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...

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

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...

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

A charismatic lieutenant newly assigned to a remote fort is captured by a group of mountain bandits, thus setting in motion a madcap farce that is...

The House on the Moon

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

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.

No Days Off for Death” is a film that depicts an altered rendition of our own world to explore themes of grief and over corporatisation, the...

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

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

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...

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

Hamlet and Ophelia reckon with their doomed narratives. Adapted from the 1977 East German Heiner Müller play of the same name.

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...

German war film. This film is considered lost.

John, a young man raised by his aunt, is in love with Anna, a servant girl who is going to have his baby. He is willing to marry her but his stern...

The Painter encounters Death and decides to paint his portrait.

Inside the mind of a sleeping old man; memories of a loving childhood resurface. While a young man struggles to make sense of the world around him,...