German Expressionism Movies

Hanns Heinz Ewers' grim science-fiction novel Alraune has already been filmed twice when this version was assembled in 1928. In another of his "mad...

In the midst of a plague, a lonely priest must confront his fears when faced with an ominous knock at the door of his abandoned church.

An alien from the planet Algol gives a man a device that creates enough energy to power the entire world.

German war film. This film is considered lost.

Student Raskolnikow, who has written an article about laws and crime, proposing the thesis that un-ordinary people can commit crimes if their actions...

Prague, Bohemia, 1820. Balduin, a penniless student, falls in love with Countess Margit, a wealthy noblewoman whom he has saved from drowning.

The House on the Moon

Four strangers meet in a mysterious home. There for different reasons, they slowly begin to realize something is terribly wrong with their...

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

A look at the life and films of the expressionistic movie and television director John Brahm.

In 1919 an art school opened in Germany that would change the world forever. It was called the Bauhaus. A century later, its radical thinking still...

The film tries to capture the "nervous epidemic" caused by war and misery which "drives people mad". This unique portrait of the life in 1919...

During a dinner given by a wealthy baron and his wife, attended by four of her suitors in a 19th century German manor, a shadow-player rescues the...

A young man becomes obsessed with his new neighbour.

A pampered American oyster tycoon decides to buy a husband for his daughter, but things don’t go quite as planned. Along the way there are...

A banker, after a prophetic meeting with a Gypsy fortune teller, becomes delusional as he searches for a trunk which the seer has told him holds the...

The night before her eighteenth birthday recital, an overworked and undertalented pianist is abducted by three ghouls.

In a monotone and a long-walk routine, Heitor is headed to another work day, until something begins to follow him

After being unjustly attacked, a cook goes on a killing spree.

Hamlet and Ophelia reckon with their doomed narratives against the backdrop of the similarly doomed pre-Wende Germany and 2020s United States. A...