Martin Held

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 he doesn't get a pass; and without a pass, he doesn't get a job. He gets into the net of Prussian bureaucracy, and can't see a solution. Until he enters a small Second-Hand Shop, and sees a Prussian Uniform that fits him like a second skin... (imdb)

Because he stole two bars of chocolate, the soldier Rudi is sentenced to death by the court-martial judge Dr. Schramm. Rudi manages to escape from the firing squad at the last minute, and since the end of the war has been making a meager living as a street peddler. (imdb)

A blind German soldier, the sole survivor of a group trapped in an underground bunker at the end of World War II, escapes after six years and becomes a national sensation. But when the reporter who broke the story (played by German star Horst Buchholz) discovers a shocking secret, he has to choose between loyalty to his mentor and the truth. This won a German Film Award for Hans-Martin Majewski's original soundtrack. (Note: the DVD currently available in North America is English-dubbed only.)

Baron Holberg is very proud of his family tradion as hotel thiefs. But one day his talented daughter Doris falls in love with the lawyer Robert Hammond and wants to become honest. Holberg has some tricks up his sleeve to keep his daughter away from honesty and Hammond. But is Doris talented enough to counter her father?

Director Wolfgang Staudte helms this unconventional crime story with a comic twist about a group of aging retirees turned amateur gangsters who are lured into a life of double-crossing by their friend, a newly pensioned judge (Martin Held). They've all led otherwise respectable lives. But now they're getting their kicks by pulling off heists and putting other working bad guys out of business. (Netflix)

Herbert Burkhart isn't able to find a job in post WWII Germany. He's spent 10 years in russian prisons and due to that was not able to finish his degree. He can't study because he's got no money. There's a lovely young lady who wants him to be happy but is ideas are different. Herbert and his brother Klaus start to build a tunnel to rob a bank. Being masked as builders their work seems to be lucky. They dig a hole over several days but in the end, Herbert is alone. A trap?

Germany during the Weimar Republic . During the First World War, Professor Abel Cornelius published a German-national text. Now, in the crisis year 1923, he would like to dissociate himself from it. When student Max Hergesell appeals to his scruples, he feels challenged and obliged to defend his old positions against better knowledge.

The story of a young woman who works at a bank. Her job is mundane, and she wishes for something better in life. One evening, she falls asleep at work, and is transported to the world of her dreams, where she has unlimited wealth and can do whatever she wants. But will she find happiness?

Biopic of Wilhelm Canaris, army intelligence (Abwehr) chief of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1944.

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)

When a baby is found dead and his mother is caught packing her things, she is inevitably arrested for her child's murder, but suspicions also turn to the men in her life in this West German courtroom drama.