Paul Wegener

The Golem: How He Came Into the World

In 16th-century Prague, a rabbi creates the Golem - a giant creature made of clay. Using sorcery, he brings the...

Kolberg

During Napoleon's victorious campaign in Germany, the city of Kolberg gets isolated from the retreating Prussia...

The Golem

This mostly lost film is often confused with director Paul Wegener third and readily available interpretation o...

Sumurun

The favorite slave girl of a tyrannical sheik falls in love with a cloth merchant. Meanwhile, a hunchback clown...

The Student of Prague

Prague, Bohemia, 1820. Balduin, a penniless student, falls in love with Countess Margit, a wealthy noblewoman w...

The Film in the Film

The only surviving excerpt of a documentary on film production in Weimar Germany, featuring the different perso...

The Great King

King Frederick II (aka "Frederick the Great") of Prussia is engaged in a major battle against the Austrian army...

A Daughter Of Destiny

Hanns Heinz Ewers' grim science-fiction novel Alraune has already been filmed twice when this version was assem...

Diesel

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

Lucrezia Borgia

Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, has three adult children: Juan, who is virtuous and has a sweetheart who is...

Madame DuBarry

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

Svengali

The hypnotist Svengali makes an artist's model sing, but cannot force her love.

The Magician

A young woman, Margaret Dauncey, is caught between the forces of a charlatan magician, Oliver Haddo, whom she i...

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

A traveler comes into a town overrun with rats and vermin. He promises to free the place of the pests and names...

Marshal Forward

The Living Dead

A crazed scientist murders his wife, walls her up, then flees. A reporter sets out to track him down. Remake of...

Rübezahl's Wedding

In this film, the people of a Tyrolean town climb up into the nearby mountains, searching for a place where the...

The Weavers

Die Weber (1927), a rousing German tale of the 1844 weavers’ revolution.

The Loves of Pharaoh

The Ethiopian King offers his daughter to a powerful Pharaoh to secure peace between the two countries.

A Man Wants to Get to Germany

On the eve of the Great War, an expatriate German working in Latin America learns that the Fatherland is in per...

Fundvogel

Young Jan Bergwall visits his grandmother, the so-called centenary, at Woyland Castle. There he meets his cousi...

My Life for Ireland

A Nazi propaganda movie from 1941 directed by Max W. Kimmich, covering a story of Irish heroism and martyrdom o...

Vanina

Vanina loves rebel leader Octavio, who gets caught. He gets a pardon and marries Vanina. When he is captured ag...

Sleeping Beauty

An adaptation of the famous fairy tale.

Das Recht auf Liebe

Hans Westmar

Nazi film about the story of a Nazi Storm Trooper named Horst Wessel--here called "Hans Westmar"--who took part...

Inge and the Millions

A well scripted and captivating thriller about the owners of a small private bank in Berlin, squeezing money ou...

Only a Comedian

A moving actor at the rococo era shows the power-hungry-crude minister of a small state prince in the barriers,...

Glanz und Elend der Kurtisanen

Balzac adaptation: Escaped convict moves into a brothel where he becomes father to a boy. But his advantageous...

The Mystery of Johann Orth

A Hapsburg archduke in the 1880s gives up his title, changes his name, marries a Viennese actress, and then dis...

FASCISM(s): A Film in Six Parts

Six sequences about Fascism and its segments throughout history.

The Molander Case

The Immortal Heart

Nuremberg durting the time of Albrecht Durer and the famous geographer Martin Behaim: the locksmith Peter Henle...

Figures of the Night

Thomas Bezug, the richest man in the world, is a solitary, domineering and cruel cripple, who hardly can move o...

Der Schatz der Gesine Jakobsen

Dr. Terror's House of Horrors

A man of mystery known only as Doctor Terror recounts seven stories from his casebook of personal encounters wi...