
Hans Caninenberg
Actor · 1913 – 2008 · Duisburg
Movies24
Movie6.6ThrillerFollowing the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, investigative journalist Peter Miller sets out to hunt down an SS Captain and former concentration camp commander. In doing so he discovers that, despite allegations of war crimes, the former commander has become a man of importance in industry in post-war Germany, protected from prosecution by a powerful organisation of former SS members called Odessa.
The Odessa File
1974 · 206 votes
Movie7.0DramaGraf Öderland
1968 · 1 votes
- Movie9.5Drama
When the Duke of Vienna takes a mysterious leave of absence and leaves the strict Angelo in charge, things couldn't be worse for Claudio, who is sentenced to death for premarital sex. His nun-in-training sister Isabella is very persuasive at pleader, but when she goes to Angelo, instead of freeing her brother, he offers to save his life if she sleeps with him. Isabella's only sympathetic friend is a priest who is actually the Duke in disguise, and he has a plan.
Zweierlei Maß
1964 · 2 votes
Movie2.8FantasyDramaHamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother remarrying the murderer, his uncle.
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- MovieCrime
Die Affäre
1965
Movie4.0DramaRichard Mertens, a successful magazine editor with a cold, empty marriage to Lucy, seeks excitement through an affair with younger colleague Eva. Yet his need for status traps him in superficiality, undermining genuine connection. A legal battle with old friend Ferrow, won through perjury, reveals Mertens’s moral emptiness, shattering his relationship with Eva. Alone, he finds solace only in listening to bartender Brigitte.
Ein Mann im schönsten Alter
1964 · 3 votes
- Movie8.0Drama
The Torbergs' life follows an orderly course, defined by bourgeois convention. Per-Olof, the son, opposes his father's authoritarianism, and their daughter Monika, the sculptor, has moved out of the family home. However, this has not prompted Mr. Torberg to question the familiar order. One day, Billy, a young outsider, visits the couple. He doesn't say much. His presence alone causes the Torbergs to suddenly talk to each other honestly.
Betreten verboten
1972 · 1 votes
Movie9.0CrimeDies Bildnis ist zum Morden schön
1987 · 1 votes
- Movie5.0Comedy
When a squatted house in Hamburg is evicted, Else, a well-known vagrant, also has to look for a new place to live. Having separated from her family at a very early age and bequeathed part of her fortune to poor orphans in India, she makes her way to her sister, the owner of the house, and is forced to watch a failed bank robbery. The two gangsters, who fear Else's testimony and therefore take her into their power, devise a plan to accompany her and get their hands on her sister's fortune.
Feine Gesellschaft – Beschränkte Haftung
1982 · 2 votes
Movie7.0DramaKolportage
1957 · 1 votes
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Die Falle
1983 · 1 votes
Movie9.0ComedyIn a desperate bid to regain his fortune, the impoverished Elector of the Palatinate does everything in his power to arrange a marriage between his eldest daughter, Liselotte, and a wealthy nobleman—but to no avail, for with her tomboyish manner, the young woman sends all her suitors running for the hills.
Liselotte von der Pfalz
1966 · 3 votes
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- MovieComedy
- MovieComedy
- MovieDrama
- MovieDrama
- Movie9.0Comedy
Oh, du lieber Fridolin
1952 · 1 votes
- MovieDrama
Lawrence Neman is a well-heeled New York average citizen. One day when he needs glasses, his appearance takes on a trait that corresponds to the widespread notions of Jewish physiognomy. As a result, Newman is soon treated and harassed as a Jew, feeling the latent anti-Semitism - which is first expressed by the fact that he loses his job. His opposition to the stupid dictatorship of public opinion is becoming increasingly violent, against prejudice and exclusion. Consciously he steps on the side of his Jewish fellow citizens, shares their fate, marries a Jewish woman, for whom he feels sincere affection.
Brennpunkt
1961
- MovieDrama
- Movie10.0Drama
Wahn oder Der Teufel in Boston
1965 · 1 votes
- Movie8.0Drama
Freiheit im Dezember
1966 · 1 votes
- MovieDrama
Bischof Ketteler
1969
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TV6.3CrimeDramaA police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together.
TV6.0DramaCrimeDerrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein, who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings.
Derrick
1974 · 53 votes
TV5.0ComedyFamilyThe series is about a cruise ship that travels to places around the world.
Das Traumschiff
1981 · 17 votes
TV8.0DramaCrimeDer Kommissar is a German television series about a group of detectives of the Munich homicide squad. All 97 episodes, which were shot in black-and-white and first broadcast between 1969 and 1976, were written by Herbert Reinecker and starred Erik Ode as Kommissar Herbert Keller. Keller's assistants were Walter Grabert, Robert Heines, and Harry Klein who, in 1974, was replaced by his younger brother Erwin Klein.
TV7.0Talk ShowBoulevard Bio
1991 · 2 votes
TV6.6FamilyDramaThe Black Forest Clinic is a German language medical drama television series that was produced by and filmed in West Germany. The series was produced between 1984 and 1988 with the original airing being from October 2, 1985 to March 25, 1989 on West Germany's ZDF television channel. The series' storyline follows the inner workings of a small fictional hospital in the Black Forest region of Germany as well as the lives of the Brinkmann family of doctors who work at the hospital. Shortly after broadcasting had begun in 1985, The Black Forest Clinic became a highly popular television event, reaching audiences of over 20 million viewers. 25 years since its debut, it is still highly regarded in Germany. The series had been re-broadcast several times since 1985 and has spawned two television films released 20 years after its initial airing.
Die Schwarzwaldklinik
1985 · 21 votes
TV9.0FamilyEin Heim für Tiere is a German television series.
Ein Heim für Tiere
1985 · 2 votes
TV1.0DramaDr. Stefan Frank – Der Arzt, dem die Frauen vertrauen is a German television series.
Dr. Stefan Frank - Der Arzt, dem die Frauen vertrauen
1995 · 1 votes
TV9.0CrimeSchwarz greift ein is a German television series.
Schwarz greift ein
1994 · 2 votes
TV7.1Action & AdventureIn this mini-series in six parts from 1976 the Indian actor Kabir Bedi plays the lead role. Carol Andre plays Lady Marianna Guillonk and as Sandokans best friend Yanez de Gomera we see Phillipe Leroy. The noble prince Sandokan is a fighter of the first rank who are cruel to their enemies, but always loyal to his friends.
Sandokan
1976 · 54 votes
TV10.0DramaA special insight into medicine presented on film: sterile operations, hospitals used to be built by the wind, anaesthesia, surgical gloves, similar to the films Sauerbruch or Kneip.
- TV7.0Crime
Die Fälle des Herrn Konstantin
1974 · 1 votes
TV9.5War & PoliticsFamilyIn a France fractured by court rivalries and personal ambitions, Richelieu moves without ornament. No flourish, no glory — only the cold machinery of power. Caught between a hesitant king, a nobility dreaming of defiance, and enemies multiplying on every front, the cardinal enforces his line: centralize, control, crush resistance. The series follows a strategist who doesn’t hide behind morality. He acts to keep the State standing, even if it means breaking those who stand in his way. Espionage, secret negotiations, decisive strikes… Richelieu plays a game where mistakes are fatal, and the survival of the kingdom rests on one man willing to go further than all the others
Richelieu
1977 · 2 votes
- TV7.0Crime
Verräter
1967 · 1 votes
TV9.0DramaA British spy helps a Russian scientist to defect from the Soviet Union by taking a perilous journey through the Eastern Bloc.
The Contract
1988 · 1 votes
TV7.0DramaThe rise of Albrecht von Wallenstein from minor Moravian nobleman to imperialist generalissimo in the Thirty Years-War, and his fall once the emperor begins to doubt his loyalty.
Wallenstein
1978 · 2 votes
TVFamilyDie Buchholzens
1974
TV10.0DramaIn November 1775, an officer of the Hessian army deserts from Ziegenhayn fortress. Captain Claus von Haynau is keen on capturing the man, but his plans are foiled by his half-brother, Robert. The deserter turns out to be one Soermann, a former friend of Robert's father who disappeared 20 years ago and is presumed dead. Now, Robert finally learns what really happened: His father did not die but went to America. Robert decides to follow, but has not counted on Claus - and on the Landgrave of Hesse's need for soldiers to sell to the British for the fight against the rebellious American colonists.
Der Winter, der ein Sommer war
1976 · 1 votes
TVDramaDona Proeza loves the Spanish nobleman Don Rodrigo, the long-standing viceroy of the West Indies, at the end of the 16th century, but is first married to the old judge Don Pelayo and then to Don Camillo, and in between goes on a journey with Don Baltasar.
TVDramaAfter spending six years in Australia, young Englishman George Talboy returns as a successful gold prospector. He wants to start a happy life with his beautiful wife Helen and their son Charles. So the news from his father-in-law that Helen has died comes as a crushing blow. An old friend, Robert Audley, takes George to the mansion of his uncle, Sir Michael Audley, and his wife, Lady Audley. During this visit, George disappears without a trace.
- TVFamily
TVDramaDie Nibelungen
1967