Ellen Schwiers

A young Austrian girl is kidnapped and held in captivity for eight years. Based on the real-life case of Natascha Kampusch. (imdb)

Five people have stolen a priceless, legendary emerald from a religious temple. One of them is slain by an unknown killer.

Brassac (Jean Gabin) is a drunken veterinarian who can't resist bringing home stray animals and humans. Lilli Palmer plays his long-suffering wife Marie. When he brings home the prostitute Simone (Michele Mercier), Brassac is not sure he is acting out of concern or lust. He beats up the pimp who comes looking for Simone, and Brassac is happy when she later falls in love with his neighbor, and they make Brassac a "grandfather." (Allmovie)

A scientist creates an invisibility formula, but it is stolen by a master criminal who uses it to commit even bigger crimes. (imdb)

A millionaire businessman's brain is kept alive after a fatal accident, and communicates clues to a doctor on the trail of the killer. (imdb)

The crook and safe-cracker Paul Wittkowski is on trial for the fourth time for breaking into the Munich Palace of Justice, but this time innocent. Nevertheless, he is sentenced to eight years in prison with subsequent preventive detention. When he is about to be removed from the courtroom, Wittkowski manages to tear himself away and flee into a church. There he asks God for help and as a result of a misunderstanding, he gets a little cash and a cassock... (Wikipedia.org)

When a baby is found dead and his mother is caught packing her things, she is inevitably arrested for her child's murder, but suspicions also turn to the men in her life in this West German courtroom drama.

A man is convicted and imprisoned for an arson that he didn't commit. When he is released, he sets out to track down the person who actually committed the crime and framed him for it. His investigation leads him to believe he'll find his answers in Sweden. (imdb)

In 1942, a French prisonner of war in Germany decide to escape to France using a cow hold by a lunge as a decoy. He cross all Germany in this way. (imdb)

1885: Swiss captain Bluntschli fights as mercenary in the war between Bulgaria and Serbia. When his group's attacked by a few Bulgarian troopers, he learns that he's got the wrong ammunition for his cannon and has to flee. His flight leads him right into the bedroom of his enemy's fiancée. (imdb)