Willi Schaeffers Movies

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...

Drama about street walker Elena who marries shop keeper Albert. When her former pimp Peter shows up, her life is ruined. She shoots him and poisons...

Because the soulful county doctor in a small spa town in the mountains has interfered with the business of selling "healing waters", he incurs the...

Two mysterious events, both surrounding valuable diamonds, occur a decade and an ocean apart. Can a jeweler's assistant uncover the truth?

A British attorney working on a small island wants to return home to London, but first has to solve a mysterious crime.

A councilor is tricked by an impostor, whom he believes to be a baron. He gives him money and his marriageable daughter -- but then the real baron...

German romantic comedy from Carl Boese.

Aimless Bohemians are encouraged to find their salvation in Arbeit (Work) in this propagandistic Nazi era German production.

German all-star musical from 1938 that was a big commercial success.

A struggling composer gets one of his pieces into a film program and his wife captures the lead part in the production as well.

Kiki who has a walk-on part in a show, is in love with her director, who doesn't notice her at all. She settles into his home and causes him to break...

In this popular canine comedy, a man who doesn't especially like dogs is required to take care of one, as a stipulation of a sizeable inheritance.

Im weißen Rößl (English title: White Horse Inn or The White Horse Inn) is an operetta or musical comedy by Ralph Benatzky and Robert...

Adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's 1931 play Fanny.

In this Cinderella style romance, a working class blonde introduces samples of a new perfume her father has made, to the rich and powerful at a fancy...