Horst Tappert Movies

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

When another dead elderly gentleman is fished out of the Thames, Inspector David Perkins is convinced that the gorilla gang is active again. On a...

Walter Bergman is a boring old travel agent. One day while away on a business trip, he starts hanging out with a group of young swingers.

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...

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

Rough-and-ready vice detective Perrak has to follow a 1000 leads during the investigation of a trans murder case. In a profoundly mysterious massage...

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...

Le Passeur immobile, which covers the year 1987, is a Booklet filmed stuck between The Days and the Nights (1986) and The Artifice and the Fake...

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...

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...

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...

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...

An elaborate bank robbery takes place and the gangsters succeed although the FBI had been warned. Jerry Cotton, who is considered accountable for...

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...

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...

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...

The von Trapp family are struggling to survive in America, where their performances of European church music are not popular with the audiences. Only...