Gerhard Hartig

Making of: Das Geheimnis der schwarzen Koffer

Crew and cast members talk about the making of the 1962 film 'Das Geheimnis der schwarzen Koffer'.

Goodbye Stranger

Set on the deserted North Sea island of Langeness, a lonely woman begins an affair with a stranger; only after he is identified as a political fugitive and deported does she begin to learn about his true identity and his past.

Burning Beds

A comedy in which a German woman falls in love with a British pyromaniac.

Lüsterne Engel

A young couple gets married. Michael is a photographer, Marianne is the model. Shortly after the wedding, Marianne goes to the Parisian street prostitution, where she has much success, while the marriage slowly falls apart.

Das französische Frühstück

Three girls from Hamburg become stars in an unusual way. Annabella is a poor girl who meets a porn producer who promises her the lead role in his latest big budget erotic movie. Marianne is a young medical student who pays her bills by working in a local bar. One day she gets noticed. Susanne is a hustler, who's approached by a shady photographer who asks her to pose for him for an erotic photo spread. However, he might actually be a pimp and his business might be just a cover for a prostitution ring.

Kiez

Set in Hamburg's “Hell's Kitchen,” a waterfront milieu of gangsters, pimps, dealers and prostitutes, the story follows the attempts of an ex-seaman first to insinuate himself into the scene, and then to extricate himself from it. He becomes a small-time pimp, sending his naive girlfriend out onto the streets thinking she is financing their middle-class future. When he becomes involved with an old pal, Nil, he increases his criminal portfolio. But when he steals Nil's girlfriend and things heat up, he leaves for his sister's middle-class home in Berlin, where his attempts to fit in are doomed from the start. Returning to Hamburg, he starts a rapid decline that delivers him into the waiting arms of Nil, whose revenge is merciless.

The Hamburg Syndrome

When a plague breaks out in Hamburg, several people break out of quarantine and make their way out of the city... only to find that the plague is more widespread.

Happy Holiday

Claudia lives with her boyfriend in London. She wants to go and visit her family in Europe She engages in a sexual encounter on the ferry on the way over, and then we see various members of her family also engaging in various activities, Finally there is a big orgy when she gets back.

Verlorene Eier

A serial sex offender is on the loose, mutilating the sexual organs of his male victims. The police seek profiling advice from the local sex clinic.

Abflug Bermudas

Poor Mario is an orphan who had served in the foreign legion. Now he works for a night club owner and gangster who runs a human trafficking operation. Mario is in love with Cora the girlfriend of the boss. Our hero plans to take the girl and leave the city of Hamburg and straight to the Bermudas. Will there be trouble ahead?

Wer einmal in das Posthorn stößt

Things may not be fast at the German post office, but they're a lot of fun: postal supervisor Max Sparwein knows a thing or two about it, because he really can't complain about boring and monotonous service on his tour through the city. This is also the experience of journalist Mara Schönwetter, who accompanies him on his walks up and down the stairs to write a report.

The Hunchback of Soho

A woman is kidnapped and her identity is stolen by criminals attempting to collect her inheritance.

The Inn on Dartmoor

A private detective tries to find out how and why some convicts have mysteriously disappeared from the prison of Dartmoor.

Destination Death

A group of West German men on a stag party find themselves stranded in a Montenegrin village inhabited only by vengeful women since all their men were shot during the war.

The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle

A strangler is loose on a British estate, and he not only strangles his victims but brands an "M" onto their foreheads before he decapitates them.

The Terror of Doctor Mabuse

Dr. Mabuse has been locked away for years in an insane asylum. Suddenly crimes start occurring and no one knows the culprit. A detective goes to visit the Doctor to find some sort of clues to the robberies.

The Secret of the Black Trunk

A series of knife murders have an odd feature about them; the victims find that their luggage has been packed for them just before their deaths. Scotland Yard investigates, and discover that the murders are linked to an addictive drug called Mescadrine.

Adieu, Lebewohl, Goodbye

The dance troupe 'Tiller Girls' travels to Rome for a guest performance and has some adventures there.