Wolfgang Zilzer

Hanns Heinz Ewers' grim science-fiction novel Alraune has already been filmed twice when this version was assembled in 1928. In another of his "mad...

Illustrates both the powerlessness of the ordinary worker as well as an intimate portrait of the joys and sorrows of a small group of people in the...

When Hamburg ship's mate Klaus Brandt catches a thief one night at the port, his downfall is pre-ordained. For the thief turns out to be a young,...

American multi-millionaire Michael Brandon marries his eighth wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broken French Marquis. But she doesn't want to be only...

During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.

Sigmund Freud's ghost advises a married New York psychiatrist in love with a patient.

The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany in this comedy-thriller.

In 1942, a young paratrooper in the RAF returns to Czechoslovakia to encourage his fellow countrymen to sabotage the German war effort.

An FBI agent works with a refugee scientist and the Coast Guard to crack a Soviet spy ring in Boston.

This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short looks at the U.S. Department of Immigration's efforts to halt the smuggling of illegal aliens into the...

Playwright Joseph Goebbels turns Nazi propagandist and loses his girlfriend to another man.

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

A scientist invents a television device called the Iconoscope. Foreign agents hear about it and try to steal it.

During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.

After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that he will give a million dollars to anyone who is...

A silent adaptation of the novel by French writer Émile Zola.

FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.

Two reporters compete to discover a scientist living in hiding and win his daughter.

When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic service to go undercover to route out an...

A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.

The "war of nerves" which gripped the European continent in 1938, is the background for this war thriller starring George Sanders.

True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphilis.

A World War II Hollywood propaganda film detailing the dark underside of Nazism and the Third Reich set between two brothers, Kurt and Erik Franken,...

An American goes to pre-war Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration camp. With the help of an American-born widowed countess...

German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.

Viennese surgeon Dr. Braun and his daughter Leni come to a small town in North Dakota as refugees from Hitler. When the winds of the Dust Bowl...

a movie by Heinz Paul

Baruch Mayer, son of an orthodox rabbi from a poor shtetl in Galizia, decides to break with the family tradition and leave the shtetl to become an...

In this realistic, unsentimental portrait of Germany’s dire economic situation, a middle-aged payroll clerk loses his job due to technological...

Some dastardly criminals have stolen some top secret plans and tattoo them on the back of a woman so she can sell them to the highest bidder in...

It is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man's-land where the Russians and Austrians are fighting out one of the final campaigns of...

Mata Hari, die rote Tänzerin (English: Mata Hari: The Red Dancer), often shortened on release to Mata Hari, is a 1927 German silent drama film...

An anti-Nazi on the run and a young Jewish couple race across Europe trying to escape Hitler's ever powerful influence.

A film about the pupils of a posh Berlin gymnasium in their final term, and their class teacher teaching them about humanism and tolerance, a lesson...

Hans Memling, a young intellectual, patriotic German, is secretly opposed to the Nazi regime. With the aid of Gustav Schultz, Father Pommer, Anna...

A story about domestic life in a typical working-class environment. Life and trials and how little situations have big consequences.

Adolf Hitler, Benito and Suki Yaki are placed in a series of Three-Stooges routines, with the premise that the Board of Directors of Hell has put the...

An exploration of the misery of youth. A student, his friends, and the girl he loves all suffer due to the harsh and unforgiving nature of the adults...

Based on the real life events of the 1927 Steglitzer Schülertragödie, in which several high school students planned murder-suicides.

A Japanese publisher urges his American-educated son to side with the Axis.

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short tells the story of 18th Century French physician Dr. Philippe Pinel, who initiated enlightened, humane...

When police officer Moe Finkelstein and his colleague Officer Salomon are ordered to serve as bodyguards to German consul Karl Baumer by the mayor of...

The young student Mary spends the beginning of her holiday with boat trips, visits to her wealthy groom, and gardening. In fast-paced, rhythmic cuts,...

A girl posing as a knight's male valet is vamped by his fiancée

An unmarried showgirl takes a handsome companion with her on a vacation, to the distress of others.

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short tells of the Nazis' efforts to shut down an underground resistance newspaper in occupied Belgium.

Two Russians fight to escape the seven Nazi soldiers trapped with them in a bombed building.

Leo, a holocaust survivor who suffers from total amnesia, comes to the U.S. and works as a hotel desk clerk. One night while a comedian who owns a...

An American pilot swears to get revenge on the German ace who shot his brother in this war movie set in war-torn Europe. Montgomery is the pilot....

Jeffrey wants to marry Virginia, who refuses to marry unless her older sister, the hard-to-please Angelica, gets married first.

Romantic exploits in Germany's White Mountains.

An assortment of diverse characters gather at the Hotel Berlin in World War II Germany as the Third Reich falls.

An amnesiac wanders the streets of Manhattan, trying to solve the mystery of who he is.