German Expressionism Movies

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...

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...

Former student Raskolnikov is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police,...

Scientist Martin Fellmann is tormented by an irrational fear of knives and the irresistible compulsion to murder his wife. Driven to the brink of...

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...

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

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...

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

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

In this film essay, critic Peter Buchka explores the German cinema of the 1920s, ranging from the disquieting images of Fritz Lang's Metropolis to...

A young man becomes obsessed with his new neighbour.

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

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

The House on the Moon

German war film. This film is considered lost.

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

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...

The young Evelyne lives with a man, her fiancee Frank, with whom she has a child. But her fiancee is a rundown drunk constantly hanging over the...

"A Black Swan Stomps on an Oversized Human Heart" follows Heinrich, a lonely young man in an empty castle, through his strained, detached...