Werner Krauß

Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recently went through. Francis and his friend...

At the height of Reign of Terror Maximilien Robespierre orchestrates the trial and execution of several of his fellow leading French revolutionaries...

Nazi historical drama about Duke Karl Alexander of Württemberg and his treasurer Süß Oppenheimer.

In 1921, we follow two women - Marie and Grete - from the same poor Viennese neighborhood, as they try to better the lives of themselves and their...

For Balduin, going out to beer parties with his fellow students and fighting out disputes at the tip of the sword have lost their charms. He wants to...

A poet is hired by the owner of a wax museum in a circus to write tales about Harun al Raschid, Ivan the Terrible and Jack the Ripper. While writing,...

Count Moffat becomes infatuated with Nana, a presumptuous stage actress, vulgar, hypocritical and promiscuous, willing to do anything to succeed.

In this convoluted melodrama, an elderly thespian falls for a rising young starlet. He admits his love for her and then announces that he will...

Twenty years ago, the Count of Groningen left his ancestral castle. Since then, it is said to be haunted. Shortly before his escape from the dark...

Every Friday the 13th, a member of the Eulenstein family dies. The son of the most recent victim hires a detective to investigate.

All is not well in the Mollheim home. The elder Mollheim decides to marry off his daughter with an unusually large dowry, in exchange for a rare...

A young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière's play "Tartuffe" in order to expose the old man's hypocritical...

The film follows tells the story of a struggle over a plot of petroleum-rich land.

Werner Krauss, who had played the deranged Dr. Caligari six years earlier, stars as a scientist who is tormented by an irrational fear of knives and...

Botto the Clown is in love with the much younger Blanche but she is in love with the handsome daredevil acrobate Andre.

Country Dr. Robert Koch is desperate: a tuberculosis epidemic is decimating the children in his district and no one is able to do anything about it....

The Falling Star (German: Der Fallende Stern) is a 1950 West German drama film directed by Harald Braun. It was entered into the 1951 Cannes Film...

The story of the Renaissance-era Swiss physician, alchemist and astrologer Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, better known to...

This movie, directed by Richard Oswald, is based on the operetta "Les contes de Hoffmann" by Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880), which is a genial musical...

On the surface a straightforward tale of the search for a buried treasure, the film is a textbook example of German expressionism, with the passions...

The story of General Yorck von Wartenburg, a commander in the army of Prussian King Wilhelm, who defied the king's orders for the Prussian army to...

German chancellor Otto von Bismarck promises the dying emperor Wilhelm I. to be loyal to his grandson. But the gap between young Kaiser Wilhelm II....

In order to impress a socially superior woman with money, an unsuccessful insurance agent commits sophisticated fraud: he concludes contracts with...

On New Year′s Eve 1871 Annelie is born – 15 minutes too late, since her parents had calculated her birth to be exactly at midnight. These...

Directed by Martin Berger.

Georg Bertrand, a gambling addict and the son of a wealthy landowner, is kicked out of his family home. The director of a travelling circus takes him...

The film tells the story of Ivan Mazeppa, a Ukrainian page at the Polish court who has an affair with the young wife of a much older count. Outraged...

Napoleon at Saint Helena (German: Napoleon auf Sankt Helena) is a 1929 German silent historical film directed by Lupu Pick and starring Werner...

An extremely jealous artist slips into a monkey costume and kills all those men who come too close to his wife, another artist.

Austrian television version of Edgar Allen Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart from 1958.

Hedwig and Lola, two sisters of opposite temperaments, have their lives upended in when Lola decides to pursue prostitution and Hedwig is forced into...

An adaptation of the Gerhart Hauptmann play of the same name. A young farmer's daughter is used and abused by the men in her life.

Ferenc life seems to be going great but after a dinner with his employer and his guest at which they discuss a unsolved murder case everything he has...

Shattered is about the everyday lives of a railway trackman, his wife and daughter in a remote, isolated house in a winter landscape, Mayer and Pick...

The murderer “Boss” Huller – after having spent ten years in prison – breaks his silence to tell the warden his story.

A woman loses her undergarments in public. Chaos ensues.

a silent movie by Robert Wiene

Even without the benefit of sound, the 1922 German adaptation of Othello seems more operatic than Shakespearean. This may be due to the casting of...

The married Lady Emma Hamilton has an ill fated romance with Admiral Horatio Nelson.

Baruch Mayer, son of an orthodox rabbi from a poor shtetl in Galizia, decides to break with the family tradition and leave the shtetl to become an...

"Raffke" was a war profiteer, shifter, the white-collar criminal, who came to wealth with not very clean methods in a short time and also likes to...

Directed by Aleksandr Razumnyj.

From the director of Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, this is the Passion embedded in a contemporary story. An anarchist jailed for an attempted...

The film "Der Kaufmann von Venedig" ( The Jew Of Mestri ) was written, produced and directed by Peter Paul Felner in the silent year of 1923 and is a...

Prince Karl Heinz enjoys his carefree life as a student in Heidelberg. He falls in love with the beautiful Käthe and everything is fine and...

Escape from the Golden Dungeon is the second part of the two-part silent movie Christian Wahnschaffe.

In China, Professor Gesellius has completed his long research on the many uses of opium. When he is about to return home, he hears about a special...

Based on several medieval mystery plays, including the late 15th-century English morality play "Everyman". The premise is that the good and evil...

Based on archive holdings from nine decades, director Hannes Rossacher has created a complete Jedermann performance and thus a unique...

A traumatized man returning home from war discovers that his wife has slipped into the underclass.

The only surviving excerpt of a documentary on film production in Weimar Germany, featuring the different personalities of several famous directors...

Adaptation of Ibsen's play Vildanden.

A tinted silent film about a murder plot.

Silent movie adaptation of Lessing's play. Set in Jerusalem during the Third Crusade, it describes how the wise Jewish merchant Nathan, the...

Dida Ibsen, daughter of impoverished farmers, has, according to her father's will, to marry the main creditor. But she refuses and decides to live...

A young unemployed man gets a job as a private secretary by chance. A good salary, a first-class apartment - but things are not going right in his...

After her brother is sent to Siberia, Sonja heads to Moscow to participate in a revolution.

In this apparently lost film, a beautiful dancer's sexual allure is used by an evil cripple to entice men to their deaths. Falling in love with one...

The daughter of a revolutionary runs away with a married prince.

Harlander, a media mogul and war profiteer, has been told that he has six months before his sanity will leave him completely. He hires a young nurse,...

A couple are at the theatre with a playwright friend. At the end of the play the jealous husband strangles his wife to death. When the play ends, the...

An abandoned baby is saved by a river god. Now aged 20, she yearns to see the world outside the water.

Tamara becomes addicted to cocaine but hides from her daughter by moving in with the dealer Mangol. The father tells his daughter that her mother has...

A melodrama about a virtuous wife unjustly abandoned by her husband, who get him back with the help of a Hindu mystic.

A Saracen sultan's disguised son loves an amnesiac Moslem princess.

A tyrannical landowner terrorizes his wife and seduces the daughter of one of his employees.

A documentary about the era of classic monster movies that were made at Universal Studios during the 1930s and 1940s.

The Merry Farmer is based on the 1907 operetta of the same name.