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In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a ma...

Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler

Dr. Mabuse and his organization of criminals are in the process of completing their latest scheme, a theft of i...

The Testament of Dr. Mabuse

After a detective is assaulted by thugs and placed in an asylum run by Professor Baum, he observes the professo...

Mistress Moon

Berlin's theatre crowd is excited about the new operetta "Frau Luna". But for the head of the city's vice polic...

Diesel

A German wartime biography of Rudolf Diesel, inventor of the Diesel engine. The movie links the importance of t...

Eva and the Grasshopper

Mary and Eva are best friends, although they couldn't be more different. Armand, Mary's fiancee, falls in love...

Destiny

As a young couple stops and rests in a small village inn, the man is abducted by Death and is sequestered behin...

Asphalt

Starring Betty Amann in her most famous leading role, Joe May's Asphalt is a luxuriously produced German Expres...

Fridericus

In 18th century Europe, King Friedrich II of Prussia leads his army through the seven-years-war with neighborin...

Barbarina, the King's Dancer

Prussian King Frederick II was keen to hire the dancer Barberina, who had already enjoyed great success in Ital...

The Indian Tomb, Part I: The Mission of the Yoghi

Ayan, Maharajah of Eschnapur, believes that his wife, Princess Savitri, has been unfaithful to him with officer...

Warning Shadows

During a dinner given by a wealthy baron and his wife, attended by four of her suitors in a 19th century German...

Madame DuBarry

The story of Madame DuBarry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolu...

A Student's Song of Heidelberg

A long time ago, John Miller emigrated from Germany to America. Now he wants his daughter Elinor to get to know...

Rembrandt

Already a famous painter, Rembrandt van Rijn is commissioned to paint the Amsterdam Archers' Guild. But upon co...

Anna Boleyn

The story of the ill-fated second wife of the English king Henry VIII, whose marriage to the Henry led to momen...

Tanz mit dem Kaiser

The young emperor Joseph II of Austria and Hungary is not interested in romance and marriage, and every time hi...

Romance in a Minor Key

A grieving husband tries to uncover the truth behind his wife's suicide, leading him to discover a tragic tale...

Two Souls

Gustav Froehlich and Charlotte Susa play Rochus and Judith, the zwei menschen (two humans) of the title. Rochus...

Die Geliebte

In Vienna, Anna von Ziska is the beautiful daughter of an upper-class family that has lost its wealth. Prince A...

Husbands or Lovers

A wife, bored by her overweight slob of a husband, gives in to the temptation of a slickly seductive poet.

Eins + Eins = Drei

Paul and Peter share a garret flat. Paul is smitten with Anni, but her father forbids their match. Then Paul in...

Frühlingsluft

At the behest of the financially strapped Duke, his nephew, Crown Prince Rudolf, is to marry someone of suitabl...

Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes

Country Dr. Robert Koch is desperate: a tuberculosis epidemic is decimating the children in his district and no...

The Assumption of Hannele

The story of Hannele, an unhappy girl who is beaten by her stepfather and tries to commit suicide.

Steuerlos

Anna and Elizabeth

The two main people in the story are Anna, a young girl, who is thought of having the ability to heal people my...

People Among Us

Gerhard Lamprecht sketches a cross-section of Germany's new post-war society, with its winners, social climbers...

Ferryman Maria

A beautiful young drifter comes to a small village and battles Death itself to save the man she loves.

Paul und Pauline

a movie by Heinz Paul

The Golden Butterfly

A restaurant cashier, who has a mutual attraction to the restauranteur, has a secret passion for dance. As soon...

Love's Carnival

Due to an intrigue spun by his grandmother and two cousins, the engagement between the officer Hans and his fia...

The Unknown

The body of an unknown beautiful woman is fished out of the river and leaves the policemen wondering what drove...

Luther

German silent film about the life of Martin Luther

Hearts Are Trumps

Hotel tycoon Paulsen re-meets an old flame who mistakes him for a waiter. Paulsen's daughter Toni likes hotelie...

The Beggar Student

To take a revenge on countess Laura, who slapped him at his proposal, the Governor of the occupied Poland gets...