Alfred Vohrer

Directing

Alfred Vohrer

Born — Died

1914-12-29 — 1986-02-03

Place of birth

Stuttgart, Germany

Known for

Directing

Credits

51 titles

Alfred Vohrer (29 December 1914 – 3 February 1986) was a German film director and actor. He directed 48 films between 1958 and 1984. His 1969 film Seven Days Grace was entered into the 6th Moscow International Film Festival. His 1972 film Tears of Blood was entered into the 8th Moscow International Film Festival. His 1974 film Only the Wind Knows the Answer was entered into the 9th Moscow International Film Festival. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alfred Vohrer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

Film credits

1960s · 9 titles

The Horror of Blackwood Castle poster
6.5

Scotland Yard must discover why people are being murdered by a monstrous dog at Blackwood Castle.

The Horror of Blackwood Castle

1968

The Gorilla Gang poster
5.2

When another dead elderly gentleman is fished out of the Thames, Inspector David Perkins is convinced that the gorilla gang is active again. On a doll found with the body, characters of an African language are discovered. Together with Sergeant Pepper and language specialist Susan MacPherson, the search for the head of the gang begins.

The Gorilla Gang

1968

Dead Eyes of London poster
6.1

A disfigured killer with glazed-over white eyes is doing the dirty work so that an insurance agent-doctor can get the victims' insurance money.

Dead Eyes of London

1961

The Inn on the River poster
6.8

A serial killer named The Shark is terrorizing London by killing his victims with a speargun and then, dressed in a scruba-diver's wetsuit, using the city's sewer tunnels to make his getaway.

The Inn on the River

1962

The Door with Seven Locks poster
6.5

A rich man bequeaths seven keys to seven of his friends, but only one will unlock the door to untold wealth.

The Door with Seven Locks

1962

Double Face poster
5.8

After a businessman's unfaithful wife is seemingly killed in a car accident, he is led by several unscrupulous characters to believe that she is actually alive.

Double Face

1969

The Mysterious Magician poster
6.7

The sister of a famous, but as yet uncaught, criminal named "The Hexer" is murdered. Inspector Higgins of Scotland Yard believes that "The Hexer" will surface to take his revenge on his sister's killers, and plans to set a trap to finally capture him. However, soon bodies start piling up, and it looks as if "The Hexer" may get away yet again.

The Mysterious Magician

1964

The Indian Scarf poster
6.8

When a wealthy man dies, his avaricious relatives look forward to inheriting all his money. However, he leaves a provision in his will that they all must spend a week together in his castle before they will be able to inherit anything. At the castle (which is cut off from the outside world), the relatives soon begin to be killed off one by one, each strangled with an Indian scarf.

The Indian Scarf

1963

An Alibi for Death poster
7.5

Lawyer Maria Rohn takes on the case of Martin Siebeck. The truck driver allegedly ran over a man on the highway. Siebeck denies the crime and states that two people threw the victim in front of his truck at full speed. The more Maria Rohn looks into the case, the more she notices inconsistencies. Her husband Günther is also behaving more and more strangely. It seems that he was also involved in the accident...

An Alibi for Death

1963

Behind the camera

Frontier Hellcat poster
6.4

Outlaws disguised as Indians commit crimes against settlers but Winnetou and Old Surehand are determined to unmask the bandits and keep the peace. Alternate English Title: Amongst Vultures.

Frontier Hellcat

1964

Thunder at the Border poster
5.8

Firehand and his Apache friend Winnetou are determined to get justice for the murder of four young braves. They set off to track down the gang responsible for the horrendous act.

Thunder at the Border

1966

Flaming Frontier poster
6.2

Old Surehand and his faithful old friend Old Wabble are on the trail of a cold-blooded killer with the nickname 'The General'. The brother of Old Surehand was murdered by him. On the way Old Surehand and Old Wabble are involved in the running conflict between settlers and Comanches who are likely to go on the war path. Old Surehand can count on the support of his friend and blood brother Winnetou, the amiable chief of the Apaches. Written by Robert

Flaming Frontier

1965

The Zombie Walks poster
6.5

A serial killer who calls himself "The Laughing Corpse" dresses up in a skeleton costume and kills his victims with a poison-filled scorpion-shaped ring.

The Zombie Walks

1968

The Horror of Blackwood Castle poster
6.5

Scotland Yard must discover why people are being murdered by a monstrous dog at Blackwood Castle.

The Horror of Blackwood Castle

1968

The Man with the Glass Eye poster
5.5

A man is found dead in a London hotel. The knife is still firmly stuck in the victim's chest, and Inspector Perkins strangely finds a glass eye in his jacket pocket. Kurt after that a second, mysterious murder happens: A city-famous dancer of the Las Vegas Girls, who perform at the London Odeon Theater, is poisoned. Is there a connection between the pretty dancer and the hotel guest? Inspector Perkins and his colleagues are pressed for time. The "man with the glass eye" strikes deadly again and again. A first clue leads Scotland Yard to a billiard club, where one has to show a glass eye as an admission ticket.

The Man with the Glass Eye

1969

The Gorilla Gang poster
5.2

When another dead elderly gentleman is fished out of the Thames, Inspector David Perkins is convinced that the gorilla gang is active again. On a doll found with the body, characters of an African language are discovered. Together with Sergeant Pepper and language specialist Susan MacPherson, the search for the head of the gang begins.

The Gorilla Gang

1968

The Gorilla Gang poster
5.2

When another dead elderly gentleman is fished out of the Thames, Inspector David Perkins is convinced that the gorilla gang is active again. On a doll found with the body, characters of an African language are discovered. Together with Sergeant Pepper and language specialist Susan MacPherson, the search for the head of the gang begins.

The Gorilla Gang

1968

Dead Eyes of London poster
6.1

A disfigured killer with glazed-over white eyes is doing the dirty work so that an insurance agent-doctor can get the victims' insurance money.

Dead Eyes of London

1961

Only the Wind Knows the Answer poster
5.7

The yacht of millionaire Hellmann explodes in the Mediterranean Sea, with him and 8 men crew on board. Insurance agent Lucas investigates at the Cote D'Azur, because there's the suspicion that it could have been suicide. He finds out that Hellmann's villa was monitored, the tapes also contain information about the explosion. He uses them for blackmail.

Only the Wind Knows the Answer

1974

The Inn on the River poster
6.8

A serial killer named The Shark is terrorizing London by killing his victims with a speargun and then, dressed in a scruba-diver's wetsuit, using the city's sewer tunnels to make his getaway.

The Inn on the River

1962

The Door with Seven Locks poster
6.5

A rich man bequeaths seven keys to seven of his friends, but only one will unlock the door to untold wealth.

The Door with Seven Locks

1962

The Hunchback of Soho poster
6.0

A woman is kidnapped and her identity is stolen by criminals attempting to collect her inheritance.

The Hunchback of Soho

1966

The College Girl Murders poster
6.8

Police try to track down a hooded serial killer who murders his victims with a combination of acid and poison gas.

The College Girl Murders

1967

Again the Ringer poster
6.2

Arthur Milton aka Der Hexer (The Magician/Ringer) must return to London after his calling card was left at the scene of a murder he did not commit.

Again the Ringer

1965

School of Fear poster
5.3

A teenager named Kurrat mysteriously disappears from a German boys' school. Then a teacher is found dead; the mystery grows.

School of Fear

1969

The Mysterious Magician poster
6.7

The sister of a famous, but as yet uncaught, criminal named "The Hexer" is murdered. Inspector Higgins of Scotland Yard believes that "The Hexer" will surface to take his revenge on his sister's killers, and plans to set a trap to finally capture him. However, soon bodies start piling up, and it looks as if "The Hexer" may get away yet again.

The Mysterious Magician

1964

Herzblatt oder wie sag' ich's meiner Tochter? poster
4.2

Widower Paul always delayed talking to his daughter about sex. But when workers on a nearby construction site are falling down their scaffold because 16 years old "Herzblatt" is tanning naked, he feels he has to take action. In the hope she'll learn herself what consequences the difference between boys and girls has, he tries to get her a boyfriend.

Herzblatt oder wie sag' ich's meiner Tochter?

1969

Long Legs, Long Fingers poster
8.0

Baron Holberg, who looks back with pride on a long family tradition as hotel thieves, is horrified when his daughter Doris falls in love with the lawyer Robert Hammond, of all people, rather than choosing the art thief Sammy, as he would wish. Under the pretext that they are being pursued by the police, he lures his daughter away from the lawyer, but when he confesses the deception to her, Doris immediately sets off for Hammond's country estate near London. However, Hammond's father is not too fond of the connection either...

Long Legs, Long Fingers

1966

Das gelbe Haus am Pinnasberg poster
4.5

The story of a Hamburg brothel in which the wealthy female clientele spend a lot of money on the male employees. When the boss of the house has happily married off his daughter, he sells his establishment - just in time before it literally collapses.

Das gelbe Haus am Pinnasberg

1970

Das gelbe Haus am Pinnasberg poster
4.5

The story of a Hamburg brothel in which the wealthy female clientele spend a lot of money on the male employees. When the boss of the house has happily married off his daughter, he sells his establishment - just in time before it literally collapses.

Das gelbe Haus am Pinnasberg

1970

Wer stirbt schon gerne unter Palmen poster
7.5

The wealthy plantation owner Pinaud is brutally murdered in Ceylon. His attractive German wife Anne is suspected of the crime and arrested by Inspector Cerdan. He is ordered to take her to Colombo. But the plane on the way there gets caught in a heavy storm and crashes shortly afterwards. Anne Pinaud and Cerdan are the only survivors of the crew and save themselves on a desert island. There they come across Werner Becker, who has been shipwrecked with his yacht and is also stranded here. While Cerdan continues to believe Anne is guilty of the crime, Werner believes she is innocent. Soon the tension between the two men builds up and they become rivals for Anne's favor.

Wer stirbt schon gerne unter Palmen

1974

Creature with the Blue Hand poster
6.3

Scotland Yard is after a homicidal maniac called The Blue Hand, which is what he uses to kill his victims.

Creature with the Blue Hand

1967

Bis dass das Geld euch scheidet… poster
7.5

Germany at the time of the economic miracle: the boorish and equally rude Jupp Grapsch has made a small fortune through his bustling activities. His wife Lisbeth, on the other hand, does not feel comfortable with this, but silently accepts the circumstances. Even when Jupp gets involved with the somewhat disreputable Nina Sonntag, an extravagant young woman, she accepts this at first. At some point, however, the situation escalates and Lisbeth slips a slap in the face, which Jupp cleverly wants to use to finally get rid of his wife by divorcing her. But Lisbeth refuses and so Jupp hires an unscrupulous man to create a reason for the separation in exchange for money...

Bis dass das Geld euch scheidet…

1960

The Indian Scarf poster
6.8

When a wealthy man dies, his avaricious relatives look forward to inheriting all his money. However, he leaves a provision in his will that they all must spend a week together in his castle before they will be able to inherit anything. At the castle (which is cut off from the outside world), the relatives soon begin to be killed off one by one, each strangled with an Indian scarf.

The Indian Scarf

1963

The Squeaker poster
6.5

Scotland Yard investigates a series of murders where the victims have died by snake venom poisoning.

The Squeaker

1963

Unser Haus in Kamerun poster
7.0

A young man living in Africa is send to Hamburg by his parents to learn about business. There, he falls in love with the mistress of a friend.

Unser Haus in Kamerun

1961

Meine 99 Bräute poster
9.0

Nicki Montag is considered a true Casanova in the Munich suburbs. However, this is obviously not only down to him, but also to the numerous women who are only too happy to fall for his advances. With the help of his work-shy friend Jonny, Nicki beguiles one woman after another in a variety of ways. It doesn't matter whether it's the daughter of a greengrocer, a real lady or a proper artist's girl. In the case of the demanding Mrs. Consul Hale, it is even Nicki who is conquered.

Meine 99 Bräute

1958

Gott schützt die Liebenden poster
6.5

Engineer Paul Holland returns from a trip. His girlfriend Sybille has disappeared from their apartment without leaving a note. He searches for her and finds himself in the middle of a manhunt for an international drug ring.

Gott schützt die Liebenden

1973

Das Schweigen im Walde poster
5.0

The young Count Ettingen leads a dissolute life in Munich with the demanding Baroness Prankha at his side. To finance his life, he has his uncle cut down the forests in his estate without caring about the consequences. When he catches his girlfriend having an affair, however, he retreats to the mountains. From the young alpine dairymaid Lore he learns about another side of life and wants to stop the overexploitation of the forest. But the baroness still wants his money.

Das Schweigen im Walde

1976

Drei Männer im Schnee poster
8.0

This film adaptation of Erich Kästner's book is about a millionaire who wants to travel to a hotel under a false name and test how "normal people" are treated. The hotel staff receive a warning, but mistake another man for the fake millionaire and treat him like God in France, while he doesn't feel the slightest bit of even luxurious treatment

Drei Männer im Schnee

1974

Mit 17 weint man nicht poster
10.0

Horst, the 18-year-old son of a factory owner, and 17-year-old Karin dream up their future together in the most beautiful colors. Newly married, however, they don't float on cloud nine as they had hoped, but sink into the dreary everyday life of marriage. While Horst ends his school career prematurely, Karin seeks help from her father-in-law.

Mit 17 weint man nicht

1960

Mark of the Tortoise poster
6.6

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“…

Mark of the Tortoise

1964

Everyone Dies Alone poster
7.4

When they start losing family members and neighbors due to WWII and the Nazi government's policies, a quiet married couple becomes disillusioned and begins spreading leaflets against the government - a crime punishable by death.

Everyone Dies Alone

1976

The Young Go Wild poster
7.0

High school student Fabian König is kicked out of school and starts a gang that specializes in theft. He falls in love with the orphan girl Ulla, but she rejects him when she finds out how he spends his time. When the pimp Horst tries to rape Ulla, she is rescued by Fabian. Shortly afterwards, Horst's body is found and Fabian is convicted of the murder due to the false testimony of a witness. In prison, he comes to trust the prison doctor Dr. Knittel, who believes him and is able to unmask the real culprit.

The Young Go Wild

1959

Tears of Blood poster
5.3

A story of love between French student Alain and German high school student Christine.

Tears of Blood

1972

Anita Drögemöller und die Ruhe an der Ruhr poster
4.5

Anita Drögemöller has transformed herself from a small-time street prostitute into a luxury call girl. But one day she finds her former pimp dead in her apartment with a broken neck. Chief Inspector Langensiepen takes up the investigation and discovers an impenetrable web of sex, lies, raison d'état and murder.

Anita Drögemöller und die Ruhe an der Ruhr

1976

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Liebe hat ihre Zeit

1982

Love Is Only a Word poster
4.8

The 21-year-old student Oliver Mansfeld attends a boarding school in Frankfurt. There he meets the married banker's wife Verena. A passionate affair develops between them, which does not remain undiscovered by Verena's husband for long.

Love Is Only a Word

1971

Schmutziger Engel poster
9.0

A teacher is defamed in an obscene way by an over-excited pupil.

Schmutziger Engel

1958