Franz Weber Movies

Based on a play by Gerhardt Hauptmann, the film details a bittersweet May-December romance between ageing Mathias Clausen and young, beautiful Inken...

Chicago gangsters use cunning and a series of false identities in a violent battle for dominance, all while attempting to dodge the police.

As a young man, mustard manufacturer Ludwig Klinke had an affair with a dancer, the “Spanish Fly”. The dancer had a son and Klinke has...

Viktor Werneberg is a widowed swimming instructor with three children, who meets the sophisticated Irene Müller advice column in a newspaper....

During the Napoleonic occupation of the German states in 1812, a tailor by the name of Anton Wibbel is sentenced to sit in jail for insulting the...

A patriotic period melodrama in which a father and son are in love with the same lady.The son does not tell her that his father, an officer, has...

Der Florentiner Hut (The Leghorn Hat), a 1939 German film directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner

A man comes back from America after years to find his reputation ruined.

Mother Wolffen, a washerwoman, is a woman of principle: A poor man must do what he must to get through life, only he mustn't get caught doing it. All...

Paul Schleemueller is the town clerk of Schonbach, but secretly, he is counting on becoming the municipality's mayor one day. However, Paul's real...

Musician Eduard Boeckel wants to settle down and marries laundry owner Lisbeth Timm. He brings his friend August Garfs into the marriage, and the...

The mustached ruler of a mythical principality, learning that his people dislike his spending so much time going hunting, allows his twin brother to...

The daughter of a wealthy art dealer is blackmailed, and then his former wife is found dead in a Paris hotel.One of the four suspects turns out to be...

An adventurous peasant is supposed to be hanged, but gets told about life after death, how beautiful it is, and wants to get into heaven anyway even...

Shortly after WWII, the DEFA Studios produced a series of operas and operettas which belonged to the classical German musical heritage. This...

The film depicts the composer Franz Liszt and takes its name from his 1850 piano work of the same title.

Assistant PI Bulli is hired to find Marie Banse. He does, she is married to Thomas, they have a pretty daughter, Lore. Bulli falls for her, delivers...

Shots fall at night at Gussersee Hotel. Hermann Brenken, general manager of a large company, is attacked. Newspapers hype up the case and offer a...

An aging musician looks back on his life, his roots in a country village, his loves, and his brief imprisonment.

A senator from Hamburg, frozen in old-fashioned gentility, attempts to consolidate his cigarette factory by marrying off his daughter to the son of...