Albert Karchow
Actor
Movies12
Movie8.1DramaThrillerIn this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seedy underworld network. With both cops and criminals in pursuit, the murderer soon realizes that people are on his trail, sending him into a tense, panicked attempt to escape justice.
- Movie6.2Drama
A love story between officer von Warp coming from a wealthy family and salesgirl Therese. When the social rules of the time would force the officer to resign from service in order to marry Therese the situation becomes tense.
Die Geliebte
1939 · 4 votes
Movie6.0DramaDancer Vera Kersten is young, pretty, talented, and unemployed—because she rejects the explicit propositions made by agents. When she steps in front of billionaire John Leeds's car, the door to a career opens a crack for her.
Movie7.6ComedyMusicLamenting Thebian women are waiting for the men to come back from war. God Jupiter is attracted to one of them: Alkmene. He goes to earth and tries to seduce her as himself: an old man. Failing in this, he disguises himself as Amphitryon (Alkemene's husband) and tries again. Next morning Amphitryon and his men come back from war; he suspects adultery and wants a divorce. Jupiter's wife Juno now also comes to earth and clears things up.
Movie7.3ComedyCrimeTwo dubious characters disguise themselves as Holmes and Watson to gain attention and end up chasing counterfeiters and stolen stamps.
Movie6.5ComedyRomanceWilliam MacPhab loses seven-pounds in the stock market and decides to slap the man who was responsible for the stock manipulation that caused him to lose his money. Astor Terbanks, the stock-market manipulator is surprised the next day when he gets soundly slapped by MacPhab, and the latter promises to deliver one more a day for the next six days. Terbank's daughter, Daisy, is amused by the procedure and is attracted to MacPhab.
Movie6.5Silent epic on the final years of Frederick II.
- Movie10.0Drama
Celebrated conservatory graduates Anna and Joachim marry, but since Joachim doesn't seem able to compose anything of value he grows so jealous of pianist Anna's successful cooperation with conductor Westberg that he leaves her.
Movie5.8CrimePaulus van Geldern is a lawyer who has made a name for himself as a criminal defense attorney, but is notoriously short of funds due to his unbridled passion for gambling. His gambling causes problems with his marriage to Martha who is thriving.
Strafsache van Geldern
1932 · 5 votes
Movie10.0ComedyAn honest German cashier gets stuck with a fake note, part of a scheme by two crooks to pass bad money.
Movie7.5ComedyWinemaker Peter Vierkottel and his son Bartel love to talk about their wines, which Anna, Peter's wife, doesn't get off on, because she controls the family money. She wants order and to marry off her son to Binchen, the daughter of the gardener Jupp Spriestersbach. The problem is Binchen has long had her eyes on the young gardener Bock.
Movie7.5ComedyOld Meiseken, a gingerbread baker, has been dead for three years, but his bosses don’t know that. They’ve been paying him his pension all this time, unaware that his former landlords have been cashing the checks. When, one day, the assistant head of the bakery, Tony, pays a visit to Meiseken’s place to get a hold of an old recipe, someone’s got to play the part of Meiseken! The fraud blows up in the landlords’ faces; but in the end, Tony gets the recipe book and even a new bride.
Meiseken
1937 · 2 votes