Heinz Rühmann Films
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1. Murder for Sale (1930)
102 min | Comedy, Musical
The young wife of a rich old husband is prevented of a fling by a gentleman-burglar, who falls in love to her.
Director: Hanns Schwarz | Stars: Ralph Arthur Roberts, Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch, Heinz Rühmann
Votes: 106
2. Bombs Over Monte Carlo (1931)
111 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
The captain of a battleship of a small Balkan country is fed up with following strange orders from the country's queen.
Director: Hanns Schwarz | Stars: Hans Albers, Anna Sten, Heinz Rühmann, Ida Wüst
Votes: 162
3. The Upright Sinner (1931)
78 min | Comedy
A small town bank official, entrusted with taking money to Vienna, spends some of it.On his return to admit his guilt he learns that his boss,the director, has run off with even more.
Director: Fritz Kortner | Stars: Max Pallenberg, Heinz Rühmann, Dolly Haas, Josefine Dora
Votes: 62
4. The Man in Search of His Murderer (1931)
97 min | Comedy, Film-Noir
A man in bad sorts hires a burglar to later kill him, then changes his mind when his fortunes turn and must find the contracted murderer before it is too late.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Lien Deyers, Raimund Janitschek, Hans Leibelt
Votes: 242
5. Three Bluejackets and a Blonde (1933)
88 min | Comedy
While on land, three sailors get entangled with the same woman - very much aided by her little brother.
Director: Carl Boese | Stars: Charlotte Ander, Heinz Rühmann, Friedrich Benfer, Fritz Kampers
Votes: 33
6. Man braucht kein Geld (1931)
92 min | Comedy
Family Brandt has lost its fortune in oil speculation, and they have great debts at the local bank. This one is threatened with its own crash due to lack of money. The only hope is Brandt's... See full summary »
Director: Carl Boese | Stars: Hedy Lamarr, Heinz Rühmann, Hans Moser, Ida Wüst
Votes: 134
7. Ich und die Kaiserin (1933)
82 min | Comedy
When the Marquis de Pontignac falls off his horse; he is seemingly brought back from death by the voice of a mysterious woman. He believes that his savior is the Empress of France when it is truly her hairdresser Juliette.
Director: Friedrich Hollaender | Stars: Lilian Harvey, Mady Christians, Conrad Veidt, Heinz Rühmann
Votes: 116
8. Laughing Heirs (1933)
76 min | Comedy, Romance
A young salesman may inherit a wine-estate on one condition: he can't drink a drop of alcohol for at least a month.
Director: Max Ophüls | Stars: Lien Deyers, Heinz Rühmann, Ida Wüst, Max Adalbert
Votes: 253
9. Frasquita (1934)
84 min | Musical
The groom-to-be in an arranged marriage falls in love with a Gypsy singer en route to his wedding, while his best man is mistaken for him by his bride-to-be, who has never laid eyes on him.
Director: Karel Lamac | Stars: Jarmila Novotna, Hans Heinz Bollmann, Heinz Rühmann, Charlott Daudert
Votes: 36
10. So ein Flegel (1934)
84 min | Comedy
This is an earlier, much less successful version of the The Punch Bowl (1944), but the story is basically the same: The famous writer Hans Pfeiffer has problems in directing his latest play... See full summary »
Director: Robert A. Stemmle | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Ellen Frank, Inge Conradi, Annemarie Sörensen
Votes: 210
11. Eva, the Factory Girl (1935)
90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Eva is employed in a porcelain factory owned by Georg von Hochheim's grandmother, who asks him to take over the company and try to put it back into profitability. He takes on the project in... See full summary »
Director: Johannes Riemann | Stars: Magda Schneider, Heinz Rühmann, Hans Söhnker, Adele Sandrock
Votes: 49
12. Allotria (1936)
94 min | Comedy
"Ménage à cinq" with lots of turbulences comes to a happy-end with six.
Director: Willi Forst | Stars: Renate Müller, Jenny Jugo, Anton Walbrook, Heinz Rühmann
Votes: 149
13. Lumpaci the Vagabond (1936)
90 min | Comedy
Fortuna and Amorosa, the protector of true love, make a bet with the devilish spirit Lumpacivagabundus that should finally bring the devil down.
Director: Géza von Bolváry | Stars: Paul Hörbiger, Heinz Rühmann, Hans Holt, Hilde Krahl
Votes: 88
14. Five Millions Seek an Heir (1938)
85 min | Comedy
According to his last will, the rich American uncle of vacuum cleaner salesman Peter Pett only leaves his 5 million dollars to Peter if he is married happily. Otherwise the five million will fall to Peter's Scottish cousin Patrick.
Director: Carl Boese | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Leny Marenbach, Vera von Langen, Oskar Sima
Votes: 111
15. Model Husband (1937)
95 min | Comedy, Romance
When a bland British banker fails to please his wife, he pretends to be interested in other women so she will become jealous and care more for him.
Director: Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Leny Marenbach, Hans Söhnker, Heli Finkenzeller
Votes: 112
16. 13 Stühle (1938)
92 min | Comedy
Rabe travels to Vienna in hope of a great inheritance from his aunt. But there are only 13 chairs waiting for him, which he sells. Then he finds a letter from the aunt announcing that she has hidden her money in one of the chairs.
Director: E.W. Emo | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Hans Moser, Inge List, Clementia Egies
Votes: 200
17. Die Umwege des schönen Karl (1938)
101 min | Comedy
Karl Kramer is a waiter in a beach hotel on the Baltic Sea. But he has completely different plans in mind for the future. Before he marries Grete Wernicke, the daughter of the hotel manager, he wants to have enough money himself.
Director: Carl Froelich | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Karin Hardt, Sybille Schmitz, Ernst Legal
Votes: 51
18. So You Don't Know Korff Yet? (1938)
95 min | Crime, Comedy
A writer who is an amateur detective recovers a painting stolen from an Amsterdam patron by three bumbling foreign crooks.
Director: Fritz Holl | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Victor Janson, Franz Schafheitlin, Fritz Rasp
Votes: 113
19. The Leghorn Hat (1939)
91 min | Comedy
Nazi version of a play more famously done as the French silent, An Italian Straw Hat: en route to his wedding, the groom's horse eats the chapeau of a baroness whose husband would be suspicious if she returned without it.
Director: Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Herti Kirchner, Christl Mardayn, Paul Henckels
Votes: 118
20. Hurrah! I'm a Papa (1939)
80 min | Comedy
A dissolute man ignores his father's attempts to reform. However, one morning he returns home to find a small boy (Walter Schuller) in his room with a letter informing him that he is the boy's father; he is forced to change his ways.
Director: Kurt Hoffmann | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Albert Florath, Walter Schuller, Carola Höhn
Votes: 66
21. Bachelor's Paradise (1939)
91 min | Comedy
Marriage license official Hugo gets his second divorce, and his new landlady is trying to lure him into his third marriage, but with the help of his wartime buddies he escapes this danger. ... See full summary »
Director: Kurt Hoffmann | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Josef Sieber, Hans Brausewetter, Trude Marlen
Votes: 62
22. Kleider machen Leute (1940)
91 min | Comedy, Drama
The daydreaming tailor Wenzel is fired from his job, because the fancy frock he was supposed to cut for the mayor, he instead made for himself. He is allowed, however, to take the frock, ... See full summary »
Director: Helmut Käutner | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Hertha Feiler, Hilde Sessak, Hans Sternberg
Votes: 267
23. Request Concert (1940)
103 min | Musical, Romance, War
At the Olympic games in Berlin 1936 Inge Wagner falls in love with Luftwaffenleutnant (Airforce Lieutenant) Herbert Koch. They want to marry, but he receives orders to go to Spain - ... See full summary »
Director: Eduard von Borsody | Stars: Hedwig Bleibtreu, Joachim Brennecke, Heinz Goedecke, Paul Hörbiger
Votes: 172
24. Der Gasmann (1941)
85 min | Comedy
Director: Carl Froelich | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Anny Ondra, Walter Steinbeck, Erika Helmke
Votes: 78
25. Quax, der Bruchpilot (1941)
92 min | Comedy
Director: Kurt Hoffmann | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Karin Himboldt, Lothar Firmans, Harry Liedtke
Votes: 574
26. Fronttheater (1942)
95 min | Drama, War
The very successful actress Lena Andres marries Dr. Paul Meinhardt. For his sake she gives up her acting career.
Director: Arthur Maria Rabenalt | Stars: Heli Finkenzeller, René Deltgen, Lothar Firmans, Wilhelm Strienz
Votes: 27
27. Ich vertraue Dir meine Frau an (1943)
88 min | Comedy
Director: Kurt Hoffmann | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Adina Mandlová, Werner Fuetterer, Else von Möllendorff
Votes: 110
28. The Punch Bowl (1944)
97 min | Comedy, Family
A successful writer, home-schooled in his youth, masquerades as a student at a secondary school to experience all the fun and pranks he missed out on.
Director: Helmut Weiss | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Karin Himboldt, Hilde Sessak, Erich Ponto
Votes: 6,584
29. Der Engel mit dem Saitenspiel (1944)
101 min | Romance
A man meets a girl in an Alpine Lodge and decide to make the relation permanent, but they lose each other, each thinking the other to be disloyal. When the meet again, both are engaged, to others, and she is mother of his child.
Director: Heinz Rühmann | Stars: Hertha Feiler, Hans Söhnker, Hans Nielsen, Susanne von Almassy
Votes: 87
30. Quax in Afrika (1947)
95 min | Comedy
Director: Helmut Weiss | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Hertha Feiler, Lothar Firmans, Karin Himboldt
Votes: 113
31. The Ballad of Berlin (1948)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Musical
After he has luckily survived the war, Otto tries to build up his new life in the remains of Berlin.
Director: Robert A. Stemmle | Stars: Gert Fröbe, Tatjana Sais, Ute Sielisch, Aribert Wäscher
Votes: 219
32. Das Geheimnis der roten Katze (1949)
98 min | Comedy
Director: Helmut Weiss | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Gustav Knuth, Angelika Hauff, Trude Hesterberg
Votes: 60
33. Schäm' dich, Brigitte! (1952)
87 min | Comedy
Director: E.W. Emo | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Hans Moser, Theo Lingen, Hilde Berndt
Votes: 122
34. Briefträger Müller (1953)
95 min | Comedy, Family
Directors: John Reinhardt, Heinz Rühmann | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Heli Finkenzeller, Gisela Meyen, Wolfgang Condrus
Votes: 137
35. Keine Angst vor großen Tieren (1953)
85 min | Comedy
Emil is a coward. When he falls in love with a woman who wants a real man, he has to find the courage beyond his jolly demeanor.
Director: Ulrich Erfurth | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Ingeborg Körner, Gustav Knuth, Maria Paudler
Votes: 113
36. Auf der Reeperbahn nachts um halb eins (1954)
111 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
After many years on the oceans, sailor Hannes Wedderkamp has finally returned to Hamburg. On St. Pauli, Hannes sings songs from the sea in the hippodrome of his best friend Pitter Breuer on... See full summary »
Director: Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Stars: Hans Albers, Heinz Rühmann, Fita Benkhoff, Erwin Strahl
Votes: 246
37. Charleys Tante (1956)
89 min | Comedy, Romance
Two seducers, who have invited two charming Swedish women to their home, ask the brother of one of them to dress up as a woman and play the chaperons.
Director: Hans Quest | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Hertha Feiler, Claus Biederstaedt, Walter Giller
Votes: 364
38. Wenn der Vater mit dem Sohne (1955)
95 min | Drama, Comedy
After Clown Teddy lost his son, he lost his gift for laughter. He opened a joke shop and lives above the shop. His landlady has had a foster son since birth, and Teddy decides to raise the ... See full summary »
Director: Hans Quest | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Oliver Grimm, Waltraut Haas, Robert Freitag
Votes: 460
39. The Captain from Köpenick (1956)
93 min | Comedy, Drama
A young shoemaker is arrested for stealing a small amount of money, and is released after being jailed for 15 years. He wants to have a pass to get a job and start anew, but without a job ... See full summary »
Director: Helmut Käutner | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Martin Held, Hannelore Schroth, Willy A. Kleinau
Votes: 1,883
40. Vater sein dagegen sehr (1957)
95 min | Drama
Lutz Ventura is a writer in a small town. There he lives an idyllic life with his fiancée Margot. When his widowed sister suddenly dies, he takes in her two children Traudl and Rudi. This inevitably leads to complications.
Director: Kurt Meisel | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Marianne Koch, Hans Leibelt, Paul Esser
Votes: 211
41. Der eiserne Gustav (1958)
102 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
Gustav Hartmann is in trouble. Because of the new taxis he doesn't get many passengers in his horse-drawn carriage. To prove what he and his horse are capable of, he starts a trip from Berlin to Paris.
Director: Georg Hurdalek | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Lucie Mannheim, Ernst Schröder, Karin Baal
Votes: 213
42. Max, der Taschendieb (1962)
91 min | Comedy, Crime
Max, a small time pick-pocket, has nothing to do with the "big" crimes. But then he must find the murderer of Fred, his wife's brother.
Director: Imo Moszkowicz | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Elfie Pertramer, Hans Clarin, Ruth Stephan
Votes: 295
43. Der Lügner (1961)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
Mr. Schumann tells his little daughter a lot of lies about himself, so she can be proud of her father.
Director: Ladislao Vajda | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Giulia Follina, Annemarie Düringer, Blandine Ebinger
Votes: 128
44. Das Haus in Montevideo (1963)
123 min | Comedy
A stiff German professor inherits a house in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Director: Helmut Käutner | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Ruth Leuwerik, Paul Dahlke, Hanne Wieder
Votes: 252
45. Mein Schulfreund (1960)
94 min | Drama, Comedy