Willi Rose Movies

Gustav Hartmann is in trouble. Because of the new taxis he doesn't get many passengers in his horse-drawn carriage. To prove what he and his horse...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Heinz Rühmann

During the Third Reich, Macke played the drums for the Hitler Youth, but also had a "dangerous" penchant for jazz. After the war, he came under...

Genre: War

Cast: Wolfgang Neuss

When the bank clerk Klaus Helwig is arrested on suspicion of embezzlement, his son Heintje, whose mother died at birth, comes to his grumpy...

Genre: Family

Cast: Heintje Simons

A successful author, who was educated by private teachers in his home instead of being sent to school with other boys, realizes he missed out on a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Walter Giller

Duke Ferdinand of Novara-Liechtenstein flees the duchy to avoid an arranged marriage with princess Anna Silvana of Este-Parma. He loses his papers on...

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Cast: Ilse Werner

A moving saga focusing on the women in a family that spans three generations and almost 70 years of German history, from the Wilhelmine period...

Genre: History

Cast: Camilla Spira

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Heidi Brühl

Editor Peter Rabanser is planning a series on the perfect cash heist, which he plans down to the last detail and actually begins to prepare: He...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hans Söhnker

The action is relocated to occupied Athens after the Peloponnesian War (404 BC), where Mr. S. (= Socrates, played by Paul Hörbiger) proposes...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sonja Ziemann

Genre: Crime

Cast: Freddy Quinn

Heidelberg teenagers make jazz music.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Walter Giller

A love story between a German soldier and a young Flemish woman amidst World War I.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maximilian Schell

Genre: Drama

Cast: Carl Raddatz

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Harald Juhnke

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Paul Hörbiger

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Cast: Willy Birgel

Kurt Hoffmann's film adaptation of Tucholsky's eponymous novella is situated in 1910s Berlin: The aspiring editor Wolf runs into Claire by chance....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Cornelia Froboess

Genre: Romance

Cast: Eva Bartok

A German doctor who is a prisoner of war inspires her compatriots in a Siberian labor camp to regain their courage and confidence in life.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruth Leuwerik

Musical comedy set in a high school.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Cornelia Froboess

While an anatomy seminar prepares to examine the cadaver of Franz Wozzeck in the name of scientific progress, medical student Büchner excoriates...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kurt Meisel

A circus film made as a deliberately escapist release at a time when the Second World War was starting to turn against Germany and its allies.

Genre: Drama

Cast: René Deltgen

In 1948, students from Berlin University take part in the filming of a movie about the 1848 revolution as extras. A dispute arises between Else and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Inge von Wangenheim

Genre: Drama

Cast: Inge Meysel

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Cast: Eva Kerbler

The young hotel manager Leutner runs for study purposes a transmitter in the hotel room of his fiancée Maria. Coincidentally he learns that a...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Cornell Borchers

Fictionalized documentary about the first man killed at the border between East and West Germany.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gisela Trowe

A big explosion in a pulp mill causes a lot of damage. The police suspect a crime and put up a 5,000 Mark reward for information leading to the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Olly Holzmann

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edith Schollwer

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Grethe Weiser

Genre: Crime

Cast: Paul Hubschmid

This Nazi propaganda film chronicles the rise of the German Air Force ("Luftwaffe") from World War I until Adolf Hitler took power in 1933.

Genre: War

Cast: Paul Hartmann

The sole thing giving hope to a German flyer downed over France in the Great War, as he longs for his return home, is the love from a young woman.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mathias Wieman

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Heli Finkenzeller

Walter Gruber once belonged to a group of unscrupulous, money-grubbing poachers. Now released from prison, he is determined never to touch a gun...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Viktor Staal

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sonja Ziemann

Professor Dr. Burkhardt is a much celebrated surgeon. Obsessed with his career, he is always available when an unexpected operation comes up. That...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Willy Birgel

During the Prohibition the US government has been just as successful at stopping drinking as they have been in the War on Drugs. Customs Officer Arne...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Gustav Fröhlich

The very successful actress Lena Andres marries Dr. Paul Meinhardt. For his sake she gives up her acting career.

Genre: War

Cast: Heli Finkenzeller

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Wastl Witt

During the closing stages of the Second World War, a bureaucratic mistake leads to a German officer being reassigned from the dangerous Eastern Front...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eva Ingeborg Scholz

In 1918, a German regiment is granted five-hours leave in Berlin.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Carl Raddatz

This Nazi propaganda film follows the exploits of a German submarine as it prowls the North Atlantic.

Genre: War

Cast: Herbert Wilk

The musician Peter Paul Müller (Dieter Borsche) lives for his job. So much so that he also forgets the circumstances of the Nazi dictatorship....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dieter Borsche

Genre: Family

Cast: Grethe Weiser

A composer finds commercial success but has to confront difficulties in his private life.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Willy Fritsch

During the final days of the Second World War, British intelligence sends an agent to Berlin to try to discover the secrets of Nazi Germany's nuclear...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Dawn Addams

Genre: Drama

Cast: Luise Ullrich

Students raised under Nazi ideology witness the disintegration of the Third Reich and the realization of those who indoctrinated them that they were...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paul Dahlke

Genre: Drama

Cast: Karl John

Genre: Crime

Cast: Vera Molnar

Hilarious revelations from the love life of a Parisian woman.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hannelore Schroth

Glenn Gridffin, his brother Hank and Samuel Robish have escaped from prison. They choose Dan Hilliard's house, of all places, as a safe house. The...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hans Caninenberg

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gerd Baltus

Genre: Drama

Cast: Albert Matterstock

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Willi Rose

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Willi Rose

Whodunit centered around a hostel.

Genre: Drama

Cast: René Deltgen

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Germaine Damar

Mr. Rapp was close to selling Rauhenegg Castle when suddenly some young men turn up claiming that the place is haunted. The seller wants to prove the...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Fritz Kampers

"Heroism after Hours" (German: "Heldentum nach Ladenschluß") is a 1955 West German anthology comedy film. It is in four parts each portraying a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Harald Juhnke

Genre: Crime

Cast: Rudolf Platte

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Paul Hoffmann

A crime reporter uncovers a lurid plot by a Hamburg gang to dose impressionable young girls with LSD in order to enslave them into prostitution....

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Erik Schumann

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lucie Englisch

It was not until twelve years after the end of World War II that Irene Besser's husband, Martin Besser, long believed to be missing, returned from...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Luise Ullrich

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rudolf Forster

A journalist gets involved in a murder case in northern Germany.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Petrus R. Schlömp

The mayor of a small garrison town is constantly at odds with the local battalion commander. This does not sit well with the mayor’s wife at...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ernst Waldow

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ursula Lingen

A man takes in three a dog and three runaway girls.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Heinz Rühmann

Four graduates of an industrial design school team up and form a small business. The protagonist is so excited by the venture that she turns down the...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ingrid Bergman

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Paul Hartmann

Nazi propaganda film showing the development of the German navy's submarine fleet.

Genre: History

Cast: Alexander Golling

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ilse Werner

Genre: Drama

Cast: Angelika Hauff

The aging writer Aurelio Morelli is disillusioned: although the critics like his books, they are barely read. He develops hatred on youth and their...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Mel Ferrer

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alfred Balthoff

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: Ingela Brander

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Cast: Magda Schneider

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ingrid Lutz

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lis Verhoeven

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anneliese Uhlig

A young shoemaker is arrested for stealing a small amount of money, and is jailed for fifteen years. Upon his release, he wants to get a permit to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Heinz Rühmann

In Upper Bavaria, 6 different characters meet in a 1st class train compartment.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Wastl Witt

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Paul Dahlke

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Cast: Brigitte Horney

Fritz Steppke and his friends Lämmermeier and Pannecke fly to the moon in a steerable balloon. Mrs. Pusebach has also joined the adventurous...

Genre: Music

Cast: Gunnar Möller

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lotte Koch

Genre: War

Cast: Claus Biederstaedt

The newspaper delivery driver Paul falls in love with Lotte, who works in her mother’s kiosk. One day, Paul helps a man in a black Mercedes,...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ursula Grabley

Genre: Music

Cast: Willi Rose

Edith Gedeye, the ward of Consul Schober, wants to meet and stay with Harald, her fiancee. On the morning of her intended departure from the house,...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Irene von Meyendorff

In 1951, East Berlin's railroad transportation fund was robbed in a spectacular burglary. The vaults contained the West Marks that the East Berlin...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Helmut Wildt

Berlin, 1890: Werner Ludtke is only nine years old, but this son of a shoemaker is already in love with his playmate, Felicitas von Graefe. At...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Willy Fritsch

In this war drama, three Nazi survivors are rescued after their battleship sank. Initially they are given heroes' accolades for their courage, but...

Genre: War

Cast: Karlheinz Böhm

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hans W. Hamacher

Acrobat assumes identity of jailed fellow-artist to take over a theatre which had been bequeathed to him. He is suspected of murdering the acrobat...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gustav Fröhlich

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Willi Rose

Pauline Pittelkow, a widow in her prime, lives in Berlin with her daughter Olga and her younger, still unmarried sister Stine. No one takes offense...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maria Körber

Genre: Drama

Cast: Wolfgang Wahl

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Helga Feddersen

They meet on the plane from Dakar to Casablanca: the well-known American defense lawyer Vandegrift, his daughter Jessie and the arrested Peter...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Heinrich George

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Horst Beck

This 1936 film tells the story of the doings of foreign agents in Germany and their allies among the German population. Having placed an ad in a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Willy Birgel

A young woman moves to Berlin to work as a press photographer.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hilde Krahl

Nazi propaganda film chronicling the plight of Germans caught by the outbreak of war in 1939 and their frantic attempts to return to the Fatherland...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paul Hartmann

Best friends David and Philip have to end their love affair with their mistress Aimée which they - not knowing of each other - share, because...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Renate Müller