Horst Tappert Movies

Essay film about German family life in the postwar decades, refracted through TV quiz shows and their hosts' biographies.

A man is found dead in a London hotel. The knife is still firmly stuck in the victim's chest, and Inspector Perkins strangely finds a glass eye in...

A young doctor kills himself after a medical committee terminates his research into human embryos, considering it too inhumane. His wife then seeks...

Inspector Stephan Derrick has made it: the crime rate in Munich has fallen to the 0% mark. His prestige is high, and he even has his own elevator...

Father Brown is only too happy to interfere with the work of the police in solving tricky criminal cases, usually with resounding success. That's why...

In this German detective thriller, swindlers using a false charity as a front send a hit man around London to murder wealthy people whose deaths can...

1865: Swiss captain Bluntschli fights as mercenary in the war between Bulgaria and Serbia. When his group's attacked by a few Bulgarian troopers, he...

A mineral is discovered which can turn metal to gold or humans into zombies. When the mineral is stolen, secret agents are sent in to get the mineral...

In 1828 a man called Kaspar Hauser appears in Nuremberg, barely able to speak and walk. He is admitted to the house of a professor, who among other...

Derrick and his deputy, Harry Klein, back from holidays, discover that french TV channel 5 is dead. They'll have to build a plan to create a new "new...

Scotland Yard must discover why people are being murdered by a monstrous dog at Blackwood Castle.

Kurt Hoffmann′s satire concerning Germany′s development during the first half of the 20th century tells the story of two schoolmates -...

Charles, a talented but poor chemist, has become a wealthy man overnight. The industry is all about his new invention. But the next day, his wife...

Captain Ebbs is an older, experienced seaman who has, however, only sailed on freighters. While his current old barge, the Martin Luther, has to go...

A London slasher pack the suitcases of his victims before stabbing them to death in this adaptation of Edgar Wallace's 'Secret of the Black...