Bringemovies
← Browse Movies
Er kann's nicht lassen
TITLE DETAILS

Er kann's nicht lassen

1962-10-19 · 94 min · ★ 6.9

Comedy · Crime

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 the clergyman is transferred to a sleepy island called Abbott's Rock. At first, nothing happens there, but somehow Father Brown seems to be attracted to crime: Soon a gang of thieves is up to no good on the island. So Brown makes the headlines again, and is punitively transferred once more. This time he finds himself in a quiet Irish millionaire community.

Open detail page

Trailers are previews, not full movies.

No authorized playback source configured. Use the legal watch options below.

Production details

Directors
Axel von Ambesser
Production companies
Bavaria Film, Bavaria-Filmkunst
Countries
Germany
Status
Released

Top Cast

Heinz RühmannHeinz RühmannFather Brown
Rudolf ForsterRudolf ForsterBishop
Ruth-Maria KubitschekRuth-Maria KubitschekMrs. Holland
Grit BoettcherGrit BoettcherBerenice
Lina CarstensLina CarstensMrs. Smith
Horst TappertHorst TappertSimpson
Emmerich SchrenkJoshua
Siegfried WischnewskiSiegfried WischnewskiInspektor O'Connally
Peter EhrlichPeter EhrlichFitzpatrick O'Leary
E.O. FuhrmannMalone
Hans-Dieter JendreykoHans-Dieter JendreykoSam
Paul GlawionPaul GlawionWaiter
Rainer PenkertRainer PenkertLord Gilbert Darroway
Otto SchmöleLord Bannister
Uli SteigbergUli SteigbergOliver Lynn
Peter PartenBruce Payne
Rosl MayrRosl MayrWoman in Store

Title information and images are supplied by TMDb. Explore our discovery guide for advice on comparing metadata and legal viewing options.

Where to watch

Availability provided by JustWatch via TMDb. Offers can change. Provider links are listed on TMDb; full playback requires a separately authorized source.

Availability not listed for this country.

Recommendations

The Ladykillers
★ 6.1
The Ladykillers2004Comedy · Crime

An eccentric, if not charming Southern professor and his crew pose as a band in order to rob a casino, all under the nose of his unsuspecting landlord – a sharp old woman.

Foul Play
★ 6.3
Foul Play1978Comedy

A shy San Francisco librarian and a bumbling cop fall in love as they solve a crime involving albinos, dwarves, and the Catholic Church.

Lift
★ 6.4
Lift2024Comedy · Crime

An international heist crew, led by Cyrus Whitaker, race to lift $500 million in gold from a passenger plane at 40,000 feet.

The Bob's Burgers Movie
★ 6.9
The Bob's Burgers Movie2022Comedy · Crime

When a ruptured water main creates an enormous sinkhole right in front of Bob's Burgers, it blocks the entrance indefinitely and ruins the Belchers’ plans for a successful summer. While Bob and Linda struggle to keep the business afloat, the kids try to solve a mystery that could save their family's restaurant. As the dangers mount, these underdogs help each other find hope and fight to get back behind the counter, where they belong.

Red Notice
★ 6.7
Red Notice2021Comedy · Crime

An Interpol-issued Red Notice is a global alert to hunt and capture the world's most wanted. But when a daring heist brings together the FBI's top profiler and two rival criminals, there's no telling what will happen.

Porridge
★ 6.8
Porridge1979Comedy · Crime

Times are hard for habitual guest of Her Majesty Norman Stanley Fletcher. The new prison officer, Beale, makes MacKay look soft and what's more, an escape plan is hatching from the cell of prison godfather Grouty and Fletcher wants no part of it.

Dirty Mary Crazy Larry
★ 6.4
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry1974Comedy · Crime

Down-on-their-luck racers Larry and Deke steal from a supermarket manager to buy a car that will help them advance their racing chances. Their escape does not go as planned when Larry's one-night stand, Mary, tags along for the ride.

We're No Angels
★ 7.2
We're No Angels1955Comedy · Crime

Three convicts escape from prison on Devil's Island just before Christmas and arrive at a nearby French colonial town. They go to the store of the Ducotels, the only store that gives supplies on credit. They initially intend to take advantage of them but have a change of heart after they find the family is in financial troubles.

Family Plot
★ 6.8
Family Plot1976Comedy · Crime

Spiritualist Blanche Tyler and her cab-driving boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.

Terror by Night
★ 6.6
Terror by Night1946Crime

Holmes and Watson board a passenger train bound from London to Edinburgh, to guard the Star of Rhodesia, an enormous diamond worth a fortune belonging to an elderly woman of wealth; but within the first hour of the trip, the woman's son is murdered and the diamond stolen and any of the passengers in their car could be the killer thief.

The Ladykillers
★ 7.3
The Ladykillers1955Comedy · Crime

Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.

16 Blocks
★ 6.5
16 Blocks2006Crime

An aging cop is assigned the ordinary task of escorting a fast-talking witness from police custody to a courthouse, but they find themselves running the gauntlet as other forces try to prevent them from getting there.

The Hot Rock
★ 6.5
The Hot Rock1972Comedy · Crime

Dortmunder and his pals plan to steal a huge diamond from a museum. But this turns out to be only the first time they have to steal it...

Welcome to Collinwood
★ 6.1
Welcome to Collinwood2002Comedy · Crime

Five hapless inner-city low-lifes attempt to burgle a pawnbroker's safe, but end up being plagued by bad luck.

Revenge of the Pink Panther
★ 6.4
Revenge of the Pink Panther1978Comedy · Crime

Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau is dead. At least that is what the world—and Charles Dreyfus—believe when a dead body is discovered in Clouseau's car after being shot off the road. Naturally, Clouseau knows differently and, taking advantage of not being alive, sets out to discover why an attempt was made on his life.

F9
★ 7.0
F92021Crime

Dominic Toretto and his crew battle the most skilled assassin and high-performance driver they've ever encountered: his forsaken brother.

The Thursday Murder Club
★ 6.6
The Thursday Murder Club2025Comedy · Crime

A group of senior sleuths passionate about solving cold cases get plunged into a real-life murder mystery in this comic crime caper.

Thick as Thieves
★ 6.0
Thick as Thieves2009Crime

A master thief recruits a notorious thief to help him steal two famous Faberge eggs from an impenetrable vault in an effort to pull off one final job and repay his debt to the Russian mob.

The Italian Job
★ 6.8
The Italian Job2003Crime

Charlie Croker pulled off the crime of a lifetime. The one thing that he didn't plan on was being double-crossed. Along with a drop-dead gorgeous safecracker, Croker and his team take off to re-steal the loot and end up in a pulse-pounding, pedal-to-the-metal chase that careens up, down, above and below the streets of Los Angeles.

Ocean's Twelve
★ 6.6
Ocean's Twelve2004Crime

Despite pulling off one of the biggest heists in Las Vegas history and splitting the $160 million take, each of the infamous Ocean's crew have tried to go straight, lay low and live a legit life... but that's proven to be a challenge. Casino owner Terry Benedict demands that Danny Ocean return the money, plus millions more in interest. Unable to come up the cash, the crew is forced to come together to pull off another series of heists, this time in Rome, Paris, and Amsterdam – but a Europol agent is hot on their heels.

Similar titles

Grease 2
★ 5.3
Grease 21982Comedy

It's 1961, two years after the original Grease gang graduated, and there's a new crop of seniors and new members of the coolest cliques on campus, the Pink Ladies and T-Birds. Michael Carrington is the new kid in school - but he's been branded a brainiac. Can he fix up an old motorcycle, don a leather jacket, avoid a rumble with the leader of the T-Birds, and win the heart of Pink Lady Stephanie?

Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home
★ 5.9
Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home1995Comedy

Jesse becomes reunited with Willy three years after the whale's jump to freedom as the teenager tries to rescue the killer whale and other orcas from an oil spill.

Harlem Nights
★ 6.1
Harlem Nights1989Comedy · Crime

'Sugar' Ray is the owner of an illegal casino and must contend with the pressure of vicious gangsters and corrupt police who want to see him go out of business. In the world of organised crime and police corruption in the 1920s, any dastardly trick is fair.

Regular Guys
★ 6.0
Regular Guys1996Comedy

Christoph, cop and self-confident macho, has trouble with his fiance. After a long night he wakes up in the arms of Edgar, a good-looking, gay auto-mechanic. His live gets more and more troublesome after his girl friend throws him out of their apartment and as last resort he moves to Edgars place. Working together with a new, good-looking, very self-confident, female collegue, but living with a good-looking gay guy makes him pretty uncertain about his sexuality and his role as a cop. Written by Konstantin Articus

Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
★ 6.3
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls1995Comedy · Crime

Summoned from an ashram in Tibet, Ace finds himself on a perilous journey into the jungles of Africa to find Shikaka, the missing sacred animal of the friendly Wachati tribe. He must accomplish this before the wedding of the Wachati's Princess to the prince of the warrior Wachootoos. If Ace fails, the result will be a vicious tribal war.

11:14
★ 6.8
11:142004Comedy · Crime

Tells the seemingly random yet vitally connected story of a set of incidents that all converge one evening at 11:14pm. The story follows the chain of events of five different characters and five different storylines that all converge to tell the story of murder and deceit.

Free!: Take Your Marks
★ 6.8
Free!: Take Your Marks2017Comedy

This film consists of all-new stories that are direct continuations of the previous two films and are told in four episodic parts. The four short stories take place in March as Haruka Nanase is about to graduate from Iwatobi High School.

Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! Take On Me
★ 7.8
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! Take On Me2018Comedy

Yuuta and Rikka are in their third year of high school. One day in Spring, Touka declares that she will take Rikka to Italy with her, as her job has stabilized there and thinks they should migrate together as a family. Touka is also worried about Rikka not being competent enough to advance to universities in Japan. The gangs from the club suggested Yuuta, who doesn't want to be separated, to elope with Rikka!! A runaway drama throughout Japan begins.

Metro
★ 5.7
Metro1997Comedy · Crime

Roper, a hostage negotiator catches a murderous bank robber after a blown heist. The bank robber escapes and immediately goes after the man who put him behind bars.

The Santa Clause 2
★ 6.0
The Santa Clause 22002Comedy

Better watch out! The big guy in red is coming to town once again. This time, Scott Calvin -- also known as Santa Claus -- finds out there's an obscure clause in his contract requiring him to take on a wife. He has to leave the North Pole to fulfill his obligations, or else he'll be forced to give up his Yuletide gig.

Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles
★ 5.2
Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles2001Comedy

After settling in the tiny Australian town of Walkabout Creek with his significant other and his young son, Mick "Crocodile" Dundee is thrown for a loop when a prestigious Los Angeles newspaper offers his honey a job. The family migrates back to the United States, and Croc and son soon find themselves learning some lessons about American life -- many of them inadvertent

Reservation Road
★ 6.5
Reservation Road2007Crime

Two fathers' lives intersect when one of them is involved in a terrible and sudden hit-and-run car accident that leaves the other's son dead. In response, the two men react in unexpected ways as a reckoning looms in the near future.

Bad Boys II
★ 6.7
Bad Boys II2003Comedy · Crime

Detectives Marcus Burnett and Mike Lowrey of the Miami Narcotics Task Force are tasked with stopping the flow of the drug Ecstasy into Miami. They track the drugs to the whacked-out Cuban drug lord Johnny Tapia, who is also involved in a bloody war with Russian and Haitian mobsters. If that isn't bad enough, there's tension between the two detectives when Marcus discovers that playboy Mike is secretly romancing Marcus’ sister, Syd.

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
★ 6.8
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs2009Comedy

Times are changing for Manny the moody mammoth, Sid the motor mouthed sloth and Diego the crafty saber-toothed tiger. Life heats up for our heroes when they meet some new and none-too-friendly neighbors – the mighty dinosaurs.

Superbad
★ 7.3
Superbad2007Comedy

Two co-dependent high school seniors are forced to deal with separation anxiety after their plan to stage a booze-soaked party goes awry.

Far North
★ 6.0
Far North2008Crime

In the arctic, as Saiva is being born, a shaman declares that she is evil and will bring harm to all who become involved with her. Saiva is cast out of her tribe of herders and grows up to live a nomadic existence with Anja, a young woman she adopts as an infant. Then Loki, an injured and starving soldier, stumbles into their isolated lives. The women nurse him back to health, but treachery, violence and doom await them all.

The Cohens and Kellys in Trouble
★ 10.0
The Cohens and Kellys in Trouble1933Comedy

Kelly's daughter falls for a revenue agent, and his divorced wife is after alimony.

Abul Eyoun Garia
★ 9.0
Abul Eyoun Garia1958Comedy

German brain surgeon von Robin Stop will perform the most serious surgery, a replacement of human brain to another human brain, buys from the gang an Egyptian woman and then the first operation in Egypt is to replace her brain with the brain of his wife flirt, we see the wise woman has turned into a playful foreign lady, and see his wife She has turned into an honest lady.

Wayne's World 2
★ 6.1
Wayne's World 21993Comedy

A message from Jim Morrison in a dream prompts cable access TV stars Wayne and Garth to put on a rock concert, "Waynestock," with Aerosmith as headliners. But amid the preparations, Wayne frets that a record producer is putting the moves on his girlfriend, Cassandra, while Garth handles the advances of mega-babe Honey Hornée.

Nebelnacht
★ 8.0
Nebelnacht1969Crime

When a motorcyclist dies in an accident, lieutenant Kreutzer and his colleague Arnold receive the order to investigate the backgrounds of this mysterious case. Although the leads point to murder, head physician Dr. Nikolai, the driver of the car involved in the accident, maintains his innocence and even has an alibi. With a lot of arduous detail work, Kreutzer follows all leads and evidence. Both Nikolai’s colleagues and his son act suspiciously. Eventually, Kreutzer convicts the criminal who secretly used the physician’s car for his criminal dealings.

Your favorites

Recently viewed

Watch

Choose an authorized server.

Full video from an operator-configured authorized source. Official trailers use a separate player. If a server fails, retry or select another authorized server.

Legal watch options

Official trailer

Trailer preview only. Press Play to start.

Privacy choices

Favorites stay in your browser. Movie images load from TMDb. YouTube trailers contact YouTube only after you allow external media and choose a trailer. Advertising consent, if ads are enabled, is managed separately by the operator’s certified CMP.

Privacy policy

After allowing external media, choose the trailer button to load its player.