Movies: Lucie Mannheim

Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed - with a knife in her back. Having a bit of trouble explaining it all to Scotland Yard, he heads for the hills of Scotland to try to clear his name by locating the spy...

A woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed....

A meek teller thinks he's killed his boss. He flees with a box of cash hoping for a new life with his younger mistress....

A socialite poses as a Nazi spy to mask her activities as a British agent....

A hunt for a spy, in a hotel in the South of France just before World War Two....

A general must come to terms with a crime he commited years earlier....

The story of two young lovers takes a tragic turn as the girl falls in love with the boy's father....

A British flight officer plans to rescue an airline stewardess who is trapped in East Germany....

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Jimmy Bancroft, a fighter pilot, who is recovering from injuries sustained during the Battle of Britain, and Hazel Court, a nurse, come across a pair of rare birds nestling in a field. After a run in with the army, and a couple of thieves, they, with...

A Nordic fishermen's village surrounded by the raging sea. This is were fisherman Haldor (Wilhelm Borchert) is living. His marriage with the proud Salvör (Heidemarie Hatheyer) is going to be impend. While on the sea in a storm, he is being cast upon ...

This pre-WW II German costume drama chronicles the French Revolution with a particular focus upon Danton, Robespierre, and Marat. It depicts the dramatic downfall and execution of Georges Danton in 1794 at the hands of Maximilien Robespierre. The fil...

Director Wolfgang Staudte who left East Germany in 1953 to make movies in West Germany, takes a few swipes at the West German judicial system in this fairly effective courtroom drama about the murder of a four-month-old baby. Police almost immediatel...

On the surface a straightforward tale of the search for a buried treasure, the film is a textbook example of German expressionism, with the passions of the protagonists conveyed as much through symbolism as action....

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During World War II, German soldiers occupy the home of a beautiful Belgian girl and her mother....

In a distant Teutonic village, people dance and drink merrily celebrating a wedding feast. However, an elderly man tells the villagers that the valley where they live wasn't always happy but sorrowful. This was due to the tyranny of the master of the...

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A doctor goes to meet a beautiful girl at a park bench near a wooded area. When he arrives, he finds her battered body lying next to a stream! He then finds himself to be the prime suspect. Who's the killer?...

An aging truck driver finds smuggled money and becomes involved with a hijacking crowd....