Set in a boarding school in Potsdam, Germany, 'Girls in Uniform' explores the intense and forbidden relationship between a student named Manuela von Meinhardis and her beautiful and charismatic teacher, Fräulein von Bernburg. As Manuela navigates school life and her own burgeoning sexuality, she becomes infatuated with Fräulein von Bernburg, leading to a series of emotionally charged events that culminate in a dramatic suicide attempt. This groundbreaking film, based on Christa Winsloe's play, delves into themes of lesbianism, female empowerment, and the complexities of love.
French docu-drama which chronicles the chain of events that lead to the hanging of German-journalist Richard Sorge, who was executed in 1944 after he was found supplying classified information to the Russians.
Director Wolfgang Staudte who left East Germany in 1953 to make movies in West Germany, takes a few swipes at the West German judicial system in this fairly effective courtroom drama about the murder of a four-month-old baby. Police almost immediately arrest the mother Ingrid who is the mistress of the father, a rich business VIP married to another woman. His position and wealth keep him insulated from suspicion. A hot-shot lawyer has to overcome the unaccountably biased perceptions of the police, the judge, the prosecutor and almost everyone else in the judicial system. The defence lawyer, driven to an extreme, knows he has to find the real killer or his client will be convicted.
English millionaire Sir Cyrus Bradley is being blackmailed by “The Tortoise” Crime Syndicate. He is to pay £ 100,000.00 Pounds to stay alive and not be murdered. After his refusal to pay the money, he is quickly killed. Cyrus‘ nephew, Don Micklem, plans to avenge the death of his uncle and sets out on a quest to expose “The Tortoise“…
The brother of a high ranking lawyer has killed the husband of a Polish woman, with whom he is having an affair. Can the counsel help his brother without getting himself involved in scandal?
After leaving his overbearing wife for another woman, a composer is suspected of her murder when she is found dead.
A teacher is defamed in an obscene way by an over-excited pupil.
The trials and tribulations of love in a school community in the still young Federal Republic of Germany.
'The Rest Is Silence, a German-made attempt to update Shakespeare, is one of the best and least self-conscious of this minor genre. As indicated by the title, the film's script is a "mufti" version of Hamlet, with young Hardy Krüger trying to prove that his uncle has killed his father. Direct references to the Shakespeare original abound, right down to the re-enactment of the crime for the benefit of the Uncle and the periodic appearances of the ghost of the hero's father.'
Wolf Noltenius is a real globetrotter. Early on, this talented young man travelled far and wide, where he earned fame as a construction planner. He moved to Brazil; but one day, homesickness got the best of him. He spontaneously travelled back to his hometown to visit his brother Werner and his family. Wolf and Werner, who both went into the same profession, couldn't be any more different: the one is worldly and an experienced man-about-town; the other a small bourgeois.
A millionaire returns from the United States to his native Dubrovnik.
Leichte Muse (1941) is a comedic movie based on a novel.
In the film 'Der Fehltritt', the protagonist's life takes a devastating turn after making a mistake. This tragic drama explores the profound consequences and emotional turmoil that ensue.