Helmut Käutner Movies

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...

A scientist is persuaded by the government to inject himself with the brain fluid of a dying colleague in order to preserve missile-defense secrets....

A pretty, sheltered teenager falls for a boy from the wrong side of town.

An Air Force pilot finds romance with his war buddy's widow.

An aging truck driver finds smuggled money and becomes involved with a hijacking crowd.

The title refers to the Feuerzangenbowle punch consumed by a group of gentlemen in the opening scene. While they exchange nostalgic stories about...

Tensions rise when a U.S. military base is built in a small village in post-war Germany.

A love story between a German soldier and a young Flemish woman amidst World War I.

Two barge skippers fall in love with the same woman.

Bank accountant Thomas Lieven is forced to work as a triple agent for the British, the French and the Nazis.

Thomas Lieven is a German secret agent trying to leave that profession, to live a peaceful life. Adventure is too strong an appeal, he starts working...

Anna is a factory worker in East Germany. Her five-year-old son Jochen lives with his grandparents in the West and Anna wants him to live with her,...

A poor 22 years old Hungarian man who's recently arrived in Paris meets a seemingly wealthy 17 years old Parisian girl. They fall in love, but...

Life and death of King Ludwig II of Bavaria.

Dutch police officer Van der Valk is pulled away for a private investigation for a friend of the chief of police to find the missing junior manager....

Juliane Thomas is an ambitious but unemployed young writer. After breaking up with her lover she works at a dentist friend to make ends meet. One day...

'The Rest Is Silence, a German-made attempt to update Shakespeare, is one of the best and least self-conscious of this minor genre. As indicated by...