The best Heinz Rühmann’s drama movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Heinz Rühmann’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Heinz Rühmann.
Faraway, So Close!
7.2/10
Damiel is now married to Marion, runs the pizzeria “Da Angelo” and the two have a child. The solitarily remaining angel Cassiel is more and more dissatisfied with his destiny as a mere observer of human life and finally decides to take the great leap. As Karl Engel he soon gets into a dubious milieu and finds himself as the assistant of the German American Baker, who makes his money with shady arms deals and sends porno films east in exchange for weapons. Cassiel’s adventure turns into a “thriller” when he decides to put a stop to Baker’s game.
Ship of Fools
7.1/10
Passengers on a ship traveling from Mexico to Europe in the 1930s represent society at large in that era. The crew is German, including the ship's Dr. Schumann, who falls in love with one of the passengers, La Condesa. A young American woman, Jenny, is traveling with the man she loves, David. Jenny is fascinated and puzzled by just who some of the other passengers are.
The Three from the Filling Station
6.5/10
Die Drei von der Tankstelle, meaning The Three from the Gas Station, was advertised as a German operetta when release and with it’s star studded cast would become the forerunner of Musical films. Even today the soundtrack of the comic harmonists is popular in Germany.
Vater sein dagegen sehr
5.9/10
Margot is looking forward to moving into the old defense tower with her fiancé Lutz, a writer. Then the writer receives the news of his sister's death. Lutz is supposed to take in their children Traudl and Rudi and the dog Leo. Margot did not expect so much attachment...
The Captain from Kopenick
7.2/10
The 1956 movie based on the theater play by Carl Zuckmayer based on the true story of cobbler Wilhelm Voigt who dressed up as a German military officer and, with the help of unsuspecting soldiers, took over the city hall in Köpenick and confiscated the city's purse.
Der Eiserne Gustav
6.5/10
Auf der Reeperbahn nachts um halb eins
5.8/10
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 the Reeperbahn with the "Quetschkommode" songs and cares for the audience.
Der Pauker
6.5/10
The Judge and the Sinner
6.4/10
A drama directed by Paul Verhoeven.
If the Father and the Son
6.4/10
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 child, who always believed that Teddy was his father. When the mother suddenly appears five years later and wants her son, Teddy decides to run away with the child and goes back onstage with his son. Will the family catch up with them, or will the mother never get her son back?
Das chinesische Wunder
4.3/10
Der Kapitän
5.1/10
Bombs Over Monte Carlo
5.7/10
The captain of a battleship of a small Balkan country is fed up with following strange orders from the country's queen.
Clothes Make the Man
6.6/10
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, which he appropriated for himself and he puts it on as he leaves the shop. A puppeteer picks him up in his coach and addresses Wenzel as "Count". So is he received in Goldach, where people think he is Count Stroganoff, the ambassador to the Czar of Russia.
Der Pfandleiher
6/10
Menschen im Hotel
6.1/10
Wunschkonzert
6/10
German propaganda film spinning a story around the popular radio broadcast "Wunschkonzert".
Der Hausmeister
6.7/10
Es gibt noch Haselnußsträucher
6.6/10
Ein Zug nach Manhattan
7.1/10
