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- The criminal exploits of Public Enemy number 1, George 'Machine-Gun' Kelly, during the 1930s.
- West Germany in '50s is becoming an economic superpower. In such climate, Rosemarie is just one of many enterpreneurs who wants her piece of new fortune. She uses her charms to bring members of West German industrial elite to her bed. There she finds business secrets and later sells them to French competition. However, when scandal errupts, Rosemarie would find that she can't beat the system.
- A cavalry deserter risks his life to warn and protect a wagon train from an impending Indian attack.
- Rise, fall and execution of John Brown, fanatic abolitionist.
- Liane, the white jungle goddess, encounters some of her rich relatives from Hamburg who have come to search for her, but she is soon kidnapped by a ring of slave traders.
- All is not really well between the boys of Gymnasium and the boys of the six-form High School: sparks fly when they get within 100m of each other. The continuous feud between the pupils is only one of the pleasant alternations, which life brings into the everyday school life. In addition, there are the rehearsals for the school theatre, and there are the secrets around a teacher called 'Justus' and a man called 'Nichtraucher' or the "non-smoker" since he lives in an abandoned non-smoking railway carriage. In between all the exciting surprises, a few serious things remain to be done.
- A dramatic reconstruction of the July 1944 attempt by German Army Officers to assassinate Hitler with a bomb and end the war before Germany was totally destroyed.
- A young Egyptian doctor leaves his uneducated, dance girl lady friend behind while he focuses on fighting poverty and superstition.Years later,rich and famous, on a trip to Paris he discovers her again, in a night club.
- Popular Dutch story of a troubled boy who doesn't get along with his mother while his sailor father is gone, and whose only help saving him from a career of crime is a schoolteacher.
- The pony hotel has just been opened, but so far no guests have arrived. Dick gets Ralf to design a brochure about the hotel. The girls and Ethelbert then lead the village children on horseback to Lübeck, where they all distribute the brochure, not knowing that Dalli has added some embellishments to the text. An orphaned boy wins a two-week stay at the hotel. Luckily, paying guests are coming now, too. Most important among them is Dr. Westkamp, boss of a travel agency. Unfortunately, he keeps very much to himself. Quite unlike a certain Fräulein Gisela, who much to Dick's dislike seems to have set her cap upon Ralf. All is happily resolved when it turns out that Gisela is Westkamp's secretary. Westkamp offers Jochem a contract and Ralf a job; from now on, The Immenhof will no longer go without guests.
- In 1954, after their flight from East Prussia following WWII, orphaned sister Angela, Barbara (Dick), and Brigitte (Dalli) have settled with their Oma (Grandmother) Jantzen near Eutin in Schleswig-Holstein. The Jantzens have owned the 18th-century manor horse "Immenhof" for over 100 years, breeding and selling ponies. Jochen von Roth has only recently returned from POW camp and is now trying to establish a stud farm in the old forester's house about 5 kilometers from the manor house. Both Oma Jantzen and von Roth are struggling with finances. Debt might force Oma Jantzen to face auctioning off her possessions. Into this situation arrives Ethelbert, the sisters' posh big-city cousin, making a fool of himself in his red-and-white riding gear, falling off ponies and into traps, but Dick feels drawn to him. Romance also blossoms between Jochen von Roth and Angela. Helped along by a thunderstorm and a horse-buyer's cash, everything resolves happily, with Jochen proposing to Angela and Ethelbert promising to write often.
- Unscrupulous ranchers feud among themselves for control of the valley but a newcomer owns the water rights to the sole water source, without which grazing lands are useless.
- When rich heiress Mercedes gets engaged to tour guide Antonio her family send undercover P. I. Claudia to check whether he is a fortune hunter. Antonio who felt coerced by Mercedes in the first place falls in love with Claudia.
- Based on the historical German doll/cartoon character, Bild Lilli. The titular character is portrayed as a reporter sent to a missionary convention that soon develops into a murder case.
- Austrian count von Warthenberg is a grumpy stud-farm-recluse since his wife's death. Ths summer, his old lover Susanne Weiden arrives, hoping for a 'fat' marriage and inheritance. But his daughter Hanna made other plan with secret lover Michael, teacher of Vienna's world-famous Wiener Sängerknaben, who will spend their Alpine countryside holiday in the village. Among them is adolescent Michael 'Mikel', son of the count's estranged elder daughter Maria. The plan is to make grandpa and knave meet and bond before their blood-ties are revealed. A stray dog accidentally and equestrian genes help.
- This appeal for the abolition of the death penalty centers on a woman , who has been sentenced to capital punishment for killing her faithless husband.
- Tony, a young orphan, is accused of stealing a bank note belonging to his mistress. Annoyed, he runs away from school .
- Three sailors survive a sinking but face a court martial when it is suspected they deserted before the order to abandon ship.
- In 1942 the Germans devised an operation to introduce in Egypt spies to provoke a rebellion against the British.
- Gustl Leubelfing, daughter of the mayor of Nuremberg adores the king of the Swedes. So she happily substitutes for her brother as Gustav Adolf's page instead of marrying her fiancé Roland. Of course she must hide that she's a woman, especially when they go to war against Wallenstein.
- Comedy of errors and jealousy about early 19th century Romantic composer Carl Maria Von Weber, seen in a fictional pastorale en route to Prague through Germany, with a pretty singer, a flirtatious count almost breaks up the affair.
- Three itinerant writers stage an open-air theatre production with Marika (Marika Rokk) as the star. A fire burns their theatre and all is seeminly lost, but one of the group writes a newspaper story and urges the public to contribute to the rebuilding.
- Ursula Diewen, daughter of a recently-deceased merchant, is engaged to marry Heinrich Heinsius. On the wedding day, Ursula's friend Martha Detleffson tells her that Heinrich is the father of her illegitimate child. Ursula cancels the wedding and takes refuge in a country estate; Heinrich commits suicide. Ursula meets young schoolteacher Uwe Alsiev, and the two find they have much in common. Martha arrives and arranges with Ursula to have her child boarded at the home of a nearby pastor. Village gossips then spread the word that the child is Uwe's.
- April 1945. Because he stole two boxes of chocolate, the soldier Rudi is sentenced to death by the court-martial judge Dr. Schramm. Rudi manages to escape from the firing squad at the last minute due to an air force attack, and since the end of the war has been making a meager living as a street peddler. Years later, Dr. Schramm is now a respected public prosecutor. By chance, he runs into Rudi one day on the street. Afraid that Rudi will blow the whistle on him, Dr. Schramm wants to scare him out of town. He has Rudi arrested and bullied by the police. Desperate, Rudi again steals two boxes of chocolate from a store, hoping his old case will be reopened and Dr. Schramm's past brought to light. But Dr. Schramm has Rudi's death sentence removed from his file. During the trial, Schramm defends Rudi as he was his lawyer and not the prosecutor and suspicion rises. Finally his tongue slips and, without fully realizing what he is saying, demands that Rudi be sentenced to death. The trial is stopped, Schramm now only tries to get away and Rudi tries to leave town but finally start a new life with the woman who owns the hotel and who supported him.
- Remake in color and Scope of a 30s German operetta film, about romance in the easy going court of Munich in the 1850s.
- A story of love for horses and the love for two women. The main part of the film is set in Germany and Ireland in the late 1800s and early 1900s, in the years leading up to WW1 and the Irish Easter Rebellion of 1916. The German cavalry officer and gifted horseman Godeysen, falls in love first with the German girl Lena, who must marry another, more suitable, man; and then with the Irishwoman Nicoline who is unhappily married to a man involved with the rebels in Ireland. The story is told as flashback from the hospital room of Godeysen's son a young wounded of a young WW2 veteran in the Germany of the early 1950s. It is read from the diary of his father.
- Marianne leaves husband Friedrich and son Horst to live with struggling artist Viktor. To boost his ego and ambition she secretly buys two of his paintings. Disaster strikes when he discovers who is responsible for his success.
- Kostja has created a ballet "The Bolero" (Ravel) for the famous ballet dancer Bettina, who is in love with him. But when Bettina gets polio, and lovely Irene should be her substitute,she is desperate. Will she ever dance and love again?
- The story is set around 1956, two years after the first film. What was menacing then has become bitter truth: The Immenhof has been closed by officials, awaiting auction. In the meantime, Angela has died, so Jochen is now a widower. Oma Jantzen and Angela's younger sisters Dick and Dalli live with him in the forester's house. To save the manor house, Dalli has started a "pony circus" with the village children in the barn, while Dick has given up hope of Ethelbert ever returning; he hasn't written in over a year. She doesn't know he's already on his way, bringing along his university friend Ralf. When Ethelbert learns from Dalli that Dick and Ralf are getting much better acquainted than he was bargaining for (we're talking about getting to first-name basis here, it's the 1950s), and he also learns of the trouble the Immenhof is in, he secretly summons his rich uncle Pankraz and his beautiful daughter Margot to the forester's house. After many pranks the ponies and Dalli's gang of would-be cowboys play on Pankraz, he finally caves in, saves the Immenhof, and allows his daughter to marry Jochen. Dick is now expecting letters from Ralf, and Ethelbert may or may not transfer his attentions to Dalli.
- Lampur, a place of the damned in the middle of the South Seas. Only people suffering from leprosy are shipped here, who should be kept away from the rest of the world. Among them are a singer with a loss of voice, an architect of places of worship and a religious priest.
- The direct sequel to "Meines Vaters Pferde, 1. Teil: Lena und Nicoline (1954)", the film tells the story of the German cavalry officer Godeysen in the years directly leading up to, and during WW1. Godeysen, a gifted horseman, has gambling debts and is forced to sell his best horse. Because of his extraordinary riding abilities, he is given another horse by the national stud, with which he also rides to great wins. He also meets another woman, the third great love of his life, Bim, whom he eventually marries. They live happily on their own stud farm and breed horses, until the war breaks out and Godeysen is taken prisoner. When he is finally released and returns home, he finds that Bim is dead, having died shortly after the birth of their son. Also, the government is taking his horses away to supply the army with animals. The story is told as flashback, read by Godeysen's son from the diaries of his father.
- In Monte Carlo, a captain tries to raise the money to pay his crew at the gaming table, and meets and falls in love with a queen.
- Sabine Gravières, married to Edouard, the High Commissioner for Criminal Youth, has a problem: Juliette, her daughter, is not only pregnant but she also refuses to marry Claude, the young man who got her pregnant. It is fair to say that the model set by Juliette's parents is far from ideal. Aware at last of the problem, Sabine decides to try and make it up with her husband...
- After the war ,a doctor and his ex-fiancee's daughter pick up the pieces.