Hans Mierendorff

In a prologue and four acts (the prologue and the first act are lost so is necessary to describe what happens with title cards) the film depicts the...

Hilde Warren, a famous actress, is impregnated by a convicted murderer and becomes plagued by visions of Death. Upon discovering her child is the...

The Baltic captain Terje Wiggen works as a pilot on the island of Muhu. When the mate of the ship “Carola” calls in sick, he jumps at the chance...

Crime movie about a mysterious underground cult culminating in a prison revolt.

An unknown gang has again broken into a van containing money from the European bank. Banker Sam Hamilton decides to use an armoured car for the next...

German film

Maria, an accountant at a factory, falls for Rudolph, who has his eyes set on the factory owner's daughter.

Through the plan hidden in Astarte's jewelry, Maud Gregaards, Kien-Lung and Consul Madsen get on the trail of the Queen of Sheba's treasure. Their...

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

A man who thinks he killed a millionaire is cared for by a Cockney girl and becomes a composer.

a silent war movie by Heinz Paul

a silent movie by Heinz Paul

a movie by Heinz Paul

a silent movie by Robert Wiene

The English landowner Wolton has gone on a fishing trip in the Spreewald with his daughter May. They meet fellow Englishman Bruce, who falls head...

About how the British broke the Brazilian monopoly on natural rubber. The storyline suggests a complex relation between adventure, military conquest...

Prussian King Frederick II was keen to hire the dancer Barberina, who had already enjoyed great success in Italy and England, for the Berlin opera...

In 18th century Europe, King Friedrich II of Prussia leads his army through the seven-years-war with neighboring states, and after numerous near...

Toni wants to become an opera-singer. Her mother was once simple chanteuse. Toni marries the brutal industrialist Liesegang. An Italian doctor falls...

In this Nazi propaganda film, a troubled young boy joins the Hitler Naval Youth, where he finds meaning and purpose in his life.

A modernist lady sculptor seeks a model for a statue to be put in front of a Berlin hospital, and finds him in the form of a London policeman-boxer....

They meet on the plane from Dakar to Casablanca: the well-known American defense lawyer Vandegrift, his daughter Jessie and the arrested Peter...

During a performance of Calderón's "The Judge of Zalamea," a young actor encounters his famous older colleague, whose daughter committed suicide...

Mary Lou falls into poverty and has no more remedy than joining a circus, where she has much success with her act. But a dirty guy arrives who wants...

An English peace judge in an Irish district is married to an Irishwoman. She is a caring patriot. He is heavily indebted by a life of luxury, and...

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

A respectable woman in her 50s inherits a local night club from her husband in a divorce settlement, provided that she shows up there every night at...

A young man plans to emigrate to the United States with his fiancee but becomes extremely fearful about the ocean crossing due to a local...

Master plumber Otto Engel has worked his way to a certain degree of prosperity through hard work. In the young and virtuous Elise, the pretty...

Musician Eduard Boeckel wants to settle down and marries laundry owner Lisbeth Timm. He brings his friend August Garfs into the marriage, and the...

As the title "The Queen's Heart" suggests, this early German black and white version of Mary Queen of Scott's eventful reign and death focuses on her...

A safecracker and thief escapes from prison, founds a factory and becomes rich. After 20 years, his accomplice, released from prison, demands his...

English Lord Arthur Cavershoot is a passionate Napoleon scholar who badly neglects his wife Josephine for his obsession with the French emperor. When...

It is the dream of the fitter Heinrich Berger to be lord king … the general director of the auto plant where he works; and, in fact, he is put into...

This Nazi propaganda film follows the exploits of a German submarine as it prowls the North Atlantic.

The daily lives and struggles of a group of workers in a small German town. They face poverty, unemployment, and various hardships, but also find...

The young Crown Princess Luise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz grows up sheltered in the North German countryside in the late 18th century and develops into...

The film portrays the Imperial German Navy during the First World War, particularly the Battle of Jutland and is based on a novel by Helmut Lorenz.

The Dealer from Amsterdam (German: Der Trödler von Amsterdam) is a 1925 German silent film directed by Victor Janson and starring Werner Krauss,...

A Russian officer is in a relationship with a middle-class girl, with whom he has a child, when his lover is arrested as an anarchist and deported to...

Mary and Eva are best friends, although they couldn't be more different. Armand, Mary's fiancee, falls in love with the seductive Eva, who is busy...

After the death of his parents, Anton pursues a career at the Schröter trading house in Breslau. He meets Sabine, the boss's sister, befriends...

While rescuing a child from a fire, circus performer Mac Clifford broke his thigh and lost his job. Now the ringmaster Mortera offers him a new...

A pregnant teenage couple consider their options.

Eva, an inventor, nearly runs over Frank, a fugitive, with her car. She decides to give him work instead of turning him in, and together they...

In the spring of 1905, the water conduit project in the Canadian city of Canitoga is set to be completed. For years, the completion had been marred...

Maud Gregaards travels to China in search of a fabled treasure said to have belonged to the Queen of Sheba. Once there, she is taken captive by an...

After the death of Alan Stanley, Maud Fergusson seeks revenge. On her behalf, the detective Hunt begins to investigate and proves that Murphy is...

Maud Gregaards tells her rescuer, the Chinese Dr. Kien-Lung, her life: Her father was an archivist in the Foreign Office who was run by the...

Billionaire Maud Fergusson lives happily with engineer Allan Stanley. Nothing stands in the way of their love wedding - except Maud's dark past. She...

Based on Agatha Christie's "The Secret Adversary," a young couple looking for adventure become involved in the mystery of a missing woman and an...

Comedy about the lieutenant who marries poor Jesta. As a wealthy neighbor wants his own daughter to wed the officer, Jesta has to disguise herself as...

Lord Cross is a respected and always very serious gentleman. In society he is therefore called "the man without a laugh". One evening, when he and...

A western woman falls in love with a chinese prince. When she accompanies him to his homeland, strange things await her. Based on the operetta of the...

A Prussian commander disobeys orders and goes to find a British envoy who can negotiate a pact with Austria to help fight off Napoleon in 1806.

The short story focuses on two anecdotal episodes about the Prussian King Frederick II. In the first episode, the monarch meets an invalid. In the...

When a Parisian bank clerk is tasked with transporting valuable stock certificates to Nice, his scheming rival steals the documents to ruin him and...