Vera Meiners' life was sweet but unfortunately for her, it was not to last. Her husband, Jan, left her after she met a former lover in a harmless friendly meeting. Forced to resume her disrupted medical career, she worked in a Swiss clinic but, without the knowledge of the chief surgeon, Vera ordered a risky operation to be performed and was thereafter fired. Penniless, she then works in Spanish nightclubs in order to provide for herself and her child. After many years, she runs into her friend Frank again in one of these nightclubs...

In WWII-era Rome, underground resistance leader Manfredi attempts to evade the Gestapo by enlisting ...

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty yea...

Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due t...

Smilja is a little girl living in Dalmatian Zagora. One day, her mother dies under a small oak tree ...

A musician is offered a job in Vienna as stage director, but his disagreements with the aristocratic...

Shortages in postwar Berlin have created a blooming black market, and the goods rounded up during a ...

Women play a heroic role in the Volunteer Army fighting the Japanese in the puppet state of Manchuku...

In the south of France, in a vast plain region called the Camargue, lives White Mane, a magnificent ...

After Jochen saves police officer Erich's life, the two men become close friends and Erich helps Joc...

Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.

Celebrating the end of World War II and liberation of their city, a group of students is set on hold...

After Partition, a large group of farmers from East Bengal have to migrate to Calcutta.

The film "Die Unbesiegbaren" covers an episode in German history, in which the Bismarck government t...

Robin Hood fights nobly for justice against the evil Sir Guy of Gisbourne while striving to win the ...

A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.

When Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces with th...

Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty....

Marika is a cheerful girl who lives on the Danube aboard an old barge she inherited from her father....

In 1912, the Titanic embarks on its inevitable collision course with history. In the wake of the ove...

Shortly after WWII, the DEFA Studios produced a series of operas and operettas which belonged to the...