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Die Nibelungen: Siegfried

Die Nibelungen: Siegfried

Fritz Lang 1924 2h 28m 8.4

Siegfried, son of King Siegmund of Xanten, travels to Worms, capital of the Burgundian kingdom, to ask King Gunther for the hand of his sister, the beautiful Kriemhild.

Die Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache

Die Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache

Fritz Lang 1924 2h 9m 7.2

After Siegfried's dead, Kriemhild marries Etzel, the King of the Huns. She gives birth to a child, and invites her brothers for a party. She tries to persuade Etzel and the other Huns, that they kill Hagen, the murderer of Siegfried, but he is protected by her brothers. A fierce battle begins to force her brothers to give Hagen to her.

Der müde Tod

Der müde Tod

Fritz Lang 1921 1h 38m 7.7

As a young couple stops and rests in a small village inn, the man is abducted by Death and is sequestered behind a huge doorless, windowless wall. The woman finds a mystic entrance and is met by Death, who tells her three separate stories set in exotic locales, all involving circumstances similar to hers.

Phantom

Phantom

F. W. Murnau 1922 1h 59m 7.2

Lorenz Lubota is a city clerk with no direction in life. One day on his way to work he is run over by a woman driving a chariot and he is immediately infatuated with her. His life begins to spiral out of control as he searches for this girl and tries to win her heart.

Seine Frau, die Unbekannte

Seine Frau, die Unbekannte

Benjamin Christensen 1923 1h 17m

A war blind painter marries his nurse. But after he can see again through an operation, he does not recognize her. Then she decides to leave him in order to return to his service under a different name. Only when the painter falls in love with her as a stranger to him, she reveal herself.

Die Spinnen, 1. Teil - Der goldene See

Die Spinnen, 1. Teil - Der goldene See

Fritz Lang 1919 1h 9m

In San Francisco, well-known sportsman Kay Hoog announces to a club that he has found a message in a bottle with a map drawn by a Harvard professor who has gone missing. The map tells of a lost Incan civilization that possesses an immense treasure. Hoog immediately plans an expedition to find it.

Schloß Vogeloed

Schloß Vogeloed

F. W. Murnau 1921 1h 21m 5.5

A young musician and singer named Johnny has been notified by a law firm that his mother, an aging rock star whom Johnny hasn't seen or heard from since he was 3 years old, has died in a helicopter accident. Johnny has been willed her castle and all of her property and money, but he must visit the actual castle to claim these things.

Vier um die Frau

Vier um die Frau

Fritz Lang 1921 1h 25m 5.0

Harry Yquem buys his beloved wife some jewelry in a place where underworld middlemen trade in fake and stolen goods. By chance, he spots a man with whom his wife had an affair in the past…

Der steinerne Reiter

Der steinerne Reiter

Fritz Wendhausen 1923 1h 13m

In a distant Teutonic village, people dance and drink merrily celebrating a wedding feast. However, an elderly man tells the villagers that the valley where they live wasn't always happy but sorrowful. This was due to the tyranny of the master of the mountains who ruled the valley despotically.

Der verlorene Schuh

Der verlorene Schuh

Ludwig Berger 1923 50m

One of the first movies made about the fairy tale Cinderella. The film is part of the current German expressionism. Because of that the film ends up being darker than the fairy tale itself.

Genuine

Genuine

Robert Wiene 1920 1h 28m

Since completing a portrait of Genuine, a high priestess, Percy becomes irritable and withdrawn. He loses interest in painting and refuses to see his friends, preferring to spend his time alone with the portrait in his study.

Harakiri

Harakiri

Fritz Lang 1919 1h 27m 5.0

The daughter of a daimyo, one forced to commit harakiri to secure her a future to choose her own destiny, falls in love with and marries a European officer. The officer returns to Europe but promises to come back for her and his new child, but when he comes back to Japan, he brings his European wife.

Pest in Florenz

Pest in Florenz

Otto Rippert 1919 1h 43m 5.0

Suddenly appearing in Florence, an evil seductress causes Cesare, the city's ruler, and his son to both fall madly in love with her. The son, killing his father before an order to torture the woman can be carried out, then turns the city's churches into dens of sexual debauchery.