Gerhard Bienert

Yearning for respectability, George finds he cannot escape the influence of his old criminal cohorts. When George refuses to pay "hush money" to the mob, his faithful wife Margarete Schlegel is killed. George resignedly returns to a life of crime, ultimately descending into madness. (answers.com)

This movie is about a working-class family in the late twenties in Berlin

Maria, a daughter of a ferryman takes over the job after her father's death, and one night gives a ride to a wounded man. Later, when Death comes to claim his life, she tries to save him as they cross the swamp together. (imdb)

The lecherous, tyrannical prince of Guastalla falls in love with Emilia, the daughter of colonel Odoardo Galotti. He dispatches his chamberlain Marinelli to convey her to him and obstruct her upcoming marriage to Count Appiani. After his attempt to send Appiani away on a diplomatic mission fails, Marinelli approaches the situation with less subtlety by ambushing the wedding coach with bandits. Appiani is shot in the fray, and Emilia and her mother are brought to the prince's pleasure palace. (DEFA Film Library)

Set in a small German state before 1914, private Gustav suffers from his sadistic drill officer Krause both in the barracks, and as a co-suitor for Emma, the butcher/innkeeper's daughter. Another triangle is Lieutenant Gernsbach planning to marry his superior's daughter, while also dealing with lovely bar-singer Vera.

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

Wilhelm Dieterles Ludwig der Zweite describes how the king turned in becoming a madman. (imdb)

A crazed scientist murders his wife, walls her up, then flees. A reporter sets out to track him down. (imdb)

The underage Rosemarie is still too young to run her inherited farm by herself; but she's more than aware that her foster father and the farm's administrator, the farmer Schlieker, is constantly skimming from the farm's finances to line his own pocket. To put an end to Schlieker's scheme, Rosemarie asks her godfather, Professor Kittgus, for help. But when Kittgus confronts Schlieker, the farmer not only proves to be unreasonable but also violent... (imdb)

Two Danish fishermen Frerk and Ipke are fishing off the coast of the port of Fanö with a heavy storm. Eventually, they manage to get ashore, where they want to recover from the exertions of the journey, before they make their way home to far-away Hooge. During their stay, they get to know lovely Pat and both fall in love with her. Pat is more attached to the boyish Ipke than the Räpein Frerk, without knowing that Ipke is married.

In 1915, Captain Liers, commander of a submarine is leaving his hometown, where he, his 2nd officer and the radio-operator, who is married there, spend their shore leave. Liers two brothers were already killed in action, so his mother doesn't like the idea of him going back to his sub. Liers thinks his 2nd officer is in love with a local girl, who is really pining for him. On patrol they sink a British armoured cruiser, but while returning to their harbor, they're attacked by a sub trap.

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 too late.

A secretary working for a greedy, corrupt banker, who plots with his cronies to smuggle funds into Switzerland, decides to turn her boss over to the authorities.

A Russian ballerina sacrifices her life for that of a Finnish sculptor who is fighting as a soldier to liberate his country from the Czar.