Ilse Petri Movies

Two married women musicians get work on a cruise ship; their husbands dress as women to be able to join them.

Women are being sent to an all male settlement. The marriages are planned in advance, but not everything goes according to plan.

A farm boy betrothed to a socialite falls in love with his maid - an impoverished girl from the marsh.

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...

Pepe Nietnagel and his fellow students of the Mommsen school come up with all kinds of ideas to get out of doing any actual school work. This...

Two out of work musicians put on drag to get work in an all girl band. Inevitable comical romantic complications ensue.

The daughter of a wealthy art dealer is blackmailed, and then his former wife is found dead in a Paris hotel.One of the four suspects turns out to be...

All throughout his entire life, Friedrich Wilhelm Hoffmann let his career run roughshod over his personal life. He had no wife, because he was...

The mayor of a small garrison town is constantly at odds with the local battalion commander. This does not sit well with the mayor’s wife at...

A widowed landlady in East Prussia, who, despite his acquittal by the court, believes the forester to have murdered her husband, opposes her son's...

Businessman and shameless social climber, Julius Lampe, is subjected to a cruel April Fools’ Day prank when he is led to believe a noble prince...

A professor inherits a fashion salon from a former lover. Since he doesn't want his wife to find out about his previous love life, he asks his...

At the last performance of the Barszony Circus in Hamburg, the Indian lion-tamer Sikkim Khan is attacked by a tiger and is badly wounded. That he got...

Young Beatrice has trained as a dancer against her father's wishes. At the circus, she meets the famous tamer Ruda and falls in love with him. But...

A wealthy uncle from America has named the widowed shoemaker Emil Rogge as his sole heir and bequeathed him a chest containing his entire fortune....

A stuffy old civil servant is forced to retire during World War II, but when his son, a Navy submariner, is lost at sea and his city is heavily...