Pandora's Box (1929), M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder (1931), Faust (1926), Sunrise (1927), Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920), Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse (1933), Diary of a Lost Girl (1929), Nosferatu (1922) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best German Expressionism movies.
Storyline: G.W. Pabst's account of a young woman's downfall emphasizes years of her catering to her sexual appetite.
Plot Keywords: silent film, psychological drama, moral decay, sexual liberation, tragedy, social criticism, fate ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In Germany, Hans Beckert is an unknown killer of girls. He whistles Edvard Grieg's 'In The Hall of the Mountain King', from the 'Peer Gynt' Suite I Op. 46 while attracting the little girls for death. The police force pressed by the Minister give its best effort trying unsuccessfully to arrest the serial killer. The organized crime has great losses due to the intense search and siege of the police and decides to chase the murderer, with the support of the beggars association. They catch Hans and briefly judge him.
Plot Keywords: crime, thriller, mystery, film noir, german cinema, classic, serial killer ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: God and Satan war over earth; to settle things, they wager on the soul of Faust, a learned and prayerful alchemist. During a plague, Faust despairs and burns his books after failing to stop death; Satan sends Mephisto to tempt Faust, first with insight into treating the plague and then with a day's return to youth. Mephisto is clever, timing the end of this 24 hours as Faust embraces the beautiful Duchess of Parma. Faust trades his soul for youth. Some time later, he's bored, and demands on Easter Sunday that Mephisto take him home. Faust promptly sees and falls in love with the beautiful Gretchen, whose liaison with him brings her dishonor. Is there redemption? Who wins the wager?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: silent film, gothic, dark fantasy, moral dilemma, supernatural elements, tragedy, literary adaptation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In this fable-morality subtitled "A Song of Two Humans", the "evil" temptress is a city woman who bewitches farmer Anses and tries to convince him to murder his neglected wife, Indre.
Plot Keywords: silent film, marital crisis, moral dilemma, murder plot, redemption, classic cinema, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recently went through. It is the annual fair in Holstenwall. Francis and his friend Alan visit The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, an exhibit where the mysterious doctor shows the somnambulist Cesare, and awakens him for some moments from his death-like sleep. When Alan asks Cesare about his future, Cesare answers that he will die before dawn. The next morning Alan is found dead. Francis suspects Cesare of being the murderer, and starts spying on him and Dr. Caligari. The following night Cesare is going to stab Jane in her bed, but softens when he sees the beautiful woman, and instead of committing another murder, he abducts her. Jane's father awakens because of the noise, and he and some servants follow the fleeing Cesare. When Cesare cannot outrun his pursuers anymore, he gently places Jane down on the ground, and runs away. Francis and the police investigate the caravan of Dr. Caligari, but the ...
Plot Keywords: silent film, horror, psychological thriller, surrealism, black and white, classic cinema, mystery ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Berlin police inspector Lohmann investigates a case, in which all clues lead to a man, who's in a hospital for mental illnesses for since many years - Dr. Mabuse.
Plot Keywords: crime, thriller, mystery, german cinema, film noir, psychological thriller, classic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Thymian is raped by her father's assistant. When she becomes pregnant and bears a child but refuses to marry her assaulter, her outraged father sends her to a brutal reformatory. Thymian soon escapes with a friend, Erika (Edith Meinhard), only to learn that her child has died. She then finds Erika working at a brothel and, with no option, joins her. Gradually, Thymian works her way higher by marrying a count, but her past haunts her.—Canon y mus
Plot Keywords: silent film, social critique, moral decay, social injustice, female director, class conflict, mental asylum ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Wisbourg, Germany based estate agent Knock dispatches his associate, Hutter, to Count Orlok's castle in Transylvania as the Count wants to purchase an isolated house in Wisbourg. They plan on selling him the one across the way from Hutter's own home. Hutter leaves his innocent wife, Ellen, with some friends while he is away. Hutter's trek is an unusual one, with many locals not wanting to take him near the castle where strange events have been occurring. Once at the castle, Hutter does manage to sell the Count the house, but he also notices and feels unusual occurrences, primarily feeling like there is a dark shadow hanging over him, even in the daytime when the Count is unusually asleep. Hutter eventually sees the Count's sleeping chamber in a crypt, and based on a book he has recently read, believes the Count is really a vampire or Nosferatu. While Hutter is trapped in the castle, the Count, hiding in a shipment of coffins, makes his way to Wisbourg, causing death along his way, ...
Plot Keywords: vampire, silent film, horror, classic, black and white, adaptation, supernatural ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Allan Gray arrives late in the evening to a secluded riverside inn in the hamlet of Courtempierre. An old man enters his room, puts a sealed parcel on the table, blurts out that some woman mustn't die, and disappears. Gray senses in this a call for help. He puts the parcel in his pocket, and goes out. Eerie shadows lead him into an old house, where he encounters a weird village doctor. The doctor receives a bottle of poison from a strange, old woman. Through the window of an old castle Gray recognizes the old man from the inn. A shadow shoots the man, who drops dead. Inside the house Gray finds his two daughters, Gisèle and Léone, and some servants. He opens the parcel, and finds an old book about vampires. Léone is seriously ill after being bitten by a vampire. Instead of helping her, the village doctor places the bottle of poison at her bedside table, and then abducts her sister Gisèle. An old servant starts reading the old book, and finds out that the vampire in Courtempierre is a ...
Plot Keywords: horror, vampire, black and white, surrealism, fantasy, gothic, psychological thriller ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 16th-century Prague, a rabbi creates the Golem - a giant creature made of clay. Using sorcery, he brings the creature to life in order to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution.
Plot Keywords: horror, fantasy, silent film, monster, medieval, mysticism, supernatural ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A crook's ex-wife marries the state's governor, and the crook sees an opportunity to make some money by threatening to expose his wife's past if the governor doesn't pay him off. The crook's son, who is also a criminal, doesn't want to see his mother disgraced and determines to stop his father, but things don't turn out the way he planned.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: silent film, horror, short film, psychological thriller, surreal, avant-garde, experimental ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Shadow of the Vampire is a film about the making of a German all time classic silent horror-movie from 1922 called Nosferatu-Eine Symphonie des Grauens (Nosferatu-a Symphony of Horror). The production of Nosferatu had to deal with a lot of strange things (some crew members disappeared, some died). This movie focuses on the difficult relationship between Murnau, the director, and Schreck, the lead actor.
Plot Keywords: horror, vampire, psychological thriller, historical, black and white, filmmaking, art film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The story of Madame DuBarry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution.
Plot Keywords: silent film, romance, drama, european cinema, black and white, classic film, early cinema ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: German spies, using Freya Talberg as bait, convince neutral Spaniard Ulysses Ferragut to navigate a ship to refuel German U-boats, telling him they would never fire on passenger ships. But one torpedoes the ship his son, Esteban, was on, killing him and many others. He sets out to punish the ones responsible.—Arthur Hausner <genart@volcano.net>
Plot Keywords: silent film, adventure, drama, romance, war, sea, espionage ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A small and insignificant bookkeeper, Kleinman, is awoken one night by his neighbors who wants his help to track down a strangler who has been killing people all over town. The citizens form vigilance committees, but when Kleinman has dressed, his neighbors have disappeared. Meanwhile a circus has come to town. Irmy and Paul are two of the artists. After a fight, Irmy leaves the circus in the middle of the night. Eventually she meets Kleinman, scared and alone.
Plot Keywords: film noir, comedy, surrealism, mystery, allegory, psychological thriller, existentialism ...
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