Hand-Picked Alternatives Movies That Echo the Spirit of Grock: Cult...

Dir: Carl Boese

A janitor has three daughters. Amelie is employed in the fashion shop of Leopold Siedentopf who seduces her, Annie works for a photographer and Martha is a launderer and is in love with Franz, a chauffeur who uses the boss's car to drive the three girls to work every morning. When he reports late to work one day, he clumsily tells his boss, Mr. Brandstetter, that he ran over a young girl. When he demands to see the victim, Franz introduces him to Annie and he falls in love with her. They soon get married. Annie's mother, who feels ashamed of her social condition, uses an apartment in her building whose lodgers are on vacation as her own when her son-in-law visits her and pretends she is the widow of a secret service agent. However, when Mr. Brandstetter surprises his chauffeur speaking too casually with his wife, not knowing that he is actually her brother-in-law, gets the wrong idea and Annie, upset with the whole thing, goes back to her mother's. Brandstetter decides to drown his sorrow and goes out to a party where, by chance, he meets Amelie and Martha. When Franz sees his girlfriend with his boss, he too gets upset. Annie and Martha are soon joined by Amelie at their mother's because she also left her husband who, it turns out, was unfaithful. The next day, Brandstetter comes back to the janitor's building where everything is explained. He embraces his new family. Franz and Martha make up and Amelie also finds happiness with Emil the bartender, an old flame of hers whom she always loved.

Dir: Carl Boese

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Ossi hat die Hosen an perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A girl posing as a knight's male valet is vamped by his fiancée.

Dir: Carl Boese

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Carl Boese

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Der Mann ohne Schlaf perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Germany at the time of the end of the Weimar Republic. The saleswoman Anna Gerlach looks forward to the joys of motherhood. She has already found accommodation with the Breuer's. The daughter of the house, Lissy Breuer, is also hopeful. The biggest difference between the two expectant mothers is the expected alimony.

Dir: Carl Boese

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Carl Boese

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Alimente perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Meyer runs an office which is both a marriage bureau and a divorce agency. Unbeknownst to him his own desired bride Elsa actually loves his best friend who happens to hire Meyer to force their marriage against the wishes of her father.

Dir: Carl Boese

Dancing, sports and erotic pursuits are the main ingredients in this drama about the fate of this scorned and abandoned woman, Josefine, who falls for the selfish Fennhofer.

Dir: Carl Boese

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Lemkes sel. Witwe perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Carl Boese

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Carl Boese

Family Brandt has lost its fortune in oil speculation, and they have great debts at the local bank. This one is threatened with its own crash due to lack of money. The only hope is Brandt's uncle Thomas Hoffman, an American millionaire, who is coming for a visit. Bank Accountant Schmidt uses his own money to welcome him properly, presenting himself as Brandt's daughter's fiance, but it turns out, that Hoffmann never was a millionaire, in fact he still owns the city of Chicago about $100 for medical treatment. Yet with his existance alone he starts a big scheme to bring back prosperity. Surprisingly it works, yet there are some problems: 1st: Chicago wants the money back, asking at the foreign office in Berlin for help, and 2nd: Hoffmann does not like the sheme at all, and tries to go back to his quiet and peaceful Chicago...