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

This little-known German film retells the true story of the British ocean liner that met a tragic fate. Ernst Fritz Fürbringer plays the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sybille Schmitz

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

Peter Voss, Thief of Millions is a 1932 German comedy crime film directed by Ewald André Dupont and starring Willi Forst, Alice Treff and Paul...

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

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

Genre: Crime

Cast: Otto Wernicke

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hannelore Schroth

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruth Niehaus

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Otto Wernicke

Genre: Drama

Cast: Albert Matterstock

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maria Andergast

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ernst von Klipstein

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender

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

"Long is the Road" - The first feature film to represent the Holocaust from a Jewish perspective. Shot on location at Landsberg, the largest DP camp...

Genre: History

Cast: Israel Beker

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

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

Genre: War

Cast: Alexander Golling

Genre: Drama

Cast: Werner Fuetterer

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Waltraut Hahne

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Theo Lingen

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Cast: Otto Wernicke

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hermann Speelmans

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Leopoldine Konstantin

Genre: Drama

Cast: Otto Wernicke

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Paul Kemp

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paula Wessely

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gustav Knuth

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

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Winnie Markus

Anna is a factory worker in East Germany. Her five-year-old son Jochen lives with his grandparents in the West and 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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Anny Ondra