in a short time and also likes to show it. And this film tells the story of Raffke's daughter Lilli, who, instead of marrying the Baron chosen by the father of vanity, marries a simple employee who is about to perish.

Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933 when the Nazi's came into power until 1945 when the Third Reich collapsed.

An eccentric millionaire brings together four men who, under different circumstances, wanted to commit suicide. The proposal made to them is the following: they will travel to an islet that, according to legend, emerged from the sea when Atlantis sank and that houses a fabulous treasure buried by the Incas. But that territory is populated by the worst band of pirates and evildoers the world has ever known.

Sgt. Harry Cross, representing Scotland Yard, mingles with the cream of British society to bring a murderer to justice.

Sgt. Harry Cross, a gifted but brash detective, must solve a tricky murder case.

A woman at a spa keeps sneaking out to see a performer "Quick" (in heavy make-up) do his act. She goes backstage to see him but he is out of his make-up. He tries to get her to fall in love with who he is in real life but she only likes him as a person who can introduce her to "Quick."

The film has a bittersweet tone to the romance between the veteran Mathias Clausen (Albers) and the young and beautiful Inken Peters (Dueringer), between May and December. (FILMAFFINITY)

The film has been described as a hymn to Austria.