Erich Kästner Movies

Despite their social differences Luise, called Pünktchen, a girl from rich parentage befriends Anton, a boy who has to earn his own money in...

Genre: Family

Cast: Sabine Eggerth

A boy who was once a perpetual outcast finds friends in a new boarding school. United with his new peers, he gets involved in a heated rivalry with a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ulrich Noethen

The twelve-year-old Emil and his father are haunted by bad luck. To take a break from a series of family disasters, Emil is allowed to spend a few...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tobias Retzlaff

Charlie & Louise – Das doppelte Lottchen is a German children's film directed by Joseph Vilsmaier in 1994, starring Corinna Harfouch. It is...

Genre: Family

Cast: Fritzi Eichhorn

When a suspicious man bribes Emil with chocolate in return for a bundle of cash, the young lad thinks of a plan to catch him.

Genre: Family

Cast: Rolf Wenkhaus

When Emil travels by bus to Berlin to visit his grandmother and his cousin, his money is stolen by a crook who specializes in digging tunnels. Emil...

Genre: Action

Cast: Walter Slezak

When a suspicious man bribes Emil with chocolate in return for a bundle of cash, the young lad thinks of a plan to catch him.

Genre: Family

Cast: Rolf Wenkhaus

Erich Kästner’s beloved novel has been adapted for film or television six times since its publication in 1929; this 1935 British version...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: John Williams

Emil goes to Berlin to see his grandmother with a large amount of money and is offered sweets by a strange man that make him sleep. He wakes up at...

Genre: Family

Cast: Peter Finkbeiner

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Emilia Unda

Wanting a lavish production to mark the 25th anniversary of UFA, the German film studio, Joseph Goebbels, director of the Nazi propaganda machine,...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Hans Albers

A boy who was once a perpetual outcast finds friends in a new boarding school, united with his new peers gets involved in a heated rivalry with a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joachim Fuchsberger

The third form of a boarding school and the students of a neighboring school do not get along. Each side dreams up the craziest pranks to defeat the...

Genre: Family

Cast: Paul Dahlke

The third form of a boarding school and the students of a neighboring school do not get along. Each side dreams up the craziest pranks to defeat the...

Genre: Family

Cast: Paul Dahlke

Hallie Parker and Annie James are identical twins separated at a young age because of their parents' divorce. Unknowingly to their parents, the girls...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lindsay Lohan

A group of animals waiting for the annual flood they rely on for food and water discover that the humans, who have been destroying their habitats...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Christoph Maria Herbst

Two nine-year-old girls—rude Luise Palfy and respectful shy Lotte Körner—meet on a summer camp. Apart from their different hair-do,...

Genre: Family

Cast: Erich Kästner

Two nine-year-old girls—rude Luise Palfy and respectful shy Lotte Körner—meet on a summer camp. Apart from their different hair-do,...

Genre: Family

Cast: Erich Kästner

One day the animals become too colorful: war is constantly going on among the people. When Alois, the lion, learns that the 365th Peace Conference...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Georg Thomalla

A wealthy citizen of Salzburg wants to write a play about ordinary people.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Paul Hubschmid

A businessman mingles with German laborers to learn more about their lives.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Robert Young

Genre: Family

Cast: Céline Vogt

Two best friends plot to get their single parents together to stop one of them from moving to New York.

Genre: Family

Cast: Hayley Mills

Two identical twin sisters, separated at birth by their parents' divorce, are reunited years later at a summer camp, where they scheme to bring their...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hayley Mills

A young, inquisitive girl named Nargess encounters a girl from another school who could pass as her twin. Amazed by the strange coincidence, the two...

Genre: Family

Cast: Khosro Shakibai

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ruedi Walter

Based on Kaestner's "Emil and the Detectives" tale.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: André José Adler

Luise, called Pünktchen, and Anton are closest of friends. Being the daughter of a wealthy surgeon, young Pünktchen lives in a great house....

Genre: Family

Cast: Elea Geissler

The multi-millionaire Eduard Schlüter takes part under the name Schulze in a raffle of his own Schlüter works and wins a stay at the Grand...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Paul Dahlke

The multi-millionaire Eduard Schlüter takes part under the name Schulze in a raffle of his own Schlüter works and wins a stay at the Grand...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Paul Dahlke

Jan Eriksson wins a vacation trip to a hotel in the mountains.

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Cast: Adolf Jahr

Each evening, before saying their prayers, some children swallow their cod liver oil. One evening, the youngest child makes a daring request in his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Käthe Haack

In 1930s Berlin, Dr. Jakob Fabian, who works by day in advertising for a cigarette company and by night wanders the streets of the city, falls in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tom Schilling

Hibari no komoriuta (ひばりの子守唄, literally "Hibari's Lullaby") is a 1951 black-and-white Japanese film...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hibari Misora

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hans Söhnker

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Cast: Paola Loew

When Jeff plans to marry again, his triplet daughters Megan, Lisa and Jessie try to bring him together with Susan.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hayley Mills

Inheriting a family resort in Hawaii, the Wyatts find it in such a run-down condition that they decide to sell it after trying to fix it up. Amidst...

Genre: Family

Cast: Hayley Mills

A student from an elementary school accidentally breaks the glass roof of his school. His comrades decide to support it by working during the summer...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Louise Carletti

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hugo Haas

Fabian is a 1980 West German film directed by Wolf Gremm. It is based on the novel Fabian, the Story of a Moralist (1931) by German author Erich...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hans Peter Hallwachs

Emil came to Dhaka from Khulna to receive the prize of essay competition titled 'Don't Capture Free Birds'. On the way back, he lost 500 taka on the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Golam Mustafa

Lotte and Louise meet at a summer camp. Everyone who sees the two falls open in surprise, the girls look so much alike. It doesn't take long before...

Genre: Family

Cast: Mia Lohmann

A gang of children has a gang of robbers arrested.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Andrés Poggio 'Toscanito'

Genre: Family

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Genre: Comedy

Cast: Willy Fritsch

When young Martina takes up a scholarship at the Johann-Sigismund Gymnasium boarding school, she finds herself caught in the rivalry between the...

Genre: Family

Cast: Leni Deschner

Peter Pan is an adolescent boy who has escaped from his parents to the dreamland of Nowhere. Peter is determined to remain a little boy forever;...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Alfred Balthoff

Sequel to Animals United (2010). Plot TBA.

Genre: Animation

Cast: James Corden

This film adaptation of Erich Kästner's book is about a millionaire who wants to travel to a hotel under a false name and test how "normal...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Klaus Schwarzkopf