The best Hilde Sessak’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Hilde Sessak’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 Hilde Sessak.
The Ringer
6.6/10
The sister of a famous, but as yet uncaught, criminal named The Hexer is murdered. Inspector Higgins of Scotland Yard believes that The Hexer will surface to take his revenge on his sister's killers, and plans to set a trap to finally capture him. However, soon bodies start piling up, and it looks as if The Hexer may get away yet again.
The Punch Bowl
7.7/10
Die Feuerzangenbowle from Director Helmut Weiss is based on the novel by the same name from Heinrich Spoerl and Hans Reimann that has turned into a cult German film. The film tells the story of a writer Johannes Pfeiffer who goes undercover as a student in a high school after his friends told him that he missed out on a great life experience since he was home schooled.
Fanny Hill
4.5/10
Cult filmmaker Russ Meyer takes on directorial duties in Zugsmith s adaptation of the notorious erotic classic Fanny Hill. Set in pre-Victorian London, young Fanny finds herself taken in by a madame at one of the city s most elite brothels. A strange mix of Zugsmith s surreal slapstick and Meyer s trademark buxom beauties and thoughtful satire, Fanny Hill is an over-the-top saga of low-rent thrills in high-brow settings.
The Man Between
7/10
A British woman on a visit to post-war Berlin is caught up in an espionage ring smuggling secrets into and out of the Eastern Bloc.
The Rothschilds
6/10
Nazi biography of the Rothschilds, a Jewish family whose members rose to the top of the European banking community during the Napoleonic era.
We Cellar Children
7.7/10
Paracelsus
6.8/10
A 1943 German drama film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst based on the life of Philippus von Hohenheim (Paracelsus). The film is one of several big nazi era productions with main characters regarded as propaganda-parables to Adolf Hitler (see also Ohm Krüger and Der grosse König).
The Gorilla Gang
5.3/10
In this German detective thriller, swindlers using a false charity as a front send a hit man around London to murder wealthy people whose deaths can benefit the organization. This film is one of a very large number of German Scotland-Yard thrillers based on the novels of Edgar Wallace.
Der Eiserne Gustav
6.5/10
Gleisdreieck
7/10
Dark love story.
The Hunchback of Soho
5.8/10
A woman is kidnapped and her identity is stolen by criminals attempting to collect her inheritance.
Sechs Tage Heimaturlaub
5.5/10
The Foggy Night Murderer
6.1/10
The Foggy Night Murderer
Water for Canitoga
6.8/10
In the spring of 1905, the water conduit project in the Canadian city of Canitoga is set to be completed. For years, the completion had been marred by sabotage. Engineer Oliver Montstuart commands the last blasting operation. But again, the explosive charge is too large and thus, further construction is forestalled again. When Montstuart confronts foreman Westbrook, the foreman threatens him with a knife. In self-defence, Montstuart shoots him. Now, he has to flee.
Orient-Express
6.6/10
Hauptsache glücklich!
6.9/10
Der kleine Grenzverkehr
7.5/10
Die Pfingstorgel
5.2/10
The residents of the villages Strasslach and Rott are anything but friends. The residents of the “enemy” town are ridiculed at every chance the residents of the other village can get to do so. And it’s no different, when Rott is getting ready to celebrate the 300th anniversary of its founding. The residents of Strasslach ridicule their neighbors, because the Rotters don’t want to celebrate the anniversary, because it’ll cost money. Even the church doesn’t have an organ, because that would cost money, too.
Heinrich
6.6/10
The life and struggles of the German writer Heinrich von Kleist.
Freedom For Love
4.5/10
The starting point of the plot is a Men's club, which serves both as a meeting place as well as an alibi by unfaithful husbands. Interspersed between the sex scenes are reporters' questions on alleged passersby about marital fidelity and infidelity.
