Kurt Gerron

Directed by Martin Berger.

Wer wirft den ersten Stein?

Historical romance about French monarch Louis XV and his infatuation with Madame Pompadour.

Der große Unbekannte

Benno Stehkragen

Two broke friends hatch a scheme to get money from a rich aunt.

Vom Täter fehlt jede Spur

Die schönsten Beine von Berlin

Daughter of the Regiment

Wir halten fest und treu zusammen

Nazi propaganda film about the "Theresienstadt ghetto". The film was supposed to show the world that Jews didn't suffer in concentration camps. Upon completion, most Jews shown in the film (including director Kurt Gerron) were brought to Auschwitz, where they were killed.

Die weiße Spinne

Die Kleine und ihr Kavalier

Der Held des Tages

Unmoral

Prim professor Immanuel Rath finds some of his students ogling racy photos of cabaret performer Lola Lola and visits a local club, The Blue Angel, in an attempt to catch them there. Seeing Lola perform, the teacher is filled with lust, eventually resigning his position at the school to marry the young woman. However, his marriage to a coquette -- whose job is to entice men -- proves to be more difficult than Rath imagined.

Manege

Fritz is in love with artist Glay, who stays at the Grand Hotel. In spite of not having any money he gets to know her, invites her to supper and after dancing a tango even hires the royal suite. How will he get out of this is a mystery even to himself.

Love in the Ring

Heut tanzt Mariett

Die drei Mannequins

Die Hotelratte

Die Dame mit dem Tigerfell

Die Flucht vor der Liebe

O alte Burschenherrlichkeit

Ein Tag der Rosen im August..

White slavers lure young girls to Rio de Janeiro by promising them jobs as showgirls and nightclub singers, then force them into prostitution.

Alexander Bessel is a young man in a failing marriage. His wife cheats on him, and so the outbreak of WW1 comes in handy for a change. When young French soldier dies right in front of him Bessel seize the opportunity assuming his identity.

Mädchenhandel - Eine internationale Gefahr

Vater geht auf Reisen

Annemarie und ihr Ulan

Robby and Jim are two friends working in a circus. When Marina, a new acrobat, enters the show, both men will compete for her love. She needs a partner for a flying number, and one of them will be elected. Then accidents will happen.

Balzac adaptation: Escaped convict moves into a brothel where he becomes father to a boy. But his advantageous position is eventually threatened by one of the whores who has fallen in love with the convict's grown up son.

A young saleslady travels by car to the Riviera with a modest seeming young man who, it turns out, is really a wealthy nobleman.

A semi-documentary experimental 1930 German silent film created by amateurs with a small budget. With authentic scenes of the metropolis city of Berlin, it's the first film from the later famous screenwriters/directors Billy Wilder and Fred Zinnemann.

In this German comedy, an enterprising American uncle comes from Chicago goes to the tiny town of Groditzkirchen to make a fortune on credit even though he only has $10 to his name. To do so, he enlists the aide of a bank clerk and begins posing as a millionaire.

A restaurant cashier, who has a mutual attraction to the restauranteur, has a secret passion for dance. As soon as she finishes work she is off down to the dance studio for a practice. She has a chance meeting with a handsome impresario, who promises to make her into the greatest dancer the world has ever known. (IMDb)

Young Anny returns from school to her circus family, which runs a little venue at the town fair. When Anny suddenly has to fill in for one of the artists, her piano-playing not only enthrals the audience, but also theatre agent Hobbes. He casts the whole family for the Apollo theatre in Berlin, where Anny quickly raises to stardom and is offered an engagement from the US.

His Greatest Bluff

Die Pflicht zu schweigen

Der Liebe Lust und Leid

The aging singer Clarina receives a new engagement from a cabaret called the Maison Mouche and must evade the advances of several overbearing men. This film is considered lost.

The film tells the true story of Kurt Gerron, a German-Jewish cabaret and film actor in the 1920s and 1930s who was sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp where he was commanded to write and direct a Nazi propaganda film.

Die Drei von der Tankstelle, meaning The Three from the Gas Station, was advertised as a German operetta when release and with it’s star studded cast would become the forerunner of Musical films. Even today the soundtrack of the comic harmonists is popular in Germany.

Dr. Johannes Krafft climbs a 12,000-foot mountain over and over again to search for his wife, who was lost on their honeymoon. Another couple makes the dangerous climb with him.

The captain of a battleship of a small Balkan country is fed up with following strange orders from the country's queen.

The murderer “Boss” Huller – after having spent ten years in prison – breaks his silence to tell the warden his story.

The young wife of a rich old husband is prevented of a fling by a gentleman-burglar, who falls in love to her.

A cabaret singer in Germany is in love with a young American boy, and must convince his disapproving father that she is worthy of his son.

Paul Wegener gives one of his most active performances here as Captain Ramper, a heroic aviator who makes a pioneering flight across the Arctic accompanied only by Ippling, his faithful mechanic (Kurt Gerron). Near the North Pole, their plane develops engine failure and crashes in the desolate wastes. Ippling dies straight off but Ramper finds a supply base containing food which has been left behind by a previous expedition. After fifteen years in the Arctic wastes, Ramper has considerably mutated.

A Nazi propaganda film made to promote anti-Semitism among the German people. Newly-shot footage of Jewish neighborhoods in recently-conquered Poland is combined with preexisting film clips and stills to defame the religion and advance Hitler's slurs that its adherents were plotting to undermine European civilization.

"The Alley Cat" - A man who thinks he killed a millionaire is cared for by a Cockney girl and becomes a composer.

A Crazy Night

A tense vignette about the fate of an unlucky man in poverty-stricken Weimar-era Germany.

Halbseide

Fred von Wellingen is a wealthy industrialist, part of a large family-owned corporation. Fred has fallen for Lia, a comely bartender in the Berlin Cabaret. He proposes to her, much to the horror of his family, which considers Lia and her unsophisticated father far below their caste. The family convinces Fred to give up the girl in exchange for increased position and income in the company. But Fred's lapse is momentary, and he again pursues Lia. But she, by this time, has learned of his erstwhile agreement and has agreed to marry someone else.

Musical vehicle for up and coming Dolly Haas, as a would be actress with a would be composer boyfriend. She sings,at one point, that she has the walk of (Lilian) Harvey, the mouth of Garbo and the legs of Dietrich.

Der Soldat der Marie

Based on the play of the same name by Oskar Blumenthal and Gustav Kadelburg.

Thymian Henning, an innocent young girl, is raped by the clerk of her father's pharmacy. She becomes pregnant, is rejected by her family, and must fend for herself in a harsh, cruel world.