Heinz Rühmann Movies

A varied group of passengers boarding a ship bound for pre-WWII Germany represents a microcosm of early-1930s society.

Captain Ebbs is an older, experienced seaman who has, however, only sailed on freighters. While his current old barge, the Martin Luther, has to go...

A group of angels look longingly upon the life of humans. Berlin now is a very different place: unified in name but overrun with crime, corruption,...

A classical art junk dealer and an almost bankrupt hairdresser who unexpectedly makes an inheritance go hunting behind thirteen chairs from which of...

The search for a child murderer drags a once-respected detective into an all-consuming obsession.

Postman Titus Müller returns from his daily rounds with a letter that will change the course of his modest provincial existence.

Father Brown is only too happy to interfere with the work of the police in solving tricky criminal cases, usually with resounding success. That's why...

A young shoemaker is arrested for stealing a small amount of money, and is jailed for fifteen years. Upon his release, he wants to get a permit to...

Small time crook Napoleone falls into an unlikely gang made up of a gangster, called The Baron, and his two cohorts, Agonia and The Captain, where...

Pétepan learns that his money has been lost by Robinhoude brothers.He asks his assistants to withdraw his amount from the bank.

In the midst of World War II, postman Ludwig Fuchs writes a letter to his former school friend Field Marshal Hermann Göring, urging him to work...

When the wife of Sebastian Schumann left her family, he told his little daughter that her mother has died, because he thought that this was the...

After Clown Teddy lost his son, he lost his gift for laughter. He opened a joke shop and lives above the shop. His landlady has had a foster son...

The author Peter Ustinov has called his work "Endspurt" a "biographical adventure". Biographical because the somewhat ambitious but later successful...

A man in bad sorts hires a burglar to later kill him, then changes his mind when his fortunes turn and must find the contracted murderer before it is...

Documentary feature about German actor Heinz Rühmann made shortly before his death in 1994.

Otto Dernburg is forced by circumstances to dress up as a middle-aged woman.

The stories' setup: a bunch of passive weaklings being dominated by two strong and ambitious women who fight for the same man.