Paul Richter

The huntsman of a Bavarian monastery falls in love with a beautiful girl and convinces the provost to make his steward delay her brother's feudal due arrears.

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The count Egge is barely a visitor in his Alpine family castle Hubertus, being preoccupied with hunting. He's furious when his young adult sons miss an annual municipal hunting concession auction, being both in love with local commoner girls, deemed undesirable although their mother was an actress herself, as is their sister's lover, painter Forbeck. So comital heir Tassilo marries in secret, spare heir Willy courts 'discretely'. Then tragedy strikes, with further consequences for the whole comital family.

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Pauli is a professional wood carver of religious figures, but can't get the approval of his girlfriend's strict father.

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Baron Siebenzell employs the young forest ranger Thomas Sebald, to stop the bold poachers he's plagued with in his beautiful mountain forests. Most of the men in the village reject and ridicule Thomas because of his job. Nevertheless he falls in love with the mayor's daughter Maria - not knowing, that her father is the poacher's leader.

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High up in the mountains, a peasant family drags themselves through the towering granite blocks with all their possessions to make a new home for themselves. The mountains, however, have no interest in seeing them make a home up there: for months, huge boulders have been crashing down around them; trees have been falling on the walls of their new home and collapsing it ... and more than one time.

The castle-estate Dachenstein is located in the beautiful surroundings of Upper Bavaria and has been farmed for years by the young Baron Georg von Muckenreiter. According to the will of his uncle, the castle-estate is to pass permanently into Georg's possession once he marries someone and makes her the legitimate lady-of-estate. Thus, he must marry! George, a farmer, huntsman and a freedom-loving bachelor, has little love for that, which is eternally feminine and a revulsion of marriage altogether. To his great fortune, however, his friend Heinz Kuppelweger has arrived for a small vacation at the castle. Heinz knows a lot about the "noble women kind" and he's going to help Georg. First, he's going to help Georg with some correspondence to his future, young bride in Belgrade -- Beate -- who is as happy with Georg's romantic correspondence as is her father.

Remake of an Ernst Lubitsch silent comedy, about a farm boy who is fond of two sisters, one of them beautiful, and the other, not so much.

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Paulus van Geldern is a lawyer who has made a name for himself as a criminal defense attorney, but is notoriously short of funds due to his unbridled passion for gambling. His gambling causes problems with his marriage to Martha who is thriving.

A shifty lawyer is threatened with death within two days by a criminal who supposedly died in Australia.

The story of the rise to power of King Frederick II (aka "Frederick the Great") of Prussia of his military campaigns to make Prussia a major power in Europe.

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In the first light of day, one can see a mountain farm close to the forest. Nothing stirs far and wide. Suddenly, a figure comes out of the forest, running quickly to the farm. There's a quick grab and the hunting rifle is hidden in the gutter. There's a jump to the window sill: Obermeier Martl creeps like a cat into his room. No one's seen him. At the same time, the doorbell rings at Doctor Rauch's place. The hunter's mate Hias is standing outside. "Doctor, you have to bandage me: I've been shot!" By whom, he doesn't know.

A struggling composer gets one of his pieces into a film program and his wife captures the lead part in the production as well.

Knight Dietwald von Falkenau returns from his trip to see the Pope through Berchtesgaden to his cloister. He was unsuccessful in his mission to have the papal ban against his emperor lifted. The young Walti, who works in the cloister, jokes with the cloister' cook, Severin, because Dietwald's cold stare scared him. Severin rebukes him, saying that Dietwald has been carrying a heavy burden. Once, Dietwald had his own fortress. This, however, was destroyed during an attack and his wife killed. Since then, he has not seen his daughter again.

The latest woman marrying into the Tanhoff family has to overcome the ancient curse, that she will die giving birth.

In a theme reminiscent of the classic Greek comedy Lysistrata by Aristophanes, wives and sweethearts in a Bavarian village agree to withhold sex from their men, as long as the men keep spending time with a new waitress at the inn.

In this blood and soil melodrama, the daughter of the chief forester is torn between love for a reprobate painter and the duty to wed the assistant forester, a widower with a boy.

When Julius Seipold's wife Regine becomes suspicious that he is having an affair after discovering incriminating evidence, Julius manages to convince her that it is his innocuous assistant Max who is having a relationship.

A Hapsburg archduke in the 1880s gives up his title, changes his name, marries a Viennese actress, and then disappears with her on a South American ocean voyage.

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On Christmas Eve in 1818, parish assistant Joseph Mohr is on the road. Despite the freezing cold, he has just blessed a poor farming family and is now on his way back to Oberndorf near Salzburg. Once home, the assistant pastor puts his thoughts into a poem on this quiet night. His friend, the teacher and organist Gruber, is asked to compose a melody for it. The birth of the world's most famous Christmas carol.

Jack Norton is a careless gambler, until his father turns his back on him. Dead drunk he winds up on a boat going far up North, where he leaves the boat, only to be saved by Eskimos, where he soon falls in love.

A small town official in pre Weimar Germany stands in opposition to any progress in his area, but is challenged when a stage impresario who looks just like him, arrives.

Film by Carl Heinz Wolff.

Mutz Hagedorn has just graduated from grammar school, much to the delight of her aunt Jenny, who cares for her like a mother. Then she learns from notary Strohbein that she has inherited the hotel “Zur Jungfrau” from her uncle, it is located on Lake Constance in Üttlisborn. On the way there, she meets the winsome Konrad on the train. Both have the same destination, only at the train station, their paths split. When she then stands before “her” hotel, she’s appalled. The “Jungfrau” is an old, dilapidated eyesore, because people with taste put up at the “Mönch”, which is owned by the Leitner family. Both families have been at odds with each other for years. Then, Mutz learns from Konrad that he as well is a Leitner and the owner of the “Mönch”. Now, she wants to be victorious, win the trial once and for all. Konrad accepts the challenge. Firstly, the “Jungfrau” is turned into a modern hotel in no time.

Dr. Mabuse and his organization of criminals are in the process of completing their latest scheme, a theft of information that will allow Mabuse to make huge profits on the stock exchange. Afterwards, Mabuse disguises himself and attends the Folies Bergères show, where Cara Carozza, the main attraction of the show, passes him information on Mabuse's next intended victim, the young millionaire Edgar Hull. Mabuse then uses psychic manipulation to lure Hull into a card game where he loses heavily. When Police Commissioner von Wenk begins an investigation of this mysterious crime spree, he has little to go on, and he needs to find someone who can help him.

Siegfried, son of King Siegmund of Xanten, travels to Worms, capital of the Burgundian kingdom, to ask King Gunther for the hand of his sister, the beautiful Kriemhild.

Rowland falls sick with leprosy while Mac Allan is captured by the Maharajah, who offers Irene a deal: one night with him in exchange for letting Rowland to be cured. She accepts, but tries to commit suicide.

Ayan, Maharajah of Eschnapur, believes that his wife, Princess Savitri, has been unfaithful to him with officer Mac Allan. He decides to bury her alive, so he sends the Yogi Ramigani to England to look for Herbert Rowland, an architect; but when he orders him to build a tomb, Rowland refuses.

Ellen, the secretary to General Manager Rasmussen, marries her fiancé Norbert Larsen, who also works at the steelworks. They have a happy marriage until Norbert falls ill: Only a trip to the south can save him.

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A forester's daughter arrests a poacher without knowing it is Emperor Franz Joseph. A lively game with a melancholic touch begins. Set in Austria, 1850, this romantic tragicomedy is based on the operetta by Georg Jarno.

König der Mittelstürmer / King of the Centre Forwards refers with the name of its hero to the German soccer legend of the twenties: Tull Harder, star of the Hamburger Sport Verein (HSV). But the story itself is completely fictitious: The son of a trade company's director falls in love with the daughter of a big American oil magnat. But she suspects him to be only interested in her money. So she buys his father's company to take revenge on him. The son's true love is soccer, and from the very first moment the soccer fever is present throughout the film. It starts with pictures of a soccer game and even an apple or a crumpled up paper must serve as substitute for a ball. Whereas Die elf Teufel promotes soccer as "the sport of the century", König der Mittelstürmer shows the hero's father who still has to be convinced from its importance. He hates soccer and blames everybody to be "soccer crazy".

A jealous husband leaves jail to find his wife loves his lawyer.

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The son of a Countess runs away to join the circus and becomes a great trapeze artist. He returns years later and falls in love with a young woman.

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The film tells the story of an ambitious young man, Tom, who loves Grete, daughter of the manager of the national railroads; but Grete's father prefers Lund, an upright and uptight army officer. To prove his worth, Tom organizes a daring robbery of the nightly Bergen Express in the hopes of outwitting his rival, who's been assigned to track down the thieves.

In a Swiss winter resort, Lydia Boysen, who has just divorced from her husband, meets the young ski instructor Dagfin Holberg. It doesn't take long before they both fall in love with each other. One day her ex-husband Axel shows up, not long after he had tried to set Lydia up with the much older, rich Turkish man Sabi Bey. A little later, Alex Boysen is found lying dead in the snow. Dagfin and Lydia suspect each other of killing Boysen. To protect Lydia, Dagfin takes all the blame. Not entirely unselfish, he receives full support in his actions from Sabi Bey, who also promises to help Dagfin escape. The Turkish general hopes to get closer to his goal in this way and finally win Lydia over. Lydia, in turn, is ready to sacrifice herself for Dagfin. In order to be sure of Sabi Bey's support for the fugitive Dagfin, she follows the Muslim despot, who was once responsible for a massacre of Armenians and only narrowly escaped an assassination attempt, to his castle in southern Germany.

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Melodrama about alleged adultery, jealousy and honor.