Otto Wernicke Movies

In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Peter Lorre

The engineer MacAllan designs a tunnel, which will join America and Europe together on the seabed. A group of American billionaires are financing...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Paul Hartmann

In 1912, the Titanic embarks on its inevitable collision course with history. In the wake of the over-spending required to build the largest luxury...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sybille Schmitz

Hans, a young journeyman violin maker, meets and falls in love with Christel. But he has to go to Milan for a year. Before he leaves, the two get...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Karin Hardt

After a detective is assaulted by thugs and placed in an asylum run by Professor Baum, he observes the professor's preoccupation with another...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Rudolf Klein-Rogge

Officers stationed in a castle in Flandes during WWI are comforted by Gloria Delamare's recorded voice. One of them even writes her a letter that...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mártha Eggerth

When the wealthy Mr. Pitt decides to withdraw a sum in the millions, the Schilling & Co. bank faces ruin. To save it, the authorized signatory Peter...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Willi Forst

King Frederick II (aka "Frederick the Great") of Prussia is engaged in a major battle against the Austrian army at Kunersdorf, and things aren't...

Genre: History

Cast: Otto Gebühr

In the small town of New Frisco in Alberta, Canada, a stranger named Norton arrives, checks into the most expensive hotel room, and begins courting a...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Hans Söhnker

A doctor discovers a new medical cure with dangerous side effects, and takes the drug himself to test its limitations.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hans Albers

"Who Drove the Grey Ford?" ("Wer fuhr den grauen Ford?") is a 1950 West German crime film directed by Otto Wernicke, marking his only directorial...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Otto Wernicke

Inge Peters has a guilty conscience. She told her mother, that she’d be going to the weekend house at the lake with her friend Barbara, but in...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hannelore Schroth

Student Helene moves to Berlin to write her doctoral thesis. In the laboratory of her doctoral supervisor, the renowned Professor Matthias, she meets...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruth Niehaus

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Otto Wernicke

Genre: Drama

Cast: Albert Matterstock

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maria Andergast

After many years in Africa, a man returns to his village in East Prussia to marry his intended bride. However, he finds himself drawn to another girl...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ernst von Klipstein

A horse trader from Berlin, once a farmer in Southwest Africa, manages to drive his children out of the house and anger his wife. After serious...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Otto Wernicke

Bohemia in the 19th century, stage-coach driver Hans loves the mayor's daughter Marie, but she is promised Wenzel, the son of another wealthy farmer....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender

1900: Much to the chagrin of Baron Uhlendorff in Schoneberg, the city of Berlin is expanding. But what is much worse is that his son George is in...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hans Zesch-Ballot

Genre: Adventure

Cast: René Deltgen

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ernst Waldow

Capricious Lady Virginia has an unexpected double in a girl who works at a fair and wishes for a beauty salon. When the first one's eccentricities...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Anny Ondra

Dark love story.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gustav Fröhlich

The first feature film to represent the Holocaust from a Jewish perspective. Shot on location at Landsberg, the largest DP camp in U.S.-occupied...

Genre: History

Cast: Israel Beker

New Year’s Eve should be a time of joy for everyone. But Herr Reinhardt has decided to take his life on this evening. During his last...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Carl Raddatz

Genre: Drama

Cast: Albrecht Schoenhals

Werner Dux, heir of the big car company "Dux-Werke", is a gambler who has just been arrested in Chicago for shooting a cardsharper. While in jail, he...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Gustav Fröhlich

A son, in defending Prussia circa 1814 under the thumb of Napoleon, washes away the disgrace of his aristocrat father who had collaborated with the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fritz Reiff

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paul Wegener

Genre: Drama

Cast: Carola Höhn

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Luis Trenker

A Nazi propaganda film which aims to justify the invasion of Poland by portraying the plight of ethnic Germans in Poland who were discriminated...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paula Wessely

This is essentially a "Kraft durch Freude" propaganda film though the organization is never mentioned. A company's three day outing might very well...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: O.E. Hasse

World War I, Eastern Front. A special battery consisting of thirteen soldiers and one cannon successfully holds back the enemy. But then the position...

Genre: War

Cast: Alexander Golling

Genre: Drama

Cast: Werner Fuetterer

The three musicians Hans, Otto and Paul have no work and propose becoming street musicians with the support of Grete, who lives in the same apartment...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hans Deppe

The moral is simple: keep your mouth shut, especially when you're working during the wartime in a factory, which produces racing cars only, or...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gustav Fröhlich

This Nazi propaganda film tells the story of a young truck driver who is having trouble making ends meet until he is exposed to the teachings of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Heinz Klingenberg

Across German screens at the outbreak of WWII streaks "DIII88: The New German Air Force Attacks", an aeronautic and maritime spectacle glorifying...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Christian Kayßler

Genre: Drama

Cast: Luise Ullrich

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jenny Jugo

A group of people gathers back in the post-war ruins of a luxurious Munich hotel they inhabited at one point or another years before; each trying to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hildegard Knef

For a long time, Paul Warkentin had heard nothing from his father. The rift had occurred when Paul, despite passing his exams at agricultural school,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Waltraut Hahne

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Theo Lingen

Whenever Pastor Piepenbrink gets his “deputatsrabbit”, there’s a frenzy in Pumpelshausen. For every time the rabbit is hung on the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Otto Wernicke

Bus driver Jonny wants to marry Grete, but she is jealous, and when he wrecks his bus, gets robbed by burglars and is implicated in an insurance...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hermann Speelmans

A youngster takes over a high class hotel that the mother has been running into the ground and turns it into a successful enterprise.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Leopoldine Konstantin

For many years, old Mr. Brugg has been employed at the jewelry store owned by the elegant Mrs. Hellmers. His son Peter has also been working there...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Otto Wernicke

A young man plans to emigrate to the United States with his fiancee but becomes extremely fearful about the ocean crossing due to a local...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Paul Kemp

Mystery film in the detective Stuart Webbs series.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Mary Nolan

After her husband suddenly dies, a small town woman becomes the target of gossip, as to whether he had been having an affair and whether she is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lil Dagover

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joe Stöckel

Film by Boese.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hermann Speelmans

The clever Zacharias Bräsig is a good friend to all and tries to help out, where he can. Bräsig also meddles in the relationships of young...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Otto Wernicke

Two brothers (Albert Matterstock and Attila Hoerbiger), who are trapeze artists, are getting along just fine until Hoerbiger runs off with his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Attila Hörbiger

An Italian-German crime film. One of Maria Montez's last films.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Maria Montez

It is purely coincidental that an assassination attempt against the Minister of Defense is thwarted. The attempt on his life was made by a group of...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Willy Birgel

In 1848, the freedom-loving Hungarian people, led by Ludwig Kossuth, rose up against the hated rule of the Austrian Habsburg dynasty. In its...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paula Wessely

Christof Peleikis is a seasoned sailor who once served as a helmsman on many ships. Since having a wife and child, he works as a fisherman and lives...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gustav Knuth

When Sir John Falstaff decides that he wants to have a little fun he writes two letters to a pair of Window wives: Mistress Ford and Mistress Page....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Magda Schneider

A German scientist designs and builds a machine that will do dangerous work instead of placing humans in jeopardy. But the machine itself turns out...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Walter Janssen

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Heinz Rühmann

Fritz Holl owns a plantation in Cameroon. He works hard and, with the help of his wife, Helene, also cares for his sister Anna, who became blind...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Waldemar Leitgeb

Film by Seitz.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Helmuth Renar

During Napoleon's victorious campaign in Germany, the city of Kolberg gets isolated from the retreating Prussian forces. The population of Kolberg...

Genre: War

Cast: Heinrich George

Against the wishes of his adoptive father, Stefan Burgstaller decides to become a musician. He goes to Salzburg, where his girlfriend Veronika is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Winnie Markus

Anna is a factory worker in East Germany, but her five-year-old son Jochen lives with his grandparents in the West. Anna wants him to live with her,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eva Kotthaus

Amore e sangue (released in the U.S. as "City of Violence"), the 1951 Marino Girolami (billed as "John Wolff") West German/Italian romantic action...

Genre: Action

Cast: Maria Montez

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff

Two inspiration sources appear clearly: contemporary American gangster movies and Alfred Döblin’s novel Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929).

Genre: Crime

Cast: Emil Jannings

Marianne is an accountant, but since she is so pretty the employment agency sends her to the theater. There, Max's gaffer falls in love with Marianne...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Anny Ondra

A story of friendship, love, betrayal and jealousy, which the locomotive driver Karl and his coalman Hans experience. They’re both let down by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Trude Berliner

Genre: Drama

Cast: Irene von Meyendorff

Nazi propaganda film with Hans Albers starring in a dual role as a daring German airman and a Russian general, two cousins who find themselves facing...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hans Albers

On the eve of the Russian Revolution, a performance of "Tosca" is taking place at the opera house. The artists and staff are too engrossed in their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maria Cebotari