The Captain from Kopenick (1956)
• August 15th, 1956 • 1h 33min
Comedy, Drama
Overview
A young shoemaker is arrested for stealing a small amount of money, and is jailed for fifteen years. Upon his release, he wants to get a permit to get a job and start anew, but finds that without a job he can't get a permit, and without a permit he can't get a job. Ensnared in the absurd net of Prussian bureaucracy, he can't see any way out. That is, until he enters a thrift shop and spots a Prussian officer's uniform that fits him like a second skin...
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Walk on Water
Released on: 2004-02-05
Drama
Eyal, an Israeli Mossad agent, is given the mission to track down and kill the very old Alfred Himme...
Walk the Line
Released on: 2005-09-13
Drama, Music, Romance
A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton fa...
American History X
Released on: 1998-07-01
Drama
Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two African-American men. Thro...
The Elementary Particles
Released on: 2006-02-10
Drama, Romance
Based on Michel Houellebecq's controversial novel, Atomised (aka The Elementary Particles) focuses o...
Run Lola Run
Released on: 1998-08-20
Action, Drama, Thriller
Lola receives a phone call from her boyfriend Manni. He lost 100,000 DM in a subway train that belon...
Wings of Desire
Released on: 1987-09-23
Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling populati...
48 Hrs.
Released on: 1982-12-07
Crime, Action, Comedy
A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in o...
Ariel
Released on: 1988-10-21
Comedy, Drama, Romance, Crime
A Finnish man goes to the city to find a job after the mine where he worked is closed and his father...
Out of the Blue
Released on: 1981-04-29
Drama
A young girl whose father is an ex-convict and whose mother is a junkie finds it difficult to confor...
Undisputed III: Redemption
Released on: 2010-04-17
Action, Thriller, Crime, Drama
Russian inmate Boyka, now severely hobbled by the knee injury suffered at the end of Undisputed 2. N...
Superheroes
Released on: 2010-01-08
Comedy
When a policewoman is unfairly accused of selling drugs, her three deadbeat brothers come to the res...
Symmetry
Released on: 2003-09-16
Drama
Łukasz, an unemployed geography graduate, is wrongfully arrested for robbery. His alibi is weak, and...
McVicar
Released on: 1980-08-01
Crime, Drama
John McVicar was a London Bad Boy. he graduated to armed bank robbery and was Britain's "Public Enem...
Young Sophie Bell
Released on: 2015-01-23
Drama
Graduation just happened, and now it's time for adventures in Berlin with the childhood friends Soph...
Awaara
Released on: 1951-12-14
Drama, Music, Romance
A petty thief is put on trial for the attempted murder of a lawyer. Through a series of flashbacks, ...
Felon
Released on: 2008-07-17
Crime, Drama, Thriller, Action
A family man convicted of killing an intruder must cope with life afterward in the violent penal sys...
Women of San Quentin
Released on: 1983-10-23
Drama, TV Movie
A young female prison guard finds out that her first assignment is to San Quentin, one of the toughe...
Rampage Electra
Released on: 2023-02-17
Crime, Drama, Thriller, Action
A young girl discovers the truth regarding the secrets of her past. Just as she discovers the truth,...
Midnight Express
Released on: 1978-08-31
Drama, Crime
Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make a...
Pusher II
Released on: 2004-12-25
Crime, Drama
Tonny is released from prison - again. This time he has his mind set on changing his broken down lif...