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- Confessions of impostor Felix Krull.
- Wealthy, heavily-insured men are being murdered at an alarming rate. Scotland Yard investigates and finds clues that lead to a ring of blind men, led by a mysterious "reverend."
- 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...
- During WW2, German general Harry Harras is a test pilot and chief engineer for the Luftwaffe but his contempt for the Nazis and sabotage at the aircraft plant land him in hot water with the Gestapo.
- A ring of counterfeiters is flooding the country with phony money, and suspicion falls upon a wealthy playboy who may--or may not--have amnesia.
- An English businessman comes home to London, only to find visitors to his home being killed by arrows from "the Green Archer."
- First part of two of the saga of the troubled Buddenbrook family and their business in mid-19th-century Germany.
- Juliane Thomas is an ambitious but unemployed young writer. After breaking up with her lover she works at a dentist friend's to make ends meet. One day she instantly falls in love with one of the patients (Jean Berner) and promptly writes a movie script about the encounter in which she projects her own fantasies about how things will turn out eventually. By coincidence this movie script is picked up by a film director who happens to be Berner's closest friend. From then on things become very complicated.
- The poor ghost of Sir Simon Canterville has been roaming his castle searching in vain for a brave descendant who will release him from the Canterville curse by performing a brave deed. An American family moves in and finds the ghost amusing, but a young girl in the family can release him - if she dares.
- Mr. Schumann tells his little daughter a lot of lies about himself, so she can be proud of her father.
- Helga is a young single lady who has a baby with a much older married man.
- Adapted from a stage play by Curt J. Braun, the film takes place in a mid-sized German industrial town. When the local factory closes its doors, the townsfolk are thrown into confusion and dismay. The story concentrates on a dozen laid-off workers, relating their individual life stories and detailing their hopes, aspiration and fears.
- In Hamburg, the ex-captain Jonny Jensen runs the bar "Das Herz von St. Pauli". Business is not going well. Jensen is forced to enroll the shade "Jabo" Jabowski as a business partner. Jabo brings in contraband and store it in the cellar, he renovates the bar area and turns into a nightclub with young girls performing.
- Emil is a coward. When he falls in love with a woman who wants a real man, he has to find the courage beyond his jolly demeanor.
- Trophy wife Carola loves to spend her husband Bernhard's money until he puts an end to it. She leaves him to prove that she can earn her own living. Star author Tex hires her as his chauffeur - not because of her skills but her looks.
- A simple girl becomes a famous singer.
- Carefully chronicling in great detail the early years of Hitler s life and the events that shaped him into the zealous leader of Germany. This documentary offers a critical insight into the stealthy rise of the Nazi party and how it s racist vision of the world slowly took hold in a disillusioned Germany.
- "Derby -- The Producer's Cut" is the essential slice-in-time cinema-verite film about the original American family action sport Roller Derby and its stars Charlie O'Connell and Ann Calvello as they dazzle fans across the country with their nonpareil skating and derring-do. The documentary Produced by William Richert, Photographed and directed by Robert Kaylor, follows a common man anti-hero, a young Dayton Ohio factory worker named Mike Snell who dreams about quitting his factory tire job and joining the Roller Derby to save his life and his family. Hailed by the NYTIMES and others as one of the 10 Best Films of the Year, lauded 4 Stars by Roger Ebert, the movie remains the best ever about the sport in the 1970's even as roller Derby Impresario and founder Jerry Seltzer leads the packs of tens of thousands of new skaters rolling world wide. "Amazing," says the CEO Mr. Seltzer. 'ONE OF THE YEARS TEN BEST' Proclaimed the NY Times. "FOUR STARS!" - Roger Ebert -- "DERBY...perhaps tells more about the state of the country today than all the 'Easy Riders' 'Medium Cools' and 'Joes' put together...the film is a kind of guided tour of Middle America -- it doesn't tell whee it's at, it shows where it's at, geographically and spiritually...a riveting piece of cinema-verite America." Oakland Tribune.
- Peter Karmann ist Lehrer und nebenbei Musiker. Er geht mit einem Ballett auf Tournee nach Afrika.
- The pediatrician Waldemar Weber is in despair: his adoptive son Egon from his first marriage has announced he will be visiting, of all things, on his first wedding anniversary, although Waldemar has always kept it a secret from his young wife Henny. Waldemar absolutely has to intercept Egon. When Egon is at the door after all, he also turns out to be a monkey trainer. He also brought his chimpanzees Kiki, Koko and Kaka. Waldemar has his hands full explaining Egon's existence and hiding the chimpanzees from his suspicious wife. But is the bedroom closet really the right hiding place?