Karl Platen Movies

The great Dr. Pfeiffer plays the little Primaner Pfeiffer. As the successful playwright Dr. Hans Pfeiffer, he is planning a play about school. In...

Robert Lambard, son of a respected Parisian banker, seduces Marguerite Walser, the sister of Guy Walser, a diligent general manager employed by his...

Prevented from wedding a postman's daughter (her father prefers she marry a farmer) a Tyrol schoolteacher succeeds instead in having an opera of his...

Melodrama about an entrepreneur and his family.

Monika (German: Eine Mutter kämpft um ihr Kind, lit. 'A Mother Fights for Her Child') is a 1938 German melodrama film directed and written by...

Fernand has escaped from prison and finds shelter in the traveling circus Barlay, where his former wife Flora works as a predator trainer. Their son,...

Set in the sleepy Silesian town of Runxendorf, the story follows eccentric radio visionary Paul Neugebauer (Ludwig Manfred Lommel) as he schemes to...

Professor Dr. Burkhardt is a much celebrated surgeon. Obsessed with his career, he is always available when an unexpected operation comes up. That...

A young woman leaves behind her job, home and family to try to make it in the movie business. Features cameos from about three dozen German film...

Before leaving Pillkallen in East Prussia for Berlin, Schnirpel hides the money he is saving for his daughter Marie in the cushions of his sofa. In...

German adventurers discover the cultural and natural riches of Yugoslavia regions, their own carelessness almost pays for their fascination with...

When registering in a Berlin hotel, the beautiful Lilian realizes that she apparently has a doppelganger: She is arrested as a wanted jewel thief....

a silent movie by Heinz Paul

A method actress likes living out the roles she is playing in real life. To prepare for her new play, she enters the criminal underworld and ends up...

An inventor works on coming up with a radio-television device, but can't get it to work properly. A slick con artist sees a chance to fleece gullible...

Film by Paul Leni and Felix Basch

A young woman born illegitimately comes to terms with the challenge of getting married.

Film by Jacob and Luise Fleck.

If watching a fellow facing indifference/rejection in the slums of Berlin didn't convey enough pathos, Gerhard Lamprecht gathered much of the same...

To take a revenge on countess Laura, who slapped him at his proposal, the Governor of the occupied Poland gets her fall in love with a poor student,...