This is a list of the most notable films produced in the Cinema of Germany in 1939.
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Alarm at Station III | | | Crime | |
Asew | Phil Jutzi | Fritz Rasp, Olga Chekhova, Hilde von Stolz | Thriller | |
Bachelor's Paradise | Kurt Hoffmann | Heinz Rühmann, Josef Sieber, Trude Marlen | Comedy | |
Bel Ami | Willi Forst | Olga Chekhova | Period drama | |
Between River and Steppe | | | Drama | Co-production with Hungary |
Cadets | Karl Ritter | Mathias Wieman, Carsta Löck | War | Not put into general release until December 1941 |
Central Rio | Erich Engels | | Drama | |
Congo Express | Eduard von Borsody | Marianne Hoppe, Willy Birgel, René Deltgen | Adventure | |
The Curtain Falls | | | Crime | |
D III 88 | | | Drama | Film from the perspective of a veteran officer about the November Revolution |
Detours to Happiness | | | Drama | |
Drei Unteroffiziere | Werner Hochbaum | Albert Hehn, Fritz Genschow | War drama | |
Escape in the Dark | | | Crime | |
The False Step | Gustaf Gründgens | Marianne Hoppe, Karl Ludwig Diehl | Drama | |
Gold in New Frisco | Paul Verhoeven | Hans Söhnker, Alexander Golling | Western | |
The Governor | Viktor Tourjansky | Brigitte Horney, Willy Birgel, Hannelore Schroth | Drama | |
The Green Emperor | Paul Mundorf | Gustav Diessl, Carola Höhn | Crime | |
Hello Janine! | Carl Boese | Johannes Heesters, Rudi Godden | Musical | |
Her First Experience | Josef von Báky | | Romance | |
A Hopeless Case | Erich Engel | | Comedy | |
Hotel Sacher | Erich Engel | Sybille Schmitz, Willy Birgel, Wolf Albach-Retty | Drama | |
I Am Sebastian Ott | Willi Forst | Willi Forst, Gustav Diessl, Trude Marlen | Crime | |
In the Name of the People | Erich Engels | Rudolf Fernau, Fritz Kampers, Rolf Weih | Crime | |
The Journey to Tilsit | | | Drama | The Trip to Tilsit |
Kitty and the World Conference | | | Comedy |
The Leghorn Hat | | Heinz Rühmann, Herti Kirchner, Christl Mardayn | Comedy | |
Legion Condor | Karl Ritter | Paul Hartmann, Albert Hehn | War | |
Liberated Hands | Hans Schweikart | Brigitte Horney, Olga Chekhova | Drama | |
Das Lied der Wüste | Paul Martin | Zarah Leander, Friedrich Domin, Gustav Knuth | Drama | Song of the Desert |
The Life and Loves of Tschaikovsky | Carl Froelich | Zarah Leander, Aribert Wäscher | Historical romance | |
Linen from Ireland | Heinz Helbig | Irene von Meyendorff Friedl Haerlin | Comedy drama | A comic anti-Semitic film in which a Jew tries to import linen duty-free from Ireland |
Madame Butterfly | Carmine Gallone | Maria Cebotari, Fosco Giachetti, Lucie Englisch | Drama | Co-production with Italy |
Maria Ilona | Géza von Bolváry | Paula Wessely, Willy Birgel | Historical/Drama | |
Marionette | Carmine Gallone | Beniamino Gigli, Carla Rust | Comedy | German/Italian co-production |
Marriage in Small Doses | Johannes Meyer | Leny Marenbach, Johannes Riemann | Musical comedy | |
Men Are That Way | Arthur Maria Rabenalt | Hertha Feiler, Hans Söhnker | Drama | |
The Merciful Lie | Werner Klingler | Hilde Krahl, Elisabeth Flickenschildt, Ernst von Klipstein | Drama | |
Midsummer Night's Fire | Arthur Maria Rabenalt | | Drama | |
Mistake of the Heart | | | Drama | |
A Mother's Love | Gustav Ucicky | Käthe Dorsch, Paul Hörbiger, Wolf Albach-Retty | Drama | Mutterliebe; propaganda film about family and race |
New Year's Eve on Alexanderplatz | Richard Schneider-Edenkoben | Hannes Stelzer, Carl Raddatz, Jutta Freybe | Drama | |
Opera Ball | Géza von Bolváry | Heli Finkenzeller, Fita Benkhoff | Musical | |
Police Report | Rudolf van der Noss | Lola Müthel, Hans Zesch-Ballot, Erich Fiedler | Crime | |
Renate in the Quartet | Paul Verhoeven | Käthe von Nagy, Hans Brausewetter | Musical comedy | |
The Right to Love | Joe Stöckel | Magda Schneider, Anneliese Uhlig, Viktor Staal | Drama | |
Robert and Bertram | Hans Heinz Zerlett | Rudi Godden, Kurt Seifert | Comedy | |
Robert Koch | | | Biopic | |
The Scoundrel | Hans Deppe | Hans Moser, Josefine Dora | Comedy | |
Shoulder Arms | Jürgen von Alten | F.W. Schröder-Schrom, Rolf Moebius | Drama | |
Sighs of Spain | | | Comedy | Co-production with Spain |
The Singing Fool | | | Musical | Co-production with Italy |
The Song of Aixa | Florián Rey | Imperio Argentina, Manuel Luna, José Prada | Drama | Spanish-language. Co-production with Spain |
Stars of Variety | Josef von Báky | La Jana, Christl Mardayn, Karin Hardt | Drama | Co-production with Hungary |
Target in the Clouds | Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Albert Matterstock, Leny Marenbach | Drama | |
Three Fathers for Anna | Carl Boese | Ilse Werner, Hans Stüwe | Comedy | |
Three Wonderful Days | Fritz Kirchhoff | | Drama | |
Twelve Minutes After Midnight | Johannes Guter | Geraldine Katt, Ursula Herking, René Deltgen | Crime comedy | |
Uproar in Damascus | | Brigitte Horney, Joachim Gottschalk | Thriller | |
Water for Canitoga | Herbert Selpin | Hans Albers | western | Water for Canitoga; set in Canada |
We Danced Around the World | Karl Anton | Irene von Meyendorff, Carola Höhn | Musical | |
Who's Kissing Madeleine? | | | Comedy | |
Wibbel the Tailor | Viktor de Kowa | Erich Ponto, Fita Benkhoff | Historical comedy | |
A Woman Like You | Viktor Tourjansky | Brigitte Horney, Joachim Gottschalk | Romance | |
Woman Without a Past | Nunzio Malasomma | | Drama | |
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Alpenkorps im Angriff | Gösta Nordhaus | | documentary | |
Arbeitskameraden - Sportkameraden | Hans Heinrich | | documentary | |
Deutsches Land in Afrika | Johannes Häussler | | documentary | German Land in Africa; |
Dschungel-Geheimnisse | | | documentary | |
Eger, eine alte deutsche Stadt | Rudolf Gutscher | | documentary | |
Fallschirmjäger | E.K. Beltzig | | documentary | |
Gautag der NSDAP Gau Mecklenburg | | | documentary | |
Glaube und Schönheit | E.K. Beltzig | | documentary | Available online here |
Guatemala | Hans Helfritz | | documentary | |
Die jüngsten der Luftwaffe | | | documentary | |
Können Tiere denken? | Fritz Heydenreich | | documentary | |
Nach Feierabend | Rudolf van der Noss | | documentary | |
Mexiko | Hans Helfritz | | documentary | |
Nach Feierabend | | | documentary | |
Parade - Hitler's 50 Geburstage | | | documentary | |
Im Reiche der Liliputaner | Ulrich K.T. Schultz | | Documentary | |
Rheinland | | | documentary | |
Romancero marroquí | Enrique Domínguez Rodiño, Carlos Velo | | documentary | |
Salzburg, die Festspielstadt | | | documentary | |
Schicksalswende | | | documentary | |
Schiff 754 | Hans Heinrich | | documentary | |
Sinnvolle Zwecklosigkeiten | Fritz Heydenreich | | documentary | |
Sonne über dem Spessart - Aschaffenburg und seine Umgebung | Hans Heinrich | | documentary | |
Steinschlangen und Vogelmenschen | Hans Helfritz | | documentary | |
Walfänger in der Antarktis | Gerhard A. Donner | | | Whaling Ship in the Antarctic; 55 minute documentary |
Wegweiser zur Gesundheit | Curt A. Engel | | documentary |
Der Westwall | Fritz Hippler | | | The West Wall; propaganda film about the Siegfried Line |
Wir fahren nach Amerika | Kurt Engel | | documentary |
Das Wort aus Stein | | | documentary | |
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