
Josef Dahmen
Actor · 1903 – 1985 · Solingen, Germany
Josef Dahmen was born on 21 August 1903 in Solingen, Germany. He was an actor and director, known for Liebe, Tod und Teufel (1934), The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933) and Die Caine war ihr Schicksal (1959). He was married to Gisela von Collande. He died on 18 January 1985 in Hamburg, West Germany.
Movies24
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.
Movie7.1WesternAdventureFred Engel's father is murdered by Colonel Brinkley in order to acquire a treasure map, however the Colonel only acquires half of it, the other half as held by Mrs. Butler. Discovering the scene of the crime, Old Shatterhand and Winnetou help Fred bring his father's murderer to justice and locate the treasure of Silver Lake.
Movie7.6CrimeMysteryAfter a detective is assaulted by thugs and placed in an asylum run by Professor Baum, he observes the professor's preoccupation with another patient, the criminal genius Dr. Mabuse the hypnotist. When Mabuse's notes are found to be connected with a rash of recent crimes, Commissioner Lohmann must determine how Mabuse is communicating with the criminals, despite conflicting reports on the doctor's whereabouts, and capture him for good.
Movie7.0DramaThis 1936 film tells the story of the doings of foreign agents in Germany and their allies among the German population. Having placed an ad in a local paper looking for "contact with bigwigs in German industry", enemy agents Morris and Geyer end up making contact with an engineer named Brockau. Brockau has developed an improvement in turning oil into gasoline and that's just what these enemy agents are looking for. Brockau, for his part, needs money, because his girlfriend is a selfish cow who demands more and more toys and trinkets, which has put our naive little nerd deep into debt. Brockau, however, is not the only unwitting maroon to fall into the clutches of the evil agents: the former bank agent Hans Klemm, now doing his service in the Wehrmacht, ends up being contacted by an agent from the other side and ends up getting blackmailed into working for them.
Movie6.1WarHistoryDuring Napoleon's victorious campaign in Germany, the city of Kolberg gets isolated from the retreating Prussian forces. The population of Kolberg refuses to capitulate and organizes the resistance against the French army, which immediately submits the city to massive bombardments.
Kolberg
1945 · 12 votes
Movie6.8DramaWarGerman film about Luftwaffe pilots. It depicts a love triangle involving two of them being overcome by their participation in battle together.
Movie8.0Ein Windstoß
1942 · 1 votes
Movie5.5MusicComedyLilian Harvey plays a young heiress in long-ago France named Madelon who is raised by her grandfather as a boy in order to frighten away fortune hunters. But when the old man dies, her guardian Cesaire wants to marry her off to the rich prefect Barberousse. She is tricked by Cesaire with the portrait of a young man (Viktor von Staal) which is presented to her as that of her future husband. But when Madelone discovers this scheme she flees, again in men's clothing. But on her route to escape, she meets the young man from the portrait and falls in love with him. But Madelone can't give up her disguise right now...
Capriccio
1938 · 4 votes
Movie10.0ComedyDramaDuring the closing stages of the Second World War, a bureaucratic mistake leads to a German officer being reassigned from the dangerous Eastern Front to Berlin and a new non-existent unit.
Unternehmen Schlafsack
1955 · 1 votes
Movie6.3DramaWarPropaganda film detailing the plight of ethnic Germans, known as "Volga Germans", in the Soviet province of Manchuria.
Movie7.3CrimeThrillerThe ghost of a hanged man returns to fulfill his promise. All of his accusers must die!
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Die Brüder
1958 · 1 votes
Movie4.2CrimeA model agency in Rio de Janeiro is actually a front for a white-slavery ring that kidnaps European women and sells them on the South American sex market.
Movie7.0DramaKolportage
1957 · 1 votes
Movie10.0DramaIn a harbor bazaar of the Pacific town of Kona, the young sailor Kiwe is offered a mysterious bottle, which supposedly gives her owner power and wealth and should fulfill all his wishes. The required return is however high. From now on, the soul of the new owner belongs to the devil.
Movie6.2DramaMario is in Hannover to work as a miner but after losing his job he decides to go back to Italy. When Totonno steals his passport to avoid the police and later on he offers him a new job as "magliaro" (cloth seller), Mario changes his mind and decides to follow Totonno to Hamburg. In Hamburg, Totonno and his friends have to sell Mayer's cloth, but they meet with the hostility of a Polish gang and Mario falls in love with Paula Mayer.
Movie8.2DramaBeautiful young Helga gets publicly shamed because a rich land owner seduced and impregnated her but refuses to take responsibility in a story of love and death in Sweden.
Movie8.0ComedyMusicAccountant and would-be song-writer Willy inadvertently gets into a live TV game show and is tasked with finding, presenting and performing with a motley band of six amateur musicians within 90 minutes.
Wunschkonzert
1955 · 1 votes
Movie10.0ComedyTwo GIs haven fallen in love with "Fräuleins", decide to stay in Germany and open a typically American drugstore in the center of the small town where their girlfriends live.
Movie6.8DramaThrillerA German scientist murders his fiancée during World War II when he learns that she has been selling the results of his secret research to the enemy.
Movie5.6DramaWarThis Nazi propaganda film details the exploits of a group of German Luftwaffe pilots flying Stukas--fighter-bombers--in the Battle of France in the early days of World War II.
Stukas
1941 · 7 votes
Movie5.5DramaFor many years, Ulrich, the hereditary forester, and Steinbach, the landowner, were the best of friends. But one day, this friendship is put to a severe test: Driven by financial need, Steinbach wants to have the forest cleared, which Ulrich condemns as brutal exploitation of nature – and therefore refuses to grant permission for the project. To clear the way for his plan, Steinbach ensures that Ulrich is dismissed as forester. When, a few days later, the dam built by Steinbach is blown up and the floodwaters inundate Steinbach's sawmill, suspicion immediately falls on Ulrich. The hereditary forester is ostracized, threatened, and even fears for his life.
Der Erbförster
1945 · 4 votes
Movie7.8ComedyEmil, a technical draftsman, is hardworking, always helpful, and somewhat shy. Because of these traits, he is often taken advantage of by those around him. Now Emil is set to inherit a supposedly large fortune. His landlady's brother wants to marry him off to one of his relatives. But soon panic and confusion set in. The inheritance consists of three full-grown lions.
Movie7.0DramaDr. Danwitz is a dedicated physician. The assistant doctor works practically day and night on a research project, but without pay. His wife Edith earns the necessary extra money as a model. That's why her pregnancy is a financial disaster for the young couple. Then a wealthy woman asks Dr. Danwitz to perform an illegal abortion, for which she would pay well. The doctor has to make a difficult decision.
Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz
1956 · 2 votes
Series5
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
TV5.0CrimeDramaPolizeifunk ruft is a German television series.
Polizeifunk ruft
1966 · 3 votes
TV7.5CrimeHafenpolizei is a German television series.
Hafenpolizei
1963 · 2 votes
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Die Kriminalerzählung
1970 · 1 votes
TV7.0CrimeEngineer Tim Frazer is hired by the mysterious Mr. Ross to search for his missing business partner Harry Denston. Denston appears to be involved in a case of espionage.
Tim Frazer
1963 · 1 votes