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Based on Erich Kästner's famous book about two identical-looking girls who meet at summer camp, realize that they're twin sisters, and plan to switch homes for a while.

In the white Rössl.

A scientist creates a beautiful "perfect woman", but since she is artificial, she seems soul-less and with no sense of morality, she brings ruin to all around her.

All is not really well between the boys of Gymnasium and the boys of the six-form High School: sparks fly when they get within 100m of each other. The continuous feud between the pupils is only one of the pleasant alternations, which life brings into the everyday school life. In addition, there are the rehearsals for the school theatre, and there are the secrets around a teacher called 'Justus' and a man called 'Nichtraucher' or the "non-smoker" since he lives in an abandoned non-smoking railway carriage. In between all the exciting surprises, a few serious things remain to be done.

Leopold, the new head waiter at the 'Weißen Rößl' is in love with the landlady Josefa. He sends her red roses every day. But Josefa believes they are a gift from her regular guest Dr. Otto Siedler, with whom Josefa is in love.

Sabine Gravières, married to Edouard, the High Commissioner for Criminal Youth, has a problem: Juliette, her daughter, is not only pregnant but she also refuses to marry Claude, the young man who got her pregnant. It is fair to say that the model set by Juliette's parents is far from ideal. Aware at last of the problem, Sabine decides to try and make it up with her husband...

The time is 1850 and the place is the Austro-Hungarian Empire. An uprising against Emperor/Kaiser Franz Josef has been suppressed and all have been forgiven---if still living---except a young Captain, Joseph Foldessy, who is working, under an assumed name, for Count Graf Paalen. He falls in love with Christ'l, daughter of the Imperial Forester. The Emperor arrives as the guest of the count, and Christ'l runs across him in the forest and, mistaking him for a minor court official, detain him for poaching. Foldessy's true identity becomes known to the secret police and he is arrested. Christ'l appeals to her newly-found friend, whose real identity she does not know, to get her an audience with the Emperor so that she can plead Foldessy's case. The request is granted and she then learns the identity of her new friend, who grants a pardon to her lover, who immediately surmises that Christ'l and the Emperor are having an affair. The Emperor straightens that incorrect assumption out, also.

Paying a rare visit to her estate, a countess clashes with the man she hired to manage it.

Remake in color and Scope of a 30s German operetta film, about romance in the easy going court of Munich in the 1850s.

Revolt of students and landed gentry in Poland about 1700 with twisted love stories.

Alois Wimpflinger is the mayor of a village located in the Bavarian Alps. This grumpy but kind-hearted man is happily married to Wally and the happy father of Stefan, himself happily engaged to a charming village girl. All this sounds too idyllic to last and it doesn't! Put the blame on Christine, an unexpected visitor, who happens to be both a beautiful young woman and a talented dancer. All the men go off their heads and all the women lose their temper as soon as they see her. A cute pink little brassiere lost will be the final straw...

Kostja has created a ballet "The Bolero" (Ravel) for the famous ballet dancer Bettina, who is in love with him. But when Bettina gets polio, and lovely Irene should be her substitute,she is desperate. Will she ever dance and love again?

Anette Klinger, a widowed and lonely factory owner, one day meets the gas station attendant Nikolei Stein. She falls in love with him, Nikolei knows how to cuddle up to her. But in reality the man is an unscrupulous fraudster who is after Anette's money.

A story of love for horses and the love for two women. The main part of the film is set in Germany and Ireland in the late 1800s and early 1900s, in the years leading up to WW1 and the Irish Easter Rebellion of 1916. The German cavalry officer and gifted horseman Godeysen, falls in love first with the German girl Lena, who must marry another, more suitable, man; and then with the Irishwoman Nicoline who is unhappily married to a man involved with the rebels in Ireland. The story is told as flashback from the hospital room of Godeysen's son a young wounded of a young WW2 veteran in the Germany of the early 1950s. It is read from the diary of his father.

Series of cameos by slapstick comic actor.

Oscar Kuelz, butcher from Hamburg, meets a young lady in a café in Copenhagen. He volunteers to take a miniature with him in the train to Hamburg. He doesn't notice how nervous she is, or that she's observed by two guys in trench-coats.

The direct sequel to "Meines Vaters Pferde, 1. Teil: Lena und Nicoline (1954)", the film tells the story of the German cavalry officer Godeysen in the years directly leading up to, and during WW1. Godeysen, a gifted horseman, has gambling debts and is forced to sell his best horse. Because of his extraordinary riding abilities, he is given another horse by the national stud, with which he also rides to great wins. He also meets another woman, the third great love of his life, Bim, whom he eventually marries. They live happily on their own stud farm and breed horses, until the war breaks out and Godeysen is taken prisoner. When he is finally released and returns home, he finds that Bim is dead, having died shortly after the birth of their son. Also, the government is taking his horses away to supply the army with animals. The story is told as flashback, read by Godeysen's son from the diaries of his father.