Fred Essler Movies

An assortment of diverse characters gather at the Hotel Berlin in World War II Germany as the Third Reich falls.

A Japanese publisher urges his American-educated son to side with the Axis.

Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really...

Mountain climbers in the Swiss Alps mull over past problems while trying to conquer a perilous peak.

A mystery writer is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose dead body was found washed up on the shore in Istanbul....

Catherine the Great falls in love with an army officer who is plotting against her.

WWI flyer Eddie Rickenbaker remembers his life which brought him from a car salesman, race driver and pilot in WWI, to an important person in the...

When a German art dealer living in the US returns to his native country he finds himself attracted to Nazi propaganda.

Romanticized life story of Robert Briscoe, the first Jewish Lord Mayor of Dublin.

After her father's funeral, Ann Chapin thinks back over the last five years of his life, years of apparent political and personal failure dominated...

A private detective foils the plans of villains attempting to take over Panamanian oil fields while he searches for a valuable map hidden in plain...

Snooty opera singer meets a rough-and-tumble fisherman in the Louisiana bayous, but this fisherman can sing! Her agent lures him away to New Orleans...

Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.

A U.S. Army sergeant is home on leave to reconnect with his girlfriend he hopes to marry. However, in the years he's been away, she's gotten a huge...

This semi-film within a film opens in the office of producer George Jessel, who never saw a camera he couldn't get in front of, who is holding a...

Stationed in West Germany, soldier Tulsa McLean hopes to open up a nightclub when he gets out of the army. Tulsa may lack the capital for such a...

A Nazi spy sneaks into the U.S., hoping to release hundreds of German prisoners. He fails, but not until plenty of bullets have been spent.

The buoyant Molly Brown has survived the first crisis of her life—a flood. Sixteen years later she sets out to make her way in the world. She...

A freedom-loving French journalist sacrifices his happiness and security to battle Nazi tyranny.

The eccentric Bullock household again need a new butler. Daughter Irene encounters bedraggled Godfrey Godfrey at the docks and, fancying him and...