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Santa Claus threatens to go on strike, as a result of people posting mail too late!

Sailor Freddy entertains the guests at "Uncle Max's" with songs on the guitar. This earns him more than just a few tips. The waitress Susi falls in love with the honest guy with the strong voice. Journalist Katja, who is strolling through St. Pauli with her fiancé, also notices the singing sailor. They don't know that Freddy is wanted by the police and that his longing for faraway places won't let him go.

Cafe owner Paul Perlacher is a real pig: not only are his daughter and sister Trude embarrassed constantly by his disgusting behavior, but his tenants are subjected to every legal trick under the Sun to get them to move out. Nevertheless, Amalie Hartning's a stubborn woman and can take care of herself well when it comes to her tyrannical landlord. If that weren't enough for Paul, his daughter's gone and fallen in love with the nephew of this pain in rear! And when Paul's ordered to jail by the courts, that really is the last straw.

Peter a storyteller talks about a story of a burglar Squishy Taylor that tried to blow up his safe.

Industrial film demonstrating methods of material handling using electrically-driven equipment. Framed in a fictional scenario of businessmen discussing industrial modernisation.

Moving from contemporary images of Paris in the 1950s to old photographs and documents, this short film evokes the heroic radical Commune of 1871 which was violently suppressed, and it's legacy today.

The old and sick detective superintendent Bärlach has to investigate the murder of his colleague Ulrich Schmied, who was murdered in the middle of the country road.

After having lost her mother Magdalena was brought up on strict boarding school disciplines. When returning to her father, she is looked after by an educator who lacks the ability to guide the longing for love of an adolescent girl.

An old man has to go to hospital for an operation, but won't leave his dog. Friends and neighbours rally round to help.

Ricardo will try his luck in the capital after winning an amateur singing contest. He has many adventures. Kidnapped by gangsters, he is only freed by the intervention of his fiancée. Finally, the director of the "Folies Parisiennes" presents him with a contract.

Dolores leads her parents to believe she is an ambitious nurse. But in secret, she pursues her passion for dance. Night after night, she performs at Auguste Link’s club, “Pigalle.” When the star of the revue tears up his contract, Dolores sees her big chance. But Mother Martens throws a wrench in the works. She visits Dolores’s supposed boss, the psychiatrist Dr. Lorenz.

In his first cinematic work, the painter Franz Schömbs intersperses the ever-recurring process from the nightbreak to the dawn. A short film by Franz Schömbs.

A lot has happened in Cecily Harrington's life. The young woman has not only won 10,000 pounds in the lottery, but has also unceremoniously dumped her fiancé Nigel after falling head over heels in love with Bruce Lovell. But after their wedding, when they retire to a remote country house, the likeable globetrotter changes visibly. Eventually, she even begins to suspect that her husband may have a terrible secret: Is he the wife-killer who is being searched for around the globe and who poisons his wives and buries them in the cellar?

Mischievous Irish boy's encounter with a leprechaun.

Spanish Zorro adaptation

An inhabitant of the Moon, crashed on the Earth due to the violent shock caused by an atomic experiment, remains amazed by the discovery of this planet and gives life to a puppet, begging him to introduce him into the world of men.

Armand Varescot, a rich and tyrannical old man, is killed by his young and pretty secretary, Caroline, while he was trying to abuse her. To avoid scandal, his granddaughter Marie Varescot convinces Frank, his cousin, to take responsibility for this "accidental" death, he who is in love with Caroline. But Commissioner Legrand, who has designs on Marie, only agrees to close the affair if Marie marries her, and if Frank leaves with Caroline, abandoning his share of the inheritance. The arrangement is accepted and life goes on.

In the final days of the Spanish Civil War, a married couple of Republican refugees goes into hiding in a northern Spanish seaside town. While the wife stays there with their recently born child, the husband continues North to an uncertain future in France.

An actress used to playing only bit parts becomes the center of attention when a movie director buys her life story as a film project, she is now faced with a psychological crisis.

A lighthearted comedy about a couple that tries to keep their struggling marriage together.

Musical comedy set in a high school.

The life of James Ignatius Rooney, a Dublin rubbish collector during the week and a Gaelic sportsman at the weekends.

Through film clips, news footage and reconstructions, this film traces the history of dueling

Yvonne is seething when her devoted son, Michael, declares his intention to marry Madeleine, despite the latter's admitting to having an affair with a mysterious older man. At the same time, George, Michael's father, confides in Yvonne's sister, Leo, that he is in fact Madeleine's other lover. Together, they hatch a plot to end Madeleine's hopes of marriage - by threatening to reveal George's scandalous secret to his son.

20 years after the assassination of his father, the son of Lagardère seeks revenge.

A man of of principle leads a double life: one for his mistress and one he takes home to his wife.

The changing fortunes of two boxers are explored in this interesting drama by Paolo Heusch, seen from the point of view of the women the boxers love. One of the pugilists is a rookie on the rise and his sister has married the reigning champion. Now the champ is getting older and less able to hold his own against the newcomers -- including his brother-in-law. As his fortunes begin to decline, his wife whom he married while affluent is slowly forced to deal with the difficulties of poverty. This Italian drama was an entry in the 1959 Berlin Film Festival.

The enterprising but chronically indebted factory owner Gustav Mummelmann meets the supposedly wealthy Tyrolean innkeeper Mariele through a marriage advertisement. To fund the trip, he once again takes advantage of his nephew, the record producer Peter Weigand. Peter accompanies Gustav to Tyrol to escape his persistent girlfriend Marion-Madeleine, who is pressuring him to marry her.

They don’t make them like this anymore, that’s for sure! Made for the British Travel Association ‘The Friendly Inn’ takes the viewer on a rapid tour of pubs across the British Isles. The film is fronted by English actor Michael Denison (Boyd QC), as he gushes how ‘the atmosphere is bound to be gay’ when introducing The Punch Bowl pub, judging it by its pub sign! This is essentially a travelogue of inns really.

To acquire a fresh supply of cadavers for use in his medical school experiments, Dr. Knox turns two of his inept students into graverobbers.

As foreign troops occupy the country, the government commissions a jeweler to bring the crown jewels to safety.

Jorge is involved in a robbery in which a man is killed. Following the incident, decides to take refuge in his home town where two of his brothers. Once there, despite the time elapsed, the old family feuds arise again.

A young man searches for the father he never knew, who he believes to be a millionaire.

A group of Italian priests struggle to convert a disused building into a church.

Documentary highlights of the 1951 Monte Carlo Rally and its international competition.

The crew of a naval pinnacle struggle to pay the rates required to keep the boat afloat.

A BAFTA award nominated film made for the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company charting the history of aviation from Daedalus to jets.

Biggi is about to take her high school diploma. To avoid an impending chemistry exam, she fakes an illness. She obtains the necessary certificate from the handsome doctor Dr. Weiringk. She promptly falls in love with her savior and marries him. However, as the young wife of a busy doctor, Biggi soon feels abandoned. Professor Dr. Weiringk, her father-in-law, thinks little of her. She says she's only distracting his son from his homework. That's just one of the reasons for her decision to retake her high school diploma. Biggi secretly goes back to school. The double life as wife and student proves to be exhausting.

Drama about an impoverished family, a widowed mother and her two sons, trying to get by.

The soccer team of the company sports association "BSG Hartenfels" is going downhill. New training methods - based on scientific findings - are needed, says Paul Schmidt. But he runs up against the star striker Wieland, whose friends naturally stick by him. So water sportswoman Ruth, deputy chairwoman of the BSG, decides to use female cunning to change the situation for the better. She and her friends Lilo and Uschi want to "work" the unruly ones. In the end, there is indeed a victory - on the sports field - and two happy couples.

The film traces Uli's progress from his humble peasant surroundings to the homes of the wealthy and prominent. The characterizations are convincing, and the comic interludes surprisingly subtle and believable for a Swiss film. The no-star cast doomed Uli Der Knecht from the start so far as American distribution was concerned. It was another matter in Switzerland, where the film was one of the year's top moneymakers. Uli der Knecht was based on a novel by Jeremias Gottbelf.

This short documents the important role played by bread in the daily life of the city of Paris.